{"name":"8,286 listed sites","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Atlas of China (https://www.atlasofchina.com), CC BY 4.0","updated":"2026-10-28","count":8286,"rows":[{"id":"beijing-anhui-guild-hall","name":"Anhui Guild Hall","name_zh":"安徽会馆","pinyin":"Ānhuī Huìguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8919,"lon":116.3767,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-anhui-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as the largest of Beijing's old provincial guild halls, it was built in 1871 with money from Li Hongzhang and other officers of the Huai Army. Its opera stage saw the Anhui troupes that helped create Peking opera, and in the 1890s it housed the reformers' Self-Strengthening Society. The restored core, with its timber theatre, shrine building and Bilinglong Hall, has displays on the hall's history and on Peking opera."},{"id":"beijing-asbury-church","name":"Asbury Church (Chongwenmen Church)","name_zh":"亚斯立堂","pinyin":"Yàsīlì Táng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9014,"lon":116.4142,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-asbury-church/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1870 by American Methodist Episcopal missionaries, Asbury Church is usually described as the oldest Protestant church in Beijing; the present grey-brick building in an eclectic style was rebuilt in 1902–04 after the earlier church was burnt in 1900. Used as a school hall from 1958, it reopened for worship in 1982 as Chongwenmen Church and is still an active congregation."},{"id":"shijingshan-badachu","name":"Badachu","name_zh":"八大处","pinyin":"Bādàchù","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.955,"lon":116.1778,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shijingshan-badachu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Badachu, the 'Eight Great Sites', is a hillside park in the Western Hills linking eight Buddhist temples and nunneries founded between the Sui and Qing dynasties on three hills. The best known is Lingguang Temple, an active monastery where a Buddha tooth relic found in the ruins of an older pagoda is kept in a pagoda built in 1964. Old trees, including white-bark pines and ginkgos more than 600 years old, shade the paths between the temples."},{"id":"yanqing-baili-shanshui-gallery","name":"Baili Shanshui Gallery","name_zh":"百里山水画廊","pinyin":"Bǎilǐ Shānshuǐ Huàláng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.6956,"lon":116.3892,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanqing-baili-shanshui-gallery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 371-square-kilometre scenic area covering the whole of Qianjiadian town in the hills of north-eastern Yanqing, matching the Qianjiadian area of the Yanqing Geopark and strung along a riverside road loop of about 56 km. Its main stops are a geopark of fossilised (silicified) tree trunks, the Wulong Gorge, the Dishuihu waterfall and the old Chaoyang Temple, Dragon King Temple and Guandi Temple, with village guesthouses along the way."},{"id":"dongcheng-bailin-temple","name":"Bailin Temple","name_zh":"柏林寺","pinyin":"Bǎilín Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.945,"lon":116.4137,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongcheng-bailin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1347 and rebuilt in the Ming, Bailin Temple was given a major overhaul in 1713 by Prince Yinzhen, the future Yongzheng Emperor, for his father the Kangxi Emperor's 60th birthday, and was counted among the eight great temples inside the old city. Its main halls survive along a central axis of five courtyards, with Qianlong-era steles and a bronze bell cast in 1707, and for two centuries it stored the woodblocks of the Qing imperial edition of the Buddhist canon."},{"id":"beijing-baoguo-temple","name":"Baoguo Temple","name_zh":"报国寺","pinyin":"Bàoguó Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8895,"lon":116.3534,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-baoguo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large temple of the southern city, rebuilt in 1466 as Ciren Temple and renamed in 1754, where the scholar Gu Yanwu lodged in 1668 and a shrine to him was added in the 1840s; it was the city's best-known book market in the late Ming and early Qing. After use as a factory and offices it was restored and from 1997 to 2020 housed a famous collectors' market, and it is now the Baoguo Temple Cultural Park, which holds second-hand book fairs and cultural events in its courtyards."},{"id":"mentougou-baqi-cave","name":"Baqi Cave","name_zh":"八奇洞","pinyin":"Bāqí Dòng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.892,"lon":116.0229,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mentougou-baqi-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large limestone cave in the hills near Tanzhe Temple, hollowed out by an underground river, with a visitor route of about 1.35 km through big chambers and narrow passages. Its name, 'Eight Wonders', refers to eight featured sights, above all a huge figure-of-eight fold in the rock; the cave also has a 410 m underground slide and films projected onto a cave wall, and it stays at about 16°C all year."},{"id":"fengtai-beigong-national-forest-park","name":"Beigong National Forest Park","name_zh":"北宫国家森林公园","pinyin":"Běigōng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8643,"lon":116.1125,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengtai-beigong-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the low hills of western Fengtai, established in 2002 and approved as a national forest park in 2005. Paths climb through planted woods, flower gardens and stream valleys, and in autumn its maples and other coloured trees make it one of Beijing's popular red-leaf spots."},{"id":"beijing-ancient-observatory","name":"Beijing Ancient Observatory","name_zh":"古观象台","pinyin":"Gǔ Guānxiàngtái","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9061,"lon":116.4281,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-ancient-observatory/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1442 on a stretch of the old city wall, the Ancient Observatory was the imperial observatory of the Ming and Qing dynasties. On its 14 m brick platform stand eight large Qing bronze instruments, six of them designed by the Flemish Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest and finished in 1674, while the courtyard below keeps the Ziwei Hall, replicas of Ming instruments and exhibitions on traditional Chinese astronomy."},{"id":"beijing-aquarium","name":"Beijing Aquarium","name_zh":"北京海洋馆","pinyin":"Běijīng Hǎiyángguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9433,"lon":116.3347,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-aquarium","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large indoor aquarium opened in 1999 in the northern part of Beijing Zoo, run as a commercial attraction separate from the zoo. Its halls hold tanks of fish and other aquatic animals, and staged marine-animal shows are part of the programme, which makes it mainly a family outing."},{"id":"fengtai-beijing-auto-museum","name":"Beijing Auto Museum","name_zh":"北京汽车博物馆","pinyin":"Běijīng Qìchē Bówùguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8275,"lon":116.2962,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengtai-beijing-auto-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum of the motor car opened in 2011 on the South 4th Ring Road, with some 80 vehicles across 13 exhibition areas covering the history, technology and future of the car. Exhibits range from a replica of Benz's 1886 Patent-Motorwagen to Hongqi state cars and Beijing-built jeeps, alongside interactive displays."},{"id":"chaoyang-dongyue-temple","name":"Beijing Dongyue Temple","name_zh":"东岳庙","pinyin":"Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9236,"lon":116.4378,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaoyang-dongyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple of the Zhengyi school founded in 1319 outside the old Chaoyang Gate and dedicated to the god of Mount Tai, the Great Deity of the Eastern Peak, then rebuilt and enlarged under the Ming and Qing. Around its main courtyard, rows of small rooms hold plaster figures of the 'seventy-six departments' of the Taoist pantheon, and many old steles survive. It also houses the Beijing Folk Customs Museum, which holds a large temple fair at Spring Festival."},{"id":"fengtai-beijing-garden-expo-park","name":"Beijing Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"北京园博园","pinyin":"Běijīng Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8745,"lon":116.1907,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengtai-beijing-garden-expo-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the 2013 China International Garden Expo on the west bank of the Yongding River, built over a former construction-waste landfill and kept as a public park. It holds 69 exhibition gardens in regional, modern and international styles, a sunken flower valley made from an old waste pit, and the 69.7-metre Yongding Tower, a new pagoda in Liao–Jin style with views over the river."},{"id":"yanqing-beijing-expo-park","name":"Beijing Horticultural Expo Park","name_zh":"北京世园公园","pinyin":"Běijīng Shìyuán Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.4404,"lon":115.9443,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanqing-beijing-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 503-hectare site of the 2019 International Horticultural Exposition at Yanqing, kept open and renamed Beijing Horticultural Expo Park in 2020. Its main buildings are the China Pavilion, the flower-shaped International Pavilion and the Plant Pavilion, a large greenhouse of tropical and rare plants, set among the gardens left by Chinese provinces and foreign countries."},{"id":"shunyi-international-flower-port","name":"Beijing International Flower Port","name_zh":"北京国际鲜花港","pinyin":"Běijīng Guójì Xiānhuāgǎng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.1813,"lon":116.7898,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunyi-international-flower-port","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large flower park in Yangzhen, Shunyi District, best known as the venue of the Beijing Tulip Festival each April and early May. During the festival the grounds are filled with mass plantings of tulips and other spring bulbs, many of them imported, with costumed parades and stage shows, and areas are set aside for camping."},{"id":"beijing-lu-xun-museum","name":"Beijing Lu Xun Museum","name_zh":"北京鲁迅博物馆","pinyin":"Běijīng Lǔ Xùn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9245,"lon":116.3523,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-lu-xun-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The small courtyard house that the writer Lu Xun remodelled and lived in from 1924 to 1926, where he wrote Wild Grass and other works, kept with its furnishings including the tiny room he lived and wrote in, known as the 'tiger's tail'. Beside it a museum opened in 1956 tells the story of his life, drawing on his manuscripts, letters and books and the prints and stele rubbings he collected."},{"id":"beijing-planetarium","name":"Beijing Planetarium","name_zh":"北京天文馆","pinyin":"Běijīng Tiānwénguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9362,"lon":116.3304,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-planetarium","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"China's first large planetarium, opened in 1957 opposite Beijing Zoo, with a domed star theatre in the original building and a glass-walled second building added in 2004. The two buildings hold dome and 3D/4D theatres, astronomy exhibition halls and small observatories, making it a good indoor stop with children."},{"id":"shijingshan-amusement-park","name":"Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park","name_zh":"石景山游乐园","pinyin":"Shíjǐngshān Yóulèyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9109,"lon":116.2028,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shijingshan-amusement-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 1986 as one of Beijing's first amusement parks, this district-owned park mixes Chinese garden scenery with a fairy-tale castle. It has six roller coasters, family rides and a converted Boeing 747 airliner, plus seasonal events such as a Spring Festival temple fair and summer water-splashing days, and it suits families with children."},{"id":"daxing-beijing-wildlife-park","name":"Beijing Wildlife Park","name_zh":"北京野生动物园","pinyin":"Běijīng Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.494,"lon":116.329,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Most of a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daxing-beijing-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large forested safari park near Yufa in southern Daxing, opened in 2001, with a self-drive route through the big-animal and predator areas and walk-through zones for smaller species. Themed areas include red-panda and capybara exhibits, a gibbon area and a Madagascar forest, and the park keeps sizeable groups of chimpanzees, jaguars and African elephants."},{"id":"fengtai-beijing-world-park","name":"Beijing World Park","name_zh":"北京世界公园","pinyin":"Běijīng Shìjiè Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8093,"lon":116.281,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengtai-beijing-world-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park opened in 1993 in south-western Fengtai District, laid out by continent with more than 100 scale models of famous buildings and monuments, most of them at one-tenth size. A walk takes you past miniatures of the Eiffel Tower, the Egyptian pyramids, Angkor Wat and the Sydney Opera House, and it suits families with children."},{"id":"beijing-zoo","name":"Beijing Zoo","name_zh":"北京动物园","pinyin":"Běijīng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9386,"lon":116.3333,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-zoo/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as China's oldest public zoo, it grew out of the Qing government's agricultural experimental farm founded in 1906 and first opened to visitors in 1908. Besides the giant pandas and other animal houses, the wooded grounds keep buildings of the old farm, among them the brick gateway and Changguanlou, a Baroque-style two-storey villa built in 1908 as a stopping place for Empress Dowager Cixi on her boat trips to the Summer Palace."},{"id":"beijing-railway-station-building","name":"Beijing railway station","name_zh":"北京站","pinyin":"Běijīng Zhàn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9022,"lon":116.4211,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-railway-station-building/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 1959 as one of the Ten Great Buildings marking the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic, Beijing railway station was then the largest station in the country. Designed under the architects Yang Tingbao and Chen Deng'ao, it pairs a broad central hall with two 34 m clock towers and glazed-tile Chinese-style roofs on a monumental, Soviet-influenced plan. It is still a working main-line station, the only one inside the old walled city."},{"id":"haidian-big-bell-temple","name":"Big Bell Temple","name_zh":"大钟寺","pinyin":"Dàzhōng Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9678,"lon":116.332,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-big-bell-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1733 as the imperial Juesheng Temple, this Qing monastery took its popular name after the Yongle Bell, a huge bronze bell cast under the Ming Yongle Emperor, was moved here in 1743. Since 1985 it has been the Big Bell Temple Ancient Bell Museum, showing more than 400 Chinese and foreign bells, with the Yongle Bell hanging in its two-storey bell tower."},{"id":"beijing-capital-museum","name":"Capital Museum","name_zh":"首都博物馆","pinyin":"Shǒudū Bówùguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.905,"lon":116.336,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-capital-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beijing's municipal museum, founded in 1981 in the Confucius Temple and moved in 2006 to a large modern building on Chang'an Avenue designed by Cui Kai with Jean-Marie Duthilleul. Its galleries cover the history of Beijing alongside collections of porcelain, bronzes, jade, calligraphy, painting and Buddhist sculpture, much of it excavated in and around the city, and it hosts major touring exhibitions."},{"id":"beijing-nantang-cathedral","name":"Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Nantang)","name_zh":"宣武门天主堂","pinyin":"Xuānwǔmén Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8995,"lon":116.3693,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-nantang-cathedral","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beijing's oldest Catholic church site, begun in 1605 as a chapel at the residence of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and rebuilt as a church under Adam Schall von Bell in 1650. The present Baroque-style building dates from 1904; it was closed for renovation from 2018 and reopened in 2022 as a working parish church."},{"id":"haidian-central-radio-tv-tower","name":"Central Radio & TV Tower","name_zh":"中央广播电视塔","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Guǎngbō Diànshì Tǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9181,"lon":116.3004,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haidian-central-radio-tv-tower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 405-metre broadcasting and observation tower on Beijing's West Third Ring Road, completed in 1992 and opened to sightseers in 1994; it was the city's tallest structure until 2018. Lifts climb to an observation deck at 238 m and a revolving restaurant a little lower down, with views across Yuyuantan Park and the city."},{"id":"beijing-changchun-temple","name":"Changchun Temple","name_zh":"长椿寺","pinyin":"Chángchūn Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8914,"lon":116.3581,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-changchun-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple founded in 1592 by order of the Wanli Emperor's mother and once among the most prosperous in the capital, later used as housing before its restoration in the early 2000s. Since 2005 its courtyards have housed the Xuannan Culture Museum, which covers the history of the old southern city's scholars, guild halls, opera and trade."},{"id":"fengtai-changxindian-february-7th-strike-sites","name":"Changxindian February 7th Strike Sites","name_zh":"长辛店二七大罢工旧址","pinyin":"Chángxīndiàn Èrqī Dàbàgōng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8304,"lon":116.2001,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengtai-changxindian-february-7th-strike-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of sites in the old railway town of Changxindian linked to the strike of 7 February 1923 on the Beijing–Hankou railway, a workers' movement led by the early Chinese Communist Party. The February 7th Memorial Hall, opened in 1986 around four courtyards, displays documents and objects from the strike, and nearby stand the former workers' club, the preparatory school for work-study in France founded in 1918, and buildings of the old locomotive works, now a creative park."},{"id":"beijing-chaoyang-park","name":"Chaoyang Park","name_zh":"朝阳公园","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9456,"lon":116.4794,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-chaoyang-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as the largest park inside Beijing's 4th Ring Road, Chaoyang Park was developed from 1984 on the east side of the city. Lakes, lawns and woods share the grounds with play areas, the former beach-volleyball venue of the 2008 Olympics and seasonal music festivals, and a long walking loop runs through the park."},{"id":"miyun-changyu-afip-chateau","name":"Chateau Changyu AFIP","name_zh":"张裕爱斐堡酒庄","pinyin":"Zhāngyù Àifěibǎo Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.3813,"lon":116.9096,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=miyun-changyu-afip-chateau","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wine estate of the Changyu wine company in Jugezhuang town, built around a European-style castle with vineyards, a large underground cellar, a European-style village of shops and restaurants and a museum of Changyu's history since its founding in 1892. Visitors can tour the cellar, taste wine, pick table grapes in season and stay at the estate."},{"id":"shijingshan-chengen-temple","name":"Cheng'en Temple","name_zh":"承恩寺","pinyin":"Chéng'ēn Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9344,"lon":116.1588,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shijingshan-chengen-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1510–1513 for the Ming eunuch Wen Xiang on Moshikou's old caravan road, Cheng'en Temple keeps Ming halls, bell and drum towers flanking the Hall of Heavenly Kings with its murals, and four stone watchtowers at the corners of the compound. Used as a school from the 1950s and later restored, it now houses the Yanjing Bajue Museum of traditional Beijing crafts, and its old ginkgo draws visitors in autumn."},{"id":"haidian-china-national-botanical-garden","name":"China National Botanical Garden","name_zh":"国家植物园","pinyin":"Guójiā Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9928,"lon":116.2093,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-china-national-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Formed in 2022 by joining the Beijing Botanical Garden with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' garden, the China National Botanical Garden has a planned area of nearly 600 hectares at the foot of the Western Hills, between Fragrant Hills and Jade Spring Hill. The north garden has themed collections such as the peach, peony, lilac and rose gardens, a tropical conservatory, Cherry Valley (Yingtaogou) and a memorial hall to the novelist Cao Xueqin. It also takes in Wofo Temple (Shifang Pujue Temple), whose Hall of the Reclining Buddha holds a large bronze Buddha cast in 1321."},{"id":"chaoyang-china-red-sandalwood-museum","name":"China Red Sandalwood Museum","name_zh":"中国紫檀博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Zǐtán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9088,"lon":116.5203,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaoyang-china-red-sandalwood-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private museum opened in 1999 by the entrepreneur Chen Lihua and devoted to zitan, a dense dark-red hardwood long used for fine Chinese furniture. Its five-storey building in Ming–Qing style shows a large collection of classical furniture and carving, and its zitan carving craft was listed as national intangible cultural heritage in 2011."},{"id":"beijing-beitang-cathedral","name":"Church of the Saviour (Beitang)","name_zh":"西什库教堂","pinyin":"Xīshíkù Jiàotáng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9239,"lon":116.3725,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-beitang-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beijing's Catholic cathedral, founded in 1703 on land given by the Kangxi Emperor near the palace and moved here in 1887 when the Guangxu court wanted the old site, with its grey-stone Gothic façade completed in 1890. The church was besieged during the Boxer uprising of 1900, and after restoration in 2018 it is again the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Beijing."},{"id":"fangshan-cross-temple","name":"Cross Temple","name_zh":"十字寺遗址","pinyin":"Shízì Sì Yízhǐ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.7431,"lon":115.9017,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours with the walk","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-cross-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ruins of a hillside temple that was Buddhist for most of its history but was used by Christians of the Church of the East during the Yuan dynasty, one of very few such places of worship known in China. Foundations, column bases, two old ginkgo trees and two marble steles remain, a Liao text recut in the Ming and a Yuan stele topped by a cross; two stones carved with crosses and a Syriac psalm verse, found here in the early 20th century, are now in the Nanjing Museum."},{"id":"beijing-dagaoxuan-hall","name":"Dagaoxuan Hall","name_zh":"大高玄殿","pinyin":"Dàgāoxuán Diàn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9229,"lon":116.3867,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-dagaoxuan-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming and Qing imperial Taoist temple just north-west of the Forbidden City, where emperors worshipped the Three Pure Ones and the Jade Emperor. Used by military units from 1950, it was handed back to the Palace Museum in 2010 and restored from 2015, and in 2025 its halls opened as a digital gallery of the Palace Museum's collection."},{"id":"haidian-dajue-temple","name":"Dajue Temple","name_zh":"大觉寺","pinyin":"Dàjué Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.0511,"lon":116.0992,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-dajue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple at the foot of Yangtai Mountain in the Western Hills, founded in 1068 under the Liao as Qingshui Yuan and given its present name when it was rebuilt in 1428. It faces east towards the rising sun, reflecting a Khitan custom of the Liao period, and is known for spring water channelled through its courtyards, a ginkgo about 1,000 years old and 300-year-old magnolias that flower in April. It is run as a museum by the Beijing cultural heritage bureau."},{"id":"beijing-deshengmen-arrow-tower","name":"Deshengmen Arrow Tower","name_zh":"德胜门箭楼","pinyin":"Déshèngmén Jiànlóu","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9485,"lon":116.3734,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-deshengmen-arrow-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The archery tower of Deshengmen, the western of the two northern gates of the Ming inner city, added in 1436–39, its tall front pierced by rows of arrow slits. The gatehouse and barbican were pulled down between 1915 and 1955 and the wall in the 1960s, leaving the tower and a stretch of barbican wall as one of the few surviving gates of old Beijing."},{"id":"haidian-tsinghua-early-buildings","name":"Early Buildings of Tsinghua University","name_zh":"清华大学早期建筑","pinyin":"Qīnghuá Dàxué Zǎoqī Jiànzhù","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.0022,"lon":116.3184,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haidian-tsinghua-early-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Twenty buildings from before 1935 survive in the western part of Tsinghua University's campus, alongside the Qing-era Tsinghua Garden whose Gongzi Ting hall predates the university. They range from the European-style Tsinghua Xuetang and Second Gate of 1909–1912 to the 'Four Great Buildings' of the American architect Henry Murphy's 1914 plan: the Grand Auditorium, library, gymnasium and science building."},{"id":"shijingshan-fahai-temple","name":"Fahai Temple","name_zh":"法海寺","pinyin":"Fǎhǎi Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9401,"lon":116.1533,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shijingshan-fahai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built between 1439 and 1443 with funds raised by a Ming court eunuch, Fahai Temple is known for the murals in its main hall, painted in the 1440s by court and local artists and among the oldest and best-preserved wall paintings in Beijing. The hall is kept dark and visitor numbers are strictly limited to protect them, so the nearby digital Fahai Temple Mural Art Museum reproduces the murals at full size on high-resolution screens."},{"id":"beijing-fayuan-temple","name":"Fayuan Temple","name_zh":"法源寺","pinyin":"Fǎyuán Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8833,"lon":116.3636,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-fayuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as the oldest surviving Buddhist temple in Beijing's old city, it was founded in the Tang dynasty in memory of soldiers killed in the Korean campaigns of the 640s and rebuilt many times since. Its courtyards climb gently north past halls with Ming bronze Buddhas, old steles and a large Qing stone basin on a Yuan base, and the temple houses the China Buddhist Academy and is known for its lilacs in spring."},{"id":"haidian-fenghuangling","name":"Fenghuangling","name_zh":"凤凰岭","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Lǐng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.1023,"lon":116.0846,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-fenghuangling/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area of about 9.7 km² of rocky hills in north-west Haidian, named after a huge 'Fenghuangling' inscription carved on a cliff and nicknamed the 'Little Huangshan of western Beijing'. Three hiking routes follow the valleys past cave shrines carved in the Liao and Jin periods, the Daoist Taoyuan Temple, a 53-step 'Heavenly Ladder' cut almost vertically into the rock, and Longquan Temple, an active Buddhist monastery at the foot of the hills."},{"id":"beijing-old-national-library-wenjin-street","name":"Former National Library of Peiping","name_zh":"北平图书馆旧址","pinyin":"Běipíng Túshūguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9221,"lon":116.379,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-old-national-library-wenjin-street/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The library building opened in 1931 for the National Library of Peiping, paid for with returned Boxer Indemnity funds and designed by V. Leth-Moller, with a Chinese palace-style exterior over an interior fitted with the most modern equipment of its day. Marble columns and stone lions brought from the ruined Old Summer Palace stand in its forecourt, and until 1987 it was the main building of the national library, which later used it as its Ancient Books branch."},{"id":"beijing-mongolian-tibetan-school","name":"Former National Mongolian and Tibetan School","name_zh":"国立蒙藏学校旧址","pinyin":"Guólì Méngzàng Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9086,"lon":116.3683,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-mongolian-tibetan-school/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing nobleman's mansion near Xidan that became a school for Mongolian and Tibetan students in 1913, where Li Dazhao and others carried out political work in the 1920s and, in 1924, Mongolian students including Ulanhu formed the Communist Party's first branch among an ethnic minority. After decades as a clothing market it was restored and reopened in 2023 as an exhibition hall on China's ethnic groups and national unity."},{"id":"beijing-li-dazhao-residence","name":"Former Residence of Li Dazhao","name_zh":"李大钊故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Dàzhāo Gùjū","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9033,"lon":116.3598,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-li-dazhao-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The small courtyard house where Li Dazhao, a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, lived with his family from 1920 to 1924, the years in which he set up a Marxist study society and the early Communist group in Beijing. Restored and opened in 2007, it shows the family's rooms furnished as they were and an exhibition on his activities in those years."},{"id":"beijing-soong-ching-ling-residence","name":"Former Residence of Soong Ching-ling","name_zh":"宋庆龄故居","pinyin":"Sòng Qìnglíng Gùjū","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9443,"lon":116.3769,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-soong-ching-ling-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Beijing home from 1963 until her death in 1981 of Soong Ching-ling, widow of Sun Yat-sen and later Honorary President of the PRC, set in the former garden of Prince Chun's Mansion, the estate where the last emperor Puyi was born. Her two-storey house, kept with its original furnishings, and a hall with an exhibition on her life stand beside a garden lake ringed by artificial hills, covered walkways and pavilions."},{"id":"tongzhou-grand-canal","name":"Grand Canal Scenic Area, Tongzhou","name_zh":"通州大运河","pinyin":"Tōngzhōu Dà Yùnhé","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9145,"lon":116.6599,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongzhou-grand-canal/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tongzhou marks the northern end of the Grand Canal, and this scenic area follows about 12 km of the North Canal from the confluence of five rivers south to Gantang Bridge, with parks along both banks. At its northern end stand the 'three temples and a pagoda': a Confucian temple, the Daoist Ziqing Palace and the Buddhist Yousheng Temple, grouped around the 56-metre, 13-storey Randeng Pagoda that once told boatmen they were nearing Tongzhou. Further south are Canal Park and the large Grand Canal Forest Park, and sightseeing boats run on the canal."},{"id":"beijing-guangji-temple","name":"Guangji Temple","name_zh":"广济寺","pinyin":"Guǎngjì Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9236,"lon":116.3658,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-guangji-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A working Buddhist temple and headquarters of the Buddhist Association of China since 1953, rebuilt in the 1450s on a Jin-dynasty site and named Hongci Guangji Temple in 1466. Its Ming-plan courtyards hold a white-marble ordination platform of 1698, a bronze incense tripod from 1793 and halls of Ming statues, with a large Qing finger painting behind the main altar."},{"id":"beijing-guo-moruo-residence","name":"Guo Moruo Residence","name_zh":"郭沫若故居","pinyin":"Guō Mòruò Gùjū","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9332,"lon":116.3819,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-guo-moruo-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The courtyard home where the writer, historian and senior cultural official Guo Moruo lived from 1963 until his death in 1978, on a site that once belonged to Prince Gong's Mansion and later served as the Mongolian embassy and as a residence of Soong Ching-ling. His study, reception room and bedroom are kept as they were, and the side halls hold exhibitions on his literary and historical work, with a large ginkgo tree in the front yard."},{"id":"mentougou-gushan-village","name":"Gushan Village","name_zh":"谷山村","pinyin":"Gǔshān Cūn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.991,"lon":116.0522,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mentougou-gushan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain village in Miaofengshan town turned into a farming-culture park, with displays of old farm tools and machinery, a small farm, children's play areas and hands-on craft workshops. Pear and apple orchards surround it, with white pear blossom in spring, and it suits families with children."},{"id":"yanqing-guyaju-caves","name":"Guyaju Caves","name_zh":"古崖居","pinyin":"Gǔyájū","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.4624,"lon":115.7685,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanqing-guyaju-caves/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of 117 cave dwellings with some 350 rooms cut into the cliffs of a side valley west of Yanqing, found in 1984 and still of uncertain age and origin; the most common view links them to the Xi people of the Tang to Five Dynasties period. Stone steps lead up to rooms carved with beds, stoves, flues, window openings and lamp niches, cut at several levels so that parts of the cliff look like a many-storeyed building."},{"id":"tongzhou-han-meilin-art-museum","name":"Han Meilin Art Museum","name_zh":"韩美林艺术馆","pinyin":"Hán Měilín Yìshùguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8734,"lon":116.6727,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongzhou-han-meilin-art-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum devoted to Han Meilin, the artist best known for designing the Fuwa mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, opened in 2008 in Liyuan, Tongzhou. Its galleries show his paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics and folk-craft designs, and it suits anyone interested in contemporary Chinese art and design."},{"id":"fangshan-haotian-pagoda","name":"Haotian Pagoda","name_zh":"昊天塔","pinyin":"Hàotiān Tǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.7334,"lon":116.148,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-haotian-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-storey octagonal brick pagoda in pavilion style on a low hill on the east side of Liangxiang, the only pagoda of this type in Beijing. First built in the Sui dynasty and rebuilt in 1068 under the Liao, it is hollow, with corridors and stairs inside; the Buddha figures in the niches of its doorways were smashed in 1901 during the Eight-Nation Alliance occupation."},{"id":"chaoyang-happy-valley-beijing","name":"Happy Valley Beijing","name_zh":"北京欢乐谷","pinyin":"Běijīng Huānlègǔ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8664,"lon":116.4886,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaoyang-happy-valley-beijing/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park opened in 2006 by the OCT group on the south-eastern side of the city, with dozens of rides, from big roller coasters and drop towers to gentle children's rides, spread over themed zones such as a Mayan jungle, an Aegean harbour and a Shangri-La area. Live shows and parades run through the day, and it suits families and thrill-seekers."},{"id":"miyun-heilongtan-gorge","name":"Heilongtan (Black Dragon Pool), Miyun","name_zh":"黑龙潭","pinyin":"Hēilóngtán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.5618,"lon":116.7952,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=miyun-heilongtan-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A narrow gorge about 4 km long north of Lupiguan in Shicheng town, where a stream drops through a chain of named pools and several waterfalls. Paths, steps and bridges follow the water up the cliff-lined valley."},{"id":"beijing-holy-saviours-cathedral","name":"Holy Saviour's Cathedral","name_zh":"中华圣公会救主堂","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Shènggōnghuì Jiùzhǔtáng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9008,"lon":116.362,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-holy-saviours-cathedral","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Anglican cathedral of North China, built in 1907 on a cross-shaped plan that mixes a European church layout with grey brick walls, Chinese tiled roofs and pavilion-like towers. Worship ended after 1949 and the building was used as a warehouse and offices, and after restoration it reopened in 2019 as a branch of the Mofan bookshop."},{"id":"huairou-hongluo-temple","name":"Hongluo Temple","name_zh":"红螺寺","pinyin":"Hóngluó Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.3726,"lon":116.6203,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huairou-hongluo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Buddhist temple at the southern foot of Hongluo Mountain, by tradition founded in 338 and rebuilt many times, which became a leading centre of Pure Land Buddhism in northern China under the Qing masters Jixing and Yinguang. Its halls are laid out in several courtyards on the hillside, surrounded by an old pine forest, with Hongluo Lake to the south."},{"id":"huairou-huanghuacheng-lakeside-great-wall","name":"Huanghuacheng Lakeside Great Wall","name_zh":"黄花城水长城","pinyin":"Huánghuāchéng Shuǐ Chángchéng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.4115,"lon":116.3011,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huairou-huanghuacheng-lakeside-great-wall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A section of the Ming Great Wall at Xishuiyu in Jiuduhe town, where the wall runs down the hillsides into a reservoir so that parts of it lie under water, hence the name 'Lakeside' or 'Water' Great Wall. The walls guarded the Huanghuacheng garrison and its pass, built in the Yongle, Zhengde and Jiajing reigns; it is usually quieter than Mutianyu or Badaling, and a steep climb leads to watchtowers with views over the lake."},{"id":"beijing-huguang-guild-hall","name":"Huguang Guild Hall","name_zh":"湖广会馆","pinyin":"Húguǎng Huìguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8875,"lon":116.3777,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour (or an evening performance)","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-huguang-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A guild hall for officials from Hunan and Hubei, built in 1807 and given its galleried opera theatre in 1830, where Sun Yat-sen spoke at the founding meeting of the Kuomintang in August 1912. The richly painted theatre still stages Peking opera, and the complex has housed a small museum of Peking opera history; it reopened in January 2024 after renovation."},{"id":"beijing-imperial-ancestral-temple","name":"Imperial Ancestral Temple","name_zh":"太庙","pinyin":"Tàimiào","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.91,"lon":116.3935,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-imperial-ancestral-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1420 together with the Forbidden City, the Imperial Ancestral Temple is where Ming and Qing emperors honoured their ancestors, in three great halls set one behind the other within triple walls. The main hall, built largely of the prized hardwood nanmu, stands on a three-tier white-marble terrace among centuries-old cypresses and reopened with exhibitions in 2024 after restoration. Opened as a park in 1924 and run as the Working People's Cultural Palace since 1950, the temple is part of the Beijing Central Axis World Heritage Site."},{"id":"beijing-huangshicheng-imperial-archives","name":"Imperial Historical Archives (Huangshicheng)","name_zh":"皇史宬","pinyin":"Huángshǐchéng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9084,"lon":116.3975,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-huangshicheng-imperial-archives/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1534–36, the Huangshicheng was the imperial archive of the Ming and Qing dynasties, where the court kept its official chronicles, imperial instructions and the genealogies of the imperial clan. The fireproof main hall uses no wooden beams, with brick walls about 5 m thick and carved white-marble details, and inside, on a marble plinth, stand 152 gilded, bronze-clad camphorwood chests that once held the records; the complex was restored by the First Historical Archives of China in 2020–21."},{"id":"shunyi-jiaozhuanghu-tunnel-warfare-site","name":"Jiaozhuanghu Tunnel Warfare Site","name_zh":"焦庄户地道战遗址","pinyin":"Jiāozhuānghù Dìdàozhàn Yízhǐ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.2326,"lon":116.8638,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunyi-jiaozhuanghu-tunnel-warfare-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"During the Second Sino-Japanese War the villagers of Jiaozhuanghu dug tunnels linking houses and neighbouring villages into a network some 23 li (about 11.5 km) long, with traps, firing holes hidden in millstones and pigsties, and secret entrances in kitchen stoves and wells. The memorial museum, founded in 1964, has an exhibition hall, restored wartime village houses and about 830 m of tunnel that visitors can walk through."},{"id":"mentougou-jietai-temple","name":"Jietai Temple","name_zh":"戒台寺","pinyin":"Jiètái Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8689,"lon":116.0803,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mentougou-jietai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Buddhist temple on the slopes of Ma'an Mountain in the Western Hills, known for its ordination altar, counted among the three great ordination platforms of Chinese Buddhism. The altar hall was first built under the Liao in 1069 and houses a three-tiered stone altar of the Ming; the courtyards are famous for old pines with names such as the 'Moving Pine', and Prince Gong lived here for about ten years after he was dismissed from office in 1884."},{"id":"fangshan-jin-imperial-tombs","name":"Jin Dynasty Imperial Tombs","name_zh":"金陵","pinyin":"Jīn Líng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.7472,"lon":115.9128,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-jin-imperial-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The burial ground of the Jin dynasty emperors, laid out below Jiulong Mountain after the Jurchen court moved its capital to Zhongdu (Beijing) in the 1150s, and the earliest imperial cemetery in the Beijing area. Archaeologists excavated the tomb of the dynasty's founder, Aguda, in 2001–2003; no halls stand today, and the remains are building foundations, a stone stairway on the Sacred Way and broken steles on the hillside."},{"id":"fengtai-jin-zhongdu-water-gate","name":"Jin Zhongdu Water Gate Site","name_zh":"金中都水关遗址","pinyin":"Jīn Zhōngdū Shuǐguān Yízhǐ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8614,"lon":116.3525,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengtai-jin-zhongdu-water-gate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The excavated foundations of a water gate that let a river pass under the southern wall of Zhongdu, the Jin dynasty capital that stood in what is now south-western Beijing. Found during building work in 1990, the 43-metre timber-and-stone base is displayed where it lies beneath a museum, now a branch of the Beijing Archaeological Site Museum, whose upper galleries cover the city's history up to the Liao and Jin periods and a collection of stone carvings."},{"id":"pinggu-jingdong-grand-canyon","name":"Jingdong Grand Canyon","name_zh":"京东大峡谷","pinyin":"Jīngdōng Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.2381,"lon":117.1633,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinggu-jingdong-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A narrow, steep-walled canyon near Yuzishan village in northern Pinggu, with a waterfall, a chain of pools and walkways fixed to the cliffs, ending at a small lake where boats can be hired. A second area climbs to the flat top of Jingtai Mountain for views, and a cliffside walkway includes a glass-floored stretch."},{"id":"beijing-jingshan-park","name":"Jingshan Park","name_zh":"景山公园","pinyin":"Jǐngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9236,"lon":116.3906,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-jingshan-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former imperial garden directly north of the Forbidden City, centred on an artificial hill piled up in the early Ming from earth dug out for the palace moat and canals. Five pavilions stand on its five peaks, and the central Wanchun Pavilion on the city's north–south axis gives the classic view over the palace roofs; the last Ming emperor, Chongzhen, hanged himself on the hill's eastern slope in 1644. Opened to the public in 1928, the park is part of the Beijing Central Axis World Heritage site inscribed in 2024."},{"id":"pinggu-jinhai-lake","name":"Jinhai Lake","name_zh":"金海湖","pinyin":"Jīnhǎi Hú","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.1808,"lon":117.3081,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinggu-jinhai-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir in the hills of eastern Pinggu, formed by the Haizi dam built in 1959–1960 and enlarged until 1983, with hills on three sides. It hosted the rowing and canoeing events of the 1990 Asian Games, and today boats, speedboats and other water sports run from the shore, with a pagoda and viewpoints on the surrounding hills."},{"id":"changping-juyong-pass","name":"Juyong Pass","name_zh":"居庸关","pinyin":"Jūyōng Guān","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.2878,"lon":116.0686,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changping-juyong-pass/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming fortress pass in the Guangou valley north-west of Beijing, one of the 'three inner passes' that guarded the capital, where a walled garrison town with gated barbicans at both ends closes the valley and the Great Wall climbs steeply up the slopes on either side. Inside the pass stands the Cloud Platform, a white-marble base built in 1342–1345 for three Tibetan-style stupas, whose archway is carved with the Four Heavenly Kings and with Buddhist texts in six scripts: Sanskrit, Tibetan, Phags-pa, Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese."},{"id":"changping-leduogang","name":"Leduogang Holiday Plaza","name_zh":"乐多港假日广场","pinyin":"Lèduōgǎng Jiàrì Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.2306,"lon":116.1837,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changping-leduogang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern leisure complex on the south-west edge of Changping town, combining a shopping and dining centre (now Leduogang Wanda Plaza), a Marriott resort hotel with a large hot-spring complex, and Karle Planet, a space-themed amusement park opened in 2022 on the site of an earlier theme park. It suits families looking for rides, shopping and a hot-spring break rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"mentougou-lingyue-temple","name":"Lingyue Temple","name_zh":"灵岳寺","pinyin":"Língyuè Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9983,"lon":115.6706,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mentougou-lingyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A remote Buddhist temple on Baitie Mountain above Zhaitang, first built in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt on a large scale under the Yuan; its main hall keeps a Yuan-period roof frame and bracket sets, rare in the Beijing area. Restored from 2005 and long kept closed, it reopened in late 2025, with a gate, Heavenly King Hall, main hall and side halls, an old locust tree before the gate and steles of 1293 and 1683."},{"id":"fangshan-liulihe-bridge","name":"Liulihe Bridge","name_zh":"琉璃河大桥","pinyin":"Liúlíhé Dàqiáo","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.6034,"lon":116.0237,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-liulihe-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming stone arch bridge over the Liuli River on the old main road south from Beijing, ordered by the Yongle Emperor in 1418 and rebuilt in 1539–1546. Among Beijing's old stone bridges only the Marco Polo Bridge is larger; its eleven arches carry carved beast heads and long rows of stone balustrades, and it has carried no traffic since a new road bridge opened beside it in 1999."},{"id":"fangshan-liulihe-yan-capital-site","name":"Liulihe Yan Capital Site","name_zh":"琉璃河遗址","pinyin":"Liúlíhé Yízhǐ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.6154,"lon":116.0507,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-liulihe-yan-capital-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the capital of Yan, a vassal state of the Western Zhou dynasty, founded about 3,000 years ago and the earliest known city in the Beijing area. Excavations since the 1960s have found stretches of rammed-earth wall, dwellings and a cemetery of nobles whose inscribed bronzes record the granting of Yan to the family of the Duke of Shao; a site museum opened here in 1995, and new finds were named among China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2024."},{"id":"dongcheng-longtan-park","name":"Longtan Park","name_zh":"龙潭公园","pinyin":"Lóngtán Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8769,"lon":116.4356,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongcheng-longtan-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city park laid out around the eastern of the three Longtan lakes, dug in 1952 to drain marshy ground in south-east Beijing, and opened as Longtan Park in 1984. Its islands, bridges and pavilions are themed on the dragon, with spots such as a Dragon Gate and a Dragon Pavilion, and the grounds also hold a shrine to the late-Ming general Yuan Chonghuan. It is an everyday neighbourhood park rather than a historic site, handy for a stroll after the Temple of Heaven next door."},{"id":"haidian-luanzhou-uprising-memorial","name":"Luanzhou Uprising Memorial Park","name_zh":"辛亥滦州起义纪念园","pinyin":"Xīnhài Luánzhōu Qǐyì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.0492,"lon":116.1592,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-luanzhou-uprising-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial built in 1936–37 by the general Feng Yuxiang for those killed in the Luanzhou Uprising of January 1912, a failed revolt against the Qing in which he took part. Its monuments stand in a line up Xianlong Hill: a granite memorial arch, a stele, an octagonal cenotaph pillar naming 14 of the dead, a cliff inscription in Feng's calligraphy and a 12-metre white stone pagoda at the top."},{"id":"beijing-mei-lanfang-memorial","name":"Mei Lanfang Memorial Museum","name_zh":"梅兰芳纪念馆","pinyin":"Méi Lánfāng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9342,"lon":116.3732,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-mei-lanfang-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The courtyard house where Mei Lanfang, the Peking opera star often credited with first taking the art abroad, with tours to Japan and in 1930 to North America, spent his last decade from 1951 to 1961. Opened as a memorial in 1986, it keeps his reception room, study and bedroom as they were and shows his stage costumes, programmes and paintings."},{"id":"beijing-ming-city-wall-relics-park","name":"Ming City Wall Relics Park","name_zh":"明城墙遗址公园","pinyin":"Míng Chéngqiáng Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9001,"lon":116.4291,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-ming-city-wall-relics-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The longest surviving stretch of Beijing's Ming-dynasty inner city wall, about 1.5 km of rampart running east from Chongwenmen, ends at the Southeast Corner Tower, completed in 1439 and described as the largest and oldest city-wall corner tower surviving in China. The double-roofed tower, pierced by 144 arrow windows, was badly damaged in 1900 and dismantled and rebuilt in 1981–83; you can climb up to it and onto a section of the wall top, while lawns and trees line the foot of the wall as an open park."},{"id":"fengtai-museum-of-chinese-gardens","name":"Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture","name_zh":"中国园林博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yuánlín Bówùguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8796,"lon":116.1764,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengtai-museum-of-chinese-gardens/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"China's first national museum devoted to gardens, opened in 2013 at the foot of Yingshan hill beside the Garden Expo Park, with galleries on the history, techniques and culture of Chinese garden-making. Indoor courts hold rebuilds of famous small gardens, among them Suzhou's Chang Yuan, Guangzhou's Yuyin Shanfang and Yangzhou's Pianshi Shanfang, and the outdoor gardens include a partial rebuild of Beijing's lost Banmu Yuan."},{"id":"fengtai-nangong-hot-spring-area","name":"Nangong Scenic Area","name_zh":"南宫旅游景区","pinyin":"Nángōng Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.7933,"lon":116.1447,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengtai-nangong-hot-spring-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort area in Wangzuo town, south-western Fengtai, built around the geothermal water of Nangong village. It groups hot-spring bathing centres and a hot-spring water park with a plant and parrot park and children's play areas, and suits families and anyone after a hot-spring soak close to the city."},{"id":"beijing-niujie-mosque","name":"Niujie Mosque","name_zh":"牛街礼拜寺","pinyin":"Niújiē Lǐbàisì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8844,"lon":116.3581,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-niujie-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as Beijing's oldest and largest mosque, it is the centre of the Muslim neighbourhood along Niujie (Ox Street); it is said to have been founded in 996 under the Liao, was rebuilt in 1443 and enlarged in 1696. Its timber halls look like a Chinese temple from outside but are decorated inside with Arabic calligraphy, and the street around it is known for halal food shops."},{"id":"haidian-cishou-temple-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Cishou Temple","name_zh":"慈寿寺塔","pinyin":"Císhòu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9268,"lon":116.2893,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-cishou-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 50 m tall, built in 1576 by the Wanli Emperor for his mother, Empress Dowager Cisheng; the temple around it burned down in the late Qing, leaving the pagoda standing alone. Its base is carved with flying apsaras, Buddhas and musical instruments, more than 3,000 iron bells hang from its eaves, and since 1989 it has been the centrepiece of the small Linglong Park."},{"id":"beijing-wansong-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Monk Wansong","name_zh":"万松老人塔","pinyin":"Wànsōng Lǎorén Tǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9207,"lon":116.367,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-wansong-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A slender nine-tier brick pagoda at the mouth of Zhuanta Hutong, first built as the Yuan-era tomb pagoda of the Chan master Wansong Xingxiu (1166–1246) and raised from seven to nine tiers in 1753. It is the only brick pagoda left in the old inner city and gave Zhuanta (Brick Pagoda) Hutong its name; in 2014 its small courtyard was opened as a public reading room run with a local bookshop."},{"id":"beijing-tianning-temple-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Tianning Temple","name_zh":"天宁寺塔","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8937,"lon":116.3399,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-tianning-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A solid octagonal brick pagoda of thirteen tiers from the Liao dynasty, dated to 1119 by a stele found in its top during repairs in 1992, which confirmed the earlier dating by the architectural historians Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin. Its base and first storey carry carved doors, windows, guardian figures and dragons, and it stands in the grounds of the working Tianning Temple."},{"id":"beijing-legation-quarter","name":"Peking Legation Quarter (Dongjiaominxiang)","name_zh":"东交民巷","pinyin":"Dōngjiāomín Xiàng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9043,"lon":116.3999,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-legation-quarter/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From 1861 foreign legations clustered along this lane east of Tiananmen Square, and after the siege of 1900 it became a walled, foreign-run Legation Quarter with its own banks, barracks and churches. A group of early 20th-century European-style buildings survives, among them the former legations of Japan, France and Italy, the old Yokohama Specie Bank and Citibank buildings and St Michael's Church of 1904. Most are offices seen from the street, so the quarter is best explored on foot as a walk through Beijing's colonial-era history."},{"id":"dongcheng-pudu-temple","name":"Pudu Temple","name_zh":"普度寺","pinyin":"Pǔdù Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.912,"lon":116.3985,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongcheng-pudu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Raised on a high brick terrace in the lanes east of the Forbidden City, Pudu Temple stands on the site of the mansion of Dorgon, the Manchu prince-regent of the early Qing, which was turned into a temple to the Tibetan Buddhist protector deity Mahakala in 1694. Its main hall, with features of early Manchu palace building, sits on a Ming-era carved stone base, and since its restoration in 2001–03 the temple grounds have served as a small public garden."},{"id":"haidian-purple-bamboo-park","name":"Purple Bamboo Park","name_zh":"紫竹院公园","pinyin":"Zǐzhúyuàn Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9414,"lon":116.3131,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haidian-purple-bamboo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Laid out from 1953 and named after the small Fuyin Zizhu Yuan temple inside it, Purple Bamboo Park covers about 47 hectares, a third of it water, with the Changhe River flowing through. Over ten thousand bamboo plants line its lakes, islands and bridges, making it a quiet place for a walk in north-west Beijing."},{"id":"huairou-qinglongxia","name":"Qinglong Gorge","name_zh":"青龙峡","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Xiá","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.4616,"lon":116.6719,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huairou-qinglongxia","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded gorge north of Huairou town, dammed to form the Dashuiyu Reservoir, with Ming Great Wall watchtowers on the ridges above. Boats run on the lake behind the dam and adventure activities have been offered on its banks, and in wet summers water spills over the dam as a broad waterfall."},{"id":"beijing-jingzhang-railway-qinglongqiao","name":"Qinglongqiao Station, Jingzhang Railway","name_zh":"京张铁路青龙桥站","pinyin":"Jīngzhāng Tiělù Qīnglóngqiáo Zhàn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.351,"lon":116.0201,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-jingzhang-railway-qinglongqiao/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic station at the heart of the protected Nankou–Badaling section of the Beijing–Zhangjiakou (Jingzhang) railway, the first major line designed and built by Chinese engineers (1905–1909), under Zhan Tianyou. Here a zigzag switchback lets trains climb the steep Guangou valley; the 1908 station building keeps its original style, with a statue of Zhan Tianyou and his tomb beside it, and suburban Line S2 trains still reverse on the switchback."},{"id":"dongcheng-peking-university-red-building","name":"Red Building of Peking University","name_zh":"北京大学红楼","pinyin":"Běijīng Dàxué Hónglóu","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9233,"lon":116.3992,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongcheng-peking-university-red-building/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Completed in 1918 as the main building of Peking University, this red-brick block was a centre of the New Culture and May Fourth movements: Li Dazhao ran the university library here, and the young Mao Zedong worked in it as a library assistant in 1918–19. It now houses the New Culture Movement Memorial of Beijing, part of the Beijing Lu Xun Museum, with restored rooms such as Li Dazhao's office and a newspaper reading room, and exhibitions on the period and on early Communist activity in Beijing."},{"id":"chaoyang-ritan-park","name":"Ritan Park (Altar of the Sun)","name_zh":"日坛","pinyin":"Rìtán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9144,"lon":116.4381,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaoyang-ritan-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The altar where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the sun at the spring equinox, built in 1530 when the Jiajing Emperor gave the sun and moon separate altars. The square white-stone altar inside its round enclosing wall survives with several ancillary buildings, set in a public park of gardens and a small lake among the embassies of the Jianguomen area."},{"id":"pinggu-shangzhai-culture-museum","name":"Shangzhai Culture Museum","name_zh":"上宅文化陈列馆","pinyin":"Shàngzhái Wénhuà Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.1869,"lon":117.2959,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinggu-shangzhai-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A site museum for the Shangzhai culture, a Neolithic culture of about 7,500 to 6,000 years ago excavated at Shangzhai village in 1985–1987 and the earliest Neolithic culture found in the Beijing area with signs of early farming. Opened in 1989 in a building shaped like a prehistoric hut, it displays stone axes, grinding slabs, pottery jars and bowls and small carved animal figures from the site."},{"id":"fangshan-shenglian-mountain","name":"Shenglian Mountain","name_zh":"圣莲山","pinyin":"Shènglián Shān","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8415,"lon":115.724,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangshan-shenglian-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A steep limestone mountain in the upper Dashi River valley, part of the Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark, with karst peaks, arches, caves and springs. Taoist and Buddhist temples are spread over the slopes, among them a Quanzhen Taoist Zhenwu Temple rebuilt in 2004, and a 57 m statue of a seated Laozi, a pagoda on the summit area and a large Buddha carved into the cliff stand out on the walk up."},{"id":"fangshan-shidu","name":"Shidu","name_zh":"十渡","pinyin":"Shídù","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.6372,"lon":115.5833,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-shidu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long valley where the Juma River has cut through the northern end of the Taihang Mountains, leaving limestone peaks and cliffs above the water; it is one of the largest karst landscapes in northern China and part of the Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark. The name, 'Tenth Ferry', comes from the river crossings along the old road, and today the valley is a busy weekend resort with rafting, boating and other outdoor activities, while the river attracts wintering birds."},{"id":"fangshan-shihua-cave","name":"Shihua Cave","name_zh":"石花洞","pinyin":"Shíhuā Dòng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.7947,"lon":115.9405,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangshan-shihua-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large limestone show cave on the Dashi River, the core of the Shihuadong National Geopark and part of the Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark. Eight levels have been explored, and the four upper levels, about 2.5 km of passages, are open to visitors, with stalagmites, columns, flowstone curtains and the delicate helictites and 'stone flowers' (anthodites) that give the cave its name. A Ming monk found it in 1446 and had a statue of the bodhisattva Ksitigarbha carved inside; it opened to the public in 1987."},{"id":"pinggu-shilin-gorge","name":"Shilin Gorge","name_zh":"京东石林峡","pinyin":"Jīngdōng Shílín Xiá","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.2593,"lon":117.2412,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinggu-shilin-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge in the hills of north-eastern Pinggu, named after the groups of rock pinnacles that rise from its slopes, with clear pools, huge boulders and a waterfall that drops in several tiers. The path follows the valley floor, which narrows to a few metres in places, beneath cliffs where cypresses grow straight out of the rock."},{"id":"yanqing-badaling-shuiguan-great-wall","name":"Shuiguan Great Wall (Badaling)","name_zh":"水关长城","pinyin":"Shuǐguān Chángchéng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.3369,"lon":116.0317,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanqing-badaling-shuiguan-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty section on the eastern part of the Badaling wall, which climbs in a steep V up both sides of the Guangou valley where it was cut by the Beijing–Zhangjiakou railway. Its name, 'Water Pass', is said to come from an arrow tower on the valley floor that also served as a water gate, and the wall here is known for its steep gradients."},{"id":"shunyi-olympic-water-park","name":"Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park","name_zh":"顺义奥林匹克水上公园","pinyin":"Shùnyì Àolínpǐkè Shuǐshàng Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.1806,"lon":116.6861,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shunyi-olympic-water-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built beside the Chaobai River for the rowing, canoeing and marathon swimming events of the 2008 Olympics, this venue is now a water-sports and leisure park. Visitors can try rowing and kayaking on the still-water course, go rafting on the slalom channel in summer, or use the waterside walking routes, camping lawn and children's play areas, and it suits active families."},{"id":"beijing-st-josephs-church-wangfujing","name":"St. Joseph's Church, Beijing","name_zh":"王府井天主堂","pinyin":"Wángfǔjǐng Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9158,"lon":116.4058,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-st-josephs-church-wangfujing/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Known as the East Church (Dongtang), this Catholic parish was founded in 1653 by the Jesuit missionaries Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães on land granted by the Shunzhi Emperor, and the present Romanesque Revival building dates from 1904. Still an active church, its grey-brick façade with three towers faces a square laid out on Wangfujing's shopping street in 2000."},{"id":"beijing-taoranting-park","name":"Taoranting Park","name_zh":"陶然亭公园","pinyin":"Táorántíng Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8724,"lon":116.3755,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-taoranting-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large lake park laid out in 1952 on old kiln land in the south of the city, named after the Taoran Pavilion, a hall built in 1695 by the kiln supervisor Jiang Zao inside the older Cibei Nunnery and a favourite gathering place of Qing scholars. Pavilions are scattered around three lakes and their islands, and the grounds also hold the graves of the lovers Gao Junyu and Shi Pingmei, whose story was retold in a book and a film."},{"id":"beijing-temple-of-agriculture","name":"Temple of Agriculture","name_zh":"先农坛","pinyin":"Xiānnóng Tán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8758,"lon":116.3857,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-temple-of-agriculture/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The altar complex where Ming and Qing emperors worshipped the god of agriculture and ploughed a ceremonial field each spring, founded in 1420 opposite the Temple of Heaven on the city's southern axis. Its surviving halls, including the great Taisui Hall and the emperors' viewing terrace, house the Beijing Museum of Ancient Architecture, and the site is part of the Beijing Central Axis World Heritage site inscribed in 2024."},{"id":"beijing-temple-of-ancient-monarchs","name":"Temple of Ancient Monarchs","name_zh":"历代帝王庙","pinyin":"Lìdài Dìwáng Miào","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9236,"lon":116.3613,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-temple-of-ancient-monarchs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The temple where Ming and Qing emperors offered sacrifices to China's legendary sage-kings and earlier rulers, built in 1530–31 under the Jiajing Emperor and later enlarged by the Qing until 188 rulers were honoured. Its main hall, Jingde Chongsheng Hall, was re-roofed in imperial yellow tiles during a rebuilding of 1762–64, and the honoured rulers, who included Xianbei, Khitan, Jurchen and Mongol emperors, were chosen to present an unbroken line of legitimate dynasties."},{"id":"beijing-temple-of-earth","name":"Temple of Earth","name_zh":"地坛","pinyin":"Dìtán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9514,"lon":116.4097,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-temple-of-earth/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1530, the Temple of Earth is where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the earth at the summer solstice, the northern counterpart of the Temple of Heaven. Its centrepiece, the Square Water Altar, is a two-tier square platform ringed by a water channel, the square form standing for the earth, and the cypress-planted grounds around it became a public park in the 20th century, with a Spring Festival temple fair held here since the 1980s."},{"id":"beijing-temple-of-the-moon","name":"Temple of the Moon","name_zh":"月坛","pinyin":"Yuè Tán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9159,"lon":116.346,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-temple-of-the-moon/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The altar where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the moon at the autumn equinox, built in 1530 as the western counterpart of the Temple of the Sun. The altar platform itself was demolished in the 1960s and a television transmitter tower still stands on its site, but the bell tower, gates and robing hall survive in Yuetan Park, whose southern half is a garden of moon-themed pavilions laid out in 1983."},{"id":"haidian-tuancheng-fortress","name":"Tuancheng Fortress","name_zh":"团城演武厅","pinyin":"Tuánchéng Yǎnwǔtīng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9839,"lon":116.2031,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-tuancheng-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in the late 1740s for the Qianlong Emperor's Jianrui Brigade, an elite unit trained to storm stone watchtowers like those it met in the Jinchuan campaigns, this is the only Qing military review ground left in Beijing. It comprises the oval walled Tuancheng with gate towers, the review hall where the emperor watched drills, a tall gate used for scaling-ladder practice and a stele pavilion, and it holds an exhibition on the brigade's history."},{"id":"fangshan-wanfotang-kongshui-cave","name":"Wanfotang and Kongshui Cave","name_zh":"万佛堂、孔水洞","pinyin":"Wànfó Táng, Kǒngshuǐ Dòng","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.7892,"lon":115.9817,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-wanfotang-kongshui-cave/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist site above a karst spring cave, founded as a temple in the Tang dynasty: a Ming-rebuilt brick hall stands on a platform over the mouth of the Kongshui Cave, and inside it is a long Tang marble relief of Manjushri and Samantabhadra with a host of bodhisattvas. Buddha niches and carved sutras from the Sui to the Jin line the cave walls, and on the slope stand a Liao 'flower pagoda', one of only two in Beijing, and a Yuan pagoda with dense eaves."},{"id":"haidian-wanshou-temple","name":"Wanshou Temple","name_zh":"万寿寺","pinyin":"Wànshòu Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9453,"lon":116.3052,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-wanshou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1577 under the Wanli Emperor to store Buddhist scriptures, Wanshou Temple became an imperial temple and was enlarged under the Qing into a complex of temple halls, a travelling palace and gardens. A museum since 1987, it reopened in 2022 after a five-year restoration and in July 2026 was renamed the Wanshou Temple Museum (formerly the Beijing Art Museum), with displays on the temple's history, Buddhist statues, auspicious objects and traditional furniture."},{"id":"dongcheng-wen-tianxiang-temple","name":"Wen Tianxiang Temple","name_zh":"文天祥祠","pinyin":"Wén Tiānxiáng Cí","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9343,"lon":116.404,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongcheng-wen-tianxiang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small shrine to Wen Tianxiang, the Southern Song chief minister who was captured by the Yuan, held in Dadu (today's Beijing) and executed in 1283 after refusing to serve the new dynasty. First built in 1376 near the site of the prison where he was held and moved to its present site in the Wanli reign, it has two courtyards: the front hall holds an exhibition on his life, and the rear hall a modern seated statue with Ming and Qing steles. A stone carving of his Song of Righteousness, after the calligraphy of Wen Zhengming, stands in the front courtyard, and an old jujube tree in the rear courtyard, said to have been planted by Wen himself, leans south."},{"id":"beijing-white-cloud-temple","name":"White Cloud Temple","name_zh":"白云观","pinyin":"Báiyún Guàn","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8989,"lon":116.338,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-white-cloud-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The leading monastery of the Quanzhen school of Taoism, founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt around the tomb of the Quanzhen patriarch Qiu Chuji, who travelled to meet Genghis Khan in 1222. It remains an active Taoist temple and the seat of the China Taoist Association, with courtyards of halls and shrines leading to a rear garden, and its Spring Festival temple fair draws large crowds."},{"id":"beijing-white-dagoba-miaoying-temple","name":"White Dagoba of Miaoying Temple","name_zh":"妙应寺白塔","pinyin":"Miàoyìng Sì Báitǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9242,"lon":116.3571,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-white-dagoba-miaoying-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A huge whitewashed Tibetan-style stupa built between 1271 and 1279 for Kublai Khan under the Nepalese craftsman Araniko, regarded as the oldest and largest of its kind in China. The temple around it, rebuilt and renamed Miaoying Temple in the Ming, is now a museum whose halls display Buddhist statues and relics found in the stupa's top during repairs in 1978; the stupa was last restored in 2013–15."},{"id":"fengtai-world-flower-garden","name":"World Flower Garden","name_zh":"世界花卉大观园","pinyin":"Shìjiè Huāhuì Dàguānyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8342,"lon":116.347,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengtai-world-flower-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park and botanical garden just north of the South 4th Ring Road, with tropical and ornamental plants in large greenhouses and a series of themed outdoor gardens and plazas, some laid out in foreign styles such as a formal garden modelled on Versailles. The greenhouses host seasonal flower shows, such as a winter orchid show, and it makes an easy half-day for plant lovers inside the city."},{"id":"miyun-xianju-valley","name":"Xianju Valley","name_zh":"仙居谷","pinyin":"Xiānjū Gǔ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.5776,"lon":117.2258,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=miyun-xianju-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded valley by the Andamu River in Taishitun town, entered past a small mountain lake, with streams, pools and waterfalls along two trails: a gentler one past three linked falls and a steeper, rougher route to caves, a rock gate and a cherry-blossom valley. Wild cherry, peach and azalea flower on the slopes in spring, and a small Taoist temple, the Sanqing Gong, stands among old cypresses."},{"id":"changping-xiaotangshan-agricultural-park","name":"Xiaotangshan Agricultural Science Park","name_zh":"小汤山现代农业科技示范园","pinyin":"Xiǎotāngshān Xiàndài Nóngyè Kējì Shìfànyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.1523,"lon":116.4277,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changping-xiaotangshan-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large modern-agriculture demonstration park in the Xiaotangshan area of Changping, showing greenhouse growing, seedling breeding and flower and fruit production, and run partly as a family day out. Visitors walk through glasshouses of flowers, orchids and fruit trees and pick strawberries, vegetables and fruit in season."},{"id":"chaoyang-xihuang-temple","name":"Xihuang Temple","name_zh":"西黄寺","pinyin":"Xīhuáng Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9633,"lon":116.3842,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaoyang-xihuang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist temple built in the early 1650s to house the Fifth Dalai Lama on his visit to the Qing court, and since 1987 the seat of the High-Level Tibetan Buddhist College of China. Its centrepiece is the Qingjing Huacheng Pagoda, a white diamond-throne stupa completed in 1782 as a memorial to the Sixth Panchen Lama, who died at the temple in 1780. Part of the complex opened as the Xihuang Temple Museum in 2018, with displays on the pagoda, the Panchen Lamas and Tibetan Buddhist art."},{"id":"beijing-xijiaominxiang-bank-buildings","name":"Xijiaominxiang Historic Bank Buildings","name_zh":"西交民巷近代银行建筑群","pinyin":"Xījiāomín Xiàng Jìndài Yínháng Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9006,"lon":116.3887,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beijing-xijiaominxiang-bank-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A row of late Qing and Republican-era bank buildings on the lane west of Tiananmen Square, once Beijing's banking street, including the former Hubu (Da Qing) Bank, the classical-columned Baoshang Bank and the domed clock tower of the Continental Bank of 1924. The former Baoshang Bank and its neighbour now house the China Numismatic Museum of the central bank, which displays Chinese coins and paper money from ancient times to the modern era."},{"id":"pinggu-yaji-mountain","name":"Yaji Mountain","name_zh":"丫髻山","pinyin":"Yājì Shān","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.2812,"lon":116.9778,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pinggu-yaji-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill in Liujiadian town named after its two rocky summits, which resemble a girl's twin hair buns, and long a Taoist pilgrimage site whose temple fairs drew crowds from the capital and visits from Qing emperors. Its temple buildings were restored or rebuilt from the 2000s, and a stepped path climbs past steles and halls to the Bixia Yuanjun shrine and the Jade Emperor Pavilion on the two peaks."},{"id":"huairou-yanqi-lake","name":"Yanqi Lake","name_zh":"雁栖湖","pinyin":"Yànqī Hú","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.3961,"lon":116.6708,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huairou-yanqi-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir in the hills north of Huairou town, built in 1959–1962, whose shores were developed into the conference area that hosted the 2014 APEC leaders' meeting and the first two Belt and Road Forums. A renovation removed the old lakeside amusement rides, and the lake is now an open waterfront park with boardwalks along the shore, stepped grass slopes and a large lawn on the east side used for events."},{"id":"haidian-peking-university-yanyuan","name":"Yanyuan Campus of Peking University","name_zh":"北京大学燕园","pinyin":"Běijīng Dàxué Yānyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9933,"lon":116.2986,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haidian-peking-university-yanyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in the 1920s for Yenching University on former Qing princely gardens, to a plan by the American architect Henry Murphy, this has been Peking University's main campus since 1952. Its buildings have Chinese palace-style exteriors with what were then modern interiors, and the classic walk runs from the West Gate past the old administration building to Weiming Lake and the Boya Pagoda, modelled on Tongzhou's Randeng Pagoda."},{"id":"fangshan-yao-guangxiao-pagoda","name":"Yao Guangxiao's Tomb Pagoda","name_zh":"姚广孝墓塔","pinyin":"Yáo Guǎngxiào Mùtǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8238,"lon":116.0797,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-yao-guangxiao-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb pagoda of Yao Guangxiao (1335–1418), the Buddhist monk who advised the future Yongle Emperor during his seizure of the throne and later helped compile the Yongle Encyclopedia. Built between 1418 and 1426, it is an octagonal brick pagoda with nine tiers of dense eaves and an iron gourd finial, and in front of it a large stele under a pavilion carries an inscription composed by the Yongle Emperor."},{"id":"yanqing-yeya-lake-wetland-park","name":"Yeya Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"野鸭湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Yěyā Hú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.4083,"lon":115.8451,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanqing-yeya-lake-wetland-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park of reservoir shallows, rivers, reed beds and marsh on the south-western edge of Yanqing, the largest wetland in the Beijing area and part of a municipal nature reserve. Migrating and wintering water birds, among them cranes, storks and swans, make it a noted birdwatching site, named one of Beijing's ten best in 2015, and a wetland museum explains the ecosystem."},{"id":"changping-yinshan-pagoda-forest","name":"Yinshan Pagoda Forest","name_zh":"银山塔林","pinyin":"Yínshān Tǎlín","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":40.3217,"lon":116.3211,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changping-yinshan-pagoda-forest/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of eighteen Buddhist pagodas in the hills of Yanshou town, the tomb pagodas of monks from temples that flourished below the dark cliffs of 'Iron Wall, Silver Mountain' from the Jin dynasty onwards. Five Jin brick pagodas with dense eaves stand together on the site of Fahua Temple, which Japanese troops destroyed in 1941, with a Yuan pagoda nearby and smaller Yuan and Ming stupas scattered on the slopes."},{"id":"chaoyang-yuan-dadu-city-wall-ruins-park","name":"Yuan Dadu City Wall Ruins Park","name_zh":"元大都城垣遗址公园","pinyin":"Yuán Dàdū Chéngyuán Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9744,"lon":116.3918,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaoyang-yuan-dadu-city-wall-ruins-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A narrow park about 9 km long that follows the surviving earth ramparts of the western and northern walls of Dadu, the Yuan dynasty capital built between 1267 and 1276, known locally as Tucheng ('earth wall'). Paths run along the grassed-over wall and the Xiaoyue River at its foot, past large sculpture groups including a statue of Kublai Khan, a crabapple grove and the Qianlong Emperor's 'Jimen Yanshu' stele of 1750."},{"id":"fangshan-yunju-temple","name":"Yunju Temple","name_zh":"云居寺","pinyin":"Yúnjū Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.6081,"lon":115.7678,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-yunju-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple at the foot of Shijing Shan ('Stone Sutra Mountain'), famous for the Buddhist scriptures that monks carved on thousands of stone slabs from the Sui dynasty to the Ming, begun by the monk Jingwan to protect the texts from destruction. The slabs were stored in nine caves on the mountain and in a vault below the temple; the halls were bombed in the 1940s and rebuilt from the 1980s, but several Tang and Liao pagodas survive, among them the Liao North Pagoda."},{"id":"haidian-yuyuantan-park","name":"Yuyuantan Park","name_zh":"玉渊潭公园","pinyin":"Yùyuāntán Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9157,"lon":116.314,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haidian-yuyuantan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The largest park inside Beijing's Third Ring Road, covering about 137 hectares, 61 of them water, between the ring road and the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. The lake was created under the Qianlong Emperor in 1773 and revived as a public park from 1960, and its 25-hectare cherry garden is the focus of a cherry-blossom festival each spring."},{"id":"beijing-zhalan-cemetery","name":"Zhalan Cemetery (Tomb of Matteo Ricci)","name_zh":"利玛窦和外国传教士墓地","pinyin":"Lì Mǎdòu Hé Wàiguó Chuánjiàoshì Mùdì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9302,"lon":116.3399,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-zhalan-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as the oldest Christian cemetery in China, it was granted by the Wanli Emperor in 1610–11 for the burial of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, and later Jesuit scholars of the imperial court were also laid to rest here. Ricci's tombstone, inscribed in Chinese and Latin, stands between those of Adam Schall von Bell and Ferdinand Verbiest, near the tombstones of dozens of other missionaries, all set up again after desecration during the Boxer uprising and the Cultural Revolution."},{"id":"fengtai-zhengang-pagoda","name":"Zhengang Pagoda","name_zh":"镇岗塔","pinyin":"Zhèngǎng Tǎ","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.8142,"lon":116.1636,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengtai-zhengang-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A solid brick 'flower pagoda' about 18 metres tall on a hillock east of Yungang village, thought from its style to date from the Jin dynasty. Above an octagonal base with carved brackets and relief figures, its upper part is covered in seven tiers of small niches holding seated Buddhas, which give it the bunched look of a flower. Its tip was destroyed during the war with Japan, and it has been repaired several times since."},{"id":"haidian-zhenjue-temple","name":"Zhenjue Temple","name_zh":"真觉寺","pinyin":"Zhēnjué Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9436,"lon":116.3242,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haidian-zhenjue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Better known as the Five Pagoda Temple, Zhenjue Temple keeps one of China's earliest surviving 'diamond throne' stupas, completed in 1473 and inspired by the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya: a 7.7-metre stone platform carved with rows of Buddhas, with a chamber and stairs inside and five small pagodas on top. The temple's other buildings were lost to a late-Qing fire and a sale in 1927, and the grounds now house the Beijing Stone Carving Art Museum."},{"id":"beijing-zhihua-temple","name":"Zhihua Temple","name_zh":"智化寺","pinyin":"Zhìhuà Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9161,"lon":116.4258,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-zhihua-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1443 by the powerful eunuch Wang Zhen, Zhihua Temple keeps one of the most complete groups of Ming-dynasty wooden buildings in central Beijing, roofed in unusual black glazed tiles. Its halls hold Ming Buddhist statues and murals and a two-storey hall whose upper floor is the Ten Thousand Buddha Pavilion, and the temple, home to the Beijing Cultural Exchange Museum since 1992, is known for Jing music, a centuries-old Buddhist ritual music still performed by its musicians."},{"id":"dongcheng-zhizhu-temple","name":"Zhizhu Temple","name_zh":"智珠寺","pinyin":"Zhìzhū Sì","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9268,"lon":116.3973,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongcheng-zhizhu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist temple of the Qianlong era, Zhizhu Temple stands beside the larger Songzhu Temple in the lanes east of Jingshan Park. Its halls served as factory workshops and storerooms from the 1950s and were restored with private investment in 2007–12, keeping their weathered paintwork and timbers. The temple no longer has a religious use: the courtyards now hold an art space, a restaurant and a café."},{"id":"beijing-zhongshan-park","name":"Zhongshan Park","name_zh":"中山公园","pinyin":"Zhōngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"110000","region":"Beijing","city":"Beijing","lat":39.9104,"lon":116.3886,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beijing-zhongshan-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Just west of Tian'anmen, Zhongshan Park grew out of the Altar of Land and Grain (Shejitan), where Ming and Qing emperors made offerings to the gods of soil and harvest; its square marble altar is still spread with earth in five colours for the five directions. Opened to the public in 1914, the grounds were renamed in 1928 after Sun Yat-sen, whose coffin lay in the altar's hall in 1925, and also hold ancient cypresses, pavilions and a stone archway first raised for the German envoy Clemens von Ketteler, killed in 1900."},{"id":"nankai-ancient-culture-street","name":"Ancient Culture Street (Guwenhua Jie)","name_zh":"古文化街","pinyin":"Gǔ Wénhuà Jiē","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1411,"lon":117.1868,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nankai-ancient-culture-street/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Ancient Culture Street is a pedestrian street of Ming-and-Qing-style shop-houses on the west bank of the Hai River, opened in 1986 on the old streets that ran either side of the Tianhou Palace. It runs from Tongbei Road south to Shuige Street, and its shops sell antiques, old books and folk crafts such as Yangliuqing New Year prints and Clay Figure Zhang figurines. The Tianhou Palace and the Yuhuang Pavilion stand along it, which makes it a convenient first stop for a taste of old Tianjin."},{"id":"heping-astor-house-hotel","name":"Astor House Hotel","name_zh":"利顺德饭店","pinyin":"Lìshùndé Fàndiàn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1201,"lon":117.2099,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heping-astor-house-hotel/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Astor House was founded in 1863 by the British missionary John Innocent on the Hai River embankment and was the first foreign-funded hotel in Tianjin; the present building dates from an enlargement in 1886 and a further wing added in 1924. Sun Yat-sen and Herbert Hoover are among the guests recorded there, and treaties and consular business were handled in its rooms in the 19th century. It is still a working hotel, and its museum on the building's history is open to the public."},{"id":"tianjin-binhai-aircraft-carrier-park","name":"Binhai Aircraft Carrier Park","name_zh":"滨海航母主题公园","pinyin":"Bīnhǎi Hángmǔ Zhǔtí Gōngyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1554,"lon":117.8085,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-binhai-aircraft-carrier-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A military-themed park in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city built around the Kiev, a Soviet-built aircraft carrier that left Russian service in 1993 and arrived in Tianjin in 2000. The carrier, moored on the coast, is the main sight and visitors can go aboard; a linked tour also takes in two other warships, including a retired Chinese destroyer. The park also puts on shows, including a sea-battle show and Russian-style song and dance, and fireworks on summer weekends."},{"id":"tianjin-changlu-salt-tourism-area","name":"Changlu Sea Salt Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"长芦海盐文化旅游区","pinyin":"Chánglú Hǎiyán Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.2384,"lon":117.8291,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-changlu-salt-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A tourism area on the Hangu saltworks in the north of Binhai New Area, a working saltworks whose history is traced to the year 925. Visitors can walk on the heaps of harvested salt beside the salt pans, and children can try traditional salt-making. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"tianjin-dagu-dockyard","name":"Dagu Dockyard Site (Beiyang Fleet Dockyard)","name_zh":"北洋水师大沽船坞遗址","pinyin":"Běiyáng Shuǐshī Dàgū Chuánwù Yízhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":38.9802,"lon":117.68,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-dagu-dockyard","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The remains of a shipyard founded in 1880 during the Self-Strengthening Movement, the third modern shipyard in China after Mawei and Shanghai's Jiangnan Arsenal and the earliest shipyard in the north. It is the only surviving Self-Strengthening site in Tianjin, was listed as national heritage in 2013 and was added to China's industrial heritage list in 2018. A memorial hall to the Beiyang Fleet dockyard has been set up on the site."},{"id":"jizhou-dule-temple","name":"Dule Temple","name_zh":"独乐寺","pinyin":"Dúlè Sì","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":40.0442,"lon":117.3967,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jizhou-dule-temple/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Dule Temple, in the old town of Jizhou, keeps two Liao-dynasty timber buildings from 984, the mountain gate and the Guanyin Pavilion, which are among the oldest surviving wooden buildings in China. The pavilion holds a clay statue of the eleven-headed Guanyin about 16 metres tall, and its walls carry Yuan-dynasty murals. A Qing imperial lodge built in 1753 stands in the east of the compound, and the architectural historian Liang Sicheng's survey of the temple in the 1930s brought it wide attention."},{"id":"heping-french-municipal-board","name":"Former French Municipal Board, Tianjin","name_zh":"法国公议局旧址","pinyin":"Fǎguó Gōngyìjú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.127,"lon":117.2033,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heping-french-municipal-board/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Built in 1929–31 as the headquarters of the administration of Tianjin's French concession, this neoclassical building has a granite-faced base, a three-storey centre block with an Ionic colonnade and symmetrical two-storey wings. The square in front of it was the site of the October 1945 ceremony at which Japanese forces in Tianjin surrendered, when the building was the US military headquarters. It has since served as a library and an art museum, and since 2023 it has housed the Tianjin Digital Art Museum."},{"id":"tianjin-huanghai-chemical-research-society","name":"Former Huanghai Society for Chemical Industry Research","name_zh":"黄海化学工业研究社旧址","pinyin":"Huánghǎi Huàxué Gōngyè Yánjiūshè Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.0151,"lon":117.6648,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-huanghai-chemical-research-society/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A two-storey grey brick-and-concrete villa on a site of about 440 square metres, built in 1922 for the Huanghai Society for Chemical Industry Research, China's first privately funded chemical research institute, which the industrialist Fan Xudong set up on the laboratory of the Jiuda refined-salt company. The society worked on salt brines, potash and iodine, and in 1935 made the first sample of metallic aluminium produced in China. The building is a national heritage site and a Tianjin historic building under special protection."},{"id":"nankai-nankai-school-former-site","name":"Former Nankai School (Nankai High School)","name_zh":"南开学校旧址","pinyin":"Nánkāi Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1306,"lon":117.1649,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nankai-nankai-school-former-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Nankai School was founded in 1904 by the educators Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling and grew into Nankai High School, whose campus keeps its listed buildings: the Bailing Building (built 1906–07 and rebuilt to its original design after the 1976 earthquake), the North Building, the Fansun Building of 1930 and the Ruiting Auditorium of 1934. Zhou Enlai studied here, and the school's history display in the Bailing Building includes a classroom recreated as it was in his student days."},{"id":"tianjin-qianxiangyi-silk-store","name":"Former Qianxiangyi Silk Store","name_zh":"谦祥益绸缎庄旧址","pinyin":"Qiānxiángyì Chóuduànzhuāng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1459,"lon":117.1774,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-qianxiangyi-silk-store/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A silk and cloth store built in 1913–17 on Guyi Street in the old city for the Meng family of Zhangqiu, Shandong, one of the old 'Eight Xiang' shops of Tianjin. The building is a three-courtyard brick-and-timber structure in a mixed Chinese and Western style, with carved doors and a verandah gallery. When Guyi Street was rebuilt in 2000 it was the only listed building kept, and since its restoration in 2002 it has housed a tea house that stages crosstalk and other storytelling performances."},{"id":"tianjin-juewushe-site","name":"Former Site of the Juewu Society (Awakening Society)","name_zh":"觉悟社旧址","pinyin":"Juéwùshè Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1587,"lon":117.1898,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-juewushe-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A small courtyard of seven single-storey rooms where the Awakening Society (Juewushe), a student group led by Zhou Enlai, was founded in September 1919 in the May Fourth period. It has been a memorial hall since 1984, with one room restored as the society's meeting room and a second showing about ninety documents, photographs and models of its history."},{"id":"tianjin-tanggu-south-station","name":"Former Tanggu Railway Station (Tanggu South)","name_zh":"塘沽南站","pinyin":"Tánggū Nánzhàn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.0058,"lon":117.671,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-tanggu-south-station/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A railway station at Yujiapu near the Hai River, first built in 1888 when a line was laid to carry Kaiping coal to the coast; its main building was rebuilt in 1907–08 and the station extended in 1937. Passenger service ended in 2004, and freight stopped in 2024 when the branch line was removed. It was named in a 2007 public selection as one of Tianjin's ten notable immovable relics, and the city heritage bureau approved a conservation design for the buildings in 2024."},{"id":"hexi-tianjin-college-of-industry-and-commerce","name":"Former Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce Main Building","name_zh":"天津工商学院主楼旧址","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Gōngshāng Xuéyuàn Zhǔlóu Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1084,"lon":117.2023,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hexi-tianjin-college-of-industry-and-commerce/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The main building of the former Tianjin College of Industry and Commerce was built by French Jesuits in the 1920s to a design by the French firm Yonghe, and is a three-storey brick building with a mansard roof, rusticated stonework and large clock faces on its front and back gables. Its west wing holds a small chapel, and the entrance hall has portraits of Matteo Ricci and Ferdinand Verbiest and a large world map by Verbiest. The site passed to a foreign-languages institute in 1970, now Tianjin Foreign Studies University, and the building is still the university's main building."},{"id":"heping-yien-yieh-bank","name":"Former Yien Yieh Commercial Bank, Tianjin","name_zh":"盐业银行旧址","pinyin":"Yányè Yínháng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1286,"lon":117.2037,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heping-yien-yieh-bank","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Built in 1925–28 as the head office of the Yien Yieh (Salt Industry) Commercial Bank, this red-brick Roman-revival building was designed by the Chinese architect Shen Liyuan, with a portico of tall Ionic columns under a pediment. Inside, an octagonal banking hall is ringed by Corinthian columns and has a gilded ceiling and Belgian coloured glass picturing salt pans."},{"id":"nankai-guangdong-guild-hall","name":"Guangdong Guild Hall (Tianjin Museum of Theatre)","name_zh":"天津广东会馆","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Guǎngdōng Huìguǎn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1397,"lon":117.1752,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nankai-guangdong-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Built in 1903–07 with money raised by Cantonese merchants in Tianjin, this guild hall is one of the largest and best-preserved Qing guild-hall complexes in China, with a courtyard house, an apprenticeship hall and a classical opera theatre whose pillarless stage has a domed ceiling that carries sound. Sun Yat-sen spoke here twice in 1912. It now houses the Tianjin Museum of Theatre, with exhibitions on the history of Chinese opera and Peking opera and on opera costume and characters."},{"id":"jinghai-guanghegu","name":"Guanghegu Resort","name_zh":"光合谷","pinyin":"Guānghégǔ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":38.8899,"lon":117.1657,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinghai-guanghegu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Guanghegu, 'Photosynthesis Valley', is a resort and agri-tourism park of about 4,500 mu (300 hectares) on the east side of Tuanbo new town, planned in four zones: youth culture, hot-spring hotels, a wetland park and facility agriculture. It has a reed-filled artificial wetland park, a children's zoo with some 30 kinds of animals such as alpacas and kangaroos, and about twenty greenhouses where visitors pick vegetables and fruit, so it suits families."},{"id":"tianjin-guanhu-castle-hot-springs","name":"Guanhu Castle Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"观湖城堡温泉","pinyin":"Guānhú Chéngbǎo Wēnquán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1932,"lon":117.4716,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-guanhu-castle-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A hot-spring resort in the Dongli Lake holiday area, across the street from Happy Valley, with indoor and outdoor hot-spring pools, spa treatments, dining and leisure facilities. It suits a restful stay or a visit combined with the theme park."},{"id":"jizhou-guojiagou-village","name":"Guojiagou Village","name_zh":"郭家沟","pinyin":"Guōjiāgōu","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":40.1875,"lon":117.4804,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jizhou-guojiagou-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Guojiagou is a small hill village of about 50 households beside a reservoir in northern Jizhou, rebuilt from 2012 as a tourist village of blue-brick courtyards and farmstay guesthouses, and in 2022 became Tianjin's first village-type 4A scenic area. Besides the guesthouses it has added flower fields, a petting zoo, a forest light-and-shadow park and a dinosaur-themed valley, so it suits families wanting a short country break."},{"id":"hexi-hoangho-paiho-museum","name":"Hoangho Paiho Museum (Beijiang Museum)","name_zh":"北疆博物院","pinyin":"Běijiāng Bówùyuàn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1075,"lon":117.2021,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hexi-hoangho-paiho-museum/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Founded in 1914 by the French Jesuit naturalist Émile Licent and housed in purpose-built premises from the 1920s, the Hoangho Paiho Museum is the forerunner of Tianjin Natural History Museum, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin worked there. Xinhua describes it as the only early Chinese museum whose site, buildings, collections and display cases all survive in their original form, with more than 200,000 items, from animal, plant, fossil and rock specimens to historical and folk relics. It reopened to the public in 2016 after restoration."},{"id":"jizhou-huangyaguan-great-wall","name":"Huangyaguan Great Wall","name_zh":"黄崖关长城","pinyin":"Huángyáguān Chángchéng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":40.244,"lon":117.439,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jizhou-huangyaguan-great-wall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Huangyaguan is a section of the Great Wall in the mountains of northern Jizhou, first built in the Northern Qi dynasty and rebuilt in brick and stone under General Qi Jiguang in the Ming. The fortified pass, water gate and square and round watchtowers climb the ridge, and the complex includes an eight-trigram maze town and a Great Wall museum, with a large statue of Qi Jiguang on the hillside."},{"id":"tianjin-italian-style-town","name":"Italian Style Town (Marco Polo Square)","name_zh":"天津意式风情区","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Yìshì Fēngqíngqū","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1334,"lon":117.1924,"category":"city","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-italian-style-town/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The former Italian concession, laid out from 1902: a district of about 28 hectares with 137 historic buildings designed by Italian architects, restored from 2002 and now given over to restaurants, shops and hotels. Its centre is Marco Polo Square, where a column topped by a peace figure stands among six Italian-style villas built between 1908 and 1916; the square and its buildings are a national heritage unit. Liang Qichao's former home is also in the district."},{"id":"tianjin-jingwu-gate-wulin-garden","name":"Jingwumen Wulin Garden (Huo Yuanjia Memorial Park)","name_zh":"精武门·中华武林园","pinyin":"Jīngwǔmén Zhōnghuá Wǔlínyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.0269,"lon":117.1256,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-jingwu-gate-wulin-garden","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A memorial park for the martial artist Huo Yuanjia, built on the site of his former home and grave in Jingwu town, where he was born; he was one of the founders of the Jingwu sports association in Shanghai. The east side has his mausoleum with a memorial hall, a martial-arts spirit way and his tomb, and the west side a square with his statue and a memorial hall showing his life, relics and films. The grounds are large and open."},{"id":"heping-jinjie-pedestrian-street","name":"Jinjie Pedestrian Street","name_zh":"金街","pinyin":"Jīnjiē","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.127,"lon":117.1915,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heping-jinjie-pedestrian-street","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Jinjie, the 'Golden Street', is the pedestrian stretch of Heping Road in central Tianjin, about 1.2 kilometres between Fu'an Street and Chifeng Road. The road dates from 1902, when the French concession built its first section, with a Japanese-concession section following in 1908; it became the city's main shopping street in the 1920s, and many of its stores and bank buildings date from the early 20th century, including the Quanyechang department store."},{"id":"jizhou-karst-cave","name":"Jizhou Karst Cave","name_zh":"蓟州溶洞","pinyin":"Jìzhōu Róngdòng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":40.1232,"lon":117.3804,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jizhou-karst-cave","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Jizhou Karst Cave is a cave about 1,500 metres long in the Yanshan hills of northern Jizhou, in ancient dolomite rock, and is billed as the only cave attraction in Tianjin. It formed along large tectonic cracks rather than by dissolving water, which left a forest of tall stone columns. A farmer found it in 1998 while chasing a badger and it opened to visitors in 2006; the grounds around it now also have a hotel and outdoor rides."},{"id":"jizhou-white-pagoda","name":"Jizhou White Pagoda","name_zh":"蓟州白塔","pinyin":"Jìzhōu Báitǎ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":40.0408,"lon":117.3956,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jizhou-white-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Jizhou White Pagoda is an octagonal brick tower 30.6 metres high, rebuilt in 1058 in the Liao style on a structure that radiocarbon dating of its timbers places in the Sui dynasty. Its lower part has tiered eaves and its upper part ends in an upturned-bowl dome with a bronze finial, an unusual form among Liao pagodas. It was once part of the Dule Temple layout, and Liang Sicheng noted in 1932 that the Guanyin statue in Dule's pavilion looks out toward it."},{"id":"nankai-li-chun-ancestral-hall","name":"Li Chun Ancestral Hall (Zhuangwangfu)","name_zh":"李纯祠堂","pinyin":"Lǐ Chún Cítáng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1208,"lon":117.154,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nankai-li-chun-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Completed in 1923 for the family of the warlord Li Chun, this hall complex was assembled from timbers, tiles and stone carried from the Qing-dynasty Prince Zhuang's mansion in Beijing, and is described by the Tianjin government as the largest surviving group of historic buildings in the city's urban area. Courtyards of halls with glazed-tile roofs and colonnades lie behind a stone archway and bridge. After decades as the Nankai People's Cultural Palace it was restored, and it reopened on a trial basis in 2026 as the Zhuangwangfu cultural venue, with courtyard performances, craft displays and long-established Tianjin food brands."},{"id":"tianjin-liang-qichao-residence","name":"Liang Qichao's Former Residence (Yinbingshi)","name_zh":"梁启超旧居","pinyin":"Liáng Qǐchāo Jiùjū","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1361,"lon":117.1933,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-liang-qichao-residence","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Italian-style house where the reformist scholar Liang Qichao lived from 1914; his 1924 study, the Yinbingshi, designed by an Italian architect, stands beside it. Together they form a memorial museum with twelve rooms on his life and times, and the study is arranged as it was when he wrote there. It stands in the former Italian concession."},{"id":"jizhou-limutai","name":"Limutai Scenic Area","name_zh":"梨木台","pinyin":"Límùtái","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":40.1679,"lon":117.5297,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jizhou-limutai","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Limutai is a forest and gorge area in the northernmost hills of Tianjin, covering more than 1,000 hectares of quartzite crags, pools, streams and waterfalls. It is part of a national geopark and a national forest park, and lies in the same hills as the Huangyaguan section of the Great Wall. A pear-blossom festival is held there each spring, with peach, apricot and azalea flowering after it."},{"id":"tianjin-boxer-uprising-memorial-hall","name":"Memorial Hall of the Boxer Uprising (Lüzutang)","name_zh":"义和团吕祖堂坛口遗址","pinyin":"Yìhétuán Lǚzǔtáng Tánkǒu Yízhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1451,"lon":117.1516,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-boxer-uprising-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A former Taoist temple, the Lüzutang, built as a village shrine in 1433 and made a Taoist temple in 1719, which became the main Boxer altar in Tianjin during the uprising of 1900. It is now the Tianjin Boxer Uprising Memorial Hall, with a restored altar, a reconstructed meeting hall for the movement's leaders and exhibitions on the uprising and its course in Tianjin."},{"id":"nankai-zhou-enlai-deng-yingchao-memorial","name":"Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao","name_zh":"周恩来邓颖超纪念馆","pinyin":"Zhōu Ēnlái Dèng Yǐngchāo Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.093,"lon":117.1587,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nankai-zhou-enlai-deng-yingchao-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A memorial museum opened in 1998, the centenary of Zhou Enlai's birth, beside Tianjin Water Park, with exhibitions on the lives of Zhou Enlai and of Deng Yingchao, whose part in the women's movement has its own display. It also holds a full-size replica of Xihua Hall in Zhongnanhai, Beijing, with its fittings restored, and an Ilyushin Il-14 aircraft presented by the Soviet government for his use, now classed as a national second-grade cultural relic."},{"id":"jinnan-milifang-water-park","name":"Milifang Water Park","name_zh":"米立方水上乐园","pinyin":"Mǐlìfāng Shuǐshàng Lèyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":38.9216,"lon":117.4192,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinnan-milifang-water-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An indoor water park in Xiaozhan town built around a building shaped like a grain of Xiaozhan rice, with a wave pool, a drifting river that runs through a cave and past a waterfall, a slide complex, a children's area and a hot-spring spa, all kept warm throughout the year. It suits families and groups looking for water play in any season."},{"id":"jizhou-panshan","name":"Mount Pan (Panshan)","name_zh":"盘山","pinyin":"Pánshān","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":40.081,"lon":117.2619,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jizhou-panshan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Panshan is a mountain scenic area of about 106 square kilometres in northern Jizhou, long called the 'first mountain east of the capital'. Its five main peaks, odd-shaped boulders and pines drew emperors for centuries: the Qianlong Emperor climbed it 32 times and wrote about 1,700 poems on it, and the area once held 72 temples, 13 pagodas and the imperial retreat of Jingji Shanzhuang. The Tianjin government's description lists five visitor zones and more than 300 sights, including temple sites and stone inscriptions left by visiting rulers."},{"id":"wuqing-nanhu-green-expo-park","name":"Nanhu Green Expo Park, Wuqing","name_zh":"南湖绿博园","pinyin":"Nánhú Lǜbóyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.3362,"lon":117.1151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuqing-nanhu-green-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A lakeside park in Wuqing with a lake about 5.2 kilometres round and 136 hectares of water, and a northern garden-exhibition area of 862 mu (about 57 hectares) in which provinces and other bodies built 48 gardens under six themes, from Jiangnan-style gardens to folk-custom and landscape designs. Other zones around the lake include a water-street shopping area, a family sports and recreation area and a wetland area."},{"id":"tianjin-national-maritime-museum","name":"National Maritime Museum of China","name_zh":"国家海洋博物馆","pinyin":"Guójiā Hǎiyáng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1056,"lon":117.7891,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-national-maritime-museum","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"China's national maritime museum, opened for trial operation on 1 May 2019 and run jointly by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Tianjin government. Its exhibitions cover the geological history of the oceans, marine life, ships and maritime culture, and it keeps a preserved Type 037IG missile boat. The building was designed by the Australian architect Philip Cox."},{"id":"tianjin-west-station-old-building","name":"Old Tianjin West Station Building","name_zh":"天津西站主楼","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Xīzhàn Zhǔlóu","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1556,"lon":117.1615,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-west-station-old-building","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The 1910 waiting hall of the original Tianjin West station, a two-storey brick building in German neoclassical style with a red tiled roof, dormer windows and stone trim carved with crane and dragon motifs. In 2009–10 it was moved 175 m (135 m south, then 40 m east) to its present site during the station's rebuilding."},{"id":"tianjin-wanghailou-church","name":"Our Lady of Victory Church (Wanghailou)","name_zh":"望海楼教堂","pinyin":"Wànghǎilóu Jiàotáng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1467,"lon":117.1889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-wanghailou-church/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Gothic-style Catholic church beside the Sanchakou confluence, first built in 1869 and rebuilt in 1897 and 1904 after being burned in the Tianjin Incident of 1870 and in the fighting of 1900. The brick church has three towers on its front and a basilica-style interior with pointed arches and coloured glass. It is still used by the city's Catholic community and was listed as national heritage in 1988."},{"id":"jizhou-pingjin-campaign-front-hq","name":"Pingjin Campaign Front Headquarters Site, Mengjialou","name_zh":"平津战役前线司令部旧址","pinyin":"Píngjīn Zhànyì Qiánxiàn Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.948,"lon":117.4065,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jizhou-pingjin-campaign-front-hq","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"In December 1948 the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army's Northeast Field Army moved into this ordinary farmhouse in Mengjialou village and directed the Pingjin (Beiping–Tianjin) Campaign from it. The single-storey brick-and-timber house has a through-hall and east and west wings, the west wing serving as the operations room. An exhibition hall in the village shows historical photographs and relics of the campaign, including a telegram draft addressed to the Central Military Commission."},{"id":"tianjin-pingjin-campaign-memorial-hall","name":"Pingjin Campaign Memorial Hall","name_zh":"平津战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Píngjīn Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1681,"lon":117.1405,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-pingjin-campaign-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A national first-grade museum beside the Ziya River, opened in July 1997, on the Pingjin (Beiping–Tianjin) Campaign of 1948–49 in the Chinese civil war. Its galleries cover the campaign's decisions, its execution, civilian support and the people who fought, and the grounds hold a bayonet-shaped Victory Monument and a garden of retired military aircraft, a patrol boat and a missile."},{"id":"heping-quanyechang","name":"Quanyechang Department Store","name_zh":"劝业场","pinyin":"Quànyèchǎng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.126,"lon":117.1943,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heping-quanyechang/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Quanyechang is a department store at the corner of Heping Road and Binjiang Dao, opened in December 1928 in the former French concession to a design by the French architect Paul Muller. The eclectic building has a corner tower, a galleried atrium and a rooftop entertainment garden, and the Tianjin Daily calls it the only department store in China on the national heritage list. Its restoration began in October 2024, and in August 2026 the Tianjin Daily reported that the building was expected to reopen before the end of the year."},{"id":"jinghai-tuanbo-lake-leisure-park","name":"Renai Tuanbo Lake Leisure Expo Park","name_zh":"仁爱团泊湖国际休闲博览园","pinyin":"Rén'ài Tuánbóhú Guójì Xiūxián Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":38.9035,"lon":117.1515,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinghai-tuanbo-lake-leisure-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Renai Tuanbo Lake Leisure Expo Park is a leisure and resort district on the eastern shore of Tuanbo Lake, in the lakeside new town of Tuanbo, planned from 2009 to combine eco-leisure, conference and exhibition space, hot-spring resorts and housing. Tuanbo Lake has about 50 square kilometres of open water, and its wetland is on China's list of wetland nature reserves and is a Tianjin bird reserve; hot-spring hotels line the shore."},{"id":"tianjin-tianfei-palace-ruins","name":"Ruins of Tianfei Palace (Dazhigu Mazu Temple)","name_zh":"天妃宫遗址","pinyin":"Tiānfēigōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1093,"lon":117.2328,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-tianfei-palace-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The site of a temple to the sea goddess Mazu founded in the Yuan dynasty beside the Hai River, the oldest temple site in Tianjin's urban area and the 'East Temple' to the Tianhou Palace's 'West Temple'. The temple was burned in 1900, abandoned in the 1950s and its hall demolished in the 1970s. Excavations from 1997 uncovered the foundations of a Ming–Qing hall about 14 m wide and Yuan-dynasty foundations, which are shown in the site museum that opened in 2002."},{"id":"jinghai-samaranch-memorial-museum","name":"Samaranch Memorial Museum","name_zh":"萨马兰奇纪念馆","pinyin":"Sàmǎlánqí Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":38.9676,"lon":117.0783,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinghai-samaranch-memorial-museum","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A museum on the west shore of Tuanbo Lake dedicated to Juan Antonio Samaranch, who led the International Olympic Committee for 21 years, opened in 2013 with the authorisation of the Samaranch family and the IOC. It holds about 16,000 items from his books, souvenirs and personal belongings, including the passports that record his visits to China, and sits in grounds with an Olympic sculpture park. It was rated a national second-grade museum in 2024."},{"id":"tianjin-sanchakou-grand-canal","name":"Sanchakou Confluence (Grand Canal)","name_zh":"三岔河口","pinyin":"Sānchà Hékǒu","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1491,"lon":117.1841,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-sanchakou-grand-canal","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The spot in the city centre where the Ziya River and the Grand Canal's South and North canals meet to form the Hai River, where Tianjin began as a canal and grain-shipping hub. The Tianjin section of the Grand Canal is part of the canal's UNESCO World Heritage listing, and the confluence is overlooked by the Tianjin Eye, Wanghailou Church and the Temple of Great Compassion. A monument of 1986 to the Luan River water diversion to Tianjin stands at the present confluence."},{"id":"tianjin-shi-family-courtyard","name":"Shi Family Grand Courtyard (Yangliuqing Museum)","name_zh":"石家大院","pinyin":"Shíjiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1339,"lon":117.0044,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1.5 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-shi-family-courtyard/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The mansion of the Qing-dynasty merchant Shi Yuanshi, one of Tianjin's 'eight great families', begun in 1875 and now the Yangliuqing Museum, on the South Canal in the old canal town of Yangliuqing. Its courtyards are noted for brick, wood and stone carving and include a private theatre, one of the better-preserved closed residential theatres in China. Displays cover Yangliuqing New Year prints, brick carving, paper-cuts, kites and wedding and merchant customs."},{"id":"tianjin-shuigao-manor","name":"Shuigao Manor","name_zh":"水高庄园","pinyin":"Shuǐgāo Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.085,"lon":116.929,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-shuigao-manor","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An agricultural leisure park of about 1,500 mu (roughly 100 hectares) in Xinkou town, in the Dongdian modern-agriculture zone south-west of Yangliuqing. It has five zones, covering farming scenery, a Ziya River theme, fruit picking, a greenhouse display and a rural hot-spring area, with fishing, dining and accommodation. It suits families looking for a rural day out."},{"id":"tianjin-peiyang-university-site","name":"Site of the Peiyang University (Beiyang Daxuetang)","name_zh":"北洋大学堂旧址","pinyin":"Běiyáng Dàxuétáng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1776,"lon":117.1719,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-peiyang-university-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The surviving buildings of China's first government-run modern university, founded in 1895 and moved in 1903 to the former Xigu arsenal beside the North Canal. What remains on the campus of today's Hebei University of Technology is the Tuancheng courtyard of about 1930, the red-brick South Building of 1933, now the university's history museum, and the North Building of 1936, now a teaching block."},{"id":"nankai-university-siyuan-hall","name":"Siyuan Hall, Nankai University","name_zh":"南开大学思源堂","pinyin":"Nánkāi Dàxué Sīyuán Táng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1008,"lon":117.1694,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nankai-university-siyuan-hall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Siyuan Hall is a three-storey red-brick science building with a six-column porch, finished in 1923 with money from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Yuan family, and is the only early main building of Nankai University's Balitai campus still standing. Japanese bombing set it on fire in 1937, it was repaired after 1945, and it is now used by the university's medical school."},{"id":"tianjin-dagukou-forts","name":"Taku Forts (Dagukou Forts)","name_zh":"大沽口炮台","pinyin":"Dàgūkǒu Pàotái","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":38.9763,"lon":117.7036,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-dagukou-forts/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Coastal forts at the mouth of the Hai River, rebuilt and extended several times under the Qing, which were the main battleground of the Dagu battles of 1858, 1859 and 1860 in the Second Opium War and saw fighting again in 1900. Most of the forts were demolished under the Boxer Protocol; the restored Wei fort on the south bank, opened to visitors in 1997, survives beside a memorial park. A museum in a rust-coloured steel building has galleries on the forts, the wars fought here and the 1901 protocol, and a 3D cinema."},{"id":"tianjin-tasly-health-city","name":"Tasly Health City","name_zh":"天士力大健康城","pinyin":"Tiānshìlì Dàjiànkāng Chéng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.2122,"lon":117.2062,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-tasly-health-city","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The campus of the pharmaceutical group Tasly in Beichen District, open to visitors as an industrial-tourism site on about 53 hectares. Visitors can see a production workshop and exhibitions on traditional Chinese medicine culture, and the site also runs study programmes for young people."},{"id":"tianjin-dabei-chan-monastery","name":"Temple of Great Compassion (Dabei Yuan)","name_zh":"大悲禅院","pinyin":"Dàbēi Chányuàn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.155,"lon":117.1839,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-dabei-chan-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tianjin's largest surviving Buddhist monastery, a working Chan temple founded in the mid-17th century, expanded in 1669 and extended with a large eastern compound in the 1940s. Its halls hold a Ming-dynasty bronze Shakyamuni, a hall of three Burmese jade Buddhas completed in 2000, and hundreds of older statues in stone, wood and bronze. A memorial hall to the monk Hongyi stands in the grounds."},{"id":"nankai-tianhou-palace","name":"Tianhou Palace (Tianjin Mazu Temple)","name_zh":"天后宫","pinyin":"Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1421,"lon":117.1861,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nankai-tianhou-palace/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tianhou Palace, popularly called Niangniang Gong, is a temple to the sea goddess Mazu on the west bank of the Sancha Estuary, begun in the Yuan dynasty, formally ordered by the court in 1326 and largely rebuilt in 1985. Its halls run east to west from an opera stage and flagpoles through the gate, archway and main hall to a scripture pavilion, and today they house the Tianjin Folk Museum, with displays on canal transport, marriage customs, commerce and folk art."},{"id":"tianjin-eye","name":"Tianjin Eye","name_zh":"天津之眼","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Zhī Yǎn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1534,"lon":117.1803,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-eye/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Ferris wheel about 120 m tall built into Yongle Bridge beside the Sanchakou confluence, with 48 enclosed capsules. A full turn takes about half an hour, and all the capsules were replaced in 2023. It is lit in the evening, and Jingang Bridge just to the south is the usual place to photograph it with the confluence in view."},{"id":"tianjin-fantawild","name":"Tianjin Fantawild Adventure","name_zh":"天津方特欢乐世界","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1535,"lon":117.7332,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-fantawild","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A theme park in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city run by the Chinese chain Fantawild, opened in July 2014. Its attractions combine science-fiction and animation themes with 3D and 4D screen technology, and include areas based on the Boonie Bears cartoon. The park stages seasonal events such as a summer water-splash festival and fireworks, and it suits families with children."},{"id":"tianjin-happy-valley","name":"Tianjin Happy Valley","name_zh":"天津欢乐谷","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Huānlègǔ","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1856,"lon":117.4701,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-happy-valley","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A theme park by Dongli Lake run by the tourism group OCT, with indoor and outdoor rides and daily parades and shows. It is laid out in themed zones that include Viking Harbour, Christmas Village and Flying Caribbean, and it holds seasonal events and opens in the evening at busy times."},{"id":"tianjin-jinxiang-wildlife-park","name":"Tianjin Jinxiang Wildlife Park","name_zh":"天津津翔野生动物园","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Jīnxiáng Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1441,"lon":117.7358,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-jinxiang-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A wildlife park in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, reopened in 2024 on the site of the former Yili Fairy-tale Park. A walking zone has twelve themed areas with more than a hundred species, among them giant pandas, giraffes and zebras. A separate drive-through zone is toured by sightseeing train or a safari-style vehicle along a 2.1 km route past lions, wolves and antelope."},{"id":"tianjin-north-railway-station","name":"Tianjin North Railway Station","name_zh":"天津北站","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Běizhàn","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1646,"lon":117.2036,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianjin-north-railway-station/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A railway station opened in 1903 as Xinkaihe station, built on the initiative of Yuan Shikai, then governor-general of Zhili. The wooden station building and a steel footbridge across the platforms, both from 1903, survive in their early twentieth-century form, and the station is often used as a film location. It is still a working station, with regional trains to Jizhou."},{"id":"tianjin-polar-ocean-park","name":"Tianjin Polar Ocean Park (Haichang Polar Ocean World)","name_zh":"天津极地海洋公园","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Jídì Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.0086,"lon":117.656,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-polar-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An aquarium and marine-animal park in a whale-shaped building in the Xiangluowan business district, on the south bank of the Hai River facing Tanggu's commercial centre. Its exhibits include polar animals, an undersea tunnel, a beluga area and a jellyfish hall, and the park puts on regular animal shows. It suits families with young children."},{"id":"tianjin-port-culture-tourism-area","name":"Tianjin Port Culture and Tourism Area","name_zh":"天津港文化旅游区","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Gǎng Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.003,"lon":117.8205,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-port-culture-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A port-themed tourism zone of about 23 square kilometres in the Dongjiang area, linking Dongjiang Bay beach, the Tianjin International Cruise Home Port, a warehouse-style wine showroom and several container terminals. It was accepted as a national 4A scenic area in October 2023, when it introduced a sea route of about 40 minutes past the terminals, from which the port can be seen at work. Dongjiang Bay is a large man-made beach on the Bohai coast."},{"id":"tianjin-tropical-plant-garden","name":"Tianjin Tropical Plant Garden","name_zh":"天津热带植物观光园","pinyin":"Tiānjīn Rèdài Zhíwù Guānguāngyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1368,"lon":117.0883,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-tropical-plant-garden","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A greenhouse botanical garden beside the Caozhuang flower market in Xiqing District, opened in 2003, with an indoor collection of tropical and subtropical plants that includes palms and dragon trees. It closed in November 2023 to be converted into an aerospace-biology science park, and no reopening has been announced."},{"id":"nankai-water-park","name":"Tianjin Water Park","name_zh":"水上公园","pinyin":"Shuǐshàng Gōngyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.0863,"lon":117.16,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nankai-water-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tianjin Water Park opened in 1951 on a marshy pool called Qinglongtan and is described as the largest comprehensive park in central Tianjin, laid out around lakes and islands linked by bridges. Its garden-within-a-garden sights include the Kobe Garden, a Japanese-style garden finished in 1989, and a Suzhou-style bonsai garden, and the park hosts large public events and festivals."},{"id":"hexi-tianta-lake","name":"Tianta Lake and Tianjin TV Tower","name_zh":"天塔湖","pinyin":"Tiāntǎhú","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.0919,"lon":117.1748,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hexi-tianta-lake/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Tianjin Radio and Television Tower, completed in 1991, stands 415.2 metres tall in the middle of Tianta Lake in south-west Tianjin, with a parabolic shaft and a saucer-shaped pod near the top built to hold an observation hall and a revolving restaurant. The landscaped lake around it has a main plaza facing the east gate of Tianjin Water Park, and the tower is one of the 'Ten Views of Tianjin', 'Clouds Swirling Round the Tower'."},{"id":"ninghe-tianzun-pavilion","name":"Tianzun Pavilion (Taiyi Temple)","name_zh":"天尊阁","pinyin":"Tiānzūn Gé","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.5572,"lon":117.7522,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ninghe-tianzun-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tianzun Ge, also called Taiyi Temple, is a Daoist pavilion built in the Kangxi reign of the Qing dynasty in Fengtai town and counted among Tianjin's three Daoist pavilions. The 17.4-metre timber pavilion has three storeys, with eight columns running from the ground to the roof, and stands behind a two-storey gate; its levels were dedicated to the Heavenly Honoured One, the Queen Mother of the West and the Ziwei deity. Conservation work on the buildings and courtyard was accepted as complete in 2023."},{"id":"tianjin-yangliuqing-manor","name":"Yangliuqing Manor","name_zh":"杨柳青庄园","pinyin":"Yángliǔqīng Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1539,"lon":116.9673,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianjin-yangliuqing-manor","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A leisure and holiday park of about 800 mu (roughly 53 hectares) in the north of Yangliuqing town, with wooded grounds and lakes, a hotel and conference facilities, fishing and fruit picking. It was upgraded in April 2024 with a series of rides branded Jack Park, and it suits families and groups on a day out from the city."},{"id":"heping-zhang-garden","name":"Zhang Garden","name_zh":"张园","pinyin":"Zhāngyuán","region_id":"120000","region":"Tianjin","city":"Tianjin","lat":39.1239,"lon":117.1855,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heping-zhang-garden/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Zhang Garden is a European-style mansion built in 1915–16 for Zhang Biao, a former Qing army commander, in what was then the Japanese concession. Sun Yat-sen stayed here for 27 days in December 1924 and the last emperor Puyi lived here from 1925; after 1949 the house served as the seat of the Tianjin Military Control Commission and the city's Party committee, which gives the site its official national-list name. Part of it has been open as a memorial museum since 2018, and the museum reopened in January 2026 after a refit."},{"id":"baoding-ancient-lotus-pond","name":"Ancient Lotus Pond","name_zh":"古莲花池","pinyin":"Gǔ Liánhuā Chí","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8567,"lon":115.4919,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-ancient-lotus-pond/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled garden of ponds, bridges, pavilions and towers in the centre of Baoding, begun in the 13th century as a private garden and rebuilt in the Ming dynasty. In the Qing it became the site of the Lotus Pond Academy and was used by the Qianlong, Jiaqing and Guangxu emperors as a travelling palace. It gave its name to Baoding's Lianchi District and now operates as the Lianchi Academy Museum, with many inscribed steles."},{"id":"laiyuan-baishi-mountain","name":"Baishi Mountain","name_zh":"白石山","pinyin":"Báishí Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.2157,"lon":114.6982,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/laiyuan-baishi-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baishi Mountain is the northern end of the Taihang range, a block of pale marble and dolomite in Laiyuan County whose jagged peaks poke out of low cloud on overcast days. Walkways run along its cliffs, including two glass-floored skywalks opened in 2014 and 2015, and stretches of old Great Wall lie around the foothills. It forms part of the Fangshan UNESCO Global Geopark, which also takes in Shidu and Yesanpo."},{"id":"anxin-baiyang-lake","name":"Baiyang Lake","name_zh":"白洋淀","pinyin":"Báiyángdiàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.9484,"lon":116.0306,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anxin-baiyang-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baiyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in northern China, a patchwork of shallow lakes, channels, reed beds and lotus ponds within the Xiong'an New Area. The usual visit is by boat from the main tourist wharf, where clean-energy 'water bus' boats link the garden and island sites, drifting through the reeds and lotus to lake-island villages where local restaurants cook fish and other lake produce. The lake sheltered guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation during the war and is the setting of well-known Chinese stories such as Little Soldier Zhang Ga."},{"id":"baoding-banquet-food-museum","name":"Baoding Banquet Food Museum","name_zh":"保定宴饮食博物馆","pinyin":"Bǎodìng Yàn Yǐnshí Bówùguǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.9185,"lon":115.4637,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoding-banquet-food-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large food-hall and restaurant complex in Baoding's high-tech zone, opened in September 2023 and registered as a museum of Zhili (Qing-era provincial) cuisine, with a small collection of historic cookery books and tableware. The ground floor is a street of snack stalls selling local favourites such as donkey-meat sandwiches, and the upper floors have banquet halls modelled on the old provincial guild halls of Baoding, plus a dinner-theatre show. It suits visitors who want to try Baoding food in one place rather than see a historic site."},{"id":"baoding-bell-tower","name":"Baoding Bell Tower","name_zh":"保定钟楼","pinyin":"Bǎodìng Zhōnglóu","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8578,"lon":115.4947,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-bell-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A two-storey, double-eaved tower on a brick platform in Baoding's old city, whose present form dates from the Ming dynasty (Xuande era, 1426–35) and which has been repaired several times since. It houses a large iron bell cast in 1181 under the Jin dynasty and decorated with bands of Buddha figures and inscriptions. It stands a short walk from Daci Pavilion, so the two are usually seen together."},{"id":"baoding-military-academy-site","name":"Baoding Military Academy","name_zh":"保定陆军军官学校旧址","pinyin":"Bǎodìng Lùjūn Jūnguān Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8655,"lon":115.5208,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-military-academy-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Memorial hall and surviving grounds of the Baoding Military Academy, which trained thousands of officers between 1912 and 1923 and served as a model for the Whampoa Academy set up in Guangzhou in 1924. Most of the original campus is gone: a firing range, a reviewing stand and a moat survive, and the former parade ground is now a public square. A memorial hall opened in 1995 and covers the academy's history."},{"id":"quyang-beiyue-temple","name":"Beiyue Temple","name_zh":"北岳庙","pinyin":"Běiyuè Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.622,"lon":114.6911,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quyang-beiyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled temple compound in the old town of Quyang, built for worship of the spirit of the Northern Peak; emperors sacrificed to the Northern Peak from here until 1660, when the rite moved to Mount Heng at Hunyuan in Shanxi. Its main building, the Yuan-dynasty Dening Hall, is described as the largest surviving Yuan timber hall and has wall paintings of heavenly figures traditionally attributed to the Tang painter Wu Daozi. The grounds also hold a stele gallery of over a hundred inscribed stones and a small exhibition hall on the temple's history."},{"id":"gaoyang-buli-work-study-school","name":"Buli Work-Study School for France","name_zh":"布里留法工艺学校旧址","pinyin":"Bùlǐ Liúfǎ Gōngyì Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.6306,"lon":115.8377,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoyang-buli-work-study-school","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of a school founded in 1917 to prepare young Chinese for work and study in France, one of the places where the work-study movement began. The surviving single-storey classrooms, workshop and offices stand in a courtyard behind a gate that mixes a Gothic-style brick tower with a traditional Chinese arch. Visitors also see an exhibition room on Li Shizeng, one of the school's founders, and a locust tree planted by Cai Hesen, who was at the school in 1918 before leaving for France in 1919."},{"id":"dingxing-ciyun-pavilion","name":"Ciyun Pavilion","name_zh":"慈云阁","pinyin":"Cíyún Gé","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.2724,"lon":115.7735,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingxing-ciyun-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Ciyun Pavilion is a two-storey pavilion in Dingxing county town, originally called the Dabei (Great Compassion) Pavilion; the surviving building dates from a rebuilding in 1306, under the Yuan dynasty. It is square in plan, three bays by three, with a hip-and-gable roof and a height of 13.3 m, and became a national heritage unit in 1996."},{"id":"baoding-daci-pavilion","name":"Daci Pavilion","name_zh":"大慈阁","pinyin":"Dàcí Gé","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8591,"lon":115.4965,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-daci-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Baoding's old city whose main hall, a three-storey pavilion on a stone platform, is the tallest surviving historic building in the city. It was founded under the Yuan dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing after a fire in the Qianlong reign, and is flanked by bell and drum towers with a Guandi temple behind. Inside the main hall stands a gilded wooden thousand-armed Guanyin, and the temple has been in religious use again since 2006."},{"id":"baoding-dajidian-ancient-town","name":"Dajidian Ancient Town","name_zh":"古镇大激店","pinyin":"Gǔzhèn Dàjīdiàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8457,"lon":115.3661,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoding-dajidian-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An old village on the western side of Baoding that has been restored as a cultural-tourism area. It keeps an opera tower protected as a municipal heritage site since 1993, nine restored stone tablets and a stream crossed by six bridges. State-media reports of 2021 and 2022 describe it as re-themed as a music and culture town, with an artists' creative park, craft, food and creative-goods outlets, performances, a water-and-light show on the river and an annual music festival."},{"id":"yixian-longxing-daodejing-pillar","name":"Daodejing Pillar at Longxing Daoist Temple","name_zh":"龙兴观道德经幢","pinyin":"Lóngxīng Guàn Dàodéjīng Chuáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3424,"lon":115.4916,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixian-longxing-daodejing-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tang-dynasty octagonal stone pillar about 6 metres high, raised in 738 and carved with the Daodejing together with Emperor Xuanzong's commentary. It stands in the built-up part of Yi County town under a protective pavilion built in 2001, and is all that remains of the Longxing Daoist temple apart from three steles. Some scholars attribute the calligraphy to the Tang calligrapher Su Lingzhi."},{"id":"quyang-ding-kiln-site","name":"Ding Kiln Site","name_zh":"定窑遗址","pinyin":"Dìngyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.7987,"lon":114.6843,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quyang-ding-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The main production site of Ding ware, the white porcelain of one of the Song dynasty's 'Five Great Kilns', on the edge of Jianci village. Excavations from 1985 uncovered kilns of the Tang, Five Dynasties, Song and Jin periods, workshops, clay-washing pools and glaze pits, and more than ten thousand porcelain and kiln-furniture specimens. Much of the site is open ground with heaps of porcelain shards, an exhibition hall shows Ding ware from the Tang to the Song, and a larger archaeological park and museum have been announced."},{"id":"dingzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Dingzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"定州文庙","pinyin":"Dìngzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5151,"lon":114.9953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dingzhou-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the best-preserved Confucian temples in Hebei, founded in the Dazhong era of the Tang dynasty (mid-9th century) on the site of a Buddhist temple and enlarged under the Song, Ming and Qing. Three adjoining courtyards hold the Lingxing Gate, the Dacheng Hall for Confucius and his disciples, a lecture hall and a Wenchang pavilion, with a shrine to local filial and chaste figures in a courtyard to the south. It is a quiet site with old steles, and two old locust trees in the grounds are traditionally said to have been planted by Su Dongpo, who served as governor of Dingzhou."},{"id":"dingzhou-examination-hall","name":"Dingzhou Examination Hall","name_zh":"定州贡院","pinyin":"Dìngzhōu Gòngyuàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5139,"lon":115.0013,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dingzhou-examination-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Dingzhou Examination Hall, begun in 1738 and enlarged in 1834, is described as the most complete surviving imperial examination compound in northern China. It has a long screen wall where results were posted, the Kuige hall of examination cells where candidates sat, and the two-storey Lansheng Tower where examiners lived and worked. Old locust trees in the grounds are traditionally said to have been planted by the Qianlong Emperor."},{"id":"dingzhou-han-tomb-stone-carving-museum","name":"Dingzhou Han Tomb and Stone Carving Museum","name_zh":"定州汉墓石刻馆","pinyin":"Dìngzhōu Hànmù Shíkè Guǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5184,"lon":114.9843,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingzhou-han-tomb-stone-carving-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Dingzhou Han Tomb and Stone Carving Museum is a heritage compound in the old part of Dingzhou that brings together three protected sites: a Han-dynasty tomb of the Zhongshan kingdom, stone carvings from the Beizhuangzi Han tomb and the city's collection of inscribed steles. Dingzhou was the capital of the Han kingdom of Zhongshan, and finds from its royal tombs, including a silver-thread jade burial suit, are shown at the Dingzhou Museum."},{"id":"dingzhou-mosque","name":"Dingzhou Mosque","name_zh":"定州清真寺","pinyin":"Dìngzhōu Qīngzhēn Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5149,"lon":114.9878,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingzhou-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque on Zhongshan Road in the old town, facing west, with buildings dating from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties. Its brick-vaulted rear sanctuary, the Houyao Hall, is a surviving Yuan-period structure built without beams, and a Yuan stele records a repair of the mosque in the Zhizheng era (1341–68). The prayer hall and gate are in the Ming–Qing Chinese style, with lecture halls on either side of the compound."},{"id":"mancheng-fangshun-bridge","name":"Fangshun Bridge","name_zh":"方顺桥","pinyin":"Fāngshùn Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.7794,"lon":115.248,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mancheng-fangshun-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A bridge in Fangshunqiao village in Mancheng District that the heritage list dates to the Ming and Qing dynasties, protected nationally since 2013. It crosses a watercourse running through the village. Visitors should expect a village bridge rather than a developed attraction."},{"id":"laishui-qinghua-temple-flower-pagoda","name":"Flower Pagoda of Qinghua Temple","name_zh":"庆化寺花塔","pinyin":"Qìnghuà Sì Huātǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.481,"lon":115.5824,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laishui-qinghua-temple-flower-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda, eight-sided and about 13 metres high, standing alone on the lower slope of Longgong Hill north of Beiluoping village; the rest of Qinghua Temple has disappeared. Its upper part is covered by 120 small Buddha niches arranged in eight tiers, which gives it the name 'flower pagoda'. It is a quiet stop for those interested in Liao-period architecture and has been nationally protected since 2001."},{"id":"dingzhou-yan-yangchu-residence","name":"Former Residence of Yan Yangchu","name_zh":"晏阳初旧居","pinyin":"Yàn Yángchū Jiùjū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5112,"lon":114.9996,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingzhou-yan-yangchu-residence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Part of the compound where the educator Yan Yangchu (James Yen) lived from 1926 to 1936 while his Mass Education Movement ran a rural literacy and reconstruction experiment in Ding County. Only the living quarters of the west courtyard survive, a north hall, two side wings and a south range, all with grey-tiled gable roofs. The experiment ended in 1936 as Japanese forces advanced, and the site stands a short walk from Dingzhou Museum, which displays finds from the town's two Song-dynasty pagoda crypts."},{"id":"baoding-yude-middle-school-site","name":"Former Yude Middle School","name_zh":"育德中学旧址","pinyin":"Yùdé Zhōngxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8604,"lon":115.481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-yude-middle-school-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A late-Qing brick-and-timber courtyard that housed Yude Middle School, founded in 1907, and now serves as the memorial hall of the Work-Study in France movement. In 1917–20 the school ran preparatory classes for young Chinese heading to France to work and study, whose students included Li Weihan, Li Fuchun and Liu Shaoqi, later senior Communist Party figures. The hall's exhibition covers the movement through documents, photographs and reconstructed scenes."},{"id":"gaobeidian-green-building-industrial-tourism-area","name":"Gaobeidian Green Building Technology Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"绿建科技工业旅游景区","pinyin":"Lǜjiàn Kējì Gōngyè Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3015,"lon":115.9264,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaobeidian-green-building-industrial-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An industrial-tourism area in Gaobeidian's economic zone, run by Aorun Shunda, a maker of energy-saving windows and green-building systems, and earlier listed as its doors-and-windows industrial-tourism area. The city tourism bureau describes a visiting route through a green-building technology innovation centre, a history hall, the China Door and Window Museum, an ultra-low-energy building test centre and the production base; the museum's halls were described in 2017 as covering carved stone windows, timber doors and windows, and modern types. State media also describe automated production lines and a climate-simulation test chamber on the company campus, so it suits visitors interested in building technology or industry."},{"id":"laiyuan-geyuan-temple","name":"Geyuan Temple","name_zh":"阁院寺","pinyin":"Géyuàn Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.353,"lon":114.6821,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/laiyuan-geyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the old town of Laiyuan whose Manjusri Hall, traditionally dated to 966, is counted among the 'eight great Liao structures' and is the earliest of them. It is a timber hall with deep eaves and fewer interior columns than usual, window lattices from the Liao to the Qing dynasties, and wall paintings that survive mostly under later mud plaster. In the courtyard hangs an iron bell cast in 1114, weighing about two tonnes and bearing over 1,200 Chinese characters."},{"id":"baoding-guangyuan-garden","name":"Guangyuan Garden","name_zh":"光园","pinyin":"Guāngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8589,"lon":115.4896,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-guangyuan-garden/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving main building of a residence put up around 1917 by Cao Kun, the Zhili-clique military leader then based in Baoding, which combined a Western-style hall with Chinese courtyard planning. Most of the original compound was demolished in the 20th and early 21st centuries, leaving one brick hall with a hip roof and carved stone doorway. It has been restored and houses the Baoding local-chronicles museum (opened 2015), with rooms on local history, the War of Resistance and the Republican period."},{"id":"baoding-huai-army-hall","name":"Huai Army Hall","name_zh":"淮军公所","pinyin":"Huáijūn Gōngsuǒ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8559,"lon":115.4833,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-huai-army-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in 1888 at the request of Li Hongzhang, then Viceroy of Zhili, as a memorial shrine and headquarters for his Huai Army, this compound mixes Huizhou-style halls from Anhui in its south-east, northern courtyards in its north-east and a landscaped garden in the west. Part of the central axis became a shrine to Li Hongzhang himself in 1902. Its old theatre building survives, and the compound is run as the Baoding Huai Army Hall Museum."},{"id":"laishui-huangfu-temple-pagoda","name":"Huangfu Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"皇甫寺塔","pinyin":"Huángfǔ Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3993,"lon":115.7932,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laishui-huangfu-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick pagoda with closely stacked eaves standing in farmland beside Huangfusi village, mainly of Jin-dynasty date with possible later work. It has been a national heritage unit since 2013. It is a roadside stop for anyone exploring the old pagodas around Laishui rather than a destination in its own right."},{"id":"dingzhou-dadao-temple-jade-emperor-hall","name":"Jade Emperor Hall of Dadao Temple, Dingzhou","name_zh":"大道观玉皇殿","pinyin":"Dàdàoguàn Yùhuáng Diàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5232,"lon":114.9828,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dingzhou-dadao-temple-jade-emperor-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dadao Guan, a Daoist temple founded under the Yuan dynasty, once had a full axial layout but only its Jade Emperor Hall survives, in the built-up area of Dingzhou. The hall, which the national heritage list dates to the Ming, is described by the city as showing typical Yuan-period construction, and inside is a large mural of the gods paying homage, made in the Wanli era with raised, gilded lines."},{"id":"fuping-jin-cha-ji-border-region-memorial","name":"Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region Memorial Hall","name_zh":"晋察冀边区革命纪念馆","pinyin":"Jìnchájì Biānqū Gémìng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.7324,"lon":114.1706,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuping-jin-cha-ji-border-region-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial museum at Chengnanzhuang that first opened in 1974 in the former headquarters of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and was enlarged and renamed in 2005. Its photographs and objects cover the Jin-Cha-Ji border region during the War of Resistance against Japan and the civil war, and the preserved headquarters are three rows of 21 adobe houses, including rooms used by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi, an operations office, a telephone room and a meeting room. Chengnanzhuang is also where the Communist Party issued its 1948 May Day slogans."},{"id":"zhuozhou-jinmen-floodgates","name":"Jinmen Floodgates","name_zh":"金门闸","pinyin":"Jīnmén Zhá","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.5996,"lon":116.2136,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozhou-jinmen-floodgates","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty flood-relief sluice on the right bank of the Yongding River, made up of fifteen stone bays spread over about 100 metres. A sluice of this name was first built in 1701 nearby; the relief weir was moved to this site in 1738 and rebuilt as the present sluice in 1909, and steles beside it record later repairs and carry imperial inscriptions. The structure is fenced off in a remote spot and was half hidden by vegetation until volunteers cleared part of it in June 2026, so it suits only heritage and waterworks enthusiasts."},{"id":"laishui-jinshan-temple-pagoda","name":"Jinshan Temple Relic Pagoda","name_zh":"金山寺舍利塔","pinyin":"Jīnshān Sì Shèlì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.5394,"lon":115.6741,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laishui-jinshan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stone relic pagoda of the Yuan dynasty with closely stacked eaves, standing on a wooded hillside near Donglongquan village in the mountains north of Laishui. It has been a national heritage unit since 2013. It suits visitors touring the old pagodas of Laishui County by car."},{"id":"gaobeidian-kaishan-temple","name":"Kaishan Temple","name_zh":"开善寺","pinyin":"Kāishàn Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.2458,"lon":115.983,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaobeidian-kaishan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Buddhist temple in Xincheng town whose timber main hall was built under the Liao dynasty in the mid-11th century. The five-bay hall has a hipped roof, deep eaves and large brackets, and only four columns stand inside because of its column-reducing frame, while the halls in front are Ming and Qing. Floodwater reached the compound in August 2023."},{"id":"dingzhou-liaodi-pagoda","name":"Liaodi Pagoda","name_zh":"料敌塔","pinyin":"Liàodí Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5103,"lon":114.9966,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dingzhou-liaodi-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Liaodi Pagoda, in the former Kaiyuan Temple precinct of Dingzhou, is an octagonal, eleven-storey brick tower about 84 m tall and is regarded as the tallest surviving historic brick pagoda in China. It was built between 1001 and 1055 under the Northern Song to house Buddhist relics brought from India, and doubled as a lookout against the Khitan Liao to the north, hence the name meaning 'enemy-spotting pagoda'. The ground-floor corridor keeps Song-dynasty murals."},{"id":"xushui-liulingzui-distillery","name":"Liulingzui Distillery Site, Xushui","name_zh":"刘伶醉烧锅遗址","pinyin":"Liúlíngzuì Shāoguō Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.0147,"lon":115.6485,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xushui-liulingzui-distillery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Liulingzui is a liquor distillery in Xushui whose old works preserve a distillery site of the Jin and Yuan dynasties: two rows of 16 fermentation pits that archaeologists say have been in continuous use ever since, and an underground 'wine sea' of Ming and Qing wooden and wicker storage vats. The site became a national heritage unit in 2006 and national industrial heritage in 2020, and suits anyone curious about how Chinese baijiu is made and aged."},{"id":"laishui-longyan-temple-pagoda","name":"Longyan Temple Pagoda, Laishui","name_zh":"涞水龙严寺塔","pinyin":"Láishuǐ Lóngyán Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.4867,"lon":115.6643,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laishui-longyan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty pagoda on the east bank of the Qingshui River, just west of Zhongshuidong village and known locally as the Shuidong Pagoda. Tradition says it was built to hold back mountain floods. It is one of several Liao-period pagodas around Laishui and was added to the national heritage list in 2019."},{"id":"mancheng-han-tombs","name":"Mancheng Han Tombs","name_zh":"满城汉墓","pinyin":"Mǎnchéng Hànmù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.9473,"lon":115.2886,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mancheng-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two rock-cut tombs on Lingshan hill belonging to Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan, and his wife Dou Wan, dated to the end of the 2nd century BC and found by military engineers in 1968. Each tomb has a long entrance passage, side chambers, a central hall and a rear chamber, with drainage and anti-theft features cut into the rock. The finds included two gold-thread jade burial suits and the Changxin Palace lamp, which are now in the Hebei Museum, with replicas shown on site, and the tombs are counted among the major Chinese archaeological discoveries of the 20th century."},{"id":"yixian-mount-langya","name":"Mount Langya","name_zh":"狼牙山","pinyin":"Lángyá Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.1333,"lon":115.1789,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixian-mount-langya/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic mountain area in the Taihang range in the west of Yi County, known for the story of the 'Five Heroes of Mount Langya'. In the official account, five Eighth Route Army soldiers covering a withdrawal in September 1941 retreated to the summit ridge, Qipantuo, and went over a cliff rather than be captured. An exhibition hall about them stands near the entrance, and a memorial tower on Qipantuo marks the place."},{"id":"rongcheng-nanyang-site","name":"Nanyang Site, Xiong'an","name_zh":"南阳遗址","pinyin":"Nányáng Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.0409,"lon":115.9984,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongcheng-nanyang-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Nanyang Site is a Warring States site in the Xiong'an New Area where archaeologists have found two city sites with south and west gates, connecting roads and tombs, along with finds in the style of the Yan culture. Part of the dig has been kept beside the research station, which has a small exhibition room of pottery, eave tiles and metal objects, and Xinhua reports the site open to schools and the public, with an archaeological park planned."},{"id":"baoding-qinghe-circuit-office","name":"Qinghe Circuit Office","name_zh":"清河道署","pinyin":"Qīnghé Dàoshǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8553,"lon":115.4857,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-qinghe-circuit-office/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The office of the Qinghe circuit intendant, an official in charge of rivers and lakes in southern Zhili, set up in 1726; the present compound of gates, three halls on a central axis, staff courtyards and a Huizhou-style flower hall dates from the 1830s–40s. After 1911 it was used as a warlord's residence, offices, a clinic and housing before restoration. Since the end of 2021 it has housed the Baoding Water Conservancy Museum, Hebei's first museum devoted to water, with displays of traditional water-lifting tools and local water-management history."},{"id":"laiyuan-qishan-ski-resort","name":"Qishan Ski Resort","name_zh":"七山滑雪场","pinyin":"Qīshān Huáxuěchǎng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.324,"lon":114.6795,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laiyuan-qishan-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski resort on the hillside south of Laiyuan town, with ski runs and lifts. The same site holds China's national ski-jumping training and research base, which was built for the national ski-jumping and Nordic combined teams. Skiing runs through the winter, and the county also presents the resort as a summer retreat."},{"id":"baoding-ranzhuang-tunnel-warfare-site","name":"Ranzhuang Tunnel Warfare Site","name_zh":"冉庄地道战遗址","pinyin":"Rǎnzhuāng Dìdàozhàn Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.669,"lon":115.3631,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoding-ranzhuang-tunnel-warfare-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village in Qingyuan District where, during the war against Japan, residents dug a network of tunnels under the houses and streets to hide in and fight from, and which later became the setting of the film Tunnel Warfare. The network had four main lines and 24 branches, about 16 km in all, of which about 3 km survives. A memorial hall founded in 1959 shows photographs, models and wartime objects, and the village keeps its 1930s–40s look with tunnel entrances, defensive works and slogans."},{"id":"yixian-shengtayuan-pagoda","name":"Shengtayuan Pagoda","name_zh":"圣塔院塔","pinyin":"Shèngtǎyuàn Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3426,"lon":115.4505,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixian-shengtayuan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shengtayuan Pagoda is an octagonal, thirteen-tier brick-and-stone pagoda, 24 m high, begun in 1103 under the Liao dynasty and repaired several times from the Ming dynasty up to 1985–86. It stands on Jingke Hill, now Jingke Park, south-west of Yi County town, and is popularly known as the Jing Ke Pagoda."},{"id":"yixian-shuangtaan-twin-pagodas","name":"Shuangta'an Twin Pagodas","name_zh":"双塔庵双塔","pinyin":"Shuāngtǎ'ān Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3923,"lon":115.2435,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixian-shuangtaan-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shuangta'an Twin Pagodas are two dense-eaved brick pagodas, the east and west pagodas, standing north-west of Tainingsi village in Yi County and listed as a national heritage unit in 2013. The national register dates them between the Jin and Ming dynasties, and they lie in Xiling township, named after the Western Qing Tombs."},{"id":"xiongxian-song-liao-border-tunnels","name":"Song–Liao Border Tunnels, Xiong County","name_zh":"宋辽边关地道","pinyin":"Sòng-Liáo Biānguān Dìdào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.9887,"lon":116.1086,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiongxian-song-liao-border-tunnels","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Song–Liao border tunnels are a network of brick-vaulted underground passages dug in the early Northern Song as a defence against the Liao, with traces known across Xiong, Bazhou, Wen'an, Yongqing and Gu'an over roughly 65 km from east to west. The part open to visitors is a restored section in a park in Xiong County town, where passages and chambers (a command platform above, then lookout, council, armoury, 'maze' and rest rooms below) can be entered, and some passages are only about 0.6 m high. The park has been open since 2009."},{"id":"quyang-bahui-temple-sutra-inscriptions","name":"Sutra Inscriptions at Bahui Temple","name_zh":"八会寺刻经","pinyin":"Bāhuì Sì Kèjīng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.5384,"lon":114.6895,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quyang-bahui-temple-sutra-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sui-dynasty Buddhist inscriptions carved in a stone niche on the summit of a hill near Xiyangping village, south of Quyang. Five complete sutras are cut into the rock, including the Lotus Sutra's chapter on Guanyin and a sutra on Maitreya. The hilltop is also a temple site, and the hill is climbed at the Double Ninth festival, when a temple fair is held at its foot."},{"id":"yixian-taihang-water-town","name":"Taihang Water Town","name_zh":"恋乡·太行水镇","pinyin":"Liànxiāng Tàiháng Shuǐzhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.2882,"lon":115.2434,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixian-taihang-water-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A purpose-built tourist town in Angezhuang township, Yi County, laid out in Ming-and-Qing style with stone-paved lanes and grey-roofed, white-walled buildings beside a lake on the Yishui River. It has shops, snack stalls and guesthouses, a campsite and seasonal festivals, and it has operated since about 2017, so it is a modern development rather than a historic village. It suits families and short breaks from Beijing, Baoding or Xiong'an, and is easy to combine with nearby Yishui Lake."},{"id":"tangxian-tanpu-gorge","name":"Tanpu Gorge","name_zh":"潭瀑峡","pinyin":"Tánpùxiá","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.0855,"lon":114.58,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangxian-tanpu-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tanpu Gorge is a scenic area in the Taihang mountains of western Tang County, formerly known as Dashiyu, built around rocky valleys with a series of pools and waterfalls. The pools and falls are the main sights, so it suits a half-day outing for those who like walking among rock and water."},{"id":"fuping-tianshengqiao-waterfalls","name":"Tianshengqiao Waterfalls","name_zh":"阜平天生桥","pinyin":"Fùpíng Tiānshēngqiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8528,"lon":113.866,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuping-tianshengqiao-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in western Fuping County, known for a single gully of nine waterfalls stepping down the valley, the highest of which, on Yaotai mountain, drops 112.5 metres. The area is also a national geopark, and its name means 'natural bridge'."},{"id":"quyang-hushan-scenic-area","name":"Tiger Mountain Scenic Area, Quyang","name_zh":"虎山风景区","pinyin":"Hǔshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.9382,"lon":114.5523,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quyang-hushan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of more than 20 square kilometres in the Taihang foothills at Quyang's northern edge, named after a tiger-shaped rock near the summit. A stream valley with springs and waterfalls runs through it, and an old gold mine with its tunnel and miners' quarters is open as a sight. The main peak, Sanjianliang, rises to a little over 1,100 metres."},{"id":"laishui-prince-yi-tomb","name":"Tomb of Prince Yi, Laishui","name_zh":"怡贤亲王墓","pinyin":"Yíxián Qīnwáng Mù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.4957,"lon":115.6817,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laishui-prince-yi-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Yinxiang, thirteenth son of the Kangxi Emperor, who was made Prince Yi under the Yongzheng Emperor, was built in 1730 beside Dongyingfang village in Laishui County. The burial vault was looted in the 1930s and the tomb itself is gone, but a stele inscribed in Manchu and Chinese, a bridge, carved stone archways and ornamental columns survive above ground."},{"id":"mancheng-zhang-rou-tomb","name":"Tomb of Zhang Rou","name_zh":"张柔墓","pinyin":"Zhāng Róu Mù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.0279,"lon":115.3099,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mancheng-zhang-rou-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The family cemetery of Zhang Rou (1189–1268), a general who served the Jin and then the Yuan dynasty, laid out in 1269 on about 17 hectares in the countryside near Gangtou village. Above ground it has four square stepped earth mounds, three further tombs without mounds, two stone stelae and a few stone figures and animals, and the stele at the tomb of his son Zhang Honglüe is unusually tall. It is an open-air site in farmland rather than a developed attraction."},{"id":"baoding-viceroy-of-zhili-office","name":"Viceroy of Zhili's Office, Baoding","name_zh":"直隶总督署","pinyin":"Zhílì Zǒngdū Shǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.859,"lon":115.4909,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoding-viceroy-of-zhili-office/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The only complete provincial-level Qing government compound to survive in China, built in 1729 and used by successive viceroys of Zhili, the province around Beijing, until the end of the Qing. Five courtyards run along a central axis from the main gate through the ceremonial gate, main hall and second hall to the residential quarters. Seventy-four men held the post here over 99 terms, among them Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, and the compound is now the Zhili Governor-General's Office Museum."},{"id":"shunping-yaoshan-wang-manor","name":"Wang's Manor, Yaoshan","name_zh":"腰山王氏庄园","pinyin":"Yāoshān Wángshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8922,"lon":115.2111,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunping-yaoshan-wang-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty manor of the Wang family, begun in 1647 by Wang Xigun, a Han banner general who entered China proper with the Manchu army and was granted land here. The estate was expanded to about 50 courtyard houses by 1746, and the surviving south garden has gates, courtyards and halls such as Renhe Hall, with brick, wood and stone carving on the screen wall, gateways and eaves. It is a rare surviving manor-style complex in Hebei."},{"id":"wangdu-suoyao-han-tombs","name":"Wangdu Han Tombs","name_zh":"望都汉墓","pinyin":"Wàngdū Hànmù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.7101,"lon":115.1528,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangdu-suoyao-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two Eastern Han brick tombs about 30 metres apart on the east side of Wangdu town, whose chambers hold over 100 square metres of wall paintings showing officials, attendants and heavenly signs. Tomb 1, excavated in 1952, was begun in 132 and is thought to be that of Sun Cheng, Marquis of Fuyang, while its grave goods are held by the Palace Museum in Beijing. A small museum was built next to the tombs around 2010, and the murals were digitally recorded in 2020 for conservation."},{"id":"yixian-western-qing-tombs","name":"Western Qing Tombs","name_zh":"清西陵","pinyin":"Qīng Xīlíng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3702,"lon":115.3448,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixian-western-qing-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Western Qing Tombs are one of the Qing dynasty's imperial burial grounds, set among wooded hills in Yi County, with the tombs of four emperors (Yongzheng, Jiaqing, Daoguang and Guangxu) and of their empresses, concubines and princes. Tailing, the Yongzheng Emperor's tomb, is the earliest and largest, reached along a long stone spirit way with memorial archways, stone bridges and rows of stone statues, while the underground burial chamber of Chongling, the Guangxu Emperor's tomb, was opened to visitors in 1980. The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site 'Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties', inscribed in 2000."},{"id":"tangxian-wofo-temple-cliff-carvings","name":"Wofo Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"卧佛寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Wòfósì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.883,"lon":114.8467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangxian-wofo-temple-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Wofo Temple Cliff Carvings are Northern Song figures cut into a limestone cliff face about 6 m high, facing west, at the Wofo Temple Reservoir in Baihe township, Tang County. They have been a national heritage unit since 2013."},{"id":"shunping-wuhou-pagoda","name":"Wuhou Pagoda","name_zh":"伍侯塔","pinyin":"Wǔhóu Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.8981,"lon":115.262,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunping-wuhou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-period brick pagoda of five storeys and about 22.5 metres, hexagonal rather than the more usual octagon, standing among the houses of Nanwuhou village. The base and eaves carry brick carvings of people, animals and flowers, and some of the glazed tile fittings survive. The ground-floor doorway has been bricked up, so the pagoda is seen from the outside."},{"id":"anguo-wuren-bridge","name":"Wuren Bridge","name_zh":"伍仁桥","pinyin":"Wǔrén Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.2905,"lon":115.3219,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anguo-wuren-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wuren Bridge is a five-arch stone bridge over the Ci River, begun in 1599 and finished in 1600 in the Ming dynasty; it is also known as Guifei Bridge, or Noble Consort Bridge. It stands at Wurenqiao town in Anguo and has been a national heritage unit since 2006, making it a short stop for anyone interested in historic stone bridges."},{"id":"zhuozhou-xiahuliang-bridge","name":"Xiahuliang Bridge","name_zh":"下胡良桥","pinyin":"Xiàhúliáng Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.5307,"lon":115.9683,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozhou-xiahuliang-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty bridge in Xiahuliang village on the northern side of Zhuozhou, protected as a national heritage unit since 2013. It stands beside the G107 road and is a short roadside stop rather than a destination in its own right. It can be combined with the much longer Yongji Bridge about 2 km to the south."},{"id":"laishui-xigang-pagoda","name":"Xigang Pagoda","name_zh":"西岗塔","pinyin":"Xīgǎng Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3998,"lon":115.6994,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laishui-xigang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda with closely stacked eaves in the north-west of Laishui town, the easiest of the county's old pagodas to reach. It became a provincial heritage unit in 1982 and a national one in 2006. Laishui County has several pagodas on the national list, ranging from the Liao to the Yuan dynasty."},{"id":"boye-jiecun-xingguo-temple-pagoda","name":"Xingguo Temple Pagoda, Jiecun","name_zh":"解村兴国寺塔","pinyin":"Xiècūn Xīngguósì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.4041,"lon":115.5797,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boye-jiecun-xingguo-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xingguo Temple Pagoda is a Tang-dynasty stone pagoda in Jiecun village, Boye County, listed as a national heritage unit in 2006. It stands in a quiet village on the plain and suits visitors tracing early Buddhist architecture around Baoding."},{"id":"laiyuan-xingwen-pagoda","name":"Xingwen Pagoda","name_zh":"兴文塔","pinyin":"Xīngwén Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3504,"lon":114.6906,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laiyuan-xingwen-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A five-tier octagonal pagoda of solid brick, built to imitate timber construction and about 21.5 metres high, in the east of Laiyuan town beside the springs that feed the Laishui River. County sources date it to 744 from an inscribed tablet and describe it as a feng shui pagoda paid for by craftsmen of a coin-casting workshop, while the national list dates the surviving structure to the Liao dynasty. Taishan Palace beside it hosts the town's biggest temple fair on the 18th day of the fourth lunar month."},{"id":"xiongan-suburban-park","name":"Xiong'an Suburban Park","name_zh":"雄安郊野公园","pinyin":"Xióng'ān Jiāoyě Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.0874,"lon":115.9104,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiongan-suburban-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xiong'an Suburban Park is a large planted-woodland park on the northern edge of the Xiong'an New Area, opened in 2021 and covering about 26,000 mu (roughly 17 square kilometres). It has fourteen themed gardens, one for each of Hebei's eleven prefecture-level cities plus Xiong'an, Dingzhou and Xinji, along with a forest animal park and family areas, and suits a relaxed day outdoors."},{"id":"quyang-xiude-temple-pagoda","name":"Xiude Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"修德寺塔","pinyin":"Xiūdé Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.6175,"lon":114.6892,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quyang-xiude-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tall octagonal brick pagoda about 32 metres high on the south-west side of Quyang town, the only part of Xiude Temple still standing. The present tower dates from 1019, although an inscription in its underground chamber traces a relic pagoda on the spot back to 601. Its second storey is covered in small niches, a style known as a 'flower pagoda', and some of the Buddhist statues found at the temple site are shown at the Beiyue Temple exhibition hall nearby."},{"id":"anguo-yaowang-temple","name":"Yaowang Temple, Anguo","name_zh":"安国药王庙","pinyin":"Ānguó Yàowáng Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.4058,"lon":115.3131,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anguo-yaowang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Medicine King Temple in Anguo, long known as northern China's herb-trading town, honours Pi Tong, a Han-dynasty general venerated as the god of medicine. Its origins are traced to the Eastern Han, and the present complex of about 3,200 square metres was laid out in the Yongle era (1403–24) around Pi Tong's tomb and extended in the Qing, with an archway, tomb pavilion, main hall, bell and drum towers and a hall of famous physicians. Temple fairs are traditionally held in spring and winter, peaking on the 28th day of the fourth lunar month and the 15th day of the tenth."},{"id":"laishui-yesanpo-national-park","name":"Yesanpo National Park","name_zh":"野三坡","pinyin":"Yěsānpō","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.6624,"lon":115.3911,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/laishui-yesanpo-national-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yesanpo is a mountain-and-river scenic area in Laishui County, where the Taihang and Yan ranges meet along the Juma River. Its best-known part is Baili Gorge, a series of narrow karst canyons with walkways and stairs, and the area also takes in river rafting, the Baicaopan forest reserve and a section of Great Wall at Longmen Gorge. It was badly damaged by the flooding of July–August 2023 and has since reopened."},{"id":"dingxing-yicihui-stone-pillar","name":"Yicihui Stone Pillar","name_zh":"义慈惠石柱","pinyin":"Yìcíhuì Shízhù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.3114,"lon":115.6619,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dingxing-yicihui-stone-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Yicihui Stone Pillar is a 7 m limestone pillar of the Northern Qi dynasty on a small mound in Shizhu village, set up as a memorial to the defeat of the Ge Rong uprising against the Northern Wei, at a mass grave of rebels where an earlier wooden post had stood. An octagonal shaft carries more than 4,000 characters of inscription explaining why it was raised, topped by a small three-bay stone house with carved eaves and Buddha figures, and a protective pavilion has stood over it since not long after 1956."},{"id":"yixian-yishui-lake","name":"Yishui Lake","name_zh":"易水湖","pinyin":"Yìshuǐ Hú","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.2857,"lon":115.209,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixian-yishui-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain reservoir south-west of Yi County, ringed by steep hills and usually seen from the water, with a waterside plank walkway along the cliffs of Laozi Peak. The lake takes its name from the Yi River, which features in the story of the assassin Jing Ke setting out for the state of Qin, and it pairs easily with nearby Taihang Water Town."},{"id":"zhuozhou-yongan-temple-pagoda","name":"Yong'an Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"永安寺塔","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.494,"lon":116.0898,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozhou-yongan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty pagoda on the edge of Tazhao village, the only part left of Yong'an Temple, whose other buildings were pulled down in 1952. It has been a national heritage unit since 2013. It is a quiet stop for visitors interested in Liao architecture, with no temple around it any more."},{"id":"zhuozhou-yongji-bridge","name":"Yongji Bridge, Zhuozhou","name_zh":"永济桥","pinyin":"Yǒngjì Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.5105,"lon":115.964,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhuozhou-yongji-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A long stone-arch bridge across the Juma River on the northern edge of Zhuozhou. The nine-arch main span was built in 1760 next to an earlier bridge begun in 1574, and long approach causeways with small culverts bring the whole structure to over 600 metres; its balustrades are carved with vases and lotus leaves. The bridge was repaired between 2008 and 2012 and now forms part of a riverside scenic area."},{"id":"laishui-yugu-cave","name":"Yugu Cave","name_zh":"鱼谷洞","pinyin":"Yúgǔ Dòng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.7607,"lon":115.4061,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laishui-yugu-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst cave and spring in the Yesanpo area of Laishui County, which the Baoding government describes as a geological attraction and summer retreat. A spring, the Yugu Spring, lies beside the cave. It is one of the visitor districts of Yesanpo, alongside Baili Gorge, Longmen Tianguan and Baicaopan."},{"id":"fuping-yunhua-valley","name":"Yunhua Valley","name_zh":"云花溪谷","pinyin":"Yúnhuā Xīgǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":38.792,"lon":114.0004,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuping-yunhua-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Taihang range in Fuping County, built around a forested valley with streams and rock formations. It is one of several scenic areas in Fuping, alongside Tianshengqiao Waterfalls and the Jin-Cha-Ji memorial. It suits a nature-focused day out for visitors already in the Fuping area."},{"id":"zhuozhou-twin-pagodas","name":"Zhuozhou Twin Pagodas","name_zh":"涿州双塔","pinyin":"Zhuōzhōu Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.4971,"lon":115.9661,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozhou-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Zhuozhou Twin Pagodas are two octagonal Liao-dynasty brick pagodas, built to imitate timber construction, standing a few hundred metres apart in the northern part of the old town: Zhidu Temple Pagoda to the south, about 44 m high, and Yunju Temple Pagoda to the north, about 56 m. Both have been national heritage units since 2001."},{"id":"yixian-zijingguan-pass","name":"Zijingguan Pass","name_zh":"紫荆关","pinyin":"Zǐjīngguān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Baoding","lat":39.4243,"lon":115.1667,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixian-zijingguan-pass/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zijingguan is one of the Great Wall's main passes, on the Juma River in Yi County, and with Juyongguan and Daomaguan it formed the 'Inner Three Passes' guarding the approaches to the capital region. It was fought over more than 140 times, and the Oirat Mongols broke through in 1449 after the Tumu Crisis; stretches of Ming wall and gates survive around Zijingguan village."},{"id":"botou-mosque","name":"Botou Mosque","name_zh":"泊头清真寺","pinyin":"Bótóu Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.0636,"lon":116.5627,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=botou-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque founded in 1404 under the Ming and enlarged in the Chongzhen era (1628–44), with more than twenty timber buildings in Chinese rather than domed style, split into a main mosque and a separate women's mosque. A two-storey call-to-prayer tower about 20 m high stands at the front, followed by a middle courtyard and the main prayer hall with its upswept eaves. Chinese sources describe it as the earliest and largest surviving mosque in Hebei."},{"id":"xianxian-dan-bridge","name":"Dan Bridge","name_zh":"单桥","pinyin":"Dānqiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.1397,"lon":116.1326,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianxian-dan-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A five-arch stone bridge begun in the late Ming, 69 m long and nearly 10 m wide, across an old course of the Hutuo River at Danqiao village; its arches differ in span, and the city describes it as a leading example of the Chinese multi-arch open-spandrel bridge. It was given its first large-scale repair in 2013–14 on a 'repair as before' basis, and the village around it has since been landscaped as a small scenic area."},{"id":"cangxian-dengying-bridge","name":"Dengying Bridge","name_zh":"登瀛桥","pinyin":"Dēngyíng Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.339,"lon":116.7294,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangxian-dengying-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-arch stone bridge, also called Dulin Bridge, built in 1594 and repaired in 1907 across an old course of the Hutuo River in the middle of Dulin town. Two small arches rise above the piers between the three main arches, the piers have triangular cutwaters, and the balustrade posts and panels carry carved monkeys, lions, qilin and story scenes. A stele of 1594 recording its construction stands beside it."},{"id":"hejian-guangming-theatre","name":"Guangming Theatre, Hejian","name_zh":"光明戏院","pinyin":"Guāngmíng Xìyuàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.4366,"lon":116.0888,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejian-guangming-theatre","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick-and-timber theatre of 1934, funded by five local families and modelled on the Dawutai theatre in Tianjin in a mixed Chinese and Western style, with a four-storey front, a relief 'Guangming' plaque and Baroque-style gables. Inside, a two-level auditorium with side boxes holds over a thousand people and faces a front and a rear stage. During the War of Resistance a number of important meetings of the Jizhong administrative office were held here."},{"id":"huanghua-haifengzhen-site","name":"Haifengzhen Ruins and Site Museum","name_zh":"海丰镇遗址","pinyin":"Hǎifēngzhèn Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.2959,"lon":117.5738,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanghua-haifengzhen-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Haifengzhen, a salt-trading port town of the Jin and Yuan dynasties, spread over about 228 hectares of farmland east of Huanghua and excavated since 2000. A site museum opened in 2019 shows finds in three sections, on the salt town, its trade and its place as the 'northern starting point of the Maritime Silk Road'; they include porcelain from kilns as far apart as Ding and Longquan. Walking paths and protective fencing have been laid around the unexcavated ground."},{"id":"xianxian-han-tombs","name":"Han Tombs in Xian County","name_zh":"献县汉墓群","pinyin":"Xiànxiàn Hànmùqún","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.1892,"lon":116.1713,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianxian-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of Han-dynasty burials east of Xian County town, the best known being the tomb of Liu De, Prince Xian of Hejian, a son of Emperor Jing remembered for reviving Confucian scholarship, with the tombs of later Han princes of Hejian nearby. The burial mound survives, and the county museum in Xian town devotes a gallery, 'Great Han Confucian Legacy', to the Hejian kingdom."},{"id":"hejian-prefectural-office","name":"Hejian Prefectural Government Office","name_zh":"河间府署","pinyin":"Héjiān Fǔshǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.4382,"lon":116.0862,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejian-prefectural-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The seat of Hejian prefecture, first set up in 1108 under the Northern Song and rebuilt on its original site in 2010–13 after standing in ruins for decades. The compound has more than 60 buildings and about 300 rooms in three rows along an axis, with the main hall, offices, residence, prison office and temples, and seven exhibition sections covering local history, official culture, intangible heritage and clean-governance culture. It suits a short visit together with the nearby Guangming Theatre."},{"id":"dongguang-iron-buddha-temple","name":"Iron Buddha Temple, Dongguang","name_zh":"东光铁佛寺","pinyin":"Dōngguāng Tiěfó Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":37.8752,"lon":116.5327,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongguang-iron-buddha-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in a park on the southern edge of Dongguang town, built around a seated cast-iron Shakyamuni in the main hall that the county gives as over 8 m high and 48 tonnes, and that the city government describes as the largest seated iron Buddha in China. The temple began as Puzhao Temple in the early Northern Song and holds 33 Buddha images in all; its gate plaque was written by the calligrapher and Buddhist leader Zhao Puchu. The park also has a lake, a Taoist temple on a mound called Erlanggang, a Mount Tai shrine and memorial halls to the Yuan dramatist Ma Zhiyuan and the Peking-opera performer Xun Huisheng, both linked to Dongguang."},{"id":"cangxian-iron-lion-old-city","name":"Iron Lion of Cangzhou","name_zh":"沧州铁狮子","pinyin":"Cāngzhōu Tiěshīzi","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.2061,"lon":117.016,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cangxian-iron-lion-old-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Cast in 953 under the Later Zhou, this hollow iron lion carries a lotus-shaped basin on its back and is among the oldest and largest surviving iron castings in China; accounts of its weight range from about 32 to 50 tonnes. It stands under a protective roof inside Jiuzhou, the old walled city of Cangzhou, where stretches of the Song-period earth wall can still be traced, and the Iron Lion and Old City Site Park around it has an exhibition hall, a folk-culture hall and the site of an iron-coin storehouse. A replica poured in 2010 and completed in 2011, about a third larger, stands in Lion City Park in Cangzhou itself."},{"id":"cangxian-jiedi-diversion-sluice","name":"Jiedi Flood-Diversion Sluice","name_zh":"捷地分洪设施","pinyin":"Jiédì Fēnhóng Shèshī","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.2496,"lon":116.8489,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangxian-jiedi-diversion-sluice","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flood-control complex where the South Canal meets the Jiedi relief channel, one of the Hebei parts of the Grand Canal protected as a national monument. A diversion sluice has stood here since 1490; the present eight-bay sluice dates from 1933, and the provincial heritage bureau says its German Siemens hoists still work. Stone pavilions beside it shelter an imperial stele of 1771 carrying a poem by the Qianlong Emperor on the works, and a Qing notice of 1872 setting out eight rules for maintaining the canal and relief-channel embankments, in a garden laid out as the Imperial Stele Garden."},{"id":"huanghua-juguan-jujube-garden","name":"Juguan Ancient Tribute Jujube Garden","name_zh":"聚馆古贡枣园","pinyin":"Jùguǎn Gǔgòng Zǎoyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.6241,"lon":117.2138,"category":"nature","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanghua-juguan-jujube-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An orchard of about 1,000 mu (roughly 66 hectares) of winter jujube trees at Juguan village that supplied fruit to the Ming and Qing courts. It holds 198 trees put at more than 600 years old and 1,067 more than a century old, and the Huanghua museum says it is the only plant population in China protected as a national cultural relic. The fruit ripens in autumn, and a wooden fence marking the protected boundary and a rebuilt guard house were added in 2018–19."},{"id":"qingxian-machang-battery","name":"Machang Battery","name_zh":"马厂炮台","pinyin":"Mǎchǎng Pàotái","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.6762,"lon":116.8594,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxian-machang-battery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A late-Qing earth fort beside the Grand Canal, begun in 1871 when Li Hongzhang moved two battalions of the Huai Army here to guard the canal; the camp had 14 batteries on the two banks. What survives is a circular central battery of three stacked tiers with a hidden passage, a crescent-shaped battery beside it, earth platforms of the other batteries and stretches of the camp wall."},{"id":"cangzhou-nandagang-wetland","name":"Nandagang Wetland","name_zh":"南大港湿地","pinyin":"Nándàgǎng Shīdì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.4808,"lon":117.4464,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangzhou-nandagang-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A coastal marsh on the west shore of the Bohai Sea, about 90 per cent covered by reed beds, with open water, meadow and salt-tolerant plants. Experts have recorded 268 bird species here, including red-crowned and white cranes, swans, spoonbills and oriental storks, and there are observation platforms for watching them. The best times are the spring and autumn migrations, and the wetland was added in 2024 to the UNESCO World Heritage listing for the Yellow Sea and Bohai Gulf migratory bird habitats."},{"id":"cangxian-ji-xiaolan-tomb","name":"Tomb of Ji Xiaolan","name_zh":"纪晓岚墓地","pinyin":"Jǐ Xiǎolán Mùdì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":38.2562,"lon":116.5251,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangxian-ji-xiaolan-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The shared grave of Ji Yun (1724–1805), better known as Ji Xiaolan, the Qing scholar who was chief editor of the Siku Quanshu, and his wife; it is an earth mound with a stele granted by the Jiaqing Emperor. Beside it the county opened the China Grand Canal Ji Xiaolan Cultural Park in 2023, with a tomb garden, an exhibition hall on his life and two themed gardens, Yuewei and Siku."},{"id":"wuqiao-acrobatics-world","name":"Wuqiao Acrobatics World","name_zh":"吴桥杂技大世界","pinyin":"Wúqiáo Zájì Dàshìjiè","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":37.6399,"lon":116.3801,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuqiao-acrobatics-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A performance park opened in 1993 in Wuqiao, the county known as the home of Chinese acrobatics, covering about 36 hectares. Its main attraction is the Jianghu Culture City, a walled street recreating the market scenes of early 20th-century Wuqiao, where performers stage stunts, hard-qigong feats and magic; the park also has an acrobatics museum, theatres, a 'comic zoo' and a circus amusement area. It is a commercial attraction, so expect staged entertainment rather than a historic site."},{"id":"dongguang-xiejiaba-canal-dam","name":"Xiejiaba Dam","name_zh":"连镇谢家坝","pinyin":"Liánzhèn Xièjiābà","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Cangzhou","lat":37.7985,"lon":116.4665,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongguang-xiejiaba-canal-dam","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rammed-earth flood dam on the east bank of the South Canal at Lianzhen, built in the late Qing from layers of lime-soil bound with glutinous-rice mortar. It is 218 m long, 3.6 m thick and 5 m high, one of only two such dams left on the Hebei stretch of the canal, and the only World Heritage point on the Cangzhou section. A water-engineering exhibition hall opened nearby in 2021, and conservation repairs on the dam began in 2024."},{"id":"chengde-anyuan-temple","name":"Anyuan Temple","name_zh":"安远庙","pinyin":"Ānyuǎn Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.0025,"lon":117.9519,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengde-anyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing temple of 1764 on a hill east of the Wulie River, built for the Dashidawa, an Oirat Mongol group resettled at Rehe, and modelled on the Gurzha Temple beside the Ili River in Xinjiang, which gave it the nickname Yili Temple. The main building, the Pudu Hall, is about 27 m high and has a roof of black glazed tiles, said to guard against the fire that destroyed the original. The temple was restored in the 1980s and again in 2011."},{"id":"chengde-county-bancheng-liquor-park","name":"Bancheng Liquor Museum Park, Chengde County","name_zh":"板城酒博园","pinyin":"Bǎnchéng Jiǔbóyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.7869,"lon":118.1952,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengde-county-bancheng-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A distillery-based tourist park run by the Bancheng liquor company in Xiabancheng, the seat of Chengde County. It combines liquor-culture displays, viewing of the brewing process and hands-on experiences, and its museum holds more than 2,000 exhibits, including a 1:4 enlarged replica of a Jin-dynasty still excavated in 1975. It has also been named a national study-tour base and is used for school groups."},{"id":"fengning-china-horse-town","name":"China Horse Town (Mazhen), Fengning","name_zh":"中国马镇","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Mǎzhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.5908,"lon":116.0105,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengning-china-horse-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern resort town on the Bashang plateau in northern Fengning, themed on horse culture and built around staged performances. By day it stages a dancing-horse show and a live drama, 'Zhao Zilong, God of War', in a Shangdu-themed set that visitors can walk through, and evenings bring bonfire gatherings and fire shows. It suits families and groups on a grassland trip who want shows and activities rather than open landscape."},{"id":"chengde-city-god-temple","name":"City God Temple, Chengde","name_zh":"承德城隍庙","pinyin":"Chéngdé Chénghuángmiào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.9855,"lon":117.9192,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengde-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty temple to the city god in the old Erdao Pailou quarter of Chengde, a short way west of the Mountain Resort, listed as a national heritage site in 2006. The quarter's 2021–2035 conservation plan calls for repairs to the temple and encourages cultural displays and folk-custom activities in its heritage buildings. It is run as a small A-level tourist site and suits visitors with spare time in the old town rather than as a main stop."},{"id":"chengde-dingsheng-cultural-park","name":"Dingsheng Cultural Industry Park","name_zh":"鼎盛文化产业园","pinyin":"Dǐngshèng Wénhuà Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.9773,"lon":117.8345,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengde-dingsheng-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern cultural-tourism complex at the foot of Yuanbao Hill in Shuangluan District, built around an evening outdoor drama and an old-style shopping street. The show, 'Dingsheng Dynasty: the Kangxi Ceremony', uses the hillside as its backdrop, with hundreds of performers and several horses staging scenes of the Mulan hunt, court ritual and southern China, and local media report more than 2,700 performances and over 4.3 million visitors. Yuanbao Street below has craft stalls, snacks and costumed street performances, and the park suits families and groups who want an evening show."},{"id":"longhua-dong-cunrui-memorial","name":"Dong Cunrui Martyrs' Cemetery and Memorial Hall","name_zh":"董存瑞烈士陵园","pinyin":"Dǒng Cúnruì Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.3225,"lon":117.724,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhua-dong-cunrui-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park in the town of Longhua for Dong Cunrui, a People's Liberation Army soldier who died in May 1948 detonating an explosive charge at a Nationalist bunker during the fighting at Longhua, and who was later widely publicised as a model soldier. Laid out from 1954 on about 9 ha, it has a memorial arch, a granite monument, a statue of Dong, his tomb, inscription corridors and a memorial hall rebuilt in 2008, with the site of his death about 200 m outside the park. It is a national patriotic education base and was listed among China's classic red-tourism scenic areas in 2004."},{"id":"fengning-great-khan-palace","name":"Great Khan's Palace, Fengning","name_zh":"大汗行宫","pinyin":"Dàhàn Xínggōng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.63,"lon":115.9416,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengning-great-khan-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern themed complex on the Bashang grassland in northern Fengning that sets out to recreate a Mongol-Yuan court, with palace-style halls and yurt-style buildings laid out across the plain. Chengde officials describe it as an immersive recreation of Mongol-Yuan history, and visitors can ride horses and try traditional archery. It is a new-built attraction rather than a historic palace, and suits families and groups touring the grassland."},{"id":"fengning-fengshan-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Fengshan","name_zh":"凤山关帝庙","pinyin":"Fèngshān Guāndì Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.2277,"lon":117.1955,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengning-fengshan-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty temple to Guan Yu, the god of war and loyalty, in the old town of Fengshan, the former county seat of Fengning, listed as a national heritage site in 2013. The compound has an ornamental archway, a main hall and an opera stage protected as part of the same group, and repairs have been phased since 2020; the temple fair is on Chengde's list of intangible heritage. It suits visitors interested in old market-town architecture."},{"id":"weichang-mulan-imperial-steles","name":"Imperial Steles and Cliff Inscription of the Mulan Hunting Ground","name_zh":"木兰围场御制碑、摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Mùlán Wéichǎng Yùzhì Bēi, Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.7096,"lon":117.8515,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weichang-mulan-imperial-steles","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Seven Qing imperial steles (six by the Qianlong Emperor and one by the Jiaqing Emperor) and a cliff inscription recording a tiger killed in the 1752 hunt, all tied to the Mulan autumn hunt in the imperial hunting ground centred on today's Weichang County. Some are carved in Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan, and many were damaged in the 20th century and have been pieced together and re-erected in recent decades. One pair stands at Miaogong village, where the Qianlong stele \"Composed on Entering the Pass\" and the Jiaqing \"Record of Mulan\" face each other across the Yixun River."},{"id":"kuancheng-panlong-lake","name":"Panlong Lake, Kuancheng","name_zh":"蟠龙湖","pinyin":"Pánlóng Hú","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.4371,"lon":118.3419,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuancheng-panlong-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large lake in the hills of Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County where the Great Wall runs down into the water, so that stretches of wall can be seen under the surface in clear conditions. Boats run along the cliff-lined shore to see this 'underwater Great Wall', and the lake also has kayaks and motorboats and is one of the national rowing team's training bases. It suits a half-day outing on the water, and local routes link it with the Xifengkou Great Wall."},{"id":"chengde-pule-temple","name":"Pule Temple","name_zh":"普乐寺","pinyin":"Pǔlè Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.9961,"lon":117.9554,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengde-pule-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing temple built in 1766–67 on a rise east of the Wulie River, with a Chinese-style front half and a Tibetan-style rear half. The rear is dominated by the Xuguang Pavilion, a round double-eaved hall about 23 m high standing on a three-tier terrace, with a large wooden mandala and a bronze double-figure Samvara inside. Unlike most of its neighbours it never had resident monks and was run by the Imperial Household Department."},{"id":"chengde-puning-temple","name":"Puning Temple","name_zh":"普宁寺","pinyin":"Pǔníng Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.0147,"lon":117.9462,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengde-puning-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing imperial temple built in 1755–59 after the Qing campaign against the Dzungar Mongols, nicknamed the Big Buddha Temple. Its front half follows a Chinese seven-hall plan, while the rear half is a Tibetan-style mandala modelled on Samye Monastery in Tibet, centred on the Mahayana Hall, which holds a gilded wooden Guanyin with a thousand arms and eyes that stands more than 20 m high. It is still a working Buddhist temple, and the adjoining Puyou Temple, built in 1760 as a monastic college and now displaying carved wooden arhat statues, is reached through a door inside it."},{"id":"chengde-puren-temple","name":"Puren Temple","name_zh":"溥仁寺","pinyin":"Pǔrén Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.9912,"lon":117.9509,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengde-puren-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in 1713 at the request of Mongol princes who came to celebrate the Kangxi Emperor's 60th birthday, this is the earliest of the Eight Outer Temples and the only surviving temple at Chengde from Kangxi's reign. It follows the Chinese seven-hall plan, with a gate, a Hall of Heavenly Kings, a main hall and a rear hall, while its sister temple Pushan, to the north, survives only as foundations."},{"id":"chengde-putuo-zongcheng-temple","name":"Putuo Zongcheng Temple","name_zh":"普陀宗乘之庙","pinyin":"Pǔtuó Zōngchéng Zhī Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.0116,"lon":117.9277,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengde-putuo-zongcheng-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A vast Qing imperial temple built in 1767–71 on a mountain slope and modelled on the Potala Palace in Lhasa, which earned it the nickname Little Potala; it is the largest of the Eight Outer Temples. Its core is the Great Red Terrace, a red block about 25 m high, with the Wanfa Guiyi Hall, roofed in gilded copper tiles, at its centre. The stele pavilion near the entrance carries inscriptions recording the return of the Torghut Mongols and their submission to the Qing."},{"id":"fengning-qicai-forest","name":"Qicai Forest, Fengning","name_zh":"七彩森林","pinyin":"Qīcǎi Sēnlín","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.5951,"lon":116.1238,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengning-qicai-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest holiday park on the Bashang plateau in northern Fengning, built on state forest-farm land around a lake, white-birch woods and wooden boardwalks. Visitors ride a sightseeing miniature train through the trees, walk boardwalks over wetland and visit an animal farm and pet park. County and city officials present it as a summer outing for families, and it is usually combined with nearby China Horse Town."},{"id":"chengde-qingchui-peak-forest-park","name":"Qingchui Peak National Forest Park","name_zh":"磬锤峰国家森林公园","pinyin":"Qìngchuí Fēng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.9971,"lon":117.972,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengde-qingchui-peak-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park on the hills east of Chengde's centre, named for Qingchui Peak, a tall hammer-shaped rock pillar (also called Bangchui Mountain, 'club mountain') above the Wulie River. A cable car and footpaths climb the slope to viewing platforms over the city and the river, and local media describe the red rock walls as Danxia-type and a favourite for autumn colour. The peak is mentioned in the Shuijing zhu, a 6th-century geography, and the Mountain Resort's garden is described as borrowing it as a distant view."},{"id":"luanping-rehe-herbal-flower-town","name":"Rehe Chinese Herbal Flower Town","name_zh":"热河中药花海小镇","pinyin":"Rèhé Zhōngyào Huāhǎi Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.0204,"lon":117.4689,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanping-rehe-herbal-flower-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A herb-growing farm and ecological study park on terraced hillsides in Xiayingzi village, Jingoutun town, in the Yan Mountains of Luanping County. It grows over 120 kinds of medicinal plants, with skullcap on about 100 hectares, and has walking trails, a medicinal-plant exhibition hall, a study classroom and a hands-on herb centre; the herbs flower from early summer. Hebei named it a provincial biodiversity experience site in 2026, and it receives school study groups as well as day-trippers."},{"id":"weichang-saihanba-forest-park","name":"Saihanba National Forest Park","name_zh":"塞罕坝国家森林公园","pinyin":"Sàihǎnbà Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":42.4066,"lon":117.2517,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weichang-saihanba-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A planted-forest park on the high Saihanba plateau in northern Weichang County, once part of the Qing dynasty's Mulan imperial hunting ground. Farming and logging had stripped the land bare before a state forest farm began replanting it in 1962 with a founding team of 369 people; today there are larch and spruce plantations, lakes, grassland, forest walks and an exhibition hall at the farm's headquarters town. The planters won the UN Environment Programme's Champions of the Earth award in 2017, and a 2023 report put the part of the farm open to visitors at about 1.35 per cent of its area."},{"id":"pingquan-shanzhuang-laojiu-liquor-park","name":"Shanzhuang Laojiu Liquor Culture Park, Pingquan","name_zh":"山庄老酒文化产业园","pinyin":"Shānzhuāng Lǎojiǔ Wénhuà Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.0026,"lon":118.6959,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingquan-shanzhuang-laojiu-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working distillery estate on the edge of Pingquan city that is open as a tourist site, centred on the China Royal Liquor Culture Plaza. Its buildings are modelled on ancient wine vessels (the office block on a four-ram bronze zun, the museum on a winged cup), and it has a liquor museum with more than 500 wine vessels, a technology museum, cellars over 300 years old and a production viewing area. The museum says the Kangxi Emperor gave the 'Shanzhuang Laojiu' name after a banquet at the Mountain Resort in 1703, and the park suits visitors curious about baijiu, the Chinese grain spirit."},{"id":"chengde-shuangta-mountain","name":"Shuangta Mountain","name_zh":"双塔山","pinyin":"Shuāngtǎ Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.9574,"lon":117.799,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengde-shuangta-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two tall rock pillars rise side by side beside the Luan River on the western edge of Chengde city, in Shuangluan District. Local media describe a Danxia-type landscape of rock peaks and woods, with a cable car between the peaks, stone steps and footpaths, and a feeding platform for a troop of monkeys. It suits a short climb or ropeway outing from the city."},{"id":"chengde-shuxiang-temple","name":"Shuxiang Temple, Chengde","name_zh":"殊像寺","pinyin":"Shūxiàng Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.0124,"lon":117.9191,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengde-shuxiang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing temple built in 1774–75 on the slope north of the Mountain Resort, dedicated to Manjusri and modelled on the Shuxiang Temple at Mount Wutai in Shanxi. It is a Chinese-style temple with a rockery garden meant to evoke Wutai, and its Baoxiang Pavilion is described as housing a wooden Manjusri on a lion about 11.6 m high. The Qing court used it as a favourite family temple, with Manchu lamas in residence."},{"id":"chengde-county-tangjiawan","name":"Tangjiawan Scenic Area, Chengde County","name_zh":"唐家湾","pinyin":"Tángjiāwān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.9844,"lon":118.1396,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengde-county-tangjiawan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A resort area in Cangzi township, Chengde County, built around red Danxia sandstone peaks, Tianmen Lake and a hot spring. Local media count more than 20 Danxia peaks and ridges, with hiking routes through Qingliang Valley and Tianmen Mountain, a children's play area, a lodge and a fluoride spring, and the area was upgraded in 2026 with new lawns, photo spots and costumed actors. It suits families and short stays from Chengde and nearby cities."},{"id":"xinglong-karst-cave","name":"Xinglong Karst Cave","name_zh":"兴隆溶洞","pinyin":"Xīnglóng Róngdòng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.487,"lon":117.489,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinglong-karst-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A show cave in the Yan Mountains of Xinglong County, in Taojiatai village in the foothills south of Wuling Mountain. Local state media report three chambers covering more than 4,000 square metres with eight side passages and some 59 kinds of formation, including stalactites, stalagmites, columns and a soda straw about 4.35 m long, and a summer temperature of around 10 degrees Celsius. It suits a cool short stop on a Xinglong County trip, alongside Wuling Mountain Nature Reserve further north."},{"id":"xinglong-xinglongshan-scenic-area","name":"Xinglong Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"兴隆山","pinyin":"Xīnglóng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":40.4804,"lon":117.8432,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinglong-xinglongshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill-country scenic area in the Yan Mountains of Xinglong County, with steep rock peaks, dense forest, streams and cliff-side plank walkways, plus a vertical lift up one cliff face. Local media describe a gently graded path network that older visitors and children can manage, named rock features such as Wanfo Cliff, and sea-of-cloud views. It sits beside Shishangzhuang, a village known for its poets, and local media say its forest was protected from felling for about 250 years under a feng shui ban."},{"id":"chengde-xumi-fushou-temple","name":"Xumi Fushou Temple","name_zh":"须弥福寿之庙","pinyin":"Xūmí Fúshòu Zhī Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":41.0089,"lon":117.9359,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengde-xumi-fushou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing temple built in 1780 as a residence for the 6th Panchen Lama, who came to Chengde for the Qianlong Emperor's 70th birthday, and modelled on Tashilunpo Monastery in Shigatse. Its main block is the Great Red Terrace, whose central Miaogao Zhuangyan Hall has a roof of gilded copper tiles with eight gilded dragons, and a seven-storey glazed-tile pagoda stands at the rear. It lies next to Putuo Zongcheng Temple, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"weichang-yudaokou-grassland-forest","name":"Yudaokou Grassland and Forest Scenic Area","name_zh":"御道口草原森林风景区","pinyin":"Yùdàokǒu Cǎoyuán Sēnlín Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Chengde","lat":42.2735,"lon":117.0912,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weichang-yudaokou-grassland-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large state-farm landscape on the Bashang plateau in northern Weichang County, once part of the Qing imperial Mulan hunting ground, where the Kangxi Emperor drilled troops at the mouth of the Ruyi River. It lies at roughly 1,230–1,820 m and combines open grassland, birch and planted forest and many lakes, among them Moon Lake, Sun Lake and Taoshan Lake, and it borders the Saihanba forest area. It suits a summer day of driving and walking through open country rather than a visit to a single sight."},{"id":"jize-shijing-culture-park","name":"Book of Songs Culture Park, Jize","name_zh":"诗经文化园","pinyin":"Shījīng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.9055,"lon":114.895,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jize-shijing-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped culture park in Jize county town named for the Book of Songs, the ancient poetry anthology whose surviving text is the version annotated by Mao Heng and Mao Chang, scholars that the Jize gazetteer counts as locals. The county government promotes it as a local leisure spot, and its media reported costume-style 'national style' shows and an intangible-heritage acrobatics programme there over the October 2026 holiday. It suits a short stop in Jize rather than a trip of its own."},{"id":"wuan-changshou-village","name":"Changshou Village Scenic Area, Wu'an","name_zh":"长寿村","pinyin":"Chángshòu Cūn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.9932,"lon":113.8394,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-changshou-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain village in Huoshui township, in the Taihang Mountains of western Wu'an, run as a scenic area for rest and health holidays, with guesthouses in converted village houses. It suits a quiet countryside weekend rather than a sightseeing checklist."},{"id":"wuan-chaoyanggou","name":"Chaoyanggou, Wu'an","name_zh":"朝阳沟","pinyin":"Cháoyánggōu","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.9168,"lon":113.7883,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-chaoyanggou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded valley scenic area in the Taihang Mountains of north-west Wu'an, themed on the Henan opera Chaoyanggou, a 1958 play about an urban student who settles in a mountain village, and on rural 'educated youth' culture. Its museum, open since 2003, has nine exhibition areas, including one on the opera's author Yang Lanchun and others set out as a production team, a village school and the homes of characters from the play. It suits visitors interested in the opera or in rural-themed heritage, with mountain scenery around the village."},{"id":"shexian-chengtang-temple-gate","name":"Chengtang Temple Gate, She County","name_zh":"成汤庙山门","pinyin":"Chéngtāng Miào Shānmén","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6114,"lon":113.7403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-chengtang-temple-gate","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving gate hall of Chengtang Temple in Jingdian village, built in 1164 under the Jin dynasty and repaired in 1555. It is three bays wide, with a single-eave hanging-gable roof edged in glazed tiles, an open timber roof frame and bracket sets with double lower ang under the front and rear eaves. Inscriptions on the octagonal stone pillars include one describing local damage from an earthquake in the Kangxi reign, and about a dozen stelae stand with it."},{"id":"wuan-cishan-site","name":"Cishan Site","name_zh":"磁山遗址","pinyin":"Císhān Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5756,"lon":114.118,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-cishan-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The type site of the Cishan culture, an early Neolithic farming culture, found in 1972 during irrigation work on the north bank of the Nanming river; its earliest layers have been dated to about 8,000 years ago. Excavations since 1976 uncovered house foundations, ash pits and grain-storage pits, with millet, the bones of domestic animals, mainly dogs and pigs and probably chickens, and more than 5,000 pottery, stone and bone objects. The visit centres on the Cishan Culture Museum beside the site, which also has a study centre and a small park."},{"id":"cixian-northern-dynasties-tombs","name":"Cixian Northern Dynasties Tombs","name_zh":"磁县北朝墓群","pinyin":"Cíxiàn Běicháo Mùqún","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.3956,"lon":114.3426,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cixian-northern-dynasties-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cluster of 134 burial mounds of Eastern Wei and Northern Qi rulers, nobles and officials, spread over the countryside south and south-west of Cixian town; 19 have been excavated, among them the tombs of Gao Run, of a Rouran princess and of the Wanzhang village tomb numbered 106. The finds are shown at the Northern Dynasties Archaeology Museum in Cixian, which holds about 3,000 objects, mostly from these tombs, including pottery figurines, porcelain, murals, tomb inscriptions and gold and silver ware. Two stone steles of the period still stand above ground among the mounds."},{"id":"fengfeng-cizhou-kiln-site","name":"Cizhou Kiln Site","name_zh":"磁州窑遗址","pinyin":"Cízhōuyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.4212,"lon":114.1806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengfeng-cizhou-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The kilns around Pengcheng and Guantai made the white-slipped, black-painted stoneware known as Cizhou ware, from the late Northern Dynasties into the Republican period, and the site has been a national heritage unit since 1996. At Pengcheng, in Fengfeng Mining District, two kiln-site museums can be visited: Futian, with ten old kilns, five workshops, wells and clay-processing pits, and Yandian, with a Republican-era kiln, cave workshops, an excavated Yuan-dynasty kiln and demonstrations of the traditional firing process. It suits those interested in ceramics."},{"id":"feixiang-congtai-liquor-garden","name":"Congtai Liquor Garden","name_zh":"丛台酒苑","pinyin":"Cóngtái Jiǔyuàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5737,"lon":114.7268,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feixiang-congtai-liquor-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A visitor park at the Congtai liquor distillery in Feixiang's economic development zone, built around a museum in Warring States and Han style with some 13,800 m² of floor space. The museum was set up in 2015 and has six sections on the origins of Chinese baijiu, the long history of brewing around Handan and the growth of the Zhenyuanzeng distillery, the present company's predecessor. It is a corporate attraction that mainly suits visitors curious about baijiu."},{"id":"handan-congtai-park","name":"Congtai Park","name_zh":"丛台公园","pinyin":"Cóngtái Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6163,"lon":114.4846,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/handan-congtai-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A city park in the middle of Handan, first planned in 1939 to protect the Wuling Congtai, a terraced tower traditionally linked to King Wuling of Zhao in the Warring States period. The three-storey tower, about 26 m high, dates from the Qing dynasty and has been restored since; it stands beside a lake in grounds of roughly 25 hectares that also hold a plum garden and a shrine to seven sages, with a stele carved with a poem written by Guo Moruo in 1961 outside the main gate. It is a convenient stop for anyone interested in Handan's history as the Zhao state's capital."},{"id":"daming-ancient-city","name":"Daming Ancient City","name_zh":"大名古城","pinyin":"Dàmíng Gǔchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.2836,"lon":115.1448,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daming-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled county town of Daming, rebuilt in 1401 on the north bank of the Wei River after floods destroyed the Song-era city to the north-east, with walls about 4.5 km round and four gates. The north gate has a tower, and inside the walls are four main streets, eight lesser streets and some seventy lanes, which the county has been developing for tourism. Daming is best known to Chinese readers from the novel Water Margin, where it features in nineteen chapters, and is also known for its straw weaving and traditional snacks."},{"id":"daming-stone-carving-museum","name":"Daming Stone Carving Museum","name_zh":"大名县石刻博物馆","pinyin":"Dàmíng Xiàn Shíkè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.288,"lon":115.1869,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daming-stone-carving-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum of more than a hundred stone steles, epitaphs and carvings collected around Daming, housed in a hall on the eastern edge of the town. Its best-known piece is the Wuliji Stele, which the museum describes as the largest ancient stele in China, shown with the epitaph of He Hongjing, a stele carved with Zhu Xi's calligraphy and Ming-dynasty memorial inscriptions. It suits visitors interested in Chinese calligraphy and inscriptions."},{"id":"wuan-dongshan-culture-park","name":"Dongshan Culture and Arts Park, Wu'an","name_zh":"东山文化博艺园","pinyin":"Dōngshān Wénhuà Bóyì Yuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.7089,"lon":114.2399,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-dongshan-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped park on the east side of Wu'an, laid out in 2003 on about 500 mu (roughly 33 ha) with pavilions, bridges and ponds, and divided into seven zones that include geology, plants and folk-culture areas. Its main draw is the Wu'an Museum, opened in 2019 inside converted park buildings, whose seven halls include ancient history, the local ironmaking industry, intangible heritage and the revolutionary period. It suits a relaxed half-day out that mixes a municipal museum with general park leisure."},{"id":"wuan-east-taihang","name":"East Taihang Scenic Area","name_zh":"东太行","pinyin":"Dōng Tàiháng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.9473,"lon":113.9067,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-east-taihang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area on the eastern side of the Taihang range in north-west Wu'an, with a planned area of about 26 square kilometres and a highest point of 1,428 m at North Peak. Its landscape of red cliffs and gorges is classed as Zhangshiyan landform, and the area has a via ferrata (cliff-climbing) route on the rock face. It suits a day out from Wu'an or Handan for views and walking."},{"id":"shexian-129th-division-headquarters","name":"Eighth Route Army 129th Division Headquarters","name_zh":"八路军一二九师司令部旧址","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Yī'èrjiǔ Shī Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5869,"lon":113.6291,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-129th-division-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chi'an village in Henandian township was the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army's 129th Division under Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping during the war against Japan, and it is now a memorial complex. The headquarters consists of three northern-style courtyards, including the former Liu and Deng residence, and the complex also has an exhibition hall on the division's history and General's Ridge, a hillside where the ashes of Liu Bocheng, Xu Xiangqian and other senior officers of the division are interred. It is a red-tourism site, and the courtyards, hall and ridge together take about half a day."},{"id":"wuan-fahuadong-grottoes","name":"Fahuadong Grottoes, Wu'an","name_zh":"法华洞石窟","pinyin":"Fǎhuádòng Shíkū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6703,"lon":113.98,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-fahuadong-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Song-dynasty cave temple in a hollow of Fahua Hill, north-east of Qingyansi village in the hills west of Wu'an, cut in 982 and added to in the Ming and Qing periods. Three caves lie side by side: the main central cave, about 7 m deep, carries more than 500 relief figures, mostly arhats, with a thousand-armed Guanyin on one wall, and the right-hand cave is a natural cave. Official descriptions note that the figures combine Central Plains Buddhist style with Tantric Tibetan Buddhist elements and mix Buddhist and Daoist features."},{"id":"guantao-grain-painting-town","name":"Grain Painting Town, Guantao","name_zh":"粮画小镇","pinyin":"Liánghuà Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5482,"lon":115.218,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guantao-grain-painting-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tourist village on the west side of Guantao, developed since 2014 from a poor village into a showcase 'beautiful village' planned over 3.7 square kilometres and organised as four adjoining village communities. Its streets of grey-roofed, white-walled houses have cafés, grain-painting workshops, a small cinema and restaurants, and more than 20 hands-on craft workshops cover grain painting, gourds, black pottery and cloth painting. It also has over 20 themed guesthouses and a hot-spring bathing facility, and suits families and short rural breaks rather than history."},{"id":"wuan-gu-wudang-mountain","name":"Gu Wudang Mountain","name_zh":"古武当山","pinyin":"Gǔ Wǔdāng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.958,"lon":113.9454,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-gu-wudang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Taihang range north-west of Wu'an, whose main summit, the Golden Peak, rises above 1,400 m. It has a cable car, plank walkways and a high footbridge, and since September 2023 it has also run night climbs to see the lit-up summit and the sunrise. A temple stele is said to record the mountain as Wudang Mountain from the Tang dynasty at the latest, which the scenic area cites to claim that its name is older than that of Hubei's better-known Wudang Mountain."},{"id":"yongnian-guangfu-ancient-city","name":"Guangfu Ancient City","name_zh":"广府古城","pinyin":"Guǎngfǔ Gǔchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.7013,"lon":114.7303,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongnian-guangfu-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled Ming-dynasty prefectural city on a peninsula in the Yongnian wetland, with a moat outside walls about 4.5 km round that were rebuilt in brick from 1542. It is the home town of Yang Luchan and Wu Yuxiang, founders of the Yang and Wu styles of tai chi, and their former residences are among the sights, along with Ming and Qing courtyard houses. The old streets follow a grid of four main streets and eight smaller ones."},{"id":"handan-garden-expo-park","name":"Handan Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"邯郸园博园","pinyin":"Hándān Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6292,"lon":114.4088,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=handan-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large landscaped park on the western edge of Handan, laid out for the 2020 Hebei Garden Expo on land that had held foundries, steel-slag works and construction-waste dumps. It has gardens for 13 Hebei cities, lakes lit up in the evening, industrial tanks left by a stone-crushing plant converted into a climbing wall, a petting zoo with peacocks and alpacas, and a children's play area. It suits families and relaxed outings rather than historic sightseeing."},{"id":"shexian-hanwang-jiuzhai","name":"Hanwang Jiuzhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"韩王九寨","pinyin":"Hánwáng Jiǔzhài","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5242,"lon":113.6897,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-hanwang-jiuzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Taihang foothills south of She County town, in the Qingzhang River area, themed in part on the Han general Han Xin, with a 'Han King Valley', re-created 'Qin' and 'Han' stockade settings, hiking routes to summit viewpoints and mountain camping. In autumn colourful rice-paddy art is laid out across the valley below, and a new walking route to the summit, themed on Han Xin mustering troops, opened in spring 2026. It makes a half-day stop in a county that also has Nüwa Palace and the Eighth Route Army's 129th Division sites."},{"id":"wuan-jiujiang-holy-mother-temple","name":"Holy Mother Temple, Jiujiang","name_zh":"九江圣母庙","pinyin":"Jiǔjiāng Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.8173,"lon":113.8486,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-jiujiang-holy-mother-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple compound on the slope above Guantao village, in the hills north-west of Wu'an, dedicated to the Holy Mother (Shengmu). Its buildings date from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties, and it has been a national protected site since 2013. It is a quiet rural temple that suits a short stop for those interested in village temples of the Taihang foothills."},{"id":"yongnian-hongji-bridge","name":"Hongji Bridge","name_zh":"弘济桥","pinyin":"Hóngjì Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.704,"lon":114.7583,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongnian-hongji-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty stone arch bridge over the Fuyang River at Dongqiao village, with a single main arch spanning 31.88 m and open spandrels, similar in form to the Zhaozhou Bridge. The deck is 48.9 m long and 6.82 m wide, the arch is made of 18 parallel rings bound with iron cramps, and the arch faces and balustrades are carved with dragons, a phoenix, a flying horse, lions and monkeys. An inscription on the central balustrade is dated to the tenth year of the Wanli reign (1582)."},{"id":"handan-huangliangmeng-luxian-temple","name":"Huangliangmeng Lüxian Temple","name_zh":"黄粱梦吕仙祠","pinyin":"Huángliángmèng Lǚxiān Cí","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6805,"lon":114.4868,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/handan-huangliangmeng-luxian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Daoist temple complex north of Handan built around the Tang-dynasty tale of the Yellow Millet Dream, in which the scholar Lu Sheng naps on a pillow at an inn while millet steams and lives a whole career in his dream, only to wake before the meal is cooked. The main axis runs through a lotus pond, an octagonal pavilion and bell and drum towers to halls for the immortals Zhongli and Lü Dongbin and to a hall with a reclining figure of Lu Sheng, and more than thirty stone tablets record repairs, visitors' inscriptions and poems. Most surviving buildings date from the Ming and Qing periods."},{"id":"shexian-border-region-government-site","name":"Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region Government Site","name_zh":"晋冀鲁豫边区政府旧址","pinyin":"Jìnjìlǔyù Biānqū Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6172,"lon":113.6205,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-border-region-government-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The courtyards in Tanyin village, Suobao township, where the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region Government worked between 1942 and 1945, during the war against Japan. Eight courtyards make up the site, among them the government offices with a main hall and an opera stage, the high court, two canteens, a granary yard and the homes of officials including the chairman Yang Xiufeng, and all except Yang's residence, rebuilt in 2002, are said to keep their original form. It lies a short way south of the Nuwa Palace temple complex, so the two can be combined."},{"id":"wuan-yetao-central-bureau-site","name":"Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Central Bureau and Military Region Site, Yetao","name_zh":"中共晋冀鲁豫中央局和军区旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Jìnjìlǔyù Zhōngyāngjú Hé Jūnqū Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6377,"lon":113.9265,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-yetao-central-bureau-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The courtyards in Yetao village that housed the Communist Party's Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu (Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan) Central Bureau and the region's military headquarters from 1946 to 1948, during the civil war. The listed buildings include the Central Bureau and military command courtyards, the former residences of Liu Bocheng, Deng Xiaoping, Li Da and Bo Yibo, and the meeting sites of the North China finance, southern-campaign and land conferences. The site now operates as the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Border Region Revolutionary Memorial Museum, with six exhibition halls."},{"id":"handan-jin-ji-lu-yu-martyrs-cemetery","name":"Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"晋冀鲁豫烈士陵园","pinyin":"Jìnjìlǔyù Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6007,"lon":114.4809,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/handan-jin-ji-lu-yu-martyrs-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial cemetery and museum in southern Handan, inaugurated in October 1950 with the reburial of General Zuo Quan and other soldiers of the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu border region, and described as the first martyrs' cemetery built after the founding of the People's Republic. Zuo Quan's tomb, with an inscription by Zhou Enlai, stands in the grounds, and the cemetery is noted for the many inscriptions by senior Communist leaders. The site now also operates as the Jin-Ji-Lu-Yu Revolutionary Memorial Museum, whose collection runs to more than 21,000 items."},{"id":"wuan-jingniang-lake","name":"Jingniang Lake","name_zh":"京娘湖","pinyin":"Jīngniáng Hú","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.8883,"lon":113.9475,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-jingniang-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain reservoir in the Taihang foothills of north-west Wu'an, formally the Koushang Reservoir (built 1966–69) and better known by the name of the folk tale in which the future Song founder Zhao Kuangyin rescues a kidnapped girl, Zhao Jingniang, and escorts her home. The scenic area has boat trips on the lake and through the narrow Jingniang Gorge, a shrine to Jingniang and steep cliffs around the water. The reservoir was listed as a national water-conservancy scenic area in 2005 and suits a day out in the hills."},{"id":"shexian-changle-dragon-king-temple","name":"Main Hall of Changle Dragon King Temple","name_zh":"常乐龙王庙正殿","pinyin":"Chánglè Lóngwáng Miào Zhèngdiàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6232,"lon":113.5841,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-changle-dragon-king-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty hall for worshipping the dragon king, standing about 50 m south-west of Changle village in Suobao town and counted among the few timber-framed Yuan buildings left in Hebei. It is three bays wide (10.10 m), two bays deep (12.15 m) and 6.55 m high. It is a small village temple rather than a developed attraction, and worth a stop for those interested in early timber architecture, for example when visiting nearby Nuwa Palace."},{"id":"daming-mother-of-grace-cathedral","name":"Mother of Grace Cathedral, Daming","name_zh":"大名天主堂","pinyin":"Dàmíng Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.2784,"lon":115.1483,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daming-mother-of-grace-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gothic-style Catholic church built by French missionaries between 1918 and 1921 and still the cathedral of the Diocese of Daming, so it remains a place of worship rather than a museum. The cruciform building has a tower with a four-faced clock, an arched interior carried on fourteen stone columns, over a hundred coloured-glass windows and a large organ at the north end. It stands on East Street inside the old walled town, so it can be combined with a walk round the ancient city."},{"id":"shexian-nuwa-palace","name":"Nüwa Palace","name_zh":"娲皇宫","pinyin":"Wāhuáng Gōng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6433,"lon":113.6172,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-nuwa-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple complex dedicated to the mythical goddess Nüwa, who is said to have mended the sky and made humankind, with halls and pavilions built out along the cliff face of Fenghuang (Phoenix) Mountain, the present buildings dating from the Ming and Qing periods. Beside it, Buddhist sutras of more than 130,000 characters were carved into the rock under the Northern Qi in the sixth century. Nüwa rituals held here are on China's national intangible heritage list, and the temple sees extra pilgrims around Tomb Sweeping Day."},{"id":"shexian-quli-qianfodong-grottoes","name":"Qianfodong Grottoes, Quli","name_zh":"曲里千佛洞石窟","pinyin":"Qūlǐ Qiānfódòng Shíkū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6711,"lon":113.5126,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-quli-qianfodong-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A single Ming-dynasty cave temple cut into a mountainside in the uplands of Shexian, about 4 km north-west of Quli village. The rectangular cave, about 34 square metres, holds a seated main Buddha around 3 m high flanked by twelve seated Bodhisattvas of the Perfect Enlightenment Sutra, and two columns running up to the ceiling, each carved with 16 rows of small Buddhas. Heritage authorities describe it as the only cave in Hebei to carve these twelve Bodhisattvas."},{"id":"wuan-qibugou","name":"Qibugou Scenic Area","name_zh":"七步沟","pinyin":"Qībùgōu","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.9383,"lon":113.8715,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-qibugou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain valley scenic area in the Taihang foothills of Huoshui township, north-west of Wu'an, near Qibugou village. Its attractions are scenic rather than historic: steep rock walls, a small mountain lake and waterfalls, and in spring 2026 state media reported a rose-planted section of the canyon with pools. It suits a half-day outing from Wu'an or Handan for walkers."},{"id":"shexian-qingquan-temple","name":"Qingquan Temple, Shexian","name_zh":"涉县清泉寺","pinyin":"Shèxiàn Qīngquán Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.502,"lon":113.6997,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-qingquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple on a hillside south of Shigang village, south-east of Shexian town, said to have been founded in the Northern Qi dynasty during the Tiantong era (565–569) and named after a spring to the east of the temple. The buildings standing today date mainly from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the temple became a national protected site in 2019. It is a quiet stop for visitors exploring Shexian's old temples."},{"id":"fengfeng-shuiyusi-grottoes","name":"Shuiyusi Grottoes","name_zh":"水浴寺石窟","pinyin":"Shuǐyùsì Shíkū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5332,"lon":114.2012,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengfeng-shuiyusi-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small cave temple in the hills about 4 km east of the northern Xiangtangshan caves, known locally as Little Xiangtang because it is smaller than the northern and southern groups. Its carvings range in date from the Northern Dynasties to the Ming, and it is usually counted as the third part of the Xiangtangshan cave complex. It is best taken as an add-on to a visit to the northern caves."},{"id":"daming-damingfu-old-city-site","name":"Site of Damingfu Old City","name_zh":"大名府故城","pinyin":"Dàmíngfǔ Gùchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.3131,"lon":115.2108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daming-damingfu-old-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Daming Prefecture, which the Northern Song made its northern capital in 1042, centred on the villages of Dajie, Yuying and Shuangtai north-east of today's Daming. A flood in 1401 buried the city under silt, so most foundations lie 1–5 m underground and only four stretches of rammed-earth wall show above ground. A site museum opened in 2024 and shows the city through a model, multimedia displays, and archaeological finds and reconstructions."},{"id":"shexian-taihang-wuzhi-mountain","name":"Taihang Wuzhi Mountain","name_zh":"太行五指山","pinyin":"Tàiháng Wǔzhǐ Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5139,"lon":113.6549,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-taihang-wuzhi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area south of Shexian town, named for five peaks that resemble the fingers of the Buddha's hand, the highest reaching 1,283 m. The attractions listed for it include a plaza, a cliffside plank walkway, a glass bridge, Wukong Valley, a ski slope and a statue of the monkey king Sun Wukong, which ties the peaks to the Journey to the West story of the monkey pinned beneath a mountain. It suits a half-day trip from Shexian for hiking and views."},{"id":"cixian-tianbaozhai","name":"Tianbaozhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"天保寨","pinyin":"Tiānbǎozhài","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.4223,"lon":113.9582,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cixian-tianbaozhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill-country scenic area around Huatuo village in Taoquan township, in the far west of Ci County, developed from 2017 by a county-owned coal company after its mine closed; villagers replanted the slopes with more than a million saplings. The county promotes it for autumn colour, and a 2022 provincial report listed seasonal projects there including a summer water-play area and a winter snow-and-ice carnival. Huatuo was the site of an Eighth Route Army arsenal in 1938–43 and has a museum on it."},{"id":"wuan-tianqing-temple","name":"Tianqing Temple, Wu'an","name_zh":"天青寺","pinyin":"Tiānqīng Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5584,"lon":114.0599,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-tianqing-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple among the houses of Cuilu village, whose main hall, built in the Ming dynasty, is the protected building. It has been a national protected site since 2013 and is quick to see."},{"id":"yongnian-fuyang-west-eight-sluices","name":"West Eight Sluices on the Fuyang River","name_zh":"滏阳河西八闸","pinyin":"Fǔyáng Hé Xībā Zhá","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6781,"lon":114.6665,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongnian-fuyang-west-eight-sluices/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Eight Ming-dynasty sluices on the Fuyang River west of the old city of Yongnian, strung out along the north bank between Xidaci and Tianbu villages and named from west to east Guangren, Puhui, Bianmin, Jimin, Guangji, Runmin, Huimin and Fumin. Five of them, the second, fourth, sixth, seventh and eighth, were reported still in use, while the first, third and fifth have been abandoned. It is a piece of waterworks rather than a developed attraction, so it mainly suits those interested in historic hydraulic engineering."},{"id":"wuan-sarira-pagoda","name":"Wu'an Sarira Pagoda","name_zh":"武安舍利塔","pinyin":"Wǔ'ān Shèlì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6959,"lon":114.2003,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuan-sarira-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An octagonal, 13-storey brick pagoda built in 1091 under the Northern Song, the only surviving part of the former Miaojue Temple in Wu'an's old town. It is 41.66 m tall, with brick brackets copying timber ones under the eaves of every level, and the interior has chambers with brick imitation brackets and caissons on the first, second, third, fifth and ninth storeys. It was repaired in 1610 and 1906 and is one of the few Song brick pagodas still standing in southern Hebei."},{"id":"fengfeng-xiangtangshan-caves","name":"Xiangtangshan Caves","name_zh":"响堂山石窟","pinyin":"Xiǎngtángshān Shíkū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5335,"lon":114.1549,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengfeng-xiangtangshan-caves/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of Buddhist cave temples cut into the limestone of Mount Gu and Mount Fu, begun under the Eastern Wei and carved chiefly under the Northern Qi (550–577), whose capital stood at nearby Ye. The northern group is the main stop, with large caves built around central pillars, such as the Big Buddha Cave, and Buddhist sutras carved into the rock; the southern group, about 12 km away, has smaller caves with carved sutras and a site museum beside it. Many heads and reliefs were chiselled off in the early twentieth century and are now in museums abroad, so some figures on site are later replacements."},{"id":"linzhang-ye-city-site","name":"Ye City Site","name_zh":"邺城遗址","pinyin":"Yèchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.2769,"lon":114.4001,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzhang-ye-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Ye was the capital of Cao Cao's Wei state and later of the Later Zhao, Ran Wei, Former Yan, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi, until it was burned in 580. Little stands above ground: in a small park at Santai village the Jinfeng Terrace of Cao Cao's Three Terraces still rises about 12 m and a corner of the Bronze Bird Terrace survives, while the Ye Museum about 2 km to the north-east, whose main building is modelled on a gate of the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi city, displays finds including Buddhist statues unearthed in 2012. This is the Hebei part of a site that continues across the provincial border into Henan."},{"id":"shexian-yuquan-temple","name":"Yuquan Temple, Shexian","name_zh":"涉县玉泉寺","pinyin":"Shèxiàn Yùquán Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6165,"lon":113.5938,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-yuquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village temple in Shangwen, north-west of Shexian town, whose main hall dates from the Jin and Yuan dynasties. The hall has been a national protected building since 2013 and makes a short stop for visitors interested in early temple architecture."},{"id":"handan-zhao-royal-city","name":"Zhao Royal City, Handan","name_zh":"赵邯郸故城","pinyin":"Zhào Hándān Gùchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5705,"lon":114.4227,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/handan-zhao-royal-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of Handan, capital of the state of Zhao from 386 to 228 BC, in the south-west of the modern city, of which the visitable part is the Zhao Royal City, the palace quarter. It consists of three joined walled enclosures (west, east and north) with stretches of rammed-earth wall and large palace platforms, the biggest being the Dragon Terrace in the western enclosure. Since 2022 it has been presented as a national archaeological site park, with a site museum whose design echoes the terrace and a neighbouring Zhao-culture park, while the much larger commoners' city lies mostly buried under modern Handan."},{"id":"guangping-zhaowang-impression-city","name":"Zhaowang Impression City","name_zh":"赵王印象城","pinyin":"Zhàowáng Yìnxiàng Chéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.5021,"lon":114.9412,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangping-zhaowang-impression-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A corporate culture-and-tourism park in Guangping, run by a food and liquor producer and themed on the Warring States state of Zhao. Its four zones include a culture hall whose main building is styled as the palace of King Wuling of Zhao, a working production area that visitors can view, and cultural activities on Zhao and liquor themes. State media reported horse-riding parades, a war-drum show and costumed role-play there during the 2026 Spring Festival and May Day holidays."},{"id":"handan-zhaoyuan-park","name":"Zhaoyuan Park","name_zh":"赵苑公园","pinyin":"Zhàoyuàn Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.6241,"lon":114.4666,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=handan-zhaoyuan-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large landscaped park in north-west Handan, opened in 2004 and built in the style of the Warring States Zhao kingdom, with lakes, lotus ponds and a series of themed garden zones. Inside are earthen remains that local archaeologists link to Zhao-period metalworking, including a platform about 9 m high known as the arrow-casting furnace, and a Han tomb, and one garden presents idioms that originated in Handan. It is a local green space that suits a short walk when in the city."},{"id":"fengfeng-zhifang-yuhuang-pavilion","name":"Zhifang Yuhuang Pavilion","name_zh":"纸坊玉皇阁","pinyin":"Zhǐfāng Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.4251,"lon":114.1949,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengfeng-zhifang-yuhuang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-period brick pavilion named for the Jade Emperor, standing in West Zhifang village on the north bank of the Fuyang River and also called the Beamless Pavilion because its brick structure has no timber beams. A repair tablet beneath it indicates that it was first built in the Longqing or Wanli reigns (1567–1620) and rebuilt in 1896. It is about 450 m from the southern Xiangtangshan caves, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"yongnian-zhushan-inscription","name":"Zhushan Inscription","name_zh":"朱山石刻","pinyin":"Zhūshān Shíkè","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Handan","lat":36.7891,"lon":114.4281,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongnian-zhushan-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 15-character seal-script inscription carved on a sloping rock face at the top of Zhu Hill, about 1 km north of Wuzhuang village, whose text records ministers of the state of Zhao offering a toast in the 22nd year of its reign. Official accounts now date it to 158 BC, under the Western Han kingdom of Zhao, although it was once classed as fourth-century Later Zhao. The hill has been laid out as a cultural park and botanical garden around it, and rubbings of the inscription are held by museums in Britain, France and Japan."},{"id":"hengshui-anji-bridge","name":"Anji Bridge, Hengshui","name_zh":"衡水安济桥","pinyin":"Héngshuǐ Ānjì Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.7259,"lon":115.6989,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengshui-anji-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seven-arch stone bridge over the Fuyang River in Hengshui's old town, 116 m long, with 58 posts along each side topped by carved stone lions, some of them restored. The present bridge dates from 1766 and was built on the remains of Ming bridges; its central arch was blown up by Japanese troops in 1937 and later rebuilt in concrete, which the recent restoration kept as a record of the war, with a plaque explaining it. The bridge reopened to pedestrians in 2022 after more than two years of repairs."},{"id":"hengshui-baoyun-pagoda","name":"Baoyun Pagoda","name_zh":"宝云塔","pinyin":"Bǎoyún Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.7171,"lon":115.6358,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hengshui-baoyun-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 35 m tall, standing in the grounds of Baoyun Temple at Jiucheng village on the south-western edge of Hengshui. Its lowest two levels show Tang-style detailing and the upper levels Song features, and heritage experts date it to the early Northern Song; it has been nationally protected since 2006. After repairs the pagoda and its temple grounds reopened to visitors in 2014, and many locals visit on the 15th and 16th days of the first lunar month."},{"id":"gucheng-dongzi-xue-village","name":"Dongzi Xue Village, Gucheng","name_zh":"董子学村","pinyin":"Dǒngzǐ Xué Cūn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.4826,"lon":115.9726,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gucheng-dongzi-xue-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cultural-tourism village at Dongxue village, Fangzhuang town, where local tradition says the Western Han Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu taught behind a lowered curtain, giving the village its old name Xiawei. It was developed in recent years for study tours, with four themed parts: the Dongxue garden on Confucian learning, a ten-li 'long street' on local customs, farm fields for field-work lessons and the Siyuan River for nature study. It is a modern themed village built around that tradition rather than a historic site."},{"id":"hengshui-lake","name":"Hengshui Lake","name_zh":"衡水湖","pinyin":"Héngshuǐ Hú","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.651,"lon":115.6554,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hengshui-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A freshwater lake and wetland reserve on the south side of Hengshui, with about 75 sq km of water plus marsh, mudflats, meadow and woodland; it is described as the second-largest freshwater lake on the North China Plain after Baiyangdian. More than 330 bird species have been recorded, with swans and geese wintering and autumn migration peaking in mid to late November, so it is best known for birdwatching and for cycling round the shore. The developed visitor area is on the north shore, in a former garden-expo park that now holds the Hengshui Ecology Museum."},{"id":"hengshui-laobaigan-distillery","name":"Hengshui Laobaigan Distillery","name_zh":"衡水老白干景区","pinyin":"Héngshuǐ Lǎobáigān Jǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.8272,"lon":115.7048,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengshui-laobaigan-distillery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A visitor area built around the working plant of Hengshui Laobaigan, a baijiu (Chinese grain spirit) maker whose traditional brewing method is a national intangible heritage item. The plant's earthen-jar fermentation workshop holds 47,666 jars under about 61,000 sq m of floor space and was certified by Guinness World Records in 2021 as the largest of its kind, and a museum in the complex explains jar fermentation and the history of liquor-making. It is a corporate attraction best suited to visitors interested in baijiu or industrial tourism."},{"id":"jingxian-jingzhou-pagoda","name":"Jingzhou Pagoda","name_zh":"景州塔","pinyin":"Jǐngzhōu Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.6929,"lon":116.2631,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingxian-jingzhou-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A thirteen-storey octagonal pagoda of brick and stone, 63.85 m tall, rising above the town of Jingxian. The present structure was rebuilt in 1079 in Song style; iron plaques record earlier repairs under the Northern Qi and Sui, and the first pagoda may date from the Northern Wei. It has been a national heritage site since 1996 and is counted among Hebei's 'four ancient treasures' with the Cangzhou iron lion, Zhaozhou Bridge and the bronze Bodhisattva of Longxing Temple."},{"id":"jizhou-ancient-city-ruins","name":"Jizhou Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"冀州古城遗址","pinyin":"Jìzhōu Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.5745,"lon":115.5611,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jizhou-ancient-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving walls and moat of old Jizhou, a city that dates back to 201 BC, when it was founded under the name Xindu, on the south-western shore of Hengshui Lake. About 3 km of rammed-earth wall, up to roughly 9 m high, and some 2 km of moat still stand above ground, and the area is laid out as a ruins park with railings and signs. It is an earthwork site rather than a museum, so it suits history-minded visitors and pairs well with the nearby lake and the Jizhou Museum in town."},{"id":"gucheng-qinglin-temple-pagoda","name":"Qinglin Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"庆林寺塔","pinyin":"Qìnglín Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.3118,"lon":115.8337,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gucheng-qinglin-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tall octagonal brick pagoda in pavilion style, built in the early Northern Song and about 35 m high, in Raoyangdian town in western Gucheng County. A repair project was completed in 2013, and it has been a nationally protected site since 2006. It is a short stop for pagoda enthusiasts rather than a full excursion."},{"id":"anping-taicheng-party-branch-memorial","name":"Taicheng First Rural Party Branch Memorial","name_zh":"台城红色旅游景区","pinyin":"Táichéng Hóngsè Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":38.2038,"lon":115.4754,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anping-taicheng-party-branch-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial museum in Taicheng village, Anping County, devoted to the Taicheng special branch of the Chinese Communist Party, which party history and state media present as the first rural branch, founded in August 1923 by Gong Zhongtao under Li Dazhao's guidance. Its displays also cover the first county party committee in Hebei, set up in Anping in August 1924, and Anping's wartime role as a command centre of the central Hebei base area. The exhibition was fully refreshed for the branch's centenary in 2023, and the site is used for school and party-study visits."},{"id":"wuqiang-new-year-picture-museum","name":"Wuqiang New Year Picture Museum","name_zh":"武强年画博物馆","pinyin":"Wǔqiáng Niánhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":38.0375,"lon":115.975,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuqiang-new-year-picture-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum in Wuqiang, long known for woodblock New Year pictures (nianhua), which describes itself as the first museum in China devoted to the craft and was approved in 1985. Its collection includes more than 10,000 historic woodblocks and printed pictures from the Ming and Qing dynasties onwards, and hands-on woodblock printing is offered to visitors. A good fit for anyone interested in folk art and festival customs."},{"id":"shenzhou-yingyi-granary","name":"Yingyi Granary, Shenzhou","name_zh":"深州盈亿义仓","pinyin":"Shēnzhōu Yíngyì Yìcāng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":38.0088,"lon":115.5547,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenzhou-yingyi-granary","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A courtyard-style Qing granary in the middle of Shenzhou, dating from 1898, with an administrative courtyard to the east and a storage courtyard to the west; its 51 rooms could hold about 1,500 tonnes of grain. Local heritage officials describe it as the only fully preserved Qing granary found north of the Yellow River. After repairs it reopened in 2019 as the Shenzhou Granary Museum, with five themed exhibitions on grain, food and storage customs."},{"id":"wuqiang-zhouwo-music-town","name":"Zhouwo Music Town","name_zh":"周窝音乐小镇","pinyin":"Zhōuwō Yīnyuè Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Hengshui","lat":37.9964,"lon":115.8895,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuqiang-zhouwo-music-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village-based visitor area at Zhouwo in Wuqiang County, a place that began making Western wind and string instruments more than 30 years ago and has turned village homes into music-themed shops, workshops, cafés and guesthouses since 2012. There is a world musical-instruments museum with well over a thousand instruments, and villagers play saxophone and other instruments for visitors. It is a small, informal place that suits visitors interested in music or in how a Hebei village reinvented itself."},{"id":"xianghe-citic-guoan-first-city","name":"CITIC Guoan First City, Xianghe","name_zh":"中信国安第一城","pinyin":"Zhōngxìn Guó'ān Dìyī Chéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Langfang","lat":39.7154,"lon":116.8988,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianghe-citic-guoan-first-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large leisure complex developed by the CITIC Guoan group in Xianghe, built on the model of Ming and Qing Beijing with a walled-city layout and palace-and-garden-style buildings, covering about 3,320 mu (roughly 2.2 square kilometres). It has a lotus garden and an old temple, Da'an Temple, inside its grounds, hosts seasonal events such as a lotus festival and Spring Festival fairs, and since April 2025 has run an immersive Ming-themed park called Daming Fantasy with costumed performers around the site. It is a modern commercial development rather than historic buildings, and suits Beijing-area day-trippers."},{"id":"dacheng-china-redwood-city","name":"China Redwood City, Dacheng","name_zh":"中国红木城","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Hóngmù Chéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Langfang","lat":38.6922,"lon":116.6766,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dacheng-china-redwood-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large market complex of traditional-style halls and courtyards in Dacheng County, which state media call north China's largest hub for making and trading redwood (hongmu, meaning rosewood and other hardwood) furniture. The county government gives its site as 730 mu (about 49 hectares) with more than a thousand traders selling classical-style furniture and carvings, and a large weekly redwood market is held there on Tuesdays. It grew out of the county's long-running redwood and antiques market, which moved to a new redwood-culture district in 2014, and is a shopping and trade venue rather than a historic site."},{"id":"yongqing-daxinge-stone-pagoda","name":"Daxinge Stone Pagoda","name_zh":"大辛阁石塔","pinyin":"Dàxīngé Shítǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Langfang","lat":39.3262,"lon":116.4272,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongqing-daxinge-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty stone pagoda in Daxinge village, Yongqing, standing in the grounds of the White Pagoda (Baita) Temple. It was listed as a provincial heritage site in 1982 and as a national one in 2013, and Yongqing's tourism bureau named the temple among the county's sights in 2024. It is a short stop for pagoda enthusiasts."},{"id":"xianghe-golden-key-furniture-mall","name":"Golden Key Furniture Mall, Xianghe","name_zh":"香河金钥匙","pinyin":"Xiānghé Jīnyàoshi","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Langfang","lat":39.7473,"lon":117.0148,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianghe-golden-key-furniture-mall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large furniture mall opened in 2003 in Xianghe's furniture-trading district, with about 180,000 square metres of floor space on four floors: general and brand-name furniture, European-style pieces and a redwood hall. State media list it among Xianghe's tourism brands and call Xianghe's furniture city north China's biggest furniture distribution hub, but it is a showroom complex rather than a sight in the usual sense. Visit only if you want to browse furniture."},{"id":"sanhe-mengdongfang-future-world","name":"Mengdongfang Future World","name_zh":"梦东方·未来世界","pinyin":"Mèngdōngfāng·Wèilái Shìjiè","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Langfang","lat":39.9163,"lon":116.8219,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanhe-mengdongfang-future-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An indoor space-themed activity park in Yanjiao, the commuter town of Sanhe on Beijing's eastern edge, inside the Tianyang City development. Exhibits and activities aimed at families and school groups have included astronaut-training equipment, a space medical centre, a genetics centre and spacesuit photos. It is a commercial attraction that suits children and visitors staying in the Beijing area."},{"id":"yongqing-yannanchun-liquor-park","name":"Yannanchun Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"燕南春酒文化博览园","pinyin":"Yànnánchūn Jiǔ Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Langfang","lat":39.3654,"lon":116.5615,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongqing-yannanchun-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A liquor-culture visitor park attached to the Yannanchun distillery in Yongqing's industrial area, built around a museum that traces Chinese liquor-making and local history under a Song–Liao theme, with several hundred objects. The grounds include a Song–Liao-style pedestrian street and a peony garden of nearly 10,000 plants that holds a festival each spring, and visitors can taste the distillery's baijiu (Chinese grain spirit). A corporate attraction suited to visitors with an interest in baijiu."},{"id":"qinhuangdao-banchangyu-kiln-sites","name":"Banchangyu Brick Kiln Sites","name_zh":"板厂峪窑址群遗址","pinyin":"Bǎnchǎngyù Yáozhǐqún Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":40.2003,"lon":119.5651,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinhuangdao-banchangyu-kiln-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Remains of Ming kilns beside Banchangyu village, where bricks were fired for the Great Wall. A survey has recorded 136 kiln sites, mostly brick kilns, over about 160,000 square metres, and the group joined the national list in 2013. It is a low-key archaeological site close to the Banchangyu stretch of the Great Wall."},{"id":"beidaihe-historic-villas","name":"Beidaihe Historic Villas","name_zh":"北戴河近代建筑群","pinyin":"Běidàihé Jìndài Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8309,"lon":119.5229,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beidaihe-historic-villas/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seafront resort district of villas built from the 1890s for foreign residents and wealthy Chinese, after the Qing government named Beidaihe a summer resort for people of all nations in 1898. Twenty buildings are on the national list, among them the five-villa Wufenglou group and a church, out of roughly 110 old villas that survived to 2013. Many are now hotels, restaurants or offices, so most are best seen from the street while walking the seafront between Lianfeng Hill and Pigeon Nest Park."},{"id":"beidaihe-biluota-sea-bar-park","name":"Biluota Sea Bar Park","name_zh":"碧螺塔海上酒吧公园","pinyin":"Bìluótǎ Hǎishàng Jiǔbā Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.82,"lon":119.5312,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beidaihe-biluota-sea-bar-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seafront leisure park on the easternmost stretch of Beidaihe's beach, opened in 2013 and laid out like a small peninsula between Jinshanzui and Pigeon Nest Park. It is built around a conch-shaped tower and is aimed at evenings more than daytime sightseeing, with bars, a seaside stage and live shows, including electronic-music sets by resident DJs. It is a modern leisure development, not a historic site."},{"id":"funing-bingtangyu-great-wall-canyon","name":"Bingtangyu Great Wall Canyon","name_zh":"冰塘峪长城风情大峡谷","pinyin":"Bīngtángyù Chángchéng Fēngqíng Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":40.1036,"lon":119.3596,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=funing-bingtangyu-great-wall-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain canyon scenic area in the hills north-west of Qinhuangdao, named for the Great Wall remains on the ridges above the valley. It suits walkers and families on a day trip from the coast."},{"id":"changli-golden-coast-sand-sliding","name":"Changli Sand-Sliding Centre","name_zh":"昌黎县旅游滑沙活动中心","pinyin":"Chānglí Xiàn Lǚyóu Huáshā Huódòng Zhōngxīn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.6334,"lon":119.3037,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changli-golden-coast-sand-sliding","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A sand-sliding centre on the Changli Golden Coast, where visitors slide down sand dunes close to the beach. It is a small leisure venue rather than a sightseeing stop, set on a coast known for its long beaches and dunes."},{"id":"shanhaiguan-changshou-mountain","name":"Changshou Mountain","name_zh":"长寿山","pinyin":"Chángshòushān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":40.0669,"lon":119.7282,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanhaiguan-changshou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small rocky hill north of Shanhaiguan, laid out as a scenic area with footpaths up its slopes. It is mainly a local day-walk rather than a major sight."},{"id":"lulong-dharani-sutra-pillar","name":"Dharani Sutra Pillar, Lulong","name_zh":"大佛顶尊胜陀罗尼经幢","pinyin":"Dàfódǐng Zūnshèng Tuóluóní Jīngchuáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8796,"lon":118.8603,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes to 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lulong-dharani-sutra-pillar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Jin-dynasty stone sutra pillar in the old town of Lulong, about 10 metres tall and built in six tiers. Pillars of this kind carry Buddhist dharani texts, and this one was listed nationally in 2006 after provincial protection from 1982. The Yongping city wall is about 250 m to the west, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"qinhuangdao-yaohua-glass-factory-site","name":"Former Yaohua Glass Factory","name_zh":"耀华玻璃厂旧址","pinyin":"Yàohuá Bōlíchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.9231,"lon":119.5986,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qinhuangdao-yaohua-glass-factory-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving core of the Yaohua glass factory, founded in 1922 and described as China's first large mechanised glassworks: a two-storey Gothic power house, a pump house and a water tower. The power house is now the main hall of the Qinhuangdao Glass Museum, which opened in 2012 as the country's first state-run museum on glass. Its displays cover ancient glass, the Chinese glass industry and glassmaking today."},{"id":"changli-huaxia-manor-winery","name":"Huaxia Manor Winery","name_zh":"华夏庄园","pinyin":"Huáxià Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.7333,"lon":119.1802,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changli-huaxia-manor-winery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wine estate on the northern edge of Changli, one of China's wine-growing counties, with vineyards and a winery that visitors can see and where they can taste wine. It is a commercial tourist estate, so it suits a short stop rather than a full day."},{"id":"shanhaiguan-jiaoshan-great-wall","name":"Jiaoshan Great Wall","name_zh":"角山长城","pinyin":"Jiǎoshān Chángchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":40.0358,"lon":119.7342,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanhaiguan-jiaoshan-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain section of the Ming Great Wall running up from Shanhaiguan to the flat summit of Jiaoshan, with the Hanmen Pass and Qixian Temple on the way. The lower wall was restored in the 1980s and part of it can be climbed for views of the town and the sea, while higher up it is left in its original, crumbling state. At the foot of the hill, the Shanhaiguan China Great Wall Museum holds more than 5,000 relics and has four permanent exhibition halls."},{"id":"beidaihe-jifa-dream-kingdom","name":"Jifa Agricultural Dream Kingdom","name_zh":"集发农业梦想王国","pinyin":"Jífā Nóngyè Mèngxiǎng Wángguó","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8189,"lon":119.4122,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beidaihe-jifa-dream-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A family-oriented farm and leisure park in Beidaihe that mixes agricultural exhibits with play areas. In summer it also stages evening light shows along the Dai River, including a lantern festival with lanterns made in Zigong and drone displays. It is a modern commercial attraction aimed at families with children."},{"id":"shanhaiguan-ledao-ocean-kingdom","name":"Ledao Ocean Kingdom","name_zh":"乐岛海洋王国","pinyin":"Lèdǎo Hǎiyáng Wángguó","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.9545,"lon":119.7516,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanhaiguan-ledao-ocean-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An ocean-themed park on the coast south of Shanhaiguan, with staged shows by dolphins, sea lions and beluga whales, a large wave pool and water slides, and a beach for sand and water play. It is a day out for families rather than a historic stop."},{"id":"beidaihe-lianfeng-mountain-park","name":"Lianfeng Mountain Park","name_zh":"联峰山公园","pinyin":"Liánfēngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8228,"lon":119.4524,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beidaihe-lianfeng-mountain-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded hill park behind the western end of Beidaihe's seafront, with two low peaks covered in pines and cypresses, rock formations, caves, pavilions and winding paths. Its temples include the Ming-dynasty Guanyin Temple, and a viewing pavilion near the summit looks over the resort and the sea. It makes a shaded walk of an hour or two away from the beach."},{"id":"funing-nandaihe-entertainment-centre","name":"Nandaihe International Entertainment Centre","name_zh":"南戴河国际娱乐中心","pinyin":"Nándàihé Guójì Yúlè Zhōngxīn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.7332,"lon":119.3484,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=funing-nandaihe-entertainment-centre","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seaside leisure complex at Nandaihe, south-west of Beidaihe, with a funfair that includes a Ferris wheel and a dome-screen cinema. Its Chinese Lotus Garden, about 40 hectares with some 300 lotus varieties, holds a lotus festival in summer. It is a modern commercial attraction for families rather than a historic site."},{"id":"beidaihe-pigeon-nest-park","name":"Pigeon Nest Park","name_zh":"鸽子窝公园","pinyin":"Gēziwō Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8345,"lon":119.5191,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beidaihe-pigeon-nest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small headland park at the north-eastern end of the Beidaihe seafront, known for watching the sunrise over the Bohai Sea from the rock at its tip. Beidaihe is a major bird-migration stopover, so the park is also a birdwatching spot in spring and autumn. Visitors walk the beach and the headland paths, and an hour or two is enough to see it."},{"id":"qinhuangdao-qin-emperor-immortality-quest-park","name":"Qin Emperor's Immortality Quest Park","name_zh":"秦皇求仙入海处","pinyin":"Qínhuáng Qiúxiān Rùhǎi Chù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.9129,"lon":119.6154,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinhuangdao-qin-emperor-immortality-quest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 19-hectare park on the Bohai shore at Nanshan, opened in 2002, built in ancient style around a Ming stele of 1477 said to mark where the First Qin Emperor sent men to sea in search of the elixir of life. It combines a garden on the quest theme with a Warring States garden, both laid out with ancient-style buildings and sculptures."},{"id":"beidaihe-qin-xinggong-site","name":"Qin Travelling Palace Site, Beidaihe","name_zh":"北戴河秦行宫遗址","pinyin":"Běidàihé Qín Xínggōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8169,"lon":119.5243,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beidaihe-qin-xinggong-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Foundations of a Qin-dynasty palace at Jinshanzui on the Beidaihe shore, excavated from 1986 to 1991 over about 15,800 square metres and made up of four building groups and fourteen units. It is identified as a travelling palace used on the Qin emperors' eastern tours, which supports the story behind the name Qinhuangdao, 'Qin Emperor Island'. A site museum opened in 2019 shows the foundations and finds in an exhibition on the Qin tours and the excavation."},{"id":"qinhuangdao-port-historic-quarter","name":"Qinhuangdao Port Historic Quarter","name_zh":"秦皇岛港口近代建筑群","pinyin":"Qínhuángdǎo Gǎngkǒu Jìndài Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.9105,"lon":119.613,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"About 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinhuangdao-port-historic-quarter","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old West Port of Qinhuangdao, where the harbour opened to trade in 1898 and the Kailuan mining company built its offices, power plant, staff housing, wharves and railway. Nine of its buildings and sites are on the national list, and the former Kailuan staff club is now the Qinhuangdao Port Museum. Parts of the old port have been opened as an industrial-tourism area, so it works as an industrial-heritage walk beside the working port."},{"id":"qinhuangdao-wildlife-park","name":"Qinhuangdao Wildlife Park","name_zh":"秦皇岛野生动物园","pinyin":"Qínhuángdǎo Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.869,"lon":119.5154,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinhuangdao-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large safari-style wildlife park on the Beidaihe coast, opened in 1995, where animals including tigers, lions and bears are kept in zoned areas set in coastal woodland. Visitors tour it in their own vehicle or by park bus, with some areas open on foot. A giant panda house with two pandas opened in January 2026, and the park suits families for about half a day."},{"id":"qinhuangdao-xinao-underwater-world","name":"Xin'ao Underwater World","name_zh":"新澳海底世界","pinyin":"Xīn'ào Hǎidǐ Shìjiè","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.9047,"lon":119.5565,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinhuangdao-xinao-underwater-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An aquarium on Qinhuangdao's seafront, with marine animals to view and staged shows by dolphins and sea lions. It is a commercial attraction aimed at families."},{"id":"lulong-yongping-city-wall","name":"Yongping Prefecture City Wall","name_zh":"永平府城墙","pinyin":"Yǒngpíngfǔ Chéngqiáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8801,"lon":118.8574,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lulong-yongping-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Surviving parts of the wall of Ming-dynasty Yongping Prefecture, first built in brick and stone in 1372, including the west gate (Wangjing Gate) with its barbican, the small west gate and the small south gate. Restoration of the west wall began in 2014. Lulong was the prefectural seat, and the wall is the main reminder of that role."},{"id":"changli-yuanying-temple-pagoda","name":"Yuanying Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"源影寺塔","pinyin":"Yuányǐng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.7099,"lon":119.1528,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changli-yuanying-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 13-storey octagonal pagoda of brick and timber with closely spaced eaves, built in the Jin dynasty and rebuilt several times since, standing in the north-west of Changli town and about 36 metres high. Changli County Museum, opened beside it in 2024, tells the story of the tower and its repairs with displays indoors and outdoors."},{"id":"changli-yudao-ocean-resort","name":"Yudao Ocean Resort","name_zh":"渔岛海洋度假区","pinyin":"Yúdǎo Hǎiyáng Dùjiàqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.5955,"lon":119.2846,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changli-yudao-ocean-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large commercial seaside resort on the Golden Coast in the Beidaihe New Area, centred on a water park, a Ferris wheel and a myth-themed show quarter with mechanical-beast attractions. Performances run through the day and into the night, and the resort also has hot-spring pools. It is a modern family resort rather than a historic site."},{"id":"changli-yutian-qilihai-resort","name":"Yutian Qilihai Resort","name_zh":"渔田七里海","pinyin":"Yútián Qīlǐhǎi","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.5692,"lon":119.2077,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changli-yutian-qilihai-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A family holiday resort beside the Qilihai lagoon on the Golden Coast, built around a themed resort town. It offers family attractions by day and stages shows and drone displays in the evenings. It is a modern commercial resort aimed mainly at families."},{"id":"lulong-zuoyou-valley","name":"Zuoyou Valley","name_zh":"左右山谷","pinyin":"Zuǒyòu Shāngǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":39.8185,"lon":119.0669,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lulong-zuoyou-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural leisure and holiday park in the Yanshan foothills of Lulong County, laid out with orchards and farmland for countryside sightseeing and family holidays. It is one of the scenic areas Qinhuangdao has added in recent years, so it suits a relaxed half-day rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"qinglong-zushan","name":"Zushan","name_zh":"祖山","pinyin":"Zǔshān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Qinhuangdao","lat":40.117,"lon":119.5196,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinglong-zushan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zushan, called the 'ancestor of the Yanshan', is a large mountain scenic area in the Yanshan range north of Qinhuangdao; its highest peak, Tiannü Peak, rises to 1,428 m. Visitors come for the rocky peaks, gorges and streams, and a cable car serves the higher parts."},{"id":"zhaoxian-anji-bridge","name":"Anji Bridge (Zhaozhou Bridge)","name_zh":"赵州桥","pinyin":"Zhàozhōu Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.7202,"lon":114.7633,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoxian-anji-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A single-span stone arch bridge over the Xiao River at Zhao County, usually dated to about 605 in the Sui dynasty and credited to the craftsman Li Chun. Its shallow arch has two small arches set into each shoulder, and it is generally described as the world's oldest stone bridge of this open-spandrel type; the parapets are carved with dragons and animal masks. The bridge was heavily rebuilt in 1952–56, which changed its appearance, and it now stands in a park that includes an exhibition on ancient bridges."},{"id":"luquan-baodu-zhai","name":"Baodu Zhai","name_zh":"抱犊寨","pinyin":"Bàodú Zhài","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0924,"lon":114.2609,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luquan-baodu-zhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A steep-sided mountain on the western edge of Luquan whose cliff-ringed summit, 580 m above sea level, holds about 660 mu (44 hectares) of level ground. The main sights are on the summit plateau, among them the South Heaven Gate, a Five Hundred Arhats hall, the Jinque Palace, caves and a ring wall known locally as the Great Wall, and local tradition ties the mountain to the Han general Han Xin. Visitors can climb a stepped path of about 3 km with roughly 3,000 steps, or take the cable car."},{"id":"zhengding-linji-temple-chengling-pagoda","name":"Chengling Pagoda, Linji Temple","name_zh":"临济寺澄灵塔","pinyin":"Línjì Sì Chénglíng Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1348,"lon":114.5672,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-linji-temple-chengling-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A nine-tier, eight-sided brick pagoda about 30 m high beside Linji Temple in the old town of Zhengding, built to hold the relics of Linji Yixuan (died 867), founder of the Linji school of Chan Buddhism, known in Japan as Rinzai. The tower is in Jin-dynasty style, was repaired on an imperial order of 1183 and again in the 1980s with help from Japanese Zen communities, and delegations from Japan's Rinzai and Obaku schools have visited since 1980. The temple, founded in the sixth century, is an active monastery."},{"id":"zhaoxian-daguan-stele","name":"Daguan Stele (Emperor Huizong's School Rules)","name_zh":"大观圣作之碑","pinyin":"Dàguān Shèngzuò Zhī Bēi","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.7476,"lon":114.7713,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoxian-daguan-stele/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song stone stele of the Daguan era (1107–1110) carrying a school-rules edict, the 'eight virtues and eight punishments', written by Emperor Huizong; several copies survive across China and this one is a national heritage unit. It stands in Zhao County town on Shita Road, a short walk from the Dharani Pillar. It is mainly of interest to people who follow Song-dynasty inscriptions."},{"id":"yuanshi-fenglongshan-grottoes","name":"Fenglongshan Grottoes","name_zh":"封龙山石窟","pinyin":"Fēnglóngshān Shíkū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.8803,"lon":114.3278,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanshi-fenglongshan-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small group of Buddhist rock-cut caves on Fenglong Mountain, on the Yuanshi–Luquan border; the heritage listing dates the carving from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Ming, and a 1994 field survey placed one cave between the Northern Qi and the Sui. The mountain is better known for the Fenglong Academy, which Chinese sources trace back to the Han and where two Han-dynasty stelae stand in a pavilion."},{"id":"shijiazhuang-pboc-former-headquarters","name":"Former People's Bank of China Headquarters, Shijiazhuang","name_zh":"中国人民银行总行旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Rénmín Yínháng Zǒngháng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0492,"lon":114.4717,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shijiazhuang-pboc-former-headquarters/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-storey grey-brick building put up in 1940–41 and known as the 'Little Grey Building'. The People's Bank of China was founded here on 1 December 1948 and issued the first series of renminbi notes the same day. Since 2009 it has housed a memorial museum on the bank's founding and the Hebei Coin Museum, with recreated offices of the early bank and displays of Hebei's historical currency."},{"id":"xinle-fuxi-terrace","name":"Fuxi Terrace","name_zh":"伏羲台遗址","pinyin":"Fúxītái Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.3812,"lon":114.7098,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinle-fuxi-terrace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-tiered, irregularly octagonal rammed-earth terrace about 9 m high on the plain at Xinle, traditionally linked with the mythical ancestor Fuxi, with remains from the Neolithic to the Han dynasty in the ground around it. A temple complex along its north–south axis (gate, Liuzuo Hall, Longshi Hall and the rear sleeping hall) is known locally as the Ancestor Temple, and the annual Fuxi sacrifice held here on the 17th to 19th of the third lunar month is on China's national intangible-heritage list. The surrounding area has been developed with a cultural market and leisure spaces."},{"id":"zhengding-guanghui-temple-hua-pagoda","name":"Guanghui Temple Hua Pagoda","name_zh":"广惠寺华塔","pinyin":"Guǎnghuì Sì Huātǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1318,"lon":114.5659,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-guanghui-temple-hua-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A four-storey, eight-sided brick pagoda, the main surviving building of Guanghui Temple in the old town of Zhengding. Its top storey is a cone-shaped body covered in modelled figures of warriors, lions, elephants, Buddhas and bodhisattvas, in the manner of a flower bouquet, which gives this rare 'flower pagoda' type its name. The temple was founded in the Tang, the tower is mainly of Song–Jin date, and it was restored in 1994–99."},{"id":"gaocheng-guoyu-hot-spring-town","name":"Guoyu Hot Spring Resort Town","name_zh":"国御温泉度假小镇","pinyin":"Guóyù Wēnquán Dùjià Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0312,"lon":114.7546,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaocheng-guoyu-hot-spring-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort hotel and leisure complex in Gaocheng District, fed by a spring that the district government says is drawn from a depth of 3,254 m. The district government described three hot-spring gardens with more than fifty pools, a children's water area, steam rooms, a traditional-medicine hall and a small street of shops and restaurants. It is a modern commercial resort rather than a heritage site, aimed at hot-spring stays."},{"id":"pingshan-heishan-grand-canyon","name":"Heishan Grand Canyon","name_zh":"黑山大峡谷","pinyin":"Hēishān Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.5475,"lon":113.5745,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-heishan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested gorge scenic area of about 17 km² in the north-west of the Taihang range, close to the Shanxi border, with a main summit of 1,910 m and an average altitude of about 1,300 m. Its sixty or so listed sights include a waterfall zone, Fusheng Temple and old woodland with wild kiwi trees more than a century old. It is a cool place to walk in summer."},{"id":"jingxing-nanhengkou-kiln-site","name":"Jingxing Kiln Site (Nanhengkou)","name_zh":"井陉窑遗址","pinyin":"Jǐngxíng Yáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.9983,"lon":114.0975,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxing-nanhengkou-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Jingxing kilns, founded in the Sui dynasty and at their height in the Song and Jin, were scattered through the mountains of Jingxing County, and the Nanhengkou site is the largest and best preserved of those found. Visitors can look inside a bun-shaped 'mantou' kiln, where the fire chamber and kiln bed survive, and see village walls built from discarded firing saggars. Since 2016 the village has also been developed as a 'Ceramic Water Town', with a ceramics street, working pottery studios where visitors can try making ware, and guesthouses."},{"id":"jingxing-qinhuang-old-post-road","name":"Jingxing Old Post Road (Qinhuang Ancient Road)","name_zh":"井陉古驿道","pinyin":"Jǐngxíng Gǔ Yìdào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0476,"lon":114.1786,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxing-qinhuang-old-post-road","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A surviving stretch of the old trunk road through the Jingxing pass, the only one of the Taihang range's eight historic passes that carts could use, linking the North China plain with Shanxi. At Baishiling and the Dongtianmen pass the road is cut into bare rock, with cart ruts more than 30 cm deep, a stone gateway whose upper pavilions were rebuilt in the Ming and Qing, and a section paved with hexagonal stones between the East and West gates. It is also called the Qinhuang (First Emperor) road, and a stone beyond the west gate commemorates the general Han Xin, whose 'back to the river' victory near here is a famous episode of the Chu–Han war."},{"id":"jingxing-tianchang-old-town-wall","name":"Jingxing Old Town Wall (Tianchang)","name_zh":"井陉旧城城墙","pinyin":"Jǐngxíng Jiùchéng Chéngqiáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.9963,"lon":114.0154,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxing-tianchang-old-town-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianchang is the old county town of Jingxing, which became the county seat in 1075 and remained so until 1958, and its Ming and Qing town wall is a national heritage unit. Parts of the wall survive, together with a city-god temple, a Confucian temple hall and the Jieshan Academy, all listed at provincial level, in a town named one of China's historic and cultural towns in 2008. The Jingxing kiln villages lie a few kilometres to the east."},{"id":"lingshou-jinxiu-daming-chuan","name":"Jinxiu Daming Chuan (Shuqiao Tourist Area)","name_zh":"锦绣大明川","pinyin":"Jǐnxiù Dàmíngchuān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.5847,"lon":114.0089,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshou-jinxiu-daming-chuan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure and camping resort built from late 2018 on a reclaimed river flat beside the Wuyuezhai exit of the Xifu Expressway at Zhaitou in Lingshou County, known for its 'tree bridge' riverside park. It has a large visitor centre, car parks and a dining area, about 150 camping and lodging units including RVs, tree houses, tents and star-gazing cabins, a children's park, a pet park and, in winter, a snow field with lantern displays. It is a modern purpose-built destination for family and group outings, not a historic or natural sight."},{"id":"luquan-junlebao-dairy-tourism-area","name":"Junlebao Dairy Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"君乐宝乳业工业旅游区","pinyin":"Jūnlèbǎo Rǔyè Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.9791,"lon":114.3415,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luquan-junlebao-dairy-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A dairy industrial-tourism area run by the Junlebao dairy company in Luquan District, with a dairy-processing zone and a ranch zone; the company began offering industrial tourism in 2012. At the ranch, visitors see a cattle-science hall, a milking hall, a grazing area, a feeding area and a visitor centre with a milk-culture display. It is a modern company attraction aimed at families and school groups, and its subject is dairy farming rather than local history."},{"id":"yuanshi-kaihua-temple-pagoda","name":"Kaihua Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"开化寺塔","pinyin":"Kāihuà Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.7457,"lon":114.5101,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanshi-kaihua-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A nine-tier, eight-sided pagoda of solid brick, about 25 m high, standing on a carved stone base in the old town of Yuanshi. It is all that is left of Kaihua Temple: the tower dates from the Jin dynasty and was rebuilt in the Chenghua era of the Ming (1464–87), and it still carries brick reliefs, donors' inscriptions and shell marks from the fighting for the town. It makes a brief stop for anyone interested in Jin and Ming brick architecture."},{"id":"zhengding-kaiyuan-temple","name":"Kaiyuan Temple, Zhengding","name_zh":"开元寺","pinyin":"Kāiyuán Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1399,"lon":114.5649,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-kaiyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving part of a temple founded in 540 in the old town of Zhengding, with the square nine-tier Xumi Pagoda, about 42.5 m high and begun in 636, facing a two-storey bell tower across the former courtyard. Local heritage authorities describe the bell tower as the only Tang-dynasty bell tower still standing, and the carved stone columns of the gate tower, dated to 692, were re-erected in 2008. An excavation south of the temple, showing seven periods of layered remains, can be seen through a glass wall."},{"id":"zhengding-liang-ancestral-hall","name":"Liang Ancestral Hall, Zhengding","name_zh":"正定梁氏宗祠","pinyin":"Zhèngdìng Liángshì Zōngcí","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1378,"lon":114.566,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-liang-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A late-Ming ancestral hall of the Liang family, one of Zhengding's leading official families, on Yanzhao South Street in the old town. The family rose with Liang Menglong, a Ming minister of war and later of personnel, and the hall and its gateway are one of only two surviving buildings of the family's former estates. The five-bay hall with a flush-gable roof was taken down and rebuilt in 1997–98, and its interior is no longer used for the family tablets."},{"id":"lingshou-stone-archway","name":"Lingshou Stone Archway","name_zh":"灵寿石牌坊","pinyin":"Língshòu Shí Páifāng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.3035,"lon":114.364,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshou-stone-archway","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty memorial archway of 1641 in Lingshou county town, known as the 'Three Generations of the Central Pivot' arch. It is carved wholly from stone to imitate timber, about 12 m high and 8 m wide, in a four-column, five-roof design with dozens of carved lions. Its inscriptions record imperial honours for three generations of the Fu family, centred on Fu Yongchun, a Ming vice-minister of war who later headed the Ministry of Personnel."},{"id":"zhengding-lingxiao-pagoda","name":"Lingxiao Pagoda","name_zh":"凌霄塔","pinyin":"Língxiāo Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1424,"lon":114.5695,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-lingxiao-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A nine-storey, eight-sided pagoda about 41 m high, the main surviving building of the former Tianning Temple in the old town of Zhengding. The lower storeys are brick and the upper ones timber, with a timber central pillar running up the inside, a structure that is uncommon among China's surviving pagodas. A crypt found beneath it in 1982 showed that it was begun in the Tang dynasty between 756 and 779, and it was rebuilt in 1045 and again in 1141."},{"id":"zhengding-longxing-temple","name":"Longxing Temple","name_zh":"隆兴寺","pinyin":"Lóngxīng Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1441,"lon":114.5766,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-longxing-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple founded in 586 under the Sui dynasty and enlarged by order of the first Northern Song emperor, laid out along a long north–south axis and counted among the earliest, largest and best-preserved temple complexes in China. Its highlights are the Mani Hall of 1052, cross-shaped in plan with a gabled porch on each side and a hanging-sculpture Guanyin inside, the revolving sutra cabinet, and the Great Compassion Pavilion with its very large bronze thousand-armed Guanyin of the Song period. The architect Liang Sicheng surveyed the complex in 1933 and rated it the finest temple outside Beijing."},{"id":"lingshou-manshan-huaxigu","name":"Manshan Huaxi Valley","name_zh":"漫山花溪谷","pinyin":"Mànshān Huāxī Gǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.6961,"lon":113.8547,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshou-manshan-huaxigu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain-valley leisure and holiday resort on the south side of the Wuyuezhai massif, developed from 2011 around two former mountain hamlets. The Lingshou county government describes a valley about 12.5 km long and 20 km² in area, rising from about 800 m to over 2,000 m, with a stream along its floor, a mountain flower garden, a lake in the gorge and an elevated 'glass rafting' course. It has lodging, dining and recreation facilities, and suits families wanting a cool summer weekend rather than a hard hike."},{"id":"jingxing-mount-cangyan","name":"Mount Cangyan","name_zh":"苍岩山","pinyin":"Cāngyán Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.8296,"lon":114.1361,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingxing-mount-cangyan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded gorge in the Taihang foothills where the Fuqing Temple complex is built into the cliffs, with its Bridge-Tower Hall carried on a stone arch spanning a narrow cleft high above the valley floor. The temple is traditionally said to date from the Sui dynasty and to have been the retreat of Princess Nanyang, a daughter of Emperor Yang; the present buildings are Ming and Qing, and the temple is a national heritage unit. The setting was used in the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and a stepped path climbs from the temple towards the summit."},{"id":"shijiazhuang-north-china-martyrs-cemetery","name":"North China Military Region Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"华北军区烈士陵园","pinyin":"Huáběi Jūnqū Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0444,"lon":114.4589,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shijiazhuang-north-china-martyrs-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial cemetery and park of about 21 ha in Shijiazhuang, opened in 1954 to commemorate people who died in the revolutionary wars in North China. Its graves include those of the Canadian doctor Norman Bethune and the Indian doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis, who both worked with the Communist-led armies, and its grounds hold a monument, bronze statues of named martyrs, a memorial hall on the North China revolutionary war and a memorial hall for the Bethune–India medical team. It is a state-designated patriotic-education and red-tourism site."},{"id":"pingshan-giant-turtle-garden","name":"Oriental Giant Turtle Garden","name_zh":"东方巨龟苑","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Jùguī Yuàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.2211,"lon":114.1464,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-giant-turtle-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A family leisure park on the east bank of the Ye River in Pingshan County, built by a local entrepreneur whose business began with soft-shelled turtle farming. Its sights include a giant turtle-shaped landmark, a long gallery walkway, a landscaped garden themed on Chinese history, an aquarium and water-play areas, with the turtle-farming side of the business also on show. It suits families with children and school study groups rather than heritage travellers."},{"id":"zhaoxian-bailin-temple-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Bailin Temple","name_zh":"柏林寺塔","pinyin":"Bǎilín Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.7476,"lon":114.7782,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoxian-bailin-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The memorial pagoda of the Tang Chan master Zhaozhou Congshen, rebuilt in 1330 under the Yuan dynasty and standing in the front courtyard of Bailin Chan Temple in Zhao County. It is an octagonal brick pagoda with seven tiers of closely stacked eaves above a carved Sumeru-style base showing musicians, guardian figures, animals and peonies, and 136 iron wind bells hang from its eaves. The temple around it was rebuilt in the 1990s and is an active Chan monastery, and the Zhaozhou Bridge is about 3 km to the south-south-west."},{"id":"shijiazhuang-pilu-temple","name":"Pilu Temple, Shijiazhuang","name_zh":"毗卢寺","pinyin":"Pílú Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1258,"lon":114.4199,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shijiazhuang-pilu-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple on the north-western edge of Shijiazhuang, founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt several times; its two main old halls, the Shijia Hall and the Pilu Hall, are of the Ming period. The walls of the Pilu Hall carry more than 120 square metres of Ming 'water-and-land' ritual murals, with 122 groups and over 500 figures: Buddhist figures on the north wall, Daoist ones on the east and west walls, and Confucian and everyday scenes on the south wall. The paintings date from a rebuilding between 1495 and 1535, and Chinese specialists name them, with those of Beijing's Fahai Temple, as the best-known Ming temple murals."},{"id":"zanhuang-qipanshan","name":"Qipanshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"棋盘山","pinyin":"Qípánshān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.6269,"lon":114.1211,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zanhuang-qipanshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area of about 20 km² in the Taihang foothills of western Zanhuang County, divided into four sub-areas (Apricot Valley, Qipanshan, Camel Peak and Eight Immortals Ridge) with more than 110 named sights, among them dozens of peaks, cliffs and caves. The highest point, Sixianggong Zhai, is 1,342.3 m, and the long apricot valley blossoms around the end of March, with wild peach and rhododendron following in spring and summer. Its summers are cool, with a hottest-month average of about 22 °C."},{"id":"lingshou-qiushan","name":"Qiushan Scenic Area","name_zh":"秋山","pinyin":"Qiūshān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.5262,"lon":114.1362,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshou-qiushan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested hill-and-valley scenic area of about 8 km² in the Taihang foothills of Lingshou County, bounded by reservoirs on three sides, with more than 95 per cent plant cover, small waterfalls, lakes and stone outcrops. The official description names a stretch of old wall called Tianlei Great Wall, the Qinghu and Cuihu lakes and an old battlefield site among its sights, and gives a summer temperature on the hill of about 20 °C. It suits a cool day out from Shijiazhuang for people who prefer quiet woodland to developed attractions."},{"id":"zhengding-rongguo-mansion","name":"Rongguo Mansion, Zhengding","name_zh":"荣国府","pinyin":"Róngguó Fǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1475,"lon":114.5735,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-rongguo-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A full-size replica of the Rong family mansion from the novel Dream of the Red Chamber, built in Zhengding between 1984 and 1986 as the set for the 1987 television adaptation and kept open afterwards as an attraction. The courtyard houses, with 212 rooms in three axes of five courtyards each, are furnished in Ming and Qing style, and Ningrong Street beside them is a 200 m street of 51 shop-fronts built in Qing style. It is a film set rather than a historic building, and suits fans of the novel or the series."},{"id":"lingshou-shuiquanxi","name":"Shuiquanxi Nature Scenic Area","name_zh":"水泉溪自然风景区","pinyin":"Shuǐquánxī Zìrán Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.6458,"lon":113.9132,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshou-shuiquanxi","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain-stream scenic area of about 47 km² in the Taihang hills of Lingshou County, with forest covering about 90 per cent of the ground and more than 100 named spots, among them Qingshi Gorge, Wolong Rock, the Fairy and Rainbow waterfalls and a cave called the Immortals' Cave. The largest waterfall drops over 100 m, and the streams and shade make it a cool place in the warmer months. It suits walkers and families who want water and woodland rather than temples or towns."},{"id":"zhengding-li-baochen-stele","name":"Stele of the Prince of Qinghe (Li Baochen Stele)","name_zh":"大唐清河郡王纪功载政之颂碑","pinyin":"Dàtáng Qīnghé Jùnwáng Jìgōng Zàizhèng Zhī Sòng Bēi","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1428,"lon":114.5653,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-li-baochen-stele/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tang-dynasty stone stele set on a tortoise base under a top of interlaced dragons and sheltered by a stele pavilion in the old town of Zhengding. Erected in 766 by imperial order, its 1,007 surviving characters, in regular and running script, praise the record of Li Baochen, military governor of the Chengde circuit. It is also known as the wind-moving stele."},{"id":"zanhuang-zhiping-temple-stone-pagoda","name":"Stone Pagoda of Zhiping Temple","name_zh":"治平寺石塔","pinyin":"Zhìpíng Sì Shítǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.627,"lon":114.4081,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zanhuang-zhiping-temple-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving remains of Zhiping Temple, a temple founded in the Sui dynasty and largely destroyed in the war against Japan: a four-storey octagonal stone pagoda dated to 749, two small stone pagodas and a dharani pillar, all of the Tang period. The group stands at the northern edge of Jiayingsi village in the Zanhuang countryside. It is a small rural monument for people interested in early stone architecture, not a developed attraction."},{"id":"pingshan-tenglongshan","name":"Tenglongshan","name_zh":"藤龙山","pinyin":"Ténglóng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.5183,"lon":114.0964,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-tenglongshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 8 square kilometres in Wangpo township, in the north-west of Pingshan County, known for woodland hung with vines. The city government describes streams, pools and small waterfalls among the rocks, and the ridge also keeps the remains of blockhouses from the war against Japan. It suits a half-day walk in the hills."},{"id":"pingshan-tiangui-mountain","name":"Tiangui Mountain","name_zh":"天桂山","pinyin":"Tiānguì Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.2573,"lon":113.739,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-tiangui-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of steep peaks, caves and springs in the Taihang hills of Pingshan County, with a large Taoist temple complex, Qinglong Guan, that is said locally to have begun as a late-Ming imperial lodge. On one cliff is a carving of the Chinese character gui ('return'), 97.71 m high and 49.1 m wide, cut in 1997 to mark Hong Kong's return to Chinese rule. Other sights include a cave and exhibition hall linked to the White-Haired Girl story and a Taoist martial-arts square."},{"id":"shijiazhuang-tianhu-dharani-pillar","name":"Tianhu Dharani Pillar","name_zh":"天护陀罗尼经幢","pinyin":"Tiānhù Tuóluóní Jīngchuáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0783,"lon":114.0627,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shijiazhuang-tianhu-dharani-pillar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tang-dynasty Buddhist sutra pillar dated by its inscription to 727, standing in the grounds of the former East Chan Temple in Tianhu village, on the site of the Tang town of Tianhu. The octagonal stone shaft is carved with a dharani sutra and rises from a stepped base, with tiers of carved beasts, arhats and Buddhas above it, and Chinese sources count it among the earliest surviving sutra pillars in China. Its upper tiers were knocked down in a theft in December 2010 and the stolen piece was recovered within two days."},{"id":"shijiazhuang-tianshan-sea-world","name":"Tianshan Sea World","name_zh":"天山海世界","pinyin":"Tiānshān Hǎishìjiè","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0379,"lon":114.6014,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shijiazhuang-tianshan-sea-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercial leisure complex in Shijiazhuang's Yuhua District, opened in 1999, that combines shopping and entertainment with a water park. A 2018 upgrade added water attractions such as a lazy river and slides, and since 2023 the winter water-play area has been a children's play park. It is a modern mall-and-leisure venue rather than a historic sight, and it suits families wanting an indoor day out in the city."},{"id":"pingshan-tuoliang","name":"Tuoliang Scenic Area","name_zh":"驼梁","pinyin":"Tuóliáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.7224,"lon":113.7971,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-tuoliang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high Taihang mountain area of 158 km² with a summit of 2,281 m, one of the five highest peaks in Hebei, and about 98% forest cover. More than 200 sights are listed, among them a gorge of small waterfalls (Baipu Gorge), stepped cascades and the sub-alpine Yunding meadow, which is in flower in summer. It is also a national forest park and nature reserve, and its summer average of about 19°C is why it is promoted as a cool retreat."},{"id":"pingshan-wanshou-temple-pagoda-forest","name":"Wanshou Temple Pagoda Forest","name_zh":"万寿寺塔林","pinyin":"Wànshòu Sì Tǎlín","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.3547,"lon":114.2037,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-wanshou-temple-pagoda-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of twelve brick tomb pagodas for the abbots of Wanshou Chan Temple, also called Linshan Temple, on the western foot of Donglin Mountain at Sanji in Pingshan County. They range in date from the Five Dynasties to the Qing, and the inscriptions on seven of them can still be read. It is a quiet add-on to a visit to the Zhongshan site about 3 km to the south."},{"id":"pingshan-wuwushui","name":"Wuwushui Scenic Area","name_zh":"沕沕水","pinyin":"Wùwùshuǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1973,"lon":113.7444,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-wuwushui","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst valley scenic area of about 11.5 km² in western Pingshan County, where a spring breaks out high on the hillside and feeds waterfalls with drops of 93 m and 45 m; in winter the water is used for an ice-fall display. The area also holds a late Palaeolithic cave site, Shuilian Cave, and a small hydroelectric station built in 1947–48 to supply power to Xibaipo, then the seat of the Communist Party's central leadership. It suits visitors who want mountain scenery and some red-tourism history in one outing."},{"id":"lingshou-wuyuezhai","name":"Wuyuezhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"五岳寨","pinyin":"Wǔyuè Zhài","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.7158,"lon":113.8597,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshou-wuyuezhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area and national forest park in the north-west corner of Lingshou County, named for five peaks standing side by side; the main summit is close to 2,000 m, with deep gorges, larch and birch woods and an alpine meadow near the top. The best-known sight is the waterfall called the First Waterfall of Yan and Zhao, a drop of about 108 m billed as the largest mountain waterfall in northern China. Routes range from a short gorge-and-waterfall loop to a full-day circuit to the main peak, and the area is known for its cool summers."},{"id":"pingshan-xibaipo","name":"Xibaipo (Former CPC Central Committee Site)","name_zh":"西柏坡","pinyin":"Xībǎipō","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.3395,"lon":113.9385,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-xibaipo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village where the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army were based between 1947 and March 1949, and from which the Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin campaigns of the civil war were directed. The site holds the residences and offices of leaders including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Liu Shaoqi, the hall where the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee met in March 1949, the military operations room, and a large memorial museum with exhibitions on the period. The original village was flooded by the Gangnan Reservoir in 1959, so the buildings are reconstructions on higher ground, rebuilt from 1970."},{"id":"pingshan-xiyuan-hot-spring-resort","name":"Xiyuan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"西苑温泉度假村","pinyin":"Xīyuàn Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.2675,"lon":113.9755,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-xiyuan-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort hotel in Wentang township, Pingshan County, with a four-star hotel of about 460 rooms and a bathing and water-play complex called Xiyuan Xiangshuiwan. It has indoor water slides and a children's play area, landscaped outdoor pools fed by cold, warm and hot waterfalls, herbal baths, and a cave-themed water zone. It suits families and groups who want a hot-spring stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"zhaoxian-yongtong-bridge","name":"Yongtong Bridge","name_zh":"永通桥","pinyin":"Yǒngtōng Qiáo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.754,"lon":114.761,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoxian-yongtong-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A single-span stone arch bridge on the west side of Zhao County town, known locally as the Small Stone Bridge and built on the same open-spandrel plan as the Anji Bridge a few kilometres to the south. It is admired for the relief carvings on its parapets, arch faces and piers, and a local saying credits the big bridge with engineering and the small one with ornament. Its date is debated: stones found beneath it in 1986 point to about 765 in the Tang, while older accounts give the Jin dynasty, and a small park has been laid out around it."},{"id":"lingshou-youju-temple-pagoda","name":"Youju Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"幽居寺塔","pinyin":"Yōujū Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.5927,"lon":114.035,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshou-youju-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The only surviving building of Youju Temple, which was founded in the Northern Qi dynasty in the 6th century and destroyed in the Qing period: a seven-tier square brick pagoda of the Tang dynasty, about 23 m high, with tightly stacked eaves. The national heritage record notes three Northern Qi Buddha figures kept inside it. It stands in a hill village in the Taihang foothills and is a remote rural monument rather than a developed attraction."},{"id":"pingshan-yujiashan-cliff-carvings","name":"Yujiashan Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"瑜伽山摩崖造像","pinyin":"Yújiāshān Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.2242,"lon":113.7895,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-yujiashan-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Song-dynasty seated Maitreya, 8 m high and carved in 1056 on a hill about 2 km west of Nanye village, which the national heritage authority calls the largest single Song stone image in Hebei. It is sheltered by the Maitreya Pavilion, a two-storey brick vaulted hall rebuilt in 1574. On a cliff to the south are 42 small seated Buddhas and a water-moon Guanyin with an inscription dated 1072."},{"id":"zanhuang-zhangshiyan","name":"Zhangshiyan Scenic Area","name_zh":"嶂石岩","pinyin":"Zhàngshíyán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.4618,"lon":114.0459,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zanhuang-zhangshiyan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national scenic area and geopark on the western edge of Zanhuang County, where the Taihang range breaks into three stacked tiers of red sandstone cliffs, each about 100–150 m high and running for tens of kilometres. The Zhangshiyan landform is named after this place, and Chinese sources rank it with the Danxia and Zhangjiajie landforms as China's three main sandstone landforms. The area has five zones, including Jiunü Peak, the Echo Wall (a huge amphitheatre-shaped cliff valley that returns clear echoes), the Dongling Bei ice-fall valley and a flower-valley zone, with cable car, rafting and camping facilities."},{"id":"zhaoxian-zhaozhou-dharani-pillar","name":"Zhaozhou Dharani Pillar","name_zh":"赵州陀罗尼经幢","pinyin":"Zhàozhōu Tuóluóní Jīngchuáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":37.7474,"lon":114.7686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoxian-zhaozhou-dharani-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seven-tier octagonal stone sutra pillar built in 1038 under the Northern Song, 16.44 m high, on the site of the former Kaiyuan Temple in the middle of Zhao County town. Its tiers are carved with the dharani sutra, Buddhist scenes, guardian figures and miniature buildings, and Chinese sources describe it as the tallest surviving pillar of its kind in China. Lightning damaged the middle tiers in 1983, it was repaired by 1990, and it now stands in a protective pool ringed by a stone balustrade."},{"id":"zhengding-city-wall","name":"Zhengding City Wall","name_zh":"正定城墙","pinyin":"Zhèngdìng Chéngqiáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.129,"lon":114.5649,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-city-wall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The brick wall of the old prefectural city of Zhengding, which reached its present form in a Ming rebuild finished in 1576; each of its four gates had three layers of defence, the main gate, a barbican and a crescent outer wall. Much of it was pulled down from 1958, but the south gate group, the Changle Gate, and the adjoining stretches have been restored since 2014, and visitors can walk on top of the wall. The old town's temples and streets lie to the north."},{"id":"zhengding-county-confucian-temple","name":"Zhengding County Confucian Temple","name_zh":"正定县文庙","pinyin":"Zhèngdìng Xiàn Wénmiào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1435,"lon":114.5613,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-county-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The county Confucian temple in Zhengding old town, whose main hall, the Dacheng Hall, is regarded as the oldest surviving Confucian temple hall in China. The county gazetteer gives a Ming date of 1374, but its five bays, hip-and-gable roof and heavy bracket sets point to the late Tang or Five Dynasties. The site also keeps a screen wall, a Pan Pool, a gate hall and side halls, and the separate prefectural Confucian temple stands nearby."},{"id":"zhengding-prefectural-confucian-temple","name":"Zhengding Prefectural Confucian Temple","name_zh":"正定府文庙","pinyin":"Zhèngdìng Fǔ Wénmiào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.1436,"lon":114.567,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengding-prefectural-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving gate hall and flanking side rooms of the Confucian temple of Zhengding Prefecture, founded in 1070. The five-bay gate hall dates from the Yuan dynasty and is described by the county government as the only Yuan-period building left in Zhengding. The gate hall and side rooms have been repaired, and the site opened to the public on 30 December 2019 together with the east city gate, the City God temple and the Zhengding Museum."},{"id":"jingxing-zhengfeng-mine-duanjialou","name":"Zhengfeng Mine Industrial Buildings (Duanjialou)","name_zh":"正丰矿工业建筑群","pinyin":"Zhèngfēng Kuàng Gōngyè Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.0365,"lon":114.0263,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxing-zhengfeng-mine-duanjialou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The head office and staff housing of the Zhengfeng coal-mining company, built from 1913 to a German-led design after the mine was reorganised in 1912 with investment from the Beiyang general Duan Qirui; the complex is known locally as Duanjialou. Visitors can see the general manager's office building with its banquet hall and period fittings, the smaller residences, and part of a tunnel that runs beneath the site. Chinese state media describe it as one of the better-preserved groups of modern industrial buildings in north China."},{"id":"pingshan-zhongshan-ancient-city-site","name":"Zhongshan Ancient City Site","name_zh":"中山古城遗址","pinyin":"Zhōngshān Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.3283,"lon":114.1972,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-zhongshan-ancient-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of Lingshou, the later capital of Zhongshan, a Warring States kingdom founded by the Xianyu, a northern Di people, which lies mostly in Sanji township in Pingshan County. Excavations from 1974 uncovered the kingdom's royal tombs, among them that of King Cuo, and more than 19,000 objects including inscribed bronzes. The part open to visitors is the tomb of King Cuo with the Zhongshan Royal Tombs Exhibition Hall, a cultural experience hall and an archaeology centre, while many of the best finds, such as the inlaid bronze plan of the necropolis, are shown at the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang."},{"id":"pingshan-ziyun-mountain","name":"Ziyun Mountain","name_zh":"紫云山","pinyin":"Zǐyún Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Shijiazhuang","lat":38.2026,"lon":113.8712,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-ziyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 5 km² in the Taihang hills of Pingshan County, with a main peak of 1,128 m, more than twenty natural limestone caves hung with stalactites, stone-built farmhouses and red autumn foliage on the slopes. It has also been developed with red-tourism and ethnic-culture displays and is a pilot forest-wellness base. It suits a quiet half-day in the hills."},{"id":"qianan-baiyangyu-great-wall","name":"Baiyangyu Great Wall","name_zh":"白羊峪长城","pinyin":"Báiyángyù Chángchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":40.1943,"lon":118.7219,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianan-baiyangyu-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stretch of Ming Great Wall about 4.5 km long along the ridges at Baiyangyu pass, with 21 towers, of which the Qian'an city government counts six as fairly complete. State media describe about 1.5 km of it as the 'marble Great Wall', with its base and tower foundations laid in marble and the wall standing up to 10 m high."},{"id":"laoting-bodhi-island","name":"Bodhi Island","name_zh":"菩提岛","pinyin":"Pútí Dǎo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.1372,"lon":118.8241,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laoting-bodhi-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The wooded island of the three that make up Tangshan International Tourist Island, in the Bohai Sea off Laoting County; state media describe it as an island of old trees, in contrast to the sandy Yuetuo Island. It lies within the Bodhi Islands provincial nature reserve, a migratory-bird stopover for which the Ministry of Ecology and Environment reports 379 bird species a year. A visitor centre and a culture hall stand by its harbour plaza at the north-east end."},{"id":"caofeidian-wetland","name":"Caofeidian Wetland","name_zh":"曹妃甸湿地","pinyin":"Cáofēidiàn Shīdì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.1786,"lon":118.3625,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caofeidian-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Part of a coastal wetland on the Bohai shore of Caofeidian District, made up of reed beds, marshes, fish ponds, shallow reservoirs and tidal flats; the provincial-level wetland and bird reserve covers about 110 square kilometres and lies on the East Asian–Australasian migratory route. Around Cao Fei Lake, visitors can take boat trips, fish, walk a reed-maze trail with a lookout tower and watch birds, with waterbirds most numerous in April and May. More than 300 bird species have been recorded."},{"id":"caofeidian-doma-park","name":"Doma Park, Caofeidian","name_zh":"多玛乐园","pinyin":"Duōmǎ Lèyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.1541,"lon":118.3808,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caofeidian-doma-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fishing-themed leisure park inside the Caofeidian wetland resort, where visitors catch fish, crabs and clams by traditional methods and by newer ones. Attractions include robot fishing, an underwater-camera fishing system and a water-borne 'space-time express' train, according to the park's publicity as reported by state media. It suits families with children."},{"id":"zunhua-eastern-qing-tombs","name":"Eastern Qing Tombs","name_zh":"清东陵","pinyin":"Qīng Dōnglíng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":40.188,"lon":117.64,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zunhua-eastern-qing-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The burial ground of five Qing emperors (Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, Xianfeng and Tongzhi), 15 empresses and 136 imperial concubines, spread over about 80 square kilometres of hills around Changrui Mountain. Visitors walk the stone-lined spirit ways, with their archways, bridges and carved figures, to the halls of several tombs, among them Xiaoling (Shunzhi), Jingling (Kangxi), Yuling (Qianlong) and Empress Dowager Cixi's Ding Dongling; the underground chambers of Yuling and Cixi's tomb can be visited. Chinese official sources describe it as the largest and most complete surviving Qing imperial tomb complex, and it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000."},{"id":"qianxi-fenghuang-mountain","name":"Fenghuang Mountain, Qianxi","name_zh":"凤凰山","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":40.0819,"lon":118.4168,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianxi-fenghuang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A limestone mountain about 400 m high in Xinji town, southern Qianxi, named for its resemblance to a phoenix with spread wings, with secondary forest and a Buddhist temple, Putuo Chan Temple, at its foot. The main event is a traditional temple fair on the 19th day of the second lunar month, with opera, folk dance and other folk arts, and the park also runs high-mountain rafting and a tree-house area."},{"id":"fengnan-hetou-old-street","name":"Hetou Old Street","name_zh":"河头老街","pinyin":"Hétóu Lǎojiē","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.5598,"lon":118.0686,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengnan-hetou-old-street","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A shopping, food and entertainment street built in old-street style on both banks of the Tangjin Canal, on the line of the 1881 coal canal that gave Hetou its name. It first opened in January 2023 and has run as a regular attraction since early 2024; evenings are the main draw, with street and stage performances, a floating market selling local snacks, lantern-lit bridges, costumed actors and the outdoor shows Tang Wang Dong Zheng and Da Tang Cao Fei. It was named a national tourism and leisure street in December 2023 and a national night-time culture and tourism cluster in January 2024."},{"id":"qianxi-huaxiang-guoxiang","name":"Huaxiang Guoxiang Rural Park, Qianxi","name_zh":"花乡果巷","pinyin":"Huāxiāng Guǒxiàng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.9833,"lon":118.4002,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianxi-huaxiang-guoxiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural-tourism zone in Qianxi built around flower and fruit farming, with oil-peony and kiwi-fruit farms and organic grain fields, approved as a national 'rural complex' pilot (the only one in Hebei when state media reported on it in 2020). Pear-blossom, peony and harvest festivals have been held in season, and the surrounding villages run farmhouse restaurants."},{"id":"yutian-jingjue-temple","name":"Jingjue Temple, Yutian","name_zh":"净觉寺","pinyin":"Jìngjué Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.8117,"lon":117.92,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yutian-jingjue-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the countryside of Yutian County, traditionally said to date back to the Tang dynasty but mostly rebuilt in 1842–55 under the Qing. Its buildings run along a central axis, from an archway and a brick-vaulted 'beamless' gate hall through a stele pavilion, bell and drum towers and the main halls, over a site of about 1.85 hectares with roughly a hundred statues and eight steles. The mix of Ming and Qing styles and the late-Qing calligraphy on its plaques and steles are the main interest."},{"id":"qianxi-jingzhong-mountain","name":"Jingzhong Mountain, Qianxi","name_zh":"景忠山","pinyin":"Jǐngzhōng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":40.1878,"lon":118.1966,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianxi-jingzhong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple mountain about 610 m high in Qianxi, where Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian shrines stand in three clusters at the foot, middle and summit, joined by a stairway of 1,872 steps through pines more than 200 years old. The Shunzhi and Kangxi emperors visited six times between them, and Kangxi wrote the inscription 'Famous Mountain Under Heaven' for it; large temple fairs are held on the 18th day of the fourth lunar month and the 15th of the tenth."},{"id":"caofeidian-lanyuewan","name":"Lanyuewan Seaside Area, Caofeidian","name_zh":"揽月湾","pinyin":"Lǎnyuèwān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.162,"lon":118.5968,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caofeidian-lanyuewan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seaside leisure area on the Bohai shore of Caofeidian New City, built around a sandy bay with about 12.8 km of shoreline and a 13.14 km coastal walking trail. Beach camping, seafood meals, kite events and open-air film shows are on offer."},{"id":"laoting-li-dazhao-memorial-hall-residence","name":"Li Dazhao Memorial Hall and Former Residence","name_zh":"李大钊纪念馆及故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Dàzhāo Jìniànguǎn Jí Gùjū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.3858,"lon":119.0792,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laoting-li-dazhao-memorial-hall-residence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Li Dazhao, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, was born in 1889 in Dahetuo village, where the three-courtyard farmhouse he grew up in is a nationally protected site. The memorial hall in Laoting town, on a site of about 9 hectares, holds some 35,000 objects, with a white-marble statue of Li in its tribute hall. The memorial hall is a first-class national museum and one of the 100 national red-tourism classic scenic areas."},{"id":"qianxi-longjingguan-great-wall-rafting","name":"Longjingguan Great Wall and Rafting Area","name_zh":"龙井关长城漂流","pinyin":"Lóngjǐngguān Chángchéng Piāoliú","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":40.3737,"lon":118.2038,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianxi-longjingguan-great-wall-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river-rafting scenic area at Longjingguan, a Ming Great Wall pass at the foot of Qi Mountain in Han'erzhuang, northern Qianxi. The county government describes a rafting course of about 9.8 km on the Sa River, taking around two hours, with a tunnel section about 1 km long adapted from Ming-era soldiers' caves and an armoury under the mountain. The pass and the wall on the hills above form the backdrop."},{"id":"luanzhou-ancient-city","name":"Luanzhou Ancient City","name_zh":"滦州古城","pinyin":"Luánzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.7415,"lon":118.7514,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanzhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reconstruction of the old walled town of Luanzhou in Ming-Qing style, opened in 2012, with a rebuilt city gate, bell and drum towers, a reception pavilion and the old county yamen from the 'Yang Sanjie' opera story. Inside are commercial streets, folk-custom and temple-fair quarters and the Luanzhou Shadow Puppet Museum, in a region known for shadow puppetry and pingju opera. It is a new development rather than a surviving old town, so it suits a relaxed stroll and a meal."},{"id":"fengrun-panjiayu-massacre-site","name":"Panjiayu Massacre Site and Memorial Hall","name_zh":"潘家峪惨案遗址","pinyin":"Pānjiāyù Cǎn'àn Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.9987,"lon":118.3142,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengrun-panjiayu-massacre-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Panjiayu was a village used as a base by the Eastern Hebei anti-Japanese resistance, and on 25 January 1941 Japanese and puppet-government troops surrounded it and killed more than 1,200 villagers, described as the first large-scale atrocity under the Japanese 'Three Alls' policy. A memorial hall and museum stand at the site, with an ancestral hall put up by the villagers for the victims. It was named a national patriotic education base in 2001 and listed as a nationally protected site in 2006."},{"id":"luanzhou-qinglong-mountain","name":"Qinglong Mountain, Luanzhou","name_zh":"青龙山","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.8459,"lon":118.4392,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanzhou-qinglong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area in the north-west of Luanzhou, a spur of the Yan Mountains, with Buddhist and Taoist temples and walking routes through pine and cypress woods. It is promoted for spring blossom and autumn colour."},{"id":"qianxi-qingshanguan-great-wall","name":"Qingshanguan Great Wall","name_zh":"青山关","pinyin":"Qīngshān Guān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":40.4044,"lon":118.5442,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianxi-qingshanguan-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Great Wall pass in the mountains of north-eastern Qianxi, reckoned the best-preserved part of the county's Ming wall, with a surviving lift-type water gate, a 72-arch tower, the round 'Moon City' and a 'prison tower'. Below the wall stands a fort more than 400 years old, whose former offices, barracks, temples, teahouses and inns are now partly restored as restaurants and guesthouses. Climbing the wall is steep in places."},{"id":"tangshan-qixin-cement-museum","name":"Qixin Cement Industry Museum, Tangshan","name_zh":"唐山启新水泥工业博物馆","pinyin":"Tángshān Qǐxīn Shuǐní Gōngyè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.629,"lon":118.2043,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangshan-qixin-cement-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum without walls on the site of the Qixin Cement Works, founded in 1889 as China's first cement works, with 24 old buildings kept, among them silos, a freight platform and red-brick walls. Rotary kilns 4 and 5 date from the early 1910s and are described by state media as the oldest surviving in China, and kilns 6 and 7 ran from 1922 to 1998. The site is also the Qixin 1889 creative park, with cafés, craft shops, a 3D cinema and art exhibitions in the old halls."},{"id":"zunhua-shangheyuan-tourist-area","name":"Shangheyuan Tourist Area, Zunhua","name_zh":"尚禾源","pinyin":"Shànghéyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":40.2115,"lon":117.8782,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zunhua-shangheyuan-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure and rural-tourism area in Xingwangzhai town, west of Zunhua, centred on Lianxiang Town, a street of buildings built in old-street style that is hung with red lanterns for the New Year. Local government and state-media reports show seasonal events there, among them garden parties with stage shows, costumed performers and bonfire evenings, and visitors in Han-style dress. It suits families and groups wanting an easy half-day outing rather than historic buildings."},{"id":"qianan-shanyekou","name":"Shanyekou Scenic Area, Qian'an","name_zh":"山叶口","pinyin":"Shānyèkǒu","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.9792,"lon":118.5277,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianan-shanyekou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area of about 14 square kilometres in the hills west of Qian'an, opened in 2011 and known for its stream-cut valley, a mountaintop lake and coloured conglomerate pebbles and boulders from very ancient rock. It is part of Qian'an National Geopark and has a geology gallery and exhibition hall. A few dozen farmhouse restaurants and guesthouses serve visitors in the village at its entrance."},{"id":"tangshan-earthquake-ruins-memorial-park","name":"Tangshan Earthquake Ruins Memorial Park","name_zh":"唐山地震遗址纪念公园","pinyin":"Tángshān Dìzhèn Yízhǐ Jìniàn Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.5963,"lon":118.1772,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tangshan-earthquake-ruins-memorial-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park built around the ruined steel-casting workshop of the former Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works, left standing as evidence of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake of 28 July 1976 that flattened the city. A long black wall beside the ruins is engraved with the names of more than 240,000 people who died, and the China Tangshan Earthquake Museum next door covers the quake, the rescue and the rebuilding with objects from old Tangshan and a shaking simulation. The ruined workshop is one of three earthquake sites in the national-level listing; the others, a former college library and a former school, are elsewhere in the city."},{"id":"tangshan-nanhu-kailuan","name":"Tangshan Nanhu and Kailuan Scenic Area","name_zh":"唐山南湖·开滦","pinyin":"Tángshān Nánhú·Kāiluán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.6018,"lon":118.1521,"category":"city","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tangshan-nanhu-kailuan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two linked parks in the middle of Tangshan: Nanhu, a lake park of nine lakes and five islands laid out on ground that sank after a century of coal mining, and the Kailuan National Mining Park beside it. The mining park has the Kailuan Museum, the zero-kilometre marker of China's first standard-gauge railway, a railway museum with a full-size replica of the 'Dragon' locomotive and an old mine shaft toured in miner's gear; its nationally protected core is the 1878 mine shaft, the railway's starting point and the Dadao road-rail underpass. Nanhu is for walking and cycling round the water, with a light-and-water show in the evening."},{"id":"tangshan-science-and-technology-museum","name":"Tangshan Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"唐山市科技馆","pinyin":"Tángshān Shì Kējìguǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.6236,"lon":118.1593,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangshan-science-and-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The municipal science and technology museum, in a large modern building in central Tangshan on the south side of Xinhua Road, just west of its crossing with Weiguo Road. Its science educators perform live experiment shows, such as the 'elephant toothpaste' demonstration staged at Hebei's 2024 Science Popularisation Day event, and the museum is one of Tangshan's designated parent-and-child activity bases, so it suits visitors travelling with young children."},{"id":"fengrun-tiangong-temple-pagoda","name":"Tiangong Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"天宫寺塔","pinyin":"Tiāngōngsì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.8227,"lon":118.1165,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengrun-tiangong-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A thirteen-tier octagonal pagoda of brick and stone from the Liao dynasty, about 24 m high on a 5 m platform, completed in 1062 and the only part left of the former Tiangong Temple. Dragon-carved corner columns, lotus-petal bands and eaves hung with bells decorate the body. The 1976 earthquake shook off the finial and cracked the tower, and repairs in 1986–89 uncovered two chambers holding statues and scriptures."},{"id":"laoting-yuetuo-island","name":"Yuetuo (Moon) Island","name_zh":"月坨岛","pinyin":"Yuètuó Dǎo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Tangshan","lat":39.1161,"lon":118.8513,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laoting-yuetuo-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A crescent-shaped sandy island in the Bohai Sea off Laoting County, one of the three islands of Tangshan International Tourist Island (with Bodhi and Xiangyun islands), which state media call a national demonstration base for island development. State media describe it as having white sand and clear water, and nickname it the 'little Holland hanging in the Bohai'."},{"id":"weixian-boxer-assembly-hall","name":"Assembly Hall of the Boxer Movement","name_zh":"义和拳议事厅","pinyin":"Yìhéquán Yìshìtīng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":36.9489,"lon":115.4106,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weixian-boxer-assembly-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A traditional northern-style house of five rooms in Shaliuzhai village, where Zhao Sanduo and other leaders of the Yihequan ('Boxer') movement are recorded as meeting to plan the 1898 uprising. Restored from 1986, it holds an exhibition on Zhao Sanduo and the movement, and his own house stands 60 m away with period furniture, weapons and farm tools. A separate memorial museum in Wei County town covers the wider Boxer movement."},{"id":"neiqiu-bianque-temple","name":"Bian Que Temple","name_zh":"扁鹊庙","pinyin":"Biǎnquè Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.3105,"lon":114.267,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neiqiu-bianque-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large temple complex at the foot of Que Mountain in Shentou village, dedicated to the physician Bian Que; tradition dates it to the Warring States period, though the present buildings are Ming and Qing rebuilds. It is known for its ancient cypresses, more than 100 steles from the Song to the Qing, halls to Bian Que and the Three Pure Ones, a tomb mound and a Han-dynasty stone beast. It is a national education base for traditional Chinese medicine culture, and a Bian Que Culture Festival is held in Neiqiu, most recently in September 2026."},{"id":"xingtai-delong-steel-culture-park","name":"Delong Steel Culture Park","name_zh":"德龙钢铁文化园","pinyin":"Délóng Gāngtiě Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0798,"lon":114.3902,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-delong-steel-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An industrial-tourism park inside the working Xingtai plant of Delong Steel, a private steelmaker, in Xindu District. Xingtai Daily reported in October 2026 that it is the first national AAAA scenic area in China built on a steelworks that is still producing, with sculptures made from scrap steel and a disused railway turned into an industrial-culture wall. It is a factory tour rather than a heritage site, so it suits visitors curious about modern heavy industry."},{"id":"xingtai-jiulong-gorge","name":"Jiulong Gorge","name_zh":"九龙峡","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Xiá","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.1931,"lon":113.8533,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-jiulong-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A sandstone gorge area in the Taihang Mountains of Xindu District, named for its nine gorges and nine valleys and planned to cover about 64 square km, with 1,800-metre Wangmao Mountain as its main peak. Its sights include waterfalls and pools, a peach-blossom valley, red-leaf slopes in autumn, Guanyin Cave and a stretch of Ming Great Wall. It is a day trip for walkers who want canyon scenery west of Xingtai."},{"id":"xingtai-kaiyuan-temple","name":"Kaiyuan Temple, Xingtai","name_zh":"邢台开元寺","pinyin":"Xíngtái Kāiyuán Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0736,"lon":114.5067,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingtai-kaiyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the north-east corner of Xingtai's old city, known as the East Temple, which takes its name from the Kaiyuan era (713–741) of the Tang dynasty and became an imperial temple under the Yuan. The old western compound keeps Ming and Qing halls, a Tang pillar with sixteen faces carved with a Buddhist dharani text, a second dharani pillar of 915 and a Jin-dynasty iron bell cast in 1184, while a large new temple built after 2006 stands to the east. It pairs well with Qingfeng Tower, Tianning Temple and the Xingtai Museum a few hundred metres away."},{"id":"lincheng-kongshan-baiyun-cave","name":"Kongshan Baiyun Cave","name_zh":"崆山白云洞","pinyin":"Kōngshān Báiyúndòng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.4544,"lon":114.43,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lincheng-kongshan-baiyun-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst cave in the Taihang foothills of Lincheng, formed in the Cambrian period and found in 1988 by quarrymen, which opened to visitors in 1990. The route passes through five halls named the Human World, Heaven, Labyrinth, Underworld and Dragon Palace, where the temperature stays around 17 degrees Celsius all year. The Lincheng Xingyao Museum, a national second-grade museum on the white porcelain once made in this area, stands inside the scenic area."},{"id":"nanhe-agricultural-carnival","name":"Nanhe Agricultural Carnival","name_zh":"南和农业嘉年华","pinyin":"Nánhé Nóngyè Jiāniánhuá","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0646,"lon":114.7149,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanhe-agricultural-carnival","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern-agriculture leisure park in the north of Nanhe District, built around large greenhouse halls. The Xingtai agriculture bureau lists a visitor-service area, a creative themed hall, a rose garden, a high-tech farming demonstration area and an agriculture-themed amusement park, and its greenhouses host flower displays. It is a commercial attraction that suits families looking for a short outing from Xingtai."},{"id":"xingtai-nanjia-stone-pagoda","name":"Nanjia Village Stone Pagoda","name_zh":"南贾乡石塔","pinyin":"Nánjiǎxiāng Shítǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0631,"lon":114.2981,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-nanjia-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lone stone pagoda standing in the countryside just south of Nanjia village, in Nanshimen town in the hills west of Xingtai. It is the only structure recorded at the site, and it was added to the national heritage list in 2013 (seventh batch), which dates it to the Tang dynasty. It is a rural monument rather than a developed attraction, so it suits those who enjoy seeking out out-of-the-way pagodas."},{"id":"ningjin-nikeng-liquor-park","name":"Nikeng Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"泥坑酒文化旅游产业园","pinyin":"Níkēngjiǔ Wénhuà Lǚyóu Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.6236,"lon":114.9603,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningjin-nikeng-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A liquor-culture tourism park in Ningjin built around Nikeng baijiu, a strong grain spirit that traces back to a distillery founded in 1916. Its mud-pit solid-state fermentation craft is a Hebei provincial intangible-heritage item, and the old brewing pits and workshops were listed as provincial industrial heritage in 2025. It was added to Hebei's 4A list in December 2025 and suits visitors interested in how baijiu is made rather than in historic sites."},{"id":"pingxiang-confucian-temple","name":"Pingxiang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"平乡文庙","pinyin":"Píngxiāng Wénmiào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":36.9824,"lon":114.9123,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingxiang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The main hall of the Confucian temple of Pingxiang County, first built between 1008 and 1016 under the Northern Song and repaired seven times between the Song and the Qing. The surviving Dacheng Hall is listed as a Yuan-to-Ming timber building, and it was used as a grain store from the 1960s until 1993. It is a small county-town monument for those interested in Confucian temples and old timber architecture."},{"id":"lincheng-puli-temple-pagoda","name":"Puli Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"普利寺塔","pinyin":"Pǔlì Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.4379,"lon":114.5016,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lincheng-puli-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A square, eight-storey brick pagoda 33 m high, built in 1052 under the Northern Song in imitation of timber construction, with closely spaced eaves. It is described as the only pagoda of this square, dense-eaved brick type from the Northern Song to survive in China. The temple it belonged to, founded in the Northern Dynasties, fell into ruin in modern times, leaving the pagoda standing in the middle of Lincheng town."},{"id":"nangong-putong-pagoda","name":"Putong Pagoda","name_zh":"普彤塔","pinyin":"Pǔtóng Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.3739,"lon":115.3581,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nangong-putong-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty pagoda in the rebuilt Putong Temple on the western side of Nangong, added to the national heritage list in 2013. Local tradition dates the temple to AD 67, a year before Luoyang's White Horse Temple, but the original temple has gone and the present one is a modern reconstruction. It is a small stop for pagoda enthusiasts rather than a major sight."},{"id":"xingtai-qiannanyu","name":"Qiannanyu","name_zh":"前南峪","pinyin":"Qiánnányù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.1657,"lon":113.9355,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-qiannanyu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded valley in the Taihang Mountains that was the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University (known as Kangda) from November 1940, the school the Chinese Communist Party ran to train military and political cadres. The village is described as holding the largest and best-preserved group of Kangda sites, including a monument, leaders' former residences, a stele forest and the medical station, together with a national second-grade exhibition hall on the school's history. The surrounding forest park, which the provincial tourism department puts at about 38 square km, gives the visit a woodland setting."},{"id":"xingtai-qingfeng-tower","name":"Qingfeng Tower, Xingtai","name_zh":"清风楼","pinyin":"Qīngfēng Lóu","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.066,"lon":114.502,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-qingfeng-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A two-storey, double-eaved timber tower on a brick platform about six metres high, with a vaulted passage running through its base. Built in the Chenghua era (1465–87) of the Ming dynasty on the site of a predecessor said to go back to the Tang, it has served as a library and an exhibition hall and is one of Xingtai's traditional 'eight views'. The Tao Te Ching Pillar stands in the garden behind it."},{"id":"qinghe-cashmere-town","name":"Qinghe Cashmere Town","name_zh":"羊绒小镇","pinyin":"Yángróng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0934,"lon":115.671,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinghe-cashmere-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A purpose-built cashmere trading and tourism town in Qinghe, with a planned area of about 3.2 sq km, grown from the Qinghe Cashmere Products Market, which began operating in September 2008. It is a place to browse and buy cashmere knitwear along its shopping streets, and the county has been building an e-commerce park and upgrading a riverside park nearby. It suits visitors interested in a Chinese specialist-industry town rather than in historic sites."},{"id":"lincheng-qishan-lake","name":"Qishan Lake","name_zh":"岐山湖","pinyin":"Qíshān Hú","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.4521,"lon":114.3847,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lincheng-qishan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large reservoir on the Zhi River in Lincheng County, officially the Lincheng Reservoir and first called the Sanqi Reservoir, built in 1958–60 and later also called Qishan Lake. It is run as a lakeside scenic area in the Taihang foothills a few kilometres west of Kongshan Baiyun Cave, so the two can be visited together."},{"id":"shahe-song-jing-stele","name":"Song Jing Stele","name_zh":"宋璟碑","pinyin":"Sòng Jǐng Bēi","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":36.9742,"lon":114.4758,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shahe-song-jing-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tang-dynasty memorial stele for the chancellor Song Jing (died 737), standing at Donghu village in Shahe. Song Jing was buried in the family cemetery at Shahe in 738, and the stele was set up in 772 in front of his tomb, with the text composed by the calligrapher Yan Zhenqing and a revised passage cut on its left side in 778. It is a stop for lovers of Tang epigraphy and calligraphy rather than a developed visitor site."},{"id":"longyao-tang-ancestors-mausoleum","name":"Tang Ancestors Mausoleum, Longyao","name_zh":"隆尧唐祖陵","pinyin":"Lóngyáo Táng Zǔlíng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.2947,"lon":114.7657,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyao-tang-ancestors-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two joined tombs, the Jianchu and Qiyun mausolea, mark the burial place of two ancestors of Li Yuan, founder of the Tang dynasty, to whom he gave imperial titles after taking the throne in 618. They stand near Wangyin village south of Longyao, which presents itself as the ancestral home of the Tang imperial Li family, a descent that historians have debated. Li-clan gatherings held in Longyao each October have included visits to the tombs."},{"id":"xingtai-tao-te-ching-pillar","name":"Tao Te Ching Pillar, Xingtai","name_zh":"道德经幢","pinyin":"Dàodéjīng Chuáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0662,"lon":114.5014,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"20 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingtai-tao-te-ching-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An eight-sided stone pillar 6.89 metres tall, carved with the text of the Tao Te Ching and the Tang emperor Xuanzong's commentary on it. It was set up in 739 by the prefect of Xingzhou at the Longxing Daoist temple, was blown apart during the Cultural Revolution, and was raised again in 1990 with a newly carved middle section. It now stands in Qingfeng Garden behind Qingfeng Tower."},{"id":"xingtai-tianhe-mountain","name":"Tianhe Mountain, Xingtai","name_zh":"天河山","pinyin":"Tiānhé Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0898,"lon":113.7845,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-tianhe-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic mountain area of about 30 square km on the Hebei–Shanxi border, with ravines, streams and waterfalls below a high meadow and a main peak of 1,780 m. Local tradition places the Cowherd and Weaver Girl legend here, and the mountain is marketed as the 'Love Mountain' and a centre of Qixi (Double Seventh) culture. It suits visitors after mountain scenery with a romantic theme."},{"id":"xingtai-tianning-temple","name":"Tianning Temple, Xingtai","name_zh":"天宁寺","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0727,"lon":114.4947,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-tianning-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianning Temple, known locally as the West Temple, was founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt under the Yuan, and only its Yuan-era front hall survived the Cultural Revolution, when the work units that had taken the site over pulled down the other buildings. Kublai Khan is recorded as staying here twice and the adviser Liu Bingzhong became a monk here. The city has been restoring the temple since 2011 and opened it in 2025 as the Tianning Temple Cultural Park, with a rebuilt middle hall and a Liu Bingzhong memorial, and the temple and Kaiyuan Temple face each other across the old city."},{"id":"lincheng-tiantai-mountain","name":"Tiantai Mountain, Lincheng","name_zh":"天台山","pinyin":"Tiāntái Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.5257,"lon":114.3842,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lincheng-tiantai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Taihang foothills north-west of Lincheng, in the same hills as Kongshan Baiyun Cave and Qishan Lake. The Hebei culture and tourism department lists more than thirty natural sights, among them a lotus-seed lake, a red-cliff waterfall, a cliff plank walk and a gorge, along with the Tang-founded Ciyun'an temple, where worship continues. Its layered red sandstone cliffs are of the Zhangshiyan landform type."},{"id":"xingtai-tianti-mountain","name":"Tianti Mountain, Xingtai","name_zh":"天梯山","pinyin":"Tiāntī Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0887,"lon":114.2361,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-tianti-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill scenic area in Xindu District, the nearest of the district's mountain 4A sites to Xingtai, known for the red autumn foliage of wild smoke trees growing on its cliffs. It has a cave, viewing platforms and walking paths, and the foliage is at its best from late October. It suits a short autumn outing from the city."},{"id":"xingtai-grand-canyon","name":"Xingtai Grand Canyon","name_zh":"邢台大峡谷","pinyin":"Xíngtái Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.1426,"lon":113.7994,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cluster of 24 sandstone canyons in the Taihang Mountains at Luluo town, near the Shanxi border, eight of them more than a kilometre long; it is a national key scenic area and a national geopark. The main gorge, Huangchao Gorge, runs for about 4 km between cliffs well over 100 m high, narrowing to a metre or two in places, and waterfalls drop through the canyons. Five of the canyons have been opened for walking."},{"id":"neiqiu-xingyao-kiln-site","name":"Xingyao Kiln Site","name_zh":"邢窑遗址","pinyin":"Xíngyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.291,"lon":114.5107,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neiqiu-xingyao-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site museum in Neiqiu county town protects 11 kiln furnaces uncovered in 2012 in a dig named one of China's ten major archaeological discoveries of that year, and visitors look down on them from an elevated walkway. Beside it stand the Xingyao Museum, which shows the white porcelain fired here from the late Northern Dynasties onwards, and a ceramics studio where visitors can try the craft. Xingyao ware, one of the cradles of Chinese white porcelain, was fired at about two dozen main kiln sites, mostly in Neiqiu and Lincheng, which are protected together as a national unit."},{"id":"xingtai-yunmeng-mountain","name":"Yunmeng Mountain, Xingtai","name_zh":"云梦山","pinyin":"Yúnmèng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.3348,"lon":113.921,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-yunmeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain gorge area on the Hebei–Shanxi border in Xindu District, laid out in four tiers called the 'pot-heaven' levels, with a main peak of about 1,300 m and a clear stream running through it. Its best-known sights are the Qiying waterfall, which drops about 105 m, and a large cave known as the lecture cave of Guiguzi, the legendary Warring States sage the mountain is traditionally linked with. It suits a day among the hills north-west of Xingtai."},{"id":"xingtai-zijin-mountain","name":"Zijin Mountain, Xingtai","name_zh":"紫金山","pinyin":"Zǐjīn Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Xingtai","lat":37.0193,"lon":113.7884,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingtai-zijin-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high mountain area in Baian township, Xindu District, averaging more than 1,300 m above sea level, with Motianling as its highest peak at about 1,750 m. It is described as a cool summer retreat and as the site of the ruins of the Yuan-dynasty Zijinshan Academy, where the astronomer Guo Shoujing is said to have studied under the adviser Liu Bingzhong. It suits hikers and anyone interested in Guo Shoujing's early life."},{"id":"zhangjiakou-anjiagou-eco-tourism-area","name":"Anjiagou Ecological Tourism Area","name_zh":"安家沟生态旅游区","pinyin":"Ānjiāgōu Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.8667,"lon":114.8673,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiakou-anjiagou-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic valley on the northern edge of Zhangjiakou, a gully about 4.6 km long with a dozen side gullies, run as an ecological tourism area for day visitors from the city. Visitors walk beside a stream between rocky gully walls, with a suspension footbridge and rafting among the activities. It suits a short outing for families."},{"id":"xuanhua-bailin-temple","name":"Bailin Temple, Xuanhua","name_zh":"宣化柏林寺","pinyin":"Xuānhuà Bǎilín Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.3634,"lon":115.0011,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuanhua-bailin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Buddhist temple in a mountain hollow about 1 km south-west of Bailinsi village in Guocun township, south of Xuanhua, with Ming and Qing buildings. Local tradition dates its founding to the Northern Wei, and the compound includes a main hall, a Duobao ('Many Treasures') pagoda and grotto niches cut into the rock. It is a quiet rural temple rather than a developed attraction."},{"id":"yuxian-changping-granary","name":"Changping Granary, Yuxian","name_zh":"蔚州常平仓","pinyin":"Yùzhōu Chángpíng Cāng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8436,"lon":114.5646,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-changping-granary","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming government granary standing west of the Drum Tower inside Yuxian's old town, one of the 'ever-normal' storehouses that stocked grain to steady prices. It has been a provincial heritage site since 1993 and a national one since 2006. It lies a short walk from Lingyan Temple."},{"id":"chicheng-hot-spring-resort","name":"Chicheng Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"赤城温泉度假村","pinyin":"Chìchéng Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.9006,"lon":115.7442,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chicheng-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring valley west of Chicheng town, where mineral springs rise on the south bank of the Tangquan River and now supply hotels and sanatoria. The springs were already recorded in the Shuijing Zhu of the Northern Wei, and the county describes them as a former imperial spring. It suits visitors who want to soak in a quiet mountain setting rather than see sights."},{"id":"chicheng-longguan-chongguang-pagoda","name":"Chongguang Pagoda, Longguan","name_zh":"重光塔","pinyin":"Chóngguāng Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.7842,"lon":115.5742,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chicheng-longguan-chongguang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming brick pagoda rising over the houses of Longguan town, an old frontier market town in Chicheng County. It began as the pagoda of Puji Temple, which the county's own history credits to the frontier general Yang Hong, and is now known as the Chongguang ('light restored') Pagoda. It was a provincial heritage site before joining the national list in 2013."},{"id":"yuxian-chongtai-temple","name":"Chongtai Temple, Yuxian","name_zh":"蔚县重泰寺","pinyin":"Yùxiàn Chóngtài Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.9227,"lon":114.4823,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-chongtai-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large Buddhist temple on a hillock by Yanjiazhai village, laid out along a north–south axis from an opera stage and gate hall through several halls to a rear building dedicated to the Three Teachings, with a group of pagodas to one side. Its buildings date from the Ming and Qing, and it was listed as a provincial site in 1993 and nationally in 2013."},{"id":"chongli-cuiyunshan-forest-scenic-area","name":"Cuiyunshan Forest Scenic Area","name_zh":"翠云山森林风景区","pinyin":"Cuìyúnshān Sēnlín Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.9987,"lon":115.3028,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongli-cuiyunshan-forest-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain area at Chongli with peaks above 2,000 m, developed as a mountain resort around the Galaxy ski area. In summer a cable car and slides run on the ski slopes, with mountain biking, archery, hiking and an artificial lake with pedal boats and lakeside events. It suits a day trip or a night in one of the resort hotels at its base."},{"id":"zhangjiakou-dajingmen","name":"Dajingmen","name_zh":"大境门","pinyin":"Dàjìngmén","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.8444,"lon":114.886,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangjiakou-dajingmen/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A gate in the Great Wall on the northern edge of Zhangjiakou, built in 1644, through which the road to Mongolia once passed; the trade market that grew up outside it made Zhangjiakou a major caravan town. The gateway is about 12 m high and carries a 1927 inscription reading 'Magnificent Rivers and Mountains', with a stretch of wall running up the hills to the west. It is often counted with Shanhaiguan, Jiayuguan and Juyongguan as one of the Great Wall's four great passes."},{"id":"shangyi-daqingshan-resort","name":"Daqingshan Mountain Resort, Shangyi","name_zh":"大青山国际旅游度假区","pinyin":"Dàqīngshān Guójì Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.951,"lon":114.0306,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangyi-daqingshan-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain tourist resort in Shangyi County beside the Grassland Sky Road, a scenic highway that passes through the Daqingshan forest hills. Its best-known feature is the Jingguang Glass Bridge, a transparent suspension footbridge about 640 m long that spans a valley between two peaks, so a visit is mostly about views over the hills and the road beyond."},{"id":"xuanhua-chahar-democratic-government-site","name":"Former Chahar Democratic Government (Xuanhua Museum)","name_zh":"察哈尔民主政府旧址","pinyin":"Cháhā'ěr Mínzhǔ Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.6081,"lon":115.0517,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanhua-chahar-democratic-government-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A courtyard compound beside Xuanhua's Catholic cathedral, built in 1930 as the Joseph General Seminary in a mix of Chinese and Western styles, with three courtyards and a two-storey central block under a Gothic-style roof. Communist forces took Xuanhua in September 1945 and set up a Chahar provincial government in the building, which withdrew about a year later. It is now the Xuanhua Museum, whose permanent displays cover the town's history from prehistory to the present and the short-lived Chahar government, and which holds finds from the nearby Liao tombs."},{"id":"zhangjiakou-chahar-military-governor-office","name":"Former Chahar Military Governor's Office","name_zh":"察哈尔都统署旧址","pinyin":"Cháhā'ěr Dūtǒngshǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.8348,"lon":114.8832,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiakou-chahar-military-governor-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The only reasonably complete Qing government compound left in Zhangjiakou, built in 1762 for the military governor who oversaw the Chahar Mongol banners, one of only three posts of this kind in the Qing empire. Four courtyards and some 70 halls and rooms survive along a central axis, from the gate and ceremonial hall to the residence at the rear. In the Republican period it housed the Chahar regional government, and in 1941 the Mongol prince Demchugdongrub (Prince De), who headed the Japanese-backed Mengjiang regime, made it his residence, which is why it is also called the Prince De Mansion."},{"id":"xuanhua-fozhen-sheli-pagoda","name":"Fozhen Sheli Pagoda","name_zh":"佛真猞猁迤逻尼塔","pinyin":"Fózhēn Shēlì Yǐluóní Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.5905,"lon":114.8801,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanhua-fozhen-sheli-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty (916–1125) brick relic pagoda with tightly stacked eaves, standing in Taer ('Pagoda') village west of Xuanhua. Its long name combines the Buddhist terms for a relic and a dharani, and it was added to the national heritage list in 2013. It is a village monument with a protection tablet, mainly seen from outside."},{"id":"chongli-fulong-four-seasons-town","name":"Fulong Four Seasons Town","name_zh":"富龙四季小镇","pinyin":"Fùlóng Sìjì Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.9785,"lon":115.2972,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongli-fulong-four-seasons-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A resort town on the edge of Chongli's main town, built around the Fulong ski area, with a shopping street of 19 European-style buildings, a large indoor children's play centre and hotels. In winter it is a ski base; in summer it runs a bicycle pump-track park, mountain-bike downhill trails and a set of activities for children. It is mainly a family and active-break destination rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"chongli-genting-snow-park","name":"Genting Snow Park","name_zh":"云顶滑雪公园","pinyin":"Yúndǐng Huáxuě Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.9475,"lon":115.428,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongli-genting-snow-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ski park of the Genting Secret Garden resort in Taizicheng village, Chongli, which hosted the Olympic freestyle skiing and snowboarding events of the 2022 Winter Games (apart from big air, held in Beijing) and the Paralympic snowboarding. Since the Games it has redesigned three of its six Olympic courses to suit recreational skiers, has around 45 trails in all and keeps staging international competitions, including FIS World Cup halfpipe events. A resort hotel and Taizicheng high-speed station are close by, so it works as a winter day trip from Beijing."},{"id":"yuxian-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Yuxian","name_zh":"蔚县关帝庙","pinyin":"Yùxiàn Guāndì Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8341,"lon":114.5634,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple to Guan Yu, the deified general of the Three Kingdoms, whose four surviving buildings are in Ming style and stand on one north–south axis: an opera stage, an offering hall, the Guandi hall with wall paintings of Guan Yu's story, and a rear hall known as the Sanyi Hall. The original gate, bell and drum towers and side rooms are gone. It stands just outside the south gate of Yuxian's old town, next to Shijia Temple."},{"id":"huailai-guanting-reservoir-wetland-park","name":"Guanting Reservoir National Wetland Park","name_zh":"官厅水库国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Guāntīng Shuǐkù Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.325,"lon":115.6353,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huailai-guanting-reservoir-wetland-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A very large wetland park on the shores of Guanting Reservoir, a 1950s reservoir on the Yongding River that straddles the Hebei–Beijing border. The park covers about 13,500 hectares of river, floodplain, reservoir, fish-pond and rice-paddy wetland, with a boardwalk out into the wetland and a wetland museum. It is a quiet outdoor stop for open water views rather than a monument."},{"id":"yuxian-gucheng-temple","name":"Gucheng Temple, Yuxian","name_zh":"故城寺","pinyin":"Gùchéng Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8173,"lon":114.6595,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-gucheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming Buddhist temple founded in 1507 on the site of an older Liao-period town, which gives it its name; it is also called Xinfo ('Heart Buddha') Temple and Dongda ('East Great') Temple. A Maitreya palace stands behind the Buddha hall, an arrangement that is rare. The temple lies in farmland north-east of Dagucheng village and was added to the national list in 2013."},{"id":"zhuolu-huangdi-city-ruins","name":"Huangdi City Ruins (Zhuolu Old City)","name_zh":"黄帝城遗址","pinyin":"Huángdìchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.2225,"lon":115.402,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuolu-huangdi-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of a rammed-earth walled town at Sanbao village, Fanshan town, which local tradition calls Huangdi City after the legendary Yellow Emperor. Archaeologists who excavated in 2014 found it was probably not built before the Warring States period, and the national heritage authority has said its nature still needs study. The tourist area around it has a lake, a spring, and a hall and ceremonial altar linked to the Yellow Emperor tradition, so it suits visitors interested in Chinese origin legends."},{"id":"huailai-huanglong-mountain-resort","name":"Huanglong Mountain Resort","name_zh":"黄龙山庄","pinyin":"Huánglóng Shānzhuāng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.5011,"lon":115.4559,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huailai-huanglong-mountain-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded mountain resort and scenic area in the Yan Mountains north-west of Huailai town, with streams and springs, forest walks and a cool summer climate. The county holds a climbing festival here, and the fifth, in May 2024, drew more than 300 hikers. It suits walkers and day-trippers from the Beijing–Zhangjiakou corridor."},{"id":"yuxian-nuanquan-huayan-temple","name":"Huayan Temple, Nuanquan","name_zh":"暖泉华严寺","pinyin":"Nuǎnquán Huáyán Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8014,"lon":114.4322,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-nuanquan-huayan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming Buddhist temple in the south-east of Nuanquan town, also called the Great Temple, whose front hall keeps a large set of water-and-land (shuilu) wall paintings of the Buddhist realms of existence, with the ten Wisdom Kings on the north wall. The five-bay main hall behind it has a carved brick ridge of peonies and sunflowers and painted beams with dragons, qilin and lions. In front lies a round stone pool called the Buddha's Mirror, which may have given Nuanquan, 'warm spring', its name."},{"id":"xiahuayuan-jiming-mountain","name":"Jiming Mountain","name_zh":"鸡鸣山","pinyin":"Jīmíng Shān","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.4685,"lon":115.2973,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiahuayuan-jiming-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An isolated peak of about 1,100 m on the east side of Xiahuayuan, nicknamed the 'flying peak' because it stands alone above the Yang River valley, within a scenic area of about 17.5 sq km. A stepped path climbs past rebuilt Buddhist and folk temples, including the 33 m Linji Light Pagoda and the Liao-founded Yongning Temple, to the summit, where a 20 m stone footbridge across a cliff is a provincial heritage site. Its temple fair in the fourth lunar month draws worshippers and visitors."},{"id":"huailai-jimingyi-post-station","name":"Jimingyi Post Station","name_zh":"鸡鸣驿城","pinyin":"Jīmíngyì Chéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.4523,"lon":115.31,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huailai-jimingyi-post-station/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled Ming post station covering about 22 hectares, described as the largest surviving courier station in China, built in 1420 as a station on the Ming post road to the Xuanfu frontier and still lived in by villagers. Brick-faced earth walls about 11 m high, with corner platforms and 26 bastions, enclose a grid of lanes with the old station office, granary and horse-yard areas and seven small temples. Empress Dowager Cixi spent a night here in 1900 on her flight from Beijing, and the station was named twice, in 2004 and 2006, on the World Monuments Fund's watch list of endangered sites."},{"id":"guyuan-kulun-nur-resort","name":"Kulun Nur Resort","name_zh":"库伦淖尔","pinyin":"Kùlún Nào'ěr","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":41.7072,"lon":115.699,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-kulun-nur-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake and holiday resort on the Bashang grassland just north of Guyuan town. The county government lists boat trips on the lake, a wetland flower field with boardwalks that blooms from June to October, horse riding, a Mongolian-style yurt camp with meals and evening bonfire parties, and staged outdoor shows. It suits a summer day or overnight trip for families and groups from Beijing and Zhangjiakou."},{"id":"yuxian-shazipo-laojun-temple","name":"Laojun Temple, Shazipo","name_zh":"沙子坡老君观","pinyin":"Shāzipō Lǎojūn Guàn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8063,"lon":114.4283,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-shazipo-laojun-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-to-Qing Daoist temple, named for Laojun (the deified Laozi), on a mound at the north end of Nuanquan old town, with an opera stage, a mountain gate, a front hall and a rear hall. It is one of several nationally listed sites around Nuanquan, with Xigu Fortress and Huayan Temple, and joined the national list in 2013."},{"id":"yuxian-lingyan-temple","name":"Lingyan Temple, Yuxian","name_zh":"蔚州灵岩寺","pinyin":"Yùzhōu Língyán Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8437,"lon":114.5623,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuxian-lingyan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming Buddhist temple rebuilt in 1441 and probably founded with imperial approval by the eunuch Wang Zhen; its ceilings, caissons and screens resemble those of Zhihua Temple in Beijing. The Tianwang (Dizang) Hall, Daxiong Hall and side halls survive, and the compound was used by the county's food company until restoration began in 2008. Since the old-town scenic area opened in 2016 it has been a visitor attraction, with an exhibition on Yuxian's grain-farming culture and an underground chamber to see."},{"id":"guyuan-luanhe-shenyun-wetland","name":"Luanhe Shenyun Scenic Area","name_zh":"滦河神韵","pinyin":"Luánhé Shényùn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":41.774,"lon":115.7819,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-luanhe-shenyun-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland and grassland viewing area on Zhuanfo Hill beside the Shandian River in northern Guyuan County, where the river winds in loops across the open grassland, with boardwalks and pavilions up the hill. The Zhangjiakou tourism bureau says a Neolithic altar and a Liao–Jin–Yuan-era general's review platform also stand here. It is a summer scenery and photography stop, close to the wetland park's bird-watching garden."},{"id":"yuxian-nanan-temple-pagoda","name":"Nan'an Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"南安寺塔","pinyin":"Nán'ān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8371,"lon":114.5642,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuxian-nanan-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda with thirteen close-set eaves on an octagonal plan, solid inside, standing just inside the south gate of Yuxian's walled old town. It is all that survives of an older Nan'an Temple, which was pulled down in the early Ming, around the time the town wall was rebuilt in brick. The small temple beside it dates from 1706 and has a Guanyin hall and three Qing stone tablets recording repairs."},{"id":"yangyuan-nihewan-archaeological-park","name":"Nihewan Archaeological Park","name_zh":"泥河湾遗址","pinyin":"Níhéwān Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.2164,"lon":114.664,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangyuan-nihewan-archaeological-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A basin in the Sanggan River valley where more than 80 early-human sites have been found, among them some of the oldest known traces of people in East Asia, with stone tools more than 1.5 million years old. The national archaeological park is centred on the Xiaochangliang site and has a research centre, protective sheds over key excavations such as Majuangou, and a visitor centre. The setting is eroded lake-bed cliffs and farmland rather than a monument, so it suits visitors with a particular interest in human origins."},{"id":"xuanhua-sanggan-canyon-feibu-gorge","name":"Sanggan River Grand Canyon and Feibu Gorge","name_zh":"桑干河大峡谷·飞瀑峡","pinyin":"Sānggān Hé Dà Xiágǔ·Fēibù Xiá","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.2914,"lon":114.8001,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanhua-sanggan-canyon-feibu-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A gorge scenic area on the Sanggan River in the far south-west of Xuanhua District, whose main sight, the Feibu ('flying waterfall') Gorge, is a narrow stretch of canyon about 5 km long with many small waterfalls and spray. It lies close to the borders with Yangyuan and Zhuolu counties, in hill country well away from the city. The attraction is natural scenery rather than a historic site, and it suits a short outdoor visit from Zhangjiakou."},{"id":"huailai-shacheng-liquor-culture-park","name":"Shacheng Liquor Culture Expo Park","name_zh":"沙城酒文化博览园","pinyin":"Shāchéng Jiǔ Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.3893,"lon":115.5015,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huailai-shacheng-liquor-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A visitor area at the Shacheng Laojiao baijiu distillery in Shacheng town, rated a national 4A scenic area in December 2025. It has a liquor-history hall, hands-on blending and labelling workshops, vintage tastings and a dress-up 'imperial wine' sealing ceremony, while the production areas stay closed to the public. According to the operator, visitors book online and tour in guided groups."},{"id":"xuanhua-shien-temple","name":"Shien Temple","name_zh":"时恩寺","pinyin":"Shí'ēn Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.6111,"lon":115.0555,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuanhua-shien-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the old town of Xuanhua whose main hall, completed in 1470 under the Ming dynasty, is the city's oldest surviving timber building and its only one with a hip roof. The hall has five bays under a single-eaved roof and a Qing-era porch at the front, while the gate, side halls and monks' quarters around it were rebuilt between 2005 and 2014 after the rest of the temple had disappeared. It is an active temple, a short walk west of the Zhenshuo (drum) Tower."},{"id":"yuxian-shijia-temple","name":"Shijia Temple, Yuxian","name_zh":"释迦寺","pinyin":"Shìjiā Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.834,"lon":114.564,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuxian-shijia-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The largest Buddhist temple of old Yuxian, known locally as the Great Temple, with front, middle and rear halls in a walled courtyard just outside the south gate. The middle hall, usually taken as the main hall, is the oldest and largest, with Yuan and Ming features and painted caisson ceilings. It served as the county museum from 1998 until the museum moved to a new building, and has been an old-town attraction since 2016."},{"id":"yangyuan-shujiu-temple-pagoda","name":"Shujiu Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"澍鹫寺塔","pinyin":"Shùjiù Sì Tǎ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.9462,"lon":114.0755,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangyuan-shujiu-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick-and-earth pagoda on Jiufeng Ridge in the hills south of Xiaoyanchang village, listed nationally as Jin to Yuan in date although local tradition traces the temple back to the Tang. The top of the pagoda was shaken off in the 1989 Cetian earthquake, and only the pagoda survived into modern times. The temple, also called Jiufeng Temple, was reopened for worship in 2004 and has since been rebuilt with donations, so the pagoda now stands inside a working temple."},{"id":"guyuan-shuzhuanglou-yuan-tomb","name":"Shuzhuanglou Yuan Tombs","name_zh":"梳妆楼元墓","pinyin":"Shūzhuānglóu Yuánmù","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":41.6575,"lon":115.7786,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-shuzhuanglou-yuan-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Mongol-era tomb group on the grassland east of Guyuan, named for its best-preserved tomb: a square brick tower about 9 m tall with a domed interior, long wrongly said to be the dressing tower of the Liao empress dowager Xiao. Excavation in 1999 showed it is a Yuan-dynasty burial chamber holding three coffins, and surveys later found 26 Yuan tombs and two stele pavilions in all; who lies in the main tomb is still debated. It is a stop for those interested in Mongol-Yuan history."},{"id":"chongli-taizicheng-site","name":"Taizicheng Site (Jin Dynasty Palace)","name_zh":"太子城遗址","pinyin":"Tàizǐchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.9173,"lon":115.4412,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongli-taizicheng-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of a Jin-dynasty imperial summer palace, identified as the Taihe Palace of Emperor Zhangzong and occupied for about two decades from around 1190, excavated from 2017 when the 2022 Winter Olympic village was planned beside it; the Games plans were changed so that the site could be kept. The walled enclosure measures about 417 by 343 m, with a central axis of gate, main hall and courtyards. The archaeological park shows that axis outdoors, and a covered hall of 4,600 sq m shows the excavated west courtyard in place beside finds such as bowls stamped for the imperial kitchen."},{"id":"chongli-thaiwoo-ski-town","name":"Thaiwoo Ski Town","name_zh":"太舞四季小镇","pinyin":"Tàiwǔ Sìjì Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.8926,"lon":115.4438,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongli-thaiwoo-ski-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski resort town at Chongli built in the style of a European alpine village, 2 km from Taizicheng, where the Zhangjiakou events of the 2022 Winter Olympics were held. It has around 30 ski runs, and in summer its cable car to a viewpoint, hiking trails, mountain-bike descents and go-karts stay open. Hotels, restaurants, an ice rink and hot-spring pools make it a base for a family or active break rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"zhangbei-tianbao-nasutu-resort","name":"Tianbao Nasutu Grassland Resort","name_zh":"天保那苏图","pinyin":"Tiānbǎo Nàsūtú","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":41.1759,"lon":114.6554,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangbei-tianbao-nasutu-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A grassland holiday resort on the western edge of Zhangbei, laid out around a lake and a large flower meadow, with a Mongol-Yuan themed area and a hot-spring and water-play zone. The provincial tourism department lists a sightseeing mini-train that crosses the lake, a hillside path to a stone gate, and views of wind turbines across the grassland. It is mainly a summer outing for families and groups."},{"id":"yuxian-tianqi-temple","name":"Tianqi Temple, Yuxian","name_zh":"蔚县天齐庙","pinyin":"Yùxiàn Tiānqí Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8432,"lon":114.5786,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-tianqi-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Daoist temple to the Emperor of the Eastern Peak, built in 1599 and repaired in the Jiaqing reign, outside the east gate of Yuxian's old town. Of a once large complex only the offering hall and the main hall survive, joined under linked roofs and surrounded by ordinary houses; the main hall has a hip roof of yellow glazed tiles trimmed in green and imperial-style painted beams. The temple was put to other uses after 1949 and returned to the heritage authorities in 2001."},{"id":"chongli-wanlong-ski-resort","name":"Wanlong Ski Resort","name_zh":"万龙滑雪场","pinyin":"Wànlóng Huáxuěchǎng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.9631,"lon":115.3894,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongli-wanlong-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the large ski resorts in Chongli, the Olympic ski district of Zhangjiakou, with more than 30 runs, some of them certified by the International Ski Federation (FIS), a long gentle beginners' run and night skiing. It is a purpose-built mountain resort, so visits are mainly in the winter snow season, and it suits advanced skiers as well as first-timers."},{"id":"wanquan-right-guard-city","name":"Wanquan Right Guard City","name_zh":"万全右卫城","pinyin":"Wànquán Yòuwèi Chéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.8634,"lon":114.74,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wanquan-right-guard-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming garrison town founded as an earth fort in 1393 and given a brick facing in 1438, whose square circuit of walls, about 880 m on each side, still stands with a south gate (Ying'en) and a north gate (Desheng). The town inside is still lived in and has been used as a filming location for period dramas. It served as a defence base on the Ming Xuanfu frontier and, from 1693, as the seat of Wanquan county."},{"id":"zhangjiakou-xiabali-liao-tombs","name":"Xiabali Liao Tombs","name_zh":"下八里墓群","pinyin":"Xiàbālǐ Mùqún","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.6388,"lon":115.0234,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiakou-xiabali-liao-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cemetery of Liao-dynasty (916–1125) brick tombs in Xiabali village, north-west of Xuanhua, mostly the family graves of the Han Chinese Zhang clan, with more than ten tombs found since 1972. Several chambers have walls and ceilings painted with scenes of processions, musicians, tea-making and board games, and the tomb of the official Zhang Shiqing (built in 1116) has a ceiling star map that combines the Chinese 28 lunar mansions with the western zodiac. The murals show how Khitan and Han customs mixed in the Liao period, and finds from the tombs, including a bottle of Liao-era grape wine, are held in the Xuanhua Museum."},{"id":"yuxian-xiaowutai-huichuan","name":"Xiaowutai Huichuan Scenic Area","name_zh":"小五台辉川景区","pinyin":"Xiǎowǔtái Huīchuān Jǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8696,"lon":114.9396,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-xiaowutai-huichuan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain-valley scenic area on the southern side of the Xiaowutai range, at Huichuan village in Yuxian's Baishu township, on Hebei's list of 4A scenic areas. Tour operators sell it for a hiking route past a series of waterfalls and pools. It suits walkers with a day to spare, and is a separate visit from the Jinhekou valley on the north side of the same mountains."},{"id":"yuxian-xiaowutai-jinhe","name":"Xiaowutai Jinhe Scenic Area","name_zh":"小五台金河景区","pinyin":"Xiǎowǔtái Jīnhé Jǐngqū","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.9418,"lon":114.9633,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuxian-xiaowutai-jinhe/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested river valley below the Xiaowutai peaks, whose East Terrace, at 2,882 m, is the highest point in Hebei. Part of the Jinhekou area belongs to the mountain's protected wildlife zone, home to species such as the black stork and the brown eared pheasant, and the valley holds the Jinhe Temple and Xuankong'an pagoda groups, nationally listed clusters of Yuan-to-Ming pagodas. It is a place for walking and nature-watching rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"yuxian-xigu-fortress","name":"Xigu Fortress, Nuanquan","name_zh":"西古堡","pinyin":"Xīgǔbǎo","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.7976,"lon":114.4274,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuxian-xigu-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled fort village of the Ming and Qing in Nuanquan town, one of more than 400 fortified villages in Yuxian, which keeps its old courtyard houses, temples, lanes and an opera stage in fairly intact condition. Some of the houses now serve as guesthouses where visitors can try Yuxian paper-cutting. Nuanquan is a nationally designated historic town and the home of 'dashuhua', a show of molten-iron sparks staged at weekends and festivals."},{"id":"wanquan-ximalin-city-wall","name":"Ximalin City Wall","name_zh":"洗马林城墙","pinyin":"Xǐmǎlín Chéngqiáng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.817,"lon":114.456,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanquan-ximalin-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walls of Ximalin, a fortified town in Wanquan District built in 1435 under the Ming and repaired in 1741 under the Qing, and a national heritage unit since 2013. The remains stand around the present-day village, which also has the nationally listed Yuhuang Pavilion. It is a rural heritage stop."},{"id":"wanquan-ximalin-yuhuang-pavilion","name":"Ximalin Yuhuang Pavilion","name_zh":"洗马林玉皇阁","pinyin":"Xǐmǎlín Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.8148,"lon":114.4577,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanquan-ximalin-yuhuang-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Jade Emperor (Yuhuang) pavilion built in 1575 on a 7 m brick platform in Ximalin village and repaired in 1861, which the heritage listing describes as a concentrated example of Ming timber architecture. The main hall has a three-eaved hip-and-gable roof and rises more than 20 m, with side rooms on either flank. The pavilion also keeps a store of scriptures in 15 chests."},{"id":"xuanhua-ancient-city","name":"Xuanhua Ancient City","name_zh":"宣化古城","pinyin":"Xuānhuà Gǔchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.6116,"lon":115.056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuanhua-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old walled city of Xuanhua, a Ming frontier stronghold known as the 'first prefecture west of Beijing', which has kept its Ming street layout and main monuments. The core is the Qingyuan Tower (bell tower, 1482) and the Zhenshuo Tower (drum tower, 1440), two multi-storey timber towers on brick platforms pierced by arched passages along the main street, with the Gongji Tower on the old south gate and long stretches of brick-faced city wall. The wall was enlarged in 1394, ran about 11 km round, and has been restored in sections since the mid-2000s."},{"id":"zhangbei-yuan-zhongdu-site","name":"Yuan Zhongdu (Middle Capital of the Yuan)","name_zh":"元中都遗址","pinyin":"Yuán Zhōngdū Yízhǐ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":41.2929,"lon":114.6213,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangbei-yuan-zhongdu-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The earthen remains of Yuan Zhongdu, the 'Middle Capital' that Emperor Wuzong began building on the grassland north of Zhangbei in 1307; work was halted in 1311 and the palace was burned in 1358 during the Red Turban uprising. Three nested walled enclosures can be traced on the ground as earthen walls and banks, with the foundations of the palace city's south gate, the I-shaped platform of the main hall and an excavated corner-tower platform. The Yuan Zhongdu Museum, in Zhangbei town about 15 km away, shows the finds and the story of the excavations."},{"id":"yuxian-bubeibao-yuquan-temple","name":"Yuquan Temple, Bubeibao","name_zh":"卜北堡玉泉寺","pinyin":"Bǔběibǎo Yùquán Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.846,"lon":114.5325,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-bubeibao-yuquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple built in 1439 as the family temple of the powerful Ming eunuch Wang Zhen, who came from Yuxian, standing by the gate of the old fort at Bubeibao village. Its main hall has an uncommon hip roof and, inside, wall paintings of figures in three tiers. The hall was in poor repair in 2016, when part of its roof and a wall had collapsed."},{"id":"yuxian-yuzhou-museum","name":"Yuzhou Museum","name_zh":"蔚州博物馆","pinyin":"Yùzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8138,"lon":114.5956,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuxian-yuzhou-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yuxian's county museum, ranked a national second-grade museum, which moved in 2016 from Shijia Temple into a purpose-built building of about 13,000 sq m. Its main exhibition, 'Daiwei Changge' ('A Long Song of Dai and Yu'), follows the area from prehistory through the ancient state of Dai, the Sui–Tang and Liao–Yuan periods and the Ming–Qing fortified villages, and was named one of China's ten best museum exhibitions of 2016. A second exhibition is devoted to Yuxian paper-cutting, a nationally listed intangible heritage craft, and the collection of about 11,000 items includes a Western Han painted bronze goose-and-fish lamp."},{"id":"yuxian-yuzhou-old-town","name":"Yuzhou Old Town and City Wall","name_zh":"蔚州古城","pinyin":"Yùzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.842,"lon":114.564,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-yuzhou-old-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled old town of Yuxian, first walled in 580 and rebuilt under the Ming in 1377, with a chessboard of streets and courtyard houses inside a wall circuit of 3.8 km. Landmarks include the Drum Tower, the tallest building in the old city, the Ming–Qing prefectural yamen in the south-west corner and the Yuhuang Pavilion on the north wall, while temples and halls within the walls, such as the Nan'an Temple pagoda, are nationally listed in their own right. Only part of the wall survives, mainly on the north and north-west sides, but the old town is still lived in, with street stalls selling local snacks and a tradition of Yuxian paper-cutting."},{"id":"yuxian-yuzhou-yuhuang-pavilion","name":"Yuzhou Yuhuang Pavilion","name_zh":"蔚州玉皇阁","pinyin":"Yùzhōu Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.849,"lon":114.5638,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuxian-yuzhou-yuhuang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming gate-tower on the middle of Yuxian's north wall, completed in 1377 as the Jingbian ('border-pacifying') Tower and later used as a Jade Emperor temple. Its two courtyards climb about 3 m from the gate hall to the main hall, a two-storey building with three tiers of eaves and a green-glazed tile roof, where Daoist murals show the Jade Emperor with 41 attendants and 36 thunder generals. Stone tablets under the hall's eaves record Ming and Qing repairs, and the pavilion is one of the locations seen in the 2024 video game Black Myth: Wukong."},{"id":"zhangjiakou-zhangjiakoubu-fort","name":"Zhangjiakou Fort (Zhangjiakoubu)","name_zh":"张家口堡","pinyin":"Zhāngjiākǒubǔ","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.8198,"lon":114.8727,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangjiakou-zhangjiakoubu-fort/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old Ming fort of Zhangjiakou, built in 1429 as a garrison post on the Great Wall defences, which grew into a major trading town on the caravan road to Mongolia and Russia. Its streets still hold several hundred Ming- and Qing-period courtyard houses, along with the Wenchang Pavilion, the Yuhuang Pavilion and an old academy, many of them restored in recent years. It is a lived-in old quarter rather than a closed attraction, and a protection regulation for it took effect in 2023."},{"id":"huaian-zhaohua-temple","name":"Zhaohua Temple","name_zh":"昭化寺","pinyin":"Zhāohuà Sì","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":40.4628,"lon":114.4627,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaian-zhaohua-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty Buddhist temple in the old town of Huai'ancheng, founded in the late 14th century and rebuilt in the 1430s and 1440s, and a national heritage unit since 2001. Its main hall holds 47 water-and-land ritual murals painted in 1562, showing Buddhist and Daoist deities. The compound also keeps its heavenly kings' hall, a stele and side halls, and is of interest mainly for the Ming murals."},{"id":"yuxian-zhenwu-temple","name":"Zhenwu Temple, Yuxian","name_zh":"蔚州真武庙","pinyin":"Yùzhōu Zhēnwǔ Miào","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":39.8453,"lon":114.5614,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-zhenwu-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming temple to Zhenwu, the Daoist Perfected Warrior whom the Ming court promoted as protector of the realm, standing in a small walled compound at the foot of the north-west city wall inside Yuxian's old town. Listed as a provincial site in 1993 and nationally in 2006, it was repaired in 2008 together with Lingyan Temple. It lies beside the stretch of town wall that survives on the north-west side."},{"id":"zhangbei-zhongdu-grassland-resort","name":"Zhongdu Grassland Resort","name_zh":"中都原始草原度假村","pinyin":"Zhōngdū Yuánshǐ Cǎoyuán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"130000","region":"Hebei","city":"Zhangjiakou","lat":41.301,"lon":114.7358,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangbei-zhongdu-grassland-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A grassland holiday resort on the Bashang plateau north of Zhangbei, built around a camp of Mongolian-style yurts that includes a very large domed yurt used as a restaurant and venue. In past summer seasons it has put on staged Mongolian song-and-dance and horse shows, an evening bonfire party and a stage play about the Yuan capital. It suits families and groups on a short summer break from Beijing or Zhangjiakou."},{"id":"tunliu-baofeng-temple","name":"Baofeng Temple, Tunliu","name_zh":"宝峰寺","pinyin":"Bǎofēng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3814,"lon":112.9515,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tunliu-baofeng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in Jicun village, Lucun township, Tunliu District, now reduced to a single courtyard of about 960 square metres, where it once had three. The Water-and-Land Hall at the front is a Ming building with about 17 square metres of surviving murals, and the Five Buddhas Hall behind it is a Yuan structure with a glazed ridge. An inscription records a repair in 1469, and the temple was listed as a national key site in 2006."},{"id":"qinyuan-baolingshan","name":"Baolingshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"宝灵山","pinyin":"Bǎolíngshān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7563,"lon":112.2497,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyuan-baolingshan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A religious and forest-leisure scenic area at the foot of Longhu Mountain in Qinyuan County, built since 2002 by a local coal and coke group. It has more than 40 temple buildings in traditional style, including Lingtong Chan Temple, the Daoist Baotong Temple and Tianqi Temple; the Tianqi Temple customs and the Lingtong Temple fair are listed as provincial intangible heritage. It suits visitors interested in newly built Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian complexes and the temple fairs held here."},{"id":"shangdang-beihe-yandi-temple","name":"Beihe Yandi Temple","name_zh":"北和炎帝庙","pinyin":"Běihé Yándì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.0543,"lon":113.0105,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangdang-beihe-yandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple to the legendary Emperor Yan (Yandi, also known as Shennong) in Beihe village, Beicheng township. Only its main hall, a Yuan-dynasty building three bays wide, is old; the other buildings are Qing, and a stele records a repair in 1846. It was listed as a provincial protected site in 1996 and as a national one in 2013, and stands among farmland on the plain south-west of Changzhi."},{"id":"zhangzi-xiaozhang-biyun-temple","name":"Biyun Temple, Xiaozhang","name_zh":"小张碧云寺","pinyin":"Xiǎozhāng Bìyún Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1715,"lon":112.8391,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-xiaozhang-biyun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple of three courtyards in Xiaozhang village whose main hall is a Song-dynasty building, three bays wide, with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, deep eaves and widely spaced brackets. Scholars differ on whether its bracket sets are Five Dynasties or Northern Song in style. Painted ceiling panels inside the hall are also of interest."},{"id":"zhangzi-bucun-yuhuang-temple","name":"Bucun Yuhuang Temple","name_zh":"布村玉皇庙","pinyin":"Bùcūn Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.0079,"lon":112.9335,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-bucun-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Jade Emperor temple in Bucun village, Zhangzi County, with a front hall, an offering hall, a middle hall and a rear hall, and halls dating from the Song to the Qing. The front hall shows Tang-style construction and was badly damaged before its restoration; the murals and statues no longer survive, and the compound served as a grain depot in the 1960s. It became a county-level protected site in 2006 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"licheng-changning-great-temple","name":"Changning Great Temple","name_zh":"长宁大庙","pinyin":"Chángníng Dàmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.5539,"lon":113.5058,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-changning-great-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Changning Great Temple, also known as Lingyuan Shengjing Temple (Sacred Well Temple), is a village temple in Changning village with a one-axis, two-courtyard layout. From south to north it has a brick screen wall, an entrance building with a stage facing into the courtyard, an offering hall, the main hall and a rear hall. The main hall is of the Yuan dynasty, with a glazed ridge and roof beams of naturally curved timber, and the other buildings are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"changzhi-machang-chongjiao-temple","name":"Chongjiao Temple, Machang","name_zh":"马厂崇教寺","pinyin":"Mǎchǎng Chóngjiào Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3431,"lon":113.1132,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhi-machang-chongjiao-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in Guyi village, Machang town, in Luzhou District north of central Changzhi, with buildings from the Yuan to the Qing. It became a provincial protected site in 1986 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"zhangzi-chongqing-temple","name":"Chongqing Temple, Zhangzi","name_zh":"崇庆寺","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":35.9805,"lon":112.9598,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-chongqing-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chongqing Temple is a small Buddhist temple on the slope of Ziyun Mountain, with hills on three sides and a tributary of the Zhuozhang River to the south. Its Thousand Buddha Hall is Song-dynasty, and the side hall holds Song painted sculptures of Guanyin, Manjushri and Samantabhadra, dated by an inscription to 1079, with eighteen luohan figures on either side. Since 2024 it has drawn larger crowds as one of the Shanxi locations recreated in the video game Black Myth: Wukong."},{"id":"pingshun-chunhua-temple","name":"Chunhua Temple, Pingshun","name_zh":"淳化寺","pinyin":"Chúnhuà Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3533,"lon":113.5862,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-chunhua-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Only the Jin-dynasty main hall of this temple survives, standing in Yanggao village where the cleared temple grounds now form the village square. The hall is three bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and wide, upturned eaves, and in front of it stand two Song-dynasty stone sutra pillars dated 960 and 970. A county gazetteer of 1693 dates the temple's foundation to the Northern Qi, as a branch of Longmen Temple."},{"id":"zhangzi-cuifujun-temple","name":"Cuifujun Temple, Zhangzi","name_zh":"长子崔府君庙","pinyin":"Zhǎngzǐ Cuīfǔjūn Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1199,"lon":112.8773,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-cuifujun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The main hall of a temple to Cui Fujun, a judge-of-the-underworld deity widely worshipped in northern China, whom tradition places as a seventh-century magistrate of Zhangzi. Only the Jin-dynasty hall survives, five bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and five-puzuo double-ang brackets, with a pair of Ming stone lions in front. It stands in Zhangzi county town, in Tongfu village of Danzhu town, and was added to the national list in 2013."},{"id":"licheng-danquan-town","name":"Danquan Town, Licheng","name_zh":"丹泉小镇","pinyin":"Dānquán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.6726,"lon":113.4432,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-danquan-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain-valley leisure resort developed since 2021 around Yuanquan village in Xijing town, Licheng County, beside the Taihang Number One scenic road. The village is named for a spring that wells out of a cave beneath a hill the locals call Wugen ('rootless') Mountain and feeds a long pond; beside it stand a Yuhuang temple rebuilt in 2018 and a memorial pavilion put up by an Eighth Route Army chemical works for nine workers who died on duty. The resort adds camping and RV pitches, glass-walled 'Linglong' cabins, hillside guesthouses and a cave hotel, with nature-study and local-history programmes, so it suits families wanting a quiet rural stay."},{"id":"pingshun-dayun-temple","name":"Dayun Temple, Pingshun","name_zh":"平顺大云院","pinyin":"Píngshùn Dàyún Yuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3669,"lon":113.4388,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingshun-dayun-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hill temple founded in 938 under the Later Jin, whose Buddha hall and small stone Qibao Pagoda are Five Dynasties work and among the very few buildings of that period left in China. The hall has deep, gently sloping eaves and keeps about 29 sq m of Five Dynasties murals on its east wall and central screen, including a Vimalakirti scene; the other buildings are Qing. The pagoda, six metres high, was built in 954 and has five of its original seven storeys."},{"id":"qinxian-dayun-temple","name":"Dayun Temple, Qin County","name_zh":"沁县大云院","pinyin":"Qìnxiàn Dàyún Yuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7477,"lon":112.5747,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinxian-dayun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple in Guocun village, of Song origin, where a stele of 1212 gives the name Dayun Chanyuan. Only the Qing-dynasty gate and the main hall survive; the hall is a Song-Jin structure three bays wide with a single-eave overhanging gable roof, and about 50 sq m of Ming wall paintings remain on its side walls. The compound covers about 770 sq m."},{"id":"wuxiang-dayun-temple","name":"Dayun Temple, Wuxiang","name_zh":"武乡大云寺","pinyin":"Wǔxiāng Dàyún Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.9414,"lon":112.661,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-dayun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple on a terrace in Gucheng town, on the site of the Eastern Han county seat of Nieshi, renamed Dayun Temple in 1064 under the Northern Song. The compound covers 7,900 sq m, with a Guanyin hall, the main hall and side halls. The five-bay main hall keeps its original Jin-dynasty frame, and the other buildings are Ming or Qing."},{"id":"lucheng-dongyi-dragon-king-temple","name":"Dongyi Dragon King Temple","name_zh":"东邑龙王庙","pinyin":"Dōngyì Lóngwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2936,"lon":113.2597,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lucheng-dongyi-dragon-king-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Dragon King temple in Dongyi village covering about 1,570 sq m in two courtyards, with a gate, a two-storey opera stage, a main hall and side halls. The main hall is Jin-dynasty work, three bays wide and six rafters deep, with a single-eave overhanging gable roof and a front porch; the other buildings are Qing."},{"id":"wuxiang-eighth-route-army-cultural-park","name":"Eighth Route Army Cultural Park","name_zh":"八路军文化园","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.8364,"lon":112.8506,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-eighth-route-army-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A themed park between Phoenix Hill and the Mamu River in Wuxiang, built to recreate the wartime life and campaigns of the Eighth Route Army through hands-on, high-technology displays. Its seven parts include a front plaza, a visitor centre, Victory Avenue, a live-action theatre and a village area. It is a staged, family-oriented introduction to the subject rather than an archive, beside the Taihang memorial museum."},{"id":"wuxiang-eighth-route-army-headquarters","name":"Eighth Route Army Headquarters Sites","name_zh":"八路军总司令部旧址","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Zǒngsīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7561,"lon":113.2167,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-eighth-route-army-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Three former headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains: Beicun in Lucheng District, used from October 1938 to July 1939, and Zhuanbi and Wangjiayu in Wuxiang, used between 1939 and 1942. Each is a set of farmhouse or temple courtyards kept as the commanders' offices and residences, with displays of photographs and relics. Zhuanbi, a temple group and farmhouse courtyard, is where the Hundred Regiments Offensive of 1940 was directed."},{"id":"zhangzi-faxing-temple","name":"Faxing Temple, Zhangzi","name_zh":"法兴寺","pinyin":"Fǎxīng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":35.9844,"lon":112.9069,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangzi-faxing-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Faxing Temple rises in steps up the slope of Cuiyun Mountain, from the gate through a Tang stone pagoda to the Song-dynasty Yuanjue Hall. The temple was moved here between 1984 and 1996 from its original site on Cilin Mountain, where coal mining had caused the ground to subside. It is known for three treasures: the sandstone pagoda of the Tang, built on a double-walled square plan, a Tang stone lamp stand dated 773, and the Song painted sculptures inside Yuanjue Hall."},{"id":"qinyuan-taiyue-military-region-headquarters","name":"Former Taiyue Military Region Headquarters","name_zh":"太岳军区司令部旧址","pinyin":"Tàiyuè Jūnqū Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.435,"lon":112.3439,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyuan-taiyue-military-region-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of ten cave dwellings in three connected courtyards, covering about 1,800 sq m, at Yanzhai village. The headquarters of the Taiyue Military Region and the area's Party and government bodies were based here from 1940 until October 1942, and the central courtyard served as the office of Bo Yibo and Chen Geng. A display room holds photographs and relics of the period."},{"id":"pingshun-fotou-temple","name":"Fotou Temple","name_zh":"佛头寺","pinyin":"Fótóu Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3583,"lon":113.5762,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-fotou-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple in Chedang village, Yanggao township, named for the hill behind it, whose outline resembles a Buddha's head. Only its hall survives, a three-bay building with a glazed-tile ridge that the national list dates to the Song and Changzhi Daily to the Jin. Its walls carry murals of the Twenty-four Devas, the guardian deities, which Changzhi Daily dates to the Ming."},{"id":"zhangzi-zhongzhang-fuxi-temple","name":"Fuxi Temple, Zhongzhang","name_zh":"中漳伏羲庙","pinyin":"Zhōngzhāng Fúxī Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1107,"lon":112.9987,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-zhongzhang-fuxi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small village temple to Fuxi, the legendary culture hero, standing on a hilltop south-east of Zhongzhang village. The one-courtyard compound keeps a Yuan-dynasty main hall and a Ming offering pavilion, with Qing side halls and wing rooms, and the hall's eave columns are stone. Steles in the temple record repairs in the Ming and Qing dynasties."},{"id":"wuxiang-fuyuan-temple","name":"Fuyuan Temple, Wuxiang","name_zh":"武乡福源院","pinyin":"Wǔxiāng Fúyuán Yuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.9941,"lon":112.6524,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-fuyuan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Beilianghou village whose main building is a two-storey Ming hall, three bays wide with an overhanging gable roof. The west side hall is Yuan, with a glazed ridge ornament inscribed in 1324, and the east side hall is early Qing; a stele records a repair in 1725. Stone Buddha figures in the northern-dynasty style stand within the temple."},{"id":"changzhi-guancun-yandi-temple","name":"Guancun Yandi Temple","name_zh":"关村炎帝庙","pinyin":"Guāncūn Yándì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2184,"lon":113.1513,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhi-guancun-yandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the legendary Emperor Yan (Yandi, also known as Shennong) in Guancun village in the Laodingshan subdistrict of Changzhi, covering about 1,400 sq m. The main hall is a Yuan-dynasty building three bays wide, and about 40 sq m of wall paintings survive on its east and west gable walls, which Changzhi Daily notes are rare among the Yandi temples of Changzhi because they show episodes from the Yandi story; the other buildings are mostly Qing. It was added to the national list in 2013 and stands inside the village's dense housing."},{"id":"changzhi-guanyin-hall","name":"Guanyin Hall, Changzhi","name_zh":"观音堂","pinyin":"Guānyīn Táng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2278,"lon":113.0768,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changzhi-guanyin-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Guanyin Hall is a Ming-dynasty temple in the western suburbs of Changzhi, begun in 1582 and repaired in the Qing, with two courtyards leading through a gate hall and an offering pavilion to the main hall. The main hall is original Ming work under yellow and green glazed tiles, and more than 500 painted and gilded hanging sculptures cover its walls, roof frame, doors and windows, with Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian figures and Shakyamuni in the centre between Laozi and Confucius. The temple is also one of the real-world reference locations for the video game Black Myth: Wukong."},{"id":"huguan-happy-taihang-valley","name":"Happy Taihang Valley","name_zh":"欢乐太行谷","pinyin":"Huānlè Tàiháng Gǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1716,"lon":113.235,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huguan-happy-taihang-valley","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large leisure complex in Huguan County, east of Changzhi, that combines an amusement park, a water park (Jingwei Water World), an aquarium, a children's area, a hot-spring hotel and a farm. Its evening programme of light shows and performances is built around a 'Taihang myth' theme. It is a commercial venue for families rather than a historic or natural site."},{"id":"wuxiang-hongji-temple","name":"Hongji Temple, Wuxiang","name_zh":"洪济院","pinyin":"Hóngjì Yuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.9814,"lon":112.6667,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-hongji-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-courtyard temple in Dongliang village with an opera stage, bell and drum towers, a Ming south hall and a main hall, and a side courtyard with a Guandi hall. The five-bay main hall stands on a stone base 1.5 m high and has Jin-style features, and its walls carry Qing and early Republican Buddhist murals. A sandstone thousand-Buddha pagoda about 2 m high stands beside the main hall, and a traditional temple fair falls on the 23rd day of the sixth lunar month."},{"id":"qinxian-nannieshui-hongjiao-temple","name":"Hongjiao Temple, Nannieshui","name_zh":"南涅水洪教院","pinyin":"Nánnièshuǐ Hóngjiào Yuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.9248,"lon":112.6804,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinxian-nannieshui-hongjiao-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Nannieshui village on two courtyards covering about 1,500 sq m. Its main hall, the Daxiong Hall at the back, is a Yuan-dynasty building three bays wide with an overhanging gable roof; the Heavenly Kings Hall in front is Ming, the Second Buddha Hall behind it is Qing, and the side halls are Ming or Qing. Steles record repairs in 1271 and between 1701 and 1717, and an old cypress stands in the courtyard."},{"id":"licheng-huangyadong","name":"Huangyadong Arms Factory Site","name_zh":"黄崖洞","pinyin":"Huángyádòng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.8037,"lon":113.3756,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-huangyadong","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A gorge in the northern Taihang Mountains where the Eighth Route Army built an arms factory in the early 1940s, which Changzhi Daily calls its earliest and largest; the name comes from a natural cave in the cliff, about 30 m above the valley floor, that was used for storing weapons. More than a hundred remains survive, including workshops, barracks, trenches and a martyrs' cemetery with a memorial tower for the defenders of the November 1941 battle, and a narrow gorge passage of about 500 m. It combines a revolutionary site with steep red-sandstone cliff scenery."},{"id":"zhangzi-xiahuo-lingkuangwang-temple","name":"Huguo Lingkuangwang Temple, Xiahuo","name_zh":"下霍护国灵贶王庙","pinyin":"Xiàhuò Hùguó Língkuàngwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.0795,"lon":112.9339,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-xiahuo-lingkuangwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Houyi, the mythical archer who shot down nine suns and was enfeoffed Lingkuang King by the Song emperor Huizong as a rain-bringing god; it was founded in 1122 on White Cloud Hill, among farmland. The main hall is Jin work with a glazed ridge, six-puzuo brackets and donor inscriptions of 1184 and 1194, and holds statues of Houyi and Chang'e and murals of the king bringing rain. A Qing offering hall in front, which hides the main hall's full view, has reliefs of Houyi shooting the suns and Chang'e flying to the moon."},{"id":"pingshun-huilong-temple","name":"Huilong Temple, Pingshun","name_zh":"回龙寺","pinyin":"Huílóng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3467,"lon":113.6106,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-huilong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple beside the Zhuozhang River in Houbi village, of which only the main hall survives. The hall is a Jin-dynasty building three bays wide, with a single-eave overhanging gable roof and plain, early-style brackets. Qing-dynasty murals of about 54 square metres cover its side walls and show figures from Journey to the West and the Four Heavenly Kings."},{"id":"wuxiang-huixian-temple","name":"Huixian Daoist Temple","name_zh":"会仙观","pinyin":"Huìxiān Guàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7517,"lon":113.039,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-huixian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Daoist temple in Jianzhang village, founded in 1229 under the Jin and covering 2,263 sq m. Along its axis stand a gate, a Guandi hall, a Jade Emperor hall and the Three Pure Ones hall, with bell and drum towers and side rooms. The five-bay Three Pure Ones hall is original Jin work and the Jade Emperor hall is Yuan; the remaining buildings are Ming or Qing."},{"id":"pingshun-jindeng-temple","name":"Jindeng Temple","name_zh":"金灯寺石窟","pinyin":"Jīndēng Sì Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.02,"lon":113.6853,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingshun-jindeng-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple of seven courtyards built along a cliff in the Taihang Mountains on the Henan border, with 16 caves carved mainly between 1504 and 1565, which the Changzhi government calls the largest surviving group of Ming-dynasty grottoes in China. The central Shuilu Hall is a cave with a spring-fed pool crossed by a stone bridge and 69 painted scenes of Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian figures on its walls. North of the temple stands a forest of 46 monks' pagodas, the tallest the seven-storey Thousand Buddha Pagoda, 10.3 m high."},{"id":"pingshun-jiutian-shengmu-temple","name":"Jiutian Shengmu Temple","name_zh":"九天圣母庙","pinyin":"Jiǔtiān Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.225,"lon":113.3373,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-jiutian-shengmu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hilltop temple of the Holy Mother of the Nine Heavens in Hedong village, Beishe township, founded under the Tang and rebuilt in the Northern Song. A flight of 53 white-marble steps climbs from the lower courtyard to the gate, with eight stone cave-dwellings of Qing date, topped by painted galleries, on either side. The Holy Mother Hall at the back is Song work from 1101, the offering pavilion is Yuan in form, and the gate, which doubles as an opera stage, was rebuilt in the Qing with carved dragon-shaped brackets."},{"id":"lucheng-liaohetou-guandi-temple","name":"Liaohetou Guandi Temple","name_zh":"潦河头关帝庙","pinyin":"Liáohétóu Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3496,"lon":113.389,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lucheng-liaohetou-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu (Guandi) in Liaohetou village, Huangniuti township, in a single courtyard of about 460 square metres. The main hall is of the Yuan dynasty, three bays wide, and the other buildings are Qing; the gate building doubles as an opera stage on its upper floor. It was added to the national list in 2019."},{"id":"licheng-city-god-temple","name":"Licheng City God Temple","name_zh":"黎城城隍庙","pinyin":"Líchéng Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.502,"lon":113.3807,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A City God temple in the centre of Licheng, moved to this site in 1025 with the county town and rebuilt in 1369 after a fire. Its triple-eave gate tower, about 20 m high and roofed in glazed tile, keeps a Ming-dynasty character despite later repairs; behind it stand a Qing main hall of five bays and a gallery of old stelae, including Northern Wei and Sui examples. It suits visitors interested in temple architecture in a county town."},{"id":"xiangyuan-taiping-lingzewang-temple","name":"Lingzewang Temple, Taiping","name_zh":"灵泽王庙","pinyin":"Língzéwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.4865,"lon":112.9582,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyuan-taiping-lingzewang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Taiping village, where an inscription on a front-eave column records its founding in 1210 under the Jin. The Lingzewang Hall at the back is the Jin building: three bays wide, with a single-eave overhanging gable roof, double-ang bracket sets and four front stone columns that carry Jin dates. The opera stage and the other buildings of the compound are Qing."},{"id":"lucheng-lizhuang-confucian-temple","name":"Lizhuang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"李庄文庙","pinyin":"Lǐzhuāng Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.318,"lon":113.3821,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lucheng-lizhuang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village Confucian temple: a small compound facing south, with a Jin-dynasty main hall (Dacheng Hall) and a middle hall and side halls of the Qing period. Steles in the temple record its founding in 1221 and a repair in 1263, and the hall is three bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof. The village's Martial Temple stands about 250 m away."},{"id":"lucheng-lizhuang-martial-temple","name":"Lizhuang Martial Temple","name_zh":"李庄武庙","pinyin":"Lǐzhuāng Wǔmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3164,"lon":113.3839,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lucheng-lizhuang-martial-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lizhuang Martial Temple is a temple to Guan Yu (Guandi), the deified Three Kingdoms general, in a two-courtyard compound that faces west. The main hall is of the Yuan dynasty, the music pavilion in front of it of the Ming and the remaining buildings of the Qing, and the entrance building combines a gate with a stage facing into the courtyard. Steles dated 1849 and 1902 record repairs to the Guandi hall."},{"id":"pingshun-longmen-temple","name":"Longmen Temple, Pingshun","name_zh":"龙门寺","pinyin":"Lóngmén Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3902,"lon":113.623,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-longmen-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside temple of about 5,070 sq m at the foot of Longmen Mountain, also called Huiri Yuan, that keeps timber buildings from every period from the Five Dynasties to the Qing. The west side hall dates from about 925 under the Later Tang, the main hall from 1098 under the Song, the gate hall from the Jin, the rear Randeng Buddha hall from the Yuan and the east side hall from the Ming. About 34 sq m of Ming and Qing murals survive in the main hall, and a Later Han stone sutra pillar of 950 stands in the courtyard."},{"id":"wuxiang-luyi-xiabeizhang-site","name":"Lu Xun Art School Site at Xiabeizhang","name_zh":"鲁迅艺术学校下北漳旧址","pinyin":"Lǔxùn Yìshù Xuéxiào Xiàběizhāng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7432,"lon":113.0644,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-luyi-xiabeizhang-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A wartime site in Xiabeizhang village, where teachers and students of the Lu Xun Art School's front-line branch and other wartime cultural groups worked in 1940. The scenic area includes the former school, the Jindongnan branch of the Sino-Soviet Cultural Association, the former home of Li Bozhao and an exhibition on the Communist Party and wartime culture. It is one of the sites in the Wangjiayu revolutionary-relics cluster and has been listed as a provincial protected site since 2021."},{"id":"changzhi-luan-prefectural-office","name":"Lu'an Prefectural Office (Shangdang Gate)","name_zh":"潞安府衙","pinyin":"Lù'ān Fǔyá","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1872,"lon":113.1004,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changzhi-luan-prefectural-office/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The surviving gate complex of the government office of Lu'an Prefecture, whose Shangdang Gate stands on a high platform flanked by a bell tower and a drum tower. The gate dates from the Sui dynasty and was rebuilt in 1370, with the towers added in 1398 and 1471; the gate, the two towers, the second hall, an office courtyard and a west garden survive. It is regarded as the symbol of Changzhi."},{"id":"changzhi-luan-prefecture-city-god-temple","name":"Lu'an Prefecture City God Temple","name_zh":"潞安府城隍庙","pinyin":"Lù'ān Fǔ Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1835,"lon":113.1096,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changzhi-luan-prefecture-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A City God temple founded in 1285 under the Yuan dynasty, laid out in three courtyards along a north-south axis in central Changzhi and covering more than 7,000 sq m. The main hall is Yuan work, the gate and the rear sleeping hall are Ming, and the other buildings are Ming or Qing, many with roofs in coloured glazed tile; repairs are recorded in 1488 and 1834. The Changzhi culture and tourism bureau describes it as the largest and best-preserved surviving prefectural City God temple in China, and a temple fair is held on the 15th day of the fourth lunar month."},{"id":"qinxian-nannieshui-stone-carving-museum","name":"Nannieshui Stone Carving Museum","name_zh":"南涅水石刻博物馆","pinyin":"Nánnièshuǐ Shíkè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7433,"lon":112.6953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qinxian-nannieshui-stone-carving-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A county museum on Erlang Hill beside the west source of the Zhuozhang River, showing more than 1,100 stone carvings from a hoard unearthed at Nannieshui village, dated from the Northern Wei to the Northern Song. The galleries cover about 3,000 sq m and also hold Jin-dynasty brick carvings of the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars from a Qin County tomb found in 1999. It is a third-grade national museum, and its collection is listed nationally as the Nannieshui stone carvings."},{"id":"pingshun-minghui-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Master Minghui","name_zh":"明惠大师塔","pinyin":"Mínghuì Dàshī Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2349,"lon":113.6249,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingshun-minghui-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A six-metre stone pagoda in Hongni village, the burial pagoda of Master Minghui, abbot of the long-vanished Haihui Temple, who was killed in 877. A tablet on the pagoda is dated 932, under the Later Tang, and the square pagoda has a base, a body and a finial. The village around it stands on a cliff edge above a waterfall and is built largely of stone."},{"id":"tunliu-shishi-penglai-palace","name":"Penglai Palace, Shishi","name_zh":"石室蓬莱宫","pinyin":"Shíshì Pénglái Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3822,"lon":112.996,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tunliu-shishi-penglai-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Penglai Palace is a group of Ming and Qing buildings just east of Shishi village in Lucun township, Tunliu District. It was listed as a national key site in 2013."},{"id":"qinxian-puzhao-temple","name":"Puzhao Temple, Qin County","name_zh":"沁县普照寺","pinyin":"Qìnxiàn Pǔzhào Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7458,"lon":112.6034,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinxian-puzhao-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Kaicun village which the Qianlong-era Qinzhou gazetteer records as founded in 488 under the Northern Wei and repaired under the Jin, Ming and Qing. Only the Great Buddha Hall survives, a Jin-dynasty building on a low stone base, three bays wide and six rafters deep, with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof; the whole site covers about 210 sq m. A stele inside records a repair in 1820, and the temple was listed nationally in 2006."},{"id":"zhangzi-yihe-sanjiao-hall","name":"Sanjiao Hall, Yihe","name_zh":"义合三教堂","pinyin":"Yìhé Sānjiào Táng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.0247,"lon":112.8604,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-yihe-sanjiao-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yihe Sanjiao Hall is a village temple whose name means Three Teachings Hall; Changzhi Daily describes it as a folk-deity temple that brings Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism together. The main hall dates to the Jin dynasty and the middle hall to the Yuan, with Qing side halls, and Qing murals survive on a gable wall. It is a small one-courtyard compound of about 20 m by 35 m."},{"id":"pingshun-beishe-sanzong-temple","name":"Sanzong Temple, Beishe","name_zh":"北社三嵕庙","pinyin":"Běishè Sānzōng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2551,"lon":113.2996,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-beishe-sanzong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Sanzong temple in Beishe village, Beishe township, Pingshun County, one of many across south-east Shanxi that honour Hou Yi, the legendary archer. Its single courtyard of about 860 square metres has a three-bay main hall of the Yuan dynasty, while the offering hall, the gate building with an opera stage above and the side halls are Qing, with repairs recorded in 1845 and 1892. It became a provincial protected site in 2004 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"zhangzi-dazhonghan-sanzong-temple","name":"Sanzong Temple, Dazhonghan","name_zh":"大中汉三嵕庙","pinyin":"Dàzhōnghàn Sānzōng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1129,"lon":112.8048,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-dazhonghan-sanzong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Sanzong temple in Dazhonghan village, Changzhang township, Zhangzi County, one of many across south-east Shanxi that honour Hou Yi, the legendary archer. An inscription records its founding in 1291; the main hall is of the Yuan dynasty, three bays wide, with stone eave columns and about 80 square metres of Qing murals, and the other buildings, including an opera stage at the entrance, are Qing. It was listed as a national key site in 2013."},{"id":"huguan-nanyanghu-sanzong-temple","name":"Sanzong Temple, Nanyanghu","name_zh":"南阳护三嵕庙","pinyin":"Nányánghù Sānzōng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.0356,"lon":113.1644,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huguan-nanyanghu-sanzong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Sanzong temple in Nanyanghu village, Huangshan township, one of the many in south-east Shanxi that honour Hou Yi, the legendary archer. Inscriptions record a title granted to the temple in 1103 and a rebuilding in 1175 under the Jin, with repairs under the Yuan and Ming. It stands in a single courtyard of about 1,170 square metres; the three-bay main hall is Jin original work and the offering hall, bell and drum towers and side halls are Qing."},{"id":"tunliu-xianshi-sarira-pagoda","name":"Sarira Pagoda of Monk Xianshi","name_zh":"先师和尚舍利塔","pinyin":"Xiānshī Héshang Shèlì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.4569,"lon":112.7749,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tunliu-xianshi-sarira-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Tang-dynasty nine-storey pagoda of dense eaves, built for the relics of a monk named Xianshi, stands at Jinchan Temple on the western peak of Laoye Mountain, anciently Sanzong Mountain, in Tunliu District. Its body is pitted with bullet holes from the fighting of September 1945, when the mountain was a main battlefield of the Shangdang Campaign, and the battle site is a provincially protected monument. Local legend sets Hou Yi's shooting of the extra suns on the mountain's east peak."},{"id":"pingshun-beiganquan-shengmu-temple","name":"Shengmu Temple, Beiganquan","name_zh":"北甘泉圣母庙","pinyin":"Běigānquán Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2293,"lon":113.2673,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-beiganquan-shengmu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the Holy Mother in Beiganquan village, Miaozhuang town, Pingshun County, in a single courtyard of about 1,100 square metres. The three-bay main hall is of the Yuan dynasty, and the other buildings, among them a two-storey gate building with an opera stage above, are Qing. It became a provincial protected site in 2004 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"qinyuan-lingkongshan-shengshou-temple","name":"Shengshou Temple, Lingkongshan","name_zh":"灵空山圣寿寺","pinyin":"Língkōngshān Shèngshòu Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.5926,"lon":112.082,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyuan-lingkongshan-shengshou-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple among old pines in the Lingkongshan forest reserve, founded under the Tang and laid out in five courtyards. From west to east these are the Luohan, Yaolou (cave-building), central, Guandi and monks' courtyards, and the five-bay main hall of the central courtyard has a flush-gable glazed-tile roof. Steles of 1514 and 1575 survive, and the surrounding pines include trees about 500 years old."},{"id":"wuxiang-taihang-dragon-cave","name":"Taihang Dragon Cave","name_zh":"太行龙洞","pinyin":"Tàiháng Lóngdòng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7723,"lon":113.2856,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-taihang-dragon-cave","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A karst cave in Shiquan village in Panlong town, east of Wuxiang, with four levels and more than 2,000 m of passages, of which three levels are open. The route passes more than 70 named sights among stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone curtains and 'stone waterfall' formations. It suits a short visit combined with the Eighth Route Army headquarters site at Zhuanbi, which is in the same town."},{"id":"wuxiang-taihang-memorial-museum","name":"Taihang Memorial Museum of the Eighth Route Army","name_zh":"八路军太行纪念馆","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Tàiháng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.8334,"lon":112.8497,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxiang-taihang-memorial-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A national first-class museum on the Eighth Route Army's war of resistance against Japan, opened in 1988 at the foot of Phoenix Hill in Wuxiang and enlarged in 2005. The main exhibition runs for 1,450 m and shows more than 1,000 items and over 600 photographs and charts; the grounds also hold a panorama hall on the Hundred Regiments Offensive, a stele park and a 19.37 m monument on the hilltop. It suits visitors interested in the wartime Taihang base area, and it adjoins the Eighth Route Army Cultural Park."},{"id":"pingshun-taihang-water-town","name":"Taihang Water Town (Chibi Xuanliu Gorge)","name_zh":"太行水乡·赤壁悬流","pinyin":"Tàiháng Shuǐxiāng Chìbì Xuánliú","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3575,"lon":113.545,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-taihang-water-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 12 km stretch of the Zhuozhang River gorge in the Taihang foothills of Pingshun County, named after 'Chibi Xuanliu' (red cliffs and hanging streams), one of the old 'eight sights' of the Taihang. Red rock walls rise from green water, a broad waterfall about 118 m wide and 22 m high crosses the river bed, and a 4.5 km boardwalk runs through the red cliffs. The Commentary on the Waterways Classic, written in the early sixth century, already praised the blue-green cliffs and red walls like dawn cloud here, and today the gorge suits a half-day walk."},{"id":"zhangzi-qianwanhu-tangwang-temple","name":"Tangwang Temple, Qianwanhu","name_zh":"前万户汤王庙","pinyin":"Qiánwànhù Tāngwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1501,"lon":112.8845,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-qianwanhu-tangwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Qianwanhu village, named for King Tang (Tangwang). Its main hall dates from the Yuan dynasty and keeps its Yuan brackets and wall paintings."},{"id":"pingshun-beishe-dayu-temple","name":"Temple of Yu the Great, Beishe","name_zh":"北社大禹庙","pinyin":"Běishè Dàyǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2544,"lon":113.2997,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-beishe-dayu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of floods, in Beishe village, Pingshun County, in a single courtyard of about 990 square metres. The three-bay main hall is of the Yuan dynasty and keeps traces of painted decoration on its brackets and beams, while the other buildings, including a gate building with an opera stage above, are Qing; a repair of 1803 is recorded. It stands in the same village as the Beishe Sanzong Temple, and both were listed as provincial sites in 2004 and national ones in 2013."},{"id":"pingshun-xiqingbei-dayu-temple","name":"Temple of Yu the Great, Xiqingbei","name_zh":"西青北大禹庙","pinyin":"Xīqīngběi Dàyǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2505,"lon":113.2246,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-xiqingbei-dayu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of floods, in Xiqingbei village, Beishe township, Pingshun County, with Ming and Qing buildings. It became a provincial protected site in 2004 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"pingshun-tianjishan","name":"Tianji Mountain","name_zh":"天脊山","pinyin":"Tiānjǐshān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1563,"lon":113.6237,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-tianjishan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Taihang Mountains of eastern Pingshun County, near Yanglaoyan village in Dongsitou township, which borders Henan, with streams, pools and waterfalls running in its valleys through the year. A cliffside plank walkway looks down on a drop of more than 300 m, and its highest fall, the Tianji Longpu, is promoted as dropping 346 m. A geopark of the same name, the Pingshun Tianjishan Geopark, holds national geopark qualification."},{"id":"licheng-xincun-tianqiwang-temple","name":"Tianqiwang Temple, Xincun","name_zh":"辛村天齐王庙","pinyin":"Xīncūn Tiānqíwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.5549,"lon":113.4927,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-xincun-tianqiwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tianqiwang Temple stands at the eastern edge of Xin village in Dongyangguan town. It was founded in 1341 according to a Yuan stele; the main hall, five bays wide with an overhanging gable roof, is a Yuan building, and the entrance doubles as a two-storey opera stage. Changning Great Temple, another national-level village temple, is about 1 km to the east."},{"id":"pingshun-tiantai-an","name":"Tiantai An, Pingshun","name_zh":"天台庵","pinyin":"Tiāntái Ān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3831,"lon":113.3985,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingshun-tiantai-an/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small hall on high ground in Wangqu village that was long counted among China's four surviving Tang timber buildings, until repairs in 2014 turned up ink inscriptions dating it to the Later Tang (Five Dynasties) period, about 929–933. It is three bays wide, about 7 m square, on a stone platform about 1 m high, with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, very plain brackets and a simple early roof frame. Only the hall and a worn Tang stele remain of the temple."},{"id":"zhangzi-tianwang-temple","name":"Tianwang Temple, Zhangzi","name_zh":"天王寺","pinyin":"Tiānwáng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1173,"lon":112.8751,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-tianwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tianwang Temple (Heavenly King Temple) stands in Zhangzi county town, where only its middle hall and rear hall survive, both of the Jin dynasty. The middle hall, three bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and five-layer bracket sets, is described by Changzhi Daily as a typical Jin building. The county gazetteer dates the founding to the Tang, and the temple grew out of the Tang and Song cult of the war deity Vaishravana (Pishamen Tianwang)."},{"id":"huguan-zhuangtou-tianxian-temple","name":"Tianxian Temple, Zhuangtou","name_zh":"庄头天仙庙","pinyin":"Zhuāngtóu Tiānxiān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1275,"lon":113.2625,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huguan-zhuangtou-tianxian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Zhuangtou village, Jinzhuang town, Huguan County, in a single courtyard of about 1,550 square metres. Inscriptions record a Song-dynasty founding and repairs in 1629 and 1671; the main hall is of the Yuan dynasty, three bays wide with a glazed ridge, and the other buildings, among them bell and drum towers, are Qing. It became a provincial protected site in 2004 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"pingshun-tongtian-gorge","name":"Tongtian Gorge","name_zh":"通天峡","pinyin":"Tōngtiānxiá","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2119,"lon":113.6005,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-tongtian-gorge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A gorge scenic area of about 65 sq km in south-eastern Pingshun County, in Hongtiguan and Dongsitou townships, which is also a national geopark. The main gorge runs about 26 km, with Tongtian Lake and its small island of macaques, a cliff more than 170 m high known as Shiping ('Screen') Mountain, the three-step Sandie waterfall and, in winter, a long natural ice curtain. The ancient Hongti Pass and the Minghui Master Pagoda lie nearby."},{"id":"pingshun-xishe-weigong-temple","name":"Weigong Temple, Xishe","name_zh":"西社卫公庙","pinyin":"Xīshè Wèigōng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2544,"lon":113.285,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-xishe-weigong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to Li Jing, the Tang general enfeoffed as Duke of Wei, begun under the Yuan in Xishe village. A gate building with a two-storey stage, an offering hall and the main hall survive; the main hall is Yuan-dynasty work, three bays wide with a flush-gable roof and about 8 sq m of surviving murals, and the offering hall has a rounded, ridgeless roof. It was added to the national list in 2019."},{"id":"licheng-lihou-tombs","name":"Western Zhou Tombs of the Marquises of Li","name_zh":"西周黎侯墓群","pinyin":"Xīzhōu Líhóu Mùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.5046,"lon":113.37,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-lihou-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The cemetery of the marquises of Li, a small Zhou-period state in the Licheng area, lies beside Tapo Reservoir at Xiguan village; the national list dates the tombs from the Western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn period. On the ground there is a modern memorial park on a promontory over the reservoir, with a large gate inscribed Lihou Wangling (Tomb of the Marquis of Li), a paved plaza and rows of pillars."},{"id":"xiangyuan-wulong-temple","name":"Wulong Temple, Xiangyuan","name_zh":"襄垣五龙庙","pinyin":"Xiāngyuán Wǔlóng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.537,"lon":113.0463,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyuan-wulong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wulong (Five Dragons) Temple is a small compound on the northern edge of Xiangyuan county town, of which only the main hall survives. Changzhi Daily describes the hall as a Yuan-dynasty building five bays wide with a single-eave overhanging gable roof and large bracket sets, with diagonal brackets between the columns. A rebuilding of 1350 is recorded, and the temple was later used as a store and a blacksmith's workshop."},{"id":"licheng-xierhe-scenic-area","name":"Xi'er River Scenic Area","name_zh":"洗耳河","pinyin":"Xǐ'ěr Hé","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7528,"lon":113.3317,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-xierhe-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain and river-valley scenic area of about 30 sq km in the Taihang Mountains of northern Licheng County, rising to Wuzhi Mountain at about 1,500 m. Local accounts place two legendary hermits here, Xu You and Chaofu, the source of the idiom xi'er gongting ('to listen respectfully'), and the stream is known for its clear spring water. After an upgrade it reopened in August 2026 with a water-play street, rock climbing, a jungle-adventure course, go-karts and mountain guesthouses."},{"id":"xiangyuan-confucian-temple","name":"Xiangyuan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"襄垣文庙","pinyin":"Xiāngyuán Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.5312,"lon":113.0451,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyuan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xiangyuan Confucian Temple is the surviving core of the county's old temple of Confucius, which was founded in the Jin dynasty and repaired in 1296 under the Yuan. Its Dacheng Hall, five bays wide with a single-eave overhanging gable roof, keeps about 40 sq m of old wall paintings on its interior side walls, and a library tower also stands in the compound. The compound is small, about 23 m by 15 m, and stands about 600 m south of Wulong Temple."},{"id":"xiangyuan-xiantang-mountain","name":"Xiantang Mountain","name_zh":"仙堂山","pinyin":"Xiāntáng Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.628,"lon":113.1625,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyuan-xiantang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xiantang Mountain is a scenic area in the hills north-east of Xiangyuan, centred on Xiantang Temple, a Buddhist temple traced to the Eastern Jin whose group of Ming and Qing buildings has been a provincial-level protected monument since 1996. Caves including the Nuwa Palace, Guanyin Cave and Black Dragon Cave lie among the peaks, and the slopes turn red with smoke-tree and maple foliage between mid-October and the end of November."},{"id":"pingshun-xiayu-shrine","name":"Xiayu Shrine, Pingshun","name_zh":"夏禹神祠","pinyin":"Xiàyǔ Shéncí","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3439,"lon":113.6117,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshun-xiayu-shrine","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A shrine to Yu the Great, the mythical tamer of floods, built in 1336 under the Yuan on the highest ground of Houbi village and repaired in the Ming and Qing. Its single courtyard has a gate building with an opera stage on the upper floor, a Yuan-dynasty main hall and side halls, and a projecting terrace in front of the hall carved in relief on three sides. The hall keeps a Ming stone tablet set into its wall, two Qing ones and three Ming stone offering tables."},{"id":"shangdang-xiyan-temple-pagoda","name":"Xiyan Temple Pagoda, Shangdang","name_zh":"上党西岩寺塔","pinyin":"Shàngdǎng Xīyán Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":35.9613,"lon":113.0976,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangdang-xiyan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Tang-dynasty brick pagoda in Sangzi village, Yincheng town, also known as the Zhangba Temple Pagoda. It is a square, six-storey pagoda with closely spaced eaves, about 16 m high in its surviving form, and it was repaired in 1705 under the Kangxi emperor."},{"id":"zhangzi-hanfang-yaowang-temple","name":"Yaowang Temple, Hanfang","name_zh":"韩坊尧王庙","pinyin":"Hánfāng Yáowáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.0721,"lon":112.9092,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-hanfang-yaowang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple whose name means Temple of King Yao, with a Jin-dynasty main hall and a Qing-dynasty stage in a one-courtyard compound. The hall is three bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, stone columns and five-layer bracket sets, and steles record repairs in 1218 and 1278."},{"id":"xiangyuan-yonghui-bridge","name":"Yonghui Bridge, Xiangyuan","name_zh":"襄垣永惠桥","pinyin":"Xiāngyuán Yǒnghuì Qiáo","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.5365,"lon":113.0463,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyuan-yonghui-bridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yonghui Bridge is a single-arch stone bridge over the Gan River moat outside the north gate of Xiangyuan's old town. The county gazetteer dates it to the Jin dynasty (the 1123–1137 era), with a repair in 1471, and Changzhi Daily calls it the oldest surviving stone arch bridge in Changzhi. The balustrade slabs are carved with figures, flowers, birds and animals, and the posts are topped with stone lions and other figures."},{"id":"lucheng-yuanqi-temple","name":"Yuanqi Temple","name_zh":"原起寺","pinyin":"Yuánqǐ Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.3533,"lon":113.4258,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lucheng-yuanqi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yuanqi Temple is a small hilltop temple on Phoenix Hill, above the west bank of the Zhuozhang River near Xin'an village. Its main hall and a seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda, about 17 m high and dated 1087, are Song-dynasty work, while the other buildings are Ming and Qing. It belongs to a group of early timber temples in the Zhuozhang valley, which also includes Tiantai'an and Dayunyuan in neighbouring Pingshun County."},{"id":"shangdang-changchun-yuhuang-temple","name":"Yuhuang Temple, Changchun","name_zh":"上党长春玉皇庙","pinyin":"Shàngdǎng Chángchūn Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":35.9716,"lon":113.1236,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangdang-changchun-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Jade Emperor temple in Changchun village, Yincheng town, on two courtyards covering about 2,800 sq m. The main hall is a Song-dynasty building and the Great Buddha Hall behind it is Ming; the opera stage, gate, bell and drum towers and the other buildings are Qing, so the compound shows how local building fashions changed over the centuries. Steles record repairs in 1473, 1712 and 1770, and it became a provincial protected site in 2016 and a national one in 2019."},{"id":"changzhi-nansong-yuhuang-temple","name":"Yuhuang Temple, Nansong","name_zh":"长治玉皇观","pinyin":"Chángzhì Yùhuáng Guàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":35.9192,"lon":113.062,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhi-nansong-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This temple to the Jade Emperor in Nansong village has a single courtyard on a south-facing axis, with a gate tower, an offering pavilion and the main hall at the back, and the gate tower and the east side hall date from the Yuan while the rest is Ming and Qing. The gate tower, the Wufeng (Five Phoenix) Tower, rises five storeys to about 29 m and is climbed by a steep inner stair cut from a single mulberry trunk. The main hall, Lingxiao Hall, has eleven oversized nine-tier bracket sets under its front eaves."},{"id":"changzhi-zhangze-lake-wetland-park","name":"Zhangze Lake Wetland Park","name_zh":"漳泽湖国家城市湿地公园","pinyin":"Zhāngzéhú Guójiā Chéngshì Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.2221,"lon":113.0549,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhi-zhangze-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A landscaped wetland park on the edge of Zhangze Reservoir, which Changzhi promotes as the 'Taihang Heavenly Pond', on the north-western side of the city. The reservoir, a large one on the south branch of the Zhuozhang River, was completed in 1960; the park has waterways, woodland, walking paths, boat rides and Chinese-garden pavilions, and is known for its summer lotus. It makes an easy outing from the city for a walk by the water."},{"id":"zhangzi-confucian-temple","name":"Zhangzi Confucian Temple","name_zh":"长子文庙","pinyin":"Zhǎngzǐ Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1197,"lon":112.8768,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzi-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhangzi Confucian Temple is the county's old temple of Confucius, laid out in two courtyards along an axis of gate, Dacheng Hall and Minglun Hall. The Dacheng Hall, of the Yuan dynasty, is five bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, widely spaced bracket sets and glazed ridge ornaments added in the Ming. The compound stands in the grounds of the Zhangzi County Museum, and the entrance building in front is a recent copy in the old style."},{"id":"xiangyuan-guozhuang-zhaozewang-temple","name":"Zhaozewang Temple, Guozhuang","name_zh":"郭庄昭泽王庙","pinyin":"Guōzhuāng Zhāozéwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.4863,"lon":113.0962,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyuan-guozhuang-zhaozewang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to Zhaoze King, a Tang-dynasty swordsman of Xiangyuan surnamed Jiao who was later titled king and worshipped as a spirit with power over rain. An inscription on the hall's front stone columns records its founding in 1187 under the Jin, and the Zhaoze King Hall at the back is original Jin work, three bays wide with a single-eave overhanging gable roof and glazed-tile ridges. The gate, side buildings and other halls are Qing, and the stage and the bell and drum towers survive only as foundations."},{"id":"xiangyuan-zhaozewang-temple","name":"Zhaozewang Temple, Xiangyuan","name_zh":"襄垣昭泽王庙","pinyin":"Xiāngyuán Zhāozéwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.5307,"lon":113.0457,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyuan-zhaozewang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in the south of Xiangyuan county town, also called Longdong Temple, on a single courtyard of about 170 sq m. Two buildings survive: the five-bay main hall, a Yuan-dynasty structure with a single-eave overhanging gable roof and double-ang bracket sets, and an offering hall in front of it that dates from the Ming, and a stele records a rebuilding in 1607. It is a different temple from the nationally listed Zhaoze King temple at Guozhuang village, also in Xiangyuan."},{"id":"licheng-xixiazhuang-zhaozewang-temple","name":"Zhaozewang Temple, Xixiazhuang","name_zh":"西下庄昭泽王庙","pinyin":"Xīxiàzhuāng Zhāozéwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.6149,"lon":113.2403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-xixiazhuang-zhaozewang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple at Xixiazhuang, north-west of Licheng county town, with buildings dated from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties. It was listed as a provincial protected monument in 2016 and as a national one in 2019."},{"id":"shangdang-zhengjue-temple","name":"Zhengjue Temple","name_zh":"正觉寺","pinyin":"Zhèngjué Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.1161,"lon":113.0115,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangdang-zhengjue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Kansi village, founded in the Tang dynasty (827–835) and rebuilt in 1070 under the Song. The five-bay rear hall, with an overhanging gable roof, deep eaves and square stone columns, is a Song survival, while the middle hall and side halls are Yuan or Ming work; a Ming stele of 1623 records village rules protecting the temple. It suits visitors interested in early timber architecture."},{"id":"wuxiang-zhenru-temple","name":"Zhenru Temple, Wuxiang","name_zh":"武乡真如寺","pinyin":"Wǔxiāng Zhēnrú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":36.7368,"lon":113.1959,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxiang-zhenru-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Tuhe village, Hanbei township, whose inscriptions record its founding in 1323 under the Yuan and repairs in 1534 and 1738. The five-bay main hall is Yuan work with an overhanging gable roof and double-ang bracket sets, and the south hall in front of it is Qing; three old pines stand in the courtyard. It became a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"shangdang-zhenxing-town","name":"Zhenxing Town, Shangdang","name_zh":"振兴小镇","pinyin":"Zhènxīng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":35.894,"lon":113.1229,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangdang-zhenxing-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A rural-tourism complex built around Zhenxing village in Shangdang District, mixing family attractions with local folk culture. It has an agricultural science-and-technology park with themed indoor gardens (a 'suspended rainforest', an insect world, a pet area), a VR 'metaverse' hall, a patriotic-education area with relief carvings of wartime episodes such as the Hundred Regiments Offensive, an adventure area with zip lines and climbing, and a night-time pedestrian street in modern 'national-trend' style. Holiday programmes include folk shows such as sedan-chair processions and dragon dances, and the place suits families and school groups."},{"id":"huguan-zhenze-erxian-palace","name":"Zhenze Erxian Palace","name_zh":"真泽二仙宫","pinyin":"Zhēnzé Èrxiān Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Changzhi","lat":35.8699,"lon":113.3958,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huguan-zhenze-erxian-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This large temple complex in Shenjiao village honours the two Yue sisters, known for their filial devotion and venerated as the Two Immortals, a cult that is popular around Huguan. Founded in the Tang, it moved to its present site in 1574 and covers about 17,000 square metres, with five courtyards along a south-facing axis: a wooden memorial arch, the gate, the Dangyang Hall, a rear sleeping hall and the Holy Mother hall, flanked by side halls, bell and drum towers and a dressing tower. The Dangyang Hall is Yuan work with about 76 square metres of murals inside, and the other buildings are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"datong-chanfang-temple-pagoda","name":"Chanfang Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"禅房寺塔","pinyin":"Chánfáng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.9447,"lon":113.0487,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-chanfang-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda of seven tiers and eight sides on the summit of Ta'er Mountain (Zhangren Peak) south-west of Datong, beside the site of the Tang-founded Chanfang Temple. It is a solid, close-eaved pagoda about 12 m high before its restoration in 2005–07, standing on a tall carved base in the Xumi-throne style typical of Liao brickwork. The temple was already abandoned by the early nineteenth century, and only the pagoda survived."},{"id":"lingqiu-chehe-organic-community","name":"Chehe Organic Community","name_zh":"车河有机社区","pinyin":"Chēhé Yǒujī Shèqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.3629,"lon":114.2829,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingqiu-chehe-organic-community","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A rural community in the hills of Hongshileng township, set up in 2013 around the villages of Upper and Lower Chehe and run as a showcase for organic farming. It has organic fields, a produce exhibition hall, a new village-style housing area, a fishing area and a valley eco-tourism zone, with oil-peony fields that flower in late spring. An international organic-agriculture forum has been held here twelve times, and the place suits visitors who want a quiet countryside stay."},{"id":"tianzhen-ciyun-temple","name":"Ciyun Temple, Tianzhen","name_zh":"慈云寺","pinyin":"Cíyún Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.4194,"lon":114.0794,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianzhen-ciyun-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty Buddhist temple in the middle of Tianzhen, laid out in three courtyards on about 5,600 m², which took its present name when the Xuande emperor (1426–35) granted it. The Piluzhen Hall is the most imposing building and holds two Ming wooden cabinet-pavilions, the main hall has Ming wall paintings, and the bell and drum towers have rounded domed roofs, a form the county government calls rare in China. It draws large crowds at the Spring Festival."},{"id":"yanggao-daquanshan-eco-tourism-area","name":"Daquanshan Ecological Tourism Area","name_zh":"大泉山","pinyin":"Dàquánshān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.2572,"lon":113.7746,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanggao-daquanshan-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A loess-hill area south of Yanggao that was once bare, gullied slopes and is now about 69% forest, held up as a national model of soil and water conservation. In 1955 Mao Zedong gave an article on the village's conservation work a new title and added a note of his own, and the scenic area has exhibition halls on that note and on soil conservation. Forest trails, the Daquanshan reservoir and Xiaolongmen are the main natural sights, and there is a visitor centre."},{"id":"datong-drum-tower","name":"Datong Drum Tower","name_zh":"大同鼓楼","pinyin":"Dàtóng Gǔlóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0903,"lon":113.2953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datong-drum-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey timber tower with triple eaves, standing on a stone base on Yongtai Street in the middle of Datong's old city. It was built in the Ming dynasty and repaired several times under the Qing; a drum once hung in the top storey to mark the hours at night. It has been open to visitors since 2012, and stone tablets recording the Qing repairs are kept under the lower eaves."},{"id":"datong-coal-mine-mass-grave-memorial","name":"Datong Mass Grave Memorial","name_zh":"大同煤矿万人坑","pinyin":"Dàtóng Méikuàng Wànrénkēng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0245,"lon":113.1327,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datong-coal-mine-mass-grave-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial museum at Meiyukou, south-west of Datong, built where the remains of miners were found in two natural caves; it records the forced labour used in the Datong coal mines during the Japanese occupation of 1937–1945. The memorial complex, which opened in its present form in 2010, covers about 337,000 square metres, and a black granite wall is inscribed with the figures for coal taken (14 million tonnes) and lives lost (60,000). The exhibition also traces the history of coal mining around Datong."},{"id":"datong-volcano-group","name":"Datong Volcanic Group","name_zh":"大同火山群","pinyin":"Dàtóng Huǒshānqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.1063,"lon":113.6288,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-volcano-group","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A field of more than 30 volcanic cones on the loess plateau in Yunzhou District, formed in the Quaternary period; the best known are Heishan, Jinshan, Langwoshan, Gelaoshan and Haotianshan. The national geological park covers 129.9 square kilometres, and the scenic area has a visitor service centre, a car park and wooden boardwalks. It suits travellers who want open, quiet scenery rather than monuments."},{"id":"hunyuan-jingzhuang-dayun-temple","name":"Dayun Temple, Jingzhuang","name_zh":"荆庄大云寺","pinyin":"Jīngzhuāng Dàyún Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.6328,"lon":113.6055,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hunyuan-jingzhuang-dayun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The surviving main hall of Dayun Temple, which the 1763 county gazetteer records as a Northern Wei foundation, in the village of Jingzhuang south-west of Hunyuan. The three-bay hall dates from the Jin dynasty and stands about 8 m high under a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof; it was repaired under the Yuan, Ming and Qing, and its interior walls carry murals."},{"id":"datong-fantawild-adventure","name":"Fantawild Adventure, Datong","name_zh":"大同方特欢乐世界","pinyin":"Dàtóng Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0578,"lon":113.3613,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Most of a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-fantawild-adventure","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A theme park on the eastern edge of Datong, one of the Fantawild chain, which opened in 2016. The Datong government's 2026 description counts more than 30 themed rides and attractions, and the park adds parades, evening shows with fireworks and seasonal events such as a summer water-splashing festival. It is aimed mainly at families with children."},{"id":"datong-shanxi-third-middle-school-site","name":"Former Shanxi Provincial Third Middle School","name_zh":"山西省立第三中学旧址","pinyin":"Shānxī Shěnglì Dìsān Zhōngxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0764,"lon":113.2217,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datong-shanxi-third-middle-school-site/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A school campus built between 1918 and 1921 on the Shili River west of Datong, in a blend of Chinese and Western styles, and used for schools until recently. The buildings stand on a north–south axis: a gate and office building, a large auditorium shaped like a reclining elephant, twelve identical classrooms arranged in a square, and a library and laboratory at the back. Most of the original structures survive."},{"id":"datong-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Datong","name_zh":"大同关帝庙","pinyin":"Dàtóng Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0908,"lon":113.2989,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the war god Guan Yu in the old city of Datong. Its main hall is the only Yuan-dynasty timber building in the city, with a Qing-dynasty porch added at the front. The gate, the hall of passage, the Spring and Autumn Pavilion and the side halls were rebuilt in 2008, and the opera stage in front was moved here from another site in the city."},{"id":"datong-guanyin-hall","name":"Guanyin Hall, Datong","name_zh":"大同观音堂","pinyin":"Dàtóng Guānyīntáng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.1011,"lon":113.1969,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datong-guanyin-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Buddhist temple on a low hill west of Datong, first founded under the Liao dynasty and rebuilt in 1651 under the Qing. What survives is a screen wall, an opera stage, the main Guanyin Hall and the Sanzhen Hall. It stands just north of the road to Yungang, so it can be added to a trip to the grottoes."},{"id":"yanggao-guchengbao-han-tombs","name":"Guchengbao Han Tombs","name_zh":"古城堡墓群","pinyin":"Gǔchéngbǎo Mùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.1149,"lon":113.96,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanggao-guchengbao-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cemetery of 58 Han-dynasty mounds scattered over about 19 km² around Gucheng town in Yanggao County, the mounds about 4–6 m high and still well preserved. Japanese archaeologists dug six of the tombs in 1941 and found bronze, pottery and lacquer objects, and the burials date from the early Western Han."},{"id":"datong-huayan-temple","name":"Huayan Temple, Datong","name_zh":"华严寺","pinyin":"Huáyán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0914,"lon":113.2881,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datong-huayan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large Buddhist temple in the west of Datong's old city, founded in 1038 as a royal temple of the Liao dynasty and divided into an upper and a lower temple under the Ming. The upper temple's main hall, rebuilt in 1140 under the Jin, is among the largest surviving ancient Buddhist halls in China, and the lower temple's Bhagavan Hall still holds 29 Liao-dynasty painted statues. Among them is a smiling bodhisattva with clasped hands, nicknamed the 'Oriental Venus'."},{"id":"hunyuan-confucian-temple","name":"Hunyuan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"浑源文庙","pinyin":"Húnyuán Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.6977,"lon":113.6829,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hunyuan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The county's Confucian temple, founded before the Liao and Jin and rebuilt on a large scale in 1472, set on a north–south axis over about 15,580 m² in the old town of Hunyuan. The standing buildings are Ming, and the main hall, the five-bay Dacheng Hall, has a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof covered in yellow and green glazed tiles."},{"id":"datong-jinhuagong-mining-park","name":"Jinhuagong National Mining Park","name_zh":"晋华宫国家矿山公园","pinyin":"Jìnhuágōng Guójiā Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.1006,"lon":113.1307,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-jinhuagong-mining-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former coal mine west of Datong, now a national mining park of about 36 hectares and one of the first 28 in China. Visitors can go underground into part of the old workings, and the park also has the Datong Coal Museum and an area of surface mine remains. It stands across the river from the Yungang Grottoes, so it combines easily with a visit there."},{"id":"lingqiu-jueshan-temple","name":"Jueshan Temple","name_zh":"觉山寺","pinyin":"Juéshān Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.3696,"lon":114.3053,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingqiu-jueshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple founded in 483 as a Northern Wei imperial temple and rebuilt in the 1880s, whose Liao-dynasty brick pagoda survived the 1626 earthquake that brought down the rest of the compound. The thirteen-tier octagonal pagoda is 44.23 m high, with carved brick bases and a ground-floor chamber holding Liao murals, and the temple climbs the hillside in courtyards, with a cave shrine on the cliff above and a small brick pagoda on the hill to the south-west."},{"id":"tianzhen-lierkou-great-wall","name":"Li'erkou Great Wall","name_zh":"李二口长城","pinyin":"Lǐ'èrkǒu Chángchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.5305,"lon":114.0995,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianzhen-lierkou-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A stretch of Ming-dynasty Great Wall built of rammed earth in the 16th century, in the hills of Tianzhen County in the far north of Shanxi. Two sections of the wall meet here in a T-shape, and the stretch is on the national list of important Great Wall sections. Li'erkou village at its foot has been restored as a small tourist village."},{"id":"hunyuan-lulushen-temple","name":"Lülüshen Temple, Hunyuan","name_zh":"律吕神祠","pinyin":"Lǜlǚ Shén Cí","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.7201,"lon":113.6516,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hunyuan-lulushen-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A shrine of the rain-bringing Lülü deity, worshipped as the Water Mother and her husband, in Shenxi village, inside the Shenxi National Wetland Park north-west of Hunyuan. It was founded under the Northern Wei, and its surviving main structures are mostly Yuan. The village around it has a Guandi temple, an old opera stage, Fengshan Academy and Ming–Qing houses."},{"id":"hunyuan-beiyue-hengshan","name":"Mount Heng (Beiyue Hengshan)","name_zh":"北岳恒山","pinyin":"Běiyuè Héngshān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.6692,"lon":113.726,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hunyuan-beiyue-hengshan/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mount Heng is the northern one of China's Five Great Mountains, rising to 2,016.1 m at Tianfengling just south of Hunyuan; it took over the title of Northern Peak from a mountain in Hebei in the early Qing. Its temples, halls and pavilions are built against cliffs and in caves, and the Beiyue Temple stands high on the main peak, the only one of the five mountains' main temples built there. A cable car and walking routes serve the temple area, and the Hanging Temple on neighbouring Cuiping Peak is a separate sight."},{"id":"datong-nine-dragon-wall","name":"Nine-Dragon Wall, Datong","name_zh":"大同九龙壁","pinyin":"Dàtóng Jiǔlóngbì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0919,"lon":113.2969,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datong-nine-dragon-wall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A glazed-tile screen wall decorated with nine dragons, built between 1392 and 1396 in front of the palace of Zhu Gui, the Prince of Dai and thirteenth son of the first Ming emperor. It is about 45 metres long, 8 metres high and 2 metres thick, and Chinese sources describe it as the oldest and largest surviving nine-dragon wall in the country. The dragons have four claws rather than the five reserved for the emperor, and the palace behind the wall was destroyed in the wars at the end of the Ming."},{"id":"datong-pingcheng-site","name":"Pingcheng Site (Northern Wei capital)","name_zh":"平城遗址","pinyin":"Píngchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0647,"lon":113.3038,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-pingcheng-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Pingcheng was the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty from 398 to 494, and almost all of it now lies under modern Datong. The main place to see it is the Mingtang site in a park on the south-eastern side of the city, where the rammed-earth foundations and the circular moat of a ceremonial hall are shown in a museum with a model of the Wei capital. It makes a good companion to the Yungang Grottoes, which were begun while Pingcheng was the capital."},{"id":"lingqiu-pingxingguan-battle-site","name":"Pingxingguan Battle Site","name_zh":"平型关大捷景区","pinyin":"Píngxíngguān Dàjié Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.3433,"lon":113.9674,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingqiu-pingxingguan-battle-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The memorial site for the Battle of Pingxingguan of 25 September 1937, when the Eighth Route Army's 115th Division ambushed a Japanese column in the Qiaogou gully, an engagement that Chinese accounts treat as the first major Chinese victory after the full-scale war began. The site has a memorial museum with a main exhibition hall and a panorama gallery, a plaza with ten bronze statues of the commanders, and a memorial monument on a ridge about 1 km to the east; the Qiaogou gully, about 4 km long, lies nearby. The Pingxingguan pass itself, a Great Wall gate, is about 10 km away by road."},{"id":"lingqiu-quhuisi-stone-sculptures","name":"Quhui Temple Stone Sculptures","name_zh":"曲回寺石像冢","pinyin":"Qūhuí Sì Shíxiàng Zhǒng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.1862,"lon":114.0544,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingqiu-quhuisi-stone-sculptures","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mound-like heap of stone blocks beside the ruined Quhui Temple, carved with Buddha figures in the style of the late Tang and partly covered by sand and gravel, in the village of Quhuisi on the Duyu river. The carved faces of the blocks can be seen on the outside of the heap, and the old temple itself survives only as foundations."},{"id":"tianzhen-shaliangpo-han-tombs","name":"Shaliangpo Han Tombs","name_zh":"沙梁坡墓群","pinyin":"Shāliángpō Mùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.3459,"lon":114.0862,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianzhen-shaliangpo-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cemetery of Han-dynasty frontier garrison soldiers on the slopes south of Tianzhen, known locally as Huangliangdui. About forty earth mounds survive across roughly 70 hectares, and excavations in 1991–92 recovered bronze mirrors, ring-pommel swords and pottery jars. The mounds are the visible remains, scattered over the hillside."},{"id":"datong-shanhua-temple","name":"Shanhua Temple","name_zh":"善化寺","pinyin":"Shànhuà Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0858,"lon":113.2936,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datong-shanhua-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple just inside the south gate of Datong's old city, popularly known as the South Temple, which keeps buildings from both the Liao and Jin dynasties. Its Daxiongbao Hall dates from the Liao and is one of the largest surviving halls of its type in China; it holds Jin-dynasty clay statues of the Five Tathagatas and the Twenty-four Devas. The gate building and the Sansheng Hall are of the Jin, and a glazed five-dragon screen wall moved here in 1980 from the former Xingguo Temple stands in front of the gate."},{"id":"guangling-shuishen-temple","name":"Shuishen Temple, Guangling","name_zh":"水神堂","pinyin":"Shuǐshén Táng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.7548,"lon":114.2836,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangling-shuishen-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple complex on a small hill beside the Huquan spring in the middle of Guangling, whose name covers a water-god shrine and a Buddhist hall, Dashi'an. The standing buildings are Ming and Qing and cover about 7,600 m². They include the seven-storey, six-sided Lingying Pagoda of the Qianlong period, the Holy Mother Hall built over the spring, a Wenchang Pavilion, bell and drum towers and a Laojun Hall."},{"id":"hunyuan-li-yumei-tomb","name":"Tomb of Li Yumei","name_zh":"栗毓美墓","pinyin":"Lì Yùměi Mù","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.704,"lon":113.697,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hunyuan-li-yumei-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The walled tomb park of Li Yumei (1778–1840), a Hunyuan-born Qing river-control official remembered for his brick-dam method of flood protection, built by imperial order after his death. From the front gate a path leads past a white marble archway and ornamental columns, a stele pavilion with an inscription by Lin Zexu, and a spirit way lined with stone figures and animals to the grave mound."},{"id":"datong-weidu-water-world","name":"Weidu Water World, Datong","name_zh":"魏都水世界","pinyin":"Wèidū Shuǐ Shìjiè","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.019,"lon":113.2859,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-weidu-water-world","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large leisure complex of about 600 mu (40 hectares) on the southern edge of Datong, developed from 2015 around a water park with slides, a wave pool and a lazy river. The Datong government lists hot-spring bathing, hotel rooms, restaurants, an outdoor amusement area, a year-round ice rink and fishing among its facilities. It suits families and anyone looking for a leisure day out from the city."},{"id":"datong-xingguo-temple","name":"Xingguo Temple, Pingcheng","name_zh":"平城兴国寺","pinyin":"Píngchéng Xīngguó Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.0766,"lon":113.2912,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-xingguo-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former Buddhist temple in the southern part of central Datong, founded in 1619 under the Ming and repaired in 1667 and 1765. Only the main hall survives, a two-storey building with three brick-vaulted cave rooms below and a timber hall of three bays with a hip-and-gable roof above, fronted by a five-bay timber porch. The temple's glazed five-dragon screen wall was moved to Shanhua Temple in 1980."},{"id":"hunyuan-yongan-temple","name":"Yong'an Temple, Hunyuan","name_zh":"浑源永安寺","pinyin":"Húnyuán Yǒng'ān Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.7009,"lon":113.6857,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hunyuan-yongan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty temple compound in the old town of Hunyuan, begun under the Jin, burned down and rebuilt in the early Yuan, with extensions and repairs under the Ming and Qing. Its main hall, the Chuanfa Zhengzong Hall, dates from 1315 and has a hip roof covered in yellow glazed tiles, and its interior walls carry large murals of the Buddhist water-and-land ritual and the ten Wisdom Kings."},{"id":"datong-fangshan-yonggu-mausoleum","name":"Yonggu Mausoleum","name_zh":"方山永固陵","pinyin":"Fāngshān Yǒnggù Líng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.2803,"lon":113.3459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-fangshan-yonggu-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The tomb of Empress Dowager Feng (Wenming), the Northern Wei regent who died in 490, begun in 481 on the southern part of the Fangshan hill north of Datong. A large earth mound still covers the tomb, and the 2 km² site also preserves remains of her memorial hall, the empty 'Wannian' tomb prepared for Emperor Xiaowen, gate foundations and a Buddhist pagoda. The Datong government describes it as the only confirmed imperial cemetery of the Northern Wei's Pingcheng period."},{"id":"hunyuan-yuanjue-temple-pagoda","name":"Yuanjue Temple Pagoda, Hunyuan","name_zh":"圆觉寺塔","pinyin":"Yuánjué Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":39.6995,"lon":113.6855,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hunyuan-yuanjue-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda of 1158, over 30 m high, in the old town of Hunyuan, known locally as the Little Temple Pagoda. Its base is carved with lions, lotus petals and rows of musicians and dancers, and the upper tiers imitate timber brackets and eaves. The iron phoenix on top still turns with the wind, a rare surviving ancient wind-direction indicator."},{"id":"yanggao-yunlin-temple","name":"Yunlin Temple, Yanggao","name_zh":"云林寺","pinyin":"Yúnlín Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Datong","lat":40.3583,"lon":113.7417,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanggao-yunlin-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty temple built by imperial decree in the south-west of Yanggao old town, locally called the West Temple, of which the main hall, the Heavenly Kings Hall and side halls survive. The five-bay main hall has twelve carved lattice doors across its front, 25 Ming clay figures and 123 groups of wall paintings on three walls."},{"id":"lingchuan-baiyu-palace","name":"Baiyu Palace","name_zh":"白玉宫","pinyin":"Báiyù Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6582,"lon":113.2412,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-baiyu-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple at Jiaodi village, laid out in three courtyards along a south-facing axis about 100 m long, entered through a stage building that serves as the gate. The oldest hall is Jin-dynasty, three bays wide with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, and inscriptions record repairs in 1212, 1544 and the Republican period; the other buildings are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"lingchuan-beima-yuhuang-temple","name":"Beima Yuhuang Temple","name_zh":"北马玉皇庙","pinyin":"Běimǎ Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.722,"lon":113.1592,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-beima-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Jade Emperor in Beima village, Fucheng town, in a single courtyard of about 860 sq m. The main hall is Jin-dynasty, five bays wide with an overhanging gable roof; the county government notes that its size and the number of bracket projections are rare in Lingchuan. The gate and the other buildings are Ming and Qing, and the temple became a national monument in 2013."},{"id":"zezhou-beiyicheng-yuhuang-temple","name":"Beiyicheng Yuhuang Temple","name_zh":"北义城玉皇庙","pinyin":"Běiyìchéng Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6413,"lon":112.9483,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-beiyicheng-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Jade Emperor whose main hall is an original Song-dynasty building, renovated in 1110. The offering hall, side halls, stage building and rooms around the courtyard are mostly of later date. The main hall is three bays wide and deep, with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and simple bracket sets under the eaves."},{"id":"zezhou-biluo-temple","name":"Biluo Temple","name_zh":"碧落寺","pinyin":"Bìluò Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5602,"lon":112.8091,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-biluo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Biluo Temple is a Buddhist temple built into the hillside at the foot of Biluo Mountain, founded in the Northern Qi and laid out in east, middle and west courtyards. Surviving remains include a Northern Qi grotto, two Tang-dynasty grottoes, more than ten Tang and Wu Zhou niches, two Ming stone bridges and over a hundred inscriptions and steles. It was once ranked first of the four great old temples of Zezhou, and its view of clouds on the mountain is first among Zezhou's eight views."},{"id":"lingchuan-chongan-temple","name":"Chong'an Temple, Lingchuan","name_zh":"崇安寺","pinyin":"Chóng'ān Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7779,"lon":113.2714,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingchuan-chongan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the middle of Lingchuan county town, given its present name by imperial order in the 970s. A two-storey gate tower with triple eaves, a five-bay through-hall and the five-bay main hall stand on the main axis, with a two-storey side tower to the west, all Yuan to Qing in date. The temple keeps many stelae from the Tang to the Qing dynasty that record its history."},{"id":"gaoping-chongming-temple","name":"Chongming Temple, Gaoping","name_zh":"崇明寺","pinyin":"Chóngmíng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7145,"lon":113.0087,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoping-chongming-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in a hill valley, laid out in two courtyards, whose central hall was begun in 971 in the early Northern Song. The hall has deep eaves on large seven-tier bracket sets and no interior columns, and its main beams are each made of two equal short timbers joined end to end, a construction rare among surviving Chinese timber buildings. The rear hall, repaired in 1591, has stone column bases at its front carved with mounted warriors."},{"id":"zezhou-chongshou-temple","name":"Chongshou Temple, Zezhou","name_zh":"崇寿寺","pinyin":"Chóngshòu Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6763,"lon":112.868,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-chongshou-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chongshou Temple is a Buddhist temple in Xigao village, Bagong township, recorded as a Northern Song-dynasty building. It has been a provincial monument since 1986 and a national one since 2019, and the national register dates its buildings from the Northern Song to the Qing."},{"id":"zezhou-chuandi-buddhist-hall","name":"Chuandi Buddhist Hall","name_zh":"川底佛堂","pinyin":"Chuāndǐ Fótáng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5277,"lon":112.6772,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-chuandi-buddhist-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chuandi Buddhist Hall is a tiny one-courtyard temple of about 233 sq m in Chuandi village, with a main hall, a gate and two side rooms. The three-bay main hall keeps many Jin-dynasty timber members, with Yuan-style bracket sets under the eaves of its single-eave hip-and-gable roof, and a stele of 1332 records a Yuan repair."},{"id":"lingchuan-cuifujun-temple","name":"Cuifujun Temple, Lingchuan","name_zh":"崔府君庙","pinyin":"Cuī Fǔjūn Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7995,"lon":113.1166,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-cuifujun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Cuifujun Temple, also called Xianying Wang Temple, is a two-courtyard temple on a raised platform in Liyi town, dedicated to Cui Fujun (Cui Jue), a Tang-dynasty magistrate whom local people worshipped. Its axis runs from a double-eave gate building through an opera stage and an offering hall to the Fujun Hall; the gate is of the Song–Jin period and the other buildings are Ming and Qing. It was repaired in 1184 and again in 1369 and the late Qing."},{"id":"zezhou-dayang-ancient-town","name":"Dayang Ancient Town","name_zh":"大阳古镇","pinyin":"Dàyáng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6688,"lon":112.7901,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-dayang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The old town of Dayang, famous in the Ming and Qing for hand-made needles and a national historic and cultural town since 2008. It has many official and merchant houses, towers, bridges and temples, and the scenic area adds folk performances such as yangge dancing, iron-flower displays and paper-cutting, with an evening market and light shows."},{"id":"gaoping-dazhou-village-temples","name":"Dazhou Village Temples","name_zh":"大周村古寺庙建筑群","pinyin":"Dàzhōu Cūn Gǔ Sìmiào Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6936,"lon":112.7851,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-dazhou-village-temples","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of six buildings spread through Dazhou village, dating from the Song to the Qing and listed as a national heritage unit in 2013: Zisheng Temple, Tangwang (King Tang) Temple, Yuandi (Zhenwu) Pavilion, Wuhu Temple, Baizi Bridge and a brick pagoda. The middle hall of Zisheng Temple is a Song building with deep eaves and a gently sloping hip-and-gable roof, and the main hall of Tangwang Temple, five bays wide, is Yuan."},{"id":"yangcheng-diji-fortress","name":"Diji Fortress","name_zh":"砥洎城","pinyin":"Dǐjì Chéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4971,"lon":112.5215,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-diji-fortress","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Diji Fortress is a walled settlement begun in 1638 on a rise in the Qin River, oval in plan and about 2.4 hectares in area, with a water gate to the river on the north and a land gate on the south. Its walls are built of brick and stone together with discarded iron-smelting crucibles, and carry watchtowers, gun ports and troop shelters. Inside are lanes, courtyard houses of two or three storeys, temples and a garden, and it is now run as a scenic area with folk performances in holiday periods."},{"id":"gaoping-dinglin-temple","name":"Dinglin Temple","name_zh":"定林寺","pinyin":"Dìnglín Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7813,"lon":112.9745,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoping-dinglin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple halfway up a wooded hillside, with a two-storey gate pavilion, Leiyin Hall and Qifo Hall on its main axis. Leiyin Hall was rebuilt in 1317 and the gate pavilion has an octagonal caisson ceiling hung with thirteen carved lotus posts, while Dizang Hall keeps Ming murals of the ten kings of hell dated 1525. Two old tree peonies in the east courtyard flower in spring, around April."},{"id":"qinshui-douzhuang-fortified-village","name":"Douzhuang Fortified Village","name_zh":"窦庄古堡","pinyin":"Dòuzhuāng Gǔbǎo","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6436,"lon":112.5189,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinshui-douzhuang-fortified-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Douzhuang is a village on a bend of the Qin River that was fortified in the Tianqi era (1621–27) by Zhang Wudian, a Ming minister of war, and people still live in it. An old quarter of about 4 ha survives, mostly intact, with some 500 m of wall, a south gate and a small north gate, courtyard houses, temples, ancestral halls, a drill ground, a courtroom and prison cells; the oldest hall belongs to a Yuan-dynasty Buddhist temple."},{"id":"gaoping-erlang-temple","name":"Erlang Temple, Wangbao","name_zh":"二郎庙","pinyin":"Èrláng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8654,"lon":112.8539,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-erlang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the god Erlang on a hillock north of Wangbao village, with a stage, an offering hall and a main hall in one courtyard. The small square stage at the front, built over the entrance, was put up in 1183 according to an inscription on its stone base, and is regarded as the oldest surviving opera stage in China. Its roof rests directly on bracket sets without beams, while the offering hall and main hall behind it are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"zezhou-fucheng-guandi-temple","name":"Fucheng Guandi Temple","name_zh":"府城关帝庙","pinyin":"Fǔchéng Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5434,"lon":112.9427,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-fucheng-guandi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu (Guandi), the god of war and loyalty, in Fucheng village, founded in 1633 and repaired several times in the Qianlong era; it was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013 and is now laid out as a small park with a filial-piety gallery. It is known for its stone pillars: four tall pillars wound with openwork dragons stand before the main hall, and the pillars of the rear hall are carved with hundreds of figures from history and myth."},{"id":"zezhou-fucheng-yuhuang-temple","name":"Fucheng Yuhuang Temple","name_zh":"府城玉皇庙","pinyin":"Fǔchéng Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5468,"lon":112.9369,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-fucheng-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Yuhuang (Jade Emperor) Temple at Fucheng is a Taoist temple of four courtyards climbing a hillside, founded in 1076 and rebuilt mainly in the Yuan dynasty, with halls from the Song to the Qing. It holds more than 260 painted clay figures of the Taoist pantheon, best known for the Yuan-dynasty Twenty-Eight Mansions, the star deities shown as human figures with animal features, and it is run as a museum."},{"id":"gaoping-fushan-village","name":"Fushan Village","name_zh":"釜山村","pinyin":"Fǔshān Cūn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8917,"lon":112.8203,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-fushan-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fushan, in Sizhuang town, is a village restored for tourism around old Qing-dynasty courtyards, a Confucian temple and a reservoir with boats and a floating bridge. Newer additions include a park of old pear trees, a coin museum and a pedestrian shopping street built in the style of 1978, so it suits a relaxed half-day rather than a monument visit."},{"id":"zezhou-gaodu-jingde-temple","name":"Gaodu Jingde Temple","name_zh":"高都景德寺","pinyin":"Gāodū Jǐngdé Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5944,"lon":112.9532,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-gaodu-jingde-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jingde Temple is a two-courtyard Buddhist temple of about 3,400 sq m in Nanjie village, founded in 572 and long counted among the four great old temples of Zezhou. Its rear hall (the Fatang), first built in 1087 and repaired in 1205, keeps four of its six octagonal front columns from the Song, with a timber frame in Jin manner and a roof edged with Ming green-glazed ridge ornaments. The village is part of Gaodu old town, a historic town with Ming and Qing courtyard houses."},{"id":"qinshui-guobi-village","name":"Guobi Old Fortified Village","name_zh":"郭壁古堡","pinyin":"Guōbì Gǔbǎo","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6313,"lon":112.5241,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinshui-guobi-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Guobi is an old market village on the west bank of the Qin River, with Ming and Qing courtyard houses (some 3,400 rooms), cave dwellings, seven temples, towers and ancestral halls, including eleven residences of jinshi graduates. It also keeps a stretch of rammed-earth wall that local people describe as the only one left among Jincheng's castle-villages."},{"id":"yangcheng-guoyu-walled-town","name":"Guoyu Walled Town","name_zh":"郭峪古城","pinyin":"Guōyù Gǔchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5098,"lon":112.573,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-guoyu-walled-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A walled Ming-era market village a short walk from Huangcheng Xiangfu, enclosed by a wall about 1.4 km round and 12 m high on average, begun in 1635, with cave-like chambers built into it. Inside are about forty Ming and Qing courtyard houses, the seven-storey Yu Tower, 33 m high, and a Tangdi temple with a nine-bay main hall."},{"id":"gaoping-guzhong-temple","name":"Guzhong Temple","name_zh":"古中庙","pinyin":"Gǔzhōng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8875,"lon":112.9412,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-guzhong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the legendary farmer-god Emperor Yan (Yandi, Shennong), once called the Shennong Crown Prince Shrine, in Zhongmiao village. Its Taizi Hall of 1361 is a one-bay Yuan building with no roof beams, hence its local name, the beamless hall, and its octagonal caisson ceiling is built up from bracket sets like an open umbrella or lotus. The other halls are Qing, and an opera stage and viewing galleries stand outside the main gate."},{"id":"yangcheng-haihui-temple","name":"Haihui Temple and Academy","name_zh":"海会寺","pinyin":"Hǎihuì Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5018,"lon":112.5601,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangcheng-haihui-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Haihui Temple, at the foot of Dongfan Mountain, is known for its pair of brick pagodas: an early-10th-century pagoda that leans to the west and a Ming pagoda of 1565 with a glazed-tile balcony on its tenth level. Around them are the temple halls, springs and pools, among them the 'Haihui Longqiu' water view, and the site of Haihui Academy, where 68 of the 123 jinshi graduates recorded for Yangcheng studied in Ming and Qing times. The temple has been a national heritage site since 2006."},{"id":"zezhou-hedi-chengtang-temple","name":"Hedi Chengtang Temple","name_zh":"河底成汤庙","pinyin":"Hédǐ Chéngtāng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5792,"lon":112.7045,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-hedi-chengtang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hedi Chengtang Temple is a one-courtyard temple to Chengtang, King Tang of the Shang, built up the slope in rising terraces at the edge of Hedi village. Its main hall dates from 1108, the year inscribed on its stone door frame and columns, and a Song stele records a rebuilding between 1107 and 1120; the stone terrace walls on the west and south sides preserve Tang-style work. Ming and Qing steles record later repairs."},{"id":"jincheng-huaitan-guild-hall","name":"Huaitan Guild Hall","name_zh":"怀覃会馆","pinyin":"Huáitán Huìguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4974,"lon":112.8392,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jincheng-huaitan-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A merchants' guild hall built in 1793–1802 by traders from three prefectures of northern Henan (Zhangde, Weihui and Huaiqing) who dealt in flour and cloth in the prefecture of Zezhou, now central Jincheng. Only the offering hall, main hall, flanking halls and side halls survive, the offering hall being a square building with a hip-and-gable roof and fine carving; the rest was lost after the site was damaged in the Cultural Revolution and turned into a factory."},{"id":"gaoping-zhongzhuang-ji-family-house","name":"Ji Family House, Zhongzhuang","name_zh":"姬氏民居","pinyin":"Jīshì Mínjū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8664,"lon":113.0603,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-zhongzhuang-ji-family-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single small house in Zhongzhuang village, built in 1294 under the Yuan dynasty and dated by an inscription. It is three bays wide with a single-eave gable roof, on a plot of about 98 square metres. Gaoping's government describes it as the earliest dwelling found in China with an exact date, which makes it a reference point for dating Chinese houses."},{"id":"gaoping-jiaxiang-temple","name":"Jiaxiang Temple, Gaoping","name_zh":"嘉祥寺","pinyin":"Jiāxiáng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8652,"lon":112.9819,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-jiaxiang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jiaxiang Temple is a two-courtyard Buddhist temple about 50 m west of Chixiang village, with a Jin-dynasty front hall, a Yuan-dynasty middle hall (the Vairocana Hall) and later side buildings. The middle hall's walls carry Ming water-and-land ritual paintings, and two bluestone sutra pillars stand in front of it, one of them inscribed with a date of 953 in the Later Zhou. It has been a national monument since 2013."},{"id":"gaoping-jiannan-jidu-temple","name":"Jidu Temple, Jiannan","name_zh":"建南济渎庙","pinyin":"Jiànnán Jǐdú Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8347,"lon":113.0989,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-jiannan-jidu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jidu Temple at Jiannan stands on the top of Cuiping Mountain, a three-courtyard temple to the god of the Ji River with a gate, an offering hall, a middle hall and a rear hall, bell and drum towers and side halls. The middle and rear halls are Yuan, both five bays wide, and large murals survive on the back wall of the middle hall; the other buildings are Ming and Qing. A Jin-style stone base survives at the second gate."},{"id":"zezhou-xidun-jidu-temple","name":"Jidu Temple, Xidun","name_zh":"西顿济渎庙","pinyin":"Xīdùn Jǐdú Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6074,"lon":112.9291,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-xidun-jidu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jidu Temple at Xidun is a one-courtyard temple to the god of the Ji River, one of the four great rivers of old Chinese tradition with the Yangtze, Yellow and Huai. Inscriptions show that work began in 1122 under the Song and was completed only in 1188 under the Jin, after a gap caused by war; the main hall has octagonal stone front columns and a single-eave overhanging-gable roof. A local enthusiast found it in 2009, and in 2011 it was named one of the 100 new discoveries of the third national survey of cultural relics."},{"id":"zezhou-jincheng-erxian-temple","name":"Jincheng Erxian Temple","name_zh":"晋城二仙庙","pinyin":"Jìnchéng Èrxiān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5002,"lon":112.9664,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-jincheng-erxian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Song-dynasty temple to the two Yue sisters, local deities of south-east Shanxi, laid out in two courtyards in Xiaonan village. A stele of 1117 records that building began in 1097, and the main hall is the only Northern Song building left in the complex. Inside stand sixteen Song painted clay figures and a finely made miniature timber shrine with pavilions and a rainbow bridge."},{"id":"yangcheng-kaifu-temple","name":"Kaifu Temple, Yangcheng","name_zh":"开福寺","pinyin":"Kāifú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4804,"lon":112.4227,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-kaifu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kaifu Temple is an old Buddhist temple in Yangcheng county town, where a Jin-style scripture pavilion, a Yuan-style main hall and a Ming-style stage survive. In 1938–39 it was the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army's Jin-Yu border guerrilla detachment, and Zhu De and Peng Dehuai stayed there on journeys through Yangcheng. The county lists it on its red-tourism routes."},{"id":"gaoping-kaihua-temple","name":"Kaihua Temple, Gaoping","name_zh":"开化寺","pinyin":"Kāihuà Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8703,"lon":113.0372,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-kaihua-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the wooded slope of Sheli Mountain, whose main hall (Daxiong Hall) was begun in 1073. Its east, west and north walls are covered with Northern Song murals painted between 1092 and 1096, showing scenes from Buddhist sutras alongside everyday life of the period, and the beams and brackets still carry Song painted decoration. A Jin-dynasty Guanyin pavilion and Yuan side halls stand in the compound."},{"id":"gaoping-lianghu-village","name":"Lianghu Ancient Village","name_zh":"良户古村","pinyin":"Liánghù Gǔcūn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7528,"lon":112.7726,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-lianghu-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lianghu is a Taihang village of Ming and Qing courtyard houses in the Dan River valley, a China Historic and Cultural Village since 2007, now run as a heritage site with a guesthouse in restored courtyards. The sights include the Shilang (vice-minister's) Mansion, home of the official Tian Fengji, with its screen wall and carved brick, stone and wood, and Yuxu Temple, a Taoist temple with Yuan-dynasty halls that is a national heritage site."},{"id":"qinshui-lishan-scenic-area","name":"Lishan, Qinshui","name_zh":"沁水历山","pinyin":"Qìnshuǐ Lìshān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4424,"lon":112.0151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinshui-lishan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Qinshui side of the Lishan range in the Zhongtiao Mountains, a national nature reserve and forest park of about 204 square kilometres with forest, cave systems, alpine meadow and canyon scenery. Its main peak, Shunwangping, rises to 2,358 m and is named for the sage-king Shun, whom Chinese tradition places farming on Mount Li."},{"id":"qinshui-xiwenxing-liu-family-houses","name":"Liu Family Houses, Xiwenxing","name_zh":"柳氏民居","pinyin":"Liǔshì Mínjū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5604,"lon":112.1424,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinshui-xiwenxing-liu-family-houses","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside village of courtyard houses where the Liu clan, who trace their descent to the Tang writer Liu Zongyuan, have lived for centuries. Most of the surviving buildings are Qing, built on the clan's salt and pawnbroking wealth, and the best preserved, Sima Di, is a two-courtyard house with a two-storey main hall and two Ming stone memorial archways in its yard. The village is a national historic and cultural village."},{"id":"lingchuan-longyan-temple","name":"Longyan Temple, Lingchuan","name_zh":"龙岩寺","pinyin":"Lóngyán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7631,"lon":113.186,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-longyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Liangquan village, laid out in an upper and a lower courtyard on a plot of about 1,900 sq m. The through-hall was built in 1129 under the Jin dynasty and is three bays square with a single-eave overhanging gable roof, while the main hall, side halls and other buildings are Ming. It began as Longquan Temple, a place where villagers prayed for rain, and took its present name in 1162."},{"id":"yangcheng-mang-river","name":"Mang River Scenic Area","name_zh":"蟒河","pinyin":"Mǎng Hé","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.2898,"lon":112.4214,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-mang-river","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forested gorge area on the Shanxi–Henan border, set up as a national nature reserve and forest park mainly to protect rhesus macaques and subtropical plants, and nicknamed the 'little Guilin of the north'. Streams run through the gorges as waterfalls, pools and rapids beside the walking paths, and the wild macaques, which are often seen along the paths, are the main draw."},{"id":"zezhou-jueshan-scenic-area","name":"Mount Jue","name_zh":"珏山","pinyin":"Juéshān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4475,"lon":113.0046,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-jueshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A steep twin-peaked hill on the south bank of the Dan River, climbed by a long flight of stone steps through successive gates to temple halls near the summit, built from the Song dynasty onwards. The scenic area also runs a river sports centre on the Dan with speedboats, bamboo rafts and similar rides. Qinglian Temple, with Tang-dynasty clay figures, lies at the foot of the mountain and is usually visited with it."},{"id":"lingchuan-nanshentou-erxian-temple","name":"Nanshentou Erxian Temple","name_zh":"南神头二仙庙","pinyin":"Nánshéntóu Èrxiān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6956,"lon":113.3596,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-nanshentou-erxian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple to the two Yue sisters in a fold of the hills south of Shigeluan village in Lingchuan County, built as a single courtyard. The main hall, on a stone platform, is a Jin-dynasty building with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, and about 20 square metres of Qing wall paintings survive on its side walls, partly flaked. The stage at the front is now only a foundation, and the other buildings are later."},{"id":"lingchuan-nanzhao-confucian-temple","name":"Nanzhao Confucian Temple","name_zh":"南召文庙","pinyin":"Nánzhào Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8141,"lon":113.317,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-nanzhao-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Confucian temple in Nanzhao village, built in a single courtyard of about 900 sq m. The five-bay main hall, on a stone platform, is Yuan-dynasty work with an overhanging gable roof, while the stage building that serves as the gate and the other buildings are Ming and Qing, and steles record repairs in 1389 and 1824. It became a provincial monument in 2004 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"gaoping-tuandong-qinghua-temple","name":"Qinghua Temple, Tuandong","name_zh":"团东清化寺","pinyin":"Tuándōng Qīnghuà Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8788,"lon":112.9666,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-tuandong-qinghua-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the middle of Tuandong village, founded in the Tang dynasty according to surviving fragments of stelae and repaired under the Yuan, Ming and Qing. It once had four courtyards; three main courtyards and two side courtyards remain, with Rulai (Tathagata) Hall, Sanfo Hall and Qifo Hall on the axis. Only Rulai Hall is Yuan, a three-bay building with a glazed ridge, and the other halls are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"zezhou-qinglian-temple","name":"Qinglian Temple","name_zh":"青莲寺","pinyin":"Qīnglián Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4585,"lon":112.9894,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-qinglian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Qinglian Temple, founded in the Northern Qi dynasty, stands on the lower slope of Xiashi Mountain in two courts, the lower and upper temples, joined by a mountain path of about 500 m. The lower temple's Maitreya Hall holds six Tang-dynasty painted clay figures, among the few Tang temple sculptures to survive in China, with a 4.2 m Maitreya seated with both legs hanging; the upper temple keeps Song-dynasty timber halls and sculpture. The temple is run as an ancient-architecture museum."},{"id":"gaoping-qingmeng-temple","name":"Qingmeng Daoist Temple, Gaoping","name_zh":"清梦观","pinyin":"Qīngmèng Guàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.839,"lon":113.0535,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-qingmeng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Daoist temple in Tielu village, recorded on its stelae as founded in 1261, with two courtyards on a north-south axis. The Sanqing Hall at the centre is a Yuan building whose walls are painted with figures of Yin Xi and Zhang Daoling on the south wall and a sequence of scenes from the life of Laozi on the other three. The rear hall was rebuilt in the Ming dynasty and the remaining buildings are Qing."},{"id":"lingchuan-tianzhuang-quanshen-temple","name":"Quanshen Temple, Tianzhuang","name_zh":"田庄全神庙","pinyin":"Tiánzhuāng Quánshén Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7357,"lon":113.1745,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-tianzhuang-quanshen-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to \"all the gods\" in Tianzhuang village, with a stage building, a main hall, side halls and a bell tower. The main hall is Yuan in style, three bays wide with an overhanging gable roof, and the east side hall keeps wall paintings of the Eight Immortals gathering. A tablet of 1611 records a Ming-dynasty restoration."},{"id":"yangcheng-runcheng-dongyue-temple","name":"Runcheng Dongyue Temple","name_zh":"润城东岳庙","pinyin":"Rùnchéng Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.495,"lon":112.5234,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-runcheng-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Runcheng Dongyue Temple is a temple to the Dongyue god in Runcheng village, with Song-dynasty origins and a rebuilding of 1593 recorded on its steles. Of what was once a three-courtyard complex, an offering pavilion, the Tianqi Hall and a two-storey rear hall remain, all in Ming style; the pavilion stands on a platform ringed with stone railings carved with lions and monkeys. It lies a short walk from the walled settlement of Diji Fortress."},{"id":"lingchuan-sirun-sanjiao-hall","name":"Sanjiao Hall, Sirun","name_zh":"寺润三教堂","pinyin":"Sìrùn Sānjiàotáng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8302,"lon":113.1804,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-sirun-sanjiao-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple to the \"three teachings\" of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism in Sirun village, of which only the main hall survives. The hall is a Jin-dynasty building, square in plan and three bays on each side, with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof and a veranda round the lower storey. Inside, diagonal beams set at 45 degrees at the corners carry the upper roof structure."},{"id":"lingchuan-sansheng-ruixian-pagoda","name":"Sansheng Ruixian Pagoda","name_zh":"三圣瑞现塔","pinyin":"Sānshèng Ruìxiàn Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6257,"lon":113.0547,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-sansheng-ruixian-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A square, thirteen-tier brick pagoda of the Jin dynasty with closely stacked eaves, about 30 m high and 6 m along each side at the base, standing in the Zhaoqing Yuan temple compound in Jishan village. An inscription on its third floor records that a stone tortoise holding a relic, marked with a Sui-dynasty date of 601, was dug up on the site in 1166, and that the pagoda was then built over it and finished in 1169. The tower is hollow inside, and Jishan is on the national list of historic villages."},{"id":"gaoping-sanwang-sanzong-temple","name":"Sanzong Temple, Sanwang","name_zh":"三王村三嵕庙","pinyin":"Sānwángcūn Sānzōng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7421,"lon":112.9798,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoping-sanwang-sanzong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the mythical archer Hou Yi, worshipped in south-east Shanxi as Sanzong, on a slope south of Sanwang village. The main hall is a Jin-dynasty building with a front veranda and carved stone column bases; the gate building, offering hall and side halls are later, and a small patriarch hall stands in a side courtyard. Repairs are recorded under the Song dynasty in 1119–25."},{"id":"zezhou-shicun-dongyue-temple","name":"Shicun Dongyue Temple","name_zh":"史村东岳庙","pinyin":"Shǐcūn Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6128,"lon":112.7192,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-shicun-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Dongyue god, the Eastern Peak deity of Mount Tai, in Shicun, Xiacun township. It was listed as a national monument in 2013, with buildings that the register dates from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty. It is one of several Dongyue temples around Zezhou on the national list, among them those at Zhoucun and Yinxi."},{"id":"lingchuan-shizhang-yuhuang-temple","name":"Shizhang Yuhuang Temple","name_zh":"石掌玉皇庙","pinyin":"Shízhǎng Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7258,"lon":113.338,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-shizhang-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Jade Emperor in Shizhang village, Lingchuan County, listed as a national heritage unit in 2006. The main hall is Jin-dynasty, three bays wide and six rafters deep, with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and a porch along the front; the gate, side halls and other buildings are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"yangcheng-shousheng-temple-glazed-pagoda","name":"Shousheng Temple and Glazed Pagoda, Yangcheng","name_zh":"寿圣寺及琉璃塔","pinyin":"Shòushèng Sì jí Liúlí Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6053,"lon":112.3125,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-shousheng-temple-glazed-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shousheng Temple is a Buddhist temple in Yangling village, Qinchi township, known for its glazed brick pagoda, recorded as built in 1608. It has been a provincial monument since 1986 and a national one since 2019. The village has been developing the site for visitors, with a visitor centre, a heritage display hall and a car park listed in a 2026 state-media report."},{"id":"zezhou-shuidong-cuifujun-temple","name":"Shuidong Cuifujun Temple","name_zh":"水东崔府君庙","pinyin":"Shuǐdōng Cuī Fǔjūn Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5323,"lon":112.9686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-shuidong-cuifujun-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shuidong Cuifujun Temple is a village temple to Cui Fujun, a Tang-dynasty magistrate whom villagers worshipped as a deity, listed as a national monument in 2013 with buildings dated from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty. The county tourism page counts it among the five national monuments of Jincun township, together with Qinglian Temple and Yuhuang Temple. A conservation project for the temple was tendered in 2022."},{"id":"zezhou-situ-town","name":"Situ Town","name_zh":"司徒小镇","pinyin":"Sītú Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.524,"lon":112.8887,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-situ-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A tourist town in the north-east of Jincheng, built in Ming and Qing street style, with restaurants, shops, craft workshops, amusement rides and stage shows. It is best known for the Situ iron-flower show, a folk fire display in which molten iron is struck against a wooden structure to throw sparks; a 2024 performance with 108 participants was recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest of its kind."},{"id":"lingchuan-jixiang-temples","name":"South and North Jixiang Temples","name_zh":"南、北吉祥寺","pinyin":"Nán Běi Jíxiáng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.777,"lon":113.1207,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-jixiang-temples","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two Buddhist temples about 2 km apart in Liyi township, listed together as a single national monument. South Jixiang Temple, in Pingchuan village, dates from the Tang according to its steles and has a Song-dynasty middle hall of timber with bracket sets that include diagonal arms, and a Yuan rear hall. North Jixiang Temple, in Xijie village, was founded in 773 according to its steles, was given its name by imperial decree in 978, and keeps buildings from the Song to the Qing."},{"id":"zezhou-dayang-tangdi-temple","name":"Tangdi Temple, Dayang","name_zh":"大阳汤帝庙","pinyin":"Dàyáng Tāngdì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6692,"lon":112.782,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-dayang-tangdi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Tang, the founder of the Shang dynasty, in the old town of Dayang, built in two courtyards on about 3,000 square metres. The main hall, Chengtang Hall, is a Yuan-dynasty building with an unusually wide central bay; the opera stage, gates and side halls are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"zezhou-pingshang-tangdi-temple","name":"Tangdi Temple, Pingshang","name_zh":"坪上汤帝庙","pinyin":"Píngshàng Tāngdì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4779,"lon":112.6656,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-pingshang-tangdi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to Tang, the founder of the Shang dynasty, in Pingshang village in Zhoucun town. The surviving buildings date from the Ming and Qing periods, and the temple joined the national list in 2013."},{"id":"yangcheng-xiajiao-tangdi-temple","name":"Tangdi Temple, Xiajiao","name_zh":"下交汤帝庙","pinyin":"Xiàjiāo Tāngdì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4145,"lon":112.3569,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-xiajiao-tangdi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to Tang, the founder of the Shang dynasty, in the north of Xiajiao village. Inscriptions record it as complete by 1116 and rebuilt in 1211; the worship hall is Jin-dynasty work, while the main hall and the opera building are Ming or Qing. More than twenty Ming and Qing stone tablets are kept in the halls."},{"id":"zezhou-tanlingtou-dai-temple","name":"Tanlingtou Dai Temple","name_zh":"坛岭头岱庙","pinyin":"Tánlǐngtóu Dàimiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6657,"lon":112.9488,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-tanlingtou-dai-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tanlingtou Dai Temple stands on a mound north of Tanlingtou village in Beiyicheng township, listed as a national monument in 2013 with buildings dated to the Jin and Qing dynasties. Dai is an old name for Mount Tai, and temples of this type honour the Mount Tai god in the same way as the Dongyue temples nearby."},{"id":"yangcheng-tianguan-wang-mansion","name":"Tianguan Wang Mansion","name_zh":"天官王府","pinyin":"Tiānguān Wángfǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5181,"lon":112.5527,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-tianguan-wang-mansion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tianguan Wang Mansion is a cluster of old houses in Shangzhuang village associated with Wang Guoguang, a Ming minister of personnel (the 'tianguan' of the name), and opened to visitors in 2012. Dwellings from the Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republican periods stand together, with an old Ming plum tree, a courtyard estate in mixed Chinese and Western style and an exhibition on Wang Guoguang. Costumed role-play shows and lantern tours at night are staged for visitors."},{"id":"gaoping-tiefo-temple","name":"Tiefo Temple, Gaoping","name_zh":"铁佛寺","pinyin":"Tiěfó Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.766,"lon":112.9684,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-tiefo-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tiefo (Iron Buddha) Temple is a one-courtyard temple in Mixi village, known for the Ming-dynasty painted clay figures in its main hall: a Buddha with two bodhisattvas, the Twenty-Four Devas ranged along the side walls and a hanging sculpture of scenes from Journey to the West behind. A doorstone inscription records the casting of an iron Buddha in 1167, and the temple holds more than thirty Ming figures in all. It drew crowds after 2024 as one of the real-world sites linked to the video game Black Myth: Wukong."},{"id":"lingchuan-wangmangling","name":"Wangmangling","name_zh":"王莽岭","pinyin":"Wángmǎnglǐng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6756,"lon":113.6052,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-wangmangling","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wangmangling is a cliff-edged part of the southern Taihang range on the Shanxi–Henan border, and the scenic area covers four zones, Wangmangling, Xiyagou, Kunshan and Liuxiu City, falling from about 1,700 m to about 300 m. Paths and viewing points overlook precipices, gorges and caves, and the area is known for sunrise and sea-of-cloud views and, in winter, rime on the trees."},{"id":"gaoping-dongfeng-wanshou-palace","name":"Wanshou Palace, Dongfeng","name_zh":"董峰万寿宫","pinyin":"Dǒngfēng Wànshòu Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7804,"lon":112.7481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-dongfeng-wanshou-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the local holy woman Ma Xiangu, known as Shenggu, in Shang Dongfeng village, founded in 1284 according to an inscription. The Sanjiao Hall and the ancestral hall (Shenggu Hall) are Yuan timber buildings, with traces of Yuan Daoist wall paintings in the Sanjiao Hall, while the other buildings, including an opera stage and a stone pavilion, are Ming and Qing. More than twenty stelae of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties stand in the compound."},{"id":"qinshui-xiangyu-old-fortress","name":"Xiangyu Old Fortress","name_zh":"湘峪古堡","pinyin":"Xiāngyù Gǔbǎo","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.5671,"lon":112.5886,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinshui-xiangyu-old-fortress","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A fortified village on a hillside above a stream, built for the Sun family, three brothers who held senior posts under the late Ming, and completed in 1634. The outer wall, about 760 m round and 5 to 25 m high, has tiers of vaulted soldiers' caves that earned it the name \"honeycomb city\", and inside are three gates, stone-paved lanes of Ming and Qing courtyard houses and a five-storey watchtower about 25 m high. It belongs to the group of castle villages in the Qin River valley for which Jincheng is known."},{"id":"gaoping-xianweng-temple","name":"Xianweng Temple, Bofang","name_zh":"仙翁庙","pinyin":"Xiānwēng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8458,"lon":112.8537,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-xianweng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Daoist temple in Bofang village dedicated to Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Immortals, built as a single courtyard with a gate, a tower, an offering hall and the main hall. The main hall is a five-bay Ming building, and its east, west and north walls carry Ming murals of a Daoist procession of deities and of the Tang emperor Xuanzong performing sacrifices on Mount Tai. The temple also keeps many stelae recording its repairs."},{"id":"lingchuan-xiaohuiling-erxian-temple","name":"Xiaohuiling Erxian Temple","name_zh":"小会岭二仙庙","pinyin":"Xiǎohuìlǐng Èrxiān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6783,"lon":113.1687,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingchuan-xiaohuiling-erxian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the two Yue sisters on a ridge about 800 m south-east of Xiaohui village, built as a single courtyard about 50 m by 25 m. The main hall is a Song-dynasty building with heavy timbers and a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, standing behind a Qing offering hall and a gate building that doubles as a stage; the side halls are Ming or Qing. Six stone tablets are kept in the temple."},{"id":"yangcheng-xicheng-mountain","name":"Xicheng Mountain","name_zh":"析城山","pinyin":"Xīchéng Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.3292,"lon":112.215,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-xicheng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xicheng Mountain is a karst summit on the north-west side of the Wangwu range, where a ring of cliffs with four gaps like city gates encloses a bowl of subalpine meadow, a landscape that is rare in northern China; the main peak is about 1,888 m. The meadow, called Shengwangping, has sinkholes, a spring pool called Yaochi and sites linked to the Shang founder Tang's rain prayers and to ancient sky-watching, and it held its first flower festival in June and July 2026."},{"id":"gaoping-xilimen-erxian-temple","name":"Xilimen Erxian Temple","name_zh":"西李门二仙庙","pinyin":"Xīlǐmén Èrxiān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.703,"lon":112.9778,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoping-xilimen-erxian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the two Yue sisters in Xilimen village, built round two courtyards covering 2,748 square metres. It was founded in the Tang dynasty and heavily repaired in 1157 and 1162; the middle hall dates from 1157 under the Jin dynasty and has a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, while the gate, rear hall and side halls are Ming or Qing. Two carved panels on the stone terrace in front of the middle hall, one of a scarf dancer and one of actors in a stage scene, are counted among the earliest surviving pictures of Chinese drama."},{"id":"lingchuan-xixi-erxian-temple","name":"Xixi Erxian Temple","name_zh":"西溪二仙庙","pinyin":"Xīxī Èrxiān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.765,"lon":113.2493,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingchuan-xixi-erxian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the two Yue sisters, also called Zhenze Palace, in a wooded valley just outside Lingchuan, with its back to a stream instead of the usual hill behind and water in front. Sixteen buildings from the Jin to the Qing stand in two courtyards; the rear hall and the two-storey dressing towers on either side are Jin-dynasty work, and 29 stone tablets include one carved with a poem by the Jin-dynasty writer Yuan Haowen. Old cypresses beside the offering hall have knots that local people read as the twelve zodiac animals."},{"id":"gaoping-shimo-xuansheng-temple","name":"Xuansheng Temple, Shimo","name_zh":"石末宣圣庙","pinyin":"Shímò Xuānshèng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6897,"lon":113.0821,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-shimo-xuansheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Confucian temple in the middle of Shimo village, founded in 1304. The main hall is a Yuan building with a yellow-and-green glazed ridge, and the two-storey gate building at the front doubles as an opera stage. Two Yuan stelae, dated 1304 and 1326, still stand in the temple."},{"id":"zezhou-xuezhuang-yuhuang-temple","name":"Xuezhuang Yuhuang Temple","name_zh":"薛庄玉皇庙","pinyin":"Xuēzhuāng Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6132,"lon":112.9212,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-xuezhuang-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Jade Emperor on the north-west side of Xuezhuang village, with buildings that range from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty. It was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013 and is one of several Jade Emperor temples of the Jincheng area, which also include the larger temple at Fucheng."},{"id":"gaoping-yandi-mausoleum","name":"Yandi Mausoleum, Gaoping","name_zh":"炎帝陵","pinyin":"Yándì Líng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.9022,"lon":112.9984,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-yandi-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Yandi Mausoleum at Zhuangli village is one of four places in China that hold a tomb of Yandi, the legendary Emperor Yan or Shennong, remembered as the teacher of farming and herbal medicine. A large temple compound stands around the tomb mound, beside the older Wugu Temple, and the site has a stele dated 1611 that is the earliest known marker of the tomb. Memorial ceremonies are held here, including a yearly folk-culture exchange event that brings visitors from Taiwan."},{"id":"yangcheng-confucian-temple","name":"Yangcheng Confucian Temple","name_zh":"阳城文庙","pinyin":"Yángchéng Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4797,"lon":112.4253,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangcheng-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yangcheng Confucian Temple is a two-courtyard temple in the south-east of the old county town, first built in the Song, rebuilt in the Ming and repaired in 1839 after its main hall was destroyed in 1689. Only the Confucius temple and some twenty other rooms survive, in Ming and Qing style. In 1946 it served as the headquarters of the Taiyue military region."},{"id":"gaoping-yangtou-mountain","name":"Yangtou Mountain and Grottoes","name_zh":"羊头山","pinyin":"Yángtóu Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.927,"lon":112.9595,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-yangtou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yangtou Mountain rises to about 1,300 m where Gaoping meets Changzhi, and local tradition places Yandi's first sowing of grain here; the scenic area marks the sites of his legendary town, spring, well and field plot, with a lake and a ceremonial square at the foot. Halfway up the southern flank are the Yangtoushan Grottoes, a national heritage site and the largest group of Buddhist carving in Jincheng, with dozens of small caves and niches cut into sandstone blocks from the Northern Wei to the Tang dynasty. Stone stupas and a Northern Wei carved stone with a sheep-shaped base stand on the ridge above."},{"id":"zezhou-yinxi-dongyue-temple","name":"Yinxi Dongyue Temple","name_zh":"尹西东岳庙","pinyin":"Yǐnxī Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.621,"lon":112.9817,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-yinxi-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yinxi Dongyue Temple is a village temple to the Dongyue god on the east side of Yinxi village, Beiyicheng township, listed as a national monument in 2013. The register dates its buildings from the Jin to the Qing dynasty, and its main hall is the Tianqi Hall, the usual name for the hall of the Dongyue god."},{"id":"gaoping-youxian-temple","name":"Youxian Temple","name_zh":"游仙寺","pinyin":"Yóuxiān Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.7403,"lon":112.9295,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-youxian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple laid out in three courtyards up a hillside, with a gate, the Chunqiu Tower, and Pilu, Sanfo and Qifo halls on its axis. Pilu Hall is a Northern Song building of 990, with a carved Song-dynasty Buddha platform inside, and Sanfo Hall is a Jin-dynasty building overhauled under the Yuan; the other buildings are Ming and Qing. Its setting between hill and stream, with the \"dawn bell\" of Youxian, was counted among the old eight views of Gaoping."},{"id":"gaoping-nanzhuang-yuhuang-temple","name":"Yuhuang Temple, Nanzhuang","name_zh":"南庄玉皇庙","pinyin":"Nánzhuāng Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6568,"lon":113.0351,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-nanzhuang-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the Jade Emperor on a hill beside Nanzhuang village, built in an upper and a lower courtyard up the slope. The main hall is a Yuan-dynasty building with a single-eave overhanging gable roof, main beams made of unsawn logs and slanting bracket arms, while the other buildings are Qing in style. Inscriptions record repairs under the Tang and Jin dynasties and later."},{"id":"lingchuan-yuquan-dongyue-temple","name":"Yuquan Dongyue Temple","name_zh":"玉泉东岳庙","pinyin":"Yùquán Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.6823,"lon":113.1903,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-yuquan-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yuquan Dongyue Temple is a single-courtyard temple of about 2,400 sq m on the east side of Yuquan village, laid out along one axis with a stage-gate building, a prayer hall and the main hall, flanked by side towers and rooms. The main hall is Jin-dynasty, the gate Ming and the other buildings Qing, and steles record repairs in 1579, 1660, 1770, 1832 and 2004."},{"id":"zezhou-dai-temple","name":"Zezhou Dai Temple","name_zh":"泽州岱庙","pinyin":"Zézhōu Dàimiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.419,"lon":112.7245,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zezhou-dai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zezhou Dai Temple is a hillside temple to the Mount Tai god in Yedi village, which holds national-level status as a historic and cultural village. The compound of about 3,700 sq m steps up the slope in two yards; its Tianqi Hall is Song-dynasty work, with stone pillar inscriptions dated 1080, and the other halls are Ming and Qing. Its grounds also hold an old opera stage, a large ginkgo, two cypresses joined in a V shape and stone carvings of dragons."},{"id":"gaoping-zhongping-erxian-palace","name":"Zhongping Erxian Palace","name_zh":"中坪二仙宫","pinyin":"Zhōngpíng Èrxiān Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.8061,"lon":113.07,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoping-zhongping-erxian-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the two Yue sisters on the south slope of Cuiping hill, north-west of Zhongping village. It was first built in the Tang dynasty and repaired in 1172, and the main hall is a Jin-dynasty building three bays wide and three deep with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof. The gate building doubles as an opera stage facing the courtyard, and the side towers and other halls are from later periods."},{"id":"zezhou-zhoucun-dongyue-temple","name":"Zhoucun Dongyue Temple","name_zh":"周村东岳庙","pinyin":"Zhōucūn Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jincheng","lat":35.4761,"lon":112.6203,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zezhou-zhoucun-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhoucun Dongyue Temple stands on a high platform on the north side of Zhoucun, with five halls in a row at the back joined by long covered corridors, and a stage building flanked by bell and drum towers facing the main hall across the courtyard. The central Dongyue Hall is Song-dynasty work, rebuilt in the early 1080s, with four octagonal blue-stone columns across its front; the two halls beside it are Ming and the stage building Qing. Other temples that once stood beside it, including a Confucian temple, have gone, leaving it as the local landmark."},{"id":"taigu-anchan-temple","name":"Anchan Temple","name_zh":"安禅寺","pinyin":"Ānchán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.4245,"lon":112.5473,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-anchan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in the old town of Taigu, founded in 857 under the Tang, of which two buildings survive. The Sutra Hall is an original Northern Song building of 1001, nearly square, three bays by three, with a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof; the rear hall dates from the Ming."},{"id":"pingyao-liangjiatan-baiyun-temple","name":"Baiyun Temple, Liangjiatan","name_zh":"梁家滩白云寺","pinyin":"Liángjiātān Báiyún Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0782,"lon":112.2454,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-liangjiatan-baiyun-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside temple on Baofeng Mountain west of Liangjiatan village, founded in the Tang dynasty and anciently called Xiyu Temple, built along the slope and cliff over about 7,800 sq m. The surviving buildings, dated by the national list from the Ming to the Republican period, include the gate, Heavenly Kings, Weituo, Dizang, Guanyin and Ancient Buddha halls and the main hall, with a pagoda grove of six tombs of senior monks east of the temple. Two old locust trees and nine ancient cypresses stand in front of the gate."},{"id":"taigu-cao-family-mansion","name":"Cao Family Mansion","name_zh":"曹家大院","pinyin":"Cáojiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.391,"lon":112.507,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-cao-family-mansion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The mansion of the Cao family, a Jin merchant family, in Beiguang village, also called Sanduotang. It was built in stages from the late Ming into the Qing and covers about 98 m by 108 m, with three large courtyards side by side divided into fifteen small ones, and a west garden with an underground kitchen. It suits visitors who have seen the Qiao or Wang compounds and want to compare merchant house design."},{"id":"yuci-chang-family-manor","name":"Chang Family Manor","name_zh":"常家庄园","pinyin":"Chángjiā Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.5432,"lon":112.631,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuci-chang-family-manor/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The fortified manor of the Chang family, Qing-dynasty merchants who traded tea to Russia, in Chewang village south-west of Yuci. A stone-paved street runs through it past restored courtyard houses, a family temple, the Shiyunxuan study with carved stone tablets, and a large landscaped garden known as Jingyuan. Carved stone and brick, such as the Fish Leaps the Dragon Gate relief at the west gate, reward a slow visit."},{"id":"xiyang-chongjiao-temple","name":"Chongjiao Temple, Xiyang","name_zh":"昔阳崇教寺","pinyin":"Xīyáng Chóngjiào Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.6165,"lon":113.6988,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiyang-chongjiao-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple in the north of Xiyang county town, founded in 1069 under the Northern Song and grouped with Shousheng Temple as the \"North Temples\" by 1381. Four halls joined around one courtyard survive: front and rear halls five bays wide with hip-and-gable roofs and bracketed eaves, and two three-bay side halls. The national listing dates the surviving halls to the Yuan dynasty."},{"id":"yushe-chongsheng-temple","name":"Chongsheng Temple","name_zh":"崇圣寺","pinyin":"Chóngshèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.1142,"lon":112.7274,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushe-chongsheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple on Chanyin Mountain in Shangchiyu village, founded in the Tang dynasty, renamed Chongsheng in the Northern Song and rebuilt under the Jin. It has an upper and a lower courtyard, with a gate, a through-hall and the main hall on the central axis; the main hall dates from the Jin and was repaired in 1349. Two Yuan stone pagodas and a Ming solid brick pagoda stand in the grounds, with a Bailong shrine to the east and an opera stage to the south."},{"id":"pingyao-xiangyuan-cisheng-temple","name":"Cisheng Temple, Xiangyuan","name_zh":"襄垣慈胜寺","pinyin":"Xiāngyuán Císhèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2721,"lon":112.2901,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-xiangyuan-cisheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Xiangyuan with two courtyards, an opera stage and the main hall on its central axis, and meditation courtyards on either side. A stele records its rebuilding in 1332 under the Yuan, and it was repaired in 1790 and 1835 under the Qing. The main hall is a Ming-dynasty building three bays wide, and the opera stage is Qing."},{"id":"jiexiu-city-god-temple","name":"City God Temple, Jiexiu","name_zh":"介休城隍庙","pinyin":"Jièxiū Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.03,"lon":111.9193,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiexiu-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple on East Street built in 1370 and extensively repaired in 1495, whose gate, opera stage, bell and drum towers, main hall, side halls and galleries are all decorated with coloured glazed tile. It was used for a long time by the local Jin opera troupe. It is one of four nationally listed monuments in central Jiexiu, with Houtu Temple, Xianshenlou and Wuyue Temple, that the city plans to link as a glazed-tile trail."},{"id":"pingyao-city-god-temple","name":"City God Temple, Pingyao","name_zh":"平遥城隍庙","pinyin":"Píngyáo Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2022,"lon":112.1824,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-courtyard temple complex of about 7,300 sq m in which the City God temple stands on the main axis, with a Kitchen God temple and a God of Wealth temple to either side. The axis runs from a gate archway through a two-storey opera tower and an offering hall to the main hall and a sleeping hall, and the main hall's west wall carries a mural of the City God's procession. The buildings were rebuilt between 1864 and 1869 after a fire in 1859."},{"id":"pingyao-cixiang-temple","name":"Cixiang Temple","name_zh":"慈相寺","pinyin":"Cíxiàng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2402,"lon":112.2828,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-cixiang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Jiguo village whose three courtyards run north from the gate through a Guandi shrine and bell and drum towers to the main hall and the Lutai Pagoda. The main hall is original Song-dynasty timberwork, three bays wide with an overhanging gable roof, and the octagonal nine-storey brick pagoda, 48.2 m high, was built under the Jin dynasty between 1123 and 1137. The temple goes back to the Tang dynasty and took its present name in the Northern Song, and most other buildings are Ming or Qing."},{"id":"xiyang-dazhai","name":"Dazhai","name_zh":"大寨","pinyin":"Dàzhài","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.5691,"lon":113.7133,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiyang-dazhai/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village in the Taihang foothills that was promoted nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s as a national model for agricultural production, under the slogan \"In agriculture, learn from Dazhai\". The scenic area takes in the former Dazhai People's Commune buildings (a national heritage unit dated 1966), the Dazhai Exhibition Hall and a cultural exhibition hall, and a walking route up Hutou Mountain. It suits visitors interested in the history of China's rural collectivisation."},{"id":"jiexiu-dongyue-temple","name":"Dongyue Temple, Jiexiu","name_zh":"介休东岳庙","pinyin":"Jièxiū Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.94,"lon":111.9336,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiexiu-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the Eastern Peak in Xiaojin village, rebuilt in 1270 under the Yuan dynasty after an earlier founding of unknown date. The compound covers about 3,100 square metres and keeps a screen wall, gate, opera stage, bell and drum towers, a front offering hall, the double-eaved main hall and a rear hall known as the Holy Mother Palace. It suits visitors interested in Shanxi's rural temple architecture."},{"id":"zuoquan-matian-eighth-route-army-headquarters","name":"Eighth Route Army Headquarters Memorial, Matian","name_zh":"麻田八路军总部纪念馆","pinyin":"Mátián Bālùjūn Zǒngbù Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.7886,"lon":113.5036,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zuoquan-matian-eighth-route-army-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"From 1941 to 1945 the Eighth Route Army's front headquarters and the Communist Party's Northern Bureau were based at Matian, a village in the Taihang mountains near the Hebei border. The old compound has courtyard houses with their plain period furnishings kept as they were, including the former residences of Deng Xiaoping and Zuo Quan, and a memorial hall nearby holds more than 6,000 historical items. Zuoquan county was renamed in 1942 after General Zuo Quan, the army's deputy chief of staff, who was killed in action near Matian that year."},{"id":"taigu-kong-xiangxi-residence","name":"Former Residence of Kong Xiangxi","name_zh":"孔家大院","pinyin":"Kǒngjiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.423,"lon":112.5502,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taigu-kong-xiangxi-residence/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Qing-period gentry house in the old town of Taigu that the banker and Nationalist finance minister Kong Xiangxi (Kung Hsiang-hsi), a Taigu native, bought in 1930. It covers about 6,300 sq m in eight courtyards, including a stage courtyard and a garden, and has exhibitions on Kong's life and on Chiang Kai-shek's stay here in 1934. It suits visitors interested in Republic-era history or in Shanxi courtyard houses."},{"id":"pingyao-lei-lutai-residence","name":"Former Residence of Lei Lütai","name_zh":"雷履泰旧居","pinyin":"Léi Lǚtài Jiùjū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.198,"lon":112.1759,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-lei-lutai-residence","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former home of Lei Lütai, co-founder and first general manager of the Rishengchang draft bank, built in the Daoguang period of the Qing (1821–1850) as a typical Pingyao courtyard house. Two main courtyards and two side courtyards face south, with a south hall, a middle hall and side wings of one storey and a two-storey rear hall called Jinyuan Lou. Rishengchang itself is a separate site elsewhere in the old city."},{"id":"shouyang-futian-temple","name":"Futian Temple","name_zh":"福田寺","pinyin":"Fútián Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.94,"lon":112.8581,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouyang-futian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A compact Buddhist temple of about 800 sq m in Heishui village, Pingtou town, founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt in 1333 under the Yuan. The main hall is the Yuan building, three bays square with an overhanging gable roof, and the passage hall in front of it dates from the Ming. Side halls flank the courtyard."},{"id":"yushe-fuxiang-temple","name":"Fuxiang Temple, Yushe","name_zh":"福祥寺","pinyin":"Fúxiáng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.068,"lon":112.7822,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushe-fuxiang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple founded in 946 under the Later Jin on the north shore of Yunzhu Reservoir, with water on three sides. Only two buildings remain: the five-bay main hall, a Jin-dynasty survivor with a hip-and-gable roof and elaborate bracket sets, and the three-bay south hall from the early Ming."},{"id":"taigu-guanghua-temple","name":"Guanghua Temple","name_zh":"光化寺","pinyin":"Guānghuà Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.3618,"lon":112.4943,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-guanghua-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Baicheng village, founded in the Tang dynasty as Longxing Temple and given its present name by imperial decree in 999. Three buildings survive: the main hall, rebuilt in 1326 under the Yuan, a rear hall and a west side hall. The main hall is five bays wide with a front veranda and a hip-and-gable roof, and the rear hall is a smaller three-bay building."},{"id":"qixian-liangcun-hongfu-temple","name":"Hongfu Temple, Liangcun","name_zh":"梁村洪福寺","pinyin":"Liángcūn Hóngfú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.3006,"lon":112.4186,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixian-liangcun-hongfu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Liangcun village founded in 713 under the Tang and repaired repeatedly in the Ming, Qing and Republican periods. The main hall is a Yuan-dynasty building, the south hall is Ming and the other buildings are Qing. It was listed as a national monument in 2019."},{"id":"lingshi-hongya-canyon","name":"Hongya Canyon","name_zh":"红崖峡谷","pinyin":"Hóngyá Xiágǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.8343,"lon":111.9514,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshi-hongya-canyon","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forested canyon in the Taiyue range, named for the red rock of its steep cliffs, and one of the scenic areas of Taiyueshan National Forest Park. Forest covers over 97 per cent of the area, and the canyon has a ski area in winter. It suits walkers looking for a mountain day out within reach of Jiexiu and Lingshi."},{"id":"yuci-hougou-ancient-village","name":"Hougou Ancient Village","name_zh":"后沟古村","pinyin":"Hòugōu Gǔcūn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.7536,"lon":112.9058,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-hougou-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A loess-plateau farming village in Dongzhao township, near the border with Shouyang county, where the houses are cave dwellings cut into the hillsides in stone, earth and brick. The village has 18 small temples and an ancestral hall, and an underground drainage system that runs through its courtyards. It suits visitors interested in traditional farming life in rural Shanxi."},{"id":"jiexiu-houtu-temple","name":"Houtu Temple, Jiexiu","name_zh":"介休后土庙","pinyin":"Jièxiū Hòutǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0297,"lon":111.9111,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiexiu-houtu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large Taoist temple complex of about 9,000 square metres in the north-west corner of Jiexiu's old town, extended in 1516 and given its present layout in 1730. It is best known for its glazed-tile work, with more colours than the usual yellow, green and blue and a main hall roofed entirely in yellow glaze, and for its many coloured clay figures, a large share of them Ming. The main buildings stand on two parallel axes, the western one running from the gate hall through the Sanqing Tower and an opera stage to the Houtu hall."},{"id":"lingshi-jingsheng-houtu-temple","name":"Houtu Temple, Jingsheng","name_zh":"灵石后土庙","pinyin":"Língshí Hòutǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.892,"lon":111.8633,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingshi-jingsheng-houtu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A one-courtyard temple dedicated to Nüwa, standing in farmland west of Jingsheng village, founded in 1266 and rebuilt in 1304. The offering hall and the three-bay main hall are Yuan buildings: the square offering hall has an elaborate caisson ceiling under a hip-and-gable roof, and the main hall has a front veranda. The gate, with its stage, and the flanking buildings were rebuilt in old style after modern concrete structures were removed."},{"id":"pingyao-huiji-bridge","name":"Huiji Bridge, Pingyao","name_zh":"平遥惠济桥","pinyin":"Píngyáo Huìjì Qiáo","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2092,"lon":112.1888,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-huiji-bridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A stone arch bridge on nine piers over the Huiji River, 80 m long and 7.4 m wide, built in 1671 under the Kangxi emperor. It stands outside the east wall of Pingyao Ancient City and is a quick stop on a walk around the walls."},{"id":"jiexiu-huiluan-temple","name":"Huiluan Temple","name_zh":"回銮寺","pinyin":"Huíluán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.8942,"lon":111.9249,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiexiu-huiluan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Xingdi village at the foot of Mount Mian, founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt in 1133 under the Jin. The five-bay main hall, with a front veranda and an overhanging gable roof, is Yuan-dynasty work; the gate hall and side halls date from the Ming and Qing. It suits visitors interested in early timber architecture."},{"id":"lingshi-jinci-temple","name":"Jinci Temple, Lingshi","name_zh":"晋祠庙","pinyin":"Jìncí Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.8725,"lon":111.8792,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingshi-jinci-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple of about 1,400 sq m in Mahe village, begun under the Yuan in the Zhizheng era and repaired many times in the Ming and Qing. The main hall, dated 1343, and the square offering hall in front of it are Yuan buildings, while the gate stage, bell and drum towers and side halls are later. It is a different temple from Jinci in Taiyuan."},{"id":"lingshi-jingsheng-confucian-temple","name":"Jingsheng Confucian Temple","name_zh":"静升文庙","pinyin":"Jìngshēng Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.8955,"lon":111.8697,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshi-jingsheng-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village Confucian temple founded in the 1330s under the Yuan, with its present buildings from the Qing, set out in three parallel strings of courtyards just north of Jingsheng's central crossroads. A carved stone screen wall 3 m high, showing carp leaping the dragon gate, stands at the front, and the four-storey hexagonal Kuixing Tower marks the south-east corner. The main axis runs past a pool and bridge to the main hall, sleeping hall and scripture pavilion, with a school hall to the west and a granary to the east."},{"id":"taigu-jingxin-temple","name":"Jingxin Temple","name_zh":"净信寺","pinyin":"Jìngxìn Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.4287,"lon":112.6573,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-jingxin-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Yangyi village beside the S319 provincial road, founded in the Tang dynasty and now made up of Ming and Qing buildings on two courtyards. Its gate doubles as an opera stage facing into the front courtyard, with a peacock-blue glazed roof, and the courtyard is lined with two-storey bell and drum towers, side halls and the Sanfo Hall, all under coloured glazed-tile roofs. The main hall behind has Ming murals."},{"id":"pingyao-jinzhuang-confucian-temple","name":"Jinzhuang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"金庄文庙","pinyin":"Jīnzhuāng Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.1967,"lon":112.2297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-jinzhuang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-courtyard Confucian temple of about 1,000 sq m in Jinzhuang village, first built in 1315 under the Yuan and rebuilt several times in the Ming and Qing. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1802, holds fifteen painted clay figures dated to the early Yuan, led by a seated Confucius 1.85 m tall with the Four Correlates and Ten Philosophers beside him. The axis also has a Lingxing gate, a lecture hall and a ceremonial pool."},{"id":"yuci-jiulong-international-tourism-park","name":"Jiulong International Cultural and Ecological Tourism Park","name_zh":"九龙国际文化生态旅游区","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Guójì Wénhuà Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.7931,"lon":112.6751,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-jiulong-international-tourism-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A leisure and holiday resort of about 3,900 mu (some 2.6 sq km) in the hills of Yuci District, close to Taiyuan. It combines a mountain lodge, a ski resort, an RV campsite and an off-road vehicle club. The ski resort hosted the opening of Shanxi's first Ice and Snow Carnival in December 2024, so it suits skiers and families on a short trip from Taiyuan rather than visitors looking for heritage."},{"id":"xiyang-lixiang-temple","name":"Lixiang Temple, Xiyang","name_zh":"昔阳离相寺","pinyin":"Xīyáng Líxiàng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.5351,"lon":113.7921,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiyang-lixiang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Chuankou, Zhaobi township, whose buildings range in date from the Song to the Qing dynasty. It was listed by Jinzhong city in 2003 and by Shanxi province in 2016, and became a national heritage unit in 2019."},{"id":"pingyao-liyinghou-temple","name":"Liyinghou Temple","name_zh":"利应侯庙","pinyin":"Lìyìnghóu Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2856,"lon":112.2692,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-liyinghou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Yuan-dynasty temple beside Zhenguo Temple in Haodong village, dedicated to Hu Tu, a Jin state official of the Spring and Autumn period. Only the main hall survives, three bays wide on a one-metre platform with an overhanging gable roof, and it holds nine painted clay figures of the Yuan period. It pairs naturally with Zhenguo Temple about 150 m to the east."},{"id":"pingyao-nanzheng-longfu-temple","name":"Longfu Temple, Nanzheng","name_zh":"南政隆福寺","pinyin":"Nánzhèng Lóngfú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2358,"lon":112.1611,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-nanzheng-longfu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Nanzheng village founded in 1298 under the Yuan, repaired in the Ming and again in 1800, on two courtyards of about 2,900 sq m. The central axis runs from a screen wall through a gate, flanked by arched cave rooms topped with bell and drum towers, to the Sansheng Hall and the five-bay Qifo (Seven Buddhas) Hall at the back, which has a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof."},{"id":"shouyang-mengjiagou-longquan-temple","name":"Mengjiagou Longquan Temple","name_zh":"孟家沟龙泉寺","pinyin":"Mèngjiāgōu Lóngquán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.8994,"lon":112.9356,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouyang-mengjiagou-longquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside temple of about 2,400 sq m at Mengjiagou village, begun in the Tianqi period of the Ming dynasty. Its gate, passage hall, stele hall, dragon pool, pavilion and old stage are terraced up the slope with 37 cave rooms, and a thirteen-storey brick pagoda about 25 m high belongs to the complex. It suits visitors interested in cave-style temple building in Shanxi's hills."},{"id":"taigu-xincun-miaojue-temple","name":"Miaojue Temple, Xincun","name_zh":"新村妙觉寺","pinyin":"Xīncūn Miàojué Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.413,"lon":112.6197,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-xincun-miaojue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Xincun village built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with its Qianfo (Thousand Buddhas) Hall of the Qing and other buildings in Ming style. The hall's walls are covered in murals. The village committee once used the temple as offices, and press reports in 2015 described the hall's west roof as collapsed and much of the mural damaged."},{"id":"taigu-mingxian-school-site","name":"Mingxian School Site, Taigu","name_zh":"山西铭贤学校旧址","pinyin":"Shānxī Míngxián Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.4253,"lon":112.5775,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-mingxian-school-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The old campus of Mingxian School, which Kong Xiangxi founded in Taigu in 1907 in memory of Oberlin missionaries killed in the Boxer uprising of 1900. Oberlin College sent graduates to teach here from 1918 until the early 1950s. The listed site, dated from the Qing dynasty to the Republic, lies within the campus of Shanxi Agricultural University, which grew out of the school's farming faculty after 1951."},{"id":"lingshi-shigao-mountain","name":"Mount Shigao","name_zh":"石膏山","pinyin":"Shígāo Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.7366,"lon":111.9202,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshi-shigao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area in the Taiyue range, rising to 2,532 m, of which about 20 of its 75 sq km are open to visitors. More than 70 sights are linked by about 25 km of visitor roads, including temples in the hills and a red-leaf zone. The area opened to visitors in 2011 and suits a day of walking in the hills."},{"id":"pingyao-gankeng-nanshen-temple","name":"Nanshen Temple, Gankeng","name_zh":"干坑南神庙","pinyin":"Gānkēng Nánshén Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.1863,"lon":112.1846,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-gankeng-nanshen-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple dedicated to the Bodhisattva of Light in Gankeng village, rebuilt in the Ming dynasty and known in turn as Yeshu Furen Temple, Nanshen Temple and today Yuanxiang Temple. Its halls include the Heavenly Kings Hall, the Bodhisattva of Light Hall, halls for Guanyin and Dizang and a rear stone Buddha hall, with a chanting hall and the Sansheng Hall alongside. Ming and Qing steles and a Ming stone sutra pillar stand in the grounds."},{"id":"pingyao-confucian-temple","name":"Pingyao Confucian Temple","name_zh":"平遥文庙","pinyin":"Píngyáo Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2006,"lon":112.1837,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Confucian temple in the south-east corner of Pingyao Ancient City whose Dacheng Hall dates from 1163 under the Jin dynasty, with later Ming and Qing buildings around it. The Shaoshan Academy is attached, where the late-Qing scholar Xu Jiyu served as head for ten years. It suits visitors who want to see Jin-dynasty timber architecture inside the old town."},{"id":"pingyao-market-tower","name":"Pingyao Market Tower (Shilou)","name_zh":"平遥市楼","pinyin":"Píngyáo Shìlóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2038,"lon":112.179,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-market-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-eaved timber tower, 18.5 m high, that stands over South Street in the middle of Pingyao Ancient City, with a roof of yellow and green glazed tiles. A passage runs north to south through its square base, and the well just south of it, with water the colour of gold, gives the tower its other name, the Golden Well Tower. It was repaired in 1688 and several times since."},{"id":"shouyang-puguang-temple","name":"Puguang Temple","name_zh":"普光寺","pinyin":"Pǔguāng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.7702,"lon":112.9442,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouyang-puguang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Buddhist temple of about 1,100 sq m in Baidao village, Xiluo town. The main hall is Song-dynasty, the side halls Ming and the remaining rooms and courtyard buildings Qing. The main hall is three bays square and about 120 sq m of Ming and Qing wall paintings survive inside it."},{"id":"pingyao-changze-puming-temple","name":"Puming Temple, Changze","name_zh":"长则普明寺","pinyin":"Chángzé Pǔmíng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2342,"lon":112.32,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-changze-puming-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Changze, repaired in the Ming dynasty. Its main hall is a typical Ming building and keeps fine Ming-dynasty murals."},{"id":"zuoquan-siping-puzhao-temple","name":"Puzhao Temple, Siping","name_zh":"寺坪普照寺","pinyin":"Sìpíng Pǔzhào Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0378,"lon":113.6015,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zuoquan-siping-puzhao-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The surviving main hall of a temple founded in the Later Jin dynasty and repaired in the Ming and Qing, in Siping village. It is a large seven-bay hall of 376 sq m built in Yuan style, with a roof decorated in yellow and green carved glazed tile, and nothing else of the temple remains. The hall stands in the grounds of the village care home for older people."},{"id":"pingyao-qingliang-temple","name":"Qingliang Temple, Pingyao","name_zh":"平遥清凉寺","pinyin":"Píngyáo Qīngliáng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0989,"lon":112.2122,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-qingliang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Yongcheng village, founded in 1342 under the Yuan and repaired in the Ming and Qing. Its two courtyards hold a gate, a middle hall and, at the back, the five-bay Qifo (Seven Buddhas) Hall, where seven seated Ming painted figures nearly 3 m high stand on a U-shaped platform before gilded halos. A conservation project approved in 2016 was the first full repair of the temple since 1949."},{"id":"pingyao-qingxu-temple","name":"Qingxu Temple, Pingyao","name_zh":"清虚观","pinyin":"Qīngxū Guàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.206,"lon":112.1843,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-qingxu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Taoist temple complex just inside the east gate of Pingyao's town wall, traditionally founded in 657 in the Tang dynasty and given its present name in 1064. The Dragon-and-Tiger Hall at the entrance is Yuan-dynasty, while the Hall of the Three Pure Ones and the other buildings are Ming and Qing. No Taoist priests live here now, and the buildings house Pingyao County Museum, whose collection includes Buddhist and Taoist carvings; the Hall of the Three Pure Ones keeps a Yuan-dynasty decree stele in Phags-pa script."},{"id":"qixian-qu-family-compound","name":"Qu Family Compound","name_zh":"渠家大院","pinyin":"Qújiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.3569,"lon":112.3208,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixian-qu-family-compound","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The home of the Qu family, Qing-dynasty merchants of Qi County, built from the Qianlong reign and reaching its present size by 1925. The castle-like compound covers 5,317 sq m with 8 large and 19 small courtyards and about 240 rooms, including a stage courtyard and a balustrade courtyard, and has housed the Shanxi Jin Merchant Culture Museum since 1996. The listing also covers the former Changyuchuan tea house on Duanjia Lane."},{"id":"pingyao-rishengchang","name":"Rishengchang","name_zh":"日升昌票号旧址","pinyin":"Rìshēngchāng Piàohào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2044,"lon":112.1772,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-rishengchang/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former headquarters of Rishengchang, regarded as China's first draft bank (piaohao), which grew out of a dye business and began issuing drafts cashable at branches in other cities in the early nineteenth century. The courtyards on West Street are now a museum, where displays include the coded marks once used to stop drafts being forged. Draft banks like this one made central Shanxi a financial centre of Qing China by the late nineteenth century."},{"id":"xiyang-shima-temple-grottoes","name":"Shima Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"石马寺石窟","pinyin":"Shímǎ Sì Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.5243,"lon":113.6189,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiyang-shima-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of rock-cut Buddhist carvings at Shima village, with more than a thousand surviving stone images dating from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang. The temple here was known as Shousheng Temple in the Song dynasty, and the site has been protected at provincial level since 1986. It suits visitors interested in early Buddhist sculpture in rural Shanxi."},{"id":"yuci-shitie-tombs","name":"Shitie Tombs","name_zh":"什贴墓群","pinyin":"Shítiē Mùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.8189,"lon":112.8431,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-shitie-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of six earth-mounded tombs of the Northern Qi grand marshal Han Gui and his family, listed as a national heritage unit. The mounds stand in open farmland near Shitie village. It is of interest mainly to those tracing Northern Dynasties burials in Shanxi."},{"id":"zuoquan-weize-shousheng-temple","name":"Shousheng Temple, Weize","name_zh":"苇则寿圣寺","pinyin":"Wěizé Shòushèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.9214,"lon":113.525,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zuoquan-weize-shousheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty temple in Weize village, Tongyu town, standing in front of the village primary school. Its gate and main hall survive, and both roofs are decorated with yellow and green glazed tile. It was listed as a national monument in 2013."},{"id":"zuoquan-taihang-longquan","name":"Taihang Longquan Scenic Area","name_zh":"太行龙泉","pinyin":"Tàiháng Lóngquán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.9945,"lon":113.3927,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zuoquan-taihang-longquan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large national forest park and scenic area in the Taihang Mountains south of Zuoquan, with a waterfall, lakes, temples and an alpine meadow. It suits a summer day in the hills."},{"id":"jiexiu-taiheyan-pailou","name":"Taiheyan Glazed Archway","name_zh":"太和岩牌楼","pinyin":"Tàihéyán Páilóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.1267,"lon":112,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiexiu-taiheyan-pailou","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A glazed-tile archway of 1897 in Beixinwu village, built by a local merchant as the front gate of a Zhenwu temple that has since disappeared. It has four pillars, three bays and three roofs and is faced almost entirely in blue, yellow and green glazed tile, including the pillars, plaques, couplets and imitation timber brackets. Scenes of a carp turning into a dragon decorate the east side of the archway and a tiger under a pine the west."},{"id":"taigu-wubian-temple","name":"Wubian Temple","name_zh":"无边寺","pinyin":"Wúbiān Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.4223,"lon":112.5515,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taigu-wubian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A walled temple in the old town of Taigu, best known for its White Pagoda, a hollow octagonal brick pagoda built in 1090 under the Northern Song. The pagoda imitates a timber tower, with seven storeys outside and nine inside, stands 43 m high and has a wooden staircase within. After a fire in the Tongzhi era left only the pagoda standing, the temple around it, with a gate and opera stage, a pavilion and the main hall, was rebuilt in 1904–06."},{"id":"yuci-wujin-mountain-forest-park","name":"Wujin Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"乌金山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Wūjīnshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.8527,"lon":112.7754,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-wujin-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forested mountain park on the boundary between Taiyuan and Yuci, run as a leisure resort that combines religious sites, walking paths and an amusement park. Peach blossom on the slopes in late March and early April is a seasonal draw. It suits a half-day outing from Taiyuan or Yuci."},{"id":"jiexiu-wuyue-temple","name":"Wuyue Temple, Jiexiu","name_zh":"介休五岳庙","pinyin":"Jièxiū Wǔyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0272,"lon":111.9189,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiexiu-wuyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in the south-east of Jiexiu's old town, founded in 1456, destroyed in 1750 and rebuilt in 1763, on a site of about 4,100 square metres. Its gate, opera stage and bell and drum towers are joined into one tall structure known as the Haishen Tower, with a five-bay stage raised on a high platform and richly decorated bracket sets under the eaves. The main hall, front hall, side halls and rear hall stand behind it."},{"id":"jiexiu-xianshen-tower","name":"Xianshenlou","name_zh":"祆神楼","pinyin":"Xiānshén Lóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0342,"lon":111.9244,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiexiu-xianshen-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A pavilion-style tower over the street, combining a gateway, a stage tower and an overhead passage, first built in 1048 as part of a Zoroastrian temple and regarded as the only surviving Zoroastrian building in China. The temple was later turned into a temple of the three sworn brothers Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and the tower and hall behind it were rebuilt in the 1660s and restored in the 1980s. It stands near the old east gate of Jiexiu and suits a short stop with the town's other temples."},{"id":"yuci-xiaohe-lotus-bay","name":"Xiaohe Lotus Bay","name_zh":"潇河莲花湾","pinyin":"Xiāohé Liánhuāwān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.6727,"lon":112.7727,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-xiaohe-lotus-bay","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A riverside leisure area on the Xiaohe River in south-east Yuci, laid out around 2020 as the first part of the planned Xiaohe Arts Town. It has a central plaza used for fountain and light-show performances, a footbridge shaped like a lotus stem, a snack street, about 3 km of woodland, sports pitches and large seasonal flower displays such as autumn chrysanthemums. It suits families and evening outings from Jinzhong."},{"id":"yuci-xiaoxigou-tourist-town","name":"Xiaoxigou Tourist Town","name_zh":"小西沟文旅康养小镇","pinyin":"Xiǎoxīgōu Wénlǚ Kāngyǎng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.8304,"lon":112.6877,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-xiaoxigou-tourist-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A purpose-built tourist town that opened in July 2021 on the site of a former quarry in the hills east of Taiyuan, after the quarry had been cleaned up and replanted. It holds shops and stalls selling Shanxi snacks, crafts and intangible-heritage products, together with guesthouses, a children's play area and a traditional Chinese medicine wellness theme. It suits families and short day trips from Taiyuan or Jinzhong."},{"id":"qixian-xingfan-temple","name":"Xingfan Temple","name_zh":"兴梵寺","pinyin":"Xīngfàn Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.3903,"lon":112.4502,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixian-xingfan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Song-dynasty hall, all that remains of a temple founded in 1025 at Xiguan village and moved to its present site in 1687. The main hall is five bays wide and six rafters deep under a single-eave hip-and-gable roof and is original Song timberwork."},{"id":"heshun-yiji-holy-mother-temple","name":"Yiji Holy Mother Temple","name_zh":"懿济圣母庙","pinyin":"Yìjì Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2731,"lon":113.7056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heshun-yiji-holy-mother-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside temple complex of about 8,400 sq m on a ridge south-east of Heshan village, founded in the Song dynasty and repaired in 1321 and 1338 under the Yuan. It has an upper and a lower courtyard plus a separate shrine to Marquis Xianze; the Holy Mother Hall in the upper courtyard is Yuan-dynasty and the other halls are Ming and Qing. The lower courtyard has an entrance archway, gate and opera stage, and side halls in the upper courtyard are named for eyesight, smallpox and the Medicine King."},{"id":"pingyao-beiyijian-yongfu-temple","name":"Yongfu Temple, Beiyijian","name_zh":"北依涧永福寺","pinyin":"Běiyījiàn Yǒngfú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2216,"lon":112.3275,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyao-beiyijian-yongfu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Beiyijian whose through-hall, between the Heavenly King hall and the main hall, was rebuilt in 1469 and is the listed building. It stands on a high platform, is five bays wide and uses large timbers, and is typical of Ming construction. An opera stage stands opposite the temple gate."},{"id":"jiexiu-hongshan-yuanshen-temple","name":"Yuanshen Temple, Jiexiu","name_zh":"洪山源神庙","pinyin":"Hóngshān Yuánshén Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0294,"lon":112.0327,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiexiu-hongshan-yuanshen-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple beside the Hongshan spring at the foot of Huqi Mountain, protected by the province in 2004 and by the State Council in 2013. A Song-dynasty stele of 1008 records a rebuilding in 997, and the compound of about 700 sq m now runs from a wooden gateway with a yellow glazed-tile roof through a through-hall, an opera stage and side halls to the main hall and a rear hall, with 21 old steles in the grounds. It suits a short stop on a trip around Jiexiu's temples."},{"id":"taigu-fancun-yuanzhi-temple","name":"Yuanzhi Temple, Fancun","name_zh":"范村圆智寺","pinyin":"Fàncūn Yuánzhì Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.4807,"lon":112.7881,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-fancun-yuanzhi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Fancun town. Its founding date is unrecorded, but inscriptions record work under the Jin, and it was repaired many times in the Ming and Qing, when most of its present buildings were made. Its through-hall, the Qianfo (Thousand Buddhas) Hall, was a beamless hall painted all round with rows of small Buddha figures; a fire in 2014 destroyed the hall and its murals."},{"id":"yuci-city-god-temple","name":"Yuci City God Temple","name_zh":"榆次城隍庙","pinyin":"Yúcì Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.6788,"lon":112.746,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple of about 6,000 square metres on East Street, founded in 1362 in the Yuan dynasty and moved to its present site in 1431, with its final layout in place by 1523. Its centrepiece is the two-storey Xuanjian Tower, 17 m high and roofed in peacock-blue glazed tile, which stands in front of a covered stage and the main hall. It is one of the few historic buildings kept in the rebuilt Yuci Old Town, where it has also been used as a filming location."},{"id":"yuci-old-town","name":"Yuci Old Town","name_zh":"榆次老城","pinyin":"Yúcì Lǎochéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.6753,"lon":112.7436,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuci-old-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large quarter built from around 2000 on the site of the old Yuci county town and laid out as old-style streets. Most of the original houses were cleared for it, and a few listed buildings were kept, among them the City God Temple, the Qingxu Pavilion and the Confucian temple. It has served as a location for dozens of television dramas, and suits a short stop for anyone passing through Yuci."},{"id":"jiexiu-zhangbi-castle","name":"Zhangbi Castle","name_zh":"张壁古堡","pinyin":"Zhāngbì Gǔbǎo","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.9613,"lon":111.9671,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiexiu-zhangbi-castle","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A walled fortress village with gullies on three sides and a convex-shaped wall about 374 m by 244 m, entered through a barbican at its north gate. Inside, a stone-paved main street runs past temples to Guandi, Zhenwu and Erlang, a Yuan-dynasty opera stage and dozens of Ming and Qing houses, with a network of Sui and Tang tunnels beneath. The village was laid out on astrological lines and stages seasonal events, including light shows on its south gate."},{"id":"qixian-zhaoyu-ancient-city","name":"Zhaoyu Ancient City","name_zh":"昭馀古城","pinyin":"Zhāoyú Gǔchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.3563,"lon":112.318,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixian-zhaoyu-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The old centre of Qi County, a town on the Great Tea Road whose Ming and Qing courtyard houses have been renovated for visitors. Sights include the Qu Family Compound (a national heritage unit, now a museum of Jin merchant culture), the old Sanjinyuan draft bank and a museum of the tea-trade route. The streets host seasonal events, such as the lantern festival at Chinese New Year."},{"id":"pingyao-zhenguo-temple","name":"Zhenguo Temple","name_zh":"镇国寺","pinyin":"Zhènguó Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.2854,"lon":112.2709,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingyao-zhenguo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Haodong village, listed with Pingyao Ancient City and Shuanglin Temple as part of the 1997 World Heritage site. Its Ten Thousand Buddha Hall, dated by an inscription to 963 under the Northern Han, is one of the oldest surviving timber halls in China and is known for its large bracket sets, and it holds eleven painted clay figures of the same period. The walled complex has two courtyards, with the Tianwang Hall as its gate and a Qing-dynasty Sanfo Hall at the back."},{"id":"qixian-zhenhe-tower","name":"Zhenhe Tower","name_zh":"祁县镇河楼","pinyin":"Qíxiàn Zhènhé Lóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.4099,"lon":112.3511,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixian-zhenhe-tower","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty tower in Jialing village, known locally as Silou Men. It stands three storeys and 15.5 m high with four tiers of eaves under a hip-and-gable roof, and measures 15.5 m east-west by 13.5 m north-south. Its name means roughly \"river-subduing tower\", and one plaque reads \"Guard the Changyuan for ever\", after the Changyuan River."},{"id":"taigu-zhensheng-temple","name":"Zhensheng Temple","name_zh":"真圣寺","pinyin":"Zhēnshèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.4136,"lon":112.824,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taigu-zhensheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Buddhist temple in Pifu village. Its main hall was built in 1157 under the Jin dynasty and repaired in the Ming and in 1842; it is three bays wide with a front veranda and a flush gable roof. The gate in front is a Qing-dynasty seven-bay stone structure."},{"id":"lingshi-zishou-temple","name":"Zishou Temple","name_zh":"资寿寺","pinyin":"Zīshòu Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":36.891,"lon":111.8292,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingshi-zishou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Suxi village, founded in the Tang, burned at the end of the Jin, rebuilt in 1467 after lying derelict in the early Ming and brought to its present scale in 1622. The front courtyard has the gate, an inner gate, and the Vajra and Heavenly Kings halls with bell and drum towers, while the rear courtyard is centred on the main hall and ringed by halls of Amitabha, the Medicine Buddha, Dizang, Erlang, Maitreya and the Three Great Bodhisattvas. The halls hold about 248 sq m of murals and some 100 painted clay figures."},{"id":"zuoquan-confucian-temple","name":"Zuoquan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"左权文庙","pinyin":"Zuǒquán Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Jinzhong","lat":37.0758,"lon":113.3649,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zuoquan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former Confucian temple of Liaozhou, now in the county town of Zuoquan, where the Dacheng Hall was rebuilt in 1297 under the Yuan and is the only original building left. The hall is five bays wide and three deep on a footprint of about 459 sq m, with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof and a covered aisle running all round it. The other buildings in the compound are modern rebuilds."},{"id":"pu-baishan-dongyue-temple","name":"Baishan Dongyue Temple, Pu County","name_zh":"柏山东岳庙","pinyin":"Bǎishān Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.3917,"lon":111.1068,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pu-baishan-dongyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large temple to the Lord of Mount Tai (Dongyue) on wooded Baishan hill east of Pu county town, with roots in the Tang and rebuilt in 1316–18 after the 1303 Pingyang earthquake. It covers about 20,000 sq m in several groups, among them the Dongyue palace, a Hell hall and the Huaqing pool; only the palace's main hall is Yuan, five bays wide and deep under a double-eave hip-gable roof, and the rest is Ming and Qing. The temple appears on a national rural-tourism route for Linfen promoted in 2024, alongside Xiaoxitian and the Guangsheng area."},{"id":"quwo-dabei-temple","name":"Dabei Temple, Quwo","name_zh":"大悲院","pinyin":"Dàbēi Yuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.7348,"lon":111.545,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quwo-dabei-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple compound in Qucun town, founded in the Tang dynasty and covering about 4,000 square metres. Its three-bay offering hall is original Jin-dynasty work with a hip-gable roof, while the Heavenly Kings Hall, the passage hall and the side ranges are Qing."},{"id":"xiangfen-dingcun","name":"Dingcun","name_zh":"丁村","pinyin":"Dīngcūn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.841,"lon":111.415,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-dingcun","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dingcun is a village on the east bank of the Fen River whose Ming and Qing courtyard houses are run as a folk museum, with more than 30 courtyards; the earliest dates from 1593. The Dingcun Palaeolithic site, excavated from 1954 on the river terraces around the village, produced human fossils about 120,000 years old and over 2,000 stone artefacts, which a culture exhibition hall presents. Both appear on Shanxi government tourism routes through Linfen."},{"id":"yaodu-dongyang-houtu-temple","name":"Dongyang Houtu Temple","name_zh":"东羊后土庙","pinyin":"Dōngyáng Hòutǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.1919,"lon":111.4989,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yaodu-dongyang-houtu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in the middle of Dongyang village, founded in 1283 as an Eastern Peak temple, wrecked in the great earthquake of 1303 and rebuilt in 1345, and later renamed for the earth goddess Houtu. Its Yuan-period stage has a cross-gabled hip roof and a stacked bracket-set ceiling, the Houtu Hall dates from 1622 and holds Ming painted clay figures, and the double-eaved gate has honeycomb-like brackets. After 1949 the temple was used as a school, and several halls were pulled down in the 1970s."},{"id":"yicheng-fandian-guandi-temple","name":"Fandian Guandi Temple","name_zh":"樊店关帝庙","pinyin":"Fándiàn Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6872,"lon":111.6042,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yicheng-fandian-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu in Fandian village, founded in 1505 and repaired in 1831. The stage and main hall on the central axis are Ming, the gate and the front range of rooms are Qing, and the two side gates sit tight against the stage under the inscriptions 'both civil and martial' and 'both god and sage'."},{"id":"xiangfen-fencheng-ancient-town","name":"Fencheng Ancient Town","name_zh":"汾城古建筑群","pinyin":"Fénchéng Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.8195,"lon":111.2722,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-fencheng-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fencheng was the seat of Taiping county and still has more than forty historic buildings from the Jin to the late Qing, including a City God Temple, a Confucian temple, a Guandi temple, a drum tower, the county yamen hall, a brick pagoda and a stretch of Ming town wall. The City God Temple, rebuilt in 1627, is flanked by two Ming timber archways, and a covered stone bridge first built in 1183 crosses a channel on the south side. The town is a national historic and cultural town (2007) and is promoted in Linfen's tourism routes."},{"id":"linfen-fenhe-culture-ecology-park","name":"Fenhe Culture and Ecology Scenic Area, Linfen","name_zh":"汾河文化生态景区","pinyin":"Fénhé Wénhuà Shēngtài Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0855,"lon":111.4855,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linfen-fenhe-culture-ecology-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A riverside park about 17 km long along the Fen River through Linfen, laid out around the idea of one river, five lakes, ten gardens and eighteen views. People's Daily describes it as combining themes of the Yao and Shun legends, river ecological restoration and everyday leisure, with museums and a library set among the planting. It is a city park rather than a historic site."},{"id":"anze-taiyue-administrative-office-site","name":"Former Taiyue Administrative Office, Xiaoli Village","name_zh":"太岳行署旧址","pinyin":"Tàiyuè Xíngshǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0801,"lon":112.483,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anze-taiyue-administrative-office-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former seat of the Taiyue Administrative Office, a regional wartime government for the Taiyue mountains of southern Shanxi, in Xiaoli village, Liangma town; the listed buildings date from 1942–44. The State Council listed it as a national monument in 2019 in the category of modern historic sites and representative buildings, and the scenic area around it covers about 1.8 sq km across the villages of Ducun, Xiaoli and Sangqu. Anze keeps 18 sites from the Taiyue base area, of which this is one."},{"id":"guxian-peony-culture-garden","name":"Gu County Peony Garden","name_zh":"古县牡丹文化园","pinyin":"Gǔxiàn Mǔdān Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.2152,"lon":112.0383,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guxian-peony-culture-garden","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A peony garden at Sanhe village in the hills of Gu county, built around an old peony plant that is acclaimed locally as the finest in China. Shanxi Daily gives the plant's age as more than 1,300 years and counted 621 blooms on that single plant in 2026. The grounds are laid out as a visitor park, so the spring flowering season is the time to go."},{"id":"jixian-guajiashan-cliffside-sculptures","name":"Guajiashan Cliffside Sculptures","name_zh":"挂甲山摩崖造像","pinyin":"Guàjiǎshān Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0901,"lon":110.6702,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jixian-guajiashan-cliffside-sculptures","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Figure carvings on the cliffs of Guajia Hill, on the southern edge of Ji County town, which the national list dates from the Northern Dynasties to the Ming dynasty. They became a provincial protected site in 1986 and a national one in 2019."},{"id":"hongtong-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Hongtong","name_zh":"洪洞关帝庙","pinyin":"Hóngtóng Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.2566,"lon":111.6667,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongtong-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu in the centre of Hongtong county town, founded in 1306 under the Yuan and enlarged in the Ming and Qing. Its gate tower, the three-storey Chunqiu Building of 1531 (repaired in 1710), has a cross-shaped passage through its base and is the town's best-known landmark, with the stage, offering hall and main hall behind it and bell and drum towers at the sides."},{"id":"huozhou-guanyin-temple","name":"Guanyin Temple, Huozhou","name_zh":"霍州观音庙","pinyin":"Huòzhōu Guānyīn Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.566,"lon":111.7366,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huozhou-guanyin-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple on the east side of Huozhou, begun under the Yuan and extensively repaired in the Jiajing reign of the Ming, covering 2,021 sq m. It has a gate, a Sansheng hall, a Guanyin hall, a main hall and a street-spanning pavilion with a colonnaded passage beneath it. The pavilion is Yuan and has a double-eave hip-gable roof; the other buildings are Ming and Qing."},{"id":"hongdong-dahuaishu-ancestor-park","name":"Hongtong Locust Tree Ancestor-Worship Park","name_zh":"洪洞大槐树寻根祭祖园","pinyin":"Hóngtóng Dàhuáishù Xúngēn Jìzǔ Yuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.2709,"lon":111.6691,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hongdong-dahuaishu-ancestor-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The park commemorates the Hongtong locust tree, remembered by families across northern and eastern China as the point of departure of the Ming-era resettlements from Shanxi, of which Ming records list 18 between 1373 and 1417. It is a modern park built around that memory, with a yearly ancestor-worship ceremony (the 36th, in April 2026, drew descendants from 18 provinces and cities), stage shows such as the Daming Qianminshu and a genealogy advice centre. The ancestor-worship customs are on China's national intangible heritage list."},{"id":"houma-jin-capital-site","name":"Houma Jin Capital Site","name_zh":"侯马晋国遗址","pinyin":"Hóumǎ Jìnguó Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6183,"lon":111.3597,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=houma-jin-capital-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The remains of Xintian, the capital of the state of Jin from 585 BCE, lie where the Fen and Kuai rivers meet at Houma and include walled-town sites, ancestral-temple foundations, bronze-foundry and sacrificial areas and cemeteries. Most of it is buried, so the place to start is the Jin Ancient Capital Museum in the city centre, which shows finds from the site; the Houma Covenant tablets, jade and stone slips inscribed with oaths, were found here in 1965. A site park marks the foundations of the ancestral-temple complex."},{"id":"huozhou-drum-tower","name":"Huozhou Drum Tower","name_zh":"霍州鼓楼","pinyin":"Huòzhōu Gǔlóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.57,"lon":111.7175,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huozhou-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming and Qing drum tower in the middle of Huozhou city. It was listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national monument in 2019. It stands a short walk from the Prefectural Office and Zhusheng Temple."},{"id":"huozhou-prefectural-office","name":"Huozhou Prefectural Office","name_zh":"霍州署","pinyin":"Huòzhōu Shǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.5714,"lon":111.7226,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huozhou-prefectural-office","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The surviving prefectural office of Huozhou, on East Street in the old centre of Huozhou city, now a museum. Most of the compound was destroyed at the end of the Yuan dynasty and only the main hall survived; the ceremonial gate and an admonition-stone pavilion were rebuilt in the Ming and Qing, and the gate tower is a modern reconstruction. The hall is three bays wide and eight rafters deep under a single-eave overhanging gable roof."},{"id":"quwo-qucun-tianma-jin-museum","name":"Jin Museum (Qucun–Tianma Site)","name_zh":"晋国博物馆","pinyin":"Jìnguó Bówùguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.7372,"lon":111.5628,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quwo-qucun-tianma-jin-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A site museum on the Qucun–Tianma site, where archaeologists found the early capital and royal cemetery of the Western Zhou state of Jin, in use between about 1000 and 800 BC. The excavations uncovered 19 tombs of Jin marquises and their consorts, with chariot-and-horse pits, sacrificial pits and many bronzes and jades. The museum opened in 2014 on the cemetery site, with galleries on Jin history, the excavation and the marquises' tombs."},{"id":"hongdong-jingshi-palace","name":"Jingshi Palace, Hongdong","name_zh":"净石宫","pinyin":"Jìngshí Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.4646,"lon":111.6726,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongdong-jingshi-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A complex of historic buildings in Ganhe village, Dicun township, Hongtong, dated by the national list to between the Ming dynasty and the Republican period. It was listed as a provincial protected site in 2004 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"quwo-jinyuan-garden","name":"Jinyuan Garden, Quwo","name_zh":"曲沃晋园","pinyin":"Qūwò Jìnyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6374,"lon":111.4872,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quwo-jinyuan-garden","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A landscaped park in Quwo county town, laid out as a classical-style garden on the culture of Jin, the ancient state of this region. It has a lake with timber boardwalks and Chinese-style pavilions, a large public plaza, a theatre and a conference hall, and it stages short historical plays built around Chinese idiom stories. It suits an easy hour or two for anyone visiting the Jin-period sites around Quwo."},{"id":"anze-langzhai-pagoda","name":"Langzhai Brick Pagoda","name_zh":"郎寨砖塔","pinyin":"Lángzhài Zhuāntǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.9609,"lon":112.3247,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anze-langzhai-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A dense-eaved brick pagoda of the Tang dynasty in Langzhai village, Mabi township. It was listed as a provincial protected site in 2004 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"fushan-laojun-cave","name":"Laojun Cave, Fushan","name_zh":"老君洞","pinyin":"Lǎojūn Dòng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.9535,"lon":111.7997,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushan-laojun-cave","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Daoist hall in Liang village, Zhangzhuang township, the only building left of a temple founded in 619. The three-bay hall is built of brick and stone in imitation of timber, stands 4.4 m high and faces south. Inside are 39 stone panels of 1531 carved with the eighty-one transformations of Laozi, and a mural of 1561 covering about 78 square metres."},{"id":"xiangfen-lingguang-temple-pagoda","name":"Lingguang Temple Glazed Pagoda","name_zh":"灵光寺琉璃塔","pinyin":"Língguāng Sì Liúlí Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.958,"lon":111.4985,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-lingguang-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda more than 20 m high, built in imitation of timber construction, standing in the fields west of Beiliang village. It is all that remains of Lingguang Temple, founded in 652 and rebuilt under the Jin; the 1695 earthquake left only seven of its thirteen storeys, the temple was destroyed in 1948, and its site was later buried by Fen River silt and turned to farmland. The pagoda was restored in 2020."},{"id":"quwo-nanlinjiao-longquan-temple","name":"Longquan Temple, Nanlinjiao","name_zh":"南林交龙泉寺","pinyin":"Nánlínjiāo Lóngquán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.5842,"lon":111.5279,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quwo-nanlinjiao-longquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Nanlinjiao, Beidong township, whose buildings are dated by the national listing to between the Yuan and Qing dynasties. It was listed as a county protected site in 1987 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"xiangfen-longshuyu-scenic-area","name":"Longshuyu Scenic Area","name_zh":"龙澍峪","pinyin":"Lóngshùyù","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0038,"lon":111.2918,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-longshuyu-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Longshuyu is a hill-country scenic area above Huangya village in Xiangling town, on the western edge of Xiangfen County. A county official describes its tourism as built around Zen Buddhist practice and mental well-being. A November 2024 Shanxi government release lists it, with the Dingcun museums, the Taosi site museum, Yaojing Winery and Lotus Town, among the attractions of a themed tourist route through Xiangfen."},{"id":"xiangfen-lotus-town","name":"Lotus Town, Xiangfen","name_zh":"荷花小镇","pinyin":"Héhuā Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.9711,"lon":111.4142,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-lotus-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hot-spring leisure town beside the Fen River in Dengzhuang town, north of Xiangfen county town. Shanxi's culture and tourism department listed it in 2023 among the province's night-time culture and tourism consumption zones and named its hot springs among Shanxi's ten hot-spring wellness destinations, and it appears on a 2024 rural-tourism route through Linfen themed on ancestral roots."},{"id":"anze-mayi-temple-pagoda","name":"Mayi Temple Brick Pagoda","name_zh":"麻衣寺砖塔","pinyin":"Máyī Sì Zhuāntǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.2457,"lon":112.2323,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anze-mayi-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Jin-dynasty dense-eaved brick pagoda on the Nanshan ridge in the hills north of Anze, about 2 km west of Lingnan village. It was listed as a provincial protected site in 1996 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"yicheng-nanhan-dongyue-temple","name":"Nanhan Dongyue Temple, Yicheng","name_zh":"南撖东岳庙","pinyin":"Nánhàn Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.7404,"lon":111.8184,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yicheng-nanhan-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Lord of Mount Tai (Dongyue) at Nanhan, covering 2,660 sq m, with a stage, an offering hall and a main hall flanked by side halls and corridor rooms. The offering hall and main hall are Yuan and the other buildings Qing. Both Yuan halls are three bays wide with overhanging gable roofs, and the main hall has the more elaborate bracketing."},{"id":"linfen-niuwang-temple-stage","name":"Niuwang Temple Stage, Linfen","name_zh":"牛王庙戏台","pinyin":"Niúwángmiào Xìtái","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.2378,"lon":111.4899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linfen-niuwang-temple-stage/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty opera stage built in 1283 and repaired in 1321, at the Niuwang (Ox King) Temple in Hecun village, Weicun town, north of Linfen. The stage is about 7.5 m square, with a single-eave hip-gable roof and open on three sides, while the hall, offering pavilion and side halls behind it are Ming and Qing. It was long thought to be China's oldest surviving wooden stage until a Jin-dynasty stage at Gaoping was identified in 2002."},{"id":"houma-peng-zhen-residence","name":"Peng Zhen Former Residence, Houma","name_zh":"彭真故居纪念馆","pinyin":"Péng Zhēn Gùjū Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6015,"lon":111.3504,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=houma-peng-zhen-residence","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The memorial hall at the birthplace of Peng Zhen (1902-1997), a Communist Party leader who held senior posts in the party and the state, in Dieshang village, now part of Houma. Government reports describe exhibition halls with more than 300 historical photographs and over a hundred objects on his life, and a bronze statue of him stands at the memorial. The house is a provincial-level monument (listed in 2004)."},{"id":"xiangfen-pujing-temple","name":"Pujing Temple, Xiangfen","name_zh":"普净寺","pinyin":"Pǔjìng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6917,"lon":111.263,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-pujing-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple compound of about 5,600 square metres in the fields near Shiwei village, with a gate, a Heavenly Kings Hall, an arhat hall, a Guandi hall, a Great Buddha Hall, a Medicine King hall, a pavilion and a bell tower. The five-bay Great Buddha Hall, over ten metres high, was rebuilt in 1303 after a major earthquake and is the oldest building; the rest dates from the Ming and Qing. It is also known as Nanshi Temple."},{"id":"yonghe-qiankun-bay","name":"Qiankun Bay, Yonghe","name_zh":"永和乾坤湾","pinyin":"Yǒnghé Qiánkūn Wān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.6835,"lon":110.411,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yonghe-qiankun-bay","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Qiankun Bay is a stretch where the Yellow River winds in tight S-shaped meanders between Shanxi and Shaanxi, and this scenic area looks over it from the Shanxi bank in Yonghe County; a separate scenic area faces it across the river in Yanchuan, Shaanxi. Provincial authorities list the Yonghe bends among Shanxi's twenty notable geological relics, and the Yellow River No 1 tourist road runs through Yonghe County."},{"id":"yicheng-qiaoze-temple-stage","name":"Qiaoze Temple Stage, Yicheng","name_zh":"乔泽庙戏台","pinyin":"Qiáozémiào Xìtái","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6834,"lon":111.7174,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yicheng-qiaoze-temple-stage","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The stage is all that remains of the Qiaoze Temple, a water-god temple at Wuchi village in Nanliang town, founded in 1324 under the Yuan. It is square, covers 140 sq m and stands on a platform 1.6 m high under a single-eave hip-gable roof, and it is regarded as the largest surviving Yuan-dynasty stage in China."},{"id":"xixian-qilijiao-thousand-buddha-grottoes","name":"Qilijiao Thousand Buddha Grottoes, Xixian","name_zh":"七里脚千佛洞石窟","pinyin":"Qīlǐjiǎo Qiānfódòng Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.7583,"lon":110.9654,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-qilijiao-thousand-buddha-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of rock-cut Buddhist grottoes, also called the Xixian Thousand Buddha Caves, on the east bank of the Chengchuan River at Qilijiao village north of Xi county town. The carvings date from the Northern and Southern dynasties to the Tang. The site was listed provincially in 1986 and nationally in 2013."},{"id":"huozhou-qiliyu-scenic-area","name":"Qiliyu Scenic Area, Huozhou","name_zh":"七里峪景区","pinyin":"Qīlǐyù Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.6079,"lon":111.899,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huozhou-qiliyu-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain valley scenic area on the Huozhou side of Mount Huo, in Licao town east of Huozhou, with forested slopes and a ski area at its entrance. Provincial reports describe a forest-wellness town here and say it became a popular regional destination in summer 2026. Mount Huo is the central one of China's five traditional guardian mountains."},{"id":"guxian-reliu-guandi-temple","name":"Reliu Guandi Temple","name_zh":"热留关帝庙","pinyin":"Rèliú Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.4317,"lon":112.0061,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guxian-reliu-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu in Reliu village, Guyang town, in Gu County; the national listing dates its buildings to the Ming and Qing. It was listed as a provincial monument in 2004 and as a national one in 2019."},{"id":"jixian-renzu-mountain","name":"Renzu Mountain","name_zh":"人祖山","pinyin":"Rénzǔ Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.2528,"lon":110.6691,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jixian-renzu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Renzu Mountain is a forested mountain area in Ji County, named for Fuxi and Nüwa, the legendary ancestors of humankind. Provincial media describe more than a hundred old temples and shrines on its slopes, of which the Renzu Temple, the Xuantian Shangdi Temple, the Kongshan Temple and the Beidou Qixing Temple are best known. The scenic area is developed as a mountain leisure destination, with walking trails and seasonal events such as a locust-blossom festival and an autumn-leaf festival."},{"id":"xiangning-rongzi-winery","name":"Rongzi Winery","name_zh":"戎子酒庄","pinyin":"Róngzǐ Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.025,"lon":110.8172,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangning-rongzi-winery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A winery estate in Xiangning County that makes red wines from vineyards on the Loess Plateau. Shanxi government media report a foreign media delegation being taken to the estate in 2025 to taste its wines, and the winery was listed in a 2025 notice of Shanxi time-honoured brands."},{"id":"quwo-dongxu-sanqing-temple-hall","name":"Sanqing Temple Offering Hall, Dongxu","name_zh":"东许三清庙献殿","pinyin":"Dōngxǔ Sānqīng Miào Xiàndiàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6889,"lon":111.5046,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quwo-dongxu-sanqing-temple-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty offering hall, the hall in front of the main shrine where offerings were made, belonging to the Sanqing Temple in Dongxu village, Gaoxian town. It was listed as a county protected site in 1987 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"hongtong-shangshan-temple","name":"Shangshan Temple (Sanhuang Temple), Hongtong","name_zh":"洪洞商山庙","pinyin":"Hóngtóng Shāngshān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.3642,"lon":111.6852,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongtong-shangshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single-courtyard temple in Sunbu village to the three legendary Sovereigns Fuxi, Shennong and Xuanyuan (the Yellow Emperor), also called the Sanhuang Temple. The main hall and the east side hall are Yuan work, the ear halls are Yuan and Qing and the rest is Qing, with repairs recorded in 1578, 1758 and 1838."},{"id":"fenxi-shijiagou-village","name":"Shijiagou Historic Village","name_zh":"师家沟古建筑群","pinyin":"Shījiāgōu Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.629,"lon":111.6078,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenxi-shijiagou-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside village in Sengnian town of mostly brick and cave-dwelling courtyard houses, begun in 1769 and well developed by the Tongzhi reign (1862–1874). The houses climb a south-facing slope with a hill behind and a gully in front, and most are three- or four-sided courtyards. It is a China Historic and Cultural Village (2008), and its old buildings have been a national heritage unit since 2006."},{"id":"xiangning-shousheng-temple","name":"Shousheng Temple, Xiangning","name_zh":"乡宁寿圣寺","pinyin":"Xiāngníng Shòushèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.9668,"lon":110.8294,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangning-shousheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the county town of Xiangning, founded in 1049 and repaired under the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. What survives is a three-bay main hall and a two-storey bell tower built in 1312, which has a hip-gable roof. It has been a national heritage unit since 2006."},{"id":"yicheng-sisheng-palace","name":"Sisheng Palace, Yicheng","name_zh":"四圣宫","pinyin":"Sìshèng Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.5765,"lon":111.9273,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yicheng-sisheng-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in Cao Gong village, Xiyan town, named for the four sage-kings it enshrines: Yao, Shun, Yu and Tang. It was founded under the Yuan and covers about 2,300 square metres, with an opera stage, an offering hall and the main hall on its axis, flanked by side halls and galleries. The five-bay main hall and the stage are Yuan buildings, and the rest is Ming and Qing."},{"id":"yicheng-stone-and-wooden-archways","name":"Stone and Wooden Archways, Yicheng","name_zh":"石四牌坊和木四牌坊","pinyin":"Shí Sìpáifāng Hé Mù Sìpáifāng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.7267,"lon":111.709,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yicheng-stone-and-wooden-archways","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two four-faced memorial archways stand on the main street of Yicheng's old town, about a hundred metres apart, both promoted by the local censor Shi Xueqian. The stone archway, built in 1611, is carved with the Eight Immortals and other scenes and has a timber roof; the larger wooden one was finished in 1613 and carries inscribed plaques on all four sides. The old town around them is a residential district of historic courtyards."},{"id":"xiangfen-taosi","name":"Taosi","name_zh":"陶寺遗址","pinyin":"Táosì Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.9009,"lon":111.4881,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-taosi","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Taosi is the site of a walled town of the Longshan period (about 2300 to 1900 BC), where excavations found a rammed-earth enclosure of about 280 hectares, palace foundations, a large elite cemetery and an observatory platform. The Taosi Site Museum opened in November 2024, and since 2025 the archaeological park around it has opened the reconstructed observatory, the palace area, a stretch of palace wall and an astronomy archaeology hall. Chinese archaeologists see it as showing the first features of an early state, and it is popularly identified with the capital of the legendary king Yao."},{"id":"linfen-tiefo-temple","name":"Tiefo Temple (Dayun Temple), Linfen","name_zh":"铁佛寺","pinyin":"Tiěfó Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0816,"lon":111.5023,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linfen-tiefo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in the south-west of Linfen's old town, founded in 632 and now run as a museum, with a gate, an entrance hall, a sutra library and a brick pagoda that was begun in 1715 and finished in 1728. The pagoda's hollow ground floor holds an iron Buddha head 6.8 m high that is dated to the Tang, and the upper floors cannot be climbed. The present buildings are Qing, rebuilt after the earthquake of 1695."},{"id":"huozhou-wahuang-temple","name":"Wahuang Temple, Huozhou","name_zh":"娲皇庙","pinyin":"Wāhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.5621,"lon":111.762,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huozhou-wahuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Qing-dynasty temple to Nüwa, the mother goddess of Chinese myth, in Jia village, Dazhang town. The south-facing compound covers about 1,300 square metres, with an opera stage, a main hall of three bays with flanking side halls, side rooms and bell and drum towers. It has been a national heritage unit since 2006."},{"id":"linfen-wangqu-dongyue-temple","name":"Wangqu Dongyue Temple, Linfen","name_zh":"王曲东岳庙","pinyin":"Wángqū Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.172,"lon":111.5343,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linfen-wangqu-dongyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Lord of Mount Tai (Dongyue) at Wangqu, north of Linfen, begun in the early Yuan and repaired in the Ming and Qing; its Yuan-dynasty stage and Qing main hall survive. The stage combines a Yuan rear section, 7.25 m wide, with a Qing porch in front, and has sixteen bracket sets under its eaves. Inside, a caisson ceiling rises in three tiers of brackets."},{"id":"xiangfen-xiangling-confucian-temple","name":"Xiangling Confucian Temple","name_zh":"襄陵文庙","pinyin":"Xiānglíng Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0229,"lon":111.4044,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-xiangling-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Dacheng Hall of the Confucian temple at Xiangling is a large hall of the Yuan period, five bays wide and about 22 m across, with a hip-and-gable roof and twelve bracket sets under its long front architrave. The temple was first built in 1209 under the Jin and the hall was rebuilt in 1306. It stands inside the Xiangling grain station in Xiangling town."},{"id":"hongtong-xingtangsi-huoshan-scenic-area","name":"Xingtangsi Scenic Area, Mount Huo","name_zh":"兴唐寺景区","pinyin":"Xīngtáng Sì Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.433,"lon":111.8143,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongtong-xingtangsi-huoshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain scenic area on the Hongtong side of Mount Huo, named after Xingtangsi village. Mount Huo is the central one of China's five traditional guardian mountains, and the village was the site of the Zhongzhen Temple where the mountain god was honoured; it was demolished in 1970 with the neighbouring Xingtang Temple, and in 2012 only a side hall and a Ming stele survived. The area includes Yunshan Valley, named in 2023 as a national forest-wellness pilot site."},{"id":"xixian-drum-tower","name":"Xixian Drum Tower","name_zh":"隰县鼓楼","pinyin":"Xíxiàn Gǔlóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.6937,"lon":110.931,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty drum tower in the centre of Xi county town, listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national monument in 2013. It stands about 1 km from Xiaoxitian, so the two can be seen on one walk."},{"id":"quwo-xue-family-compound","name":"Xue Family Compound, Quwo","name_zh":"曲沃薛家大院","pinyin":"Qūwò Xuējiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.6391,"lon":111.4664,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quwo-xue-family-compound","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Qing-dynasty courtyard house of three courtyards in sequence in the old town of Quwo, with a south range, passage halls and a north tower, decorated with stone and wood carving and painted ornament. After 1949 it was used by the housing office and other offices, and since 1995 it has been in the care of the cultural-relics authorities."},{"id":"yaodu-yao-mausoleum","name":"Yao Mausoleum","name_zh":"尧帝陵","pinyin":"Yáodì Líng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0674,"lon":111.784,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaodu-yao-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The tomb of Yao, one of the legendary Five Emperors, stands in the hills east of Linfen on the north bank of the Lao River. The earth mound is the ancient core, with Ming and Qing buildings and a number of stone tablets, and repairs are recorded from the Tang dynasty onwards. Since 2007 the city has restored the site and added new ceremonial buildings, among them the Guozu (State Ancestor) Hall, huabiao pillars and a glazed screen wall."},{"id":"linfen-yao-temple","name":"Yao Temple, Linfen","name_zh":"尧庙","pinyin":"Yáomiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.0527,"lon":111.4908,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linfen-yao-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple complex to the legendary emperor Yao on the southern edge of Linfen, moved to its present site on the east bank of the Fen River in 658 and restored after the earthquakes of 1303 and 1695. Its main hall, Guangyun Hall, was rebuilt in 1999 after an arson fire the year before, and the complex also has the three-storey Wufeng Tower, about 19 m high, and four ancient cypresses in the courtyard of the main hall. The scenic area also takes in Huamen, a plaza and park to the west."},{"id":"xiangfen-yaojing-winery","name":"Yaojing Winery","name_zh":"尧京酒庄","pinyin":"Yáojīng Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.922,"lon":111.5648,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfen-yaojing-winery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A wine estate in Shangxiliang village, Dadeng township, Xiangfen County, rated as a 4A scenic area. It combines vineyards, wine-making, a wine-culture display and countryside leisure, with a campsite. A November 2024 Shanxi government release lists it, with the Dingcun museums, the Taosi site museum, Lotus Town and Longshuyu, among the attractions of a themed tourist route through Xiangfen."},{"id":"xiangning-yingli-thousand-buddha-grottoes","name":"Yingli Thousand Buddha Grottoes","name_zh":"营里千佛洞石窟","pinyin":"Yínglǐ Qiānfódòng Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.9943,"lon":110.8911,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangning-yingli-thousand-buddha-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of Buddhist rock-cut grottoes on a cliff above Yingli village, just east of Xiangning county town, carved between the Northern Qi and the Tang dynasty. They were listed as a provincial site in 1996 and as a national monument in 2019."},{"id":"yonghe-confucian-temple","name":"Yonghe Confucian Temple","name_zh":"永和文庙","pinyin":"Yǒnghé Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.7581,"lon":110.6285,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yonghe-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Dacheng Hall of Yonghe's Confucian temple, a Ming-dynasty building in the old county town on Dongmen Lane off Zhenggou Street. It became a provincial monument in 2004 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"hongtong-yuhuang-temple","name":"Yuhuang Temple, Hongtong","name_zh":"洪洞玉皇庙","pinyin":"Hóngtóng Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.2936,"lon":111.6283,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongtong-yuhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple founded in 1229 of which only the rear courtyard survives, with three halls of the Yuan period standing side by side: the Jade Emperor Hall, the Guan Gong Hall and the Erlang Hall. The Jade Emperor Hall keeps fragments of Yuan wall paintings."},{"id":"xiangning-yunqiu-mountain","name":"Yunqiu Mountain","name_zh":"云丘山","pinyin":"Yúnqiū Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.7499,"lon":111.002,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangning-yunqiu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Xiangning County, rated 5A in 2020, with a total area of 210 sq km, a core visiting zone of 35 sq km and a highest point of 1,629 m. Visitors come for its ice caves, the old village of Tar'erpo and the cave-dwelling courtyards of Kangjiaping, and the area hosts an annual trail-running race and a yearly culture festival. It was named a national civilised-tourism demonstration unit in 2024."},{"id":"fushan-zhaigeta-wellness-area","name":"Zhaigeta Wellness Area, Fushan","name_zh":"寨圪塔康养景区","pinyin":"Zhàigēdǎ Kāngyǎng Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":35.9065,"lon":112.0739,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushan-zhaigeta-wellness-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A health-and-wellness resort area in Zhaigeta township, in the hills east of Fushan county town. Shanxi media reported in 2023 that, helped by the building of southern Shanxi's wellness cluster, it had become a leisure destination for visitors from neighbouring provinces, and that it held food and farm-produce events over the autumn holiday. It is a modern resort development rather than a historic site."},{"id":"huozhou-zhusheng-temple","name":"Zhusheng Temple, Huozhou","name_zh":"霍州祝圣寺","pinyin":"Huòzhōu Zhùshèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Linfen","lat":36.5715,"lon":111.72,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huozhou-zhusheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple in the old centre of Huozhou, on Qianjin Street, with buildings from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties. It was listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national monument in 2019."},{"id":"lishi-anguo-temple","name":"Anguo Temple, Lishi","name_zh":"安国寺","pinyin":"Ānguó Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.525,"lon":111.0508,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lishi-anguo-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside temple compound in a forested valley of Wuya Mountain, west of central Lüliang, founded in 637 under the Tang as Anji Temple and renamed in the Song dynasty. The buildings are Ming and Qing, with a main hall holding three Buddha figures about 4.8 m high, a two-storey copper-pagoda tower, a bell and drum tower, and a cliffside villa built in the Yongzheng period by the grandson of Yu Chenglong. Yu Chenglong, a Qing governor-general known for his integrity, studied here before taking office, and the temple is now run as a clean-governance education site."},{"id":"lishi-baima-xiandong-cave","name":"Baima Xiandong Cave","name_zh":"白马仙洞","pinyin":"Báimǎ Xiāndòng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.4122,"lon":111.304,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lishi-baima-xiandong-cave","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cave on Jiufeng Hill at Donggou village in Wucheng town, south-east of Lishi, set among wooded hills. The Lüliang government says about 1,000 m of the cave is developed, with a drop of more than 260 m from the mouth to the lowest developed point, and its walls carry inscriptions dated 1121, 1337 and 1406 that mostly record rain prayers and exploration. Stalactites and other limestone formations line the passages, and the cave was a traditional place for rain-making rites."},{"id":"linxian-shuangta-central-rear-committee-site","name":"Central Rear Committee Site, Shuangta","name_zh":"临县中央后委机关旧址","pinyin":"Línxiàn Zhōngyāng Hòuwěi Jīguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.7703,"lon":110.9475,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxian-shuangta-central-rear-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of former Party offices and residences in Shuangta village, Sanjiao town, where the Party's Central Rear Committee was based in 1947–48. The Lüliang government lists the former Central Foreign Affairs Group office, the Secretariat's special accounts office and the residences used by Mao Zedong, Ye Jianying, Yang Shangkun and Deng Yingchao. There is an exhibition room on site, and the county counts it among its three national classic red-tourism sites."},{"id":"xiaoyi-cisheng-temple","name":"Cisheng Temple, Xiaoyi","name_zh":"孝义慈胜寺","pinyin":"Xiàoyì Císhèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.1631,"lon":111.7428,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoyi-cisheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Suzhuang village, now part of Xiaoyi's built-up area, founded in the Jin dynasty and expanded and repaired in the Ming and Qing periods. The city government says the compound keeps old buildings from the Ming dynasty onwards and Ming-dynasty statues. Central-government conservation funds paid for repairs there in 2018."},{"id":"lishi-dadonggou-forest-area","name":"Dadonggou Forest Scenic Area","name_zh":"大东沟景区","pinyin":"Dàdōnggōu Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.6762,"lon":111.4907,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lishi-dadonggou-forest-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forest leisure area in the Guandi Mountains in Xinyi town, in the hills north-east of Lishi, where the road climbs past Qiannian village into birch woods along a stream below Guji Mountain. It began operating in May 2023 and is laid out mainly for camping, with several camps, capsule-cabin lodging, forest-wellness activities and a restaurant, and in 2023 it was named a national forest-wellness pilot site. It suits a day trip or a camping night from Lüliang."},{"id":"fangshan-dawu-drum-tower","name":"Dawu Drum Tower","name_zh":"大武鼓楼","pinyin":"Dàwǔ Gǔlóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.648,"lon":111.1542,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangshan-dawu-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty drum tower in Dawu town, in the south of Fangshan county, in the area now being built up as Lüliang's new district. The Fangshan government's tourism notes call it finely built, and it is one of the county's listed sights alongside Mount Beiwudang. It became a provincial protected site in 1986 and a national one in 2019."},{"id":"fenyang-donglongguan-tombs","name":"Donglongguan Tombs","name_zh":"东龙观墓群","pinyin":"Dōnglóngguān Mùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.2219,"lon":111.7493,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-donglongguan-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cemetery of Song and Jin dynasty tombs at Donglongguan village in Yangcheng town, about 300 m long, where 27 tombs were excavated in 2008 ahead of road building: 16 with brick chambers and 11 cut into the earth, in hexagonal, octagonal and square plans. The Fenyang government says the brick carving, painted decoration and murals in the chambers are well preserved, and the finds included pottery, porcelain, ironwork and coins. It was listed nationally in 2013."},{"id":"shilou-xingdongyuan-dongyue-temple","name":"Dongyue Temple, Xingdongyuan","name_zh":"兴东垣东岳庙","pinyin":"Xīngdōngyuán Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.0492,"lon":110.9461,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shilou-xingdongyuan-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Dongyue (Eastern Peak) god at Xingdongyuan in Longjiao township, Shilou county, laid out on a north-west to south-east axis of about 35 by 65 m with a screen wall, gate, opera stage and main hall. The main hall is original Jin-dynasty timber, three bays wide, with a hip-gable roof of yellow, green and blue glazed tiles added in the Ming or Qing and about 36 m² of late-Ming murals inside; the other buildings are Ming and Qing, with repairs recorded in 1338 and 1641. It has been a national protected site since 2001."},{"id":"wenshui-fanan-temple-pagoda","name":"Fan'an Temple Pagoda, Shangxian","name_zh":"上贤梵安寺塔","pinyin":"Shàngxián Fàn'ānsì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.3631,"lon":111.9781,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenshui-fanan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 40 m high at Shangxian village, also called the Shangxian Pagoda, hollow inside with an arched doorway on each floor. It stands directly on the ground without a foundation platform or a finial, which local accounts call a pagoda without a base; inscriptions inside date it to the Song dynasty, and it was repaired under the Ming and again in 2017-2019. The village has built a small rural tourism area around it, with fruit-picking in season."},{"id":"fenyang-xinghuacun-fenjiu-culture-area","name":"Fenjiu Culture Scenic Area, Xinghuacun","name_zh":"杏花村汾酒文化景区","pinyin":"Xìnghuācūn Fénjiǔ Wénhuà Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.3427,"lon":111.9073,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-xinghuacun-fenjiu-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A liquor-heritage visitor area built around the Fenjiu distillery in Xinghuacun town, the home of Fenjiu, a light-aroma Chinese grain spirit. The sights include the Fenjiu Museum, a workshop rebuilt in Ming–Qing style, the aged-liquor cellars and the distillery gardens. It also includes the Old Workshop, a courtyard complex with six surviving late-Qing buildings and an old well, which is a national monument and where liquor is still made by traditional methods."},{"id":"xingxian-gaojiacun-jinsui-daily-site","name":"Former Jinsui Daily Office, Gaojiacun","name_zh":"晋绥日报社旧址","pinyin":"Jìnsuí Rìbàoshè Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":38.4882,"lon":110.9784,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingxian-gaojiacun-jinsui-daily-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former office of the Jinsui Daily, the newspaper of the Jinsui Border Region, in Gaojiacun village, where the writers Ma Feng and Xi Rong wrote the novel Heroes of Lüliang. The national heritage list dates its use to 1940–49, and in 2025 the village was being developed as a rural-tourism village under a conservation plan for the border-region sites that the county approved."},{"id":"fangshan-yu-chenglong-residence","name":"Former Residence of Yu Chenglong","name_zh":"于成龙故居","pinyin":"Yú Chénglóng Gùjū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.7411,"lon":111.2797,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangshan-yu-chenglong-residence","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The family home of Yu Chenglong (1617-1684), a Qing official who rose to governor-general of the Lower Yangtze provinces and whom the Kangxi emperor praised as the most incorruptible in the empire. Three courtyards of the early Qing survive at Laibao village, the homes of his father, his elder brother and himself, restored in 2014 and shown with period scenes and exhibits as part of the Yu Chenglong Clean Governance Culture Park. Laibao is a listed historic and cultural village, and the site is also used as an education base for officials."},{"id":"fenyang-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Fenyang","name_zh":"汾阳关帝庙","pinyin":"Fényáng Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.2641,"lon":111.7781,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu, the Three Kingdoms general worshipped as a god of loyalty and war, in the southern part of Fenyang's old centre, built in 1515 in the Ming dynasty and popularly known as the Iron Horse Guan Yu Temple. It has two courtyards, with an offering hall, a main hall and a rear hall decorated with Ming glazed ridge ornaments, and a pair of Ming glazed lions. The temple has housed Fenyang Museum since 1997, and the museum opened a new building at Xinghuacun in 2025."},{"id":"jiaocheng-guashan-tianning-temple","name":"Guashan Tianning Temple","name_zh":"卦山天宁寺","pinyin":"Guàshān Tiānníng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.5728,"lon":112.128,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaocheng-guashan-tianning-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple complex on Gua Mountain, 3 km from Jiaocheng, which the county government dates to 627 and describes as a major Huayan temple of the Tang dynasty. The Stone Buddha Hall was founded in the early Tang, and the Ming and Qing periods added a Holy Mother temple, a shrine hall, a Wenchang palace and an academy. The hill is also known for its ancient cypresses, which grow out of the cliff faces."},{"id":"xingxian-heichashan-april-8-memorial","name":"Heichashan April 8 Martyrs' Memorial","name_zh":"黑茶山四八烈士纪念地","pinyin":"Hēichá Shān Sìbā Lièshì Jìniàndì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":38.2084,"lon":111.2846,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingxian-heichashan-april-8-memorial","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial museum at the foot of Mount Heicha in Xing county, built for the people killed when a flight from Chongqing to Yan'an crashed into the mountain in fog on 8 April 1946. Those killed included the Communist Party figures Wang Ruofei, Qin Bangxian (Bo Gu) and Deng Fa and the New Fourth Army commander Ye Ting. The halls hold portraits, biographies and stone memorial tablets, a pavilion marks the crash site on the summit, and a separate martyrs' cemetery for the Jinsui area lies at the south-west foot of the mountain."},{"id":"fenyang-houtu-shengmu-temple","name":"Houtu Shengmu Temple, Fenyang","name_zh":"汾阳后土圣母庙","pinyin":"Fényáng Hòutǔ Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.2949,"lon":111.7602,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-houtu-shengmu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Houtu, the Earth Mother goddess, at Tian village north-west of Fenyang, rebuilt in 1549 in the Ming dynasty, of which the main hall and a side hall survive. The hall walls hold Ming murals of about 60 sq m, a banquet and music scene on the rear wall and processions on the side walls, painted in heavy colour with gilded relief lines. Fenyang's tourism bureau names it, with Taifu Daoist Temple, among the city's heritage sites noted for murals and relief sculpture."},{"id":"shilou-houtu-shengmu-temple","name":"Houtu Shengmu Temple, Shilou","name_zh":"后土圣母庙","pinyin":"Hòutǔ Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":36.975,"lon":110.5176,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shilou-houtu-shengmu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the earth goddess Houtu Shengmu on the hillside at Dianshan, about 2.5 km south-west of Zhangjiahe village, in the hills of Shilou county; the national list dates it to the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism's route page describes a compound of about 1,500 m² facing south, with a gate, an opera stage and a main hall built of brick and stone without beams, three bays wide with a timber porch, which holds five Ming clay figures. It became a provincial protected site in 2004 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"xingxian-hujiagou-brick-pagoda","name":"Hujiagou Brick Pagoda","name_zh":"胡家沟砖塔","pinyin":"Hújiāgōu Zhuāntǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":38.4697,"lon":111.0425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingxian-hujiagou-brick-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 12 m octagonal brick pagoda of the Ming dynasty at Hujiagou village in Caijiaya township, standing on a three-tier stone base. The tower is solid; its eaves imitate timber brackets and rafters, and the window frames and balustrades carry brick relief of flowers, figures and insects. It became a provincial protected site in 2004 and a national one in 2019."},{"id":"fenyang-jiajiazhuang-tourist-area","name":"Jiajiazhuang Village Tourist Area","name_zh":"贾家庄文化生态旅游区","pinyin":"Jiǎjiāzhuāng Wénhuà Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.2947,"lon":111.8237,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-jiajiazhuang-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A tourist area built around Jiajiazhuang, a village north-east of Fenyang that was a national model for agriculture from the 1950s to the 1970s and has since turned to rural tourism. Its main street, Jia Street, opened in 2016: it is 533 m long with 240 shopfronts, including snack stalls, a bar street and an art corridor, built in old-street style on the old village site. The wider area adds folk-custom, farming-culture and Party-history themes."},{"id":"xiaoyi-jinlong-mountain","name":"Jinlong Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"金龙山风景区","pinyin":"Jīnlóngshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.1329,"lon":111.6841,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoyi-jinlong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside complex of Buddhist and Daoist shrines at Xiatujing village, west of Xiaoyi, built around the site of an old Dragon King temple on the hilltop. Its listed sights include the Chongxiao Temple, a large Guanyin statue, the Wenchang Pavilion, a stepped approach called the Eighteen Steps of the Blue Cloud and the Jinlong Spring, and the site mixes Buddhist, Daoist and local filial-piety culture."},{"id":"xingxian-caijiaya-jinsui-memorial-hall","name":"Jinsui Border Region Memorial Hall, Caijiaya","name_zh":"晋绥边区革命纪念馆","pinyin":"Jìnsuí Biānqū Gémìng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":38.4741,"lon":111.0312,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingxian-caijiaya-jinsui-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial museum at Caijiaya village in Xing county, set in the compound that was the seat of the Jinsui Border Region government and military headquarters during the war against Japan and the civil war. Displays cover the border region's history, and the preserved buildings include the residences used by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Ren Bishi and He Long, the hall of the 1948 Jinsui cadres' conference and the Six Willows Pavilion. Mao, Zhou and Ren stopped at Caijiaya in March 1948, and Mao addressed the conference there."},{"id":"xingxian-beipo-jinsui-branch-bureau-site","name":"Jinsui Branch Bureau Site, Beipo","name_zh":"北坡中共中央晋绥分局旧址","pinyin":"Běipō Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Jìnsuí Fēnjú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":38.4781,"lon":111.0221,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingxian-beipo-jinsui-branch-bureau-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former Party regional headquarters in Beipo village, about 1 km west-north-west of the Caijiaya memorial hall, where the Jinsui Branch Bureau of the Party's Central Committee worked in the 1940s. It is a hillside group of Qing-dynasty cave dwellings, 53 of which survive, restored from 2015 as part of the village's red-tourism project. Bureau secretary Lin Feng and deputy secretary Zhang Jiafu were among those who lived here."},{"id":"linxian-shayuan-joint-defence-army-site","name":"Joint Defence Army Headquarters Site, Shayuan","name_zh":"临县陕甘宁晋绥联防军指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Línxiàn Shǎngānníng Jìnsuí Liánfángjūn Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.6843,"lon":110.8622,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxian-shayuan-joint-defence-army-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former military headquarters in Shayuan village, Linjiaping town, dated to 1947 in the national heritage list and associated with the Shaan-Gan-Ning and Jin-Sui Joint Defence Army. The Linxian government counts it among the county's three national classic red-tourism sites, alongside the Central Rear Committee site and the Party Northwest Bureau site at Nangeda."},{"id":"fenyang-baicaopo-longtian-tudi-temple","name":"Longtian Tudi Temple, Baicaopo","name_zh":"柏草坡龙天土地庙","pinyin":"Bǎicǎopō Lóngtiān Tǔdì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.3429,"lon":111.7607,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-baicaopo-longtian-tudi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small one-courtyard temple at Baicaopo village in Yudaohe town, with an opera stage, an offering hall and the main Dragon King hall on one axis and three side halls. Inscriptions date the main hall to the Jin dynasty with rebuilding under the Yuan, while the stage and offering hall are Qing, and the Fenyang government describes the site as intact. It has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"fangshan-mount-beiwudang","name":"Mount Beiwudang","name_zh":"北武当山","pinyin":"Běiwǔdāng Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.7758,"lon":111.3403,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fangshan-mount-beiwudang/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Fangshan county, in the Lüliang range, which is a national-level scenic area and one of northern China's Daoist holy mountains. The county government gives its area as 88 sq km, of which fewer than 20 sq km are open, with 72 peaks, 36 cliffs and 24 ravines; visitors climb a stepped path of about 1,455 steps past ancient pines and rock formations to the temples on the summit, and there are also 5.5 km of wooden walkways. A temple fair is held in the first days of the third lunar month."},{"id":"fangshan-nancun-zuoguocheng-city-site","name":"Nancun City Site (Zuoguocheng)","name_zh":"南村城址","pinyin":"Náncūn Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.7306,"lon":111.2166,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangshan-nancun-zuoguocheng-city-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The ruins of a walled hill city on the ridge east of Nancun village in Yukou town, identified by the county government as Zuoguocheng, the base of the Xiongnu leader Liu Yuan, and dated by the national list from the Warring States period to the Jin dynasty. The defences form an inner city, an outer city and an east city on the ridge; the north-west part survives only as broken wall stumps, while the rammed-earth wall bases in the south-east are largely intact. Emergency stabilisation of the walls has been completed, and a small exhibition hall on Xiongnu culture is planned beside the site but not yet funded."},{"id":"xiaoyi-sanhuang-temple","name":"Sanhuang Temple, Xiaoyi","name_zh":"孝义三皇庙","pinyin":"Xiàoyì Sānhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.14,"lon":111.744,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoyi-sanhuang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the Three Sovereigns of Chinese legend, Fuxi, Shennong and the Yellow Emperor, who are honoured together in one hall in Jiajiazhuang village on the western edge of Xiaoyi. The Sanhuang Hall keeps its Yuan-dynasty structure and the other surviving buildings are Qing, including a side hall and an opera stage; the temple was repaired in 2005. It stands on the village's old merchants' road, which is about 1,200 m long and once had 13 large inns for carts and horses."},{"id":"linxian-shanqing-temple","name":"Shanqing Temple","name_zh":"善庆寺","pinyin":"Shànqìng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.8472,"lon":110.9891,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxian-shanqing-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Buddhist temple at Fudi village in Dayu township, south of Linxian town, founded in 583 and rebuilt in 1269 under the Yuan dynasty. The Yuan main hall survives, five bays wide with an overhanging gable roof, together with the gate, side halls and galleries in a compound of about 1,200 sq m. The Lüliang government's overview of religion described it in 2017 as one of the city's better-preserved temples, with resident monks."},{"id":"jiaokou-shanshenyu-thousand-buddha-grotto","name":"Shanshenyu Thousand Buddha Grotto","name_zh":"山神峪千佛洞石窟","pinyin":"Shānshényù Qiānfódòng Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":36.8689,"lon":111.084,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaokou-shanshenyu-thousand-buddha-grotto","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple built around a grotto cut into the sandstone hillside at Shanshenyu village, which the county government dates to the Yuan dynasty. The main hall is the grotto itself, about 5.5 m deep, with a seated Shakyamuni figure and roughly a thousand small Buddha figures carved in niches around the walls. The two courtyards in front, with a gate, a passage hall and a nine-bay building, are Ming or Qing, and an 11 m Qing pagoda stands beside the temple."},{"id":"xiaoyi-shengxihu-forest-park","name":"Shengxi Lake Forest Park","name_zh":"胜溪湖森林公园","pinyin":"Shèngxī Hú Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.1277,"lon":111.775,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoyi-shengxihu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large city park in Xiaoyi laid out around a lake, which Shanxi named a five-star urban park in 2013. Its design draws on Suzhou-style gardens, with lotus gardens, lakeside paths, pavilions and bridges, a gallery on filial-piety themes and a children's amusement area. It adjoins the Xiaohe wetland park to the west."},{"id":"jiaocheng-shushifo-cliff-carvings","name":"Shushifo Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"竖石佛摩崖造像","pinyin":"Shùshífó Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.6328,"lon":112.1416,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaocheng-shushifo-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of Buddhist rock carvings on a cliff near Shushifo village in the northern hills of Jiaocheng county, which the national list dates from the Northern Qi to the Tang dynasty. The village now belongs to Tianning town, having been part of Lingdi township until 2021. The carvings became a provincial protected site in 1996 and a national one in 2019."},{"id":"fenyang-taifu-temple","name":"Taifu Daoist Temple","name_zh":"太符观","pinyin":"Tàifú Guàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.3445,"lon":111.9176,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-taifu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Daoist temple at Shangmiao village in Xinghuacun town, where inscriptions record the founding of the altar in 1200 in the Jin dynasty. The main hall, dedicated to the Jade Emperor, keeps its Jin-dynasty structure and the other halls are Ming; inside are painted clay figures, relief (\"hanging\") sculpture and a full set of murals of the deities' homage procession. Local media describe it as the most complete Daoist complex of the Jin to Qing periods in western Shanxi, and Fenyang runs it as a visitor site with guided visits."},{"id":"xiaoyi-tianqi-temple","name":"Tianqi Temple, Xiaoyi","name_zh":"孝义天齐庙","pinyin":"Xiàoyì Tiānqí Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.0728,"lon":111.8226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoyi-tianqi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple at Zhongwangtun in Wutong town, south-east of Xiaoyi, which the city's heritage register dates to the Yuan dynasty and the national list to the Yuan and Qing periods. It is one of four national monuments in Xiaoyi, and central-government conservation funds paid for repairs there in 2018."},{"id":"lishi-tianzhen-temple","name":"Tianzhen Daoist Temple","name_zh":"天贞观","pinyin":"Tiānzhēn Guàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.5252,"lon":111.1402,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lishi-tianzhen-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Daoist temple built into the slope of Fengshan, a hill on the northern edge of Lishi, in upper and lower courtyards. It honours the Song-dynasty Daoist Chen Tuan and was rebuilt in the Ming dynasty; the surviving halls include the double-eaved Jade Emperor Tower and the Chen Tuan Hall, which holds a Ming mural of the palaces of Wudang Mountain. A temple fair held here around the 26th day of the first lunar month is on the provincial intangible heritage list."},{"id":"fenyang-wenfeng-pagoda","name":"Wenfeng Pagoda, Fenyang","name_zh":"文峰塔","pinyin":"Wénfēng Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.2447,"lon":111.8091,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-wenfeng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 85 m high, on the south-eastern edge of Fenyang and part of the Wenhu Cultural Park, built at the end of the Ming dynasty on the initiative of a local scholar-official to improve the town's feng shui. Its interior holds a Guanyin figure on the ground floor and the twelve zodiac animals on the upper floors, and the Fenyang government's tourism page ranks it first among Chinese brick pagodas by height. It appears in Jia Zhangke's 2015 film Mountains May Depart."},{"id":"fenyang-wuyue-temple","name":"Wuyue Temple, Fenyang","name_zh":"汾阳五岳庙","pinyin":"Fényáng Wǔyuè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.1807,"lon":111.637,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-wuyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Five Sacred Mountains at Beiyuyuan village, Sanquan town, west of Fenyang. A temple inscription records a rebuilding in 1299 and the addition of the Water Immortal Hall in 1300, and the Wuyue Hall and Water Immortal Hall are still Yuan-dynasty buildings with Yuan murals, while the other halls are Ming and Qing. The Water Immortal Hall also keeps a Yuan brick altar."},{"id":"liulin-xiangyan-temple","name":"Xiangyan Temple, Liulin","name_zh":"香严寺","pinyin":"Xiāngyán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.4389,"lon":110.8975,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liulin-xiangyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the north of Liulin county town, founded in the Tang dynasty, whose surviving buildings are of several dynasties, mainly Jin, Yuan and Ming. The main hall is of the Jin period, and the Heavenly Kings, Vairocana and Ten Kings halls and others are Yuan, which the Lüliang government's tourism page sums up as one Jin and seven Yuan halls. The temple was conserved in 2003–04 and has been open to visitors since."},{"id":"xiaoyi-xiaohe-wetland-park","name":"Xiaohe National Wetland Park","name_zh":"孝河国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Xiàohé Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.1292,"lon":111.7399,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoyi-xiaohe-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A wetland park around a reservoir on the Xiao River on the western side of Xiaoyi, with a planned area of 5.47 sq km of which about 3.28 sq km is water. It has reed beds, lotus and water-lily ponds that flower in summer, and long wooden boardwalks, and it is a stopping place for migratory birds in spring. It adjoins Shengxi Lake Forest Park to the east."},{"id":"jiaocheng-xuanzhong-temple","name":"Xuanzhong Temple","name_zh":"玄中寺","pinyin":"Xuánzhōng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.5641,"lon":112.0785,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaocheng-xuanzhong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the Shibi valley that Chinese and Japanese Buddhists regard as the ancestral temple of the Pure Land school, founded in 472 in the Northern Wei period according to the Lüliang government. The monks Tanluan, Daochuo and Shandao taught here, and Japanese Pure Land delegations have come to pay their respects since the 1950s. The main halls are Ming and later, including the Hall of the Heavenly Kings rebuilt in 1605, and a Song-dynasty brick pagoda, the Qiurong Pagoda, stands on a hilltop to the south-east."},{"id":"linxian-yiju-temple","name":"Yiju Temple","name_zh":"义居寺","pinyin":"Yìjū Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.7481,"lon":110.9372,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxian-yiju-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple at Zaogeda village in Sanjiao town, on a hillside beside a river, which was formerly called the Fotang Temple and served as a branch of the Tiangong Temple; the county government gives its area as 56,000 sq m. The axis runs from a Ming gate and front hall to a Yuan-dynasty main hall and a Qing sutra library, with a cave shrine, the Wanfo Cave, at the rear. The county counts it with Qikou as one of its two 4A scenic areas."},{"id":"fenyang-yukou-shengmu-temple","name":"Yukou Shengmu Temple","name_zh":"峪口圣母庙","pinyin":"Yùkǒu Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.3191,"lon":111.7995,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyang-yukou-shengmu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Holy Mother at Yukou in the Yudaohe valley, built around 1307 under the Yuan dynasty judging by an inscription on a gate stone, and repaired in 2006–08. The main hall and a side hall are Yuan, the Holy Mother hall and side halls Ming, and the rest Qing, in a two-courtyard layout with a three-cave gate and a small Lü Dongbin shrine above it. It is one of the sights listed for the Yudaohe scenic area."},{"id":"liulin-yuxu-palace","name":"Yuxu Palace, Liulin","name_zh":"玉虚宫","pinyin":"Yùxū Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.4362,"lon":110.9049,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liulin-yuxu-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Daoist temple on the hillside of Baoning Hill at Qinglong, just east of Liulin county town, dedicated to the god Zhenwu (Xuantian Shangdi) and first built in 1600 under the Ming dynasty, with a repair in 1654. The main hall holds a Zhenwu statue over 3 m high under a roof ridge of coloured glass, glazed dragon plaques are set into the screen walls at either end, and a shrine to the Holy Mother stands at the top of the hill. It has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"wenshui-zetian-temple","name":"Zetian Temple, Wenshui","name_zh":"则天庙","pinyin":"Zétiān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.4774,"lon":112.0381,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenshui-zetian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple at Nanxu village, north of Wenshui, dedicated to Wu Zetian, whose family came from Wenshui; the county tourism page calls it the only temple to the empress in China. The main hall was rebuilt in 1145 under the Jin dynasty on a Tang foundation and has a sculpted dragon hanging above its shrine, and the compound now serves as the Wu Zetian Memorial Hall, with side halls of exhibits and a corridor of inscribed steles. It was listed nationally in 1996."},{"id":"xiaoyi-zhongyang-tower","name":"Zhongyang Tower, Xiaoyi","name_zh":"中阳楼","pinyin":"Zhōngyáng Lóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Lüliang","lat":37.1297,"lon":111.8051,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoyi-zhongyang-tower","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A four-storey timber tower with a passage through its base, standing over the crossroads in the old town of Xiaoyi, with four tiers of eaves and a cross-gabled roof of coloured glazed tiles. The present building dates from 1909, after a lightning fire in 1868 and an earlier earthquake collapse, on a site where a tower has stood since the Han-Wei period according to the city's tourism page. The same page calls it the largest and best-preserved tower of its kind in the Jinzhong and Lüliang area, and the painted ceiling over the ground floor shows scenes from classic novels."},{"id":"youyu-baoning-temple","name":"Baoning Temple, Youyu","name_zh":"宝宁寺","pinyin":"Bǎoníng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Shuozhou","lat":40.1647,"lon":112.3466,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyu-baoning-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty temple in Youwei, an old garrison town in north-west Shanxi, founded in 1460 and added to the national list in 2019. Only two halls remain, the Tianwang (Heavenly Kings) hall and a seven-bay main hall, and the temple's 136 water-and-land ritual paintings, usually dated to the Ming, are now kept in the Shanxi Museum in Taiyuan. The paintings mix Buddhist and Daoist deities with scenes of everyday life."},{"id":"shuozhou-chongfu-temple","name":"Chongfu Temple, Shuozhou","name_zh":"崇福寺","pinyin":"Chóngfú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Shuozhou","lat":39.314,"lon":112.4256,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shuozhou-chongfu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large Buddhist monastery in the middle of Shuozhou, founded in the Tang dynasty and best known for its two Jin-dynasty halls, the Mituo Hall of 1143 and the Guanyin Hall. The Mituo Hall keeps its Jin glazed roof tiles and wall paintings, and the other halls line the central axis, from the entrance hall and the bell and drum towers through the Thousand Buddha Pavilion to the main hall. Visitor numbers rose after the 2024 video game Black Myth: Wukong brought attention to the monastery."},{"id":"shanyin-guangwu-great-wall","name":"Guangwu Great Wall","name_zh":"广武长城","pinyin":"Guǎngwǔ Chángchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Shuozhou","lat":39.2081,"lon":112.7896,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanyin-guangwu-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A stretch of Ming-dynasty Great Wall on the hills above New Guangwu village in Shanyin County, running east towards Yanmen Pass; this card stands for the Shanxi sections of the Great Wall in the national listing. The surveyed core of the wall is about 5 km long, and it is regarded as one of the better-preserved brick-faced Ming sections in China, with watchtowers along the ridge. The best-known spot is the Moon Gate, a brick archway left when a watchtower partly collapsed; footpaths and a visitor centre have been built, and farmhouse restaurants have opened in the nearby villages."},{"id":"shanyin-guangwu-han-tombs","name":"Guangwu Han Tombs","name_zh":"广武汉墓群","pinyin":"Guǎngwǔ Hàn Mùqún","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Shuozhou","lat":39.2285,"lon":112.7693,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanyin-guangwu-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large Han-dynasty cemetery on open ground north of the villages of Old and New Guangwu, where several hundred earth burial mounds still stand above ground. The tombs opened so far include Western Han shaft graves with wooden chambers and Eastern Han brick-chambered tombs. It makes a short stop on a trip to the nearby Guangwu Great Wall and fortress."},{"id":"yingxian-jingtu-temple","name":"Jingtu Temple, Yingxian","name_zh":"净土寺","pinyin":"Jìngtǔ Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Shuozhou","lat":39.5664,"lon":113.1877,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yingxian-jingtu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the north-east corner of Ying County town, known locally as the North Temple and founded in 1124 under the Jin dynasty; only its main hall survives. The Jin-dynasty timber hall is known for its richly decorated ceiling, with nine coffered caisson vaults. It stands about 500 m east of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda and is run as a visitor site alongside it."},{"id":"huairen-jinshatan-ancient-battlefield","name":"Jinshatan Ancient Battlefield","name_zh":"金沙滩古战场","pinyin":"Jīnshātān Gǔ Zhànchǎng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Shuozhou","lat":39.7794,"lon":113.0017,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huairen-jinshatan-ancient-battlefield","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A themed park outside Huairen built around the folk story of the Yang family generals' legendary battle against the Liao at Jinshatan, the 'Golden Sand Beach'. It has reconstructions of a Song army camp gate and tents, a general's review platform with a group of stone figures of the Yang family, a hall for the family, a peony garden, and the Tianmen Array, a labyrinth with an underground section. Visitors can also try archery and period costume, and the park suits families and school groups interested in the story."},{"id":"shanyin-guangwu-fortress","name":"Old Guangwu Fortress","name_zh":"广武城","pinyin":"Guǎngwǔ Chéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Shuozhou","lat":39.2119,"lon":112.7674,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanyin-guangwu-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming frontier fortress town in Old Guangwu village, a few kilometres from Yanmen Pass, whose rectangular earth walls, faced with brick in the Ming rebuilding, still enclose the village. There are gate towers on the east, south and west sides, and a lived-in village of courtyard houses inside the walls. It lies about 2 km west-north-west of the Moon Gate on the Guangwu Great Wall, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"jinyuan-ashoka-pagoda","name":"Ashoka Pagoda, Jinyuan","name_zh":"晋源阿育王塔","pinyin":"Jìnyuán Āyùwáng Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.7379,"lon":112.4889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinyuan-ashoka-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A brick lama-style stupa about 25 m high, the only survivor of Huiming Temple, which once stood in the old city of Jinyang. A bell-shaped dome on a square stone base carries a cone of 13 rings and a glazed finial; the present pagoda was rebuilt in 1385 in the Ming on the site of a Sui-dynasty pagoda of 602. Local tradition ranked it among the eight views of the old Taiyuan county town, as 'the ancient pagoda against the sky'."},{"id":"qingxu-baoyuan-vinegar-workshop","name":"Baoyuan Old Vinegar Workshop","name_zh":"宝源老醋坊","pinyin":"Bǎoyuán Lǎo Cùfāng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.5071,"lon":112.362,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxu-baoyuan-vinegar-workshop","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A vinegar workshop and museum rebuilt in 2006 by a local vinegar company in Qingxu, the county titled China's vinegar capital. Its halls reproduce the Ming and Qing way of making vinegar with period tools and costume, alongside exhibits on farming and vinegar culture, and visitors can taste vinegars of different ages. It suits visitors interested in Shanxi's food traditions."},{"id":"yangqu-buer-temple","name":"Buer Temple","name_zh":"不二寺","pinyin":"Bù'èr Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.0515,"lon":112.6604,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangqu-buer-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist hall dismantled and re-erected in 1987–89 in Yangqu county town from Xiaozhiyu village, where it first stood. Inscriptions on the ridge beam show that the three-bay Sansheng Hall was first built in 956 under the Northern Han and restored in 1195 under the Jin, and it keeps nine painted clay figures of the Ming, with Samantabhadra on the Buddha's left and Manjusri on his right, the reverse of the usual order. Ming murals of about 80 sq m cover the side walls, and a Ming sutra pillar and a Yuan brick pagoda stand in front."},{"id":"taiyuan-changjing-tower","name":"Changjing Tower","name_zh":"唱经楼","pinyin":"Chàngjīng Lóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8707,"lon":112.559,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-changjing-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey Ming building in the old city, named for the announcement of the top five candidates in the Five Classics at the provincial examination. The tower, a connecting passage, a rear hall and the Chunqiu pavilion form an I-shaped group roofed in peacock-blue glazed tile. It is run as part of the Guandi Temple Museum, with a long-term exhibition on the imperial examination."},{"id":"taiyuan-china-coal-museum","name":"China Coal Museum","name_zh":"中国煤炭博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Méitàn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8565,"lon":112.5218,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-china-coal-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A national first-grade museum on the history of coal, opened in 1989 on the western side of Taiyuan. Its Coal Sea Exploration area has seven themed halls on how coal forms and how it has been mined and used, a four-dimensional cinema and a full-scale simulated mine where visitors wear miners' helmets and try out mining equipment. It suits families and anyone curious about Shanxi's coal industry."},{"id":"taiyuan-chongshan-temple","name":"Chongshan Temple","name_zh":"崇善寺","pinyin":"Chóngshàn Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8666,"lon":112.5737,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-chongshan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A royal temple built by Zhu Gang, Prince of Jin, in memory of his mother and completed in 1391, which was almost wholly burnt down in 1864 and now covers about a forty-sixth of its original area. The survivor is the Dabei Hall, about 20 m high with a double-eave roof, whose three Ming clay bodhisattvas, 8.3 m high, include a Thousand-armed Guanyin; an iron bell of 1506 hangs in the bell tower and a pair of Ming iron lions flank the gate. The temple is the seat of the Shanxi Buddhist Association and keeps a large collection of Song-to-Ming printed sutras."},{"id":"taiyuan-chunyang-palace","name":"Chunyang Palace, Taiyuan","name_zh":"纯阳宫","pinyin":"Chúnyáng Gōng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.862,"lon":112.5658,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-chunyang-palace/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Taoist temple dedicated to Lü Dongbin (Chunyang), called the largest and best preserved in Taiyuan by the city government, founded in the late Song or early Yuan and greatly enlarged in 1597 by the Princes of Jin. Five courtyards climb from a wooden pailou and the Daode Gate to the Ming Lüzu Hall and a Jiugong Bagua courtyard laid out on the eight-trigrams plan, with caves and pavilions in the upper courtyards. It now houses the Shanxi Ancient Architecture Museum, whose collection includes steles, statues, painted sculpture and murals."},{"id":"yangqu-dawang-temple","name":"Dawang Temple, Yangqu","name_zh":"阳曲大王庙","pinyin":"Yángqǔ Dàwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.0473,"lon":112.7996,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangqu-dawang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Ming temple hall of 1467 in Fanzhuang village, known as the Beamless Hall, which served as a shrine to Zhao Wu, the god of Mount Cang in Yu County. The 9.7 m square hall has no inner posts and no cross-bay beam frames: its hip-and-gable roof is carried by tiers of brackets and diagonal corner beams, a structure the county government calls rare in China. Murals of 88 sq m survive on three walls."},{"id":"taiyuan-donghu-vinegar-garden","name":"Donghu Vinegar Garden","name_zh":"东湖醋园","pinyin":"Dōnghú Cùyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8781,"lon":112.5897,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-donghu-vinegar-garden","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A visitor site at a Taiyuan vinegar maker, laid out as a working factory museum on how Shanxi aged vinegar is produced, with displays of both the traditional and the modern process. It has been named a national industrial-tourism demonstration base. It suits visitors interested in Shanxi's best-known condiment and in food heritage."},{"id":"taiyuan-dou-dafu-temple","name":"Dou Dafu Temple","name_zh":"窦大夫祠","pinyin":"Dòu Dàfū Cí","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.0104,"lon":112.4331,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-dou-dafu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Dou Chou, a minister of the state of Jin in the Spring and Autumn period, at the foot of Mount Erlong beside the Fen River. It covers about 1.7 hectares, with buildings in Yuan style along an axis of Qing-dynasty theatre pavilion, gate, offering hall and main hall, where a seated statue of Dou Chou stands. The Lieshi cold spring below the temple, dry from the 1980s, was restored and reopened in 2021."},{"id":"taiyuan-duofu-temple","name":"Duofu Temple","name_zh":"多福寺","pinyin":"Duōfú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.9663,"lon":112.4286,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-duofu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hill temple near the top of Mount Jueweishan, founded in 786 in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt in the early Ming. Its main hall holds Ming painted clay figures of three Buddhas and four bodhisattvas and 84 wall paintings of the Buddha's earlier lives. The scholar Fu Shan, who lived through the Ming–Qing transition, studied in a cave beside the temple, and the slopes around it are known for autumn colour."},{"id":"taiyuan-fen-river-scenic-area","name":"Fen River Scenic Area","name_zh":"汾河景区","pinyin":"Fénhé Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8698,"lon":112.5325,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-fen-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 43 km riverside park along the Fen River through Taiyuan, running from the low-water bridge at Shanlan in the north to about 2 km beyond Yingbin Bridge in the south and crossed by 24 bridges. North of Shengli Bridge about 17 km is natural wetland, while the 26 km to the south is a landscaped reservoir stretch; the park has two riverside cycle lanes, more than 40 cultural features and 165 recorded bird species. It suits a walk or a bike ride rather than a single visit point."},{"id":"taiyuan-shanxi-daxuetang","name":"Former Shanxi Daxuetang (Shanxi University Hall)","name_zh":"山西大学堂旧址","pinyin":"Shānxī Dàxuétáng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8622,"lon":112.5714,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-shanxi-daxuetang/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The surviving 1904 building of Shanxi Daxuetang, the forerunner of Shanxi University, founded in 1902 with Boxer Indemnity funds at the suggestion of the British missionary Timothy Richard and, by the Taiyuan government's account, the third university in China after those of Beijing and Tianjin. The two-storey Western Learning College building has a Gothic-style castle façade and a square clock tower, combined with a Chinese-style parapet. It is now a school building."},{"id":"loufan-gao-junyu-residence","name":"Gao Junyu Former Residence and Memorial Hall","name_zh":"高君宇故居纪念馆","pinyin":"Gāo Jūnyǔ Gùjū Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.1658,"lon":111.8634,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=loufan-gao-junyu-residence","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The family home of Gao Junyu, an early Communist Party leader who founded the party and youth organisations in Shanxi, in Fenglingdi village, Loufan County. The residence is the middle courtyard of the old Gao family compound, a Qing-dynasty brick cave-dwelling house restored and opened in 1996, where he lived and studied until he was 16. A memorial hall beside it covers his career and the history of Loufan as a revolutionary base area."},{"id":"taiyuan-grand-guandi-temple","name":"Grand Guandi Temple, Taiyuan","name_zh":"大关帝庙","pinyin":"Dà Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8674,"lon":112.5515,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-grand-guandi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu that the museum running it calls the largest and best preserved in Taiyuan, with Ming buildings on Jin-Yuan foundations arranged in two courtyards: the Chongning Hall, where Guan Yu sits in imperial dress, and behind it the two-storey Chunqiu Tower, with bell and drum towers and side halls. It was included in China's World Heritage tentative list in 2019 as Taiyuan's only nomination point on the Great Tea Road. It is run by the Guandi Temple Museum, which holds changing exhibitions on Guan Yu, the Shanxi merchants and local history."},{"id":"qingxu-hutu-temple","name":"Hutu Temple","name_zh":"狐突庙","pinyin":"Hútū Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.6233,"lon":112.3046,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxu-hutu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Hu Tu, a minister of the state of Jin in the Spring and Autumn period, venerated locally as a rain god. Founded in 1123 and rebuilt in the Yuan and Ming, it has a wide Ming offering hall whose side walls carry Qing murals of the god's rain procession and his return, a rear hall with clay figures of Hu Tu and his wife, and steles of the Yuan to Qing periods in the courtyards. The temple lies at the foot of Ma'an Mountain, and its front opera stage burnt down in 1983."},{"id":"taiyuan-immaculate-conception-cathedral","name":"Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Taiyuan","name_zh":"太原天主堂","pinyin":"Tàiyuán Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8836,"lon":112.5565,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-immaculate-conception-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The cathedral of the Catholic diocese of Taiyuan, founded by Jesuits in 1635 and rebuilt after the earlier church was destroyed in 1900; the present building was completed in 1905. It is a Romanesque Revival church in rust-red brick with two bell towers about 36 m tall, standing on Jiefang Road among former church buildings. It was listed as a national monument in 2013."},{"id":"taiyuan-jin-merchants-museum","name":"Jin Merchants Museum (Former Shanxi Military Governor's Office)","name_zh":"山西督军府旧址","pinyin":"Shānxī Dūjūnfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8746,"lon":112.5566,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-jin-merchants-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The compound of the Qing governor's office, where the Shanxi military government was set up in 1911 and where Yan Xishan later governed as military governor; it served as the seat of the provincial government until 2017. The surviving buildings include a two-storey gate tower, the Zixing Hall, now the Meishan conference hall, and a small artificial hill topped by a Gothic-style clock tower rebuilt in 1952. Since 2020 the compound has housed the Jin Merchants Museum, with exhibition zones on the origins of the Shanxi merchants, their draft banks, long-distance trade and family traditions."},{"id":"taiyuan-jingyin-temple","name":"Jingyin Temple","name_zh":"净因寺","pinyin":"Jìngyīn Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.9963,"lon":112.4352,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-jingyin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple below Mount Jueweishan whose founding date is uncertain; a plaque of 930 is recorded, and it was rebuilt in 1205 under the Jin and repaired several times in the Ming and Qing. Its Great Buddha Pavilion is set into the hillside and holds an earthen Buddha more than 9 m high with two attendant bodhisattvas, inside a niche about 10 m high. Old cypresses grow in the grounds, and the temple faces Dou Dafu Temple across the Fen River valley."},{"id":"taiyuan-jinyang-ancient-city-site","name":"Jinyang Ancient City Site","name_zh":"晋阳古城遗址","pinyin":"Jìnyáng Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.7313,"lon":112.4822,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-jinyang-ancient-city-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The site of Jinyang, a walled city founded in the late Spring and Autumn period that later became a northern capital under the Tang and the Five Dynasties, until Song forces burned and flooded it in 979. The city covered about 20 sq km and is now mostly farmland and villages, but excavated remains are shown in a national archaeological site park. Its museum, opened in January 2024, displays nearly 1,000 finds such as stone Buddhas, roof ornaments and fragments of a Diamond Sutra stele."},{"id":"jinyuan-confucian-temple","name":"Jinyuan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"晋源文庙","pinyin":"Jìnyuán Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.7272,"lon":112.4824,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinyuan-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Confucian temple of the Ming county town of Taiyuan, founded in 1373 and the only national-level monument inside the restored walled town of Jinyuan. Its Ming core runs along one axis from a pailou gate and a rectangular pond with a stone bridge to the Dacheng Gate and the five-bay Dacheng Hall, with galleries and a shrine to local worthies at the sides. The town walls, 3,700 m round and 11 m high, were rebuilt and reopened in 2021, and the temple sits among restored shops, temples and houses."},{"id":"yangqu-xinzhuang-kaihua-temple","name":"Kaihua Temple, Xinzhuang","name_zh":"辛庄开化寺","pinyin":"Xīnzhuāng Kāihuà Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.1893,"lon":112.6924,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangqu-xinzhuang-kaihua-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Xinzhuang in the hills of Gaocun township, laid out from a gate hall and a Heavenly Kings hall to the main hall, with a Thousand Buddha hall and Guanyin and Ksitigarbha halls on either side. The county government describes the three-bay main hall, with a glazed-edged overhanging gable roof and double-bracket sets, as a Song-Jin style building moved here in 1141–49. It holds eleven painted clay figures, including the three bodies of the Buddha, bodhisattvas, disciples and guardians, and the hall plaque is in the calligraphy of the Buddhist leader Zhao Puchu."},{"id":"qingxu-liuweizhai-yunmengwu","name":"Liuweizhai Yunmengwu","name_zh":"六味斋云梦坞","pinyin":"Liùwèizhāi Yúnmèngwù","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.5526,"lon":112.4534,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxu-liuweizhai-yunmengwu","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The visitor area of the Liuweizhai food-factory park in Qingxu County, run by a Taiyuan food company founded in 1738 that is known for cooked meats. It combines factory viewing, a company history museum, hands-on food making, tasting, gardens and outdoor barbecue and camping areas, and it has been named a national industrial-tourism demonstration base. It suits families and study groups."},{"id":"jinyuan-taishan-longquan-temple","name":"Longquan Temple, Taishan","name_zh":"太山龙泉寺","pinyin":"Tàishān Lóngquán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.7513,"lon":112.4358,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinyuan-taishan-longquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain temple on Mount Tai (Taishan) in the Fengyu valley, founded in 710 under the Tang and rebuilt in the Ming and Qing, of which only the lower of its three original courtyards survives. It is known for the octagonal Guanyin Hall with its suspended clay sculptures, and for a Tang pagoda crypt found in 2008 that held a nested set of five caskets. The site is run as the Taishan Museum, with a rebuilt reliquary pagoda, a lookout and new temple halls around the old buildings."},{"id":"taiyuan-longshan-grottoes","name":"Longshan Grottoes and Tongzi Temple Site","name_zh":"龙山石窟·童子寺遗址","pinyin":"Lóngshān Shíkū · Tóngzǐ Sì Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.7321,"lon":112.4297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-longshan-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small group of nine Taoist cave shrines on the summit of Mount Long, most of them cut from 1234 under the Quanzhen priest Song Defang, with Yuan-dynasty figures of the Three Pure Ones and the Seven Perfected. Many of the statues have lost their heads to theft. Close by are the remains of Tongzi Temple, founded in 556 under the Northern Qi, with a worn cliff-side Buddha relief and a six-sided stone lamp tower about 4 m high, in hills known for lilac in spring and red leaves in autumn."},{"id":"loufan-ancient-city-ruins","name":"Loufan Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"娄烦古城遗址","pinyin":"Lóufán Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.0266,"lon":111.7174,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=loufan-ancient-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The earthen ruins of a walled city of the Loufan people, a northern herding state of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods that was conquered by the state of Zhao under King Wuling. The Π-shaped walls enclose roughly 1,200 m by 600 m and are cut in two by the Nanchuan River; rammed-earth stretches survive 4 to 11 m high on the eastern side, climbing to a raised platform on Huangdimao hill, the highest point. Survey finds on the surface include cord-marked pottery and roof tiles."},{"id":"taiyuan-mengshan-giant-buddha","name":"Mengshan Giant Buddha","name_zh":"蒙山大佛","pinyin":"Méngshān Dàfó","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.7819,"lon":112.4381,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-mengshan-giant-buddha/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A giant seated Buddha carved into a cliff on Mount Meng from 551 under the Northern Qi, which Taiyuan's heritage pages describe as the largest cliff Buddha of the Northern Dynasties period. The head was lost and the body was found buried in rubble in 1980; a new head 12 m high was added in the 2000s, and the whole figure now stands about 38 m high. The scenic area also has the ruins of Kaihua Temple, two small Song-dynasty brick pagodas known as the Lianli Pagodas and an iron Buddha of the late Sui or early Tang."},{"id":"taiyuan-mingxiu-temple","name":"Mingxiu Temple","name_zh":"明秀寺","pinyin":"Míngxiù Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.681,"lon":112.4344,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-mingxiu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small village temple in Wangguo village, Jinyuan district, nicknamed the glazed-tile temple for its green glazed roofs. Its two courtyards hold a Qing-dynasty front hall and a main hall with Ming gilded clay figures of the three Buddhas, their attendants and about 80 sq m of Ming wall paintings of a thousand Buddhas and Buddhist stories. The gate and the bell and drum towers are modern rebuilds."},{"id":"taiyuan-ccp-branch-site","name":"Peng Zhen Memorial Hall and Former CCP Taiyuan Branch Site","name_zh":"中共太原支部旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Tàiyuán Zhībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8634,"lon":112.5639,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-ccp-branch-site/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former Shanxi First Provincial Middle School, set in the old provincial examination compound beside Wenying Lake, where a socialist youth group was formed in 1921 and the Taiyuan branch of the Communist Party, the first party organisation in Shanxi, in 1924. It is now a memorial museum with exhibitions on Peng Zhen, Gao Junyu and He Chang, who studied there, and on the history of the party in Shanxi, including a reconstructed Republic-era classroom. Three rows of Qing-style classrooms and the principal's office from the school stand beside the newer memorial building."},{"id":"gujiao-qianfo-temple","name":"Qianfo Temple, Gujiao","name_zh":"古交千佛寺","pinyin":"Gǔjiāo Qiānfó Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.9029,"lon":112.1663,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gujiao-qianfo-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Gujiao named for the more than a thousand small stone Buddhas of Tang date set into the rear wall of its main hall, on 79 panels, each figure about 8 cm high. The Ming main hall was dismantled and re-erected on the present site in 1990 from the north bank of the Fen River, and the gate hall, bell and drum towers and side halls around it are new. It is a modest compound of a single courtyard in the built-up part of Gujiao."},{"id":"yangqu-qinglong-ancient-town","name":"Qinglong Ancient Town","name_zh":"青龙古镇","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.0262,"lon":112.6257,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangqu-qinglong-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of Ming- and Qing-style buildings in Qinglong village, Yangqu County, presented as a tourist old town with temples, gardens, an ancestral hall and an underground passage, plus a food street and folk performances. It lies by the road that northern Shanxi towns use to reach Taiyuan. It suits a short stop on a day trip north of the city."},{"id":"qingxu-qingyuan-confucian-temple","name":"Qingyuan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"清源文庙","pinyin":"Qīngyuán Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.6112,"lon":112.3418,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxu-qingyuan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Confucian temple of Qingxu, which the Taiyuan government calls the oldest surviving Confucian temple in the city, first built in 1203 under the Jin dynasty. Its Dacheng Hall, a square three-bay building with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof edged in blue glazed tile, keeps the frame and style of the Jin original and is one of the few Jin-period halls in Shanxi. The compound runs back through three courtyards, from three pailou gates and a half-moon pond to the Dacheng Gate, the hall and the Minglun lecture hall."},{"id":"taiyuan-ancient-mosque","name":"Taiyuan Ancient Mosque","name_zh":"太原清真古寺","pinyin":"Tàiyuán Qīngzhēn Gǔsì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8634,"lon":112.5543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-ancient-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A working mosque in the old city, laid out as two courtyards on an east-west axis in Chinese timber style. Inscriptions date its foundation to the Tang dynasty, but the surviving buildings are Ming and Qing: a gate, a two-storey Ming tower called Xingxin Tower, a lecture hall and a prayer hall with Arabic-style patterns painted on its walls. Two hexagonal pavilions in the front courtyard shelter steles, one carrying a Qing imperial edict protecting Muslims."},{"id":"taiyuan-botanical-garden","name":"Taiyuan Botanical Garden","name_zh":"太原植物园","pinyin":"Tàiyuán Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.747,"lon":112.459,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A botanical garden of about 2,730 mu (roughly 1.8 square kilometres) in Jinyuan district, opened in 2020 on land that had held coal depots and polluting factories. It has 25 themed plant gardens, a bonsai hall and three glasshouses under timber domes, the largest spanning 88 m, and part of a former coal-storage pit was turned into a lake. It suits a relaxed half day outdoors."},{"id":"taiyuan-confucian-temple","name":"Taiyuan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"太原文庙","pinyin":"Tàiyuán Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8649,"lon":112.5736,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Confucian temple of Taiyuan prefecture, rebuilt in 1882 by the governor Zhang Zhidong on part of the burnt-out Chongshan Temple site after a Fen River flood destroyed the earlier temple. The red-walled compound runs along a central axis through a screen wall, the Lingxing gate, a pond, the Dacheng Gate and Dacheng Hall to a rear shrine hall. It now houses the Shanxi Archaeology Museum, the museum of the provincial institute of archaeology."},{"id":"taiyuan-forest-park","name":"Taiyuan Forest Park","name_zh":"太原森林公园","pinyin":"Tàiyuán Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.9085,"lon":112.5271,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A city forest park of 224 hectares on the northern edge of central Taiyuan, planned from 1990, with more than 100,000 trees around an artificial lake of 378 mu, an arboretum and a bird garden. The arboretum holds mostly native Shanxi species, and the bird garden keeps brown eared pheasants, peafowl, golden pheasants and ostriches. It suits a walk or picnic close to the city."},{"id":"taiyuan-zoo","name":"Taiyuan Zoo","name_zh":"太原动物园","pinyin":"Tàiyuán Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.9103,"lon":112.5803,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-zoo","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The city zoo of Taiyuan, in the north-east of the city, with about 2,000 animals in zones for birds, tropical and subtropical animals, primates and grassland herbivores. A new zone for medium-sized carnivores and small mammals opened on 1 October 2026, with North China leopards, white lions and red pandas. It suits families with children."},{"id":"taiyuan-tianlongshan-grottoes","name":"Tianlongshan Grottoes","name_zh":"天龙山石窟","pinyin":"Tiānlóngshān Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.7354,"lon":112.3778,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-tianlongshan-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of Buddhist cave temples cut into two peaks of Mount Tianlong, begun in the Eastern Wei dynasty in the 6th century and extended through the Northern Qi, Sui and Tang. There are 25 caves with about 500 surviving figures, among them the open-air Cave 9, where a seated Maitreya sits above an eleven-headed Guanyin. Many heads and whole figures were cut away in the early 20th century and are now in museums abroad; a site museum shows a 3D-printed replica of Cave 8 and the head of its main Buddha, which returned from abroad and went on show in 2021."},{"id":"yangqu-tiemuer-pagodas","name":"Tiemu'er Pagodas","name_zh":"帖木儿塔","pinyin":"Tiēmù'ér Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.2851,"lon":112.8901,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangqu-tiemuer-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Three Yuan-dynasty tomb pagodas standing together about 200 m east of Shijiazhuang village. The central stone pagoda, 3 m high with five tiers on an octagonal plan, was built in 1305 for Shi Zhongxian and carries the names of ancestors and a Buddhist sutra text, while the two flanking brick pagodas, three-tier pavilions about 6.5 m high, date from 1350 and 1353 and commemorate his son Yexian Tiemuer and Yexian's brother. Yexian Tiemuer, whose Chinese name was Shi Yanchang, held a Yuan military post in Yunnan."},{"id":"taiyuan-twin-pagoda-temple","name":"Twin Pagoda Temple","name_zh":"永祚寺","pinyin":"Yǒngzuò Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8458,"lon":112.5912,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taiyuan-twin-pagoda-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yongzuo Temple, popularly called the Twin Pagoda Temple, is a Ming-dynasty Buddhist complex in the south-east of Taiyuan whose two octagonal brick pagodas, each of 13 storeys and more than 50 m high, were built between the 1590s and 1612 and appear on the city's emblem. The grounds also hold a brick beamless main hall, a gallery of about 260 steles and peonies that include Ming-dynasty plants. One of the pagodas can be climbed for a view over the city."},{"id":"taiyuan-xu-xianxiu-tomb","name":"Xu Xianxiu Tomb and Northern Qi Fresco Museum","name_zh":"徐显秀墓","pinyin":"Xú Xiǎnxiù Mù","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.8355,"lon":112.6119,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-xu-xianxiu-tomb","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum built over the Northern Qi tomb of Xu Xianxiu, a senior Northern Qi minister and prince whose 326 sq m of wall paintings were uncovered in 2000–02 and named among China's ten major archaeological finds of 2002. The original murals of a grand procession stay in place on both sides of the tomb passage, and the museum, opened in December 2023, also shows Northern Qi murals from other Shanxi tombs. The Taiyuan government calls it the best-preserved mural tomb of the Northern Dynasties found so far."},{"id":"taiyuan-xuanquan-temple","name":"Xuanquan Temple","name_zh":"悬泉寺","pinyin":"Xuánquán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.9829,"lon":112.3703,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taiyuan-xuanquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple built into a cliff on Guanshan beside the Fenhe Second Reservoir, once a family temple of the Ming princes of Jin. Its halls stretch about 150 m along the rock face, from the gate, bell and drum towers and the main hall, which has Ming wall paintings, to a Ksitigarbha hall, a Guanyin hall, a Seven Buddha Cave and a Dragon King hall with relief clay sculpture; several buildings were rebuilt after 1991. A walkway of about 1 km follows the cliff towards the reservoir."},{"id":"yangqu-xuanyuan-temple","name":"Xuanyuan Temple, Yangqu","name_zh":"阳曲轩辕庙","pinyin":"Yángqǔ Xuānyuán Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":38.068,"lon":112.7633,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangqu-xuanyuan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Yellow Emperor (Xuanyuan) in Xidian village, built on a rise at a road junction and rebuilt in 1537, with Yuan-period inscriptions still visible on the roof frame. Two courtyards run from an opera stage that doubles as the gate, through a Qing offering hall, to the Ming main hall, whose side walls carry twelve seated portraits of famous physicians from the Shang dynasty to the Ming."},{"id":"qingxu-yao-temple","name":"Yao Temple, Qingxu","name_zh":"清徐尧庙","pinyin":"Qīngxú Yáomiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.5015,"lon":112.4403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxu-yao-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the legendary Emperor Yao inside the old walled town of Yaocheng, where about 200 m of Ming rammed-earth wall still stands. The Yao Hall, a Ming double-eave building, has no beams or inner posts: six tiers of brackets form a caisson ceiling over the statue. Beside it stand a two-storey brick 'beamless' hall with a Guanyin shrine below, an opera stage and a Mother Goddess hall."},{"id":"qingxu-zilin-vinegar-park","name":"Zilin Vinegar Park","name_zh":"紫林醋文化工业园","pinyin":"Zǐlín Cù Wénhuà Gōngyèyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Taiyuan","lat":37.5094,"lon":112.4568,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxu-zilin-vinegar-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A vinegar-factory visitor site run by the Zilin vinegar company in Qingxu, the county titled China's vinegar capital, built around a vinegar museum. Taiyuan's authorities list it among the city's industrial-tourism sites and its old-brand museums. It suits visitors interested in Shanxi's vinegar industry."},{"id":"daixian-ayuwang-pagoda","name":"Ayuwang Pagoda","name_zh":"阿育王塔","pinyin":"Āyùwáng Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.0679,"lon":112.9528,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daixian-ayuwang-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A bottle-shaped brick stupa of about 40 m in the Tibetan Buddhist style, built in 1275 on a round base carved with lotus petals and topped by thirteen rings and a copper gourd-shaped finial. It replaced earlier pagodas on the site, the first a Sui-dynasty timber tower of 601. The architects Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin visited in 1937 and praised its proportions as the best of the surviving bottle-shaped pagodas."},{"id":"wutai-bethune-model-ward","name":"Bethune Model Ward, Songyankou","name_zh":"白求恩模范病室旧址","pinyin":"Bái Qiú'ēn Mófàn Bìngshì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7452,"lon":113.5767,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wutai-bethune-model-ward","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A courtyard in Songyankou village that the Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune had converted from a temple into a model ward for the Eighth Route Army, finished on 15 September 1938. Japanese forces destroyed it soon afterwards and it was rebuilt in 1974 on the original plan, with an operating room in the former Dragon King hall, a sterilisation room and a statue of Bethune. A memorial exhibition hall beside it shows photographs, letters and medical instruments."},{"id":"daixian-bianjing-tower","name":"Bianjing Drum Tower","name_zh":"边靖楼","pinyin":"Biānjìng Lóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.0635,"lon":112.948,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daixian-bianjing-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey timber drum tower on a high masonry base at the central crossroads of Daixian's old town, rebuilt in 1476 after a fire destroyed the first tower of 1374. The base is about 13 m high with an arched passage through it, and the tower rises to roughly 40 m with four tiers of eaves and a plaque reading 'First Tower of Yanmen'. It was built for military observation and signalling on the approach to Yanmen Pass, and a steep, narrow stair leads up inside."},{"id":"daixian-confucian-temple","name":"Daixian Confucian Temple","name_zh":"代县文庙","pinyin":"Dàixiàn Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.0598,"lon":112.9492,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daixian-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Confucian temple of the former Daizhou prefecture, built mainly in the Ming dynasty and called by the Dai County government the largest surviving prefectural Confucian temple in North China. Four courtyards run along a north-south axis from a decorated memorial archway through the Lingxing Gate and a semicircular pool to the seven-bay Dacheng Hall on a white-marble base, with the buildings roofed in peacock-blue glazed tiles. After 1949 the compound was used as a grain store, which helped it survive."},{"id":"daixian-daizhou-ancient-city","name":"Daizhou Ancient City","name_zh":"代州古城","pinyin":"Dàizhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.065,"lon":112.9383,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daixian-daizhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The walled town of Daixian, the seat of Dai County, whose walls were rebuilt in 1373 and are about 12 m high and 4.3 km round. Four gates once pierced the wall; the west gate tower, a corner tower and 1.2 km of the west wall have been rebuilt, and monuments such as the Bianjing Tower and the Ashoka pagoda stand in the streets inside. State media list Daizhou among the old towns of the Sino-Russian tea road, and Dai County is a national historic and cultural city."},{"id":"wutai-nanru-eighth-route-army-headquarters","name":"Eighth Route Army Headquarters Site, Nanru","name_zh":"南茹八路军总部旧址","pinyin":"Nánrú Bālùjūn Zǒngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7341,"lon":113.3626,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wutai-nanru-eighth-route-army-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The village courtyard in Nanru where the Eighth Route Army headquarters was based from 23 September 1937, its first command post after the army reached the Shanxi front. From here the headquarters sent telegrams and directed operations, issued an instruction on mobilising civilians for guerrilla warfare, and restored the political commissar system that had been dropped when the Red Army was reorganised. The site is now an education site with a display that includes oil paintings and replicas of the communications equipment, and guides on hand."},{"id":"fanshi-liuli-pagoda","name":"Fanshi Glazed Pagoda","name_zh":"繁峙琉璃塔","pinyin":"Fánshì Liúlí Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.0035,"lon":113.4988,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanshi-liuli-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty glazed pagoda at Shiziwo in Zhuangzi village, Yantou township, in the mountains south-east of Fanshi, built between 1599 and 1604 as part of the Dahuguo Wenshu Temple. The octagonal brick tower has thirteen tiers and stands about 32 m high, faced with yellow, green and blue glazed bricks. It was listed as a provincial monument in 2004 and as a national one in 2019, and is also known as the Shiziwo Glazed Pagoda."},{"id":"wutai-xu-xiangqian-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xu Xiangqian","name_zh":"徐向前故居","pinyin":"Xú Xiàngqián Gùjū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.6293,"lon":113.1625,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wutai-xu-xiangqian-residence/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Qing-dynasty courtyard house in Yongan village where Xu Xiangqian, who was made a marshal of the People's Liberation Army in 1955, was born and lived. It is a typical northern Shanxi courtyard of brick houses with a two-storey building at the back, restored in the early 1990s and opened to visitors in 1992. Its seven exhibition rooms cover his life, and a separate Marshal Xu Xiangqian Memorial Hall opened in 2011."},{"id":"dingxiang-yan-xishan-residence","name":"Former Residence of Yan Xishan, Hebian","name_zh":"阎家大院","pinyin":"Yán Jiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.5887,"lon":113.1034,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dingxiang-yan-xishan-residence/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large courtyard compound built from 1913 to 1937 in his home town of Hebian by Yan Xishan, who controlled Shanxi's government and army from 1911 until 1949. The museum's own website counts 27 courtyards and nearly 1,000 rooms, over 700 of them still standing, including the multi-storey Deyi Lou. It has been open as the Hebian Folk Museum since 1989, and the compound was listed as a provincial monument in 1986 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"fanshi-gongzhu-temple","name":"Gongzhu Temple","name_zh":"公主寺","pinyin":"Gōngzhǔ Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.1481,"lon":113.3739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fanshi-gongzhu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-courtyard temple covering about 4,300 m², named for Princess Chengxin, a daughter of the Northern Wei emperor Wencheng, who is credited with founding it; the present buildings date from a rebuilding in 1503 and from the Qing. The Mahavira Hall and the hall behind the gate are Ming, and the Mahavira Hall has about 90 m² of frescoes and thirty Ming statues. Sakyamuni, Amitabha and the Medicine Buddha sit on the altar, with eighteen arhats along the side walls."},{"id":"wutai-guangji-temple","name":"Guangji Temple, Wutai","name_zh":"五台广济寺","pinyin":"Wǔtái Guǎngjì Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7226,"lon":113.2531,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wutai-guangji-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty temple in Taicheng, the county town of Wutai, whose five-bay Mahavira Hall holds Yuan clay statues of a Buddha with two bodhisattvas, three great bodhisattvas and eighteen arhats. A Tang-dynasty sutra pillar stands in front of the hall, and the temple houses the Wutai County Museum and the county heritage office."},{"id":"dingxiang-guanwang-temple","name":"Guanwang Temple, Dingxiang","name_zh":"定襄关王庙","pinyin":"Dìngxiāng Guānwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.4911,"lon":112.9556,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingxiang-guanwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu founded in 1123 under the Northern Song, of which a single hall survives, three bays wide under a single-eave hip-and-gable roof. It stands in the grounds of Dingxiang No. 2 Middle School in the county town and was listed as a national heritage site in 2006."},{"id":"yuanping-guoyang-confucian-temple","name":"Guoyang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"崞阳文庙","pinyin":"Guōyáng Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.8854,"lon":112.7588,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanping-guoyang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The county Confucian temple of the former Guo County, whose seat was Guoyang town, founded in the Yuan dynasty and once covering nearly 20,000 m². War damage, unrest and decades as a grain depot left it in poor repair, but its main buildings survive, including the Lingxing Gate, the Halberd Gate and the Dacheng Hall. A restoration has since been completed."},{"id":"fanshi-hanshan-cultural-park","name":"Hanshan Cultural Park, Fanshi","name_zh":"憨山文化园","pinyin":"Hānshān Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.2792,"lon":113.5487,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanshi-hanshan-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside cultural tourism park of about 81 hectares in Shahe town, in the north of Fanshi County, on the northern approach to Mount Wutai. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism's rural-tourism route lists an art museum, a former county-government compound, a Hanshan temple and several plazas among its sights, and Shanxi's culture and tourism authorities list it among the province's clean-governance culture sites. It staged an evening 'night-tour carnival' over the 2025 Dragon Boat holiday."},{"id":"dingxiang-hongfu-temple","name":"Hongfu Temple, Beishe","name_zh":"洪福寺","pinyin":"Hóngfú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.6296,"lon":113.055,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingxiang-hongfu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A walled temple in Beishe village that stands on a raised platform inside a fortress-like wall, with the gate hall doubling as the wall gate. Its Jin-dynasty main hall, the Vairocana Hall, has five bays and oblique brackets, and holds an altar of nine clay statues arranged as the Huayan Three Sages with hanging sculpture on the side walls. The Qing-dynasty east hall has clay figures of Ksitigarbha and the Ten Kings of Hell."},{"id":"dingxiang-liuhui-hongfu-temple","name":"Hongfu Temple, Liuhui","name_zh":"留晖洪福寺","pinyin":"Liúhuī Hóngfú Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.4468,"lon":112.9899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingxiang-liuhui-hongfu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple of Ming and Qing date in Liuhui village, in Nanwang township of Dingxiang County. It was listed as a provincial monument in 2004 and as a national one in 2019, in the eighth batch. It is a different temple from the Jin-dynasty Hongfu Temple at Beishe, also in Dingxiang County."},{"id":"pianguan-hongmenkou-underground-great-wall","name":"Hongmenkou Underground Great Wall","name_zh":"红门口地下长城","pinyin":"Hóngménkǒu Dìxià Chángchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.5999,"lon":111.7024,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pianguan-hongmenkou-underground-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A network of narrow defensive tunnels dug in the 20th century around Shuiquan village in Pianguan County and known as the underground Great Wall. Visitors go in through a cave dwelling in an ordinary village courtyard and walk a restored section of more than a kilometre, much of it so low that visitors have to stoop. It lies on the Great Wall Number 1 tourist road, which links it with Great Wall sections and with Laoniuwan on the Yellow River."},{"id":"yuanping-huiji-temple","name":"Huiji Temple, Yuanping","name_zh":"惠济寺","pinyin":"Huìjì Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7857,"lon":112.8052,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanping-huiji-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Lianjiagang village, north-east of Yuanping, whose gate, Manjusri Hall, bell tower and Galan Hall stand around a five-bay Great Buddha Hall. The national list dates the temple Ming to Qing, but the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's 2024 route page describes the Great Buddha Hall as original Song timberwork under a single-eave hip-and-gable roof, with a broad brick terrace in front. It became a provincial monument in 1986 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"fanshi-huyuan-riverside-park","name":"Huyuan Riverside Park, Fanshi","name_zh":"滹源景区","pinyin":"Hūyuán Jǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.1791,"lon":113.2606,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanshi-huyuan-riverside-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A riverside park on the Hutuo River at the southern edge of Fanshi county town, with paths along a broad stretch of water. The Hutuo rises in Fanshi County, which gives the park its name ('source of the Hutuo'), and local people use the banks for evening walks, when coloured lanterns light the water. It is a short urban stroll rather than a major sight."},{"id":"xinfu-jindong-temple","name":"Jindong Temple","name_zh":"金洞寺","pinyin":"Jīndòng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.4883,"lon":112.5484,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinfu-jindong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Buddhist temple founded in 1093 in Xihuyan village, west of Xinzhou, whose corner hall is original Northern Song timberwork with bracketed eaves. The Manjusri hall dates from 1528 and holds a small area of Daoist murals, and a Song-dynasty sutra pillar stands in the courtyard; the other buildings are Qing."},{"id":"jingle-jingju-temple-grottoes","name":"Jingju Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"静居寺石窟","pinyin":"Jìngjū Sì Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.2355,"lon":111.867,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingle-jingju-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of Tang-dynasty rock-cut caves in a cliff beside Fengrun village, south of Jingle. A scholarly survey records nine Tang caves and one Northern Dynasties cave, the largest number of Tang caves at any site in Shanxi. Most are square chambers with a three-Buddha altar against three walls, and donor inscriptions in Caves 4 to 6 date their opening to the reign of Emperor Gaozong."},{"id":"jingle-confucian-temple","name":"Jingle Confucian Temple","name_zh":"静乐文庙","pinyin":"Jìnglè Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.3556,"lon":111.9391,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingle-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Confucian temple of the former Jingle County, moved to its present site in the Ming dynasty and rebuilt in 1587, with two courtyards: the temple itself and the Censhan Academy. In the temple courtyard only the Dacheng Hall and its flanking galleries remain, while the academy keeps its Minglun Hall and two side studies. The five-bay Dacheng Hall has a single-eave hipped-gable roof."},{"id":"pianguan-laoniuwan","name":"Laoniuwan, Pianguan","name_zh":"老牛湾","pinyin":"Lǎoniúwān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.6351,"lon":111.4454,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pianguan-laoniuwan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Laoniuwan is the village where the Yellow River enters Shanxi and the Great Wall meets the river, on the border with Inner Mongolia. An old fort stands above the village, and from it the view takes in a long reservoir lake created by the Wanjiazhai dam, below loess hills and Great Wall beacon towers. The Pianguan side is Shanxi's 4A scenic area; a separate scenic area of the same name lies across the river in Inner Mongolia."},{"id":"wutai-luohou-temple","name":"Luohou Temple","name_zh":"罗睺寺","pinyin":"Luóhóu Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.0086,"lon":113.5911,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wutai-luohou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist temple of the Gelug school in Taihuai, beside Xiantong and Tayuan temples and named for Rahula, the Buddha's son. Founded in the Tang dynasty, rebuilt in the Ming and converted to the Yellow Hat school in 1705, it is laid out in three courtyards, from a Hall of Heavenly Kings with a pair of Tang stone lions to a rear scripture pavilion. The pavilion holds a mechanical lotus that opens to reveal a Buddha."},{"id":"fanshi-mimi-temple","name":"Mimi Temple","name_zh":"秘密寺","pinyin":"Mìmì Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.0778,"lon":113.3414,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanshi-mimi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple on Weiping Mountain, named after Mimi Rock, and one of the temples around Mount Wutai that lie outside the central Taihuai area. It was founded in the Northern Qi dynasty and flourished under the Tang and Song, but most of its surviving buildings are Qing."},{"id":"ningwu-luya-mountain","name":"Mount Luya","name_zh":"芦芽山","pinyin":"Lúyá Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.8163,"lon":112.0933,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningwu-luya-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The highest peak of the Guancen range in Ningwu County, rising above 2,700 m and named for its stacked peaks that resemble reed shoots. The scenic area protects larch and spruce forest and is a main refuge of the brown eared pheasant, a nationally protected bird, and it counts among the four national forest parks that state media list for Xinzhou. Other sights in the area include a cliff-side walkway, lakes, waterfalls and the Malun grassland, with the ice cave and the Fen River source as separate stops."},{"id":"wutai-nanchan-temple","name":"Nanchan Temple","name_zh":"南禅寺","pinyin":"Nánchán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7012,"lon":113.1138,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wutai-nanchan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple whose main hall, dated by a beam inscription to 782, is the oldest surviving timber building in China. The three-bay hall has no interior columns or ceiling and holds a group of painted clay statues of the Tang period on a U-shaped altar. Architectural historians found the hall in 1953 and it was listed as a national monument in 1961."},{"id":"wutai-nanshan-temple","name":"Nanshan Temple, Mount Wutai","name_zh":"南山寺","pinyin":"Nánshān Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.9816,"lon":113.5733,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wutai-nanshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large temple complex climbing the hillside south of Taihuai, assembled from three older temples, Jile Temple, Shande Hall and Youguo Temple, in works that began in 1875 and continued into the Republican period, and arranged in seven tiers. A flight of 108 steps leads up from a marble gateway, and the upper Youguo Temple is known for nearly a thousand stone carvings of folk tales and legends."},{"id":"yuanping-puji-bridge","name":"Puji Bridge, Yuanping","name_zh":"普济桥","pinyin":"Pǔjì Qiáo","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.8785,"lon":112.7481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanping-puji-bridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Jin-dynasty stone arch bridge at the south gate of Guoyang, an old town north of Yuanping, built in 1203 and once known as the South Stone Bridge. It is an open-spandrel arch about 30 m long, 8 m wide and 7 m high, with two small arches that let floodwater pass and carved relief along the arch edges. It became a provincial monument in 1986 and a national one in 2019, and state media list Guoyang's old town among the stops on the Sino-Russian tea road."},{"id":"fanshi-sansheng-temple","name":"Sansheng Temple, Fanshi","name_zh":"三圣寺","pinyin":"Sānshèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.3054,"lon":113.5851,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanshi-sansheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-courtyard temple whose Mahavira Hall dates from the Jin dynasty, while the gate, bell and drum towers and side halls are Qing and the Ksitigarbha hall was rebuilt in 1495. The Jin hall has three bays, a single-eave hipped-gable roof and five-step bracket sets. Shrines to the Grain God and to the Grandmother goddess stand on the west side."},{"id":"wutai-jingangku-jinchaji-headquarters","name":"Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters Site, Jingangku","name_zh":"金岗库村晋察冀军区司令部旧址","pinyin":"Jīngāngkù Cūn Jìnchájì Jūnqū Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.8872,"lon":113.6608,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wutai-jingangku-jinchaji-headquarters/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"From March 1938 this village was the base of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region headquarters, the first base the Eighth Route Army built behind Japanese lines. The headquarters occupied a two-courtyard house at the foot of the hill, and the commander and political commissar Nie Rongzhen lived upstairs in its west wing. A memorial hall opened in 2003 and has exhibitions on the war history, on Nie's life and on the resistance offices around Mount Wutai."},{"id":"kelan-songjiagou-village","name":"Songjiagou Village","name_zh":"宋家沟","pinyin":"Sòngjiāgōu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.6437,"lon":111.675,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kelan-songjiagou-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A resettlement village built to rehouse residents of 14 poor mountain villages around Kelan, now run as a rural-tourism destination. Stone-paved lanes run between grey-tiled courtyard houses, some of them turned into guesthouses, and a greenhouse farm north of the village offers fruit and vegetable picking and craft and game activities for children. The Song-dynasty Great Wall, Heyeping meadow and Luya Mountain are among the sights nearby."},{"id":"ningwu-fenhe-source","name":"Source of the Fen River","name_zh":"汾河源头","pinyin":"Fénhé Yuántóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.8197,"lon":112.0903,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningwu-fenhe-source","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The headwaters of the Fen River, the longest river in Shanxi and the second-longest tributary of the Yellow River, which rises in the Guancen Mountains of Ningwu County. The source area lies in a mountain valley at the foot of the Luya Mountain resort, and state media single out its clear, lively water. From here the river runs south through Taiyuan and on to the Yellow River."},{"id":"yuanping-tianya-mountain","name":"Tianya Mountain, Yuanping","name_zh":"天涯山","pinyin":"Tiānyá Shān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7187,"lon":112.7922,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanping-tianya-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A scenic area of granite peaks and a small lake east of Yuanping, built around the story of Jie Zitui, the Spring and Autumn official remembered for carrying his mother into the mountains. Sights include a drum-shaped boulder about 20 m across that sounds in the wind, a lotus-shaped peak above a lake with a 14.88 m white marble Guanyin, and a Ming-Qing shrine to Jie Zitui. A 13.88 m bronze statue of him stands in the filial-piety area, where the steps are carved with the twenty-four filial exemplars."},{"id":"ningwu-wannian-ice-cave","name":"Wannian Ice Cave","name_zh":"万年冰洞","pinyin":"Wànnián Bīngdòng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.9536,"lon":112.1487,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningwu-wannian-ice-cave","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large natural ice cave in a forested gorge in the Luya Mountain area of Ningwu County. Xinzhou's tourism promotion names it alongside the forests of Luya Mountain as one of the area's main draws."},{"id":"dingxiang-xihetou-tunnel-warfare-site","name":"Xihetou Tunnel Warfare Site","name_zh":"西河头地道战遗址","pinyin":"Xīhétóu Dìdàozhàn Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.4814,"lon":112.923,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingxiang-xihetou-tunnel-warfare-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village whose houses are linked by about 5 km of tunnels, dug from 1942 and extended into a network by 1947, which local militia and armed work teams used in the Anti-Japanese War and the civil war. The tunnels run on three levels, from connecting passages to command rooms and an arsenal, and their entrances were hidden in places such as stove flues, double walls and animal troughs. A village museum tells the story, including the fight of 17 February 1948, when about 50 militia and work-team members held out underground against more than 2,000 Nationalist troops."},{"id":"xinfu-xinkou-battle-site","name":"Xinkou Battle Site","name_zh":"忻口战役遗址","pinyin":"Xīnkǒu Zhànyì Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.6122,"lon":112.7359,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinfu-xinkou-battle-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The site of the Battle of Xinkou, fought from 11 October to 2 November 1937, when Nationalist and Communist forces together defended the northern approach to Taiyuan. The main remains are 47 cave dwellings cut into the cliffs in 1935, 15 at Hongya Bay and 32 at Hougou, which served in the battle as command posts, field hospitals and cavalry stables, along with trenches on nearby Hill 204. A 2.6 km trail with a wooden walkway opened in 2024 for walking part of the battlefield, and a memorial wall honours those who fought."},{"id":"xinzhou-ancient-city","name":"Xinzhou Ancient City","name_zh":"忻州古城","pinyin":"Xīnzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.3994,"lon":112.7397,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinzhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The restored old quarter of Xinzhou, once the walled town of Xiurong, where lanes and buildings were repaired and rebuilt in a programme that began in 2017. The same programme covered Xiurong Academy, a college founded in 1775 on a ridge at the south-west of the old town, with hillside pavilions dating from 1725 and 1819. State media describe the old town as a stop on the Sino-Russian tea road that keeps local intangible-heritage crafts alive."},{"id":"wutai-yanqing-temple","name":"Yanqing Temple","name_zh":"延庆寺","pinyin":"Yánqìng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7499,"lon":113.0652,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wutai-yanqing-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple in Shanwen village whose Jin-dynasty main hall, the Great Buddha Hall, is the only original building left; the other halls were rebuilt in recent years. The hall has three bays under a hipped-gable roof with very wide eaves, few columns inside, and oblique bracket arms that are unusual in a building of this size. The hall no longer holds its original statues, and the lower part of a Song-dynasty sutra pillar dated 1035 stands in the front courtyard."},{"id":"fanshi-yanshan-temple","name":"Yanshan Temple","name_zh":"岩山寺","pinyin":"Yánshān Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.2293,"lon":113.6532,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fanshi-yanshan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple on the northern side of Mount Wutai, founded in 1158 in the Jin dynasty and formerly called Lingyan Temple, best known for the Jin murals in its Manjusri Hall. The murals cover more than 90 m² and were painted by the court painter Wang Kui and others, showing the life of the Buddha and other Buddhist stories in settings of palaces, streets and shops. The hall also keeps Jin painted sculptures including a Water-Moon Guanyin, and a local saying sets the temple beside the Yongle Palace: Yongle Palace in the south, Yanshan Temple in the north."},{"id":"xinzhou-yunzhong-river","name":"Yunzhong River Scenic Area","name_zh":"云中河","pinyin":"Yúnzhōng Hé","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.4813,"lon":112.704,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinzhou-yunzhong-river","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A landscaped riverside area along the Yunzhong River, a tributary of the Hutuo, in the northern part of Xinzhou city. Lakes and planted banks line the water, and the provincial tourism department promotes the Yunzhong River hot springs on a 2026 summer wellness route. State media cite the area's calm, ecological setting alongside the Fen River source and the Yellow River gorge at Laoniuwan."},{"id":"xinzhou-yuwang-cave","name":"Yuwang Cave","name_zh":"禹王洞","pinyin":"Yǔwáng Dòng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.3015,"lon":112.8145,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinzhou-yuwang-cave","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A karst cave and national forest park in the hills south-east of Xinzhou, named for Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of floods. State media list it as one of the four national forest parks of Xinzhou and promote the cave as its main attraction, set among mountain forest."},{"id":"fanshi-zhengjue-temple","name":"Zhengjue Temple, Fanshi","name_zh":"繁峙正觉寺","pinyin":"Fánshì Zhèngjué Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":39.1893,"lon":113.2679,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanshi-zhengjue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Mahavira Hall of Zhengjue Temple, a Jin-dynasty hall standing in the town of Fanshi. It was listed as a city-level monument in 2007 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"yuanping-yangwu-zhu-archway","name":"Zhu Memorial Archway, Yangwu","name_zh":"阳武朱氏牌楼","pinyin":"Yángwǔ Zhūshì Páilou","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.8114,"lon":112.6045,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanping-yangwu-zhu-archway","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A late-Qing memorial archway in Yangwu village, built by the official Wu Fangchou in honour of his mother, née Zhu. It was originally a set of three stone arches, of which two survive: a main arch with four pillars and three roofs, and a smaller one about 500 m away. The main arch is carved with the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, dragons and phoenixes, has a pair of stone qilin guardians in front and carries a tablet reading 'Imperial Edict'."},{"id":"wutai-zunsheng-temple","name":"Zunsheng Temple","name_zh":"尊胜寺","pinyin":"Zūnshèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Xinzhou","lat":38.7876,"lon":113.3799,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wutai-zunsheng-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside temple of seven courtyards on the old southern route to Mount Wutai, founded in the Tang dynasty and given its present layout in the Republican period. The courtyards rise from the Hall of Heavenly Kings to a pagoda at the top, and the east courtyard has two stone sutra pillars, one dated 1026 and one a Republican-era copy. Much of the temple was rebuilt from 1986 after damage in the Cultural Revolution."},{"id":"yuxian-cangshan-temple","name":"Cangshan Temple","name_zh":"藏山祠","pinyin":"Cángshān Cí","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.2236,"lon":113.3585,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-cangshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of temple halls and pavilions set in a mountain gorge north of Yu County, built around the legend of the Zhao Orphan, in which a child of the Zhao family of the ancient Jin state is hidden in these hills; the legend is listed as national intangible cultural heritage. The scenic area includes the Cave of the Hidden Orphan, the Orphan-rearing Garden, the Lotus Temple and a Loyalty Pavilion that looks over the gorge, and the temple buildings are Ming and Qing in date. Spring peach blossom and autumn leaves are the main seasons for walking the paths."},{"id":"yangquan-cuifeng-mountain","name":"Cuifeng Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"翠枫山","pinyin":"Cuìfēngshān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.7795,"lon":113.4271,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangquan-cuifeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area south-west of Yangquan, with forest cover above 97 per cent and more than 300 plant species recorded, including over 100 rare tree species. A walking route of about 5 km called the Green Wild Fairy Valley passes named gateways, an old tree and a valley, and the hillsides turn red and yellow with smoke trees and maples in autumn. A camping base opened in 2025 and a winter snow-play park in December 2025, so the area suits day walkers and families in both seasons."},{"id":"yuxian-dachang-hot-spring-resort","name":"Dachang Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"大汖温泉度假村","pinyin":"Dàchǎng Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.4393,"lon":113.4673,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-dachang-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hot-spring resort in a deep mountain valley in the far north of Yu County, with open-air pools in several themed zones and a reception building that has a lounge, cinema and spa rooms. The spring water comes from about 100 m underground at around 60 degrees Celsius and contains radon and sodium sulfate. Dachang ancient village, known for its stone houses, is a separate stop on the same rural-tourism route."},{"id":"yuxian-dawang-temple","name":"Dawang Temple, Yu County","name_zh":"大王庙","pinyin":"Dàwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.0881,"lon":113.404,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-dawang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple on the west side of Yu County town, beside the Beihe stream, which the county government's own guide calls the county's oldest and best-preserved old building. It was founded in the Jin dynasty and keeps its mountain gate, music stage, Ming-dynasty main hall and a rear hall with Jin-dynasty features, with stone tablets in the grounds and two old locust trees in front. The temple honours Zhao Wu, a minister of the ancient Jin state linked to the Cangshan legend."},{"id":"yuxian-fujun-temple","name":"Fujun Temple","name_zh":"府君庙","pinyin":"Fǔjūn Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.3255,"lon":113.3431,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-fujun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the deity Cui Fujun in Zhongshebei village in the north of Yu County, rebuilt in 1315 under the Yuan dynasty. The main hall is a Yuan building, the front hall is Ming and the remaining halls are Qing. It is a small compound that suits anyone interested in Yuan timber architecture."},{"id":"pingding-guanshan-academy","name":"Guanshan Academy","name_zh":"冠山书院","pinyin":"Guānshān Shūyuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.7897,"lon":113.5717,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingding-guanshan-academy","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A traditional academy on wooded Guanshan hill west of Pingding town, the best known of several academies whose remains lie on the hill. It began as the thatched study of a local clan, was enlarged in the Yuan dynasty by the official Lü Sicheng, and its present buildings date from the Qing. Carved verses and inscriptions on the stones around the hill record its long history as a place of study."},{"id":"yangquan-guanwang-temple","name":"Guanwang Temple, Yangquan","name_zh":"关王庙","pinyin":"Guānwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.926,"lon":113.6098,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangquan-guanwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the deified general Guan Yu on the side of Yuquan Hill in Linli village, north of central Yangquan. The main hall keeps a Northern Song timber frame from the temple's rebuilding in 1122, and Chinese sources regard it as the oldest surviving Guan Yu temple building in the country. The compound was extended in the Yuan, Ming and Qing periods, and the site suits visitors interested in early timber architecture."},{"id":"pingding-hongyanling","name":"Hongyanling Scenic Area","name_zh":"红岩岭","pinyin":"Hóngyánlǐng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.0969,"lon":113.794,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingding-hongyanling","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Taihang Mountains in north-east Pingding County, beside the Hebei border, with a planned area of 40 km² and a core of 8 km² of peaks, pine forest and karst. Its best-known sight is Yuhuang Cave, a karst cave of five linked chambers called Dragon Palace, Crystal Palace, Jade Pool, Lingxiao Hall and Arhat Court, and a path leads up to a viewing platform on the ridge. It suits visitors who want a cave visit and a forest walk in the hills."},{"id":"pingding-kaihe-temple-grottoes","name":"Kaihe Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"开河寺石窟","pinyin":"Kāihé Sì Shíkū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.8487,"lon":113.6803,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingding-kaihe-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of Buddhist rock carvings and inscribed tablets cut into the cliff of Kuitou Hill beside Luanliu village in Pingding County. The carvings date from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui, and the site was added to the national list in 2013. It suits visitors interested in early Buddhist art in a small rural setting."},{"id":"pingding-machiyan-temple","name":"Machiyan Temple","name_zh":"马齿岩寺","pinyin":"Mǎchǐyán Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.7932,"lon":113.9269,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingding-machiyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small mountain temple in Mashan village in the far east of Pingding County, on the Taihang Number One tourist road. Its middle hall dates from the Jin dynasty and holds Qing murals, and the Tianwang (Heavenly Kings) hall also survives. The temple was added to the national list in 2019."},{"id":"pingding-niangzi-pass","name":"Niangzi Pass","name_zh":"娘子关","pinyin":"Niángzǐ Guān","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.967,"lon":113.8776,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingding-niangzi-pass/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty fortified pass on the Shanxi–Hebei border, known as the ninth pass of the Great Wall, where the railway and road cross the Taihang Mountains; the present walls date from 1542. Visitors climb the walled pass and its gate towers, and the scenic area also takes in sections of Great Wall, a waterfall and an old village in the valley. In legend the Tang princess Pingyang garrisoned the pass with a force of women, which gave it the name 'Ladies' Pass'."},{"id":"yuxian-north-china-yifeng-ecological-park","name":"North China Yifeng Ecological Park","name_zh":"华北奕丰生态园","pinyin":"Huáběi Yìfēng Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.0898,"lon":113.4771,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-north-china-yifeng-ecological-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A farm-based leisure park near Qianyuanji village in Niucun town, Yu County, developed from a coal company's transformation project. It has a large tree nursery, fruit-picking orchards, an agricultural science education camp, an animal exhibit of more than 40 species, fishing and a riding track, with a hotel and restaurants on site. It suits families and school groups looking for an easy rural day out."},{"id":"yuxian-potou-taishan-temple","name":"Potou Taishan Temple","name_zh":"坡头泰山庙","pinyin":"Pōtóu Tàishān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.1627,"lon":113.576,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-potou-taishan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Taishan deity in Potou village in the hills east of Yu County town, rebuilt in 1347 under the Yuan dynasty. The main and rear halls are Yuan timber buildings, while the stone archway, gate, bell and drum towers and side halls are Ming and Qing. It suits visitors tracing early timber architecture in the Yu County hills."},{"id":"yuxian-sansheng-temple-main-hall","name":"Sansheng Temple Main Hall, Yu County","name_zh":"西关三圣寺大殿","pinyin":"Xīguān Sānshèng Sì Dàdiàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.0854,"lon":113.4051,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-sansheng-temple-main-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The surviving main hall of Sansheng Temple, founded in 1064 to honour the Three Sages of the Huayan school: Shakyamuni, Manjusri and Samantabhadra. The five-bay hall, listed as Ming, keeps Jin-style features and escaped demolition because it was used as a township hall; the rest of the temple was pulled down in the 20th century. It stands in the grounds behind the Yu County government offices."},{"id":"yangquan-taolingou","name":"Taolingou Scenic Area","name_zh":"桃林沟","pinyin":"Táolíngōu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.8925,"lon":113.5532,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangquan-taolingou","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A peach-orchard park in the hills just north-west of central Yangquan, nicknamed the city's back garden, where old peach trees fill the valley. The peach blossom festival is held here each April, and the park also has a peach-blossom themed garden, a farm sightseeing and fruit-picking area, a 'water village' area and play areas for children. It suits families and day-trippers from the city."},{"id":"pingding-tianning-temple-twin-pagodas","name":"Tianning Temple Twin Pagodas","name_zh":"天宁寺双塔","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.8005,"lon":113.618,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingding-tianning-temple-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two octagonal, three-storey brick pagodas standing in a small park in the middle of Pingding town, the survivors of Tianning Temple, which was founded in the Northern Song. The pagodas imitate timber construction, with carved brick beams and brackets under the eaves. The west pagoda's date was fixed by an inscribed stone found inside it during repairs in 2005, and the east pagoda, which is solid, was repaired in the Ming."},{"id":"yangquan-xiaohe-ancient-village","name":"Xiaohe Ancient Village","name_zh":"小河古村","pinyin":"Xiǎohé Gǔcūn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.8404,"lon":113.6402,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangquan-xiaohe-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside village on the eastern edge of Yangquan with Ming, Qing and Republican-era courtyard houses, about 178 courtyards in all, and the ancestral home of the modern writer Shi Pingmei. Among the buildings are the Shi family garden, a memorial exhibition to Shi Pingmei, a Guandi temple and a Guanyin nunnery, with carved stone, brick and wood decoration, and the village also keeps a small lake and old wells and millstones. It holds national status as a historic and cultural village and a traditional village, the first in Yangquan to do so."},{"id":"yangquan-memory-1947-cultural-park","name":"Yangquan Memory 1947 Cultural Park","name_zh":"阳泉记忆·1947文化园","pinyin":"Yángquán Jìyì Yījiǔsìqī Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":37.8453,"lon":113.5856,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangquan-memory-1947-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cultural park built on the site of the former Yangquan Water Pump Factory and opened in 2021. The old E-shaped foundry halls now hold an exhibition on the city's recent past, with rebuilt shopfronts and streets of the 1970s to 1990s, a wall of local dialect, a city library and a display of the writer Liu Cixin's science fiction. There are also cafes, shops and a night market, and the park suits an easy evening in the city."},{"id":"yuxian-yubei-taishan-temple","name":"Yubei Taishan Temple","name_zh":"盂北泰山庙","pinyin":"Yúběi Tàishān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yangquan","lat":38.1647,"lon":113.4302,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxian-yubei-taishan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple in Xi Yubei village north of Yu County town, with a Yuan-dynasty main hall that keeps wall paintings including a procession of the Jade Emperor. A stage and two side halls also survive, one of them Ming. The temple joined the national list in 2019."},{"id":"xinjiang-baitai-temple","name":"Baitai Temple, Xinjiang County","name_zh":"白台寺","pinyin":"Báitái Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6639,"lon":111.0695,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-baitai-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple compound near Guangma village, named for the white lotus base of its Shakyamuni image and also called Shanhua Temple. The Shakyamuni Hall is a Jin-dynasty building of the Mingchang era (1190–1196) and the rear hall dates from 1355, while the two-storey Fazang Pavilion is built against an earth cliff and holds Yuan-dynasty statues. The grounds also keep stone tablets from the Tang to the Ming, a Tang relic pagoda and a Northern Song dharani pillar."},{"id":"wanrong-balong-temple-pagoda","name":"Balong Temple Pagoda, Zhonglizhuang","name_zh":"中里庄八龙寺塔","pinyin":"Zhōnglǐzhuāng Bālóng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.3217,"lon":110.5456,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-balong-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A square, seven-storey Song-dynasty brick pagoda about 24 m tall, in Zhonglizhuang village, Ronghe town, and the only part left of the Balong (Eight Dragons) Temple. A Republican-era county gazetteer dates the temple to 1012, when Emperor Zhenzong passed through on his way to sacrifice at Fenyin, and the pagoda's eaves carry brick imitations of timber brackets. It was listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"wanrong-beixin-sarira-pagoda","name":"Beixin Sarira Pagoda","name_zh":"北辛舍利塔","pinyin":"Běixīn Shèlì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.3888,"lon":110.5279,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-beixin-sarira-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty sarira (relic) pagoda in Beixin village, Ronghe town, Wanrong County. It was listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national one in 2019."},{"id":"jishan-beiyangcheng-brick-pagoda","name":"Beiyangcheng Brick Pagoda","name_zh":"北阳城砖塔","pinyin":"Běiyángchéng Zhuāntǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5237,"lon":111.0559,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-beiyangcheng-brick-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Northern Song brick pagoda in Beiyangcheng village, Jishan County, built in 1039 by a villager for his mother. It is square in plan and was originally nine storeys, of which eight survive, about 10 m high, with eaves stepped out in corbelled brick and a stone Buddha in the arched niche on the ground floor. It was listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"yongji-bian-que-temple","name":"Bian Que Temple, Yongji","name_zh":"扁鹊庙","pinyin":"Biǎnquè Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8674,"lon":110.6986,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-bian-que-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This temple honours Bian Que, the Warring States physician traditionally regarded as the earliest known doctor in China, and stands in the countryside near Xima village. The national listing records its surviving buildings as Ming-dynasty. It is a small rural temple, mainly of interest to visitors following the history of Chinese medicine or Shanxi's timber architecture."},{"id":"jiangxian-changchun-temple","name":"Changchun Temple, Jiang County","name_zh":"长春观","pinyin":"Chángchūn Guàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4889,"lon":111.6276,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-changchun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Taoist temple in Dongjingxia village, founded in 1320 and laid out as a single courtyard about 71 m long and 24.5 m wide. Its Hunyuan Hall is a Yuan-dynasty building, the east side hall is Ming and the remaining buildings are Qing, so the small compound shows three dynasties of timber building. It is of most interest to visitors following Yuan-era architecture in southern Shanxi."},{"id":"yuncheng-changping-guandi-temple","name":"Changping Guandi Temple","name_zh":"常平关帝庙","pinyin":"Chángpíng Guāndìmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.9319,"lon":110.9509,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuncheng-changping-guandi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Guan family temple stands in Changping village, the village held to be Guan Yu's birthplace, on the site of his former home. Beyond a Ming stone arch of 1523 inscribed 'Home Village of King Guan' the path passes the eight-sided, seven-storey brick Ancestral House Pagoda, about 10 m high and repaired in 1177, and reaches the Qing-dynasty Chongning Hall, flanked by separate halls for Guan Yu's wife, his sons and his ancestors, a layout that is rare among temples to him. It is a separate site from the larger Guandi temple at Xiezhou, with its own entrance."},{"id":"ruicheng-dayudu-yellow-river-scenic-area","name":"Dayudu Yellow River Scenic Area","name_zh":"大禹渡","pinyin":"Dàyǔdù","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.6603,"lon":110.7565,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruicheng-dayudu-yellow-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dayudu is a ferry crossing on the Yellow River in the south of Ruicheng, facing Henan across the water and named for Yu the Great, the legendary flood-controller. The scenic area runs along the river bank and cliff, with a temple hall to Yu, an old cypress traditionally linked to him and Buddhist features. Beside it the Dayudu pumping scheme, built in the 1970s to lift river water for irrigation, still supplies irrigation water to most of Ruicheng's irrigated farmland."},{"id":"yongji-dongcun-opera-stage","name":"Dongcun Opera Stage","name_zh":"董村戏台","pinyin":"Dǒngcūn Xìtái","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8984,"lon":110.714,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-dongcun-opera-stage","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Ming-dynasty opera stage in Dongcun village, Qingtou town. It was listed as a provincial monument in 2004 and as a national one in 2019."},{"id":"jiangxian-dongfeng-opera-stage","name":"Dongfeng Opera Stage","name_zh":"董封戏台","pinyin":"Dǒngfēng Xìtái","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5806,"lon":111.6378,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-dongfeng-opera-stage","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The main surviving building of a Mount Tai temple in Dongfeng village, an opera stage rebuilt in 1612, in the Wanli reign, with a projecting porch for viewing from three sides added in 1799. The stage faces north, is three bays square with separate front and rear stage areas, and stands on a brick platform 0.9 m high under a hip-and-gable roof. It covers about 102 square metres, and a Qing-dynasty row of side rooms and the old temple gate tower also survive beside it."},{"id":"yongji-dongyaowen-archways","name":"Dongyaowen Memorial Archways","name_zh":"东姚温牌坊","pinyin":"Dōngyáowēn Páifāng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8367,"lon":110.3747,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-dongyaowen-archways","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two memorial archways built to honour local widows, a Ming stone archway of 1628 and a Qing brick archway of 1775, both facing east. The stone archway is about 9 m tall with four pillars and five roofs. The brick archway is 12 m tall with three roofs, and its body carries 164 brick carvings including the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars and the Eight Immortals."},{"id":"wanrong-dongyue-temple","name":"Dongyue Temple and Feiyun Tower, Wanrong","name_zh":"万荣东岳庙·飞云楼","pinyin":"Wànróng Dōngyuè Miào · Fēiyún Lóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4169,"lon":110.8293,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-dongyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dongyue Temple stands in the middle of Wanrong's county town, and its landmark is the Feiyun Tower at the front: a 23 m timber tower of three visible storeys under yellow, green and blue glazed-tile roofs, held up by four tall pillars that run its full height. The temple was rebuilt in 1291–1297 under the Yuan and repaired repeatedly in the Ming and Qing; behind the tower the main axis runs through the Wu gate, an offering hall, and halls for the Dongyue emperor and the king of hell. The tower is also a real-world reference for a location in the video game Black Myth: Wukong."},{"id":"xiaxian-duiyun-cave","name":"Duiyun Cave Taoist Temple, Xiaxian","name_zh":"堆云洞","pinyin":"Duīyún Dòng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.299,"lon":111.105,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaxian-duiyun-cave","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Taoist temple complex founded in the early Yuan dynasty, built in terraces of courtyards and cave rooms in a loess gully at Shangniu village in Shuitou town. In 1922 Jia Kangjie founded a secondary school at the temple, and in 1928 the Chinese Communist Party's Hedong Special Committee was formally set up here. It has been a provincial-level protected monument since 1985 and is used for patriotic education."},{"id":"yuanqu-erlang-temple-north-hall","name":"Erlang Temple North Hall, Yuanqu","name_zh":"二郎庙北殿","pinyin":"Èrláng Miào Běidiàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1956,"lon":112.0062,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanqu-erlang-temple-north-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single Yuan-dynasty hall in Beiyang village, the only building left of the Erlang Temple. It is three bays wide and covers about 74 square metres, under an overhanging gable roof with bracket sets below the eaves. It is worth a stop for anyone tracing early timber halls in southern Shanxi."},{"id":"jishan-nanyang-fawang-temple","name":"Fawang Temple, Nanyang","name_zh":"南阳法王庙","pinyin":"Nányáng Fǎwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5947,"lon":110.9327,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-nanyang-fawang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Fang Yin, a Daoist adept known as the Dharma King, with buildings rebuilt in the Yuan and repaired in the Ming and Qing. The main hall and the flanking Seven Stars and Nine Luminaries halls stand in one row, with side halls to Houtu and the Ten Marshals, all arranged around a large music pavilion. The pavilion is three bays square under a double-eaved cross-gable roof edged in yellow and green glaze."},{"id":"yuncheng-fenghuang-valley","name":"Fenghuang Valley Forest Park","name_zh":"凤凰谷","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Gǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.9625,"lon":111.0351,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-fenghuang-valley","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fenghuang Valley is a forest park in the Zhongtiao hills just south of Yuncheng, in Yanhu District, made up of Fenghuang Mountain and five valleys, with walking trails and a viewing corridor on the ridge. Part of the park has been developed as a leisure resort, with amusement rides and, according to the city tourism bureau, a glass suspension bridge and a cableway."},{"id":"ruicheng-five-dragons-temple","name":"Five Dragons Temple","name_zh":"广仁王庙","pinyin":"Guǎngrén Wáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.7306,"lon":110.682,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruicheng-five-dragons-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This was a rain-praying shrine to King Guangren, the spirit of the springs that once flowed out of the slope in front of it, which is why villagers call it the Five Dragons Temple. Its main hall, dated to the 830s under the Tang dynasty, is the second oldest dated timber building in China after the main hall of Nanchan Temple on Mount Wutai. The five-bay hall has a hip-gable roof and no columns inside, with a Qing-dynasty opera stage in front; it was dismantled and repaired in 2013–15 and reopened to visitors in January 2015."},{"id":"xinjiang-fusheng-temple","name":"Fusheng Temple, Xinjiang County","name_zh":"福胜寺","pinyin":"Fúshèng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.7527,"lon":111.168,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-fusheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Guang village with a gate, Mituo Hall and a rear hall, known for its Yuan and Ming painted sculpture, of which more than 30 figures and reliefs survive. Mituo Hall, on a platform 5 m high, holds a seated Amitabha flanked by standing bodhisattvas, with a hanging-relief Guanyin crossing the sea on the back of the main image. The three vaulted cave shrines on the lower floor of the rear hall, closed since the 1950s, opened to visitors in stages from October 2025 and in full by mid-2026."},{"id":"yuncheng-guanwang-temple","name":"Guanwang Temple, Yuncheng","name_zh":"运城关王庙","pinyin":"Yùnchéng Guānwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.0177,"lon":110.9901,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-guanwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hedong salt merchants founded this temple to Guan Yu in the Yuan dynasty so that they could pay their respects before shipping salt from the nearby lake, and in the Ming it was the largest Guan temple in Yuncheng city. After an earthquake destroyed it in 1555 it was rebuilt from 1597 with the merchants' money; today only the gate, offering hall and main hall are old, and the rebuilt rear tower holds a Guan Yu culture display and a Hedong folk-culture exhibition. Notable pieces include a stele of 1108 written by Emperor Huizong of Song and a stone tablet of oracle slips dated 1613."},{"id":"wanrong-hanquan-pagoda","name":"Hanquan Pagoda, Wanrong","name_zh":"旱泉塔","pinyin":"Hànquán Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.338,"lon":110.7743,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-hanquan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A square brick pagoda with eleven tiers of closely spaced eaves, about 31 m of it still standing, rises on the west foot of Gufeng Hill near Zhuoli village in south Wanrong. It dates from the Song or Jin period and began as the Kanquan Pagoda of a hill temple that has since gone; the lowest four storeys have brick-carved imitation timber brackets, and the upper eaves step out in plain corbelled brick. The tower now stands alone on the hillside."},{"id":"wenxi-houji-temple","name":"Houji Temple, Wenxi","name_zh":"后稷庙","pinyin":"Hòujì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4031,"lon":111.0578,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxi-houji-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple dedicated to Houji, the legendary patron of farming, in Wulü village in the west of Wenxi County. Only two buildings remain on the central axis: the Houji Hall and the opera stage facing it. The hall, three bays wide under a single overhanging-gable roof, carries an inscription dating it to 1292, the stage was repaired in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and a temple fair with opera is still held here."},{"id":"hejin-guduo-houtu-temple","name":"Houtu Temple, Guduo","name_zh":"古垛后土庙","pinyin":"Gǔduǒ Hòutǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.7071,"lon":110.7206,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejin-guduo-houtu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple south of Guduo, in Hejin, where only two buildings remain: the main hall and the opera stage that faces it, both Yuan-dynasty. A surviving stele records that the temple was founded in 1296 and extended in 1318, and the stage was divided into front and rear stage areas under the Qing. Both buildings are three bays wide with overhanging-gable roofs and early-style bracket sets under the eaves, so the temple suits anyone interested in early timber architecture and village opera stages."},{"id":"wanrong-houtu-temple","name":"Houtu Temple, Wanrong","name_zh":"万荣后土祠","pinyin":"Wànróng Hòutǔ Cí","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.3436,"lon":110.4789,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wanrong-houtu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This is the successor to the Han-dynasty shrine where emperors came to sacrifice to Houtu, goddess of the earth: Emperor Wu of Han made it the imperial site for the rite in the second century BC, and Tang and Song emperors also made offerings here. After Yellow River floods and shifts in its course the temple was moved more than once and settled on its present site in 1870; it covers about 25,000 square metres, with a Yuan-dynasty gate that doubles as a stage, an offering hall and main hall of the late Qing, and the Qiufeng Tower, a Ming-dynasty three-storey tower about 33 m high at the rear of the main axis. A ceremony honouring Houtu has been held here every year since 2003."},{"id":"jiangxian-jiangbei-grand-canyon","name":"Jiangbei Grand Canyon, Jiang County","name_zh":"绛北大峡谷","pinyin":"Jiàngběi Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5312,"lon":111.7797,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-jiangbei-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain gorge scenic area on Xiaobeishan in the Zhongtiao hills, in Moli township east of Jiang County, developed since 2012 around a river-rafting course of about 5 km through the canyon, which drops about 200 m. The park also has water-sports and adventure activities in summer and a snow-play area in winter."},{"id":"jiangxian-confucian-temple","name":"Jiangxian Confucian Temple","name_zh":"绛县文庙","pinyin":"Jiàngxiàn Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4879,"lon":111.5643,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Founded in 932 under the Later Tang, the Confucian temple in the middle of Jiang County town is now the county museum. Of a once large complex only two halls survive: the Ming-dynasty Dacheng Hall, three bays square under a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof with dense bracketing, and the Qing-dynasty Minglun Hall. The front courtyard has been turned into a square."},{"id":"xinjiang-jiangzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Jiangzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"绛州文庙","pinyin":"Jiàngzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6176,"lon":111.2244,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-jiangzhou-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The surviving buildings of this Confucian temple in the north-east of Xinjiang town are a screen wall, a ceremonial pool, a stone gate of 1521 and the Dacheng Hall, a large hall rebuilt in 1448 with a surrounding veranda, a double-eaved hip-gable roof and glazed ridge ornaments. The rest of the compound was destroyed in the civil war and the Cultural Revolution, and the side halls and the Dacheng gate are new. Stelae from the Song dynasty onwards stand in the grounds, among them a Song stele whose text was assembled from characters by the calligrapher Wang Xizhi."},{"id":"xinjiang-jiangzhou-grand-hall","name":"Jiangzhou Prefectural Office and Main Hall","name_zh":"绛州署·绛州大堂","pinyin":"Jiàngzhōu Shǔ · Jiàngzhōu Dàtáng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6141,"lon":111.215,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-jiangzhou-grand-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xinjiang town was the seat of Jiangzhou prefecture, and its government offices stood on a high bluff in the west of the old town; only the main hall and a second hall survive. The main hall was rebuilt under the Yuan dynasty and is seven bays wide, more than the usual five for a prefectural office, with a hip-gable roof and fewer interior columns than normal. A Northern Song stele of 1101 set into its north wall lists seven rules for officials, and the town's bell, drum and music towers stand close by on the same rise as part of the Jiangzhou Shu scenic area."},{"id":"jiangxian-jingyun-palace-jade-emperor-hall","name":"Jingyun Palace Jade Emperor Hall","name_zh":"景云宫玉皇殿","pinyin":"Jǐngyún Gōng Yùhuáng Diàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4514,"lon":111.3969,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-jingyun-palace-jade-emperor-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The only building left of the Jingyun Palace, a Taoist complex founded in 634 that burned down in 1933 apart from this hall. The Jade Emperor Hall is five bays wide under an overhanging gable roof and is Yuan-dynasty in style. It was repaired in 1984 and again with national funds in 2009."},{"id":"jishan-banzao-park","name":"Jishan Banzao Jujube Park","name_zh":"稷山板枣公园","pinyin":"Jìshān Bǎnzǎo Gōngyuán","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.633,"lon":110.9448,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-banzao-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This park of old jujube orchards around Yao, Taoliang and Jijiazhuang villages, north-west of Jishan town, holds more than 17,000 ancient jujube trees, many around a thousand years old. Since 2022 the villages have also been developed as a farm-tourism area with a jujube museum, a staged show performed largely by local jujube farmers, a sightseeing train and a children's dinosaur park. Autumn is the picking season, and the park holds a harvest festival."},{"id":"jishan-giant-buddha","name":"Jishan Giant Buddha","name_zh":"稷山大佛","pinyin":"Jìshān Dàfó","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.616,"lon":110.9795,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-giant-buddha","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A seated clay Buddha 16.68 m tall stands in the main hall of Dafo Temple, formerly Qingliang Monastery, in Jishan; it was modelled against a loess cliff, with a carved earth lower body and a clay-modelled upper body, and its colours have faded with age. The temple was founded under the Jin dynasty in 1142, and Yuan-dynasty clay figures survive in its Ten Kings and Luohan caves. Much of the older temple was lost in war, and the buildings around the hall are modern rebuilds in the Yuan style."},{"id":"xinjiang-beichi-jiwang-temple","name":"Jiwang Temple, Beichi","name_zh":"北池稷王庙","pinyin":"Běichí Jìwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4887,"lon":111.0403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-beichi-jiwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This small temple to Houji, the legendary Lord of Millet, stands in the north-west of Beichi village in Yangwang town and covers 1,241 sq m. An inscription on the main hall's ridge beam records its foundation in 1503 under the Ming; the main hall and the stage are Ming, while the side halls, for the Heavenly Kings, the god of wealth, Guan Yu and the Holy Mother, are Qing."},{"id":"jishan-jiwang-temple","name":"Jiwang Temple, Jishan","name_zh":"稷山稷王庙","pinyin":"Jìshān Jìwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6014,"lon":110.9726,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-jiwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This temple in the middle of Jishan town honours Houji, the legendary Lord of Millet and patron of farming. Along the main axis stand a gate, an offering hall, the tall Houji Tower, a pool with an eight-sided pavilion and the Jiang Yuan hall, which is the one Yuan-dynasty building; the rest is Ming and Qing, with bell and drum towers under glazed-tile roofs. The Houji Tower rises about 30 m on a raised platform, with a surrounding gallery of stone columns and carved balustrades."},{"id":"wanrong-jiwang-temple","name":"Jiwang Temple, Wanrong","name_zh":"万荣稷王庙","pinyin":"Wànróng Jìwáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4495,"lon":110.7743,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-jiwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Only the main hall and an opera stage survive of this temple to Houji, the legendary Lord of Millet, in Taizhao village. An inscription found during repairs in 2011 dates the main hall to 1023 under the Northern Song; it is a five-bay hall with a hip roof and no long beam spanning the interior, a rare surviving Northern Song form. The stage was rebuilt under the Yuan, moved in the 1920s and joined to the gate."},{"id":"wanrong-jiwangshan-pagoda","name":"Jiwangshan Pagoda, Wanrong","name_zh":"稷王山塔","pinyin":"Jìwángshān Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.3818,"lon":110.9895,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-jiwangshan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"An octagonal, seven-storey brick pagoda with closely spaced eaves stands on the summit of Jiwang Mountain in the east of Wanrong County, about 23 m of it still standing. An inscription inside records that it was built in 1087 under the Northern Song, and it once belonged to a temple of Houji, the legendary god of grain, which no longer exists. The first storey has brick-carved timber-style brackets and a corbelled ceiling inside, the upper storeys are plain, and the top finial has been lost to earthquakes and weather."},{"id":"xinjiang-jiyi-temple","name":"Jiyi Temple, Xinjiang County","name_zh":"稷益庙","pinyin":"Jìyì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5068,"lon":111.1152,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-jiyi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the legendary figures Hou Ji and Boyi in Yangwang town, popularly called Yangwang Temple. Only the main hall and the stage survive, both of the Ming dynasty. The hall's east, west and south walls carry 131 square metres of Ming murals completed in 1507, with more than 400 figures illustrating the legends of the Three Sovereigns, Yu the Great, Hou Ji and Boyi."},{"id":"wanrong-yanjing-li-family-mansion","name":"Li Family Mansion, Yanjing","name_zh":"闫景李家大院","pinyin":"Yánjǐng Lǐjiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.2907,"lon":110.7187,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-yanjing-li-family-mansion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Begun in the Daoguang reign (1821–1850) by the Li family, who moved from farming and study into trade, this courtyard compound in Yanjing village is often grouped with the Qiao and Wang family compounds as one of Shanxi's three great merchant houses. Eleven of its original twenty courtyards survive, with carved brick, stone and wood, tall Huizhou-style fire walls and a few courtyards with Gothic-style details linked to a family member who studied in England. Look for the screen wall carved with 365 different forms of the character for 'good' and for the family ancestral hall."},{"id":"linyi-linjin-county-yamen","name":"Linjin County Yamen","name_zh":"临晋县衙","pinyin":"Línjìn Xiànyá","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.0975,"lon":110.5475,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyi-linjin-county-yamen","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former county government compound of Linjin, founded in the Dade era (1297–1307) under the Yuan and covering about 16,000 square metres. Three halls stand on the main axis: the great hall, five bays wide, is the Yuan original, while the second and third halls date from the Qing."},{"id":"yuanqu-lishan-scenic-area","name":"Lishan Scenic Area, Yuanqu","name_zh":"历山风景区","pinyin":"Lìshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4161,"lon":111.9629,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanqu-lishan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lishan is a mountain scenic area in the south-east of Yuanqu County, made up of sections with separate entrances: Shunwangping, the meadow on the 2,358 m main summit, named for the legendary sage-king Shun, whom Chinese tradition places farming on Mount Li; Huangguman, the second-highest peak at 2,134 m; and Mihouyuan, where a large colony of wild macaques gathers. Shunwangping's subalpine meadow is nicknamed the 'grassland in the clouds', and a fourth section lies on the Xiaolangdi reservoir on the Yellow River. This is the Yuanqu side of Mount Li; the Qinshui side, in Jincheng, has its own scenic area."},{"id":"xinjiang-longxiang-guandi-temple","name":"Longxiang Guandi Temple","name_zh":"龙香关帝庙","pinyin":"Lóngxiāng Guāndì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6844,"lon":111.2875,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-longxiang-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to Guan Yu on a site of about 2,300 square metres, founded in the Song dynasty and repaired in the Yuan, Ming and Qing. Its main hall is a Yuan-dynasty building with a reduced-column frame and holds seven Yuan-dynasty painted figures, among them Guan Yu, Zhou Cang and Guan Ping, while the stage in front dates from 1831 and the offering hall is later. The temple survived the Cultural Revolution."},{"id":"xinjiang-longxing-temple","name":"Longxing Temple, Xinjiang","name_zh":"新绛龙兴寺","pinyin":"Xīnjiàng Lóngxīng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6188,"lon":111.2196,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-longxing-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple on a high mound at the north end of the main street of Xinjiang, where the Tang-era Biluo Stele was carved. Its main hall is a Yuan building holding painted Buddha figures in Song-Jin style, and behind it stands a 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda 42.4 m tall, rebuilt in 1784. The temple was founded in the early Tang as a Daoist temple and renamed Longxing Temple in 670."},{"id":"jishan-macun-brick-tombs","name":"Macun Brick-carved Tombs","name_zh":"马村砖雕墓","pinyin":"Mǎcūn Zhuāndiāo Mù","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5874,"lon":110.9207,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-macun-brick-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A family cemetery of the Duan clan dating from 1118 to 1181, under the Song and Jin, of which nine of the fourteen tombs have been excavated. Each underground chamber is built in brick as an imitation timber courtyard house, with carved doors, windows and brackets and, in some, a carved opera stage with actors and musicians. Visitors go down a stairway to a long passage with chambers leading off it, and guides explain the carvings."},{"id":"yuncheng-guocun-taishan-temple","name":"Main Hall of Taishan Temple, Guocun","name_zh":"郭村泰山庙大殿","pinyin":"Guōcūn Tàishānmiào Dàdiàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.2842,"lon":111.0583,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-guocun-taishan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"All that survives of a Taishan temple (dedicated to the god of Mount Tai) in Guocun village, Yanhu District, is its main hall, which beam inscriptions show to be Yuan in origin and to have been repaired several times in the Ming and Qing; the founding date of the temple is not recorded. The hall is five bays wide and six rafters deep, with a flush gable roof, bracket sets under the front eaves and two octagonal stone columns carved with dragons that were fitted in the Ming. It is one of several Yuan-period village halls on the Yuncheng plain listed as national monuments."},{"id":"yuncheng-shun-mausoleum","name":"Mausoleum and Temple of Emperor Shun","name_zh":"舜帝陵庙","pinyin":"Shùndì Língmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.125,"lon":110.9061,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-shun-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This is the tomb and temple of Emperor Shun, a legendary ruler of ancient China, on the Mingtiao ridge near Xiquma village in Beixiang town. The precinct has an outer city, a tomb garden with a brick-built mound about 3 m high and a temple compound with a stage, offering hall and main hall; the sleeping hall was rebuilt on its original site, and the national listing dates the temple buildings to the Yuan to Qing periods. Shundi Park and the Yanhu District Museum lie next to it and make up the wider scenic area."},{"id":"jiangxian-nanfan-stone-archway","name":"Nanfan Stone Archway and Stele Pavilion","name_zh":"南樊石牌坊及碑亭","pinyin":"Nánfán Shípáifāng Jí Bēitíng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6098,"lon":111.6047,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-nanfan-stone-archway","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Qing-dynasty memorial archway of blue limestone, built in 1804 to honour a local widow, the grandmother of a salt official. It is 12 m high and 8.5 m wide, with six pillars, and is carved from base to top with beasts, flowers and figures. Beside it, a small pavilion holds 15 inscribed stones in shapes such as fans, peaches, pomegranates and bells, written in several scripts."},{"id":"yuanqu-niandui-jade-emperor-temple","name":"Niandui Jade Emperor Temple","name_zh":"埝堆玉皇庙","pinyin":"Niànduī Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.2881,"lon":111.6869,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanqu-niandui-jade-emperor-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small village temple in Niandui, covering about 480 square metres, with a stage and a main hall that were both built in the Yuan dynasty. The stage is three bays square and the main hall three bays wide, each under an overhanging gable roof with bracket sets below the eaves. It suits a short stop for anyone interested in early opera stages and timber halls."},{"id":"yuncheng-zhaili-guandi-temple","name":"Offering Hall of Guandi Temple, Zhaili","name_zh":"寨里关帝庙献殿","pinyin":"Zhàilǐ Guāndìmiào Xiàndiàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1633,"lon":110.8853,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-zhaili-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhaili's Guandi temple, dedicated to the war god Guan Yu, has lost all but one building: the Yuan-dynasty offering hall, where offerings were presented before the main shrine. It is five bays wide and four rafters deep under an overhanging gable roof, with bracket sets along the eaves; the columns flanking the central bay are shifted slightly inward, a technique rare in surviving timber buildings."},{"id":"yuncheng-fanzhou-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Master Fanzhou","name_zh":"泛舟禅师塔","pinyin":"Fànzhōu Chánshī Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.0215,"lon":110.9347,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-fanzhou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single-storey round brick pagoda about 10 m high stands in Sibei village on the site of the vanished Baoguo Temple; it was built in 793 as the tomb pagoda of the monk Fanzhou, a member of the Tang imperial clan. The body is divided into eight bays by square pilasters, with a door on the south side, a finial of lotus petals and a flame jewel, and an epitaph dated 822 set into the north face. Most Chinese pagodas are polygonal, so a round plan is unusual; the pagoda was repaired in 2013–14."},{"id":"yongji-pujin-ferry","name":"Pujin Ferry and Puzhou Ancient City","name_zh":"蒲津渡与蒲州故城","pinyin":"Pújīndù Yǔ Púzhōu Gùchéng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8478,"lon":110.2857,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-pujin-ferry","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The site of the ancient Pujin crossing of the Yellow River, where the Tang rebuilt a pontoon bridge in 724 and anchored it with iron oxen on both banks. The iron oxen, iron figures, iron mountains and pillars excavated here are described as the largest iron group of their period found in China, and are displayed outdoors beside a site museum. The ruined city of Puzhou lies nearby, with Tang earthen walls and a Ming brick-faced inner wall, parts of which were restored in 2012–16."},{"id":"yongji-pujiu-temple","name":"Pujiu Temple","name_zh":"普救寺","pinyin":"Pǔjiù Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8461,"lon":110.3282,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongji-pujiu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Pujiu Temple is the setting of the love story in The Story of the Western Wing, in which the scholar Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying meet, and its brick pagoda is nicknamed the Yingying Pagoda after the heroine. The temple is recorded from the Sui dynasty at the latest, was destroyed by fire in 1920 and left only the Ming-dynasty pagoda and three cave shrines, and its main buildings were restored from 1986. The Yongji culture and tourism bureau counts the pagoda among China's four famous ancient echo structures, with a toad-like croak heard from around its base."},{"id":"xiaxian-qiangxia-guandi-temple","name":"Qiangxia Guandi Temple","name_zh":"墙下关帝庙","pinyin":"Qiángxià Guāndìmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1351,"lon":111.1604,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaxian-qiangxia-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to Guan Yu in Qiangxia village, Peijie town, founded in 1347 under the Yuan and repaired or extended in the Ming, Qing and Republican periods. Its walled yard, about 53 m by 38 m, still holds a stage tower, a viewing pavilion, an offering pavilion, the main hall and side halls to the ox king and the earth god. It was raised to national-monument status in 2019."},{"id":"xinjiang-qiaogoutou-jade-emperor-temple","name":"Qiaogoutou Jade Emperor Temple","name_zh":"乔沟头玉皇庙","pinyin":"Qiáogōutóu Yùhuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.7716,"lon":111.1577,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-qiaogoutou-jade-emperor-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple to the Jade Emperor in Qiaogoutou, laid out around a main hall dated to the Yuan dynasty. In front of the hall stand two Ming-dynasty stages side by side, once part of a row of three, and their walls still carry inscriptions left by Qing-dynasty Puju opera troupes. A side hall, the Mawang Hall, keeps 17 square metres of Qing murals."},{"id":"jiangxian-qiaosi-stele-tower","name":"Qiaosi Stele Tower","name_zh":"乔寺碑楼","pinyin":"Qiáosì Bēilóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4584,"lon":111.435,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-qiaosi-stele-tower","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial tower of 1837 built by the Zhou family and their circle in honour of the wealthy Zhou Wanzhong, in Qiaosi village. It rises about 15 m from a stone platform, with five stele chambers holding seven steles on its front, and its upper part is carved on all four sides with brick balustrades, window tracery and hanging flowers. Lotus ponds lie around it, and the inscriptions are written in regular, clerical and seal script."},{"id":"ruicheng-qingliang-temple","name":"Qingliang Temple, Ruicheng","name_zh":"清凉寺","pinyin":"Qīngliáng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.7824,"lon":110.8265,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruicheng-qingliang-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside temple near Potou village, also called Potou Temple, of which only the Great Hall survives. An inscription dates its foundation to the Tang and the hall to 1303, in the Yuan dynasty. The hall is five bays wide and three deep, stands on a 2 m platform with a front terrace, and its interior uses a reduced-pillar plan, with two main pillars nearly 1 m across."},{"id":"jishan-qinglong-temple","name":"Qinglong Temple, Jishan","name_zh":"青龙寺","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5891,"lon":110.9218,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-qinglong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple in Ma village, founded in 662 under the Tang and kept in Yuan style through later repairs. Its two courtyards hold eight halls, and the main, middle and Qielan (guardian-deity) halls carry about 196 square metres of Yuan and Ming murals. It is one of several national monuments around Jishan, and the Macun brick tombs lie a short walk away."},{"id":"wenxi-guojiazhuang-qiu-archway","name":"Qiu Family Stone Archway, Guojiazhuang","name_zh":"郭家庄仇氏石牌坊及碑亭","pinyin":"Guōjiāzhuāng Qiúshì Shípáifāng Jí Bēitíng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.3024,"lon":111.1622,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxi-guojiazhuang-qiu-archway","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A finely carved stone archway 15 m high, with six pillars and five gateways under a triple-eaved hip-and-gable roof, built in the Tongzhi and Guangxu reigns (1862–1908) to honour the mother of the Qing salt commissioner Qiu Jiamo. It stands on the road at the entrance to Guojiazhuang village, with five stele pavilions to members of the Qiu family on either side."},{"id":"yongji-qiyan-temple-pagoda-forest","name":"Qiyan Temple Pagoda Forest","name_zh":"栖岩寺塔林","pinyin":"Qīyán Sì Tǎlín","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.7844,"lon":110.3591,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-qiyan-temple-pagoda-forest","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A pagoda forest of memorial and relic pagodas, in brick and stone, at the site of the Upper Qiyan Temple in the Zhongtiao Mountains. The national list dates them from the Tang dynasty to the Qing, so the group spans about a thousand years of pagoda building."},{"id":"quanzhang-guandi-temple","name":"Quanzhang Guandi Temple","name_zh":"泉掌关帝庙","pinyin":"Quánzhǎng Guāndìmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6577,"lon":111.0849,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhang-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Only the main hall survives of the Guandi temple in Quanzhang village, at the foot of the Linggong Terrace site in Xinjiang County. It is a Ming-dynasty hall five bays wide and five deep, with a double-eaved hip-gable roof and glazed tiles, repaired in 1495 and several times after. A veranda of carved stone columns runs around it, with dragons whose claws grip objects of many kinds, and some columns carry dates from the Chenghua and Hongzhi reigns."},{"id":"hejin-ruan-twin-beilou","name":"Ruan Twin Stele Towers","name_zh":"阮氏双碑楼","pinyin":"Ruǎnshì Shuāngbēilóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5064,"lon":110.6535,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejin-ruan-twin-beilou","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two Qing-dynasty memorial towers standing side by side in Xiliang village, built to honour the virtue of a father and son: Ruan Tingshi, who held the Qing military title of Wude Zuoqiwei, and his son Ruan Lingyun. The western tower is the father's and the eastern the son's, and each carries four stone plaques, one on each side, inscribed with two-character words praising upright conduct and loyalty. It is a small village monument, worth a short stop for visitors exploring Hejin's rural heritage."},{"id":"ruicheng-city-god-temple","name":"Ruicheng City God Temple","name_zh":"芮城城隍庙","pinyin":"Ruìchéng Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.6937,"lon":110.685,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruicheng-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The city god temple of Ruicheng, known locally as the South Temple, a large group of old buildings in the middle of the county town. Its main hall dates from the Song dynasty and the forecourt pavilion from the Yuan, with the other halls from the Ming and Qing, so the compound shows about 800 years of building styles. A gallery of steles holds many stones from the Northern Wei onwards, including a Tang stele of 798."},{"id":"xinjiang-sanguan-temple","name":"Sanguan Temple, Xinjiang","name_zh":"三官庙","pinyin":"Sānguān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6135,"lon":111.2205,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-sanguan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Yuan-dynasty temple built in 1341, known locally as the Gourd Temple, in a lane in the town of Xinjiang. Its square offering hall with a cross-gable roof is joined directly to the two-bay main hall, which holds Yuan painted clay figures of deities, generals and attendants."},{"id":"linyi-zhangcun-shengan-temple-pagoda","name":"Sheng'an Temple Pagoda, Zhangcun","name_zh":"张村圣庵寺塔","pinyin":"Zhāngcūn Shèng'ān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.217,"lon":110.7638,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyi-zhangcun-shengan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda in Zhangcun village, in the north of Linyi County, and the only part left of Sheng'an Temple, which was demolished in 1958. Brick carved to imitate timber brackets, doors and windows decorates the lower storeys, and the ground-floor chamber, about 2.5 m high, has a corbelled ceiling. It was listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"xiaxian-shangfeng-shengmu-temple","name":"Shengmu Temple, Shangfeng","name_zh":"上冯圣母庙","pinyin":"Shàngféng Shèngmǔ Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.2451,"lon":111.308,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaxian-shangfeng-shengmu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple named for the Holy Mother (Shengmu) in Shangfeng village, Niangzhang township, added to the national list in 2013. The list dates its buildings from the Yuan dynasty through the Ming and Qing."},{"id":"ruicheng-shengtian-lake","name":"Shengtian Lake","name_zh":"圣天湖","pinyin":"Shèngtiān Hú","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.7232,"lon":110.8926,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruicheng-shengtian-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A lake on the Yellow River shore in Ruicheng County, run as a leisure scenic area with lakeside paths and boating. The main seasonal draw is winter, when wild white swans gather from about November, with numbers rising through December before they leave in late February or early March; the beach they use is fenced off from visitors. It suits a relaxed half-day outing, especially for bird-watching."},{"id":"yongji-shentan-grand-canyon","name":"Shentan Grand Canyon, Yongji","name_zh":"神潭大峡谷","pinyin":"Shéntán Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8304,"lon":110.4224,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-shentan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shentan Grand Canyon is a gorge scenic area in the Zhongtiao Mountains just south of Yongji. In spring 2026 it reopened as 'Shentan · Bull Demon King Carefree Valley', an immersive attraction themed on the novel Journey to the West, with evening performances and a food street."},{"id":"ruicheng-shousheng-temple-pagoda","name":"Shousheng Temple Brick Pagoda, Ruicheng","name_zh":"巷口寿圣寺砖塔","pinyin":"Xiàngkǒu Shòushèng Sì Zhuāntǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.7029,"lon":110.6906,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruicheng-shousheng-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda, 46 m tall, which survived the destruction of its temple in 1941 and is a landmark in the north-east of Ruicheng town. Built in the Northern Song, it has imitation-timber brackets on its lower three storeys and a hollow interior with about 20 square metres of Song Buddhist murals. The temple buildings around it are recent, and the pagoda was restored in 2012."},{"id":"wanrong-nanyang-shousheng-temple-pagoda","name":"Shousheng Temple Pagoda, Nanyang","name_zh":"南阳村寿圣寺塔","pinyin":"Nányángcūn Shòushèng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4969,"lon":110.7907,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-nanyang-shousheng-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda from the former Shousheng Temple in Nanyang village, Liwang township, Wanrong County. It is octagonal, with its eaves stepped out in corbelled brick, brick-carved timber-style brackets under the first storey and a square chamber inside; the finial is lost. Two other national monuments share the temple name, in Ruicheng and in Xinjiang County, so check the village before setting out."},{"id":"xinjiang-beisu-shousheng-temple","name":"Shousheng Temple, Beisu Village","name_zh":"新绛寿圣寺大殿","pinyin":"Xīnjiàng Shòushèng Sì Dàdiàn","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.7495,"lon":111.182,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjiang-beisu-shousheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Only the main hall survives of a temple founded in 961, in the middle of Beisu village in Xinjiang County. The five-bay hall has an overhanging gable roof with glazed ridge ornaments and a column-reduced interior plan, and its form marks it as Yuan. The temple's painted clay figures are lost."},{"id":"xiaxian-sima-guang-tomb-and-shrine","name":"Sima Guang Tomb and Shrine, Xiaxian","name_zh":"司马温公祠·司马光墓","pinyin":"Sīmǎ Wēngōng Cí · Sīmǎ Guāng Mù","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1994,"lon":111.1178,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaxian-sima-guang-tomb-and-shrine","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This is the family burial ground of Sima Guang (1019–1086), the Northern Song chief minister and historian who compiled the Zizhi Tongjian, on the Mingtiao ridge north-west of Xiaxian, with a shrine complex built around it. It has a stele hall holding his broken spirit-way stele, an ancestral shrine whose present form dates from 1762, the Yuqing Chan Temple (founded in 1065 as the tombs' incense temple, with painted clay figures in its hall) and the Sushui Academy. A bronze statue of Sima Guang stands in the square outside."},{"id":"yongji-stork-tower","name":"Stork Tower","name_zh":"鹳雀楼","pinyin":"Guànquè Lóu","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8384,"lon":110.2652,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongji-stork-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Stork Tower is a modern reconstruction of a tower on the Yellow River bank made famous by a short poem of the Tang poet Wang Zhihuan, and it is counted as one of China's Four Great Towers. The original was a Northern Zhou military watchtower that was destroyed in the wars of the early 13th century; the present 73.9 m tower, built in Tang style on a steel and concrete frame, was finished in 2002. Its six interior floors carry exhibits on the history and culture of Puzhou, and the surrounding scenic area covers about 2 sq km."},{"id":"yuncheng-anyi-pagoda","name":"Taipingxingguo Temple Pagoda (Anyi Pagoda)","name_zh":"太平兴国寺塔","pinyin":"Tàipíng Xīngguó Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.0641,"lon":111.0373,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-anyi-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This octagonal brick pagoda in the Anyi district is built in Song style and is taken by scholars to be the tomb pagoda of a monk of Taiping Xingguo Temple, which no longer stands. It was originally thirteen storeys and now has eleven, after earthquakes shook off its top, and estimates of its height before repair range from about 60 m to 71 m. Cracks were repaired and a new top built in a state-funded restoration from 2012 to 2015."},{"id":"xiaxian-dayang-taishan-temple","name":"Taishan Temple, Dayang","name_zh":"大洋泰山庙","pinyin":"Dàyáng Tàishānmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1944,"lon":111.2708,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaxian-dayang-taishan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Taishan temple (dedicated to the god of Mount Tai) in Dayang village keeps one building, a main hall whose beam inscriptions record repairs in 1304 and 1571 and whose frame still has Yuan-dynasty character. It is five bays wide under an overhanging gable roof, with a porch along the front where only two columns stand under the eaves, so from outside it reads as three bays."},{"id":"jiangxian-nanliu-taishan-temple","name":"Taishan Temple, Nanliu","name_zh":"南柳泰山庙","pinyin":"Nánliǔ Tàishān Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5589,"lon":111.6056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-nanliu-taishan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to the Mount Tai god standing alone in the fields about 1 km south-west of Nanliu village, on a site of about 7,300 square metres. Its main hall and the Houtu and Shengmu halls on either side keep Yuan-dynasty structures, and the main hall has a glazed-tile ridge. It is of most interest to visitors who follow early timber architecture in southern Shanxi."},{"id":"hejin-taitou-temple","name":"Taitou Temple, Hejin","name_zh":"河津台头庙","pinyin":"Héjīn Táitóu Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5838,"lon":110.7073,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejin-taitou-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple complex in the town centre of Hejin, dedicated to the Eastern Peak god of Mount Tai, with ten halls still standing along a long north-south axis. From the south the axis runs through the main gate, a middle gate, the offering hall and the Dongyue Hall, with a Houtu shrine, a Western Peak hall and side halls on either flank. The buildings range from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty, and inscriptions record repairs in the Ming and Qing periods."},{"id":"jiangxian-taiyin-temple","name":"Taiyin Temple","name_zh":"太阴寺","pinyin":"Tàiyīn Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4933,"lon":111.6486,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxian-taiyin-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Buddhist temple beside Zhangshang village, founded in the Northern Wei period and rebuilt several times since, including in 1180 under the monk Ciyun. Its south hall, five bays wide, is a Jin-dynasty building and houses a reclining Buddha carved from a single piece of wood; a Yuan inscription records that it was carved during the 1180 restoration. A fire in 1916 destroyed the north hall, which was replaced by a family shrine moved here from nearby, and the Jin murals and the heads of three Buddha figures were sold off in 1923."},{"id":"yuncheng-xiezhou-tongshan-granary","name":"Tongshan Charitable Granary, Xiezhou","name_zh":"解州同善义仓","pinyin":"Xièzhōu Tóngshàn Yìcāng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.9111,"lon":110.8574,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-xiezhou-tongshan-granary","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A charitable granary compound of 1880 in Xiezhou, built under Yan Naijue, son of Yan Jingming, as one of the Tongshan granaries he set up in the Yuncheng area. The compound runs about 164 m from north to south and about 60 m across, and what survives is the entrance gatehouse, seven bays wide, a front courtyard and a rear yard. It is a quiet stop for visitors interested in late Qing local charity and architecture, and can be combined with a visit to the Guandi Temple."},{"id":"linyi-miaodao-temple-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas of Miaodao Temple","name_zh":"妙道寺双塔","pinyin":"Miàodào Sì Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1483,"lon":110.7689,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyi-miaodao-temple-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two square brick pagodas face each other about 80 m apart in Linyi County town, all that survives of the former Miaodao Temple, once also called Yanta or Shuangta Temple; the east pagoda stood just outside the temple. The west pagoda, about 22 m tall, originally had nine storeys and keeps six; an inscription from its underground chamber dates it to 1069 under the Northern Song. The east pagoda, about 23 m tall and intact at seven storeys, is of similar form and probably of a similar date."},{"id":"yongji-wangu-temple","name":"Wangu Temple, Yongji","name_zh":"万固寺","pinyin":"Wàngù Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8157,"lon":110.3637,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-wangu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wangu Temple is a Buddhist temple of Northern Wei origin at the foot of the Zhongtiao Mountains in Puzhou town, and the national listing dates its surviving buildings to the Ming dynasty. Only three structures remain of the old complex: the Yaoshi Cave, the thirteen-storey Duobao Buddhist pagoda standing on the hillside among old cypresses, and the two-storey, five-bay Wuliang Hall, a 'beamless hall' of blue brick with no timber frame inside."},{"id":"yuanqu-wangxian-grand-canyon","name":"Wangxian Grand Canyon, Yuanqu","name_zh":"望仙大峡谷","pinyin":"Wàngxiān Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.3522,"lon":111.8477,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanqu-wangxian-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wangxian Grand Canyon is a gorge scenic area in Wangxian village, in the hills of south-eastern Yuanqu County, where a stream cuts through a narrow rock canyon. Its main sights are the chain of waterfalls and pools known as the Three Pools of Wangxian and, at the head of the gorge, the Houhe reservoir. It lies in the same township as the Lishan scenic area, so the two can be combined."},{"id":"wanrong-wanquan-confucian-temple","name":"Wanquan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"万泉文庙","pinyin":"Wànquán Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.3613,"lon":110.8033,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-wanquan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Confucian temple of Wanquan, a former county town, where the Dacheng Hall enshrining Confucius was rebuilt in 1439 under the Ming. The five-bay hall has a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof and painted beams, and the courtyard holds seven old cypresses. Only the hall and a glazed-tile screen wall with a dragon relief are original; the gate, pond and other halls are recent rebuilds."},{"id":"yongji-wulao-peak","name":"Wulao Peak, Yongji","name_zh":"五老峰","pinyin":"Wǔlǎo Fēng","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8217,"lon":110.5875,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-wulao-peak","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wulao Peak is a mountain scenic area in the southern Zhongtiao Mountains, once known as Donghua Mountain and counted among the famous Taoist mountains of northern China. The forestry ministry approved a national forest park here in 1992 covering about 104 sq km. Visitors can climb through the woods or take the cable car, and the area has a glass-floored walkway on a cliff and a forest slide."},{"id":"xiaxian-confucian-temple","name":"Xiaxian Confucian Temple","name_zh":"夏县文庙","pinyin":"Xiàxiàn Wénmiào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1351,"lon":111.219,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaxian-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Dacheng Hall of Xiaxian's Confucian temple is the only building that survived the 1556 Jiajing earthquake, which destroyed the rest of the temple. It is seven bays wide and five deep under a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof, with some interior columns left out to open up the floor, and it has ridge ornaments and gable decoration in glazed tile."},{"id":"ruicheng-xihoudu","name":"Xihoudu","name_zh":"西侯度遗址","pinyin":"Xīhóudù Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.6971,"lon":110.3001,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruicheng-xihoudu","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Palaeolithic site on a terrace above a bend of the Yellow River, found in 1959 and excavated in 1961, 1962 and 2005, which produced stone tools, fossils of 22 vertebrate species and burnt animal bones that are taken as China's earliest evidence of human use of fire. A 2020 study put the deposits at about 2.43 million years old, replacing earlier estimates of about 1.8 million. The site is set up for visitors, with an exhibition hall of stone tools and fossils, a protection stele beside an original excavation point and a torch platform above the river."},{"id":"hejin-fancun-xuandi-temple","name":"Xuandi Temple, Fancun","name_zh":"玄帝庙","pinyin":"Xuándì Miào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6735,"lon":110.7092,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejin-fancun-xuandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Taoist temple to Xuandi (Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior) in the north-east corner of Fancun village, begun in 1569 and finished at the start of the 17th century with the backing of officials that included a minister of war and a grand secretary. Four Ming buildings stand on the central axis across three courtyards, the gate, an incense pavilion with three tiers of eaves, the main hall and a rear hall, and fragments of the blue and green glazed roof tiles survive; it is nicknamed the Glazed Tile Temple (Liuli Miao). After 1949 it served as a grain store, which helped it survive the Cultural Revolution, and the heritage department repaired it in 2014."},{"id":"wanrong-xue-xuan-family-temple","name":"Xue Xuan Family Temple and Cemetery","name_zh":"薛瑄家庙及墓地","pinyin":"Xuē Xuān Jiāmiào Jí Mùdì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.4756,"lon":110.7932,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanrong-xue-xuan-family-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The family temple and cemetery of Xue Xuan (1389–1464), a Ming official and Neo-Confucian scholar from Hejin whose tablet was placed in the Confucian temple in 1572. The single-courtyard family temple in the middle of Pingyuan village, Wanrong County, was founded in 1619 by a sixth-generation descendant and its present buildings are Qing; his tomb, a mound about 1.5 m high, lies on the east side of the cemetery."},{"id":"hejin-yellow-river-ladder-cliff","name":"Yellow River Great Ladder Cliff","name_zh":"黄河大梯子崖","pinyin":"Huánghé Dà Tīzi Yá","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.6809,"lon":110.5894,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejin-yellow-river-ladder-cliff","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A zigzag stone stairway cut by hand into a sheer cliff on the Yellow River bank in Banpo village, Xiahua township, is the centrepiece of this scenic area; the provincial tourism department dates it to more than 1,500 years ago. The steps are between about 2 and 4 m wide, and the chisel marks are still clear on the cliff face. A path along the top leads on to a stream valley with small waterfalls, and the summit looks down on the Yellow River as it comes out through the Shimen ('Stone Gate') gorge."},{"id":"hejin-yellow-river-longmen-scenic-area","name":"Yellow River Longmen Scenic Area, Hejin","name_zh":"黄河龙门","pinyin":"Huánghé Lóngmén","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.661,"lon":110.6065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejin-yellow-river-longmen-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"At Yumenkou the Yellow River leaves the long Shanxi–Shaanxi gorge and widens onto the plain, the spot behind the saying about carp leaping the Dragon Gate to become dragons. The village-run scenic area has a street built in Ming and Qing style, a boat route up the river gorge, a viewing platform on Longmen hill and a monument to the Yumenkou campaign of the Anti-Japanese War. Seven bridges of different types span the river here, from an iron-chain bridge first built in 1949 to modern cable-stayed spans."},{"id":"pinglu-yellow-river-plank-road","name":"Yellow River Plank Road Remains, Pinglu","name_zh":"黄河栈道遗址","pinyin":"Huánghé Zhàndào Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":34.8169,"lon":111.3881,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinglu-yellow-river-plank-road","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cliffside plank road and towpath ran along the north bank of the Yellow River in Pinglu County between Sanmen township and Laoyashi and was in use from the Han to the Qing dynasties; remains survive in more than 20 places, adding up to over 3 km. The timber is gone; what remains is the rock-cut ledge with rows of beam sockets, grooves worn by haulage ropes and inscriptions including some dated to the Tang and Song. The best-known stretch, near Dujiazhuang hamlet, keeps more than 680 m of the road above the river, with netting fitted above it to stop falling rock."},{"id":"linyi-luyuantou-yongxing-temple-pagoda","name":"Yongxing Temple Pagoda, Lüyuantou","name_zh":"闾原头永兴寺塔","pinyin":"Lǘyuántóu Yǒngxīng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1158,"lon":110.7616,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyi-luyuantou-yongxing-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A square brick pagoda of the Northern Song, dated by its form, stands in fields about 200 m north-east of Lüyuantou village, just south of Linyi. It was listed as a provincial site in 2004 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"yuanqu-songcun-yongxing-temple","name":"Yongxing Temple, Songcun","name_zh":"宋村永兴寺","pinyin":"Sòngcūn Yǒngxīng Sì","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1737,"lon":111.8259,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanqu-songcun-yongxing-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple, also called Chongxing Temple, at the south-east corner of Songcun in Huafeng township, in the hills of south-east Yuanqu County. Its north hall, five bays wide, is the main building and keeps Jin-dynasty features, and a hexagonal Qing-dynasty brick pagoda with dense eaves stands in the compound; the county gazetteer dates the temple's founding to the Western Wei, in 548. The gate and offering hall are modern reconstructions."},{"id":"pinglu-yuban-ancient-salt-road","name":"Yuban Ancient Salt Road","name_zh":"虞坂古盐道","pinyin":"Yúbǎn Gǔ Yándào","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.0062,"lon":111.1659,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinglu-yuban-ancient-salt-road","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"An old salt-carrying road about 8 km long through the Zhongtiao hills, linking Zhangdian town in Pinglu County with the Yuncheng Salt Lake basin. Rock walls on both sides give it a trough-like cross-section, hence its other name, the Green Stone Trough, and its surface, 2 to 4 m wide, still shows cart ruts and hoof marks. A modern road replaced it in 1956 and it was rediscovered in the 1980s."},{"id":"jishan-yubi-city-ruins","name":"Yubi City Ruins","name_zh":"玉壁城遗址","pinyin":"Yùbìchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.5631,"lon":110.9414,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishan-yubi-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The remains of Yubi, a Northern Dynasties fortress built on a loess plateau with cliffs on three sides, now lying among farmland and houses in Jishan County. The Western Wei built it in 538, and in 546 the Eastern Wei chancellor Gao Huan besieged it for more than 60 days in the Battle of Yubi. About 300 m of the rammed-earth south wall survives, standing 2–8 m high, and the walled area covered some 2.6 sq km."},{"id":"xiaxian-yuwangcheng-ruins","name":"Yuwangcheng Ruins","name_zh":"禹王城遗址","pinyin":"Yǔwángchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"140000","region":"Shanxi","city":"Yuncheng","lat":35.1843,"lon":111.1743,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaxian-yuwangcheng-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The remains of Anyi, an early capital of the Wei state in the Warring States period and later a Han-dynasty county seat. Stretches of its rammed-earth walls survive, best on the north and west sides of the 13 square kilometre outer city, along with a mound about 9 m high that marks the Yu King Temple site in the south-east corner of the inner city. Most of the ground is farmland, so it is a place for walking the walls rather than for seeing buildings."},{"id":"ejin-ancient-juyan-marsh","name":"Ancient Juyan Marsh","name_zh":"古居延泽","pinyin":"Gǔ Jūyánzé","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":41.9616,"lon":101.5942,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ejin-ancient-juyan-marsh","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ancient Juyan Marsh is a scatter of small lakes among dunes and red-grass flats in Ejin Banner, in the old Juyan area. The Ejin Banner authorities promote it for its sunset views over the lakes, which they call 'Sunset on Nine Lakes', and for the Tang poet Wang Wei's lines about Juyan."},{"id":"alxa-right-banner-badain-jaran-temple","name":"Badain Jaran Temple","name_zh":"巴丹吉林庙","pinyin":"Bādānjílín Miào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":39.8043,"lon":102.4257,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=alxa-right-banner-badain-jaran-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Badain Jaran Temple is a small Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist temple built in 1755 beside the lake of Sumin Jaran in the heart of the Badain Jaran Desert, originally a branch of Yanfu Temple in Bayanhot. Its two-storey sutra hall, with a hipped roof and corner towers, and a single stupa make it the only old temple in Alxa Right Banner whose buildings survive largely intact. It has been a national protected unit since 2013."},{"id":"ejin-ceke-port-cultural-tourism-area","name":"Ceke Port International Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"策克口岸国际文化旅游区","pinyin":"Cèkè Kǒu'àn Guójì Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":42.5837,"lon":101.2773,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ejin-ceke-port-cultural-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ceke is a road and rail land port of entry (kou'an) in the Gobi of Ejin Banner, used mainly for coal imports. Its international cultural tourism area is promoted by the Ejin Banner authorities as a place to see the port's national gate and to learn about the banner's culture and history. It suits visitors curious about how a working land port looks."},{"id":"bayanhot-dingyuanying-old-town","name":"Dingyuanying Old Town","name_zh":"定远营古城","pinyin":"Dìngyuǎnyíng Gǔchéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":38.8392,"lon":105.6746,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bayanhot-dingyuanying-old-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dingyuanying, also called Wohu Cheng, is a walled Qing-dynasty garrison town in the old centre of Bayanhot, founded in 1730 and handed to the Alxa Mongol prince as his seat the following year. Its surviving buildings include the prince's mansion, Yanfu Temple (the princes' family temple, begun in 1731), traditional houses and remains of the wall and gates, and the site was renovated in 2017. It suits visitors interested in Qing frontier history and Mongol princely rule."},{"id":"ejin-dongfeng-space-city","name":"Dongfeng Space City","name_zh":"东风航天城","pinyin":"Dōngfēng Hángtiānchéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":41.0162,"lon":100.239,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ejin-dongfeng-space-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dongfeng Space City is the tourism name for the area around the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Ejin Banner, the launch site for China's crewed Shenzhou spacecraft. Ejin Banner and national ethnic-affairs materials describe it as a national study-tour demonstration base and one of the first ten science-tourism bases in China, and recall how the Ejin people moved their banner seat three times from 1958 to give up their best pastureland for the site. Access to the launch centre itself is controlled; the banner's publicity department has advertised launch-viewing trips from a designated viewing point at Bayan Bogd in Dongfeng town."},{"id":"bayanhot-fuyin-temple-beisi","name":"Fuyin Temple (Beisi)","name_zh":"福因寺","pinyin":"Fúyīn Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":38.9787,"lon":105.9038,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bayanhot-fuyin-temple-beisi","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fuyin Temple, known as Beisi (North Temple), is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in a mountain valley of the Helan range, founded in 1804 and named by the Jiaqing Emperor in 1806. About fifteen temples and more than a hundred buildings make up the complex, with a white stupa some 10 metres tall beside the main hall. After Nansi it is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Alxa."},{"id":"bayanhot-guangzong-temple-nansi","name":"Guangzong Temple (Nansi)","name_zh":"广宗寺","pinyin":"Guǎngzōng Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":38.6627,"lon":105.8036,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bayanhot-guangzong-temple-nansi","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Guangzong Temple, known as Nansi (South Temple), is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in a pine-wooded valley on the western side of the Helan Mountains, built in the 1750s–1760s and named by the Qianlong Emperor in 1760. At its height it had nearly 2,900 rooms and more than 1,500 monks, earning the nickname 'little Ta'er Temple'. Visitors see the archway gate, the halls and stupas, and painted Buddha figures carved into the cliff face at the valley mouth."},{"id":"ejin-juyan-lake","name":"Juyan Lake","name_zh":"居延海","pinyin":"Jūyán Hǎi","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":42.3224,"lon":101.2295,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ejin-juyan-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Juyan Lake is the end of the Heihe, or Ejin, River, which runs more than 800 km through Qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia before filling two hollows in the Gobi to form an east and a west lake, together called Juyan Hai. The scenic area on the shore has reed beds, waterbirds and Gobi scenery, with horses, cattle and camels grazing nearby. It suits birdwatchers and photographers."},{"id":"ejin-khara-khoto","name":"Khara-Khoto (Heicheng)","name_zh":"黑城遗址","pinyin":"Hēichéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":41.7645,"lon":101.144,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ejin-khara-khoto/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Khara-Khoto, or Heicheng ('Black City'), is a ruined walled city in the Gobi beside the Ejin River, founded under the Western Xia and expanded under the Yuan, when it was the seat of Yijinai Circuit; it was abandoned after the Ming army took it in 1372. Its rammed-earth walls, about 450 by 380 metres and up to 9 metres high, still stand around the foundations of Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic buildings, though drifting sand has buried parts of the interior. Russian and British expeditions in the early 20th century carried off large numbers of Tangut-language manuscripts and Buddhist paintings."},{"id":"alxa-right-banner-mandela-mountain-rock-art","name":"Mandela Mountain Rock Art","name_zh":"曼德拉山岩画","pinyin":"Màndélā Shān Yánhuà","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":39.8899,"lon":103.7741,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=alxa-right-banner-mandela-mountain-rock-art","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mandela Mountain has more than 6,000 known rock engravings on dark rock faces, of which 4,234 in a core area of about 18 square kilometres have been catalogued. They show ibex, argali sheep, deer, horses and camels, hunting and herding scenes and dancers, pecked, ground and incised mostly in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, with later Tibetan, Mongolian and Tangut inscriptions. Some panels have been fenced and are watched by staff since vandalism in 2001."},{"id":"alxa-left-banner-moon-lake","name":"Tengger Dalai Moon Lake","name_zh":"腾格里达来月亮湖","pinyin":"Ténggélǐ Dálái Yuèliang Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":38.4626,"lon":105.155,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=alxa-left-banner-moon-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tengger Dalai Moon Lake is a lake of about three square kilometres in the heart of the Tengger Desert, with a dark-sand beach about a kilometre long on one shore. A lakeside resort runs activities including dune-bashing in six-wheeled vehicles, go-karts, sandboarding, paragliding, camel and horse riding and boating. It suits a desert-and-lake day trip or overnight stay from Bayanhot."},{"id":"alxa-left-banner-tengger-swan-lake","name":"Tengger Desert Swan Lake","name_zh":"腾格里沙漠天鹅湖","pinyin":"Ténggélǐ Shāmò Tiān'é Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":38.6813,"lon":105.2829,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=alxa-left-banner-tengger-swan-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Swan Lake is a narrow lake on the eastern edge of the Tengger Desert, ringed by dunes with oleaster trees along its shore. Migratory swans and other waterbirds stop here in spring and autumn, and the ger camp beside the lake offers meals, overnight stays and activities such as sandboarding, camel and horse riding and boating. It suits a short desert-and-lake trip from Bayanhot."},{"id":"alxa-left-banner-tonghu-grassland","name":"Tonghu Grassland","name_zh":"通湖草原","pinyin":"Tōnghú Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Alxa","lat":37.6578,"lon":104.8298,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=alxa-left-banner-tonghu-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tonghu is a sandy lake basin in the south of the Tengger Desert, with reeds, grass and scrub around its lakes and dunes on all sides. Visitors stay in ger groups and camp tents, ride camels or horses, and can take a camel trek north into the dunes to an artificial oasis. The scenic area looks across the sand to Shapotou in Ningxia."},{"id":"damao-aolunsumu-city-ruins","name":"Aolunsumu City Ruins","name_zh":"敖伦苏木城遗址","pinyin":"Áolún Sūmù Chéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":41.96,"lon":110.4861,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=damao-aolunsumu-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Aolunsumu, also written Olon Süme, is a ruined walled city in the steppe of Damao Banner, identified since the 1930s as a possible northern capital of the Ongud, a Turkic-speaking people allied to the Mongol rulers and prominent under the Yuan dynasty. Low banks mark a rectangular enclosure with many building platforms inside it. Nestorian Christian objects found in Damao, such as a gilt-bronze cross, show the religious mix of the Ongud, and the site suits visitors interested in medieval Inner Asian history."},{"id":"baotou-wudangzhao","name":"Badekar Monastery (Wudangzhao)","name_zh":"五当召","pinyin":"Wǔdāng Zhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.7915,"lon":110.3078,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baotou-wudangzhao/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Badekar Monastery, known in Chinese as Wudangzhao, is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the hills of Shiguai District, founded in the early 18th century and enlarged from 1749. It is the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Inner Mongolia: six main halls, three residences of reincarnate lamas and a mausoleum for their remains are scattered over the slopes of Jihuluntu mountain, with more than ninety earthen lamas' lodgings among them. It suits visitors interested in Tibetan Buddhist architecture and can be seen in a day from Baotou."},{"id":"damao-bailing-naadam-park","name":"Bailing Naadam Park","name_zh":"百灵那达慕园区","pinyin":"Bǎilíng Nàdámù Yuánqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":41.6713,"lon":110.4854,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=damao-bailing-naadam-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Bailing Naadam Park is a purpose-built festival ground on the edge of Bailingmiao, with an oval racecourse, a main grandstand for about 11,000 people, six stables holding 360 horses and a sales area for local goods. It hosts the Damao Banner's summer Naadam, whose programme includes the traditional wrestling, archery and horse racing; the 34th festival opened here on 19 July 2024 and the 35th on 31 July 2025. It suits visitors timing a trip to the festival, whose dates change each year."},{"id":"baotou-baogang-industrial-tourism-area","name":"Baogang Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"包钢工业旅游区","pinyin":"Bāogāng Gōngyè Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.6571,"lon":109.7719,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baotou-baogang-industrial-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The tour area is run by the Baotou Iron and Steel (Baogang) group at its works in Kundulun District, one of the three large steel complexes begun in the 1950s. Its route takes in an exhibition on the story of building Baogang, a steam-locomotive display, a culture hall and plaza at Blast Furnace 1, which tapped its first iron on 26 September 1959 with Premier Zhou Enlai at the opening ceremony twenty days later, and, by arrangement, views of working production lines. It was named a National Industrial Tourism Demonstration Base in 2022 and suits visitors interested in heavy industry and the history of Baotou."},{"id":"tumed-right-chilechuan-scenic-area","name":"Chilechuan Scenic Area, Tumed Right Banner","name_zh":"敕勒川风景区","pinyin":"Chìlèchuān Fēngjǐng Qū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.5743,"lon":110.5224,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tumed-right-chilechuan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chilechuan Scenic Area is a group of sights in Tumed Right Banner, covering about 16 square kilometres between the Daqing Mountains and the Yellow River. Its anchor is the Chilechuan Museum in Salaqi, a branch of the Inner Mongolia Museum with galleries on regional history, local revolutionary history and folk culture; the area also takes in Jiufeng Mountain, an orchard-picking and village-life area at Dayantan, a liquor-making culture park and a leather and fur market. It suits visitors who want a museum visit combined with outings from Baotou or Hohhot."},{"id":"guyang-chunkunshan","name":"Chunkunshan","name_zh":"春坤山","pinyin":"Chūnkūn Shān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":41.0057,"lon":110.6031,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyang-chunkunshan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chunkunshan is a mountain area of about 30 square kilometres in Guyang County, the highest range in Baotou, with a main peak of 2,340 metres. Its upper slopes are gently rounded and carry extensive alpine meadow, while the steeper flanks have rock outcrops, birch stands and caves; named sights include Hongqi Peak, a herb garden and a cave gully. It suits hikers and day visitors from Baotou."},{"id":"shiguai-huawu-renjian","name":"Huawu Renjian Garden Park","name_zh":"花舞人间","pinyin":"Huāwǔ Rénjiān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.6598,"lon":110.0484,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiguai-huawu-renjian","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Huawu Renjian is a commercial leisure park in the hills of the Xiguitu new district of Shiguai District, modelled on a park of the same name near Chengdu. It combines urban-farming plots and a children's creative farm with a castle-style play area, a lawn wedding venue, a winery and a French-style small town. It is a modern attraction built for families and day-trippers from Baotou rather than a historic site."},{"id":"damao-jimusitai","name":"Jimusitai Scenic Area","name_zh":"吉穆斯泰","pinyin":"Jímùsītài","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":41.7157,"lon":110.1902,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=damao-jimusitai","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jimusitai, which Chinese sources render as Huaguoshan or 'Flower-and-Fruit Mountain', is a group of rocky hills with weathered stone formations in Damao Banner. Walking trails of about 4 km run through the 'stone forest' and past old elm trees to the Bayanbaogeda obo, a stone-cairn shrine, and horse riding, archery and horse shows are among the activities on offer. It suits visitors who want hill scenery and Mongolian culture on a trip from Bailingmiao."},{"id":"baotou-kundulun-zhao","name":"Kundulun Zhao (Faxi Temple)","name_zh":"昆都仑召","pinyin":"Kūndūlún Zhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.7022,"lon":109.7931,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baotou-kundulun-zhao","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kundulun Zhao, given the name Faxi Temple under the Qing, is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the foothills on the northern edge of Baotou's Kundulun District. Its small Yellow Temple dates from 1729, and the complex became the banner temple of the Urad Middle Banner, once with more than twenty halls, white stupas and dozens of lamas' houses. The Yellow Temple pairs a Tibetan-style prayer hall with a Chinese-style hipped-roof sanctuary behind it, and the monastery suits visitors interested in Mongol Buddhist architecture who want a short trip from the city."},{"id":"jiuyuan-machi-ancient-city","name":"Machi Ancient City and Zhaowan Tombs","name_zh":"麻池城址和召湾墓群","pinyin":"Máchí Chéngzhǐ Hé Zhàowān Mùqún","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.5838,"lon":109.8032,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuyuan-machi-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Machi is the site of Jiuyuan, a frontier city founded by the state of Zhao in the Warring States period and kept as the seat of Jiuyuan Commandery under the Qin and of Wuyuan Commandery under the Han. It is laid out in two joined enclosures, a north and a south city, and the rammed-earth wall of the south city, more than 2,000 years old, can still be climbed. The Zhaowan Han tombs nearby have yielded roof tiles inscribed 'Chanyu tianjiang', linked to the Xiongnu ruler Huhanye's visit to the Han court in 33 BC."},{"id":"tumed-right-meidaizhao","name":"Meidaizhao Monastery","name_zh":"美岱召","pinyin":"Měidài Zhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.6036,"lon":110.7038,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tumed-right-meidaizhao/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Meidaizhao is a walled monastery in Tumed Right Banner that began as a fortified town built by the Tumed Mongol leader Altan Khan in the 16th century and later became a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist temple. Earth walls faced with stone, about 5 metres high, enclose halls of the Ming period, and the murals, about 1,650 square metres in all, include scenes from the Buddha's life and a group of Mongol donor figures. It suits visitors interested in Mongol history and Buddhist art."},{"id":"jiuyuan-meilegen","name":"Meilegen Scenic Area","name_zh":"梅力更","pinyin":"Méilìgēng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.6447,"lon":109.4449,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuyuan-meilegen","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Meilegen is a mountain valley on the south side of the Wula Mountains in Jiuyuan District, with a Gelug-school lamasery at its mouth and a stream, cypress woods and waterfalls further up; one waterfall drops about 60 metres. The lamasery, Meilegen Zhao (Guangfa Temple), was a centre of the Mongolian-language Buddhist chanting tradition of the Urad Mongols, and the valley was historically a route through the Yin Mountains. It suits hikers and visitors interested in Mongolian Buddhist heritage who want a half-day outing from Baotou."},{"id":"donghe-nanhai-wetland","name":"Nanhai Wetland","name_zh":"南海湿地","pinyin":"Nánhǎi Shīdì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.5572,"lon":110.0287,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donghe-nanhai-wetland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Nanhai Wetland lies on the north bank of the Yellow River at the southern edge of Baotou's Donghe District, a lake and floodplain wetland that formed after the river shifted south. About 2,990 hectares in all, it takes in a provincial wetland nature reserve and Baotou Yellow River National Wetland Park, with Nanhai Lake and Erhaizi lake fringed by reeds and open woodland and grass. Lakeside paths, viewpoints and a sand beach make it an easy half-day outing from the city."},{"id":"baotou-northern-weapon-city","name":"Northern Weapon City","name_zh":"北方兵器城","pinyin":"Běifāng Bīngqì Chéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.6788,"lon":109.8738,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baotou-northern-weapon-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Northern Weapon City is an open-air display of retired weapons set in a landscaped park with lakes in Baotou's Qingshan District, planned and set up by the Beizhong Group (Northern Heavy Industries), part of China North Industries Group. It shows more than 40 pieces, including artillery, armoured vehicles, aircraft, missiles and steam locomotives, among them the first anti-aircraft gun, missile and jet fighter developed in China. It is listed as a National Industrial Tourism Demonstration Base under the name Northern Heavy Industries Industrial Tourism Zone and suits visitors interested in military and industrial history."},{"id":"guyang-qin-great-wall","name":"Qin Great Wall, Guyang","name_zh":"固阳秦长城遗址","pinyin":"Gùyáng Qín Chángchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":41.1204,"lon":110.2068,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyang-qin-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This stretch of the Great Wall was built under the First Emperor of Qin more than 2,200 years ago and runs for about 120 km through the hills of Guyang County, north of Baotou, as a defence against the Xiongnu. A Qin Great Wall National Cultural Park in the county, with a visitor centre, a frontier post-station building, a lecture hall and a walking trail along the wall, was under construction in 2024 and was receiving visitors by 2025. It suits visitors interested in early imperial China and the northern frontier."},{"id":"baotou-saihan-tala-urban-grassland","name":"Saihan Tala Urban Grassland","name_zh":"赛汗塔拉城中草原","pinyin":"Sàihàn Tǎlā Chéngzhōng Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":40.6268,"lon":109.898,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baotou-saihan-tala-urban-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Saihan Tala is a large area of native grassland in the middle of Baotou, protected by a city regulation since 2007 and covering about 10,680 mu (roughly 7 square kilometres) as of 2020. Cattle and sheep graze on it, and deer and more than 30 species of wild animals live in the park. It suits visitors who want to walk or sit on open grassland without leaving the city."},{"id":"damao-shihua-grassland","name":"Shihua Grassland (Poetry and Painting Grassland)","name_zh":"诗画草原","pinyin":"Shīhuà Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":41.671,"lon":110.6694,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=damao-shihua-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shihua Grassland is a purpose-built tourist camp on open steppe in Damao Banner, made up of arcs of white ger-style buildings around landscaped plazas. In 2022 Baotou named it one of the first seven night-time culture and tourism consumption zones in the city, and in 2024 it was a branch venue of the banner's Naadam festival. It is a modern commercial development rather than a traditional encampment, suited to visitors who want an organised grassland outing near Bailingmiao."},{"id":"damao-silu-mengjun","name":"Silu Mengjun Grassland Tourism Area","name_zh":"丝路梦郡","pinyin":"Sīlù Mèngjùn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Baotou","lat":41.3524,"lon":111.1571,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=damao-silu-mengjun","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Silu Mengjun is a purpose-built tourist complex on the grassland near Xilamuren town in Damao Banner, laid out as a compound of ger-style buildings around central plazas. In 2022 Baotou named it one of the first seven night-time culture and tourism consumption zones in the city, and in 2024 it was a branch venue of the banner's Naadam festival. It is a modern commercial development, suited to visitors who want an organised grassland outing with an evening programme."},{"id":"wuyuan-hetao-agricultural-culture-expo-park","name":"Hetao Agricultural Culture Expo Park","name_zh":"河套农耕文化博览园","pinyin":"Hétào Nónggēng Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":41.0552,"lon":108.2063,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-hetao-agricultural-culture-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hetao Agricultural Culture Expo Park is a farming-themed attraction in Wuyuan County, built by a local agricultural company within the Baliqiao farm-tourism complex. Its Hetao Farming Museum shows more than 6,000 farm tools from the Stone Age to the present day, and the grounds include a 476-metre model of the Yellow River, a solar-terms square and greenhouses. It is used for school study tours and suits families with children."},{"id":"hanggin-rear-banner-hetao-liquor-tourism-area","name":"Hetao Liquor Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"河套酒业工业旅游区","pinyin":"Hétào Jiǔyè Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":40.8961,"lon":107.16,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanggin-rear-banner-hetao-liquor-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hetao Liquor Industrial Tourism Area is a factory-visit attraction at the Hetao liquor company's distillery in Shanba, the Hanggin Rear Banner seat. The Hetao brand grew out of a distillery founded there in 1952, is listed as a China Time-honoured Brand, and is best known for its baijiu. It suits visitors interested in how local spirits are made."},{"id":"dengkou-nalin-lake","name":"Nalin Lake","name_zh":"纳林湖","pinyin":"Nàlín Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":40.543,"lon":106.6335,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengkou-nalin-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Nalin Lake is a reed-fringed lake and wetland on the Nalintaohai farm in Dengkou County, at the western edge of the Hetao plain. It is run as an ecotourism area, and Bayannur's official food-themed tourism route lists the fish meals served beside it. It suits a short lakeside stop rather than a full day."},{"id":"dengkou-sanshenggong-water-conservancy-scenic-area","name":"Sanshenggong Water Conservancy Scenic Area","name_zh":"三盛公水利风景区","pinyin":"Sānshènggōng Shuǐlì Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":40.3095,"lon":107.0309,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengkou-sanshenggong-water-conservancy-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sanshenggong is a large barrage on the Yellow River, built between 1959 and 1961, that feeds the Hetao irrigation district. The scenic area covers the barrage and about 55 km of river channel, with sandbars and more than 30,000 mu of wetland, and it straddles Dengkou County in Bayannur, Hanggin Banner in Ordos and Alxa Left Banner. A lake park lies beside the east end of the barrage, on the Hanggin Banner bank."},{"id":"hanggin-rear-banner-ulan-buh-sand-sea-lake","name":"Ulan Buh Sand Sea Lake","name_zh":"乌兰布和沙海湖","pinyin":"Wūlánbùhé Shāhǎi Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":40.7986,"lon":106.721,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanggin-rear-banner-ulan-buh-sand-sea-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Ulan Buh Sand Sea Lake tourist area lies at the eastern end of the Ulan Buh Desert in Hanggin Rear Banner, where dunes meet a lake, with the Yin Mountains to the north and the Yellow River to the south. It offers sandboarding, rides by camel or dune buggy, desert camping and evening bonfires, and has hosted events such as a desert Naadam. It has been developed as a tourism area since 2015."},{"id":"urad-front-wuliangsuhai-lake","name":"Ulansuhai Nur (Wuliangsuhai)","name_zh":"乌梁素海","pinyin":"Wūliángsùhǎi","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":40.8255,"lon":108.763,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/urad-front-wuliangsuhai-lake/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wuliangsuhai, or Ulansuhai Nur, is a shallow freshwater lake on the north bank of the Yellow River in Urad Front Banner, formed from an old river channel and fed mainly by drainage from the Hetao irrigation district. Reed beds cover much of it, and it is a stopover for more than 120 species of bird, among them whooper swans and spot-billed pelicans, as well as an important freshwater fishery. The ecotourism area is in Erdenburag sumu on the lake's south-western side."},{"id":"wuyuan-anti-japanese-war-memorial-park","name":"Wuyuan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Park","name_zh":"五原抗战纪念园","pinyin":"Wǔyuán Kàngzhàn Jìniànyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":41.119,"lon":108.2694,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-anti-japanese-war-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Wuyuan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Park commemorates the Wuyuan campaign of early 1940, in which Chinese forces under Fu Zuoyi retook Wuyuan, Linhe and Shanba from Japanese forces after about two months of fighting. The park holds the Inner Mongolia Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall and a street laid out for urban-fighting displays. It suits visitors interested in the war in northern China and in Bayannur's local history."},{"id":"urad-middle-xinhure-ancient-city","name":"Xinhure Ancient City","name_zh":"新忽热古城","pinyin":"Xīnhūrè Gǔchéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":41.5935,"lon":109.1937,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urad-middle-xinhure-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xinhure is the ruin of a large walled town of the Yuan and Ming periods on the grassland of Urad Middle Banner, a roughly square enclosure about a kilometre across. Lines of earth wall can still be traced round the enclosure, and the interior is now farmland. It suits visitors interested in frontier towns of the Mongol era who are happy to see an unmarked site."},{"id":"dengkou-yinshan-rock-paintings","name":"Yinshan Rock Paintings","name_zh":"阴山岩画","pinyin":"Yīnshān Yánhuà","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Bayannur","lat":40.7202,"lon":106.4375,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengkou-yinshan-rock-paintings/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Yinshan rock paintings are engraved images on cliffs and boulders along the Langshan range, spread over Dengkou County and the Urad banners of Bayannur. Surveys in 1976–80 counted more than 10,000 images of animals, hunters, riders, chariots and dancers, with later inscriptions in Turkic, Uyghur, Tangut and Mongolian, dating from the Neolithic to recent centuries. Bayannur's official archaeology route takes visitors to the Gel Aobao Gou and Molehetu Gou panels in Dengkou."},{"id":"aohan-hot-spring-town","name":"Aohan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"敖汉温泉城","pinyin":"Áohàn Wēnquán Chéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.9308,"lon":119.9799,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day or an overnight stay","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aohan-hot-spring-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hot-spring health resort at Reshuitang village in the hills of south-west Aohan Banner, about 695 m above sea level beside planted pine woods. The spring comes out at about 68°C and is rich in radon, and the wellness complex includes a Mongolian and Chinese medicine hospital. It suits a spa stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"hexigten-arshihaty-granite-forest","name":"Arshihaty Granite Forest","name_zh":"阿斯哈图石林","pinyin":"Āsīhātú Shílín","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.9538,"lon":117.5175,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hexigten-arshihaty-granite-forest","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A park area of the Hexigten Global Geopark in the north of Hexigten Banner, where granite columns and crags 5 to 30 metres high stand along a mountain ridge at about 1,700 metres above sea level. The rock is notable for its strong horizontal jointing, and sections of the forest have names such as Moon Castle, Sworn Brothers and Eagle with Folded Wings. The name comes from a Mongolian word meaning steep rocks."},{"id":"ar-horqin-baoshan-liao-tombs","name":"Baoshan and Hansumu Tombs","name_zh":"宝山、罕苏木墓群","pinyin":"Bǎoshān, Hǎnsūmù Mùqún","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":44.0732,"lon":119.6444,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ar-horqin-baoshan-liao-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Baoshan is an early Liao cemetery of Khitan nobles on a gentle slope, enclosed by earth walls about 200 m long on the east and west sides, with gates and barbicans on the east and south, and the tombs lie in three rows in the middle and northern part. Tomb 1 is dated to 923, the earliest dated tomb of a Khitan aristocrat known, and its chambers hold about 150 square metres of murals painted in three tiers, excavated in 1993. The listing also covers the Hansumu tombs, the cemetery of the Yelü Yuzhi family, a separate group in the same banner where stone figures lie scattered over the ground."},{"id":"aru-horqin-chaganhaote-ruins","name":"Chaganhaote Ruins (White City)","name_zh":"查干浩特城址","pinyin":"Chágānhàotè Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":44.5044,"lon":119.7716,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aru-horqin-chaganhaote-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chaganhaote, or the White City, is the ruined capital that scholars identify with Ligdan Khan, the last Great Khan of the Mongols, and it is among the best-preserved earthen city sites in Inner Mongolia. Rammed-earth walls up to five metres high and palace foundations survive at the south foot of Mount Abaga, with a walled inner city 255 metres square inside an outer wall; the whole complex, with the East and West White Cities and a ritual site on the mountain, covers 690,000 square metres. Finds from the palace area include glazed dragon-scale bricks and tiles and white granite column bases."},{"id":"aohan-chengzishan-site","name":"Chengzishan Site","name_zh":"城子山遗址","pinyin":"Chéngzishān Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.4836,"lon":119.8352,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aohan-chengzishan-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chengzishan is a hilltop site of the Lower Xiajiadian culture, about 4,000 years old, whose central area on the summit covers about 150,000 square metres. A low stone wall about 1.3 km long and 0.5 to 1 metre high encloses six zones with nine gates, and archaeologists found 232 circular stone rings, taken to be altars, and 80 square courtyards inside it, as well as a boar's head carved from the rock at the south-west corner. It is one of eight national heritage sites in Aohan Banner, which is known for its prehistoric archaeology."},{"id":"chifeng-museum","name":"Chifeng Museum","name_zh":"赤峰博物馆","pinyin":"Chìfēng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.2461,"lon":118.8936,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chifeng-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chifeng's main history museum stands on the bank of the Xibo River in the city's new district; its present building opened in 2010, and it is now part of the Chifeng Museum Institute. Four permanent exhibitions cover the prehistoric Hongshan culture, Bronze Age finds from the Xiajiadian cultures, the Liao dynasty, and the Yuan to Qing periods. The collection holds more than 80,000 items, including 133 first-class national relics."},{"id":"chifeng-north-great-mosque","name":"Chifeng North Great Mosque","name_zh":"赤峰清真北大寺","pinyin":"Chìfēng Qīngzhēn Běi Dàsì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.2781,"lon":118.9509,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chifeng-north-great-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Founded in 1739 and rebuilt between 1742 and 1747, this is regarded as the largest and oldest mosque in the Chifeng area, and it was listed nationally in 2013. It follows a Chinese courtyard plan on a central axis, with a gate, side halls and a prayer hall, and a two-storey hexagonal minaret pavilion about 30 metres high rising behind the prayer hall. Carved brick, stone and wood decoration includes Arabic inscriptions and geometric and plant patterns."},{"id":"hexigten-daguangdingzi-wind-resort","name":"Daguangdingzi Wind Culture Resort","name_zh":"大光顶子","pinyin":"Dàguāngdǐngzi","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.6787,"lon":117.8835,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hexigten-daguangdingzi-wind-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A wind-themed leisure resort on high grassland in Hexigten Banner, set among wind turbines. It combines an amusement park, a windmill-themed park, a ski area and flower fields, and hosts a music festival and a kite festival. It suits families and groups looking for rides and events rather than quiet scenery."},{"id":"hexigten-dali-lake","name":"Dali Lake","name_zh":"达里湖","pinyin":"Dálǐ Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.3835,"lon":116.6608,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hexigten-dali-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A saline lake without an outlet on the Hexigten Banner steppe, dammed by lava flows, with the Hunshandak sand dunes on its southern side and a group of extinct volcanoes to the north-west. Swans, geese, gulls and cranes use it in summer, and it forms part of the Hexigten Global Geopark. The lake freezes from about mid-November to early April."},{"id":"ningcheng-daoxugou-scenic-area","name":"Daoxugou Scenic Area","name_zh":"道须沟","pinyin":"Dàoxūgōu","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.4564,"lon":118.3183,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningcheng-daoxugou-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Daoxugou is a forested valley scenic area inside the Heilihe National Nature Reserve in the far west of Ningcheng County, covering about 1,180 hectares. Its sights include a granite 'stone-sea' forest and glacial features such as ice potholes, boulders left by glaciers and stone rivers, together with lakes, a waterwheel park, a yurt-style park and walking trails through the woods. It suits walkers and photographers who are prepared for a long drive into the mountains."},{"id":"chifeng-erdaojingzi-site-museum","name":"Erdaojingzi Site and Museum","name_zh":"二道井子遗址","pinyin":"Èrdàojǐngzi Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.1995,"lon":119.049,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chifeng-erdaojingzi-site-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Erdaojingzi is a settlement of the Lower Xiajiadian culture, about 4,000 years old, found in 2009 during construction of the Chifeng–Chaoyang expressway and named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of that year. The expressway was routed through a tunnel beneath the site so that the excavated houses, courtyards, storage pits, roads and walls could be kept where they were. An air-supported membrane building now covers the dig as the site museum, opened in 2018, where visitors see the ancient structures in place and watch 4D films about the site."},{"id":"ningcheng-falun-temple","name":"Falun Temple","name_zh":"法轮寺","pinyin":"Fǎlún Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.7111,"lon":118.8908,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningcheng-falun-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Falun Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist temple built in 1745 in a mixed Mongol and Han style, and served as the banner temple of the Harqin Mongol princes. Its surviving buildings include the Hall of Heavenly Kings, bell and drum towers, the Zhantan Hall, the main hall, two Arhat halls and side halls, which make it a useful place to see Qing-period temple architecture in the Harqin area."},{"id":"ongniud-fanzong-temple","name":"Fanzong Temple","name_zh":"梵宗寺","pinyin":"Fànzōng Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.9612,"lon":118.986,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ongniud-fanzong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fanzong Temple is a Gelug Tibetan Buddhist monastery that served as the banner temple of the Ongniud princes; it was moved to its present hillside site in 1743, and the Qianlong emperor gave it its name. Its halls climb the slope in three courtyards, from the Hall of Heavenly Kings through the two-storey main sutra hall to the Maitreya hall, with painted and carved decoration on the roofs and beams. Damaged in the Cultural Revolution, it has been restored since 1987 and was registered as a place of worship in 1995."},{"id":"harqin-fuhui-temple","name":"Fuhui Temple","name_zh":"福会寺","pinyin":"Fúhuì Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.833,"lon":118.4924,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harqin-fuhui-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fuhui Temple was the banner temple of Harqin and the family temple of the princes, built in the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty. It has subsidiary temples beside a main axis of gate, Hall of Heavenly Kings, sutra hall and main hall, and about 450 lamas lived there at its height. It stands in Damiao village about a kilometre from the Harqin princes' palace and is managed together with the museum there."},{"id":"bairin-left-han-kuangsi-cemetery","name":"Han Kuangsi Family Cemetery","name_zh":"韩匡嗣家族墓地","pinyin":"Hán Kuāngsì Jiāzú Mùdì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":44.3959,"lon":118.87,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bairin-left-han-kuangsi-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The cemetery of Han Kuangsi, a Liao-dynasty official, and his family lies on the south slope of Baiyinhan Mountain in Bairin Left Banner. It has two groups of graves: the north gully, where Han's own tomb is ringed by a stone-built cemetery wall, and the west gully, with more than twenty graves; rows of building foundations and scattered Liao bricks and tiles can be made out on the ground to the south-east."},{"id":"ningcheng-heicheng-han-city-site","name":"Heicheng Han City Site","name_zh":"黑城城址","pinyin":"Hēichéng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.3806,"lon":118.8174,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningcheng-heicheng-han-city-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Heicheng is the site of a walled city of the Han dynasty beside Heicheng village in Youbeiping town, identified in Chinese sources as Pinggang, the Western Han seat of Youbeiping commandery. Banks of the old earthen walls still mark out large rectangular enclosures, which have been fenced off from the surrounding fields as a protected area. The site suits visitors with a particular interest in the Han dynasty in this region."},{"id":"chifeng-hongshan-sites","name":"Hongshan Sites","name_zh":"红山遗址群","pinyin":"Hóngshān Yízhǐ Qún","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.2948,"lon":118.9755,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chifeng-hongshan-sites","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hongshan, a reddish hill on the north-east edge of Chifeng that gave the city its name, is the type site of the Hongshan culture (about 4700 to 2900 BC), first recorded there in 1908 by the Japanese archaeologist Torii Ryūzō. The protected group takes in Hongshan-culture settlement remains and later Xiajiadian-culture ritual sites and stone-coffin graves on and around the hill. The Hongshan Culture Museum at the foot of the hill, opened in 2019, shows the finds in a permanent exhibition of seven sections with models and multimedia."},{"id":"bairin-right-huifu-temple","name":"Huifu Temple","name_zh":"荟福寺","pinyin":"Huìfú Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.5237,"lon":118.6773,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bairin-right-huifu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Huifu Temple is a Gelug Tibetan Buddhist temple in the middle of Daban, built in 1706 under Prince Urgun of the Bairin Right Banner and Princess Rongxian, a daughter of the Kangxi emperor. Its three courtyards run from the Hall of Heavenly Kings through the main hall to the sutra hall, with murals and woodblock prints inside, and the temple has been in worship use again since 1995. Large temple fairs are held there several times a year, including on the fifteenth day of the fourth and sixth lunar months."},{"id":"harqin-prince-palace","name":"Ka La Qin Palace","name_zh":"喀喇沁亲王府","pinyin":"Kālǎqìn Qīnwángfǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.8383,"lon":118.5005,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harqin-prince-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The palace was the seat of the Harqin princes under the Qing dynasty, begun in 1679 and enlarged in 1783 to the standard of a prince's mansion. It covers about 40,000 square metres in three parallel axes and now houses the Harqin Banner Museum, whose collection is mostly Qing and Republican-period furniture, porcelain, Tibetan Buddhist objects and Mongol household items. Gungsangnorbu, the last prince and a reformer, was born here in 1872."},{"id":"bairin-liao-imperial-tombs","name":"Liao Imperial Tombs and Qingzhou White Pagoda","name_zh":"辽陵及奉陵邑","pinyin":"Liáolíng Jí Fènglíngyì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":44.2023,"lon":118.5137,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bairin-liao-imperial-tombs","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This national heritage listing covers the burial grounds of the Liao emperors and the towns that served them, spread across Bairin Left and Bairin Right Banners. At Qingzhou, a seven-storey octagonal brick and timber pagoda built in 1047–49 for the mother of Emperor Xingzong rises about 73 metres above the plain, covered in relief carvings that include 56 guardian kings. At Zuzhou, in Bairin Left Banner, rammed-earth walls with four gates and corner towers still stand beside Zuling, the tomb of the dynasty's founder Abaoji and his empress Shulü Ping, completed in 927."},{"id":"ningcheng-liao-zhongjing-site","name":"Liao Middle Capital (Zhongjing) Site","name_zh":"辽中京遗址","pinyin":"Liáo Zhōngjīng Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.5697,"lon":119.1554,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningcheng-liao-zhongjing-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhongjing was the Middle Capital of the Liao dynasty, walled in 1007 and laid out in three nested enclosures on the model of the Northern Song capital Kaifeng. Little remains above ground apart from stretches of wall and three Liao pagodas, the tallest of them the Daming Pagoda, a 13-storey octagonal brick tower about 80 metres high. The Liao Zhongjing Museum beside it has a model of the city layout and an exhibition on its history."},{"id":"bairin-left-liao-shangjing-site","name":"Liao Shangjing Site","name_zh":"辽上京遗址","pinyin":"Liáo Shàngjīng Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.9628,"lon":119.3902,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/bairin-left-liao-shangjing-site/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shangjing, founded in 918, was the first capital of the Khitan-built Liao dynasty, and its ruins beside the Shali River form a national archaeological site park. The northern imperial city still has rammed-earth walls several metres high, which visitors can follow on a boardwalk through the horseshoe-shaped barbican of the west gate, and the remains of a large Buddhist temple stand on a rise inside the walls. The Liao Shangjing Museum beside the site shows tomb murals, epitaphs, clay arhat figures from the temple and a model of the city."},{"id":"harqin-lingyue-temple","name":"Lingyue Temple","name_zh":"灵悦寺","pinyin":"Língyuè Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.9256,"lon":118.693,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harqin-lingyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lingyue Temple stands in the middle of Jinshan town and was built in the Kangxi reign as the family temple of the emperor's fifth daughter, Princess Heshuo Duanjing, and her husband. The symmetrical Qing layout runs from a gate with bell and drum towers through front, middle and main halls to a sutra store, with decorated eaves and a century-old silk tree in the courtyard. It once had more than 100 halls and about 500 resident lamas, and worshippers come on the first and fifteenth of the lunar month and at Buddhist festivals."},{"id":"harqin-jinshan-longquan-temple","name":"Longquan Temple, Jinshan","name_zh":"锦山龙泉寺","pinyin":"Jǐnshān Lóngquán Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.9337,"lon":118.6641,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harqin-jinshan-longquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Longquan Temple is a small hillside temple about 3 km north-west of Jinshan, built in three terraces below Lion Rock beside a spring that gives it its name, Dragon Spring. The compound has a gate, front hall, side halls and a rear main hall, with a reclining stone lion in the courtyard and old pines and cypresses. Two stone tablets stand before the side halls: one of 1341 records the temple's building in 1317 under the Yuan, and one of 1917 records its repair by the Harqin prince."},{"id":"harqin-meilingu-ski-resort","name":"Meilingu Ski Resort","name_zh":"美林谷滑雪场","pinyin":"Měilíngǔ Huáxuěchǎng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.68,"lon":118.249,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harqin-meilingu-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A ski resort in the mountains of Harqin Banner with eight runs, three for beginners and five for intermediate and advanced skiers, and a 194-room hotel. It was a venue for the alpine skiing and snowboard events of the 14th National Winter Games in 2024 and hosted the opening snowboard parallel giant slalom races of the 2024–25 FIS World Cup in late 2024, on a run certified by the International Ski Federation. It suits skiers and snowboarders, from beginners upwards."},{"id":"hexigten-mushixia-fortifications-site","name":"Mushixia Wartime Fortifications Site","name_zh":"侵华日军木石匣工事旧址","pinyin":"Qīnhuá Rìjūn Mùshíxiá Gōngshì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.7184,"lon":117.73,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hexigten-mushixia-fortifications-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fortifications built by the Japanese army in 1941–43 survive beside the Mushixia river at Silibeng village in Tongxing town, at the eastern foot of the Huanggangliang range. An exhibition hall at the site displays objects (some of them replicas), photographs and reconstructed scenes covering the occupation period and the revolutionary history of Hexigten Banner from 1921 to 1949, and visitors can also see the remains of the works themselves. It is a local-history stop of about an hour for visitors interested in the region's twentieth-century history."},{"id":"aohan-wuanzhou-white-pagoda","name":"Wu'anzhou Site and White Pagoda","name_zh":"武安州遗址","pinyin":"Wǔ'ānzhōu Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.3097,"lon":120.2213,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aohan-wuanzhou-white-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda stands on a rise at the west edge of Baitazi village and is the standing monument of the Wu'anzhou site, a town of the Liao, Jin and Yuan periods that was listed nationally in 2013. The pagoda is octagonal with closely spaced eaves and a hollow interior, and dates from the early Liao. It was repaired from 2020 to 2022 after cracks and a lean put it at risk of collapse."},{"id":"hexigten-yingchang-city-ruins","name":"Yingchang","name_zh":"应昌路故城","pinyin":"Yìngchāng Lù Gùchéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.2543,"lon":116.4619,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hexigten-yingchang-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yingchang was a walled city built from 1270 for the Khongirad Mongols, who supplied empresses to the Yuan court, and its lords held the title Prince of Lu. The last Yuan emperor, Toghon Temür, withdrew here in 1369 after losing Dadu and died here in 1370; Ming forces took the city in 1370 and it fell out of use in the following decades. The earthen walls, about 650 m from north to south and 600 m from east to west and up to 3 m high, still enclose the grassland, with gates in the east, south and west walls."},{"id":"ongniud-yulong-sand-lake","name":"Yulong Sand Lake","name_zh":"玉龙沙湖","pinyin":"Yùlóng Shāhú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.0484,"lon":119.0604,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ongniud-yulong-sand-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A lake among dunes at the western edge of the Horqin Sandy Land in Ongniud Banner, with grassland, wetland, rock outcrops and pine stands nearby. It is named after the Hongshan-culture jade dragon unearthed in the area in 1971 and known as China's first dragon. Activities include sightseeing around the lake and off-road driving on the dunes."},{"id":"wengniute-zhang-yingrui-cemetery","name":"Zhang Yingrui Family Cemetery","name_zh":"张应瑞家族墓地","pinyin":"Zhāng Yìngruì Jiāzú Mùdì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":42.8072,"lon":119.0593,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wengniute-zhang-yingrui-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhang Yingrui was a Yuan-dynasty official who served the Khongirad princes, and his family cemetery lies at Guogongfu village in Wutonghua town. The buildings above ground are gone, but a 4.3 m stele naming him Duke of Ji, a title granted in 1335, survives complete beside a broken second stele, and the grounds hold two civil and two military officials in stone with pairs of stone lions, qilin and other beasts. The inscription is a rare surviving Yuan stele and is used as a source for the history of the Khongirad tribe."},{"id":"bairin-left-zhenji-temple-grottoes","name":"Zhenji Temple Grottoes (Zhaomiao)","name_zh":"真寂之寺石窟（召庙）","pinyin":"Zhēnjì Zhī Sì Shíkū (Zhàomiào)","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":43.8476,"lon":119.3636,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bairin-left-zhenji-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Zhenji Temple grottoes are three Liao-dynasty caves cut into a cliff face in a valley in the hills south of Lindong, with a Qing-dynasty lamasery, Shanfu Temple, built against them; locally the place is called Zhaomiao. The central cave, whose lintel is inscribed \"Zhenji Zhi Si\", holds a reclining Buddha with mourning disciples and over a hundred small Buddha figures on its walls, the south cave has a Buddha flanked by Manjushri on a lion and Samantabhadra on an elephant, and the north cave has two chambers with relief figures. The Zhaomiao scenic area around them covers about 60 square kilometres of rock outcrops and temple buildings in the Qiguoshan National Geopark."},{"id":"ningcheng-zimeng-lake","name":"Zimeng Lake","name_zh":"紫蒙湖","pinyin":"Zǐméng Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Chifeng","lat":41.3987,"lon":118.6357,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningcheng-zimeng-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A reservoir in the hills of Ningcheng County, known as Dahushi Reservoir until it was renamed Zimeng Lake in 2010, with a water surface of about 600 hectares. The south shore has boat rides and water activities, and the north shore has a children's play castle, a rainbow slide, a water-play park, barbecue and camping areas, evening light shows, an exhibition hall and a folk museum. It suits families after a day of water play."},{"id":"arxan-aolunbukan-forest-area","name":"Aolunbukan Forest Culture Tourism Area","name_zh":"奥伦布坎","pinyin":"Àolúnbùkǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.9424,"lon":120.0609,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=arxan-aolunbukan-forest-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Aolunbukan is a forest tourism area of about 292 square kilometres in the Greater Khingan hills near Bailang town, Arxan, with primeval forest, volcanic lava terrain, wetland and streams. An upgrade in 2026 added ten staged scenes along its trails, rafting on its natural river and UTV routes through forest and lava field. It suits visitors adding half a day to an Arxan trip."},{"id":"arxan-port-scenic-area","name":"Arxan Port Scenic Area","name_zh":"阿尔山口岸","pinyin":"Ā'ěrshān Kǒu'àn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":47.3258,"lon":119.5235,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=arxan-port-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The scenic area is built around Arxan Port, a road port of entry in the forested Greater Khingan hills west of Arxan. The port became a class I port in 2012, was closed from the end of 2019 and reopened on 3 April 2023. It suits visitors to Arxan with half a day to spare."},{"id":"arxan-chaihe-scenic-area","name":"Arxan–Chaihe Scenic Area","name_zh":"阿尔山—柴河","pinyin":"Ā'ěrshān Cháihé","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":47.3158,"lon":120.4059,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=arxan-chaihe-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The scenic area covers about 1,031 square kilometres and spans Arxan in Hinggan League and Chaihe town in Zalantun, Hulunbuir. The Arxan part is centred on the Arxan National Forest Park, with forest, the crater lake of Tianchi (Heavenly Lake), the Yimin River and the Shitang Forest, in a town whose name comes from the Mongolian for 'hot holy water' because of its mineral springs. The Chaihe part lies north in Hulunbuir, around the Chaihe and Chuoer rivers."},{"id":"horqin-right-front-chaersen-reservoir","name":"Chaersen Reservoir","name_zh":"察尔森水库","pinyin":"Chá'ěrsēn Shuǐkù","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.3189,"lon":121.8953,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-right-front-chaersen-reservoir","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chaersen Reservoir is a large reservoir on the Tao'er River, a tributary of the Nen, 1.7 km north of Chaersen town in Horqin Right Front Banner. Work began in 1973, stopped in 1980, restarted in 1987 and had its main works finished in 1990, for flood control and irrigation with some power generation, and the reservoir can hold about 1.25 billion cubic metres. It was named a national water-conservancy scenic area in 2005 and suits visitors who want open water an easy trip from Ulanhot."},{"id":"ulanhot-cpc-inner-mongolia-committee-site","name":"Former Office of the CPC Inner Mongolia Working Committee","name_zh":"中国共产党内蒙古工作委员会办公旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Nèiměnggǔ Gōngzuò Wěiyuánhuì Bàngōng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.0823,"lon":122.059,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulanhot-cpc-inner-mongolia-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The offices used by the CPC Inner Mongolia Working Committee in 1947 stand in the centre of Ulanhot and are now an exhibition site. A telegram gallery displays 31 telegrams sent from the party centre, together with radio sets and coded messages, and visitors can try a simulated telegram send-and-receive. The site is managed with the May First Site by the Inner Mongolia National Liberation Memorial Hall."},{"id":"ulanhot-genghis-khan-temple","name":"Genghis Khan Temple, Ulanhot","name_zh":"成吉思汗庙","pinyin":"Chéngjísīhán Miào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.0898,"lon":122.0515,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulanhot-genghis-khan-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Genghis Khan Temple stands on Hanshan hill in the north of Ulanhot and was built in the early 1940s, finishing in 1944, with donations from Mongol communities. The hall is shaped like the character shan (山) with a round dome over a square body, and houses a gilded bronze seated statue of Genghis Khan, 2.8 m high, with Yuan-period weapons and costume in the side halls and murals of his life on the walls. The temple was damaged in the Cultural Revolution, restored from 1983 and completed in its present form in 1987."},{"id":"arxan-haishen-shengquan-resort","name":"Haishen Shengquan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"海神圣泉","pinyin":"Hǎishén Shèngquán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":47.1669,"lon":119.9396,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=arxan-haishen-shengquan-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hot-spring resort in the centre of Arxan, built over the town's mineral springs, with spa pools, a rehabilitation hospital and the China Hot Spring Museum, which opened in 2004. Arxan takes its name from the Mongolian for 'hot holy water', and the town's springs range from cold to very hot. It suits visitors who want to soak after hiking in the forest park."},{"id":"horqin-right-middle-hangali-lake","name":"Hangali Lake Resort","name_zh":"翰嘎利湖","pinyin":"Hàngālì Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":45.1217,"lon":121.4811,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-right-middle-hangali-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hangali Lake is a lake just north of Bayan Huxu in Horqin Right Middle Banner, with a leisure resort on its eastern shore. It is one of the stops on the banner's tourist circuit, with the maple forest and the Tushiyetu prince's palace. It suits visitors who want a short lakeside stop in the banner."},{"id":"ulanhot-may-first-conference-site","name":"Inner Mongolia Autonomous Government Founding Conference Site","name_zh":"内蒙古自治政府成立大会会址","pinyin":"Nèiměnggǔ Zìzhì Zhèngfǔ Chénglì Dàhuì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.0806,"lon":122.0647,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulanhot-may-first-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This two-storey blue-brick hall with a swallow-tail roof was built in 1935 as the auditorium of the Manchukuo army's Xing'an military academy. The Inner Mongolia People's Congress met here from 23 April to 1 May 1947 and elected the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Government, with Ulanhu as chairman. The building was fully repaired in 2007 and shows 159 exhibits, and the Inner Mongolia National Liberation Memorial Hall manages it."},{"id":"ulanhot-inner-mongolia-national-liberation-memorial-hall","name":"Inner Mongolia National Liberation Memorial Hall","name_zh":"内蒙古民族解放纪念馆","pinyin":"Nèiměnggǔ Mínzú Jiěfàng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.0685,"lon":122.0852,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulanhot-inner-mongolia-national-liberation-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The memorial hall in Ulanhot, the city where the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Government was founded in 1947, was built to mark the autonomous region's 60th anniversary and opened in August 2007. It also manages the May First Site, the Inner Mongolia Working Committee office and the Ulanhu office, which together are known as the 'one hall, three sites'. It suits visitors interested in modern Inner Mongolian history and can be combined with the other sites in the city."},{"id":"arxan-japanese-fortification-remains","name":"Japanese Military Fortification Remains at Arxan","name_zh":"侵华日军阿尔山要塞遗址","pinyin":"Qīnhuá Rìjūn Ā'ěrshān Yàosài Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":47.1702,"lon":119.9416,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=arxan-japanese-fortification-remains","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The site is a group of Japanese military works of 1935–44 around Arxan, listed together as a national monument, including the town's railway station and the bunkers at the ends of the North and South Xing'an tunnels. Arxan station, first named Wenquan (Hot Spring) station, was built in 1935–37 for the military railway line and is still used by passenger trains. The station is the part easiest to visit, in the centre of the town."},{"id":"ulanhot-tianjiao-tianjun-resort","name":"Tianjiao Tianjun Eco-tourism Resort","name_zh":"天骄天骏","pinyin":"Tiānjiāo Tiānjùn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.141,"lon":122.0236,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulanhot-tianjiao-tianjun-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tianjiao Tianjun is an eco-tourism resort on the hill of Tianjun at the northern edge of Ulanhot, close to an expressway interchange. The hill, bared by stone quarrying, was replanted by the local government and opened as a scenic area. It has terraced planting, visitor buildings and a viewing platform, and suits residents and passing visitors who want a short outing from the city."},{"id":"horqin-right-front-ulan-maodu-grassland","name":"Ulan Maodu Grassland","name_zh":"乌兰毛都草原","pinyin":"Wūlán Máodū Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":46.3219,"lon":120.5191,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-right-front-ulan-maodu-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ulan Maodu is a rolling hill grassland in the north-west of Horqin Right Front Banner, crossed by the winding Jiuqu River. Visitors eat Mongolian food in gers, and the grassland hosts riding, costume and music events, including the Hinggan League Naadam in August 2023, which drew more than 220,000 visitors. It suits visitors who want open grassland in Hinggan."},{"id":"horqin-right-middle-wujiaofeng-maple-forest","name":"Wujiaofeng Maple Forest","name_zh":"五角枫","pinyin":"Wǔjiǎofēng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":45.2332,"lon":121.5083,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-right-middle-wujiaofeng-maple-forest","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The scenic area is a large stand of painted maples (wujiaofeng) scattered through open woodland on the Daichintala grassland in Horqin Right Middle Banner. The leaves turn red, purple and orange in early October, and the banner runs a maple tourism season with a camping ground, guesthouses and cultural events. It suits visitors in the first half of October, and is usually visited together with the Tushiyetu palace and Hangali Lake."},{"id":"horqin-right-middle-zhongying-film-base","name":"Zhongying Film Production Base","name_zh":"中影制作基地","pinyin":"Zhōngyǐng Zhìzuò Jīdì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hinggan","lat":45.216,"lon":121.513,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-right-middle-zhongying-film-base","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhongying Film Production Base is a film-set complex of streets and buildings next to the Tushiyetu prince's palace in Horqin Right Middle Banner, open to visitors as a tourist site. The palace, the seat of the Qing prince of the banner, stands a few hundred metres away and is a separate attraction. Visitors travelling the banner's circuit of maple forest, palace and lake can fit the film base in as a short stop."},{"id":"horinger-aowei-horse-culture-area","name":"Aowei Horse Culture Eco-tourism Area","name_zh":"奥威马文化生态旅游区","pinyin":"Àowēimǎ Wénhuà Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.626,"lon":111.8169,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horinger-aowei-horse-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Aowei is a horse-culture park of about 1,542 mu (roughly 100 hectares), set up in 2014 at Qiganqi village in Shengle town, with a racecourse for up to 20,000 spectators, stables and a riding ground. Visitors can feed, groom and ride horses, take riding lessons and watch staged horse shows and parades, and the park also has a children's playground, a boating lake and a horse museum. It suits families and school groups wanting hands-on time with horses within a day trip of Hohhot."},{"id":"hohhot-daheihe-military-culture-park","name":"Daheihe Military Culture Park","name_zh":"大黑河军事文化乐园","pinyin":"Dàhēihé Jūnshì Wénhuà Lèyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7661,"lon":111.8095,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-daheihe-military-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Daheihe Military Culture Park is a themed leisure park on the Daheihe river in Saihan District, on the south-eastern side of Hohhot. It has a flower-field zone and serves as an events ground: its winter ice-and-snow festival has an ice castle, ice-sculpture lanterns and a food market, and the park was the main venue for the opening of Inner Mongolia's 2026 Spring Festival tourism programme and for parts of the Zhaojun Culture Festival. It suits local families and visitors in Hohhot during the festival seasons."},{"id":"wuchuan-daqingshan-guerrilla-base","name":"Daqingshan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Base Site, Wuchuan","name_zh":"大青山抗日游击根据地旧址旅游区","pinyin":"Dàqīngshān Kàngrì Yóujī Gēnjùdì Jiùzhǐ Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.9961,"lon":111.2161,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuchuan-daqingshan-guerrilla-base","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Daqing Mountains around Deshenggou village in Wuchuan County were the core of the Daqingshan anti-Japanese guerrilla base, set up in 1938 by an Eighth Route Army force that marched north from Shanxi. The tourism area includes the old command-post site in Deshenggou village at about 2,000 m and an exhibition hall on the base's history, with farmstays in nearby villages. Chinese historical accounts record more than 500 engagements with Japanese and puppet forces in the area between 1938 and 1942."},{"id":"hohhot-daqingshan-taiwei-resort","name":"Daqingshan Taiwei Sports and Leisure Resort","name_zh":"大青山太伟运动休闲度假区","pinyin":"Dàqīngshān Tàiwěi Yùndòng Xiūxián Dùjiàqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.9447,"lon":111.8222,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-daqingshan-taiwei-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Daqingshan Taiwei Sports and Leisure Resort is a resort in the foothills of the Daqing Mountains in Baoheshao town, on the north-eastern edge of Hohhot. The city's culture and tourism bureau lists it as one of Hohhot's three ski areas, alongside Mazongshan and Northern Lights. It suits winter visitors who want to ski within a short drive of the city."},{"id":"hohhot-daqingshan-wildlife-park","name":"Daqingshan Wildlife Park","name_zh":"大青山野生动物园","pinyin":"Dàqīngshān Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8785,"lon":111.6117,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-daqingshan-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Daqingshan Wildlife Park is a zoo of about 12,300 mu (roughly 8 square kilometres) on the northern edge of Hohhot, set against the Daqing Mountains and open since 2006. It holds around 100 species in themed animal areas. It suits families with children."},{"id":"hohhot-dashengkui-museum-cluster","name":"Dashengkui Museum Cluster","name_zh":"大盛魁博物馆集群","pinyin":"Dàshèngkuí Bówùguǎn Jíqún","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8024,"lon":111.6519,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-dashengkui-museum-cluster","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Dashengkui Museum Cluster is a group of small museums in courtyard buildings in the style of Qing-dynasty houses, in the old town of Hohhot. It is themed on Dashengkui, the Shanxi merchant house that traded with the Mongolian plateau and Russia until it collapsed in 1929. The district government describes seven themed halls with reconstructed street scenes of the Dashengkui shop, a money-shop and a tea house, and displays of camel-caravan account books and merchants' contracts; the Inner Mongolia Morin Khuur Art Museum is in the north section."},{"id":"hohhot-dayao-site","name":"Dayao Site","name_zh":"大窑遗址","pinyin":"Dàyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.9384,"lon":111.9826,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-dayao-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dayao is a Palaeolithic stone-tool workshop on the south hill above Dayao village, found in 1973, where people quarried flint and made tools from roughly 500,000 to 10,000 years ago; it gave its name to the Dayao culture. The site spreads over more than 2 sq km of gullies and slopes, with scattered stone flakes on the ground, a protection monument and an excavated earth section 16 m deep at the Sidaogou locality. It is run as the Dayao Site Park by the Hohhot Museum Academy and suits visitors interested in early tool-making."},{"id":"hohhot-dazhao-temple","name":"Dazhao Temple","name_zh":"大召","pinyin":"Dàzhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7988,"lon":111.6479,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-dazhao-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dazhao is the oldest Gelug (Yellow Hat) temple in Hohhot, begun in 1579 by the Tümed Mongol leader Altan Khan in his newly founded city of Guihua. This Tibetan Buddhist monastery is also called the Silver Buddha Temple after its silver statue of Sakyamuni, which the Third Dalai Lama consecrated during his visit in 1586. The temple has a Chinese-style layout with a main hall combining Chinese and Tibetan styles, and holds Buddhist festivals through the year."},{"id":"hohhot-five-pagoda-temple","name":"Five Pagoda Temple, Hohhot","name_zh":"五塔寺","pinyin":"Wǔtǎ Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7989,"lon":111.6574,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-five-pagoda-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Five Pagoda Temple, formally the Diamond Throne Relic Pagoda, is a Qing-dynasty brick pagoda about 16 m tall, begun in the Yongzheng reign (from 1727), with five small pagodas on a square base. The base is carved with the Diamond Sutra in three scripts and the upper part with more than a thousand small gilded Buddha figures, and a stone-carved star chart labelled in Mongolian stands against the north wall of the compound. The compound is now run as the Five Pagoda Temple Museum."},{"id":"tumed-left-ulanhu-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Ulanhu","name_zh":"乌兰夫故居","pinyin":"Wūlánfū Gùjū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.5664,"lon":111.2477,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tumed-left-ulanhu-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ulanhu's former residence is a courtyard of about 20 rooms in Tabusai village, where Ulanhu, the founding chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was born and spent his youth. Most of the original buildings were burned in 1939 and the house was rebuilt in 1991; it now presents a farmyard with main rooms, side wings, a mill and a granary, together with exhibition rooms and a bust of Ulanhu in the yard. It is run together with the Ulanhu Memorial Hall in Hohhot."},{"id":"wuchuan-grassland-gate-cultural-tourism-area","name":"Grassland Gate Cultural Tourism Area, Wuchuan","name_zh":"草原之门","pinyin":"Cǎoyuán Zhī Mén","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":41.1129,"lon":111.4348,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuchuan-grassland-gate-cultural-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cultural-tourism complex built from 2020 in the town of Wuchuan by Yangufang, an oat-food company. Its themed halls cover the tea road, grassland life, ethnic culture, dairy foods and oats, and it also has a Russian-style hall, a food street built in Northern Wei style, restaurants and an evening tourism zone. It is a modern commercial development rather than a historic site, and suits visitors passing through Wuchuan on the road north to the Xilamuren and Gegentala grasslands."},{"id":"hohhot-great-mosque","name":"Great Mosque of Hohhot","name_zh":"呼和浩特清真大寺","pinyin":"Hūhéhàotè Qīngzhēn Dàsì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8086,"lon":111.6487,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-great-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Great Mosque of Hohhot, founded in 1693 by Hui Muslims, is regarded as the oldest and largest mosque in Inner Mongolia and is an active place of worship. Its black-brick halls follow traditional Chinese building styles with Islamic decoration around two courtyards, with a prayer hall, two lecture halls, a washing room and a moon-viewing tower added in 1939. The mosque holds a handwritten Arabic Quran in 30 volumes and seven stone tablets from the Qing dynasty and later."},{"id":"qingshuihe-haohanshan-ming-great-wall","name":"Haohanshan Ming Great Wall National Cultural Park","name_zh":"好汉山明长城国家文化公园","pinyin":"Hǎohànshān Míng Chángchéng Guójiā Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":39.6071,"lon":111.7826,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingshuihe-haohanshan-ming-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This is a section of the Ming-dynasty Great Wall at Haohan Mountain in Beibao township, in the far south of Qingshuihe County, where a Great Wall national cultural park began trial operation in October 2024. In 1989 the Great Wall scholar Luo Zhewen judged the Qingshuihe walls, with their watchtowers and beacon towers, to rival Badaling in construction, and the park adds a Great Wall inn, a dome-screen flight cinema and a tea-and-horse-market experience area. It suits visitors interested in Ming frontier defences."},{"id":"tumed-left-hasuhai-lake","name":"Hasuhai Lake","name_zh":"哈素海","pinyin":"Hāsùhǎi","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.6245,"lon":110.9864,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tumed-left-hasuhai-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hasuhai is a shallow natural lake in Tumed Left Banner, with a water surface of roughly 30 sq km and a depth of about 2 m, ringed by reed beds that attract wild ducks, geese and other waterbirds. A road circles the lake, and the scenic area on its north shore adds lakeside pavilions and tourist facilities. It is a local spot for lakeside walks and birdwatching, listed by the region as the Chilechuan Grassland Cultural Tourism Area (Hasuhai)."},{"id":"hohhot-sculpture-art-museum","name":"Hohhot Sculpture Art Museum","name_zh":"呼和浩特雕塑艺术馆","pinyin":"Hūhéhàotè Diāosù Yìshùguǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8319,"lon":111.7333,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-sculpture-art-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened on 14 October 2023, the Hohhot Sculpture Art Museum is a grass-roofed building of 25,000 sq m on a 7.35-hectare site in eastern Hohhot, with a main sculpture hall, thematic galleries, artists' studios, a cafe and a gift shop. It opened with the first Hohhot International Sculpture Exhibition, which showed 58 invited works and 100 selected entries, and also has a gallery of Inner Mongolia-themed works. The adjoining Hohhot International Sculpture Park in the Silk Road Park to the south has 46 pieces, and the city presents both as part of a cultural axis with the Inner Mongolia Museum and Art Museum."},{"id":"tuoketuo-maiyegu-yellow-river-leisure-area","name":"Huanghe Maiyegu Eco-leisure Area","name_zh":"黄河麦野谷","pinyin":"Huánghé Màiyěgǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.212,"lon":111.2313,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tuoketuo-maiyegu-yellow-river-leisure-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Huanghe Maiyegu is an eco-leisure area at Dongyingzi village in the Hekou tourist resort area of Tuoketuo County, on the Yellow River plain. Picking activities were part of the county's Yellow River opening festival in March 2024, and in March 2023 the Inner Mongolia culture and tourism department named it among the first 19 intangible-heritage tourism experience bases in the region, which host craft and performance activities. It suits families on a day trip from Hohhot."},{"id":"hohhot-inner-mongolia-museum","name":"Inner Mongolia Museum","name_zh":"内蒙古博物院","pinyin":"Nèiměnggǔ Bówùyuàn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8402,"lon":111.758,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-inner-mongolia-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Inner Mongolia Museum is the region's main museum, and it opened a new building of about 147,000 square metres in Hohhot on a trial basis on 20 June 2025. Its permanent exhibitions cover fossils and prehistoric life, the history of the region's peoples from the Palaeolithic to the Qing dynasty, the Great Wall zone, the region's national intangible heritage, its modern history and its ecology. The collection runs to more than 150,000 items, including dinosaur fossils and artefacts of the region's historic northern peoples."},{"id":"hohhot-inner-mongolia-museum-of-natural-history","name":"Inner Mongolia Museum of Natural History","name_zh":"内蒙古自然博物馆","pinyin":"Nèiměnggǔ Zìrán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7972,"lon":111.7096,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-inner-mongolia-museum-of-natural-history","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Inner Mongolia Museum of Natural History is the autonomous region's first large general natural-history museum, in a modern building that opened to the public in 2018. Its five permanent halls cover the region's forests, grasslands, waters and deserts, wildlife, fossils, geology and minerals, and farming and herding, and include a dinosaur hall, with an outdoor mineral park beside the building. It suits families and anyone interested in the region's natural history."},{"id":"hohhot-inner-mongolia-racecourse","name":"Inner Mongolia Racecourse","name_zh":"内蒙古赛马场","pinyin":"Nèiměnggǔ Sàimǎchǎng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8486,"lon":111.6574,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-inner-mongolia-racecourse","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Inner Mongolia Racecourse, first built in 1956, is a 32-hectare equestrian ground in northern Hohhot with a grandstand 275 m long, an obstacle-riding arena, a stunt-show ground and a standard speed-racing track. It hosts the Inner Mongolia International Equestrian Festival and other horse events, and has a Horse Culture Art Gallery. The district government also lists trick-riding displays by the regional equestrian team, including mounted vaulting, archery and sabre cutting."},{"id":"tumed-left-lamadong-zhao","name":"Lamadong Zhao (Guanghua Temple)","name_zh":"喇嘛洞召","pinyin":"Lǎmadòng Zhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8001,"lon":111.2882,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tumed-left-lamadong-zhao","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lamadong Zhao, named Guanghua Temple by the Qing court in 1784, is a Gelug-school Buddhist temple built against the south slope of the Daqing Mountains, below the cave where its founding lama meditated. It is counted among Hohhot's eight small zhao and consists of a front temple at the foot of the slope and a rear temple on the hillside joined to the cave. The cliff beside the cave carries Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit inscriptions and about a dozen Buddha figures in relief, the carvings that give the site its national listing."},{"id":"qingshuihe-laoniupo-red-culture-area","name":"Laoniupo Red Culture Area, Qingshuihe","name_zh":"老牛坡红色文化旅游区","pinyin":"Lǎoniúpō Hóngsè Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":39.6375,"lon":111.8873,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingshuihe-laoniupo-red-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Laoniupo is a red-tourism area at the foot of the Ming Great Wall in Beibao township, in the far south of Qingshuihe County where it meets Pianguan County and Pinglu District in Shanxi. It presents the area's wartime role as a route linking Yan'an with the Daqingshan guerrilla base, through a memorial plaza for local martyrs, a Great Wall exhibition hall and wartime sites in Beibao village. The Beibao section of the Ming Great Wall runs through the same village."},{"id":"qingshuihe-laoniuwan-yellow-river-canyon","name":"Laoniuwan Yellow River Grand Canyon","name_zh":"老牛湾黄河大峡谷","pinyin":"Lǎoniúwān Huánghé Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":39.6643,"lon":111.4561,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingshuihe-laoniuwan-yellow-river-canyon","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Laoniuwan is a gorge where the Yellow River leaves Inner Mongolia for Shanxi and the Ming-dynasty Great Wall comes down to meet the water. On the Qingshuihe bank the village has stone-built cave dwellings and a Qing-dynasty opera stage dating from 1852, and a viewing platform looks across to Wanghe Tower, a Ming watchtower on the Shanxi side. Boat trips run on the river, and the area became Hohhot's first national 5A scenic area in December 2024."},{"id":"hohhot-little-grass-seed-park","name":"Little Grass Seed Park","name_zh":"小草种子乐园","pinyin":"Xiǎocǎo Zhǒngzi Lèyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.9033,"lon":111.7821,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-little-grass-seed-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Little Grass Seed Park is a visitor and study attraction inside the Mengcao Seed Industry Centre, run by the grassland-restoration company Mengcao in Shenggaiying village, north-east of central Hohhot. The centre keeps a bank of native plant seeds and grows native grasses in field plots, and it hosts school study visits in which children collect seeds and learn how grass roots hold soil. It suits families and school groups interested in grassland plants and ecological restoration."},{"id":"hohhot-mazongshan-ski-resort","name":"Mazongshan Ski Resort","name_zh":"马鬃山度假区","pinyin":"Mǎzōngshān Dùjiàqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8703,"lon":112.1023,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-mazongshan-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mazongshan Ski Resort is a ski area in the hills east of Hohhot, one of the three ski areas listed by the city's culture and tourism bureau. It has a lift serving its intermediate runs and offers night skiing in winter, and in warmer months it has dry-slope skiing and other leisure activities, with guesthouses on site. It has operated since 2022 and suits skiers and families who want snow near the city."},{"id":"horinger-mengcao-grass-expo-park","name":"Mengcao Grass Expo Park","name_zh":"蒙草·草博园","pinyin":"Méngcǎo Cǎobóyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.4982,"lon":111.8164,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horinger-mengcao-grass-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mengcao Grass Expo Park is a plant-themed park run by the grassland-ecology company Mengcao in the Horinger New Area, showing native grassland plants. It has a native-plant hall, a youth plant-ecology education zone, a wildflower valley, a drought-resistant plant institute and a seed-processing centre. It suits families and school groups interested in grassland plants and ecological restoration."},{"id":"hohhot-mengliang-ethnic-folk-park","name":"Mengliang Ethnic Folk Park","name_zh":"蒙亮民族风情园","pinyin":"Méngliàng Mínzú Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8197,"lon":111.5742,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-mengliang-ethnic-folk-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A commercial ethnic-crafts centre on the western side of Hohhot. Visitors can watch handicrafts such as hand-painted shawls and leather paintings being made, and buy Mongolian costume and headwear, silver and horn crafts, knives and dairy products. It suits visitors who want to see Mongolian craft products and souvenirs in one place."},{"id":"horinger-mengniu-industrial-tourism-area","name":"Mengniu Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"蒙牛工业旅游区","pinyin":"Méngniú Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.4747,"lon":111.7914,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horinger-mengniu-industrial-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mengniu Industrial Tourism Area is a dairy-industry visit at the Mengniu company's base in Horinger's dairy development zone, open to visitors since 2007 and named a national industrial tourism demonstration base in November 2022. The route passes exhibition corridors on the company's history, research and product quality, an indoor display of grassland with cows and alfalfa, and the automated production lines; the visit was relaunched with updated displays in July 2026. It suits families and school groups interested in how milk is produced; the plant is an operating factory."},{"id":"hohhot-moni-mountain-heritage-town","name":"Moni Mountain Intangible Heritage Town","name_zh":"莫尼山非遗小镇","pinyin":"Mòníshān Fēiyí Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.9023,"lon":111.5745,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-moni-mountain-heritage-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Moni Mountain is a village-scale heritage tourism town on a hillside in the Daqing Mountains foothills north-west of Hohhot, where more than 80 intangible heritage items are shown and taught through master workshops, an art centre, a museum and practice bases. Its founder's family craft, Mongolian leather art, is a national intangible heritage item. It was named a national preferred project for combining heritage and tourism in 2022 and one of the region's first intangible-heritage tourism experience bases in 2023, and in June 2025 it hosted the region's main intangible-heritage event for Cultural and Natural Heritage Day."},{"id":"horinger-nanshan-scenic-area","name":"Nanshan Scenic Area, Horinger","name_zh":"南山旅游景区","pinyin":"Nánshān Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.3689,"lon":111.8255,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horinger-nanshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A landscaped hill park of about 5 sq km on the southern edge of Horinger, laid out from 2000 with themes drawn from the culture of Shengle, an early capital of the Northern Wei dynasty. Its gardens include a calligraphy park, a zodiac garden, a lake and an altar of giant stone coins among about a hundred pavilions, and a peony garden is planted for the spring flowering. It is mainly a local leisure park, suited to a half-day outing from Hohhot."},{"id":"hohhot-princess-kejing-residence","name":"Residence of Gurun Princess Kejing","name_zh":"和硕恪靖公主府","pinyin":"Héshuò Kèjìng Gōngzhǔ Fǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8371,"lon":111.6474,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-princess-kejing-residence/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Residence of Gurun Princess Kejing was built for the Kangxi Emperor's sixth daughter, who married a Khalkha Mongol prince and lived in Guihua, as old Hohhot was called. Four courtyards on a central axis survive, from the screen wall and gate through the main hall and sleeping hall to the rear rooms, and a permanent display recreates how the residence looked and was used. After housing a teacher-training school in the early 20th century, it opened as a museum around 1990."},{"id":"hohhot-sacred-heart-cathedral","name":"Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hohhot","name_zh":"呼和浩特天主教堂","pinyin":"Hūhéhàotè Tiānzhǔjiàotáng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8106,"lon":111.6466,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-sacred-heart-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sacred Heart Cathedral, built in 1922–24, is the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Suiyuan and an active church. It is a red-brick building in a mix of Romanesque and Gothic Revival styles, with round-arched windows, a cross-shaped plan and a single 30 m bell tower; a second tower was planned but never built. It was used as a warehouse during the Cultural Revolution and returned to the church after 1980, and the bishop's residence beside it is now the Catholic seminary of Inner Mongolia."},{"id":"horinger-saiwai-taoyuan-eco-tourism-area","name":"Saiwai Taoyuan Eco-tourism Area","name_zh":"塞外桃园","pinyin":"Sàiwài Táoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.2519,"lon":111.9977,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horinger-saiwai-taoyuan-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Saiwai Taoyuan is a farm-based leisure area in Xindianzi town, in the south-east of Horinger County, which the county government describes as a green organic-farming tourism area. Its facilities include crop-growing areas using farm technology, an orchard and flower area, restaurants, leisure activities and cave-dwelling guesthouses, with wellness and retirement-living projects. It suits families and groups looking for a farm outing or an overnight stay."},{"id":"togtoh-shenquan-eco-tourism-area","name":"Shenquan Eco-Tourism Area, Togtoh","name_zh":"神泉生态旅游景区","pinyin":"Shénquán Shēngtài Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.1812,"lon":111.2142,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=togtoh-shenquan-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A leisure park of about 4 sq km astride the Yellow River at Haojiayao village, with a classical Chinese-style garden, lakes and birds on the east bank and a sand-dune amusement area on the Kubuqi Desert edge on the west bank. County media list activities such as sand-sliding, zip-lines, camel rides and a staged horse show. The surrounding village of Haojiayao is known for its vineyards and has a separate Yellow River viewing platform."},{"id":"hohhot-south-lake-wetland-park","name":"South Lake Wetland Park, Hohhot","name_zh":"南湖湿地公园","pinyin":"Nánhú Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7589,"lon":111.651,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-south-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Nanhu (South Lake) Wetland Park is a landscape park in the south of Hohhot, laid out by the city government from 2005 and opened to the public in 2007, with wetland, fishing and grassland areas. Woodland, reed beds and ponds are crossed by paths, and the main gate is on the park's northern side."},{"id":"hohhot-suiyuan-jiangjun-yamen","name":"Suiyuan General's Yamen Museum","name_zh":"将军衙署","pinyin":"Jiāngjūn Yáshǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8251,"lon":111.6801,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-suiyuan-jiangjun-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Suiyuan General's Yamen was the office of the Qing general who commanded the Manchu banner garrison of Suiyuan, the walled 'new city' built beside Guihua (old Hohhot) between 1735 and 1739. Founded in 1737, its three courtyard routes now hold a restored display of the general's office, a Republic-era section and galleries on the history of Suiyuan and Hohhot. About 700 m of the Qing city wall survives at the former city's north-east corner, a few hundred metres from the yamen."},{"id":"horinger-tuchengzi-ancient-city","name":"Tuchengzi Archaeological Park (Shengle Ancient City)","name_zh":"土城子考古遗址公园","pinyin":"Tǔchéngzi Kǎogǔ Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.4665,"lon":111.7759,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horinger-tuchengzi-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tuchengzi is regarded as the largest ancient city site on the north bank of the Yellow River's great bend, a walled city used from the Spring and Autumn period to the Yuan dynasty and identified with Shengle, the first capital of the Northern Wei. Its four walled sections, about 1.45 by 2.3 km in all, survive as earthen walls from 0.5 to 10 m high around farmland, which can be viewed from a lookout platform. The museum at the entrance shows the finds and has a reconstruction of the Eastern Han painted tomb found at Xindianzi, whose original chamber is not open to visitors."},{"id":"hohhot-ulanhu-memorial-hall","name":"Ulanhu Memorial Hall","name_zh":"乌兰夫纪念馆","pinyin":"Wūlánfū Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8123,"lon":111.6369,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-ulanhu-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Ulanhu Memorial Hall stands in Ulanhu Park in Hohhot and opened in December 1992 as a museum on the life of Ulanhu, the first chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The complex has a main exhibition hall, a memorial square, a statue platform, a flagpole, a stele pavilion and a memorial archway, with about 650 objects, photographs, documents and reconstructed scenes on display. His birthplace in Tabusai, about 43 km to the south-west, is run as part of the same museum."},{"id":"hohhot-wanbu-huayanjing-pagoda","name":"Wanbu Huayanjing Pagoda (White Pagoda)","name_zh":"万部华严经塔","pinyin":"Wànbù Huáyánjīng Tǎ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8369,"lon":111.8799,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-wanbu-huayanjing-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Wanbu Huayanjing Pagoda, known locally as the White Pagoda after its original whitewash, is a seven-storey octagonal brick tower from the Liao dynasty that stood in the walled city of Fengzhou, which was destroyed in the late Yuan period. Its inner galleries hold six surviving Jin-dynasty stone tablets and several hundred hand-written inscriptions left by visitors from the twelfth century onwards, in scripts including Chinese, Khitan, Jurchen and Mongolian. An exhibition hall stands beside the tower, and in 2020 visitors could no longer climb inside."},{"id":"hohhot-wusutu-apricot-valley","name":"Wusutu Apricot Valley","name_zh":"乌素图杏花谷","pinyin":"Wūsùtú Xìnghuā Gǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.866,"lon":111.54,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-wusutu-apricot-valley","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wusutu Apricot Valley is a village-edge garden park at East Wusutu, at the foot of the Daqing Mountains on the north-western edge of Hohhot. It was laid out around old apricot trees, with pavilions and winding paths, and has added fruit picking, animal-contact areas, children's play activities and camping and barbecue spots. It is known for its apricot blossom in spring and suits families on a short outing from the city."},{"id":"hohhot-wusutu-zhao","name":"Wusutu Zhao Monastery","name_zh":"乌素图召","pinyin":"Wūsùtú Zhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.8271,"lon":111.5594,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-wusutu-zhao/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wusutu Zhao is a group of Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) temples on the lower slope of the Daqing Mountains at the north-western edge of Hohhot, the largest temple complex outside the old city. The main temple, Qingyuan Temple, dates from the Wanli reign of the Ming dynasty, and the other temples, including Guangshou, Changshou, Luohan and Faxi, were added around it between 1690 and 1725, each walled in red and set against the hillside. Remains of the Zhao-state Great Wall lie behind the temples."},{"id":"hohhot-xilitu-zhao","name":"Xilitu Zhao","name_zh":"席力图召","pinyin":"Xílìtú Zhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7995,"lon":111.6494,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-xilitu-zhao/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xilitu Zhao, also called Yanshou Temple (a name given by the Kangxi Emperor), is a Gelug Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Hohhot's old town, founded in the late 16th century. It covers about 13,000 sq m, and its large main sutra hall combines Han and Tibetan architecture. From 1708 its Xilitu Living Buddha usually held the senior monastic post in Qing-dynasty Guihua, and the temple remains an active place of worship."},{"id":"hohhot-yili-grassland-dairy-culture-area","name":"Yili Grassland Dairy Culture Tourist Area","name_zh":"伊利草原乳文化旅游景区","pinyin":"Yīlì Cǎoyuán Rǔ Wénhuà Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7283,"lon":111.4881,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hohhot-yili-grassland-dairy-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A visitor complex run by the Yili dairy group in Hohhot's dairy industrial park, built around the Yili Grassland Dairy Culture Museum, which covers the history of dairy-making among northern pastoral peoples and early dairy equipment. Visitors can walk the viewing routes through the group's milk-powder and liquid-milk plants and see feeding and milking at its model dairy farm, and a pet-interaction park opened on the site in September 2025. It is a corporate showcase, suited to families and to anyone curious about the dairy industry."},{"id":"hohhot-zhaojun-tomb","name":"Zhaojun Tomb","name_zh":"昭君墓","pinyin":"Zhāojūn Mù","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hohhot","lat":40.7086,"lon":111.6765,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hohhot-zhaojun-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 33 m rammed-earth mound on the south bank of the Dahei River is the traditional tomb of Wang Zhaojun, the Han-dynasty woman who married a Xiongnu ruler; her actual burial place is not recorded. A processional path of about 400 m lined with stone figures leads from the Zhaojun Museum to the mound, which has pavilions on its upper terrace and summit. The museum's halls cover Han-Xiongnu marriage alliances and include one called the Chanyu's Great Tent, and the mound has been restored several times since the 1960s."},{"id":"genhe-aoluguya-reindeer-tribe","name":"Aoluguya Reindeer Tribe","name_zh":"敖鲁古雅使鹿部落","pinyin":"Áolǔgǔyǎ Shǐlù Bùluò","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.7779,"lon":121.469,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=genhe-aoluguya-reindeer-tribe","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This scenic area beside Genhe presents the culture of the Aoluguya Ewenki, the only group in China that herds reindeer, who moved out of the forest into a settled township in 2003. Visitors walk a boardwalk into a forest enclosure to feed and photograph reindeer, see the conical tents known as chuoluozi and birch-bark craft workshops, and visit a museum devoted to reindeer culture; in winter there are reindeer-sleigh rides. It suits travellers interested in Ewenki culture and the Greater Khingan forest."},{"id":"chagang-barag-mongol-tribe","name":"Barag Mongol Tribe Tourist Area","name_zh":"巴尔虎蒙古部落","pinyin":"Bā'ěrhǔ Měnggǔ Bùluò","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":49.4996,"lon":118.0426,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chagang-barag-mongol-tribe","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A folk-custom park and ger camp on the Hulunbuir grassland, named after the Barag Mongols, whom the Qing court settled in Hulunbuir in the 1730s. The daily staged shows include a horse show with lasso-catching, wrestling and riding stunts using a herd of more than 300 horses, and evenings bring a bonfire party; visitors can also stay overnight in gers. It suits families and groups on a day trip along the Hailar–Manzhouli road who want a staged introduction to Mongolian customs."},{"id":"ewenki-bayanwula-city-ruins","name":"Bayanwula City Ruins","name_zh":"巴彦乌拉城址","pinyin":"Bāyànwūlā Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":48.4179,"lon":118.9706,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ewenki-bayanwula-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The ramparts of a large square walled town of the Yuan period stand in open steppe in the south of the Ewenki Autonomous Banner. A fainter outer enclosure surrounds the main walls, and traces of buildings can be made out inside."},{"id":"oroqen-busuli-military-culture-area","name":"Busuli Military Culture Area","name_zh":"布苏里北疆军事文化旅游区","pinyin":"Bùsūlǐ Běijiāng Jūnshì Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.565,"lon":123.4316,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=oroqen-busuli-military-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former military logistics reserve base in the Greater Khingan forest of the Oroqen Autonomous Banner, now presented as a military-themed visitor area. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism's rural tourism route page describes it as one of the largest military-experience sites in northern China. It is visited on the same Oroqen route as the Tuoba Xianbei park and Alihe National Forest Park."},{"id":"morin-dawa-china-daur-ethnic-park","name":"China Daur Ethnic Park","name_zh":"中国达斡尔民族园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Dáwò'ěr Mínzúyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":48.5673,"lon":124.4862,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=morin-dawa-china-daur-ethnic-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A newly built park beside Nirji, the seat of Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner, themed on the history, culture and customs of the Daur people, one of China's recognised ethnic minorities. It has an intangible-heritage exhibition area, a stage for Daur song and dance, Daur-style family restaurants and a lakeside landing stage that doubles as a camping ground. Morin Dawa is known in China for the Daur hockey game, beikou, which visitors can try."},{"id":"zalantun-chinese-eastern-railway-buildings","name":"Chinese Eastern Railway Buildings, Zalantun","name_zh":"扎兰屯中东铁路建筑群","pinyin":"Zhālántún Zhōngdōng Tiělù Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":48.0129,"lon":122.7349,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zalantun-chinese-eastern-railway-buildings","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zalantun grew around a station of the Russian-built Chinese Eastern Railway, and the town keeps a large group of buildings from that period, protected as part of the national-level Chinese Eastern Railway complex. The listed buildings include the station area, a water tower, a suspension bridge, a railway club, and the former railway meeting hall and forest-police headquarters, built in 1903 and 1909, which now house branches of the Inner Mongolia Chinese Eastern Railway Museum. Other listed parts of the same complex are at Bugt, where an open-air museum covers the railway tunnel, loop line and locomotive depot, and in Manzhouli."},{"id":"ergun-national-wetland-park","name":"Ergun National Wetland Park","name_zh":"额尔古纳国家湿地公园","pinyin":"É'ěrgǔnà Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.3598,"lon":120.4093,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ergun-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A river-wetland park in the Shangkuli area north-east of Ergun city, opened to visitors in 2018 and covering about 120 sq km, of which roughly 10 sq km is open to the public. A sightseeing road and footpaths link eight viewpoints among birch and willow woods, grassland and rivers, and the Bird Island–Handagai point has an elevated lookout over the whole wetland. Extras include a deer enclosure, animal feeding and rafting."},{"id":"ergun-wetland-scenic-area","name":"Ergun Wetland Scenic Area","name_zh":"额尔古纳湿地景区","pinyin":"É'ěrgǔnà Shīdì Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.2466,"lon":120.1447,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ergun-wetland-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hilltop viewing area on the edge of Ergun city, overlooking the winding channels of the wetland along the Genhe River and the town's blue and pink roofs. It is popular with photographers and is one of several wetland sites around Ergun, alongside the larger national wetland park to the north-east."},{"id":"ergun-white-birch-forest","name":"Ergun White Birch Forest","name_zh":"额尔古纳白桦林","pinyin":"É'ěrgǔnà Báihuàlín","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.5281,"lon":120.1195,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ergun-white-birch-forest","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single-species stand of native white birch north of Ergun city, laid out with an elevated timber walkway and four themed zones for sightseeing and photography. The tourism department's description groups them as a sky walkway, a fairy-tale forest, a romance area and a photography zone. It suits a short stop on a day out from Ergun."},{"id":"oroqen-gaxian-cave-tuoba-xianbei-park","name":"Gaxian Cave and Tuoba Xianbei Park","name_zh":"嘎仙洞","pinyin":"Gāxiān Dòng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.6286,"lon":123.604,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=oroqen-gaxian-cave-tuoba-xianbei-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Gaxian Cave is a granite cave in the forests of the northern Greater Khingan range whose west wall carries a 201-character inscription cut in 443 on the orders of the Northern Wei emperor Tuoba Tao, recording a prayer at the Tuoba Xianbei ancestral home; archaeologists identified it in 1980. The Tuoba Xianbei History and Culture Park around it adds an altar, a museum and other buildings, together with an Oroqen village display. Scholars still debate whether the cave marks the Tuoba's true place of origin."},{"id":"genhe-source-national-wetland-park","name":"Genheyuan National Wetland Park","name_zh":"根河源国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Gēnhéyuán Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.8586,"lon":121.6479,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=genhe-source-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A national wetland park around the upper Genhe River in the Greater Khingan forest, where forest, marsh, river and lake habitats are interlaced across about 590 sq km, of which roughly 200 sq km is wetland. East Asian waterfowl breed here, and the river it protects feeds the Ergun River. Visitor facilities include forest walks, an RV and log-cabin camp, and in summer rafting and wild-berry picking."},{"id":"chen-barag-haotetaohai-city-ruins","name":"Haotetaohai City Ruins","name_zh":"浩特陶海城址","pinyin":"Hàotè Táohǎi Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":49.3172,"lon":119.6093,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chen-barag-haotetaohai-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The earthen ramparts of a rectangular walled town of the Liao period stand on open grassland at the edge of a village in Chen Barag Banner. The enclosure is several hundred metres across, and faint outlines of buildings can be made out inside it."},{"id":"ergun-heishantou-city-ruins","name":"Heishantou City Ruins","name_zh":"黑山头城址","pinyin":"Hēishāntóu Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.2963,"lon":119.4872,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ergun-heishantou-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The earthen ramparts of a walled town of the Jin and Yuan periods survive on a terrace in the grassland near Heishantou, a large enclosure with a smaller walled compound at its centre. The walls are now low banks and part of the interior is ploughed. The Inner Mongolia culture and tourism department identifies the town as the fief of Jochi Khasar, a younger brother of Genghis Khan."},{"id":"chen-barag-hohnuur-scenic-area","name":"Hohnuur Scenic Area","name_zh":"呼和诺尔景区","pinyin":"Hūhénuò'ěr Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":49.2719,"lon":119.2051,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chen-barag-hohnuur-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A ger-camp resort on the shore of Hohnuur, a lake in the Chen Barag grassland, with about 4 sq km of steppe and 12 sq km of water inside the scenic area. A yurt-style visitor centre forms the core of a cluster of gers where visitors can eat, stay overnight and try horse riding, archery and Mongolian wrestling. It suits a short stop or an overnight stay on the Hailar–Manzhouli road."},{"id":"ewenki-honghuaerji-mongolian-pine-park","name":"Honghuaerji Mongolian Pine National Forest Park","name_zh":"红花尔基樟子松国家森林公园","pinyin":"Hónghuā'ěrjī Zhāngzisōng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":48.2571,"lon":120.0088,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ewenki-honghuaerji-mongolian-pine-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forest park of about 67 sq km on the southern edge of the Hulunbuir sands, protecting a large continuous belt of Mongolian pine, an evergreen conifer suited to sandy soil. Rivers, lakes and marshy grassland lie among the pines, and the park borders the Ewenki and Barag steppes. It is a forest-and-grassland stop for travellers in the south of Hulunbuir."},{"id":"hulun-lake","name":"Hulun Lake","name_zh":"呼伦湖","pinyin":"Hūlún Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":48.9742,"lon":117.4403,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hulun-lake/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hulun Lake, also called Dalai Lake, is the largest lake in Inner Mongolia and one of the largest freshwater lakes in China, covering about 2,300 sq km at the western end of the Hulunbuir grassland. Its shores are low and open, fringed with reed beds and wetland that form a protected nature reserve, and the lake is frozen from early November until early May. The lake is shared by Xin Barag Right Banner, Xin Barag Left Banner and Zhalainur District."},{"id":"zalantun-jinlongshan-ski-resort","name":"Jinlongshan Ski Resort, Zalantun","name_zh":"扎兰屯金龙山","pinyin":"Zhālántún Jīnlóngshān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":48.0478,"lon":122.6253,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zalantun-jinlongshan-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A ski and leisure resort in the hills north-west of Zalantun, with 18 pistes graded from beginner to advanced, a U-shaped snowboard halfpipe and an aerials course used by national ski teams for training. It was a venue for snow events at the 2024 National Winter Games and is listed among China's first national ski-tourism resorts. Winter extras include snowmobiles and snow tubing; in summer the hill is used for hiking and camping, and a hot-spring hotel provides accommodation."},{"id":"manzhouli-national-gate-matryoshka-square","name":"Manzhouli National Gate and Matryoshka Square","name_zh":"满洲里中俄边境旅游区","pinyin":"Mǎnzhōulǐ Zhōng'é Biānjìng Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":49.6264,"lon":117.3483,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=manzhouli-national-gate-matryoshka-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Manzhouli is China's largest land port, and this 5A-rated zone takes in two of its best-known sights. The first is the monumental 'national gate' at the port, the fifth gate on the site, built in 2008 with models of the four earlier ones beside it. The second is Matryoshka Square in the town, a theme square built around giant nesting dolls, the largest of which houses a hotel and a performance hall."},{"id":"ergun-moerdaoga-national-forest-park","name":"Moerdaoga National Forest Park","name_zh":"莫尔道嘎国家森林公园","pinyin":"Mò'ěrdàogā Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":51.2657,"lon":120.7716,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ergun-moerdaoga-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Moerdaoga was the first national forest park in the Inner Mongolia part of the Greater Khingan range, covering cold-temperate forest of larch and birch that turns orange and yellow in autumn. The town of Moerdaoga lies inside the park, which has about 14 sights linked by a tourist loop of more than 100 km, including a small forest sightseeing train and White Deer Island. The local government gives May to October as the best season."},{"id":"hailar-world-anti-fascist-war-memorial-park","name":"World Anti-Fascist War Memorial Park, Hailar","name_zh":"世界反法西斯战争海拉尔纪念园","pinyin":"Shìjiè Fǎnfǎxīsī Zhànzhēng Hǎilā'ěr Jìniànyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":49.2469,"lon":119.7127,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailar-world-anti-fascist-war-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The park occupies Beishan hill on the northern edge of Hailar, where the Japanese Kwantung Army built a large underground fortress between 1934 and 1937. Visitors can enter part of the concrete tunnels and rooms beneath the hill, which held command posts, quarters and stores, and an exhibition hall covers the fortress's construction, including the testimony of a labourer who escaped, and the Soviet attack on it in August 1945. The Hailar works were among the largest fortifications the Kwantung Army built in north-east China."},{"id":"ergun-wulan-mountain","name":"Wulan Mountain, Ergun","name_zh":"额尔古纳乌兰山","pinyin":"É'ěrgǔnà Wūlánshān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":50.6139,"lon":119.3504,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ergun-wulan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hill scenic area of 4.7 sq km on open grassland in Heishantou town, with viewing platforms on the hill. It has a tent camp and an RV camp, and activities such as a zip line, a swing and a grass-sledging slope. It suits a half-day stop on the northern Hulunbuir tourist route."},{"id":"zhalainur-mammoth-park","name":"Zhalainur Mammoth Park","name_zh":"扎赉诺尔猛犸公园","pinyin":"Zhālàinuò'ěr Měngmǎ Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Hulunbuir","lat":49.4972,"lon":117.6713,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhalainur-mammoth-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A landscaped park in the new town of Zhalainur District, centred on a large group of mammoth sculptures set among lakes and paths. It refers to the mammoth fossils and other Ice Age animal remains found in the local coalfield, which scientists named the Zhalainur fauna. The Zhalainur Museum on the same street displays the area's mammoth fossils, ancient human skulls and Palaeolithic stone tools, with further halls on coal mining and the Hulun Lake wetlands."},{"id":"otog-alzhai-grottoes","name":"Alzhai Grottoes","name_zh":"阿尔寨石窟","pinyin":"Ā'ěrzhài Shíkū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.8394,"lon":107.2924,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=otog-alzhai-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Alzhai Grottoes are a Buddhist cave temple on a hill in the steppe of Otog Banner, known in Chinese as Baiyanyao, 'Hundred-Eye Caves', and nicknamed the 'Dunhuang of the grassland'. Specialists trace the carving back to the Northern Wei, while the national heritage list dates the site from the Western Xia to the Ming; about 600 m² of murals survive, mostly Tibetan Buddhist (tantric) subjects but also secular scenes, with inscriptions in Mongolian, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese. It was added to the national heritage list in 2003."},{"id":"otog-bulonghu-hot-spring-resort","name":"Bulonghu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"布龙湖温泉度假区","pinyin":"Bùlónghú Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":38.9244,"lon":107.5112,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=otog-bulonghu-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Bulonghu is a hot-spring and lake resort on the grassland of Otog Banner, beside the Bulong reservoir where the Dusitu River makes a wide bend. The Ordos government's English site describes a grassland lake resort combining recreation, hot springs, conference reception, catering, accommodation and water entertainment. It is a leisure resort rather than a sightseeing destination."},{"id":"etuoke-front-chengchuan-city-ruins","name":"Chengchuan City Ruins","name_zh":"城川城址","pinyin":"Chéngchuān Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":37.7087,"lon":108.3268,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=etuoke-front-chengchuan-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chengchuan City Ruins are the remains of a walled city north-east of Chengchuan town, which the Otog Front Banner government identifies as Jianing in Youzhou, a prefecture set up in 738 to settle Turkic and Sogdian groups from the Six Hu Prefectures. Under the Western Xia it was the seat of a military commission guarding Silk Road post stations, and a Mongol army captured and burned it in 1227. The earthen walls of a rectangular enclosure about 800 m across still mark the city's outline."},{"id":"etuoke-front-chengchuan-red-culture-area","name":"Chengchuan Red Culture Tourism Area","name_zh":"城川红色文化旅游区","pinyin":"Chéngchuān Hóngsè Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":37.701,"lon":108.3006,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=etuoke-front-chengchuan-red-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chengchuan in Otog Front Banner was part of a Communist-led base area in the 1940s, and the tourist area gathers its memorial sites: the Yan'an Nationalities Institute Chengchuan Memorial, a memorial to Yang Zao and Han Chun, whom the Ordos government calls international communist fighters, and the Wang Zhen Well memorial park. The well was dug in 1944 under the Eighth Route Army commander Wang Zhen during wartime land reclamation, and a branch of the institute was based in Chengchuan from 1945. The area also runs training and study programmes."},{"id":"etuoke-front-dashatou-desert-resort","name":"Dashatou Desert Tourism Area","name_zh":"大沙头","pinyin":"Dàshātóu","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":38.1558,"lon":107.4425,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=etuoke-front-dashatou-desert-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dashatou is a desert sports and leisure resort in the Mu Us sandy land in Otog Front Banner. Its roughly 9,600 mu (about 6 sq km) include dunes up to 50 m high, and it runs desert sports, conferences and cultural events, among them a fireworks music festival and a desert car-and-motorbike challenge in July 2025. It is a commercial resort aimed at weekend visitors and event crowds."},{"id":"dongsheng-donglian-anime-city","name":"Donglian Animation City","name_zh":"东联动漫城","pinyin":"Dōnglián Dòngmàn Chéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.832,"lon":109.7023,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongsheng-donglian-anime-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Donglian Animation City is a themed leisure and education complex in Hantai town, Dongsheng District, built around animated stories on moral education. Alongside animation entertainment it offers youth study tours, outdoor training and red-culture education programmes. It is a modern commercial attraction aimed at school groups and families, not a heritage site."},{"id":"dalad-engebei-eco-area","name":"Engebei Ecological Tourism Area","name_zh":"恩格贝","pinyin":"Ēngébèi","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":40.3907,"lon":109.4328,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalad-engebei-eco-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Engebei is an ecological demonstration area of about 300,000 mu (about 200 sq km) at the eastern end of the Kubuqi Desert, reclaimed from drifting sand through years of planting and development. Its attractions include the Inner Mongolia Engebei Desert Museum, viewing of desert birds and animals and of sand-binding plants, and ecological farming. It suits visitors interested in desert control and day trips from Baotou."},{"id":"uxin-ganlinwusu-lake-area","name":"Ganlinwusu Lake Area","name_zh":"甘霖乌素","pinyin":"Gānlínwūsù","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":38.6318,"lon":109.2541,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=uxin-ganlinwusu-lake-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ganlinwusu is a lake-and-wetland tourist area in the Mu Us sandy land in southern Uxin Banner, where autumn brings large flocks of migrating birds to its lakes. Uxin Banner's tourism bureau presents it with the Wengongmanha National Desert Park for desert off-roading, grassland sightseeing and wetland leisure, and it has hosted open-water swimming events."},{"id":"dongsheng-jiuchenggong-resort","name":"Jiuchenggong Resort","name_zh":"九城宫","pinyin":"Jiǔchénggōng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.7934,"lon":109.7677,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongsheng-jiuchenggong-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jiuchenggong is a large resort of about 6 sq km in Hantai town, Dongsheng District, themed around Manhan culture, the blend of Mongolian and Han folk traditions of the Ordos area. In winter it runs a ski field and ice-and-snow activities, and in the warmer months it offers a glass bridge, glass rafting, a jungle adventure course, go-karts, horse riding and archery. Cave-dwelling courtyards provide lodging, and it suits families and groups on a day or overnight break from the city."},{"id":"jungar-yellow-river-grand-canyon","name":"Jungar Yellow River Grand Canyon","name_zh":"准格尔黄河大峡谷","pinyin":"Zhǔngé'ěr Huánghé Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.6227,"lon":111.4466,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jungar-yellow-river-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"In the south-east of Jungar Banner the Yellow River runs through a deep canyon along the Shanxi border, with villages, forts and river views strung along its bank. The Ordos government lists Cuijiazhai, a village registered as a traditional village in 2014 with a history of more than 170 years, the Wanjiazhai water-control project, the Taiji Bay river bend and more than 50 sights including old forts, village walls and a riverside plank path. Via ferrata routes and a glass viewing platform have been added, and Cuijiazhai stages a traditional wedding performance."},{"id":"kangbashi-tourist-area","name":"Kangbashi Tourist Area","name_zh":"康巴什旅游区","pinyin":"Kāngbāshí Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.6002,"lon":109.7786,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangbashi-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kangbashi is the new urban district where the Ordos city government sits, and its core is rated as a tourist area made up of squares, themed parks and a city lake. The Ordos government counts 28 sights, among them seven themed squares, five themed parks, three museums, an ancient site and seven cultural buildings. The Ordos Museum, Ordos Bronze Museum and Ordos Revolution History Museum stand together on Wenhua West Road and are registered museums open all year."},{"id":"kangbashi-kangzhen-silk-road-town","name":"Kangzhen Grassland Silk Road Cultural Town","name_zh":"康镇草原丝路文化景区","pinyin":"Kāngzhèn Cǎoyuán Sīlù Wénhuà Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.634,"lon":109.7548,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangbashi-kangzhen-silk-road-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kangzhen is a cultural-tourism town of about 3,500 mu in Kangbashi, built in the manner of buildings from regions along the grassland Silk Road. Its courtyards and streets imitate Mongolian, Beijing, Jin-merchant, Guanzhong and north-western styles, with food and folk displays. It is a modern theme town rather than a historic one, and stages festival events such as opera performances, fairs and winter ice-lantern shows."},{"id":"etuoke-front-malanhua-grassland","name":"Malanhua Grassland","name_zh":"马兰花草原","pinyin":"Mǎlánhuā Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":38.3965,"lon":106.6746,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=etuoke-front-malanhua-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Malanhua is a grassland resort in Otog Front Banner with a large performance stage, a racecourse, a Mongolian tribe-style village, a hotel named for the 38th parallel and a ceremonial oboo square. The indoor stage seats 1,200 people for shows, and the resort is aimed at tour groups and families."},{"id":"dongsheng-ordos-cashmere-industrial-tourism-area","name":"Ordos Cashmere Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"鄂尔多斯羊绒工业旅游区","pinyin":"È'ěrduōsī Yángróng Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.8072,"lon":109.8241,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongsheng-ordos-cashmere-industrial-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This industrial-tourism area in Dongsheng District is the Ordos cashmere brand's production base, about 2,800 mu in size, with east and west plants, an office zone, living quarters and a research centre that houses the national cashmere products engineering research centre. A marketing and display centre of 3,000 sq m shows the brand's full range of garments. It is a company-run site, so check whether tours are running before planning a visit."},{"id":"ejin-horo-ordos-culture-industry-park","name":"Ordos Cultural Industry Park","name_zh":"鄂尔多斯文化产业园","pinyin":"È'ěrduōsī Wénhuà Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.5033,"lon":109.7355,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ejin-horo-ordos-culture-industry-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Ordos Cultural Industry Park is a development of 11.9 sq km near Altan Xire, the Ejin Horo Banner seat, built around film and television production, cultural exhibition and cultural tourism. It stages live shows, and the Inner Mongolia Museum has an Ejin Horo branch here. It suits visitors interested in film and culture; it is a modern development, not a historic site."},{"id":"hangjin-ordos-grassland-resort","name":"Ordos Grassland Tourism Area","name_zh":"鄂尔多斯草原旅游区","pinyin":"È'ěrduōsī Cǎoyuán Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.813,"lon":108.6225,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangjin-ordos-grassland-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This ger resort on the dry steppe of Hanggin Banner is arranged around two Mongolian golden tents and a camp of about 400 gers. It offers lodging and dining for up to 1,500 guests and Mongolian-culture activities, and suits groups and families on a grassland stay."},{"id":"kangbashi-ordos-racing-town","name":"Ordos Racing Town","name_zh":"鄂尔多斯赛车小镇","pinyin":"È'ěrduōsī Sàichē Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.6232,"lon":109.8696,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangbashi-ordos-racing-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The town is built around the Ordos International Circuit, a track certified by the FIA at grade 2 that opened in 2010 and has hosted 79 national and regional events, including CTCC circuit-racing and CDGP drifting championship rounds and the long-running 'Warm City' (Nuancheng) race weekends. Other attractions are a kart track, a racing-themed hotel and the Taifaxiang Museum, a private collection of mineral crystals and ornamental stones. It suits motorsport fans and families looking for a short stop in Kangbashi."},{"id":"dongsheng-ordos-wildlife-park","name":"Ordos Wildlife Park","name_zh":"鄂尔多斯野生动物园","pinyin":"È'ěrduōsī Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.8294,"lon":109.8946,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongsheng-ordos-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ordos Wildlife Park covers about 12 km² of hills in Dongsheng district and opened in July 2012. It has four display zones with 25 venues and outdoor areas for birds, kangaroos, bears, tigers and leopards, mountain animals and wolves, as well as a petting area and a separate marine hall. Giant pandas Qiqiao and Qixi are among the animals on show, and the park suits families."},{"id":"hangjin-qixinghu-desert-resort","name":"Qixinghu (Seven Star Lakes), Kubuqi Desert","name_zh":"库布其七星湖","pinyin":"Kùbùqí Qīxīnghú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":40.6739,"lon":108.299,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangjin-qixinghu-desert-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Qixinghu, 'Seven Star Lakes', is a lake-and-dune resort area in the heart of the Kubuqi Desert in Hanggin Banner, developed by the Elion Resources Group; its seven lakes are laid out like the Big Dipper. A desert hotel, a desert science museum and a desert botanical house stand beside the main lake. The area was designated Kubuqi National Desert Park in 2014, and suits visitors who want to stay in the desert."},{"id":"uxin-salawusu-site","name":"Salawusu Site","name_zh":"萨拉乌苏遗址","pinyin":"Sàlāwūsū Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":37.7183,"lon":108.5449,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=uxin-salawusu-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Salawusu is a Palaeolithic site along a 39 km canyon of the Salawusu River in the Mu Us Sandy Land, where Émile Licent found fossils in 1922 and excavated with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1923; a human tooth from the finds became the emblem of 'Hetao Man'. The fossils and stone tools belong to the Late Palaeolithic, and in June 2025 the site was listed among the national archaeological parks approved by the National Cultural Heritage Administration. Visitors see fossils and animal bones in the Salawusu Site Museum, enter a protective shelter over part of the site and walk the valley boardwalks, and the tourism area also takes in the Batuwan red-culture town, which presents local revolutionary history."},{"id":"hanggin-shartemtu-temple","name":"Shartemtu Temple","name_zh":"沙日特莫图庙","pinyin":"Shārìtèmótú Miào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":40.2118,"lon":108.3323,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanggin-shartemtu-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shartemtu is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery on the steppe of Hanggin Banner, also called Putiji'du Temple, first built in the early Ming and enlarged in 1862. Its halls were pulled down in 1958 and the temple has been rebuilt since 1989, with a Kalachakra stupa added in 2005. A small temple museum holds more than 300 Buddhist statues, thangkas and other items collected by the lama Jamyang Tubdan."},{"id":"jungar-shuijinghu-lake-resort","name":"Shuijinghu Lake Resort","name_zh":"水镜湖","pinyin":"Shuǐjìnghú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":40.064,"lon":110.6478,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jungar-shuijinghu-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shuijinghu is a lakeside leisure-farming resort in the north of Jungar Banner. It has an eco-agriculture garden, a copy of an old Beijing courtyard house, angling on the lake, a fountain with music and bonfire evenings, and a hotel that can host more than 200 guests. It is a modern commercial resort for weekend breaks rather than a historic site."},{"id":"ejin-horo-subohan-grassland","name":"Subohan Grassland Resort","name_zh":"苏泊罕草原","pinyin":"Sūpōhǎn Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.6672,"lon":109.3557,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ejin-horo-subohan-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Subohan is a grassland leisure resort in Subuerga town, Ejin Horo Banner, built around Mongolian herding life: guests stay in gers, ride horses, eat Mongolian meals and watch staged shows. The Ordos government describes the grassland as a historic gathering and review ground of the seven banners of the Ordos league and as the site of the largest Ming and Qing post station in Ordos. It suits families and groups on a short stay away from the city."},{"id":"uxin-zouma-culture-resort","name":"Uxin Zouma Culture Resort","name_zh":"乌审走马","pinyin":"Wūshěn Zǒumǎ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":38.4608,"lon":108.921,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=uxin-zouma-culture-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This resort in Suldesumu, Uxin Banner, was begun in 2006 on saline-alkali land that has since been restored as a wetland grassland within the Mu Us sandy land. It combines grassland sightseeing and folk-culture experiences with horse events: Uxin is the home of zouma, the walking-horse contest, which is on the national intangible cultural heritage list and judges horses on a smooth, even gait. The area hosts banner-level festivals such as the fourth Uxin tourism Naadam in August 2025."},{"id":"dongsheng-wanjiahui-happy-world","name":"Wanjiahui Happy World","name_zh":"万家惠欢乐世界","pinyin":"Wànjiāhuì Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.8439,"lon":109.9385,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongsheng-wanjiahui-happy-world","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wanjiahui Happy World is a large indoor leisure complex in Dongsheng District, with about 330,000 sq m of floor space. It combines a water park of about 90,000 sq m, an indoor snow and ice park, a European-style amusement park, a themed hotel of 1,500 rooms and areas for food and shopping, so it can be visited in any season. It is a modern commercial development rather than a heritage site, and suits families with children."},{"id":"dalad-wantong-ecological-tourism-area","name":"Wantong Ecological Tourism Area","name_zh":"蒙根花万通生态旅游区","pinyin":"Ménggēnhuā Wàntōng Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":40.3073,"lon":110.4626,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalad-wantong-ecological-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A farm-based tourism area in Bainijing town, Dalad Banner, developed from the Wantong modern agriculture and livestock park. Its demonstration areas cover crop growing, greenhouse and soilless cultivation, livestock breeding and farm-technology training, and an exhibition hall serves school labour-education visits. It suits families and school groups interested in modern farming rather than historic or scenic sights."},{"id":"dalad-xiangshawan","name":"Xiangshawan","name_zh":"响沙湾","pinyin":"Xiǎngshāwān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":40.2432,"lon":109.9552,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalad-xiangshawan/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xiangshawan is a desert resort at the eastern end of the Kubuqi Desert in Dalad Banner, known for dunes whose sand makes a humming sound when it slides. Visitors can slide down the dunes, ride camels, cross the sand by cable car or off-road vehicle, play at a desert water park and stay at resort 'islands' with hotels and tented camps, and Mongolian song-and-dance shows are staged. It is a heavily developed, family-oriented attraction that suits a day trip from Baotou or Ordos."},{"id":"ejin-horo-yihe-ecological-culture-expo-park","name":"Yihe Ecological and Cultural Expo Park","name_zh":"颐和生态文化博览园","pinyin":"Yíhé Shēngtài Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.611,"lon":109.7164,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ejin-horo-yihe-ecological-culture-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yihe is a walled park in Ejin Horo Banner on the western edge of Kangbashi, begun in 2011 and built in Mongolian, Tibetan and Han styles, with 999 prayer wheels set in its circular outer wall. Its courtyards hold the Inner Mongolia Buddhist Culture Museum, a temple hall named Erdeni Zhao, the residence of the Ulan Living Buddha and a culture experience centre. The park runs tea-tasting, incense-making, handicraft and meditation activities and is popular with families."},{"id":"dalad-yinkentala-desert-oasis","name":"Yinkentala Desert Oasis","name_zh":"银肯塔拉沙漠绿洲","pinyin":"Yínkěntǎlā Shāmò Lǜzhōu","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":40.2732,"lon":109.865,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalad-yinkentala-desert-oasis","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yinkentala is a desert-and-grassland tourist park in Dalad Banner, on the south side of the Yellow River. The Ordos government lists activities including sand sledding, desert off-roading, camel rides, a desert ropeway, horse displays and an oboo ceremony, with Mongolian-style meals. It is a commercial leisure park for day trips from Baotou or Ordos."},{"id":"jungar-yousongwang-pine","name":"Yousongwang, the Pine King of Jungar","name_zh":"油松王","pinyin":"Yóusōngwáng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.4185,"lon":110.6426,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jungar-yousongwang-pine","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yousongwang, the 'Pine King', is a Chinese pine standing in Narisong town in the south of Jungar Banner. The Ordos government gives its age as nearly a thousand years, dates its sprouting to the Xining era of the Northern Song (1068–1077) and calls it the oldest known Chinese pine in China. Temple fairs are held beside it on the 13th day of the fifth lunar month and the 15th of the seventh."},{"id":"zhungeer-zhaizigedan-site","name":"Zhaizigedan Site","name_zh":"寨子圪旦遗址","pinyin":"Zhàizigēdàn Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.9032,"lon":111.4324,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhungeer-zhaizigedan-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Neolithic stone-walled settlement on a hilltop above the Yellow River in Jungar Banner, dating to about 5,000 years ago, between the Yangshao and Longshan cultures. An oval stone wall encloses the hilltop, with the base of a stepped platform in the middle that archaeologists read as an altar, and steep ground protects the hill on three sides. It was found in 1998 during surveys for the Wanjiazhai water project and listed nationally in 2013, and it suits visitors with a particular interest in prehistory."},{"id":"jungar-zhunge-er-zhao","name":"Zhunge'er Zhao (Baotang Temple)","name_zh":"准格尔召","pinyin":"Zhǔngé'ěr Zhào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ordos","lat":39.5961,"lon":110.141,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jungar-zhunge-er-zhao","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhunge'er Zhao, formally Baotang Temple, is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1623 and enlarged in the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns. The Ordos government describes it as the largest and best-preserved Gelug temple complex surviving in Ordos. The surrounding tourist area adds a lake with boating, a vegetarian dining hall and guest courtyards, and large religious gatherings are held here in the first, fourth and seventh lunar months."},{"id":"naiman-baogutu-desert","name":"Baogutu Desert","name_zh":"宝古图沙漠","pinyin":"Bǎogǔtú Shāmò","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":43.1701,"lon":120.6263,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=naiman-baogutu-desert","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Baogutu Desert is a stretch of dunes in Baiyintala sumu, Naiman Banner, run as a scenic area with camel rides, off-road vehicle runs over the dunes and sand sliding. It has a self-drive campsite with capsule-style rooms and regularly hosts desert off-road car races. It suits visitors who want a short desert outing in the south of Tongliao."},{"id":"horqin-left-rear-caogan-desert","name":"Caogan Desert","name_zh":"草甘沙漠","pinyin":"Cǎogān Shāmò","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":42.8398,"lon":123.1009,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-left-rear-caogan-desert","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Caogan Desert is a village-run scenic area of dunes, grass and small lakes in Sandu sumu, Horqin Left Rear Banner, set up in 2014 and covering about 9 square kilometres. It has ger-style restaurants, log cabins, container and caravan lodgings and a caravan campsite, with dune vehicle rides, a virtual-reality hall, archery tag and beach football. It suits families and self-drive groups who want an overnight stay in the desert."},{"id":"horqin-left-rear-daqinggou","name":"Daqinggou Nature Reserve","name_zh":"大青沟","pinyin":"Dàqīnggōu","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":42.8109,"lon":122.1738,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-left-rear-daqinggou","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Daqinggou is a national nature reserve in the middle of the Horqin sandy land, where two spring-fed valleys, Daqinggou and Xiaoqinggou, hold broadleaf forest and streams among the dunes. A boardwalk of more than 4 km follows the valley floor, and other sights include a small lake, a lotus lake and a museum of Horqin Mongol customs, geology and specimens. Approved in 1980 and made a reserve in 1988, it suits visitors who want shade, water and woodland in a sandy region."},{"id":"horqin-left-middle-hamin-site","name":"Hamin Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"哈民考古遗址公园","pinyin":"Hāmín Kǎogǔ Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":43.9814,"lon":122.2169,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-left-middle-hamin-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hamin Archaeological Site Park protects a Neolithic village of semi-subterranean houses, dated to about 5,500 to 5,000 years ago, found in the Horqin sandy ground in 2010 after looters disturbed it. A protective hall keeps part of the excavated house floors in place, and the museum beside it, reopened in July 2024 after a refit with AR displays, shows 188 pottery, stone, jade, bone and shell pieces, while a reconstructed settlement shows how the villagers lived. It suits visitors interested in prehistoric China and can be seen in half a day from Tongliao."},{"id":"kailu-white-pagoda","name":"Kailu Pagoda (White Pagoda)","name_zh":"开鲁县佛塔","pinyin":"Kāilǔ Xiàn Fótǎ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":43.5936,"lon":121.3114,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kailu-white-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kailu Pagoda, known locally as the White Pagoda, is a brick stupa of the Yuan dynasty standing in Baita Park in Kailu town. It has a square base, a bowl-shaped body, a spire of thirteen tiers and a bronze finial, and it was repaired in 1962 and 1993. The Kailu County Museum, which also looks after the Mai Xin memorial hall, stands in the same park."},{"id":"naiman-mengjiaduan-wetland","name":"Mengjiaduan Wetland","name_zh":"孟家段湿地","pinyin":"Mèngjiāduàn Shīdì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":43.371,"lon":120.9779,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=naiman-mengjiaduan-wetland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mengjiaduan is a large irrigation reservoir on the right bank of the West Liao River in northern Naiman Banner, built in 1958, whose upper and lower basins together hold about 108 million cubic metres. It is a national wetland park, which passed the National Forestry and Grassland Administration's pilot-stage acceptance in 2020; several rare migratory birds roost there, and the visitor area includes a fishing village and an ecological education display. It suits birdwatchers and visitors who want a day beside open water away from the towns."},{"id":"tongliao-mongol-king-industrial-tourism","name":"Mongol King Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"蒙古王工业旅游景区","pinyin":"Ménggǔwáng Gōngyè Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":43.5562,"lon":122.2118,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongliao-mongol-king-industrial-tourism","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mongol King Industrial Tourism Area is an industrial-tourism site named after the Mongol King baijiu brand, in the south of Tongliao. Tongliao's tourism bureau has backed its upgrade as one of the city's industrial-tourism sites since 2024, and the brand's baijiu won silver at the 2020 China tourism-commodities competition. It suits visitors interested in local liquor and company-run industrial tourism, and it can be fitted into a stay in the city."},{"id":"naiman-mongolian-princes-mansion","name":"Naiman Mongolian Prince's Mansion","name_zh":"奈曼王府","pinyin":"Nàimàn Wángfǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":42.8455,"lon":120.645,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=naiman-mongolian-princes-mansion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Naiman Prince's Mansion is a large Qing-period complex of grey-brick halls and courtyards in Daqintala, begun in 1863 as the residence of the Naiman Banner's Mongol prince. It is one of the better-preserved Qing official-style compounds in Inner Mongolia and now houses a museum with 46 exhibition halls, showing local history and restored period interiors of a banner prince's household. It suits visitors interested in Qing-era Mongol banner life and architecture."},{"id":"jarud-nanbaoligaotu-site","name":"Nanbaoligaotu Site","name_zh":"南宝力皋吐遗址","pinyin":"Nánbǎolìgāotǔ Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":44.4092,"lon":121.3411,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jarud-nanbaoligaotu-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Nanbaoligaotu is a late Neolithic settlement and cemetery in Jarud Banner, dated to about 4,500 to 5,000 years ago. Excavation covered more than 10,000 square metres and found 18 house sites, over 400 graves and more than 1,500 objects; the site museum, built in 2017, shows 566 pieces, among them a human-shaped pottery jar, jade ornaments and a bone headdress that the museum counts among the earliest in China. It suits visitors interested in prehistoric China, and the museum has an outdoor simulated-dig area."},{"id":"horqin-left-rear-sengge-rinchen-palace","name":"Palace of Sengge Rinchen","name_zh":"僧格林沁王府","pinyin":"Sēnggélínqìn Wángfǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":43.1009,"lon":122.9166,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-left-rear-sengge-rinchen-palace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Palace of Sengge Rinchen was built from 1740 as the palace of the ruling prince of the Horqin banner, and is best known as the seat of Sengge Rinchen (1811–1865), a Mongol prince and general who served the Qing court in the Second Opium War and against the Taiping and Nian rebellions. Part of the original palace survives, including its five-bay main hall, and the Horqin Folk Customs and History Culture Park, about 10 hectares with 85 halls, has been built around it in Qing style. It suits visitors interested in Qing-period Mongol banner life and architecture."},{"id":"hure-shouyin-temple","name":"Shouyin Temple","name_zh":"寿因寺","pinyin":"Shòuyīn Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":42.496,"lon":121.437,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hure-shouyin-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shouyin Temple, also called Maidar Gegen Temple, is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist temple in the south-west of Hure Banner. Its main hall is a two-storey building in a Tibetan-Chinese style with three roofs, a three-bay porch on four carved stone columns and wooden tiger and elephant heads on the brackets, and its murals include a depiction of the eighteen hells. It joined the national list in 2013 and is a stop on a Tongliao heritage trail of Qing-style buildings."},{"id":"hure-three-great-temples","name":"Three Great Temples of Kulun","name_zh":"库伦三大寺","pinyin":"Kùlún Sān Dà Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":42.7299,"lon":121.7719,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hure-three-great-temples","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Three Great Temples of Kulun are three Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist temples side by side in Kulun town: Xingyuan Temple, begun in 1649, Xiangjiao Temple, built in 1670, and Fuyuan Temple, built in 1742. Under the Qing, Kulun was the only banner in Inner Mongolia ruled jointly by its lamas and the state, and Xingyuan, the largest of the three, was the seat of the head lama. About 59,000 square metres of historic buildings survive, and the group is a stop on a Tongliao heritage trail of Qing-period buildings that also takes in Naiman Prince's Mansion."},{"id":"horqin-left-middle-xiaozhuang-garden","name":"Xiaozhuang Garden (Darhan Prince's Mansion)","name_zh":"孝庄园","pinyin":"Xiàozhuāngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":43.9396,"lon":121.9485,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-left-middle-xiaozhuang-garden","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Xiaozhuang Garden is a reconstruction of the Darhan Prince's mansion, the family home of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who grew up in Horqin and married into the Qing court. The mansion was rebuilt on its old site in 2008 and opened to visitors in 2012; a hall added in 2019 presents local intangible heritage such as horse-head fiddle playing and Mongolian embroidery. The buildings are modern, and the visit suits those interested in Qing-Mongol history and the Horqin village setting."},{"id":"hure-yinshawan-scenic-area","name":"Yinshawan Scenic Area","name_zh":"银沙湾","pinyin":"Yínshāwān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":42.8475,"lon":121.6282,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hure-yinshawan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yinshawan is a dune scenic area in Hure Banner, Tongliao, used for desert driving and off-road sport. It has hosted off-road car and motorcycle races over the dunes, among them a winter car challenge in January 2025 on a natural course of about 20 km. It suits visitors interested in dunes and motor sport."},{"id":"horqin-left-middle-zhurihe-grassland","name":"Zhurihe Grassland","name_zh":"珠日河草原","pinyin":"Zhūrìhé Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Tongliao","lat":44.1917,"lon":121.5368,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=horqin-left-middle-zhurihe-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Zhurihe is a grassland scenic area on the Zhurihe ranch in the north-west of Horqin Left Middle Banner, built around a racecourse with a reviewing stand. It is the main venue of the 8.18 Jerim horse-racing festival, whose 24th edition was held there in August 2023, and a speed-horse race meeting was run there in June 2024. It suits visitors interested in Mongolian horse culture and open grassland."},{"id":"xinghe-chaer-lake","name":"Chaer Lake (Friendship Reservoir)","name_zh":"察尔湖","pinyin":"Chá'ěr Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":40.8608,"lon":114.0357,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinghe-chaer-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chaer Lake is the Friendship Reservoir on the Dongyang River, begun in 1958 and finished in 1973, in Xinghe County on the border with Hebei. The reservoir holds 116 million cubic metres, and the resort area of about 4,400 hectares around it has boating, horse riding, a caravan camp and farmland and wetland scenery, with skating and skiing in winter. It suits visitors who want a day beside open water within reach of Jining."},{"id":"liangcheng-daihai-ski-resort","name":"Daihai International Ski Resort","name_zh":"岱海国际滑雪场","pinyin":"Dàihǎi Guójì Huáxuěchǎng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":40.6648,"lon":112.5459,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangcheng-daihai-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A ski resort on the north-facing slope of Wofo Mountain above Lake Dai, with 12 runs for beginner, intermediate and advanced skiers, a top station at 2,100 m, a vertical drop of 397 m, snowmaking, lifts and a snow-play area, and a resort with a hotel and hot-spring bathing. It hosted events including cross-country skiing and biathlon at the 14th National Winter Games in February 2024. It suits skiers and families from Jining and Hohhot."},{"id":"siziwang-gegentala-grassland","name":"Gegentala Grassland","name_zh":"格根塔拉草原","pinyin":"Gégēntǎlā Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.7793,"lon":111.8315,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=siziwang-gegentala-grassland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Gegentala is a grassland tourist centre on the northern foothills of the Daqing Mountains in Siziwang Banner, the main landing site for China's Shenzhou spacecraft. The regional tourism Naadam has been held here in late July every year since 1989, and an oboo-offering festival takes place on the thirteenth day of the fifth lunar month. The centre promotes itself as one of the autonomous region's five main grassland tourist areas, and it suits visitors who want an easy grassland stop north of Hohhot."},{"id":"zhuozi-hongshiya-eco-park","name":"Hongshiya Ecological Park","name_zh":"红石崖","pinyin":"Hóngshíyá","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.158,"lon":111.905,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozi-hongshiya-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hongshiya is a privately developed grassland resort in Hongzhao township, Zhuozi County, on the northern side of the Daqing Mountains. It combines alpine meadow ranchland of about 100,000 mu (about 6,700 hectares) with a hot-spring spa drawing on a geothermal well of more than 2,300 m, a water park, a glass footbridge 380 m long between two cliffs, a Buddhist temple and a museum of the anti-Japanese war in the Daqing Mountains. It suits families and day-trippers from Hohhot."},{"id":"zhuozi-hongzhao-jiulongwan","name":"Hongzhao Jiulongwan","name_zh":"红召九龙湾","pinyin":"Hóngzhào Jiǔlóngwān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.0493,"lon":112.0411,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozi-hongzhao-jiulongwan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jiulongwan is a forested mountain valley in Hongzhao township, Zhuozi County, inside the Daqingshan nature reserve and covering about 100 square kilometres of birch woods, cliffs, streams and meadow. It is named for its nine winding ridges, which look like dragons from the air, and visitors can ride a cable car or an off-road vehicle through it or try a glass walkway, cliff swing and zip line. It suits a summer or autumn day trip from Hohhot."},{"id":"chayouzhong-huitengxile-huanghuagou","name":"Huitengxile Huanghuagou Grassland","name_zh":"辉腾锡勒黄花沟草原","pinyin":"Huīténgxīlè Huánghuāgōu Cǎoyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.1275,"lon":112.534,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chayouzhong-huitengxile-huanghuagou","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Huanghuagou is the main visitor area of the Huitengxile alpine meadow in Chahar Right Middle Banner, at an average height of about 2,100 m. The meadow covers about 600 square kilometres, with lakes among volcanic rock, and the visitor area has a 16 km route served by a small train, cable car, sightseeing buses and animal carts, plus boardwalks, glass walkways, a ger resort and a staged show based on an oboo offering and Naadam. It suits a summer day out from Jining or Hohhot."},{"id":"jining-campaign-memorial-park","name":"Jining Campaign Memorial Park","name_zh":"集宁战役红色纪念园","pinyin":"Jíníng Zhànyì Hóngsè Jìniànyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.0201,"lon":113.1089,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jining-campaign-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The memorial park covers about 13 hectares on Quanshan North Street in Jining and is built around the Jining Campaign Memorial Hall, which opened in October 2010. The hall's displays follow the fighting around Jining in 1946, with more than 1,200 objects, photographs and artworks, a sound-and-light panorama and a 5D cinema. The grounds also hold Victory Square, a generals' garden, a monument to the people's heroes and the site of the campaign command post."},{"id":"jining-campaign-site-flour-mill","name":"Jining Campaign Site (Old Flour Mill)","name_zh":"集宁战役旧址","pinyin":"Jíníng Zhànyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.0254,"lon":113.0919,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jining-campaign-site-flour-mill","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Jining Campaign Site is a four-storey concrete building of 1940 in the Qiaoxi district of Jining, put up by the Japanese army as a flour mill. It stands 21.4 m high and its walls still carry dense bullet marks from the fighting of 1946, when Jining was contested by Communist and Nationalist forces. It is the first national-level protected site in the Jining district and suits visitors interested in the 1946 campaign, who can pair it with the memorial park."},{"id":"chayouhou-kelimeng-city-site","name":"Kelimeng City Site","name_zh":"克里孟城址","pinyin":"Kèlǐmèng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.5685,"lon":112.8514,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chayouhou-kelimeng-city-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kelimeng is the site of a walled town occupied from the Han dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chahar Right Rear Banner. Its earth walls form a fenced rectangular enclosure on open grassland, with an inner walled compound and the line of a gate in the south wall, and a track crosses the site. It suits visitors with an interest in the early history of the region."},{"id":"liangcheng-daihai-lake","name":"Lake Dai (Daihai)","name_zh":"岱海","pinyin":"Dàihǎi","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":40.5944,"lon":112.6382,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangcheng-daihai-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lake Dai (Daihai) is a saline inland lake in a fault basin in Liangcheng County, the third largest inland lake in Inner Mongolia. The resort area on its shore has a hot spring with a surface temperature of 38 degrees Celsius, boating and activity facilities, and hotel accommodation. It suits visitors who want a lakeside day or an overnight stay within reach of Jining and Hohhot."},{"id":"zhuozi-linhu-gusai-resort","name":"Linhu Gusai Resort","name_zh":"林胡古塞","pinyin":"Línhú Gǔsài","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":40.786,"lon":112.333,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozi-linhu-gusai-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Linhu Gusai is a mountain resort planned across about 21 square kilometres in Dayushu township, Zhuozi County, themed on the Linhu, a people of the northern frontier in the Warring States period, and on local revolutionary history. Four giant pandas arrived there in September 2019 with the support of the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda and were on show at the Qingming holiday in 2024; the resort also has leisure and accommodation facilities and was named a regional-level tourist resort in 2021. It suits families and visitors looking for a resort stay east of Hohhot."},{"id":"zhuozi-mingxinggou-resort","name":"Mingxinggou Resort","name_zh":"明星沟","pinyin":"Míngxīnggōu","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":40.7272,"lon":112.3651,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuozi-mingxinggou-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mingxinggou is a resort in a mountain valley in Dayushu township, in the south-west of Zhuozi County, planned across about 17 square kilometres in eight zones. Its guest rooms are cave-style dwellings (45 rooms sleeping about 90), and there is a restaurant seating 300 and a stream of more than 300 m running past the entrance. It suits visitors who want a quiet overnight stay in the hills, and it borders the Linhu Gusai resort."},{"id":"jining-riguang-dahewan-resort","name":"Riguang Grassland and Dahewan Resort","name_zh":"日光草原·大河湾","pinyin":"Rìguāng Cǎoyuán Dàhéwān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.1998,"lon":113.1731,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jining-riguang-dahewan-resort","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A year-round resort in the hills north of Jining, built around the Riguang Volcano and Dahewan ski area and hot-spring wellness facilities. In winter the ski area offers runs for different levels and snow play, and in summer the grassland is used for cool-weather stays, with guesthouse villages nearby. It suits visitors from Jining and further afield who want a winter or summer break close to the city."},{"id":"siziwang-shajing-city-site","name":"Shajing Zongguanfu City Site","name_zh":"砂井路总管府故城","pinyin":"Shājǐnglù Zǒngguǎnfǔ Gùchéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":42.026,"lon":111.5207,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=siziwang-shajing-city-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Shajing city site is the ruin of the Yuan-dynasty seat of the Shajing zongguanfu, an administrative unit set up in 1316 in the lands of the Ongud people, north of the Jingzhou circuit. The outline of the walls and of the street grid inside, a square roughly 750 m across, survives as low earthworks that show clearly in aerial imagery, and the site is fenced in open grassland. It suits visitors with a special interest in Yuan history in the region."},{"id":"siziwang-prince-mansion","name":"Siziwang Banner Prince's Mansion","name_zh":"四子王旗王府","pinyin":"Sìzǐwángqí Wángfǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":41.6856,"lon":111.7708,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=siziwang-prince-mansion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Siziwang Banner Prince's Mansion was the seat of the Qing-era prince of the Sizi Buluo banner, built in 1905 for the 13th prince, Lawangnaerbu. A brick-and-timber complex with tiled roofs, red columns and painted beams, it has a front hall for the prince's official business, a rear hall where the prince's family lived and two small prayer halls for monks, and the family temple stands beside it. It suits visitors with an interest in Mongol princely history who are already at the Gegentala grassland."},{"id":"xinghe-sumushan-forest-park","name":"Sumushan Forest Park","name_zh":"苏木山","pinyin":"Sūmùshān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Ulanqab","lat":40.5742,"lon":113.7818,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinghe-sumushan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sumushan is a forested range south of Xinghe where Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Shanxi meet, rising to Huangshiya at 2,334.7 m, the highest point in Ulanqab. The scenic area has a 12 km wooden boardwalk through pine woods, the Bingling ravine, rock formations, a cave where monks once meditated and the film set used for the television series Dasheng Kui. It suits walkers and visitors who want cool mountain air within day-trip distance of Xinghe."},{"id":"wuhai-contemporary-calligraphy-museum","name":"Contemporary China Calligraphy Art Museum","name_zh":"当代中国书法艺术馆","pinyin":"Dāngdài Zhōngguó Shūfǎ Yìshùguǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Wuhai","lat":39.6542,"lon":106.7837,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhai-contemporary-calligraphy-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large art museum in Haibowan, built from 2010 in a city that the China Calligraphers Association named a calligraphy city in 2008. The square building has a glass dome carrying a design taken from the sun-god rock engraving of Zhuozi Mountain, about 38 exhibition halls and room to show more than 6,000 works at once. It suits visitors interested in calligraphy and Chinese painting."},{"id":"wuhai-jinshawan","name":"Jinshawan (Golden Sand Bay)","name_zh":"金沙湾生态旅游区","pinyin":"Jīnshāwān Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Wuhai","lat":39.7823,"lon":106.8586,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhai-jinshawan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jinshawan is a desert recreation area north of Wuhai, set in a hollow between two facing sand hills, the eastern one rising to 156 m. Visitors slide down the dunes, ride camels and take dune-buggy rides, and the area lies close to Wuhai airport. It suits visitors who want a short desert outing from the city."},{"id":"wuhai-menggenhua-leisure-park","name":"Menggenhua Eco-Leisure Park","name_zh":"蒙根花生态休闲区","pinyin":"Ménggēnhuā Shēngtài Xiūxiánqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Wuhai","lat":39.7982,"lon":106.8095,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhai-menggenhua-leisure-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Menggenhua is a leisure park beside Wuhai airport that combines an indoor hot-spring and water-park complex with an amusement park, greenhouses and a peony garden. It also has a hotel and villas for overnight stays and suits families looking for an indoor day out."},{"id":"wuhai-zhuozishan-rock-art","name":"Rock Paintings of Zhuozi Mountain (Zhaoshaogou)","name_zh":"桌子山岩画群","pinyin":"Zhuōzishān Yánhuà Qún","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Wuhai","lat":39.5934,"lon":106.9133,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhai-zhuozishan-rock-art","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Zhuozi Mountain rock paintings, a national protected site spread across Wuhai and Ordos, are best seen at Zhaoshaogou, where more than a hundred Neolithic engravings, mostly human faces including the well-known sun-god face, cover a gentle limestone slope. The slope is fenced and a protective hall designed by Tsinghua University architects has been built over it; other panels lie on cliffs in gullies of the same mountain, partly across the boundary in Ordos. It suits visitors interested in prehistoric art."},{"id":"wuhai-sunshine-tianyu-winery","name":"Sunshine Tianyu International Winery","name_zh":"阳光田宇国际酒庄","pinyin":"Yángguāng Tiányǔ Guójì Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Wuhai","lat":39.3893,"lon":106.783,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhai-sunshine-tianyu-winery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sunshine Tianyu is a vineyard and winery visitor estate in Saihanwusu, Hainan District, south of Wuhai, that began receiving visitors in early 2015. It presents wine culture through sightseeing, farm experiences, resort and conference facilities, with Mongolian cultural elements built into the design, across about 750 mu of visitor area. It suits visitors with an interest in wine and farm stays."},{"id":"wuhai-lake","name":"Wuhai Lake","name_zh":"乌海湖","pinyin":"Wūhǎi Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Wuhai","lat":39.658,"lon":106.7777,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhai-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wuhai Lake is the reservoir of the Haibowan water control project on the Yellow River, completed in 2013, and its 118 square kilometres of water lie between the Ulan Buh Desert and the city. Visitors can take boat trips from the No. 1 pier, ride a small sightseeing train and try more than twenty water and desert activities, from speedboats and flyboards to desert buggies and camel rides, while reed beds on the south and west shores attract many water birds. It suits visitors who want a desert-edge lake right beside a city."},{"id":"xilinhot-beizi-temple","name":"Beizi Temple (Chongshan Temple)","name_zh":"贝子庙","pinyin":"Bèizi Miào","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":43.9487,"lon":116.0628,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xilinhot-beizi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Beizi Temple is a Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Chinese–Tibetan style, founded in 1743 below Erdun Aobao hill and given the name Chongshan Temple by the Qianlong emperor. Five of its original seven main halls survive, in four courtyards, and in the early 19th century the monastery housed about 1,500 lamas. Xilinhot was itself once called Beizimiao, after the temple."},{"id":"ulagai-bulin-spring","name":"Bulin Spring, Ulagai","name_zh":"布林泉","pinyin":"Bùlín Quán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":45.8066,"lon":118.801,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulagai-bulin-spring","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Bulin Spring is a grassland scenic area built around eight springs that flow all year at about 5 °C, with the remains of Bulin Temple, founded in 1672, about 1.5 km away; the temple site was conserved from 2010. The area also has an octagonal pavilion, a Genghis Khan statue, a ger camp, a boardwalk, an oboo and a bonfire square, and more than ten films, including Wolf Totem, have been shot here. It suits visitors who want a night in a ger camp on the grassland."},{"id":"xilinhot-china-horse-capital-core-area","name":"China Horse Capital Core Area","name_zh":"中国马都核心区","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Mǎdū Héxīnqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":43.9015,"lon":116.083,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xilinhot-china-horse-capital-core-area","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A sports and culture complex of about 15 square kilometres on the southern edge of Xilinhot, developed from 2013 around Xilingol's title as China's horse capital, which the China Horse Industry Association gave the league in 2010. It has indoor and outdoor racecourses with stands, an equestrian club and riding school, stables, a horse-culture museum and a theatre for horse shows, and it has hosted national equestrian competitions. It suits visitors interested in horses and racing rather than historic sites."},{"id":"duolun-lake","name":"Duolun Lake","name_zh":"多伦湖","pinyin":"Duōlún Hú","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":42.1322,"lon":116.6836,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duolun-lake","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Duolun Lake is a reservoir on the upper Luan River, created by the Xishanwan hydropower scheme completed in 1999, with a surface of about 20,000 mu among hills, sand and grassland. The resort area is made up of seven linked lakes with islands and peninsulas and has a hotel, a visitor centre, a fishing village, lakeside piers and a riding trail, and a road cycling race has been held around the lake each year since 2007. It suits visitors who want a lakeside stay or day out in the Duolun area."},{"id":"erenhot-national-gate","name":"Erenhot National Gate Scenic Area","name_zh":"二连浩特国门景区","pinyin":"Èrliánhàotè Guómén Jǐngqū","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":43.6769,"lon":111.9584,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=erenhot-national-gate","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The scenic area is built around the National Gate, a monumental gateway at Erenhot's port of entry on the northern edge of the city. Visitors can see ger-building craft works, cultural products and study-tour programmes, and alpacas from Sunid Left Banner joined the attractions in 2024. It suits travellers who want to see the port of entry on the Trans-Mongolian railway route."},{"id":"erenhot-national-geopark","name":"Erenhot National Geopark","name_zh":"二连浩特国家地质公园","pinyin":"Èrliánhàotè Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":43.7217,"lon":112.0103,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=erenhot-national-geopark","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The geopark lies on the north-eastern edge of Erenhot, in the Iren Dabasu area, which is known for Cretaceous dinosaur fossils. Its dinosaur museum has large moving models of the animals. It suits families and anyone passing through Erenhot with a few hours to spare."},{"id":"duolun-huizong-temple","name":"Huizong Temple","name_zh":"汇宗寺","pinyin":"Huìzōng Sì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":42.2063,"lon":116.4731,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duolun-huizong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Huizong Temple, called the Blue Temple in Mongolian, is a Gelug-school monastery built between 1691 and 1712 after the Kangxi emperor held an assembly of Mongol princes at Duolun Nor in 1691. Its main hall was burned in 1945 and has since been rebuilt, and the grounds cover about 18 hectares. It suits visitors interested in Qing relations with the Mongols and in Buddhist architecture."},{"id":"taipusi-yumayuan","name":"Imperial Horse Park, Taipusi (Yumayuan)","name_zh":"御马苑","pinyin":"Yùmǎyuàn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":41.7003,"lon":115.1666,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taipusi-yumayuan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yumayuan is a horse-culture and riding centre on the grassland of Taipusi Banner, with a collection of horses of more than twenty breeds, among them Akhal-Teke, Friesian, Dutch warmblood and English thoroughbred. It has stables, a racing track, a barrel-racing ground, indoor and outdoor training areas, a horse hospital and a museum of imperial horse culture, and visitors can watch and ride the horses and join study programmes. It suits families and groups on a grassland trip."},{"id":"xiwuzhumuqin-mongol-khan-city","name":"Mongol Khan City","name_zh":"蒙古汗城","pinyin":"Měnggǔ Hánchéng","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":44.4565,"lon":117.6544,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiwuzhumuqin-mongol-khan-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mongol Khan City is a ger resort camp in the grassland of West Ujimqin Banner, with buildings modelled on the khan's city of Genghis Khan's enthronement and more than 150 gers for dining and overnight stays. It stages Mongolian song and dance, a small Naadam-style show and evening bonfire gatherings, and in 2023 it was named one of the region's first intangible-heritage tourism experience bases. It suits groups and families who want to stay in a ger on the grassland."},{"id":"zhenglan-shangdu-xanadu","name":"Shangdu (Xanadu)","name_zh":"元上都遗址","pinyin":"Yuán Shàngdū Yízhǐ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":42.358,"lon":116.1852,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenglan-shangdu-xanadu/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Shangdu, known in the West as Xanadu, was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty, founded in 1256 beside the Luan River in the grassland north of the Great Wall, and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012. The remains include the palace enclosure, imperial city, outer city, temples, tombs and the Tiefangang canal, with earthen walls and palace foundations still visible on open ground; the World Heritage property also takes in the Zhenzishan tomb group. A site museum, the Xilingol Cultural Heritage Museum, stands about 5 km south of the ruins."},{"id":"duolun-shanxi-guild-hall","name":"Shanxi Guild Hall, Duolun","name_zh":"山西会馆","pinyin":"Shānxī Huìguǎn","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":42.1816,"lon":116.4668,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duolun-shanxi-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Shanxi Guild Hall is a Qing-period complex built from 1745 by Shanxi merchants trading in Duolun Nor, with lodgings, an entertainment area, a business meeting area and a temple to Guan Yu; about half of the original buildings remain. A restoration in 2008 added a museum on the Shanxi merchants who traded with Mongolia, and the hall keeps a large bronze bell, an iron incense burner and carved brick and wood. It is one of the best-preserved Qing buildings in the town and suits visitors interested in trade history."},{"id":"zhengxiangbai-starry-sky-camp","name":"Starry Sky Cultural Tourism Camp","name_zh":"星空文化旅游营地","pinyin":"Xīngkōng Wénhuà Lǚyóu Yíngdì","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":42.2193,"lon":115.2403,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengxiangbai-starry-sky-camp","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The camp occupies 1,300 mu of grassland in Zhengxiangbai Banner, just north of the National Astronomical Observatory's Mingantu observing station. It has a science area with an astronomy exhibition hall, a science square and a lecture hall, and a living area with folk-style lodging and dining, and it runs stargazing and study programmes on astronomy, spaceflight and weather. It suits families and school groups with an interest in astronomy."},{"id":"ulagai-jiuquwan","name":"Ulagai Jiuquwan (Nine-Bend Bay)","name_zh":"乌拉盖九曲湾","pinyin":"Wūlāgài Jiǔqūwān","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":45.9595,"lon":119.6419,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulagai-jiuquwan","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jiuquwan is a stretch of the Ulagai River in the far east of Xilingol where the river winds in tight loops through wetland and grassland. The scenic area covers about 3,500 hectares and has been developed since 2015, with a large visitor centre; visitors can ride in a traditional ox cart, watch Mongolian song and dance and take cross-country trips over the grassland. It suits visitors who want river and wetland scenery on the grassland of north-eastern Inner Mongolia."},{"id":"ulagai-wolf-valley","name":"Ulagai Wolf Valley","name_zh":"乌拉盖野狼谷","pinyin":"Wūlāgài Yěláng Gǔ","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":46.1817,"lon":119.238,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulagai-wolf-valley","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wolf Valley is a themed grassland attraction on the Hesige Ula ranch in the Ulagai Management Area, and was one of the main filming locations for the film Wolf Totem. Visitors cross the grassland on a small tourist train, stay in colourfully painted lodging houses, join evening tours of the valley and see steppe wolves at close range. It suits families and groups who want a themed stop on a grassland trip rather than open landscape."},{"id":"xiwuzhumuqin-wulan-wutai","name":"Wulan Wutai (Red Wutai)","name_zh":"乌兰五台","pinyin":"Wūlán Wǔtái","region_id":"150000","region":"Inner Mongolia","city":"Xilingol","lat":44.2631,"lon":116.9771,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiwuzhumuqin-wulan-wutai","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wulan Wutai is a scenic area of Mongolian Buddhist culture in the grassland of West Ujimqin Banner; its name means Red Wutai in Mongolian. The banner government built a large oboo, a Genghis Khan square, a Wutai temple and sixteen pagodas here in 2006, and an oboo-worship day with Buddhist rites, wrestling and horse racing is held on the 13th day of the fifth lunar month. It suits visitors interested in Mongolian religious customs and grassland scenery."},{"id":"anshan-ansteel-museum","name":"Ansteel Museum and Early Steelworks Buildings","name_zh":"鞍钢博物馆（鞍山钢铁厂早期建筑）","pinyin":"Āngāng Bówùguǎn (Ānshān Gāngtiěchǎng Zǎoqī Jiànzhù)","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.1212,"lon":122.9819,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"About 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-ansteel-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Ansteel Group Museum fills the former No. 2 sintering shop of the Anshan steelworks, a 1950s building designed with Soviet help and one of eight early buildings listed together as a national heritage unit that runs from the Japanese-run works of the 1920s and 1930s to the Soviet-assisted rebuilding of the 1950s. Eleven themed galleries and a steel-themed park cover the works' history, and the old shop keeps its sintering machine and overhead crane beside Anshan's No. 1 blast furnace of 1919, shut down in 2005. The other listed buildings include offices, workshops and former housing in and around the working plant and are mostly in other use."},{"id":"anshan-jade-buddha-palace","name":"Jade Buddha Palace","name_zh":"玉佛苑","pinyin":"Yùfó Yuàn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.0994,"lon":123.0119,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anshan-jade-buddha-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple complex on the west slope of Jade Buddha Hill in Anshan, opened in 1996 and built around a hall about 33 m high that houses a statue carved from a single block of Xiuyan jade weighing 260.76 tonnes, with Shakyamuni on the front and Guanyin crossing the sea on the back. Its buildings include a Heavenly Kings hall, bell and drum towers and a jade-belt bridge, and the complex was enlarged and reopened in 2006. In 2015 the site was approved as a place of Buddhist worship and renamed Jade Buddha Temple, so it is a working temple as well as a sight."},{"id":"anshan-jianing-happy-valley","name":"Jianing Happy Valley","name_zh":"佳宁欢乐谷","pinyin":"Jiāníng Huānlègǔ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.9759,"lon":122.8916,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-jianing-happy-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure-farm resort of 340 mu (about 23 ha) in Yujiagou village near Tanggangzi, combining fishing, fruit picking, a zoo, a children's play area, a water park, sand and grass sliding, horse riding and live-action team shooting games. The provincial tourism page also lists hot-spring bathing, a swimming pool, an aerial cableway and a rapids ride, with garden features such as a Great Wall, a waterfall cave and zodiac figures. It is a commercial attraction for family and group outings."},{"id":"haicheng-jinta-pagoda","name":"Jinta Pagoda, Haicheng","name_zh":"海城金塔","pinyin":"Hǎichéng Jīntǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.7253,"lon":122.8968,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haicheng-jinta-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda, 31.5 m high, on a hillside above Yangjiaoyu village, octagonal with 13 close-set storeys of eaves and named Jinta (Golden Pagoda) for its pale yellow colour. Its two-tier base is carved with musicians, dancers and guardian figures at the corners, and each face of the body has a niche with a seated Buddha, attendants and flying apsaras. It was listed as a provincial heritage site in 1963 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"xiuyan-longquan-lake","name":"Longquan Lake Resort, Xiuyan","name_zh":"龙泉湖","pinyin":"Lóngquán Hú","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.1756,"lon":123.2038,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuyan-longquan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake-and-hills leisure resort in Qianying, Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, begun in 2000 and covering nearly 10,000 mu, about 6.5 sq km. The provincial tourism page says a stream rises in a mountain-top lake, which it calls rare in north-east China, and that buildings step down the valley in the outline of a dragon. The resort has since added culture and arts activities, lodging, dining, shopping, and wellness and retirement services, so it is mainly a leisure destination."},{"id":"anshan-qianshan","name":"Qianshan National Park","name_zh":"千山","pinyin":"Qiānshān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.028,"lon":123.1379,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"A full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anshan-qianshan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 44 sq km, among the first national scenic areas named in 1982, with granite peaks, old pines and valleys where Buddhist and Daoist temples stand side by side. The listed old buildings are the 'five great Chan monasteries' (Longquan, Xiangyan, Da'an, Zuyue and Zhonghui) and the Daoist Wuliang Temple, mostly Ming and Qing in date. Stone steps climb to viewpoints such as Xianren Tai (708.5 m, the highest point visitors can reach), and Maitreya Peak, a natural outcrop shaped like a seated Buddha, is known as the Great Buddha of Qianshan."},{"id":"anshan-qianshan-old-courtyard-resort","name":"Qianshan Old Courtyard Resort","name_zh":"千山老院子","pinyin":"Qiānshān Lǎoyuànzi","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.0124,"lon":123.1833,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-qianshan-old-courtyard-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure resort in the village of Hanjiayu, in the Qianshan hills, laid out around courtyard-style buildings and gardens in a traditional manner. The provincial tourism page lists guesthouses, a petting zoo, a children's adventure park without powered rides, a winter snow-and-ice area, restaurants and a summer tent camp with 30 tents. It suits families and short breaks rather than sightseeing, and lies next to the Qianshan scenic area rather than inside it."},{"id":"xiuyan-qingliangshan","name":"Qingliangshan Scenic Area, Xiuyan","name_zh":"清凉山","pinyin":"Qīngliáng Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.5502,"lon":123.6806,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuyan-qingliangshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 30 sq km in the north-east of Xiuyan Manchu Autonomous County, with steep peaks, deep valleys, primary forest, streams, an underground lake and hot springs, according to the provincial tourism page. Its main peak, Maokuishan (also called Zuofoshan), reaches about 1,141 m, the highest point in Anshan prefecture. The page lists sightseeing, rock climbing and hill walking among the activities."},{"id":"anshan-shanshui-manor-hot-spring-resort","name":"Shanshui Manor Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"山水庄园","pinyin":"Shānshuǐ Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.0566,"lon":123.2054,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-shanshui-manor-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring leisure resort at Gushouyu, in the Yuanbao hills at the foot of Qianshan. The provincial tourism page describes a rural-style resort where visitors can travel, stay, dine, shop and be entertained, in a hilly setting it calls a natural bonsai landscape. It is a modern commercial resort aimed at short breaks from Anshan rather than a historic or scenic sight."},{"id":"anshan-shitouji-qianshan-grand-view-garden","name":"Shitouji Qianshan Grand View Garden","name_zh":"石头记千山大观园","pinyin":"Shítou Jì Qiānshān Dàguānyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.0849,"lon":123.1081,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-shitouji-qianshan-grand-view-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed garden based on Dream of the Red Chamber (also called The Story of the Stone, Shitouji in Chinese), built at the foot of Qianshan in Anshan's high-tech zone and opened in 2023. More than 20 groups of buildings follow the novel's descriptions, among them the Yihong Courtyard, Xiaoxiang Lodge and Longcui Convent, and the Xiaoxiang group holds an art museum for the actress Chen Xiaoxu, a native of Anshan who played Lin Daiyu in the 1987 television series. The garden is lit at night and stages performances based on the novel."},{"id":"anshan-tanggangzi-hot-spring-resort","name":"Tanggangzi Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"汤岗子温泉","pinyin":"Tānggǎngzi Wēnquán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.0073,"lon":122.902,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-tanggangzi-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring spa district about 12 km south of Anshan, used for bathing since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 and developed as a spa by the South Manchuria Railway Company from 1920, and in that era counted as one of the 'three great hot springs of Manchuria'. The provincial tourism page describes a 64-hectare resort with a medical and rehabilitation zone, hotels, a swimming hall, a sports centre and garden sights such as a lotus lake and a ginkgo square. Today it works as a modern health and leisure resort."},{"id":"haicheng-tianyuan-agricultural-park","name":"Tianyuan Agricultural Park, Haicheng","name_zh":"天源农业","pinyin":"Tiānyuán Nóngyè","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.9857,"lon":122.7173,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haicheng-tianyuan-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercial agri-tourism resort of 300 mu (20 ha) at Beigeng village in Gengzhuang town, built around a hot-spring water park with about 12,000 sq m indoors and 4,600 sq m outdoors. The provincial tourism page also lists a winter snow-and-ice play area, a tropical plant garden with some 300 species of rare plants, a fishing pond, a children's play area and a 45,000 sq m agricultural showcase growing more than 600 crop varieties. It is aimed at family days out and group events rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"xiuyan-wolongshan-mountain-fortress","name":"Wolongshan Mountain Fortress","name_zh":"卧龙山山城遗址","pinyin":"Wòlóngshān Shānchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.1942,"lon":123.3251,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuyan-wolongshan-mountain-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill fortress of the late Goguryeo period, in the Sui and Tang era, which the provincial heritage page calls the largest and reasonably well preserved of several such forts in Xiuyan county; it was formerly known as Niangniang Cheng. The inner wall runs about 2.8 km along the ridges in dressed wedge-shaped stones, with surviving stretches 3 to 5 m high, traces of bastions and a beacon platform, and an east gate beside a wall about 8 m high, while a lower outer wall of about 2.3 km closes the south-east. Roof tiles with lotus patterns, pottery and iron arrowheads have been found inside, and the ground within the walls is mostly wooded."},{"id":"anshan-xianghe-holiday-manor","name":"Xianghe Holiday Manor","name_zh":"祥和度假庄园","pinyin":"Xiánghé Dùjià Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.027,"lon":122.8702,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-xianghe-holiday-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A family leisure resort of about 22 ha in Qianshan District, south-west of Anshan, built around an indoor children's play park modelled on a candy town and a flower valley with more than a hundred species of flowers. The provincial tourism page also lists mini golf, an archery hall, a go-kart club, children's off-road karts and bumper boats, and two hotels, villas and log cabins for overnight stays. It is aimed at families with children and short breaks rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"haicheng-ximucheng-dolmen","name":"Ximucheng Dolmen","name_zh":"析木城石棚","pinyin":"Xīmùchéng Shípéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.6669,"lon":122.9514,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haicheng-ximucheng-dolmen","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Bronze Age dolmen about 3,000 years old: six granite slabs form a chamber 2.8 m high under a capstone of about 6 m by 5 m, standing on a high terrace at the foot of a hill. The provincial heritage bureau counts it among the larger, finer and best-preserved dolmens found on the Liaodong peninsula, and says a smaller twin below it was blown up in 1952 during road building, which gave the pair the local name Gusao Stones (the sister-in-law stones). Most Chinese archaeologists read such dolmens as tombs, though an altar is another suggested use."},{"id":"haicheng-yinta-pagoda","name":"Yinta Pagoda, Haicheng","name_zh":"海城银塔","pinyin":"Hǎichéng Yíntǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":40.7156,"lon":122.9882,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haicheng-yinta-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A white brick pagoda of nine close-set storeys of eaves on a hexagonal plan, about 15.6 m high, begun in the Liao or Jin period and rebuilt in the Ming, on a hillside north of West Tazigou village. Its base has a carved brick balustrade with cormorants, tigers, lotus leaves and fish, and each face of the body has a Buddha niche with attendants and flying figures. The temple that once stood beneath it, the Miaode or Silver Pagoda Temple, was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and the pagoda was repaired in 1953 and 2009."},{"id":"anshan-yutangquan-water-world","name":"Yutangquan Hot Spring Water World","name_zh":"御汤泉","pinyin":"Yùtāngquán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Anshan","lat":41.0264,"lon":122.9063,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshan-yutangquan-water-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An indoor water park and hot-spring resort in the Tanggangzi new town, under an all-glass roof, with more than a hundred Southeast Asian plant species growing inside. The provincial tourism page lists a wave pool and more than 20 rides and slides, including an 'Amazon' rafting river. It is a modern commercial attraction for families and groups, not a historic bathing place."},{"id":"nanfen-benxi-grand-canyon","name":"Benxi Grand Canyon","name_zh":"本溪大峡谷","pinyin":"Běnxī Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.1384,"lon":123.6992,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanfen-benxi-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Benxi Grand Canyon is a gorge in Nanfen District, inside a national geological park, that has been developed as a thrill-oriented adventure park. Its core attractions are a high-level glass suspension bridge and a forest slide, with newer rides such as a \"flying wing\", an aerial walk, a cliff swing and a water slide. It suits visitors who want activities rather than a quiet walk, and anyone uneasy about heights may prefer to skip the glass bridge."},{"id":"benxi-water-caves","name":"Benxi Water Caves","name_zh":"本溪水洞","pinyin":"Běnxī Shuǐdòng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.2969,"lon":124.0715,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-water-caves","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Benxi Water Caves are a karst cave system with an underground river, about 5.8 km long, of which roughly 2.8 km has been opened to visitors. Visitors travel through the lit cave by boat past stalactites and stalagmites, in air that stays around 12°C all year. In winter, rime often forms around the cave mouth."},{"id":"benxi-benxihu-industrial-heritage","name":"Benxihu Industrial Heritage Complex","name_zh":"本溪湖工业遗产群","pinyin":"Běnxīhú Gōngyè Yíchǎnqún","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.3233,"lon":123.7675,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-benxihu-industrial-heritage","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This group of mining, ironmaking and company buildings in Xihu District comes from the Benxihu Coal and Iron Company, which Japanese interests began developing in 1905 and which became part of the Benxi Iron and Steel works after 1949. The listed parts include the first ironworks site, which closed in 2008, the cooling-tower area of a power plant, the company's former headquarters and office buildings (the \"Little Red Building\" and \"Big White Building\"), the Central Incline of the mine with a burial mound for victims of the 1942 mine explosion, the Caitun mine shaft and Benxihu station. The former ironworks site now serves as a provincial overseas-Chinese cultural exchange base and has hosted visiting groups."},{"id":"nanfen-dabinggou-forest-park","name":"Dabinggou Forest Park","name_zh":"大冰沟森林公园","pinyin":"Dàbīnggōu Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.096,"lon":123.9033,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanfen-dabinggou-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dabinggou is a forested valley in Nanfen District, with tree cover of about 97 percent and groundwater that stays near 4°C all year. It is known for ice waterfalls in summer, which the provincial tourism page calls rare at such a low altitude in a temperate zone. The park also has a stand of Siebold's magnolia (tiannü mulan) and maples that turn red in autumn."},{"id":"benxi-dashihu-laobiangou","name":"Dashi Lake and Laobiangou","name_zh":"大石湖","pinyin":"Dàshíhú","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.1078,"lon":124.4885,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-dashihu-laobiangou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dashihu is a two-part mountain scenic area in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, made up of the Dashi Lake section and the Laobiangou valley, and noted for its autumn maples. The lake section is divided into Wulong Lake, Bingling Gorge, Xiangshui Lake and Mulan Valley zones, while Laobiangou has a river valley, a boulder slope and Wanxiang Valley; the provincial page also describes it as a national geological park. Several sites of fighting by anti-Japanese guerrilla forces lie in Laobiangou."},{"id":"huanren-dayahe-rafting","name":"Dayahe Rafting and Longxi Valley","name_zh":"大雅河漂流","pinyin":"Dàyǎhé Piāoliú","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.1602,"lon":125.08,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanren-dayahe-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dayahe is a river and valley leisure area in Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, at the foot of Huaping Mountain, an area nicknamed the \"little Guilin of the north\". It has two parts: a 6.6 km rafting run on a river that alternately narrows and widens, and Longxi Valley, where about 85 percent of the ground is forested and maples grow among waterfalls and a dragon pool. Restaurants, accommodation and entertainment are on site."},{"id":"huanren-fenglin-valley-forest-park","name":"Fenglin Valley Forest Park","name_zh":"枫林谷森林公园","pinyin":"Fēnglín Gǔ Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.1257,"lon":125.2176,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanren-fenglin-valley-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Fenglin Valley is a forest park in Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, known for the red maples of autumn; forest covers nearly 99 percent of the park and its highest peak, Bamianwei, reaches 1,305 m. The provincial tourism page gives a summer average temperature of about 20°C. The park also contains remains of an anti-Japanese guerrilla base, including a stone barracks and a hidden mountain camp at Wohu Peak."},{"id":"benxi-green-stone-valley","name":"Green Stone Valley (Tangchigou)","name_zh":"汤池沟绿石谷","pinyin":"Tāngchígōu Lǜshígǔ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.075,"lon":124.2027,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-green-stone-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Green Stone Valley is a forested valley in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, named for the moss-covered boulders that fill the valley and give the rocks a jade-green look. Waterfalls large and small run through it, and the provincial tourism page calls it a rare moss-viewing area, with tree cover of about 90 percent."},{"id":"benxi-guanmenshan-forest-park","name":"Guanmenshan Forest Park","name_zh":"关门山森林公园","pinyin":"Guānménshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.1358,"lon":124.1433,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/benxi-guanmenshan-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guanmenshan is a forested valley in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, named for two facing peaks that look like a gate, and is known above all for its autumn maples. The park is divided into five zones, including Longmen Gorge and Mingcui Valley, and the provincial tourism page counts 108 sights. Remains of camps used by anti-Japanese guerrilla forces, including barracks and hidden storerooms, are scattered through the park."},{"id":"benxi-guanshan-lake","name":"Guanshan Lake","name_zh":"关山湖","pinyin":"Guānshān Hú","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.1297,"lon":124.1397,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-guanshan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guanshan Lake is a reservoir in forested hills in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, developed as a national water-conservancy scenic area and known for its autumn colour. The provincial tourism page lists about 40 sights in four zones, built around boat cruises on the lake, a summit climb, a spring-fed valley and a lakeshore circuit. Activities include kayaking, small lake rafts, a campfire barbecue ground and an RV camp."},{"id":"benxi-qingyunshan-scenic-area","name":"Qingyunshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"青云山","pinyin":"Qīngyún Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.2538,"lon":123.7942,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-qingyunshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qingyunshan is a hill scenic area on the southern edge of Benxi city, in Mingshan District, where visitors climb up for views out over the city. Official tourism pages record events there in 2024 and 2025: a spring garden fair with a night lantern show, lantern-floating wishes, intangible-heritage displays and hanfu (traditional dress) activities; a Mid-Autumn moon-viewing fair; a hill-running race in May 2025; and a martial-arts event on its Sifangtai platform in October 2025. It suits a short outing from the city, and because the events run on a seasonal calendar, check what is on before planning around one."},{"id":"benxi-tieshashan","name":"Tieshashan","name_zh":"铁刹山","pinyin":"Tiěchà Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.287,"lon":124.3256,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-tieshashan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tieshashan, also called Jiuding Tieshashan (\"nine-peak\" Tieshashan), is a Daoist mountain in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County that is regarded as the birthplace of the Longmen school of Daoism in north-east China. Five main peaks, which look like nine when seen from different sides, belong to the Changbai mountain range, and the best-known of its many caves is Babao Yunguang Cave. Old inscriptions are cut into the rock across the mountain, and the Sanqing Temple on the mountain was founded in 1744."},{"id":"huanren-wangtian-cave","name":"Wangtian Cave","name_zh":"望天洞","pinyin":"Wàngtiān Dòng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.1898,"lon":125.2613,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanren-wangtian-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wangtian Cave is a karst cave in Huanren Manchu Autonomous County that the provincial tourism page dates to about 200,000 years ago. Explored passages total nearly 10 km, of which about 2.1 km is open to visitors, and the cave has corridor-like, hall-like and maze-like sections. Its best-known feature is a maze of about 1.1 km of passages, alongside small rimstone terraces and thin, translucent \"stone flags\"."},{"id":"huanren-wunu-mountain","name":"Wunü Mountain","name_zh":"五女山","pinyin":"Wǔnǚ Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.2938,"lon":125.3889,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huanren-wunu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wunü Mountain is a flat-topped massif with steep cliffs above the Hun River, crowned by the ruins of a Goguryeo hill fortress that is generally identified as the first capital of the Goguryeo kingdom (founded in 37 BC). The fortress belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage listing for the Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom (2004), and the scenic area of about 10.8 square kilometres combines its stone walls, gates and building foundations with a slot gorge, lookouts over Huanlong Lake and the Wunü Mountain Museum. It was rated a 5A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"benxi-xiaoshi-yizhuang","name":"Xiaoshi Yizhuang","name_zh":"小市一庄","pinyin":"Xiǎoshì Yīzhuāng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Benxi","lat":41.3003,"lon":124.0516,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=benxi-xiaoshi-yizhuang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xiaoshi Yizhuang is a rural tourism village at Tongjiangyu in Xiaoshi town, about 1 km from the Benxi Water Caves, developed around folk-custom experiences, local food, countryside stays and cultural shows. It has been named a provincial night-time culture and tourism consumption zone, so evening events are part of the offer. It is a modern tourism development rather than a historic village, and suits visitors who want a meal stop or a base next to the water cave."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-balengguan-pagoda","name":"Balengguan Pagoda","name_zh":"八棱观塔","pinyin":"Bāléngguàn Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.3827,"lon":120.0629,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30-60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-balengguan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Balengguan Pagoda is a Liao-period octagonal brick pagoda of thirteen tiers of dense eaves, about 34 m high, standing on a hilltop with the Daling River to its south. Across the river lie the ruins of the Liao city of Jianzhou. It has been a provincial heritage unit since 1979 and a national one since 2013."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-bird-fossil-geopark","name":"Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark","name_zh":"朝阳鸟化石国家地质公园","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Niǎo Huàshí Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.5985,"lon":120.3794,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2-3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-bird-fossil-geopark","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The geopark in Longcheng District centres on the Liaoning Chaoyang Palaeontological Fossil Museum, which reopened in April 2025 after an upgrade. Xinhua reported that the museum now shows 2,025 fossils, up from 435, in a main hall on the Jehol Biota and four themed halls covering dinosaurs, the origin of birds, flowering plants and mammals. The provincial tourism page also lists a geological corridor, a fossil excavation site on the original find location and a petrified-wood forest."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-north-pagoda","name":"Chaoyang North Tower","name_zh":"朝阳北塔","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Běitǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.5791,"lon":120.4564,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liaoning-chaoyang-north-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chaoyang North Tower is a 42.6 m square brick pagoda with thirteen tiers of dense eaves, built up over several dynasties on the palace site of the Yan-state capital Longcheng, which is why it is nicknamed the 'Five Ages Pagoda'. Its walls carry relief carvings of seated Buddhas, bodhisattvas and flying apsaras, and the adjoining North Tower Museum displays finds from the pagoda's underground and upper chambers. Xinhua reported that in 2026 the tower was opened for climbing, with limited numbers, on some festival days."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-south-pagoda","name":"Chaoyang South Pagoda","name_zh":"朝阳南塔","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Nántǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.5732,"lon":120.4534,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30-60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-south-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chaoyang South Pagoda is a square brick pagoda of thirteen eaves from the Liao period, standing at the south end of Murong Street as the counterpart to the North Tower. Inscribed bricks and a stone chamber found during repairs point to a first building probably in 984, with repairs in 1076 and around 1156 to 1161; the chamber held Buddhist relics, a stone casket and a gilded silver coffin. The tower's plain body is marked by rows of square sockets where decorations were probably once attached."},{"id":"beipiao-daxuan-mountain","name":"Daxuan Mountain, Beipiao","name_zh":"北票大玄山","pinyin":"Běipiào Dàxuán Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":42.008,"lon":120.4786,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beipiao-daxuan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Daxuan Mountain, the name the provincial culture department now gives to the Dahei Shan scenic area, is a forested mountain in the north-west of Beipiao with rocky peaks and, by the department's figure, forest cover above 93%. The official description lists a 2.2 km sightseeing cable car, a 4.5 km step-free path and a 5 km timber boardwalk on the upper slopes, and more than a hundred sights, among them one called 'May ice'. It suits walkers and families wanting a half day in the hills."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-dongpingfang-pagoda","name":"Dongpingfang Pagoda","name_zh":"东平房塔","pinyin":"Dōngpíngfáng Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.4424,"lon":120.1934,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30-60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-dongpingfang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dongpingfang Pagoda is a Liao-period brick pagoda on a hilltop above the Daling River, six-sided and originally nine tiers of dense eaves, of which eight survive. The solid tower is about 19 m high. It is one of several Liao pagodas strung along the river valley west of Chaoyang, and it stands in Dongpingfang village in Dapingfang town."},{"id":"kazuo-dongshanzui-site","name":"Dongshanzui Site","name_zh":"东山嘴遗址","pinyin":"Dōngshānzuǐ Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.1208,"lon":119.7896,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kazuo-dongshanzui-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dongshanzui is a ritual site of the late Hongshan culture, more than 5,000 years old, on a terrace above the west bank of the Daling River; it has a square stone-walled platform with standing stones and a small round altar paved with pebbles. Excavated in 1979 and 1982, it produced painted pottery, two small clay figurines of pregnant women and jades such as a double-dragon-head pendant. Since 2017 there has been a visitor path, a protective fence and a 600 m² exhibition hall showing finds, a site model and digital displays."},{"id":"kazuo-linghe-first-bend","name":"First Bend of the Daling River","name_zh":"凌河第一湾","pinyin":"Línghé Dìyī Wān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.2051,"lon":119.9219,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kazuo-linghe-first-bend","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Daling River makes a sharp S-shaped bend between hills in Kazuo county, and this scenic area links viewpoints along the river through four townships. Downstream, high in a cliff above the river, lies Gezidong ('Pigeon Cave'), a limestone rock shelter used by Palaeolithic people some 70,000 to 80,000 years ago, excavated in 1973 and 1975 and listed as a national heritage unit in 2019."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-fossil-valley","name":"Fossil Valley, Chaoyang","name_zh":"朝阳化石谷","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Huàshígǔ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.5907,"lon":120.4053,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-fossil-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Fossil Valley is a commercially run, fossil-themed attraction in Longcheng District on the north-west side of Chaoyang, covering about 1.7 hectares in three parts: an interactive 'legendary fossil' experience park, the Chaoyang Jurassic Palaeontological Fossil Museum (a privately owned museum, formerly the Jizantang museum) and a fossil-culture creative area. It suits families and school groups who want a hands-on introduction to the area's fossils. The separate Chaoyang Bird Fossil National Geopark lies about 2 km to the west-north-west."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-huanghuatan-pagoda","name":"Huanghuatan Pagoda","name_zh":"黄花滩塔","pinyin":"Huánghuātān Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.4439,"lon":120.1151,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30-60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-huanghuatan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Huanghuatan Pagoda is a Liao-period octagonal brick pagoda of thirteen tiers of dense eaves standing on an earth mound with the Daling River to its south, facing the site of the Liao city of New Jianzhou. It rests on a base platform and a two-stage Sumeru-style plinth, its spire has collapsed, and about 32 m of it survives."},{"id":"lingyuan-laohugou-eco-tourism-area","name":"Laohugou Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"老虎沟生态旅游区","pinyin":"Lǎohǔgōu Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.1991,"lon":119.3189,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2-3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingyuan-laohugou-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Laohugou ('Tiger Gully') is a wooded valley scenic area in Dawangzhangzi township, south-west of Lingyuan, a township nicknamed the 'seventy-li apricot valley' and rich in Jehol Biota fossils. A palaeontological fossil museum in Gongjiashaoguo village, where the scenic area lies, opened in December 2025. It is a small, recently developed area that suits a short outing from Lingyuan."},{"id":"kazuo-longfeng-mountain","name":"Longfeng Mountain, Kazuo","name_zh":"喀左龙凤山","pinyin":"Kāzuǒ Lóngfèng Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.057,"lon":119.9786,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kazuo-longfeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Longfeng ('Dragon and Phoenix') Mountain is a hill scenic area east of Kazuo county town, with rock outcrops, old cypresses, an old temple, caves and springs. Named features on the official page include an entrance-gate area, a pool-and-stream system, a misty forest, a primitive-tribe theme area and Longquan Valley, and the area is promoted around dragon and blessing-prayer themes."},{"id":"kazuo-longyuan-tourism-area","name":"Longyuan Tourism Area, Kazuo","name_zh":"龙源旅游区","pinyin":"Lóngyuán Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.0969,"lon":119.7647,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kazuo-longyuan-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Longyuan tourism area is a lakeside leisure district at the edge of Kazuo county town, built around Longyuan Lake. The provincial tourism department lists a city-planning exhibition hall, a health-and-leisure centre, the Tiancheng Taoist temple, an ethnic-folk museum, the Lizhou Pagoda, the Baiyin'aili ethnic village and a purple-clay pottery culture park among its sights, and describes it as shared between visitors and residents."},{"id":"niuheliang-archaeological-site-park","name":"Niuheliang","name_zh":"牛河梁遗址","pinyin":"Niúhéliáng Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.3344,"lon":119.5298,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=niuheliang-archaeological-site-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Niuheliang is a Hongshan-culture ritual and burial complex spread over ridges where Lingyuan meets Jianping, with a platform known as the Goddess Temple, a three-ring altar and clusters of stone-mound tombs. The national archaeological site park, which covers about 8 km², has a site museum with jades and painted pottery, plus protective halls built over the excavated Goddess Temple (Locality 1) and over the altar and cairns (Locality 2), so the remains can be seen where they were found. The site museum dates the complex to roughly 5,800 to 5,000 years ago."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-phoenix-mountain","name":"Phoenix Mountain, Chaoyang","name_zh":"朝阳凤凰山","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Fènghuáng Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.5342,"lon":120.5056,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2-3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-phoenix-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Phoenix Mountain is a wooded ridge on the eastern edge of Chaoyang that rises to about 660 m, was known as Dragon Mountain in earlier times, and carries a group of old temples and pagodas on its slopes. The provincial tourism department lists three pagodas and four temples (Yanshou, Tianqing, Yunjie and Huayan); the landmark among them is the Liao-period Yunjie Temple Pagoda, a square brick tower of thirteen eaves some 37 m high whose body and base are carved with Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats and flying apsaras. It makes a half-day outing from the city that combines a hill walk with the temples."},{"id":"chaoyang-county-qianfodong-scenic-area","name":"Qianfodong Scenic Area, Chaoyang County","name_zh":"朝阳千佛洞","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Qiānfódòng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.2765,"lon":120.3442,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaoyang-county-qianfodong-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qianfodong ('Thousand Buddha Caves') is a hill scenic area in Nanshuangmiao township, south of Chaoyang, with odd-shaped rock formations, a Buddhist site that the provincial culture department traces back a thousand years and the remains of what it calls a Sui–Tang 'general-review platform'. It is split into history-and-culture, ecological-leisure and adventure zones, with a zip line, a rainbow bridge across a gorge, a revolutionary-themed film and television base and more than thirty named sights."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-qingfeng-pagoda","name":"Qingfeng Pagoda","name_zh":"青峰塔","pinyin":"Qīngfēng Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.3243,"lon":120.5462,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30-60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-qingfeng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qingfeng Pagoda is a square thirteen-tier brick pagoda of the Liao period on the summit of West Pagoda Hill at Wushijiazi village in Xiyingzi township, hollow inside, with a porch on its south face and the spire lost. The provincial culture department calls its porch form unusual and rates it among the finer Liao pagodas of the Chaoyang area."},{"id":"beipiao-taiji-mass-grave","name":"Taiji Mass Grave Site, Beipiao","name_zh":"台吉万人坑遗址","pinyin":"Táijí Wànrénkēng Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.7781,"lon":120.7079,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beipiao-taiji-mass-grave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Taiji mass grave site is a memorial on a hillside south of Taiji town in Beipiao, where miners who died at the local coal mine under Japanese occupation were buried; Chinese state media say tens of thousands of labourers died in the Beipiao coalfield after 1931 from overwork, hunger and disease. A memorial hall opened on the site in 1969, and a 2015 People's Daily Online report says it keeps the remains of more than 31,000 people in two large rooms and twelve others, with a new memorial building begun in 2014. It became a provincial patriotic-education base in 2005 and a national heritage unit in 2019."},{"id":"jianping-kharachin-princes-tombs","name":"Tombs of the Princes of Kharachin Right Banner","name_zh":"喀喇沁右翼旗蒙古王陵","pinyin":"Kālǎqìn Yòuyìqí Měnggǔ Wánglíng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.651,"lon":119.5125,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianping-kharachin-princes-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This is the burial ground of the Qing-era princes (zasag) of the Kharachin Right Banner, a Mongol banner, set in a pine grove at the foot of Longdan Mountain in Sanjia township. The eastern garden, about 130 m square, has a front hall, a stone archway with a plaque in Emperor Kangxi's calligraphy, a main hall, an offering hall with portraits of thirteen princes and thirteen princely tombs; the last prince buried there was Gungsangnorbu, who died in 1931, and the western garden of relatives' graves has not survived. The provincial heritage page calls it the most representative Qing-era Mongol princely tomb complex."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-shuangtasi-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas of Shuangta Temple","name_zh":"双塔寺双塔","pinyin":"Shuāngtǎ Sì Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.3261,"lon":120.1549,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoning-chaoyang-shuangtasi-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two small octagonal brick pagodas stand side by side on a hillside beneath a rock overhang in a gully north-west of Zhengzhangzi village, in Mutouchengzi town. The west pagoda has three tiers and is about 13 m high, the east pagoda has a single eave and is about 11 m high, and both are Liao in origin, the east one possibly Liao-Jin. The provincial culture department says each carries both Liao and Qing features, reflecting the rise and fall of Buddhism at the site."},{"id":"liaoning-chaoyang-youshun-temple","name":"Youshun Temple","name_zh":"佑顺寺","pinyin":"Yòushùn Sì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.5746,"lon":120.4555,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liaoning-chaoyang-youshun-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Youshun Temple is a Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) monastery built between 1698 and 1707 under the Kangxi emperor, laid out along a north-west to south-east axis of about 233 m, with a memorial archway, gate, Hall of Heavenly Kings, sutra hall and a main hall about 21 m high, flanked by monks' quarters, a Guandi hall and an opera stage. The Chaoyang Buddhist Culture Museum is based in the temple. It stands in the old town close to the two pagodas, and Xinhua wrote in 2026 that the bells and drums of Youshun and the neighbouring Guandi temple still ring out each day."},{"id":"kazuo-yulonggu-hot-spring-resort","name":"Yulonggu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"浴龙谷温泉度假区","pinyin":"Yùlónggǔ Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Chaoyang","lat":41.0473,"lon":119.6677,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kazuo-yulonggu-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yulonggu is a hot-spring and water-play resort with a Mongolian theme on the south-western side of Kazuo, with hot-spring pools, a large wave pool and a drifting river that runs partly underground. It also has some twenty amusement rides, meeting rooms and restaurants, and suits families and groups after a leisure day or an overnight stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"dalian-pulandian-anbo-hot-spring-area","name":"Anbo Hot Spring Tourist Area","name_zh":"安波旅游景区","pinyin":"Ānbō Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.8112,"lon":122.2789,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-pulandian-anbo-hot-spring-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Anbo is a hot-spring area in the hills of northern Pulandian District, and the listed scenic area spreads across five of the district's subdistricts. It includes a hot-spring villa, a ski resort, a water park, hill scenic spots such as Laomaoshan and Jiguanshan, and a Manchu folk park. The Weibashan fortress and the Shipenggou dolmen, both national heritage sites, lie within the area and have their own entries."},{"id":"dalian-lushun-baiyushan","name":"Baiyushan Hill, Lüshun","name_zh":"白玉山","pinyin":"Báiyù Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8092,"lon":121.2521,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-lushun-baiyushan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baiyushan is a hill in the old town of Lüshun that looks down on the naval harbour and the town. On its summit stands Baiyushan Tower, which the Japanese military built in 1907–09 as a memorial to its dead of the Russo-Japanese War and which was renamed after 1945, together with a naval weapons museum. A path of 499 steps, two roads and a cable car lead up."},{"id":"dalian-bangchuidao-guesthouse","name":"Bangchuidao Guesthouse Scenic Area","name_zh":"棒棰岛宾馆景区","pinyin":"Bàngchuídǎo Bīnguǎn Jǐngqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8878,"lon":121.705,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-bangchuidao-guesthouse","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This coastal scenic area on the eastern stretch of Dalian's Binhai Road takes its name from a small club-shaped islet about 600 m offshore. Its core is the Bangchuidao Guesthouse, which the provincial tourism department and the national environment ministry describe as one of the first four state guesthouses of the People's Republic, set in woodland beside a sand beach with a lotus lake and a tree-lined avenue. The beach, about 1.2 km long, is the main draw for visitors."},{"id":"zhuanghe-bingyu-valley","name":"Bingyu Valley","name_zh":"冰峪沟","pinyin":"Bīngyùgōu","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":40.0156,"lon":122.9922,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhuanghe-bingyu-valley/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Bingyu Valley is a mountain gorge in the Xianrendong area of Zhuanghe, known for forested peaks of quartzite, deep side valleys and clear streams and pools, and promoted as the 'Guilin of southern Liaoning'. It adjoins Xianrendong National Forest Park, which the provincial tourism department describes as rich in wildlife and plants. It suits a day trip into the mountains."},{"id":"dalian-daheishan","name":"Dahei Mountain","name_zh":"大黑山","pinyin":"Dàhēi Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.0933,"lon":121.7857,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalian-daheishan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 663-metre mountain and forest park in Jinzhou, with Buddhist and Taoist temples and rock canyons, and azaleas that bloom on the slopes in mid-April. Along the ridges runs Beisha Fortress, a ruined Goguryeo hill fort of about 5 km, whose west gate, Guanmenzhai, stands at the canyon entrance. The fortress is a national heritage site and one of the scenic area's main sights."},{"id":"dalian-forest-zoo","name":"Dalian Forest Zoo","name_zh":"大连森林动物园","pinyin":"Dàlián Sēnlín Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8729,"lon":121.6065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-forest-zoo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dalian Forest Zoo covers 7.2 square kilometres of Baiyun Hill in the south of the city and opened in 1997, with a free-range area added in 2000. It keeps more than 200 species and over 2,000 animals, with a panda house, hippos, golden snub-nosed monkeys, Siberian tigers, flamingos and cranes among its exhibits. It suits families."},{"id":"dalian-laohutan-ocean-park","name":"Dalian Laohutan Ocean Park","name_zh":"老虎滩海洋公园","pinyin":"Lǎohǔtān Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8774,"lon":121.6721,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalian-laohutan-ocean-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Laohutan Ocean Park is a marine-themed park on about 4 km of winding coastline in Dalian, with a core area of 118 hectares. Its main venues are the Polar Aquarium, a coral hall, a bird garden, a sea-mammal hall and a show theatre with staged animal performances, and it also has a cable car across the bay, a Jurassic-themed children's play island and 180- and 360-degree film attractions. It is a commercial park aimed mainly at families."},{"id":"dalian-martial-arts-museum","name":"Dalian Martial Arts Culture Museum","name_zh":"大连武术文化博物馆","pinyin":"Dàlián Wǔshù Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8743,"lon":121.624,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-martial-arts-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum of Chinese martial arts, with exhibits on the history of the martial arts in China and in Dalian over the past century. The collection centres on cold weapons from the Ming dynasty to modern times, along with boxing manuals and other martial-arts papers. A sunken ring-shaped theatre hosts demonstrations and staged shows."},{"id":"dalian-modern-museum","name":"Dalian Modern Museum","name_zh":"大连博物馆","pinyin":"Dàlián Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8876,"lon":121.5812,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalian-modern-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dalian's city museum stands beside Xinghai Square and opened in 2002. Its permanent exhibition, 'Modern Dalian', covers the city's history from 1840 to 1949 in seven sections, from naval defence and the 1894–95 war through Russian and Japanese rule to the establishment of people's government in 1949. Other halls hold changing exhibitions of art and antiquities borrowed from Chinese and foreign museums."},{"id":"dalian-natural-history-museum","name":"Dalian Natural History Museum","name_zh":"大连自然博物馆","pinyin":"Dàlián Zìrán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8695,"lon":121.5565,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-natural-history-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The museum, on the Heishijiao shore, covers geology, palaeontology, zoology and botany in 12 halls, among them earth sciences, dinosaurs, marine life, north-eastern forest animals, wetlands, biodiversity and western Liaoning fossils. It holds about 200,000 specimens, and its grounds include a 270,000-square-metre area of sea. Its predecessor dates from 1907 and the present building opened in 1998."},{"id":"dalian-sun-asia-ocean-world","name":"Dalian Sun Asia Ocean World","name_zh":"圣亚海洋世界","pinyin":"Shèngyà Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8793,"lon":121.5674,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"3–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-sun-asia-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This commercial aquarium park in Xinghai Park by Xinghai Bay has four venues: Ocean World with a 118 m underwater tunnel, Polar World with Antarctic penguins and a spotted-seal bay, Coral World, and a zone of sea, land and air animals. Dolphin, sea-lion and beluga shows are staged in the park. It suits families and school groups."},{"id":"dalian-wafangdian-delisi-fortress","name":"Delisi Mountain Fortress","name_zh":"得利寺山城","pinyin":"Délìsì Shānchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.7935,"lon":122.0488,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-wafangdian-delisi-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Goguryeo-period stone hill fortress on Longtan Mountain, with a wall of about 2.5 km round the ridge, east and west gates, and a stone-lined pool inside that gives the mountain its name. Rebuilt temples, including Deli Temple, stand within the walls. The ground was also fought over in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904."},{"id":"lushun-dongjiguan-mountain","name":"Dongjiguan Mountain","name_zh":"东鸡冠山","pinyin":"Dōngjīguānshān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8349,"lon":121.2798,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushun-dongjiguan-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dongjiguan ('East Cockscomb') Mountain, on the north-eastern edge of Lüshun, was a main battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, when Japanese forces took the Russian fort on its north side in December 1904. The scenic area keeps the East Cockscomb North Fort, Erlongshan Fort and the Wangtai Battery, which the provincial tourism department calls an open-air history museum. Visitors walk through the preserved fortifications."},{"id":"dalian-dalny-city-hall","name":"Former Dalny City Hall","name_zh":"达里尼市政厅旧址","pinyin":"Dálǐní Shìzhèngtīng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.9281,"lon":121.6279,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalian-dalny-city-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in 1900 as the administrative office of Dalny, the port city the Russians began planning on the site of today's Dalian, this two-storey Russian-designed building with a basement later became Japan's Manchuria Resources Museum, then the north-eastern local gazetteer museum, and from 1959 the Dalian Natural History Museum. The museum moved to a new building in 1998, and the old hall is no longer open to the public. Its long front, with dormer windows and a tall central roof, stands at the end of a street of old Russian-built houses."},{"id":"lushun-kwantung-army-headquarters","name":"Former Kwantung Army Headquarters","name_zh":"关东军司令部旧址","pinyin":"Guāndōngjūn Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8089,"lon":121.2289,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushun-kwantung-army-headquarters/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This two-storey European-style building was put up by Russia in 1903, served from 1906 as the army department of Japan's Kwantung Government-General, and from 1919 housed the Kwantung Army headquarters, where the Mukden Incident of September 1931 was planned; the headquarters moved to Shenyang on 19 September that year. It later became an army hospital, was used by Soviet and then Chinese forces, and opened as a museum site in 2004, joining the Lüshun Museum in 2007. It was being restored in 2025."},{"id":"lushun-kwantung-prefectural-office","name":"Former Kwantung Prefectural Office","name_zh":"关东州厅旧址","pinyin":"Guāndōngzhōu Tīng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8066,"lon":121.2331,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushun-kwantung-prefectural-office/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Russia built this two-storey European-style building in 1900 as Lüshun's municipal hotel; after the Russo-Japanese War it housed Japan's Kwantung Government-General and later the Kwantung Agency and the Kwantung Prefectural Office, which moved to Dalian in 1937. It then served as a teachers' school, a Soviet building and, from 1955, a People's Liberation Army club and the quarters of its ski team, and it has stood largely vacant since the late 1990s. It was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013, and restoration work was reported under way in 2025."},{"id":"dalian-jinzhou-guan-xiangying-memorial","name":"Guan Xiangying Memorial Hall","name_zh":"关向应故居纪念馆","pinyin":"Guān Xiàngyìng Gùjū Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.2824,"lon":121.935,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-jinzhou-guan-xiangying-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial museum at the birthplace of Guan Xiangying (1902–46), a Chinese Communist leader who served as a political commissar in the Red Army and the Eighth Route Army. The site has his restored family home, a Manchu-style courtyard and a main hall with about 2,000 sq m of galleries, including scenes of the Long March. The museum was first built in 1964, and its displays were renewed in 2022."},{"id":"zhuanghe-haiwang-jiudao","name":"Haiwang Jiudao (Nine Islands of Haiwang)","name_zh":"海王九岛","pinyin":"Hǎiwáng Jiǔdǎo","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.4464,"lon":123.0767,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuanghe-haiwang-jiudao","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Haiwang Jiudao is a group of nine islands and dozens of reefs in the Yellow Sea off Wangjia town, Zhuanghe, including Dawangjia, Xiaowangjia and Shoulong Islands. The land area is 9.64 square kilometres and the sea area 380 square kilometres, and the islands are a national island forest park and a provincial-level tourism resort. The provincial tourism department recommends them as a summer retreat, with a mild semi-humid monsoon climate."},{"id":"dalian-hengshan-beipuduo-park","name":"Hengshan Beipuduo Theme Culture Park","name_zh":"横山北普陀主题文化公园","pinyin":"Héngshān Běipǔtuó Zhǔtí Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8833,"lon":121.4199,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-hengshan-beipuduo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This Buddhist-themed culture park of about 45 hectares in wooded hills was begun in 2003 and rated 4A in 2014. The provincial tourism department describes pavilions, halls, streams and ponds that combine traditional architecture, garden design and calligraphy, with spring flowers and autumn foliage. The park includes Hengshan Temple, a Buddhist temple."},{"id":"dalian-wafangdian-jiangjunshi-resort","name":"Jiangjunshi Seaside Resort","name_zh":"将军石旅游景区","pinyin":"Jiāngjūnshí Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.9109,"lon":121.6788,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-wafangdian-jiangjunshi-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure resort at Bohai village on the Bohai coast of Wafangdian, centred on a hotel with villas, a hot-spring club and conference rooms. Activities include fishing, picking, a ski slope, a riding ground, a sailing base and a yacht marina. It suits families and groups looking for a weekend resort rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"dalian-jinshitan","name":"Jinshitan (Golden Pebble Beach)","name_zh":"金石滩","pinyin":"Jīnshítān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.0788,"lon":122.015,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalian-jinshitan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jinshitan is a coastal resort area in Jinzhou district, approved by the State Council as a national tourist resort in 1992. It is known for sea-eroded sedimentary rock formations several hundred million years old, now protected in a national coastal geological park, along with the Golden Coast beach and Jinshi Garden. Other attractions include the Discovery Kingdom theme park, a wax museum and a life-science museum."},{"id":"dalian-lushun-laotieshan-lighthouse","name":"Laotieshan Lighthouse","name_zh":"老铁山灯塔","pinyin":"Lǎotiěshān Dēngtǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.7271,"lon":121.1349,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalian-lushun-laotieshan-lighthouse/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A white iron lighthouse completed in 1893 by the Qing maritime customs service, standing on the Laotieshan headland at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, where the Yellow Sea meets the Bohai Sea. It is still a working navigation light, and its French-made Fresnel lens turns on a mercury float. The station is run by the maritime authority, and the tower can be seen from the headland."},{"id":"lushun-museum","name":"Lüshun Museum","name_zh":"旅顺博物馆","pinyin":"Lǚshùn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8075,"lon":121.2297,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushun-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Founded in 1915 under Japanese administration and housed since 1918 in an eclectic Renaissance-style building, the Lüshun Museum is a national first-grade museum whose collections include archaeology of the Dalian area, relics from Xinjiang, ceramics, snuff bottles, coins and a gallery of mummies gathered on early twentieth-century expeditions to Central Asia. The building is nationally listed as the former Kwantung Museum, and the Sino-Soviet Friendship Tower stands in the cherry-planted square in front of it. Temporary exhibitions change through the year."},{"id":"lushun-russo-japanese-prison","name":"Lüshun Russo-Japanese Prison","name_zh":"旅顺日俄监狱旧址博物馆","pinyin":"Lǚshùn Rì'é Jiānyù Jiùzhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8246,"lon":121.2599,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushun-russo-japanese-prison/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built by Russia from 1902 and enlarged by Japan from 1907, this former prison in Lüshun held mainly activists from Manchuria and Korea until 1945, and it opened as a museum in 1971. Inside a perimeter wall about 725 m long, visitors see the brick cell blocks, an interrogation room, an execution room and the former prison workshops. Two exhibition rooms cover the Korean independence activist An Jung-geun, who was held here in 1909–10 after killing the Japanese statesman Itō Hirobumi at Harbin station and was executed in March 1910."},{"id":"lushun-submarine-museum","name":"Lüshun Submarine Museum","name_zh":"旅顺潜艇博物馆","pinyin":"Lǚshùn Qiántǐng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.7941,"lon":121.2675,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushun-submarine-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The museum stands on the seafront below Huangjin (Golden) Hill in Lüshun and shows a retired Type 033 submarine alongside more than 60 other retired naval, land and air equipment items. It also has two '6D' ride theatres that simulate a submarine cruise, and the site includes the Huangjin Hill bathing beach. The museum and its partner areas cover about 6 hectares."},{"id":"dalian-jinzhou-minghu-resort","name":"Minghu Hot Spring and Ski Resort","name_zh":"铭湖国际温泉滑雪度假区","pinyin":"Mínghú Guójì Wēnquán Huáxuě Dùjiàqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.5025,"lon":121.7973,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-jinzhou-minghu-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A resort of more than 4,000 mu (about 270 hectares) in the hills of Paotai subdistrict, combining a hot-spring hotel, a ski area and a farm-style ranch. The hot-spring water comes from a well about 2,600 m deep, and the ski area has five slopes plus a tubing run. It suits winter family trips more than sightseeing."},{"id":"dalian-zhongshan-square","name":"Modern Buildings on Zhongshan Square in Dalian","name_zh":"大连中山广场近代建筑群","pinyin":"Dàlián Zhōngshān Guǎngchǎng Jìndài Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.9207,"lon":121.6389,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dalian-zhongshan-square/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhongshan Square is a round plaza 213 m across, with ten streets radiating from it, at the centre of old Dalian; the Russians laid it out around 1899 as Nikolayevskaya Square, and most of the buildings around it date from 1908 to 1936, when Japan administered the leased territory. The ring of Gothic- and Renaissance-style buildings is now mostly banks, plus the Dalian Hotel in the former Yamato Hotel, so most visitors walk round the outside. The national listing covers the former Dalian civil administration office, the former Bank of Chōsen branch and the Yamato Hotel, with a fourth building elsewhere in the city."},{"id":"dalian-pulandian-pingdao-sea-cucumber-town","name":"Pingdao Sea Cucumber Town","name_zh":"平岛辽参小镇","pinyin":"Píngdǎo Liáoshēn Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.3367,"lon":122.3345,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-pulandian-pingdao-sea-cucumber-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tourist island off the Yellow Sea coast of Pulandian District, themed on local sea-cucumber farming, for which the provincial tourism department lists 12 protection zones. Its landmark is a sea-cucumber sculpture carved from a single block of Xiuyan jade, and at low tide visitors can gather shellfish and fish along the beaches around the island. It suits families and anyone curious about the local seafood industry."},{"id":"lushun-qicai-nanshan","name":"Qicai Nanshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"七彩南山","pinyin":"Qīcǎi Nánshān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8385,"lon":121.2545,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushun-qicai-nanshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qicai Nanshan is a rural tourism park of about one square kilometre at Xiaonan village in Lüshun, opened in 2010. According to the provincial tourism department it has five parts: a 'space plants' garden, a butterfly garden, the Songshushan fort (a Russo-Japanese War site), a countryside play area and a folk village, plus a village history hall and children's play areas. It mainly suits families with children."},{"id":"dalian-pulandian-shipenggou-dolmen","name":"Shipenggou Dolmen","name_zh":"石棚沟石棚","pinyin":"Shípénggōu Shípéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.9129,"lon":122.4656,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-pulandian-shipenggou-dolmen","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Bronze Age stone burial chamber on a low hill east of Shipengtun hamlet, one of six dolmens that once stood here. It is formed by three upright slabs on the east, west and north sides under a thick capstone, about 25 sq m in plan, and is well preserved; the five smaller ones survive only as traces. It is one of the larger dolmens on the Liaodong Peninsula."},{"id":"dalian-pulandian-jiantang-hot-spring","name":"Shiwai Jiantang Hot Spring","name_zh":"世外俭汤","pinyin":"Shìwài Jiǎntāng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.909,"lon":122.4157,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-pulandian-jiantang-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring scenic area of about 3.8 sq km in wooded hills at Jiantang, in Anbo subdistrict of Pulandian District. The provincial tourism department describes a spring that flows naturally at about 57°C, set among forest and countryside. It suits visitors who want hot-spring bathing in a rural setting."},{"id":"lushun-sino-soviet-friendship-tower","name":"Sino-Soviet Friendship Memorial Tower","name_zh":"中苏友谊纪念塔","pinyin":"Zhōngsū Yǒuyì Jìniàntǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8083,"lon":121.2294,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushun-sino-soviet-friendship-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The 22.2 m tower was built in 1955–57 in the square in front of the Lüshun Museum, around the time Soviet forces withdrew from Lüshun and the port was returned to China in May 1955. Reliefs on its base show Tiananmen and the Kremlin, the Anshan blast furnaces, Lüshun scenery with a Soviet army victory tower, and a combine harvest at a Sino-Soviet state farm, and a gilded peace dove tops the shaft. It has been a national heritage unit since 1961."},{"id":"lushun-kwantung-governor-general-office","name":"Site of the Kwantung Governor-General's Office","name_zh":"关东州总督府旧址","pinyin":"Guāndōngzhōu Zǒngdūfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8053,"lon":121.2603,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushun-kwantung-governor-general-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This group of Russian-period buildings at 45 Gangwan Street in old Lüshun, dated 1899 in the official list, is listed as the site of the Japanese Kwantung governor-general's offices. Photographs taken in 2013 show yellow-rendered two-storey buildings with pedimented gables and an arched passage opening on a cobbled courtyard behind iron gates. The site was taken over by the People's Liberation Army after 1949 and was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"lushun-south-armory","name":"South Armory","name_zh":"南子弹库旧址","pinyin":"Nán Zǐdànkù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.7928,"lon":121.2772,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushun-south-armory","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The South Armory was an ammunition depot built in 1884, according to the official heritage list, during the construction of the Qing government's naval port at Lüshun, on the coast east of Huangjin Hill. It was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013. Xinhua reported in 2025 that it and three other relics outside army compounds were being handed to the district government for a patriotic and national-defence education base."},{"id":"zhuanghe-tianmenshan-forest-park","name":"Tianmenshan National Forest Park, Zhuanghe","name_zh":"天门山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Tiānménshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":40.1611,"lon":122.8955,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuanghe-tianmenshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianmenshan National Forest Park lies in the mountains of northern Zhuanghe and borders Gaizhou, Yingkou and Xiuyan. The provincial tourism department lists 36 peaks above 800 m, the highest being Douyunfeng at 926 m, with cliffs, caves and gorges. Its main activity is rafting on the Tianmen Gorge, a course of about 10 km with a 91 m drop that takes two to three hours."},{"id":"lushun-wanzhong-tomb","name":"Wanzhong Tomb","name_zh":"万忠墓","pinyin":"Wànzhōng Mù","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8163,"lon":121.2564,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushun-wanzhong-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wanzhong Tomb is the communal grave of people killed in Lüshun (Port Arthur) in the days after Japanese forces took the town in November 1894. The first burial dates from 1895, a tablet bearing the tomb's name was set up in 1896, and the site was rebuilt in 1948 and again in 1994, when a memorial hall, a sacrificial plaza and a memorial stele were added. Today it consists of the tomb chamber, a sacrificial hall and gate, and the memorial hall, and it has been a national heritage unit since 2006."},{"id":"dalian-pulandian-weibashan-fortress","name":"Weibashan Fortress and Qingquan Temple","name_zh":"巍霸山城","pinyin":"Wēibà Shānchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.6335,"lon":122.308,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-pulandian-weibashan-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Weibashan, also called Wugu City, is a Goguryeo-period hill fortress whose stone wall follows the ridge around the mountain for about 3 km. In its eastern part stands Qingquan Temple, a Qing-style complex of three courtyards holding 72 painted clay figures, among them the Jade Emperor, Laozi, the Buddha, Confucius and famous physicians, all kept behind glass. The fortress and temple are listed among the sights of the Anbo scenic area."},{"id":"dalian-wafangdian-xianyuwan-resort","name":"Xianyuwan Beach Resort","name_zh":"仙浴湾旅游度假区","pinyin":"Xiānyùwān Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.7006,"lon":121.5046,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-wafangdian-xianyuwan-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seaside resort on the west coast of Wafangdian, with about 11 km of shoreline of which 6.4 km is bathing beach, backed by woodland and a forest park. The resort has a visitor centre, a seaside temple, a pine maze, a hot-spring hotel and silica-sand bathing. It was named a national marine park in 2016 and a 4A tourist resort in 2017."},{"id":"dalian-changhai-xiaoshuikou-forest-park","name":"Xiaoshuikou Forest Park","name_zh":"小水口森林公园","pinyin":"Xiǎoshuǐkǒu Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.2309,"lon":122.7462,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-changhai-xiaoshuikou-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded coastal park of about 1.2 sq km at the eastern tip of Xiaochangshan Island in the Changshan Islands. A boardwalk of about 550 m runs along the rocky shore, with a glass-floored section of over 30 m, and woodland covers more than 80 per cent of the park. Local tourism officials describe it as the only 4A scenic area on the islands."},{"id":"dalian-xijiao-forest-park","name":"Xijiao National Forest Park, Dalian","name_zh":"西郊国家森林公园","pinyin":"Xījiāo Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.9323,"lon":121.4951,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-xijiao-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large forest park of about 70 sq km on the north-western edge of Dalian, with some 85 per cent tree cover. Its main areas are West Mountain Lake with a nine-island wetland, Tangli Lake, which has hosted trail-running and archery events, Hongqi Valley with a golf course, and Changqing Lake, known for cherries. It serves as one of Dalian's main green spaces."},{"id":"dalian-yingchengzi-han-tombs","name":"Yingchengzi Han Tombs","name_zh":"营城子汉墓群","pinyin":"Yíngchéngzi Hànmùqún","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.9954,"lon":121.4101,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-yingchengzi-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The provincial heritage department describes this as the largest Han-dynasty cemetery found in north-east China, with nearly 300 tombs excavated since the 1930s. The Dalian Han Tombs Museum, opened in October 2010, shows excavated tomb structures and finds; the painted tomb dug in 1931 is known for a mural of the tomb owner ascending to immortality. The cemetery is spread across three villages along the railway line, so the museum is the place to visit."},{"id":"dalian-yinggeshi-botanical-garden","name":"Yinggeshi Botanical Garden","name_zh":"英歌石植物园","pinyin":"Yīnggēshí Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":38.8955,"lon":121.353,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-yinggeshi-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This privately run botanical garden of about 100 hectares in the hills of Dalian's high-tech zone was begun in 2003 and opened in April 2014. The provincial tourism department says it has collected 3,021 plant species in 126 families, and it is known for successive flowerings from spring to autumn, including tulips, cherry and peach blossom, peonies, hydrangeas and chrysanthemums."},{"id":"dalian-jinzhou-ziyun-huaxi-lavender","name":"Ziyun Huaxi Lavender Estate","name_zh":"紫云花汐薰衣草庄园","pinyin":"Zǐyún Huāxī Xūnyīcǎo Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dalian","lat":39.3052,"lon":121.9124,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalian-jinzhou-ziyun-huaxi-lavender","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower and herb farm of about 1,100 mu (roughly 73 hectares) in the hills of Xiangying subdistrict, planted mainly with lavender, verbena, sage and roses, plus fruit orchards and plum trees. It is run as a romance-themed leisure park, with RV camping, lodging, picking and activities such as small-bore shooting. Its lavender and other blue-purple flower fields are the main draw."},{"id":"fengcheng-dalishu-agritourism-area","name":"Dalishu Agricultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"大梨树生态农业观光旅游区","pinyin":"Dàlíshù Shēngtài Nóngyè Guānguāng Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":40.4025,"lon":123.961,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengcheng-dalishu-agritourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Dalishu tourism area is a rural-tourism complex in and around Dalishu village, south-west of Fengcheng, which the provincial tourism department counts among the first national agricultural-tourism demonstration sites. It is laid out as four zones, for leisure-farming experiences, health and culture, ethnic-village sightseeing and visitor services, and it includes picking gardens and a film-set town. It is a modern leisure attraction for families and groups, not a historic village."},{"id":"donggang-dalu-island","name":"Dalu Island","name_zh":"大鹿岛","pinyin":"Dàlù Dǎo","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":39.7517,"lon":123.7284,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"A day trip or overnight","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donggang-dalu-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dalu Island lies at the mouth of the Yalu, about 4 km long, with a fishing and tourism village and a bathing beach. The sea to the south is one of the sites of the 1894 naval battle of the Sino-Japanese War, and the island has a tomb and statue of the Chinese naval officer Deng Shichang, a British-style lighthouse, a sea-goddess temple, a stele to the Ming general Mao Wenlong and the ruins of a Danish church. Visitors come by boat and can combine the memorials with the beach."},{"id":"kuandian-hekou-broken-bridge","name":"Hekou Broken Bridge, Kuandian","name_zh":"河口断桥","pinyin":"Hékǒu Duànqiáo","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":40.4124,"lon":124.8229,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuandian-hekou-broken-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Hekou Broken Bridge is the surviving part of a road bridge across the Yalu built in 1942, originally about 700 m long with 23 spans. It was damaged by air attack in November 1950 during the Korean War and repaired, then cut in the middle by bombing in November 1951; nine spans remain on the Chinese side and five on the Korean side, with three piers standing in the river between them. It sits in the Hekou scenic area, which also runs river boat trips and takes in Changhe Island, and visitors can look across the water to Sakju County in North Korea."},{"id":"dandong-hushan-great-wall","name":"Hushan Great Wall","name_zh":"虎山长城","pinyin":"Hǔshān Chángchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":40.2289,"lon":124.516,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dandong-hushan-great-wall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hushan Great Wall is a restored stretch of Ming-era wall, about 1.2 km long, that climbs Hushan hill (146 m) beside the Yalu where the Ai River joins it. Surveys in the late 1980s and early 1990s identified the ruins here as the eastern end of the Ming wall in Liaoning, and the wall has been restored in stages since 1992, with a rebuilt entrance gate and a series of towers. From the top there are views over the river to the North Korean bank."},{"id":"dandong-korean-war-memorial-hall","name":"Memorial of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea","name_zh":"抗美援朝纪念馆","pinyin":"Kàngměi Yuáncháo Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":40.1173,"lon":124.3599,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dandong-korean-war-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This national first-grade museum on Yinghua Mountain in Dandong is devoted to the Korean War, which China calls the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and to the campaign in China to support it. The complex has an exhibition building with halls on the war, the home-front campaign, Sino-Korean ties and those who died, a panorama hall with a large painting of the 1950 Chongchon River battle, a 53 m memorial tower and an outdoor park of displayed weapons, with views toward Sinuiju across the river. It reopened in 2020 after a refit that began in 2014 and holds more than 20,000 relics, according to the provincial tourism page."},{"id":"fengcheng-phoenix-mountain","name":"Phoenix Mountain, Fengcheng","name_zh":"凤凰山","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":40.4278,"lon":124.0628,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengcheng-phoenix-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Phoenix Mountain is a rocky mountain area south-east of Fengcheng, divided into West Mountain, East Mountain and Ancient City sections, with cliff-side boardwalks, a glass-floored walkway, a glass suspension bridge and several temples. The Ancient City section holds the Goguryeo-period Fenghuangshan Mountain City, also called Wugu City, begun in the early fifth century, where stretches of wall and the remains of its gates survive. Several routes run along cliff faces, so it suits confident walkers."},{"id":"kuandian-tianhuashan-forest-park","name":"Tianhuashan Forest Park","name_zh":"天华山森林公园","pinyin":"Tiānhuá Shān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":41.0795,"lon":124.5636,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuandian-tianhuashan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianhuashan is a provincial scenic area and forest park in the mountains of Guanshui town in northern Kuandian County, made a provincial forest park in January 2001. The provincial tourism page lists Bailongjian, Tianhuafeng, Yulongjian, Qinglongjian and Foguangding among its walking areas and picks out Bailongjian, Tongtian Gorge, Tiantai and Maogong Peak as its main sights. It is a gorge-and-peak landscape for walking, well away from the Dandong riverfront sights."},{"id":"kuandian-tianqiaogou-forest-park","name":"Tianqiaogou","name_zh":"天桥沟","pinyin":"Tiānqiáogōu","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":41.0589,"lon":124.6227,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuandian-tianqiaogou-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianqiaogou is a forest park in the mountains of northern Kuandian County, close to the boundaries with Huanren and Benxi counties, and is best known for its autumn maple colour. The provincial tourism page describes it as covering more than 4,000 ha and as one of China's well-known maple-viewing parks. Autumn is the season to go."},{"id":"dandong-yalu-river-broken-bridge","name":"Yalu River Broken Bridge","name_zh":"鸭绿江断桥","pinyin":"Yālù Jiāng Duànqiáo","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":40.1161,"lon":124.3898,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dandong-yalu-river-broken-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Broken Bridge is what remains of the first bridge built across the Yalu, a 12-span steel railway bridge that Japan began in 1909 to link Korea with the Eurasian rail network and that later carried road traffic. United States aircraft bombed it in November 1950 during the Korean War; the Korean-side spans were later dismantled, and the four surviving Chinese spans have been a walkway since 1993, ending mid-river at a viewing platform beside the old swing-span mechanism. The Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge stands just upstream, and the city of Sinuiju faces the walkway across the water."},{"id":"dandong-yalu-river-scenic-area","name":"Yalu River Scenic Area","name_zh":"鸭绿江风景名胜区","pinyin":"Yālù Jiāng Fēngjǐng Míngshèngqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":40.122,"lon":124.3924,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours for the central riverfront","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dandong-yalu-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Yalu River Scenic Area is a national-level scenic and historic area that follows the river from the Hun River mouth, at the Liaoning–Jilin boundary, down to the sea; the provincial tourism department lists six sections: Jiangkou, Daqiao (the bridges at Dandong), Hushan, Taipingwan, Shuifeng and Lüjiang. Most visitors meet it in Dandong, where the riverfront looks across to the North Korean city of Sinuiju and the Broken Bridge and the Hushan Great Wall, both national heritage units with entries of their own, are the best-known stops. The pin marks the central riverfront park by the bridges rather than a single gate."},{"id":"donggang-zhangdao-island","name":"Zhangdao Island","name_zh":"獐岛","pinyin":"Zhāng Dǎo","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Dandong","lat":39.791,"lon":123.8131,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"A day trip or overnight","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donggang-zhangdao-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhangdao, also called Xiaoludao (Little Deer Island), is a small island village in the Yellow Sea off Beijingzi town in Donggang. According to the provincial tourism department it is one main island with six smaller mounds, which separate into six islets at high tide and join into one island at low tide. The village lives mainly from tourism, fishing and aquaculture and has more than 110 hotels and farm guesthouses, so it suits a seaside day trip or a short stay."},{"id":"fushun-lei-feng-memorial-hall","name":"Fushun Lei Feng Memorial Hall","name_zh":"抚顺雷锋纪念馆","pinyin":"Fǔshùn Léifēng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.8481,"lon":123.7967,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fushun-lei-feng-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Opened in 1965 near the former barracks of Lei Feng's army unit, this memorial park commemorates the soldier Lei Feng (1940–1962), who became the subject of a long-running national 'Learn from Lei Feng' campaign. The grounds of about 10 ha hold an exhibition hall on his life, a 13.4 m granite monument, his tomb, statues and a court of stone tablets, and the tomb and monument together are a national heritage unit. The displays present the official Chinese account of his life and of the campaign."},{"id":"fushun-war-criminals-management-centre","name":"Fushun War Criminals Management Centre","name_zh":"抚顺战犯管理所旧址","pinyin":"Fǔshùn Zhànfàn Guǎnlǐsuǒ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.8812,"lon":123.9004,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fushun-war-criminals-management-centre/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built by the Japanese authorities in 1936 as a prison, the site was turned in 1950 into a detention and re-education centre for Japanese war-crimes suspects, officials of the Manchukuo regime including the last Qing emperor Puyi, and captured Nationalist officers. The preserved prison now houses an exhibition on the detention of the Japanese prisoners, a separate display on Puyi's years there, and the original cells and facilities, all presenting the Chinese account of the period. The Japanese prisoners were released between 1956 and 1964, and the other detainees were amnestied between 1959 and 1975."},{"id":"xinbin-hemu-forest-park","name":"Hemu National Forest Park","name_zh":"和睦国家森林公园","pinyin":"Hémù Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.7641,"lon":124.6953,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinbin-hemu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hemu is a long, narrow forest park in the Longgang foothills of Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, about 7.5 km from end to end and covering some 20,300 mu (about 1,350 ha). The Fushun tourism bureau describes it as holding the country's oldest planted larch forest, and it has a visitor centre, a bagua-pattern maze, log cabins and a hotel used for retreats and conferences. It suits visitors looking for forest walks and a short stay."},{"id":"xinbin-hetu-ala","name":"Hetu Ala","name_zh":"赫图阿拉城","pinyin":"Hètú'ālā Chéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.7032,"lon":124.8686,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinbin-hetu-ala","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hetu Ala was the first capital of Nurhaci, the Jurchen leader who began building the city in 1603 and proclaimed himself khan here in 1616, founding the Later Jin state, the forerunner of the Qing dynasty. The hill-and-river site keeps the line of its walls and several historic sites, among them the Khan's Great Yamen, the Khan's well, the Zhengbai Banner office, the former home of Nurhaci's father Taksi, a qipao museum and the Manchu Museum. The capital moved to Liaoyang in the early 1620s, and the old city was renamed Xingjing in 1634."},{"id":"qingyuan-kuangzigou-scenic-area","name":"Kuangzigou Scenic Area","name_zh":"筐子沟景区","pinyin":"Kuāngzigōu Jǐngqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":42.1406,"lon":124.8183,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-kuangzigou-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kuangzigou is a forested river-valley scenic area in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County, with forest cover given as 95 percent by the local tourism bureaus. A stream runs through the valley past a string of waterfalls, four numbered 'pot' pools, a suspension bridge and birch woods, and the area is promoted for summer cool and autumn colour."},{"id":"qingyuan-nantianmen-scenic-area","name":"Nantianmen Scenic Area","name_zh":"南天门景区","pinyin":"Nántiānmén Jǐngqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.9792,"lon":124.9469,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-nantianmen-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Nantianmen is a mountain-and-water leisure resort in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County with a planned area of about 10 sq km. Its attractions include a high-level glass water slide, a children's park, a high-level swing, a rainbow slide, a jungle-crossing course, a glass suspension bridge, bamboo rafts and boats and plank walkways. It is a commercial leisure park that suits families and groups looking for a day of activities."},{"id":"fushun-pingdingshan-massacre-memorial","name":"Pingdingshan Massacre Memorial Hall","name_zh":"平顶山惨案纪念馆","pinyin":"Píngdǐngshān Cǎn'àn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.8322,"lon":123.9208,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushun-pingdingshan-massacre-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Pingdingshan was a village beside Fushun's coal workings where, on 16 September 1932, Japanese troops killed villagers in reprisal for an attack by an anti-Japanese volunteer army the night before; the memorial gives a toll of more than 3,000. Excavations in 1970 uncovered a pit of remains, and a hall built over it now displays the remains of more than 800 people under glass. The grounds also hold a four-hall exhibition on the massacre and its aftermath, a 19.32 m memorial column and a court of 60 stone tablets carrying survivors' testimony."},{"id":"qingyuan-red-river-gorge-rafting","name":"Red River Gorge Rafting","name_zh":"红河峡谷漂流","pinyin":"Hónghé Xiágǔ Piāoliú","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.9714,"lon":124.9166,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-red-river-gorge-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Red River Gorge is a 12.8 km river-rafting run through a forested, U-shaped valley in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County, known locally as the 'Little Three Gorges of the north-east' and promoted with the slogan 'the first rafting in the north'. The trip takes about two and a half hours, with calm and fast stretches, and the service areas at the start and finish have changing rooms, showers, a dining hall, a landing stage and parking. Rafting is a summer activity: the 2025 season was formally launched on 22 June."},{"id":"fushun-sankuaishi-forest-park","name":"Sankuaishi National Forest Park","name_zh":"三块石国家森林公园","pinyin":"Sānkuàishí Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.6601,"lon":124.3359,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushun-sankuaishi-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sankuaishi is a mountain forest park in Fushun County, named for three huge boulders that stand together on a high summit; its main peak reaches 1,131 m. The Fushun tourism bureau gives its area as 108.7 sq km, with forest covering about 92 percent of it. It was a base area during the war against Japan and the civil war, and sites of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army survive there, so it is promoted for red tourism as well as scenery."},{"id":"xinbin-shenxian-valley-resort","name":"Shenxian Valley Eco-Resort","name_zh":"参仙谷","pinyin":"Shēnxiān Gǔ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.6251,"lon":125.0233,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinbin-shenxian-valley-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shenxian Valley ('Ginseng Immortal Valley') is a forest leisure resort of about 1,360 ha in the mountains of Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, developed over several years from the mid-2010s. It has lakes, wooded valleys, wooden lodges on the water, a high-level glass rafting ride and other adventure activities, with snowmobiles and horse-drawn sleds in winter, and it is run as a commercial resort. The tourism bureaus repeat a local tradition that the area was once an imperial ginseng ground and hunting preserve of Nurhaci."},{"id":"fushun-tiannvshan-forest-park","name":"Tiannüshan Forest Park","name_zh":"天女山森林公园","pinyin":"Tiānnǚshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.5718,"lon":124.3431,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushun-tiannvshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tiannüshan is a forested mountain park in Fushun County whose main peak rises to 780 m, covering about 1,380 mu (some 92 ha). It has more than twenty named sights, including the Tongtian path, Nantianmen ('South Heaven Gate'), the Fox Spirit Cave, Zhuanxin Lake and the Phoenix Terrace. The Fushun tourism bureau highlights the tiannü magnolia in summer, azaleas in spring and red maples in autumn."},{"id":"xinbin-yongling-tomb","name":"Yongling Tomb, Xinbin","name_zh":"清永陵","pinyin":"Qīng Yǒnglíng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.7078,"lon":124.7969,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinbin-yongling-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yongling is the burial ground of Nurhaci's forebears: his father Taksi, grandfather Giocangga, great-grandfather Fuman and the earlier ancestor Mengtemu, together with two of his uncles. Laid out from 1598 and renamed Yongling in 1659, it is entered through a Manchu-style gate with a wooden-fence door, passes four stele pavilions with inscriptions in Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese, and ends at a square courtyard with a main hall and a circular wall around the graves. It is the senior but smaller of the three Qing imperial tombs of the Shenyang–Xinbin area, and with Fuling and Zhaoling it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004 as part of the Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties."},{"id":"fushun-yuanshuailin","name":"Yuanshuailin, Zhang Zuolin's Mausoleum","name_zh":"元帅林","pinyin":"Yuánshuàilín","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fushun","lat":41.9307,"lon":124.2936,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushun-yuanshuailin","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yuanshuailin ('Marshal's Grove') is a mausoleum begun in 1929 by Zhang Xueliang for his father, the warlord Zhang Zuolin, who was killed in 1928. Work stopped after the Mukden Incident of 1931 and Zhang Zuolin was buried instead at Yimafang near Jinzhou in 1937, so the tomb here has always been empty. The southern halls were lost to the Dahuofang Reservoir, begun in 1954, but the circular wall and burial mound survive on the higher ground, together with stone sculptures that Zhang Xueliang bought in the western outskirts of Beijing."},{"id":"fuxin-baodi-spa-hot-spring-resort","name":"Baodi Spa Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"宝地斯帕温泉","pinyin":"Bǎodì Sīpà Wēnquán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":41.9303,"lon":121.5413,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-baodi-spa-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort town in Dongliang town, south-west of Fuxin, whose spring water is drawn from a well about 1,888 m deep at 82 °C and described by the provincial tourism page as a sodium bicarbonate spring. The leisure area has a hotel, restaurants, a water park and indoor and outdoor soaking pools, and a separate wellness and retirement section offers medical, research and education services for longer stays. It is a modern commercial resort for relaxing breaks rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"fuxin-chahai-site-museum","name":"Chahai Neolithic Site and Museum","name_zh":"查海遗址","pinyin":"Cháhǎi Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":42.1832,"lon":121.8015,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–1.5 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-chahai-site-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Neolithic settlement about 8,000 years old (radiocarbon-dated), excavated in seven seasons between 1986 and 1994 over nearly 7,800 sq m, which revealed house foundations, storage pits, a ritual pit and a dragon-shaped arrangement of stones about 20 m long. The site museum, opened in 1992 about 50 m south of the dig, is built to resemble six half-sunken houses, with red walls textured like bark; its permanent exhibition covers the Chahai culture, and an outdoor area shows the excavated house foundations and the stone dragon. The provincial heritage page calls Chahai an early forerunner of the Hongshan culture and the origin of the zigzag-patterned pottery of the West Liao River valley."},{"id":"zhangwu-deligeer-grassland","name":"Deligeer Grassland Scenic Area, Zhangwu","name_zh":"德力格尔草原","pinyin":"Délìgé'ěr Cǎoyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":42.5849,"lon":122.6259,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangwu-deligeer-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeshore leisure area of about 800 mu (53 ha) on Deligeer Lake in Zhangwu county, where the provincial tourism page says lake, island, wetland, grassland and sand lie side by side. The listed facilities are a visitor centre, a camping area, guesthouses, a racecourse, an island attraction called Bixin Island, a rainbow slide, a petting zoo, a youth activity base and peony and lotus gardens. It is a commercial site aimed at family and group outings."},{"id":"fuxin-dongtashan-pagoda","name":"Dongtashan Pagoda","name_zh":"东塔山塔","pinyin":"Dōngtǎshān Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":42.1592,"lon":121.417,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-dongtashan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda standing on a wooded hillside in Hongmaozi town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, octagonal with close-set storeys of eaves and niches, imitation timber brackets and relief carving on its body. The provincial heritage page dates it to the reign of Emperor Shengzong of the Liao, and notes that the finial is long gone."},{"id":"fuxin-mass-graves-memorial-hall","name":"Fuxin Miners' Mass Graves Memorial Hall","name_zh":"阜新万人坑死难矿工纪念馆","pinyin":"Fùxīn Wànrénkēng Sǐnàn Kuànggōng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":41.9765,"lon":121.698,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-mass-graves-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial and museum on the site of the mass graves of miners who died in the Fuxin coalfield while it was run by Japanese-controlled companies, from the 1930s to 1945; official figures put the number buried in the city's graves at about 70,000. Halls built over excavated pits show remains in place, one for miners and one for labourers held at a nearby camp who took part in a 1942 uprising, and exhibitions cover the history of the mines; the site spans about 57 ha. The memorial opened in 1968, was repaired and reopened in 2015, and is a national heritage unit."},{"id":"fuxin-haitangshan","name":"Haitangshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"海棠山","pinyin":"Hǎitáng Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":41.9335,"lon":121.8529,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-haitangshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain of old pines and rock outcrops in Daban town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, protected as a national nature reserve and forest park, with a main peak of 715.4 m. Its best-known sight is a set of Qing-dynasty Buddhist figures carved into the cliffs, which the provincial tourism page calls fine examples of Qing Buddhist sculpture. The mountain was historically an area where the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism spread, and Puan Temple, founded in 1683, stands in it."},{"id":"fuxin-huangjiagou-resort","name":"Huangjiagou Resort, Fuxin","name_zh":"黄家沟","pinyin":"Huángjiāgōu","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":42.062,"lon":121.6057,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-huangjiagou-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A four-season leisure resort in Sihe town, Xihe District, which the provincial tourism page describes as set among a hill, two rivers, nine lakes and about 1,000 mu (67 ha) of pine woods. A water park in summer and a ski field in winter are the main attractions, with hot-spring guesthouses and rural tourism among the resort's five sections, and flower viewing and fruit picking in spring and autumn. The resort area has been named a national key village for rural tourism."},{"id":"fuxin-ruiying-temple","name":"Ruiying Temple","name_zh":"瑞应寺","pinyin":"Ruìyìng Sì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":41.9353,"lon":121.441,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-ruiying-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Fosi town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, founded in 1669 and named by the Kangxi emperor in 1703, and long the seat of the Chagan Diancheqi line of incarnate lamas. The provincial tourism page calls it the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery of north-east China and the eastern Mongol lands; in the Qing period it had colleges for philosophy, medicine, tantra and astronomy and influenced Mongolian medicine and calendar-making. The halls were badly damaged and the monks dispersed during the Cultural Revolution; restoration began in 1984, and the temple is a provincial heritage unit, with smaller temples on the hilltops around the main halls."},{"id":"fuxin-tayingzi-pagoda","name":"Tayingzi Pagoda","name_zh":"塔营子塔","pinyin":"Tǎyíngzi Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":42.4341,"lon":122.0552,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-tayingzi-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty brick pagoda 32 m high, octagonal with 13 close-set storeys of eaves, standing near the middle of the old Yizhou city site at Tayingzi village, and also called the Baoyan Temple Pagoda. The provincial heritage page calls it the best preserved of the three Liao brick pagodas still standing in this district, with a three-tier base carved with lions, musicians and guardian figures and seated Buddhas in round niches on the first storey. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013, and the walls of the old city around it are a provincial heritage site."},{"id":"fuxin-wulanmutu-mountain","name":"Wulanmutu Mountain","name_zh":"乌兰木图山","pinyin":"Wūlánmùtú Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Fuxin","lat":42.3011,"lon":121.4628,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxin-wulanmutu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 30 sq km in Bajiazi town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, whose main peak, at 831.4 m, is the highest in Fuxin prefecture. The provincial tourism page highlights rock formations, dense woodland, temples built into the cliffs and a large wild stand of Amur tree lilac, and notes that the mountain had a different name in the Liao period and was settled in Hongshan-culture times. It also mentions herbs, deposits of maifan stone and local folk customs among the area's resources."},{"id":"xingcheng-baitayu-pagoda","name":"Baitayu Pagoda","name_zh":"白塔峪塔","pinyin":"Báitǎyù Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.7132,"lon":120.6216,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingcheng-baitayu-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baitayu Pagoda is a Liao-dynasty brick pagoda with eight sides and thirteen tiers of close-set eaves, standing on a hillock south of Jiulong Mountain. A stone inscription found in its crypt in 1972 records that it was begun in 1092 as a relic pagoda of Kongtongshan Wuji Monastery. It was once counted among Xingcheng's eight scenic views as the 'Nine Dragons Smoke Pagoda' and has been a national heritage unit since 2013."},{"id":"xingcheng-huanle-longwan-water-park","name":"Huanle Longwan Hot Spring Water Park","name_zh":"欢乐龙湾","pinyin":"Huānlè Lóngwān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.643,"lon":120.8181,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingcheng-huanle-longwan-water-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Huanle Longwan is a water park on the Xingcheng seafront with wave pools, slides, a drifting river, a children's water zone and hot-spring bathing pools, plus restaurants and rest pavilions. It is a modern leisure development rather than a historic site, aimed mainly at families."},{"id":"huludao-hulu-ancient-town","name":"Hulu Ancient Town","name_zh":"葫芦古镇","pinyin":"Húlu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.776,"lon":120.9417,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huludao-hulu-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hulu Ancient Town is a leisure and farm-tourism complex on the northern edge of Huludao, begun in 2001 and themed on gourd culture (hulu, as in the city's name) and the folk customs of north-east China (Guandong). It offers folk-custom performances, fruit picking, study-tour programmes, a folk museum, restaurants and lodging, and skiing and skating in winter, in newly built old-style buildings rather than historic ones. It suits families and groups rather than visitors looking for heritage sites."},{"id":"suizhong-jiangnushi-site","name":"Jiangnüshi Site","name_zh":"姜女石遗址","pinyin":"Jiāngnǚshí Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":39.9992,"lon":119.8976,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suizhong-jiangnushi-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jiangnüshi is a coastal complex of Qin and early Western Han palace remains on the Zhimao Bay shore, found in 1982 and excavated from 1984 to 2002; it was the first Qin-era travelling palace found outside the Guanzhong region. Its core, the Jieshi Palace site, is a large terraced platform of rammed earth close to the shore, facing three sea-eroded rocks offshore known as the Jiang Nü Tomb, which legend links to Meng Jiangnü and which scholars identify as the 'Jieshi' (Stone Gate) of ancient texts. On the ground there are low earth platforms and foundation lines rather than standing buildings."},{"id":"suizhong-jiumenkou-great-wall","name":"Jiumenkou Great Wall","name_zh":"九门口长城","pinyin":"Jiǔménkǒu Chángchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.116,"lon":119.7464,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suizhong-jiumenkou-great-wall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jiumenkou is a stretch of Ming Great Wall that crosses a seasonal river on a stone gateway-bridge about 110 m long and 10 m high, with nine arched openings that carried heavy double wooden doors, shut at low water and opened to let floods through. The river bed is paved with square stone slabs, which gave the pass its old name Yipianshi ('One Slab of Stone'), and watchtowers and wall run up the hills on either side as part of the eastern end of the Ming Jizhen defences. The site straddles the Liaoning–Hebei border; the Liaoning side lies in Suizhong County."},{"id":"xingcheng-juehua-island","name":"Juehua Island","name_zh":"觉华岛","pinyin":"Juéhuá Dǎo","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.5001,"lon":120.8031,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingcheng-juehua-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Juehua Island, renamed in 2009 from Juhua (Chrysanthemum) Island, is the largest island in Liaodong Bay, with about 13 km² of land, 27 km of coastline and a high point of 198 m. The tourism department lists the Dalonggong Temple (a Liao-period foundation, rebuilt in 2002), an octagonal well, the remains of a Ming-era camp, a bodhi culture park, an east-coast park and bathing beaches. In Ming times it was a grain depot for the Liaodong army, and Nurhaci's forces attacked it in 1626."},{"id":"lianshan-lingshan-scenic-area","name":"Lingshan Scenic Area, Lianshan","name_zh":"灵山风景名胜区","pinyin":"Língshān Fēngjǐng Míngshèngqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.9568,"lon":120.5144,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianshan-lingshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lingshan is a hilly forest area in Lianshan District with crags, odd-shaped rocks, caves and cliffs, and an old temple complex that is a provincial heritage site. Named features include the Nantianmen (South Heaven Gate), a group of twelve-zodiac rocks, an eagle-beak rock and a camel-shaped peak. The department describes it as one of Liaoning's ten best forest parks and a provincial ecotourism demonstration area."},{"id":"jianchang-longtan-grand-canyon","name":"Longtan Grand Canyon, Jianchang","name_zh":"龙潭大峡谷","pinyin":"Lóngtán Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.5523,"lon":119.3455,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianchang-longtan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Longtan Grand Canyon is a wooded gorge in the hills of western Jianchang County, close to the Hebei border, with cliffs, pools, waterfalls, caves and oddly shaped rocks; the tourism department also describes it as a national geopark. Facilities include a glass-floored suspension bridge, a dry slide, boat rides and a small forest train, so the scenery comes with adventure-park attractions."},{"id":"huludao-longwan-beach","name":"Longwan Beach, Huludao","name_zh":"龙湾海滨","pinyin":"Lóngwān Hǎibīn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.6804,"lon":120.8315,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huludao-longwan-beach","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Longwan Beach is a seafront resort strip on Liaodong Bay in Longgang District, with a sand beach more than 2 km long, a marble-paved central plaza flanked by European-style hotels, a coastal boardwalk, and shopping and amusement areas. The scenic area covers 6.9 km² and is split into a bathing beach, a commercial street zone, a boardwalk-and-green-space zone and a visitor-service zone."},{"id":"xingcheng-moshigou-pagoda","name":"Moshigou Pagoda","name_zh":"磨石沟塔","pinyin":"Móshígōu Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.6046,"lon":120.5592,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingcheng-moshigou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Moshigou Pagoda is a Liao-period brick pagoda 17.4 m high, with eight sides, nine tiers of close-set eaves and a hollow interior, standing on a hill beside Moshigou hamlet in Hongyazi Manchu township. Each face of the tower is about 2 m wide; its base is badly damaged and only the upper part of the stepped Sumeru-style pedestal survives. It has been a national heritage unit since 2013."},{"id":"nanpiao-shaguotun-cave-site","name":"Shaguotun Cave Site","name_zh":"沙锅屯遗址","pinyin":"Shāguōtún Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":41.1215,"lon":120.7074,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanpiao-shaguotun-cave-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shaguotun is a small cave on a wooded hillside that the Swedish scholar Johan Gunnar Andersson and the Canadian scholar Davidson Black dug in June 1921, in what is regarded as the first formal archaeological excavation in China. It yielded prehistoric painted pottery and jade; the material was first compared with Yangshao and later Hongshan finds before being assigned to the Xiaoheyan culture. What can be seen on the spot is the cave mouth and a protection marker on the slope."},{"id":"nanpiao-shaguotun-stone-pagoda","name":"Shaguotun Stone Pagoda","name_zh":"沙锅屯石塔","pinyin":"Shāguōtún Shítǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":41.1351,"lon":120.6942,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanpiao-shaguotun-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This small stone pagoda was built in 1206 under the Jin dynasty and is about 5 m high, hexagonal, with five tiers of close-set eaves and a solid core. It stands at the east edge of Shaguotun village in Nanpiao District and has been a national heritage unit since 2013. The Shaguotun cave site, where the first formal archaeological excavation in China took place in 1921, lies about 2 km to the south-east."},{"id":"huludao-shengshui-temple","name":"Shengshui Temple, Huludao","name_zh":"圣水寺","pinyin":"Shèngshuǐ Sì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.7865,"lon":120.5608,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huludao-shengshui-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shengshui Temple is a Qing-dynasty complex built in 1720 on the south slope of Zhenlianhua Mountain, combining Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist halls in one walled compound of about a hectare. The central axis runs from the Tianyuan Palace gate hall through the Biyun Palace and a bell and drum tower to the main hall, with side courtyards that include a beamless hall and a nine-bay hall. It has been a national heritage unit since 2006."},{"id":"suizhong-miaofeng-temple-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas of Miaofeng Temple","name_zh":"妙峰寺双塔","pinyin":"Miàofēng Sì Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.2983,"lon":119.8312,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suizhong-miaofeng-temple-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two Liao-dynasty brick pagodas stand about 50 m apart on Miaofeng Ridge, the only surviving parts of Miaofeng Temple, which was destroyed in the late Ming or early Qing. The eastern pagoda is 19 m high, octagonal with nine tiers and hollow, on a base 2.4 m high; the western one is 10 m high, hexagonal with five tiers, and matches it in structure and carving. They were built in the Qiantong era (1101–1114) and have been a national heritage unit since 2013."},{"id":"xingcheng-old-town","name":"Xingcheng Old Town","name_zh":"兴城古城","pinyin":"Xīngchéng Gǔchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.621,"lon":120.7076,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingcheng-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xingcheng Old Town is the former Ming garrison city of Ningyuan, founded in 1428 and enclosed by a roughly square circuit of brick-faced walls about 3 km round, with a gate in each side; it is counted among the best-preserved Ming city walls in China. At the crossing of the main streets stands a drum tower built in 1454 and repaired in 1777, and two carved stone memorial arches put up by the Zu brothers in 1631 and 1638 stand on Yanhui Street, along with a Confucian temple dating from 1428. The Ming general Yuan Chonghuan defended the town against a Manchu army in 1626, in the Battle of Ningyuan."},{"id":"xingcheng-seaside","name":"Xingcheng Seaside Scenic Area","name_zh":"兴城海滨","pinyin":"Xīngchéng Hǎibīn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.6347,"lon":120.8062,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingcheng-seaside","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xingcheng Seaside is a 14 km sandy seafront on Liaodong Bay, divided into the Xinghai, Gangkou and Bingjia bays, with a gently shelving beach and no offshore reefs. A boardwalk of about 1.7 km runs along the shore between the rocky Longhuitou headland and Bingjia Bay, linking wooden and rope bridges, pavilions and plazas. It is a summer holiday and sanatorium resort."},{"id":"suizhong-yintai-shuixing-ocean-park","name":"Yintai Shuixing Ocean Park, Dongdaihe","name_zh":"银泰水星海洋乐园","pinyin":"Yíntài Shuǐxīng Hǎiyáng Lèyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.0535,"lon":119.9385,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suizhong-yintai-shuixing-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yintai Shuixing (Water Planet) Ocean Park is a beachfront leisure development in the Dongdaihe New Area, rated a 4A scenic area in 2017, with 4.6 km of sandy coastline. The tourism department describes a seaside holiday zone with caravan and car camping, a culture plaza with creative markets and stage shows, and a sea-themed amusement area with a marina and a slide park. It is a modern resort rather than a historic site, aimed at summer beach holidays."},{"id":"suizhong-zhongqiansuo","name":"Zhongqiansuo Garrison Town","name_zh":"中前所城","pinyin":"Zhōngqiánsuǒ Chéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Huludao","lat":40.0931,"lon":119.9456,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suizhong-zhongqiansuo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhongqiansuo is a Ming garrison town, one of the 'thousand-household battalions' under the Guangning Qiantun Garrison, founded in 1428 and later repaired under the Qianlong emperor. The walled area is roughly square, about 528 m by 521 m, with gates on the east, west and south sides, each fronted by a barbican, and walls 7–8 m high that survive largely as built. The original buildings inside have mostly gone, and the enclosure is now filled by a small modern town."},{"id":"linghai-banji-pagoda","name":"Banji Pagoda","name_zh":"班吉塔","pinyin":"Bānjí Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.1942,"lon":120.8631,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linghai-banji-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Liao-dynasty brick pagoda of 1058 at the foot of Pangu hill, about 0.5 km north of the Xiaoling River. About 11 m high, it is a 'flower pagoda', a seven-tier octagonal solid tower whose upper part is covered with niches holding Buddha figures; the provincial heritage page counts it among the few Liao flower pagodas that survive in China and the only Liao pagoda in Linghai. A small vaulted brick-and-stone hall stands 2 m to its east."},{"id":"jinzhou-beiputuo-mountain","name":"Beiputuo Mountain, Jinzhou","name_zh":"北普陀山","pinyin":"Běipǔtuó Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.1734,"lon":121.0391,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhou-beiputuo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill park of about 26 sq km on the north-western edge of Jinzhou, made up of six peaks and nine sights, with a Buddhist temple that holds Spring Festival prayer events. The provincial tourism page calls it western Liaoning's foremost 'cave-heaven' and says the site has a history of more than 1,400 years; the hills are wooded, with peach blossom in spring and red leaves in autumn."},{"id":"beizhen-beizhen-temple","name":"Beizhen Temple","name_zh":"北镇庙","pinyin":"Běizhèn Miào","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.5943,"lon":121.7562,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–1.5 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beizhen-beizhen-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The state temple to the spirit of Yiwulü Mountain, the northern one of China's five guardian mountains, founded in 594 and rebuilt under the Ming dynasty from 1370. Its halls climb a hillside along a 240 m axis, from a stone arch and gate through the main hall to the rear sleeping hall, with bell and drum towers, stele pavilions and 56 steles of the Yuan, Ming and Qing periods. The provincial heritage department calls it the best-preserved large temple of the five guardian mountains, and the foundations of a Qianlong-era travelling palace lie to its east."},{"id":"jinzhou-bijia-mountain","name":"Bijia Mountain","name_zh":"笔架山","pinyin":"Bǐjià Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":40.8103,"lon":121.0764,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinzhou-bijia-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small island of about 1 sq km in Liaodong Bay that a natural sand-and-gravel causeway about 1.6 km long links to the mainland; the tides expose it twice a day and cover it again. On the island is a group of old buildings, including Sanqing Pavilion, an all-stone pavilion built without timber or nails that houses Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist figures. The causeway can only be walked at low tide, so check tide times before going."},{"id":"beizhen-dachaoyang-hot-spring-resort","name":"Dachaoyang Hot Spring Resort, Beizhen","name_zh":"大朝阳温泉山城","pinyin":"Dàcháoyáng Wēnquán Shānchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.5987,"lon":121.7053,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beizhen-dachaoyang-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort and hotel complex at the foot of Yiwulü Mountain about 6.5 km west of Beizhen town, developed by a Liaoning company and next to the Yiwulü nature reserve. It has spa pools, a three-star hotel, conference facilities and a museum of the history and folk culture of the Yiwulü area. It is a modern commercial resort, useful as a base for visiting the mountain."},{"id":"beizhen-daluhua-yiwulu-mountain","name":"Daluhua, Yiwulü Mountain","name_zh":"医巫闾山大芦花","pinyin":"Yīwūlǘ Shān Dàlúhuā","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.5125,"lon":121.6281,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beizhen-daluhua-yiwulu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area in Baojia township on the middle-southern part of the Yiwulü range, a national geopark known for steep rock pinnacles, with a main peak of about 630 m. The name means 'big reed flowers': according to the provincial tourism page, reeds cover the hillsides here and their plumes drift in autumn. It is one of several separate scenic areas on the range, alongside the main Beizhen section and Qingyan Temple."},{"id":"linghai-dongfang-huadicheng-wetland-hot-spring-resort","name":"Dongfang Huadicheng Wetland Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"东方华地城湿地温泉旅游度假区","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Huádìchéng Shīdì Wēnquán Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":40.9225,"lon":121.5622,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linghai-dongfang-huadicheng-wetland-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A resort of about 28,000 mu (roughly 1,900 ha) on the wetlands at the mouth of the Daling River on the Bohai coast, including about 10,000 mu of reed beds. It offers boat trips among the reeds, a hot-spring spa fed by a well about 1,368 m deep, villa and cabin accommodation and a winter snow-and-ice attraction. The provincial page also lists farm-experience activities and a youth nature-education base, so it is a modern commercial resort rather than a historic site."},{"id":"yixian-fengguo-temple","name":"Fengguo Temple","name_zh":"奉国寺","pinyin":"Fèngguó Sì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.5425,"lon":121.2426,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–1.5 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixian-fengguo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Liao-dynasty temple founded in 1020 in the old town of Yixian, whose main hall, nine bays wide and raised on a 3 m platform, is one of the largest surviving timber Buddhist halls in China. Inside sit seven Liao-period Buddhas of the past, each over 8 m high with its base and attended by bodhisattvas, with painted flying figures on the roof beams. The gates, an arch and a smaller hall are Qing-dynasty additions, and the main hall has been on China's tentative list for World Heritage status since 2013, together with the wooden pagoda at Yingxian."},{"id":"jinzhou-guangji-temple-museum","name":"Guangji Temple Complex and Jinzhou Museum","name_zh":"广济寺古建筑群（锦州市博物馆）","pinyin":"Guǎngjì Sì Gǔjiànzhùqún (Jǐnzhōu Shì Bówùguǎn)","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.1092,"lon":121.1197,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinzhou-guangji-temple-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled group of old temple buildings in the middle of Jinzhou, centred on a 13-tier brick pagoda begun under the Liao dynasty in 1057 and a Buddhist temple rebuilt in the Qing dynasty, with a Mazu temple, a Guanyin pavilion and a shrine to soldiers killed in the 1894 Sino-Japanese War. Jinzhou Museum shares the site, with permanent displays on the city's history, western Liaoning fossils, local customs and Buddhist art, and exhibitions on Mazu worship and the 1894 land war in the old halls. The pagoda, about 71 m high after its 1996 restoration, stands in Guta Park in the middle of the city."},{"id":"beizhen-guangning-drum-tower","name":"Guangning City, Beizhen (Drum Tower and Li Chengliang Arch)","name_zh":"广宁城（鼓楼与李成梁石坊）","pinyin":"Guǎngníng Chéng (Gǔlóu Yǔ Lǐ Chéngliáng Shífāng)","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.5963,"lon":121.7911,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beizhen-guangning-drum-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guangning was the Ming-dynasty garrison city of Beizhen, and two of its landmarks stand on the main north–south street: the Drum Tower of 1563, a two-storey tower on a brick-and-stone base pierced by a gateway, and the stone memorial arch of 1580 to the Ming frontier commander Li Chengliang, about 9 m high. A stair of 39 steps leads up to the platform of the Drum Tower, which the provincial heritage department describes as one of Beizhen's tourist sights. Most of the 7 km city wall was pulled down in the 1960s and 1970s and a ring road follows its line, but a 378 m stretch of brick wall and a 1,250 m stretch of rammed-earth wall are preserved."},{"id":"yixian-guangsheng-temple-pagoda","name":"Guangsheng Temple Pagoda, Yixian","name_zh":"广胜寺塔","pinyin":"Guǎngshèng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.5389,"lon":121.2326,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixian-guangsheng-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 13-tier octagonal brick pagoda at the south-west corner of Yixian's old town, with seated Buddhas, bodhisattvas, flying figures and guardians carved in brick on every face. The temple that stood beside it disappeared in the 20th century; a carved stone pillar found next to the pagoda in 1980 gave it its present name and a date of 1107, although some scholars think it was begun later in the Liao dynasty and finished under the Jin. After repairs in 2012 it is about 50 m high."},{"id":"jinzhou-oriental-happy-kingdom-water-world","name":"Jinzhou Oriental Happy Kingdom Water World","name_zh":"锦州东方欢乐王国水世界","pinyin":"Jǐnzhōu Dōngfāng Huānlè Wángguó Shuǐshìjiè","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":40.8289,"lon":121.0729,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhou-oriental-happy-kingdom-water-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seaside water park on the Bohai coast next to the Bijia Mountain scenic area, with more than ten water rides, a wave pool, a seawater cascade pool, an infinity pool facing the Bijia causeway and a sand beach. In summer it also stages evening fireworks, music events on the beach and other shows. It is a modern commercial attraction that suits families in summer rather than a sight of historical interest."},{"id":"jinzhou-world-garden-expo-park","name":"Jinzhou World Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"锦州世博园","pinyin":"Jǐnzhōu Shìbóyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":40.9074,"lon":121.1957,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhou-world-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The main site of the 2013 Jinzhou World Garden Expo, a landscaped park of about 7 sq km on the Bohai coast, of which 3.3 sq km is land and 3.7 sq km water. The provincial tourism page describes hills, woods, islands, flower beds, buildings and bridges arranged to give a seaside-garden feel. The park stages seasonal events, such as a lantern fair at Chinese New Year in 2025, and the grounds are large enough that a short visit covers only part of them."},{"id":"jinzhou-liaoshen-campaign-memorial-hall","name":"Liaoshen Campaign Memorial Hall","name_zh":"辽沈战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Liáoshěn Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.1292,"lon":121.1438,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhou-liaoshen-campaign-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum and memorial park about the Liaoshen Campaign, the autumn 1948 campaign of the Chinese Civil War in which the People's Liberation Army took Jinzhou, Changchun and Shenyang from Nationalist forces. The main hall, opened in 1988, has an introductory hall and galleries on the course of the fighting, civilian support and the dead, plus a panorama hall depicting the assault on Jinzhou. The grounds also hold a memorial tower and an arcade engraved with the names of PLA soldiers who died in the north-east."},{"id":"linghai-liaoxi-jiuhua-mountain","name":"Liaoxi Jiuhua Mountain, Linghai","name_zh":"辽西九华山","pinyin":"Liáoxī Jiǔhuá Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.163,"lon":121.3345,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linghai-liaoxi-jiuhua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A privately developed theme park of about 3.5 sq km on a wooded hill at the edge of Linghai's town centre, built from 2013 and rated 4A in 2015, which became a social-media hit in 2023 as a 'compressed pack' of China's famous sights. Its attractions include the Buddhist Cihai Temple, a Tibetan-style 'Little Potala' building, terracotta-warrior figures and statues of historical figures, a lotus lake with a music fountain and water-screen show, a night market and amusement rides. It is a modern commercial park rather than a historic site, and suits families and visitors who like photogenic themed scenery."},{"id":"beizhen-qingyan-temple","name":"Qingyan Temple, Beizhen","name_zh":"青岩寺","pinyin":"Qīngyán Sì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.4759,"lon":121.6124,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beizhen-qingyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple complex in three courtyards, upper, middle and lower, set on steep ground at the southern end of the Yiwulü range in Changxingdian town, within a scenic area of about 13 sq km that the provincial tourism page also describes as a national geopark. The page lists 'eight scenes and twelve wonders' and notes pear blossom in spring, waterfalls in summer, red leaves in autumn and rime ice in winter."},{"id":"beizhen-chongxing-temple-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas of Chongxing Temple","name_zh":"崇兴寺双塔","pinyin":"Chóngxīng Sì Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.6041,"lon":121.7945,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beizhen-chongxing-temple-twin-pagodas/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two octagonal, 13-storey solid brick pagodas stand 43 m apart in the north-east of Beizhen's old town, 44.46 m and 42.63 m high, with Buddha niches, guardian figures and flying figures carved in brick. Their style dates them to the late Liao dynasty, and they were repaired under the Yuan, Ming and Qing, with the east pagoda overhauled again in 1998. A Ming and Qing temple behind them gives them their name, and the provincial heritage page notes that Liao twin pagodas standing together are rare."},{"id":"yixian-wanfotang-grottoes","name":"Wanfotang Grottoes","name_zh":"万佛堂石窟","pinyin":"Wànfótáng Shíkū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.5741,"lon":121.1539,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixian-wanfotang-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist cave temple cut into a cliff on the north bank of the Daling River, begun in 499 under the Northern Wei dynasty and among the oldest grottoes in north-east China. Sixteen caves and nearly 500 carvings survive in a west and an east group, including a 3 m cross-legged Maitreya in West Cave 6 and the Yuan Jing inscription, a well-known piece of Northern Wei calligraphy. A Ming-dynasty pagoda stands above the east group, and the site lies between Fu hill and the river."},{"id":"linghai-yanjing-temple-scenic-area","name":"Yanjing Temple Scenic Area","name_zh":"岩井寺","pinyin":"Yánjǐng Sì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.2317,"lon":121.1055,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linghai-yanjing-temple-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded hill park in Wendilou town north of Jinzhou, set between two peaks of about 436 m and 459 m and protected as a city-level nature reserve. Its sights include the Ancient Buddha Cave, the Twin Dragon Well, the Sansheng Hall and bell and drum towers, in woodland that the provincial tourism page calls primeval."},{"id":"beizhen-yiwulu-mountain","name":"Yiwulü Mountain","name_zh":"医巫闾山","pinyin":"Yīwūlǘ Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Jinzhou","lat":41.605,"lon":121.7186,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beizhen-yiwulu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain range some 45 km long on the western edge of Beizhen, revered since ancient times as the guardian mountain of the north and, under the Liao dynasty, an imperial hunting ground; its highest peak, Wanghai Peak, is about 870 m. The Beizhen scenic area has forest walks, an old stand of black pine and temples such as the Guanyin Pavilion. Other parts of the range, such as Daluhua and Qingyan Temple, are separate scenic areas with their own entries."},{"id":"liaoyang-dongjing-city-site","name":"Dongjing City Site, Liaoyang","name_zh":"东京城城址","pinyin":"Dōngjīngchéng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.2714,"lon":123.2312,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyang-dongjing-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dongjing was the capital of the Later Jin state under Nurhaci in the early 1620s, built on the east bank of the Taizi River with a diamond-shaped wall and eight gates until the court moved to Shenyang in 1625. The city was then dismantled, so little original fabric survives: the main thing to see is the Tianyou Gate, now with a gate tower and a length of brick-faced wall on its surviving base and a paved square in front, while the Octagonal Hall and the Khan's palace are known only as foundations. It gives context for the Manchu rulers' early years and for the nearby Dongjing Mausoleums."},{"id":"liaoyang-dongjing-mausoleums","name":"Dongjing Mausoleums","name_zh":"东京陵","pinyin":"Dōngjīng Líng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.296,"lon":123.2451,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyang-dongjing-mausoleums","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Dongjing Mausoleums were built on Yanglu hill from 1624 to hold Nurhaci's relatives, moved from Hetu Ala, and three walled compounds survive: those of his brother Shurhaci, with a stele pavilion, of his brother Murhaci and nephew Darcha, with three stone steles, and of his eldest son Cuyen, with a gateway and walls about 4 m high. The earliest ancestors were later moved back to Xinbin and Nurhaci's wives to Shenyang, so this is a small site rather than a grand imperial tomb. It is a short stop for readers of early Manchu history."},{"id":"gongchangling-renshengu-forest-park","name":"Ginseng Valley Forest Park","name_zh":"人参谷森林公园","pinyin":"Rénshēn Gǔ Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.1983,"lon":123.4466,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongchangling-renshengu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Ginseng Valley (Renshengu) Forest Park is a hill park in Anping Township, in the north of Gongchangling District, Liaoyang, set among rocky peaks and cliff faces. A hiking trail about 2.6 km long, built in 2023 from local stone, rammed earth and timber, links two hills, and official reports list more than 30 named sights along it, among them Eight Hundred Arhats Peak, a plank path along the natural rock wall, a seated Guan Yu stone figure and a platform called Dianjiangtai (the 'general-mustering platform'). The summit area looks out over Gongchangling's urban district, and the park suits a half-day of walking."},{"id":"liaoyang-guangyou-temple-white-pagoda","name":"Guangyou Temple and White Pagoda, Liaoyang","name_zh":"广佑寺·辽阳白塔","pinyin":"Guǎngyòu Sì · Liáoyáng Báitǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.2768,"lon":123.1713,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liaoyang-guangyou-temple-white-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The White Pagoda is an eight-sided brick pagoda with thirteen tiers of eaves, 70.4 m high, which the provincial heritage department calls the tallest ancient pagoda in Liaoning and which is usually dated to the middle or late Liao period. It stands in Baita Park beside the rebuilt Guangyou Temple, which tradition dates to the Eastern Han; the temple was burned down in 1900 and rebuilt in 2002–04 in Liao-influenced style around a large main hall and a gilded camphor-wood seated Buddha. The pagoda and temple were once one complex, and Baita District is named after the pagoda."},{"id":"liaoyang-lei-feng-memorial-hall","name":"Liaoyang Lei Feng Memorial Hall","name_zh":"辽阳雷锋纪念馆","pinyin":"Liáoyáng Léi Fēng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.1477,"lon":123.4146,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyang-lei-feng-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The memorial hall in Gongchangling District covers the months from August 1959 to January 1960 that Lei Feng, a young soldier whose name is used in China's long-running 'learn from Lei Feng' campaigns, spent working here before he joined the army. Its central hall, exhibition hall and theatre show his life through diary entries, photographs and objects and present him as a worker; the provincial tourism page says more than twenty well-known diary entries were written here. It is a separate museum from the Lei Feng memorial in Fushun, and it was named a national patriotic-education demonstration base in 2014."},{"id":"liaoyang-museum","name":"Liaoyang Museum","name_zh":"辽阳博物馆","pinyin":"Liáoyáng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.2679,"lon":123.183,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyang-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Liaoyang Museum is a local-history museum in a Chinese-style building that opened in 2009, with two permanent exhibitions: one on ancient Liaoyang and one of highlights from the collection. Most of its 6,000-plus objects come from local excavations, with the emphasis on Han, Liao–Jin and Ming–Qing material, and it has been a national second-grade museum since 2024. It gives an overview of the history of the old Liaoyang area."},{"id":"liaoyang-longshi-scenic-area","name":"Longshi Scenic Area, Liaoyang","name_zh":"龙石风景旅游区","pinyin":"Lóngshí Fēngjǐng Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.173,"lon":123.2098,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyang-longshi-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Longshi Scenic Area, in Hongwei district south-east of central Liaoyang, has two parts: the wooded Longding Mountain and the Shidonggou area. The provincial tourism page gives its forest cover as 90% and highlights a zoo inside the area, a draw for children. It is a local hill-walking and day-out destination rather than a major sight."},{"id":"liaoyang-taizi-river-scenic-belt","name":"Taizi River Scenic Belt, Liaoyang","name_zh":"太子河历史文化风光带","pinyin":"Tàizǐ Hé Lìshǐ Wénhuà Fēngguāngdài","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.2602,"lon":123.2059,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyang-taizi-river-scenic-belt","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This 4A listing covers the Taizi River as it runs through Liaoyang, where the provincial tourism page describes a riverside garden belt about 9 km long between the Yanshui and Xiangping bridges, laid out by the city for residents. It also names sights along the river, including the Yanzhou fortress, Dongjing city and the Dongjing Mausoleums (which have entries of their own), Shenwo Lake and Tanghe Lake. By tradition the river is named after Prince Dan of Yan, who is said to have hidden along it."},{"id":"liaoyang-tanghe-hot-spring-resort","name":"Tanghe International Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"汤河国际温泉旅游度假区","pinyin":"Tānghé Guójì Wēnquán Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.12,"lon":123.3729,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyang-tanghe-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tanghe International Hot Spring Resort is a hot-spring resort area at Tanghe town in Gongchangling District, which the provincial tourism department describes as the province's first provincial-level hot-spring resort zone. It combines hot-spring bathing, a winter ice-and-snow programme, mountain scenery and rural tourism, and the page describes the water as weakly alkaline and radon-bearing. It suits a leisure break rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"dengta-tongerbao-fur-shopping-area","name":"Tong'erbao Fur Shopping Area","name_zh":"佟二堡皮草购物旅游区","pinyin":"Tóng'èrbǎo Pícǎo Gòuwù Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.4379,"lon":123.0492,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengta-tongerbao-fur-shopping-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tong'erbao is a fur and leather market town in Dengta, listed as a shopping tourism area. The provincial tourism page says the area sells fur coats, leather clothing and bags at a range of prices, with the Haining Leather City, Hong Kong Times Square and Wangding malls among the larger complexes, and that most visitors are winter shoppers from the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, Inner Mongolia and the three north-eastern provinces. It is a shopping destination rather than a sight."},{"id":"dengta-yanzhou-mountain-fortress","name":"Yanzhou Mountain Fortress","name_zh":"燕州城山城","pinyin":"Yānzhōuchéng Shānchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Liaoyang","lat":41.2993,"lon":123.49,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengta-yanzhou-mountain-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yanzhou, once called Baiyan City, is a Goguryeo mountain fortress begun in 403 on Shicheng Hill above the Taizi River, which the Tang army took in 645. Walls of dressed blue-grey stone, with nine bastions on the north and west sides and a cliff on the south, enclose a site roughly 480 m by 440 m with a gate site, a reservoir, a well and a stone lookout platform at the highest point. Archaeologists worked here from 2009 to 2017, and the provincial heritage department calls it a representative late Goguryeo fortress in Liaoning."},{"id":"panjin-beilv-tianyuan-great-tang-area","name":"Beilü Tianyuan Great Tang Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"北旅田园大唐文化旅游区","pinyin":"Běilǚ Tiányuán Dàtáng Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":41.1112,"lon":122.1835,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-beilv-tianyuan-great-tang-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Beilü Tianyuan, also called Heifengguan Ancient Town, is a leisure complex in Xinli town, Dawa District, themed on Tang-dynasty culture, with a town in Tang style that has market streets, a 'granary' zone and costumed street performances. The tourism department also lists a hot-spring resort, a 'minus five degrees' snow village, Tang-style guesthouses and rice-field viewing areas, and since 2025 the town has also had a Journey to the West theme, licensed from the 1986 CCTV series. It is a modern attraction, not a historic town."},{"id":"panjin-panshan-railway-guard-detachment-site","name":"Former Kwantung Army Panshan Railway Guard Detachment Site","name_zh":"侵华日本关东军护路守备队盘山分队旧址","pinyin":"Qīnhuá Rìběn Guāndōngjūn Hùlù Shǒubèiduì Pánshān Fēnduì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":41.1884,"lon":122.0564,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-panshan-railway-guard-detachment-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This red-brick, blockhouse-style building was put up by the Japanese Kwantung Army in April 1932 as the headquarters and barracks of the Panshan detachment of its railway guard corps, in front of the old Panshan railway station. It has a parapet and a lookout on its upper level and round blockhouses at the south-east and north-west corners, and covers 198 m² on a 450 m² plot. It was listed as a Liaoning provincial heritage site in 2008 and as a national one in 2019."},{"id":"panjin-guangsha-art-street","name":"Guangsha Art Street, Panjin","name_zh":"广厦艺术街","pinyin":"Guǎngshà Yìshù Jiē","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":41.132,"lon":122.0988,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-guangsha-art-street","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guangsha Art Street is a modern arts and leisure street at the centre of the Liaohe International Art Zone in Panjin's Xinglongtai District. The tourism department describes galleries and painters' studios, creative-product shops, cafes and restaurants, two chain hotels and a library and cultural centre, with more than 100 resident artists from China and abroad."},{"id":"panjin-jinbo-beach","name":"Jinbo Beach, Panjin","name_zh":"金帛滩","pinyin":"Jīnbó Tān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":40.663,"lon":122.0527,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-jinbo-beach","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jinbo Beach is a 1.6 km sandy beach on the Liaodong Bay coast in Panjin's Liaobin coastal development zone, promoted as the northernmost beach in China. The tourism department lists it as a 4A area offering food, lodging, entertainment and photo spots as well as bathing, and it lies beside the Liaohe estuary wetlands."},{"id":"panjin-liaohe-stele-forest","name":"Liaohe Stele Forest","name_zh":"辽河碑林","pinyin":"Liáohé Bēilín","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":41.1863,"lon":122.0166,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-liaohe-stele-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Liaohe Stele Forest Park is an oval island of land and water of about 167 ha in the middle of Panjin, laid out from 1985 around a collection of carved stone steles and antique-style halls. About 100 ha of it is land and 67 ha water, and the park faces the Liao River across an embankment. The steles are described as covering calligraphy from every dynasty."},{"id":"panjin-specialty-products-museum-park","name":"Panjin Specialty Products Museum Park","name_zh":"盘锦特产博物园","pinyin":"Pánjǐn Tèchǎn Bówùyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":41.2503,"lon":121.9914,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-specialty-products-museum-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Panjin Specialty Products Museum Park combines four museums devoted to local products (rice, river crab, barbecue and reed weaving), in buildings that mix Chinese and foreign, old and modern styles. Rice and river crab are the delta's best-known farm products, and the park is a commercial attraction in Panshan County."},{"id":"panjin-tianzhuangtai-sino-japanese-war-site","name":"Tianzhuangtai Site of the First Sino-Japanese War","name_zh":"甲午战争田庄台遗址","pinyin":"Jiǎwǔ Zhànzhēng Tiánzhuāngtái Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":40.8229,"lon":122.1157,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-tianzhuangtai-sino-japanese-war-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianzhuangtai was a river port on the lower Liao River where, from 7 to 9 March 1895, Qing and Japanese forces fought the last and largest land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War; the Qing side lost, and the Treaty of Shimonoseki followed in April. A memorial site of about one hectare, built in 2002 and known locally as the 'Qing soldiers' graves', commemorates the Qing soldiers killed there, and a memorial hall for the final battle stands on the site. It has been a national heritage unit since 2013."},{"id":"panjin-weihai-dingxiang-resort","name":"Weihai Dingxiang Reed Sea Resort, Panjin","name_zh":"盘锦苇海●鼎翔生态旅游度假区","pinyin":"Pánjǐn Wěihǎi Dǐngxiáng Shēngtài Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":41.1018,"lon":121.8541,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-weihai-dingxiang-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This 72 km² wetland resort on the western edge of Panjin, where the Liao and Raoyang rivers meet, has three areas: the Taiping River scenic belt, a 'reed sea and crab flat' reached by boat through the reed beds, and a bird park with an observation gallery. Visitors can watch, angle for and handle crabs on the crab flat, and the tourism department says more than 200 bird species rest and breed there."},{"id":"panjin-zhongyao-colourful-manor","name":"Zhongyao Colourful Manor","name_zh":"中尧七彩庄园","pinyin":"Zhōngyáo Qīcǎi Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Panjin","lat":40.9447,"lon":122.0736,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panjin-zhongyao-colourful-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhongyao Colourful Manor is an agri-tourism park in Dawa District built around local farm produce, with a shopping street themed on Panjin's history, a modern-agriculture exhibition, an animal ranch park, fishing and herding experiences, a tomato theme park, defence-education and farm study programmes, and a water park. Since 2025 it has also had a '1955 State Farm' section of recreated period shops with costumed performers. It is a commercial leisure development for families and school groups."},{"id":"shenyang-918-historical-museum","name":"9.18 Historical Museum","name_zh":"“九·一八”历史博物馆","pinyin":"Jiǔ·Yībā Lìshǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8344,"lon":123.4617,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-918-historical-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum in north-eastern Shenyang documenting the Mukden Incident of 18 September 1931, when Japanese forces attacked Shenyang, through photographs, objects and audio-visual displays. The present complex, opened on 18 September 1999, grew out of an earlier memorial from 1991 built around the Broken Calendar monument and an underground hall. In the grounds stands a bronze monument put up in 1999 by Japanese orphans left in China after the war, to thank their Chinese foster parents."},{"id":"shenyang-bmw-brilliance-tiexi-plant","name":"BMW Brilliance Tiexi Plant","name_zh":"华晨宝马铁西工厂","pinyin":"Huáchén Bǎomǎ Tiěxī Gōngchǎng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.6742,"lon":123.1534,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-bmw-brilliance-tiexi-plant","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A car factory in Tiexi district, run by BMW Brilliance and opened in 2012, which in February 2017 became the first car plant in China to receive a national 4A tourist rating. Visitors can watch cars being built, with robots working on the production line. It is a working factory, so it mainly suits people interested in car manufacturing."},{"id":"shenyang-beidaying-barracks-site","name":"Beidaying Barracks Site","name_zh":"北大营营房旧址","pinyin":"Běidàyíng Yíngfáng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.84,"lon":123.4835,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-beidaying-barracks-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Beidaying ('North Barracks') was a Chinese army camp built in 1907 about 5 km north of the old city of Shenyang, and the first place attacked by the Japanese Kwantung Army on the night of 18 September 1931, the start of the Mukden Incident. Three of its single-storey barracks were identified in 2011, and an exhibition hall built on the site opened in December 2021. It uses photographs, objects, reconstructed scenes and a panoramic sand-table model to set out the events of 1931 and what followed."},{"id":"shenyang-manchuria-provincial-committee-site","name":"CPC Manchuria Provincial Committee Site","name_zh":"中共满洲省委旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Mǎnzhōu Shěngwěi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8054,"lon":123.4188,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-manchuria-provincial-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"From 1927 until the Japanese takeover of Shenyang in 1931, this single-storey grey-brick house in the old Beishichang district was the headquarters of the Communist Party's Manchuria Provincial Committee, its organisation for Northeast China. The six-room house is now a memorial hall, with a history exhibition of more than 300 objects and a recreated scene in two of the rooms. Nearby stands a reconstruction of the former residence of Liu Shaoqi, who led the committee in 1929–30."},{"id":"shenyang-liaoning-main-station","name":"Former Liaoning Main Station (Old North Station)","name_zh":"辽宁总站旧址","pinyin":"Liáoníng Zǒngzhàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8086,"lon":123.4205,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-liaoning-main-station/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A station building completed in 1930 and opened in 1931, designed by the architect Yang Tingbao, which served as Shenyang North Station until a new station replaced it in 1988. Its symmetrical façade has a central arched hall flanked by three-storey wings, mixing classical and Chinese features, with a rectangular square in front. The railway still uses it for offices, but it was restored in 2017 with some exhibits upstairs, and a steam locomotive and a carriage have been placed beside it."},{"id":"shenyang-fuling-dongling-park","name":"Fuling Mausoleum (Dongling Park)","name_zh":"清福陵（东陵公园）","pinyin":"Qīng Fúlíng (Dōnglíng Gōngyuán)","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8329,"lon":123.5835,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-fuling-dongling-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Nurhaci, founder of the Later Jin state that preceded the Qing dynasty, and his wife Empress Xiaocigao, begun in 1629 on a wooded hillside and added to the UNESCO-listed Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in 2004. Stone animals line the way from the red gate to a flight of 108 steps, a stele pavilion and the walled square city with the sacrificial hall, and the burial mound lies behind it. The grounds have been a public park since 1929 and are ringed by old pine forest, which makes this a good companion to Zhaoling."},{"id":"shenyang-hot-go-park","name":"Hot Go Park","name_zh":"丰远热高乐园","pinyin":"Fēngyuǎn Règāo Lèyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8868,"lon":123.7336,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-hot-go-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large resort of about five square kilometres in the Shenyang–Fushun (Shenfu) Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone, between the two cities. It has five land theme parks, a water park, a shopping area by Dolphin Lake and a castle-themed hotel, with more than 300 rides and attractions, and it mainly suits families."},{"id":"shenyang-hoten-pow-camp","name":"Hoten Camp (Allied POW Camp Site)","name_zh":"沈阳二战盟军战俘营旧址","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Èrzhàn Méngjūn Zhànfúyíng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8071,"lon":123.4854,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-hoten-pow-camp/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Between 1942 and 1945 the Japanese army held more than 2,000 Allied prisoners of war at Mukden, now Shenyang, latterly in this purpose-built camp on the east side of the city; they came from the United States, Britain, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada and other countries, and were put to work in a nearby machinery factory. An exhibition hall on the site shows photographs, documents and personal items, including a numbered prisoner tag classed as a first-class national relic and a sculpture titled Friendship."},{"id":"shenyang-industrial-museum-of-china","name":"Industrial Museum of China","name_zh":"中国工业博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gōngyè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8188,"lon":123.3488,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-industrial-museum-of-china","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum in Tiexi, Shenyang's old heavy-industry district, built in and around the former casting workshop of the Shenyang Foundry, a hall of 1956 where giant ladles and furnaces still stand. Its halls cover the history of Chinese industry, machine tools, cars and the Tiexi district, with a collection of more than 20,000 items. It suits anyone interested in industrial heritage, and the old foundry was named a national industrial heritage site in 2018."},{"id":"hunnan-liaoning-science-technology-museum","name":"Liaoning Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"辽宁省科学技术馆","pinyin":"Liáoníng Shěng Kēxué Jìshù Guǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.6733,"lon":123.4535,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hunnan-liaoning-science-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The provincial science and technology museum, in the cluster of new cultural buildings in Hunnan district beside the Liaoning Provincial Museum. It has four permanent exhibition halls, a children's science playground and a science cinema with an IMAX giant screen. It is mainly for families and school groups."},{"id":"shenyang-marshal-zhang-mansion","name":"Marshal Zhang's Mansion","name_zh":"张学良旧居","pinyin":"Zhāng Xuéliáng Jiùjū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.7921,"lon":123.4517,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-marshal-zhang-mansion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former residence and offices of the Northeast warlord Zhang Zuolin and his son Zhang Xueliang, begun in 1914 in the old city of Shenyang. The compound has a traditional three-courtyard house, the three-storey Western-style 'Big Green Building' of 1922, a group of red-brick buildings in the west courtyard and the former home of Zhao Yidi. Several buildings are now open as a museum, the Zhang Xueliang Former Residence Exhibition Hall, and visitors walk through connected courtyards with carved beams and painted rafters."},{"id":"shenyang-laobeishi-old-north-market","name":"Old North Market (Laobeishi)","name_zh":"老北市","pinyin":"Lǎo Běishì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8046,"lon":123.4209,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-laobeishi-old-north-market","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A pedestrian quarter on the site of the Beishichang market, a trading and street-entertainment district founded in 1921, which was redeveloped in the style of its earlier buildings, with the work completed on 1 October 2020. It now has shops, eateries and evening performances around Huangsi Temple, a Tibetan Buddhist temple built in the 1630s, and it keeps traditions such as Beishi wrestling, a national intangible cultural heritage item. It suits an evening stroll and a meal."},{"id":"hunnan-qipanshan-scenic-area","name":"Qipanshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"沈阳棋盘山","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Qípánshān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.9334,"lon":123.6757,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hunnan-qipanshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill-and-lake recreation area in north-eastern Shenyang, on a spur of the Changbai mountains and named for a boulder on Mount Qipan that is said to be a chessboard on which two of the Eight Immortals once played. The peaks of Qipan, Hui and Dayang stand around Lake Xiu and the Pu River, within the 190-square-kilometre Qipanshan tourism zone, which also holds the Shenyang Botanical Garden and the Forest Zoo, listed separately."},{"id":"shenbei-rice-dream-space","name":"Rice Dream Space","name_zh":"稻梦空间","pinyin":"Dàomèng Kōngjiān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":42.0743,"lon":123.2958,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenbei-rice-dream-space","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism park in the rice-growing countryside of Shenbei district, north of Shenyang, whose main feature is rice-field art: coloured rice varieties are planted to form large pictures that can be viewed from an observation platform. The scenic area covers about 100 hectares and also has farming-science displays and family leisure areas. It mostly suits families and photographers when the rice is growing."},{"id":"shenyang-royal-ocean-park","name":"Royal Ocean Park","name_zh":"皇家海洋乐园","pinyin":"Huángjiā Hǎiyáng Lèyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8642,"lon":123.7369,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-royal-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An ocean-themed leisure park of about 60 hectares in the Shenyang–Fushun (Shenfu) Reform and Innovation Demonstration Zone, between the two cities, laid out as six themed worlds. They include a polar-themed aquarium area and an indoor beach water park with a wave pool, and the park mainly suits families with children."},{"id":"shenyang-sac-aviation-expo-park","name":"SAC Aviation Expo Park","name_zh":"沈飞航空博览园","pinyin":"Shěnfēi Hángkōng Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8625,"lon":123.4273,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-sac-aviation-expo-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An aviation museum run by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (AVIC Shenyang), on Lingbei Street beside the company's factory, which tells the story of the firm and the fighter aircraft it has built. The main hall of about 4,600 square metres has eight exhibition sections with some 1,950 historical photographs and 1,200 objects, and fighters made by the company, including J-5, J-6 and J-8 types, are displayed outdoors on the square. It suits aviation enthusiasts."},{"id":"shenyang-sacred-heart-cathedral","name":"Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Shenyang","name_zh":"沈阳天主堂","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.7882,"lon":123.4466,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-sacred-heart-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Catholic cathedral of Shenyang, a brick Gothic Revival church with two towers about 40 m high and a large rose window above the entrance. The first church here dates from the 1870s; it was burnt down in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion and rebuilt in 1909–12 to a design by the French priest Henri Lamasse, paid for with Boxer indemnity money. It remains an active church, and a sunken plaza was laid out in front of it in 2000–01."},{"id":"xinmin-sannong-expo-park","name":"Sannong Expo Park, Xinmin","name_zh":"沈阳三农博览园","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Sānnóng Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":42.1386,"lon":122.7751,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinmin-sannong-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agriculture-themed cultural park of about 33 hectares in Daliutun town, north of Xinmin, begun in 1997 and designated a national agri-tourism demonstration site. It has more than thirty exhibition halls on history, folk customs, opera and local figures as well as farming, with ornamental gardens and lakes, and it serves as a study base for Shenyang's school pupils, so it mainly suits families and school groups."},{"id":"faku-aisin-gioro-royal-museum","name":"Shenyang Aisin-Gioro Royal Museum","name_zh":"沈阳爱新觉罗皇家博物院","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Àixīnjuéluó Huángjiā Bówùyuàn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":42.3308,"lon":123.3022,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=faku-aisin-gioro-royal-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Manchu-themed museum and liquor-making complex of about 80,000 square metres at Banlashan village in Faku county, north of Shenyang, run by the Aisin-Gioro Zujiafang liquor company. It presents the history, customs and traditional liquor-making of the Manchu people, with the original distillery in the northern part, and the operator says the distillery dates back to the Liao dynasty and supplied the Qing court."},{"id":"shenyang-botanical-garden","name":"Shenyang Botanical Garden","name_zh":"沈阳植物园","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8602,"lon":123.6436,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"3–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 246-hectare garden in the Qipanshan area on the north-eastern edge of Shenyang, founded in 1959 and the site of the 2006 China Shenyang International Horticultural Exposition, which is why it is also called the Shenyang Expo Garden. Wooded hills hold about 100 display gardens in the styles of Chinese and foreign regions, a rose garden and a science hall, and the 125-metre Lily Tower, shaped like an opening white lily, is the garden's landmark."},{"id":"shenbei-fantawild-adventure","name":"Shenyang Fantawild Adventure","name_zh":"沈阳方特欢乐世界","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.9612,"lon":123.4137,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenbei-fantawild-adventure","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A theme park in Shenbei New District, on about 50 hectares, run by the Chinese theme-park chain Fantawild and opened in 2011. It is known for science-fiction and interactive attractions, with more than a dozen themed zones and roller coasters among its rides, along with live performances and seasonal events. It mainly suits families with children."},{"id":"hunnan-shenyang-forest-zoo","name":"Shenyang Forest Zoo","name_zh":"沈阳森林动物园","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Sēnlín Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.9272,"lon":123.6783,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hunnan-shenyang-forest-zoo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A zoo in the forested Qipanshan hills on the eastern edge of Shenyang, which moved here from the old city-centre zoo and opened in 1999 as the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo. Its animals include Amur tigers, elephants, rhinoceroses, ring-tailed lemurs and giant pandas, which have lived here since 2017. It is a half-day outing mainly for families."},{"id":"shenbei-guaipo","name":"Shenyang Guaipo (Strange Slope)","name_zh":"沈阳怪坡","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Guàipō","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":42.0584,"lon":123.6311,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenbei-guaipo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area in Shenbei New District best known for the Strange Slope, a short stretch of road about 80 m long where cars left in neutral appear to roll uphill by themselves. The effect was noticed in 1990 and gives walkers the odd sense that going downhill is hard work and going uphill is easy. The wider scenic area also has a tiger park and a glass viewing bridge."},{"id":"shenyang-korean-war-martyrs-cemetery","name":"Shenyang Korean War Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"沈阳抗美援朝烈士陵园","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Kàngměi Yuáncháo Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8526,"lon":123.4458,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-korean-war-martyrs-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial cemetery east of Beiling Park, built in 1951 for soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers who died in the Korean War. It holds the graves of 123 Volunteers, including named heroes such as Huang Jiguang and Qiu Shaoyun, a wall inscribed with the names of 197,653 Volunteers who died in the war, and a memorial hall displaying photographs and personal objects. Since 2014 the remains of Volunteers returned from South Korea have been reburied here, 981 of them by April 2025."},{"id":"shenyang-railway-museum","name":"Shenyang Railway Museum","name_zh":"沈阳铁路陈列馆","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Tiělù Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.6805,"lon":123.3557,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-railway-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A railway museum on an 80,000-square-metre site in Sujiatun district, with some 800 pieces of railway equipment, including dozens of locomotives, and more than 1,500 historical photographs. Steam locomotives on show include a US-built engine of 1907, a German-built 'forest railway' locomotive of 1914 and a Japanese-built locomotive of 1934, and a green-carriage 'time train' recreates an old platform scene. A railway-themed square outside has sculptures and a small sightseeing train."},{"id":"shenyang-science-palace","name":"Shenyang Science Palace","name_zh":"沈阳科学宫","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Kēxuégōng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.7589,"lon":123.4302,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-science-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A science education centre in south-eastern Shenyang (Shenhe district) that opened in June 2000. It has a science exhibition hall, a safety-education experience hall and a special-effects cinema, and sends a mobile science bus to schools and villages. It is mainly of interest to families with school-age children."},{"id":"shenyang-station-mukden-railway-buildings","name":"Shenyang Station and Former Mukden Railway Buildings","name_zh":"沈阳站（奉天驿旧址）","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Zhàn (Fèngtiān Yì Jiùzhǐ)","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.7917,"lon":123.388,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-station-mukden-railway-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shenyang's main railway station still uses the red-brick east building that the South Manchuria Railway opened in 1910 as Mukden Station, with white mouldings and three green metal domes, designed by two pupils of the Japanese architect Tatsuno Kingo. It is part of the national listing for the Chinese Eastern Railway buildings, which also covers the former Fengtian Railway Office of 1911 (now a hotel near the station) and the former South Manchuria Railway headquarters buildings on Taiyuan North Street, now offices that are best seen from the street."},{"id":"shenyang-war-crimes-tribunal-site","name":"Shenyang War Crimes Tribunal Site (1956)","name_zh":"审判日本战犯特别军事法庭旧址","pinyin":"Shěnpàn Rìběn Zhànfàn Tèbié Jūnshì Fǎtíng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8268,"lon":123.4294,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-war-crimes-tribunal-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A two-storey Chinese-style building with a golden glazed-tile roof, where in 1956 a special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court tried Japanese war criminals; trials were held at Shenyang and at Taiyuan, with 45 defendants in all. It is now a memorial hall with the courtroom restored to its 1956 appearance, along with exhibits such as the judges' chairs, trial records and defendants' written statements. The hall opened to the public in 2014 and stands on a residential street."},{"id":"shenyang-tawan-sarira-pagoda","name":"Tawan Sarira Pagoda (Wugou Jingguang Pagoda)","name_zh":"无垢净光舍利塔","pinyin":"Wúgòu Jìngguāng Shèlìtǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8329,"lon":123.3743,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-tawan-sarira-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 13-tier octagonal brick pagoda more than 30 m high, built in 1044 in the Liao dynasty and repaired in the 1640s, with a Buddha niche on each face; it was the pagoda in 'Evening Glow at Tawan', one of the old Eight Views of Shenyang. Repairs in 1985 showed the tower to be hollow, with a crypt of well-preserved painted walls and a large hoard of relics. A small museum of finds from Shenyang's pagodas stands to its north."},{"id":"shenyang-xibe-ancestral-temple","name":"Xibe Ancestral Temple (Taiping Temple)","name_zh":"锡伯族家庙","pinyin":"Xíbózú Jiāmiào","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8054,"lon":123.4203,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-xibe-ancestral-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) temple founded in 1707 as the family temple of the Xibe people stationed in Mukden, and the place where Xibe soldiers and their families gathered in 1764 before the move west to Ili, which the Xibe still mark as the Westward Migration Festival. The halls standing today are a rebuilding finished in 2004, with a front hall, middle hall, main hall, meditation hall and monks' quarters. It stands among the shops and stages of the Old North Market, close to Huangsi Temple."},{"id":"shenyang-xinle-site-museum","name":"Xinle Site Museum","name_zh":"新乐遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Xīnlè Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8447,"lon":123.4092,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-xinle-site-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum on the site of a Neolithic village of the Xinle culture, found in 1973 on a terrace of the old Hun River course in the north of Shenyang and dated to more than 7,000 years ago. The north section has a reconstructed village of half-sunken houses with scenes of daily life, and the south hall displays finds such as stone tools, pottery, jade and carved wood. A bird-shaped wood carving from the site was the model for the Sun Bird sculpture that has become an emblem of Shenyang."},{"id":"yuhong-yongan-stone-bridge","name":"Yong'an Stone Bridge","name_zh":"永安石桥","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Shíqiáo","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8646,"lon":123.2958,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuhong-yongan-stone-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stone arch bridge 37 m long, built in 1641 in the Chongde reign of Hong Taiji, which spans an old course of the Pu River at Yong'an village on the north-western edge of Shenyang. A stele at the bridge head carries an inscription in Manchu, Chinese and Mongolian recording that the emperor ordered the bridge built in the sixth year of Chongde. It is a small rural monument that suits people following early Qing sites around the city."},{"id":"shenyang-zhaoling-beiling-park","name":"Zhao Mausoleum (Beiling Park)","name_zh":"清昭陵（北陵公园）","pinyin":"Qīng Zhāolíng (Běilíng Gōngyuán)","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.8504,"lon":123.4213,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenyang-zhaoling-beiling-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Hong Taiji, the first Qing emperor, and Empress Xiaoduanwen, built between 1643 and 1651 and part of the UNESCO-listed Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. A sacred way of about 1.2 km, lined with stone animals, leads to a stele pavilion, a walled square city with the sacrificial hall and, behind it, the burial mound. The tomb stands in the 330-hectare Beiling Park, a public park since the late 1920s with lakes, pine woods and flower gardens."},{"id":"shenyang-zhongshan-square","name":"Zhongshan Square Historic Buildings, Shenyang","name_zh":"沈阳中山广场建筑群","pinyin":"Shěnyáng Zhōngshān Guǎngchǎng Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Shenyang","lat":41.7945,"lon":123.4045,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenyang-zhongshan-square","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A round civic square laid out in 1913 in the Japanese-run railway zone of old Mukden, surrounded by bank, hotel and office buildings put up by Japanese architects, mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. The listed group includes the former Yamato Hotel (now the Liaoning Hotel), the former Yokohama Specie Bank branch (now a bank), and the former Chosen Bank, Mitsui, Oriental Development Company and police headquarters buildings, which are mostly in office use and best seen from the square. A large statue of Mao Zedong dating from 1969 stands in the centre of the square."},{"id":"xifeng-chengzishan-mountain-fortress","name":"Chengzishan Mountain Fortress","name_zh":"城子山山城","pinyin":"Chéngzishān Shānchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Tieling","lat":42.5236,"lon":124.7131,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xifeng-chengzishan-mountain-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large stone-walled mountain fortress on Chengzishan in Liangquan town, which the provincial heritage department dates to the early Tang dynasty and describes as a major city of the late Goguryeo kingdom; the national list gives Tang to Liao–Jin. It covers about 167 ha and still has roughly 4.4 km of wall around the mountain section, three gate sites, a water gate, a reservoir, a command platform and a winding path of about 1.7 km. The site is also a provincial forest park and 4A scenic area, with more than 30 peaks, the highest 760 m, old pines and rock formations."},{"id":"kaiyuan-chongshou-temple-pagoda","name":"Chongshou Temple Pagoda, Kaiyuan","name_zh":"开原崇寿寺塔","pinyin":"Kāiyuán Chóngshòu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Tieling","lat":42.5982,"lon":124.0709,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaiyuan-chongshou-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An octagonal, 13-tier solid brick pagoda about 46 m high, standing in the grounds of the Chongshou Chan temple in Kaiyuan's old town, begun in the late Liao dynasty and finished in the early Jin. Each face has an arched niche holding a brick Buddha, with flying figures and canopies carved above, and the pagoda was restored in the early 2010s. The provincial heritage department counts it among the oldest surviving Liao pagodas in the north-east, and it is surrounded by old houses near the line of the old west wall."},{"id":"tieling-lotus-lake-wetland","name":"Lotus Lake Wetland, Tieling","name_zh":"铁岭莲花湿地","pinyin":"Tiělǐng Liánhuā Shīdì","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Tieling","lat":42.2576,"lon":123.7314,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tieling-lotus-lake-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An urban wetland park of about 1,040 ha around Lotus Lake in Tieling's Fanhe New District, made up of constructed wetlands, a lake with a bird island, a lotus-variety garden, a hill and a children's park. The Liao River Museum in the park presents the history, culture and ecology of the river, and the lotus bloom and birdlife are the main draw in summer."},{"id":"tieling-diaobingshan-steam-locomotive-museum","name":"Tiemei Steam Locomotive Museum, Diaobingshan","name_zh":"铁煤蒸汽机车博物馆","pinyin":"Tiěméi Zhēngqì Jīchē Bówùguǎn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Tieling","lat":42.4106,"lon":123.6675,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tieling-diaobingshan-steam-locomotive-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A railway museum and tourist site on the Tiefa coal railway at Xiaoming town in Diaobingshan, where a depot keeps 21 steam locomotives of several types that the provincial tourism page describes as still able to run. An exhibition park traces the development of the steam locomotive with texts, photographs, objects and models. The page says more than 160 films and TV series have been shot here, so it suits railway enthusiasts and photographers."},{"id":"tieling-yingang-academy","name":"Yingang Academy","name_zh":"银冈书院","pinyin":"Yíngāng Shūyuàn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Tieling","lat":42.2981,"lon":123.8471,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tieling-yingang-academy","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-period academy founded in 1658 by Hao Yu, a scholar exiled to Tieling, which later became a modern school; the compound has a gate, a two-courtyard layout with a lecture hall and a shrine to Hao Yu at the rear. Zhou Enlai studied here for about half a year from 1910 at the age of 12, and since 1979 the compound has housed a memorial museum with displays on the academy's history and on Zhou Enlai's youth."},{"id":"gaizhou-baishawan-golden-coast","name":"Baishawan Golden Coast","name_zh":"白沙湾黄金海岸","pinyin":"Báishāwān Huángjīn Hǎi'àn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.128,"lon":121.9996,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaizhou-baishawan-golden-coast","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baishawan is a 14.7 km stretch of sandy Liaodong Bay coast in Guizhou town, Gaizhou, with a coastal road running along it and a reputation as a summer retreat. The provincial page says the scenic area combines the seashore with woodland, island views, orchards and vineyards, and names local relics including a sea-viewing tower and Han-dynasty tombs, as well as the local peaches. It suits summer beach trips rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"gaizhou-chishan-wanfu","name":"Chishan Scenic Area, Wanfu","name_zh":"万福赤山","pinyin":"Wànfú Chìshān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.0957,"lon":122.6173,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaizhou-chishan-wanfu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chishan ('Red Mountain') is a mountain national forest park in Wanfu town, south-east of Gaizhou, lying between Buyun Mountain to the east and the Yushi Reservoir to the north. The provincial page describes it as a well-known Liaodong mountain since the Sui and Tang dynasties and as a resort combining leisure, sport, sightseeing and prayer. The Yingkou government describes it as known for odd peaks, caves, clear springs and old temples, with sights that include Longtan Temple, a glass-floored walkway and the White Dragon Pool."},{"id":"yingkou-russian-consulate","name":"Former Russian Consulate, Yingkou","name_zh":"营口俄国领事馆旧址","pinyin":"Yíngkǒu Éguó Lǐngshìguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.676,"lon":122.233,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes to 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingkou-russian-consulate","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in 1900 after Russian forces occupied Yingkou, this single-storey brick, stone and timber building was first the Russian civil administration office and later a consulate, until consular status ended in 1920. It has a domed pavilion at its north end, an arched west door and cast-iron canopies and railings showing Art Nouveau influence, and is described as the only well-preserved foreign consulate building left in Yingkou. After restoration it reopened in December 2024 as a public reading room, the first in an old building in the city."},{"id":"bayuquan-xiongyue-agricultural-station","name":"Former Xiongyue Agricultural Experiment Station and Arboretum","name_zh":"满铁农事试验场熊岳城分场旧址","pinyin":"Mǎntiě Nóngshì Shìyànchǎng Xióngyuèchéng Fēnchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.1746,"lon":122.1475,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bayuquan-xiongyue-agricultural-station","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Founded in 1909 as a South Manchuria Railway Company tree nursery beside Xiongyue station, the site became an agricultural experiment station in 1913 and was among the earliest modern agricultural research institutions in northern China. What survives is a group of four early twentieth-century buildings (an office with weather station, a laboratory, a silkworm house and an insect-rearing house) and an arboretum begun in 1915, which the provincial heritage office calls the first modern arboretum on the Chinese mainland. Yingkou's tourism pages present the arboretum as a tree garden with northern and southern sections."},{"id":"gaizhou-gaolicheng-mountain-fortress","name":"Gaolicheng Mountain Fortress","name_zh":"高丽城山城","pinyin":"Gāolìchéng Shānchéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.4444,"lon":122.4258,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaizhou-gaolicheng-mountain-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gaolicheng, also known as Qingshiling Mountain Fortress, is a Goguryeo-period hill fortress with a wall circuit of about 6.5 km on the hills north-east of Gaizhou, identified with Jian'an, a fortress fought over in the Tang–Goguryeo wars of the seventh century. Its walls are of stone in places and rammed earth in others, the rammed-earth sections standing up to 19 m, and they enclose a basin with a small central hill, gate and corner-tower foundations, a large reservoir and terraces bearing the largest Goguryeo-period buildings known in China. Archaeologists from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Liaoning provincial archaeology institute have excavated parts of it since 2015."},{"id":"gaizhou-hongxigu-hot-spring-resort","name":"Hongxigu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"虹溪谷旅游度假区","pinyin":"Hóngxīgǔ Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.2417,"lon":122.2431,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaizhou-hongxigu-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hongxigu is a hot-spring and leisure resort in Shuangtai town, Gaizhou, close to the Bayuquan district of Yingkou, with a planned area of about 12 sq km. The provincial page lists a hot-spring centre, a holiday hotel, banquet and performance venues, a hot-spring water park, a mountain ski area, a football training base and the Silabao hot-spring town. It is a modern commercial resort for spa and holiday stays rather than a sightseeing site."},{"id":"dashiqiao-jinniushan-site","name":"Jinniushan Site","name_zh":"金牛山遗址","pinyin":"Jīnniúshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.5767,"lon":122.4447,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dashiqiao-jinniushan-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jinniushan is a low, isolated hill of about 69 m in Yong'an town, where excavations from the 1970s found Palaeolithic stone tools and fossils of 42 mammal species. In 1984 a Peking University team found more than 50 bones of one adult woman, roughly 260,000 years old and named 'Jinniushan Man'; the Yingkou government calls the cave the earliest Palaeolithic site found in north-east China. An exhibition hall opened on the hill in 1992, and the Dashiqiao Jinniushan Museum, set up in 2005, is in Xitian village, the same village as the hill."},{"id":"bayuquan-moon-lake-park","name":"Moon Lake Park","name_zh":"月亮湖公园","pinyin":"Yuèliang Hú Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.2343,"lon":122.103,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bayuquan-moon-lake-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Moon Lake Park is a 91-hectare park around a seawater lake where two rivers reach the sea, in the south of the Yingkou Economic and Technological Development Zone at Bayuquan. About 53 ha is land and 38 ha water, and the provincial page says it has an ocean-culture theme with spaces for recreation, dining, fitness and exhibitions. It suits a short stroll or an evening by the water rather than a full excursion."},{"id":"gaizhou-shipengshan-dolmen","name":"Shipengshan Dolmen","name_zh":"石棚山石棚","pinyin":"Shípéngshān Shípéng","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.0668,"lon":122.0593,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes to 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaizhou-shipengshan-dolmen","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shipengshan Dolmen is a Bronze Age stone chamber more than 3,000 years old, standing on a low mound in farmland near the village of Dashipeng. About 3.1 m high, it consists of a capstone weighing over 60 tonnes resting on three wall slabs above a paved floor, and the Liaoning heritage office describes it as the largest, best-made and best-preserved dolmen in China and north-east Asia. Excavated dolmens of this kind have proved to be tombs, and an engraved human face survives on the capstone."},{"id":"gaizhou-tuanshan-marine-park","name":"Tuanshan National Marine Park","name_zh":"团山国家级海洋公园","pinyin":"Tuánshān Guójiājí Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.4125,"lon":122.2006,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaizhou-tuanshan-marine-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tuanshan is a stretch of Liaodong Bay shoreline on the western seafront of Yingkou's Beihai New Area in Gaizhou, developed as a coastal leisure and holiday area with sightseeing, entertainment and fitness facilities. Liaoning's tourism department includes its sea-eroded rock formations on its 2025 summer coastal route. According to the provincial page it was named one of Liaoning's ten best seaside and island destinations in 2015, rated a 4A scenic area in 2017 and listed among China's 'remarkable landforms'."},{"id":"bayuquan-waer-mountain","name":"Wang'er Mountain","name_zh":"望儿山","pinyin":"Wàng'ér Shān","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.1866,"lon":122.1647,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bayuquan-waer-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wang'er Shan ('Mountain of Watching for the Son') is a small lone hill of about 82 m beside Xiongyue town, topped by a Tibetan-style brick pagoda of the late Ming or early Qing and named for a legend of a mother waiting for her son's return. The provincial page calls it the only sea-eroded red-rock (Danxia) landform in the north-east, and says an annual Mother's Day event, which it describes as China's first organised one, has been held here since 1995, with the 28th in 2023."},{"id":"yingkou-xipaotai-fort","name":"Xipaotai Fort","name_zh":"西炮台遗址","pinyin":"Xīpàotái Yízhǐ","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.6648,"lon":122.1681,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingkou-xipaotai-fort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xipaotai ('West Fort') is a coastal artillery fort built in the 1880s at the mouth of the Liao River, made up of three earthen batteries, a moat, a rammed-earth wall and gates; Liaoning's heritage office calls it the largest well-preserved earth-built structure in north-east China. Japanese forces attacked it in March 1895 during the Sino-Japanese War, and Russian troops occupied Yingkou in 1900. A replica of a 210 mm Krupp gun stands on the main battery, and an exhibition hall shows cannon, shot and soldiers' belongings recovered from the site."},{"id":"gaizhou-xuanzhen-temple","name":"Xuanzhen Temple, Gaizhou","name_zh":"玄贞观","pinyin":"Xuánzhēn Guàn","region_id":"210000","region":"Liaoning","city":"Yingkou","lat":40.4017,"lon":122.3587,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes to 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaizhou-xuanzhen-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xuanzhen Temple, known locally as Shangdi Temple, is a Daoist temple in the old town of Gaizhou, founded in 1382 and dedicated to Xuanwu, the Daoist god of the north; of the original complex only the main hall, the gate and a few ancillary buildings remain. The hall, five bays wide with a single-eaved hip roof, keeps Jin–Yuan-style bracket sets, painted beams and an ink inscription on the ridge purlin dated 1382. It became a national heritage unit in 1988, and the hall was taken down and rebuilt in a restoration completed in 1992."},{"id":"baicheng-chagan-haote-resort","name":"Chagan Haote Tourist Resort","name_zh":"查干浩特旅游度假区","pinyin":"Chágān Hàotè Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baicheng","lat":45.8535,"lon":122.4466,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baicheng-chagan-haote-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure area in the north-west of Baicheng's Taobei district, close to the Inner Mongolia border, built around Tuanjie Lake (also called Hasar Lake), a reservoir dating from the 1970s. It has a Mongolian-themed camp of yurts with a Genghis Khan statue and a performance stage, a beach and waterfront plaza, and a small ice-and-snow park used in winter, and a snow-sculpture festival was held here in December 2023. The grounds also hold the remains of an airfield built by the Japanese Kwantung Army from 1936, a provincial-level heritage site with the remains of its hangars and some surviving brick buildings."},{"id":"zhenlai-momoge-wetland","name":"Momoge Wetland","name_zh":"莫莫格湿地","pinyin":"Mòmògé Shīdì","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baicheng","lat":45.9357,"lon":123.5783,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenlai-momoge-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The visitor area of the Momoge National Nature Reserve in Zhenlai County, where the Nen and Tao'er rivers meet on the Songnen Plain: a 1,440 sq km mosaic of river channels, reed marsh, sedge meadow and saline-alkali flats whose seablite meadows turn red in autumn. It has been a Ramsar wetland of international importance since 2013 and is a major stopover for the Siberian crane; in 2025 the first arrived on 12 March and the last left on 11 May, and more than 1,900 had been counted by late October. Red-crowned cranes and Oriental storks also breed in the reserve, which has been a 4A tourist area since 2005."},{"id":"daan-nenjiang-bay","name":"Nenjiang Bay, Da'an","name_zh":"大安嫩江湾","pinyin":"Dà'ān Nènjiāng Wān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baicheng","lat":45.5288,"lon":124.2882,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daan-nenjiang-bay","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside park of about 3.5 sq km on a bend of the Nen River, on the north-eastern edge of Da'an, laid out around a lake and reed wetland with bridges, a quay and walking paths. Local government pages record the Liao-dynasty emperors holding their spring camps (chunabo) on this stretch of the river, fishing through the ice, and the sights include the Laokanzi wharf, the Liao Emperor's Fish-Viewing Platform and the Huayi Tongfeng courtyard. It is a national wetland park and forest park, was named a 5A scenic area in December 2024, and ran a winter snow programme in the 2024–25 season."},{"id":"tongyu-xianghai-wetland","name":"Xianghai Wetland","name_zh":"向海","pinyin":"Xiànghǎi","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baicheng","lat":45.0425,"lon":122.3409,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongyu-xianghai-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The visitor area of the Xianghai National Nature Reserve in Tongyu County, a wetland of reed marsh, lakes, sand dunes and old elm woodland on the Horqin grassland, added to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance in 1992. It is known as a home of the red-crowned crane, and local government pages record six crane species; the sights include a bird garden, Crane Island and the Lanhai Pavilion viewing tower over the elm forest. The provincial tourism bureau promotes it as a self-drive destination, with homestays near the reserve."},{"id":"fusong-changbaishan-huamei-resort","name":"Changbai Mountain Huamei Resort","name_zh":"长白山华美胜地","pinyin":"Chángbáishān Huáměi Shèngdì","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.9666,"lon":127.5185,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 2 days","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fusong-changbaishan-huamei-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A holiday resort of about 25 km² in the forest of Manjiang town, Fusong county, run as Luneng Shengdi before it took the Huamei Shengdi name. It has hotels, a ski area of about 32 ha on gentle slopes, a camping and RV site with an evening bonfire square, a glass net bridge, go-karts, a deer-feeding park and a children's castle. It suits families and groups who want a forest base on the west side of Changbai Mountain rather than a historic site."},{"id":"linjiang-chen-yun-former-residence","name":"Chen Yun Former Residence Memorial, Linjiang","name_zh":"陈云旧居纪念馆","pinyin":"Chén Yún Jiùjū Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.8038,"lon":126.9124,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linjiang-chen-yun-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A single-storey building in the Linjiang Forestry Bureau compound beside the Yalu, where the Communist leader Chen Yun lived and worked from November 1946 to June 1947 and which was also the headquarters of the Northeast Democratic Allied Army in the Civil War campaign known as the Four Defences of Linjiang. Two exhibition rooms hold photographs, documents and some of Chen Yun's work and daily items, covering his time in Linjiang and the course of the campaign. The State Council listed it in 2006 as the Site of the Headquarters of the Four Defences of Linjiang Campaign."},{"id":"linjiang-sibao-linjiang-campaign-memorial","name":"Four Defences of Linjiang Campaign Memorial Hall","name_zh":"四保临江战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Sìbǎo Línjiāng Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.8069,"lon":126.8992,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linjiang-sibao-linjiang-campaign-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial hall at the foot of Maoer Hill in Linjiang, built in 2005 by enlarging a 1992 martyrs' hall inside the cemetery that was laid out in 1947 for those killed in the Four Defences of Linjiang campaign of the Civil War. Eight exhibition halls with more than 1,000 objects cover the planning before the campaign, how it was fought and the civilian support for the army. The same grounds hold a memorial monument and 438 graves."},{"id":"changbai-lingguang-pagoda","name":"Lingguang Pagoda","name_zh":"灵光塔","pinyin":"Língguāng Tǎ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.4205,"lon":128.1814,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changbai-lingguang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A five-storey hollow brick pagoda about 13 m tall, square in plan and facing south, which survives from the Bohai kingdom (698–926) that ruled this region. It stands in Tashan Park, a hill park above Changbai town with several viewing areas and a martyrs' cemetery, and from the top the Yalu and the North Korean side are in view. The State Council listed it as a national heritage unit in 1988."},{"id":"fusong-lushuihe-forest-park","name":"Lushuihe National Forest Park","name_zh":"露水河国家森林公园","pinyin":"Lùshuǐhé Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":42.5459,"lon":127.9983,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fusong-lushuihe-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park on the Lushuihe, a 63 km tributary of the Second Songhua River that runs between wooded hills and cliffs in Fusong county. State media report that the river stays above freezing through the winter, so rafting trips in the cold months pass trees coated in rime. People's Daily describes the surrounding Lushuihe forest area as holding what is left of China's Korean pine mother-tree forest, about 12,000 hectares."},{"id":"fusong-neyin-ancient-city","name":"Neyin Ancient City","name_zh":"讷殷古城","pinyin":"Nèyīn Gǔchéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.9758,"lon":127.5578,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fusong-neyin-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fortress-style attraction in forest at the head of the Toudao Songhua River, presented as a Jurchen tribal fortress; it is a modern reconstruction that the Chinan district authorities began building in 2014, not an excavated site. Inside it stands the Lingying Palace, a Daoist temple completed in 2016 and dedicated to the Changbai Mountain deity. It is a short stop for visitors already in the Manjiang area."},{"id":"changbai-qiannian-yacheng","name":"Qiannian Yacheng (Thousand-Year Cliff City)","name_zh":"千年崖城","pinyin":"Qiānnián Yáchéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.4257,"lon":128.2057,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changbai-qiannian-yacheng","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed attraction on the Yalu bank in Changbai town, built in the style of Bohai-period architecture, with a market area and a village section in the style of the local ethnic Korean (Chaoxian) community. It has a glass corridor bridge and a cliffside walkway with views of the river and the North Korean bank, and costumed staff stage short period dramas. It suits a short stop alongside the Lingguang Pagoda."},{"id":"jiangyuan-shiren-xueleishan-memorial","name":"Shiren Xueleishan Miners' Memorial","name_zh":"石人血泪山死难矿工纪念地","pinyin":"Shírén Xuèlèishān Sǐnàn Kuànggōng Jìniàndì","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.9404,"lon":126.5506,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyuan-shiren-xueleishan-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shiren Xueleishan, the 'Hill of Blood and Tears', is a memorial on a low hill beside the former Shiren coal-mining area in Dashiren town. Mine workers who died under the harsh conditions of the Japanese occupation of north-east China (from 1938) were buried on this hillside, and a memorial hall opened in 1964 shows archive material and recreated scenes in six galleries. The grounds also hold a monument and seven sites on the hill linked to the deaths, including mass graves."},{"id":"jingyu-songhua-river-scenic-area","name":"Songhua River Ecological Tourism Area, Jingyu","name_zh":"松花江生态旅游风景区","pinyin":"Sōnghuājiāng Shēngtài Lǚyóu Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":42.3038,"lon":127.0735,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyu-songhua-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on the upper Songhua River in Huayuankou township, Jingyu county, built around sightseeing boat trips on the river; a 500-passenger new-energy cruise boat, the Tianhe 1, was launched at its Songjiang pier in September 2024. Xinhua reported nearly 700,000 visitors in the first two years after boat services began. It suits visitors who want a river and forest outing on the western side of Changbai Mountain."},{"id":"changbai-wangtiane-scenic-area","name":"Wangtian'e Scenic Area","name_zh":"望天鹅","pinyin":"Wàngtiān'é","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Baishan","lat":41.5188,"lon":127.9467,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changbai-wangtiane-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested valley in the Changbai Mountain foothills of Changbai county, known as Shiwudaogou, with old trees, waterfalls, springs and rock walls and pillars beside the stream. Xinhua's photo feature on the valley highlights the winter ice-falls, where the stream freezes into half-ice, half-flowing curtains on the rock. It suits walkers and winter photographers who are happy to travel into the hills."},{"id":"changchun-beihu-national-wetland-park","name":"Beihu National Wetland Park","name_zh":"北湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Běihú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.9856,"lon":125.3628,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-beihu-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large urban wetland park on the northern edge of Changchun, with lakes, reed beds and boardwalks and more than 200 bird species recorded. The grounds also hold Wanshou Temple and the Youguo Pagoda, and lotus flowers are a summer feature."},{"id":"changchun-agricultural-expo-park","name":"Changchun Agricultural Expo Park","name_zh":"长春农业博览园","pinyin":"Chángchūn Nóngyè Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8085,"lon":125.4275,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-agricultural-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure park in the Jingyue district south-east of Changchun, built around exhibition halls and greenhouses first used for agricultural expositions. It stages the Jilin (Changchun) Winter Agricultural Expo, whose 16th edition ran there in February 2026, and has indoor greenhouse gardens, a World Agricultural Scenery Garden and, in winter, ice sculptures and a light-and-projection show. It suits families after an indoor garden visit rather than a historic site."},{"id":"changchun-confucius-cultural-park","name":"Changchun Confucius Cultural Park","name_zh":"长春孔子文化园","pinyin":"Chángchūn Kǒngzǐ Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8837,"lon":125.3439,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-confucius-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cultural park built around the Changchun Confucian Temple, founded in 1872, rebuilt from 2002 and enlarged in 2012, the year the park opened. The three-courtyard compound has a Dacheng Hall, bell and drum towers, a pool and archways, and today it also runs as the Changchun Confucian Temple Museum, with exhibitions, traditional ceremonies and lectures."},{"id":"changchun-daotai-yamen","name":"Changchun Daotai Yamen (Local Chronicles Museum)","name_zh":"吉长道尹公署旧址","pinyin":"Jí-Cháng Dàoyǐn Gōngshǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.9,"lon":125.3333,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changchun-daotai-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A regional government compound built in 1909 in the last years of the Qing dynasty and the earliest surviving official building in Changchun, with colonnaded halls in a Western-influenced style. Puyi took his oath as chief executive of Manchukuo in its main hall on 9 March 1932. It reopened in December 2018 as the Changchun Local Chronicles Museum, with an exhibition on the city's history in the main hall and a recreation of Puyi's office and living room in a side hall; it was previously the city's urban-construction exhibition hall."},{"id":"changchun-film-studio-former-site-museum","name":"Changchun Film Studio Former Site Museum","name_zh":"长影旧址博物馆","pinyin":"Chángyǐng Jiùzhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8613,"lon":125.2861,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changchun-film-studio-former-site-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old Changchun Film Studio complex, whose first buildings date from the 1930s Manchukuo Film Association; from 1945 it was the studio that state media call the cradle of new China's cinema. It is now a museum in the restored studio buildings, showing film props, scripts and reconstructed sets, the Third Studio, one of the earliest special-effects stages still standing, and a film-processing workshop kept as an exhibit. Costumed performers stage short film-themed scenes in the buildings."},{"id":"changchun-movie-wonderland","name":"Changchun Movie Wonderland","name_zh":"长影世纪城","pinyin":"Chángyǐng Shìjìchéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.7702,"lon":125.4392,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-movie-wonderland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A film-themed amusement park run by the Changchun Film Studio group, established in 2005 in the Jingyue district on the south-eastern edge of the city. Its grounds of about 33 hectares are laid out in four sections, with special-effects cinemas including dome and 4D theatres, film-dubbing and sound-effects experiences and film-themed live performances. It suits families and groups looking for a theme-park day, and the city tourism bureau lists it among the attractions that add ice-and-snow programmes in winter."},{"id":"changchun-world-sculpture-park","name":"Changchun World Sculpture Park","name_zh":"长春世界雕塑公园","pinyin":"Chángchūn Shìjiè Diāosù Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8203,"lon":125.326,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changchun-world-sculpture-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped sculpture park on the southern side of Changchun, laid out around lakes and opened in 2003, with works by sculptors from many countries set among the grounds. Several museum buildings stand inside, including a sculpture museum and a collection of Makonde wood carvings from East Africa. It makes an easy half-day outdoors, and in recent winters the park has also put on an ice-and-snow event."},{"id":"changchun-zoological-and-botanical-park","name":"Changchun Zoological and Botanical Park","name_zh":"长春动植物公园","pinyin":"Chángchūn Dòngzhíwù Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8668,"lon":125.3286,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-zoological-and-botanical-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A municipal zoo and botanical park in the south of central Changchun, built in 1938 and opened to the public in 1987, with animal exhibition areas, a bird house and a planted hill with trees from the Changbai Mountain area. It now features a Journey to the West-themed area, where performers in costume stage shows on themed stages, and lantern displays are added in winter."},{"id":"changchun-faw-museum","name":"China FAW Museum","name_zh":"中国一汽博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yīqì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8549,"lon":125.242,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-faw-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum of China's car industry inside the original First Automobile Works plant in west Changchun, where the first Jiefang truck came off the line in 1956. It opened to the public in July 2026 in a red-brick toolshop built from 1953, one of the early factory buildings on the national heritage list, and shows about 150 vehicles, including Jiefang and Hongqi models, with more than a thousand historical items and recreated scenes from the plant's early years."},{"id":"dehui-chinese-eastern-railway-buildings-museum","name":"Dehui Museum and Chinese Eastern Railway Buildings","name_zh":"德惠中东铁路建筑群（德惠市博物馆）","pinyin":"Déhuì Zhōngdōng Tiělù Jiànzhùqún (Déhuì Shì Bówùguǎn)","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":44.53,"lon":125.711,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dehui-chinese-eastern-railway-buildings-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Russia built the Chinese Eastern Railway through Dehui in the 1890s and early 1900s, and several buildings from the 1903 station area still stand around today's Dehui railway station. The easiest place to see them is Dehui Museum, which opened in December 2022 in the former Russian émigré school, known locally as the White Building; downstairs is an exhibition on Dehui's history and upstairs one on the railway and its buildings. The national listing also takes in the 1903 station buildings, the Songhua River railway bridge, an Orthodox church in Dehui and a former Russian railway club in Changchun's Kuancheng district."},{"id":"changchun-manchukuo-central-bank","name":"Former Central Bank of Manchukuo","name_zh":"伪满洲国中央银行旧址","pinyin":"Wěi Mǎnzhōuguó Zhōngyāng Yínháng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.886,"lon":125.317,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changchun-manchukuo-central-bank/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Manchukuo-era headquarters of the Central Bank of Manchukuo on People's Square, built between 1934 and 1938 with ten Greek-style columns across the front, three basement levels and four storeys above ground. Still used by the People's Bank of China and commercial banks, it opened to visitors in September 2025 with a special exhibition on the building's history in the banking hall of a working branch. Marble floors, a revolving door and a glass canopy can be seen inside."},{"id":"changchun-guandong-culture-park","name":"Guandong Culture Park, Changchun","name_zh":"关东文化园","pinyin":"Guāndōng Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.9435,"lon":125.2137,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-guandong-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A garden-style hot-spring resort on the north-western edge of Changchun, built from 2010 on the site of abandoned brick kilns, with lakes, planted gardens and buildings in the Guandong (north-east Chinese) style. It has hot-spring pools and themed lodging in courtyard-style buildings, and folk events such as traditional wedding re-enactments have been held in the grounds."},{"id":"changchun-guoxin-nanshan-hot-springs","name":"Guoxin Nanshan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"国信南山温泉","pinyin":"Guóxìn Nánshān Wēnquán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.6834,"lon":125.5222,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-guoxin-nanshan-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring hotel and spa resort set in wooded hills in Shuangyang district, south-east of Changchun. The city tourism bureau describes a bicarbonate-sodium spring coming out at around 60°C, with more than 70 pools, indoor halls, a children's hall, a traditional-medicine hall and villa lodgings across the site. It also operates a ski area in winter."},{"id":"changchun-jilin-liquor-culture-museum","name":"Jilin Liquor Culture Museum","name_zh":"吉林省酒文化博物馆","pinyin":"Jílín Shěng Jiǔ Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8258,"lon":125.3339,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-jilin-liquor-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A privately run museum in the south of Changchun devoted to alcohol, showing about 6,000 bottled drinks from the 1960s to the present. They range from local Jilin brands such as Yushuqian, Taonanxiang and Taoerhe to national names such as Moutai and Wuliangye, so it suits a short stop."},{"id":"changchun-jilin-natural-history-museum","name":"Jilin Natural History Museum","name_zh":"吉林省自然博物馆","pinyin":"Jílín Shěng Zìrán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8269,"lon":125.426,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-jilin-natural-history-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A natural-history museum run by Northeast Normal University on its Jingyue campus, holding tens of thousands of specimens, mostly from Jilin's own environments. Its permanent displays include rare animals, fossils, minerals, insects and a butterfly hall."},{"id":"changchun-jingyuetan-national-forest-park","name":"Jingyuetan National Forest Park","name_zh":"净月潭","pinyin":"Jìngyuètán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.7828,"lon":125.4583,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changchun-jingyuetan-national-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large forest park around the Jingyuetan reservoir on the south-eastern edge of Changchun, begun in the 1930s as a man-made forest and now one of the city's main outdoor spaces. Visitors come for lakeside and forest walks; in winter the park hosts skiing and a snow-sculpture area, and the Vasaloppet China cross-country ski festival has been held here every year since 2003."},{"id":"changchun-kaisa-forest-hot-springs","name":"Kaisa Forest Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"凯撒森林温泉度假区","pinyin":"Kǎisā Sēnlín Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.7948,"lon":125.4438,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-kaisa-forest-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort with a hotel, set in woodland beside Jingyuetan forest park on the south-eastern edge of Changchun. Its pools have included lemon, lavender and herbal baths, and it has also been promoted with a water park and a children's forest play area."},{"id":"changchun-lianhuashan-ski-resort","name":"Lianhuashan Ski Resort Town","name_zh":"莲花山冰雪旅游度假小镇","pinyin":"Liánhuāshān Bīngxuě Lǚyóu Dùjià Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8586,"lon":125.7313,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-lianhuashan-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski resort in the hills east of Changchun, with day and evening skiing in winter; the city tourism bureau groups it with Miaoxiangshan as better suited to skiers beyond the beginner stage. The area also has a summer amusement park, Baturu Park, which closed for the 2026 season on 8 October and is expected to reopen in spring 2027."},{"id":"nongan-liao-pagoda","name":"Liao Pagoda, Nong'an","name_zh":"农安辽塔","pinyin":"Nóng'ān Liáotǎ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":44.4264,"lon":125.1685,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nongan-liao-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda of the Liao dynasty, about 44 m high, standing in the middle of Nong'an town. It began as Longan Pagoda beside the Huanglongfu temple and was used to hold the remains of monks; it was repaired in 1953 and again from 1985, when its original form was restored, and bronze and silver Buddhist objects found inside in 1953 are now in the Jilin Provincial Museum. Nong'an occupies the site of Huanglongfu, a Liao and Jin regional centre, and the pagoda is the town's main landmark from that period."},{"id":"nongan-liao-jin-culture-park","name":"Liao-Jin Era Culture Park, Nong'an","name_zh":"辽金时代文化园","pinyin":"Liáo-Jīn Shídài Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":44.2295,"lon":125.2786,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nongan-liao-jin-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 300-hectare rural leisure park in Qiangang township, Nong'an county, themed on the Liao and Jin dynasties that once ruled this area. It combines Liao-Jin folk-culture tourism, farm and orchard experiences with fruit picking, youth study tours and national-defence education, and the city tourism bureau lists it as a national study-tour base. It is a modern attraction rather than a historic site, and suits families and school groups."},{"id":"changchun-lotus-island-film-city","name":"Lotus Island Film and TV City","name_zh":"莲花岛影视城","pinyin":"Liánhuādǎo Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.7337,"lon":125.3255,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-lotus-island-film-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A film-and-television leisure park on the southern outskirts of Changchun, with period-style street and building sets that visitors use for costume photography; the city tourism bureau suggests Republic-era-style shoots. It also holds seasonal events, among them an Ice and Snow Lantern Festival that ran from December 2025 to March 2026."},{"id":"changchun-miaoxiangshan-resort","name":"Miaoxiangshan Resort","name_zh":"庙香山度假区","pinyin":"Miàoxiāngshān Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.9585,"lon":125.8824,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-miaoxiangshan-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski resort in the hills of Jiutai district, east of Changchun, one of the ski areas the city tourism bureau promotes. The bureau describes its slopes as better suited to skiers who have moved past the beginner stage, with day and evening sessions in the winter season."},{"id":"changchun-manchukuo-imperial-palace-museum","name":"Museum of the Imperial Palace of Manchukuo","name_zh":"伪满皇宫博物院","pinyin":"Wěimǎn Huánggōng Bówùyuàn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.9036,"lon":125.3422,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changchun-manchukuo-imperial-palace-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former residence of Puyi, the last Qing emperor, during his years as head of the Japanese-backed state of Manchukuo (1932–1945), now run as a museum. The main buildings are the Qinmin Building, where state ceremonies were held, the Jixi Building with the private rooms of Puyi and his family, and Tongde Hall, built in 1937–38 as a temporary palace that Puyi never moved into; a separate hall covers the occupation of north-east China. The national heritage unit also covers ten other former Manchukuo ministry and Kwantung Army buildings around the city, five of them on Xinmin Street, which are not part of the museum."},{"id":"changchun-qingquanhu-resort","name":"Qingquanhu Resort","name_zh":"清泉湖文旅度假区","pinyin":"Qīngquánhú Wénlǚ Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":44.0729,"lon":125.3682,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-qingquanhu-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure resort in Kuancheng district, part of the Changchun New Area, centred on a lake of about half a square kilometre. It offers boat rides, a hot-air balloon, a sand-beach play area, fishing, camping, a fruit-picking garden, a small animal area with camels, ostriches, raccoons and yaks, and a children's play area. Accommodation includes farmhouse-style courtyards, wooden cabins and converted railway carriages."},{"id":"changchun-shenlufeng-resort","name":"Shenlufeng Resort, Shuangyang","name_zh":"神鹿峰度假区","pinyin":"Shénlùfēng Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.3621,"lon":125.8837,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-shenlufeng-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain resort in Shuangyang district built around the area's sika-deer tradition, with rides and attractions that include a glass skywalk, a high-level swing, a zip line, a cave and a children's play area. On the hillside there is a deer enclosure where visitors can feed the animals and have their photograph taken with them. Shuangyang calls itself the hometown of sika deer, with deer farming going back more than 300 years."},{"id":"changchun-tiandingshan-resort","name":"Tiandingshan Resort Town","name_zh":"天定山旅游度假小镇","pinyin":"Tiāndìngshān Lǚyóu Dùjià Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.8798,"lon":125.5971,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-tiandingshan-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski resort and holiday town in the hills east of Changchun, with runs aimed mainly at beginners. Guesthouses and small restaurants serving north-eastern dishes stand beside the slopes, and in winter the Changchun Ice and Snow New World park, with ice sculptures and long slides, operates a street away."},{"id":"changchun-tianyi-hot-springs","name":"Tianyi Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"天怡温泉度假山庄","pinyin":"Tiānyí Wēnquán Dùjià Shānzhuāng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.5845,"lon":125.3864,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-tianyi-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in wooded hills near Xinlicheng Reservoir, south of Changchun. The provincial tourism department describes spring water coming out at 58°C, with an indoor bathing hall and four outdoor areas, including a forest zone, an island and a winter bathing area, and farmhouse-style single-storey rooms for overnight stays."},{"id":"changchun-yulong-hot-springs","name":"Yulong Hot Spring Resort, Shuangyang","name_zh":"御龙温泉度假村","pinyin":"Yùlóng Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Changchun","lat":43.5937,"lon":125.6993,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changchun-yulong-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Shuangyang district, south-east of Changchun, with about 50 pools set in planted subtropical-style gardens, plus a hotel with villas, restaurants and sports facilities. The pools include herbal, flower-scented and play pools, and the restaurants serve dishes made with deer products, reflecting Shuangyang's long tradition of sika-deer farming."},{"id":"jilin-ashihada-cliff-inscriptions","name":"Ashihada Cliff Inscriptions","name_zh":"阿什哈达摩崖","pinyin":"Āshíhādá Móyá","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.7661,"lon":126.664,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-ashihada-cliff-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two inscribed rock faces on a riverside cliff above the Songhua River, carved in 1421 and 1432 to record visits by Liu Qing, the Ming commander sent to build ships here for expeditions down the Songhua and Amur rivers. The Jilin city government describes them as the only Ming rock inscriptions found in the province. Each is sheltered by a small pavilion, and the Jilin Ming and Qing Shipyard Site Museum beside them explains the shipyard that stood here."},{"id":"yongji-beidahu-ski-resort","name":"Beidahu Ski Resort","name_zh":"北大湖滑雪场","pinyin":"Běidàhú Huáxuěchǎng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.42,"lon":126.6128,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongji-beidahu-ski-resort/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A downhill ski resort on Beidahu mountain in Yongji county, built in 1993 and extended since, with dozens of runs on a mountain whose main peak, Nanlou, rises to about 1,405 m and gives a vertical drop of about 870 m. It staged skiing events at the 2007 Asian Winter Games, and its 2025–26 season opened in late October 2025. It also promotes summer and cable-car sightseeing, and suits skiers and active families."},{"id":"jilin-beishan-park","name":"Beishan Park","name_zh":"北山公园","pinyin":"Běishān Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8403,"lon":126.5211,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jilin-beishan-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside city park in the west of Jilin, laid out in 1924 around a group of Qing-period temples, among them the Guandi Temple of 1701, the Yaowang (Medicine King) Temple of 1738 and the Jade Emperor Pavilion of 1776, with a granite arch bridge of 1935 spanning the valley between the two peaks. Its temple fairs were added to China's national intangible heritage list in 2011, and the rear hill has a martyrs' cemetery and a four-season cross-country ski centre. It is a popular place for local walks and views over the city."},{"id":"jilin-dongtuanshan-site","name":"Dongtuanshan Site","name_zh":"东团山遗址","pinyin":"Dōngtuánshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8525,"lon":126.5994,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-dongtuanshan-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dongtuanshan is an archaeological site on the east bank of the Songhua River in Jilin city, linked to the Buyeo (Fuyu) kingdom that ruled the area from the Western Han period. It has a small fortified hill, about 50 m high with three surviving wall lines, and beside it an oval lowland town whose wall ran for about 1,050 m; finds range from the Bronze Age to the Ming and Qing dynasties. An exhibition hall opened on the site in October 2024, with photographs, finds and a sand-table model, and the village below now has a pottery gallery and a café."},{"id":"shulan-wanyan-xiyin-cemetery","name":"Family Cemetery of Wanyan Xiyin","name_zh":"完颜希尹家族墓地","pinyin":"Wányán Xīyǐn Jiāzú Mùdì","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":44.2762,"lon":127.1517,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shulan-wanyan-xiyin-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Jin-dynasty family cemetery in a wooded valley south-east of Shulan, the burial place of Wanyan Xiyin, a founding minister of the Jurchen Jin state credited with devising the Jurchen script, and of his relatives. Five burial areas hold seven groups of stone figures, tigers, sheep and pillars in front of the tombs, with tombstones that name the family members buried there. It is run as a site park, and the provincial tourism office suggests about three hours."},{"id":"huadian-forest-slow-valley","name":"Forest Slow Valley Resort","name_zh":"森林慢谷","pinyin":"Sēnlín Màngǔ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.2709,"lon":126.484,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huadian-forest-slow-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure area of about 1,000 ha in forested hills near Huadian, opened in phases from June 2023 around a reservoir, with cycling round the lake, water barbecues, fishing and camping. In winter it offers snow-play areas and ice fishing. It is a new resort aimed at short family breaks rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"jilin-jihai-railway-terminus","name":"Former Jihai Railway Terminus (Jilin West Station)","name_zh":"吉海铁路总站旧址","pinyin":"Jíhǎi Tiělù Zǒngzhàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.815,"lon":126.5049,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jilin-jihai-railway-terminus/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gothic-style station building of 1928–29 with a stone-walled hall and a clock tower about 29 m high, built as the terminus of the Jihai Railway, which People's Daily's Jilin channel calls the first railway in the north-east built by Chinese themselves. The old station, now called Jilin West Station, still handles freight only and has had no passenger trains since 2011. After restoration the building opened to the public on 1 September 2024, with an exhibition on the railway, a recreated station waiting hall and booking office, and a café."},{"id":"jilin-machine-bureau-site","name":"Former Jilin Machine Bureau","name_zh":"吉林机器局旧址","pinyin":"Jílín Jīqìjú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8419,"lon":126.5856,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-machine-bureau-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving north gate and three arms-store buildings, built in 1928, of an arsenal set up in 1881–82 under the Qing self-strengthening programme, the only large arms works in the north-east at the time. The old works on the north bank of the Songhua now house the Jilin Art Centre and, since 1 May 2024, the 1881 Jilin Machine Manufacturing Bureau exhibition hall, a stop on the city's heritage routes. A café and a library were added in 2025."},{"id":"jilin-former-university-stone-buildings","name":"Former Jilin University Teaching Buildings (Stone Buildings)","name_zh":"吉林大学教学楼旧址","pinyin":"Jílín Dàxué Jiàoxuélóu Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8209,"lon":126.4974,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-former-university-stone-buildings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Three granite teaching buildings completed in 1931 for Jilin Provincial University, designed by Liang Sicheng with colleagues from Northeastern University as his first work after returning from the United States, with Chinese-style ridged roofs and ridge-end ornaments on solid stone walls. They are still in use as part of Northeast Electric Power University, and an exhibition on their history opened on the second floor of the east building around the start of 2024. The Jilin tourism bureau promotes the group mainly as a photo stop."},{"id":"huadian-hongshi-forest-park","name":"Hongshi National Forest Park","name_zh":"红石国家森林公园","pinyin":"Hóngshí Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":42.8325,"lon":127.1323,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huadian-hongshi-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large forest park of about 28,600 ha across Huadian and Jingyu county, set up in 2005 and opened in 2007 around a former logging area that is now protected natural forest. The Jilin tourism bureau lists forest walks, a red-leaf garden, a birch-covered ridge, rafting on the Bailu River and a camp associated with the Communist-led guerrillas under Yang Jingyu. It suits visitors who want woodland and autumn colour away from the city."},{"id":"panshi-hongshilazi-anti-japanese-base","name":"Hongshilazi Anti-Japanese Base","name_zh":"红石砬子抗日根据地遗址","pinyin":"Hóngshílázi Kàngrì Gēnjùdì Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.0623,"lon":125.8748,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panshi-hongshilazi-anti-japanese-base/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of what Chinese accounts call the first anti-Japanese base area set up by the Communist Party in the north-east, in forested hills near Panshi, where the local party committee and Yang Jingyu's South Manchuria guerrilla force ran a hospital, a printing shop and other facilities in 1932–33. Archaeological surveys since 2021 have recorded more than 3,300 remains, including semi-underground dwellings and log houses, and the site now has restored remains, a viewing circuit, protective sheds and interpretation signs. The Panshi Anti-Japanese Struggle Memorial Hall in the city, in a building completed in 2022, displays objects and the history of the base."},{"id":"jilin-city-museum","name":"Jilin City Museum","name_zh":"吉林市博物馆","pinyin":"Jílín Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8265,"lon":126.5556,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-city-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The city's main museum, with permanent exhibitions on the history of Jilin city, the 1976 meteorite shower and local intangible heritage, art galleries, and a collection of more than 25,000 objects. Its best-known exhibit is the 1,770 kg 'Jilin 1' stone from the 1976 shower, usually cited as the largest single stony meteorite ever recovered. It was rated a national first-class museum in 2024."},{"id":"jilin-confucian-temple","name":"Jilin Confucian Temple","name_zh":"吉林文庙","pinyin":"Jílín Wénmiào","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8389,"lon":126.5647,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jilin-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty Confucian temple in the old centre of Jilin, first built in 1736 and moved to its present site in the early 1900s, one of the earliest the Qing built in the north-east. Its halls follow the usual axial plan from a screen wall and the Lingxing Gate through to the Dacheng Hall, which is eleven bays wide, and the complex now houses the Jilin Confucian Temple Museum. It is a popular place for photographs, including in traditional dress."},{"id":"jilin-fengman-labour-memorial-hall","name":"Jilin Labour Memorial Hall (Fengman Mass Grave Site)","name_zh":"丰满万人坑遗址","pinyin":"Fēngmǎn Wànrénkēng Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.748,"lon":126.6803,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-fengman-labour-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial hall at Fengman, beside the hydroelectric complex on the Songhua River, built over three long trenches in which labourers who died while the Fengman dam was being built in 1937–43 were buried, when the region was under Japanese control. An exhibition room was set up on the site in 1963, opened to the public in 1964 and named the Jilin Labour Memorial Hall in 1997, with a memorial stele in front. The exhibitions record the labourers who built the dam."},{"id":"jiaohe-lafa-mountain-forest-park","name":"Lafa Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"拉法山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Lāfǎshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.823,"lon":127.4026,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaohe-lafa-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park around Lafa Mountain, a rocky peak of 886 m that rises from a flat plain north of Jiaohe, known for its nine-peaked outline and its many natural caves. The largest, the Eight-Treasure Cloud-Light Cave, is about 60 m long and has three openings facing east, west and south, and visitors climb by footpath to the summit. Sunrise and sea-of-cloud viewing has become popular since a viewing programme was introduced in 2023, and the park opened for winter visits for the first time in December 2024."},{"id":"shulan-laoheigou-massacre-site","name":"Laoheigou Massacre Site","name_zh":"老黑沟惨案遗址","pinyin":"Lǎohēigōu Cǎn'àn Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":44.0414,"lon":127.6414,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shulan-laoheigou-massacre-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial site in the hills of Shulan commemorating the Laoheigou killings of 29 May to 6 June 1935, when Japanese troops attacked villages in the area and Chinese sources record about a thousand civilians killed. A memorial stele erected in 1995 stands at the site with two smaller steles carved with a diagram and a summary of the events, and a memorial hall opened in 1997 in the township. The site was added to the national list of anti-war memorial sites in 2015."},{"id":"jilin-longtan-mountain-fortress","name":"Longtan Mountain Fortress","name_zh":"龙潭山山城","pinyin":"Lóngtánshān Shānchéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8775,"lon":126.6107,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-longtan-mountain-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill fortress attributed to the Goguryeo or Buyeo peoples on Longtan Mountain, now a public park on the north-eastern edge of Jilin, whose rammed-earth wall runs for about 2.4 km along the ridge and was reused by later states into the Ming period. Visitors can see the stone-lined Longtan reservoir at the north-west corner, a circular pit called the Dry Prison that was probably a granary or store, and the Nantianmen summit with views over the city. The park also holds Longfeng Temple, a temple group first built in 1754."},{"id":"jilin-sacred-heart-cathedral","name":"Sacred Heart Cathedral, Jilin","name_zh":"吉林天主教堂","pinyin":"Jílín Tiānzhǔjiàotáng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.837,"lon":126.5583,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes to 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jilin-sacred-heart-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gothic Revival Catholic church on the north bank of the Songhua River beside Jilin Bridge, completed in 1926 after French priests of the Paris Foreign Missions Society began building in 1917, with a cruciform brick-and-stone plan and a 45 m bell tower. It was the seat of the Jilin diocese until 1994, was occupied and damaged after 1966, and has been used for services again since repairs in the 1980s. State media noted in 2024 that sunlight through its stained glass draws photographers."},{"id":"jilin-shengdequan-hot-spring-garden","name":"Shengdequan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"圣德泉亲水度假花园","pinyin":"Shèngdéquán Qīnshuǐ Dùjià Huāyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8884,"lon":126.2507,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-shengdequan-hot-spring-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring and leisure complex in farmland west of Jilin, in Soudengzhan town, offering hot-spring bathing, a garden of fossil tree trunks and dishes made with its own vegetables. It is a commercial resort suited to a half-day outing from the city."},{"id":"jilin-shengxin-winery","name":"Shengxin Winery Estate","name_zh":"圣鑫葡萄酒庄园","pinyin":"Shèngxīn Pútáojiǔ Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.7488,"lon":126.7024,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-shengxin-winery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wine-themed leisure estate in the hills south-east of Jilin, built around the story of the Chuang Guandong settlers who moved to the north-east, with Huizhou-style buildings, a red-wine hot spring and campfire evenings. The estate's own wines can be tasted on site, and some of the old-style buildings are used as guesthouses. It is a commercial attraction best suited to a short outing, often combined with Zhuque Mountain."},{"id":"jilin-shennong-manor","name":"Shennong Manor","name_zh":"神农庄园","pinyin":"Shénnóng Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":44.0174,"lon":126.3501,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-shennong-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism estate in rice-growing farmland north-west of Jilin, built around a hot-spring bathhouse and with farming-culture displays, gardens and a rice-field art viewing area. It suits families and travellers who want a rural day out with a soak."},{"id":"jilin-songhua-lake","name":"Songhua Lake","name_zh":"松花湖","pinyin":"Sōnghuā Hú","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.727,"lon":126.6919,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jilin-songhua-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir of about 550 km², the largest lake in Jilin province, created by the Fengman dam on the Second Songhua River, begun in 1937, and a national-level scenic area since 1988. The scenic area near the dam offers boat and speedboat trips, walking and cycling in the surrounding forest, and the Wuhu Island leisure area with an amusement park and a water park. Freshwater fish from the lake is the local speciality."},{"id":"jilin-songhua-lake-resort","name":"Songhua Lake Resort","name_zh":"中旅松花湖度假区","pinyin":"Zhōnglǚ Sōnghuā Hú Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.6741,"lon":126.6173,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-songhua-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski and mountain resort on Daqingshan, south-west of the Fengman dam on Songhua Lake. It was developed and run as the Vanke Songhua Lake Resort until China Travel Service (Hong Kong) bought its owner and operator in 2025, and it now trades as Zhonglü Songhua Lake Resort. It is a national-level ski tourism destination, and its summer season, which opens in late April, offers sunrise and cloud-sea viewing, mountain flower fields and mountain biking."},{"id":"wulajie-qing-mansions","name":"Wulajie Qing Mansions (Wula Three Mansions)","name_zh":"乌拉街清代建筑群","pinyin":"Wūlājiē Qīngdài Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":44.088,"lon":126.4683,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulajie-qing-mansions","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Three Qing-period official mansions, Houfu, Safu and Kuifu, in the Manchu town of Wulajie on the Songhua River, where the Qing office that gathered tribute goods for the imperial court was based; the listing also includes a mosque in the town. After restoration in 2024 the three mansions opened as museums with period-style displays, and the Jilin tourism bureau lists Manchu-culture exhibits, an archery demonstration and period-dress photography. Houfu belonged to one of the tribute office's chiefs and Kuifu to Wang Kuifu, a late-Qing official."},{"id":"jilin-xituanshan-site","name":"Xituanshan Site","name_zh":"西团山遗址","pinyin":"Xītuánshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.8034,"lon":126.4974,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-xituanshan-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A low granite hill on the western edge of Jilin where Bronze Age stone-slab cist graves were excavated in 1948–50, giving its name to the Xituanshan culture of the Songhua valley. The site reopened in October 2024 after restoration, with an exhibition hall on Xituanshan culture showing stone tools, pottery, bronze knives and replicas, while the graves themselves are no longer on view."},{"id":"yongji-zhuoyuan-hot-spring","name":"Zhuoyuan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"卓远温泉","pinyin":"Zhuóyuǎn Wēnquán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.786,"lon":126.0001,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongji-zhuoyuan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort set in farmland at Yilaxi town in Yongji county, west of Jilin, offering herbal hot-spring baths, private spring guesthouses and farmhouse meals, according to Yongji county tourism material of 2025. It is a commercial leisure stop for a relaxed half day."},{"id":"jilin-zhuque-mountain-forest-park","name":"Zhuque Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"朱雀山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Zhūquèshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Jilin","lat":43.7802,"lon":126.6869,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jilin-zhuque-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain park on the south-eastern edge of Jilin, one of the four hills that local tradition places around the city, with Zhuque, the Vermilion Bird, standing for the south. Visitors come mainly to hike and for the autumn colours, and the park has staged evening light-show tours in the autumn holiday season. The Ashihada cliff inscriptions and the Shengxin winery estate are close by."},{"id":"liaoyuan-miners-mass-grave","name":"Liaoyuan Miners' Mass Grave","name_zh":"辽源矿工墓","pinyin":"Liáoyuán Kuànggōng Mù","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Liaoyuan","lat":42.9245,"lon":125.1024,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyuan-miners-mass-grave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A burial ground and site museum for coal miners who died at the Xi'an (now Liaoyuan) mines during Japan's occupation of north-east China in 1931–45. Many thousands of miners were buried on this hillside from about 1940 and a furnace for burning the dead was added in 1943; the pits were excavated in 1963, and halls built over parts of the burial ground now show the remains laid out in rows, alongside mining equipment. A monument stands in the wooded grounds, and the site is both a national heritage unit and a 4A scenic area."},{"id":"liaoyuan-allied-pow-camp","name":"Liaoyuan WWII Allied POW Camp Site","name_zh":"辽源二战盟军战俘营旧址","pinyin":"Liáoyuán Èrzhàn Méngjūn Zhànfúyíng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Liaoyuan","lat":42.9146,"lon":125.1495,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyuan-allied-pow-camp","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former Japanese Army prisoner-of-war camp, the second branch of the Mukden camp, where 34 Allied prisoners were held between December 1944 and August 1945: five lieutenant-generals, four major-generals, seven colonial governors and 18 orderlies, American, British and Dutch among them. They included US General Jonathan Wainwright and British General Arthur Percival, who were both present at the Japanese surrender ceremony on the USS Missouri on 2 September 1945. The site is now an exhibition centre with more than 400 objects, the foundations of barracks and the remains of a guard tower, and it reopened after a refit in 2026."},{"id":"dongliao-tianyu-resort","name":"Tianyu Tourist Resort","name_zh":"田雨旅游度假区","pinyin":"Tiányǔ Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Liaoyuan","lat":42.886,"lon":125.4123,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongliao-tianyu-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A countryside leisure resort in Dongliao County, built in recent years as a German-themed village, with a castle-style building, a landscaped stream, flower beds, lawns, windmill-style villas and a fruit-picking garden. People's Daily Online describes it as a mixed leisure complex with dining and lodging, outdoor activities, family events and wedding services. It is a modern attraction rather than a historic one, and suits families and couples looking for a day out from Liaoyuan."},{"id":"liaoyuan-yuedong-happy-carnival","name":"Yuedong Liaoyuan Happy Carnival","name_zh":"悦动辽源欢乐荟","pinyin":"Yuèdòng Liáoyuán Huānlèhuì","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Liaoyuan","lat":42.9442,"lon":125.153,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaoyuan-yuedong-happy-carnival","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A family amusement complex in Liaoyuan's Xi'an district, described by the provincial tourism bureau as an immersive children's leisure park of about 30,000 sq m with a fairy-tale theme that mixes technology and outdoor play. It is a modern commercial park rather than a historic or natural site, and suits parents with young children."},{"id":"siping-campaign-memorial-hall","name":"Siping Campaign Memorial Hall","name_zh":"四平战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Sìpíng Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Siping","lat":43.1723,"lon":124.3541,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=siping-campaign-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum in Hero Square in central Siping about the four battles fought for the city between March 1946 and March 1948, when Communist-led and Nationalist forces fought over this railway junction during the Chinese Civil War. Founded in 1958, it covers the course of the fighting, the support given from the rear areas and the people killed, through photographs, documents and objects. It suits visitors interested in the history of the civil war in north-east China."},{"id":"siping-yehe-nara-city","name":"Yehe Nara City","name_zh":"叶赫那拉城","pinyin":"Yèhè Nàlā Chéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Siping","lat":43.0001,"lon":124.5897,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=siping-yehe-nara-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Manchu-style walled complex rebuilt in 1994–95 on a hill beside Zhuanshan Lake, in the homeland of the Yehe tribe, from whose Nara clan Empress Dowager Cixi's family descended. Inside are an old-style post station, a council hall, a princess's tower and exhibition halls on Yehe history, Cixi, Nurhaci and the Manchu poet Nalan Xingde, as well as a Manchu costume hall. It is a reconstruction, not the original town: the two original Yehe cities, destroyed by Nurhaci in 1619, survive only as earth walls elsewhere in the valley, mostly in farmland."},{"id":"shuangliao-yimashu-forest-park","name":"Yimashu Forest Park","name_zh":"一马树森林公园","pinyin":"Yīmǎshù Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Siping","lat":43.512,"lon":123.615,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangliao-yimashu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A provincial forest park on the sandy edge of the Horqin grassland near Shuangliao, planted largely with pines that foresters first trialled on the sands some forty years ago. Local pages list a forest-bathing area, a small zoo and botanical garden, a play zone with zip lines and sand motorbikes, and farmhouse restaurants and picking gardens. It is described as the back garden of Shuangliao's residents, so it suits a short local visit rather than a long trip."},{"id":"yitong-manchu-museum","name":"Yitong Manchu Museum","name_zh":"伊通满族博物馆","pinyin":"Yītōng Mǎnzú Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Siping","lat":43.3342,"lon":125.3025,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yitong-manchu-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A county museum of Manchu history and folk culture in Yitong Manchu Autonomous County, recognised as the Yitong branch of the China Ethnic Museum. Its galleries cover the origins of the Manchus, production, daily life, culture, ritual and belief, and Yitong past and present, using photographs, models and audiovisual displays alongside a collection of about 5,000 items. It is a compact museum, best as a short stop for anyone interested in Manchu customs."},{"id":"qianguo-chagan-lake","name":"Chagan Lake","name_zh":"查干湖","pinyin":"Chágān Hú","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Songyuan","lat":45.2077,"lon":124.4224,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qianguo-chagan-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chagan Lake is a shallow freshwater lake of several hundred square kilometres in the north-west of Qian Gorlos Mongol Autonomous County, the largest natural lake in Jilin province and described by state media as one of China's ten largest freshwater lakes. Its headline is the winter fishing: from mid- or late December to about February, fishers cut holes through ice 70 cm to 1 m thick, draw a net more than a kilometre long beneath it and haul it out with horses turning a capstan, a method on China's national intangible heritage list since 2008. A fishing and hunting culture museum stands by the lake, and in the warmer months the area is promoted for spring outings, summer lotus and autumn birdwatching."},{"id":"fuyu-deshengtuo-stele","name":"Great Jin Deshengtuo Stele","name_zh":"大金得胜陀颂碑","pinyin":"Dàjīn Déshèngtuó Sòng Bēi","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Songyuan","lat":45.3582,"lon":125.613,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuyu-deshengtuo-stele/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A bluestone stele 3.2 m tall, put up in 1185 by the Jin emperor Shizong to mark Deshengtuo, where his grandfather Wanyan Aguda swore in his troops before marching on the Liao city of Ningjiangzhou. The front carries a six-character seal-script title and Chinese text and the back Jurchen script, and it is described as the best-preserved Jurchen-language stele in north-east China. It stands under a stele pavilion in open countryside near Desheng town."},{"id":"qianguo-prince-zhong-stele","name":"Prince Zhong Stele (Kuli Stele)","name_zh":"清追封和硕忠亲王碑","pinyin":"Qīng Zhuīfēng Héshuò Zhōng Qīnwáng Bēi","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Songyuan","lat":45.3209,"lon":124.4811,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianguo-prince-zhong-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Manchu and Mongolian stone stele recording the posthumous titles given to Jaisang, a Khorchin Mongol noble, and his wife Boli, the parents of Empress Xiaozhuangwen and maternal grandparents of the Shunzhi emperor. The stele was broken during the Cultural Revolution and repaired in 1983, and it is now shown in the exhibition hall of the Xiaozhuang ancestral tomb site in Changshan town. The State Council listed it as a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"songyuan-planning-exhibition-hall","name":"Songyuan Planning Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"松原市规划展览馆","pinyin":"Sōngyuán Shì Guīhuà Zhǎnlǎnguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Songyuan","lat":45.1594,"lon":124.8493,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songyuan-planning-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Songyuan Planning Exhibition Hall is a municipal exhibition in Ningjiang district on the city's development and urban planning. Its displays include interactive holographic projections, relief murals with historical themes and figure scenes of local customs. It is a modern civic exhibition rather than a historic site, and the district promotes it as a family stop alongside nearby villages."},{"id":"tonghua-baijifeng-forest-park","name":"Baijifeng Forest Park, Tonghua","name_zh":"白鸡峰","pinyin":"Báijīfēng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.5566,"lon":126.09,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-baijifeng-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the mountains south-east of Tonghua, centred on Baijifeng ('White Chicken Peak', 1,318 m), the highest peak in the city's surroundings. Its named rock features include the pale outcrops known as the 'chicken waists', and the paths pass the sites of several small temples dating from the late Ming and early Qing. It is also marketed as a forest-health resort."},{"id":"tonghua-tongtian-mountain-wine-museum","name":"China Mountain Wine Museum, Tonghua County","name_zh":"中国山葡萄酒博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Shān Pútáojiǔ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.6794,"lon":125.771,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-tongtian-mountain-wine-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wine park in Kuaidamao, the seat of Tonghua County, run by the Tongtian wine company and centred on the China Mountain Wine Museum, which covers wines made from wild mountain grapes, a speciality of the Tonghua area. A passage from the exhibition halls leads down to an underground cellar. It suits visitors interested in how Tonghua's mountain-grape wines are made."},{"id":"meihekou-city-living-room","name":"City Living Room Riverside Park, Meihekou","name_zh":"城市客厅","pinyin":"Chéngshì Kètīng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.5383,"lon":125.7005,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meihekou-city-living-room","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped riverside promenade along the Huifa River through central Meihekou, laid out as an urban wetland park with plazas, flights of steps down to the water and landscape bridges. A lotus-growing demonstration area comes into flower from the end of June and draws visitors and photographers from nearby towns. It is a place for an easy walk by the river rather than a destination in itself."},{"id":"tonghua-daquanyuan-baoquanyong-distillery","name":"Daquanyuan Distillery and Baoquanyong Brewery","name_zh":"大泉源酒业宝泉涌酒坊","pinyin":"Dàquányuán Jiǔyè Bǎoquányǒng Jiǔfáng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.5556,"lon":125.6071,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-daquanyuan-baoquanyong-distillery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working liquor distillery in Daquanyuan township whose Qing-dynasty Baoquanyong brewery is a national heritage unit. The visit takes in the old brewery's surviving features (a well, a steaming stove, fermentation pits and a group of large storage vessels known as 'liquor seas'), a company history museum, a stele garden and a traditional brewing workshop beside the modern production hall. It suits visitors interested in how Chinese grain liquor was made."},{"id":"jian-donggou-tombs-gwanggaeto-stele","name":"Donggou Tombs and Gwanggaeto Stele, Ji'an","name_zh":"洞沟古墓群","pinyin":"Dònggōu Gǔmùqún","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.1449,"lon":126.2142,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jian-donggou-tombs-gwanggaeto-stele/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The largest group of Goguryeo tombs, spread along the valley of the Tonggou River around Ji'an and part of the town's UNESCO-listed Goguryeo sites and its 5A scenic area. Its two best-known monuments are the 6.39 m Gwanggaeto Stele, erected in 414 and carved with Chinese characters, and the General's Tomb, a stepped granite pyramid that is the best preserved of Ji'an's royal tombs. More than ten thousand tombs were counted in the valley in the 1960s, mostly earth mounds and stone cairns, and some have wall paintings."},{"id":"jian-guonei-city","name":"Guonei City, Ji'an","name_zh":"国内城","pinyin":"Guónèi Chéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.1211,"lon":126.1786,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jian-guonei-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The lowland capital of the Goguryeo kingdom for about four centuries until 427, now in the middle of Ji'an town and part of the UNESCO-listed Goguryeo sites and of Ji'an's 5A scenic area. A stretch of the stone west wall can be walked, with remains of corner towers, and the Goguryeo Ruins Park inside the old walls shows two excavated palace foundations. The Ji'an Museum, which is devoted to Goguryeo finds, and the town's morning market are close by."},{"id":"meihekou-hailong-lake","name":"Hailong Lake Park, Meihekou","name_zh":"海龙湖","pinyin":"Hǎilóng Hú","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.5165,"lon":125.722,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meihekou-hailong-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A man-made lake park on the south-eastern edge of Meihekou, opened to the public in 2018 and covering about 109 ha, of which roughly 47 ha is water. Paths run past lakeside plazas, a wetland with stepped weirs, three islands, a sand beach and a children's playground, and there is a shopping street of new buildings in Huizhou (Anhui) style. It suits families and locals out for a stroll, and camping areas are provided."},{"id":"meihekou-jiguanshan-forest-park","name":"Jiguanshan Forest Park, Meihekou","name_zh":"鸡冠山","pinyin":"Jīguānshān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.1934,"lon":125.5174,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meihekou-jiguanshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain forest park of about 15 km² in the Changbai Mountains foothills in the south-west of Meihekou, named for a peak shaped like a rooster's comb. The main peak, Jiguanlazi, is 969 m high and the highest point in Meihekou, and the park is known locally for azaleas in spring, autumn colour, seas of cloud and winter rime. It has an artificial lake, a suspension bridge, forest chalets and hiking paths, and holds a mountain-climbing festival each May."},{"id":"huinan-longwan-crater-lakes","name":"Longwan Crater Lakes, Huinan","name_zh":"吉林龙湾","pinyin":"Jílín Lóngwān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.3456,"lon":126.3867,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huinan-longwan-crater-lakes/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of volcanic crater lakes (maar lakes) in the Longgang mountains of Huinan County, protected as a national forest park and nature reserve. The best-known stops are Sanjiaolong, a triangular lake formed by an eruption about 200,000 years ago, and Dalongwan, the largest lake in the park, with boat trips on the lakes and the Diaoshuihu waterfall nearby. Forest paths run around the lakes."},{"id":"liuhe-luotong-mountain-fortress","name":"Luotong Mountain Fortress, Liuhe","name_zh":"罗通山","pinyin":"Luótōngshān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.378,"lon":125.992,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuhe-luotong-mountain-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the north-east of Liuhe County, built around Luotong Mountain Fortress, a large stone-walled hill fort of the Goguryeo period that was reused under the Jin dynasty and is a national heritage unit. A route through the fortress passes the west gate site, a barracks site, a drill ground with a commander's platform, an old well and a reservoir, while the surrounding area has karst caves, old elm trees and a Taoist temple, the Sanqing Palace. A red-history exhibition hall stands at the south gate."},{"id":"meihekou-northeast-bureau-meeting-site","name":"Northeast Bureau Meihekou Conference Site","name_zh":"中共中央东北局梅河口会议会址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Dōngběijú Méihékǒu Huìyì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.5319,"lon":125.6715,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meihekou-northeast-bureau-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A two-storey red-brick building put up in 1936 as a railway staff dormitory, where the Northeast Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee held a series of meetings in March and April 1946. The meetings reviewed the military situation in north-east China and set out the plan to take Changchun first and Siping afterwards. The building is still used by the railway as offices; a small upper-floor room, under 30 square metres, is laid out as an exhibition room."},{"id":"tonghua-qidaogou-victims-memorial","name":"Qidaogou Victims' Memorial, Tonghua County","name_zh":"七道沟死难同胞纪念地","pinyin":"Qīdàogōu Sǐnàn Tóngbāo Jìniàndì","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.5419,"lon":126.3046,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-qidaogou-victims-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial site at the former Qidaogou iron mine in Tonghua County, where miners who died while the mine was worked under Japanese control between 1938 and 1945 were buried. A stone monument 7 m high was put up on the burial ground in 1964, and the site also includes remains of the military barracks, the mine workings and a labourers' house. It is on Jilin's red-tourism list and on China's national heritage list."},{"id":"meihekou-qingyun-cliff-inscription","name":"Qingyun Cliff Inscription, Meihekou","name_zh":"庆云摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Qìngyún Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.2875,"lon":125.4336,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meihekou-qingyun-cliff-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Jin-dynasty inscription cut into a rock face near Qingyun village in Xiaoyang township, described in Meihekou's tourism handbook as one of only a few surviving texts in Jurchen script. No visitor facilities are listed for it, so it mainly suits those with a specific interest in the Jurchen and Jin period."},{"id":"tonghua-winery-underground-cellar","name":"Tonghua Winery Underground Cellar","name_zh":"通化葡萄酒厂地下贮酒窖","pinyin":"Tōnghuà Pútáojiǔ Chǎng Dìxià Zhùjiǔjiào","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.7619,"lon":125.9788,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-winery-underground-cellar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The underground storage cellar of the Tonghua Winery, a works founded in 1937 that has made wine from the wild mountain grapes Tonghua is known for. About 4.5 m below ground, the cellar covers more than 10,000 square metres and holds 772 large oak barrels, and the national heritage list dates it to 1937–1983. Visitors walk through its passages among the barrels."},{"id":"tonghua-tongjia-river-resort","name":"Tongjia River Resort, Tonghua","name_zh":"佟佳江旅游度假区","pinyin":"Tóngjiājiāng Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.6879,"lon":125.9146,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-tongjia-river-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside leisure park on the south side of Tonghua, laid out as an urban park around a performance island with a theatre that seats 3,000. It has a children's play area, a boat pier, a 2.7 km forest boardwalk with three viewing platforms, a camping area and a small sightseeing train, and it is lit up in the evening. It suits families on a relaxed half-day out rather than visitors looking for a major sight."},{"id":"jian-wandu-mountain-city","name":"Wandu Mountain City, Ji'an","name_zh":"丸都山城","pinyin":"Wándū Shānchéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.1478,"lon":126.1583,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jian-wandu-mountain-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Goguryeo mountain fortress above Ji'an, built as a military refuge for the lowland capital and used as a capital itself for a time; it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site and of Ji'an's 5A scenic area. A visitor path climbs through the stone walls, which run for almost 7 km with seven gate sites, to a lookout platform, palace foundations and the remains of a lotus pond. The walls look down on hundreds of Goguryeo tombs of different types at the foot of the mountain."},{"id":"jian-wunufeng-forest-park","name":"Wunüfeng National Forest Park, Ji'an","name_zh":"五女峰","pinyin":"Wǔnǚfēng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.2766,"lon":126.1239,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jian-wunufeng-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain forest park north of Ji'an, named for a line of steep peaks said to resemble five women in green veils. It covers about 69 km² with 26 larger peaks, 17 of them above 1,000 m, and is known locally for its rock formations, forest and deep valleys. It is one of the ten 'sights of Tonghua' named on a Jilin provincial government website."},{"id":"jian-yalu-river-border-gate","name":"Yalu River Border Gate, Ji'an","name_zh":"鸭绿江国门","pinyin":"Yālùjiāng Guómén","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.164,"lon":126.282,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jian-yalu-river-border-gate","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on the Yalu River at Ji'an, built around the border gate of the road crossing and the 1939 railway bridge, with the North Korean town of Manpo on the opposite bank. Visitors can see the gate, the bridge and the river from the Chinese side, and the railway bridge was one of the routes used by Chinese troops entering Korea in 1950. The provincial tourism bureau describes it as the only border-gate scenic area in China with both a rail and a road crossing."},{"id":"tonghua-yang-jingyu-cemetery","name":"Yang Jingyu Martyrs' Cemetery, Tonghua","name_zh":"杨靖宇烈士陵园","pinyin":"Yáng Jìngyǔ Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.7264,"lon":125.9585,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-yang-jingyu-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park on a hillside beside the Hun River in Tonghua, laid out in the 1950s around the grave of Yang Jingyu, a commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, who is shown in a bronze statue at the centre of the grounds. The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army Memorial Hall beside the cemetery uses photographs, objects, paintings and reconstructed scenes to tell the story of the guerrilla forces that fought the Japanese occupation in the north-east. It is on Jilin's red-tourism list and is designated a national patriotic-education demonstration base."},{"id":"tonghua-zhenguo-wellness-valley-manor","name":"Zhenguo No. 1 Manor","name_zh":"振国壹号庄园","pinyin":"Zhènguó Yīhào Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.737,"lon":125.599,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-zhenguo-wellness-valley-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large estate on the shore of Yingebu Reservoir in the hills west of Tonghua, covering about 13 km² of forest, water and farmland and run by the Zhenguo pharmaceutical company. It combines holiday accommodation and dining with a forest-ginseng growing base, boat trips to the ginseng plots, a traditional-medicine clinic and bonfire evenings."},{"id":"meihekou-zhibei-village","name":"Zhibei Village, Meihekou","name_zh":"知北村","pinyin":"Zhīběi Cūn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":42.4991,"lon":125.7009,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meihekou-zhibei-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure village built in 2021–22 on the southern edge of Meihekou in the style of a 1970s north-eastern Chinese village, with 91 buildings holding shops, a tea house, restaurants, a guesthouse, a folk museum and an intangible-heritage hall. It is a new development rather than a historic village, and is mainly somewhere to eat, shop and take photographs, with a flower-field park next door. The first phase opened on 31 December 2021."},{"id":"tonghua-zianshan-mountain-fortress","name":"Zi'an Mountain Fortress, Tonghua","name_zh":"自安山城","pinyin":"Zì'ān Shānchéng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Tonghua","lat":41.7678,"lon":125.964,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghua-zianshan-mountain-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a large hilltop fortress on a flat-topped hill where the Hani River meets the Hun River, on Tonghua's north-eastern edge. Parts of the low stone wall survive along with gate sites, wells and a reservoir, and two earth bases outside the main gate are thought to be the footings of a Han-style gate tower. It was used from the Han period into the Goguryeo era, and conservation and display works have been carried out on the site since 2012."},{"id":"helong-longtoushan-bohai-tombs","name":"Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain","name_zh":"龙头山古墓群","pinyin":"Lóngtóushān Gǔmùqún","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.6815,"lon":129.2088,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=helong-longtoushan-bohai-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cemetery of the Bohai kingdom on the east side of Longtou Mountain in Toudao town, where more than ten tombs in three burial zones have been found since 1980. The first to be found, the tomb of Princess Zhenxiao, has the best-preserved Bohai wall paintings known, and a copy of its murals and stele is shown in the Yanbian Museum in Yanji. Helong presents the tombs and the Xigucheng city site together as the Bohai Zhongjing national archaeological site park, with a tomb museum among its stops, but no opening of the museum had been reported by October 2026, so check whether it is open before going."},{"id":"antu-baihuagu-korean-village","name":"Baihuagu Korean Folk Village","name_zh":"长白山百花谷朝鲜族古村落","pinyin":"Chángbáishān Bǎihuāgǔ Cháoxiǎnzú Gǔ Cūnluò","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.5482,"lon":128.2892,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-baihuagu-korean-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baihuagu is a village of traditional-style ethnic Korean (Chaoxian) houses built in the late 2010s on the road to Changbai Mountain, in Songjiang town, Antu county. It has a folk museum on ethnic Korean migration to China and everyday life, an exhibition hall on intangible cultural heritage, a hall where visitors can try making kimchi and pounding rice cake, a costume hall and guesthouses. Folk song-and-dance performances are staged for visitors."},{"id":"hunchun-baliancheng-bohai-eastern-capital","name":"Baliancheng, Bohai Eastern Capital Site","name_zh":"八连城遗址","pinyin":"Bāliánchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.8583,"lon":130.283,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hunchun-baliancheng-bohai-eastern-capital","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baliancheng is the site of Dongjing Longyuanfu, the 'Eastern Capital' of the Bohai kingdom, founded around 785 and abandoned about 928. It had a roughly square outer wall about 2.9 km round with a moat, and a rectangular inner city of about 1 km circumference; excavations in 2004–2009 uncovered two large buildings on the central axis and the south gates. It is described as a national archaeological site park, but little of the interior can be seen beyond those foundations, and the surroundings are farmland."},{"id":"helong-bohai-zhongjing-xigucheng","name":"Bohai Zhongjing Site (Xigucheng)","name_zh":"渤海中京城遗址","pinyin":"Bóhǎi Zhōngjīng Chéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.7123,"lon":129.1441,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/helong-bohai-zhongjing-xigucheng/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xigucheng is the site of Zhongjing, the 'Middle Capital' of the Bohai kingdom (698–926), a city built around 742 in what is now Helong. The walled city measured about 630 m by 730 m, with a smaller inner city holding palace foundations, and excavations in 2000–2002 confirmed that the ruins are Zhongjing. It forms part of the Bohai Zhongjing national archaeological site park together with the Longtoushan tombs 6 km away."},{"id":"antu-changbai-canyon-floating-stone-forest","name":"Changbai Mountain Canyon Floating Stone Forest","name_zh":"长白山峡谷浮石林","pinyin":"Chángbáishān Xiágǔ Fúshílín","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.1342,"lon":128.1995,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"3–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-changbai-canyon-floating-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A canyon about 5 km long and up to 40 m deep, cut into volcanic ground near the north side of Changbai Mountain, where weathering has left some 30 formations of pumice, a porous volcanic rock light enough to float. A boardwalk and path follow the canyon floor past underground streams and springs to the Bingshui (ice-water) spring, a 3.2 km walk of about an hour and a half, and an eight-storey tower looks out over the forest and the mountain's peaks. The canyon is also visited in winter, when it is covered in snow and walked on foot."},{"id":"antu-changbaishan-history-culture-park","name":"Changbai Mountain History and Culture Park","name_zh":"长白山历史文化园","pinyin":"Chángbáishān Lìshǐ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.5021,"lon":128.2607,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-changbaishan-history-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed cultural park beside the road to Changbai Mountain in Sihe village, Songjiang town, laid out as 'four gardens and one zone' and presenting Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist themes. It has a Buddhist temple (Tai'an Temple), a Nine-Dragon Wall, a bronze gate on Chan and Daoist themes, an ecological garden with a wooden boardwalk and flower fields, and a hotel whose roof terrace faces Changbai Mountain. It is a modern park rather than a historic temple site."},{"id":"antu-changbaishan-temple-site","name":"Changbai Mountain Temple Site (Baomacheng)","name_zh":"长白山神庙遗址","pinyin":"Chángbáishān Shénmiào Yízhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.4526,"lon":128.0857,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-changbaishan-temple-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Changbai Mountain Temple site, long known locally as Baomacheng, is the remains of a Jin-dynasty (1115–1234) imperial temple on a raised terrace in the forest north-west of Erdaobaihe, where the court made sacrifices to Changbai Mountain. Excavated from 2014, it was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2017 as the first state mountain-worship site found outside the Central Plains, and it has been on the national list of archaeological site parks in preparation since December 2022. A site museum was due to open at the end of September 2026, but building work was still under way on 30 September."},{"id":"antu-daguandong-culture-park","name":"Daguandong Culture Park","name_zh":"大关东文化园","pinyin":"Dàguāndōng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.7675,"lon":128.2311,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-daguandong-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Daguandong Culture Park is a forest park in Dongqing village, Antu county, founded in 2013 and themed on Manchu customs and the 'Guandong' frontier culture of north-east China. Its walking route of under 5 km passes a Manchu courtyard house, displays of traditional kang beds, crafts and shamanic culture, a deer park and a forest boardwalk, and it includes a memorial hall for the Dasha River ambush, an action by the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Most visitors come with tour groups on Changbai Mountain itineraries."},{"id":"antu-daxitaihe-forest-scenic-area","name":"Daxitaihe Scenic Area","name_zh":"大戏台河","pinyin":"Dàxìtáihé","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.2104,"lon":128.2113,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-daxitaihe-forest-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Daxitaihe is a forest and river-valley scenic area run from the Huangsongpu forestry station of the Changbai Mountain forestry group, on the way to the north gate of Changbai Mountain. It was rated 4A in 2014 and has been managed with the Changbai Mountain tourism company since 2018. Antu county's tourism pages list a night-time forest light show among its 2025 night-tour routes and winter activities such as skiing, all-terrain vehicles and horse-drawn sleighs in 2024, and forestry families in Huangsongpu run guesthouses for visitors."},{"id":"erdaobaihe-changbai-gateway-town","name":"Erdaobaihe","name_zh":"二道白河名镇","pinyin":"Èrdàobáihé Míngzhèn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.4343,"lon":128.1098,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/erdaobaihe-changbai-gateway-town/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Erdaobaihe is the gateway town on the north side of Changbai Mountain and an important base for visitors going up from this side; its centre was approved as a 4A scenic area in January 2019. The town has a network of riverside walking and cycling paths, parks and plazas, and a sculpture park among stands of the tall local pines known as 'beauty pines', with hotels, restaurants and shops serving the mountain."},{"id":"hunchun-fangchuan-scenic-area","name":"Fangchuan Scenic Area","name_zh":"防川","pinyin":"Fángchuān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.426,"lon":130.6319,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hunchun-fangchuan-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Fangchuan is a small village on the lower Tumen River at the eastern tip of Hunchun, close to where the borders of China, Russia and North Korea meet. From the viewing tower, the Longhu Pavilion, visitors can see the river, the Russia–North Korea railway bridge, the Russian settlement of Khasan and, across the river to the south-west, the North Korean city of Rason. The scenic area also holds the Tuzi marker, a granite boundary stone set up in 1886 and now a nationally protected monument, as well as a folk-culture area of the village's ethnic Korean community and a lotus lake."},{"id":"yanji-former-border-affairs-office","name":"Former Yanji Border Affairs Bureau","name_zh":"延吉边务督办公署旧址","pinyin":"Yánjí Biānwù Dūbàn Gōngshǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.8898,"lon":129.5003,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanji-former-border-affairs-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing government office building of the frontier affairs commission that was set up in Yanji in 1907 and headed by the commissioner Wu Luzhen; it is nicknamed the 'garrison tower' and the 'daoyin building'. After conservation work it reopened to visitors with an exhibition on Wu Luzhen's work on the frontier, which opened on 18 June 2025."},{"id":"dunhua-hancongling-camp-area","name":"Hancongling Scenic Area","name_zh":"寒葱岭","pinyin":"Háncōnglǐng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":43.0319,"lon":127.9927,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dunhua-hancongling-camp-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hancongling is a forested ridge in Dunhua's forestry district where units of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army under commanders including Yang Jingyu, Wei Zhengmin, Wang Detai and Chen Hanzhang fought and lived during the Anti-Japanese War. Xinhua describes the camp remains as among the best preserved and most militarily distinctive of the army's camps in Northeast China, and the state forest farm there runs a red-education base with study groups. The 4A listing calls it a red-tourism and sightseeing area, and Chinese state media also note its autumn leaves and a forest road popular with cyclists."},{"id":"wangqing-haoji-cultural-resort","name":"Haoji Cultural Tourism Resort","name_zh":"好记文化旅游度假区","pinyin":"Hǎojì Wénhuà Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":43.2819,"lon":129.8312,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangqing-haoji-cultural-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Haoji Cultural Tourism Resort is a 720,000 m² complex of antique-style buildings in Wangqing County, built around the Haoji soy sauce factory. Visitors can see traditional soy sauce brewing in wooden fermentation barrels, a method listed as provincial intangible cultural heritage, and a soy sauce culture exhibition hall; the complex also has a performance hall, restaurants and a study-trip programme, and period-costume photography studios operate in the grounds."},{"id":"antu-hongshifeng-outdoor-area","name":"Hongshifeng Scenic Area","name_zh":"红石峰","pinyin":"Hóngshífēng","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.3584,"lon":128.4671,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-hongshifeng-outdoor-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hongshifeng is a forested area at the Hongshi forestry station east of Erdaobaihe, with old forest and unusual rock outcrops. Since 2020 the Changbai Mountain tourism company has run it as an outdoor-activity area. Its activities include a clifftop café, rafting and a railway-track crossing challenge in summer, cliff-top walks and an off-piste snow park in winter, and autumn colour in October."},{"id":"dunhua-laobaishan-forest-area","name":"Laobaishan Primeval Forest Scenic Area","name_zh":"老白山","pinyin":"Lǎobáishān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":44.0174,"lon":127.9065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dunhua-laobaishan-forest-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest tourism area developed by a state forestry company on former logging land in the Huangnihe district of Dunhua. Reports from 2021 and 2022 describe summer flower fields and walks, a winter 'snow village' with snow tubing and snowmobiles, and displays on the region's loggers' (mubang) culture, with guesthouses and restaurants run by forestry families."},{"id":"longjing-liangtian-baishi-holiday-park","name":"Liangtian Baishi Holiday Park","name_zh":"良田百世","pinyin":"Liángtián Bǎishì","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.8269,"lon":129.5683,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longjing-liangtian-baishi-holiday-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Liangtian Baishi is a leisure and holiday park on the bank of the Hailan River in Dongshengyong town, Longjing, planned as the main tourism area of the Yanji–Longjing–Tumen new district and receiving visitors since 2022. It offers camping lawns and rented tents, a flower-field train, a smart farm growing vegetables without soil, a riverside restaurant and a hotel opened in 2024. It suits families and groups looking for a day out or a night under canvas rather than historic sights."},{"id":"dunhua-liudingshan-cultural-tourism-area","name":"Liudingshan Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"六鼎山","pinyin":"Liùdǐngshān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":43.3186,"lon":128.2432,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dunhua-liudingshan-cultural-tourism-area/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Liudingshan is a large cultural tourism area on the southern edge of Dunhua, laid out around a lake. Its centrepiece is the Zhengjue Buddhist temple, whose halls climb the hillside in 20 terraces to a culture and art museum at the top with views over the town, and there is also a park on the Qing founding ancestors with a museum and a shrine hall. The grounds hold the Liudingshan tombs, a Bohai-period (698–926) cemetery of more than 80 stone-chamber and earth-mound tombs that has been a national heritage unit since 1961."},{"id":"yanji-mengdumei-ski-folk-resort","name":"Mengdumei Folk Resort and Ski Area","name_zh":"梦都美民俗旅游度假村","pinyin":"Mèngdūměi Mínsú Lǚyóu Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":43.0332,"lon":129.5782,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanji-mengdumei-ski-folk-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Mengdumei is a holiday resort in Chunxing village, Yilan town, on the north side of Yanji, whose main draw is its ski area. Alpine ski competitions were held there in the 2024–25 season, and the slopes were open day and night over the 2026 Spring Festival."},{"id":"antu-mojie-scenic-area","name":"Mojie Scenic Area","name_zh":"长白山魔界","pinyin":"Chángbáishān Mójiè","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.4509,"lon":128.1598,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-mojie-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Mojie ('Demon Realm') is a forest and wetland scenic area of about 88 ha near Erdaobaihe, on the north slope of Changbai Mountain. It is laid out with a wetland reserve, a wildlife-viewing area, streams and small waterfalls, forest walks, a photography zone and a rafting area. The name comes from the mist over the river and the fallen trees standing in the water, which photographers prize in winter when hoar frost coats the branches."},{"id":"longjing-piyanshan-scenic-area","name":"Piyanshan Cultural Tourism Scenic Area","name_zh":"琵岩山","pinyin":"Píyánshān","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.7622,"lon":129.3885,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longjing-piyanshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Piyanshan is a hill beside Longjing from which visitors look over the Hailan River valley and the prefecture's largest apple-pear orchard, which flowers in spring. The scenic area lies next to the orchard and to the Piyanshan hot-spring village, and the Jilin tourism department suggests mid-April to mid-May for the blossom."},{"id":"longjing-piyanshan-hot-spring-village","name":"Piyanshan Hot Spring Village","name_zh":"琵岩山温泉古村落","pinyin":"Píyánshān Wēnquán Gǔcūnluò","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.7423,"lon":129.3927,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longjing-piyanshan-hot-spring-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Piyanshan Hot Spring Village is a hot-spring resort built in traditional Korean style, with white walls, dark roof tiles, timber galleries and stone-paved lanes, next to Piyan Mountain near Longjing. The resort says its water is drawn from about 2,500 m underground at around 51 °C and feeds 66 indoor and outdoor pools, and it also has a hotel, a restaurant serving Korean dishes and live shows in the afternoons. It is marketed as China's first hot-spring folk village."},{"id":"helong-qinglong-fishery-park","name":"Qinglong Fishery Park","name_zh":"青龙渔业","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Yúyè","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.7523,"lon":129.0241,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=helong-qinglong-fishery-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qinglong Fishery Park is a spring-fed cold-water fish farm turned leisure resort at Qinglong village, Toudao town, in Helong. Salmon-family fish, including the large taimen, swim in viewing pools of about 17,000 sq m filled with underground spring water at a constant 8 °C. The resort also has a camping area, a glass suspension bridge, a water park and a lure-fishing base, and serves spring-fish meals."},{"id":"antu-xueshan-feihu-lake","name":"Xueshan Feihu (Snow Mountain Lake)","name_zh":"雪山飞湖","pinyin":"Xuěshān Fēihú","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.6046,"lon":128.1211,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=antu-xueshan-feihu-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xueshan Feihu, also called Snow Mountain Lake, is a reservoir on the upper Second Songhua River in Liangjiang town, surrounded by forest and cliffs, with many small peninsulas and rock formations the county names Banana Rock and Sun Rock. The county tourism pages say the lake was a filming location for the television drama Flying Fox of Snow Mountain, and the remains of an ancient Bohai-kingdom hillfort are among its best-known sights. It suits a quiet half day by the water in a forested setting."},{"id":"dunhua-yaguang-lake-wetland-park","name":"Yaguang Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"亚光湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Yàguānghú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":43.1863,"lon":128.543,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dunhua-yaguang-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir and wetland park in the hills of Dashitou town, Dunhua, about 6.2 km from north to south and 5.5 km from east to west and covering 2,291 ha of forest, lake, hills, wetland and grassland. A boardwalk about 10 km long runs through the wetland, and a 135 ha meadow is covered in irises in June. The park held its formal opening on 23 June 2025 and has viewing pavilions and a camping area; the lake is also visited for sunrise and sunset."},{"id":"yanji-yanbian-museum","name":"Yanbian Museum","name_zh":"延边博物馆","pinyin":"Yánbiān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.8877,"lon":129.4165,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanji-yanbian-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yanbian Museum is the main museum of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, a national second-class museum with about 15,000 items, in a new building opened in 2012 on a site of more than 20,000 m² on Changbai West Road. Its core displays cover finds from the prefecture, the folk customs of the ethnic Korean (Chaoxian) community and the history of the community's revolutionary struggle, and they include a copy of the mural and stele from the Bohai Princess Zhenxiao's tomb. The folk-customs exhibition received an excellence award in a national top-ten museum exhibitions selection in 2013."},{"id":"yanji-maoershan-dinosaur-culture-area","name":"Yanji Maoershan Dinosaur Culture Tourism Area","name_zh":"延吉帽儿山恐龙文化旅游区","pinyin":"Yánjí Mào'érshān Kǒnglóng Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"220000","region":"Jilin","city":"Yanbian","lat":42.8652,"lon":129.4874,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanji-maoershan-dinosaur-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This tourist area of about 1.8 km² on the southern side of Yanji combines dinosaur-themed attractions, the woodland of Maoershan hill and a folk and commercial quarter. The Yanji Dinosaur Museum shows fossils and science displays in two zones, and the Dinosaur Kingdom beside it is a theme park with rides, a water park and holiday shows. The China Korean Folk Park has about 40 Korean-style buildings recreating household scenes, where visitors can try on traditional dress."},{"id":"jiagedaqi-baiquangu","name":"Baiquan Valley Forest Area","name_zh":"百泉谷","pinyin":"Bǎiquán Gǔ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Da Hinggan Ling","lat":50.6215,"lon":124.1742,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiagedaqi-baiquangu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest tourism area at the Cuifeng forest farm of the Jiagedaqi forestry bureau, on the southern slopes of the Yilehuli Mountains. The bureau has developed it as a forest-health base with a self-drive campsite, forest 'star-room' cabins, a radon-spring bath, hot-spring log huts and a boardwalk trail, and offers riding, camping, fishing and forest-bathing activities. The prefecture's own description also mentions ancient rock paintings, a picking garden and old-growth forest."},{"id":"mohe-beiji-village","name":"Beiji Village","name_zh":"北极村","pinyin":"Běijí Cūn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Da Hinggan Ling","lat":53.4919,"lon":122.3526,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mohe-beiji-village/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River in the far north of the province, with a scenic area of about 16 sq km rated 5A in 2015. Visitors come for the 'Divine Land's North Pole' stone beside the river, the northernmost post office and sentry post, a sandbar park and the river view; the city promotes it for long midsummer days, aurora watching and deep winter cold. The settlement began in 1860 as Mohe village and was a station on the gold road to the Mohe mines in the 1880s."},{"id":"huma-museum","name":"Huma Museum","name_zh":"呼玛县博物馆","pinyin":"Hūmǎ Xiàn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Da Hinggan Ling","lat":51.7235,"lon":126.6594,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huma-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The county museum of Huma, on the Heilongjiang River, which opened in April 2016. Its stone tools, rock paintings, potsherds and iron and copper cauldrons tell the history of the area; it joined the 4A list in October 2025."},{"id":"jiagedaqi-cold-temperate-botanical-garden","name":"Jiagedaqi Cold-Temperate Botanical Garden","name_zh":"寒温带植物园","pinyin":"Hánwēndài Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Da Hinggan Ling","lat":50.3636,"lon":124.0841,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiagedaqi-cold-temperate-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A botanical garden of forest and lakeside planting just south of Jiagedaqi, with Mongolian pine and white birch around a stream and a lake. The district's media describe it as a 4A attraction with spring flowers and autumn fruit."},{"id":"mohe-longjiang-first-bend","name":"Longjiang First Bend","name_zh":"龙江第一湾","pinyin":"Lóngjiāng Dìyī Wān","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Da Hinggan Ling","lat":53.491,"lon":123.4951,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mohe-longjiang-first-bend","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A sharp bend of the Heilongjiang River in the Tuqiang forestry bureau's area, where the river turns back on itself below the Hongqiling hills and is seen from viewpoints at the top of a hill reached by stairs. There are two ways up: a newer, gentler path and an older, steeper one that gives a fuller view of the bend."},{"id":"huma-luding-mountain","name":"Luding Mountain, Huma","name_zh":"鹿鼎山","pinyin":"Lùdǐng Shān","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Da Hinggan Ling","lat":51.6498,"lon":126.5882,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huma-luding-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A steep hill beside Huma town on the Heilongjiang River, named after Jin Yong's novel 'The Deer and the Cauldron'. Faulting and volcanic activity have left fault scarps and sheer rock faces, and the summit looks over the meanders of the Huma River, the plain and the town; a winter martial-arts culture week is held here."},{"id":"tahe-22nd-station-old-post-road","name":"Twenty-Second Post Station and Old Post Road","name_zh":"二十二驿站","pinyin":"Èrshí'èr Yìzhàn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Da Hinggan Ling","lat":52.9866,"lon":124.6129,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tahe-22nd-station-old-post-road","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area at the 22nd station of the old Mo'ergen-Mohe post road, which the Qing court opened in 1685 to carry military dispatches and reopened in 1888 as the 'gold road' to the Mohe mines. The site has post-station statues, log-cabin station houses, stables, a 'northernmost post office', an educated-youth culture park, a rafting stop and a car-camping ground, and the site of the old station is among the stops nearby. The road's national listing covers its stations in Huma, Tahe and Mohe counties and in Nenjiang."},{"id":"duerbote-amuta-mongolian-island","name":"Amuta Mongolian Folk Island","name_zh":"阿木塔蒙古风情岛","pinyin":"Āmùtǎ Měnggǔ Fēngqíngdǎo","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.5629,"lon":124.036,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duerbote-amuta-mongolian-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Mongolian-themed tourist area on the Amuta peninsula, a long spit running into one of the lakes of the Lianhuan Lake system in Dorbod Mongol Autonomous County. Its centre is a shrine to Hasar, a brother of Genghis Khan, which holds a flame brought to the site in his memory; yurts, an obo cairn group and horse-riding and archery grounds make up the rest, with Mongol and fish dishes on offer. It was built by the Daqing media group and rated 4A in 2015."},{"id":"lindian-beiguo-hot-spring","name":"Beiguo Hot Spring Resort, Lindian","name_zh":"北国温泉","pinyin":"Běiguó Wēnquán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":47.1743,"lon":124.8572,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lindian-beiguo-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large hot-spring resort on the south-western edge of Lindian town, themed on cold-region hot-spring culture, with, by the county's count, 83 pools in indoor, water-play, forest and herbal-bath zones, a 'Guandong'-style old street and a hotel. Its water comes from the Lindian geothermal field, which the county promotes as one of the largest medium- and low-temperature geothermal fields in China."},{"id":"daqing-songji-3-well","name":"Daqing Inaugural Oil Well (Songji-3 Well)","name_zh":"松基三井","pinyin":"Sōngjī Sānjǐng","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.1286,"lon":124.7201,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daqing-songji-3-well","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The well that found the Daqing oilfield: it first flowed commercial oil on 26 September 1959 and was shut down in 1988 when its casing was found to be broken beyond repair. On the plot, still run by the oilfield company, stand a memorial stone of 1989, the well's preserved wellhead 'Christmas tree' and a long relief wall titled 'Daqing Starts from Here'."},{"id":"daqing-museum","name":"Daqing Museum","name_zh":"大庆博物馆","pinyin":"Dàqìng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.5821,"lon":125.1463,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daqing-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Daqing's city museum, which grew out of an exhibition hall founded in 1964 and has stood in its present building in the Daqing High-tech Zone since 2008. It is best known for Quaternary-period fossils from north-east China, among them mammoth and woolly rhinoceros, shown in permanent exhibitions on the Quaternary environment and mammals of north-east China and on early human cultures around Daqing. It was ranked a national first-grade museum in 2017."},{"id":"daqing-oil-pavilion","name":"Daqing Oil Pavilion","name_zh":"大庆石油馆","pinyin":"Dàqìng Shíyóuguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.5924,"lon":125.0806,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daqing-oil-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum on Century Avenue at Dongfeng Road in Saertu, Daqing's central district, housed in the former Petroleum Pavilion of Expo 2010 Shanghai, which was moved to Daqing and opened there in September 2012. Its exhibitions cover the development of the Daqing oilfield and the growth of the city around it. Heilongjiang's provincial tourism department recommends it as the place in Daqing to learn about the past and present of oil and the culture and spirit the industry gave the city."},{"id":"daqing-racing-town","name":"Daqing Racing Town","name_zh":"大庆赛车小镇","pinyin":"Dàqìng Sàichē Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.6731,"lon":125.1018,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daqing-racing-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A motorsport complex on the northern edge of Saertu district, with a 3.16 km circuit built to the FIA grade-3 standard and opened in 2024 (a grandstand for 3,000), plus an off-road course, drift area, drag strip, go-karting and motorcycle stunt track. It also has a used-car market, a large graffiti-art zone and a camping ground, and holds races and festivals through the year."},{"id":"lindian-feilong-hot-spring","name":"Feilong Four Seasons Hot Spring, Lindian","name_zh":"飞泷四季温泉","pinyin":"Fēilóng Sìjì Wēnquán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":47.1481,"lon":124.8715,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lindian-feilong-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort at the southern edge of Lindian, recognisable by its Russian-style domed buildings beside the expressway toll gate. Its indoor halls hold more than 20 pools, including spa, swimming and fish-therapy pools, and there are 22 open-air pools; a military-culture museum opened in the grounds in 2017."},{"id":"lindian-heminghu-wetland-hot-spring","name":"Heminghu Wetland Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"鹤鸣湖湿地温泉","pinyin":"Hèmínghú Shīdì Wēnquán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":47.278,"lon":124.5346,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lindian-heminghu-wetland-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the edge of Heming Lake wetland in Lindian County, with indoor and outdoor pools. The grounds include bamboo-raft and boat rides and bird-watching on the reed marsh, a wetland museum and, in winter, an ice-and-snow park with an ice-lake zoo and sliding runs."},{"id":"daqing-iron-man-memorial-hall","name":"Iron Man Wang Jinxi Memorial Hall","name_zh":"铁人王进喜纪念馆","pinyin":"Tiěrén Wáng Jìnxǐ Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.6076,"lon":124.8803,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daqing-iron-man-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum on the life of Wang Jinxi, the oil driller nicknamed 'Iron Man' who led a drilling team to Daqing in 1960, in a building whose plan and profile spell out the characters for 'worker'. The galleries on the second and third floors hold more than 200 photographs and 300 objects with scene reconstructions, and the grounds have a 6.5 m granite statue of him and a Soviet-built drilling rig of the type his team used. The present building opened in September 2006 and the museum is a national first-grade museum."},{"id":"daqing-iron-man-first-well","name":"Iron Man's First Well (Well Sa-55)","name_zh":"铁人一口井","pinyin":"Tiěrén Yīkǒujǐng","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.5651,"lon":124.936,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daqing-iron-man-first-well/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Well Sa-55, the first well drilled by the team of Wang Jinxi, nicknamed 'Iron Man', after it reached Daqing in March 1960; the crew began drilling in April and finished the hole in five days and four hours. The well kept producing until 2017, and the site keeps the unloading pit, mud pit, oil pit, watchman's hut and dugout of the crew's first weeks, with a Soviet-type Bu-40 rig of the same model as theirs beside it. The oilfield company runs it as an education base."},{"id":"duerbote-lianhuan-lake-hot-spring","name":"Lianhuan Lake Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"连环湖温泉","pinyin":"Liánhuánhú Wēnquán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.7739,"lon":124.2044,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duerbote-lianhuan-lake-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the shore of Lianhuan Lake, a large shallow lake system in Dorbod Mongol Autonomous County, open since 2010. It has indoor and outdoor pools in landscaped grounds, herbal baths and a Mongolian-medicine bath, with ice-and-snow activities in winter; the county tourism office says the water comes from about 1,800 m underground at around 48 °C."},{"id":"duerbote-yili-dairy-plant","name":"Yili Dairy Plant, Dorbod","name_zh":"杜尔伯特伊利乳业工业园","pinyin":"Dù'ěrbótè Yīlì Rǔyè Gōngyèyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Daqing","lat":46.8344,"lon":124.487,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duerbote-yili-dairy-plant","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A visitor route through a plant of the Yili dairy group in the Delige'er development zone beside Dorbod's county seat, on a site of about 20 hectares. The indoor route covers company exhibits, a product hall and an explanation of milk-powder production, with windows over the workshop floor, and the outdoor route passes the milk-reception square and the warehouse. It is a 4A industrial-tourism site and was the first stop on the county's 2024 rural-tourism route listed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism."},{"id":"acheng-mosque","name":"Acheng Mosque","name_zh":"阿城清真寺","pinyin":"Āchéng Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.5344,"lon":126.9602,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque in central Acheng, west of Qingzhen Square, whose compound dates from the late Qing dynasty. The complex is laid out in a raised 'convex' plan with a prayer hall and ancillary buildings, about 2,800 square metres of floor space in all, and its architecture blends Islamic features with Chinese building traditions. It became a provincial heritage site in 1986 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"daowai-baiyupao-wetland-park","name":"Baiyupao Wetland Park","name_zh":"白渔泡湿地公园","pinyin":"Báiyúpào Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.9005,"lon":126.9013,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daowai-baiyupao-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national wetland park of about 3.3 square kilometres in Juyuan town, Daowai District, mostly reed marsh and open water north-east of Harbin. It is home to more than 80 kinds of waterbirds and land birds and about 20 wild fish species, and visitors tour the reeds in sculling boats, fish, or visit an education hall on wetland ecology. A lotus pond of about 2,000 square metres flowers from late July for roughly a month."},{"id":"hulan-dadingzishan-hot-spring-resort","name":"Dadingzi Mountain Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"大顶子山温泉度假村","pinyin":"Dàdǐngzishān Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":46.0115,"lon":127.2376,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hulan-dadingzishan-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern hot-spring resort beside the Songhua River in Hulan district, built around a large indoor spa hall with an 800 sq m pool and many types of hot-spring bath. Water is drawn from a mineral spring about 1,620 m underground, and the outdoor baths look out over the river and the hill that gives the resort its name."},{"id":"harbin-dragon-tower","name":"Dragon Tower","name_zh":"龙塔","pinyin":"Lóngtǎ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7461,"lon":126.6743,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harbin-dragon-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 336 m steel lattice tower for television and radio, opened in 2000, which is among the tallest lattice towers in the world. It has observation levels and a revolving restaurant, and its base has held science and wax-figure exhibits, according to a 2017 China Daily profile. It is also the Heilongjiang provincial radio and television tower."},{"id":"binxian-erlongshan-scenic-area","name":"Erlongshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"二龙山风景区","pinyin":"Èrlóngshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7413,"lon":127.4084,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binxian-erlongshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake-and-hill scenic area around the Erlong reservoir in Binxian County, east of Harbin; the dam was built between 1958 and 1974, and the lake gives the area its name. Activities include skiing and grass-skiing, zip-lining and climbing, with dozens of hotels and holiday villages in the area. In winter the frozen lake hosts a snow-play zone and an ice-fishing festival, and a small art museum stands inside the area."},{"id":"shuangcheng-feihe-smart-industrial-park","name":"Feihe Harbin Smart Industrial Park","name_zh":"飞鹤（哈尔滨）智能产业园","pinyin":"Fēihè Hā'ěrbīn Zhìnéng Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.5154,"lon":126.5418,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangcheng-feihe-smart-industrial-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An industrial-tourism park built around a plant of Feihe, a Heilongjiang infant-formula and dairy company, in Shuangcheng district south of Harbin. It offers factory sightseeing and study visits. The provincial tourism department approved it as a 4A scenic area in October 2025."},{"id":"shuangcheng-northeast-democratic-army-command-post","name":"Former Front Command Post of the Northeast Democratic Allied Army, Shuangcheng","name_zh":"东北民主联军前线指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Dōngběi Mínzhǔ Liánjūn Qiánxiàn Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.3737,"lon":126.3117,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangcheng-northeast-democratic-army-command-post","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A courtyard compound in the town of Shuangcheng, built in 1917 as a private residence, which served from 1946 to 1948 as the front command post of the Northeast Democratic Allied Army, later the Fourth Field Army. It is now the Fourth Field Army Memorial Hall, a revolutionary-history museum with a themed square, an open-air weapons display and a main hall in two courtyard buildings. The command post was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"pingfang-harbin-beer-museum","name":"Harbin Beer Museum","name_zh":"哈尔滨啤酒博物馆","pinyin":"Hā'ěrbīn Píjiǔ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.5933,"lon":126.7142,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingfang-harbin-beer-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-storey museum at the Budweiser Harbin brewery in Pingfang District, telling the story of Harbin Beer, which dates from 1900 and is billed as China's earliest beer brand. The ground floor covers the brewery's history, the second floor is an interactive experience area and the top floor is a 'beer college', with guides on each level. It opened in 2014 and appears in the official A-level list as the Centenary Harbin Beer Cultural Tourism Area."},{"id":"harbin-confucian-temple","name":"Harbin Confucius Temple","name_zh":"哈尔滨文庙","pinyin":"Hā'ěrbīn Wénmiào","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7739,"lon":126.6688,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/harbin-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-style temple complex built in 1926–29, described as the largest Confucian temple in north-east China, laid out along a central axis from a pool and the Lingxing Gate to the Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng Shrine. It was later used as a library and a store, and now houses the Heilongjiang Museum of Nationalities, which also holds traditional-culture events at the temple. Only part of the original grounds survives."},{"id":"harbin-jewish-heritage-sites","name":"Harbin Jewish Heritage Sites","name_zh":"哈尔滨犹太人活动旧址群","pinyin":"Hā'ěrbīn Yóutàirén Huódòng Jiùzhǐ Qún","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7665,"lon":126.6111,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harbin-jewish-heritage-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Fourteen buildings in Harbin's Daoli and Nangang districts record the Jewish community that settled in the city from the early 1900s and was one of the largest in the Far East until it dwindled in the 1950s. Visitors can see inside the 1921 New Synagogue, now the Harbin Museum of Jewish History and Culture, and the 1909 Old Synagogue, a concert hall since 2014 with a bookshop on the third floor; the former Jewish Middle School beside the Old Synagogue is now a music school. The other listed buildings, mostly banks, shops and houses around Central Street, are in other use and are best seen from outside."},{"id":"acheng-harbin-northern-forest-zoo","name":"Harbin Northern Forest Zoo","name_zh":"哈尔滨北方森林动物园","pinyin":"Hā'ěrbīn Běifāng Sēnlín Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.3917,"lon":127.1002,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-harbin-northern-forest-zoo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest zoo in the hills of Acheng district that opened on 28 September 2004 to replace Harbin's old city zoo. The district government counts 23 exhibition halls and five large free-range zones, including ones for lions and tigers, large herbivores and wolves, with more than 240 species on show, among them Siberian tigers, white lions and red-crowned cranes. It has a small forest train and suits families."},{"id":"harbin-polarland","name":"Harbin Polarland","name_zh":"哈尔滨极地公园","pinyin":"Hā'ěrbīn Jídì Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7828,"lon":126.5801,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harbin-polarland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A polar-themed animal park in Songbei district beside Sun Island, which trades as Harbin Polarland and was formerly known as the Harbin Polar Museum. It combines exhibits of polar and Arctic animals such as penguins and polar bears with staged shows featuring beluga whales, sea lions and walruses, according to a 2017 China Daily listing. It suits families."},{"id":"harbin-heilongjiang-provincial-museum","name":"Heilongjiang Provincial Museum (Former Moscow Market)","name_zh":"黑龙江省博物馆","pinyin":"Hēilóngjiāng Shěng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7556,"lon":126.6351,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harbin-heilongjiang-provincial-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Baroque-style building put up as the Moscow Market, a commercial building of Harbin's Russian era, and used as a museum since the early 1920s. It is now Heilongjiang's provincial museum, whose collections the museum puts at more than 600,000 items covering the province's history and natural history. The national heritage listing covers the building itself."},{"id":"songbei-heilongjiang-science-technology-museum","name":"Heilongjiang Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"黑龙江省科技馆","pinyin":"Hēilóngjiāng Shěng Kējìguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7748,"lon":126.5703,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songbei-heilongjiang-science-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ship-shaped science museum on the north bank of the Songhua River, opened in August 2003, with about 13,000 square metres of permanent galleries, a domed-screen cinema and a 4D cinema. Exhibits cover mechanics, space, life and environment and information technology, and there is a children's floor. In 2025 the ground-floor galleries were refitted with new themed zones on ice and snow, aviation, deep space and the oceans."},{"id":"tonghe-huazishan-forest-park","name":"Huazishan Geological Forest Park","name_zh":"铧子山地质森林公园","pinyin":"Huázishān Dìzhì Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":46.0934,"lon":128.614,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonghe-huazishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain park in Tonghe County, named after its plough-blade-shaped peaks (huazi means ploughshare), with the Dahuazi, Erhuazi and Sanhuazi summits and a highest point of 680.7 m. A walking route of about 3 km passes some 38 sights, among them a rock field, a waterfall and a footbridge. A base of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army also lay on the mountain, and its remains are a county-level protected site."},{"id":"mulan-jiguanshan-scenic-area","name":"Jiguanshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"鸡冠山景区","pinyin":"Jīguānshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":46.1547,"lon":128.2268,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mulan-jiguanshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested hill area in Mulan County, north-east of Harbin, made up of a geopark, a forest park and the remains of a base of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Its best-known geological feature is the 'Thousand-metre Gallery', a long cliff and rock landscape that from the air looks like a dragon winding through the hills. It was listed as a 4A scenic area in the province's 2023 list."},{"id":"acheng-jinlongshan-forest-park","name":"Jinlongshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"金龙山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Jīnlóngshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.4894,"lon":127.3751,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-jinlongshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the hills south-east of Harbin, approved in 2007, whose main peak, Jinlong Mountain, reaches 826 m. The park is divided into six zones, including Lingyin Mountain with its temple and a wooden boardwalk of 'eighteen bends' up the slope, and it is known locally for autumn colour, with a red-leaf festival held each autumn. The official A-level list names it the Jinlongshan International Tourism Resort."},{"id":"songbei-maple-leaf-town-hot-spring-resort","name":"Maple Leaf Town Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"枫叶小镇温泉度假村","pinyin":"Fēngyè Xiǎozhèn Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.8237,"lon":126.4615,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songbei-maple-leaf-town-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Harbin's northern Songbei district with thermal bathing pools. It is a commercial leisure resort rather than a historic or natural site, suited to a relaxing half-day."},{"id":"acheng-meilidao-hot-spring-water-park","name":"Meilidao Hot Spring Water Park","name_zh":"美丽岛温泉水乐园","pinyin":"Měilìdǎo Wēnquán Shuǐlèyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.6765,"lon":126.9278,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-meilidao-hot-spring-water-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring and water-park resort at Liaodian in Acheng district. It is a commercial leisure complex rather than a historic or natural site."},{"id":"harbin-northeast-martyrs-memorial-hall","name":"Northeast Martyrs' Memorial Hall","name_zh":"东北烈士纪念馆","pinyin":"Dōngběi Lièshì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7639,"lon":126.6367,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/harbin-northeast-martyrs-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-storey neoclassical building put up in 1928–31 as a library and later used as the Harbin police headquarters under the Japanese-controlled state of Manchukuo, which has been a memorial hall since 1948. Its main exhibition covers the anti-Japanese resistance and the civil-war period in north-east China and, according to a 2021 official case study, includes more than 600 photographs and 400 objects, alongside displays on the building's use by the police. A historic tram car stands in the square outside."},{"id":"wuchang-phoenix-mountain-forest-park","name":"Phoenix Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"凤凰山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Fènghuángshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":44.2154,"lon":127.9883,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuchang-phoenix-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park of about 50,000 ha in the mountains of southern Wuchang, run by the Shanhetun Forestry Bureau and also designated a national geological park. It has two main visitor areas, the Grand Canyon and the Alpine Garden (also called the Sky Garden), with boardwalks and trails; the main peak is about 1,700 m. The high ground stays cool in summer, and the park also runs a separate winter ice-and-snow season."},{"id":"acheng-pingshan-forest-tourism-area","name":"Pingshan Forest Tourism Area","name_zh":"森工平山","pinyin":"Sēngōng Píngshān","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.3073,"lon":127.3546,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-pingshan-forest-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest recreation area in the hills of Acheng district, centred on a semi-wild deer park where more than a thousand sika and red deer roam and visitors can feed them, according to the district government. Nearly 10 km of forest boardwalk runs through the park, and the area also offers boating on the Xiquanyan reservoir in summer and skiing in winter, with hotels on site."},{"id":"hulan-poseidon-resort","name":"Poseidon Resort","name_zh":"波塞冬旅游度假区","pinyin":"Bōsāidōng Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.8816,"lon":126.6783,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hulan-poseidon-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Greek-myth-themed resort in the Harbin New Area north of the Songhua, opened in stages from 2017. It has an indoor beach water park, an aquarium called Undersea World with a glass tunnel, and a shark-themed hotel; the second phase, opened in 2019, also added a dolphin-show arena. The resort covers about 1,600 mu (around 107 hectares)."},{"id":"xiangfang-provence-lavender-manor","name":"Provence Lavender Manor","name_zh":"普罗旺斯薰衣草庄园","pinyin":"Pǔluówàngsī Xūnyīcǎo Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7335,"lon":126.9325,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfang-provence-lavender-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower park of about 1,200 mu (around 80 hectares) on rolling hills in Xiangyang town, Xiangfang District, planted with lavender, salvia, verbena and some 70 kinds of ornamental flowers. It has a glamping area with tents and barbecue facilities, and is run as a lavender-themed park for families. The flowers peak in summer, so it suits a summer day out from the city."},{"id":"acheng-jin-shangjing-huiningfu","name":"Shangjing Huiningfu, Jin Dynasty Capital","name_zh":"金上京会宁府遗址","pinyin":"Jīn Shàngjīng Huìníngfǔ Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.4954,"lon":126.9625,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-jin-shangjing-huiningfu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The first capital of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty, used from 1115 until the court moved to Yanjing (Beijing) in 1153. Two adjoining walled cities in an L shape, with the palace enclosure inside the southern one, survive as earth walls with bastions, gate remains and palace foundations, about 11 km round. The Jin Shangjing History Museum stands beside the ruins, close to the memorial park at Emperor Taizu's first burial site and Baosheng Temple."},{"id":"songbei-siberian-tiger-park","name":"Siberian Tiger Park","name_zh":"东北虎林园","pinyin":"Dōngběihǔ Línyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.815,"lon":126.5968,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songbei-siberian-tiger-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tiger park and breeding centre on the north bank of the Songhua River, covering about 80 hectares and open to visitors since 1996. Siberian tigers are watched from a vehicle in the open-range zone and on foot from walkways and a viewing platform, alongside white tigers, white lions, leopards and other big cats. The operator describes it as a breeding base for Siberian tigers and a source of animals for the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park."},{"id":"acheng-songfengshan-scenic-area","name":"Songfengshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"松峰山","pinyin":"Sōngfēngshān","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.3914,"lon":127.4589,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-songfengshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain south-east of Harbin, whose main peak, Chimney Peak, is 627 m, long used as a Daoist retreat. The Taiyi Daoism founder Xiao Baozhen set up a cave hermitage here in 1143, and the Haiyun Temple, rebuilt on the old temple site in the Qing dynasty, still has resident Daoists and holds temple fairs. Rock formations, carved stones and old Daoist tombs lie along the paths, and the scenic area was rated 4A in 2024."},{"id":"harbin-sun-island","name":"Sun Island Scenic Area","name_zh":"太阳岛","pinyin":"Tàiyáng Dǎo","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7907,"lon":126.59,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/harbin-sun-island/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river island and wetland on the north bank of the Songhua opposite central Harbin, where Russian residents built summer villas in the early twentieth century. Its main area, Sun Island Park, has lakes, flower gardens and a Japanese-style garden, with art museums and, in winter, an international snow-sculpture expo; the planned scenic area covers about 38 sq km. The Harbin Ice and Snow World, a separate winter venue, lies just to the west and has its own entry."},{"id":"songbei-sunac-park","name":"Sunac Park, Harbin","name_zh":"融创乐园","pinyin":"Róngchuàng Lèyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.8045,"lon":126.4986,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songbei-sunac-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large theme park in Songbei district, part of the Sunac tourism and residential development. It has rides and live shows, including a parade and a mythology-themed show street, and is aimed at families."},{"id":"harbin-unit-731-museum","name":"Unit 731 Museum and Former Headquarters","name_zh":"侵华日军第七三一部队罪证陈列馆","pinyin":"Qīnhuá Rìjūn Dìqīsānyī Bùduì Zuìzhèng Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.6069,"lon":126.6332,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/harbin-unit-731-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Unit 731, an Imperial Japanese Army unit that developed biological weapons and carried out human experiments, whose base here dates from 1936 and whose buildings were mostly blown up in August 1945. The museum complex has a large exhibition building opened in 2015, with documents, photographs and objects, and the preserved former headquarters grounds a few hundred metres away. Since 2012 the site has been on China's national tentative list for World Heritage nominations."},{"id":"xiangfang-volga-manor","name":"Volga Manor","name_zh":"伏尔加庄园","pinyin":"Fú'ěrjiā Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.6723,"lon":126.8976,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfang-volga-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Russian-themed estate of about 60 hectares on the Ashi River in Xiangfang District, built by a private company over more than twenty years. Its main sights are a full-size reconstruction of Harbin's St Nicholas Cathedral, rebuilt in 2007, the Petrov Art Palace, with Russian paintings, murals and sculpture, and copies of other lost Harbin buildings such as a sailing-ship-shaped restaurant from Sun Island. It is a themed attraction rather than a historic site, and suits visitors who want a Russian-style day out."},{"id":"binxian-xianglushan-forest-park","name":"Xianglushan Forest Park","name_zh":"香炉山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Xiānglúshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.5763,"lon":127.524,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binxian-xianglushan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park in the southern hills of Binxian County, named after its main peak, which is shaped like an incense burner and rises to 790 m. Sights include the Ice Lake, Butterfly Valley and Lovers' Peak, and there are hotels and a ski area at the foot of the mountain. The park has received visitors since 1999."},{"id":"shangzhi-yabuli-ski-resort","name":"Yabuli Ski Resort","name_zh":"亚布力滑雪旅游度假区","pinyin":"Yàbùlì Huáxuě Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":44.7814,"lon":128.4502,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shangzhi-yabuli-ski-resort/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski resort in the Zhangguangcai range, laid out across three linked peaks of 1,374 m, 1,258 m and 1,000 m, and also a national winter-sports training base. Skiing is the main draw in winter, while summer attractions include a hot spring, a water park, a mountain-bike park and a 20 km wooden hiking trail. It was among the first 12 national ski tourism resorts publicised by the culture and sports ministries in January 2022."},{"id":"acheng-yagou-cliff-carvings","name":"Yagou Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"亚沟石刻","pinyin":"Yàgōu Shíkè","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.4826,"lon":127.1338,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=acheng-yagou-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two line-engraved figures cut into neighbouring rock faces at the south foot of Shiren (Stone Man) Hill, east of Acheng: a man in a helmet and a narrow-sleeved robe holding a short sword, about 1.85 m tall, and a woman beside him whose figure is worn. They date from the early Jin dynasty and are described as the only surviving Jin-era figure carvings, and who they portray is disputed, with Emperor Taizu and his wife, memorial portraits and tomb guardians all suggested. The site was made a national heritage unit in 1988."},{"id":"binxian-yingjie-scenic-area","name":"Yingjie Scenic Area","name_zh":"英杰风景区","pinyin":"Yīngjié Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.6579,"lon":127.3439,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binxian-yingjie-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring and leisure resort in a wooded valley at Youlian village, Binxian County, with a hot-spring complex of 54 indoor and outdoor pools, an indoor water park and a winter snow-play and ski area. Other sights include a Mongolian-style park, a glass walkway and a wooden boardwalk up the 722 m Hutou Cliff. Several TV dramas, including later seasons of the series Country Love, were filmed in the village."},{"id":"harbin-yiyuan-street-no1-mansion","name":"Yiyuan Street No. 1 Mansion (Revolutionary Leaders Memorial Hall)","name_zh":"颐园街一号欧式建筑","pinyin":"Yíyuán Jiē Yīhào Ōushì Jiànzhù","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Harbin","lat":45.7577,"lon":126.6365,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=harbin-yiyuan-street-no1-mansion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A French classical-revival mansion built in 1919–23 for a Russian timber merchant and later used by Japanese intelligence during the Manchukuo period. Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Liu Shaoqi stayed here on visits to Heilongjiang, and it is now a memorial hall about those visits, run together with the Northeast Martyrs' Memorial Hall. It has a four-storey main house and a three-storey annex joined by an arched balcony."},{"id":"luobei-baoquanling-agricultural-park","name":"Baoquanling Modern Agriculture Eco-Park","name_zh":"宝泉岭现代农业生态园","pinyin":"Bǎoquánlǐng Xiàndài Nóngyè Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Hegang","lat":47.3996,"lon":130.5357,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luobei-baoquanling-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farm-tourism park of the Baoquanling branch of the Beidahuang agricultural group, built around solar greenhouses where visitors pick fruit such as cherries, strawberries and dragon fruit. In summer, flower fields and a lawn camping area open, and school groups come for farming-science visits. It suits families and study groups."},{"id":"hegang-national-forest-park","name":"Hegang National Forest Park","name_zh":"鹤岗森林公园","pinyin":"Hègǎng Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Hegang","lat":47.5326,"lon":130.3168,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hegang-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the hills north of Hegang, run by the city forestry bureau and made up of the Xilinhe folk-culture park, the Shilihe ecological scenic area and the Tongzigou stand of old-growth Korean pine. The Xilinhe park combines woodland scenery with folk song and dance performances and about 7 km of raft drifting on the river."},{"id":"luobei-mingshan-scenic-area","name":"Mingshan Scenic Area, Luobei","name_zh":"萝北名山景区","pinyin":"Luóběi Míngshān Jǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Hegang","lat":47.6815,"lon":131.1183,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luobei-mingshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside scenic area at Mingshan town on the Heilongjiang (Amur) River, centred on the wooded Mingshan Island and a riverside park along the shore. The island holds the Heilongjiang River Basin Museum, a second-grade national museum opened in 2009 with natural-history, history and ethnic-folk halls and more than 4,000 objects, including fossils and displays on the peoples who live along the river. The park looks across the river to the Russian bank."},{"id":"hegang-qingyuan-lake","name":"Qingyuan Lake","name_zh":"清源湖","pinyin":"Qīngyuán Hú","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Hegang","lat":47.3478,"lon":130.1246,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hegang-qingyuan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir-lake scenic area in the Heli River valley west of Hegang, laid out with ten zones in a Nordic style across a core area of 147 hectares inside a wider area of 1,600 hectares. The zones include fishing, flower viewing, lotus ponds, a wetland walk, a wedding-themed area, a children's water-play area and an agricultural sightseeing area. It is run by the city water bureau and also serves as a water-conservation education site."},{"id":"hegang-songhe-xihu-lake-park","name":"Songhe West Lake Park","name_zh":"松鹤西湖","pinyin":"Sōnghè Xīhú","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Hegang","lat":47.3531,"lon":130.1233,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hegang-songhe-xihu-lake-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake park of about 300 hectares, 60 of them water, in wooded foothills of the Lesser Khingan west of Hegang, enclosed by hills on three sides and centred on the lake and Feilai Peak. It has a sandy beach, non-powered play rides, a forest adventure course, fishing, children's play areas and a conference centre for about 200 people. It was upgraded to a 4A scenic area in the 2025 review."},{"id":"luobei-taipinggou-scenic-area","name":"Taipinggou Scenic Area, Luobei","name_zh":"萝北太平沟景区","pinyin":"Luóběi Tàipínggōu Jǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Hegang","lat":48.1254,"lon":130.6567,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luobei-taipinggou-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area in the Lesser Khingan foothills on the Heilongjiang River, known for the Longjiang Three Gorges (Longmen, Jinlong and Jinman gorges), which visitors see from boats, and the 5 km Xinglong Canyon, about 400 m deep, with forest walkways and a steel lookout tower. Huangjin Ancient Town, built around the late-Qing gold-mining history of Taipinggou, has a gold-panning experience, a performance square and period-style shops and tea houses."},{"id":"suibin-yueyahu-ethnic-park","name":"Yueyahu Northern Ethnic Park, Suibin","name_zh":"月牙湖北方民族园","pinyin":"Yuèyáhú Běifāng Mínzúyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Hegang","lat":47.654,"lon":131.9473,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suibin-yueyahu-ethnic-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside park of about 84 hectares on the Heilongjiang River plain, part of the 570-hectare Yueyahu (Crescent Lake) National Wetland Park. It has three zones: a history zone with reconstructions of the Jin-era walled town of Aolimi and the Tongren culture site, an ethnic-customs zone with houses, costume and displays for the Daur, Oroqen, Hezhe (Nanai) and other northern peoples, and a lakeside leisure zone. The wetland park also has an exhibition hall with bird specimens."},{"id":"heihe-aihui-history-museum","name":"Aihui History Museum","name_zh":"瑷珲历史陈列馆","pinyin":"Àihuī Lìshǐ Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":49.9755,"lon":127.487,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heihe-aihui-history-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum on the site of New Aihui, a Qing-era walled town dating from the 1680s that served as the seat of the Heilongjiang General and is now a national heritage unit. Its displays include a reconstructed scene of the signing of the 1858 Treaty of Aigun, a panorama painting of the 1900 events at Blagoveshchensk (Hailanpao), archaeological finds and ethnic artefacts from the Heilongjiang basin, and local Qing-period weapons. The grounds hold a rebuilt Kuixing Pavilion and a heritage stele marking the old town."},{"id":"wudalianchi-chaoyangshan-base","name":"Chaoyangshan Base of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army","name_zh":"朝阳山东北抗联第三路军密营遗址","pinyin":"Cháoyángshān Dōngběi Kànglián Dìsān Lùjūn Mìyíng Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":48.9833,"lon":126.387,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudalianchi-chaoyangshan-base","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded hill area where the Third Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army (an armed force that fought the Japanese occupation) had its headquarters and where the CPC North Manchuria Provincial Committee was based; the Third Route Army was set up here on 30 May 1939. Visitors can see the Dahengshan headquarters ridge, where machine-gun positions survive, a bullet-scarred boulder known as the Merit Stone, a memorial cemetery and a museum, with a themed park and homestay accommodation added in recent years."},{"id":"heihe-china-russia-ethnic-folk-park","name":"China–Russia Ethnic Folk Park","name_zh":"中俄民族风情园","pinyin":"Zhōng'È Mínzú Fēngqíng Yuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":50.2842,"lon":127.3677,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heihe-china-russia-ethnic-folk-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A purpose-built cultural park of about 35 ha on the western outskirts of Heihe, laid out in eight themed zones. They cover Oroqen folk displays, an 'Eight Banners' maze, a film and television set, a folk-style town, flower fields, outdoor activities, a water park and a star-gazing campsite, so it suits families and groups looking for a leisure stop."},{"id":"beian-heilongjiang-provincial-committee-sites","name":"Former Heilongjiang Provincial Committee and Government Sites, Bei'an","name_zh":"中共黑龙江省工作委员会和省政府旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Hēilóngjiāng Shěng Gōngzuò Wěiyuánhuì Hé Shěng Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":48.2605,"lon":126.4925,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beian-heilongjiang-provincial-committee-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two former administrative buildings in Bei'an where the Chinese Communist Party's Heilongjiang committee and the provincial government were based from November 1945 until the provincial seat moved to Qiqihar in May 1949. The committee building, a grey two-storey block of about 1944 built as a Manchukuo-era county office, has reconstructed offices of the committee's secretary and department heads; the government building, put up in 1937 as the Manchukuo provincial office, has nine reconstructed offices and the meeting room where Oroqen representatives negotiated their resettlement."},{"id":"xunke-oroqen-shenquan-altar-site","name":"Oroqen Divine Spring Altar Site","name_zh":"鄂伦春神泉祭坛遗址","pinyin":"Èlúnchūn Shénquán Jìtán Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":48.6877,"lon":128.0272,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunke-oroqen-shenquan-altar-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-period ritual site of the Oroqen, a people of forest hunters, set beside a 'divine spring' in the forests of Xunke County and covering about 1.5 hectares. It has been a national heritage unit since 2013. It is a remote forest site, so it suits only travellers with a particular interest in Oroqen culture."},{"id":"beian-qinghua-military-industry-site","name":"Qinghua Military Industry Site Museum","name_zh":"庆华军工遗址","pinyin":"Qìnghuá Jūngōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":48.2415,"lon":126.5208,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beian-qinghua-military-industry-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small-arms museum inside the former Qinghua Tool Factory, a state arms plant in Bei'an, which describes itself as the only firearms-themed museum in China. It has four areas (a history exhibition, a transition hall, the preserved factory site and a light-weapons hall) and, as of 2022, 5,621 items including 539 firearms and 149 machine tools."},{"id":"wudalianchi-shankou-lake","name":"Shankou Lake","name_zh":"山口湖","pinyin":"Shānkǒu Hú","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":48.5238,"lon":126.8409,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudalianchi-shankou-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir of about 84 sq km on the upper Nemor River, completed in 1999 and ringed by forested hills with many small islands. Boat trips pass granite crags such as Bajie Rock and Turtle Island, and the lake sits inside a nature reserve that is an important stop for waterbirds. Frost on the trees and ice scenes also draw winter visitors."},{"id":"sunwu-shengshan-fortress","name":"Shengshan Fortress, Sunwu","name_zh":"胜山要塞","pinyin":"Shèngshān Yàosài","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":49.5263,"lon":127.7384,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sunwu-shengshan-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Remains of a fortified zone built by the Japanese Kwantung Army over about seven years from the early 1930s to face the Soviet border, covering some 138 sq km. Surviving works include an underground command post, barracks and tunnels, an artillery position and depots; there is a site museum, and the area is also a national forest park."},{"id":"wudalianchi-volcanic-field","name":"Wudalianchi Volcanic Field","name_zh":"五大连池","pinyin":"Wǔdàliánchí","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":48.722,"lon":126.15,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wudalianchi-volcanic-field/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A volcanic landscape of 14 cones, the last of which erupted in 1719–21, spread over about 1,060 sq km at the foot of the Lesser Khingan range. Lava dammed a river to make five linked lakes, and the area also has fields of lava rock and cold mineral springs; it has been a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2004. Cones such as Laoheishan and the geopark museum are the main stops, and the spring water is a local draw."},{"id":"heihe-xinsheng-oroqen-folk-village","name":"Xinsheng Oroqen Folk Village","name_zh":"新生鄂伦春民俗景区","pinyin":"Xīnshēng Èlúnchūn Mínsú Jǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Heihe","lat":50.5084,"lon":126.7914,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heihe-xinsheng-oroqen-folk-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A folk-culture visitor area in Xinsheng, an Oroqen township; the Oroqen are a traditionally hunting people of the Khingan forests. It has the Lingshangren Museum on Oroqen life, a herbal-medicine museum, a re-created 'primitive tribe' camp and the Cierbin River, and visitors can try horse riding, shooting and archery, dried-meat tasting and birch-bark or roe-deer-skin crafts. The township also stages the Gulunmuta fire-god festival, a national intangible cultural heritage item."},{"id":"jiamusi-aoqiwan-hezhe-village","name":"Aoqiwan Hezhe Tourist Area","name_zh":"敖其湾赫哲族旅游区","pinyin":"Áoqíwān Hèzhézú Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":46.7518,"lon":130.1213,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiamusi-aoqiwan-hezhe-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Hezhe cultural area on the Songhua River bank at Aoqi, the Hezhe village in the suburbs of Jiamusi. Xinhua reports that visitors make fish-skin pictures, try on fish-skin clothing and eat river fish, and that Aoqi town drew more than 300,000 visitors between 2024 and mid-2025. The Hezhe festival Wuribong, held every four years, was staged in Jiamusi's suburbs in 2025, and a ski slope on the same riverbank is used in winter."},{"id":"tangyuan-daliangzihe-forest-park","name":"Daliangzihe National Forest Park","name_zh":"大亮子河国家森林公园","pinyin":"Dàliàngzihé Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":47.0133,"lon":129.6526,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangyuan-daliangzihe-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park in the hills of Tangyuan county, set up in 1992, with a trail through the woods to the site of the secret camp of the Sixth Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Only the stone foundations of the original log buildings survive, and beside them stand full-size replica log cabins that form a memorial museum, with the army's headquarters, uniform workshop and cadre school re-created (Xinhua, October 2026)."},{"id":"fujin-national-wetland-park","name":"Fujin National Wetland Park","name_zh":"富锦国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Fùjǐn Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":46.9217,"lon":131.7312,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fujin-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland on the south-west side of Fujin that has been restored over many years and is now a summer gathering place for waterbirds, with a lotus pond. It is a designated national wildlife-protection education base and suits birdwatchers and anyone crossing the Sanjiang Plain."},{"id":"fujin-rice-paddy-park","name":"Fujin Rice Paddy Park","name_zh":"富锦万亩水稻公园","pinyin":"Fùjǐn Wànmǔ Shuǐdào Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":47.1504,"lon":131.9429,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fujin-rice-paddy-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rice-farming park on the Sanjiang Plain beside the Harbin–Tongjiang expressway, known for giant rice-field pictures: in 2026 the designs covered 120,000 square metres, planted with black rice, ordinary green rice and ornamental varieties and viewed from an observation tower. Visitors can also try transplanting rice in a demonstration field, see rice being milled and visit a small exhibition on rice growing, and the park has added camping and caravan areas (Xinhua, September 2026). The pictures are at their clearest in summer."},{"id":"fuyuan-heixiazi-bear-park","name":"Heixiazi Island Bear Park","name_zh":"黑瞎子岛探秘野熊园","pinyin":"Hēixiāzi Dǎo Tànmì Yěxióngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":48.3456,"lon":134.7116,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyuan-heixiazi-bear-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large wildlife park on Heixiazi Island where more than 110 black bears, together with roe deer, deer and wild boar, are kept in semi-wild enclosures across 130 hectares of wetland and woodland; China Daily (2024) calls it the country's largest black-bear zoo. Visitors tour it by vehicle on a winding route and watch the bears swim, dig and climb trees. The island's Chinese name means 'black bear island'."},{"id":"fuyuan-heixiazi-island","name":"Heixiazi Island Scenic Area","name_zh":"黑瞎子岛","pinyin":"Hēixiāzi Dǎo","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":48.3557,"lon":134.7456,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyuan-heixiazi-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Chinese part of Heixiazi Island, a low wetland island where the Amur and Ussuri rivers meet opposite the Russian city of Khabarovsk. The main sight is the Dongji Pagoda, a nine-storey, 79 m Han–Tang-style tower on a circular plaza 171 m across, completed in 2016, with views north over the Amur and east towards Khabarovsk. Visitors also come for the wetland park, boundary marker 259 and the nearby 'first guard post of the east', the area being billed as China's eastern extremity."},{"id":"huanan-forest-steam-train","name":"Huanan Forest Steam Train and Forestry Yard Village","name_zh":"桦南百年蒸汽小火车","pinyin":"Huànán Bǎinián Zhēngqì Xiǎohuǒchē","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":46.2571,"lon":130.6036,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanan-forest-steam-train","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A narrow-gauge forest railway of the Huanan forestry bureau, described locally as a century old, on which steam locomotives carry sightseeing trains to the Sengong Dayuan folk village. The village re-creates a 1960s–70s logging community, with an old co-op shop, a photo studio and a school, and there is a campsite beside the station and evening performances in summer. The 2026 season began on 1 May, and weekends and holidays are the busiest times."},{"id":"tongjiang-jiejinkou-hezhe-township","name":"Jiejinkou Hezhe Resort, Tongjiang","name_zh":"街津口赫哲旅游度假区","pinyin":"Jiējīnkǒu Hèzhé Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":47.9271,"lon":132.8619,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-jiejinkou-hezhe-township","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Hezhe settlement area on the Amur in Tongjiang, centred on Jiejinkou Hezhe Township. The Hezhe are one of China's smallest ethnic groups, traditionally river fishers, and their sung epic Yimakan is on UNESCO's list of intangible heritage in need of urgent safeguarding; Tongjiang promotes Hezhe-style villages, murals and crafts. The township lies below the wooded Jiejinshan, a national forest park."},{"id":"fujin-qixing-tourist-town","name":"Qixing Tourist Town, Qixing Farm","name_zh":"七星旅游名镇","pinyin":"Qīxīng Lǚyóu Míngzhèn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":47.2637,"lon":132.6473,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fujin-qixing-tourist-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farm-based tourist complex at Qixing Farm, a large state-run rice farm of the Beidahuang Group in the Jiansanjiang district of the Sanjiang Plain. The draw is large-scale rice farming: Xinhua photographs from July 2026 show big rice-field pictures planted on the farm, and a 2025 Xinhua report describes drones carrying rice seedlings across its paddies."},{"id":"tongjiang-sanjiangkou-confluence","name":"Sanjiangkou Confluence Park, Tongjiang","name_zh":"同江三江口","pinyin":"Tóngjiāng Sānjiāngkǒu","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":47.6995,"lon":132.524,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-sanjiangkou-confluence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside wetland park where the Songhua River joins the Amur (Heilongjiang), a confluence that Xinhua describes as a stretch where the dark water of the Amur and the yellow water of the Songhua run side by side before mixing. The park is also the northern starting point of the Tongsan highway, which runs more than 5,000 km south to Sanya on Hainan, and its wetland is home to more than 200 bird species according to Xinhua. It suits a short stop for the river view."},{"id":"huachuan-xinghuo-rice-village","name":"Xinghuo Rice Village, Huachuan","name_zh":"星火稻乡","pinyin":"Xīnghuǒ Dàoxiāng","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jiamusi","lat":46.8837,"lon":130.5625,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huachuan-xinghuo-rice-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Korean-minority farming village on the Sanjiang Plain that became a visitor attraction in 2025, built around its rice paddies, with rice-field pictures, a Xinghuo Tower, a re-created village co-op shop and about ten other sights, and a snow park in winter. China Daily reports that the first collective farm of the People's Republic was founded in the village on 19 February 1951. Xinhua counted more than 1.1 million visitors by early 2026, and the village restaurants serve Korean-minority dishes."},{"id":"mishan-beidahuang-calligraphy-garden","name":"Beidahuang Calligraphy Garden, Mishan","name_zh":"北大荒书法长廊","pinyin":"Běidàhuāng Shūfǎ Chángláng","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.6449,"lon":131.8317,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mishan-beidahuang-calligraphy-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A calligraphy garden beside the General's Lake reservoir north of Mishan, laid out over about 16 hectares as a garden of corridors, platforms and stone tablets. According to the city government it holds more than 2,400 carved stone tablets bearing the writing of about 1,600 people, from revolutionary figures and writers to contemporary calligraphers. The reservoir, formerly the Youth Reservoir, was built from 1958 under General Wang Zhen during the opening up of the Great Northern Wilderness."},{"id":"mishan-dangbi-lake-khanka-resort","name":"Dangbi Lake Khanka Resort","name_zh":"当壁镇兴凯湖旅游度假区","pinyin":"Dāngbì Zhèn Xīngkǎihú Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.2708,"lon":132.0205,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mishan-dangbi-lake-khanka-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A state-farm lakeside resort district on the western end of Lake Khanka, beside the Mishan border port, with a sandy shore, a lakeside deer park, a Russian-style park, a picking garden and a water park. Its history sights are memorials to the opening up of the Great Northern Wilderness, including a hall holding General Wang Zhen's tools and photographs, and the Bailing River bridge, kept as a relic of the old border crossing. The resort has been developed since the 1980s and is aimed at summer holidaymakers."},{"id":"hulin-dongfanghong-wetland","name":"Dongfanghong Wetland, Hulin","name_zh":"东方红湿地","pinyin":"Dōngfānghóng Shīdì","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":46.2869,"lon":133.2845,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hulin-dongfanghong-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake and wetland tourist area in the Dongfanghong forestry area of Hulin, run from the forestry bureau and rated 4A. The provincial review of October 2025 lists it under the name Dongfanghong Nanchahu Scenic Area."},{"id":"jidong-guokuishan-mountain-fort","name":"Guokuishan Mountain Fort","name_zh":"锅盔山山城遗址","pinyin":"Guōkuīshān Shānchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.3451,"lon":131.3991,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jidong-guokuishan-mountain-fort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of a hill fort on the summit of Guokuishan in Yong'an town, Jidong county, mainly of the Bohai-kingdom period (the national list gives the Tang era). A dry-stone wall about 1.3 km long with 13 bastions runs along the edge of the summit, enclosing a well, a horse-watering pit and house foundations, and an old path on the east side leads to the fort's only gate. The county holds walking festivals at the foot of the hill, with a stage and entrance gate set up for them."},{"id":"hulin-hutou-fortress-scenic-area","name":"Hutou Scenic Area and Fortress Museum","name_zh":"虎头旅游景区","pinyin":"Hǔtóu Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.9914,"lon":133.6631,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hulin-hutou-fortress-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on the Ussuri River at Hutou, built around the remains of the Hutou fortress, one of a chain of fortifications that the Japanese Kwantung Army built along the north-eastern frontier in the 1930s and that Soviet forces attacked in August 1945. It has the fortress museum with relics and exhibits, wartime remains such as a military wharf, a large bronze tiger statue on the river bank, a Guandi temple and riverside wetland, looking across the river to the Russian city of Dalnerechensk. The fortress is part of a national heritage unit of the north-eastern fortifications."},{"id":"jixi-didao-mass-grave-museum","name":"Jixi Japanese Crimes Exhibition Hall and Didao Mass Grave","name_zh":"侵华日军鸡西罪证陈列馆","pinyin":"Qīnhuá Rìjūn Jīxī Zuìzhèng Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.3726,"lon":130.7893,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jixi-didao-mass-grave-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum in Didao district recording the 1933–45 Japanese occupation of the Jixi coalfield and the miners who died under it. It began in 1966 as a local exhibition and held an opening ceremony in September 2015 together with the unveiling of a memorial to the miners buried in the mass grave; its fourth hall holds a provincially listed furnace that was used to cremate bodies, alongside a bone-sorting vat found during repairs in 2015. The national listing is the Jixi Mass Grave Site, in a valley about 1.5 km from the hall, where a memorial monument and plaza stand inside a fenced protected area."},{"id":"jidong-qilinshan-scenic-area","name":"Qilinshan Scenic Area, Jidong","name_zh":"麒麟山景区","pinyin":"Qílínshān Jǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.5111,"lon":130.8672,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jidong-qilinshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Rock peaks and a lake in Xingnong town, Jidong county, named for a ridge whose north and south peaks are said to look like the head and tail of a qilin, the mythical beast. A hill path leads to a viewing platform at about 555 m, and around the 26.8-hectare lake there are play features such as coloured slides, a water-curtain bridge, high-level rafting and a 'Dream Island' play area, plus a horse show in summer (county government, 2025–26). It is also a provincial geopark and suits families on a day trip from Jixi."},{"id":"mishan-tiexi-forest-park","name":"Tiexi Forest Park, Mishan","name_zh":"铁西森林公园","pinyin":"Tiěxī Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.5318,"lon":131.4997,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mishan-tiexi-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest, lake and wetland area in the hills west of Mishan, covering about 80 square kilometres by the Jixi city government's figure. It has reservoirs, a lotus pond crossed by a zigzag boardwalk, an island with villas, a crane-breeding base and Korean and Mongol-style folk parks, and a seasonal water park. It suits a half-day nature stop in summer."},{"id":"mishan-xinkailiu-lake-khanka","name":"Xinkailiu, Lake Khanka","name_zh":"兴凯湖新开流景区","pinyin":"Xīngkǎihú Xīnkāiliú Jǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Jixi","lat":45.3446,"lon":132.3677,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mishan-xinkailiu-lake-khanka","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside scenic area on the sand ridge between Big and Small Lake Khanka, with a viewing platform, a bird-watching platform, a boat landing and a long sandy beach. The area includes the Xinkailiu site, a Neolithic fishing settlement about 6,000 years old that was excavated in 1972 and yielded 32 graves, 10 fish pits and net-patterned pottery, as well as a carved bone eagle's head that has become a symbol of the culture. A fishing-ritual performance is staged on the frozen lake in winter."},{"id":"hailin-chaihe-jiuzhai","name":"Chaihe Jiuzhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"柴河九寨","pinyin":"Cháihé Jiǔzhài","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":45.1491,"lon":129.3735,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailin-chaihe-jiuzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley scenic area at the Hongsheng forest farm of the Chaihe forestry bureau, in Weihushan National Forest Park, where two clear mountain streams, the Golden Stream and Silver Stream valleys, drop over a group of cascades known as the Nine-Tier Springs. Around them are stone peaks, old pines and primeval forest, and the area is promoted as the 'little Jiuzhaigou of the north', after the famous valley in Sichuan."},{"id":"dongning-fortress","name":"Dongning Fortress","name_zh":"东宁要塞","pinyin":"Dōngníng Yàosài","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":43.949,"lon":131.2178,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongning-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Dongning fortress group was built from 1934 by the Japanese Kwantung Army, with forced Chinese labour, along the frontier south-east of Mudanjiang, and saw heavy fighting in August 1945. The visit centres on the Xunshan underground fortress, with a museum at its foot whose five permanent exhibitions cover the fortress itself, the Japanese occupation, local anti-Japanese resistance, the 1945 fighting and later peace and friendship exchanges. A garden commemorating Anti-Japanese United Army fighters and an ordnance display are in the same grounds, and the site is part of the national protected unit 'Fortifications of the Japanese Invasion Troops'."},{"id":"mudanjiang-heibao-bear-park","name":"Heibao Bear Park","name_zh":"黑宝熊乐园","pinyin":"Hēibǎo Xióng Lèyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.7694,"lon":129.4959,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mudanjiang-heibao-bear-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A bear park of about 10 hectares inside Sandaoguan National Forest Park, north-west of Mudanjiang, that keeps and breeds captive bears for visitors to view. Its official A-level name also includes 'Water World'."},{"id":"hailin-hengdaohezi-russian-town","name":"Hengdaohezi Russian Town","name_zh":"横道河子俄罗斯风情小镇","pinyin":"Héngdàohézi Éluósī Fēngqíng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.8165,"lon":129.0626,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailin-hengdaohezi-russian-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A railway town founded in 1897 when the Russian-built Chinese Eastern Railway came through, with more than 250 Russian-style buildings, six of them national heritage buildings. The highlights are the fan-shaped locomotive roundhouse, whose 15 doors now front a railway museum, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Presentation of the Virgin, the former locomotive-crew apartment block and the old street of Russian-style stone and timber houses; together these form the Hengdaohezi parts of the national Chinese Eastern Railway Buildings unit. UNESCO's 2018 Asia-Pacific heritage awards gave the town an honourable mention, and it has become popular with photographers, especially in snow."},{"id":"hailin-hengdaohezi-siberian-tiger-park","name":"Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park","name_zh":"横道河子东北虎林园","pinyin":"Héngdàohézi Dōngběihǔ Línyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.7929,"lon":129.1073,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailin-hengdaohezi-siberian-tiger-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tiger park that grew out of a feline breeding centre set up at Hengdaohezi in 1986 and renamed the Northeast Tiger Park about ten years later; it keeps captive-bred Siberian tigers. Visitors ride in armoured sightseeing vehicles through a series of protective gates into the tiger enclosures and watch through the windows as the animals walk, climb and play-fight. Keepers say the tigers are livelier in cold weather, so winter is a good time to go."},{"id":"ningan-jingpo-lake","name":"Jingpo Lake","name_zh":"镜泊湖","pinyin":"Jìngpō Hú","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.0545,"lon":128.9421,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningan-jingpo-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A long, narrow lake in the Zhangguangcai and Laoye mountains, formed when lava from volcanic eruptions dammed the Mudan River; its water area is about 90 sq km and the scenic district is also a UNESCO Global Geopark. Most visitors head for the northern end, around Diaoshuilou Falls, and take a boat out along the lake. The wider scenic district also takes in the Underground Forest crater park and the Bohai Shangjing site, which have their own entries on this map."},{"id":"linkou-luolemishan-scenic-area","name":"Luolemishan Scenic Area","name_zh":"罗勒密山景区","pinyin":"Luólèmìshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":45.5969,"lon":129.5607,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linkou-luolemishan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest tourism area at Hongqi forest farm, run by the Fangzheng forestry bureau and listed in the province's 2025 review as the Yuanyang Peak Scenic Area, with a walk up Yuanyang Peak past rock formations and a waterfall; the area reaches 1,357 m. The best-known sight is the Magpie Bridge, a glass-floored footbridge 214 m long between two summits about 290 m above the valley, and there are also a 527 m glass walkway, a forest slide, a glass-bottomed rafting course and a jungle rail car. The wider area of about 3,000 hectares includes a rafting zone on the Xiangshui River and a forest wellness centre."},{"id":"mudanjiang-northeast-old-flight-school","name":"Northeast Old Flight School Site, Mudanjiang","name_zh":"人民空军东北老航校旧址","pinyin":"Rénmín Kōngjūn Dōngběi Lǎohángxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.5416,"lon":129.5752,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mudanjiang-northeast-old-flight-school","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of the first flying school set up by the Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1946 and based at Mudanjiang's airfield for part of 1946 and again from 1948 to 1949; its first flights took place here in 1946. The remains are a runway, a control tower, hangars and aircraft shelters, and two old hangars now hold exhibition halls on the school's history. The site is on an active Air Force base."},{"id":"ningan-peony-smart-technology-museum","name":"Peony Group Smart Science and Technology Museum, Ning'an","name_zh":"牡丹集团宁安智慧科技馆","pinyin":"Mǔdān Jítuán Níng'ān Zhìhuì Kējìguǎn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.1169,"lon":129.1731,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningan-peony-smart-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A science and technology museum run by the Peony Group in Bohai town, about 2 km from Xinglong Temple and the Shangjing site, with digital and interactive displays aimed mainly at families and school groups. It was added to the 4A list in 2024."},{"id":"mudanjiang-sandaoguan-forest-park","name":"Sandaoguan National Forest Park","name_zh":"三道关国家森林公园","pinyin":"Sāndàoguān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.7698,"lon":129.4967,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mudanjiang-sandaoguan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park of about 8,000 hectares on the north-western edge of Mudanjiang, at roughly 300 to 740 m above sea level, with dense forest, rocky cliffs and streams. Two areas are open to visitors, Wuxi ('Mist Stream') Valley and Xiaohuangshan ('little Huangshan'), and the park is promoted as a summer escape from the city. The separately listed Heibao Bear Park lies inside the park."},{"id":"ningan-bohai-shangjing","name":"Shangjing Longquanfu","name_zh":"渤海国上京龙泉府遗址","pinyin":"Bóhǎiguó Shàngjīng Lóngquánfǔ Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.1306,"lon":129.1449,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningan-bohai-shangjing/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shangjing was the main capital of the Bohai kingdom, a Tang-era state in north-east Asia, laid out on the plan of the Tang capital Chang'an with outer, inner and palace cities, until the Khitan destroyed the kingdom in 926. The palace-city site is now a national archaeological park with a scale model of the palace city, at one-twentieth size, and models of six individual halls, and a site museum nearby shows finds and research in four galleries. Xinglong Temple, a Qing-dynasty temple built on the old Bohai temple ground, keeps Bohai stone carvings including a stone lantern and a large stone Buddha."},{"id":"suifenhe-love-valley","name":"Suifenhe Love Valley","name_zh":"绥芬河爱情谷","pinyin":"Suífēnhé Àiqíng Gǔ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.4341,"lon":131.1492,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suifenhe-love-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A love-themed park opened in October 2020 on the northern edge of Suifenhe, in a valley between Tianchang and Jiudi mountains around the Tianchang Lake reservoir. It has a birch-wood boardwalk, a giant rotating ring sculpture, a 100 m footbridge made of 16 red heart-shaped frames and a long stepped path up to a viewpoint. The name plays on the park's position, 131° E and 44° N, and its 520 m altitude, which read as 'one life, one world' and 'I love you'."},{"id":"hailin-taipinggou-primeval-forest","name":"Taipinggou Primeval Forest Scenic Area","name_zh":"太平沟原始林风景区","pinyin":"Tàipínggōu Yuánshǐlín Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.4238,"lon":128.4047,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailin-taipinggou-primeval-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stand of about 297 hectares of primeval Korean pine at the Taipinggou forest farm, part of Xuexiang National Forest Park, which the provincial tourism department describes as the best-preserved forest tourism resource in north-east China. It was named one of 'China's most beautiful forests' in 2019, and one thousand-year-old pine in it carries the title 'China's most beautiful red pine'. Visitors can follow a stream trail through the forest and try an adventure course through the treetops."},{"id":"ningan-volcanic-crater-forest-park","name":"Volcanic Crater National Forest Park","name_zh":"火山口国家森林公园","pinyin":"Huǒshānkǒu Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.1994,"lon":128.533,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningan-volcanic-crater-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park on the eastern slope of the middle Zhangguangcai Range, north-west of Jingpo Lake, where ten volcanic craters of different sizes, with steep inner walls, are mostly filled with primeval forest; it is also called the Underground Forest. The park has a lava tunnel with lava stalactites and an open-air ice cave in which ice can be seen all year. It counts as one of the three parts of the Jingpo Lake scenic district, with the lake itself and the Bohai Shangjing site."},{"id":"hailin-weihushan-film-city","name":"Weihushan Film and TV City","name_zh":"威虎山影视城","pinyin":"Wēihǔshān Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.789,"lon":129.1179,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailin-weihushan-film-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A film and television set built in 1998 near Hengdaohezi, with about 107 buildings laid out as the world of the novel Tracks in the Snowy Forest, including Forest Sea Town, the thatched village of Jiapigou and Weihu Hall; People's Daily's Heilongjiang channel (2021) counts more than 600 films and series shot here. In 2021 an exhibition on the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army and staged immersive shows were added. It is a themed set rather than a historic site."},{"id":"hailin-yilong-water-park","name":"Yilong Water Park","name_zh":"亿龙水上风情园","pinyin":"Yìlóng Shuǐshàng Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.4172,"lon":129.0573,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailin-yilong-water-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A water park on the Hailang River in Xin'an Korean township, south-west of Hailin, with a children's water area, water slides, a wave pool and a cable ride across the river, plus fishing, barbecue and camping areas. It first opened in 1997 and is mainly a summer attraction for families."},{"id":"mudanjiang-zhongxing-korean-folk-park","name":"Zhongxing Korean Folk Culture Park","name_zh":"中兴朝鲜民族文化风情园","pinyin":"Zhōngxīng Cháoxiǎn Mínzú Wénhuà Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Mudanjiang","lat":44.5393,"lon":129.4208,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mudanjiang-zhongxing-korean-folk-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhongxing, an ethnic Korean village in Hainan Korean township, has been turned into a folk-culture tourist area, with Korean-style buildings, a tall drum-shaped building with a view over the village, costume photography, Korean-style restaurants and homestays among the rice fields. A folk-custom park started in 2014 by a returning villager includes a small folk museum, and a group of small exhibition halls includes a New Year picture hall and a 3D experience hall. It suits visitors interested in Korean-Chinese village life and food."},{"id":"qiqihar-angangxi-sites-museum","name":"Ang'angxi Sites and Site Museum","name_zh":"昂昂溪遗址","pinyin":"Áng'ángxī Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.1429,"lon":123.8262,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qiqihar-angangxi-sites-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Ang'angxi sites are a group of Neolithic fishing-and-hunting settlements on the Nen River plain, which gave their name to the Ang'angxi culture first dug by the archaeologist Liang Siyong in 1930. The site museum, built in 2002 beside the Tengjiagang site, shows stone, bone and jade tools and other finds from the group, more than 3,000 objects in all. The sites themselves lie on sand dunes outside the town, so the museum is the part to visit."},{"id":"qiqihar-bukui-mosque","name":"Bukui Mosque","name_zh":"卜奎清真寺","pinyin":"Bǔkuí Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.3487,"lon":123.9446,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qiqihar-bukui-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Described by Xinhua as the largest and oldest mosque in Heilongjiang, Bukui Mosque is still used for worship in the old centre of Qiqihar. It grew from two separate mosques: an East Mosque built in 1684, seven years before the city was founded, and a West Mosque built in 1852 by followers of the Jahriyya order who had come from Gansu; the two were merged in 1958. The compound covers about 6,400 square metres and includes a pagoda-style minaret."},{"id":"fularji-first-heavy-industries-tour","name":"China First Heavy Industries Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"中国一重工业旅游区","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yīzhòng Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.2076,"lon":123.6093,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fularji-first-heavy-industries-tour","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"China First Heavy Industries is a heavy-machinery maker in the industrial town of Fularji, one of the three Soviet-aided projects of China's first Five-Year Plan sited there in the 1950s. Visits take in production workshops and the company's exhibition hall on its history and equipment, and a neighbouring steelworks, Jianlong Beiman Special Steel, has an exhibition hall of its own on the same circuit. It suits visitors interested in heavy industry rather than a general sightseeing stop."},{"id":"qiqihar-military-governors-office","name":"Former Heilongjiang Military Governor's Office","name_zh":"黑龙江督军署旧址","pinyin":"Hēilóngjiāng Dūjūnshǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.3547,"lon":123.9492,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiqihar-military-governors-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former headquarters of Heilongjiang's military governors in the early Republic of China, built over an earlier Qing residence in Qiqihar's old walled quarter. A two-storey brick-and-timber building and a group of single-storey halls survive from the complex, which later housed the provincial government until 1954. It stands beside the Qiqihar Museum, whose main exhibition covers the history of the Nen River region and Qiqihar."},{"id":"meilisi-hala-new-village","name":"Hala New Village","name_zh":"哈拉新村","pinyin":"Hālā Xīncūn","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.4601,"lon":123.9036,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meilisi-hala-new-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village of about 60 hectares on the grassland at the edge of Qiqihar, marketed as the first Daur village in China; the Daur are an ethnic minority of the Nen River valley. Its attractions include an intangible-heritage experience hall, Morgen Square, traditional houses, the Hala ancient-city site, a grassland with an obo shrine and horse riding, and a street of village guesthouses. Daur music and the lurige dance are shown here, and the village hosts the annual Kumul festival."},{"id":"qiqihar-hecheng-happy-world","name":"Hecheng Happy World","name_zh":"鹤城欢乐世界","pinyin":"Hèchéng Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.2983,"lon":123.9503,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiqihar-hecheng-happy-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An amusement park inside Hecheng Park in the south of Qiqihar, with some 30 rides, among them a Ferris wheel, pirate ship, carousel and bumper cars, plus an indoor children's play area and a hotel. In winter the park switches to an outdoor ice-and-snow programme. It is aimed at families and local day trips."},{"id":"tailai-jiangqiao-resistance-memorial","name":"Jiangqiao Resistance Memorial Site","name_zh":"江桥抗战纪念地","pinyin":"Jiāngqiáo Kàngzhàn Jìniàndì","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":46.7756,"lon":123.6793,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tailai-jiangqiao-resistance-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park and museum at Jiangqiao on the Nen River, where Heilongjiang provincial troops under Ma Zhanshan fought Japanese forces at the railway bridge in November 1931. The museum, opened in 2008, shows photographs and objects from the campaign, a display recreating the wooden railway bridge and a sand-table model, and the grounds beside the river have a statue of Ma Zhanshan. It also displays finds from the Ang'angxi culture."},{"id":"qiqihar-longsha-park","name":"Longsha Park","name_zh":"龙沙公园","pinyin":"Lóngshā Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.3431,"lon":123.9374,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiqihar-longsha-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large urban park of about 64 hectares in the centre of Qiqihar, with Laodong Lake and Wangjiang Tower, a lakeside pavilion first built in 1908. The former Heilongjiang Provincial Library building, put up in 1930 and now a nationally protected monument, stands in the grounds, along with other historic buildings such as a former Russian consulate. In winter the park hosts ice sculptures."},{"id":"qiqihar-longsha-zoo-botanical-garden","name":"Longsha Zoo and Botanical Garden","name_zh":"龙沙动植物园","pinyin":"Lóngshā Dòngzhíwùyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.3829,"lon":123.9354,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiqihar-longsha-zoo-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A zoo and botanical garden on the northern edge of Qiqihar, with more than 200 species and about 3,000 animals from five continents, along with plants of the 47th parallel. It has a tiger-viewing corridor behind strengthened glass, a primate rainforest house, a small train through themed animal zones, stage shows, and animal feeding and parades in season, and it suits families."},{"id":"fuyu-longteng-hot-spring-resort","name":"Longteng Eco Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"龙腾生态温泉度假庄园","pinyin":"Lóngténg Shēngtài Wēnquán Dùjià Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.476,"lon":124.497,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyu-longteng-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Fuyu county on the edge of the Longanqiao wetland, across the Wuyuer River from the Zhalong reserve. It offers hot-spring bathing, wooden, water-side and hot-spring villas, fruit picking and speciality farming, and has five lakes in its wetland park. It suits families and groups wanting a spa stay near Zhalong."},{"id":"qiqihar-mingyue-island","name":"Mingyue Island","name_zh":"明月岛","pinyin":"Míngyuè Dǎo","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.4097,"lon":123.9018,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiqihar-mingyue-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded island in the Nen River just north-west of Qiqihar, laid out as a park from 1981 and named Mingyue (\"Bright Moon\") in 1984. It has a Buddhist temple first built in 1925, the Heilongjiang General's Mansion complex with a multimedia show on the history of old Bukui (Qiqihar), a 500 m poetry corridor and flower gardens, and a small tourist train that restarted in June 2024 after about 11 years. Visitors reach it by boat or, when the water is too low, by a floating bridge."},{"id":"nianzishan-tourism-area","name":"Nianzishan Tourism Area","name_zh":"碾子山旅游区","pinyin":"Niǎnzishān Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.5212,"lon":122.8822,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nianzishan-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A district-wide tourism area in the low hills at the eastern foot of the Greater Khingan range, west of Qiqihar, rather than a single park. Its sights are spread over the district: a ski resort, a military-industry culture park showing arms production and a firing range, a 12 km stretch of the Yalu River for rafting, Shexian Cave where Palaeolithic stone tools were found, and a section of the Jin-dynasty frontier earthwork. Chongshan Park above the town, begun in 1982, has a liberation monument and viewpoint pavilions, and the district promotes flowers in spring, rafting in summer, fruit picking in autumn and skiing in winter."},{"id":"angangxi-shuishi-forest-hot-spring-resort","name":"Shuishi Forest Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"水师森林温泉度假区","pinyin":"Shuǐshī Sēnlín Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.2523,"lon":124.0046,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=angangxi-shuishi-forest-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort set in a forest park near Shuishiying in Ang'angxi district, covering about 2.5 square kilometres. It combines natural hot springs, a water park, non-powered rides, rooms and restaurants with fruit picking and Mongolian-style barbecue. It suits families and groups wanting a day or overnight stay, and it ran a night-time light-and-shadow festival in autumn 2025."},{"id":"tailai-taihu-wetland-park","name":"Taihu National Wetland Park, Tailai","name_zh":"泰湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Tàihú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":46.3804,"lon":123.4456,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tailai-taihu-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national wetland park on the eastern edge of Tailai county town, developed from 2002, with a lake, reed beds and a lotus pond. Visitors can walk the lakeside boardwalk, take a boat or battery car, visit the lake island and the Guangming Temple, or use the water park. It is a leisure park next to the town rather than a remote nature site."},{"id":"tailai-tazicheng-site","name":"Tazicheng Walled City Site","name_zh":"塔子城址","pinyin":"Tǎzichéng Zhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":46.6077,"lon":123.0568,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tailai-tazicheng-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tazicheng is the walled city of the Liao and Jin dynasties, once the seat of Taizhou prefecture, whose square circuit of about 4.5 km still shows in the landscape even though most of the wall and its gate-forts have worn down. A village now fills the interior, and the county has added a site museum and a Liao-Jin square, with the gate sites, moat, wall remains and a generals' platform to see on a walk. Four granite and marble column bases from lost buildings are recorded inside the city, and Liao-Jin tombs lie outside it."},{"id":"qiqihar-zhalong-wetland","name":"Zhalong Nature Reserve","name_zh":"扎龙生态旅游区","pinyin":"Zhālóng Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qiqihar","lat":47.201,"lon":124.2355,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qiqihar-zhalong-wetland/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A vast freshwater reed marsh on the Wuyuer River plain, known as a breeding ground for red-crowned cranes and listed as a wetland of international importance (Ramsar) in 1992. The tourist area, about 4.7 square kilometres of the much larger reserve, has a viewing platform for scheduled flight displays by trained, captive-bred cranes, plus boat trips through the reeds and walking trails. The displays continue through the winter, and the area was upgraded to a 5A scenic area in December 2024."},{"id":"boli-wusihun-river-forest-park","name":"Wusihun River National Forest Park, Boli","name_zh":"乌斯浑河国家森林公园","pinyin":"Wūsīhúnhé Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Qitaihe","lat":45.6893,"lon":130.3152,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boli-wusihun-river-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park in the hills south-west of Boli town, Qitaihe, which held its opening events in mid-August 2026 as the county's first 4A scenic area after a four-year upgrade. The park has forest streams, old pines and a rafting run, and the local report also mentions the area's revolutionary history."},{"id":"jixian-anbanghe-wetland-park","name":"Anbanghe National Wetland Park","name_zh":"安邦河国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Ānbānghé Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.9866,"lon":131.3012,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jixian-anbanghe-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river-and-marsh wetland park of about 290 ha in north-eastern Jixian County, one of China's first national wetland parks and used for nature education. A small county museum inside the park is open seasonally, from early May to early October."},{"id":"youyi-beidahuang-farm-machinery-park","name":"Beidahuang Agricultural Machinery Park","name_zh":"北大荒农机博览园","pinyin":"Běidàhuāng Nóngjī Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.7636,"lon":131.7668,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyi-beidahuang-farm-machinery-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 35-hectare agricultural science park at Youyi, in the Beidahuang farming region, built around an exposition centre of farm machinery. The grounds also have a forest botanical garden, a landscaped avenue and a Beidahuang culture square, and the park is aimed at school groups and visitors interested in modern farming."},{"id":"lingdong-qingshan-forest-park","name":"Qingshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"青山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Qīngshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.4721,"lon":131.1799,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingdong-qingshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain park of about 28,500 ha in Lingdong district, south of Shuangyashan, with 82% tree cover, rocky peaks and many streams. It has a visitor centre, two Buddhist temples (the Jiufeng Chan Temple and the Pudu Temple), a hill with stone Buddhas and the Xingyue ('Star-Moon') Lake with a bathing beach."},{"id":"jixian-qixingshan-forest-park","name":"Qixingshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"七星山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Qīxīngshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.5883,"lon":130.9115,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jixian-qixingshan-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park on the northern slope of the Wanda Mountains where Jixian, Lingdong district and Huanan County meet, named for seven rock crags; the highest, at 852.7 m, is billed as the first peak of the Sanjiang Plain. In the 1930s the area was one of the largest bases of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, with camps, an arsenal and a school; a memorial and carved stones mark the mid-slope, a red-tourism hall stands at the foot, and the park also has a film set for a television drama about the army."},{"id":"baoqing-cradle-mountain-ski-resort","name":"Shengjie Cradle Mountain Resort","name_zh":"圣洁摇篮山","pinyin":"Shèngjié Yáolánshān","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.3128,"lon":131.9988,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoqing-cradle-mountain-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski and outdoor-sports resort on the Lishu forest farm in Baoqing County, where the city government says snow lies for about 130 days a year. The ski area has 12 runs from beginner to advanced with a vertical drop of 365 m, and the county government describes the resort as the province's second national-level ski-tourism resort."},{"id":"raohe-sipai-hezhe-park","name":"Sipai Hezhe Folk Park","name_zh":"四排赫哲风情园","pinyin":"Sìpái Hèzhé Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.9598,"lon":134.0559,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=raohe-sipai-hezhe-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A folk park beside the G331 road at Sipai Hezhe Ethnic Township on the Ussuri River, built on about 10 ha with seven main zones. A boat-shaped hall on the Hezhe 'Ussuri Boat Song' and a tent-shaped intangible-heritage centre show clothing, fishing tools and ritual objects, and the visitor centre holds a 44 m fish-skin picture, 'Hezhe Panorama', made from nearly 22,000 salmon skins. A Hezhe river-lantern festival is held in mid-July."},{"id":"raohe-xiaonanshan-site","name":"Xiaonanshan Site and Raohe Museum","name_zh":"小南山遗址","pinyin":"Xiǎonánshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.7979,"lon":134.0207,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=raohe-xiaonanshan-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A saddle-shaped hill beside the Ussuri River at Raohe, where excavations between 2015 and 2021 found Neolithic and Bronze Age remains and burials and more than 200 jade objects, dated to about 9,000 years ago; it was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2019. The finds are shown at the Raohe County Museum at the foot of the hill, which has digital displays on jade-working, and the county also runs a jade-culture plaza and an outdoor video display of the excavation results, and plans a national archaeological site park."},{"id":"baoqing-yanwodao-wetland","name":"Yanwodao Wetland Tourist Area","name_zh":"雁窝岛","pinyin":"Yànwōdǎo","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Shuangyashan","lat":46.7401,"lon":132.8893,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoqing-yanwodao-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland tourist area at the Yanwo Island marsh in northern Baoqing County, beside the 853 state farm in the Beidahuang land-reclamation region. It has an ecology museum, a long zigzag covered walkway, a water park with a boat pier and an exhibition hall on the 'Beidahuang spirit', and a landscape stone carved with the name 'Yanwodao' in the calligraphy of Dong Biwu. The city government also mentions a Jurchen-era site more than 800 years old inside the area."},{"id":"suiling-forestry-bureau-culture-area","name":"Suiling Forestry Bureau Ecological and Cultural Area","name_zh":"绥棱林业局生态文化旅游景区","pinyin":"Suílíng Línyèjú Shēngtài Wénhuà Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Suihua","lat":47.2598,"lon":127.0938,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suiling-forestry-bureau-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The cultural park at the seat of the Suiling forestry bureau, in the south-western foothills of the Lesser Khingan range, built around a steam-powered forest railway. The 'Anti-Japanese United Army' steam train, refitted in 2026, runs past the Plant Kingdom garden, the Dingsheng Garden square, a log-style station and the Suiling Forest Region Museum, which traces the area's logging history. The park also has black-pottery and dough-figure workshops."},{"id":"yichun-huilongwan-forest-park","name":"Huilongwan National Forest Park","name_zh":"回龙湾国家森林公园","pinyin":"Huílóngwān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":47.6061,"lon":129.219,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-huilongwan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park of about 6.4 sq km set up in 1993 on a bend of the Tangwang River in Meixi, enclosed by the river on three sides; local legend makes it the birthplace of a black dragon, which gives the name. Alongside the forest walks, the park hosts a large holiday and recuperation centre built for model workers, whose first phase was finished in 2015."},{"id":"jiayin-dinosaur-national-geopark","name":"Jiayin Dinosaur National Geopark","name_zh":"嘉荫恐龙国家地质公园","pinyin":"Jiāyìn Kǒnglóng Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":48.8526,"lon":130.2439,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayin-dinosaur-national-geopark","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A geopark on Longgushan (Dragon Bone Hill) near the Heilongjiang river, where fossils of the duck-billed dinosaur found in 1902 were among the earliest dinosaur discoveries in China. It has the Jiayin Shenzhou Dinosaur Museum, whose centrepiece is a mother-and-baby hadrosaur skeleton, plus the original excavation site, a Dinosaur Tower, a garden of statues of 24 palaeontologists and dinosaur-themed attractions for children."},{"id":"yichun-jinxiu-shanshui-park","name":"Jinxiu Shanshui Park","name_zh":"锦绣山水公园","pinyin":"Jǐnxiù Shānshuǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":47.7206,"lon":128.849,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-jinxiu-shanshui-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped city park in the urban area of Yichun, laid out with walking paths and planted trees. It is a place for a short walk rather than a major sight."},{"id":"yichun-jiufengshan-yangxin-valley","name":"Jiufengshan Yangxin Valley","name_zh":"九峰山养心谷","pinyin":"Jiǔfēngshān Yǎngxīn Gǔ","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":47.3629,"lon":129.5437,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-jiufengshan-yangxin-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest health resort and small animal park in a mountain-ringed valley in Jinlin district, Yichun. It combines forest walks, flower fields, farm picking and forest-food products, and visitors can feed and approach animals such as deer and squirrels. The valley is one of Yichun's provincial demonstration bases for traditional Chinese medicine health tourism."},{"id":"jiayin-maolangou-forest-park","name":"Maolangou National Forest Park","name_zh":"茅兰沟国家森林公园","pinyin":"Máolángōu Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":49.1098,"lon":129.7581,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayin-maolangou-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested stream valley in Xiangyang township, Jiayin County, close to Maolangou village and listed as a national forest park. Visitors walk along the stream through dense woodland, crossing on stepping stones."},{"id":"tangwang-river-stone-forest","name":"Tangwang River Stone Forest","name_zh":"汤旺河林海奇石","pinyin":"Tāngwànghé Línhǎi Qíshí","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":48.4499,"lon":129.4455,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangwang-river-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest and granite scenic area of about 190 sq km on the Tangwang River in the Lesser Khingan mountains, rated 5A in 2013. More than 100 granite peaks rise out of the woods in what is called a 'granite forest', among streams and old mixed forest. It is the core of a national forest park that is also a granite geopark."},{"id":"tieli-taoshan-taoyuan-lake","name":"Taoyuan Lake, Taoshan","name_zh":"桃山桃源湖","pinyin":"Táoshān Táoyuán Hú","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":46.8685,"lon":128.2462,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tieli-taoshan-taoyuan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest lake near Taoshan town in Tieli, with outdoor hot-spring pools, a hotel, a forest trail and winter activities on the snow and ice. The hot springs are promoted for soaking in the snow, so winter is its best-known season, and the resort is among China's first national forest wellness bases."},{"id":"tieli-toulong-mountain","name":"Toulong Mountain","name_zh":"透龙山","pinyin":"Tòulóng Shān","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":47.1708,"lon":128.3585,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tieli-toulong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small hill on the southern slope of the Lesser Khingan range, named for two caves facing each other beside a waterfall; its 'nine peaks and eighteen sights' include Mandarin Duck Tree, Immortal Maiden Cave and Crouching Tiger Peak. Timber lodges at the foot offer dining, entertainment and rooms, and the site stages a winter outdoor drama about the anti-Japanese united army and performances of Khingan logging songs. It joined the 4A list in 2024."},{"id":"yichun-wuying-national-forest-park","name":"Wuying National Forest Park","name_zh":"五营国家森林公园","pinyin":"Wǔyíng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":48.2434,"lon":129.2084,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-wuying-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park at Wuying in the Lesser Khingan range, in the part of Yichun known as the 'home of the Korean pine', also promoted as the Wuying Red Pine Sea scenic area. Boardwalks run through old Korean pine forest, which is at its most colourful in autumn. The park was among the third batch of national AAAA-rated tourist areas in 2002."},{"id":"yichun-xiling-forest-resort","name":"Xiling Forest Eco-Resort","name_zh":"西岭森林生态旅游度假区","pinyin":"Xīlǐng Sēnlín Shēngtài Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":47.4106,"lon":128.7037,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-xiling-forest-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest tourism and holiday area at the former Xiling forest farm in Wucui district, with homestay and hotel accommodation, a hot-spring hotel and forest-wellness programmes among woodland. On nearby Guokui Mountain a memorial marks the former site of the Communist Party's North Manchuria Provincial Committee. It is somewhere to stay for a few days rather than a sight to visit for an hour."},{"id":"fenglin-xinqing-wetland-park","name":"Xinqing National Wetland Park","name_zh":"新青国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Xīnqīng Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":48.319,"lon":129.5765,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenglin-xinqing-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 4,490-hectare wetland park of peat bog and marsh near Xinqing town in Fenglin County, set up in 2007 and accepted as a national wetland park in 2013. It is a breeding ground of the hooded crane (white-headed crane), with about 150 returning each spring from late March or early April, so spring is the time to go."},{"id":"yichun-xishui-national-forest-park","name":"Xishui National Forest Park","name_zh":"溪水国家森林公园","pinyin":"Xīshuǐ Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"230000","region":"Heilongjiang","city":"Yichun","lat":47.9083,"lon":129.0252,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-xishui-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the Xishui forest area of the Shangganling forestry bureau, in the Lesser Khingan mountains of Youhao district. It has a visitor centre, themed hiking routes through the forest and forest-wellness activities such as forest meditation, and is popular for autumn colour. It works as a short half-day trip from Yichun city."},{"id":"hongkou-1933-old-millfun","name":"1933 Old Millfun","name_zh":"1933老场坊","pinyin":"1933 Lǎochǎngfāng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2566,"lon":121.4879,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongkou-1933-old-millfun","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former abattoir of the Shanghai Municipal Council, a reinforced-concrete complex completed in 1933 and described as the largest slaughterhouse in Shanghai at the time. Restored and reopened in 2007 as a creative complex, its curved stairways, thick walls and bridged walkways now hold shops, cafés, restaurants and event spaces open to the public."},{"id":"shanghai-bicester-village","name":"Bicester Village Shanghai","name_zh":"比斯特上海购物村","pinyin":"Bǐsītè Shànghǎi Gòuwùcūn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1414,"lon":121.6759,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghai-bicester-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An outlet shopping village beside Shanghai Disney Resort, opened in 2016 as Shanghai Village, with about 200 boutiques selling discounted fashion and lifestyle brands. Its low-rise buildings in a 1920s Art Deco style curve around Xingyuan (Star Wish) Lake, where short boat rides run in fine weather, and cafés and restaurants line the lakeside. It suits shoppers and makes an easy add-on to a Disney visit."},{"id":"fengxian-bihai-jinsha","name":"Bihai Jinsha (Sunny Beach)","name_zh":"碧海金沙","pinyin":"Bìhǎi Jīnshā","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.821,"lon":121.5538,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-bihai-jinsha","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seaside leisure area on Hangzhou Bay, one of Shanghai's few beaches, where a sea wall encloses a sheltered stretch of water behind an artificial beach of sand brought from Hainan. The city's visitor site lists about 60,000 square metres of swimming area, used mainly from June to September, with seafood and barbecue restaurants and water sports such as windsurfing and kayaking, and it suits a family day by the sea."},{"id":"jinshan-caojing-shuike","name":"Caojing Shuike Scenic Area","name_zh":"漕泾水窠","pinyin":"Cáojīng Shuǐkē","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.8267,"lon":121.3916,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinshan-caojing-shuike","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A water-village scenic area in Caojing town centred on Shuiku village, where 41 rivers and canals and more than 70 islands and peninsulas make up about 40 per cent of the village's area. Visitors take boat trips, kayak or paddleboard, walk the reed marshes and woods of Caojing Country Park and eat river food in the village, and it suits a slow day in the countryside."},{"id":"shanghai-century-park","name":"Century Park","name_zh":"世纪公园","pinyin":"Shìjì Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.218,"lon":121.5469,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-century-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park of about 140 hectares of lakes, lawns and woodland at the end of Century Avenue in Pudong, designed by the British consultancy LUC, opened in 2000 and described as the largest naturalistic park inside Shanghai's Inner Ring Road. It is laid out in seven areas, including a lakeside area, a bird-protection zone and an 'exotic' garden area, with small sights such as a flower clock and a music fountain, boating and bicycles for hire, and makes a quiet break next to the science museum."},{"id":"putuo-changfeng-park","name":"Changfeng Park and Changfeng Ocean World","name_zh":"长风公园","pinyin":"Chángfēng Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2267,"lon":121.3947,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putuo-changfeng-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large landscaped park in Putuo, opened in 1959 around the artificial Yinchu Lake and Tiebi Hill. Its northern half reopened in October 2026 after nearly two years of renovation, with several gates and stretches of boundary wall removed and the old 'Path of the Brave' adventure trail rebuilt on Black Pine Hill. Changfeng Ocean World, an aquarium opened in 1999 beneath the lake's west shore, shows rays, penguins and other marine life."},{"id":"changxing-island-country-park","name":"Changxing Island Country Park","name_zh":"长兴岛郊野公园","pinyin":"Chángxīng Dǎo Jiāoyě Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.4066,"lon":121.7045,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changxing-island-country-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of Shanghai's first seven country parks, opened in 2016 on Changxing Island in the Yangtze estuary beside the Qingcaosha Reservoir; its first phase covers 5.58 km². It is a farmland landscape of orange groves, rose and flower fields, orchards and a lotus garden, with kayaking and paddleboarding on Huaxi Lake in summer and a former farm barracks converted into the 'Qianwei 1966' area."},{"id":"qingpu-chen-yun-memorial-liantang","name":"Chen Yun Memorial Hall and Liantang Ancient Town","name_zh":"陈云故里·练塘古镇","pinyin":"Chén Yún Gùlǐ · Liàntáng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0099,"lon":121.0404,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingpu-chen-yun-memorial-liantang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial complex opened in 2000 in Liantang, the home town of the senior Chinese Communist Party leader Chen Yun (1905–1995), and renamed Chen Yun Memorial Hall in 2013. It brings together a bronze statue square, exhibition halls on his life, a hall of his personal relics, his restored former residence and a corridor of stelae carved with his handwriting, and the scenic area also takes in the canal-side streets of Liantang's old town."},{"id":"shanghai-china-maritime-museum","name":"China Maritime Museum","name_zh":"中国航海博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Hánghǎi Bówùguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.8983,"lon":121.9159,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-china-maritime-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"China's national maritime museum, opened in 2010 beside Dishui Lake in Lingang, in a building whose central roof is shaped like a white sail. Six halls cover navigation history, ships, ports, maritime safety, seafarers and naval history, and the central hall holds a full-size replica of a Ming-dynasty Fujian-type sailing ship modelled on those of Zheng He's fleets. It suits anyone interested in ships and China's seafaring past."},{"id":"chongming-dongping-national-forest-park","name":"Dongping National Forest Park","name_zh":"东平国家森林公园","pinyin":"Dōngpíng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.6768,"lon":121.4815,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongming-dongping-national-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 3.55 km² planted forest on reclaimed land in northern Chongming, begun as a state forest farm in 1959 and opened to visitors in 1989. Paths run through dawn redwoods around Shuishan Lake to themed gardens of bamboo, maples, osmanthus, plum and cherry and a wisteria walk about a kilometre long, and there is an RV and camping area with barbecue grounds."},{"id":"chongming-dongtan-wetland-park","name":"Dongtan Wetland Park","name_zh":"东滩湿地公园","pinyin":"Dōngtān Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.5179,"lon":121.935,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongming-dongtan-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park opened in 2010 at the eastern tip of Chongming Island, beside the Chongming Dongtan bird reserve, which became part of a UNESCO World Heritage site for migratory-bird habitats in 2024. Its wetlands lie on a major migration route for waterbirds, and summer nature programmes cover insects, Chinese alligators and stargazing."},{"id":"sjtu-xuhui-early-buildings","name":"Early Buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus)","name_zh":"上海交通大学早期建筑","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Jiāotōng Dàxué Zǎoqī Jiànzhù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.201,"lon":121.4301,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sjtu-xuhui-early-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of the university's Xuhui campus, where Nanyang Public School was founded in 1896, with a group of teaching and administration buildings from 1899 to the 1950s. They include Zhongyuan of 1899, the Old Library of 1919 with its Corinthian columns, the 1925 gymnasium, the 1933 administration hall and New Shangyuan of 1954."},{"id":"songjiang-fangta-park","name":"Fangta Park (Square Pagoda)","name_zh":"方塔园","pinyin":"Fāngtǎ Yuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0066,"lon":121.2417,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songjiang-fangta-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park laid out from 1978 by the architect Feng Jizhong around the Square Pagoda, a nine-storey brick-and-timber pagoda built under the Northern Song in the late 11th century and the only survivor of the Xingshengjiao Temple. Around it stand a carved brick screen wall of 1370 from the old prefectural City God Temple, the Tianfei Palace moved here from Henan Road in the late 1970s, a Ming hall, and Feng's bamboo-and-thatch pavilion He Lou Xuan, whose restoration won a UNESCO Asia-Pacific heritage award in 2024."},{"id":"jinshan-fengjing-ancient-town","name":"Fengjing Ancient Town","name_zh":"枫泾古镇","pinyin":"Fēngjīng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.8895,"lon":121.0131,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinshan-fengjing-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town on Shanghai's south-western border with Zhejiang, founded in the Yuan dynasty, whose old streets of Ming- and Qing-style houses are crossed by dozens of bridges, the oldest being the Yuan-era Zhihe Bridge. Small museums remember local figures such as the painter Cheng Shifa and the cartoonist Ding Cong, and the town is the home of Jinshan peasant painting; the Legoland Shanghai resort, opened in 2025, is nearby."},{"id":"huangpu-socialist-youth-league-site","name":"Former Headquarters of the Socialist Youth League of China (Yuyangli)","name_zh":"中国社会主义青年团中央机关旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Shèhuìzhǔyì Qīngniántuán Zhōngyāng Jīguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.222,"lon":121.4638,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangpu-socialist-youth-league-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shikumen lane house at No. 6 New Yuyangli, off Middle Huaihai Road, where the Shanghai Socialist Youth League was founded in August 1920 and where the league's central office and a Foreign Languages School teaching Russian were based until 1921. The Comintern envoy Voitinsky also lodged here, and the house, with its rooms restored to their 1920–21 arrangement, forms part of a memorial hall opened in 2004."},{"id":"yangpu-hujiang-university-buildings","name":"Former Hujiang University Buildings","name_zh":"沪江大学近代建筑","pinyin":"Hùjiāng Dàxué Jìndài Jiànzhù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2955,"lon":121.5519,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangpu-hujiang-university-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former campus of Hujiang University (University of Shanghai), a Baptist missionary college founded in 1906 and closed in 1952, with a campus plan drawn up in 1919 by the American architect Henry Murphy's firm. About 35 of its roughly 60 pre-1949 buildings survive, many in red-brick Collegiate Gothic style, including Yates Hall of 1909, and they are now used by the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology on its riverside Jungong Road campus."},{"id":"shanghai-sun-yat-sen-residence","name":"Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen","name_zh":"上海孙中山故居","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Sūn Zhōngshān Gùjū","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.218,"lon":121.4632,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-sun-yat-sen-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The two-storey grey house on Xiangshan Road (formerly Rue Molière) in the old French Concession where Sun Yat-sen lived with Soong Ching-ling from 1918 to 1924, after four overseas Chinese in Canada bought it for him; Soong stayed on until 1937. The ground-floor reception and dining rooms and the upstairs study and bedrooms are shown as a period home, and a neighbouring exhibition presents Sun's life with documents and objects."},{"id":"pudong-zhang-wentian-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhang Wentian","name_zh":"张闻天故居","pinyin":"Zhāng Wéntiān Gùjū","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1338,"lon":121.7586,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pudong-zhang-wentian-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace and childhood home of Zhang Wentian, born here in 1900, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party who served as its general secretary and later as a vice-minister of foreign affairs. The single-storey farmhouse round a three-sided courtyard was built by his family in the late Qing dynasty, and an exhibition room on his life has been open since 1990."},{"id":"shanghai-zhou-gongguan","name":"Former Residence of Zhou Enlai (Zhou Gongguan)","name_zh":"周公馆","pinyin":"Zhōu Gōngguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2142,"lon":121.4685,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-zhou-gongguan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 1920s Spanish-style garden house at 73 Sinan Road that served in 1946–47 as the Shanghai office of the Chinese Communist Party delegation during its negotiations with the Nationalist government, with Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao and Dong Biwu living and working here. Restored as a memorial from 1979, it shows the rooms as they were used at the time, with a bronze statue of Zhou in the courtyard next door, and it reopened in July 2024 after renovation."},{"id":"qingpu-fuquanshan-site","name":"Fuquanshan Site","name_zh":"福泉山遗址","pinyin":"Fúquánshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2026,"lon":121.1723,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingpu-fuquanshan-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 7.5-metre man-made mound in Chonggu town, raised by people of the Neolithic Liangzhu culture as a high-status cemetery on top of an older Songze settlement and nicknamed the 'Eastern Pyramid'. Excavations since 1982 have recovered more than 2,800 objects, including jade cong, ivory sceptres and a burial with evidence of human sacrifice, and the mound is open to visitors as a heritage site."},{"id":"chongming-gaojiazhuang-eco-park","name":"Gaojiazhuang Eco-Park","name_zh":"高家庄生态园","pinyin":"Gāojiāzhuāng Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.6814,"lon":121.4223,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongming-gaojiazhuang-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eco-farm leisure park in Gangxi town on Chongming Island, with a lake, gardens, pick-your-own orchards and farm-style accommodation. Boating, cycling and fishing are the usual activities, and it suits families looking for a rural day out."},{"id":"yangpu-gongqing-forest-park","name":"Gongqing Forest Park","name_zh":"共青森林公园","pinyin":"Gòngqīng Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.3218,"lon":121.5458,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangpu-gongqing-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park beside the Huangpu in north-east Yangpu, planted from the 1950s by volunteer youth on dredged-up riverbank land and opened as a park in 1986. The northern part has woods, lawns and a lake with an amusement area, barbecue grounds and horse riding, while the southern Wanzhu Garden shows dozens of bamboo species among Jiangnan-style buildings."},{"id":"songjiang-guangfulin","name":"Guangfulin Culture Park","name_zh":"广富林文化遗址","pinyin":"Guǎngfùlín Wénhuà Yízhǐ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0639,"lon":121.1938,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songjiang-guangfulin/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A culture park opened in 2018 on the Guangfulin archaeological site, where excavations since 1999 have uncovered remains from the late Neolithic to the Eastern Zhou, including those of the Guangfulin culture, named in 2006. The site's archaeological museum (opened 2020), shaped like half-buried pots, and the partly water-set Guangfulin Cultural Museum present the finds, while the rest of the park is a newly built complex of temples, halls and lakeside buildings in traditional style."},{"id":"baoshan-gucun-park","name":"Gucun Park","name_zh":"顾村公园","pinyin":"Gùcūn Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.3436,"lon":121.3721,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoshan-gucun-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large park in Gucun, Baoshan, opened in 2009, with woods, lawns, lakes and themed gardens. It is best known for its cherry trees: the Shanghai Cherry Blossom Festival has been held here every spring since 2011."},{"id":"nanxiang-guyi-garden","name":"Guyi Garden","name_zh":"古猗园","pinyin":"Gǔyī Yuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2938,"lon":121.3119,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanxiang-guyi-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of Shanghai's five classical gardens, begun in the Ming dynasty's Jiajing era and renamed Guyi Yuan after a new owner bought and enlarged it in 1746, with bamboo planted throughout. Its sights include the Yiye Hall, a lotus pond with a Song-dynasty pagoda, a Tang sutra pillar brought here in the 1950s, and a pavilion built in 1933 with one corner left missing to mark the loss of north-east China in 1931. The garden is also linked with the origins of Nanxiang xiaolongbao soup dumplings."},{"id":"happy-valley-shanghai","name":"Happy Valley Shanghai","name_zh":"上海欢乐谷","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Huānlè Gǔ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0983,"lon":121.2138,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/happy-valley-shanghai/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park of the Happy Valley chain, opened in 2009 in the Sheshan resort area and covering about 65 hectares, according to the city's visitor site. Its seven themed zones hold roller coasters, among them a 60-metre floorless drop coaster and a 1,200-metre wooden coaster, a 30-metre shoot-the-chute water ride and stage shows, and it suits families and thrill-ride fans."},{"id":"shanghai-holy-trinity-church","name":"Holy Trinity Church","name_zh":"圣三一堂","pinyin":"Shèng Sānyī Táng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2384,"lon":121.4818,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-holy-trinity-church/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-brick Gothic Revival church on Jiujiang Road, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and consecrated in 1869, which served Shanghai's English-speaking Anglicans and was known locally as the Red Church. After decades of other uses, including as a cinema during the Cultural Revolution, it was restored and reopened for worship in December 2022 as a church of China's national Protestant bodies."},{"id":"fengxian-huating-seawall","name":"Huating Seawall (Fengxian Section)","name_zh":"华亭海塘","pinyin":"Huátíng Hǎitáng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.8307,"lon":121.4738,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengxian-huating-seawall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone sea wall begun in 1726 under the Yongzheng emperor to protect old Huating county from the tides of Hangzhou Bay, built with interlocking 'fish-scale' courses of dressed stone and later strengthened and encased in earth. About 4.5 km of it was uncovered in 1996 when Fengzhe Road, which runs on top of it, was lowered, and the exposed blocks, some carved with builders' names and blessings, can be seen along the roadside in Zhelin town."},{"id":"jiading-old-town-zhouqiao","name":"Jiading Old Town (Zhouqiao)","name_zh":"嘉定州桥","pinyin":"Jiādìng Zhōuqiáo","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.3864,"lon":121.2463,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiading-old-town-zhouqiao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of Jiading, a county town since 1217, where canals and old streets around the Zhouqiao bridge lead to the Southern Song Fahua Pagoda, the Ming garden Qiuxia Pu and Huilongtan Park. The scenic area also takes in the Jiading Confucian Temple, founded in 1219 and described by the city as one of China's well-preserved county-level Confucian temples, which reopened in September 2024 after restoration."},{"id":"chongming-jiangnan-sanmin-culture-village","name":"Jiangnan Sanmin Culture Village","name_zh":"江南三民文化村","pinyin":"Jiāngnán Sānmín Wénhuà Cūn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.7199,"lon":121.4941,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongming-jiangnan-sanmin-culture-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A folk-culture park in central Chongming built around the traditional customs of the Jiangnan region and Chongming's local crafts. Its halls include a Chinese Dragon Palace with a 36-metre dragon made from about 5,000 carved boards, museums of Chongming homespun cloth, carved boards and longevity customs, and a street of small halls showing old household objects."},{"id":"shanghai-jin-mao-tower-observation-deck","name":"Jin Mao Tower 88th-Floor Observation Deck","name_zh":"金茂大厦88层观光厅","pinyin":"Jīnmào Dàshà Bāshíbā Céng Guānguāngtīng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2372,"lon":121.5014,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-jin-mao-tower-observation-deck/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The observation deck on the 88th floor of the 420-metre Jin Mao Tower, a pagoda-inspired Lujiazui skyscraper completed in 1999, about 340 metres above the street. Besides views of the Bund and the taller towers next door, it looks straight down into the Grand Hyatt hotel's atrium, which rises through the building's upper floors, and an open-air skywalk runs round the outside of the tower at this level."},{"id":"jinshan-city-beach","name":"Jinshan City Beach","name_zh":"金山城市沙滩","pinyin":"Jīnshān Chéngshì Shātān","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.7109,"lon":121.3456,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinshan-city-beach","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A man-made beach on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, opened in 2006 between two older seaside bathing grounds, with about 160,000 square metres of sand, a swimming area and a 1.5 km seaside promenade. Swimming is open from late June to early September; at other times visitors come for the sand, boat rides, horse riding, go-karts and beach sports, and it suits a family day by the sea."},{"id":"jinshan-jinshanzui-fishing-village","name":"Jinshanzui Fishing Village","name_zh":"金山嘴渔村","pinyin":"Jīnshānzuǐ Yúcūn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.7359,"lon":121.3697,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinshan-jinshanzui-fishing-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A working fishing village on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, said to be the only village in Shanghai that still sends boats out to sea. Visitors walk Jinshanzui Old Street and eat seafood at the restaurants of its seafood street and food court, and it suits a relaxed seaside lunch combined with Jinshan City Beach."},{"id":"qingpu-jinze-ancient-town","name":"Jinze Ancient Town","name_zh":"金泽古镇","pinyin":"Jīnzé Gǔzhèn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0362,"lon":120.9163,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingpu-jinze-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small canal town in western Qingpu near the Jiangsu and Zhejiang borders, once known for its many temples and bridges, of which 21 old bridges survive. The Puji and Wan'an bridges, both from the Southern Song dynasty, are regarded as the oldest stone arch bridges in Shanghai, and Yihao Temple beside the old streets was founded in 1260."},{"id":"jinshan-langxia-country-park","name":"Langxia Country Park","name_zh":"廊下郊野公园","pinyin":"Lángxià Jiāoyě Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.7848,"lon":121.1519,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinshan-langxia-country-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A country park among farmland and villages in Langxia town, southern Jinshan, opened in 2015, where white-walled, black-tiled houses in local style line the lanes and events such as half marathons and cycling races are held through the year. It takes in Shantang Old Street, a village street whose bridge crosses into Zhejiang, and farmhouse restaurants and guesthouses in Zhonghua village, and suits a day out in the countryside."},{"id":"qingpu-lianyi-loquat-park","name":"Lianyi Loquat Park","name_zh":"联怡枇杷乐园","pinyin":"Liányí Pípá Lèyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1283,"lon":121.1189,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingpu-lianyi-loquat-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farm park on the edge of Qingpu New City named after its large loquat orchard, where the fruit can be picked during a season of about three weeks in early summer. Greenhouses grow tropical fruit such as wax apples, dragon fruit and mangoes for picking, and a farm restaurant reached through the orchard, wooden cabins and an RV campsite make it a family weekend spot."},{"id":"longhua-martyrs-cemetery","name":"Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"龙华烈士陵园","pinyin":"Lónghuá Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1776,"lon":121.4443,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longhua-martyrs-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large memorial park beside Longhua Temple that takes in the former Songhu Garrison Command of the Nationalist government, where Communists and left-wing activists were imprisoned and executed between 1927 and 1937, among them 24 people shot on 7 February 1931, including five writers of the League of Left-Wing Writers. The listed memorial site in its north-east corner keeps the 1920 gatehouse, the men's and women's cell blocks and the execution ground, and a memorial hall opened in 1997 presents this history."},{"id":"shanghai-longhua-pagoda","name":"Longhua Pagoda","name_zh":"龙华塔","pinyin":"Lónghuá Tǎ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1756,"lon":121.4473,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-longhua-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal seven-storey brick-and-wood pagoda whose main structure was built in 977 under the Wuyue king Qian Chu, in the early Northern Song, standing across Longhua Road from Longhua Temple. Later additions were removed in the 1950s and the pagoda was restored to its Song form; it is not open to climb, and is usually seen together with a visit to the temple."},{"id":"madame-tussauds-shanghai","name":"Madame Tussauds Shanghai","name_zh":"上海杜莎夫人蜡像馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Dùshā Fūrén Làxiàngguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2365,"lon":121.469,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=madame-tussauds-shanghai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A branch of the Madame Tussauds wax museum chain on the tenth floor of the New World department store at the People's Square end of Nanjing Road, opened in 2006. Its figures of Chinese and international film and music stars, athletes, scientists and world leaders are arranged in themed zones, and it suits families and fans of Chinese pop culture."},{"id":"jingan-marble-hall-childrens-palace","name":"Marble Hall (China Welfare Institute Children's Palace)","name_zh":"中福会少年宫","pinyin":"Zhōngfúhuì Shàoniángōng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.223,"lon":121.4389,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingan-marble-hall-childrens-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mansion completed in 1924 for the British Jewish businessman Sir Elly Kadoorie, nicknamed the Marble Hall for the Italian marble on its walls, floors and staircases. Since 1953 it has housed the China Welfare Institute Children's Palace, founded by Soong Ching Ling, so visitors see the building from outside on Yan'an West Road."},{"id":"minhang-cultural-park","name":"Minhang Cultural Park","name_zh":"闵行文化公园","pinyin":"Mǐnháng Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1653,"lon":121.3563,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minhang-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped city park in Qibao, Minhang, opened in stages from 2013, with lawns, a lake and wetland, magnolia and camphor groves and an orchard. It also contains the Minhang Museum, opened in 2019, whose permanent galleries include one on the Maqiao culture of about 3,900 to 3,200 years ago, first identified at Maqiao in the same district, and the Powerlong Museum of art, opened in 2017."},{"id":"jingan-moller-villa","name":"Moller Villa","name_zh":"马勒别墅","pinyin":"Mǎlè Biéshù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.225,"lon":121.452,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingan-moller-villa","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Scandinavian-style villa enlarged from an older house for the Swedish-born shipping owner Eric Moller and finished in the mid-1930s, with steep brown-tiled gables, spires and turrets behind a walled garden. Since 2002 it has been run as the Hengshan Moller Villa hotel, so non-guests see it from the street and the hotel lobby."},{"id":"sheshan-moon-lake-sculpture-park","name":"Moon Lake Sculpture Park","name_zh":"月湖雕塑公园","pinyin":"Yuèhú Diāosù Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.103,"lon":121.2009,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheshan-moon-lake-sculpture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A sculpture park in the Sheshan resort area, laid out around the artificial Moon Lake with shores themed on the four seasons. Sculptures by artists from China and abroad stand in the lawns and woods, and the park suits an unhurried walk combined with a visit to the Sheshan hills nearby."},{"id":"nanxiang-old-town","name":"Nanxiang Old Town","name_zh":"南翔古镇","pinyin":"Nánxiáng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.293,"lon":121.3035,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanxiang-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town known as the home of xiaolongbao soup dumplings, whose restored old streets centre on the Twin Pagodas, a pair of small Five Dynasties–Northern Song brick pagodas imitating timber buildings that face each other across a street. In front of them are two ancient wells excavated during the street renovation that began in 2008, and nearby is Liuyun Chan Temple, still widely called Yunxiang Temple, rebuilt in 1998–2004 on the site of the old Nanxiang Temple."},{"id":"north-bund-cruise-terminal","name":"North Bund International Cruise Terminal","name_zh":"北外滩国客中心","pinyin":"Běi Wàitān Guókè Zhōngxīn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2483,"lon":121.4924,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/north-bund-cruise-terminal/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The riverside grounds of the Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal, now officially the North Bund International Passenger Center, built on the site of 19th-century wharves and brought into service between 2006 and 2009. Its lawns and riverside promenade are open to the public, look across the Huangpu to the Lujiazui skyline and are used for outdoor events and brand launches."},{"id":"qingpu-oriental-land","name":"Oriental Land","name_zh":"东方绿舟","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Lǜzhōu","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1011,"lon":121.0186,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingpu-oriental-land/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large outdoor activity camp and park in Qingpu run for Shanghai's school students since 2002, which also admits the public. Among its lakes and woods are a full-size replica of a US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with exhibition halls, an avenue lined with statues of scientists and thinkers, an island of rare plants and a course of 18 swing and wave bridges. It suits families with children."},{"id":"shanghai-park-hotel","name":"Park Hotel","name_zh":"国际饭店","pinyin":"Guójì Fàndiàn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2356,"lon":121.467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-park-hotel/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An Art Deco tower on Nanjing Road West, designed by Ladislav Hudec and completed in 1934 for the Joint Savings Society, which remained Shanghai's tallest building until the 1980s and is the origin point of the city's survey coordinate grid. It is still a working hotel, so visitors see the dark-brick and black-granite exterior and the restored Art Deco lobby."},{"id":"minhang-pujiang-country-park","name":"Pujiang Country Park","name_zh":"浦江郊野公园","pinyin":"Pǔjiāng Jiāoyě Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0573,"lon":121.506,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/minhang-pujiang-country-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of Shanghai's first five pilot country parks, opened in 2017 on woods, farmland and waterways along the east bank of the Huangpu River in Pujiang, Minhang. It is split by roads into separate sections, among them the Miracle Garden with its large spring flower displays, forest areas, a farmland section named for its willows and egrets and a riverside promenade, and it suits families and anyone after a green day out near the city."},{"id":"chongming-qianwei-eco-village","name":"Qianwei Eco-Village","name_zh":"前卫村","pinyin":"Qiánwèi Cūn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.719,"lon":121.5059,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongming-qianwei-eco-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farming village in Shuxin town on Chongming that began hosting farm-stay (nongjiale) tourism in 1999 and now forms the Haishang Huadao ('Flower Island') scenic area, with rose fields, lawns, a rose-themed garden and hotel, and children's play areas. Its Xiyuan Garden displays Ming and Qing carvings and old wooden beds on the theme of traditional Chinese weddings, and many of the village's former farmhouse inns have become boutique guesthouses."},{"id":"minhang-qibao-old-town","name":"Qibao Old Town","name_zh":"七宝古镇","pinyin":"Qībǎo Gǔzhèn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1536,"lon":121.3501,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/minhang-qibao-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town on the Puhuitang River in western Minhang, which had taken shape by the Northern Song and is usually said to be named after its Qibao Temple. Its old streets on both sides of the river are now a busy shopping and snack street, with small attractions such as the memorial hall of the painter Zhang Chongren, Hergé's friend and the model for Chang in The Adventures of Tintin, and a house devoted to Qibao's fighting crickets."},{"id":"qingpu-qinglong-town-site","name":"Qinglong Town Site and Qinglong Pagoda","name_zh":"青龙镇遗址","pinyin":"Qīnglóngzhèn Yízhǐ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2413,"lon":121.1699,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingpu-qinglong-town-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of Qinglong Town, a port founded in 746 that was Shanghai's main harbour for overseas trade in the Tang and Song dynasties until its river silted up. Most of the site lies under fields and villages, and the thing to see is the Qinglong Pagoda beside Qinglong Temple: a seven-storey brick pagoda rebuilt in the Northern Song that survives as a hollow shell about 30 metres high, without its eaves or spire."},{"id":"jingan-second-cpc-congress-memorial","name":"Second CPC National Congress Memorial","name_zh":"中共二大会址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Èrdà Huìzhǐ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2262,"lon":121.462,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingan-second-cpc-congress-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The shikumen house where the Chinese Communist Party held part of its Second National Congress in July 1922, then the home of the early party member Li Da; the congress adopted the party's first constitution and manifesto. The memorial hall, opened in 2002 and enlarged in 2009, also covers the site of the Pingmin Girls' School behind it, and forms part of the scenic area of the First, Second and Fourth Congress memorials."},{"id":"anting-shanghai-auto-museum","name":"Shanghai Auto Expo Park and Auto Museum","name_zh":"上海汽车博览公园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Qìchē Bólǎn Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2805,"lon":121.1658,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anting-shanghai-auto-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 76-hectare lakeside park in Anting's International Automobile City, completed in 2006 around the Shanghai Auto Museum, which opened in 2007 and is described by the city as China's first specialised car museum. Since a 2022 refit the museum's first three floors trace the history of the motor car with more than 100 vehicles from around 50 makers, and the top floor is a car-themed play area for children."},{"id":"baoshan-folk-art-museum","name":"Shanghai Baoshan International Folk Art Museum","name_zh":"上海宝山国际民间艺术博览馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Bǎoshān Guójì Mínjiān Yìshù Bólǎnguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.346,"lon":121.3855,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoshan-folk-art-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum of folk art and folk customs from China and other countries, opened in October 2010 in a building whose design is based on a Chinese knot. It stands at the edge of Gucun Park and pairs easily with a walk there."},{"id":"jinshan-blooming-garden","name":"Shanghai Blooming Garden","name_zh":"花开海上生态园","pinyin":"Huākāi Hǎishàng Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.8895,"lon":121.1154,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinshan-blooming-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park of about 87 hectares spread over small islands west of Zhujing town, with four zones: a sea of flowers, a plum garden, a fragrance garden and an autumn garden. Plum blossom covers the islands in early spring, lilies, sunflowers, hydrangeas and lotus follow in summer and maples colour in autumn, and children can ride horses, take boats and use the play slides."},{"id":"shanghai-botanical-garden","name":"Shanghai Botanical Garden","name_zh":"上海植物园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1478,"lon":121.4381,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large botanical garden in southern Xuhui, opened to the public in 1978 on the site of the former Longhua nursery, with themed sections for penjing (Chinese bonsai), peonies, magnolias, roses, osmanthus, conifers, maples and bamboo, plus an orchid house and a tropical glasshouse. The penjing garden is particularly well known, and the garden holds flower shows every spring and autumn."},{"id":"shanghai-chenshan-botanical-garden","name":"Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden","name_zh":"上海辰山植物园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Chénshān Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0764,"lon":121.1783,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-chenshan-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shanghai's second botanical garden and its largest, opened in 2010–2011 around Chenshan hill and covering 207 hectares. Its central display area has more than 20 themed gardens, among them one set in a former quarry pit, and large exhibition glasshouses, while the wooded hill is kept for conserving native plants. In 2026 the State Council approved its upgrade to Shanghai Chenshan National Botanical Garden."},{"id":"yangpu-shanghai-fashion-center","name":"Shanghai Fashion Center","name_zh":"上海国际时尚中心","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Guójì Shíshàng Zhōngxīn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2725,"lon":121.5543,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangpu-shanghai-fashion-center","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fashion and shopping complex in the former Yufeng cotton mill on the Yangpu riverside, whose saw-tooth-roofed brick sheds were built by a Japanese textile company between 1922 and 1935 and ran as a state cotton mill until 2007. Converted between 2010 and 2012, it now holds catwalk venues, designer studios, fashion shops, restaurants and the Zotter Chocolate Theatre, with a riverside walk along the old dock."},{"id":"songjiang-shanghai-film-park","name":"Shanghai Film Park","name_zh":"上海影视乐园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Yǐngshì Lèyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0122,"lon":121.3103,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songjiang-shanghai-film-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film and television studio lot built by the Shanghai Film Studio in Chedun, with streets and buildings recreating old Shanghai, opened to visitors in 2000. Period dramas are regularly shot here, and since July 2024 visitors can also walk the replica of Huanghe Road built for the TV series Blossoms Shanghai."},{"id":"shanghai-flower-port","name":"Shanghai Flower Port","name_zh":"上海鲜花港","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Xiānhuāgǎng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.9464,"lon":121.8984,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghai-flower-port","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large flower park near the East China Sea coast in Pudong's Lingang area, best known for its spring tulip show of about 3.2 million bulbs in more than 500 varieties. The tulips usually bloom from late March to early May, with flowers on show through the rest of the year, and the park reopened in March 2024 after an upgrade that added new garden areas."},{"id":"hongkou-general-post-office","name":"Shanghai General Post Office","name_zh":"上海邮政总局","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Yóuzhèng Zǒngjú","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2464,"lon":121.48,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hongkou-general-post-office/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shanghai's head post office, completed in 1924 on the north bank of Suzhou Creek to a classical design by Stewardson & Spence, with giant Corinthian columns and a corner clock tower crowned by statues of Hermes, Eros and Aphrodite. Part of the building houses the Shanghai Postal Museum, which reopened in December 2024 after new displays were installed, while a working post office still occupies part of the old main hall."},{"id":"qingpu-shanghai-grand-view-garden","name":"Shanghai Grand View Garden","name_zh":"上海大观园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Dàguānyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0742,"lon":120.9087,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingpu-shanghai-grand-view-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large garden of traditional-style halls and courtyards on the west shore of Dianshan Lake, built from 1979 and opened in 1988 to recreate the Grand View Garden described in the Qing novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Its courtyards are named after the characters' residences in the novel, such as Baoyu's Yihong Court and Daiyu's Xiaoxiang Lodge, and the grounds add a large plum grove and a modern seven-storey pagoda. It is a modern re-creation rather than a historic garden and suits readers of the novel."},{"id":"shanghai-haichang-ocean-park","name":"Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park","name_zh":"上海海昌海洋公园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Hǎichāng Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.9154,"lon":121.9024,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghai-haichang-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A marine theme park beside Dishui Lake in Lingang, opened in 2018 by Haichang Ocean Park Holdings, with one half themed as a polar tundra under an artificial snowy mountain and the other as a tropical island with a volcano. It combines aquarium and animal exhibits, rides such as a launch roller coaster and a river-rapids ride, and staged shows with killer whales and other marine animals. It suits families with children and fills a full day."},{"id":"fengxian-haiwan-national-forest-park","name":"Shanghai Haiwan National Forest Park","name_zh":"上海海湾国家森林公园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Hǎiwān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.8691,"lon":121.6745,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-haiwan-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A planted forest park of more than 1,000 hectares in Haiwan town, Fengxian, begun in 1999, whose lakes, woods and meadows hold more than 300 species of trees. It has an amusement area, a water-sports area and a dozen cultural exhibition areas, and its 135-hectare plum garden of nearly 42,000 trees is the main draw in the blossom season."},{"id":"shanghai-international-circuit","name":"Shanghai International Circuit","name_zh":"上海国际赛车场","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Guójì Sàichēchǎng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.3389,"lon":121.2197,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghai-international-circuit","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The motor-racing circuit in Anting that has hosted the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix since 2004 (with a break from 2020 to 2023), its 5.45 km track laid out in the shape of the character 上, the first in Shanghai's name. The main grandstand has wing-like viewing platforms over the track and the team buildings stand like pavilions in a lake, a design modelled on Yu Garden; besides F1 the calendar includes Formula E, touring-car and GT races."},{"id":"hongkou-shanghai-jewish-refugees-museum","name":"Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum","name_zh":"上海犹太难民纪念馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Yóutài Nànmín Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2561,"lon":121.5048,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hongkou-shanghai-jewish-refugees-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum built around the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue, put up by Russian Jews in 1927, that tells the story of the roughly 20,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe who found shelter in Shanghai, most of them confined to a restricted sector in Hongkou from 1943. The restored synagogue and the halls added in a 2020 expansion show documents, photographs, personal belongings and reconstructed scenes, and a name wall lists more than 18,000 refugees."},{"id":"shanghai-lavender-park","name":"Shanghai Lavender Park","name_zh":"上海薰衣草公园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Xūnyīcǎo Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1475,"lon":121.6679,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghai-lavender-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park in the Shanghai International Resort area near Shanghai Disneyland, planted mainly with lavender, which holds a lavender festival when it flowers in late May and early June. It suits a short stroll and flower photographs and is easily combined with the resort."},{"id":"shanghai-museum-of-glass","name":"Shanghai Museum of Glass","name_zh":"上海玻璃博物馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Bōli Bówùguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.3457,"lon":121.4673,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghai-museum-of-glass","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum about glass opened in 2011 on the site of a former glass-instrument factory in Baoshan, covering how glass is made, the history of the glass industry and its uses, alongside galleries of glass art and exhibitions of contemporary art. Glass-blowing demonstrations and hands-on workshops make it a good choice for families."},{"id":"shanghai-ocean-aquarium","name":"Shanghai Ocean Aquarium","name_zh":"上海海洋水族馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Hǎiyáng Shuǐzúguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2426,"lon":121.4972,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-ocean-aquarium/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An indoor aquarium beside the Oriental Pearl Tower, opened in 2002, with about 450 species laid out as a journey from the Yangtze through South America, Australia, Africa, South-East Asia and Antarctic waters. Highlights are the China Zone of Yangtze species such as the Chinese sturgeon and giant salamander, and a long underwater tunnel where sharks and rays swim overhead. It suits families and rainy days."},{"id":"shanghai-science-hall","name":"Shanghai Science Hall (former French School)","name_zh":"上海科学会堂","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Kēxué Huìtáng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2208,"lon":121.464,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-science-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A French Renaissance-style building with Art Nouveau details on Nanchang Road, completed in 1917 as the French Club and given to the French Concession's French School in 1926. Since 1958 it has been the Shanghai Science Hall, home of the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, so it is a working office and conference venue and visitors see its north front and entrance porch from Nanchang Road."},{"id":"shanghai-science-and-technology-museum","name":"Shanghai Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"上海科技馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Kējìguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2203,"lon":121.5378,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-science-and-technology-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large science museum on Century Avenue in Pudong, opened in 2001 around the theme of nature, people and technology. After a renovation that closed it from March 2023, it reopened in stages from February 2026, and its ten permanent exhibition areas, including a large rainforest zone opened in April 2026, sit alongside giant-screen and dome cinemas. It suits families and anyone who likes hands-on science displays."},{"id":"songjiang-shimao-smurfs-park","name":"Shanghai Smurfs Park","name_zh":"上海蓝精灵乐园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Lánjīnglíng Lèyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0603,"lon":121.1494,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songjiang-shimao-smurfs-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A largely indoor Smurfs theme park inside Shimao's Dream City complex beside the InterContinental hotel built into a former quarry, described by China Daily as the first Smurfs park in China. Visitors walk among mushroom houses in the Smurf village, watch a character parade, ride a small berry-car roller coaster and a forest tram and play games against Gargamel, and it is aimed at families with young children."},{"id":"shanghai-urban-planning-exhibition-center","name":"Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center","name_zh":"上海城市规划展示馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Chéngshì Guīhuà Zhǎnshìguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2334,"lon":121.4705,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-urban-planning-exhibition-center/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A six-storey exhibition hall on People's Square, opened in 2000 and described by the city as China's first venue dedicated to urban planning, that explains how Shanghai has grown and how it plans to develop. Its displays, renewed during a closure from late 2019 to 2022, use planning maps, scale models, films and interactive exhibits in themed galleries on the city's culture, innovation and ecology."},{"id":"fengxian-dushi-caiyuan","name":"Shanghai Urban Vegetable Garden","name_zh":"上海都市菜园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Dūshì Càiyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":30.8681,"lon":121.5859,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-dushi-caiyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A vegetable-themed farm park in Haiwan town, built by the Bright Food group and described by the city as China's first vegetable theme park. Its venues show more than 200 kinds of fruit and vegetables and the history and techniques of farming, visitors can plant and pick their own, and a small tourist train, karting and a children's playground make it a family outing."},{"id":"shanghai-wild-animal-park","name":"Shanghai Wild Animal Park","name_zh":"上海野生动物园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0569,"lon":121.71,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Most of a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-wild-animal-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"China's first national-level wild animal park, opened in 1995 on the southern outskirts of Pudong, with more than 200 species and over 10,000 animals. Shuttle buses carry visitors through drive-through enclosures where zebras, rhinos, big cats and bears roam, and a walking area has giant pandas, elephants, giraffes and primates; keepers stage animal-behaviour demonstrations at set times. It suits families and fills most of a day."},{"id":"shanghai-zoo","name":"Shanghai Zoo","name_zh":"上海动物园","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1955,"lon":121.3588,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-zoo/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of Shanghai's two main zoos, laid out on a former golf course near Hongqiao Airport and opened as Xijiao Park in 1954 before taking its present name in 1980. Mature trees, wide lawns and the Swan Lake surround enclosures for Chinese species such as golden snub-nosed monkeys and South China tigers as well as animals from other continents, and it suits a relaxed family day."},{"id":"songjiang-sheshan","name":"Sheshan Hills","name_zh":"佘山","pinyin":"Shéshān","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0963,"lon":121.1885,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songjiang-sheshan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two low wooded hills, East and West Sheshan, rise from the Songjiang plain and form the core of a national forest park. West Sheshan is crowned by the Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan, a Catholic pilgrimage church reached by a path lined with the Stations of the Cross and made a minor basilica in 1942. Beside it stands the Sheshan Observatory, built by French Jesuits in 1899–1901 and since 2004 the Shanghai Astronomical Museum, which reopened in 2023 after two years of restoration with its original 40 cm twin refractor on show."},{"id":"jingan-sihang-warehouse","name":"Sihang Warehouse","name_zh":"四行仓库","pinyin":"Sìháng Cāngkù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2421,"lon":121.4669,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingan-sihang-warehouse/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A six-storey concrete warehouse on the north bank of Suzhou Creek, built in 1931, where more than 420 soldiers of the Chinese 88th Division under Xie Jinyuan held out against Japanese forces in October 1937 in full view of crowds in the International Settlement across the creek. The restored west wall still shows shell and bullet holes, and the Sihang Warehouse Battle Memorial, opened inside the building in 2015, tells the story with dioramas, battle scenes and films."},{"id":"huangpu-first-cpc-congress-site","name":"Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party","name_zh":"中共一大会址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Yīdà Huìzhǐ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2221,"lon":121.4707,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangpu-first-cpc-congress-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The pair of two-storey shikumen lane houses on Xingye Road where the Chinese Communist Party held its first national congress in July 1921, with the downstairs room where the delegates met arranged as it was at the time. A new memorial hall next door, opened in June 2021, holds the main exhibition on the party's founding, and the delegates' lodgings at the former Bowen Girls' School, about 200 m away and part of the same listed site, opened to visitors in March 2026 after restoration. The 5A scenic area also includes the memorial halls of the Second and Fourth Congresses in Jing'an and Hongkou districts."},{"id":"songjiang-tang-sutra-pillar","name":"Songjiang Tang Sutra Pillar","name_zh":"松江唐经幢","pinyin":"Sōngjiāng Táng Jīngchuáng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0077,"lon":121.2372,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songjiang-tang-sutra-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This octagonal stone pillar, inscribed with a Buddhist dharani sutra and set up in 859 under the Tang dynasty, is regarded by Shanghai's cultural heritage authorities as the oldest structure standing above ground in the city. About 9.3 m tall in 21 stacked tiers, it is carved with crouching lions, coiled dragons, bodhisattvas and the Four Heavenly Kings, and was taken apart, repaired and reassembled in 1963–64 after long standing half-buried in an earth mound. It stands in the grounds of Zhongshan Primary School, which is not open to visitors."},{"id":"qingpu-songze-site","name":"Songze Site","name_zh":"崧泽遗址","pinyin":"Sōngzé Yízhǐ","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1489,"lon":121.1595,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingpu-songze-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Neolithic site that gave its name to the Songze culture, with layers going back about 6,000 years, excavated repeatedly from 1960 and now covered by a small site museum opened in 2014 as a branch of the Shanghai History Museum. Displays include a replica of one of China's earliest known wells, a reconstruction of the face of the earliest human skull found in Shanghai, and pottery and jade from the excavations."},{"id":"soong-ching-ling-mausoleum","name":"Soong Ching-ling Mausoleum","name_zh":"宋庆龄陵园","pinyin":"Sòng Qìnglíng Língyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1976,"lon":121.4069,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/soong-ching-ling-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The cemetery on Hongqiao Road, formerly Shanghai's International Cemetery, where Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen's widow and later Honorary President of the People's Republic, was buried in June 1981 in her family's plot beside her parents. The memorial area has a white marble statue of her and an exhibition hall on her life, and the grounds also hold a section of foreigners' graves; the writer Lu Xun was buried here from 1936 until 1956."},{"id":"shanghai-soong-ching-ling-residence","name":"Soong Ching-ling Memorial Residence","name_zh":"上海宋庆龄故居","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Sòng Qìnglíng Gùjū","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2059,"lon":121.4341,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghai-soong-ching-ling-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 1920s garden villa at 1843 Middle Huaihai Road, built for a foreign shipowner, that was the Shanghai home from 1948 of Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen's widow and later Honorary President of the People's Republic. It became a memorial after her death in 1981 and keeps the rooms and furniture as they were in her lifetime, set in front and back gardens."},{"id":"xujiahui-st-ignatius-cathedral","name":"St. Ignatius Cathedral","name_zh":"徐家汇天主堂","pinyin":"Xújiāhuì Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1931,"lon":121.4314,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xujiahui-st-ignatius-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The twin-towered Gothic Revival cathedral of Xujiahui, designed by William Doyle and built by French Jesuits between 1906 and 1910 at the heart of the old Zikawei mission, and the seat of the Bishop of Shanghai since 1960. Badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution, it returned to religious use in 1979 and reopened in December 2017 after a restoration of its stonework, windows and floors that took two and a half years."},{"id":"changning-st-johns-university-buildings","name":"St. John's University Historic Campus","name_zh":"圣约翰大学近代建筑","pinyin":"Shèng Yuēhàn Dàxué Jìndài Jiànzhù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2279,"lon":121.4131,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changning-st-johns-university-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The campus of St. John's University, founded by American missionaries in 1879 on a bend of Suzhou Creek and closed in 1952, now the Changning campus of East China University of Political Science and Law. Its 27 protected buildings combine Western verandah architecture with Chinese roofs, from Huaishi Hall (now Taofen Hall) with its clock tower to Gezhi Hall of 1899, which houses an exhibition on the campus's history. Since 2021 the campus and its creek-side promenade have been fully open to the public."},{"id":"hongkou-tilanqiao-prison","name":"Tilanqiao Prison","name_zh":"提篮桥监狱","pinyin":"Tílánqiáo Jiānyù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.258,"lon":121.5051,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hongkou-tilanqiao-prison/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built from 1901 as the gaol of the Shanghai International Settlement (the Ward Road Gaol) and once billed as the largest prison in the Far East, Tilanqiao keeps cell blocks and other buildings dating from 1917 to 1935 behind walls more than 5 metres high. Its inmates were moved to a new prison in Qingpu in 2024, and that year the city and Hongkou District were studying how to reuse the old compound."},{"id":"hongkou-tomb-of-lu-xun","name":"Tomb of Lu Xun","name_zh":"鲁迅墓","pinyin":"Lǔ Xùn Mù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2741,"lon":121.4781,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hongkou-tomb-of-lu-xun/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The grave of Lu Xun (1881–1936), a leading figure of modern Chinese literature, who was reburied here in 1956 in a park he had visited near his last home. The granite tomb in the north-west of Lu Xun Park has a bronze statue of the seated writer and a headstone inscribed in Mao Zedong's hand, and the Shanghai Lu Xun Memorial Hall stands in the same park."},{"id":"xujiahui-xu-guangqi-tomb","name":"Tomb of Xu Guangqi","name_zh":"徐光启墓","pinyin":"Xú Guāngqǐ Mù","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1915,"lon":121.4302,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xujiahui-xu-guangqi-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The grave of Xu Guangqi (1562–1633), the late-Ming official and scholar who translated Euclid's Elements into Chinese with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and was a leading figure among the Chinese Catholics of his time, buried here with members of his family in 1641. The low oval mound, rebuilt in 2003 to its 1903 form, stands in Guangqi Park near the creek junction where his descendants settled, which gave Xujiahui, the 'Xu family junction', its name."},{"id":"shanghai-tower-top-of-shanghai-observatory","name":"Top of Shanghai Observatory, Shanghai Tower","name_zh":"上海之巅观光厅","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Zhī Diān Guānguāngtīng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2355,"lon":121.501,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghai-tower-top-of-shanghai-observatory","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The visitor observatory of the 632-metre Shanghai Tower, China's tallest building, reached by high-speed lifts that climb to the 118th floor at 546 metres. It gives a 360-degree view down onto the Jin Mao Tower, the Oriental Pearl Tower and the Bund, and a separate show on the 125th and 126th floors presents the building's giant tuned mass damper."},{"id":"baoshan-wendao-garden","name":"Wendao Garden","name_zh":"闻道园","pinyin":"Wéndào Yuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.4401,"lon":121.354,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoshan-wendao-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped garden in Luodian, northern Baoshan, opened in 2006, with woodland, ponds and Huizhou-style buildings. Its main interest is a large collection of ornamental stones, shown with old stone carvings in two museums, alongside calligraphy and painting studios and a tea area."},{"id":"baoshan-wusong-paotaiwan-wetland-park","name":"Wusong Paotaiwan Wetland Forest Park","name_zh":"吴淞炮台湾湿地森林公园","pinyin":"Wúsōng Pàotáiwān Shīdì Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.3992,"lon":121.5054,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoshan-wusong-paotaiwan-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park at Wusongkou, where the Huangpu River joins the Yangtze estuary, laid out from 2005 on mudflats that had been filled with steel-mill slag since the 1960s and named after the Qing navy's Wusong forts. Paths and boardwalks run through woods, ponds and tidal wetland, with a long riverside promenade facing the shipping lanes, a memorial square for the Wusong forts and the Yangtze Estuary Science Museum."},{"id":"chongming-xisha-mingzhu-lake","name":"Xisha Mingzhu Lake","name_zh":"西沙明珠湖","pinyin":"Xīshā Míngzhū Hú","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.74,"lon":121.253,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongming-xisha-mingzhu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area at the western end of Chongming Island made up of Mingzhu Lake, described as the island's largest freshwater lake and ringed by water-conservation forest, and the Xisha National Wetland Park on the Yangtze shore. Boardwalks lead through flooded woodland, reed beds and tidal creeks where herons, gulls and cormorants feed, and a small fish-specimen hall shows species from the lake and the Yangtze estuary."},{"id":"xujiahui-origin","name":"Xujiahui Origin heritage area","name_zh":"徐家汇源","pinyin":"Xújiāhuì Yuán","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1941,"lon":121.4332,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xujiahui-origin/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open-street scenic area, rated 4A in 2012, that links the historic buildings and museums of Xujiahui, the district named after the descendants of the Ming scholar Xu Guangqi who settled here. Besides St Ignatius Cathedral and Xu's tomb in Guangqi Park, its sites include the Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei library of the old Jesuit mission, the former Xujiahui Observatory, now the Shanghai Meteorological Museum, the T'ou-Sè-Wè Museum and the Pathé building where the national anthem, The March of the Volunteers, was first recorded. It also takes in the Shanghai Film Museum and the historic Jiao Tong University campus."},{"id":"yangpu-yangshupu-waterworks","name":"Yangshupu Waterworks","name_zh":"杨树浦水厂","pinyin":"Yángshùpǔ Shuǐchǎng","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2539,"lon":121.5236,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangpu-yangshupu-waterworks/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of China's earliest modern waterworks, built for a British company in 1881–1883 and still supplying part of the city, with brick buildings and walls designed to look like an English castle, complete with battlements and mock turrets. It is a working plant, so visitors see the castle-like buildings from outside, best from the Yangpu Riverside promenade along the Huangpu; part of the site houses the Shanghai Waterworks Science and Technology Museum, reopened after renovation at the end of 2024."},{"id":"putuo-yuan-dynasty-water-gate-museum","name":"Yuan Dynasty Water Gate Museum","name_zh":"上海元代水闸遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Yuándài Shuǐzhá Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2615,"lon":121.4257,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putuo-yuan-dynasty-water-gate-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum built over a Yuan-dynasty stone sluice gate found during building work at Zhidan Road in the early 2000s, one of six gates built around 1325 under the hydraulic engineer and painter Ren Renfa to control the silting Wusong River. The gate floor, about 42 m long, with its posts and walls laid on a dense bed of numbered timber piles, lies more than 7 m below street level and is seen from a glass walkway inside the hall; the find was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2006."},{"id":"dongjing-yunbao-future-city","name":"Yunbao Future City Art Town","name_zh":"云堡未来市","pinyin":"Yúnbǎo Wèiláishì","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0947,"lon":121.2401,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongjing-yunbao-future-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An arts and leisure complex in Dongjing town, presented in 2025 as the arts quarter of the Sheshan National Tourist Resort. It combines an art museum, a music centre, a bookshop, a Songjiang experience centre of the Shanghai Astronomy Museum and a waterside market, with seasonal exhibitions and monthly events, and suits a relaxed afternoon or evening."},{"id":"qingpu-zhangma-village","name":"Zhangma Village","name_zh":"张马村","pinyin":"Zhāngmǎ Cūn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0358,"lon":121.0868,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingpu-zhangma-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism village at the southern tip of Zhujiajiao, on the upper reaches of the Huangpu River, where waterways and farmland are laid out with field paths and small visitor facilities. Its best-known sight is the Maota Pagoda, a five-storey brick-and-wood pagoda first built in the Tang dynasty that also served as a lighthouse for boats on the Mao River. It suits a quiet half-day in the countryside, combined with Zhujiajiao."},{"id":"minhang-zhaojialou","name":"Zhaojialou Ancient Town","name_zh":"召稼楼","pinyin":"Zhàojiàlóu","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0753,"lon":121.5446,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minhang-zhaojialou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small water town in Pujiang in south-east Minhang, named after a tower built in the Southern Song to summon farmers to work newly reclaimed land, to which a bell was added in the Ming. Restored and reopened in 2010, its old street, stone bridges and courtyard halls such as Ligeng Hall held small museums, including memorial halls to the local figures Qin Yubo and Ye Zongxing and an exhibition on the educator Huang Yanpei. Since 2023 the whole area has been under redevelopment as a new residential and commercial district, in which the Liyuan garden is to be kept and the old-town core revived."},{"id":"putuo-zhenru-temple","name":"Zhenru Temple","name_zh":"真如寺","pinyin":"Zhēnrú Sì","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.2514,"lon":121.3967,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putuo-zhenru-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Putuo whose main hall, built in 1320, is regarded as the oldest timber building in Shanghai and its only mid-Yuan structure. Restored to its original single-eaved form in 1963–1964, when workers found part names brushed onto its timbers by the Yuan carpenters, the hall stands in a rebuilt temple that has been an active monastery again since 1991."},{"id":"qingpu-zhujiajiao-ancient-town","name":"Zhujiajiao Ancient Town","name_zh":"朱家角古镇","pinyin":"Zhūjiājiǎo Gǔzhèn","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.1136,"lon":121.0515,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingpu-zhujiajiao-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town beside Dianshan Lake in Qingpu District that grew from Song- and Yuan-dynasty country fairs into a busy rice-trading town in the Ming and Qing. Its old streets and waterways keep Fangsheng Bridge (first built in 1571 and rebuilt in 1812), Kezhi Garden, the City God Temple, Yuanjin Buddhist Temple and a Qing-dynasty post office, and boats still carry visitors along the canals."},{"id":"songjiang-zuibaichi","name":"Zuibaichi Garden","name_zh":"醉白池","pinyin":"Zuìbái Chí","region_id":"310000","region":"Shanghai","city":"Shanghai","lat":31.0024,"lon":121.229,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songjiang-zuibaichi/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of Shanghai's five classical gardens, rebuilt in the mid-17th century by Gu Dashen, who named it 'Drunken Bai Pond' in homage to the Tang poet Bai Juyi. The pond, halls and corridors keep their Qing layout, and two of its stone carvings survived the Cultural Revolution because staff disguised them as propaganda boards; a larger public park was added around it in 1959."},{"id":"changzhou-museum","name":"Changzhou Museum","name_zh":"常州博物馆","pinyin":"Chángzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.811,"lon":119.9669,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changzhou-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Changzhou's main city museum, founded in 1958 and housed since 2007 in a large modern building beside the civic square in Xinbei District. Its history galleries run from Liangzhu-culture jades and early green-glazed stoneware to Song and Yuan lacquer and porcelain and Ming and Qing painting, and it also has a natural history museum for children. It is rated a national first-grade museum."},{"id":"changzhou-china-dinosaurs-park","name":"China Dinosaurs Park","name_zh":"中华恐龙园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Kǒnglóng Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.8254,"lon":119.9964,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhou-china-dinosaurs-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A dinosaur-themed amusement park in Xinbei District, opened in 2000, with rides, shows and parades built around its theme. At its heart is a large museum of Chinese dinosaur fossils, and the wider Dinosaur City resort around it adds a hot-spring complex and a shopping street. It suits families with children."},{"id":"wujin-china-filial-piety-park","name":"China Filial Piety Park","name_zh":"中华孝道园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Xiàodào Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.4782,"lon":120.0651,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wujin-china-filial-piety-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A themed park of about 860 mu (some 57 hectares) on the shore of Lake Tai at Xueyan, backed by the Lu'e hills and devoted to the Confucian virtue of filial piety. It combines Lu'e Chan Temple, on the site of an older temple, with a Guanyin hall, a grotto hall, a pagoda, an ancestral hall and a museum of filial piety, and it has held ancestor-worship ceremonies at Qingming."},{"id":"wujin-chunqiu-yancheng","name":"Chunqiu Yancheng (Yancheng Ruins)","name_zh":"春秋淹城","pinyin":"Chūnqiū Yānchéng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7039,"lon":119.9302,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day (ruins and museum) to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wujin-chunqiu-yancheng/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The earthworks of Yancheng, a walled town of the late Spring and Autumn period, form the core of this tourist area in Wujin: three rings of ramparts and three moats set one inside another, an arrangement rare among early Chinese city sites. A museum at the entrance presents the site and its finds. Around the ruins are a Spring and Autumn-themed amusement park and a wildlife park, which make up the rest of the 5A area."},{"id":"liyang-new-fourth-army-jiangnan-command","name":"Former Jiangnan Command of the New Fourth Army, Shuixi","name_zh":"新四军江南指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Jiāngnán Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.5096,"lon":119.3379,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liyang-new-fourth-army-jiangnan-command","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Li family ancestral hall in Shuixi village, where the New Fourth Army set up its Jiangnan Command on 7 November 1939 under Chen Yi, with Su Yu as deputy, to direct its anti-Japanese operations around Maoshan and southern Jiangsu. The hall and a memorial museum beside it present the history of the command."},{"id":"changzhou-qu-qiubai-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Qu Qiubai","name_zh":"瞿秋白故居","pinyin":"Qú Qiūbái Gùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7837,"lon":119.9446,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhou-qu-qiubai-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Qu family ancestral hall on Yanling West Road, where Qu Qiubai, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party and a writer and translator, lived with his family from 1912 to 1916. Its rooms are furnished as in his youth, and the adjoining memorial hall, built in 1999, covers his life with photographs, documents and manuscripts, including his translation of 'The Internationale'."},{"id":"changzhou-zhang-tailei-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhang Tailei","name_zh":"张太雷故居","pinyin":"Zhāng Tàiléi Gùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7666,"lon":119.9573,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changzhou-zhang-tailei-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house in Zihe Li, a lane off Qingliang Road, where Zhang Tailei, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, lived with his family from 1918 to 1925. His rooms at the back of No. 3 are furnished as a memorial hall, with an exhibition on his life in the neighbouring courtyard of No. 4 and a newer two-storey gallery beside them."},{"id":"changzhou-hongmei-park","name":"Hongmei Park","name_zh":"红梅公园","pinyin":"Hóngméi Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7767,"lon":119.9691,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhou-hongmei-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large city park east of Changzhou's old centre, opened in 1960 and named after the Hongmei (Red Plum) Pavilion, one of its two old buildings together with the Wenbi Pagoda. Its lake, gardens and plum trees make it a popular place in early spring, and it lies next to Tianning Temple."},{"id":"jintan-huagu-qiyuan-flower-valley","name":"Huagu Qiyuan Flower Valley","name_zh":"花谷奇缘","pinyin":"Huāgǔ Qíyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7335,"lon":119.3151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jintan-huagu-qiyuan-flower-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A commercial flower park in the Maoshan resort area, laid out as ten themed gardens with a hillside of planted flower fields. Spring is the main flowering season, and it suits families and garden lovers."},{"id":"changzhou-jin-garden","name":"Jin Garden","name_zh":"近园","pinyin":"Jìn Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7843,"lon":119.9541,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changzhou-jin-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small private garden laid out in 1668–1672 by the retired official Yang Qingyan, with the painter Wang Hui involved in its design, and counted among Changzhou's four classic gardens. Its roughly 4,600 square metres keep the early-Qing plan: a pond around a yellow-stone rockery island, ringed by pavilions, studies and climbing corridors, with the Xiye Thatched Hall as the main building."},{"id":"jintan-maoshan-forest-world","name":"Maoshan Forest World","name_zh":"茅山森林世界","pinyin":"Máoshān Sēnlín Shìjiè","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.8095,"lon":119.3181,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jintan-maoshan-forest-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An outdoor activity park covering about 3,500 mu (some 230 hectares) of forest and bamboo on the Jintan side of Maoshan, with forest-themed attractions such as a 'magic black forest' and a rafting run through the woods. Tea-field tents and forest villas allow overnight stays, and it is aimed mainly at families."},{"id":"changzhou-old-canal-nandajie","name":"Old Grand Canal and Nandajie District","name_zh":"古运河南大街","pinyin":"Gǔ Yùnhé Nán Dàjiē","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7804,"lon":119.9452,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhou-old-canal-nandajie","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic centre of Changzhou along the old course of the Grand Canal, combining Nandajie, the city's main pedestrian shopping street, with canal-side Xiyingli, where Xiying Gate and about 220 metres of wall are all that survive of the city walls. The canal's Changzhou urban section is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site, and old lanes such as Qingguo Lane lie close by."},{"id":"jintan-oriental-salt-lake-city","name":"Oriental Salt Lake City (Dao Tianxia)","name_zh":"东方盐湖城·道天下","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Yánhú Chéng · Dào Tiānxià","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7664,"lon":119.3372,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jintan-oriental-salt-lake-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern leisure resort at the foot of Maoshan, the Taoist holy mountain, themed on Taoist culture and on the area's hills, water, tea, salt, herbs and hot springs. Its Dao Tianxia section has costumed characters who interact with visitors and folk performances, and the resort has hot-spring hotels."},{"id":"changzhou-qingfeng-park","name":"Qingfeng Park","name_zh":"青枫公园","pinyin":"Qīngfēng Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.8004,"lon":119.8947,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhou-qingfeng-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large public park in western Changzhou, opened in 2008 after four years of building and laid out with lakes, low man-made hills, woodland and a big central lawn. It is a favourite with local families for walks and spring kite-flying, and has hosted the city's chrysanthemum festival in autumn."},{"id":"changzhou-tang-family-residences","name":"Tang Family Residences, Qingguo Lane","name_zh":"唐氏民宅","pinyin":"Táng Shì Mínzhái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.7746,"lon":119.9536,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changzhou-tang-family-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Ming-dynasty courtyard houses of the Tang family on Qingguo Lane, a restored historic street along an old arm of the Grand Canal in central Changzhou. Zhenhe Hall, home of the Ming official, writer and anti-pirate commander Tang Shunzhi (Tang Jingchuan), is now a memorial museum to him, and Lihe Hall is the birthplace of the linguist Zhou Youguang. The rest of the lane is lined with former homes of noted Changzhou families."},{"id":"liyang-tianmu-lake","name":"Tianmu Lake and Nanshan Bamboo Sea","name_zh":"天目湖","pinyin":"Tiānmù Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.3038,"lon":119.4287,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liyang-tianmu-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tianmu Lake is a reservoir in the hills south of Liyang, built in 1958–61 as the Shahe Reservoir and renamed in 1992 when it was opened for tourism. The 5A scenic area has two parts: the Shanshui Garden on the lake, with lakeside parks and islands, and the Nanshan Bamboo Sea, a bamboo-covered valley on the Anhui border with walking trails and a cable car into the hills. The lake is known locally for its fish-head soup."},{"id":"wujin-world-joyland","name":"World Joyland","name_zh":"环球动漫嬉戏谷","pinyin":"Huánqiú Dòngmàn Xīxì Gǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Changzhou","lat":31.5004,"lon":120.0421,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wujin-world-joyland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park on the shore of Lake Tai at Xueyan in Wujin, opened in 2011 and built around video-game and animation themes, with roller coasters and other rides. Its original look drew on online games such as World of Warcraft. It is aimed at teenagers and families."},{"id":"huaian-ancient-huai-river-scenic-area","name":"Ancient Huai River Culture and Ecology Scenic Area","name_zh":"古淮河文化生态景区","pinyin":"Gǔhuáihé Wénhuà Shēngtài Jǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.6187,"lon":119.0888,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-ancient-huai-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park of about 1.6 km² along the Gu Huai He, the old channel of the Yellow River, which flowed through Huai'an until 1855, on the north side of Qingjiangpu; Ninglian Road divides it into two parts. The eastern part has foot and cycle paths through landscaped banks and a cluster of museums, among them the China Huaiyang Cuisine Culture Museum, a Journey to the West exhibition hall and the Guhuai Tower with a display of local wedding customs. The western part holds a museum of Chinese urbanisation, a library and a culture square."},{"id":"baima-lake-eco-tourism-area","name":"Baima Lake Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"白马湖生态旅游景区","pinyin":"Báimǎ Hú Shēngtài Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.3003,"lon":119.0979,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baima-lake-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baima Lake is a shallow lake on the border of Huai'an and Yangzhou that also serves as a through-lake for the eastern route of the South–North Water Diversion. The eco-tourism area in the north-west of the lake's tourist resort has a plum garden, an eco-amusement park, a campervan campsite and the \"Three Islands Adventure\", a set of small themed islands in the lake. It mainly draws families for a day by the water."},{"id":"huaian-china-water-transport-museum","name":"China Water Transport (Caoyun) Museum","name_zh":"中国漕运博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Cáoyùn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5091,"lon":119.1395,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-china-water-transport-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"China's first museum devoted to caoyun, the imperial system that shipped tax grain along the Grand Canal to the capital, opened in May 2011 on Caoyun Square in Huai'an's old town. It stands at the north end of the excavated site of the Office of the Governor-General of Grain Transport, which ran the system from here under the Ming and Qing; the foundations and column bases of its great hall are laid out as a park in front. Five galleries hold about 6,000 m² of displays on the canal, the grain fleets and the city's role in them."},{"id":"xuyi-diyishan","name":"Diyishan (First Mountain) and its Inscriptions","name_zh":"第一山","pinyin":"Dìyī Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.0184,"lon":118.4928,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuyi-diyishan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill above the Huai River in the north of Xuyi town, named after the Song calligrapher Mi Fu, who climbed it in 1097 on his way to a post in Lianshui and wrote a poem calling it the \"First Mountain\"; a later copy of his three characters stands by the entrance. Its cliffs and steles carry well over a hundred inscriptions from the Song to the Republic, among them verses left by Southern Song envoys on their way to the Jin court and a Su Shi poem carved in the Northern Song and rediscovered in 1983. Below the hill, the restored lanes of the Diyishan historic quarter, such as Huangpai Street, are lined with restaurants and shops."},{"id":"huaian-dragon-palace-ocean-world","name":"Dragon Palace Ocean World (Journey to the West Culture Park)","name_zh":"龙宫海洋世界","pinyin":"Lónggōng Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.6543,"lon":119.1845,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-dragon-palace-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme-park complex in Huai'an's economic development zone built around Journey to the West, the Ming novel credited to Huai'an's Wu Cheng'en. Its main part is Xiyou Amusement Park, a Journey to the West theme park opened in July 2021 with themed areas, rides, parades and evening shows. Next to it, Dragon Palace Ocean World, named after the Dragon King's undersea palace in the novel and rated 4A as Dragon Palace Beluga World by 2018, is now centred on a summer water park."},{"id":"huaian-wu-chengen-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Wu Cheng'en","name_zh":"吴承恩故居","pinyin":"Wú Chéng'ēn Gùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5293,"lon":119.1336,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaian-wu-chengen-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wu Cheng'en, the Ming writer credited with the novel Journey to the West, lived in this courtyard house in the Hexia quarter of Huai'an; it was restored in 1982 and is a city-level protected site. The compound of about 1 ha has his main hall with a bust reconstructed from his skull, a bedroom and a small garden, flanked by memorial halls to Wu and to the Monkey King, including an art gallery on the Monkey King family of actors. It lies at the edge of Hexia old town, whose lanes are worth a stroll."},{"id":"huaian-central-china-subbureau-site","name":"Former Site of the CPC Central China Sub-bureau","name_zh":"中共中央华中分局旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Huázhōng Fēnjú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.492,"lon":119.1491,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-central-china-subbureau-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From October 1945 to September 1946 the Central China Sub-bureau of the Communist Party's Central Committee and the Central China Military Region had their headquarters here, in the former Jiangsu Provincial Huai'an Middle School, directing party, government and military work in 73 counties and cities under Deng Zihui and Tan Zhenlin, with Zhang Dingcheng and Su Yu in military command. The east and middle buildings, a small north building and the assembly hall survive in their original form. A memorial hall opened in 2010, with displays on the period including the 1946 land-reform pilot and the Central Jiangsu Campaign."},{"id":"huaian-jiangsu-anhui-border-region-government-site","name":"Former Site of the Jiangsu–Anhui Border Region Government","name_zh":"苏皖边区政府旧址","pinyin":"Sū-Wǎn Biānqū Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5901,"lon":119.0236,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-jiangsu-anhui-border-region-government-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Jiangsu–Anhui Border Region Government, set up by the Communist Party on 1 November 1945 to join its four liberated areas in central and northern Jiangsu and Anhui, had its seat in this compound in Qingjiang, now Huai'an, until it withdrew in September 1946. The compound of about 10,000 m² keeps its original layout, including the two-storey courtyard where talks between Communist, Nationalist and US representatives were held. A memorial hall opened here in 1986, and a new permanent exhibition on the border region's history opened in 2021."},{"id":"hongze-lake-levee","name":"Hongze Lake Levee (Gaojiayan) and Ancient Dike Scenic Area","name_zh":"洪泽湖大堤","pinyin":"Hóngzé Hú Dàdī","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.2094,"lon":118.7962,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hongze-lake-levee/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The great dike along the east shore of Hongze Lake was begun as a 30-li embankment in AD 200 and extended under the Ming and Qing to hold back the lake, protect the plains to the east and feed water to the Grand Canal; between 1580 and 1751 its lake face was clad with a wall of dressed stone about 60 km long and 7–8 m high. Now some 67 km long and part of the Grand Canal World Heritage listing, it can be toured from the Ancient Dike scenic area in Hongze District, whose sightseeing cars run along the top. Stops include the Zhouqiao breach, where floodwater broke the dike in 1824 and the stone wall was rebuilt with iron cramps, and some of the more than 300 Ming and Qing inscriptions carved along the dike."},{"id":"huaian-museum","name":"Huai'an Museum","name_zh":"淮安市博物馆","pinyin":"Huái'ān Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.6126,"lon":119.0072,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huai'an's museum of local history, rated a national first-grade museum in 2024, holds about 31,000 objects. Its main exhibition traces the area from prehistory through the Warring States, the canal grain trade, the salt monopoly and river works to its famous natives; highlights include Warring States bronzes from the Gaozhuang tomb found in 1978 and a carved wooden drum carriage from a tomb at Yunhe village excavated in 2004. Further galleries are devoted to the film director Xie Tieli and to collections of calligraphy and painting."},{"id":"huaian-prefectural-yamen","name":"Huai'an Prefectural Yamen","name_zh":"淮安府署","pinyin":"Huái'ān Fǔshǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5126,"lon":119.1401,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaian-prefectural-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The seat of Huai'an Prefecture from 1370 until prefectures were abolished in 1913, on the old town's central axis north of the Governor-General of Grain Transport's office and the Zhenhuai Tower. Its great hall, seven bays and 26 by 18.5 m, was rebuilt after an 1861 fire with timber from a Hexia salt merchant's mansion, and it survived with the second hall through later use as a factory. Restored and opened in 2007 over some 12,000 m², it is described by the provincial tourism department as the only surviving Ming–Qing prefectural yamen along the Grand Canal."},{"id":"xuyi-huanghuatang-new-fourth-army-hq","name":"Huanghuatang New Fourth Army Headquarters Site","name_zh":"黄花塘新四军军部旧址","pinyin":"Huánghuātáng Xīnsìjūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":32.8878,"lon":118.745,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuyi-huanghuatang-new-fourth-army-hq","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huanghuatang village in southern Xuyi County was the seat of the New Fourth Army's headquarters from early 1943 to early 1945, during the later years of the war against Japan. The memorial site comprises the former headquarters buildings and leaders' quarters, an exhibition hall of photographs and objects on the war in central China, and landscaped grounds. It was listed as a national heritage unit in 2019."},{"id":"huaian-inner-canal-cultural-corridor","name":"Inner Canal (Liyunhe) Cultural Corridor","name_zh":"里运河文化长廊","pinyin":"Lǐyùnhé Wénhuà Chángláng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5952,"lon":119.0308,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-inner-canal-cultural-corridor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Liyunhe, the section of the Grand Canal between the Yangtze and the Huai, runs 32 km through Huai'an, and this scenic corridor centres on a 15.6 km stretch through Qingjiangpu. Along it are parts of the Grand Canal World Heritage site – the Qingjiang Great Lock, the Qingkou hydraulic hub and the Huai'an section of the Huai–Yang Canal – together with the rebuilt Qingjiangpu Tower, a city memory museum, a hall of famous Huai'an people, an opera museum and the \"south by boat, north by horse\" stele marking where travellers once changed from boat to road."},{"id":"jinhu-lotus-marsh","name":"Jinhu Lotus Marsh (Hehuadang)","name_zh":"荷花荡","pinyin":"Héhuā Dàng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":32.8695,"lon":119.2088,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinhu-lotus-marsh","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland of about 22 km², most of it water, on the shore of Gaoyou Lake in south-eastern Jinhu County, planted with lotus fields that bloom in summer. More than 300 lotus varieties are grown, and the scenic area also has a lotus garden, a lotus culture hall, an exhibition on water plants and farming, a stele corridor of lotus poems and the Qingshan Temple. It is at its best in the summer flowering season."},{"id":"jinhu-water-forest","name":"Jinhu Water Forest","name_zh":"金湖水上森林","pinyin":"Jīnhú Shuǐshàng Sēnlín","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.0766,"lon":119.2901,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinhu-water-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A plantation of metasequoia (dawn redwood) standing in water in Tugou town, Jinhu County, planted in the 1980s as northern Jiangsu's largest man-made forest farm and opened as a privately run scenic area in 2017. Rows of trees rise from the water, with egrets in the canopy and the trees' breathing roots poking above the surface, seen from bamboo rafts, a forest train, a glass walkway and paths. Added attractions such as a maze, go-karts and flower fields make it a family day out."},{"id":"lianshui-jinshiyuan-distillery","name":"Jinshiyuan (King's Luck) Distillery, Gaogou","name_zh":"今世缘旅游景区","pinyin":"Jīnshìyuán Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":34.0081,"lon":119.184,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianshui-jinshiyuan-distillery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The baijiu maker Jiangsu King's Luck (Jinshiyuan), successor to the old Gaogou distillery, runs a factory tour at its base in Gaogou town that is listed as a national industrial-tourism demonstration site. One part shows the modern works – a culture square, an automated brewing hall seen from a viewing gallery, a store of large pottery jars and the bottling line – and the other, the Gaogou liquor heritage zone, has a liquor culture hall, displays of starter-making and distilling and a field of old fermentation pits still in use. It suits visitors curious about how Chinese grain spirit is made."},{"id":"xuyi-ming-ancestors-mausoleum","name":"Ming Ancestors Mausoleum","name_zh":"明祖陵","pinyin":"Míng Zǔlíng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.0864,"lon":118.4716,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuyi-ming-ancestors-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The first imperial tomb of the Ming dynasty, built from 1386 to about 1413 by the Hongwu Emperor and his son the Yongle Emperor beside Hongze Lake for the founder's grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather; only the grandfather is actually buried here. Swamped by the lake around 1680 together with the city of Sizhou, it re-emerged in the 1960s and is now ringed by a protective embankment. The main sight is the spirit way lined with Ming stone statues of qilin, lions and other figures and carved pillars, while the burial chamber lies under a pond at its end and the halls survive only as foundations."},{"id":"huaian-qingyan-garden","name":"Qing Yan Garden","name_zh":"清晏园","pinyin":"Qīngyàn Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5864,"lon":119.019,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaian-qingyan-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A garden in central Qingjiangpu that grew from a lodge set up in 1678 by the river-works chief Jin Fu on the site of a Ming revenue office, and from 1729 belonged to the office of the Director-General of the Southern Rivers, who ran the river and canal works of the region. Its one original building is the Hefang Academy of 1750, built for the Qianlong Emperor's southern tour and flanked by stele pavilions and a stele corridor on the history of river works; the other halls, pavilions, Guandi temple and rockeries are later rebuildings in traditional style. Rated 4A in 2023, it is a compact garden of ponds, lotus and old trees."},{"id":"huaian-qingliangang-site","name":"Qingliangang Neolithic Site","name_zh":"青莲岗遗址","pinyin":"Qīngliángǎng Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.7206,"lon":119.2818,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaian-qingliangang-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site that gave its name to the Qingliangang culture, a Neolithic culture of the Huai River region, lies in Qinglian village north-east of Huai'an District and was first investigated in the early 1950s; new excavations in 2016–19 opened nearly a hectare. Little is visible: most of the core area is now a pond up to 5 m deep, the small on-site display room shows mainly photographs and text, and a planned site park had made little progress by 2024. Jade and stone artefacts of the culture are kept in the Huai'an Museum."},{"id":"xuyi-tieshan-temple-forest-park","name":"Tieshan Temple National Forest Park","name_zh":"铁山寺国家森林公园","pinyin":"Tiěshān Sì Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":32.7397,"lon":118.4905,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuyi-tieshan-temple-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested area of low hills, up to about 200 m, in the far south of Xuyi County on the Anhui border, around the 9 km² Tianquan Lake reservoir. Its secondary broadleaf woodland mixes northern and southern plants, as it lies where the warm-temperate and subtropical zones meet. Within the park are the rebuilt Tieshan Chan Temple, an observing station of the Purple Mountain Observatory with a public astronomy park, and walking routes with a suspension bridge and a long stone stairway."},{"id":"huaian-wentong-pagoda","name":"Wentong Pagoda","name_zh":"文通塔","pinyin":"Wéntōng Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5116,"lon":119.1329,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaian-wentong-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal seven-storey brick pagoda, 23 m tall with yellow walls and dark eaves, in Shaohu Park in the north-west corner of Huai'an's old city beside the canal. It was founded in 708 as the 13-storey Zunsheng Pagoda, renamed after the neighbouring Wentong Temple when rebuilt in 1629, and cut down to two storeys by the Tancheng earthquake of 1668, after which it was rebuilt with only seven; the national heritage list dates the present structure to the Song. The lakeside park makes a pleasant stop between the old town and Hexia."},{"id":"lianshui-wudao-lake","name":"Wudao Lake Scenic Area, Lianshui","name_zh":"五岛湖","pinyin":"Wǔdǎo Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.7684,"lon":119.2584,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianshui-wudao-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake park in the middle of Lianshui town, laid out in 1930 around a lake with five small islands, grouped with the neighbouring Nengren Temple and the Lianshui County Museum into one scenic area. The temple's Song-dynasty Miaotong Pagoda was destroyed in 1948; after excavation of its crypt in 1998 yielded gold and silver reliquaries and other finds, a 68.88 m concrete pagoda with a lift was built on the spot in 1999–2002, and the temple was rebuilt in 2004–07. One island has a pavilion and an ink-washing pond recalling the Song calligrapher Mi Fu, who once held office in Lianshui."},{"id":"lianshui-yueta-pagoda","name":"Yue Pagoda (Yueta), Tangji","name_zh":"月塔","pinyin":"Yuè Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.9213,"lon":119.5744,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianshui-yueta-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda in Yueta village, Tangji town, in eastern Lianshui County. Octagonal and built wholly of brick in imitation of a wooden pavilion-style pagoda, it has a stair that turns upward inside the walls, the only one of its kind in Jiangsu; repairs in 1974 and 1995 made good its damaged base and top, leaving it 20.04 m high. Local legends tie it to the early Tang general Xue Rengui, but heritage authorities date it to the Song."},{"id":"huaian-zhou-enlai-hometown","name":"Zhou Enlai's Hometown: Former Residence and Memorial Hall","name_zh":"周恩来故里","pinyin":"Zhōu Ēnlái Gùlǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Huai'an","lat":33.5085,"lon":119.1368,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaian-zhou-enlai-hometown/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhou Enlai, the first premier of the People's Republic of China, was born in 1898 in this pair of Qing courtyard houses on Fuma Lane and lived here until 1910; restored in 1978 and opened in 1979, its 32 rooms show his birth room, family rooms, an old well and displays on his childhood. The 5A scenic area also takes in the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall about 1 km to the north-east, opened in 1992 among artificial lakes, where an 800 m axis links the main hall, an exhibition on his life, a bronze statue and a copy of his Xihuating residence in Beijing's Zhongnanhai. The hearse from his 1976 funeral has been on display there since 2016."},{"id":"guanyun-chaohe-bay","name":"Chaohe Bay, Guanyun","name_zh":"潮河湾","pinyin":"Cháohé Wān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.2868,"lon":119.4558,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanyun-chaohe-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure area on a reed-fringed stretch of water east of Guanyun county town, with an eco-restaurant, a fishing centre and a campervan and camping base. It is aimed at local families and day-trippers, with holiday events such as hot-air balloon gatherings, markets and boat trips."},{"id":"guanyun-dayi-mountain","name":"Dayi Mountain, Guanyun","name_zh":"大伊山","pinyin":"Dàyī Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.3153,"lon":119.244,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanyun-dayi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of twelve low peaks, the highest 226.7 m, on the northern edge of Guanyun county town, with the centuries-old Stone Buddha Temple (Shifo Si), a large bronze seated Buddha completed in 2009 and old rock carvings such as a Yuan-dynasty sika deer. On the eastern foot lies the Dayishan stone-coffin cemetery, a Neolithic burial ground about 6,500 years old whose graves were lined with natural stone slabs, described as the earliest stone-coffin cemetery found in China."},{"id":"donghai-crystal-city","name":"Donghai Crystal City and Crystal Museum","name_zh":"东海水晶城·水晶博物馆","pinyin":"Dōnghǎi Shuǐjīng Chéng · Shuǐjīng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.5444,"lon":118.733,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donghai-crystal-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The crystal quarter of Donghai, a county that brands itself the 'World Crystal Capital' because of its large deposits of rock crystal and quartz. It is made up of the China Donghai Crystal City, a large market where crystal jewellery and carvings are sold, and the China Donghai Crystal Museum, which is devoted to crystal. It suits visitors interested in minerals or shopping rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"guannan-erlang-shen-park","name":"Erlang Shen Cultural Park, Guannan","name_zh":"二郎神文化遗迹公园","pinyin":"Èrláng Shén Wénhuà Yíjì Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.1269,"lon":119.3204,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guannan-erlang-shen-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple park on the northern outskirts of Guannan county town devoted to Erlang Shen, the river-taming god of Chinese myth whom Journey to the West places at the mouth of the Guan River, a name the town links with its own Guan River. Its Tang-style halls and pavilions, among them the Zhenjun Hall and the Cixiao Pavilion, tell Erlang's story with an emphasis on filial piety, and visitors can strike the temple bell."},{"id":"lianyungang-haiqing-temple-pagoda","name":"Haiqing Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"海清寺塔","pinyin":"Hǎiqīng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.6492,"lon":119.2556,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianyungang-haiqing-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda built between 1023 and 1031 under the Northern Song, the only survivor of Haiqing Temple, which has since disappeared. It is also called the Ashoka Pagoda because it was built to enshrine Buddhist relics, and it stands by a lake at the western foot of Mount Huaguo, close to the scenic area's visitor centre."},{"id":"lianyungang-haishang-yuntai-mountain","name":"Haishang Yuntai Mountain","name_zh":"海上云台山","pinyin":"Hǎishàng Yúntái Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.7066,"lon":119.4234,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianyungang-haishang-yuntai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area in the coastal Yuntai hills above Sucheng, in Lianyun district, whose summit viewpoints look over Lianyungang port and Lian Island. Paths climb through wooded valleys past the Tao Yuanming culture garden and the Faqi Temple towards the summit area."},{"id":"lianyungang-kongwang-mountain","name":"Kongwang Mountain","name_zh":"孔望山","pinyin":"Kǒngwàng Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.5669,"lon":119.1667,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianyungang-kongwang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small hill on the southern edge of Haizhou, Lianyungang's old town, named after the story that Confucius climbed it to look out to sea. Its cliff carvings, made in the late Eastern Han, mix Taoist figures such as Laozi and the Yellow Emperor with some of the earliest Buddhist imagery in China, including a Nirvana scene and the tale of a prince who gave his body to a starving tigress."},{"id":"lianyungang-lian-island","name":"Lian Island","name_zh":"连岛","pinyin":"Lián Dǎo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.7688,"lon":119.4523,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lianyungang-lian-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jiangsu's largest island, joined to the mainland at Lianyungang port by a long sea wall, with wooded hills, the sandy Dashawan beach and the quieter Sumawan bay linked by a seaside boardwalk. Near Sumawan a Han-dynasty inscription cut into the rock marks the old boundary between the Donghai and Langya commanderies and is a national heritage site. The island was rated a national 5A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"lianyungang-museum","name":"Lianyungang Museum","name_zh":"连云港市博物馆","pinyin":"Liányúngǎng Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.5949,"lon":119.2183,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianyungang-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city's main museum, a national first-grade museum that presents the history and culture of the Lianyungang area. It stands on Chaoyang East Road next to the Lianyungang Revolutionary Memorial Hall, so the two are easily seen together."},{"id":"lianyungang-revolutionary-memorial-hall","name":"Lianyungang Revolutionary Memorial Hall","name_zh":"连云港市革命纪念馆","pinyin":"Liányúngǎng Shì Gémìng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.595,"lon":119.2202,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianyungang-revolutionary-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum of the Lianyungang area's modern revolutionary history, including the War of Resistance against Japan, told through photographs and objects. It stands beside the Lianyungang Museum on Chaoyang East Road, and the two can be visited together."},{"id":"lianyungang-mount-huaguo","name":"Mount Huaguo","name_zh":"花果山","pinyin":"Huāguǒ Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.6429,"lon":119.2595,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lianyungang-mount-huaguo/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mountain that the novel Journey to the West made the home of the Monkey King, now a scenic area of 136 peaks crowned by Yunü Peak, at 624.4 m the highest point in Jiangsu. Paths, shuttle buses and a cable car lead to the Water Curtain Cave, the Sanyuan Temple, first built in the Tang, and woods where macaques roam. More than 200 cliff inscriptions from the Tang onwards are scattered over the slopes, among them the Yulin Guan group near the visitor centre, a national heritage site."},{"id":"ganyu-qinshan-island","name":"Qinshan Island","name_zh":"秦山岛","pinyin":"Qínshān Dǎo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.8663,"lon":119.2739,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganyu-qinshan-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A narrow islet of about 0.19 km² in the sea off Ganyu, roughly a kilometre long with three low peaks along its ridge. At the lowest spring tides a shingle causeway about 4 km long, the 'Divine Road', emerges from the water, and the island has Xu Fu's Well, old stone inscriptions and the sea-sculpted General Rock, all tied to legends of the First Emperor's eastern tour and Xu Fu's voyage in search of immortality."},{"id":"guannan-tanggou-distillery","name":"Tanggou Distillery, Guannan","name_zh":"汤沟酒生态文化旅游区","pinyin":"Tānggōu Jiǔ Shēngtài Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.1477,"lon":119.1468,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guannan-tanggou-distillery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A visitor area at the working distillery of Tanggou baijiu, a strong-aroma liquor made in Tanggou town, where the old workshops were merged into one state distillery in 1952. The visit is built around the distillery's fermentation pits and brewing halls, and its old cellar is a provincial heritage site."},{"id":"haizhou-taohuajian-jiangjunya-petroglyphs","name":"Taohuajian and the General Cliff Petroglyphs","name_zh":"桃花涧·将军崖岩画","pinyin":"Táohuājiàn · Jiāngjūnyá Yánhuà","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.5361,"lon":119.1297,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haizhou-taohuajian-jiangjunya-petroglyphs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded valley on the southern slopes of Jinping Mountain, south-west of Haizhou, with a stream, pools and paths up to a summit viewpoint; its western part holds the General Cliff petroglyphs. Carved into a sloping rock face, they show human faces linked to plant-like lines, star symbols and animals, and archaeologists read them as a prehistoric farming ritual site of the Dongyi people. Micro-erosion dating suggests the carvings were made over a long span, between about 10,000 and 3,000 years ago."},{"id":"donghai-xishuang-lake","name":"Xishuang Lake, Donghai","name_zh":"西双湖","pinyin":"Xīshuāng Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.5292,"lon":118.7185,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donghai-xishuang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir on the south-western edge of Donghai county town, built in 1960 on the Yuejin River, whose shores are now laid out as the Xishuang Lake National Wetland Park. It is an open town park for a lakeside walk, easily combined with a visit to Donghai's crystal market."},{"id":"guanyun-yiyuan-park","name":"Yiyuan Park, Guanyun","name_zh":"伊园","pinyin":"Yī Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.3107,"lon":119.3112,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanyun-yiyuan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure park east of Guanyun county town built around large flower fields and a fairy-tale-style small town, with children's play areas and themed restaurants. It is run together with Guanyun's Chaohe Bay and plum-garden scenic areas and fills public holidays with markets, shows and fireworks, so it suits local families more than sightseers."},{"id":"lianyungang-yuwan","name":"Yuwan Scenic Area","name_zh":"渔湾","pinyin":"Yúwān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Lianyungang","lat":34.637,"lon":119.3384,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianyungang-yuwan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A steep valley in the Yuntai Mountains east of Mount Huaguo, where a stream drops through a chain of waterfalls and pools, known as the Three Pools, between cliffs and woods that turn red and gold in late autumn. A via ferrata along the stream and a children's play area themed on Journey to the West have been added for families."},{"id":"nanjing-chaotian-palace","name":"Chaotian Palace","name_zh":"朝天宫","pinyin":"Cháotiān Gōng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0371,"lon":118.7705,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-chaotian-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rebuilt from 1384 as Nanjing's leading Taoist temple, where the Ming court's Taoist registry sat and officials rehearsed court ceremonies, the complex on Yeshan hill was wrecked in the Taiping war and rebuilt in 1865–69 as the Confucian temple and school of Jiangning prefecture. Its Qing gates, Dacheng Hall and the halls on the hill behind are described as the largest and best-preserved group of official-style historic buildings in the Jiangnan region, and in 1936 a vault was built in the grounds for Palace Museum treasures evacuated from Beijing. It now houses the Nanjing Municipal Museum, whose permanent exhibitions cover the city's history, highlights of its collection and Song and Ming dress excavated in Nanjing."},{"id":"nanjing-drum-tower","name":"Drum Tower of Nanjing","name_zh":"南京鼓楼","pinyin":"Nánjīng Gǔlóu","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0607,"lon":118.7769,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-drum-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1382 on a rise at the centre of the Ming capital, where drums sounded the hours and ceremonies were held, the tower keeps its original brick base, shaped like a city gate with three arched passages on each side. The two-storey timber hall on top was rebuilt in 1684 around a stele recording the Kangxi Emperor's instructions to local officials on his southern tour, so it is also known as the Stele Tower. The surrounding Drum Tower Park, opened in 1923, reopened after renovation on 1 October 2025."},{"id":"nanjing-academia-sinica-buildings","name":"Former Academia Sinica Buildings","name_zh":"国立中央研究院旧址","pinyin":"Guólì Zhōngyāng Yánjiūyuàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0621,"lon":118.7894,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-academia-sinica-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three buildings of the Academia Sinica, the Republic of China's national research academy, all designed by Yang Tingbao in a Chinese palace style: the Institute of Geology of 1931, where Li Siguang led research from 1932 to 1937, the Institute of History and Philology of 1936, and the headquarters of 1947, where the academy elected its first academicians in 1948. They stand just south of Jiming Temple in the compound of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Nanjing branch."},{"id":"nanjing-beijige-meteorological-observatory","name":"Former Beijige Meteorological Observatory","name_zh":"北极阁气象台旧址","pinyin":"Běijígé Qìxiàngtái Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0624,"lon":118.7854,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-beijige-meteorological-observatory/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On the 62 m summit of Beiji Ge (Jilong Hill), used for watching the sky since the 5th century and the site of the Ming imperial observatory, Zhu Kezhen founded the Academia Sinica's Institute of Meteorology in 1927, and in 1930 the Qing Beiji pavilion was replaced by an observatory, regarded as the start of modern meteorological research in China. Its 1930s buildings, a two-storey traditional-style building by Yang Tingbao and a 14 m hexagonal observation tower, have housed the China Beijige Meteorological Museum since 2010, with exhibits on Chinese meteorology from ancient times to the present and a bronze statue of Zhu Kezhen."},{"id":"nanjing-former-british-embassy","name":"Former British Embassy, Nanjing","name_zh":"英国驻华使馆旧址","pinyin":"Yīngguó Zhù Huá Shǐguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0849,"lon":118.748,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-former-british-embassy/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Known locally as the Little White Building, this was the seat of the British legation in Nanjing, raised to an embassy in 1935; the embassy moved to Chongqing in 1938, returned in 1946 and closed in 1949. Two buildings survive from the compound: an office building in English classical style with a colonnaded front on a raised terrace, and a country-villa-style residence with a red-tiled roof. Both now belong to the Shuangmenlou Hotel, where the former embassy building is used as a restaurant."},{"id":"nanjing-macklin-hospital","name":"Former Macklin Hospital","name_zh":"马林医院旧址","pinyin":"Mǎlín Yīyuàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0589,"lon":118.7782,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjing-macklin-hospital","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The first building of the mission hospital that grew into today's Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, a two-storey brick block of 1892 in American colonial style, named after its first director, the Canadian missionary doctor Macklin, with round-arched windows, dormers and a doorway bearing the date. Since 2007 it has housed the hospital's history memorial hall."},{"id":"nanjing-eighth-route-army-office","name":"Former Nanjing Office of the Eighth Route Army","name_zh":"八路军驻京办事处旧址","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Zhù Jīng Bànshìchù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0675,"lon":118.7762,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-eighth-route-army-office/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A two-storey 1930s Western-style house that belonged to Zhang Boling, president of Nankai University, and was rented in August 1937 as the Nanjing office of the Communist-led Eighth Route Army, after the Communists and Nationalists agreed to cooperate against Japan. Headed by Li Kenong, with Ye Jianying and Bo Gu among those working here, the office secured the release of hundreds of Communist political prisoners and helped prepare the formation of the New Fourth Army before leaving for Wuhan in November 1937. It has been a memorial hall since 1987 and is now a branch of the Meiyuan New Village Memorial Hall."},{"id":"nanjing-central-university-site","name":"Former National Central University","name_zh":"中央大学旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0581,"lon":118.7891,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-central-university-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Southeast University's Sipailou campus keeps the core of the former National Central University, the national university of Republican-era Nanjing, with buildings mostly of the 1920s and 1930s in a Western classical revival style. A copper-domed auditorium of 1930–31 seating about 2,700 faces Yang Tingbao's 1933 south gate along the campus axis, flanked by the 1923 Mengfang Library and the 1929 biology building. The 1923 gymnasium hosted lectures by Bertrand Russell, John Dewey and Rabindranath Tagore, and an old juniper known as the Six Dynasties Pine stands by the Mei'an building."},{"id":"nanjing-gan-xi-residence","name":"Former Residence of Gan Xi","name_zh":"甘熙故居","pinyin":"Gān Xī Gùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.028,"lon":118.7766,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-gan-xi-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Begun in the Jiaqing reign (1796–1820) by Gan Fu, father of the scholar Gan Xi, this large family compound of linked courtyards in the old south of the city is popularly called the Gan Family Mansion. It now houses the Nanjing Folk Museum, with displays on local customs and crafts, and stands at the heart of the protected Nanbuting historic quarter."},{"id":"gaochun-cittaslow-yaxi","name":"Gaochun Cittaslow (Yaxi)","name_zh":"高淳国际慢城","pinyin":"Gāochún Guójì Mànchéng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.3707,"lon":119.1608,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaochun-cittaslow-yaxi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural area of low hills, tea gardens and villages around Yaxi in eastern Gaochun, which became China's first member of the international Cittaslow ('slow city') network and hosts the network's China office. A scenic road winds between the villages and is popular for cycling and driving, with farm stays and seasonal family activities such as tea picking."},{"id":"gaochun-old-street","name":"Gaochun Old Street","name_zh":"高淳老街","pinyin":"Gāochún Lǎojiē","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.3219,"lon":118.8642,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaochun-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old main street of Chunxi, Gaochun's district town, which grew up as a market street from the Song dynasty and is lined with Ming- and Qing-period shop-houses now selling local snacks, crafts and souvenirs. Along the way are the Guanwang Temple and an old well associated with the Qianlong Emperor."},{"id":"nanjing-ginling-college-campus","name":"Ginling College Campus","name_zh":"金陵女子大学旧址","pinyin":"Jīnlíng Nǚzǐ Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0557,"lon":118.7637,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-ginling-college-campus/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The campus of Ginling College, a Christian women's college founded in 1913, built in 1922–23 to a plan by the American architect Henry Murphy, with Chinese palace-style buildings in reinforced concrete set symmetrically around a great lawn and linked by covered walkways. During the Nanjing Massacre of 1937–38 the acting head, Minnie Vautrin, turned the campus into a refuge for thousands of women and children. Since 1952 it has been the Suiyuan campus of Nanjing Normal University."},{"id":"nanjing-great-baoen-temple","name":"Great Bao'en Temple Heritage Park","name_zh":"大报恩寺遗址公园","pinyin":"Dà Bào'ēn Sì Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.011,"lon":118.778,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-great-baoen-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the Great Bao'en Temple, rebuilt by the Yongle Emperor from 1412 on the site of the older Changgan Temple, whose nine-storey, 78 m pagoda faced with white porcelain and glazed tiles was famous in Europe as the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing until it was blown up in 1856 during the Taiping war. A heritage park opened here in December 2015 with a light modern tower of steel and art glass over the excavated pagoda base, deliberately not a copy of the original, and glass walkways above the Song and Ming foundations. Displays cover the crypt of the Northern Song Changgan Temple, where an iron casket holding the Seven-Treasure Ashoka stupa was found in 2008, and a Ming imperial stele of 1428 survives on the site."},{"id":"nanjing-happy-valley","name":"Happy Valley Nanjing","name_zh":"南京欢乐谷","pinyin":"Nánjīng Huānlè Gǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.1657,"lon":118.9919,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjing-happy-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large theme park in Qixia District, opened in November 2020 as the eighth park of China's Happy Valley chain. It has more than 40 rides, among them several roller coasters such as a Bolliger & Mabillard wing coaster and an Intamin launched coaster, and stages seasonal themed festivals. It suits a full day out for families and ride enthusiasts."},{"id":"nanjing-hongshan-forest-zoo","name":"Hongshan Forest Zoo","name_zh":"红山森林动物园","pinyin":"Hóngshān Sēnlín Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0939,"lon":118.7967,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-hongshan-forest-zoo/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A zoo of about 68 hectares spread over three wooded hills in northern Nanjing, Xiao Hongshan, Da Hongshan and Fangniu Shan, which opened in 1998 when the old Xuanwu Lake Zoo moved here. It keeps more than 3,000 animals of over 260 species in hillside enclosures, among them giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, South China tigers, Asian elephants, giraffes and red-crowned cranes, and runs a rescue centre for injured native wildlife. It ended animal performances in 2011 and stopped visitors feeding the animals in 2014."},{"id":"nanjing-jinling-arsenal","name":"Jinling Arsenal (Chenguang 1865 Creative Park)","name_zh":"金陵兵工厂旧址","pinyin":"Jīnlíng Bīnggōngchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0089,"lon":118.783,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-jinling-arsenal/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded by Li Hongzhang in 1865 as the Jinling Machinery Bureau, at the time China's largest arsenal, it made guns and ammunition for his Huai Army, was renamed the Jinling Arsenal in 1929 and moved its production to Chongqing in 1937. Its brick workshops from the late Qing and Republican years survive, among them the original machine hall of 1865, and since 2007 they have been reused as the Chenguang 1865 science and technology creative park."},{"id":"nanjing-jinling-scriptural-press","name":"Jinling Scriptural Press","name_zh":"金陵刻经处","pinyin":"Jīnlíng Kèjīngchù","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.039,"lon":118.7858,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-jinling-scriptural-press/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist publishing house founded in 1866 by the lay scholar Yang Wenhui (Yang Renshan), often called the father of China's modern Buddhist revival, who taught figures such as the monk Taixu and the scholar Zhang Taiyan here. It still makes Buddhist books entirely by hand, carving the text on woodblocks, printing it and thread-binding the volumes, a craft listed as national intangible heritage in 2006 and included in China's block-printing entry on the UNESCO intangible heritage list in 2009. Staff can be seen at work in its craft display area."},{"id":"liuhe-jinniu-lake","name":"Jinniu Lake","name_zh":"金牛湖","pinyin":"Jīnniú Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.49,"lon":118.9788,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuhe-jinniu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanjing's largest artificial lake, a reservoir built in 1958 on the Babai River in the far north of Liuhe District, near the borders of Tianchang and Yizheng and overlooked by Jinniu Hill. It hosted water-sports events of the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games and has since staged dragon-boat and sailing races; visitors can take sightseeing boats or speedboats, paddle a kayak or try wakesurfing and a floating obstacle course. The surrounding countryside is one of the places that claim to be the home of the folk song Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower)."},{"id":"liuhe-jinniu-lake-wildlife-kingdom","name":"Jinniu Lake Wildlife Kingdom","name_zh":"金牛湖野生动物王国","pinyin":"Jīnniú Hú Yěshēng Dòngwù Wángguó","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.4971,"lon":118.9614,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuhe-jinniu-lake-wildlife-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A safari park on the west shore of Jinniu Lake, laid out over hillsides and former quarry pits and holding more than 300 species of animals. In the drive-through section visitors follow a 3.2 km route in their own cars, with woodland and water used as barriers instead of fences; the walking section has a science hall, jellyfish and amphibian houses and animal-feeding areas. The walking section also puts on staged shows, including a circus, sea-lion performances and an animal parade, and has fairground rides, so it suits families with children."},{"id":"nanjing-john-rabe-house","name":"John Rabe House","name_zh":"拉贝故居","pinyin":"Lābèi Gùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0526,"lon":118.7782,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-john-rabe-house/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house where John Rabe, the Siemens representative in Nanjing and chairman of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, lived from 1932 to 1938 and wrote his diaries of the Nanjing Massacre; during the massacre he sheltered hundreds of Chinese refugees in the house and its garden. Restored with German support, it opened in 2006 as the John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall, whose photographs, documents and objects tell the story of Rabe and the other foreigners who ran the Safety Zone."},{"id":"nanjing-liji-lane-comfort-station-museum","name":"Liji Lane Comfort Station Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"利济巷慰安所旧址陈列馆","pinyin":"Lìjìxiàng Wèi'ānsuǒ Jiùzhǐ Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0412,"lon":118.7925,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-liji-lane-comfort-station-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of two-storey houses built in 1935 as a residential estate, which from the end of 1937 served the Japanese army as 'comfort stations' where women, many from the Korean peninsula, were held for sexual slavery. Identified in 2003 by Pak Yong-sim, a survivor from North Korea who had been held here, the derelict buildings were restored and opened in December 2015 as a branch of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. Seven buildings of about 2,000 m² hold exhibitions on the Japanese military's comfort-women system, with a statue based on a photograph of Pak taken at her rescue."},{"id":"nanjing-longjiang-treasure-shipyard","name":"Longjiang Treasure Shipyard Site","name_zh":"龙江宝船厂遗址","pinyin":"Lóngjiāng Bǎochuánchǎng Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0633,"lon":118.7285,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjing-longjiang-treasure-shipyard","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The dockyard by the Yangtze in north-western Nanjing where the great 'treasure ships' of Zheng He's early-15th-century voyages are believed to have been built, listed as the site of the Ming Longjiang shipyard. Three long water-filled docks survive of the original basins; excavations in 2003–04 found wooden building frames in them, and a huge rudder post was dug up here in 1957. The site is now a park with the docks, a replica treasure ship and a small display of finds."},{"id":"nanjing-meishan-steel-industrial-tourism","name":"Meishan Steel Industrial Culture Tourism Area","name_zh":"梅钢工业文化旅游区","pinyin":"Méigāng Gōngyè Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.9092,"lon":118.6272,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjing-meishan-steel-industrial-tourism","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial tourism area inside the Meishan steelworks on Nanjing's south-western edge, a plant begun in the late 1960s as the '9424' project to supply iron to Shanghai and now one of Baosteel's main production bases. Old workshops have been turned into a steel experience hall, where a model blast furnace and projections show molten iron being poured, a factory history exhibition and a former locomotive repair shed with a steam engine on show, and giant cooling towers are painted with sky and clouds. Rated 4A in 2023, it is aimed mainly at school study trips and families."},{"id":"nanjing-meiyuan-xincun-memorial","name":"Meiyuan Xincun Memorial Hall","name_zh":"梅园新村纪念馆","pinyin":"Méiyuán Xīncūn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0451,"lon":118.7964,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-meiyuan-xincun-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The group of houses in the Meiyuan Xincun residential quarter where the Communist Party delegation led by Zhou Enlai lived and worked from May 1946 to March 1947, during its negotiations with the Nationalist government in Nanjing. The memorial, opened in 1977, takes in the delegation's former offices and residences, an exhibition hall on the Nanjing negotiations opened in 1990, a bronze statue of Zhou Enlai and a Zhou Enlai library opened in 1998."},{"id":"nanjing-massacre-memorial-hall","name":"Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders","name_zh":"侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆","pinyin":"Qīnhuá Rìjūn Nánjīng Dàtúshā Yùnàn Tóngbāo Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0376,"lon":118.7366,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-massacre-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The memorial museum to the victims of the mass killings carried out by Japanese troops after they captured Nanjing, then China's capital, on 13 December 1937. It stands at Jiangdongmen, where prisoners of war and civilians were killed and buried, and opened in 1985; enlarged in 1995 and 2005, it holds the main historical exhibition, an excavated burial pit with human remains, memorial squares and sculpture, and a peace park. The national listing also covers the other killing and burial sites around the city, most marked by memorial steles erected from 1985 onwards."},{"id":"nanjing-ming-palace-ruins","name":"Ming Palace Ruins","name_zh":"明故宫遗址","pinyin":"Míng Gùgōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0404,"lon":118.8125,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-ming-palace-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ruins of the early Ming imperial palace, the model for Beijing's Forbidden City, which decayed after the court moved to Beijing in the 1420s and was later cut in two by an airfield and by Zhongshan East Road in the 1920s. South of the road, Wumen Park keeps the stone base of the Meridian Gate with its five archways, the inner Five Dragon Bridges and the site of the Fengtian Gate; north of it, the Ming Palace Ruins Park shows the bases and stone column plinths of the three great halls. The Donghua Gate and Xi'an Gate survive as separate gate ruins nearby."},{"id":"nanjing-mochou-lake-park","name":"Mochou Lake Park","name_zh":"莫愁湖公园","pinyin":"Mòchóu Hú Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0372,"lon":118.7567,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-mochou-lake-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake park in western Nanjing, west of the Qinhuai River and Hanzhongmen, laid out around Mochou Lake, which takes its name from Mochou, a virtuous young woman of local legend. Halls, pavilions and covered walkways stand among rockeries and trees on the shore, among them the two-storey Shengqi Pavilion, the Yujin Hall and a white marble statue of Mochou beside a lotus pool. By tradition the Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang gave the lakeside garden to his general Xu Da, and in summer boats can be taken out among the lotus."},{"id":"nanjing-eye-hexi-riverside","name":"Nanjing Eye Footbridge & Hexi Riverside","name_zh":"南京眼","pinyin":"Nánjīng Yǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.9968,"lon":118.6982,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-eye-hexi-riverside/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park area of about 61 hectares on both banks of the Jiajiang, the arm of the Yangtze between Nanjing's Hexi new town and Jiangxinzhou island, taking its name from the Nanjing Eye, a cable-stayed footbridge across the channel. The bridge was completed in 2014 for the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, described at the time as the first bridge over the Yangtze for pedestrians only, and links the riverside of the Youth Olympic quarter with the Youth Olympic Forest Park on the island. The area is themed on the river landscape and the 2014 Games, and is a place to stroll the riverfront and cross the Yangtze channel on foot."},{"id":"nanjing-great-hall-of-the-people","name":"Nanjing Great Hall of the People","name_zh":"南京人民大会堂","pinyin":"Nánjīng Rénmín Dàhuìtáng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0462,"lon":118.7879,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-great-hall-of-the-people/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1935–36 as the National Assembly Hall, where the Republic of China's National Assembly met in 1946 and 1948, this four-storey hall on Changjiang Road pairs a modern symmetrical façade with simplified Chinese ornament and seats more than 3,400; it now hosts Nanjing's annual congress sessions and stage performances. Sharing its wall to the east is the former National Art Gallery, finished in 1936 to the same competition-winning design by Xi Fuquan as China's first national art museum. The gallery is now the old building of the Jiangsu Art Museum and reopened for exhibitions in 2017 after renovation."},{"id":"tangshan-nanjing-man-site","name":"Nanjing Man Site (Tangshan Ape-Man Cave)","name_zh":"南京古猿人洞","pinyin":"Nánjīng Gǔyuánrén Dòng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0576,"lon":119.041,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tangshan-nanjing-man-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hulu (Gourd) Cave on the northern slope of Tangshan, a limestone cave where workers found two fossil human skulls and many mammal fossils in 1993; the skulls belong to Homo erectus and are known as Nanjing Man. The cave is now the centre of a fossil-site park of about 75 hectares, where a time tunnel leads from the cave to a site museum, opened in 2014, that traces the area's geology and human evolution and displays the two skulls. The female skull has been dated to roughly 600,000 years ago and the male one to about 300,000 years ago."},{"id":"nanjing-museum","name":"Nanjing Museum","name_zh":"南京博物院","pinyin":"Nánjīng Bówùyuàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0423,"lon":118.8199,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jiangsu's provincial museum, founded in 1933 as the preparatory office of the National Central Museum, with a collection of more than 400,000 objects that is especially strong in Ming and Qing imperial porcelain. Its main hall, begun in 1936 and finished in 1948 in the style of a Liao-dynasty temple with Liang Sicheng and Liu Dunzhen as advisers, houses the history of Jiangsu from prehistory to the Qing. Other halls, enlarged in an expansion finished in 2013, cover Chinese art, the Republic of China period, intangible heritage such as Nanjing brocade, and changing special exhibitions."},{"id":"nanjing-science-and-technology-museum","name":"Nanjing Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"南京科技馆","pinyin":"Nánjīng Kējìguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.988,"lon":118.7789,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjing-science-and-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanjing's main science museum, set beside Huashen Lake in Yuhuatai District, with hands-on halls on scientific principles, space and the Earth. After nearly a year of renovation it reopened in July 2025 with new space exhibits, including a full-size replica of a space-station core module with virtual-reality launch rides. It suits families with children."},{"id":"nanjing-niushoushan","name":"Niushoushan","name_zh":"牛首山","pinyin":"Niúshǒu Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.9132,"lon":118.7451,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-niushoushan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A twin-peaked hill south of Nanjing, a Buddhist centre since the Southern Dynasties and the birthplace of the Niutou school of Chan, redeveloped as a Buddhist cultural park that opened in 2015 to enshrine a relic venerated as part of the Buddha's skull, found in 2008 in the crypt beneath the old Bao'en Temple. The relic is kept in the Usnisa Palace, a vast domed building set into a pit left by iron mining on the west peak, with a hall holding a jade reclining Buddha and a thousand-Buddha hall inside, beside a new nine-storey Tang-style pagoda and the old Hongjue Temple pagoda. Paths also lead to stone ramparts linked to Yue Fei's victory over the Jin here in 1130 and to the tomb of the Ming admiral Zheng He on the southern slopes."},{"id":"pukou-pearl-spring","name":"Pearl Spring Scenic Area","name_zh":"珍珠泉","pinyin":"Zhēnzhū Quán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.121,"lon":118.6584,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pukou-pearl-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill-and-lake scenic area at the eastern foot of Laoshan in Pukou, facing the Yangtze, named after a spring whose bubbles rise in strings like pearls and praised in Ming and Qing times as the finest outing north of the river. It now mixes nature with built attractions: bamboo rafts and boats on Jingshan Lake, a wildlife park with tigers, lions, bears and monkeys, a mountain toboggan run, a cable car and a 3 km imitation of the Great Wall built along the ridge in 1995. Next to the scenic area stands Dingshan Temple, founded in 503 and rebuilt in Tang style, which tradition links with Bodhidharma."},{"id":"liuhe-pingshan-forest-park","name":"Pingshan Forest Park","name_zh":"平山森林公园","pinyin":"Píngshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.4643,"lon":118.8369,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuhe-pingshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill park of about 22 km² in Liuhe District, north of the Yangtze, which the district describes as its largest green conservation area, with forest cover of more than 85% and a highest point of 161 m. Woodland paths and lakeside boardwalks run through the park, which also has a cherry-blossom valley, Shuangdie Lake and tea gardens. The gardens grow the local Huaping Yuhua green tea, and a small exhibition hall in the park is devoted to its tea culture."},{"id":"nanjing-presidential-palace","name":"Presidential Palace, Nanjing","name_zh":"南京总统府","pinyin":"Nánjīng Zǒngtǒngfǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0461,"lon":118.7922,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-presidential-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 9-hectare compound on Changjiang Road that was in turn a Ming prince's mansion, the office of the Qing viceroy of Liangjiang, the palace of the Taiping Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, the seat of Sun Yat-sen's provisional presidency in 1912 and the headquarters of the Nationalist government and presidency until 1949. Since 2003 it has been the China Modern History Museum: an axis of Chinese-style halls behind the 1929 gateway leads to the 1936 Zichao Building with the offices of Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren, while the west side holds Sun Yat-sen's presidential office and the Xu Garden with its stone boat. Other buildings hold a reconstruction of the Taiping throne room and exhibitions on the site's history."},{"id":"nanjing-pukou-railway-station","name":"Pukou Railway Station","name_zh":"浦口火车站","pinyin":"Pǔkǒu Huǒchēzhàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0983,"lon":118.716,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-pukou-railway-station/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The British-designed southern terminus of the Tianjin–Pukou Railway on the north bank of the Yangtze, opened in 1914, where passengers from the north crossed by ferry to Nanjing until the Yangtze River Bridge opened in 1968. The protected group includes the station building, its covered walkways and the old booking hall, and the surrounding streets were restored as a historic quarter, completed in 2024, while the tracks still serve freight. The quarter draws on Zhu Ziqing's essay 'Back', set at this station, and has a statue of the writer."},{"id":"lishui-putang-bridge","name":"Putang Bridge","name_zh":"蒲塘桥","pinyin":"Pútáng Qiáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.5609,"lon":118.99,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lishui-putang-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-arched stone bridge across the Putang River in Putang village, Honglan, rebuilt in 1508–1512 with money from the local Zhao brothers on the line of the old post road from Lishui to Xuancheng. At 91.3 m long it is the largest old bridge surviving in Lishui District, built of local volcanic tuff, with pointed cutwaters on its eight piers and 72 balustrade posts each topped by a small carved lion. It carried road traffic until a new bridge was built alongside, and was restored as a footbridge in 2009–2010, when its stone deck was relaid."},{"id":"nanjing-qiqiaoweng-bridge","name":"Qiqiaoweng Bridge","name_zh":"七桥瓮","pinyin":"Qīqiáowèng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.009,"lon":118.8249,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-qiqiaoweng-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-arched Ming stone bridge over the Qinhuai River south-east of the old city, completed in 1440 and first called Shangfang Bridge after the nearby gate of the Ming outer wall. About 90 m long and 13 m wide, it is the largest old bridge surviving in Nanjing; carved dragon heads line the arches and scaly guardian beasts with human faces rear up from the cutwaters to mark flood levels. Restored in 2008–09, when missing carvings were replaced, it still carries traffic and stands at the western end of Qiqiaoweng Wetland Park along the river."},{"id":"nanjing-qixia-mountain-temple","name":"Qixia Mountain & Qixia Temple","name_zh":"栖霞山·栖霞寺","pinyin":"Qīxiá Shān · Qīxiá Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.1542,"lon":118.9539,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-qixia-mountain-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A low wooded hill above the Yangtze north-east of Nanjing, known for its red autumn maples, with Qixia Temple at its western foot, founded in 489 in the house of the recluse Ming Sengshao and regarded as the ancestral seat of the Sanlun (Madhyamaka) school of Chinese Buddhism; its present halls date from a rebuilding begun in 1919. Beside the temple stand an octagonal five-storey stone stupa, rebuilt under the Southern Tang in the 10th century, and the Thousand Buddha Cliff, niches and statues cut into the hillside from 489 onwards. In a pavilion before the gate is the stele of 676 honouring Ming Sengshao, its text composed by Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and in the winter of 1937–38 the temple sheltered refugees from the Nanjing Massacre."},{"id":"nanjing-southern-dynasties-tomb-sculptures","name":"Southern Dynasty Tomb Sculptures, Nanjing","name_zh":"南京南朝陵墓石刻","pinyin":"Nánjīng Náncháo Língmù Shíkè","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.1416,"lon":118.9124,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-southern-dynasties-tomb-sculptures/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Winged lions (bixie), qilin, steles on stone tortoises and fluted columns that once lined the spirit ways to the tombs of Southern Dynasties emperors and princes of the 5th and 6th centuries, still standing in the open at sites scattered across Nanjing's eastern and southern suburbs, mostly in Qixia and Jiangning districts. The densest group is at Ganjiaxiang in Qixia District, where the carvings from the tombs of three Liang-dynasty princes, Xiao Xiu, Xiao Dan and Xiao Hui, stand within a few hundred metres of each other, Xiao Xiu's ensemble beside the gate of a primary school and the other two in a small park. The winged lion is Nanjing's city emblem, modelled on the one at the tomb of Xiao Jing about a kilometre to the south-west."},{"id":"nanjing-tangzi-street-taiping-murals","name":"Taiping Murals on Tangzi Street","name_zh":"堂子街太平天国壁画","pinyin":"Tángzi Jiē Tàipíng Tiānguó Bìhuà","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0415,"lon":118.7634,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-tangzi-street-taiping-murals/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing courtyard house on Tangzi Street, just inside Hanzhongmen, which the Taiping rebels took over after capturing Nanjing in 1853 and used as an office and later a minor prince's residence, painting its walls and wooden partitions. Eighteen paintings survive in the main and rear halls, landscapes, birds, flowers and animals in a bold folk style with no human figures, one of them a watchtower guarding the Yangtze with warships below. The house serves as the Taiping mural art museum, which also shows copies of Taiping murals from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui."},{"id":"tangshan-zhiqing-lake-resort","name":"Tangshan Zhiqing Lake Resort","name_zh":"汤山紫清湖","pinyin":"Tāngshān Zǐqīng Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0679,"lon":119.0335,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangshan-zhiqing-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large hot-spring resort in the Tangshan spa area east of Nanjing, developed over more than a decade, combining hotels, outdoor hot springs and a wildlife park. Dozens of pools, among them waterfall pools, mineral-salt and stone-slab baths and fish pools, are spread over a wooded hillside facing the lake. Its wildlife world has giant pandas, elephants, giraffes, zebras, primates and parrots and a drive-through section, and with a children's play centre and a water park the resort is aimed at families and short stays."},{"id":"lishui-tianshengqiao","name":"Tianshengqiao, Lishui","name_zh":"天生桥","pinyin":"Tiānshēng Qiáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.6457,"lon":118.9805,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lishui-tianshengqiao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural-looking stone bridge over the Yanzhi River, a canal that the Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang had a large labour force cut through a ridge in Lishui in 1393–1395, to link the Qinhuai River with the Taihu waterways for grain transport. Instead of cutting through the whole hill, the workers left a band of rock in place and chiselled the channel beneath it, giving the 'heaven-made bridge' its name; a second such bridge further north collapsed in 1571. The bridge, high above the water in the steep-sided cutting, is the centre of a scenic area along the canal and one of the New Forty-Eight Views of Jinling."},{"id":"nanjing-boni-king-tomb","name":"Tomb of the King of Boni","name_zh":"浡泥国王墓","pinyin":"Bóní Guówáng Mù","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.9782,"lon":118.7529,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-boni-king-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Maharaja Karna (Abdul Majid Hassan), ruler of Boni, a state on Borneo sometimes considered a forerunner of modern Brunei, who came to the Ming court in Nanjing in 1408 and died there that autumn at the age of 28. The Yongle Emperor had him buried with honours south of the city, and a spirit way lined with stone warriors, grooms, horses, tigers and rams leads to the grave mound; a small exhibition room was added in the early 2000s. Forgotten after the Ming, the tomb was rediscovered in 1958 and is one of only two tombs of foreign rulers in China."},{"id":"jiangning-southern-tang-mausoleums","name":"Two Mausoleums of the Southern Tang","name_zh":"南唐二陵","pinyin":"Nán Táng Èr Líng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.8906,"lon":118.7336,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangning-southern-tang-mausoleums/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The underground tombs of the first two rulers of the Southern Tang, a 10th-century kingdom based in Nanjing, at the southern foot of Zutang Hill: the Qinling of the founder Li Bian and the Shunling of his son Li Jing. Excavated from 1950, both are built of brick and stone in imitation of timber halls, with front, middle and rear chambers flanked by side rooms, and visitors can walk through them and see a small exhibition hall. The third and last ruler, the poet Li Yu, died in captivity in Luoyang and is not buried here."},{"id":"nanjing-university-of-nanking-campus","name":"University of Nanking Campus","name_zh":"金陵大学旧址","pinyin":"Jīnlíng Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0589,"lon":118.7758,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-university-of-nanking-campus/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former campus of the University of Nanking, a university sponsored by American churches, laid out in the 1910s on a north–south axis in the manner of an American campus, with buildings that pair Chinese hip roofs and grey-brick walls with Western structures and materials. Its landmark is the tower-topped North Building of 1919, and around it stand the chapel of 1918, now the university auditorium, and the 1936 library by Yang Tingbao, now Nanjing University's history museum. Since 1952 it has been part of Nanjing University's Gulou campus."},{"id":"nanjing-xuanwu-lake","name":"Xuanwu Lake","name_zh":"玄武湖","pinyin":"Xuánwǔ Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0726,"lon":118.7824,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-xuanwu-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake of about 10 km round just north of the old city, bounded on the west and south by the Ming city wall and looking east to Purple Mountain, which has been an imperial park and pleasure ground since the Six Dynasties. Five islands, Huanzhou, Yingzhou, Lingzhou, Liangzhou and Cuizhou, are linked by causeways and bridges and planted with willows, cherry trees and lotus; in the Ming dynasty the empire's household registers were archived on Liangzhou. It became a public park after Xuanwu Gate (then Fengrun Gate) was opened in the wall in 1909 for the Nanyang Industrial Exposition."},{"id":"jiangning-yangliu-village","name":"Yangliu Village Historic Buildings","name_zh":"杨柳村古建筑群","pinyin":"Yángliǔ Cūn Gǔjiànzhù Qún","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.8598,"lon":118.9226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangning-yangliu-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of Qing-dynasty mansions at Hushu in southern Jiangning, built mainly in the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns between Machang Hill and Yangliu Lake; of its 36 original compounds, 17 were still fairly complete when surveyed in 1982. They are deep multi-courtyard houses behind high walls, with tall gate towers carved in brick with figures, flowers and animals and unpainted carved beams inside. The best-preserved group, three linked halls at the west end of the village built by the Zhu family in the Qianlong era, has been restored to house the Jiangning folk-custom museum and an intangible-heritage exhibition."},{"id":"nanjing-yangshan-quarry","name":"Yangshan Quarry","name_zh":"阳山碑材","pinyin":"Yángshān Bēicái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0685,"lon":119.0007,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-yangshan-quarry/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ancient stone quarry in the hills near Tangshan where, from 1405, the Yongle Emperor had a vast memorial stele cut for his father's tomb, the Ming Xiaoling, using a huge labour force. The three parts, the tortoise base, the tablet and its crowning head, were never moved because they were far too heavy, and they still lie where they were carved, partly freed from the bedrock; a much smaller stele was set up at the tomb instead. The quarry is the centre of a 4A scenic area branded the Ming Culture Village."},{"id":"nanjing-yangtze-crossing-memorial-hall","name":"Yangtze River Crossing Victory Memorial Hall","name_zh":"渡江胜利纪念馆","pinyin":"Dùjiāng Shènglì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0761,"lon":118.7267,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjing-yangtze-crossing-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum on the Yangtze waterfront where the Qinhuai River enters it, about the April 1949 campaign in which the People's Liberation Army crossed the Yangtze and took Nanjing, then the Nationalist capital. Its galleries tell the story through photographs, documents, objects and reconstructed scenes, and the Jingdian, a small steam launch that ferried troops across the river, is displayed in the forecourt. The Yangtze Crossing Victory Monument of 1979 stands about 1.7 km to the north-east on Rehe Road Square."},{"id":"gaochun-youzi-mountain","name":"Youzi Mountain","name_zh":"游子山","pinyin":"Yóuzǐ Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":31.3513,"lon":119.0216,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaochun-youzi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded range of low hills in eastern Gaochun, whose name ('the wanderer's mountain') comes from a tradition, recorded in a Song-dynasty gazetteer, that Confucius passed this way on his journey to the state of Chu. The scenic area combines forest walks with a hall honouring Confucius and a martyrs' cemetery, while the nearby old village of Qiqiao has been home to descendants of Confucius since the Southern Song."},{"id":"nanjing-yuejiang-tower","name":"Yuejiang Tower","name_zh":"阅江楼","pinyin":"Yuèjiāng Lóu","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0962,"lon":118.7413,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-yuejiang-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey tower in Ming style on Lion Hill in north-western Nanjing, completed in 2001 to realise a building that the Hongwu Emperor ordered in 1374 but never finished, and which was known for six centuries only through essays such as Song Lian's 'Record of Yuejiang Tower'. From the top there are views north over the Yangtze and south over the city, and inside are murals including scenes of Zheng He's voyages. Lion Hill, inside the Ming city wall near Yijiang Gate, also has old caves said to have hidden troops."},{"id":"nanjing-yuhuatai","name":"Yuhuatai (Rain Flower Terrace)","name_zh":"雨花台","pinyin":"Yǔhuātái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0006,"lon":118.7761,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-yuhuatai/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A ridge of low hills just south of Zhonghua Gate, named after a legend that flowers rained from the sky when the monk Yunguang preached here in 503. From 1927 to 1949 it was an execution ground where many Communists and other prisoners were killed, and Japanese war criminals were executed here after the war; since 1950 it has been a memorial park with a martyrs' monument on the main hill, a large sculpture group and a memorial hall. The wider scenic area also holds the tomb of the Ming scholar Fang Xiaoru, the Gaozuo Temple, a museum of the coloured 'rain-flower' pebbles and a spring once ranked second south of the Yangtze."},{"id":"pukou-yunyougu","name":"Yunyougu Scenic Area","name_zh":"云幽谷","pinyin":"Yúnyōu Gǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0273,"lon":118.5341,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pukou-yunyougu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure park in the hills of Tangquan, at the western edge of Pukou District, that combines countryside scenery with a farm-themed amusement park. It has fairground rides such as a Ferris wheel, a carousel and go-karts, as well as a glass footbridge. It suits families with children on a day out from Nanjing."},{"id":"nanjing-zhan-garden","name":"Zhan Garden","name_zh":"瞻园","pinyin":"Zhān Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nanjing","lat":32.0225,"lon":118.78,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanjing-zhan-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as the oldest surviving private garden in Nanjing, it was begun in the Ming dynasty by a descendant of the founding general Xu Da in the grounds of the family mansion, and named after an inscription by the Qianlong Emperor, who stayed here. Restored in the 1960s under the architect Liu Dunzhen, its western part has rockeries, covered walkways and a main hall surrounded by water on three sides. The eastern part houses the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum, recalling the garden's use by Taiping leaders after they took the city in 1853."},{"id":"haimen-dasheng-no3-cotton-mill","name":"Dasheng No. 3 Cotton Mill","name_zh":"大生三厂旧址","pinyin":"Dàshēng Sānchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":31.8946,"lon":121.2445,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haimen-dasheng-no3-cotton-mill","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhang Jian opened his third Dasheng cotton mill here in 1921, at Sanchang near the Yangtze east of Haimen. Its clock tower, head office and raw-cotton warehouse survive, were restored between 2021 and 2023, and the tower again strikes the hours. They now form part of a heritage walk with the old Qinglong ferry port on the Yangtze, and together with the first mill at Tangzha in Nantong they make up the national heritage site of the Dasheng Cotton Mills."},{"id":"haimen-diesiqiao-home-textile-market","name":"Dieshiqiao Home Textile Market","name_zh":"叠石桥国际家纺城","pinyin":"Diéshíqiáo Guójì Jiāfǎng Chéng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":31.9673,"lon":121.0786,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haimen-diesiqiao-home-textile-market","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Diesiqiao in Sanxing town is a vast wholesale market district for bedding, curtains and other home textiles, built up over some forty years and described by provincial media as the world's largest home-textile cluster, with more than 2,500 firms. The tourist area pairs the market halls, where visitors can buy direct from traders, with an exhibition hall on the trade, and a local brand opened a bedding museum in the same town in 2025."},{"id":"haian-museum","name":"Hai'an Museum and Han's Mansion","name_zh":"海安博物馆","pinyin":"Hǎi'ān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.5492,"lon":120.4591,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haian-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hai'an Museum is spread over a modern main building and Han's Mansion (Han Gongguan), the 1906 family residence of Han Guojun, a late-Qing official who governed Jiangsu in 1913 and again in 1922–25 and in old age refused to serve the Japanese-backed regime. The mansion is a compound of late-Qing-style halls and courtyards, and the main building holds the museum's displays on local history and archaeology."},{"id":"nantong-haohe-river","name":"Haohe River Scenic Area","name_zh":"濠河","pinyin":"Háo Hé","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.027,"lon":120.856,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nantong-haohe-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Haohe is Nantong's old city moat, dug by the 10th century and still ringing the historic centre in a gourd-shaped loop about 10 km long that widens from 10 m to more than 200 m. Its banks link Tianning Temple, the Song-era city-wall remains at Beijige, the Ming Wenfeng Pagoda, Nantong Museum and the old Sijie and Xinanying lanes, with parks and smaller museums in between. Boat trips run day and night, and an evening show of lights and live performance along the boat route was added in 2026."},{"id":"nantong-langshan","name":"Langshan (Wolf Hill)","name_zh":"狼山","pinyin":"Láng Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":31.9511,"lon":120.8846,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nantong-langshan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Langshan is a low hill on the Yangtze shore south of Nantong, the highest of five small hills grouped as a scenic area and counted among China's eight lesser Buddhist mountains. Guangjiao Temple, founded in 669 by the monk Sengjia and dedicated to the bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizhi), spreads its halls from the foot to the summit, which is crowned by the Song-dynasty Zhiyun Pagoda. Old ginkgos, cliff inscriptions and the tomb of the Tang poet Luo Binwang line the climb, and a Catholic pilgrimage church stands on the hill's north side."},{"id":"nantong-forest-safari-park","name":"Nantong Forest Safari Park","name_zh":"南通森林野生动物园","pinyin":"Nántōng Sēnlín Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.1026,"lon":120.819,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nantong-forest-safari-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large wildlife park on Nantong's northern outskirts covering about 2 km², which the city says holds nearly 20,000 animals of some 300 species. Two giant pandas from Chengdu have lived here since 2019, and visitors can tour the grounds on foot, by bike or by boat. It forms part of the Sendi resort, which adds a water park, an indoor snow and ocean park opened in 2026 and a hotel, and the zoo has offered night tours in summer."},{"id":"nantong-museum","name":"Nantong Museum","name_zh":"南通博物苑","pinyin":"Nántōng Bówùyuàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.0135,"lon":120.865,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nantong-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1905 by the industrialist and educator Zhang Jian, Nantong Museum is regarded as the first public museum set up by a Chinese founder, laid out as a garden with exhibition halls among lawns, ponds and trees. Its early South, Central and North halls, the oldest from 1906, still stand beside a new main building of 2005 by the architect Wu Liangyong, and the collections cover local history, art and natural history. The grounds also take in Haonan Villa, Zhang Jian's 1910s house, which mixes Western columns and fireplaces with a Chinese courtyard garden and now tells his life story."},{"id":"haian-qingdun-site","name":"Qingdun Neolithic Site","name_zh":"青墩遗址","pinyin":"Qīngdūn Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.6119,"lon":120.2498,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haian-qingdun-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Villagers digging a canal in 1973 found this settlement of about 5,000 years ago, and three seasons of excavation in the late 1970s followed; the city calls it the best-preserved Neolithic site in the eastern Jianghuai plain. Finds include a pottery axe with its handle and a carved deer antler with markings likened to the eight trigrams, and the Qingdun Site Museum just north of the site uses objects, photos and video to show daily life of the time."},{"id":"rugao-red-14th-army-memorial","name":"Red 14th Army Memorial Hall","name_zh":"红十四军纪念馆","pinyin":"Hóng Shísì Jūn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.3881,"lon":120.5876,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rugao-red-14th-army-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This memorial hall in a park on the east side of Rugao covers the 14th Red Army, formed in 1930 from Communist guerrilla bands in the Nantong, Haimen, Rugao and Taixing countryside and formally founded at a rally south-west of Rugao that April. Its commander He Kun was killed within weeks, and Nationalist forces had broken up the base by 1931; the exhibits follow the army's short history."},{"id":"rugao-bonsai-park","name":"Rugao Bonsai Park (Penjing Daguan)","name_zh":"盆景大观","pinyin":"Pénjǐng Dàguān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.3445,"lon":120.5587,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rugao-bonsai-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rugao calls itself China's capital of flowers and bonsai, and its Rugao school, known for trees shaped with a 'cloud head, rain feet and beauty's waist', is counted among the country's seven main schools of penjing. This scenic area on the city's southern side shows the craft at scale, with displays built around the Jiangsu Bonsai Museum, and bonsai traders line nearby streets."},{"id":"nantong-seyuan-garden","name":"Seyuan Garden","name_zh":"啬园","pinyin":"Sè Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":31.9669,"lon":120.9035,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nantong-seyuan-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Seyuan is a large wooded park in Nantong's southern suburbs, counted by the city as one of its biggest botanical gardens and the burial place of Zhang Jian (1853–1926), the scholar-industrialist who built the Dasheng cotton mills and Nantong Museum. The tomb was wrecked during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt in 1983, with his bronze statue put back in 1985, when the grounds took the name Seyuan after his art name Se'an. Each spring the park holds a tulip festival; the 2026 edition planted 130,000 tulips of 23 varieties."},{"id":"rugao-shuihui-garden","name":"Shuihui Garden","name_zh":"水绘园","pinyin":"Shuǐhuì Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.398,"lon":120.564,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/rugao-shuihui-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shuihui Garden in Rugao was begun by the Mao family in the late Ming and became the home of the scholar Mao Xiang (Mao Pijiang) and the courtesan Dong Xiaowan, whose romance made it famous. Built around water in an Anhui-influenced style, it centres on the Shuiming Lou, a two-storey boat-like pavilion by the Xibo Pond added in the Qianlong era. The wider scenic area also holds a garden of Rugao-style bonsai, including a cypress said to be 1,000 years old, and the Rugao Longevity Museum."},{"id":"nantong-tianning-temple","name":"Tianning Temple, Nantong","name_zh":"天宁寺","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.0225,"lon":120.8589,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nantong-tianning-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in the Tang dynasty as Baoen Guangxiao Temple and given its present name in 1457, Tianning Temple is the old heart of Nantong: the 10th-century city was laid out on an axis running from the temple to Langshan. Its Song-style main hall and the Guangxiao Pagoda, an octagonal brick-and-timber tower of five storeys first built in the Tang and rebuilt in the Song, stand with four old ginkgos and two Ming wells. In the late Qing Zhang Jian turned the eastern part of the grounds into a school, today's Nantong High School."},{"id":"qidong-tonghai-land-reclamation-company","name":"Tonghai Land Reclamation Company Site","name_zh":"通海垦牧公司旧址","pinyin":"Tōnghǎi Kěnmù Gōngsī Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":31.993,"lon":121.6977,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qidong-tonghai-land-reclamation-company","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhang Jian founded the Tonghai Land Reclamation Company here in 1901 to turn coastal salt flats into cotton farms for his Dasheng mills; it is regarded as China's first agricultural joint-stock company. The company compound was rebuilt on its old site from 2021 in late-Qing and Republican style, with a main hall, a farm-affairs hall, wing rooms and a grain-drying yard, and exhibitions of photos, film and objects tell the company's story."},{"id":"nantong-wonderful-farm","name":"Wonderful Farm","name_zh":"奇妙农场","pinyin":"Qímiào Nóngchǎng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.0975,"lon":120.8396,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nantong-wonderful-farm","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farm-themed leisure park of about 53 hectares on Nantong's northern edge, opened in October 2021 and rated 4A in December 2024. Its seven themed sections build farming into family entertainment, with sightseeing fields, hands-on farm work, nature lessons and folk-craft activities, and there is a hot-spring hotel, guesthouses and restaurants. It suits families with young children and sits next door to Nantong Forest Safari Park."},{"id":"tongzhou-zhouji-green-expo-park","name":"Zhouji Green Expo Park","name_zh":"洲际绿博园","pinyin":"Zhōujì Lǜbó Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Nantong","lat":32.027,"lon":120.9624,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongzhou-zhouji-green-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A botanical park in Nantong's Tongzhou district that the city says holds more than 8,000 plant species gathered from around the world. It was the first scenic area in Tongzhou to be rated 4A and is mainly visited for its seasonal flowers and autumn colour."},{"id":"siyang-china-poplar-museum","name":"China Poplar Museum, Siyang","name_zh":"中国杨树博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yángshù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":33.6829,"lon":118.6843,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=siyang-china-poplar-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum in Siyang county devoted to the poplar. The county began planting poplars introduced from Italy in 1972 and, with large plantations, promotes itself as China's 'hometown of poplars'; the museum stands on the southern side of the county town."},{"id":"zaohe-longwang-temple-palace","name":"Dragon King Temple Palace, Zaohe","name_zh":"龙王庙行宫","pinyin":"Lóngwáng Miào Xínggōng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":34.0347,"lon":118.1144,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zaohe-longwang-temple-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the Dragon King beside the Grand Canal and Luoma Lake in Zaohe town, first built in the Kangxi reign and rebuilt in 1727 and 1813, where the Qianlong Emperor lodged on five of his six southern tours; it is popularly called the Qianlong Palace. Three courtyards on a central axis lead past a stage and the imperial stele pavilion to the double-eaved Dragon King Hall and the Hall of Yu the Great. The site, which includes the remains of the imperial wharf, is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site."},{"id":"sihong-hongze-lake-wetland","name":"Hongze Lake Wetland, Sihong","name_zh":"洪泽湖湿地","pinyin":"Hóngzé Hú Shīdì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":33.2493,"lon":118.3263,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sihong-hongze-lake-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland scenic area in the shallows of north-western Hongze Lake, China's fourth-largest freshwater lake, forming part of the Sihong Hongze Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve. Boats thread through a maze of reed channels where waterbirds gather, and there is a wetland science museum, a dawn-redwood forest and a VR ride on the legend of Sizhou, the city the lake swallowed."},{"id":"suqian-hubin-park","name":"Lakeside Park, Suqian","name_zh":"湖滨公园","pinyin":"Húbīn Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":34.0551,"lon":118.2635,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suqian-hubin-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A public park on the southern shore of Luoma Lake, in Suqian's Hubin new district and the Luoma Lake tourist resort. By 2025 it had been upgraded together with neighbouring lakeside gardens into an open shoreline park more than 10 km long, and it is a place for a lakeside walk rather than a sight in its own right."},{"id":"suqian-santai-mountain-forest-park","name":"Santai Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"三台山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Sāntái Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":34.0351,"lon":118.3161,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suqian-santai-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park on low wooded hills on the northern edge of Suqian city. Seasonal flower fields of verbena, cosmos and spider flowers, a mist-spraying boardwalk, a petting area for small animals and guesthouses make it a popular family outing."},{"id":"yanghe-shennong-era-park","name":"Shennong Era Agricultural Park, Yanghe","name_zh":"神农时代文化旅游区","pinyin":"Shénnóng Shídài Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":33.7589,"lon":118.4408,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanghe-shennong-era-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern agricultural theme park near Yanghe town, named after Shennong, the legendary inventor of farming. Eight themed pavilions show vegetables, flowers, fruit trees and plant factories grown with modern farming technology, and there is a petting area with small animals and family activities such as cooking and crafts."},{"id":"sihong-shuanggou-distillery","name":"Shuanggou Distillery, Sihong","name_zh":"双沟酒文化旅游区","pinyin":"Shuānggōu Jiǔ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":33.214,"lon":118.2015,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sihong-shuanggou-distillery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A visitor area at the Shuanggou distillery in Shuanggou town, home of Shuanggou Daqu, a strong-aroma baijiu. The route takes in the historic brewing core, a museum on the site of a Song and Yuan-dynasty distillery, the large modern production halls and packaging centre, and a re-created Ming-style hand-brewing scene where visitors can try mixing the fermented grain."},{"id":"suqian-xiang-yu-hometown","name":"Xiang Yu's Hometown","name_zh":"项王故里","pinyin":"Xiàngwáng Gùlǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":33.9391,"lon":118.295,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suqian-xiang-yu-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park in southern Suqian on the traditional birthplace of Xiang Yu, the Chu warlord who fought Liu Bang for control of China after the fall of the Qin and died in 202 BC. A locust tree said to have been planted by Xiang Yu stands among halls and gardens such as the Xiang residence and the Six Arts Garden, which present his life and Western Chu culture. Daily performances include Chu dances, guqin music and re-enactments of the Battle of Julu and the Feast at Hongmen."},{"id":"suqian-xuefeng-park","name":"Xuefeng Park, Suqian","name_zh":"雪枫公园","pinyin":"Xuěfēng Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":33.9781,"lon":118.2932,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suqian-xuefeng-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park of about 21 hectares in Suqian city, opened in 2007 in memory of Peng Xuefeng, a New Fourth Army commander killed in 1944, and others who fought in the War of Resistance against Japan. At its centre the Peng Xuefeng Memorial Hall displays about 400 photographs and more than 100 objects such as mortars, machine guns and a sword, with an exhibition upstairs on clean government in the wartime base area."},{"id":"suqian-yanghe-distillery","name":"Yanghe Distillery","name_zh":"洋河酒厂文化旅游区","pinyin":"Yánghé Jiǔchǎng Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suqian","lat":33.7935,"lon":118.3787,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suqian-yanghe-distillery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The home of Yanghe, one of China's largest baijiu makers, in Yanghe town south-east of Suqian, where a visitor route runs through the working distillery. Stops include the Meirenquan spring, a hand-made production area, the old brewing site, a group of Ming and Qing fermentation pits and the underground cellar dug between 1960 and 1975, now a national heritage site."},{"id":"suzhou-baimajian-eco-park","name":"Baimajian Eco-Park","name_zh":"白马涧生态园","pinyin":"Báimǎjiàn Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.297,"lon":120.4885,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suzhou-baimajian-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park of about 1.5 km² in the wooded hills on Suzhou's western edge, west of Fengqiao in the High-tech District, which the city calls the district's 'green lung'; legend makes the valley a horse farm of the King of Wu. Its centre is Longchi (Dragon Pond), a valley lake with a long boardwalk along the water, a waterfall and a shallow stream for paddling, and hiking paths continue across the hills."},{"id":"suzhou-beisi-pagoda","name":"Beisi Pagoda (Bao'en Temple)","name_zh":"北寺塔","pinyin":"Běisì Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3244,"lon":120.6153,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-beisi-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The pagoda of Bao'en Temple in the north of Suzhou's old city, a nine-storey, eight-sided brick-and-timber tower about 76 m high with wooden eaves and balconies on every floor. The temple is said to have been founded by Sun Quan of Wu in the 3rd century, and the present pagoda was rebuilt in 1153, under the Southern Song; its spire was damaged in the earthquake of 1918. The temple grounds also hold the Hall of Seven Buddhas and a small plum garden."},{"id":"changshu-caiyi-hall-weng-residence","name":"Caiyi Hall, Weng Family Residence","name_zh":"䌽衣堂","pinyin":"Cǎiyī Táng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.6429,"lon":120.7373,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshu-caiyi-hall-weng-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main hall of the Weng family residence in Changshu's old town, a late-Ming building whose beams and pillars carry painted decoration regarded as a leading example of Suzhou-style colour painting. The house was bought in 1833 by the Qing official Weng Xincun, and his son Weng Tonghe, later a senior official at the Qing court, grew up here. The residence is now the Weng Tonghe Memorial Museum."},{"id":"suzhou-canglang-pavilion","name":"Canglang Pavilion","name_zh":"沧浪亭","pinyin":"Cānglàng Tíng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2966,"lon":120.6215,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-canglang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The oldest of Suzhou's surviving classical gardens, laid out in the mid-1040s by the Song poet Su Shunqin on the site of a Five Dynasties garden and named after a line in the Songs of Chu about the clear and muddy waters of the Canglang. The garden centres on a wooded earth-and-rock hill, with halls and covered walks around it and a gallery along the canal outside that 'borrows' the water into the view. It also has a hall of stone-carved portraits of famous people linked with Suzhou and a great variety of patterned lattice windows, and is part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site."},{"id":"suzhou-caoxieshan-site","name":"Caoxieshan Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"草鞋山遗址","pinyin":"Cǎoxiéshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3746,"lon":120.7941,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-caoxieshan-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic settlement near Yangcheng Lake, first inhabited about 6,000 years ago, whose deep layers record the Majiabang, Songze and Liangzhu cultures in one continuous sequence. Digs uncovered carbonised rice, early textile fragments and a Liangzhu grave with jade cong, and in 1992–1995 Chinese and Japanese archaeologists found paddy fields with irrigation channels from about 6,000 years ago. An archaeological park opened here in 2022 with displays of finds, reconstructed prehistoric paddies and excavated remains."},{"id":"dongshan-carved-building","name":"Carved Building (Chunzai Lou)","name_zh":"雕花楼","pinyin":"Diāohuā Lóu","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.0813,"lon":120.3996,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongshan-carved-building/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mansion in Dongshan town on the Dongshan peninsula, formally named Chunzai Lou, built in 1924 by craftsmen of the Xiangshan building tradition and covered with intricate carved decoration. It shows off the Xiangshan builders' techniques, now on China's national list of intangible heritage, and has served as a set for many films and television series, among them the Hollywood production Pavilion of Women. It is one of the named sights of the Lake Tai scenic area on Dongshan."},{"id":"zhenhu-china-embroidery-art-museum","name":"China Embroidery Art Museum, Zhenhu","name_zh":"中国刺绣艺术馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Cìxiù Yìshùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3361,"lon":120.339,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenhu-china-embroidery-art-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum of embroidery in Zhenhu, a lakeside subdistrict west of Suzhou known for Su embroidery, where more than 8,000 local people work as embroiderers. Its galleries cover China's four famous regional embroidery styles, the work of master embroiderers, the history of the craft and Zhenhu's own embroidery, and it holds special exhibitions, has embroiderers demonstrating their work and lets visitors try stitching."},{"id":"wujiang-chuihong-bridge-ruins","name":"Chuihong Bridge Ruins","name_zh":"垂虹断桥","pinyin":"Chuíhóng Duànqiáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1577,"lon":120.6448,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wujiang-chuihong-bridge-ruins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The surviving end sections of the Chuihong Bridge, which crossed the Wusong River outside the east gate of old Wujiang. First built of timber in 1048, it was rebuilt in 1324 as a long multi-arch stone bridge with a pavilion at its centre, and stood until it collapsed on 2 May 1967. Its remaining arches were excavated and restored in 1983 and 2005 and stand in the Chuihong Ruins Park, laid out in 1995."},{"id":"suzhou-couples-retreat-garden","name":"Couple's Retreat Garden","name_zh":"耦园","pinyin":"Ǒu Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3183,"lon":120.6345,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-couples-retreat-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A garden on the east edge of the Pingjiang historic district, surrounded by canals on three sides, rebuilt in the late 19th century by the retired official Shen Bingcheng, who withdrew here with his wife; 'ou' means a pair, hence the name. Unusually, two gardens flank the central residence: the eastern one, the finer, is built around a rugged yellow-stone rockery surviving from an 18th-century garden on the site, while the western one uses Taihu rocks. It is part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site."},{"id":"suzhou-dayangshan-forest-park","name":"Dayangshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"大阳山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Dàyángshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3425,"lon":120.4657,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suzhou-dayangshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park covering Yangshan, a wooded range of hills on the north-western edge of Suzhou whose main peak, Jianque Peak (338 m), is the second-highest around the city. The listed scenic area has two parts with separate entrances: a botanical garden at the foot of the hills, which stages seasonal flower shows, and Wenshu Temple, a Buddhist temple on the hillside."},{"id":"wujiang-dongmiao-bridge","name":"Dongmiao Bridge","name_zh":"东庙桥","pinyin":"Dōngmiào Qiáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":30.8931,"lon":120.3654,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wujiang-dongmiao-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A bridge from the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279) over the Henggu waterway in Dongmiaoqiao village, Qidu, near the southern shore of Lake Tai in Wujiang district. It was listed as a national monument in 2013 and is a quiet rural detour rather than a sight in its own right."},{"id":"dongshan-yangwan-ming-houses","name":"Dongshan Ming Residences (Mingshan Hall)","name_zh":"东山民居","pinyin":"Dōngshān Mínjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.0533,"lon":120.358,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongshan-yangwan-ming-houses","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three old mansions on the Dongshan peninsula of Lake Tai listed together as a national monument: Huaiyin Hall and Mingshan Hall in Yangwan village, and Ningde Hall in Wengxiang, home of the late-Ming physician Wu Youxing. Mingshan Hall, a late-Ming or early-Qing house with a great hall, flower hall, study and Buddhist chapel, is known for the brick-carved gateway and screen walls in front of its main hall, and opened to visitors after repairs in 2014. Ningde Hall keeps a rich set of Suzhou-style painted decoration inside."},{"id":"changshu-fangta-pagoda","name":"Fangta Pagoda (Chongjiao Xingfu Temple Pagoda)","name_zh":"方塔","pinyin":"Fāng Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.6474,"lon":120.7442,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changshu-fangta-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Changshu's 'Square Pagoda' is the surviving pagoda of Chongjiao Xingfu Temple, begun in 1130 and rebuilt in 1272. It is square in plan, with nine storeys of brick and projecting wooden eaves that give it a gently curved outline, and has wooden stairs inside; its ground-floor gallery was destroyed by bombing during the war against Japan. It stands in Fangta Park, a garden laid out on the former temple site at the eastern end of the old town."},{"id":"lili-liu-yazi-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Liu Yazi","name_zh":"柳亚子旧居","pinyin":"Liǔ Yàzǐ Jiùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":30.9911,"lon":120.7072,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lili-liu-yazi-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing mansion in Lili old town, Cifu Hall, built for Zhou Yuanli, a Minister of Works under the Qianlong Emperor; the poet and political activist Liu Yazi (1887–1958) rented two of its six ranges from 1922. Liu led the Southern Society, a literary group that backed Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary alliance against the Qing, and later took part in Kuomintang and China Democratic League politics. The house is now the Liu Yazi Memorial Hall, with exhibitions on his life and family and manuscripts of Southern Society members."},{"id":"changshu-zhao-yongxian-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhao Yongxian (Yushan Guqin Museum)","name_zh":"赵用贤宅","pinyin":"Zhào Yòngxián Zhái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.6431,"lon":120.7361,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changshu-zhao-yongxian-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty house in Changshu's old town that belonged to the Ming official Zhao Yongxian (1535–1596) and his son Zhao Qimei, both noted book collectors. The surviving central range keeps its gatehouse, front hall and rear hall, with fine wood carving and Suzhou-style painted beams, together with the Maiwang Library, once one of the best-known private libraries of the lower Yangtze. It now houses a museum of the Yushan school of guqin, the seven-string zither tradition named after Changshu's hill."},{"id":"suzhou-garden-of-cultivation","name":"Garden of Cultivation","name_zh":"艺圃","pinyin":"Yì Pǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3153,"lon":120.6047,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-garden-of-cultivation/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scholar's garden of the Ming dynasty hidden in a lane near Changmen gate, built in 1541 by Yuan Zugeng and later owned by Wen Zhenmeng, great-grandson of the painter Wen Zhengming, and by the scholar-official Jiang Cai, whose son gave it its present name. It keeps much of its late-Ming layout: a broad pond with halls and a large waterside pavilion on the north bank, a rocky hill with cliffs and paths on the south, and the small Ruyu Pavilion, itself a Ming structure, on the east shore. It was little known before it was added to the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site in 2000."},{"id":"wujiang-pingwang-grand-canal","name":"Grand Canal at Pingwang (Wujiang Canal Culture Area)","name_zh":"吴江运河文化旅游区","pinyin":"Wújiāng Yùnhé Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":30.9762,"lon":120.6403,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wujiang-pingwang-grand-canal","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old town of Pingwang in southern Wujiang, where the Ditang canal from Huzhou joins the Grand Canal at Yingdou Lake, rated a 4A scenic area in 2023. Its small core, about 0.2 km², keeps the linear layout of a canal-side market town, and a walkway lined with canal-history steles leads from the lakeshore into the old lanes. It is a quiet stop for travellers following the canal between Suzhou and Zhejiang."},{"id":"wuzhong-guangfu-scenic-area","name":"Guangfu Scenic Area (Xiangxuehai & Situ Temple)","name_zh":"光福景区","pinyin":"Guāngfú Jǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2901,"lon":120.3688,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhong-guangfu-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of sights around Guangfu, a town in the hills by Lake Tai west of Suzhou, managed as one scenic area with its visitor centre beside Situ Temple. The Xiangxuehai plum groves on the hillsides have long been ranked among China's classic places for plum blossom, admired by the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors and planted with more than 20 varieties; Situ Temple is known for four ancient cypresses nicknamed Pure, Rare, Ancient and Strange. The plum season in February and March is the main time to go."},{"id":"suzhou-hanshan-temple","name":"Hanshan Temple","name_zh":"寒山寺","pinyin":"Hánshān Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3124,"lon":120.5648,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-hanshan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple at Fengqiao, about 5 km west of Suzhou's old city, facing the old canal; tradition dates it to 502–519 and names it after the legendary monk-poet Hanshan, said to have been its abbot in the Tang. It owes its fame to Zhang Ji's Tang poem 'A Night Mooring by Maple Bridge', in which the temple's midnight bell reaches a traveller's boat. Destroyed in 1860 during the Taiping war, it was later rebuilt and today has a bell tower and a large bronze bell cast in 2007."},{"id":"suzhou-jiachen-lane-pagoda","name":"Jiachen Lane Brick Pagoda","name_zh":"甲辰巷砖塔","pinyin":"Jiǎchén Xiàng Zhuān Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3104,"lon":120.6346,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-jiachen-lane-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A miniature five-storey, eight-sided brick pagoda that imitates a timber pagoda in the details of its eaves, brackets, doors and windows. Long thought to be Song, since it appears on the city map of 1229, it has bricks that tests date to the late Tang or Five Dynasties; it is the last of the small brick pagodas once recorded in the old city. Hemmed in by houses until 1993, it now stands in a small courtyard of its own."},{"id":"wujiang-jingsi-garden","name":"Jingsi Garden","name_zh":"静思园","pinyin":"Jìngsī Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1624,"lon":120.6836,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wujiang-jingsi-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large private garden in classical Suzhou style, built over ten years from 1993 by a local entrepreneur in the countryside of Wujiang. Its centrepiece is the Qingyun Peak, a tall Lingbi rock from Anhui pierced by many holes, set among ponds and pavilions. It is a modern creation rather than a historic garden."},{"id":"suzhou-jinji-lake","name":"Jinji Lake","name_zh":"金鸡湖","pinyin":"Jīnjī Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3114,"lon":120.6803,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-jinji-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The lake at the centre of Suzhou Industrial Park, the modern district east of the old city, turned from a shallow marshy lake into a ring of waterfront parks and promenades under a landscape plan of 2003. Around it stand the Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre, the International Expo Centre and towers such as the Gate of the Orient, while the late-Qing Ligongdi causeway is lined with restaurants and a rebuilt Ferris wheel on the east shore reopened in 2025 as the Suzhou Eye. A footpath runs right round the lake."},{"id":"kunshan-jinxi-ancient-town","name":"Jinxi Ancient Town","name_zh":"锦溪古镇","pinyin":"Jǐnxī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1752,"lon":120.901,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunshan-jinxi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town among the lakes of south-west Kunshan, called Chenmu from 1512 until 1992 after the 'water tomb' of a Song imperial consort, Consort Chen, on an islet in Wubao Lake beside the town. Old stone bridges, among them a ten-arch bridge, and a covered bridge cross its waterways, and the town calls itself a 'home of folk museums' for its many small museums of private collections. It lies a few kilometres from Zhouzhuang and is easily combined with it."},{"id":"zhangjiagang-jiyang-lake","name":"Jiyang Lake Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"暨阳湖","pinyin":"Jìyáng Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.8464,"lon":120.5323,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiagang-jiyang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large lake park on the southern side of central Zhangjiagang, with lakeside paths, gardens and lawns around the water. A small amusement park, Happy World, occupies one corner of the grounds. It suits a stroll or a family outing for visitors staying in the city."},{"id":"changshu-meili-jusha-pagoda","name":"Jusha Pagoda, Meili","name_zh":"聚沙塔","pinyin":"Jùshā Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.7071,"lon":120.8737,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshu-meili-jusha-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A brick pagoda in the small town of Meili, north-east of Changshu, first built in the Southern Song dynasty between 1131 and 1162. It is octagonal, seven storeys tall and ringed with wooden eaves; a typhoon toppled its top in 1911 and left it leaning, and it was straightened in 1993 and restored to its Song form in 1997. Jusha Garden, a small park laid out around the pagoda at that time, makes up the listed scenic area."},{"id":"wuzhong-lake-tai-scenic-area","name":"Lake Tai Scenic Area, Wuzhong (Dongshan, Qionglong & Wangshan)","name_zh":"吴中太湖旅游区","pinyin":"Wúzhōng Tàihú Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.0763,"lon":120.3565,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhong-lake-tai-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 5A scenic area on the eastern shore of Lake Tai in Suzhou's Wuzhong district, made up of three separate parts: the Dongshan peninsula, Qionglong Mountain and the Wangshan valley. On Dongshan it takes in Luxiang, a lakeside village with a Ming stone-paved street, three memorial arches and the hall of the Ming grand secretary Wang Ao, as well as Sanshan Island and the Qi Garden, built on the shore in 1933 to mark the Kangxi Emperor's landing there in 1699. Qionglong, the highest hill around Suzhou, is where tradition says Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War, and Wangshan is a rural valley of farm-stay villages with Baohua Temple."},{"id":"wujiang-lili-ancient-town","name":"Lili Ancient Town","name_zh":"黎里古镇","pinyin":"Lílǐ Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":30.9912,"lon":120.7074,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wujiang-lili-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A well-preserved canal town in the south-east of Wujiang near the borders with Shanghai and Zhejiang, laid out as one canal with a street along each bank. Both banks are lined with two-storey Ming and Qing buildings whose shopfronts and halls run on without a break along the water. Among them is the house the poet Liu Yazi rented from 1922, once a Qing minister's mansion and now a memorial museum."},{"id":"suzhou-lingering-garden","name":"Lingering Garden","name_zh":"留园","pinyin":"Liú Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3175,"lon":120.5881,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-lingering-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of Suzhou's largest classical gardens, begun in 1593 by the official Xu Taishi outside Changmen gate, rebuilt by Liu Shu in 1794–1798 and given its present form and name by Sheng Kang in 1873–1876. Four sections — a central pond with its hill and pavilions, halls and courtyards packed closely to the east, and further sections to the west and north — are linked by long covered walkways set with stone calligraphy tablets. Its best-known feature is the Cloud-Capped Peak, a tall Taihu rock said to come from the Song emperor Huizong's collection; it is part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site."},{"id":"suzhou-lion-grove-garden","name":"Lion Grove Garden","name_zh":"狮子林","pinyin":"Shīzi Lín","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3232,"lon":120.6251,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-lion-grove-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A garden founded in 1342 by disciples of the Chan monk Tianru as part of a Buddhist monastery, named after its Taihu rocks, which are said to look like lions. Its centre is a huge labyrinth of rockery, with paths, tunnels and caves that climb and twist so that visitors can see each other but take a long way round to meet; halls and a pavilion in the lake surround it. In 1917 it was bought by Bei Runsheng, a great-uncle of the architect I. M. Pei, and it is part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site."},{"id":"wuzhong-luzhi-ancient-town","name":"Luzhi Ancient Town & Baosheng Temple","name_zh":"甪直古镇","pinyin":"Lùzhí Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2721,"lon":120.8669,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuzhong-luzhi-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town east of Suzhou whose old quarter keeps Ming- and Qing-style houses along its waterways and many old stone bridges, a few from the Song and Ming dynasties; in 2003 it was named one of China's first historic and cultural towns. Its centrepiece is Baosheng Temple, founded in 503, where the surviving clay arhats of an original set of eighteen are kept in a hall built for them around 1930; tradition credits them to the Tang sculptor Yang Huizhi, while the national listing dates them to the Northern Song. The temple grounds also hold the tomb of the Tang poet Lu Guimeng, who lived here in retirement."},{"id":"suzhou-master-of-nets-garden","name":"Master of the Nets Garden","name_zh":"网师园","pinyin":"Wǎngshī Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3002,"lon":120.6297,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-master-of-nets-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small residential garden first laid out in the Southern Song as an official's library retreat and rebuilt in the Qianlong era by Song Zongyuan, who renamed it after the fisherman, the 'master of the nets', as a symbol of the simple life. Halls, galleries, a rockery and a pavilion are fitted closely around a central pond, with the family residence to the east and a quiet inner courtyard to the west. That courtyard, Dianchun Yi, was the model for the Ming Xuan court built at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the garden is part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site."},{"id":"suzhou-mountain-villa-embracing-beauty","name":"Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty","name_zh":"环秀山庄","pinyin":"Huánxiù Shānzhuāng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3132,"lon":120.6089,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-mountain-villa-embracing-beauty/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A very small garden on Jingde Road almost entirely taken up by an artificial mountain of Taihu rock, built in 1807 by the rockery master Ge Yuliang, with a winding path through it and a pool around its foot. The rockery is often ranked the finest of its kind in Suzhou, and the site was once the home of the Ming grand secretary Shen Shixing; the garden took its present name in 1847. It is part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site."},{"id":"wuzhong-mudu-ancient-town","name":"Mudu Ancient Town","name_zh":"木渎古镇","pinyin":"Mùdú Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2547,"lon":120.5045,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuzhong-mudu-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old canal town at the foot of Lingyan Hill on Suzhou's western edge, named a national historic and cultural town in 2005, which the Qianlong Emperor visited six times and which fills half of the 18th-century scroll Prosperous Suzhou. Its main sights are restored private gardens and houses: the Yan Family Garden, rebuilt by Xiangshan craftsmen after 1902 and the birthplace of Yen Chia-kan, later president of the Republic of China on Taiwan, the Old Pine Garden and Hongyin Shanfang, a residence associated with Qianlong's visits."},{"id":"suzhou-soochow-university-old-campus","name":"Old Campus of Soochow University","name_zh":"东吴大学旧址","pinyin":"Dōngwú Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3044,"lon":120.6371,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-soochow-university-old-campus/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The original campus of Soochow University, founded by American Methodist missionaries in 1900, which now forms the southern half of Soochow University's main campus in the east of the old city. Western-style brick buildings of the 1900s to 1930s stand around a large lawn, led by Lin Hall (1903) with its clock tower, the university's landmark, and Sun Hall (1912), with a row of staff villas beside the old gate."},{"id":"suzhou-pan-residence-ligeng-hall","name":"Pan Family Mansion (Ligeng Hall)","name_zh":"卫道观前潘宅","pinyin":"Wèidàoguànqián Pān Zhái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3158,"lon":120.6303,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-pan-residence-ligeng-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Qing merchant mansion just east of Pingjiang Road, built in 1787 by Pan Linzhao, a merchant from Huizhou, and known by the name of its main hall, Ligeng Tang. Restored in stages from 2001, it reopened in 2014 as a cultural venue with a bookshop, teahouse and exhibitions, and since 2022 it has also housed the Suzhou Urban Construction Museum. Several finely carved brick gateways survive among its courtyards."},{"id":"suzhou-pan-gate","name":"Pan Gate & Ruiguang Pagoda","name_zh":"盘门","pinyin":"Pán Mén","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2894,"lon":120.6119,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-pan-gate/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The only original gate left from Suzhou's city wall, a combined land and water gate at the south-west corner of the old city where the moat meets the Grand Canal; the present gate was built in 1351 under the Yuan, with a square barbican added in 1356, and it is a component of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site. The scenic area also takes in Wumen Bridge, a tall single-arch stone bridge over the moat rebuilt in 1872, and Ruiguang Pagoda, a seven-storey octagonal pagoda whose brick body dates from the early 11th century. Relics of the Five Dynasties and early Song were found inside the pagoda in 1978."},{"id":"suzhou-pingjiang-road","name":"Pingjiang Road Historic District","name_zh":"平江历史街区","pinyin":"Píngjiāng Lìshǐ Jiēqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3149,"lon":120.6297,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-pingjiang-road/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A historic quarter in the north-east of Suzhou's old city, laid out along Pingjiang Road and the Pingjiang canal, which have run side by side for some 800 years and already appear on the city map of 1229. Lanes of whitewashed houses, humped stone bridges and side canals branch off the main street, which is lined with bookshops, teahouses and small venues for Suzhou storytelling and ballad singing. The district is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site and holds the Couple's Retreat Garden, the Kunqu Opera Museum in the Quanjin Guild Hall and the Pan family mansion."},{"id":"suzhou-precious-belt-bridge","name":"Precious Belt Bridge","name_zh":"宝带桥","pinyin":"Bǎodài Qiáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2589,"lon":120.6495,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-precious-belt-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long, low stone bridge of 53 arches that carries the old towpath of the Grand Canal across the mouth of Tantai Lake, south-east of Suzhou. First built between 816 and 819 under the Tang, when the prefect Wang Zhongshu is said to have paid for it with his jewelled belt, it dates in its present form from a Ming rebuilding of 1446 and repairs of 1873; its three central arches are raised to let larger boats through. It is the longest old multi-arch stone bridge in Jiangsu."},{"id":"suzhou-prince-zhong-mansion","name":"Prince Zhong's Mansion (Suzhou Museum)","name_zh":"太平天国忠王府","pinyin":"Tàipíng Tiānguó Zhōngwáng Fǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3254,"lon":120.6244,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-prince-zhong-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The residence and offices that the Taiping commander Li Xiucheng, the Loyal Prince (Zhong Wang), built from 1860 out of existing mansions and gardens next to the Humble Administrator's Garden; it was still unfinished when Qing forces under Li Hongzhang retook Suzhou in 1863, and later served as the Jiangsu governor's office and a guild hall. Its three lines of halls keep a theatre with an old stage and many painted beams from the Taiping period. Since 1960 it has been the home of the Suzhou Museum, whose new galleries by I. M. Pei opened beside it in 2006."},{"id":"kunshan-qiandeng-ancient-town","name":"Qiandeng Ancient Town","name_zh":"千灯古镇","pinyin":"Qiāndēng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.269,"lon":120.9971,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunshan-qiandeng-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old canal town south of Kunshan, threaded by a stone-slab street. Its landmark is the Qinfeng Pagoda, a slender seven-storey brick-and-timber pagoda whose founding is traditionally dated to 503, restored to its Song appearance in 1994 and closed to climbers since 2007. The town was the birthplace of the Ming–Qing scholar Gu Yanwu, whose five-courtyard family house, shrine and tomb form one site, and the home of Gu Jian, credited with founding Kunqu opera, who has a memorial hall here."},{"id":"suzhou-quanjin-guild-hall","name":"Quanjin Guild Hall (China Kunqu Opera Museum)","name_zh":"全晋会馆","pinyin":"Quánjìn Huìguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3152,"lon":120.6315,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-quanjin-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A guild hall built by Shanxi merchants trading in Suzhou, first founded outside Changmen gate in 1765 and rebuilt on its present site off Pingjiang Road in 1879 after the original was burnt in 1860. Its central courtyard holds a richly carved and gilded two-storey opera stage under a domed ceiling, and the hall now houses the China Kunqu Opera Museum, with displays on the history, scripts, costumes and instruments of Kunqu, which UNESCO recognised as intangible heritage in 2001. Kunqu performances are staged here regularly, and the hall is a component of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site."},{"id":"tongli-retreat-reflection-garden","name":"Retreat & Reflection Garden","name_zh":"退思园","pinyin":"Tuìsī Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1598,"lon":120.7162,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongli-retreat-reflection-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing garden in Tongli built in 1885–1887 for Ren Lansheng, an official dismissed from his post in Anhui, and designed by the painter Yuan Long; its name comes from a line in the Zuo Zhuan about reflecting on one's faults in retirement. Unusually it is laid out along an east–west axis, with the family residence to the east and the main garden to the west, where halls, galleries and a boat-shaped pavilion sit low around a pond so that they seem to float on the water. It is one of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou on the UNESCO World Heritage list."},{"id":"changshu-shajiabang-yushan-shanghu","name":"Shajiabang & Yushan–Shanghu Scenic Area","name_zh":"沙家浜·虞山尚湖旅游区","pinyin":"Shājiābāng · Yúshān Shànghú Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.5563,"lon":120.799,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changshu-shajiabang-yushan-shanghu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A two-part 5A scenic area in Changshu, a county-level city north-east of Suzhou. Shajiabang, on the reed marshes beside Yangcheng Lake, is the setting of the revolutionary opera Shajiabang, one of the 'model operas' of the Cultural Revolution about local resistance to the Japanese occupation, and has a revolutionary history memorial hall, the Hongshi folk-culture village, the old Hengjing street and a reed-marsh wetland park. Yushan, a long wooded hill that reaches into Changshu's old town, is a national forest park with old temples and tombs, and Shanghu Lake lies at its south-western foot."},{"id":"suzhou-shangfang-mountain","name":"Shangfang Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"上方山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Shàngfāng Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2456,"lon":120.5789,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suzhou-shangfang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill on the shore of Shihu Lake on Suzhou's southern edge, protected as a national forest park and known for remains linked to the ancient states of Wu and Yue. Its twenty-odd sights include the Lengqie Pagoda on the summit, Zhiping Temple, stretches of old wall attributed to Wu and Yue, a beacon platform, the Shihu Thatched Hall and an imperial path laid for the Qianlong Emperor."},{"id":"suzhou-shantang-street","name":"Shantang Street","name_zh":"山塘街","pinyin":"Shāntáng Jiē","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3221,"lon":120.5952,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-shantang-street/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal street in north-west Suzhou that follows the Shantang canal, dug in 825 under the poet and prefect Bai Juyi to link Changmen gate with Tiger Hill; street and canal run for 'seven li' (about 3.8 km), the source of its nickname. Its eastern section is lined with restored old houses, guild halls and small museums, with stone bridges over the canal. Burnt in 1860 and rebuilt, the street so pleased the Qianlong Emperor that he had a copy, Suzhou Street, built at the Summer Palace in Beijing."},{"id":"taicang-shaxi-ancient-town","name":"Shaxi Ancient Town","name_zh":"沙溪古镇","pinyin":"Shāxī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.568,"lon":121.0645,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taicang-shaxi-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town on the Qipu River in the middle of Taicang, named a national historic and cultural town of China in 2005. Its long old street runs beside the river, lined with Qing-era houses with carved doors and windows and stone steps down to the water, and old stone arch bridges of the Ming and Qing cross the river."},{"id":"zhenze-shijian-hall","name":"Shijian Hall","name_zh":"师俭堂","pinyin":"Shījiǎn Táng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":30.9151,"lon":120.4994,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenze-shijian-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing merchant compound in Zhenze old town, the ancestral property of the town's Xu family, which combined trade and family life on one site. From the canal it runs back through a riverside rice warehouse and a row of shops, across Baota Street itself, which passes through the compound, to the main hall and two-storey family quarters. A tiny garden of galleries, rockery and a half-pavilion lies on its east side."},{"id":"tongli-siben-bridge","name":"Siben Bridge","name_zh":"思本桥","pinyin":"Sīběn Qiáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1568,"lon":120.6985,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongli-siben-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A bridge from the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), also called Sifen Bridge, in Lianxing village (formerly Liaobang village of Tongli), about 1.5 km west of Tongli old town. It was listed as a national monument in 2013 and makes a short detour from Tongli."},{"id":"suzhou-amusement-land-forest-world","name":"Suzhou Amusement Land Forest World","name_zh":"苏州乐园森林世界","pinyin":"Sūzhōu Lèyuán Sēnlín Shìjiè","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3252,"lon":120.4728,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suzhou-amusement-land-forest-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest-themed amusement park at the foot of Dayang Mountain in Suzhou's western New District, opened after the original Suzhou Amusement Land of 1997 closed in 2017. It is laid out in six themed zones with more than 20 rides, among them a flying theatre and a vertical-drop roller coaster, plus shows and parades, and the same operator runs a summer water park and a children's park, Candy World, next to it. It suits families with children rather than sightseers."},{"id":"wujiang-suzhou-bay-lakeshore","name":"Suzhou Bay Golden Lakeshore","name_zh":"苏州湾黄金湖岸","pinyin":"Sūzhōu Wān Huángjīn Hú'àn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1486,"lon":120.5924,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wujiang-suzhou-bay-lakeshore","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A waterfront leisure area of about 200 hectares on the shore of East Lake Tai in Suzhou Bay, the new lakeside district of Wujiang, made up of the East Lake Tai Ecological Park, the Suzhou Bay Plaza Park, a lakeside viewing platform, a restaurant quarter and a yacht club. Paths and cycle tracks follow the water past lawns and wetland planting, and the Suzhou Bay Cultural Centre with its grand theatre, designed by Christian de Portzamparc, stands on the same shore. It is a place for a walk, a bike ride or the sunset over the lake rather than a historic sight."},{"id":"suzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Suzhou Confucian Temple (Stone Inscription Museum)","name_zh":"苏州文庙","pinyin":"Sūzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2973,"lon":120.6193,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Suzhou's Confucian temple and prefectural school, founded in 1035 by the statesman Fan Zhongyan, who joined temple and school in a pattern later copied across China; it now houses the Suzhou Stone Inscription Museum. Its most important exhibits are four Southern Song steles: the Pingjiang Map of 1229, a detailed plan of the city with its walls, canals and bridges and the oldest surviving city plan in China, together with a star chart, a map of the Song empire and a chart of royal succession carved in 1247. The Ming Dacheng Hall of 1474 and a Ming stone gateway survive among buildings mostly rebuilt in 1864."},{"id":"suzhou-imperial-kiln-gold-brick-museum","name":"Suzhou Imperial Kiln Gold Brick Museum","name_zh":"御窑金砖博物馆","pinyin":"Yùyáo Jīnzhuān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3637,"lon":120.6081,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suzhou-imperial-kiln-gold-brick-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum in Suzhou's Xiangcheng district beside the old Lumu imperial kilns, which in the Ming and Qing dynasties fired the fine clay floor tiles known as 'gold bricks' for the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace. Designed by the architect Liu Jiakun and opened in 2016, it pairs a modern exhibition building with a park around the surviving kiln remains."},{"id":"zhenhu-lake-tai-national-wetland-park","name":"Suzhou Lake Tai National Wetland Park","name_zh":"苏州太湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Sūzhōu Tàihú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3272,"lon":120.3436,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenhu-lake-tai-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park of about 230 hectares on the shore of Lake Tai at Zhenhu, in Suzhou's High-tech District, made by turning former fish ponds back into lakeside wetland. Boardwalks and bridges lead through reed beds, ponds and small islands, one of them home to sika deer, and boat trips run through the wetland; more than 170 species of wild birds have been recorded here."},{"id":"taicang-modern-agricultural-park","name":"Taicang Modern Agricultural Park (Rose Manor)","name_zh":"太仓现代农业园","pinyin":"Tàicāng Xiàndài Nóngyè Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.5445,"lon":121.1686,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taicang-modern-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large modern farming park of about 8,000 mu (533 hectares) in northern Taicang, run as a showcase for agricultural technology and ecology. Its signature section is Rose Manor, a rose-themed garden that the city is developing into a leisure destination with study tours, accommodation and wedding venues. It suits families and garden lovers rather than visitors looking for historic sights."},{"id":"wuzhong-tianchi-huashan","name":"Tianchi Mountain & Huashan (Jijian Temple)","name_zh":"天池山·花山","pinyin":"Tiānchí Shān · Huā Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2983,"lon":120.474,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuzhong-tianchi-huashan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two wooded hills west of Suzhou, Tianchi Mountain and Huashan, which with the neighbouring Baixiangwan valley form one scenic area inside the Dongwu National Forest Park. On Tianchi Mountain stands Jijian Temple, founded in 1357, whose Yuan-dynasty stone hall and two flanking stone shrines are carved to imitate timber buildings and set against the cliff, with Yuan Buddha figures in their niches. The area suits a half-day hill walk combined with the temple."},{"id":"taicang-liuhe-tianfei-palace","name":"Tianfei Palace, Liuhe","name_zh":"浏河天妃宫","pinyin":"Liúhé Tiānfēi Gōng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.5072,"lon":121.2633,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taicang-liuhe-tianfei-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to Tianfei (Mazu), goddess of seafarers, in Liuhe, the old port of Liujiagang near the mouth of the Liu River, from which Zheng He's fleets set out on their voyages to South-east Asia and the Indian Ocean between 1405 and 1433. In 1431 Zheng He and Wang Jinghong set into its wall a stele recording the voyages and crediting the goddess's protection; the stele was later lost and has since been re-created. The surviving buildings of the temple date from the Qing dynasty."},{"id":"suzhou-tianping-mountain","name":"Tianping Mountain","name_zh":"天平山","pinyin":"Tiānpíng Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.2893,"lon":120.4963,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suzhou-tianping-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A low hill on Suzhou's western outskirts, long linked with the Song statesman Fan Zhongyan, whose ancestors are buried here and who is honoured in a memorial hall. It is known for three things: its oddly shaped rocks, its springs and its red maples, which draw crowds in autumn."},{"id":"suzhou-tiger-hill","name":"Tiger Hill & Yunyan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"虎丘","pinyin":"Hǔqiū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3379,"lon":120.5763,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-tiger-hill/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small hill on the north-west edge of Suzhou where King Helü of Wu is said to have been buried in the 5th century BC, and a celebrated beauty spot for well over a thousand years. Its summit is crowned by the Yunyan Temple Pagoda, a seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda completed in 961 that leans visibly, while below it lie the Sword Pond and the broad Thousand-Person Rock, both tied to legends of the king's tomb. Buddhist scriptures in a stone casket were found inside the pagoda during repairs in 1957."},{"id":"kunshan-tinglin-park","name":"Tinglin Park, Kunshan","name_zh":"亭林园","pinyin":"Tínglín Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3923,"lon":120.9439,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunshan-tinglin-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Kunshan's main city park, laid out in 1906 as Ma'anshan Park around Yufeng Hill (Ma'anshan) in the north-west of the city and renamed in 1936 after the scholar Gu Yanwu, known as Master Tinglin. Near the east gate are three small museums: one on Kunqu opera, which takes its name from Kunshan, one on Gu Yanwu and one on Kunshan stone, a prized ornamental rock that comes from this hill. The park also grows the qionghua viburnum and twin-flowered lotus that, with Kun stone, are called Kunshan's three treasures."},{"id":"wujiang-tongli-ancient-town","name":"Tongli Ancient Town","name_zh":"同里古镇","pinyin":"Tónglǐ Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1592,"lon":120.714,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wujiang-tongli-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town of more than a thousand years on the edge of Wujiang, crossed by waterways and old stone bridges and named in 2003 among the first ten historic and cultural towns of China. Its best-known sight is the Retreat and Reflection Garden of 1885–1887, part of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou World Heritage Site; in the old town too is Gengle Hall, a house founded in the 1440s and rebuilt under the Qing, with a lotus pond, old pines and osmanthus in its garden. Luoxing Islet in the lake holds Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian shrines."},{"id":"suzhou-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas (Luohan Temple)","name_zh":"罗汉院双塔","pinyin":"Luóhàn Yuàn Shuāng Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3089,"lon":120.6297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-twin-pagodas/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A matching pair of seven-storey, eight-sided brick pagodas built in 982 under the Northern Song by Wang Wenhan and his brothers, the main survivors of the Luohan (later Dinghui) Temple. Their iron finials are unusually long for the size of the pagodas and are the earliest large iron finials known in China. Just north of the pagodas, the stone columns, column bases and carved fragments of the temple's main hall, burnt in 1860, are laid out as a ruin."},{"id":"zhenhu-wanfo-stone-pagoda","name":"Wanfo Stone Pagoda, Zhenhu","name_zh":"万佛石塔","pinyin":"Wànfó Shítǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3202,"lon":120.329,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenhu-wanfo-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone pagoda first built in the Song dynasty and rebuilt under the Yuan, standing at Wanfo Temple in Zhenhu on the eastern shore of Lake Tai. The temple is about 2 km from the China Embroidery Art Museum, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"shengze-xiancan-temple","name":"Xiancan Temple (Silk Patrons' Shrine), Shengze","name_zh":"先蚕祠","pinyin":"Xiāncán Cí","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":30.9056,"lon":120.662,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shengze-xiancan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shrine to the patron deities of silk, the Yellow Emperor, Shennong and Leizu, built in 1840 by the silk merchants of Shengze, with a main hall, an opera stage and a meeting hall that also housed the silk trade guild. Every May around the Xiaoman solar term it hosts a silkworm-blessing ceremony and performances of traditional Xiaoman opera as part of a local festival."},{"id":"zhangjiagang-xiangshan","name":"Xiangshan Scenic Area, Zhangjiagang","name_zh":"香山","pinyin":"Xiāng Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.9318,"lon":120.3909,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiagang-xiangshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhangjiagang's highest hill, at 136.6 m, a wooded ridge in Jingang (formerly Nansha town) west of the city centre, laid out as a scenic area of about 4.4 km² with plum groves, the Peach Blossom Brook valley, a lake and Buddhist halls. On the summit stands the Plum Blossom Hall, whose name board is attributed to Su Dongpo; it was rebuilt in the late Ming by the elder brother of the travel writer Xu Xiake, who stayed here on three visits and wrote poems about the hall."},{"id":"wuzhong-xishan-island","name":"Xishan Island","name_zh":"西山","pinyin":"Xī Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.1076,"lon":120.3008,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhong-xishan-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The largest island in Lake Tai, a hilly landscape of orchards and villages joined to the mainland by the Taihu Bridge, with Piaomiao Peak as its high point. The scenic area takes in Linwu Cave, counted in Taoist tradition as the ninth of the ten great grotto-heavens, the rocky lakeside headland of Shigong Hill, Mingyue Bay and Baoshan Temple. The island grows loquats, bayberries, plums, oranges and peaches, so spring and early summer bring fruit-picking."},{"id":"suzhou-xuanmiao-temple","name":"Xuanmiao Temple","name_zh":"玄妙观","pinyin":"Xuánmiào Guàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.3144,"lon":120.6219,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suzhou-xuanmiao-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple in the heart of Suzhou's old city, founded in 276 and facing the busy Guanqian Street shopping street. Its main hall, the Hall of the Three Pure Ones, is a broad double-eaved timber hall rebuilt in 1179 under the Southern Song and still standing. Inside are a Song copy of a stone portrait of Laozi after the Tang painter Wu Daozi, with calligraphy by Yan Zhenqing, and around the hall a carved stone balustrade of the Five Dynasties."},{"id":"dongshan-xuanyuan-temple","name":"Xuanyuan Temple, Dongshan","name_zh":"轩辕宫","pinyin":"Xuānyuán Gōng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.0558,"lon":120.3569,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongshan-xuanyuan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple at the west end of Yangwan, an uncommercialised village of old houses on the Dongshan peninsula, first built to honour Wu Zixu, the minister of the ancient state of Wu, and rededicated to the Yellow Emperor in the Republican era, which gave it its present name. The temple was rebuilt in the Southern Song and repaired again in the mid-17th century, and its main hall, dated to 1338 under the Yuan dynasty, is a three-bay timber building with a single-eave hip-and-gable roof."},{"id":"changshu-yan-garden","name":"Yan Garden, Changshu","name_zh":"燕园","pinyin":"Yàn Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.6506,"lon":120.7388,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changshu-yan-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small classical garden in Changshu's old town, laid out in 1780 by Jiang Yuanshu, a former prefect of Taiwan. Its highlight is the Swallow Valley, a rockery of yellow Yushan stone with a gorge, caves and a bridge, built after 1829 by the rockery master Ge Yuliang; it is one of only two of his rockeries that survive largely intact, the other being at the Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty in Suzhou. Halls, a lotus pond and a second rockery of Lake Tai stone fill the rest of the compact site."},{"id":"zhangjiagang-tianzhuang-yang-mansions","name":"Yang Family Mansions, Tianzhuang Old Street","name_zh":"杨氏宅第","pinyin":"Yángshì Zháidì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.7801,"lon":120.6661,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiagang-tianzhuang-yang-mansions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qing-dynasty mansions of the Yang family, a local gentry family, on Tianzhuang Old Street in Fenghuang town, a canal-side street of white-walled, black-tiled houses. The Bangyan Mansion and the Yang Filial Memorial are among the Yang buildings open to visitors along the street, the core of one of China's historic and cultural towns."},{"id":"changshu-yanzi-shrine","name":"Yanzi Shrine, Changshu","name_zh":"言子祠","pinyin":"Yánzǐ Cí","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.6425,"lon":120.7434,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshu-yanzi-shrine","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shrine to Yan Yan (Ziyou), the disciple of Confucius who came from the southern state of Wu and was honoured as the 'Master of the South'. It has stood on the east side of Changshu's Confucian temple since 1486 and was restored in 1872; its square main hall keeps the form of Song and Yuan buildings. Restoration of the Confucian temple complex around it began in 2008."},{"id":"zhangjiagang-yonglian-village","name":"Yonglian Village Scenic Area","name_zh":"永联村","pinyin":"Yǒnglián Cūn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.8446,"lon":120.7128,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiagang-yonglian-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yonglian is a village in Nanfeng town whose rolling mill, set up by the village committee in 1984, grew into the Yonggang steel group. Its tourist area has two parts: Yonglian Town, with an exhibition hall on the village's history, and the Jiangnan Farming Culture Park, a farm-themed leisure park opened in 2010 with rides, play areas and a water park. It suits families and visitors curious about the industrialised villages of the Yangtze delta."},{"id":"taicang-yuan-stone-arch-bridges","name":"Yuan-Dynasty Stone Arch Bridges of Taicang","name_zh":"太仓石拱桥","pinyin":"Tàicāng Shígǒng Qiáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.4483,"lon":121.1061,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taicang-yuan-stone-arch-bridges/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Five stone arch bridges built under the Yuan dynasty between 1329 and 1334, close in date and style and listed together. Three of them — Gao Bridge (1334), Zhou Bridge (1329) and Zhoujing Bridge (1330) — still cross the Zhihe canal through Taicang's old town beside Xinhua Road; the three-arched Zhou and Zhoujing bridges are the largest, Gao Bridge a single arch. The other two, Jingting and Jinji bridges, stand in Xinfeng village on the southern outskirts."},{"id":"taicang-zhang-pu-residence","name":"Zhang Pu Residence","name_zh":"张溥宅第","pinyin":"Zhāng Pǔ Zháidì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.4465,"lon":121.0967,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taicang-zhang-pu-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Ming house on Ximen Street in Taicang's old town, built in the Tianqi and Chongzhen reigns (1621–1644) by Zhang Fuzhi, uncle of the writer Zhang Pu (1602–1641), who led the Restoration Society (Fushe), an influential late-Ming association of scholars. Three courtyards of five-bay, two-storey halls are joined by upper-floor galleries into a typical Jiangnan 'running-horse' house, and the society's members met here."},{"id":"wujiang-zhenze-ancient-town","name":"Zhenze Ancient Town & Ciyun Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"震泽古镇","pinyin":"Zhènzé Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":30.9172,"lon":120.5009,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wujiang-zhenze-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former silk town in the south-west of Wujiang on the Zhejiang border, a national historic and cultural town whose old quarter centres on Baota Street. Its landmark is the pagoda of Ciyun Temple on that street, a six-sided, five-storey brick-and-timber tower, mostly Ming in date, which alone survived when the temple was burnt in the wars of the 1850s; the temple has since been partly restored. Nearby is Shijian Hall, a merchant family's compound that combines a rice warehouse on the water, shops, living quarters and a small garden."},{"id":"dongshan-zijin-nunnery","name":"Zijin Nunnery","name_zh":"紫金庵","pinyin":"Zǐjīn Ān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Suzhou","lat":31.0616,"lon":120.3813,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongshan-zijin-nunnery/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small Buddhist temple in the hills of the Dongshan peninsula, its present halls built in the Ming and Qing, whose main hall is filled with painted clay figures of Buddhas, Guanyin, guardian kings and celestial beings. Its sixteen arhats, each shown with a different pose and expression, are recorded as the work of the Southern Song sculptor Lei Chao and his wife. It is one of the named sights of the Lake Tai scenic area on Dongshan."},{"id":"taizhou-daohe-historic-quarter","name":"Daohe Historic Quarter","name_zh":"稻河","pinyin":"Dào Hé","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.5009,"lon":119.9128,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taizhou-daohe-historic-quarter","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Just outside Taizhou's old north gate, the Daohe quarter is the city's main surviving block of old houses, lining the Daohe and Caohe rivers with Hanxi Street on one bank and five parallel lanes on the other. It grew up from 1372, when the Ming court resettled migrants from Suzhou and other southern prefectures here, and prospered as a landing for grain and salt boats, leaving Ming and Qing houses, an old pawnshop and a Ming bridge."},{"id":"taizhou-fengcheng-river","name":"Fengcheng River Scenic Area","name_zh":"凤城河","pinyin":"Fèngchéng Hé","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.484,"lon":119.9224,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taizhou-fengcheng-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Fengcheng River is the old moat that rings Taizhou's historic centre, landscaped with waterside parks and walks and plied by sightseeing boats. Along it stand the Wanghai Tower, the Taoyuan garden and the Mei Lanfang Memorial, a garden museum on the site of the opera star's ancestral home that he visited in 1956, and a new leisure hub has been added on Changdao and Maple Leaf islands."},{"id":"jiangyan-guluotang-old-street","name":"Guluotang Old Street Quarter","name_zh":"古罗塘","pinyin":"Gǔ Luótáng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.5113,"lon":120.1468,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyan-guluotang-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guluotang is a restored and partly rebuilt old-street quarter along North Street in the centre of Jiangyan. Its southern half gathers the historic sights, among them the Wang clan ancestral hall and a memorial hall to the Qing Go master Huang Longshi, while the northern half is given over to shops, cafés and an evening market."},{"id":"taixing-huangqiao-campaign-memorial","name":"Huangqiao Campaign Memorial Hall","name_zh":"新四军黄桥战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Huángqiáo Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.2574,"lon":120.2207,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taixing-huangqiao-campaign-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In October 1940 the Communist-led New Fourth Army under Chen Yi and Su Yu defeated the Nationalist 89th Army of Jiangsu governor Han Deqin around Huangqiao, a clash within the wartime alliance that secured the Communists a base in central Jiangsu. The memorial hall in the town tells the story of the campaign; the battle's former command post in the old town is the protected heritage site, and a martyrs' memorial tower stands nearby."},{"id":"gaogang-kouan-carved-mansion","name":"Kou'an Carved Mansion","name_zh":"口岸雕花楼","pinyin":"Kǒu'àn Diāohuālóu","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.3053,"lon":119.873,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaogang-kouan-carved-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Diaohualou ('carved building') is a merchant's mansion of the Qing and early Republican periods in the old town of Kou'an near the Yangtze, with two-storey main buildings and side wings around a square courtyard richly decorated with wood, brick and stone carving. It is the centrepiece of a small old-town scenic area and has been a Jiangsu provincial heritage site since 2002."},{"id":"xinghua-lizhong-water-forest","name":"Lizhong Water Forest","name_zh":"李中水上森林","pinyin":"Lǐzhōng Shuǐshàng Sēnlín","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":33.0336,"lon":119.7272,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinghua-lizhong-water-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Lizhong Water Forest is a man-made wetland forest begun in the early 1980s, when villagers planted pond cypress and dawn redwood on raised plots in waste marshland north-west of Xinghua. The trees now stand with their roots in water, and herons and other water birds nest among them; in 2014 it became Xinghua's first scenic area rated 4A."},{"id":"taizhou-navy-birthplace-memorial","name":"PLA Navy Birthplace Memorial Hall","name_zh":"海军诞生地纪念馆","pinyin":"Hǎijūn Dànshēngdì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.4294,"lon":119.977,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taizhou-navy-birthplace-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On 23 April 1949, at Baimamiao, then the headquarters of the Third Field Army's eastern command for the Yangtze crossing, the East China Military Region Navy was formed under Zhang Aiping, a date the PLA later adopted as the navy's founding day. The protected site is a former landlord's manor with a two-storey Qing building where Su Yu, Zhang Zhen and Zhang Aiping worked, and beside it a memorial hall opened in 1999, its newer main building shaped like a ship's bow, displays retired fighters and bombers, a helicopter, torpedoes, naval guns and missiles."},{"id":"jiangyan-qinhu-wetland","name":"Qinhu Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"溱湖","pinyin":"Qín Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.6174,"lon":120.0795,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyan-qinhu-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qinhu was Jiangsu's first national wetland park and China's second, a lake and marshland in the Lixiahe lowlands where wetland covers most of the park and hundreds of wild plant and animal species have been recorded, Père David's deer among them. Boats link the visitor hall with a wetland science museum and a bird museum across the lake, and each Qingming festival around a thousand boats crowd the water for the Qintong Boat Festival, a national intangible heritage."},{"id":"jiangyan-qintong-ancient-town","name":"Qintong Ancient Town","name_zh":"溱潼古镇","pinyin":"Qíntóng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.6519,"lon":120.0926,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyan-qintong-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qintong is a Ming- and Qing-era water town at the meeting of the Jiangxing and Taidong rivers, listed as one of China's historic and cultural towns in 2005. Its lanes keep old houses such as the Ming-dynasty Lüshu Courtyard and the Zhu family house, a Qing pharmacy and fire-brigade hall, and an old camellia famed locally for its thousands of blooms. The town hosts the Qintong Boat Festival on nearby Qinhu Lake at Qingming."},{"id":"taizhou-qiuxue-lake","name":"Qiuxue Lake Eco-Park","name_zh":"秋雪湖","pinyin":"Qiūxuě Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.5506,"lon":119.9837,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taizhou-qiuxue-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large eco-park of lakes, wetlands and farmland on the north-eastern edge of Taizhou's main urban area, combining modern farming with waterside walks and leisure attractions. A children's amusement park, Fairy-tale Forest, stands beside it, and the area suits a half-day family outing."},{"id":"taizhou-rishe-garden","name":"Rishe Garden (Qiao Garden)","name_zh":"日涉园","pinyin":"Rìshè Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.4884,"lon":119.9138,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taizhou-rishe-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1574 for the Ming official Chen Yingfang and later called Qiao Garden after a Qing salt commissioner who owned it, Rishe Garden is regarded as the oldest surviving classical garden in northern Jiangsu. Restored in 1990 after a Qing painting of the garden, it packs a central hall, pavilions on a rockery crowned by three stone 'swords', a stream and an old cypress said to date from the Ming into a small space; the opera star Mei Lanfang stayed in one of its pavilions in 1956."},{"id":"xinghua-shagou-ancient-town","name":"Shagou Ancient Town","name_zh":"沙沟古镇","pinyin":"Shāgōu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":33.1486,"lon":119.716,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinghua-shagou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shagou is an old water town in the far north-west of Xinghua, where five counties meet, long a market centre for the fish and rice of the Lixiahe plain and named a China Historic and Cultural Town in 2010. Its lanes keep a Ming stone-slab street at the old fish market, the Ming-dynasty Hong Bridge, Qing houses and a clan hall, and an old wharf."},{"id":"xinghua-shangchizhai-pharmacy","name":"Shangchizhai Pharmacy","name_zh":"上池斋药店","pinyin":"Shàngchízhāi Yàodiàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.9357,"lon":119.8438,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinghua-shangchizhai-pharmacy/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shangchizhai was founded in the Kangxi–Yongzheng period by Fang Shichuan of Yangzhou and named after a line in Sima Qian's biography of the physician Bian Que; its shop buildings date from the Qing and Republican periods. It stands in the Jindongmen historic quarter, Xinghua's old trading street east of the walled town, among other listed houses including the former home of the painter Zheng Banqiao."},{"id":"taizhou-city-god-temple","name":"Taizhou City God Temple","name_zh":"泰州城隍庙","pinyin":"Tàizhōu Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.4929,"lon":119.9178,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taizhou-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Taizhou's City God Temple was founded in the Tang, rebuilt in 1439 and restored in 1853, and is now used as a Taoist temple. Its south-facing compound keeps a gate, a judgement hall, the main hall and the side halls of the 24 underworld bureaus, along with smaller shrines to the gods of fortune and the land."},{"id":"jiangyan-tianmushan-site","name":"Tianmushan Site","name_zh":"天目山遗址","pinyin":"Tiānmùshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.5287,"lon":120.1408,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyan-tianmushan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Tianmushan site is the remains of a walled settlement of the Western Zhou, flourishing about 3,100 years ago where the New Tongyang Canal meets the Jiangqin River on Jiangyan's northern edge. A site museum beside the remains displays the finds."},{"id":"xinghua-duotian-raised-fields","name":"Xinghua Duotian Raised Fields","name_zh":"兴化垛田","pinyin":"Xīnghuà Duǒtián","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.8986,"lon":119.9009,"category":"nature","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinghua-duotian-raised-fields","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Duotian are small island fields, each ringed by water, that farmers in the low-lying Lixiahe marshes have worked for more than 600 years. The system was named a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in 2014 and a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"taizhou-xuezheng-examination-hall","name":"Xuezheng Examination Hall","name_zh":"学政试院","pinyin":"Xuézhèng Shìyuàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.4927,"lon":119.9162,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taizhou-xuezheng-examination-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From the Kangxi era until the abolition of the imperial examinations, candidates from the counties of Yangzhou prefecture sat the licentiate examination (yuanshi), set by the Jiangsu education commissioner, in this hall; it is the only fairly complete compound of its kind left in Jiangsu. Only the gate and second hall had survived, and the rest was rebuilt in 2005–06 from an old gazetteer plan, opening in 2008 as the Taizhou Imperial Examination Museum with displays on how the examinations worked."},{"id":"xinghua-zheng-banqiao-fan-zhongyan-memorial","name":"Zheng Banqiao and Fan Zhongyan Memorial Hall","name_zh":"郑板桥·范仲淹纪念馆","pinyin":"Zhèng Bǎnqiáo Fàn Zhòngyān Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Taizhou","lat":32.937,"lon":119.839,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinghua-zheng-banqiao-fan-zhongyan-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This memorial museum in Xinghua's old town honours two men tied to the city: the painter and calligrapher Zheng Banqiao (Zheng Xie, 1693–1766), born in Xinghua and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, known for his ink orchids, bamboo and rocks, and the Song statesman Fan Zhongyan, who served as Xinghua's magistrate in the 1020s and led the building of sea dykes along this coast. It shares its grounds with the Xinghua Museum and the Li Garden, a small Qing garden with a boat-shaped hall, and Zheng's former home survives nearby in the Jindongmen quarter."},{"id":"wuxi-cctv-film-base","name":"CCTV Wuxi Film and TV Base (Three Kingdoms & Water Margin Cities)","name_zh":"无锡影视基地","pinyin":"Wúxī Yǐngshì Jīdì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.4795,"lon":120.2264,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-cctv-film-base","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film and television base built by China Central Television on the shore of Lake Tai from 1987, whose 5A part is made up of Three Kingdoms City and Water Margin City, full-scale sets of palaces, naval camps and old streets built for the 1990s television series of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. The sets are still used by film crews, and the base stages more than 20 shows a day, including horseback battle stunts and special-effects demonstrations, as well as boat trips on the lake."},{"id":"yixing-china-ceramics-museum","name":"China Yixing Ceramics Museum","name_zh":"中国宜兴陶瓷博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yíxīng Táocí Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.2617,"lon":119.8257,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixing-china-ceramics-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of China's earliest specialist ceramics museums, at the foot of Xianhe Hill in Dingshu, Yixing's pottery town, and since 2013 also designated the China Zisha Museum. Its displays run from Neolithic pottery, Han glazed wares and Jin celadon through Song and Yuan Jun-style pottery to Ming and Qing purple-clay (zisha) teapots and modern work, with a gallery for the master potter Gu Jingzhou and studios where visitors can try making pottery."},{"id":"wuxi-chinese-decorative-stone-park","name":"Chinese Decorative Stone Park","name_zh":"中华赏石园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Shǎngshí Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.4944,"lon":120.5043,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-chinese-decorative-stone-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum and garden of ornamental stones at the northern entrance of the China Wu Culture Expo Park in Hongshan, founded as the first stone garden of the View Stone Association of China. Eight themed galleries show more than a thousand pieces, from oddly shaped and patterned stones to mineral crystals and fossils, and the prize exhibit is a fossil of Daxiatitan, a giant long-necked dinosaur from the Lanzhou Basin in Gansu."},{"id":"wuxi-chongan-temple-quarter","name":"Chong'an Temple Quarter","name_zh":"崇安寺","pinyin":"Chóng'ān Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5798,"lon":120.2955,"category":"city","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-chongan-temple-quarter","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of central Wuxi, named after a temple said to have been founded on the calligrapher Wang Xizhi's donated house in the 4th century and lost in the early 20th century; today it is a pedestrian shopping and food quarter around Erquan Square, known for old Wuxi restaurants and xiaolongbao. It takes in Chengzhong Park, laid out in 1905 as one of China's first public parks, and the 1914 clock-tower building of the old county library. In its south corner is the former residence of the blind street musician Abing (Hua Yanjun), composer of the erhu piece 'The Moon Reflected on Erquan', who was born and died here; it is now a memorial hall showing his erhu, pipa and modest living rooms."},{"id":"wuxi-dangkou-ancient-town","name":"Dangkou Ancient Town","name_zh":"荡口古镇","pinyin":"Dàngkǒu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5276,"lon":120.5484,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-dangkou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town in Ehu, east of Wuxi near the Suzhou border, that grew up from the early Ming dynasty as the home of the Hua clan, with Ming and Qing houses along the Beicang River; restoration began in 2009 and it is now run as a scenic area. Its main monument is the Hua Family Old Charitable Estate, begun in the 1740s and the first such clan estate in Wuxi, which used rents from its land to support widows, orphans and a clan school; four halls survive, the main ones built of nanmu wood."},{"id":"wuxi-dayao-road-kilns","name":"Dayao Road Kiln Sites (Wuxi Kiln Ruins Museum)","name_zh":"大窑路窑群遗址","pinyin":"Dàyáo Lù Yáoqún Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5569,"lon":120.3147,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-dayao-road-kilns/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A line of old brick and tile kilns along Dayao Road on the east bank of the old Grand Canal, where kilns fired building bricks from the Ming dynasty onwards and are recorded as having made 'gold bricks' for the imperial palace; dozens of the kilns still stand along the street. A former factory on the street is now the Wuxi Kiln Ruins Museum, with Wuxi city-wall, floor and tomb bricks, replicas of bricks and tiles from across China, a cut-away kiln and hands-on brick-making."},{"id":"wuxi-donglin-academy","name":"Donglin Academy","name_zh":"东林书院","pinyin":"Dōnglín Shūyuàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5782,"lon":120.3037,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-donglin-academy/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Confucian academy in central Wuxi founded in 1111, where the Song scholar Yang Shi taught, and revived in the early 1600s by Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, whose circle of scholar-officials criticised court politics and became known as the Donglin faction. Destroyed in 1626 and rebuilt under the Qing, it keeps a stone memorial archway, the Lize and Yiyong lecture halls and the Daonan Shrine to Yang Shi, with Gu's well-known couplet about caring for 'the affairs of family, state and world'."},{"id":"jiangyin-fortress-headquarters-site","name":"Former Jiangyin Fortress Headquarters","name_zh":"江阴要塞司令部旧址","pinyin":"Jiāngyīn Yàosài Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.9075,"lon":120.2716,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangyin-fortress-headquarters-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chinese-Western house built in 1917 by the Jiangyin industrialist Wu Tinglu, with a brick screen wall and garden in front of two Chinese-style halls and a two-storey Western-style villa at the back. Occupied by the Japanese army from 1937, it became the headquarters of the Nationalist Jiangyin Fortress in 1947, whose garrison went over to the People's Liberation Army in April 1949 during the Yangtze crossing campaign. It remained in military use until 2003 and opened in 2007 as an exhibition hall on Jiangyin's history and notable people."},{"id":"wuxi-maoxin-flour-mill","name":"Former Maoxin Flour Mill","name_zh":"茂新面粉厂旧址","pinyin":"Màoxīn Miànfěnchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5717,"lon":120.2883,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-maoxin-flour-mill/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wuxi's first flour mill, started in 1902 by the industrialist brothers Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng beside the Grand Canal, the first factory of the Rong family's industrial business. Bombed in 1937, the mill was rebuilt in 1946–48 to designs by the architect Tong Jun, and after it closed in 2003 the mill buildings were turned into the Wuxi China National Industry and Commerce Museum, part of the Wuxi Museum group, on the history of the city's private industry."},{"id":"wuxi-bo-gu-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Qin Bangxian (Bo Gu)","name_zh":"秦邦宪旧居","pinyin":"Qín Bāngxiàn Jiùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5764,"lon":120.2971,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-bo-gu-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing courtyard house on Chongning Road where Qin Bangxian, better known as Bo Gu, lived with his parents from 1916 to 1921; born in Wuxi in 1907, he was General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1931 until the Zunyi Conference of January 1935. The house, which belonged to his uncle's family and has a main range of seven courtyards, was restored in 2004 and is now a memorial hall about his life."},{"id":"jiangyin-xu-xiake-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xu Xiake","name_zh":"徐霞客故居","pinyin":"Xú Xiákè Gùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.712,"lon":120.3185,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangyin-xu-xiake-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home of Xu Xiake (1587–1641), the late-Ming traveller and geographer whose diaries of more than 30 years of journeys across China are a classic of Chinese travel writing, in the Jiangyin township now named after him. The three-courtyard house, rebuilt in the Qing dynasty, keeps a podocarpus said to have been planted by Xu himself, and the nearby rebuilt Qingshan Hall holds 76 stone tablets carved with Yuan and Ming calligraphy he collected from 88 writers, including Song Lian, Wen Zhengming and Zhu Yunming."},{"id":"wuxi-xue-fucheng-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xue Fucheng","name_zh":"薛福成故居","pinyin":"Xuē Fúchéng Gùjū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5726,"lon":120.2914,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-xue-fucheng-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mansion that the late-Qing diplomat and reformer Xue Fucheng, envoy to Britain, France, Italy and Belgium, had built in Wuxi's old city between 1890 and 1894, known by its imperial name plaque as the Qinshidi, the 'Imperial Envoy's Residence'. Covering more than 2 hectares, it is one of the largest surviving late-19th-century official residences in Jiangsu, laid out on three parallel axes with a screen wall, reception halls, a two-storey 'turntable' building, a theatre stage, granaries, a library tower and a rear garden."},{"id":"wuxi-lingshan-grand-buddha","name":"Grand Buddha at Ling Shan","name_zh":"灵山大佛","pinyin":"Língshān Dàfó","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.4321,"lon":120.0915,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-lingshan-grand-buddha/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist complex on the north shore of Lake Tai, centred on an 88 m bronze standing Buddha, including its lotus base, consecrated in 1997 and assembled from about 2,000 cast panels weighing 725 tonnes in all. An axis leads from the gate past the Nine Dragons Bathing the Buddha, a timed fountain show in which a 7.2 m gilded statue of the infant Buddha rises from an opening lotus, to the Grand Buddha. Beside it the Lingshan Brahma Palace, opened in 2009 with richly carved halls and a domed hall, is the permanent venue of the World Buddhist Forum."},{"id":"wuxi-helu-city-ruins-museum","name":"Helü City Ruins and Museum","name_zh":"阖闾城遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Hélǘ Chéng Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5123,"lon":120.1336,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-helu-city-ruins-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum opened in 2014 beside the remains of Helü City, a walled settlement on the Wuxi–Changzhou border that archaeologists identified in 2008 as a capital of the Spring and Autumn state of Wu under King Helü in the late 6th century BC, although the location of his capital is still debated. Built into the face of a former quarry by Lake Tai, it shows finds from the site, with a 3D cinema and multimedia displays on the excavations and on King Helü; only parts of the earthen ramparts can still be traced in the countryside nearby."},{"id":"wuxi-hongshan-site-museum","name":"Hongshan Site Museum (China Wu Culture Museum)","name_zh":"鸿山遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Hóngshān Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.4944,"lon":120.5043,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-hongshan-site-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A site museum in Wuxi's Hongshan area built over a cemetery of tombs of Yue-state nobles, whose excavation was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2004. Its galleries centre on the great Qiuchengdun tomb, shown in place, with the celadon, low-fired glazed ceramics and finely carved jades found in the graves, which shed light on the burial rites and music of the Wu and Yue states."},{"id":"wuxi-hongshan-taibo-scenic-area","name":"Hongshan Taibo Scenic Area","name_zh":"鸿山泰伯景区","pinyin":"Hóngshān Tàibó Jǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5499,"lon":120.4846,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-hongshan-taibo-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The burial place on Hongshan hill traditionally held to be that of Taibo, the legendary founder of the Wu state, laid out with Wu Culture Square in front and the tomb area behind. Its 20-odd sights include Ming and Qing structures such as the Yangzhi Pavilion and the Imperial Stele Pavilion, and since 2006 it has hosted the annual Taibo memorial ceremony and Wu Culture Festival on 10 April."},{"id":"wuxi-huishan-ancient-town","name":"Huishan Ancient Town","name_zh":"惠山古镇","pinyin":"Huìshān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.584,"lon":120.2705,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-huishan-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of ancestral halls and their gardens, 108 of them dating from the Tang dynasty to the Republican era, along two old streets at the eastern foot of Mount Hui, combined with neighbouring Xihui Park into one scenic area that also takes in Huishan Temple, Jichang Garden and the hilltop Longguang Pagoda. Halls honour figures such as Fan Zhongyan, Lu Zhi and Ni Zan, two carved stone dharani pillars of 876 and 1070 stand inside the temple's front gate, and the Second Spring under Heaven, ranked the second-best water for tea in the Tang dynasty, gave its name to Abing's erhu piece 'The Moon Reflected on Erquan'. Shops along the streets sell Huishan painted clay figurines."},{"id":"jiangyin-xuezheng-office","name":"Jiangsu Education Commissioner's Office, Jiangyin","name_zh":"江苏学政衙署","pinyin":"Jiāngsū Xuézhèng Yáshǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.9084,"lon":120.2672,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyin-xuezheng-office","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the provincial education commissioner's office, unusually based in Jiangyin rather than in a provincial capital: the commissioner for Suzhou and Songjiang moved here in 1614, and from 1725 until the examinations ended in 1906 the Jiangsu commissioner, responsible for eight prefectures and three departments, was based here. Only the five-bay ceremonial gate survives, together with inscribed steles including one in the Qianlong emperor's hand and a set of poem tablets, and the site is now a cultural park with statues of former commissioners and the old rear garden, renamed Zhongshan Park."},{"id":"jiangyin-binjiang-fortress","name":"Jiangyin Riverside Fortress Scenic Area","name_zh":"江阴滨江要塞","pinyin":"Jiāngyīn Bīnjiāng Yàosài","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.928,"lon":120.2723,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyin-binjiang-fortress","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Riverside parks on Huangshan hill and Ebizui (Goose Beak) Point just north of central Jiangyin, where the Yangtze narrows to little more than a kilometre and has been fortified since the late Ming. Gun batteries from the Ming–Qing, late-Qing and Republican periods survive on the hilltops, a stone at Ebizui marks the spot as the river's 'tail' and the sea's 'head', and the paths give close views of passing ships and the Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge."},{"id":"wuxi-jichang-garden","name":"Jichang Garden","name_zh":"寄畅园","pinyin":"Jìchàng Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5826,"lon":120.2663,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-jichang-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty garden at the foot of Mount Hui, begun in the Zhengde era (1506–1521) by the official Qin Jin on the site of two monks' lodges and given its present name by his descendant Qin Yao after 1591. It is laid out around a long pond with Mount Hui and the Longguang Pagoda on Xishan 'borrowed' as a backdrop, and a rocky ravine, the Bayinjian, carries water from the Second Spring through an artificial hill. The Kangxi and Qianlong emperors each visited on their southern tours, and Qianlong had it copied as the Garden of Harmonious Interests in Beijing's Summer Palace."},{"id":"wuxi-li-garden","name":"Li Garden (Liyuan)","name_zh":"蠡园","pinyin":"Lǐ Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5195,"lon":120.2546,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-li-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lakeside garden on the north shore of Lihu Lake, created between 1927 and 1936 by the Wang family of Qingqi village and joined in 1952 with the neighbouring Yuzhuang garden of 1930 to form a public park. Water covers much of its 8.2 hectares, with rockeries, a long waterside corridor, a lake pavilion and four pavilions planted for the four seasons, and its name recalls the legend that the Yue minister Fan Li went boating here with Xi Shi."},{"id":"yixing-longbeishan-forest-park","name":"Longbeishan Forest Park","name_zh":"龙背山森林公园","pinyin":"Lóngbèishān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.326,"lon":119.8069,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixing-longbeishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill park of about 5.5 km² on the southern edge of Yixing's city centre. Its landmark is the Wenfeng Pagoda, from which there are views over the city's lakes towards Lake Tai, and the park also holds memorial halls to notable people from Yixing in history, science and the arts."},{"id":"wuxi-nanchan-temple","name":"Nanchan Temple, Wuxi","name_zh":"南禅寺","pinyin":"Nánchán Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5688,"lon":120.304,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-nanchan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple near the old Grand Canal just south of central Wuxi, first founded in the Southern Dynasties and restored in 1995, whose seven-storey octagonal Miaoguang Pagoda was named by the Song emperor Huizong in 1104 and rebuilt in the Ming dynasty. The pagoda has been counted among the Eight Views of Wuxi since the Ming, and the streets around the temple now form a pedestrian quarter of shops and restaurants."},{"id":"yixing-qianshu-dragon-kiln","name":"Qianshu Dragon Kiln (Yixing Kiln Sites)","name_zh":"前墅龙窑","pinyin":"Qiánshù Lóngyáo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.2584,"lon":119.8688,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixing-qianshu-dragon-kiln","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty 'dragon kiln' in Dingshu, a long, sloping, wood-fired tunnel kiln running up a hillside, which is still fired today and is the part of the Yixing Kiln Sites that visitors can see; the national listing groups it with five other old kiln sites around Yixing. Firings are held as public events at festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival, and in 2025 the kiln was added to China's list of national industrial heritage."},{"id":"wuxi-qingming-bridge-canal-district","name":"Qingming Bridge Historic District","name_zh":"清名桥古运河","pinyin":"Qīngmíng Qiáo Gǔ Yùnhé","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5579,"lon":120.3131,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-qingming-bridge-canal-district/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of the old Grand Canal south of Wuxi's former city wall, lined with old waterside houses along Nanchang Street and Nanxiatang and crossed by the humpbacked Qingming Bridge, first built in the Ming dynasty and last rebuilt in 1869. Restored from 2007 and reopened in 2011, the district is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site; alongside its shops and creative businesses are museums in old industrial buildings, including the China Silk Industry Museum in the former Yongtai silk mill, and the remains of the brick kilns along Dayao Road."},{"id":"yixing-shanjuan-cave","name":"Shanjuan Cave","name_zh":"善卷洞","pinyin":"Shànjuàn Dòng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.3033,"lon":119.6612,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixing-shanjuan-cave/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst cave in Luoyan Hill near Zhangzhu, the first of Yixing's 'three wonders' among its caves, with upper, middle and lower chambers full of stalactites and a water cave where boats follow an underground river. The scenic area is tied to the Butterfly Lovers legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, with a Tang inscription marking 'Zhu Yingtai's study', and nearby at the foot of Guoshan stands the Guoshan Stele, a cylindrical stone carved in seal script in 276 to record the sacrifices to heaven and earth held there for the Wu ruler Sun Hao."},{"id":"jiangyin-shiyuan-garden","name":"Shiyuan Garden, Jiangyin","name_zh":"适园","pinyin":"Shì Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.9037,"lon":120.268,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyin-shiyuan-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small private garden in Jiangyin's old town, laid out in the mid-19th century by Chen Shijin, a lover of painting and calligraphy, beside the family house, around a pond with rockeries and a waterside pavilion. Its rockery holds inscribed stones including calligraphy by Dong Qichang and Liang Tongshu and the 'Goose Exchange Stele' attributed to Wang Xizhi, brought from the Confucian Temple. Damaged in the Cultural Revolution, it was rebuilt with city funds in 2008."},{"id":"wuxi-taibo-temple","name":"Taibo Temple, Meicun","name_zh":"泰伯庙","pinyin":"Tàibó Miào","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5438,"lon":120.4302,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-taibo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple beside the Bodu River in Meicun on the spot where Taibo, the eldest son of the Zhou king who gave up his claim to the throne and founded the Wu state, is said to have lived; a temple was first raised here in 154 AD. The present Ming and Qing buildings are entered over a stone bridge and through a granite archway and the Lingxing Gate, and the temple fair held for Taibo's birthday on the ninth day of the first lunar month is on China's national intangible heritage list."},{"id":"yixing-taozu-shengjing","name":"Taozu Shengjing Scenic Area","name_zh":"陶祖圣境","pinyin":"Táozǔ Shèngjìng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.19,"lon":119.7301,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixing-taozu-shengjing","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area in the bamboo-covered hills of Huxu, south-west of Yixing, developed around Muli Cave, a karst cave whose route includes a stretch by boat. It is named after Fan Li, honoured in local tradition as the ancestor of pottery, and adds bamboo walks, a pottery workshop and sights themed on the legend of Fan Li and Xi Shi."},{"id":"yixing-tuanjiu-lake","name":"Tuanjiu Lake Scenic Area","name_zh":"团氿","pinyin":"Tuánjiǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.3723,"lon":119.7985,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixing-tuanjiu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small round lake on the western edge of Yixing's city centre, one of the three 'jiu' lakes that give the city its waterside setting. The scenic area rings it with promenades and parks, among them the Yi Garden (Yiyuan), laid out in Jiangnan garden style with bridges and pavilions, the south-shore promenade, Jiubin Park and a wetland park."},{"id":"wuxi-yingdu-film-park","name":"Wuxi Film City (National Digital Film Industry Park)","name_zh":"无锡影都","pinyin":"Wúxī Yǐngdū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.4703,"lon":120.2765,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-yingdu-film-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film-industry park on Lihu Avenue in southern Wuxi, built on the site of the Xuelang steel-rolling mill that closed in 2009, whose old factory sheds were converted into about 15 sound stages used by film and television crews. For visitors it adds a digital-cinema science museum, a waxworks museum and a film-themed street, and it mostly draws local families with children."},{"id":"wuxi-museum","name":"Wuxi Museum","name_zh":"无锡博物院","pinyin":"Wúxī Bówùyuàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5516,"lon":120.3016,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city's main museum, opened in 2008 in a large steel-framed building beside Taihu Square, which merged the old Wuxi Museum with the city's revolutionary and science museums. Its collection of nearly 40,000 objects is strongest in Ming and Qing painting and calligraphy, and the displays also cover local history, Yixing purple-clay teapots, Huishan clay figurines and Wuxi's industry, with a bronze sword of King Liao of Wu among the highlights."},{"id":"wuxi-plum-garden","name":"Wuxi Plum Garden","name_zh":"梅园","pinyin":"Méi Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5531,"lon":120.2168,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-plum-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside garden west of Wuxi begun in 1912 by the industrialist Rong Desheng, who planted some 3,000 plum trees around his family villa; it is one of the best-known places in the Jiangnan region to see plum blossom in late winter and early spring. Paths climb past pavilions, a nanmu-wood hall and the three-storey Nianqu Pagoda, built by the Rong brothers in 1930 in memory of their mother, to the 1930s Kaiyuan Temple; Rong Yiren gave the garden to the state in 1955 and it was later extended onto neighbouring Hengshan hill."},{"id":"wuxi-zoo-taihu-amusement-park","name":"Wuxi Zoo and Taihu Amusement Park","name_zh":"无锡动物园·太湖欢乐园","pinyin":"Wúxī Dòngwùyuán Tàihú Huānlèyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5856,"lon":120.2326,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-zoo-taihu-amusement-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A combined zoo and amusement park on the slopes of Mount Hui in western Wuxi, opened in 2010 when the city zoo moved here from Xihui Park, where it had been since 1956. The zoo is divided into areas by region and animal group, with giant pandas, giraffes, rhinos, chimpanzees, red pandas and lemurs among its animals, and the amusement park section has fairground rides and staged children's shows. It suits families with children."},{"id":"wuxi-xiaolou-lane","name":"Xiaolou Lane","name_zh":"小娄巷","pinyin":"Xiǎolóu Xiàng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5774,"lon":120.3,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-xiaolou-lane","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A historic lane quarter in central Wuxi that was for centuries the home of the Tan and Qin families, two of the city's leading scholar-gentry clans, whose members included many successful examination candidates from the Song dynasty onwards. Most of the surviving houses date from the late Qing and Republican periods, and the block was restored and partly rebuilt from 2008 as a pedestrian heritage street."},{"id":"jiangyin-xingguo-temple-pagoda","name":"Xingguo Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"兴国寺塔","pinyin":"Xīngguó Sì Tǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.9045,"lon":120.2607,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangyin-xingguo-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal brick pagoda in Xingguo Park in the south-west of Jiangyin's old town, first built in the Taiping Xingguo era of the Northern Song (976–984) and raised from seven to nine storeys during a Ming repair. A fire in 1817 burned away its wooden eaves and finial, leaving the brush-shaped brick shaft that locals call the Wenbi ('writing brush') Pagoda, and in 1925 a shell fired from the Huangshan forts during a warlord war damaged its top storeys; it was strengthened in 1985 and 2005."},{"id":"yixing-xu-ancestral-hall","name":"Xu Ancestral Hall, Fuxi","name_zh":"洑溪徐氏宗祠","pinyin":"Fúxī Xúshì Zōngcí","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.3571,"lon":119.8251,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixing-xu-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The clan temple of the Xu family of Fuxi, built in 1490 for the family of the Ming official Xu Pu and also known as the Grand Tutor Xu Family Temple. Of its five courtyards, the second and third halls are original, and the main hall's nanmu beams and pillars still carry brightly coloured Suzhou-style painted decoration of scrolling flowers, brocade patterns and cranes; the gate and an opera stage are recent rebuilds."},{"id":"wuxi-yangshan-peach-blossom-land","name":"Yangshan Peach Blossom Land","name_zh":"阳山桃花源","pinyin":"Yángshān Táohuāyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5944,"lon":120.1218,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-yangshan-peach-blossom-land","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The peach-growing country around Yangshan town in western Wuxi, known across China for its juicy honey peaches, with orchards that blossom in spring and are picked in summer. Around the town are the Peach Culture Square, pick-your-own orchards, farm-stays and guesthouses, a geology exhibition hall on the ancient volcano of Yangshan hill, the Anyang Academy and the Chaoyang Chan Temple."},{"id":"yixing-bamboo-sea","name":"Yixing Bamboo Sea","name_zh":"宜兴竹海","pinyin":"Yíxīng Zhúhǎi","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.1644,"lon":119.6986,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixing-bamboo-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park of bamboo-covered hills in the far south of Yixing, where Jiangsu meets Zhejiang and Anhui, long known as a 'sea of bamboo'. Its visitor area of about 1,000 hectares is crossed by paths through the groves, and a cable car climbs into the hills along the Zhejiang border."},{"id":"wuxi-yuantouzhu","name":"Yuantouzhu","name_zh":"鼋头渚","pinyin":"Yuántóuzhǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.5178,"lon":120.2278,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxi-yuantouzhu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rocky headland on the north shore of Lake Tai shaped like a turtle's head, developed from 1916 by Wuxi businessmen with lakeside villas and gardens and now a large park of wooded hills, pavilions, rock inscriptions and wide lake views. It is best known for its cherry trees, first planted by the Changchun Bridge causeway in 1936 and greatly extended with trees planted by Japanese visitors since 1988, which draw big crowds when they bloom in spring. Boats run from the park's pier to Taihu Xiandao, a group of small islands built up with Taoist-style buildings since the 1990s."},{"id":"yixing-yunhu-scenic-area","name":"Yunhu Lake Scenic Area, Yixing","name_zh":"宜兴云湖","pinyin":"Yíxīng Yúnhú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.2326,"lon":119.5808,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixing-yunhu-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area around Yunhu Lake, the former Hengshan Reservoir in the hills of Xizhu in south-western Yixing, combining lakeside walks and a wetland park with a tea-culture zone that includes the Yangxian Tea Culture Museum. On the lake shore stands Dajue Temple, a large Buddhist complex rebuilt here from 2004 and recognised as the ancestral temple of the Taiwan-based Fo Guang Shan order."},{"id":"wuxi-zhaosi-hall","name":"Zhaosi Hall","name_zh":"昭嗣堂","pinyin":"Zhāosì Táng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.4542,"lon":120.4476,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-zhaosi-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty hall in Shuofang, built as the house of the official Cao Cha, who passed the imperial examinations in 1528, and turned into the Cao family's ancestral temple in 1748. Known as the Fragrant Nanmu Hall, it is five bays wide and built entirely of fine nanmu timber, and is described as the oldest and most complete Ming nanmu building in Jiangsu."},{"id":"yixing-zhouwang-temple","name":"Zhouwang Temple (Yixing Stele Museum)","name_zh":"周王庙","pinyin":"Zhōuwáng Miào","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Wuxi","lat":31.3643,"lon":119.8167,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixing-zhouwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial temple in the old centre of Yixing to Zhou Chu, a local general of the third century remembered in the folk tale of how he rid the district of a tiger, a river dragon and finally his own bad ways. First built in 962 and rebuilt many times, it keeps a Ming main hall of 1566 with stone pillars and a rebuilt opera stage, and its large collection of inscribed steles from the Tang to the Qing, including Su Dongpo's 'Ode to Chu' inscription, has made it the Yixing Stele Museum."},{"id":"pizhou-aishan","name":"Aishan Scenic Area, Pizhou","name_zh":"艾山","pinyin":"Ài Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.5108,"lon":117.9634,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pizhou-aishan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill scenic area of about 15 km² in Tiefu, northern Pizhou, that mixes woodland scenery with restored historic sites. Black locust and Chinese tallow woods and red autumn maples cover the slopes, and peach orchards ring the hill."},{"id":"xuzhou-pantao-baolian-temple","name":"Baolian Temple, Pantao Hill","name_zh":"蟠桃山宝莲寺","pinyin":"Pántáo Shān Bǎolián Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2963,"lon":117.2629,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuzhou-pantao-baolian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple complex on Pantao Hill in the Xuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, east of the city, centred on Baolian Temple, rebuilt from 2009 on the site of an older monastery that had fallen into ruin by the mid-20th century. Besides the main halls and a multi-storey pavilion it has a temple to the Queen Mother of the West, and a traditional temple fair on the third day of the third lunar month draws large local crowds."},{"id":"jiawang-dadong-mountain","name":"Dadong Mountain","name_zh":"大洞山","pinyin":"Dàdòng Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.3986,"lon":117.4962,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiawang-dadong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At 361 m the highest hill in the Xuzhou area, rising on the southern edge of Jiawang district centre and managed as a wooded scenic area. Paths and a brightly painted 'rainbow' walkway climb slopes planted with large pomegranate orchards, where fruit can be picked in autumn, and Zhuyu Temple within the scenic area is known for its vegetarian noodles and buns."},{"id":"fengxian-dashahe-wetland-park","name":"Dashahe Wetland Park, Feng County","name_zh":"大沙河湿地公园","pinyin":"Dàshāhé Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.4959,"lon":116.5717,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-dashahe-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park along the Dasha River in Feng County, in the far north-west of Jiangsu, where long riverside sandbanks, reed beds and ponds are laid out with birdwatching platforms and waterside paths. Rated a national 4A scenic area at the start of 2024, it is aimed mainly at families, with nature classes, a children's camp and seasonal themes running from birdwatching in spring and lotus in summer to water-caltrop picking in autumn and reed scenery in winter."},{"id":"jiawang-dugong-lake","name":"Dugong Lake","name_zh":"督公湖","pinyin":"Dūgōng Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.4479,"lon":117.5556,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiawang-dugong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir east of Jiawang's district centre, built in 1958 and now a lakeside scenic area with waterside paths. It is mostly a local day-trip spot, busiest when its peach trees blossom in spring."},{"id":"jiawang-fengminghai-park","name":"Fengminghai Park, Jiawang","name_zh":"凤鸣海","pinyin":"Fèngmínghǎi","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.4397,"lon":117.5022,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiawang-fengminghai-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park on the eastern side of Jiawang, the former coal-mining district north-east of Xuzhou, which the district promotes as one of its scenic areas alongside Pan'an Lake and Dadong Mountain. It includes a horse-riding club with Mongolian-style yurts, which has staged riding displays, camel rides and bonfire evenings on public holidays."},{"id":"xuzhou-guishan-han-tombs","name":"Guishan Han Tombs","name_zh":"龟山汉墓","pinyin":"Guīshān Hànmù","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.3084,"lon":117.1314,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuzhou-guishan-han-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The joint tomb of Liu Zhu, sixth king of Chu in the Western Han dynasty, and his queen, cut side by side into the west face of Guishan hill on Xuzhou's north-western edge and identified in 1985 from the king's silver seal. Two narrow passages about 56 m long, with finely smoothed walls, lead to fifteen rock-hewn rooms including bedchambers, a kitchen, a well, a carriage room and a toilet, which visitors can walk through; a museum opened at the site in 1993."},{"id":"xuzhou-huaihai-campaign-martyrs-memorial","name":"Huaihai Campaign Martyrs Memorial Park","name_zh":"淮海战役烈士纪念塔","pinyin":"Huáihǎi Zhànyì Lièshì Jìniàntǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2355,"lon":117.1885,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuzhou-huaihai-campaign-martyrs-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park on the southern side of central Xuzhou honouring soldiers of the People's Liberation Army killed in the Huaihai Campaign of November 1948 to January 1949, one of the decisive campaigns of the Chinese Civil War. Its centrepiece is a 38.15 m obelisk completed in 1965 and inscribed in Mao Zedong's calligraphy, and the grounds also hold the Huaihai Campaign Memorial Hall, whose exhibitions cover the campaign."},{"id":"xuzhou-hubu-hill","name":"Hubu Hill Historic Buildings","name_zh":"户部山古建筑群","pinyin":"Hùbù Shān Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2569,"lon":117.1838,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuzhou-hubu-hill","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A low hill in the heart of Xuzhou named after the Ming Ministry of Revenue branch office that moved up here when the Yellow River flooded the city in 1624, after which wealthy families crowded its slopes with courtyard houses. Thirteen fairly complete compounds of the Ming to Republican eras survive, among them the Yu and Zhai family mansions, now the Xuzhou Folk Custom Museum, and houses linked to the scholar-officials Cui Tao and Li Pan, while Ximatai, a terrace linked by tradition to Xiang Yu, stands on the hill. The surrounding Huilongwo streets, with shops, teahouses and restaurants, were named a national tourism and leisure block in 2024."},{"id":"fengxian-liu-bang-hometown","name":"Liu Bang's Hometown Cultural Area, Feng County","name_zh":"刘邦故里文化景区","pinyin":"Liú Bāng Gùlǐ Wénhuà Jǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.733,"lon":116.5126,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-liu-bang-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Han-dynasty theme park in Feng County, which the ancient histories give as the birthplace of Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty. Tall modern gate towers in Han style mark the entrance, and inside are a 42.6 m bronze statue of Liu Bang with an immersive hall on early Han history at its foot, a ceremonial altar and a mound honoured as the tomb of the emperor's ancestors. It suits families and visitors interested in early Han history, and holiday fairs have brought Han costume, pitch-pot, archery, drumming and dragon dances."},{"id":"xinyi-maling-mountain","name":"Maling Mountain","name_zh":"马陵山","pinyin":"Mǎlíng Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.1956,"lon":118.3443,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyi-maling-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A range of low red-sandstone hills south of Xinyi city, with Danxia-type cliffs and rock formations, caves, small lakes and pine woods, which local tradition identifies as the site of the Warring States Battle of Maling and where the Qianlong Emperor stayed on his southern tours. At its western foot lies the Huating site, a Neolithic cemetery of about 5,500 to 4,500 years ago whose finds, including fine jades, mix the northern Dawenkou culture with elements of the Liangzhu culture from the south; it is presented through a site museum and a reconstructed 'Huating tribe' area. Trails, a zip line and campsites make it a popular weekend escape."},{"id":"jiawang-panan-lake-wetland-park","name":"Pan'an Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"潘安湖湿地公园","pinyin":"Pān'ān Hú Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.3669,"lon":117.3683,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiawang-panan-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park in Jiawang district made from what was the largest and most damaged area of subsided ground over old coal mines around Xuzhou, flooded and landscaped since the late 2000s into lakes, reed beds and stands of pond cypress. Visitors take rowing boats across the water and birdwatchers come for species such as the reed parrotbill, while the 'Xuzhou Night' street opened on the shore in 2023 for evening food and shows, and neighbouring Mazhuang village is known for its embroidered sachets."},{"id":"xuzhou-pengzu-park","name":"Pengzu Park","name_zh":"彭祖园","pinyin":"Péngzǔ Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2419,"lon":117.182,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuzhou-pengzu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large wooded city park on the southern side of central Xuzhou dedicated to Peng Zu, the legendary sage said to have lived some 800 years, whom tradition makes lord of the ancient state of Dapeng at Xuzhou. Paths wind over low hills and round ponds to a statue of Peng Zu, his memorial shrine and a pavilion, and the park's cherry trees draw crowds in spring."},{"id":"suining-xiapi-ancient-city-ruins","name":"Ruins of the Ancient City of Xiapi","name_zh":"下邳故城遗址","pinyin":"Xiàpī Gùchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.1337,"lon":117.8727,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suining-xiapi-ancient-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The buried remains of Xiapi at Gupi in northern Suining County, a walled city for well over a thousand years and the place where the warlord Lü Bu was captured and put to death at the end of the 2nd century, an episode retold in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Excavations since 2014 found walls of the Eastern Han, Western Jin, Song–Jin and Ming–Qing periods stacked one above another, before an earthquake in 1668 led to floods that left the city under a lake. Little stands above ground: an archaeological park was approved in 2023 and is still being developed, while the town has a local history museum and a new Three Kingdoms-style market street."},{"id":"suining-shuiyue-temple","name":"Shuiyue Temple, Suining","name_zh":"水月禅寺","pinyin":"Shuǐyuè Chánsì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":33.9254,"lon":117.8886,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suining-shuiyue-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Buddhist temple in Suining County, built in recent years on the site of the county's former Dizang Temple inside the Baitang River wetland park. Its halls follow a traditional monastery layout but in a deliberately modern architectural style, and paths through the surrounding wetland make it a quiet half-day outing."},{"id":"xuzhou-amusement-park","name":"Xuzhou Amusement Park","name_zh":"徐州乐园","pinyin":"Xúzhōu Lèyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.229,"lon":117.1157,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuzhou-amusement-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme-park complex west of Yunlong Lake made up of a water park and two themed ride parks, with a resort hotel and a shopping street attached. It is a family day out rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"xuzhou-han-culture-scenic-area","name":"Xuzhou Han Culture Scenic Area (Shizishan)","name_zh":"徐州汉文化景区","pinyin":"Xúzhōu Hàn Wénhuà Jǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2464,"lon":117.2194,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuzhou-han-culture-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park in Xuzhou's eastern suburbs built around Shizishan, where a Western Han king of Chu was buried in the 2nd century BC in a tomb cut 117 m into the hillside; visitors walk through its passages and a dozen rock-hewn chambers, found in 1991 and excavated in 1994–95. Nearby, the Han Terracotta Army Museum shows the four pits found in 1984 that held more than 2,300 painted pottery figures, and two further cavalry pits are displayed under water in a gallery opened in 2006. Tomb and pits belong to the national heritage unit of the Han Chu king tombs; many of the finds, including a gold-threaded jade suit, are in the Xuzhou Museum."},{"id":"xuzhou-han-stone-relief-museum","name":"Xuzhou Han Stone Relief Art Museum","name_zh":"徐州汉画像石艺术馆","pinyin":"Xúzhōu Hàn Huàxiàngshí Yìshùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2417,"lon":117.1708,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuzhou-han-stone-relief-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum on the eastern shore of Yunlong Lake devoted to the carved stone panels that lined Eastern Han tombs, shrines and gate towers around Xuzhou. The reliefs show scenes of daily life, historical tales and the world of immortals and mythical beasts, and the museum is run as a branch of the Xuzhou Museum."},{"id":"xuzhou-museum","name":"Xuzhou Museum","name_zh":"徐州博物馆","pinyin":"Xúzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2519,"lon":117.1806,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuzhou-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xuzhou's main history museum, a national first-class museum at the northern foot of Yunlong Mountain, best known for finds from the rock-cut tombs of the Western Han kings of Chu, among them a jade burial suit sewn with gold thread. Its grounds take in the excavated Han-dynasty quarry where stone was cut from the hillside, part of the national heritage unit of the Chu king tombs, and the surviving main hall of a palace built for the Qianlong Emperor's southern tour of 1757."},{"id":"xinyi-yaowan-ancient-town","name":"Yaowan Ancient Town","name_zh":"窑湾古镇","pinyin":"Yáowān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.1742,"lon":118.0672,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyi-yaowan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town on the Grand Canal where it meets Luoma Lake, in the south-west of Xinyi, with some 1,300 years of history; it grew into a busy trading port in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Stone-paved lanes keep a large group of Ming and Qing buildings, among them merchant guild halls and old banking houses, and in the evenings the town stages shows including the molten-iron 'fire flower' display, with lantern-lit boat trips along the water."},{"id":"xuzhou-yunlong-lake","name":"Yunlong Lake","name_zh":"云龙湖","pinyin":"Yúnlóng Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Xuzhou","lat":34.2387,"lon":117.1572,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuzhou-yunlong-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake on the south-western edge of central Xuzhou, enlarged from low-lying ground into a reservoir and now the heart of a 5A scenic area, framed by green hills on three sides with Yunlong Mountain to the east. Paths, causeways, old-style bridges and pavilions run round the water, with peach blossom and willows in spring, lotus in summer, red maples in autumn and plum blossom in winter, and the Han Stone Relief Art Museum stands on the eastern shore."},{"id":"dongtai-anfeng-ancient-town","name":"Anfeng Ancient Town","name_zh":"安丰古镇","pinyin":"Ānfēng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":32.729,"lon":120.4024,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongtai-anfeng-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anfeng grew rich as the leading salt-producing town of the old Huainan salt fields, drawing Huizhou salt merchants who built along a long street beside the Chuanchang canal, and it was named a China Historical and Cultural Town in 2007. The preserved stretch of the old street, about 500 m long, keeps houses such as the Huizhou-style Bao family mansion of 1850 and the Wu clan hall, while a salt office, an opera stage and a salt wharf have been rebuilt nearby. The town was also known for its teahouses, which doubled as venues for Yangzhou-style storytelling."},{"id":"yandu-caofangzi-park","name":"Caofangzi (Grass House) Park","name_zh":"草房子乐园","pinyin":"Cǎofángzi Lèyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.3476,"lon":119.9313,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yandu-caofangzi-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural theme park of about 350 mu in Zhouhuo village, the home village of children's author Cao Wenxuan, winner of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award, planned around the site of the original straw-roofed houses behind his novel Caofangzi (The Grass House). A re-creation of the novel's Youmadi primary school and play areas spread across the Lixiahe farmland, with stage shows, outdoor activities and school study programmes. It mainly suits families and readers of the book."},{"id":"dafeng-water-margin-park","name":"China Water Margin Park & Shi Nai'an Memorial Hall","name_zh":"中华水浒园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Shuǐhǔ Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.0687,"lon":120.3028,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafeng-water-margin-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A themed park in Baiju town built around the Shi Nai'an Memorial Hall, which presents Baiju as the home town of Shi Nai'an, the writer traditionally credited with the classic novel Water Margin (the claim is shared with neighbouring Xinghua). The memorial hall shows more than 100 editions of the novel and material on Shi's life, and the wider park around it is themed on the novel. It suits readers of the novel more than general sightseers."},{"id":"dafeng-dream-maze","name":"Dafeng Dream Maze","name_zh":"梦幻迷宫","pinyin":"Mènghuàn Mígōng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":32.9734,"lon":120.3813,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafeng-dream-maze","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hedge-maze park in the countryside of Caoyan town that Guinness World Records lists as the largest permanent hedge maze, measured at 35,596.74 m² in June 2018, with about 9.5 km of paths. The main maze is laid out in the shape of a milu deer, with smaller heart-shaped, circular and children's mazes, an observation tower and bridges for seeing the pattern. It mainly suits families and groups."},{"id":"dafeng-milu-park","name":"Dafeng Milu (Père David's Deer) Park","name_zh":"中华麋鹿园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Mílù Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":32.9883,"lon":120.8117,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafeng-milu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The visitor area of the Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve on the Yellow Sea coast, where Père David's deer (milu), which had died out in China, were brought back in 1986 with 39 animals from British zoos; the reserve now holds the world's largest wild population of the species. Sightseeing buggies take visitors through woods, reed beds and grassland to see the deer herds, passing an arch made of thousands of shed antlers. The reserve is part of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf migratory bird World Heritage Site and a Ramsar wetland."},{"id":"dafeng-port-ocean-world","name":"Dafeng Port Ocean World","name_zh":"大丰港海洋世界","pinyin":"Dàfēng Gǎng Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.2251,"lon":120.7202,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafeng-port-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ocean-themed family attraction in the marine-industry park near Dafeng Port, with aquarium halls, marine science exhibits, a tropical plant house and a children's play area. It is a modern built attraction rather than a natural site, best for families with children."},{"id":"yancheng-dayangwan","name":"Dayangwan Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"大洋湾","pinyin":"Dàyáng Wān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.4292,"lon":120.186,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yancheng-dayangwan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large park on the northern edge of Yancheng where the old and new channels of the Yangwan river loop around islands and inlets, laid out with lawns, flower meadows and waterside paths. Visitors can ride painted boats or steer small self-drive boats along the water, and a staged show on the city's past, 'Yandu Wangshi', has been put on here."},{"id":"yandu-dazong-lake","name":"Dazong Lake","name_zh":"大纵湖","pinyin":"Dàzòng Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.176,"lon":119.8217,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yandu-dazong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shallow lake of about 28 km² on the border with Xinghua, long admired for its autumn views, whose northern, Yancheng shore is developed as a lakeside resort with a national wetland park. The scenic area has reed and water landscapes, a cherry-tree avenue about a kilometre long, a 25 m statue of Guanyin standing in the water and a water park. Next door, Dongjin Water Town is a newly built canal town of Song- and Republican-style buildings on nine islands linked by 24 bridges, with light and fountain shows."},{"id":"dafeng-dutch-flower-sea","name":"Dutch Flower Sea","name_zh":"荷兰花海","pinyin":"Hélán Huāhǎi","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.2635,"lon":120.4306,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafeng-dutch-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large flower park in Xinfeng town, named in memory of the Dutch water engineer who planned the area's irrigation in 1919, where tulips are grown over thousands of mu and a tulip festival has been held every spring since 2013. Tulips flower from March to May, followed by summer flowers and an autumn lily season, around a small town of European-style buildings. The park is popular for wedding photography and also has a theatre complex, Only Love: Theatre Fantasy City, created by director Wang Chaoge."},{"id":"yancheng-new-fourth-army-headquarters-site","name":"Former Headquarters of the Reformed New Fourth Army (Taishan Temple)","name_zh":"新四军重建军部旧址","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Chóngjiàn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.3813,"lon":120.1163,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yancheng-new-fourth-army-headquarters-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"After the Wannan Incident of January 1941, when Chiang Kai-shek ordered the New Fourth Army disbanded, the Communist leadership re-established the army's headquarters here in Taishan (Dongyue) Temple, a Ming-dynasty temple rebuilt in 1582. Liu Shaoqi and Chen Yi led the northern Jiangsu base area from the temple, and the Central China Bureau of the Communist Party was founded here in May 1941. The temple, wrecked in 1945, was restored to its old four-courtyard form in 1984 and opened to visitors in 1986."},{"id":"jianhu-huai-opera-town","name":"Huai Opera Town, Jianhu","name_zh":"淮剧小镇","pinyin":"Huáijù Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.3992,"lon":119.6004,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianhu-huai-opera-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A waterside village quarter of about 350 mu on the edge of the Jiulongkou wetland, renovated and extended in old style as a showcase for Huai opera and Jianhu acrobatics, both national intangible heritage. Old lanes and new buildings in matching style hold opera performances, street acrobatics, an art space, a bookshop and stalls selling local snacks such as lotus-root starch balls and fish balls. It is easily combined with a visit to Jiulongkou."},{"id":"funing-jinsha-lake","name":"Jinsha Lake, Funing","name_zh":"金沙湖","pinyin":"Jīnshā Hú","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.7211,"lon":119.7972,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=funing-jinsha-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake and wetland resort on the southern edge of Funing town, developed from 2010 around about 10,000 mu of water with reed-fringed islands, and listed as a national water conservancy scenic area. Its freshwater sand beach and bathing area draws summer crowds, while egrets, kingfishers and other birds use the quieter islands."},{"id":"jianhu-jiulongkou","name":"Jiulongkou Scenic Area","name_zh":"九龙口","pinyin":"Jiǔlóngkǒu","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.407,"lon":119.6083,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianhu-jiulongkou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake and marsh area in the Lixiahe lowlands where nine natural rivers meet around a small island, giving the name 'Nine Dragons' Mouth'. The scenic area covers reed beds, lotus and water-chestnut ponds and waterways, rich in water birds, and includes Longzhu (Dragon Pearl) Island; the Huai Opera Town, rated separately, lies next door."},{"id":"yandu-longgang-peach-blossom-land","name":"Longgang Peach Blossom Land","name_zh":"龙冈桃花源","pinyin":"Lónggāng Táohuāyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.3389,"lon":120.0433,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yandu-longgang-peach-blossom-land","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An orchard park in Longgang, an old market town west of Yancheng named after the 15-li sand ridge to its north said to resemble a lying dragon. Peach and pear orchards planted from 1959 on the sandy soil cover a core area of about 1,900 mu, best in March when the blossom is out, and the park adds riverside walks, a chestnut avenue, sand play areas, fruit picking and a wartime air-raid shelter."},{"id":"funing-majiadang","name":"Majiadang Wetland","name_zh":"马家荡","pinyin":"Mǎjiā Dàng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.4841,"lon":119.6196,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=funing-majiadang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Majiadang is a broad expanse of reed marsh, fish ponds and waterways in south-western Funing, counted as the first of the 64 marshes of the Lixiahe lowlands, with villages built along the water. The scenic area, rated 4A in 2023, centres on Maliang Lake, with a newly built old-style 'Maliang Ancient Town' and a small amusement park, and takes in the waterside village of Mugou."},{"id":"dafeng-meihuawan","name":"Meihuawan Park","name_zh":"梅花湾","pinyin":"Méihuā Wān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.2287,"lon":120.4192,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafeng-meihuawan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped park on the north-western edge of Dafeng themed on plum blossom, laid out around lakes off a branch of the Doulonggang River with groves of plum, cherry and crabapple among camphor, osmanthus and magnolia trees. It also has Chinese-style garden buildings, a plum culture hall, an angling centre and a water play area, and egrets and other birds nest in the trees; late winter and early spring, when the plums flower, is the time to go."},{"id":"yancheng-new-fourth-army-memorial-hall","name":"New Fourth Army Memorial Hall","name_zh":"新四军纪念馆","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.392,"lon":120.1563,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yancheng-new-fourth-army-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum opened in 1986 on Jianjun East Road about the New Fourth Army, the Communist-led army that fought the Japanese in central China and had its headquarters re-established in Yancheng in 1941 after the Wannan Incident. Its galleries draw on a collection of more than 10,000 wartime relics, documents and artworks, and the memorial also looks after the former headquarters at Taishan Temple across town. It is listed among China's national memorial sites of the War of Resistance against Japan."},{"id":"dafeng-shanghai-zhiqing-memorial","name":"Shanghai Sent-Down Youth Memorial Hall, Dafeng","name_zh":"上海知青纪念馆","pinyin":"Shànghǎi Zhīqīng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.2526,"lon":120.596,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafeng-shanghai-zhiqing-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum on Haifeng Farm, one of the state farms run by Shanghai inside Dafeng, recording the tens of thousands of young Shanghai people sent to reclaim the Yellow Sea mudflats in the 1960s and 1970s. It occupies the former Yuanhua farm headquarters, a brick hall from the early 1950s, and displays hoes, straw sandals, call-up notices, photographs and wax figures, with recreated thatched living quarters. It is part of a cluster of sent-down-youth exhibition halls on the same site."},{"id":"sheyang-andersen-fairy-tale-park","name":"Sheyang Andersen Fairy Tale Park","name_zh":"安徒生童话乐园","pinyin":"Āntúshēng Tónghuà Lèyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.7616,"lon":120.2935,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheyang-andersen-fairy-tale-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern theme park on the edge of Sheyang county town built around Hans Christian Andersen's stories, with four themed zones based on The Little Match Girl, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling, rides, themed halls, a castle and a water park. It forms one complex with the neighbouring Qianhe Lake park, a hotel and a shopping street, and is aimed at families with young children."},{"id":"dongtai-tiaozini-wetland","name":"Tiaozini Wetland","name_zh":"条子泥","pinyin":"Tiáoziní","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":32.7414,"lon":120.9487,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongtai-tiaozini-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A vast tidal mudflat on the Yellow Sea coast, part of the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China World Heritage Site since 2019 and a key stopover on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. The flats are cut by branching tidal creeks and turn red with seepweed in autumn, and at high tide tens of thousands of shorebirds crowd onto the '720' roost, 720 mu of former fish ponds turned into a fixed high-tide refuge in 2020; rarities include the spoon-billed sandpiper and Nordmann's greenshank. Only a small area of about 5 km² is open to visitors, with spring and autumn migration the best seasons."},{"id":"dongtai-xixi-tianxianyuan","name":"Xixi Tianxianyuan Scenic Area & Haichunxuan Pagoda","name_zh":"西溪天仙缘","pinyin":"Xīxī Tiānxiānyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":32.8384,"lon":120.2835,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongtai-xixi-tianxianyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xixi, on the western edge of Dongtai, was a salt-making centre from the Han dynasty and is linked with the folk legend of Dong Yong and the Seventh Fairy, a national intangible heritage item. The scenic area combines the Dong Yong and Seventh Fairy culture park, a rebuilt old town of Xixi and the garden of Taishan Temple, where the Haichunxuan Pagoda, a multi-eaved brick pagoda listed as Tang-dynasty and a national heritage site since 2013, still stands. The area has also staged shows based on the fairy legend and on Fan Zhongyan, who served as a salt official at Xixi."},{"id":"sheyang-xixin-temple","name":"Xixin Temple","name_zh":"息心寺","pinyin":"Xīxīn Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.7899,"lon":120.3374,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheyang-xixin-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Buddhist temple near the Sheyang River, founded in the late Ming dynasty as a small shrine (Zhenlong Temple, later Xixin An), later destroyed and rebuilt from 1993. The new complex follows a traditional Chinese temple plan, with a Mahavira Hall, a Hall of Heavenly Kings, a Great Compassion pavilion, a ten-thousand-Buddha pagoda, a hall of 500 arhats, a jade Buddha hall and a Buddhist relics exhibition. It is an active temple with large crowds on festival days."},{"id":"yancheng-museum","name":"Yancheng Museum","name_zh":"盐城市博物馆","pinyin":"Yánchéng Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.382,"lon":120.1153,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yancheng-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yancheng's city museum, founded in 1961, moved in 2021 into a new group of buildings in traditional style on Jianjun West Road in the old centre. Its galleries cover the area's history, coastal ecology, urban development and folk traditions through more than 2,000 objects, and the building also houses an intangible-heritage performance centre. The former New Fourth Army headquarters at Taishan Temple is next door."},{"id":"yancheng-red-crowned-crane-wetland","name":"Yancheng Red-crowned Crane Wetland (Yancheng National Nature Reserve)","name_zh":"盐城丹顶鹤湿地","pinyin":"Yánchéng Dāndǐnghè Shīdì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.6084,"lon":120.5048,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yancheng-red-crowned-crane-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The visitor area of the Jiangsu Yancheng Wetland Rare Birds National Nature Reserve, set up in 1983, a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1992 and part of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf migratory bird World Heritage Site since 2019. Several hundred wild red-crowned cranes winter on the coastal marshes from late October to March, while the visitor zone has a red-crowned crane museum, a crane breeding and feeding centre with captive cranes of several species, a water-bird lake and viewing pavilions among the reeds."},{"id":"yancheng-sea-salt-cultural-zone","name":"Yancheng Sea Salt Historic and Cultural Zone (China Sea Salt Museum)","name_zh":"海盐历史文化风景区","pinyin":"Hǎiyán Lìshǐ Wénhuà Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.3592,"lon":120.167,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yancheng-sea-salt-cultural-zone","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yancheng, literally 'salt city', tells the story of its salt trade in this zone beside the Chuanchang River, an old salt-transport canal. The China Sea Salt Museum, opened in 2008, uses relics, models, sculptures and wax figures to show how sea salt was boiled from brine and later sun-dried; next to it, Salt Town Water Street is an old-style canal street with a Salt Yamen, a salt god's temple, a salt merchants' guild hall and Huai opera on a theatre boat, linked to the large Yandu Park. Evening boat trips run on the Chuanchang River."},{"id":"funing-lupu-martyrs-memorial-tower","name":"Yanfu Region Anti-Japanese Martyrs' Memorial Tower","name_zh":"盐阜区抗日阵亡将士纪念塔","pinyin":"Yánfù Qū Kàngrì Zhènwáng Jiàngshì Jìniàntǎ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":33.745,"lon":119.5241,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=funing-lupu-martyrs-memorial-tower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial tower about 20 m high built in 1943 at Lupu to honour New Fourth Army soldiers and cadres killed in the Yanfu (Yancheng–Funing) anti-Japanese base area; local people supplied the bricks and labour, and a cast-iron statue of a soldier stands on top. Shelled in 1947 during the civil war, it was restored in 1959 with inscriptions by Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yi, Huang Kecheng and Zhang Aiping. Around it are marble tablets carved with the names of the dead, martyrs' tombs and a small exhibition room."},{"id":"dongtai-yellow-sea-forest-park","name":"Yellow Sea Coastal National Forest Park","name_zh":"黄海森林公园","pinyin":"Huánghǎi Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yancheng","lat":32.8633,"lon":120.8482,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongtai-yellow-sea-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large planted forest on reclaimed coastal land near the Yellow Sea, begun in 1965 as the Dongtai state forest farm and made a national forest park in 2015. The mainly broadleaf plantation woodland shelters a rich wildlife, with 628 plant and 342 bird species recorded, and the park lies a short drive from the Tiaozini mudflats, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"yangzhou-crane-mosque","name":"Crane Mosque","name_zh":"仙鹤寺","pinyin":"Xiānhè Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3919,"lon":119.4281,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-crane-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the oldest mosques in China, founded in 1275 by Puhaddin, an Arab missionary said to descend from the Prophet Muhammad, and rebuilt in 1390 and again in 1523. It is traditionally counted with mosques in Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Hangzhou as one of China's four great coastal mosques, and its name comes from a layout said to resemble a crane. It is still the main place of worship for Yangzhou's Muslims."},{"id":"yangzhou-daming-temple","name":"Daming Temple","name_zh":"大明寺","pinyin":"Dàmíng Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4217,"lon":119.4083,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-daming-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the Shugang hills, founded in the Daming era (457–464) that gave it its name, where the monk Jianzhen taught before his voyages to Japan, which he finally reached in 753 after five failed attempts. Its sights include the Jianzhen Memorial Hall, designed by Liang Sicheng after the main hall of Tōshōdai-ji and completed in 1973, Pingshan Hall, built in 1048 by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu, the nine-storey Qiling Pagoda, rebuilt in 1995, and a spring in the West Garden once ranked fifth in China for making tea."},{"id":"yangzhou-dongguan-street","name":"Dongguan Street","name_zh":"东关街","pinyin":"Dōngguān Jiē","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4002,"lon":119.4465,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-dongguan-street/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 1,122 m flagstone street that ran from the Great East Gate of Yangzhou's old city to Dongguan by the canal, once one of the city's busiest trading streets. It keeps long-established shops such as the Simei pickle shop and the Xie Fuchun cosmetics shop, and along it or just off it are Ge Garden, Yipu, Wang Xiaoyuan and the rebuilt Xiaolinglong Shanguan garden. It was named one of China's famous historic streets in 2010, and the restoration of its houses and gardens won a UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award of Excellence for heritage conservation in 2023."},{"id":"yangzhou-eight-eccentrics-memorial-hall","name":"Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou Memorial Hall","name_zh":"扬州八怪纪念馆","pinyin":"Yángzhōu Bāguài Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4008,"lon":119.4261,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-eight-eccentrics-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum to the Qing painters known as the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, opened in 1993 in the former Xifang Temple, where one of them, Jin Nong, lodged from the age of 70 until his death in 1763. The temple's Ming-dynasty main hall of nanmu timber is the protected monument, and the halls show calligraphy and paintings by the group, statues of the painters and a reconstruction of Jin Nong's lodging."},{"id":"gaoyou-pawnshop","name":"Gaoyou Pawnshop (Tongxing Pawnshop)","name_zh":"高邮当铺","pinyin":"Gāoyóu Dàngpù","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.7939,"lon":119.4289,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoyou-pawnshop/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pawnshop outside Gaoyou's old north gate, opened in the early to mid Qing and said by local tradition to have belonged to the minister Heshen; it traded until 1927, reopened briefly and closed for good during the war against Japan. The compound of five rows of buildings covers about 3,300 m² and is one of the better-preserved large pawnshops of the period, with its storage building and recreated scenes showing how pawning worked."},{"id":"yangzhou-geyuan","name":"Ge Garden","name_zh":"个园","pinyin":"Gè Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.402,"lon":119.4381,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-geyuan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A salt merchant's garden rebuilt in 1818 by Huang Zhiyun on the site of an older Ming garden and named after its bamboo, whose clustered leaves resemble the character 个 (ge). It is best known for its four-season rockeries, which use bamboo with rock, grey Taihu stone, Huangshan stone and Xuan stone to evoke spring, summer, autumn and winter. The garden is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site."},{"id":"yangzhou-hanling-tomb-museum","name":"Han Guangling Tomb Museum (Hanling Yuan)","name_zh":"汉陵苑","pinyin":"Hànlíng Yuàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4266,"lon":119.4249,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangzhou-hanling-tomb-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum on the Shugang hills built around the tomb of Liu Xu, the first Prince of Guangling in the Western Han, and the tomb of his consort, both excavated at Tianshan in Gaoyou from 1979 and later moved here. They are large timber tombs of the rare huangchang ticou type, in which the coffin chamber is enclosed by walls of stacked timber, and the reassembled chambers are the centrepiece of the museum."},{"id":"yangzhou-he-garden","name":"He Garden","name_zh":"何园","pinyin":"Hé Yuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3875,"lon":119.4435,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-he-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large late-Qing residence and garden, also called Jixiao Shanzhuang, built from 1862 to 1875 by He Zhidao, a former circuit intendant in Hubei, who added the older Pianshi Shanfang garden in 1883. A two-storey covered walkway links the halls of the house with the garden, and buildings with Western details stand among classical rockeries and ponds; the rockery of Pianshi Shanfang is attributed to the painter Shitao. In China it is often called 'the foremost garden of the late Qing'."},{"id":"yangzhou-jia-residence-erfen-mingyue-lou","name":"Jia Salt Merchant Residence & Erfen Mingyue Lou","name_zh":"贾氏盐商住宅","pinyin":"Jiǎshì Yánshāng Zhùzhái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.39,"lon":119.44,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangzhou-jia-residence-erfen-mingyue-lou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house and garden of the late-Qing Zhenjiang salt merchant Jia Yuan, a residence of linked halls and courtyards with the Erfen Mingyue Lou garden, named after the Tang poet Xu Ning's line giving Yangzhou two of the world's three shares of moonlight. Since 2023 it has been the core of Guangling Youyan, a restored block of about a hectare that also takes in a former salt-trade guild hall and an old school, with workshops for Yangzhou crafts such as silk velvet flowers, embroidery and woodblock printing."},{"id":"gaoyou-longqiuzhuang-site","name":"Longqiuzhuang Neolithic Site","name_zh":"龙虬庄遗址","pinyin":"Lóngqiúzhuāng Yízhǐ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.8324,"lon":119.5081,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoyou-longqiuzhuang-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic settlement dated to about 7,000–5,000 years ago, found in the 1970s and excavated in 1993–95, when 402 burials and a house site were uncovered; it gave its name to the Longqiuzhuang culture of the Jianghuai region east of the Grand Canal. The site is now a park that combines displays on that culture with wetland scenery."},{"id":"yangzhou-lu-salt-merchant-residence","name":"Lu Salt Merchant Residence (China Huaiyang Cuisine Museum)","name_zh":"卢氏盐商住宅","pinyin":"Lúshì Yánshāng Zhùzhái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3859,"lon":119.4464,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-lu-salt-merchant-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1897 for the Jiangxi salt merchant Lu Shaoxu, this is the largest surviving salt merchant's house in Yangzhou, with more than 130 rooms on over a hectare: a nine-courtyard residence in front and the Yi Garden, with a stone boat, pavilion and pond, behind. Four of its halls burned in 1981 and were rebuilt in 2005–06, and the house now holds the China Huaiyang Cuisine Museum, with displays on the regional cuisine and a restaurant serving banquets. It is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site."},{"id":"gaoyou-last-battle-memorial","name":"Memorial of the Last Battle of the War of Resistance, Gaoyou","name_zh":"抗日战争最后一役文化园","pinyin":"Kàngrì Zhànzhēng Zuìhòu Yī Yì Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.7857,"lon":119.4308,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoyou-last-battle-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In December 1945, more than four months after Japan announced its surrender, the New Fourth Army's Central China Field Army under Su Yu attacked Gaoyou, whose Japanese and collaborationist garrison had refused to surrender to it; the town fell on 26 December and the Japanese garrison surrendered in the auditorium of its headquarters. That building at 70 Xihe Lane is preserved as the site of the surrender, with a memorial hall and a victory square, and Chinese official histories call the action the last battle of the War of Resistance Against Japan. According to Chinese state media, 892 Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner."},{"id":"yizheng-nashan-geopark","name":"Nashan Geopark","name_zh":"捺山地质公园","pinyin":"Nàshān Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4187,"lon":119.1512,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yizheng-nashan-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nashan, a 146 m hill in the countryside of Yizheng, is an extinct shield volcano whose interior was exposed by quarrying from the 1980s. The geopark, opened in 2016, shows basalt columns with five different forms of columnar jointing, along with volcanic bombs and scoria, and has a geology museum with immersive displays; tea is grown on the slopes."},{"id":"yangzhou-phoenix-island","name":"Phoenix Island Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"凤凰岛","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Dǎo","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4921,"lon":119.4903,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangzhou-phoenix-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park on the islands among the rivers north-east of Yangzhou, laid out around water, islands, woodland and birds. Inside are a petting area with capybaras, alpacas, rabbits and call ducks and a walk-through bird park, so it mainly suits families and anyone wanting greenery outside the city."},{"id":"yangzhou-sanwan-grand-canal-museum","name":"Sanwan Park & China Grand Canal Museum","name_zh":"运河三湾","pinyin":"Yùnhé Sānwān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3646,"lon":119.4219,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-sanwan-grand-canal-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In 1597 Yangzhou's prefect Guo Guangfu replaced a straight stretch of the canal, nearly 200 m long, with a 1.8 km course of three bends to raise the water level and slow the current; after 2014 factories and wharves were cleared from its banks, which reopened in 2017 as a wetland park. Its centrepiece is the China Grand Canal Museum, opened in June 2021 in a ship-shaped building designed by Zhang Jinqiu, with the Dayun Pagoda beside it. The galleries cover the whole canal, from a 25.7 m section of riverbed lifted from the Zhouqiao site on the Bian canal to a restored Qing passenger boat and a recreated canal-town street."},{"id":"yangzhou-song-jiacheng","name":"Song Jiacheng Archaeological Park (Yangzhou City Ruins)","name_zh":"宋夹城","pinyin":"Sòng Jiāchéng","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4174,"lon":119.423,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-song-jiacheng/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Jiacheng was a walled enclosure the Southern Song built between Yangzhou's main city and the fortress on the Shugang hills; its earthen walls, about 2.6 km round and still 1–3 m above the surrounding ground, are ringed by water and now form a park with paths and the excavated north gate. It is one of the visible parts of the Yangzhou City Ruins, the overlapping Sui, Tang and Song cities protected as one national site, whose other display points include the West Gate ruins museum of the Song city on Siwangting Road and the Tang City Ruins Museum on the Shugang, built over the site of the Sui emperor's Jiangdu palace."},{"id":"yangzhou-sui-yangdi-tomb","name":"Tomb of Emperor Yang of Sui","name_zh":"隋炀帝墓","pinyin":"Suí Yángdì Mù","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4227,"lon":119.3924,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangzhou-sui-yangdi-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tombs of Emperor Yang of Sui, who was killed in a mutiny at his Jiangdu palace in Yangzhou in 618, and of his empress Xiao, found on a building site at Caozhuang in 2012 and identified the next year by an epitaph naming 'the late Emperor Yang of Sui'. Finds included a complete thirteen-ring gold-and-jade belt of imperial rank and two of the emperor's teeth. A site park and museum opened in 2024: the tombs are covered by a hall shaped after the truncated-pyramid mounds of Sui and Tang imperial tombs, and galleries explain the excavation and Sui history."},{"id":"yangzhou-puhaddin-tomb","name":"Tomb of Puhaddin","name_zh":"普哈丁墓","pinyin":"Pǔhādīng Mù","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3959,"lon":119.4492,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-puhaddin-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The walled cemetery of Puhaddin, an Arab missionary said to be a 16th-generation descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, who came to Yangzhou in the late Southern Song and died in 1275. His square tomb chamber combines an Arab-style domed interior with a Chinese tiled roof, and around it are other Muslim graves, a pavilion with four Yuan-dynasty Arabic tombstones, a small mosque and a garden. It is on China's list of sites for a future Maritime Silk Road World Heritage nomination."},{"id":"yangzhou-wang-xiaoyuan","name":"Wang Xiaoyuan Residence","name_zh":"汪氏小苑","pinyin":"Wāngshì Xiǎoyuàn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3978,"lon":119.4417,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-wang-xiaoyuan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A salt merchant's house in the Dongquanmen lanes, built in the late Qing by the Huizhou merchant Wang Zhuming and enlarged by his eldest son in the early Republic, and one of the most complete merchant residences of that period in Yangzhou. Its name, 'Wang's Little Garden', refers to its small but carefully made gardens set among the halls; the house was restored in 2017 and 2019 and is open to visitors."},{"id":"gaoyou-wenyoutai","name":"Wenyou Terrace, Gaoyou","name_zh":"文游台","pinyin":"Wényóu Tái","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.7966,"lon":119.4426,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoyou-wenyoutai/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of halls in the north of Gaoyou that began in 976 as a temple to the god of Mount Tai. Its name, 'Terrace of Literary Outings', recalls a gathering in 1084 when Su Dongpo, passing through, met the Gaoyou poet Qin Guan and the scholars Sun Jue and Wang Gong here to drink and talk about literature. The core of the site is a provincial heritage unit and one of the traditional Eight Views of Gaoyou."},{"id":"yangzhou-wu-daotai-mansion","name":"Wu Daotai Mansion (Wu Family Residence)","name_zh":"吴氏宅第","pinyin":"Wúshì Zháidì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3956,"lon":119.4467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-wu-daotai-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large mansion begun in 1888 for Wu Yinsun, a Qing official who had served as circuit intendant at Ningbo, and laid out after the intendant's office there. Its surviving buildings include a Western-style house and the Cehai Lou library, modelled on Ningbo's Tianyi Pavilion, which once held some 200,000 volumes; the family garden and ancestral hall have gone. After 1949 the compound was used by a hospital, and part of it is shown to visitors as the Wu Daotai Mansion."},{"id":"yangzhou-xiaopangu","name":"Xiaopangu Garden","name_zh":"小盘谷","pinyin":"Xiǎo Pángǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.389,"lon":119.4405,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangzhou-xiaopangu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A compact garden and house in the lanes of south-east Yangzhou, laid out in the late 18th century and rebuilt after 1904 by Zhou Fu, Viceroy of Liangjiang, with the residence on the west and the garden on the east over about 5,700 m². Its name, 'Little Winding Valley', comes from the rockery and its twisting paths, which are the garden's main feature; it is regarded as a typical Qing-dynasty Yangzhou garden."},{"id":"yangzhou-museum","name":"Yangzhou Museum & China Block Printing Museum","name_zh":"扬州博物馆","pinyin":"Yángzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.3929,"lon":119.3663,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yangzhou's main museum shares a modern building beside Mingyue Lake with the China Block Printing Museum, so the pair is known locally as the 'Double Museum'; both opened here in 2005. The galleries trace the city's history from the Neolithic to the late Qing, with special emphasis on woodblock printing and shipbuilding. The best-known piece is a Yuan-dynasty blue-glazed vase with a white dragon, one of only three known."},{"id":"yangzhou-yipu","name":"Yipu Garden","name_zh":"逸圃","pinyin":"Yìpǔ","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4002,"lon":119.4373,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangzhou-yipu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A compact house and garden on Dongguan Street, built in 1910 for the banker Li Hesheng, with a five-courtyard residence on the west and the garden on the east, separated by a fire lane. Unusually for Yangzhou, the garden lies beside rather than behind the house: rockwork is built against the boundary wall, with a five-sided half-pavilion over a pool, and a flower hall leads to a rear garden enclosed by a two-level corridor and rockwork. The house was restored in 2007–08."},{"id":"gaoyou-yucheng-post","name":"Yucheng Postal Stop","name_zh":"盂城驿","pinyin":"Yúchéng Yì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.7729,"lon":119.4326,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoyou-yucheng-post/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The largest relay station on the Ming–Qing Grand Canal, founded in 1375 beside the canal at Gaoyou to keep post horses and boats and lodge officials; it burned in 1557, was rebuilt in 1568 and was repaired several times under the Qing. The restored complex includes the Huanghua Hall where officials were received, the Zhujie Hall with Ming beams and columns, and a three-storey drum tower, and it houses a museum of China's postal relay system. It is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site."},{"id":"yangzhou-zhuyuwan","name":"Zhuyuwan Scenic Area (Yangzhou Zoo)","name_zh":"茱萸湾","pinyin":"Zhūyú Wān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Yangzhou","lat":32.4359,"lon":119.4839,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangzhou-zhuyuwan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A peninsula park in Wantou, north-east of Yangzhou, that combines gardens, woodland and water with the city zoo. Its best-known animals are two giant pandas, and there are also tigers, giraffes, gibbons, meerkats and capybaras as well as an aquarium hall, so it is mainly a family outing."},{"id":"zhenjiang-jinshan-jiaoshan-beigushan","name":"Jinshan, Jiaoshan and Beigushan","name_zh":"金山·焦山·北固山","pinyin":"Jīn Shān · Jiāo Shān · Běigù Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.2174,"lon":119.411,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenjiang-jinshan-jiaoshan-beigushan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhenjiang's three classic Yangtze hills are managed as one scenic area but are separate parks several kilometres apart. Jinshan, a former island joined to the south bank by silt in the late Qing, is covered by Jinshan Temple, the setting of the Legend of the White Snake, and topped by the Cishou Pagoda, while Jiaoshan, reached by a short ferry, holds Dinghui Temple and the Jiaoshan Stele Museum, whose more than 400 inscribed stones include fragments of the 'Eulogy on Burying a Crane' cliff inscription. On Beigushan stand Ganlu Temple, linked in legend to Liu Bei's marriage, and its iron pagoda, whose base and lower storeys date from the Song dynasty."},{"id":"dantu-mi-fu-calligraphy-park","name":"Mi Fu Calligraphy Park","name_zh":"米芾书法公园","pinyin":"Mǐ Fú Shūfǎ Gōngyuán","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.1299,"lon":119.3862,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dantu-mi-fu-calligraphy-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park in the Changshan hills of Dantu District devoted to Mi Fu, the Song-dynasty calligrapher and painter who spent much of his life in Zhenjiang. It has a gallery of model calligraphy engraved in stone, a Mi Fu academy and a hall on Chinese characters, and is popular for school study trips."},{"id":"jurong-baohua-mountain-longchang-temple","name":"Mount Baohua and Longchang Temple","name_zh":"宝华山隆昌寺","pinyin":"Bǎohuá Shān Lóngchāng Sì","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.1304,"lon":119.0847,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jurong-baohua-mountain-longchang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mount Baohua, a forested hill just east of Nanjing, is a national forest park whose main sight is Longchang Temple, founded in 502 and regarded as the ancestral seat of the Vinaya (monastic discipline) school of Chinese Buddhism. Its protected buildings are a copper hall and two brick 'beamless' halls built in 1605, and the temple also keeps its ordination platform and ginkgo trees about 400 years old."},{"id":"jurong-maoshan","name":"Mount Mao (Maoshan)","name_zh":"茅山","pinyin":"Máo Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":31.7961,"lon":119.3109,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jurong-maoshan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A low range on the Jurong–Jintan border, rising to 372.5 metres at Damao Peak, revered as the birthplace of the Shangqing school of Taoism and called by Taoists the 'eighth grotto-heaven and first blessed land'. The two main halls of the Maoshan Taoist Temple are the Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace on the summit and the Yuanfu Wanning Palace below Jijin Peak, where a 33-metre copper statue of Laozi has stood in the open since 1997. Other temples rebuilt since the 2000s are spread across the scenic area."},{"id":"zhenjiang-nanshan","name":"Nanshan Scenic Area, Zhenjiang","name_zh":"南山","pinyin":"Nán Shān","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.181,"lon":119.4475,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenjiang-nanshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A belt of low wooded hills on the southern edge of Zhenjiang, rising to 185 metres at Jiuhua Shan and protected as a scenic area of about 15.6 square kilometres, known as the city's 'mountain forest'. It is divided into the Zhulin, Zhaoyin and Wenyuan sections, with old Buddhist temples, springs and walking trails close to the city."},{"id":"danyang-southern-dynasties-tomb-sculptures","name":"Southern Dynasties Tomb Sculptures, Danyang","name_zh":"丹阳南朝陵墓石刻","pinyin":"Dānyáng Náncháo Língmù Shíkè","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.0137,"lon":119.6529,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/danyang-southern-dynasties-tomb-sculptures/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Danyang holds the mausoleums of emperors of the Southern Qi and Liang dynasties, both of the Xiao clan, and about a dozen groups of 5th- and 6th-century stone guardians still stand in the fields east and north-east of the town. Most groups are pairs of winged beasts, qilin and tianlu at the imperial tombs, and at Sanchengxiang, where several mausoleums lie close together, the tomb of Xiao Shunzhi also keeps its carved columns and stele bases. The groups have been fenced since 2019, after one was damaged by illegal rubbing."},{"id":"zhenjiang-xijindu","name":"Xijindu Ancient Street","name_zh":"西津渡","pinyin":"Xījīn Dù","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.2175,"lon":119.4257,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenjiang-xijindu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stepped lane climbing Yuntai Hill in western Zhenjiang to the old Xijin ferry crossing on the Yangtze, where poets such as Li Bai, Wang Anshi and Su Shi waited for boats. Its stone steps pass Qing-era houses and shops, Guanyin Cave and the Zhaoguan Stone Pagoda, a Tibetan-style stupa of the late Yuan or early Ming built over the street so that people walk beneath it, and the slope above holds buildings of the former British concession. The pagoda's restoration in 2000 won a UNESCO Asia-Pacific heritage conservation award in 2001."},{"id":"zhenjiang-museum","name":"Zhenjiang Museum (Former British Consulate)","name_zh":"镇江博物馆","pinyin":"Zhènjiāng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.2155,"lon":119.4268,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenjiang-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhenjiang's city museum has occupied the former British consulate since 1958: five colonial-style verandah buildings of 1889–90 on the slope above Xijindu, rebuilt after the first consulate was burned in riots in 1888. Its collection of nearly 30,000 objects is strongest in bronzes of the Wu state, Six Dynasties celadon, Tang gold and silver, Song silks and paintings of the local Jingjiang school."},{"id":"zhenjiang-vinegar-culture-museum","name":"Zhenjiang Vinegar Culture Museum","name_zh":"中国醋文化博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Cù Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"320000","region":"Jiangsu","city":"Zhenjiang","lat":32.1042,"lon":119.4741,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenjiang-vinegar-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum opened in 2010 by the Hengshun Group, maker of the well-known Zhenjiang vinegar, beside its works in Dantu District. It traces the history of vinegar-making through a history hall, a reconstructed old vinegar workshop, a traditional sauce yard and a hall on modern production."},{"id":"hangzhou-1954-constitution-exhibition-hall","name":"1954 Constitution Drafting Site","name_zh":"五四宪法历史资料陈列馆","pinyin":"Wǔsì Xiànfǎ Lìshǐ Zīliào Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2584,"lon":120.1366,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-1954-constitution-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 1930s villa on the southern slope of Geling hill above West Lake's north shore, where Mao Zedong and a drafting group worked from December 1953 to March 1954 on the first draft of the constitution of the People's Republic, adopted in 1954. Since 2016 it has been an exhibition hall, with the single-storey wing set out as the offices and meeting room used by the drafters and the two-storey building telling the story of the constitution from drafting to adoption."},{"id":"yuhang-liangzhu-ancient-city-ruins","name":"Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City","name_zh":"良渚古城遗址","pinyin":"Liángzhǔ Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3967,"lon":119.9853,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuhang-liangzhu-ancient-city-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of the walled capital of the Neolithic Liangzhu culture (about 3300–2300 BC), which with its outer dams and the Yaoshan altar was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019. The site park lays out the raised palace platform of Mojiaoshan, the earthen city walls and the Fanshan elite cemetery, while the finds themselves are shown at the Liangzhu Museum."},{"id":"hangzhou-baochu-pagoda","name":"Baochu Pagoda","name_zh":"保俶塔","pinyin":"Bǎochù Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2633,"lon":120.1436,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-baochu-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A slender seven-storey solid pagoda about 45 m tall on top of Baoshi Hill, the landmark of West Lake's northern skyline. First built in the 10th century, according to tradition to pray for the safe return of Qian Chu, the last king of Wuyue, from the Song court, it was rebuilt many times, most recently in the 20th century, and has no stair inside; paths and steps lead up to it from all sides of the hill."},{"id":"yuhang-cangqian-granary","name":"Cangqian Granary","name_zh":"仓前粮仓","pinyin":"Cāngqián Liángcāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2942,"lon":120.0025,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuhang-cangqian-granary/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of four storehouses beside the Yuhang Tang River at Cangqian, including two old timber granaries with a board dated 1859, where local grain keepers in 1953 created what was promoted as China's first insect-free granary. It became the model for a national campaign for granaries free of insects, mould, rats and sparrows, and a small exhibition on that history opened on the site in 2009."},{"id":"linping-chaoshan-scenic-area","name":"Chaoshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"超山","pinyin":"Chāo Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.4361,"lon":120.2129,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linping-chaoshan-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A low hill on the plain north-east of Hangzhou, famous for centuries for its plum trees and made popular by poets and artists in the late Qing and early Republican years. Around the Damingtang hall at its foot are the Song Plum Pavilion and the tomb and memorial hall of Wu Changshuo, first president of the Xiling Seal Society, and paths climb past the Miaoxi and Yuxi temples to a 'stone forest' of rocks on the summit."},{"id":"hangzhou-china-national-silk-museum","name":"China National Silk Museum","name_zh":"中国丝绸博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Sīchóu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2251,"lon":120.1465,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-china-national-silk-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national museum of silk and textiles south of West Lake at the foot of Yuhuang Hill, opened in 1992 and rebuilt and enlarged in 2015–16. Its galleries trace Chinese silk and dress from Neolithic finds to the 20th century, with a weaving workshop, displays on sericulture and silk crafts (on UNESCO's intangible heritage list since 2009) and a textile conservation gallery, and it has held a Chinese costume festival every year since 2018."},{"id":"jiande-daciyan-scenic-area","name":"Daciyan Scenic Area","name_zh":"大慈岩","pinyin":"Dàcí Yán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.3189,"lon":119.2846,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiande-daciyan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rocky mountain in south-west Jiande nicknamed the 'little Jiuhua of western Zhejiang', whose cliffs, caves and trees are read together as the face of a giant natural standing Buddha. Its main temple hall, dedicated to Ksitigarbha, is built into a cave in the cliff with half of it overhanging the drop, which has earned it the name 'hanging temple of Jiangnan', and cliff walkways and incense corridors lead around the rock."},{"id":"linan-daming-mountain","name":"Daming Mountain","name_zh":"大明山","pinyin":"Dàmíng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.0602,"lon":118.9899,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linan-daming-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Qingliangfeng town on the far western edge of Lin'an, on the border with Anhui, whose cliffs and rock pinnacles are often compared to Huangshan. Besides a gorge with waterfalls, a lake and upland meadows, it now offers a cliff swing, mountain go-karts, a long slide and guided stream walks."},{"id":"yuhang-dream-town","name":"Dream Town, Cangqian","name_zh":"梦想小镇","pinyin":"Mèngxiǎng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2895,"lon":120.0007,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuhang-dream-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A start-up and internet-business district opened in 2015 in the core of Cangqian, Yuhang, laid out as a scenic area from the start. Its Internet Village, Angel Village and start-up market sit along Cangqian's old street, renovated as an Entrepreneurship Street in 2016, close to the old Cangqian granary and Zhang Taiyan's former residence."},{"id":"hangzhou-fantian-temple-pillars","name":"Fantian Temple Dharani Pillars","name_zh":"梵天寺经幢","pinyin":"Fàntiān Sì Jīngchuáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.22,"lon":120.1626,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-fantian-temple-pillars","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pair of octagonal stone dharani pillars, each 15.76 m tall, put up in 965 by the Wuyue king Qian Chu in front of the vanished Fantian Temple at the eastern foot of Phoenix Hill. The two identical pillars stand a little over ten metres apart, their eight-sided shafts finely carved."},{"id":"hangzhou-feilai-feng-carvings","name":"Feilai Feng Grottoes","name_zh":"飞来峰造像","pinyin":"Fēiláifēng Zàoxiàng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2419,"lon":120.0978,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-feilai-feng-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hundreds of Buddhist figures carved between the 10th and 14th centuries into the caves and cliffs of Feilai Feng, a limestone hill across a stream from Lingyin Temple. Most date from the Song, and the largest niche shows a laughing Maitreya surrounded by the Eighteen Arhats, while the Yuan carvings made under the Tibetan Buddhist monk Yang Lianzhenjia are counted among the largest surviving groups of Yuan-dynasty sculpture in China."},{"id":"hangzhou-former-hangchow-university","name":"Former Hangchow University (Zhijiang Campus)","name_zh":"之江大学旧址","pinyin":"Zhījiāng Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1948,"lon":120.1217,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-former-hangchow-university/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hillside campus above the Qiantang River of Hangchow University, a Presbyterian missionary college whose roots go back to a boys' school founded in Ningbo in 1845 and which was closed in 1952. Its 22 protected buildings, among them a red-brick clock tower and the Duke Hall chapel of 1917–19, have been used by Zhejiang University since 1961 and now house its law school."},{"id":"yuhang-zhang-taiyan-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhang Taiyan","name_zh":"章太炎故居","pinyin":"Zhāng Tàiyán Gùjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2915,"lon":119.9947,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuhang-zhang-taiyan-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace and family home of Zhang Taiyan (Zhang Binglin, 1869–1936), the philologist and anti-Qing revolutionary, on the north bank of the Yuhang Tang River at Cangqian. The narrow house runs back through four sections, three built before the Taiping war and the last in the early Republic, and is now the Zhang Taiyan Memorial Hall, with its halls, bedroom, study and kitchen around small courtyards and an exhibition in the rear building."},{"id":"hangzhou-qiushi-academy-site","name":"Former Site of Qiushi Academy","name_zh":"求是书院旧址","pinyin":"Qiúshì Shūyuàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2598,"lon":120.1788,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-qiushi-academy-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The two surviving halls of Puci Temple on Daxue Road, where Qiushi Academy, one of China's first colleges on a Western model and the forerunner of Zhejiang University, opened in 1897. The site served as the Zhejiang University campus until 1956; most of it is now housing and shops, and only the main and side halls of the temple remain."},{"id":"hangzhou-zhejiang-xingye-bank-building","name":"Former Zhejiang Xingye Bank Building","name_zh":"浙江兴业银行旧址","pinyin":"Zhèjiāng Xīngyè Yínháng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2494,"lon":120.1656,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-zhejiang-xingye-bank-building/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-storey neoclassical bank building of 1923 at Yangbatou on Zhongshan Middle Road, put up in its home city by the Zhejiang Xingye Bank (the National Commercial Bank), one of the \"Three Southern Banks\" of Republican-era finance, to a design by the architect Shen Liyuan. It still works as a branch of ICBC, and its decorated facade faces Zhongshan Road, which follows the line of the imperial avenue of Southern Song Hangzhou."},{"id":"fuyang-fuchun-taoyuan","name":"Fuchun Taoyuan","name_zh":"富春桃源","pinyin":"Fùchūn Táoyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.0137,"lon":119.6291,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyang-fuchun-taoyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area at Shanglian village in Xukou town, in the hills of south-western Fuyang. Its centrepiece is Jiuxiao Biyun Cave, a limestone cave promoted for the size of its single main hall, and beside it the Yanling reservoir, the largest in Fuyang, is toured by bamboo raft; a small amusement park and a rafting run are also part of the area."},{"id":"hangzhou-gaoting-hill","name":"Gaoting Hill","name_zh":"皋亭山","pinyin":"Gāotíng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3834,"lon":120.231,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-gaoting-hill","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A chain of wooded hills about 9 km long on the north-eastern edge of urban Hangzhou, rising to 361 m at Gaoting peak; the western end is Banshan National Forest Park and the eastern end the Gaoting Shan scenic area. The hills are known for peach blossom in spring and once held several Buddhist temples, and their legends are painted in a mural in the Wangchen Pavilion on Banshan."},{"id":"linan-gongchen-pagoda","name":"Gongchen Pagoda","name_zh":"功臣塔","pinyin":"Gōngchén Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2294,"lon":119.7292,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linan-gongchen-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-storey square brick pagoda about 25 m tall on Gongchen Hill in the centre of Lin'an, built in 915 by Qian Liu, founder of the Wuyue kingdom, who was born at the foot of the hill. Its timber eaves have long gone, leaving a brick shell with doorways and niches on every face, and the site of the Gongchen Temple founded at the same time is part of the same listing."},{"id":"hangzhou-grand-canal-gongchen-bridge","name":"Grand Canal in Hangzhou & Gongchen Bridge","name_zh":"京杭大运河杭州段","pinyin":"Jīngháng Dàyùnhé Hángzhōu Duàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3205,"lon":120.1347,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-grand-canal-gongchen-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The southern end of the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal, part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site since 2014, runs through northern Hangzhou, and its landmark is Gongchen Bridge, a three-arch stone bridge 92 m long first built in 1631 and rebuilt in 1885. Around the bridge are the canal-side streets of the Qiaoxi historic quarter and the Grand Canal Museum on Canal Culture Square. Further south along the canal stands Fuyi Granary, built in 1880–84 to store tribute grain and now Hangzhou's only surviving canal granary."},{"id":"hangzhou-confucian-temple-steles","name":"Hangzhou Confucian Temple & Forest of Steles","name_zh":"杭州孔庙碑林","pinyin":"Hángzhōu Kǒngmiào Bēilín","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2437,"lon":120.1574,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-confucian-temple-steles/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former prefectural Confucian temple and school of Hangzhou on Fuxue Lane, of which only the Qing-dynasty Dacheng Hall survives, with a stele museum laid out around a water garden beside it. Its stones include the Southern Song Imperial Academy classics, portraits of Confucius and his 72 disciples, calligraphy by masters such as Zhao Mengfu and star maps from Wuyue royal tombs, and it is regarded as the largest stone-inscription museum in Zhejiang."},{"id":"xiaoshan-hangzhou-orient-culture-park","name":"Hangzhou Orient Culture Park","name_zh":"杭州东方文化园","pinyin":"Hángzhōu Dōngfāng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1015,"lon":120.1941,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoshan-hangzhou-orient-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large culture park opened in 2000 on the southern slopes of Yangqi Hill in Yiqiao, Xiaoshan, laid out on the eight trigrams and built around the three teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. It has a Guanyin square, a rebuilt Yangqi Chan Temple, a Daoist area and a Confucian temple, linked by a painted corridor over 2.7 km long, plus a resort area and gardens."},{"id":"xiaoshan-hangzhou-paradise","name":"Hangzhou Paradise","name_zh":"杭州乐园","pinyin":"Hángzhōu Lèyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1626,"lon":120.241,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoshan-hangzhou-paradise","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park opened in 1999 by the Songcheng group in the Xianghu resort area of Xiaoshan, with a suspended roller coaster, a log flume, a bungee jump and dozens of other rides, plus parades and stage shows. It suits families and ride fans."},{"id":"xiaoshan-hangzhou-polar-ocean-park","name":"Hangzhou Polar Ocean Park","name_zh":"杭州长乔极地海洋公园","pinyin":"Hángzhōu Chángqiáo Jídì Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1451,"lon":120.2222,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoshan-hangzhou-polar-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A marine theme park opened in 2008 in the Xianghu area of Xiaoshan, with themed halls of polar and ocean animals including beluga whales, dolphins, penguins, polar bears, Arctic wolves, seals and sea lions. It suits families, and a separate Changqiao children's park lies next door."},{"id":"fuyang-hangzhou-safari-park","name":"Hangzhou Safari Park","name_zh":"杭州野生动物世界","pinyin":"Hángzhōu Yěshēng Dòngwù Shìjiè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.155,"lon":119.981,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Most of a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyang-hangzhou-safari-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large safari park opened in 2002 in Yinhu, Fuyang, with about 200 species, among them giant pandas, crested ibises, white tigers, white rhinos and golden snub-nosed monkeys. Animals are seen from walking trails and from vehicles in a drive-through section, and the park also stages animal shows; it suits families with children."},{"id":"hangzhou-old-zhejiang-library","name":"Historic Buildings of the Zhejiang Library","name_zh":"浙江图书馆旧址","pinyin":"Zhèjiāng Túshūguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2528,"lon":120.1372,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-old-zhejiang-library","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The early buildings of the Zhejiang Library, founded in 1900 as one of China's first provincial public libraries. On Gushan island in West Lake stand the two-storey Western-style White Building of 1911–12, among China's earliest purpose-built public library buildings, the Red Building of 1906, built as a state guesthouse for a visiting German crown prince, and the 1936 Qingbai Villa, which now house its ancient-books department. On Daxue Road the neoclassical library of 1931, with a front of 16 Doric pilasters and a name board written by Cai Yuanpei, is still used as a reading room."},{"id":"hangzhou-hu-qing-yu-tang","name":"Hu Qing Yu Tang & Hu Xueyan's Former Residence","name_zh":"胡庆余堂","pinyin":"Hú Qìngyú Táng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2422,"lon":120.1643,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-hu-qing-yu-tang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy founded in 1874 by the merchant-banker Hu Xueyan, whose Jiangnan-style courtyard building on Dajing Lane still sells medicines and houses a museum of Chinese medicine with demonstrations of traditional preparation. The listing also covers Hu Xueyan's former residence on Yuanbao Street nearby, a mansion and garden built in 1872–75 and restored in 2001."},{"id":"fuyang-huang-gongwang-retreat","name":"Huang Gongwang's Retreat","name_zh":"黄公望隐居地","pinyin":"Huáng Gōngwàng Yǐnjūdì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.0905,"lon":120.0069,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyang-huang-gongwang-retreat","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A bamboo-filled side valley at Miaoshanwu near Fuyang, by local tradition where the Yuan painter Huang Gongwang lived in his last years and painted 'Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains' (around 1350), whose two surviving parts are now in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Paths lead past a memorial hall to his life and work, a boat landing, an archway at the site of his hut, a spring and the South Tower presented as his studio."},{"id":"jiande-aviation-town","name":"Jiande Aviation Town","name_zh":"建德航空小镇","pinyin":"Jiàndé Hángkōng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.3604,"lon":119.1806,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiande-aviation-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A general-aviation town built around Qiandaohu General Airport near Shouchang in south-west Jiande, with a 1,200 m runway, flight schools and aviation companies. Visitors come for skydiving from about 3,000 m, low-level helicopter sightseeing flights and tethered hot-air balloon rides, and the town also has aviation-themed hotels and a hot-spring centre."},{"id":"tonglu-jiangnan-old-villages","name":"Jiangnan Old Villages (Shen'ao and Dipu)","name_zh":"江南古村落","pinyin":"Jiāngnán Gǔ Cūnluò","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.8537,"lon":119.835,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonglu-jiangnan-old-villages","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Five neighbouring villages in Jiangnan town, Tonglu (Shen'ao, Huanxi, Dipu, Xufan and Qingyuan), developed together as one rural scenic area of old houses, ancestral halls and farmland. Shen'ao, a national historic and cultural village since 2007, keeps a complex of old houses and halls protected by the province, while Dipu, home to the Shentu and Jiang clans, has ancestral halls, a memorial arch and Huizhou-style houses from the Ming to the Republic, with flower fields on its northern edge."},{"id":"yuhang-jingshan-temple","name":"Jingshan & Jingshan Temple","name_zh":"径山","pinyin":"Jìng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3829,"lon":119.7603,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuhang-jingshan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jingshan Temple, on the summit area of Mount Jing in north-western Yuhang, was founded in 745 and in the Southern Song ranked first among the 'Five Mountains', the leading Chan Buddhist monasteries. It is honoured in Japan as one of the ancestral temples of Zen and in China as one of the birthplaces of tea culture. The present buildings were rebuilt on the old site from 1994, and the scenic area also takes in the old Jingshan path and the bell tower with a Southern Song imperial stele and a Ming bell."},{"id":"yuhang-laohuling-dam-site-park","name":"Laohuling Dam Site Park","name_zh":"老虎岭遗址公园","pinyin":"Lǎohǔlǐng Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.4154,"lon":119.9084,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuhang-laohuling-dam-site-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small site park at one of the high dams of the Liangzhu water-control system, built about 5,000 years ago in the hills north-west of the Liangzhu ancient city and part of the same World Heritage Site. Opened in 2022, it shows a cut through the 140 m-long earth dam under a glass shelter, where the bundles of grass-wrapped mud used to strengthen it can be seen, with a small visitor centre beside it."},{"id":"hangzhou-leifeng-pagoda","name":"Leifeng Pagoda","name_zh":"雷峰塔","pinyin":"Léifēng Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2339,"lon":120.145,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-leifeng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pagoda on Sunset Hill on the south shore of West Lake, rebuilt in 2002 over the ruins of the brick tower that the Wuyue king Qian Chu completed in the 970s and that collapsed in 1924. The new steel-framed tower, reached by escalators and served by lifts, preserves the base of the original inside, and the pagoda is famous as the prison of the White Lady in the Legend of the White Snake."},{"id":"yuhang-liangzhu-museum","name":"Liangzhu Museum","name_zh":"良渚博物院","pinyin":"Liángzhǔ Bówùyuàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3797,"lon":120.0231,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuhang-liangzhu-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The museum of the Neolithic Liangzhu culture, set in a park at Liangzhu in a building by David Chipperfield of four long stone-clad blocks around courtyards, opened in 2008. Its three galleries show more than 1,000 jades, pottery and lacquer pieces from the Liangzhu sites and explain the walled city a few kilometres to the west that is now a World Heritage Site."},{"id":"jiande-lingqi-caves","name":"Lingqi Caves","name_zh":"灵栖洞","pinyin":"Língqī Dòng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.384,"lon":119.0805,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiande-lingqi-caves","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the first show caves developed in Zhejiang, in the hills of Hangtou town south-west of Jiande city, made up of three limestone caves and a small stone forest. Lingquan Cave is known for its underground water, which visitors can tour by rowing boat, Qingfeng Cave for its cool draughts and Aiyun Cave for its mists, and all are lit with coloured light shows. The site was a filming location for the 1986 television series Journey to the West."},{"id":"hangzhou-liuhe-pagoda","name":"Liuhe Pagoda","name_zh":"六和塔","pinyin":"Liùhé Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1983,"lon":120.1267,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-liuhe-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Six Harmonies Pagoda on Yuelun Hill above the Qiantang River, first built in 970 by the Wuyue kingdom to calm the river's tidal bore and long used as a beacon for boats. The present brick core dates from the Southern Song rebuilding of the 1160s and its timber outer eaves from the Qing, so the octagonal tower shows thirteen roofs outside but has seven storeys within, linked by internal stairs to the top."},{"id":"fuyang-longmen-ancient-town","name":"Longmen Ancient Town","name_zh":"龙门古镇","pinyin":"Lóngmén Gǔzhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.9021,"lon":119.9474,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyang-longmen-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clan town at the foot of Longmen Mountain on the south side of the Fuchun River, where more than 90 per cent of the 7,000 residents are surnamed Sun and claim descent from Sun Quan, ruler of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu. Its lanes and long market street are lined with more than 40 Ming and Qing halls of the Sun clan, centred on two ancestral temples, as well as houses, brick memorial archways, a pagoda and footbridges, and the townspeople still live in them."},{"id":"hangzhou-longwu-tea-town","name":"Longwu Tea Town","name_zh":"龙坞茶镇","pinyin":"Lóngwù Chá Zhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1869,"lon":120.0528,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-longwu-tea-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-growing district in the hills of Zhuantang, south-west Hangzhou, where tea gardens cover the slopes around the villages; Hangzhou media describe it as the largest producing area of West Lake Longjing tea. It was developed as one of Zhejiang's first 'characteristic towns', combining tea growing with tea houses, tea culture and rural leisure."},{"id":"hangzhou-baocheng-temple-mahakala","name":"Mahakala Carving at Baocheng Temple","name_zh":"宝成寺麻曷葛剌造像","pinyin":"Bǎochéng Sì Máhégélà Zàoxiàng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2364,"lon":120.1626,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-baocheng-temple-mahakala/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small temple on the south-eastern slope of Wu Hill, founded under the Wuyue kingdom, whose cliff niches hold a carving of Mahakala dated 1322, the only dated Mahakala image in China. The fierce protector deity of Tibetan Buddhism, worshipped by the Yuan court as a god of war, is flanked by Manjushri and Samantabhadra, with a Chinese inscription beside the niche."},{"id":"linan-tianmu-mountain","name":"Mount Tianmu","name_zh":"天目山","pinyin":"Tiānmù Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3235,"lon":119.4425,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linan-tianmu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain in western Lin'an, about 80 km west of Hangzhou, whose West Tianmu peak (1,506 m) and its slopes have been a national nature reserve since 1986 and a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1996. It is known for giant Japanese cedars, one of them named 'Giant Tree King' by the Qianlong Emperor, old ginkgos, waterfalls and temples, among them Chanyuan Temple at the foot of the mountain."},{"id":"jiande-meicheng-twin-pagodas","name":"Nanfeng and Beifeng Pagodas, Meicheng","name_zh":"梅城南峰塔和北峰塔","pinyin":"Méichéng Nánfēng Tǎ hé Běifēng Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.5309,"lon":119.5041,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiande-meicheng-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two seven-storey brick pagodas on hilltops facing each other across the river at Meicheng, where the Xin'an River meets the Lan. The South Peak pagoda, first built in the Sui or Tang and rebuilt in the Ming, is octagonal and about 35 m tall, and the pair, known as the 'twin pagodas above the clouds', was one of the Eight Views of Yanling."},{"id":"yuhang-nanshan-carvings","name":"Nanshan Cliff Carvings, Pingyao","name_zh":"南山造像","pinyin":"Nánshān Zàoxiàng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3958,"lon":119.9543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuhang-nanshan-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A row of Buddhist figures and one Taoist figure cut into an old quarry face on Nanshan hill at Pingyao, most of them seated Amitabha Buddhas from the Yuan dynasty, the largest almost 10 m tall. Inscriptions of 1328 and 1341 name monks of a nearby temple as the patrons, and the plainer, more human-looking figures differ in style from the Yuan carvings at Feilai Feng; nine badly damaged Ming figures stand at the eastern end."},{"id":"hangzhou-phoenix-mosque","name":"Phoenix Mosque","name_zh":"凤凰寺","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2478,"lon":120.1656,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-phoenix-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the four great old mosques of China's south-east coast, on Zhongshan Middle Road in central Hangzhou, first built in the Tang or Song and rebuilt in 1281 with funds from Ala al-Din, a Persian Muslim settler. Its brick prayer hall without beams is roofed by three domes painted inside, an unusual blend of Islamic and Jiangnan building, and a Ming carved board of 1451 with Qur'an text stands against its rear wall. The front buildings were cut back for road widening in 1928, and the gate with its moon-viewing tower was rebuilt in 2009."},{"id":"qiandao-lake-stone-forest","name":"Qiandao Lake Stone Forest","name_zh":"千岛湖石林","pinyin":"Qiāndǎohú Shílín","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.3802,"lon":119.0051,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiandao-lake-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst landscape of about 20 km² in Shilin town, south of Qiandao Lake, where limestone pinnacles and ridges stand in maze-like clusters among the hills. It is made up of three areas, Lanyuping, Daimaoling and Xishanping, where visitors walk among the stone peaks, springs and gullies, and a glass walkway, a via ferrata and a canyon swing have been added."},{"id":"hangzhou-qiantang-river-bridge","name":"Qiantang River Bridge","name_zh":"钱塘江大桥","pinyin":"Qiántáng Jiāng Dàqiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1952,"lon":120.1346,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-qiantang-river-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A double-deck road and rail bridge across the Qiantang River, designed by the engineer Mao Yisheng and built between 1934 and 1937 as the first such bridge designed and built in China. Less than three months after it opened it was blown up by the Chinese side to slow the Japanese advance, and it was fully repaired only in 1953; it still carries trains on the lower deck and road traffic above, and a memorial hall near its northern approach tells its story."},{"id":"hangzhou-qinghefang","name":"Qinghefang Historic District","name_zh":"清河坊","pinyin":"Qīnghéfāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2425,"lon":120.1648,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-qinghefang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Described as the only fairly intact old street quarter left in Hangzhou, Qinghefang lies at the foot of Wu Hill and is named after the mansion of the Southern Song general Zhang Jun, Prince of Qinghe. Its spine is Hefang Street, a pedestrian street of old-style shopfronts and stalls, with side lanes such as Dajing Lane leading to the Hu Qing Yu Tang pharmacy and Hu Xueyan's mansion."},{"id":"linan-qingshan-lake","name":"Qingshan Lake","name_zh":"青山湖","pinyin":"Qīngshān Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.256,"lon":119.7592,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linan-qingshan-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake of about 20 km² on the eastern edge of Lin'an, built in 1964 for flood control on the Nantiaoxi river and now part of a national forest park. On its northern arm grows a 'water forest' of pond cypresses and redwoods planted in the water in 1977, and a 42 km greenway for cycling and walking circles the lake."},{"id":"hangzhou-songcheng","name":"Songcheng Theme Park","name_zh":"宋城","pinyin":"Sòngchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1722,"lon":120.0942,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-songcheng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park opened in 1996 on the south-western edge of Hangzhou, built as a Song-dynasty town with streets in old style, about 20 small theatres and staged street performances. Its main draw is The Romance of the Song Dynasty, an hour-long stage spectacle running since 1997 that retells episodes of Hangzhou's history and legend such as the White Snake story, and the park suits families and fans of big shows rather than visitors looking for historic buildings."},{"id":"hangzhou-southern-hills-carvings","name":"Southern Hills Carvings (Ciyunling, Yanxia Cave, Tianlong Temple)","name_zh":"西湖南山造像","pinyin":"Xīhú Nánshān Zàoxiàng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2183,"lon":120.1475,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-southern-hills-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three groups of 10th-century Buddhist carvings from the Wuyue kingdom in the hills south of West Lake, listed together with Feilai Feng. At Ciyunling a niche of 942 holds seven figures around Amitabha, flanked by bodhisattvas and guardian kings, and nearby at Tianlong Temple three niches of 965 show Maitreya, Amitabha and a Water-Moon Guanyin; in Yanxia Cave, 3 km to the west, sixteen Wuyue arhats line the cave with Song bodhisattvas at its mouth."},{"id":"hangzhou-southern-song-linan-city-site","name":"Southern Song Capital Lin'an & Deshou Palace Museum","name_zh":"临安城遗址","pinyin":"Lín'ān Chéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2412,"lon":120.1686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-southern-song-linan-city-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of Lin'an, capital of the Southern Song from 1138 to 1276, lie buried beneath central Hangzhou, the palace area on Phoenix Hill more than 3 m down, with an imperial street that ran north through the city. The main place to see them is the Deshou Palace Site Museum, opened in 2022 over the excavated palace where the emperors Gaozong and Xiaozong lived after abdicating, with a reconstructed hall and digital displays over the foundations. Nearby, the Imperial Ancestral Temple site is a public park with column bases on show, and site displays along Zhongshan Road show excavated sections of the Imperial Street."},{"id":"hangzhou-southern-song-guan-kiln-museum","name":"Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum","name_zh":"南宋官窑博物馆","pinyin":"Nán Sòng Guānyáo Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.212,"lon":120.1504,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-southern-song-guan-kiln-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A ceramics museum opened in 1992 over the Jiaotanxia kiln site at the southern foot of Yuhuang Hill, where the Southern Song court made its official 'Guan' ware. The excavated kiln remains, including a dragon kiln, are shown in place beside the galleries, and since 2020 the museum has been run as a branch of the Hangzhou West Lake Museum."},{"id":"linan-puqing-temple-stone-pagoda","name":"Stone Pagoda of Puqing Temple","name_zh":"普庆寺石塔","pinyin":"Pǔqìng Sì Shítǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.3602,"lon":119.7637,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linan-puqing-temple-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small granite pagoda of six sides and seven storeys, about 7 m tall, carved in the early 1320s under the Yuan dynasty and the only thing left of Puqing Temple. Its niches hold 28 small seated Buddhas, and the top storey is inscribed with wishes for the emperor's long life, good harvests and peace in the realm."},{"id":"hangzhou-longxing-temple-sutra-pillar","name":"Sutra Pillar of Longxing Temple","name_zh":"龙兴寺经幢","pinyin":"Lóngxīng Sì Jīngchuáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2666,"lon":120.1586,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-longxing-temple-sutra-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal stone sutra pillar about 5 m tall, carved in 837 under the Tang dynasty and the oldest surviving structure in central Hangzhou. Its shaft is inscribed with the Usnisa Vijaya Dharani Sutra and its base carved with strongmen, and since the temple around it was demolished in 1959 it has stood alone under a protective pavilion and glass on Yan'an Road."},{"id":"linan-taihu-source","name":"Taihu Source","name_zh":"太湖源","pinyin":"Tàihú Yuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.408,"lon":119.5626,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linan-taihu-source","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded gorge about 5 km long in Taihuyuan town, northern Lin'an, with cliffs, waterfalls and clear streams, promoted as one of the sources of the Lake Tai river system. It is a summer retreat from Hangzhou's heat, and the town's villages, among them Baisha, have more than 500 homestays and farm guesthouses."},{"id":"linping-tangxi-ancient-town","name":"Tangxi Ancient Town","name_zh":"塘栖古镇","pinyin":"Tángxī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.4803,"lon":120.1788,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linping-tangxi-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town on the Grand Canal north of Hangzhou, often spelt Tangqi, which grew into one of the richest market towns of the Jiangnan region in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its landmark is Guangji Bridge, a seven-arch stone bridge over the canal rebuilt in 1489, and the old town keeps a Qianlong-era imperial stele, an ancient well and the riverside Shuibei street. The area is also known for its loquats and local pastries."},{"id":"tonglu-tianzidi","name":"Tianzidi Scenic Area","name_zh":"天子地","pinyin":"Tiānzǐdì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.7704,"lon":119.3617,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonglu-tianzidi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area of about 6 km² at Luoshan village in Baijiang town, in the hills of western Tonglu towards Qiandao Lake, now run as the Tianzidi mountain park. A covered moving walkway carries visitors up the slope to a karst cave, an aerial playground, a raft slide down the Zilong gorge and a dinosaur park, with more amusement rides added in 2025, so it suits families with children."},{"id":"linan-qian-liu-tomb","name":"Tomb of Qian Liu (Wuyue Royal Mausoleums)","name_zh":"钱王陵","pinyin":"Qián Wáng Líng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2392,"lon":119.7199,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linan-qian-liu-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Qian Liu (852–932), founder of the Wuyue kingdom that ruled Hangzhou and the lower Yangtze in the tenth century, on the southern slope of Taimiao Hill in Lin'an: an earth mound 9 m high and about 50 m square in a memorial park with a spirit way, gate towers, an archway and the Qian Wang Shrine. Robbers reached the burial chamber in 2019; some of the objects recovered by police in 2020, among them gold-and-jade belt plaques and fine celadon, are now in the Lin'an Wuyue Culture Museum."},{"id":"hangzhou-tomb-of-yu-qian","name":"Tomb of Yu Qian","name_zh":"于谦墓","pinyin":"Yú Qiān Mù","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2319,"lon":120.1265,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-tomb-of-yu-qian/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Yu Qian (1398–1457), the Ming minister of war who led the defence of Beijing after the emperor was captured by the Mongols in the Tumu crisis, and who was executed when that emperor regained the throne. Rebuilt in 1982, the horseshoe-shaped mound at the foot of Santai Hill is approached through a stone gateway and a spirit way lined with six pairs of stone figures, and the neighbouring Yu Qian Shrine has an exhibition on his life."},{"id":"hangzhou-wenlan-pavilion","name":"Wenlan Pavilion","name_zh":"文澜阁","pinyin":"Wénlán Gé","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2533,"lon":120.1379,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-wenlan-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the seven imperial libraries built to hold the Qianlong Emperor's great manuscript collection, the Siku Quanshu, completed in 1783 and the only one of the three southern libraries still standing. Rebuilt in 1880 after the Taiping war, it is a small walled garden with a rockery, a pond with a tall standing stone and the two-storey library hall, now part of the Gushan branch of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum."},{"id":"chunan-wenyuan-shicheng","name":"Wenyuan Shicheng, Jiangjia","name_zh":"文渊狮城","pinyin":"Wényuān Shīchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.4761,"lon":118.6695,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chunan-wenyuan-shicheng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A new town built in the mid-2010s at Jiangjia on Qiandao Lake as a recreation of Shicheng, the old seat of Sui'an county that was drowned when the Xin'an River reservoir filled in 1959. Its streets of new traditional-style buildings are lined with rebuilt memorial arches and hold a Shicheng museum, craft workshops, old-brand shops, bars and homestays. It is the centre of Jiangjia's 'Leshui' lakeside resort town, which the 4A listing names with it."},{"id":"hangzhou-west-lake-expo-museum","name":"West Lake Expo Museum","name_zh":"西湖博览会博物馆","pinyin":"Xīhú Bólǎnhuì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2597,"lon":120.1408,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-west-lake-expo-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The industry hall of the first West Lake Exposition, held in 1929, and the only one of the fair's purpose-built halls to survive. Behind a classical-style front it has a wide-span timber-trussed interior, and since 2003 it has housed a museum on the 1929 exposition and its later revivals, built up largely from donated objects."},{"id":"chunan-xiajiang-village","name":"Xiajiang Village","name_zh":"下姜村","pinyin":"Xiàjiāng Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.3755,"lon":118.7221,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chunan-xiajiang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain village in Fengshuling town, Chun'an, with white-walled houses along a clear stream, once one of the poorest in the area. From the 2000s it was the rural contact point of five successive Zhejiang Party secretaries, Xi Jinping among them, and it is now presented as a model of rural revitalisation, with dozens of homestays, orchards and a covered bridge. It was a filming location for the 2020 film 'My People, My Homeland' and was named one of UN Tourism's Best Tourism Villages in 2024."},{"id":"xiaoshan-xianghu-lake-kuahuqiao","name":"Xianghu Lake and Kuahuqiao Site Museum","name_zh":"湘湖·跨湖桥","pinyin":"Xiāng Hú · Kuàhúqiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1442,"lon":120.2173,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiaoshan-xianghu-lake-kuahuqiao/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake in Xiaoshan south of the Qiantang River, first dammed as an irrigation reservoir in 1112 and later largely filled in by brickworks, which was dredged and landscaped in stages between 2006 and 2016 as a lakeside park and resort area. On its south shore the Kuahuqiao Site Museum, opened in 2009, presents a Neolithic village of about 8,000 to 7,000 years ago, including a pine dugout canoe that is the oldest yet found in China, kept in a hall over the excavation."},{"id":"hangzhou-xiling-seal-society","name":"Xiling Seal Engravers' Society","name_zh":"西泠印社","pinyin":"Xīlíng Yìnshè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2531,"lon":120.135,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-xiling-seal-society/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hillside home on Gushan of a society of seal carvers founded in 1904 by a group of engravers, with the master carver Wu Changshuo as its first president, and nicknamed \"the foremost society under heaven\". Its grounds keep an Eastern Han stele and a collection of inscriptions by noted artists carved on stones and rock faces, and the society's seal-engraving craft is on China's national list of intangible heritage."},{"id":"jiande-xinye-village","name":"Xinye Village","name_zh":"新叶村","pinyin":"Xīnyè Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.333,"lon":119.3302,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiande-xinye-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clan village of the Ye family in south-west Jiande, founded in the early 13th century at the foot of Yuhua Hill. It keeps 16 ancestral halls, a pagoda, a temple and more than 200 old houses built between the Ming dynasty and the Republican era, among them the Xishan ancestral hall, the Youxu hall and the Tuanyun Pagoda, and the villagers still hold ancestral rites each spring at the Shangsi festival."},{"id":"jiande-xishan-bridge","name":"Xishan Bridge","name_zh":"西山桥","pinyin":"Xīshān Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.5932,"lon":119.7314,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiande-xishan-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A single-span stone bridge in Zizhou village, dated by an inscription to 1265 in the Southern Song dynasty and still used by villagers. Its arch is built of long stone slabs set in five straight sections, giving a polygonal span of about 11 m."},{"id":"hangzhou-xixi-wetland","name":"Xixi National Wetland Park","name_zh":"西溪湿地","pinyin":"Xīxī Shīdì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2706,"lon":120.062,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-xixi-wetland/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban wetland of about 11.5 km² on the western edge of Hangzhou, a maze of six main watercourses, ponds and fish ponds among thousands of old persimmon trees, long admired by poets and painters. Opened in 2005 as China's first national wetland park, it mixes protected marsh, where more than 80 bird species have been recorded, with water-village houses, humped bridges and pavilions."},{"id":"tonglu-yan-ziling-fishing-terrace","name":"Yan Ziling's Fishing Terrace","name_zh":"严子陵钓台","pinyin":"Yán Zǐlíng Diàotái","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.7016,"lon":119.6545,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tonglu-yan-ziling-fishing-terrace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside hill on the Fuchun River south of Tonglu, honouring Yan Guang (Yan Ziling), a first-century scholar who refused office from his old schoolfellow Emperor Guangwu of Han and retired here to fish. Visitors arrive by boat to see a stone memorial archway, a garden of inscribed steles with poems and essays about the place, and the Shrine of Mr Yan, first founded by Fan Zhongyan in the Northern Song."},{"id":"jiande-yanzhou-ancient-city","name":"Yanzhou Ancient City (Meicheng)","name_zh":"严州古城","pinyin":"Yánzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.5404,"lon":119.4976,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiande-yanzhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old prefectural town of Meicheng, where the Xin'an and Lan rivers meet to form the Fuchun, which for about 1,200 years was the seat of Muzhou and later Yanzhou prefecture. Most of its walls, rebuilt in 1361, were pulled down in 1938, but a riverside stretch of about 380 m survives with two southern gates, and the lanes behind keep old houses, memorial archways and the Yuquan Temple alongside gates rebuilt or reopened in 2013–14."},{"id":"tonglu-yaolin-wonderland","name":"Yaolin Wonderland","name_zh":"瑶琳仙境","pinyin":"Yáolín Xiānjìng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":29.8881,"lon":119.5318,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonglu-yaolin-wonderland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave in Yaolin town, in the hills north-west of Tonglu, whose first hall opened to visitors in 1980; its winding halls are filled with stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone. The caves are now lit with coloured light installations and an artificial snowfall effect, and the Chuiyun Tongtian River cave lies in the same town."},{"id":"hangzhou-yue-fei-temple","name":"Yue Fei Temple and Tomb","name_zh":"岳王庙","pinyin":"Yuèwáng Miào","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2547,"lon":120.1298,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-yue-fei-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The temple and tomb of Yue Fei, the Song general who fought the Jurchen Jin and was executed in 1142 through court intrigue, first built here in 1221 after his rehabilitation and long a symbol of loyalty to the nation. The complex at the foot of Qixia Ridge has the temple hall with his statue, a separate Temple of Loyalty, and the tombs of Yue Fei and his son behind a spirit way of stone figures; it was badly damaged in 1966 and restored in 1979."},{"id":"hangzhou-yuhuangshan-south-fund-town","name":"Yuhuangshan South Fund Town","name_zh":"玉皇山南基金小镇","pinyin":"Yùhuáng Shān Nán Jījīn Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2125,"lon":120.1445,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-yuhuangshan-south-fund-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A finance district for private investment funds at the southern foot of Yuhuang Hill, between West Lake and the Qiantang River, which began promoting itself as a tourist area in 2015. For visitors its interest lies in the landscaped parks and old sites inside it, among them the Baguatian ('Eight Trigrams Field') heritage park, the Jiangyangfan ecological park and Baita Park, with the Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum, the Tianlong Temple carvings and the Zhakou White Pagoda close by."},{"id":"hangzhou-zhakou-white-pagoda","name":"Zhakou White Pagoda","name_zh":"闸口白塔","pinyin":"Zhákǒu Báitǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2028,"lon":120.1403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hangzhou-zhakou-white-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 14 m tall, carved to imitate a timber building down to its brackets and window bars, and dated on its style to the Wuyue kingdom or the early Northern Song. Its storeys carry reliefs of Buddhas and bodhisattvas and sutra texts, now much weathered, and it stands in Baita Park by the Qiantang River, where it once marked the point at which the Grand Canal met the river."},{"id":"hangzhou-zhejiang-art-museum","name":"Zhejiang Art Museum","name_zh":"浙江美术馆","pinyin":"Zhèjiāng Měishùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2334,"lon":120.1523,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-zhejiang-art-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The provincial art museum, opened in 2009 on Nanshan Road beside West Lake, in a building of 32,000 m² with 14 exhibition halls. It focuses on modern and contemporary art, especially artists from or active in Zhejiang, alongside changing national and international exhibitions and holdings of older, folk and decorative art."},{"id":"linan-zhexi-grand-canyon","name":"Zhexi Grand Canyon","name_zh":"浙西大峡谷","pinyin":"Zhèxī Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.1911,"lon":119.1213,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linan-zhexi-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long valley system in the Qingliangfeng Nature Reserve of western Lin'an, where a headwater of the Qiantang River runs fast through steep-sided gorges in the outlying ranges of the Huangshan mountains. The developed stretch, the 18 km Longjing Gorge, has waterfalls, river pools and the narrow Jianmen Pass; a higher stretch of the valley is the only source of Changhua bloodstone, a red-mottled stone prized for carving seals."},{"id":"hangzhou-zhongyi-bridge","name":"Zhongyi Bridge","name_zh":"忠义桥","pinyin":"Zhōngyì Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Hangzhou","lat":30.2434,"lon":120.0517,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hangzhou-zhongyi-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small single-arch stone bridge over the Xixi River in Liuxia, built in 1218 under the Southern Song and the only original Song bridge left in urban Hangzhou. About 15 m long, with steps at each end and a deck of long bluestone slabs, it still serves as a footbridge."},{"id":"anji-ancient-city-site","name":"Anji Ancient City Site","name_zh":"安吉古城遗址","pinyin":"Ānjí Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.7496,"lon":119.6689,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-ancient-city-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The square earthen enclosure of an ancient walled town at Gucheng village, north of Anji, occupied from the Spring and Autumn period to the Southern Dynasties and identified with Guzhang, where the Qin later based its Zhang commandery; its rammed-earth walls still rise above the fields. Large mound tombs of Yue nobles on nearby Longshan hill belong to the same protected site, and the area is now open as the Anji Ancient City National Archaeological Site Park, with a site museum on the excavations."},{"id":"anji-ancheng-city-wall","name":"Anji Old City Wall (Ancheng)","name_zh":"安城城墙","pinyin":"Ānchéng Chéngqiáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.7125,"lon":119.6864,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anji-ancheng-city-wall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The stone-faced walls of the former Anji prefectural and county town at Ancheng, north of present-day Anji, described as the most complete prefecture- and county-level city walls left in Zhejiang. Begun as an earthen rampart in 1356 and faced with stone a year later, the peach-shaped circuit survives almost whole with its west, south and north gates, and still encloses a village."},{"id":"huzhou-chaoyin-bridge","name":"Chaoyin Bridge","name_zh":"潮音桥","pinyin":"Cháoyīn Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8591,"lon":120.095,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhou-chaoyin-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-arch stone bridge of 1539, rebuilt in 1605, across the Zha Stream just inside the old south gate of Huzhou, named after the Chaoyin ferry it replaced. A small extra arch at its western end carries the riverside lane underneath, which earned it the local name 'bridge within a bridge', and pairs of stone lions guard both ends."},{"id":"changxing-chinese-alligator-village","name":"China Alligator Village, Changxing","name_zh":"中国扬子鳄村","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yángzǐ'è Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.9261,"lon":119.7306,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changxing-chinese-alligator-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A breeding and conservation centre for the Chinese alligator, a small endangered crocodilian found only in China, set among ponds, woods and bamboo in the countryside of western Changxing. Visitors see the alligators in breeding ponds and enclosures, with displays on the species and the work to return it to the wild."},{"id":"anji-china-bamboo-expo-park","name":"China Bamboo Expo Park","name_zh":"中国竹子博览园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Zhúzi Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.5944,"lon":119.654,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-china-bamboo-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A bamboo garden on the south-western edge of Anji town, in a county known as China's 'home of bamboo', planted with more than 300 kinds of bamboo gathered from across China and abroad. It contains the China Bamboo Museum, whose halls cover the plant's history, cultivation, crafts and place in art, and paths lead through the groves past bamboo-themed scenes."},{"id":"huzhou-daochangshan-inscription","name":"Daochang Hill Prayer Inscription","name_zh":"道场山祈年题记","pinyin":"Dàochǎng Shān Qínián Tíjì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8192,"lon":120.0914,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huzhou-daochangshan-inscription/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty rock inscription on Daochang Hill on the southern edge of Huzhou, recording prayers for a good harvest by the darughachi, the Mongol overseer of the prefecture, and one of very few dated Yuan carvings of its kind in Zhejiang. It lies in a hollow east of Wanshou Temple; the hill, long counted among Huzhou's beauty spots, is crowned by the seven-storey Duobao Pagoda, first built in the Northern Song and restored in 1987–88."},{"id":"deqing-proto-porcelain-kilns","name":"Deqing Proto-porcelain Kiln Sites","name_zh":"德清原始瓷窑址","pinyin":"Déqīng Yuánshǐcí Yáozhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6069,"lon":120.0299,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=deqing-proto-porcelain-kilns","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The low hills around Longsheng and Longshan villages, north-east of Deqing's county town, hold kiln sites that fired proto-porcelain from the Shang to the Warring States period, an early centre of Chinese porcelain-making named one of China's six major archaeological discoveries of 2010. The kilns themselves are excavated earthworks, but the Porcelain Origins Museum, Deqing's county museum, opened at Longsheng in December 2025 as the centrepiece of a cultural heritage park and displays the finds."},{"id":"nanxun-digang-village","name":"Digang Village","name_zh":"荻港","pinyin":"Dígǎng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.7592,"lon":120.1521,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanxun-digang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A water village in Hefu town south-east of Huzhou, set among the fish ponds and mulberry dykes of the Taihu plain, with old houses and family halls along its canals, more than 30 old stone bridges, a temple and covered streets running beside the water. It was named a Chinese Historic and Cultural Village in 2014."},{"id":"anji-dusong-pass","name":"Dusong Pass and the Old Post Road","name_zh":"独松关","pinyin":"Dúsōng Guān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.5711,"lon":119.7068,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-dusong-pass","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone gateway on the Dusong ridge, on the old road between Hangzhou and Xuancheng, built in the Jianyan era (1127–30) to guard the approaches to the Southern Song capital at Lin'an, today's Hangzhou. The arched gate passage with a small walled courtyard survives, together with about 1.5 km of cobbled post road and four old bridges running south from Guanshang village into Hangzhou's Yuhang district, still used as a village path."},{"id":"huzhou-feiying-pagoda","name":"Feiying Pagoda and the Gucheng Scenic Area","name_zh":"飞英塔","pinyin":"Fēiyīng Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.875,"lon":120.1016,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huzhou-feiying-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huzhou's 'pagoda within a pagoda': a stone relic pagoda of 884–894 enclosed from the Northern Song in an outer brick-and-timber pagoda, rebuilt after a lightning fire in the Southern Song and restored in the 1980s. It stands in Feiying Park in the old city, one of five sights of the Gucheng scenic area with Lotus Villa, the garden of the Yuan painter Zhao Mengfu rebuilt in 1986, the China Huzhou Writing Brush Museum and the former home of the revolutionary Chen Qimei."},{"id":"huzhou-taihu-golden-lakeshore","name":"Golden Lakeshore, Taihu Lake Resort","name_zh":"黄金湖岸","pinyin":"Huángjīn Hú'àn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.956,"lon":120.1015,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhou-taihu-golden-lakeshore","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of the southern shore of Taihu Lake in Huzhou's Taihu tourist resort, running east from Moon Plaza and the ring-shaped 'Moon Hotel' that has become a city landmark. The shore faces a wide expanse of open water and is a favourite spot for sunset and evening walks, when the hotel is lit up."},{"id":"changxing-golden-spike","name":"Golden Spike Ancient World, Meishan","name_zh":"金钉子远古世界","pinyin":"Jīndīngzi Yuǎngǔ Shìjiè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":31.076,"lon":119.6981,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changxing-golden-spike","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At Meishan in north-western Changxing a quarried limestone face, Section D, was chosen in 2001 as the global reference point, the 'golden spike', for the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods about 250 million years ago, the time of the largest mass extinction in Earth's history; a second golden spike, for the base of the Changhsingian stage, was fixed in the same section in 2005. The scenic area in the geological reserve shows the exposed rock beds and has a geology museum with fossils and displays on the history of life."},{"id":"anji-hello-kitty-park","name":"Hello Kitty Park, Anji","name_zh":"Hello Kitty乐园","pinyin":"Hello Kitty Lèyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6236,"lon":119.7362,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-hello-kitty-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"China's first Hello Kitty theme park, built on the eastern edge of Anji town by a Chinese company under licence from Sanrio and opened in 2015. Six themed zones of rides, shows and character buildings are aimed at families with young children rather than at sightseers."},{"id":"huzhou-silk-town-xishanyang","name":"Huzhou Silk Town (Xishanyang)","name_zh":"湖州丝绸小镇","pinyin":"Húzhōu Sīchóu Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8648,"lon":120.1671,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhou-silk-town-xishanyang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A new silk-industry and leisure district in Huzhou's eastern new town, built around Xishanyang, a lake and wetland park that is the main attraction for visitors. Footpaths circle the water past modern buildings for silk fashion and trade, a nod to Huzhou's claim to be the origin of silk."},{"id":"anji-jiangnan-tianchi","name":"Jiangnan Tianchi","name_zh":"江南天池","pinyin":"Jiāngnán Tiānchí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.4709,"lon":119.5946,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-jiangnan-tianchi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The upper reservoir of the Tianhuangping pumped-storage power station, a lake held on a mountain top in southern Anji, with the power plant itself hidden in caverns deep inside the mountain. An 18 km hairpin road climbs to it through bamboo forest, and the lake gives wide views over the hills of southern Anji."},{"id":"anji-lingzhi-pagoda","name":"Lingzhi Pagoda (Yong'an Temple Pagoda)","name_zh":"灵芝塔","pinyin":"Língzhī Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.7112,"lon":119.6973,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anji-lingzhi-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A solid nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda at the foot of Longtou hill on the east bank of the West Tiao stream, facing the old Anji county town across the water; tradition dates it to the Wuyue kingdom, and inscriptions record repairs in 1047 and 1260. During restoration in 1993–94 a Northern Song relic chamber near the top yielded a silver-gilt miniature stupa, bronze mirrors, glass vessels and coins."},{"id":"deqing-mount-mogan","name":"Mount Mogan","name_zh":"莫干山","pinyin":"Mògān Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6074,"lon":119.8675,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/deqing-mount-mogan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A bamboo-covered hill resort in western Deqing, about 60 km from Hangzhou, where foreign missionaries and merchants built summer villas from the 1890s and Chinese officials, businessmen and cultural figures followed in the 1920s and 1930s. Dozens of the villas are protected as a heritage group, among them Huang Fu's Baiyun Shanguan, scene of Nationalist–Communist talks in 1937, and Songyuelu, where the 1948 gold-yuan currency reform was decided; paths lead through the bamboo to Sword Pond and its waterfall and to viewpoints over the plain."},{"id":"nanxun-ancient-town","name":"Nanxun Ancient Town","name_zh":"南浔古镇","pinyin":"Nánxún Gǔzhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8722,"lon":120.4245,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanxun-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town that grew rich on the raw-silk trade from the Ming dynasty onward, where late-Qing silk magnates built houses and gardens mixing Chinese and Western styles. The scenic area takes in Little Lotus Villa, the Liu family garden and ancestral temple around a lotus pond; the Jiaye Library, built in 1920–24 for Liu Chenggan's collection of old books; the Zhang Shiming residence, with French tiles, coloured glass and a Western-style ballroom; the former home of the Nationalist elder Zhang Jingjiang; and the Baijian Lou riverside houses."},{"id":"changxing-new-fourth-army-hq","name":"New Fourth Army Jiangsu–Zhejiang Military Region Sites","name_zh":"新四军苏浙军区旧址","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Sūzhè Jūnqū Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":31.0745,"lon":119.6778,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changxing-new-fourth-army-hq/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In 1944–45 the Communist-led New Fourth Army made the hill villages around Huaikan, in north-western Changxing, the base of its Jiangsu–Zhejiang Military Region, which was formally set up at Wentang village in February 1945 with Su Yu as commander. Fifteen former command and support sites are protected as a group, and a memorial hall on the site of the First Column headquarters presents the history of the base."},{"id":"huzhou-pangong-bridge","name":"Pangong Bridge","name_zh":"潘公桥","pinyin":"Pāngōng Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8739,"lon":120.1081,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhou-pangong-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-arch stone bridge over the Fangsheng canal outside Huzhou's old north-eastern gate, named after the Ming hydraulic engineer Pan Jixun, who paid for the first bridge here in 1585–90. The present arches come from an 1839 rebuilding that replaced the original five-span beam bridge to let floodwater through, and an inscription on the bridge records the donors."},{"id":"wuxing-qianshanyang-site","name":"Qianshanyang Site","name_zh":"钱山漾遗址","pinyin":"Qiánshānyàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.817,"lon":120.1415,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxing-qianshanyang-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late Neolithic village site on the east bank of the former Qianshanyang lake, south-east of Huzhou, where excavations in the 1950s found fragments of silk fabric, silk thread and ribbon some 4,700 years old, among the oldest silk textiles known; in 2014 its remains were defined as a distinct Qianshanyang culture. The excavations have been filled in, so there is little to see at the site itself; it lies in Lu, an old canal village restored for rural tourism since 2020, which has several small exhibition halls and runs silk-heritage activities."},{"id":"deqing-shouchang-bridge","name":"Shouchang Bridge","name_zh":"寿昌桥","pinyin":"Shòuchāng Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.5077,"lon":120.0167,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=deqing-shouchang-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A single-arch stone bridge over the Shangzhu river at Wayao hamlet in Erdu, built in 1265–74 under the Southern Song by a local man, Yao Zhi, and the best-preserved old bridge in Deqing. Its balustrades rest on Sumeru-style bases between lotus-capped posts; it heads the Deqing ancient bridges group, whose other listed Song-to-Ming bridges are scattered across the county."},{"id":"changxing-shuikou-tea-culture-area","name":"Shuikou Tea Culture Area (Guzhu Mountain)","name_zh":"水口茶文化景区","pinyin":"Shuǐkǒu Chá Wénhuà Jǐngqū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":31.1312,"lon":119.8015,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changxing-shuikou-tea-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guzhu Mountain in Shuikou township grew Zisun ('purple shoot') tea, sent to the Tang court as tribute from 770, when a tribute-tea workshop was set up here, and Lu Yu, author of the Classic of Tea, studied tea on these hills. Officials who supervised the tribute, among them Yuan Gao and Du Mu, left inscriptions on the cliffs that survive in three groups. The scenic area centres on the rebuilt Great Tang Tribute Tea Institute, a hillside complex of Tang-style halls with tea-ceremony demonstrations, and also takes in Shousheng Temple and the tea village of Guzhu."},{"id":"wuxing-taihu-lougang-yigao","name":"Taihu Lougang Waterways (Yigao)","name_zh":"太湖溇港","pinyin":"Tàihú Lóugǎng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.9305,"lon":120.2816,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuxing-taihu-lougang-yigao/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The lougang are hundreds of small channels and larger waterways cut from the Spring and Autumn period onward through the southern shore of Taihu Lake, which with cross-dykes and polder fields drained the land and regulated the lake; the network is best preserved in Wuxing and was listed as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2016. Visits centre on Yigao, an old village strung along its channel near the lake, with stone bridges, a Lougang culture exhibition hall, cafés and guesthouses."},{"id":"changxing-taihu-tuying-wetland","name":"Taihu Tuying Wetland Park","name_zh":"太湖图影湿地文化园","pinyin":"Tàihú Túyǐng Shīdì Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.9609,"lon":120.0725,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changxing-taihu-tuying-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park on the south-western shore of Taihu Lake in Changxing's Tuying resort area, described as the last natural lakeside wetland on this stretch of shore, with fish ponds, winding channels, reed beds and more than 20 small islands. Boat trips run through the channels, and the reeds turn white with flower in early winter."},{"id":"nanxun-shuanglin-three-bridges","name":"Three Bridges of Shuanglin","name_zh":"双林三桥","pinyin":"Shuānglín Sān Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.786,"lon":120.3189,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanxun-shuanglin-three-bridges/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three stone arch bridges, Wankui, Huacheng and Wanyuan, span the Shuanglin canal within about 350 m of each other on the north side of Shuanglin, an old silk town in Nanxun district. Each has three arches on thin piers; Huacheng, in the middle, began as a Yuan-dynasty wooden bridge rebuilt in stone in the Ming, and the tallest, Wanyuan, dates from a rebuilding finished in 1840."},{"id":"anji-tianyuan-jialebi-park","name":"Jialebi Fantasy Park, Anji","name_zh":"奇幻嘉乐比","pinyin":"Qíhuàn Jiālèbǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6154,"lon":119.6098,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-tianyuan-jialebi-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A family amusement park in the Lingfeng resort area south-west of Anji town, listed as Tianyuan Jialebi and now run as Qihuan ('Fantasy') Jialebi together with a resort hotel, orchards and white-tea gardens. Nearly 40 rides and a boating pier are joined by a pet-animal park, outdoor and farm-kitchen cooking, and tea picking and tea making, so it mainly suits families with young children."},{"id":"huzhou-tomb-of-chen-qimei","name":"Tomb of Chen Qimei (Chen Yingshi)","name_zh":"陈英士墓","pinyin":"Chén Yīngshì Mù","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8452,"lon":120.0978,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huzhou-tomb-of-chen-qimei/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Chen Qimei (1878–1916), courtesy name Yingshi, a Huzhou-born revolutionary of the Tongmenghui who took Shanghai for the republicans in 1911 and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen, on the eastern slope of Xian Hill on the southern edge of the city. Built in 1918 and enlarged in 1934, it has a granite memorial archway with an inscription in Sun Yat-sen's hand, a 100 m tomb path and a terrace with Sun's eulogy carved in stone; it was wrecked in the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt in the 1980s."},{"id":"deqing-tomb-of-zhao-mengfu","name":"Tomb of Zhao Mengfu","name_zh":"赵孟頫墓","pinyin":"Zhào Mèngfǔ Mù","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6072,"lon":120.1098,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/deqing-tomb-of-zhao-mengfu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The joint tomb of Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322), the leading painter and calligrapher of the Yuan dynasty, and his wife Guan Daosheng, herself a noted painter, on a hillside at Dongheng village in Luoshe, northern Deqing. The original mound had long gone, but excavation in 1992 found the stone burial chamber and a spirit way, and the restored tomb of 1993 is lined with stone horses and civil officials carved from Taihu stone."},{"id":"huzhou-xiagucheng-site","name":"Xiagucheng Ancient City Site","name_zh":"下菰城遗址","pinyin":"Xiàgūchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.783,"lon":120.1044,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhou-xiagucheng-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The rammed-earth ramparts of Gucheng, regarded as the forerunner of Huzhou: the Chu lord Chunshen made it the seat of Gucheng county in the late Warring States, and under the Qin it was the seat of Wucheng county until the town moved north to the present city site. Inner and outer walls, 6–9 m high in places, still enclose fields and ponds below Jingai Hill beside the East Tiao river, and a granite wall in the inner city is carved with the site's history."},{"id":"changxing-xianshan-lake","name":"Xianshan Lake","name_zh":"仙山湖","pinyin":"Xiānshān Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8964,"lon":119.599,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changxing-xianshan-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake and national wetland park at the western tip of Changxing county, close to where Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui meet. A causeway crosses the lake beside Xianshan, a small hill that local legend links to the Silla prince-monk later revered as the bodhisattva Dizang, and the reed beds and shallows draw large numbers of wintering water birds."},{"id":"deqing-xiazhu-lake-wetland","name":"Xiazhu Lake Wetland","name_zh":"下渚湖湿地","pinyin":"Xiàzhǔ Hú Shīdì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.5169,"lon":120.0473,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=deqing-xiazhu-lake-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural lake-and-marsh landscape of about 10 km² in eastern Deqing, a maze of some 600 low islets, reed beds, bamboo groves and fish ponds threaded by channels. It is toured mainly by boat; egrets and herons gather in summer and wild ducks in winter, and the shrine of Fangfeng, a legendary local chieftain, stands near the north-western shore."},{"id":"anji-yu-village","name":"Yu Village (Yucun), Anji","name_zh":"余村","pinyin":"Yú Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.5272,"lon":119.6034,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anji-yu-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in the bamboo hills of Tianhuangping town that closed its limestone quarries and cement works in the early 2000s and turned to forestry and rural tourism. In August 2005 Xi Jinping, then Communist Party secretary of Zhejiang, first set out here the idea that 'clear waters and green mountains are mountains of gold and silver'; the village meeting room where he spoke is preserved as a provincial heritage site, and UN Tourism has named Yucun one of its Best Tourism Villages."},{"id":"wuxing-yuanxiang-town","name":"Yuanxiang Town (Butterfly Valley)","name_zh":"原乡小镇","pinyin":"Yuánxiāng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.8001,"lon":119.9556,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxing-yuanxiang-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure park opened in 2018 at Zhao village in the Xisaishan hills west of Huzhou, built around a large indoor butterfly house where visitors watch butterflies breed, emerge and fly. Plum and peach orchards, tea gardens, a hillside boardwalk, a small farm and children's play areas fill the rest of the valley, and it suits families with young children."},{"id":"deqing-moganshan-yucun","name":"Yucun, Moganshan","name_zh":"庾村","pinyin":"Yǔ Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6029,"lon":119.8913,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=deqing-moganshan-yucun","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village at the eastern foot of Mount Mogan where Huang Fu, a Republican-era statesman who retired to the mountain in 1928, founded a library, a school and a silkworm-egg farm in the 1930s; he is buried here. Its main street keeps Republican-era buildings, among them the old library of 1932, and a square on the site of the old bus station, and is now lined with cafés, a gallery, small shops and guesthouses."},{"id":"anji-zhebei-grand-canyon","name":"Zhebei Grand Canyon","name_zh":"浙北大峡谷","pinyin":"Zhèběi Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.4488,"lon":119.5048,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-zhebei-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested river gorge in the hills of south-western Anji, near Baofu, where a walking trail follows a clear mountain stream past boulders, pools and a string of waterfalls. Its shade and running water make it a summer escape from the heat of the plains."},{"id":"anji-zhejiang-natural-history-museum","name":"Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Anji Branch","name_zh":"浙江自然博物院安吉馆","pinyin":"Zhèjiāng Zìrán Bówùyuàn Ānjí Guǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6718,"lon":119.6416,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-zhejiang-natural-history-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The second site of the provincial natural history museum, opened in December 2018 on a hillside north-west of Anji town in a group of eight buildings designed by David Chipperfield Architects. Six themed halls, among them geology, dinosaur, ocean and ecology halls, are joined by temporary exhibitions, a 4D cinema and a hands-on discovery centre, and the displays lean towards interactive learning for families."},{"id":"anji-zhongnan-baicaoyuan","name":"Zhongnan Baicaoyuan Eco-Park","name_zh":"中南百草原","pinyin":"Zhōngnán Bǎicǎoyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Huzhou","lat":30.6778,"lon":119.6479,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anji-zhongnan-baicaoyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside eco-park on the north-western edge of Anji town, laid out as a series of themed gardens (cherry, plum, Japanese maple, purple bamboo, white tea, roses, osmanthus and medicinal herbs) among streams and ponds. A small sightseeing train runs through its European Pasture section, where children can meet farm animals, and the park also has models of prehistoric animals and a campsite, so it suits family outings."},{"id":"haining-anguo-temple-sutra-pillars","name":"Anguo Temple Sutra Pillars","name_zh":"安国寺经幢","pinyin":"Ānguó Sì Jīngchuáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.4076,"lon":120.5359,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haining-anguo-temple-sutra-pillars/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three octagonal stone pillars inscribed with a Buddhist dharani sutra, carved in 842, 844 and 865, are the chief survivors of Anguo Temple, founded in 713, which declined after 1894 and was cleared in 1978. Between 5.8 and 7 m tall, they rise in tiers of lotus, cloud and coiled-dragon carving with niches of seated Buddhas, and are among the oldest standing structures in Haining."},{"id":"haining-chen-gelao-mansion","name":"Chen Gelao Mansion","name_zh":"陈阁老宅","pinyin":"Chén Gélǎo Zhái","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.4091,"lon":120.541,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haining-chen-gelao-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mansion of the Chen clan of Haining, greatly enlarged by Chen Yuanlong (1652–1736), a minister under the Kangxi Emperor who became a grand secretary under Yongzheng; 'gelao', a name for grand secretaries, gives the house its name. Qing buildings survive on the eastern axis, among them the ancestral hall, the family's sleeping quarters, a study and a flower hall, while the central halls were rebuilt in 2002–03. The house keeps a set of calligraphy steles, a nine-dragon plaque granted by the Yongzheng Emperor and a Ming-era podocarp tree."},{"id":"pinghu-east-lake","name":"East Lake, Pinghu","name_zh":"平湖东湖","pinyin":"Pínghú Dōng Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7005,"lon":121.0217,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinghu-east-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake on the edge of central Pinghu whose shores and islands form a 4A scenic area. Its landmark is the Li Shutong Memorial Hall, a white lotus-shaped building of 2004 set partly over the water in Shutong Park on Daying Island, with seven galleries on Li Shutong (1880–1942), the painter, musician and teacher of Pinghu descent who became the Buddhist monk Hongyi. Baoben Temple and its pagoda stand on the south shore."},{"id":"jiaxing-shen-junru-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Shen Junru","name_zh":"沈钧儒故居","pinyin":"Shěn Jūnrú Gùjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7575,"lon":120.7442,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaxing-shen-junru-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Jiaxing family house of Shen Junru (1875–1963), a lawyer and politician who was one of the 'Seven Gentlemen' arrested in 1936 for campaigning for resistance to Japan, later led the China Democratic League and was the first President of the Supreme People's Court from 1949. The courtyard house, built in the early 19th century and his home in 1908–19, was restored and opened as a memorial in 1998. A seated statue stands in the main hall, and the rear two-storey building holds an exhibition on his life and belongings."},{"id":"jiashan-gefeisong-chocolate-town","name":"Gefeisong Chocolate Town","name_zh":"歌斐颂巧克力小镇","pinyin":"Gēfěisòng Qiǎokèlì Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7915,"lon":120.9855,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiashan-gefeisong-chocolate-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A chocolate factory and themed visitor park in Dayun town, opened in 2014 by the Gefeisong chocolate company. A glass-walled gallery about 150 m long lets visitors watch chocolate being made from mixing to packing, and the park adds a chocolate-making workshop, Swiss-style streets and buildings, a wedding venue and gardens, which makes it mainly a family outing."},{"id":"haining-huili-temple","name":"Huili Temple","name_zh":"惠力寺","pinyin":"Huìlì Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.5327,"lon":120.6889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haining-huili-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the southern slope of Xishan (Ziwei Hill) in central Haining, founded in the Eastern Jin period in about 373–375 and given its present name in 1009. Most buildings are recent rebuilds, but the Mahavira Hall dates from 1922, and in front of the temple stand two octagonal stone sutra pillars of 874, about 5 m tall, carved with coiled dragons and flying apsaras."},{"id":"jiashan-library-and-museum","name":"Jiashan Library and Museum","name_zh":"嘉善图博中心","pinyin":"Jiāshàn Túbó Zhōngxīn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.8271,"lon":120.9215,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiashan-library-and-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A civic cultural complex in Jiashan town, opened in 2019, that pairs the five-storey county library with the four-storey Jiashan Museum in buildings whose kiln-like form recalls the county's brick and tile making. The museum presents local history from prehistoric times and holds temporary exhibitions, and the library has a large children's picture-book hall; it suits a rainy-day visit combined with Xitang or Dayun."},{"id":"jiaxing-catholic-church-vincent-abbey","name":"Jiaxing Catholic Church and Vincent Abbey","name_zh":"嘉兴天主堂","pinyin":"Jiāxīng Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7631,"lon":120.7465,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaxing-catholic-church-vincent-abbey/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A brick church in simplified Gothic style with twin bell towers 37 m high, built in 1917–30 to the design of the Italian Vincentian priest Angelo-Joseph Asinelli and for long the tallest building in Jiaxing. Its roof and fittings were wrecked during the Cultural Revolution, and the church was restored in 2020–21, when the ground around it was opened up as a public lawn beside the Zicheng site park. The same listing covers Vincent Abbey, the Vincentians' seminary built in 1902–03 with arcaded wings, about 2 km to the north-east on Guangming Street."},{"id":"tongxiang-luojiajiao-site-park","name":"Luojiajiao Site Park","name_zh":"罗家角遗址","pinyin":"Luójiājiǎo Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.6319,"lon":120.4644,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongxiang-luojiajiao-site-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An early Majiabang-culture settlement of about 12 ha beside the old course of the Grand Canal at Shimen, where excavations in 1979–80 found four Neolithic layers and 794 objects, with charred reeds dated to about 7,000 years ago. Since 2018 it has been a provincial archaeological site park of about 20 ha on the theme of Neolithic rice farming, with a display hall that opened around 2021."},{"id":"jiaxing-majiabang-site-museum","name":"Majiabang Site and Museum","name_zh":"马家浜遗址","pinyin":"Mǎjiābāng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7058,"lon":120.7023,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaxing-majiabang-site-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site, found in 1959 where three streams meet south-west of Jiaxing, gave its name to the Majiabang culture, the Neolithic farming culture of the plain north of Hangzhou Bay; the settlement here dates from about 6000 to 5500 years ago and yielded over thirty burials, a house and pottery, stone, jade and bone objects. The site has been laid out as an archaeological park, opened in 2021, and the adjoining Majiabang Culture Museum, a branch of Jiaxing Museum, displays finds from the excavations."},{"id":"nanhu-meihuazhou","name":"Meihuazhou","name_zh":"梅花洲","pinyin":"Méihuā Zhōu","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.6682,"lon":120.8446,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanhu-meihuazhou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural water-village scenic area in Fengqiao town, south-east of Jiaxing, named for the way its streams split the land into five petal-shaped islands like a plum blossom. Old stone bridges link the islands, among them the paired Sanbu Liangpan Bridges, a provincial heritage site, and Xianghua Bridge in front of Shifo (Stone Buddha) Temple, and the area also has two ancient ginkgo trees, the Feng family's old house, orchards and play areas aimed at families."},{"id":"pinghu-mo-family-manor","name":"Mo's Manor","name_zh":"莫氏庄园","pinyin":"Mòshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7001,"lon":121.0149,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinghu-mo-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing merchant family house in the old centre of Pinghu, built in 1897–1900 and home to three generations of the Mo family. Its seventy-odd rooms are arranged in east, central and west groups on a plot of about 4,850 m², and the house, run as an exhibition hall, has been used as a set for several television dramas."},{"id":"haiyan-nanbei-lake","name":"Nanbei Lake","name_zh":"南北湖","pinyin":"Nánběi Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.3866,"lon":120.8619,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyan-nanbei-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lagoon of about 1.2 km² near Ganpu on the Hangzhou Bay coast, divided into a south and a north lake by an old causeway and enclosed by wooded hills on three sides, with the sea to the south. Paths and a waterside greenway follow the shore, and trails climb Yingkeding, the highest hill in Jiaxing, a traditional spot for watching the sun and moon rise together over the bay around the first day of the tenth lunar month."},{"id":"haiyan-qi-garden","name":"Qi Garden","name_zh":"绮园","pinyin":"Qǐ Yuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.5193,"lon":120.9433,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyan-qi-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private garden in the centre of Haiyan laid out in 1871 by the merchant Feng Zuanzhai, who reused the rocks of two ruined Ming gardens; the garden historian Chen Congzhou ranked it first among the gardens of Zhejiang. About a hectare of old trees, three rockeries and two ponds crossed by zigzag bridges is set off by just four small pavilions and halls. At the front, one storeyed hall of the family house of 1870 survives behind a carved brick gateway."},{"id":"jiaxing-south-lake","name":"South Lake (Nanhu), Jiaxing","name_zh":"南湖","pinyin":"Nán Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7575,"lon":120.7559,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaxing-south-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jiaxing's best-known lake, about half a square kilometre on the south side of the old city, has a garden island reached by boat whose Yanyu (Misty Rain) Tower, last rebuilt in 1918, so pleased the Qianlong Emperor that he had a copy built at his summer resort in Chengde. In early August 1921 the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, after leaving Shanghai, held its final session on a pleasure boat on this lake, and a replica of the boat built in 1959 is moored at the island as the commemorated site. The South Lake Revolutionary Memorial Hall, in a building opened on the south shore in 2011, presents the party's founding."},{"id":"jiashan-wu-zhen-tomb","name":"Tomb of Wu Zhen and Plum Blossom Hermitage","name_zh":"吴镇墓","pinyin":"Wú Zhèn Mù","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.8439,"lon":120.9119,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiashan-wu-zhen-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Wu Zhen (1280–1354), one of the Four Masters of Yuan painting, best known for landscapes, bamboo and pictures of fishermen, lies on a spot he chose himself in his home town of Weitang. The low mound on an octagonal stone base is flanked by the Plum Blossom Hermitage, built in the Wanli reign to guard it, and by corridors of steles carved with his bamboo and fisherman designs. A memorial hall opened in 2000 presents his life and work."},{"id":"xiuzhou-wangdian-granaries","name":"Wangdian Soviet-Style Granaries","name_zh":"王店粮仓群","pinyin":"Wángdiàn Liángcāng Qún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.6241,"lon":120.716,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuzhou-wangdian-granaries/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of fourteen cylindrical concrete grain silos with six-sided tiled roofs, built in the 1950s with Soviet advice beside the Changshui canal in Wangdian town to store grain for the local rice mill. Each silo is 12 m across and 8.15 m high, set in three staggered rows; left idle after the mill was restructured in 2002, the compound was tidied up in the late 2010s and one of its side buildings became a collectors' market in 2023."},{"id":"jiaxing-xiangjiadang-lake","name":"Xiangjiadang Lake","name_zh":"湘家荡","pinyin":"Xiāngjiā Dàng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.8036,"lon":120.8109,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaxing-xiangjiadang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake of about 2,000 mu (1.3 km²) on the north-eastern edge of Jiaxing, whose shoreline park forms the 4A scenic area. A greenway of about 13 km links the lake with the city, and around the shore are a sandy beach called Moon Bay, a wetland park, a forest park and a farm park, with seasonal festivals through the year."},{"id":"jiashan-xitang-water-town","name":"Xitang Water Town","name_zh":"西塘","pinyin":"Xītáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.944,"lon":120.8945,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiashan-xitang-water-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal town about 10 km north of Jiashan, on the old border between the Wu and Yue states, whose preserved centre of Ming and Qing houses is threaded by nine waterways crossed by 27 stone bridges. Its signature is nearly a kilometre of tiled covered walkways running along the canal-side streets, with narrow alleys such as Shipi Lane between the houses. Xitang was in the first national list of historic towns in 2003, appears in the film Mission: Impossible III and has hosted a yearly Hanfu (traditional dress) festival since 2013."},{"id":"haining-yanguan-tide-watching-area","name":"Yanguan Tide-Watching Area","name_zh":"盐官观潮","pinyin":"Yánguān Guāncháo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.402,"lon":120.5434,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haining-yanguan-tide-watching-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yanguan, the old county seat of Haining on the north bank of the Qiantang River, is the classic place to watch the river's tidal bore, which arrives here as a single long wave, with the largest tides around the 18th day of the eighth lunar month. A stone seawall of interlocking 'fish-scale' blocks, built in the Qing dynasty, runs along the riverside tide-watching park, overlooked by the seven-storey Zhan'ao Pagoda of 1612. In the old town behind are the Sea God Temple, built on imperial order in 1729, and the childhood home of the scholar Wang Guowei."},{"id":"jiashan-yunlanwan-hot-spring","name":"Yunlanwan Hot Spring","name_zh":"云澜湾温泉","pinyin":"Yúnlánwān Wēnquán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.811,"lon":120.976,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiashan-yunlanwan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort built in the 2010s in Dayun town, part of the Dayun provincial tourist resort area, using water drawn from more than 2,000 m underground. Its spa centre is designed in the shape of two half-open lotus flowers, and the resort adds a hotel, seasonal flower fields and, in summer, a children's water-play park; it suits a relaxed half-day or an overnight stay."},{"id":"pinghu-zhapu-forts","name":"Zhapu Forts","name_zh":"乍浦炮台","pinyin":"Zhàpǔ Pàotái","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.5945,"lon":121.0887,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinghu-zhapu-forts","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Qing coastal batteries at Zhapu on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, part of the Qing coastal defences and a reminder of the First Opium War, when British forces captured Zhapu in 1842. Tianfei Palace Fort, at the south end of Tangshan Park, keeps a fan-shaped row of four gun shelters with three iron cannon, one made by the Jiangnan Arsenal in 1884. Nanwan Fort, on the western end of Jiulong Mountain to the south-east, has two shelters and a breech-loading gun made in 1888."},{"id":"jiaxing-zicheng-citadel","name":"Zicheng Citadel Site Park","name_zh":"嘉兴子城","pinyin":"Jiāxīng Zǐchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jiaxing","lat":30.7624,"lon":120.7488,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaxing-zicheng-citadel","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The inner citadel of old Jiaxing, founded in 231, held the offices of the county and later the prefecture for centuries and served as the Taiping Prince Ting's headquarters; after 1912 it became barracks and then a hospital. Its gate tower, of Yuan origin and rebuilt in 1908, survives with short stretches of wall and is described as the only old gate tower left on a city wall in Zhejiang. Since 2021 the site has been an archaeological park entered through a memorial arch, with a path set with 18 bronze strips recording dates from 231 to the present."},{"id":"dongyang-baitan-residences","name":"Baitan Residences, Dongyang","name_zh":"白坦民宅","pinyin":"Báitǎn Mínzhái","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3136,"lon":120.3965,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyang-baitan-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two large Qing-dynasty family compounds in Baitan village, Weishan town, east of Dongyang. Fuyu Hall, built from the Jiaqing to the Xianfeng reigns (about 1800–1860), spreads over more than a hectare on two parallel axes, while Wuben Hall, built from the early 19th century to the early Republic, is a row of linked halls; both are decorated with wood carving, stone carving and wall paintings."},{"id":"yiwu-huangshan-bamian-hall","name":"Bamian Hall, Huangshan Village (Yiwu)","name_zh":"黄山八面厅","pinyin":"Huángshān Bāmiàn Tīng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3414,"lon":119.9058,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiwu-huangshan-bamian-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large mansion built in the Qianlong and Jiaqing eras (late 18th to early 19th century) by the merchant Chen Zicai in Huangshan village, Shangxi town, west of Yiwu, about 70 m long and 40 m wide. It is known for its brick, stone and above all wood carving."},{"id":"yongkang-xiabaishi-chen-ancestral-hall","name":"Chen Ancestral Hall, Xiabaishi","name_zh":"陈大宗祠","pinyin":"Chén Dàzōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":28.9715,"lon":120.1061,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongkang-xiabaishi-chen-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chen clan hall of 1693 in Xiabaishi village, Zhiying town, Yongkang, which keeps its original structure despite later repairs. Its three halls, each five bays wide and rising in steps, enclose an opera stage, side pavilions, two pools and a tea pavilion, and the beams carry painted decoration and shallow relief carving."},{"id":"dongyang-china-woodcarving-culture-expo-city","name":"China Woodcarving Culture Expo City, Dongyang","name_zh":"中国木雕文化博览城","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Mùdiāo Wénhuà Bólǎnchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3,"lon":120.1813,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyang-china-woodcarving-culture-expo-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A vast trade complex in Dongyang, a city known for its woodcarving tradition, where some 3,000 manufacturers sell carved woodwork, rosewood (hongmu) furniture and bamboo crafts from about 8,000 shops. Alongside the market halls are the China Woodcarving Museum, a wood-art hall and a woodcarving theme park, and more than 70 master craftsmen have studios here. It suits shoppers and anyone curious about Dongyang woodcarving, a nationally listed intangible-heritage craft."},{"id":"yiwu-daan-temple-pagoda","name":"Da'an Temple Pagoda, Yiwu","name_zh":"大安寺塔","pinyin":"Dà'ān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3077,"lon":120.0667,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiwu-daan-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A six-sided, five-storey brick pagoda beside Xiuhu Lake in central Yiwu, built in the 12th century for a temple that has since vanished and the oldest brick-and-timber structure in the city. Its timber eaves, balconies and spire are lost, but brick imitations of timber columns and brackets survive, as do bricks inscribed with the names of its donors; it stands about 23 m high."},{"id":"jinhua-falong-temple-dharani-pillar","name":"Falong Temple Dharani Pillar, Jinhua","name_zh":"法隆寺经幢","pinyin":"Fǎlóng Sì Jīngchuáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.0905,"lon":119.6576,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinhua-falong-temple-dharani-pillar","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal stone pillar of 857, all that remains of Falong Temple, also called Jinqian Temple, south of the river in Jinhua. About 6.3 m stands above ground, inscribed with a Buddhist dharani sutra and carved with guardian figures, a railing motif, bird-bodied kalavinkas and heavenly musicians."},{"id":"yiwu-tangxia-fang-ancestral-hall","name":"Fang Clan Ancestral Hall, Tangxia","name_zh":"塘下方大宗祠","pinyin":"Tángxià Fāng Dàzōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3648,"lon":120.0087,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiwu-tangxia-fang-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main ancestral hall of the Fang clan in Tangxia village, Houzhai subdistrict, north-west of central Yiwu, founded in the Ming Jiajing era and rebuilt in 1898. Facing south, it has three halls linked by two side galleries and covers about 2,000 m²."},{"id":"yongkang-fangyan","name":"Fangyan Scenic Area","name_zh":"方岩","pinyin":"Fāng Yán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":28.925,"lon":120.1825,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongkang-fangyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area of red Danxia rock east of Yongkang, where flat-topped Fangyan rises sheer from the plain and the classic way up is a steep stepped path of cut stone and timber known as the Flying Bridge. On top is a temple to Hu Ze, a Northern Song official worshipped locally as Hu Gong, whose temple fairs feature folk performances; nearby are the Five Peaks, where the Southern Song thinker Chen Liang taught and the Wufeng Academy grew up. During the war against Japan the Zhejiang provincial government was based here."},{"id":"yiwu-chen-wangdao-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Chen Wangdao","name_zh":"陈望道故居","pinyin":"Chén Wàngdào Gùjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3508,"lon":119.9579,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiwu-chen-wangdao-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of the scholar Chen Wangdao (1891–1977), later president of Fudan University, in Fenshuitang village north-west of Yiwu. In 1920 he made the first Chinese translation of the Communist Manifesto here, working from a Japanese edition, and the house is visited as a site associated with the early history of the Chinese Communist Party. Built by his father in 1909, it is a typical central-Zhejiang brick-and-timber courtyard house of about 430 m²."},{"id":"yiwu-guyue-bridge","name":"Guyue Bridge","name_zh":"古月桥","pinyin":"Gǔyuè Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1622,"lon":120.0725,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiwu-guyue-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A single-span stone bridge of 1213 at Yazhijie village in Chi'an town, south of Yiwu, dated by an inscription on its beam. Its arch is built of five straight segments, each made of six long stone ribs joined by transverse locking stones, and it is the earliest surviving bridge of this ribbed, polygonal-arch type in China. It is 31.2 m long with a 15 m span."},{"id":"yongkang-houwu-village","name":"Houwu Village","name_zh":"厚吴村","pinyin":"Hòuwú Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":28.7976,"lon":120.0654,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongkang-houwu-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village in Qiancang town, Yongkang, on the border with Jinyun County, whose history goes back to the early 13th century. Its village layout, historic setting and a number of old halls and houses are well preserved, and it was named a National Historic and Cultural Village in 2007."},{"id":"dongyang-huayuan-village","name":"Huayuan Village, Dongyang","name_zh":"花园村","pinyin":"Huāyuán Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1444,"lon":120.2238,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyang-huayuan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village about 16 km south of Dongyang city, founded in 1342, that has twice absorbed its neighbours since 2004 and now covers 12 km² with more than 65,000 residents, most of them migrant workers. Promoted nationally as a model of rural development, it was the first single village in Zhejiang to be rated a 4A scenic area and is also listed as a provincial folk-culture village. It suits travellers curious about rural development in eastern China."},{"id":"jindong-jinlin-fingered-citron-park","name":"Jinlin Fingered Citron Culture Park, Jinhua","name_zh":"锦林佛手文化园","pinyin":"Jǐnlín Fóshǒu Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.181,"lon":119.7057,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jindong-jinlin-fingered-citron-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farm park in Chisong town, Jindong district, devoted to the fingered citron or Buddha's hand, a fragrant citrus grown on the southern slopes of Jinhua's northern hills for nearly a thousand years. It combines citron plantations with displays and science education on the fruit, sales of farm produce and rural sightseeing. It suits families looking for a rural outing near Jinhua."},{"id":"lanxi-shefeng-jiqing-hall","name":"Jiqing Hall, Shefeng","name_zh":"积庆堂","pinyin":"Jīqìng Táng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2419,"lon":119.3474,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanxi-shefeng-jiqing-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A branch ancestral hall in Shefeng village, Yongchang subdistrict, Lanxi, probably founded in the Southern Song; the present building dates from the late Ming and was repaired in the Kangxi and Qianlong eras. It faces east, is four halls deep and flanked by two Qing memorial arches to chaste widows, and is noted for its fine carving and good state, despite years of use as a rice mill."},{"id":"panan-juxi-kong-family-temple","name":"Kong Family Temple, Juxi","name_zh":"榉溪孔氏家庙","pinyin":"Jǔxī Kǒngshì Jiāmiào","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":28.9325,"lon":120.5275,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panan-juxi-kong-family-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A family temple of descendants of Confucius in Juxi village, Panfeng township, Pan'an, where Kong Duangong, of the 48th generation, settled after following the Song court south in the late 1120s; Emperor Lizong ordered the temple built in 1254. The present Qing rebuilding, of about 836 m² with a gatehouse, opera stage, halls and small courtyards, looks like a typical central-Zhejiang clan hall, and Kong Duangong's tomb is also in the village."},{"id":"jinhua-guang-cultural-plaza","name":"Light of Jinhua Cultural Plaza","name_zh":"金华之光","pinyin":"Jīnhuá Zhī Guāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.0947,"lon":119.6611,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinhua-guang-cultural-plaza","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A civic culture complex completed in 2019 on Yanweizhou, the point where Jinhua's rivers meet, in the new Duohu business district. Its four linked buildings house the Jinhua City Exhibition Hall and the Jinhua Science and Technology Museum, whose four galleries cover life and evolution, discovery, design and the earth and universe; a hall of local intangible heritage opened inside in 2024. It stands beside the China Wu Opera House and suits families and anyone curious about the city."},{"id":"lanxi-liudong-mountain-underground-river","name":"Liudong Mountain Underground River, Lanxi","name_zh":"六洞山","pinyin":"Liùdòng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2079,"lon":119.5359,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanxi-liudong-mountain-underground-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A provincial scenic area on a low hill of karst caves between Jinhua and Lanxi, opened to visitors in 1985 and named after its six caves. Its main sight is the Underground River, a 2.5 km cave route that begins with an 800 m boat ride along an underground stream, at a steady 18°C all year, and continues on foot past stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone. A few minutes away is Qixia Garden, a Qing house that was the ancestral home of Zhao Yidi (Edith Zhao), the lifelong companion of the general Zhang Xueliang, with an exhibition on the couple."},{"id":"pujiang-longde-temple-pagoda","name":"Longde Temple Pagoda, Pujiang","name_zh":"龙德寺塔","pinyin":"Lóngdé Sì Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.4555,"lon":119.8907,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pujiang-longde-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey, six-sided brick pagoda of 1016 on Longfeng Hill in Tashan Park, Pujiang county town; the temple that gave it its name has gone. Fires and lightning destroyed its timber eaves, top and spire, leaving a brick shell about 36 m high whose body is original Northern Song work."},{"id":"dongyang-lu-family-residences","name":"Lu Family Residences, Dongyang","name_zh":"卢宅","pinyin":"Lú Zhái","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2656,"lon":120.2431,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongyang-lu-family-residences/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large complex of Ming and Qing mansions and halls on the east side of Dongyang, built by the Lu clan, who settled here in the Southern Song and prospered after a family member passed the highest imperial examination in the early 15th century. The buildings, covering about 2.5 hectares, are grouped around the clan's main ancestral hall and three branch compounds, of which the Suyong Hall complex is the centrepiece, and are rich in the wood carving Dongyang is known for. The scenic area also takes in a street of intangible-heritage workshops and Luzhai Old Street, about 500 m of shops selling carving and old building parts."},{"id":"jinhua-tianning-temple-main-hall","name":"Main Hall of Tianning Temple, Jinhua","name_zh":"天宁寺大殿","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì Dàdiàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1027,"lon":119.6543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinhua-tianning-temple-main-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The only surviving building of Tianning Temple in central Jinhua, founded in the early 11th century: a square, three-bay hall with a hip-and-gable roof, rebuilt in 1318. Dating of the timbers during repairs in 1978 showed that the Yuan rebuilding reused some Song-dynasty pillars, and a bell of 1128 and a Qing stone carving of Guanyin after Wu Daozi are kept inside."},{"id":"dongyang-mashangqiao-flower-hall","name":"Mashangqiao Flower Hall, Dongyang","name_zh":"马上桥花厅","pinyin":"Mǎshàngqiáo Huātīng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1837,"lon":120.3823,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyang-mashangqiao-flower-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house of the local merchant Lü Fujin in Mashangqiao village, Huxi town, south-east of Dongyang near Hengdian, built between 1820 and 1830 and also called Yijing Hall. Four courtyards deep, with a gatehouse, screen wall, main hall and two rear halls flanked by side wings, it is filled with carving and is regarded as a model of Dongyang woodcarving applied to a family home."},{"id":"hengdian-ming-qing-residences-expo-city","name":"Ming and Qing Residences Expo City, Hengdian","name_zh":"明清民居博览城","pinyin":"Míng-Qīng Mínjū Bólǎnchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1431,"lon":120.3252,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengdian-ming-qing-residences-expo-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park of about 60 hectares run by Hengdian World Studios that combines old buildings with film sets. Its Taohuayuan section gathers more than 120 Ming, Qing and Republican-era houses moved here from Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangxi, with carved timber, brick and stone, ancestral halls, a theatre and a copy of Tunxi Old Street. The Qinhuai River section recreates old Nanjing around a Confucius Temple and examination hall and includes a scaled-down copy of the Yuanmingyuan."},{"id":"wuyi-niutou-mountain-forest-park","name":"Niutou Mountain National Forest Park, Wuyi","name_zh":"牛头山","pinyin":"Niútóu Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":28.6673,"lon":119.4921,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyi-niutou-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the mountains of western Wuyi County around Niutou Mountain, which at about 1,560 m is billed as the highest peak in Jinhua prefecture. Its forested valleys and streams are visited for walking, sightseeing and as a cool retreat in summer."},{"id":"jinhua-yafan-qijia-hall","name":"Qijia Hall, Yafan","name_zh":"七家厅","pinyin":"Qījiā Tīng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.0373,"lon":119.6736,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinhua-yafan-qijia-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty hall in Yafan Er village, Yafan town, south-east of Jinhua city, square in plan with a screen wall, courtyard, front and rear halls and side wings. Its layout is complete and its timber frame is plain and well built."},{"id":"pujiang-shangshan-archaeological-site","name":"Shangshan Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"上山遗址","pinyin":"Shàngshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.4558,"lon":119.9714,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pujiang-shangshan-archaeological-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site in Huangzhai town, Pujiang, that gave its name to the Shangshan culture, a group of early Neolithic settlements in the Jinhua–Quzhou basin about 10,000 years old. Excavations since 2001 have found pottery tempered with rice husks, grinding stones and remains of some of the world's earliest cultivated rice. It has been an archaeological park since 2016, with a display hall, a research centre and surrounding rice fields, and was named a national archaeological park in 2025."},{"id":"lanxi-shangzu-ancestral-hall","name":"Shangzu Ancestral Hall, Lanxi","name_zh":"上族祠","pinyin":"Shàngzú Cí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1693,"lon":119.3107,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanxi-shangzu-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main ancestral hall of the Xu clan, also called Xiaolun Hall, in Xiamengtang village, Yongchang subdistrict, Lanxi, probably built in the late Ming or early Qing. Its three halls and side wings, with a free-standing middle hall, form a square plan of about 1,700 m²; the building, which housed the village school until the 1990s, was restored in 2008 and is complete."},{"id":"lanxi-sanquan-shide-hall","name":"Shide Hall, Sanquan","name_zh":"世德堂","pinyin":"Shìdé Táng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2989,"lon":119.3843,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanxi-sanquan-shide-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ancestral hall, also known as Jiangshi Hall, in Sanquan village, Huangdian town, north-west of Lanxi city, founded in the Southern Song with its three halls rebuilt in the Ming and Qing. The first hall is a carved brick gateway in the form of a memorial arch from the Ming Jiajing era (16th century); the rear hall was added around 1900."},{"id":"jinhua-shuanglong-scenic-area","name":"Shuanglong Scenic Area (Double Dragon Cave)","name_zh":"双龙风景区","pinyin":"Shuānglóng Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2028,"lon":119.6208,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinhua-shuanglong-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area on the southern slopes of Mount Jinhua, about 8 km north of the city, rated 5A in 2024. Its best-known sight is the Double Dragon Cave: visitors lie flat in a boat to pass under a low rock from the outer cave, with old inscriptions, into the inner cave, whose rock folds are said to look like two dragons; nearby Binghu Cave has a large underground waterfall. The area also includes other karst caves and the Huang Daxian Ancestral Temple, the home temple of the Taoist immortal Huang Daxian, whose cult has spread overseas."},{"id":"wucheng-siping-village","name":"Siping Village","name_zh":"寺平村","pinyin":"Sìpíng Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.0242,"lon":119.3467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wucheng-siping-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village in Tangxi town, in the west of Jinhua's Wucheng district, settled in the late Yuan or early Ming, with an intact village layout and many complete halls and houses in the Huizhou style. Its brick carving is especially rich, earning it the nickname of China's most beautiful brick-carving village, and it was named a National Historic and Cultural Village in 2010."},{"id":"lanxi-tongzhou-bridge","name":"Tongzhou Bridge, Lanxi","name_zh":"通洲桥","pinyin":"Tōngzhōu Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3264,"lon":119.7061,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanxi-tongzhou-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An 84 m covered bridge over the Meixi stream at Juren village, Meijiang town, in north-eastern Lanxi, on the old road between Pujiang and the Lan River. Its five-arch stone base carries a timber gallery of 21 bays with a shrine pavilion at the centre and pavilions at each end, the form it took when it was rebuilt in 1886–88. The writer Cao Juren, who grew up nearby, is said to have first met his wife on the bridge."},{"id":"panan-wulong-gorge","name":"Wulong Gorge, Pan'an","name_zh":"舞龙峡","pinyin":"Wǔlóng Xiá","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2093,"lon":120.7248,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panan-wulong-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge on the upper Jiaxi stream at Louxiazhai village, Jianshan town, in north-eastern Pan'an, where the stream cuts down through a raised plateau in a series of pools, waterfalls and small lakes. The scenic area, rated 4A in 2017, is divided into five sections named after dragons, and also takes in the old houses of Louxiazhai and the Daxingguo remains on Chenglishan."},{"id":"jinhua-wuzhou-ancient-city-shiwang-palace","name":"Wuzhou Ancient City and Shiwang Palace, Jinhua","name_zh":"婺州古城·侍王府","pinyin":"Wùzhōu Gǔchéng · Shìwáng Fǔ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.105,"lon":119.6603,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinhua-wuzhou-ancient-city-shiwang-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jinhua's old inner city, first walled around 903, now a restored historic district of lanes with snack stalls and shops, a stretch of rebuilt red-sandstone city wall and the rebuilt Confucian temple, with the Jinhua Museum on its eastern edge. At its heart is the Shiwang Palace, an old government compound that the Taiping general Li Shixian, the Shi Wang, made his headquarters in 1861–63; it is the most complete surviving Taiping building complex and keeps more than a hundred wall paintings. On the southern edge, the Bayong Tower, a riverside pavilion first built in 494 and rebuilt in the Qing, was celebrated in a poem by Li Qingzhao."},{"id":"pujiang-xianhua-mountain","name":"Xianhua Mountain, Pujiang","name_zh":"仙华山","pinyin":"Xiānhuá Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.5218,"lon":119.8882,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pujiang-xianhua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area in the north of Pujiang County whose summit, above 600 m, is a cluster of sheer volcanic rock pinnacles; the highest, Shaonü Peak, reaches 720.8 m. Legend says a daughter of the Yellow Emperor became an immortal here, and the early-Ming scholar Song Lian praised it as one of the most beautiful places on earth. With 24 named peaks, over a hundred viewpoints and dense forest, it is a popular summer retreat."},{"id":"lanxi-xijiang-ancestral-hall","name":"Xijiang Ancestral Hall, Lanxi","name_zh":"西姜祠堂","pinyin":"Xījiāng Cítáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1785,"lon":119.2859,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanxi-xijiang-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty clan hall in Xijiang village, Shuiting She Ethnic Township, Lanxi, four halls deep with side wings and covering about 2,000 m². Plainly decorated but built of massive timbers, it is one of the largest and highest-ranking folk ancestral halls in Zhejiang, and the architectural historian Luo Zhewen called it China's largest and most significant family temple of its kind."},{"id":"jinhua-shinantang-xu-ancestral-hall","name":"Xu Ancestral Hall, Shinantang","name_zh":"石楠塘徐氏宗祠","pinyin":"Shínántáng Xúshì Zōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.0194,"lon":119.7288,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinhua-shinantang-xu-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Xu clan hall founded in the Ming Wanli era beside the Wuyi River at Shinantang village, Yafan town, south of Jinhua, on the site of the old Yongqing ferry. Enlarged and rebuilt several times in the Ming and Qing, it faces south and has three halls five bays wide around two courtyards, covering about 1,000 m²."},{"id":"yiwu-yaduan-village","name":"Yaduan Village","name_zh":"雅端村","pinyin":"Yǎduān Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1277,"lon":119.9934,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiwu-yaduan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chen-clan village in Chi'an town, south of Yiwu, enclosed by hills on three sides with the Yaxi stream in front. Its Qing-dynasty core, known as the 'seven buildings and five halls', was built over three generations of the Chen family and includes the clan ancestral hall, Rong'an Hall with its side wings and several other courtyard houses, covering about half a hectare."},{"id":"wuyi-yanfu-temple","name":"Yanfu Temple","name_zh":"延福寺","pinyin":"Yánfú Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":28.7122,"lon":119.6019,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuyi-yanfu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple in a hill hollow at Taocun village, Taoxi town, in southern Wuyi County, founded in the 10th century. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1317 and given a lower second roof in the Ming, is the oldest Yuan-dynasty timber building in Zhejiang, with unusual long-beaked bracket sets that the architectural historians Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin studied in 1933. The other halls are Qing, and the complex was restored in 2014–16."},{"id":"dongyang-shijiazhuang-ye-flower-hall","name":"Ye Family Flower Hall, Shijiazhuang","name_zh":"史家庄花厅","pinyin":"Shǐjiāzhuāng Huātīng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3469,"lon":120.3766,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyang-shijiazhuang-ye-flower-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A two-storey house completed in 1915 by the ham merchant Ye Zhangchao in Shijiazhuang hamlet, Weishan town, north-east of Dongyang. Its three-bay hall under a double-eaved roof is covered in intricate Dongyang wood carving, which earned it the nickname 'the finest hall in Wuzhou'."},{"id":"yiwu-international-trade-city","name":"Yiwu International Trade City","name_zh":"义乌国际商贸城","pinyin":"Yìwū Guójì Shāngmàochéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3397,"lon":120.1111,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiwu-international-trade-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Described by the World Bank in 2005 as the world's largest wholesale market for small commodities, it is a chain of huge linked halls with more than 75,000 booths selling toys, jewellery, hardware, kitchenware, stationery, clothing accessories and much more, mainly to traders from around the world. It grew out of a street market legalised in 1982; its first district here opened in 2002, and District 2 houses a museum of the commodity trade's history. Even a quick look takes hours, and many visitors come simply to see the scale of global trade in everyday goods."},{"id":"lanxi-dudu-yuqing-hall","name":"Yuqing Hall, Dudu","name_zh":"余庆堂","pinyin":"Yúqìng Táng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2903,"lon":119.4462,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanxi-dudu-yuqing-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An early-Ming ancestral hall of the Hongwu era (late 14th century) in Dudu village, Nüfu subdistrict, Lanxi. It faces west, has three halls and a connecting passage covering about 860 m², and keeps a pair of Ming stone lions in front."},{"id":"panan-yushan-ancient-tea-market","name":"Yushan Ancient Tea Market, Pan'an","name_zh":"玉山古茶场","pinyin":"Yùshān Gǔ Cháchǎng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2147,"lon":120.6822,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panan-yushan-ancient-tea-market","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-trading compound below Chachang Hill at Matang village, Yushan town, Pan'an, founded in the Song and rebuilt in 1781, with a tea-market temple, a local patrol office and the market buildings themselves. Combining tea production, trade and worship in one place, it is described as the only surviving ancient tea market in China, and the 'Gan Chachang' tea-market fair held here is listed as national intangible heritage."},{"id":"wuyi-yuyuan-village","name":"Yuyuan Village","name_zh":"俞源村","pinyin":"Yúyuán Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":28.7706,"lon":119.6606,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyi-yuyuan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village in Yuyuan township, south-west Wuyi County, founded in the Southern Song by the Yu family; tradition says the Ming strategist Liu Bowen laid it out to match the stars, and it is promoted as the 'Taiji star village'. It keeps 53 buildings from the Song to the Qing with more than 1,000 rooms, decorated with wood carving, murals and pebble work, and was among the first National Historic and Cultural Villages named in 2003."},{"id":"pujiang-zhengyimen","name":"Zhengyimen (First Family South of the Yangtze)","name_zh":"郑义门","pinyin":"Zhèngyìmén","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.4881,"lon":120.0061,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pujiang-zhengyimen/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The home of the Zheng clan of Zhengzhai, Pujiang, which lived as one undivided household sharing a single kitchen for fifteen generations, from 1127 until a fire in 1459, and was honoured as a model of family virtue. Around the clan ancestral hall, rebuilt in 1797, stand more than 50 structures from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, including the Xiaogan Spring, a stele pavilion, the Dongming Academy, bridges and lesser halls; the site is promoted as the 'First Family South of the Yangtze'."},{"id":"lanxi-zhiyan-village","name":"Zhiyan Village","name_zh":"芝堰村","pinyin":"Zhīyàn Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.3617,"lon":119.3492,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanxi-zhiyan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in Huangdian town, northern Lanxi, founded in the Southern Song, that keeps 66 Ming and Qing buildings, mostly Ming, over about 2.5 hectares. They include ancestral halls such as Yande Hall and Xiaosi Hall and many family houses, and Xinye, another well-known old village just across the border in Jiande, is less than 4 km away."},{"id":"yiwu-chian-zhu-family-buildings","name":"Zhu Family Buildings, Chi'an","name_zh":"赤岸朱宅建筑群","pinyin":"Chì'àn Zhū Zhái Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.0985,"lon":119.9677,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiwu-chian-zhu-family-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of Zhu family buildings in Chi'an town, south-west of Yiwu, spanning several centuries: the Ming-dynasty Jianxu Hall, the Qing Liufang Hall, an official's mansion of the Guangxu era and side wings added in the Republican period. The Qing Neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Yixin and his brother lived in the mansion."},{"id":"lanxi-zhuge-village","name":"Zhuge Village","name_zh":"诸葛八卦村","pinyin":"Zhūgě Bāguà Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.2514,"lon":119.292,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanxi-zhuge-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in western Lanxi, founded in the Yuan, whose residents, mostly surnamed Zhuge, claim descent from Zhuge Liang, the third-century chancellor of Shu Han. Its lanes are laid out like the eight trigrams around a central pond, with eight lanes radiating out and eight low hills ringing the village, and it keeps more than 200 buildings from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, including ancestral halls and houses built with wealth from the herbal-medicine trade. The protected site also covers the old houses of Changle village, about 2 km away."},{"id":"dongyang-ziweishan-residences","name":"Ziweishan Residences, Dongyang","name_zh":"紫薇山民居","pinyin":"Zǐwēishān Mínjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Jinhua","lat":29.1584,"lon":120.1118,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyang-ziweishan-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Late-Ming mansions in Ziweishan village, Huashui town, south-west of Dongyang, built by Xu Honggang, Minister of War at Nanjing, and his two brothers on three parallel axes. The third brother's mansion has gone, but the gatehouse and Yiyan Hall of the minister's house and the Kaitai Hall, rear hall and side rooms of the second house survive, a rare group of late-Ming buildings in Dongyang."},{"id":"qingyuan-baishanzu","name":"Baishanzu","name_zh":"百山祖","pinyin":"Bǎishānzǔ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.7452,"lon":119.1825,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-baishanzu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At 1,856.7 m, Baishanzu is the second-highest peak in Zhejiang and the core of a nature reserve of about 109 km² in Qingyuan county, within the area proposed for the Qianjiangyuan–Baishanzu National Park. Its old forests shelter the Baishanzu fir, a conifer found only on this mountain and listed as critically endangered. The cool climate makes the villages around the reserve a popular summer retreat."},{"id":"longquan-baoxi-xitou-village","name":"Baoxi and Xitou Village","name_zh":"宝溪","pinyin":"Bǎoxī","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.0079,"lon":118.7594,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquan-baoxi-xitou-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain township in western Longquan whose village of Xitou has made celadon for centuries and was named one of UN Tourism's Best Tourism Villages in 2024. Seven old wood-fired kilns are still in use, the largest a long dragon kiln climbing a hillside, and firings draw visitors to watch the kilns opened. Nearby, a cluster of 18 bamboo buildings designed by architects from nine countries includes an exhibition hall of excavated and contemporary celadon."},{"id":"longquan-celadon-town","name":"China Celadon Town and Piyun Celadon Culture Park","name_zh":"中国青瓷小镇·披云青瓷文化园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Qīngcí Xiǎozhèn · Pīyún Qīngcí Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.9647,"lon":118.8658,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquan-celadon-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shangyang town is where modern Longquan celadon began: the state-owned Longquan Porcelain Factory was set up here in 1954, gathering leading craftsmen to revive the ware. The old factory has been turned into an intangible-heritage cultural centre with an interactive museum, and around the town visitors can watch the whole making process or try making pieces of their own."},{"id":"longquan-dayao-kiln-sites","name":"Dayao Longquan Kiln Sites","name_zh":"大窑龙泉窑遗址","pinyin":"Dàyáo Lóngquán Yáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.8386,"lon":119.0251,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquan-dayao-kiln-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The heartland of Longquan celadon, where 126 kiln sites lie in a 5.2 km² protected area around Dayao village. Kilns began here in the Five Dynasties, and from the Southern Song to the early Ming the area is described as China's largest porcelain-making centre, whose jade-green wares travelled across Asia, Africa and Europe. A national archaeological site park of 9.74 km² opened here in October 2018, and the listing also covers the Shangyang kiln sites over the hill in Qingyuan and the Yuankou kilns."},{"id":"lishui-dongxiyan-scenic-area","name":"Dongxi Rock Scenic Area","name_zh":"东西岩","pinyin":"Dōngxī Yán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.5199,"lon":119.7245,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lishui-dongxiyan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 2.5 km² area of Danxia-type sedimentary rock in Laozhu She Ethnic Town, named after two great rocks that face each other from east and west. Paths link gorges, caves and outcrops such as Breeze Gorge, Sword-Split Rock, General Rock and the Seven Goddesses. The area lies in a She ethnic district, and She songs, dances and wedding ceremonies have been staged here on holidays and at the Sanyuesan festival."},{"id":"suichang-dushan-stone-archway","name":"Dushan Stone Archway","name_zh":"独山石牌坊","pinyin":"Dúshān Shí Páifāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.4243,"lon":118.9796,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichang-dushan-stone-archway","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite memorial archway of three bays and five roofs at the south-east edge of Dushan village, built in 1569 by the county magistrate Chi Yude for Ye Yifan, an official of the Ministry of Works born in the village. The 11.7 m-wide gateway imitates timber construction, with an inscription praising repeated imperial favour on its central lintel and carvings of lions, dragons, phoenixes and auspicious beasts."},{"id":"longquan-zhejiang-university-branch-site","name":"Former Site of Zhejiang University Longquan Branch","name_zh":"浙江大学龙泉分校旧址","pinyin":"Zhèjiāng Dàxué Lóngquán Fēnxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.0497,"lon":119.1472,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquan-zhejiang-university-branch-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"When Zhejiang University moved inland during the war with Japan, it opened a branch in 1939 in the Zeng family mansion at Fangye on the edge of Longquan so that students from the south-east could keep studying; it became the Longquan Branch in 1940. The mansion, a Jiangnan courtyard house behind a Baroque-style brick façade, was restored from 2023, and its ground floor now holds an exhibition on the university's wartime migration and the branch, with upper floors opening as their displays are finished."},{"id":"lishui-guyan-huaxiang","name":"Guyan Huaxiang (Ancient Weir Painting Village)","name_zh":"古堰画乡","pinyin":"Gǔyàn Huàxiāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.3056,"lon":119.7307,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lishui-guyan-huaxiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside scenic area on the Ou River about 25 km south-west of Lishui, taking in the old river port of Dagangtou, Yantou village by the 6th-century Tongji Weir, and the Baoding celadon kiln sites. Painters borrowing the plein-air approach of France's Barbizon school have worked here since the 1980s, giving rise to the \"Lishui Barbizon\" school, and the area keeps an old street, pavilions, river landings and groves of old camphor trees, with boats crossing between the banks."},{"id":"suichang-haochuan-site","name":"Haochuan Site","name_zh":"好川遗址","pinyin":"Hǎochuān Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.5575,"lon":119.1783,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichang-haochuan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late Neolithic cemetery of about 4,300 to 3,700 years ago on a low hilltop in Haochuan village, where 80 graves were excavated, the richer burials at the centre and poorer ones on the slopes. Its jade, pottery and lacquer finds, related to but distinct from the Liangzhu culture, define the Haochuan culture and are shown in a dedicated gallery of Suichang County Museum, while an archaeological park with walkways is being developed at the site."},{"id":"jinyun-heyang-ancient-village","name":"Heyang Ancient Village","name_zh":"河阳古民居","pinyin":"Héyáng Gǔ Mínjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.7276,"lon":120.0051,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinyun-heyang-ancient-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Zhu clan in Xinjian town, founded in the Five Dynasties period and replanned in the Yuan, whose lanes and water channels still follow that plan. It keeps more than 1,500 rooms in buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republican era, among them some 30 complete old houses and more than ten ancestral halls, entered through the Yuan-period Bashi Gate honouring eight local imperial-examination graduates. Bashimen Street has been revived with craft shops, and the teahouse by the gate has been a stage for dujiao taichang, a local art in which one performer plays a whole band's music."},{"id":"qingyuan-jinzi-peak","name":"Jinzi Peak (Qingyuan National Forest Park)","name_zh":"巾子峰","pinyin":"Jīnzǐ Fēng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.6766,"lon":119.014,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-jinzi-peak","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area a few kilometres north-west of Qingyuan town, centred on Jinzi Peak and run as a state-owned scenic area. In cold spells in winter its upper slopes are coated with rime ice."},{"id":"lishui-lingjiu-temple-stone-pagodas","name":"Lingjiu Temple Stone Pagodas","name_zh":"灵鹫寺石塔","pinyin":"Língjiù Sì Shítǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.4477,"lon":119.9016,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lishui-lingjiu-temple-stone-pagodas/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four small stone stupas about 4 m high, carved in 1216 and 1218 under the Southern Song for Lingjiu Temple in Lishui's eastern outskirts, surviving from a set of seven that stood for the Seven Buddhas. Moved to Yunhe in the 1950s and brought back in the 1980s, they now stand at the south-west foot of Wanxiang Hill in the city centre."},{"id":"longquan-mountain-scenic-area","name":"Longquan Mountain (Fengyang Mountain)","name_zh":"龙泉山","pinyin":"Lóngquán Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.9296,"lon":119.1673,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquan-mountain-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain resort area on Fengyang Mountain inside the Fengyangshan–Baishanzu National Nature Reserve, crowned by Huangmao Peak, at 1,929 m the highest point in Zhejiang. With an average annual temperature of about 12 °C it is busiest in summer, and its upland meadows, winter rime ice and seas of cloud are the main sights."},{"id":"suichang-nanjian-rock","name":"Nanjian Rock Scenic Area","name_zh":"南尖岩","pinyin":"Nánjiān Yán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.382,"lon":119.0917,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichang-nanjian-rock","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 6 km² mountain area in south-west Suichang county with craggy peaks, odd-shaped rocks, streams and mountain views. Its slopes hold about 133 hectares of terraced fields built up by generations of villagers, whose layered lines are the main sight."},{"id":"lishui-nanming-mountain-inscriptions","name":"Nanming Mountain Cliff Inscriptions","name_zh":"南明山摩崖题刻","pinyin":"Nánmíng Shān Móyá Tíkè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.4331,"lon":119.903,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lishui-nanming-mountain-inscriptions/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Fifty-eight inscriptions carved on the rocks of Nanming Mountain, now a park on the southern edge of Lishui city, grouped at the Stone Beam, Gaoyang Cave and Yunge Cliff. They range from the Jin dynasty to the Republic and include a note by the prefect Guan Jinghui dated 1093, a record left by the scientist Shen Kuo on his tour of Zhejiang's farm irrigation, and two large characters attributed to the Taoist Ge Hong."},{"id":"suichang-qianfo-mountain","name":"Qianfo Mountain, Suichang","name_zh":"千佛山","pinyin":"Qiānfó Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.4676,"lon":119.0219,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichang-qianfo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately run mountain park in Shilian town in western Suichang, named for rock formations said to resemble a thousand Buddhas. A path follows a wooded gorge with waterfalls, pools and streams up to a small Buddhist temple."},{"id":"qingtian-stone-carving-cultural-area","name":"Qingtian Stone Carving Cultural Area","name_zh":"青田中国石雕文化旅游区","pinyin":"Qīngtián Zhōngguó Shídiāo Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.1144,"lon":120.315,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingtian-stone-carving-cultural-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qingtian's showcase for its soft, many-coloured local stone, carved for at least 1,500 years into seals, figures and landscapes and listed as national intangible heritage in 2006. Its centrepiece is the Qingtian Stone Carving Museum, whose oldest piece is a Songze-culture pendant of Qingtian stone, and the craft can be watched in nearby Shankou town, its traditional home, where more than 1,000 workshops carve and sell work."},{"id":"qingyuan-rulong-bridge","name":"Rulong Bridge","name_zh":"如龙桥","pinyin":"Rúlóng Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.4939,"lon":119.1757,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingyuan-rulong-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A timber-arch covered bridge in Yueshan village, rebuilt in 1625 according to an inscription on its ridge beam, which makes it the oldest known timber-arch covered bridge in China with a precisely dated rebuilding. Its single woven-timber arch spans 19.5 m and carries a nine-bay gallery 28.2 m long. It is the best known of the 25 Chuzhou covered bridges that share its national listing across Lishui, and the woven-arch building technique is on UNESCO's list of intangible heritage in need of urgent safeguarding."},{"id":"songyang-ruoliao-primeval-forest","name":"Ruoliao Primeval Forest","name_zh":"箬寮原始林","pinyin":"Ruòliáo Yuánshǐlín","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.2964,"lon":119.2761,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songyang-ruoliao-primeval-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately developed forest area in Anmin township in south-west Songyang, opened up for visitors from 2000, with forest cover put at about 95 per cent. It rises to Ruoliaoxian, at 1,502 m the highest peak in Songyang county, and forms part of the Ruoliao–Andaihou provincial scenic area."},{"id":"qingtian-shimen-cave","name":"Shimen Cave, Qingtian","name_zh":"石门洞","pinyin":"Shímén Dòng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.2756,"lon":120.1136,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingtian-shimen-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area at Gaoshi on the Ou River that Tang-dynasty Taoists counted among the 36 lesser grotto-heavens. Its cliffs at Qigu Hill and the Moon Cave carry about 80 inscriptions and 25 carved steles from the 5th century to the 20th, including works attributed to Xie Lingyun, Shen Kuo, Ruan Yuan and Guo Moruo. Local legend holds that the young Liu Ji (Liu Bowen), the Ming founder's strategist, studied here."},{"id":"jingning-shisi-temple","name":"Shisi Temple","name_zh":"时思寺","pinyin":"Shísī Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.8094,"lon":119.5872,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingning-shisi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple complex in the Daji basin whose oldest buildings date from the Yuan dynasty, with additions of the late Ming and early Qing. Within an enclosure of about 66 by 57 m stand the gate, bell tower, main hall, Sanqing Hall, a shrine to the local goddess Ma Xian and the Mei clan ancestral hall. A huge old Japanese cedar stands at the gate."},{"id":"songyang-songyin-river","name":"Songyin River","name_zh":"松阴溪","pinyin":"Sōngyīn Xī","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.4509,"lon":119.4479,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songyang-songyin-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Songyin is a 119 km tributary of the Ou River that rises in the hills of Suichang and flows east across the Songyang basin, past Songyang town, to join the main stream at the Tongji Weir in Liandu. Its reach through Songyang is listed as a scenic area, based on the south bank at Songyang town."},{"id":"suichang-gold-mine-national-mine-park","name":"Suichang Gold Mine National Mine Park","name_zh":"遂昌金矿国家矿山公园","pinyin":"Suìchāng Jīnkuàng Guójiā Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.6153,"lon":119.4187,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichang-gold-mine-national-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former polluted gold-mining district east of Suichang town that was cleaned up and opened to visitors as a national mine park in 2007. It has a gold museum, a protected area of old mine workings and an exhibition of mining technology, linked by a sightseeing tram, and suits visitors curious about industrial history."},{"id":"lishui-tongji-weir","name":"Tongji Weir","name_zh":"通济堰","pinyin":"Tōngjì Yàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.3069,"lon":119.7242,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lishui-tongji-weir/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An irrigation system begun in 505 at Yantou village, where a curved weir diverts the Songyin River onto the Bihu plain; the timber dam was rebuilt in stone in 1205, and the surviving 275 m arch weir is described as the world's earliest arch dam. A 22.5 km main canal and hundreds of smaller channels still water about 2,000 hectares, and the system was named a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2014. Beside the sluice gate a temple holds 18 old steles, and Yantou keeps a Wenchang Pavilion and stone archway of the Qing period."},{"id":"jingning-window-of-she-culture","name":"Window of She Culture, Dajun","name_zh":"畲乡之窗","pinyin":"Shēxiāng Zhī Chuāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.9542,"lon":119.5619,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingning-window-of-she-culture","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village scenic area at Dajun in Jingning, the only She autonomous county in China, set up to present the culture of the She people. It has a She exhibition hall, and has offered staged She wedding and welcome ceremonies, song-and-dance performances and rafting on the river."},{"id":"qingyuan-wu-wenjian-ancestral-hall","name":"Wu Wenjian Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"吴文简祠","pinyin":"Wú Wénjiǎn Cí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.4973,"lon":119.1747,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingyuan-wu-wenjian-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial hall in Yueshan village founded in 1522, laid out as gate tower, main hall and rear hall around courtyards; the national listing dates the surviving buildings to the Qing dynasty. Its timber frame shows ruyi-pattern bracket sets, a reduced-column structure and carved column bases, and Rulong Bridge and two other old covered bridges stand in the same village."},{"id":"jinyun-xiandu","name":"Xiandu Scenic Area","name_zh":"仙都","pinyin":"Xiāndū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.6922,"lon":120.1392,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinyun-xiandu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A valley of rock peaks along the Lianxi stretch of the Haoxi River north-east of Jinyun town, named \"capital of immortals\" by the Tang emperor Xuanzong; its emblem is Dinghu Peak, a 170.8 m stone pillar shaped like a bamboo shoot, from which the Yellow Emperor is said to have ascended to heaven. Riverside paths link Dinghu Peak, Little Red Cliff, the Xiandu Taoist temple, Niweng Cave and Zhutan Hill, and the cliffs and caves along the way, most densely around Niweng Cave, carry 123 inscriptions from the Tang to modern times, including work by Li Yangbing, Zhao Bian and Shen Kuo. Ceremonies honouring the Yellow Emperor are held here at Qingming and the Double Ninth festival."},{"id":"qingyuan-xiyang-hall","name":"Xiyang Hall (Temple of Wu Sangong)","name_zh":"西洋殿","pinyin":"Xīyáng Diàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.6782,"lon":119.1167,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingyuan-xiyang-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple beside the Songyuan River in Xiyang village dedicated to Wu Sangong, revered locally as the founder of shiitake mushroom growing; it was first built in 1265 and rebuilt in 1875. Along its axis stand a screen wall, gate, front hall, opera stage, courtyard and main hall, with bell and drum towers in the side wings, and Lanxi Bridge, a timber-arch covered bridge of 1794, crosses the river in the same village."},{"id":"songyang-yanqing-temple-pagoda","name":"Yanqing Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"松阳延庆寺塔","pinyin":"Sōngyáng Yánqìng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.4568,"lon":119.4532,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songyang-yanqing-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A six-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda with timber eaves, built between 999 and 1002 to hold relics brought back by the monk Xingda, and the only surviving part of Yanqing Temple. It stands 37.2 m tall, and because its structure shows no trace of later rebuilding it is regarded as one of the most completely preserved Song-dynasty pagodas south of the Yangtze."},{"id":"yunhe-rice-terraces","name":"Yunhe Rice Terraces","name_zh":"云和梯田","pinyin":"Yúnhé Tītián","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.051,"lon":119.496,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunhe-rice-terraces","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rice terraces climbing from about 200 m to over 1,400 m above sea level in Chongtou town, begun in the Tang dynasty and greatly extended in the Yuan and Ming when silver mining brought settlers; in 2024 they became China's first terraced-landscape 5A scenic area. A cableway 3.9 km long rises some 800 m over the fields, and at their foot Kenggen village keeps stone houses said to have been built by miners. The visitor centre houses the World Terraces Museum, and the ploughing festival held here at Grain in Ear is on the national intangible heritage list."},{"id":"yunhe-silver-mine-site","name":"Yunhe Silver Mine Site","name_zh":"云和银矿遗址","pinyin":"Yúnhé Yínkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.0109,"lon":119.4138,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunhe-silver-mine-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of the Ming-dynasty silver mines whose working helped prompt the founding of Yunhe county in 1452, centred on Huangjiashe, a village at about 980 m reached through the Yunhe terraces. The village's silver-mine exhibition hall shows miners' tools, ore and local silver jewellery around a stele of 1458 recording the imperial silver bureau set up here, and old adits survive on the hill south of the village."},{"id":"jingning-yunzhong-daji","name":"Yunzhong Daji Scenic Area","name_zh":"云中大漈","pinyin":"Yúnzhōng Dàjì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":27.8141,"lon":119.5857,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingning-yunzhong-daji","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A high mountain basin in north-west Jingning, more than 1,000 m above sea level, where villages and terraced fields are ringed by steep peaks. Its sights include Snow Daji, a waterfall of about 100 m, the old Shisi Temple with a huge Japanese cedar at its gate, and Huguan Bridge, a timber covered bridge of 1781. Cool summers have made Daji a busy homestay retreat in July and August."},{"id":"songyang-zhan-bao-jinshi-archway","name":"Zhan Bao Jinshi Archway","name_zh":"詹宝兄弟牌坊","pinyin":"Zhān Bǎo Xiōngdì Páifāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.449,"lon":119.4865,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songyang-zhan-bao-jinshi-archway/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A bluestone memorial archway on Xiama Street in eastern Songyang town, raised for Zhan Bao, who passed the highest imperial examination in 1496, and inscribed \"brothers both jinshi\" on one face and \"father and son both successful\" on the other. The 8.5 m-high gateway of three bays and five roofs imitates timber construction, with bracket sets and reliefs of lions with a ball, cranes, qilin, figures and flowers."},{"id":"longquan-zhulong-town","name":"Zhulong Town","name_zh":"住龙","pinyin":"Zhùlóng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Lishui","lat":28.1774,"lon":118.894,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquan-zhulong-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain town on the upper Wuxi River in north-west Longquan that lay at the heart of the Communist base area in south-west Zhejiang in the 1930s and is promoted as \"Zhejiang's little Jinggangshan\". Riverside Red Army Street in Zhuxi village is lined with restored timber houses now used as guesthouses, teahouses and shops, and the restored seat of the Southwest Zhejiang Special Committee stands in nearby Xijing village. Zhulong is also a national historic and cultural town, visited for its river scenery, camping and spring cherry blossom."},{"id":"xiangshan-ala-de-hai-water-park","name":"Ala de Hai Water Park, Xiangshan","name_zh":"阿拉的海水上乐园","pinyin":"Ālā De Hǎi Shuǐshàng Lèyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.404,"lon":121.9394,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangshan-ala-de-hai-water-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large water park in the Damuwan new town on the coast south-east of Xiangshan's county town, with water slides and pools, which also stages summer events. It is a summer outing for families and groups."},{"id":"ninghai-ancient-opera-stages","name":"Ancient Opera Stages of Ninghai","name_zh":"宁海古戏台","pinyin":"Nínghǎi Gǔ Xìtái","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.3618,"lon":121.4143,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ninghai-ancient-opera-stages/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Ninghai County keeps more than 120 old opera stages in temples and clan halls, and ten of them, mostly from the Qing dynasty and the Republican period, are protected together as one national monument. The best known, in the Hu clan hall at Aohu village (built in 1797 and enlarged in 1854), has three linked caisson ceilings spiralling over the stage and its corridors, and the others are similarly painted and carved. Together they show how village opera was staged in eastern Zhejiang."},{"id":"ningbo-baiyunzhuang","name":"Baiyunzhuang (Baiyun Manor), Ningbo","name_zh":"白云庄","pinyin":"Báiyún Zhuāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8772,"lon":121.5202,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-baiyunzhuang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small walled estate in western Ningbo, built from 1611 as the tomb manor of the Wan family, which in the late 1660s and 1670s became the home of the Yongshang Zhengren Academy, where the philosopher Huang Zongxi taught the Wan brothers and other students and the Eastern Zhejiang school of historical scholarship took shape. The buildings, largely rebuilt in 1934 and restored from the 1980s, house exhibitions on the Wan family, the academy and Huang Zongxi, with Wan family tombs beside them."},{"id":"jiangbei-baoguo-temple","name":"Baoguo Temple","name_zh":"保国寺","pinyin":"Bǎoguó Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.9821,"lon":121.5172,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangbei-baoguo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside temple north-west of Ningbo whose main hall, built in 1013, is one of the few Northern Song timber buildings surviving south of the Yangtze. The hall predates the Song building manual Yingzao Fashi by 90 years yet matches it closely, with melon-ribbed pillars and three caisson ceilings, while the outer eaves were added in 1684. There are no monks now: the halls form an architecture museum explaining how the building was made."},{"id":"xiangshan-china-fishing-village","name":"China Fishing Village, Shipu","name_zh":"中国渔村","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yúcūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.2412,"lon":121.9546,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangshan-china-fishing-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seaside resort area on Huangcheng beach, a few kilometres north of Shipu town on the southern Xiangshan coast, themed on the fishing-village culture of the area. Its sandy beach is used for swimming in summer, and it suits a half-day by the sea combined with Shipu's old town."},{"id":"beilun-china-port-museum","name":"China Port Museum","name_zh":"中国港口博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gǎngkǒu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7587,"lon":121.9059,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beilun-china-port-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large museum of China's ports and maritime trade at Chunxiao on the Beilun coast, opened in 2014 in a building designed by Cheng Taining that is shaped to suggest a conch shell and a sail. Its galleries trace port history and sea-borne trade, with hands-on halls on port science and the ocean, and it is also the Ningbo base of the national underwater cultural heritage programme; it was rated a national first-grade museum in 2020."},{"id":"jiangbei-cicheng-ancient-town","name":"Cicheng Ancient Town","name_zh":"慈城古县城","pinyin":"Cíchéng Gǔ Xiànchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.986,"lon":121.4461,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangbei-cicheng-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The walled seat of the old Cixi County until 1954, Cicheng was spared later redevelopment and keeps lanes of Ming and Qing mansions, guildhalls, memorial arches and wells. Highlights include one of the best-preserved Confucian temples in eastern Zhejiang and family mansions such as Jiadi Shijia and Buzhengfang, and the town's restoration received a UNESCO Asia-Pacific heritage award (honourable mention) in 2009. It is a pleasant half-day of lanes, courtyards and small museums."},{"id":"yuyao-danshan-chishui","name":"Danshan Chishui Scenic Area, Yuyao","name_zh":"丹山赤水","pinyin":"Dānshān Chìshuǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7956,"lon":121.1559,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuyao-danshan-chishui","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stream-valley scenic area by Shilin village in Dalan town, high in the Siming Mountains of southern Yuyao, where a walking route follows the water past pools, small waterfalls and rock formations. Shilin is a mountain village some 600 years old known for its 'diaohong' persimmons, grown here for more than 400 years, which hang red on the trees in autumn."},{"id":"cixi-dapeng-mountain","name":"Dapeng Mountain","name_zh":"达蓬山","pinyin":"Dápéng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.0638,"lon":121.5103,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cixi-dapeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 422 m hill near the coast north of Ningbo, renamed after the legend that the Qin-dynasty court sorcerer Xu Fu set sail from here for the islands of the immortals. The Youngor Group has developed it as a resort, with a Xu Fu culture park and Foji Temple in the forest park on the hill, a children's amusement park and lodgings. It suits a family day out or a hillside walk from Ningbo."},{"id":"dongqian-lake-erling-pagoda","name":"Erling Pagoda","name_zh":"二灵塔","pinyin":"Èrlíng Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7741,"lon":121.6773,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongqian-lake-erling-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone pagoda about 10 m tall on the ridge of Erling Hill, a snake-shaped peninsula on the south-east side of Dongqian Lake, built in the Zhenghe era (1111–1118) of the Northern Song. Carved in imitation of a timber pavilion-style tower, it is a rare Northern Song stone building in Zhejiang, and with Erling Temple below it forms one of the lake's traditional Ten Views, 'Evening Glow at Erling'."},{"id":"cixi-fantawild-oriental-heritage","name":"Fantawild Oriental Heritage, Ningbo","name_zh":"方特东方神画","pinyin":"Fāngtè Dōngfāng Shénhuà","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.3246,"lon":121.1774,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cixi-fantawild-oriental-heritage","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large theme park of the Fantawild chain in the Hangzhou Bay new area on the coast north of Cixi, whose rides and shows are themed on Chinese history and legend and make heavy use of screen and special-effects technology. It suits families and theme-park fans and takes most of a day."},{"id":"fenghua-museum","name":"Fenghua Museum","name_zh":"奉化博物馆","pinyin":"Fènghuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.674,"lon":121.4109,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenghua-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The district museum of Fenghua, opened in 2020 in a converted former power-plant building on Dacheng Road in the town centre. Its permanent galleries cover Fenghua's history, Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo and their ties with Fenghua, and local gazetteers and old books, and the history gallery won a national exhibition award for 2021."},{"id":"yuyao-eastern-zhejiang-base-area-sites","name":"Former Sites of the Eastern Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Base Area, Liangnong","name_zh":"浙东抗日根据地旧址","pinyin":"Zhèdōng Kàngrì Gēnjùdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8862,"lon":121.0768,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuyao-eastern-zhejiang-base-area-sites/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of old houses at Hengkantou village near Liangnong, in the northern Siming Mountains, that served in 1942–1945 as the command centre of the Communist-led anti-Japanese base area in eastern Zhejiang. They held the regional Party committee, the administrative office, the headquarters and political department of the New Fourth Army's Eastern Zhejiang column, its bank and newspaper and a branch of the Lu Xun Academy, and are now open as exhibition sites. The Eastern Zhejiang Revolutionary Base Memorial Hall stands opposite, and the village receives many school study groups."},{"id":"fenghua-nandu-guangji-bridge","name":"Guangji Bridge, Nandu","name_zh":"南渡广济桥","pinyin":"Nándù Guǎngjì Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7106,"lon":121.4336,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fenghua-nandu-guangji-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A covered bridge over the Xian River at Nandu village, on the old post road from Ningbo to Taizhou, whose stone piers date from a rebuilding of 1286 and carry a timber deck under a long tiled gallery; it is described as the only surviving Yuan-dynasty gallery bridge in Zhejiang. Each pier is a splayed frame of slender stone posts rather than solid masonry, one post is inscribed with the date and the name of the mason, and tea and stele pavilions stand at the ends."},{"id":"cixi-haipi-island-water-park","name":"Haipi Island Water Park, Hangzhou Bay","name_zh":"海皮岛","pinyin":"Hǎipí Dǎo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.3308,"lon":121.2326,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cixi-haipi-island-water-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large water park in the Hangzhou Bay new area on the coast north of Cixi, with slides, pools and a wave pool in indoor and outdoor sections. It is mainly a summer outing for families and groups."},{"id":"cixi-haitian-yizhou-sea-platform","name":"Haitian Yizhou Sea Platform","name_zh":"海天一洲","pinyin":"Hǎitiān Yīzhōu","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.4633,"lon":121.1251,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cixi-haitian-yizhou-sea-platform/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A service and sightseeing platform built on piers in the sea beside the middle of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, opened to visitors in 2010. A 145.6 m observation tower has a 360-degree gallery near the top, and the platform holds a bridge exhibition hall, cafés and a hotel. It is a stop for views of the bridge and the open bay on a drive between Ningbo and Shanghai."},{"id":"yuyao-hemudu-site","name":"Hemudu Site and Museum","name_zh":"河姆渡遗址","pinyin":"Hémǔdù Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.9632,"lon":121.3451,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuyao-hemudu-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The type site of the Hemudu culture, a Neolithic rice-growing culture of about 5000–3000 BC, found in 1973 on the north bank of the Yao River; its waterlogged layers preserved timber pile-houses joined with mortise and tenon, cultivated rice, black pottery and carved ivory. The site museum, raised on stilts like the excavated houses, shows the finds, and an outdoor area reconstructs the village. In February 2026 a larger archaeological site park with wetlands and hands-on displays of early farming and building opened for trial operation beside it."},{"id":"xiangshan-huaao-barracks-site","name":"Hua'ao Barracks Site","name_zh":"花岙兵营遗址","pinyin":"Huā'ào Bīngyíng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.0792,"lon":121.8108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangshan-huaao-barracks-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dry-stone army camps built from 1646 on remote Hua'ao Island by the Ming loyalist commanders Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen during their resistance to the Qing, the best preserved of their island bases. The two main camps at Gaotu'ao and Zhijishan keep walls, gates, rows of barrack rooms and tunnels, and a memorial hall to Zhang Huangyan opened at Gaotu'ao in 2007. The island also has a stone forest of columnar volcanic rock and traditional salt pans."},{"id":"fenghua-huangxian-forest-park","name":"Huangxian Forest Park, Fenghua","name_zh":"黄贤森林公园","pinyin":"Huángxián Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.5616,"lon":121.5804,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenghua-huangxian-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A coastal forest park around Huangxian village in Qiucun, south-eastern Fenghua, covering about 10,000 mu (some 670 hectares) of wooded hills above the shore of Xiangshan Bay, promoted as the 'Huangxian Great Wall on the Sea'. The village is linked by local tradition with the Northern Song poet Lin Bu and with Xia Huanggong, a scholar of the late Qin."},{"id":"beilun-jiufeng-mountain","name":"Jiufeng Mountain, Beilun","name_zh":"九峰山","pinyin":"Jiǔfēng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8548,"lon":121.8362,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beilun-jiufeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested range of hills in Daqi, Beilun district, with 26 peaks, two lakes and valleys of streams, pools, rock formations and waterfalls, and walking routes popular with Ningbo hikers; the Ruiyan Temple valley lies on its eastern side. Its old plum garden of more than 6,000 trees blooms in late winter, and in 2025 the scenic area added an evening tour with light displays and performances."},{"id":"zhenhai-jiulong-lake","name":"Jiulong Lake, Zhenhai","name_zh":"九龙湖","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.0418,"lon":121.527,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenhai-jiulong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake in the hills of Jiulonghu town, northern Zhenhai, completed in 1988 and later switched from drinking-water supply to landscape and recreation use. The tourist area combines the lake shore with side valleys of small waterfalls, pools and named rocks, and the lakeside has become a provincial tourism resort with hotels and family attractions."},{"id":"haishu-liangzhu-culture-park","name":"Liangzhu Culture Park","name_zh":"梁祝文化公园","pinyin":"Liángzhù Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.9106,"lon":121.4805,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haishu-liangzhu-culture-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park in Gaoqiao, on the western edge of Ningbo, devoted to the legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the 'Butterfly Lovers', and built on the site of a temple and a Jin-dynasty tomb traditionally said to be Liang Shanbo's. Opened in 1999 and reopened in 2012 after expansion, it tells the story in scenes along garden paths, with pavilions, the Liang Shanbo temple, a rebuilt joint tomb of the lovers and a sculpture of the pair turned into butterflies. It has nothing to do with the Neolithic Liangzhu culture near Hangzhou."},{"id":"ningbo-lin-residence-zijin-street","name":"Lin Residence, Zijin Street","name_zh":"林宅","pinyin":"Lín Zhái","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8653,"lon":121.5408,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-lin-residence-zijin-street/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing mansion rebuilt by the brothers Lin Zhongsong and Lin Zhonghua after they passed the provincial examinations in the Tongzhi era (1862–1874), known for its carving: about 170 brick carvings and some 50 in wood and bamboo survive. A 6 m gate tower with relief scenes, carved screen walls and a rockery like the one at Tianyi Ge fill a compound of about 3,500 m²."},{"id":"jiangbei-lvye-villa","name":"Lvye Villa, Cicheng","name_zh":"绿野山居","pinyin":"Lǜyě Shānjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.026,"lon":121.4019,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangbei-lvye-villa","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure resort in the hills of Wuxing village on the north-western edge of Cicheng, where visitors try farm work, walk in the countryside and eat farmhouse food, and whose cherry trees draw crowds when they flower in spring. An adjoining amusement area, Lvye Happy Valley, adds rides, and the old county town of Cicheng is close by."},{"id":"dongqian-lake-mashan","name":"Mashan Leisure Area, Dongqian Lake","name_zh":"东钱湖马山","pinyin":"Dōngqián Hú Mǎ Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.75,"lon":121.6727,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongqian-lake-mashan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lakeside leisure area of about 100 hectares on the south-eastern shore of Dongqian Lake, centred on the Mashan wetland, where boardwalks run through reed beds and waterside trees that draw many birds. Around it are tent and camper-van campsites and the Erlingshan hot-spring resort, and the Southern Song Stone Sculpture Park lies within the area."},{"id":"cixi-minghe-ancient-town","name":"Minghe Ancient Town","name_zh":"鸣鹤古镇","pinyin":"Mínghè Gǔzhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.1365,"lon":121.3793,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cixi-minghe-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town at the foot of Wulei Mountain in Guanhaiwei, south-eastern Cixi, with about 1,200 years of history, whose lanes, waterways and stone bridges are lined with large houses of merchants, many of whom grew rich in the herbal-medicine trade in the Ming and Qing. It is a provincial historic and cultural town, and Du Lake, Baiyang Lake, Wulei Temple and Jinxian Temple lie close by."},{"id":"ningbo-banking-guild-hall","name":"Ningbo Banking Guild Hall","name_zh":"钱业会馆","pinyin":"Qiányè Huìguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8751,"lon":121.5527,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-banking-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The guildhall of Ningbo's native banks (qianzhuang), built from 1925 for their meetings and money-market dealings; Ningbo bankers had pioneered a book-transfer clearing system in the 19th century. Its three courtyards combine traditional timber halls with a Western-style brick front and red tiled roofs, and the rear council hall lies behind a garden with a domed pavilion. In 1994 it became the home of the Ningbo money museum."},{"id":"ningbo-museum","name":"Ningbo Museum","name_zh":"宁波博物馆","pinyin":"Níngbō Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8174,"lon":121.5409,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city's history museum, opened in 2008 and designed by Wang Shu, who in 2012 became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize. Its sloping walls are faced with Ming and Qing bricks and tiles collected in the region and with concrete cast in bamboo formwork, and the galleries cover Ningbo's history and folk customs. It is now part of the Ningbo Museum group, which also runs the Ningbobang Museum."},{"id":"ningbo-ocean-world","name":"Ningbo Ocean World","name_zh":"宁波海洋世界","pinyin":"Níngbō Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.856,"lon":121.579,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningbo-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city aquarium beside Ningbo Children's Park in Yinzhou district, with walk-through viewing tunnels beneath its tanks and galleries and gardens styled on places such as ancient Egypt and Cambodia. It suits families with young children and makes an easy indoor stop in the city."},{"id":"ningbo-science-exploration-center","name":"Ningbo Science Exploration Center","name_zh":"宁波科学探索中心","pinyin":"Níngbō Kēxué Tànsuǒ Zhōngxīn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8615,"lon":121.6132,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningbo-science-exploration-center","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large hands-on science museum in the Ningbo Cultural Plaza of the Eastern New Town, open since 2014. Galleries on the ocean, the environment and the universe fill the second floor, with safety-education halls and an 18 m dome cinema above. It suits families with children."},{"id":"ningbo-wildlife-park","name":"Ningbo Wildlife Park","name_zh":"宁波野生动物园","pinyin":"Níngbō Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8081,"lon":121.6735,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningbo-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large zoo on hilly ground with lakes at the north-east edge of the Dongqian Lake resort area, opened in 2004 as Youngor Zoo and renamed Ningbo Wildlife Park in 2021. Animal enclosures are spread around the lakes and woods, making it a family day out."},{"id":"zhenhai-ningbobang-museum","name":"Ningbobang Museum","name_zh":"宁波帮博物馆","pinyin":"Níngbōbāng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.9212,"lon":121.6234,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenhai-ningbobang-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum about the 'Ningbo bang', the network of Ningbo-born merchants prominent in shipping, banking and trade in Shanghai and later overseas, opened in 2009 in a building by the architect He Jingtang laid out along a water street. Its four galleries trace how the merchants left home, the businesses they built and their ties with their home region."},{"id":"ninghai-forest-hot-spring","name":"Ninghai Forest Hot Spring","name_zh":"宁海森林温泉","pinyin":"Nínghǎi Sēnlín Wēnquán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.3878,"lon":121.3205,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ninghai-forest-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in the wooded hills of north-western Ninghai County, built around the Nanxi spring, whose water reaches about 49°C and contains more than 20 dissolved minerals. The surrounding forest is a national forest park, and the resort suits a relaxing half-day or an overnight stay away from the city."},{"id":"ningbo-old-bund","name":"Old Bund, Ningbo","name_zh":"老外滩","pinyin":"Lǎo Wàitān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8791,"lon":121.5564,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-old-bund/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside quarter on the north bank of the Yong River at Ningbo's Sanjiangkou, where the foreign settlement grew up after Ningbo was opened as a treaty port in 1844, two decades before Shanghai's Bund took shape. Some 54 listed historic buildings remain, among them the former British consulate, the Zhejiang customs house, the old post office and the Catholic church, in cobbled streets now lined with bars, restaurants and shops. It is busiest in the evening, when the waterfront is lit up."},{"id":"ninghai-qiantong-ancient-town","name":"Qiantong Ancient Town","name_zh":"前童古镇","pinyin":"Qiántóng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.2273,"lon":121.3466,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ninghai-qiantong-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old clan town in the hills of south-west Ninghai, founded when the Tong family settled here in 1233; about eight in ten residents still bear the surname. Lanes of Ming and Qing houses are laced with small channels fed by the Baixi and Lianghuang streams, and the Tong ancestral hall dates from 1385. It makes an unhurried half-day of old courtyards, stone bridges and village life."},{"id":"ningbo-qingan-guildhall","name":"Qing'an Guildhall","name_zh":"庆安会馆","pinyin":"Qìng'ān Huìguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8749,"lon":121.5588,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-qingan-guildhall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the sea goddess Mazu that doubled as the guildhall of Ningbo's northern-route shipowners, completed in 1853 on the east bank of the river at Sanjiangkou and since 2014 part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site. It is unusual for having two opera stages, and is richly decorated with carved stone dragon columns, brick reliefs and red-and-gold lacquered woodcarving. The halls house the East Zhejiang Maritime Folk Museum, with models of Chinese ships through the ages."},{"id":"ningbo-sacred-heart-cathedral","name":"Sacred Heart Cathedral, Ningbo","name_zh":"江北天主教堂","pinyin":"Jiāngběi Tiānzhǔ Jiàotáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8769,"lon":121.5563,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-sacred-heart-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Gothic Revival cathedral built in 1872 under the French bishop of the Zhejiang vicariate, whose single bell tower, added in 1899, is a landmark of the riverside at Sanjiangkou. Gutted by fire in 2014, it was restored with its original style of roof tiles and reopened in 2016, and it remains an active Catholic church. It stands at the north end of Xinjiang Bridge, a short walk from the Old Bund."},{"id":"cixi-shanglin-lake-yue-kilns","name":"Shanglin Lake Yue Kilns","name_zh":"上林湖越窑遗址","pinyin":"Shànglín Hú Yuèyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.1225,"lon":121.3402,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cixi-shanglin-lake-yue-kilns/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nearly 200 kiln sites around Shanglin Lake and its neighbouring lakes made Yue ware celadon from the Eastern Han to the Southern Song, and the Housi'ao kiln, excavated in 2015–2017, is thought to have produced the 'secret-colour' celadon found at Famen Temple. The national archaeological park built since 2015 displays a dragon kiln at Hehuaxin, untouched shard heaps at Zhuyuanshan and workshop remains at Housi'ao, and the Shanglin Lake Yue Kiln Museum stands by the lake. It suits anyone interested in Chinese ceramics."},{"id":"xiangshan-shipu-ancient-town","name":"Shipu Fishing Port Ancient Town","name_zh":"石浦渔港古城","pinyin":"Shípǔ Yúgǎng Gǔchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.2117,"lon":121.9427,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangshan-shipu-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old quarter of Shipu, a fishing port at the southern end of the Xiangshan peninsula, set at the foot of a hill facing the harbour, with stone-paved lanes lined with old shops, houses and a temple; Shipu is a nationally listed historic and cultural town. A second section reopened in 2025 with plazas, boutique hotels, restaurants, exhibitions and music bars, and the lanes look out over the working harbour and the sea."},{"id":"xiangshan-songlanshan-coast","name":"Songlanshan Coast","name_zh":"松兰山","pinyin":"Sōnglán Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.4269,"lon":121.9482,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangshan-songlanshan-coast","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of rocky headlands and small sandy bays on the open coast east of Xiangshan town, including East Beach, South Beach and Baisha Bay. In summer it is a busy seaside resort with a bathing beach and a sunrise pavilion, and the Zhejiang Ocean Sports Centre on its shore was the sailing venue of the Hangzhou Asian Games. It suits a beach day or a coastal walk."},{"id":"dongqian-lake-southern-song-stone-carvings","name":"Southern Song Stone Sculpture Park, Dongqian Lake","name_zh":"南宋石刻公园","pinyin":"Nán Sòng Shíkè Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7493,"lon":121.682,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongqian-lake-southern-song-stone-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park on the south-eastern shore of Dongqian Lake built around the tomb path of Shi Jian, a posthumously ennobled member of the Shi clan that gave the Southern Song several chancellors, whose avenue of paired stone officials, generals, horses, tigers and sheep between memorial gateways is described as the best-preserved Southern Song tomb path in China. More than 200 stone figures, mostly Southern Song but some from the Ming and Qing, have been gathered here from sites around the lake, with an indoor museum on the carvings and their history. Other Shi family tomb paths still stand in place in the hills around the lake."},{"id":"dongqian-lake-miaogouhou-stone-archway","name":"Stone Archways of Miaogouhou and Hengsheng","name_zh":"庙沟后石牌坊","pinyin":"Miàogōuhòu Shí Páifāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7341,"lon":121.6702,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongqian-lake-miaogouhou-stone-archway","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two small two-pillar stone archways from the Southern Song or Yuan dynasty that once marked the spirit paths of tombs, carved in imitation of timber with brackets and tiled hip-and-gable roofs, and counted among the oldest stone archways in China. The Miaogouhou arch, 6.16 m high, stands on a hillside near Hanling village by Dongqian Lake; the Hengsheng arch, found in 1999, is about 14 km to the north in Wuxiang."},{"id":"xiangshan-tashan-neolithic-site","name":"Tashan Neolithic Site","name_zh":"塔山遗址","pinyin":"Tǎshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.4814,"lon":121.8796,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangshan-tashan-neolithic-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside settlement and cemetery in Xiangshan's county town, occupied from about 4000 to 500 BC, where excavations in 1990, 1993 and 2007–2008 found more than 60 Neolithic burials with pottery and jade. The finds show the Hemudu and Majiabang cultures meeting on the Xiangshan coast. The site itself is covered by a public park, and artefacts from it are displayed in the Xiangshan County Museum in the same town."},{"id":"haishu-tashan-weir","name":"Tashan Weir","name_zh":"它山堰","pinyin":"Tuōshān Yàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7701,"lon":121.3478,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haishu-tashan-weir/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone weir across the Yin River built in 833 under the county magistrate Wang Yuanwei, which kept tidal salt water out and diverted fresh water to irrigate the plain and supply the city of Mingzhou, today's Ningbo. The 113.7 m dam of dressed stone blocks is still in use, and in 2015 it was named a World Heritage Irrigation Structure. A temple to Wang stands on the hill beside it."},{"id":"yinzhou-king-ashoka-temple","name":"Temple of King Ashoka","name_zh":"阿育王寺","pinyin":"Āyùwáng Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8485,"lon":121.7384,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yinzhou-king-ashoka-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist monastery at the foot of Mount Mao east of Ningbo, traditionally founded in the Western Jin and named by Emperor Wu of Liang, and known for a relic said to come from the Buddha's skull. The monk Jianzhen stayed here in 744 between attempts to reach Japan; the temple was fifth of the Five Mountains under the Southern Song and is regarded as an ancestral temple of Japan's Rinzai school. Most of its halls were rebuilt in the Qing dynasty, and it remains an active monastery."},{"id":"yinzhou-tiangong-manor","name":"Tiangong Manor, Yinzhou","name_zh":"天宫庄园","pinyin":"Tiāngōng Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8047,"lon":121.5725,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinzhou-tiangong-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism park of about 1,600 mu (some 107 hectares) run by Wandi village in Xiaying, on the southern edge of Ningbo city, combining farm fields and orchards with hands-on farm activities, children's study programmes, leisure facilities and halls showing local intangible-heritage crafts and the village's development. It receives large numbers of school study groups and suits families wanting a countryside day out close to the city."},{"id":"yuyao-tianluoshan-site","name":"Tianluoshan Site","name_zh":"田螺山遗址","pinyin":"Tiánluóshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.0242,"lon":121.3797,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuyao-tianluoshan-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Hemudu-culture village site at Xiang'ao village in Sanqishi, inhabited about 7,000 to 5,500 years ago, found in 2001 and excavated from 2004, whose waterlogged layers kept timber pile-house remains, the layout of a village, rice, food remains and what are thought to be the roots of cultivated tea plants. A shelter hall built over the excavation in 2007 lets visitors look down on the dig and its finds."},{"id":"ningbo-tianning-temple-pagoda","name":"Tianning Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"天宁寺塔","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8767,"lon":121.5391,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-tianning-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A square, multi-eaved brick pagoda about 12 m tall, dated by its inscribed bricks to the 860s, which is the only part of Tianning Temple (founded in 851) still standing. It is the oldest Tang brick pagoda in Zhejiang, kept in a small green on Zhongshan West Road after a proposal to remove it when the road was widened in 1995 was dropped."},{"id":"yinzhou-tiantong-temple","name":"Tiantong Temple","name_zh":"天童寺","pinyin":"Tiāntóng Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8074,"lon":121.7906,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yinzhou-tiantong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Chan monastery in the forested Taibai Mountains east of Ningbo, traditionally founded in the Western Jin, ranked third of the Five Mountains under the Southern Song and regarded as the cradle of Japan's Sōtō Zen school. Its oldest surviving hall dates from 1631, and an avenue of more than 200 old ginkgo trees turns gold in late autumn. It remains an active monastery."},{"id":"yuyao-tianxia-yuyuan","name":"Tianxia Yuyuan Jade Park, Yuyao","name_zh":"天下玉苑","pinyin":"Tiānxià Yùyuàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.9419,"lon":121.3618,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuyao-tianxia-yuyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A jade-themed culture park at the foot of Jiulong Hill in Dayin town, eastern Yuyao, laid out on a hillside around a lake with a Buddhist temple, terraces, gateways and gardens, and centred on a giant stack of jade boulders. It suits a short visit for those interested in Chinese jade."},{"id":"ningbo-tianyi-ge-moon-lake","name":"Tianyi Ge and Moon Lake","name_zh":"天一阁·月湖","pinyin":"Tiānyī Gé · Yuè Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8738,"lon":121.536,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-tianyi-ge-moon-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tianyi Ge, built in 1561–1566 by the official Fan Qin, is the oldest surviving private library in China, a two-storey book tower with a fire-pond in front and a rockery garden. The museum around it adds the Fan family residence, a forest of steles and the Qin clan hall, and the library's layout was copied for the imperial libraries built to hold the Siku Quanshu. Next door, Moon Lake, dug in the Tang, is a park of islands, bridges and restored historic houses in the heart of the city."},{"id":"yuyao-tongji-bridge","name":"Tongji Bridge, Yuyao","name_zh":"通济桥","pinyin":"Tōngjì Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.0491,"lon":121.1529,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuyao-tongji-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tall three-arch stone bridge across the Yao River in the centre of Yuyao, first built in timber in 1047, rebuilt in stone in 1332 and given its present form in 1729–1731. Its steep central arch let sea-going boats pass beneath under sail, and it is nicknamed the 'First Bridge of Eastern Zhejiang'. At its north end stands the Shunjiang Tower, an old city-gate tower, and the bridge lies in the protected historic quarter around Fuqian Road."},{"id":"yuyao-wang-yangming-former-residence","name":"Wang Yangming's Former Residence","name_zh":"王阳明故居","pinyin":"Wáng Yángmíng Gùjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":30.0536,"lon":121.148,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuyao-wang-yangming-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace in central Yuyao of Wang Shouren, better known as Wang Yangming (1472–1529), the Ming philosopher who brought the Confucian 'learning of the mind' to its fullest form. Along its axis stand a gatehouse, a sedan-chair hall, a carved brick gate tower, the Shoushan Hall and the two-storey Ruiyun Tower where he was born, rebuilt in 1996, and the house has been a memorial museum since 2007. The protected unit also covers his tomb, on the slopes of Xianxia hill in Lanting, Shaoxing, built in 1529 and reached by a stepped path of more than 100 steps."},{"id":"haishu-wulongtan","name":"Wulongtan (Five Dragon Pools), Ningbo","name_zh":"五龙潭","pinyin":"Wǔlóng Tán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.7974,"lon":121.2541,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haishu-wulongtan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Longguan township, in the Siming foothills of south-western Haishu district, developed from 2000 around a stream that drops through a chain of five pools and waterfalls, each named after a dragon. A path climbs past rock inscriptions, cliffs and the pools to Yinglin Lake higher up, and a small Guandi and Dragon King temple, rebuilt many times, stands by the entrance."},{"id":"ninghai-wushan-grottoes","name":"Wushan Grottoes, Ninghai","name_zh":"伍山石窟","pinyin":"Wǔshān Shíkū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.2109,"lon":121.7469,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ninghai-wushan-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old stone quarry in low coastal hills at Changjie, eastern Ninghai, where stone was cut from the Sui and Tang onward, most intensively under the Song and Yuan, leaving more than 800 man-made caverns in some 30 groups. Some caverns are linked by passages or open to the sky through shafts, others are flooded into clear green pools, and paths and stairs lead through them to a pavilion on the hilltop. Opened to visitors after 2004, it stays cool even in summer."},{"id":"xiangshan-global-studios","name":"Xiangshan Global Studios","name_zh":"象山影视城","pinyin":"Xiàngshān Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.2924,"lon":121.8335,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangshan-global-studios/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film and television studio complex in Xinqiao, Xiangshan County, begun in 2003 for the wuxia series The Return of the Condor Heroes and open to visitors since 2005. Its period backlots include a Song-style martial-arts town, a Spring and Autumn and Warring States town, a Tang city and a Republican-era street, among sets used for many historical dramas. It suits film and TV fans and families."},{"id":"fenghua-xikou-tengtou","name":"Xikou–Tengtou Scenic Area","name_zh":"溪口－滕头","pinyin":"Xīkǒu–Téngtóu","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.6834,"lon":121.2793,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fenghua-xikou-tengtou/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xikou, a town on the Shan stream below the Siming hills, is the home town of Chiang Kai-shek, and its protected Chiang family buildings include Fenghao House, the family residence he enlarged in the late 1920s, the salt shop where he was born in 1887, the house where his son Chiang Ching-kuo lived from 1937 and his mother's tomb. Above the town, Xuedou Mountain has waterfalls, cliffs, Chiang's Miaogaotai villa and Xuedou Temple, a Chan monastery founded in the Jin and linked with the cult of the Maitreya Buddha, with a giant bronze Maitreya statue. The scenic area also takes in Tengtou, an ecological model village about 10 km east of Xikou with gardens, orchards and a collection of old carved stone windows."},{"id":"ningbo-yongfeng-warehouse-site","name":"Yongfeng Warehouse Site","name_zh":"永丰库遗址","pinyin":"Yǒngfēng Kù Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.8763,"lon":121.5431,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningbo-yongfeng-warehouse-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of a large state warehouse used from the Southern Song to the Ming, best known as the Yongfeng storehouse of the Yuan dynasty, excavated in 2001–2002 beside the Drum Tower. Finds included ceramics from kilns across China and Persian blue-glazed pottery, evidence of Ningbo's overseas trade. The excavation was backfilled, and a park opened in 2009 shows a full-size replica of the foundations from boardwalks."},{"id":"zhenhai-zhaobao-mountain","name":"Zhaobao Mountain","name_zh":"招宝山","pinyin":"Zhāobǎo Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Ningbo","lat":29.9627,"lon":121.7222,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenhai-zhaobao-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill guarding the mouth of the Yong River, fortified from the Ming to the 1940s against Japanese pirates and British, French and Japanese forces, and the core of the Zhenhaikou coastal defence monuments. Paths lead to the Ming Weiyuan fort on the summit (1560), the Moon fort of 1883, old steles and the round Anyuan battery of 1887, with the Aozhu Pagoda on the hill and a coastal defence museum, opened in 1997, at its foot. Further monuments of the same group, including Qing batteries and a lookout on Jinji Hill, lie across the river in Beilun."},{"id":"jiangshan-dachen-ancient-village","name":"Dachen Ancient Village","name_zh":"大陈古村","pinyin":"Dàchén Gǔcūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.8248,"lon":118.5883,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangshan-dachen-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village with a history of more than 600 years in Dachen township, Jiangshan, its houses, mostly from the Qing dynasty, built close against the surrounding hills. The village keeps the ancestral hall of the Wang clan, and in 2019 Dachen was named in the first national list of key villages for rural tourism."},{"id":"longyou-guanxi-shijia","name":"Guanxi Shijia Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"关西世家","pinyin":"Guānxī Shìjiā","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.2727,"lon":119.2166,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyou-guanxi-shijia","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming ancestral hall of the Wanli era (1573–1620) in Yangjia village in the north of Longyou, two courtyards deep with a stage. Its gatehouse has an imposing double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, a stone tablet set in the east wall records when and how it was built, and its brick-framed gable walls are typical of Ming building in Longyou."},{"id":"kaihua-gutianshan-reserve","name":"Gutianshan National Nature Reserve","name_zh":"古田山","pinyin":"Gǔtián Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.2477,"lon":118.1269,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaihua-gutianshan-reserve","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national nature reserve of about 81 km² in the mountains of western Kaihua on the Jiangxi border, set up in 1975 and upgraded in 2001 to protect subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest. Its wildlife includes Elliot's pheasant and the black muntjac, and the highest point, Shi'ershan, reaches 1,258 m. Part of the reserve is open to visitors as a scenic area, and the whole reserve lies within the Qianjiangyuan national park area at the source of the Qiantang River."},{"id":"longyou-huzhen-sarira-pagoda","name":"Huzhen Sarira Pagoda","name_zh":"湖镇舍利塔","pinyin":"Húzhèn Shèlì Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.0664,"lon":119.2934,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyou-huzhen-sarira-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A six-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda about 27 m tall, built solid in imitation of a timber tower, on Xiajie street in Huzhen town. It was first built in 1058 in the Northern Song and was repaired in the Ming and again in 1903."},{"id":"kecheng-beier-lan-ancestral-hall","name":"Lan Clan Ancestral Hall, Beier","name_zh":"北二蓝氏宗祠","pinyin":"Běi'èr Lánshì Zōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.9503,"lon":118.7272,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kecheng-beier-lan-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Lan clan, a family of the She ethnic minority, in Beier village, Hangbu town, built in 1628 at the end of the Ming dynasty. Covering about 650 m² and finely crafted, it is regarded as the best-preserved She ancestral hall in Zhejiang."},{"id":"longyou-grottoes","name":"Longyou Caves","name_zh":"龙游石窟","pinyin":"Lóngyóu Shíkū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.0617,"lon":119.1845,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longyou-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of 24 huge man-made caverns cut into the sandstone of Fenghuang Hill beside the Qu River, found in 1992 when farmers drained five village ponds and discovered that they were flooded caverns. Nobody knows who dug them, when or why: their walls, ceilings and pillars are covered in neat bands of chisel marks, there is no record of their making, and pottery found in the silt dates from the Han dynasty. Several caverns can be walked through, with tall chambers supported by stone pillars left in place."},{"id":"longyou-minjuyuan","name":"Longyou Folk Residence Garden","name_zh":"龙游民居苑","pinyin":"Lóngyóu Mínjūyuàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.0259,"lon":119.1782,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longyou-minjuyuan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open-air museum of old architecture on Jiming Hill on the southern edge of Longyou town, where Ming and Qing buildings from around the county that could not be protected where they stood have been dismantled and rebuilt since 1991. Among them are the Gaogang Qifeng hall with its double-eaved gatehouse, a Ming stone pavilion, the Wu family hall with an unusual earthquake-resistant bracket frame, the Wang family house and the Lingshan flower hall, grouped around the Ming Jiming Pagoda, which stands on its original site."},{"id":"longyou-rosewood-town","name":"Longyou Rosewood Town","name_zh":"龙天红木小镇","pinyin":"Lóngtiān Hóngmù Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.0779,"lon":119.2346,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyou-rosewood-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern 'characteristic town' of about 3.5 km² in Huzhen, Longyou, built around the rosewood (hongmu) furniture industry, with traditional-style buildings, furniture workshops, a timber trading area and a rosewood cultural and creative park. Visitors come to see furniture being made and to shop, and the town has staged evening events such as bonfire parties and music festivals."},{"id":"changshan-meishudi","name":"Meishudi Scenic Area","name_zh":"梅树底","pinyin":"Méishùdǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.0801,"lon":118.6826,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshan-meishudi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill scenic area of about 8 km² in eastern Changshan, known for its old trees, wide bamboo forests and the Jiulong Waterfall, which drops down a sheer cliff. Walkers can climb Baijuhua Peak, the highest point in Changshan county, and the villages offer family inns serving local tea, wild greens and 'Guanyin tofu', a jelly made from leaves."},{"id":"jiangshan-fugai-mountain","name":"Mount Fugai","name_zh":"浮盖山","pinyin":"Fúgài Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.2536,"lon":118.467,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangshan-fugai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain on the Zhejiang–Fujian border just south of Nianbadu, an outlier of the Xianxia range whose 1,146 m summit lies on the Fujian side. On the Jiangshan side a scenic area has been laid out with walking trails, and Jiangshan promotes it together with Mount Jianglang and Nianbadu old town."},{"id":"jiangshan-mount-jianglang-nianbadu","name":"Mount Jianglang & Nianbadu","name_zh":"江郎山·廿八都","pinyin":"Jiāngláng Shān · Niànbādū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.5297,"lon":118.5653,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangshan-mount-jianglang-nianbadu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mount Jianglang is a row of three sheer red-rock pillars, Langfeng, Yafeng and Lingfeng, each more than 300 m tall, with the summit of Langfeng at 816.8 m; it is part of the China Danxia World Heritage Site, and paths climb between the peaks, including the narrow 'strip of sky' passage between Yafeng and Lingfeng, only 3.5 m wide at its narrowest. The same 5A area takes in Nianbadu, about 30 km to the south near the Fujian border, a former garrison town on the Xianxia road whose old street of Ming to Republican-era houses and temples is known for the many surnames and dialects of its residents."},{"id":"kaihua-qicai-changhong","name":"Qicai Changhong Scenic Area","name_zh":"七彩长虹","pinyin":"Qīcǎi Chánghóng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.2808,"lon":118.2062,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaihua-qicai-changhong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area covering Changhong township in the forested north-west of Kaihua, on the Jiangxi border next to Wuyuan, with woodland over more than 85% of its land. Its two main sights are Taihuishan, a hillside village nicknamed the 'Potala Palace of Jiangnan', and Gaotiankeng, an old upland village at about 680 m whose dark skies have made it a stargazing spot with a dark-sky park, an astronomy museum and viewing platforms. It suits walkers, photographers and anyone wanting a quiet night under the stars."},{"id":"quzhou-ancient-city-walls","name":"Quzhou Ancient City & City Walls","name_zh":"衢州古城","pinyin":"Qúzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.9652,"lon":118.8618,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quzhou-ancient-city-walls/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of Quzhou, a 3.2 km² cultural tourism zone opened in 2016 around Shuiting Gate, where the Ming–Qing city wall stands beside the Qu River, and the 'three streets and seven alleys' of old lanes lined with restored buildings, craft workshops and food stalls. Six old gates survive along with stretches of the wall that earned the city the name 'Iron Quzhou' in past sieges, and a gate tower over Shuiting Gate and a bell tower on its Ming stone base have been rebuilt. Near the gate on Xiaying Street stands the Zhou Xuanling Wang Temple, a shrine to a filial son first built in the Southern Song and rebuilt in the Ming."},{"id":"kaihua-root-palace","name":"Root Palace Buddhist Cultural Tourism Zone","name_zh":"根宫佛国","pinyin":"Gēngōng Fóguó","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.1404,"lon":118.3868,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaihua-root-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural park on the edge of Kaihua county town created by the root-carving artist Xu Guqing, where garden courtyards and buildings display thousands of root carvings and bonsai made from tree roots, a craft practised in Kaihua since the Tang dynasty. Its centrepiece is the 'Root Palace Buddhist Kingdom', with large Buddhist figures and a set of 500 arhats carved from roots, and the zone counts more than 20,000 root carvings across over 40 sights. It suits anyone interested in Chinese folk crafts."},{"id":"longyou-sanhuai-hall","name":"Sanhuai Hall, Rudamen","name_zh":"三槐堂","pinyin":"Sānhuái Táng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.2628,"lon":119.2191,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyou-sanhuai-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Wang clan in Rudamen, part of Tianchi village in Hengshan town, a Ming–Qing building five courtyards deep with a stage and side rooms, covering about 1,500 m². Tianchi village keeps 86 old buildings, most of them from the Ming and Qing, and its lotus fields, farmed for some 800 years, flower from June to September."},{"id":"longyou-sanmenyuan-ye-residences","name":"Sanmenyuan Ye Family Residences","name_zh":"三门源叶氏民居","pinyin":"Sānményuán Yèshì Mínjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.2111,"lon":119.103,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyou-sanmenyuan-ye-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three surviving mansions of the Ye family in Sanmenyuan village, Shifo township, built in 1846 against Hushan hill above a stream, with courtyards, a garden and a pond. Their brick gatehouses carry 23 finely carved panels of scenes from Wu opera, the regional opera of central Zhejiang, valued as a rare well-preserved record of local theatre."},{"id":"jiangshan-sanqingkou-porcelain-workshops","name":"Sanqingkou Porcelain Workshops","name_zh":"三卿口制瓷作坊","pinyin":"Sānqīngkǒu Zhìcí Zuōfang","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.4423,"lon":118.5419,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangshan-sanqingkou-porcelain-workshops/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A porcelain-making village in a small valley in Xiakou town, where the Huang family set up kilns in the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty, using local kaolin, water-powered pounding mills and wood from the hills, and shipped blue-and-white wares along the Xianxia road. Workshops, water-driven mills, kilns, a kiln-god temple, houses and the clan hall survive, including a 35 m dragon kiln built on the slope in 1962 that stopped in 1997 and was relit in 2023. An old single-arch stone bridge, the Wenchang Bridge, crosses the stream in the village."},{"id":"changshan-sanqu-stone-forest","name":"Sanqu Stone Forest","name_zh":"三衢石林","pinyin":"Sānqú Shílín","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.9883,"lon":118.5009,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshan-sanqu-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst landscape on Sanqu Mountain in Huibu town, Changshan, where limestone formed from a reef about 440 million years ago (late Ordovician) has weathered into clusters of rock pinnacles, mazes, arches and fissures. Paths lead past a sinkhole about 40 m deep, vine-hung gorges and caves, and the rock holds fossils of corals and other reef animals. It is one of the highlights of the Changshan Geopark, which was designated a UNESCO Global Geopark in April 2026."},{"id":"longyou-shaoyi-hall-hengshan-pagoda","name":"Shaoyi Hall & Hengshan Pagoda","name_zh":"绍衣堂和横山塔","pinyin":"Shàoyī Táng hé Héngshān Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.1815,"lon":119.2137,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyou-shaoyi-hall-hengshan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Ming monuments in Hengshan town in northern Longyou, listed together. Shaoyi Hall in Gaoshan village is a brick-and-timber hall of the early Ming Hongwu era, of which the front two of its four courtyards survive. Hengshan Pagoda in Hengshan village is an octagonal, seven-storey hollow brick pagoda of the 1530s, some 30 m tall, restored in 2006–07."},{"id":"kecheng-taoyuan-qili","name":"Taoyuan Qili Scenic Area","name_zh":"桃源七里","pinyin":"Táoyuán Qīlǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.1495,"lon":118.7569,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kecheng-taoyuan-qili","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large mountain and rural scenic area of about 60 km² in Qili township, Kecheng, at an average altitude of 650 m and almost entirely forested. It takes in the Daguping range, with 15 peaks above 1,000 m, waterfalls such as Yanghua and Feilaishi, the Zhiling stone forest and old villages including Yangwu, Shangcun, Junliang and Zhiling. Being several degrees cooler than the city, it is popular in summer for walking and village homestays."},{"id":"quzhou-southern-confucian-temple","name":"Temple of Southern Confucianism","name_zh":"孔氏南宗家庙","pinyin":"Kǒngshì Nánzōng Jiāmiào","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.9633,"lon":118.8723,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quzhou-southern-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family temple of the southern branch of Confucius's descendants, who followed the Song court south after the fall of Kaifeng in 1127 and were given a home in Quzhou; the temple has stood on its present site since 1520 and took its current form in a rebuilding of 1821–23. Its halls are laid out on three parallel axes, with the Dacheng Hall on the central one, the rebuilt Kong family mansion to the west and a garden behind. A memorial ceremony for Confucius is held here every year and is listed as national intangible cultural heritage."},{"id":"jiangshan-nianbadu-wenchang-palace","name":"Wenchang Palace, Nianbadu","name_zh":"廿八都文昌宫","pinyin":"Niànbādū Wénchāng Gōng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.2963,"lon":118.4791,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangshan-nianbadu-wenchang-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to Wenchang, the god of literature, in Xunli, the core of Nianbadu old town, built in 1909–1911 with three courtyards and a three-storey main hall under a double-eaved roof with painted ceilings. It is one of the main buildings of Nianbadu, a former garrison town on the Xianxia road near the Fujian border whose old street of Ming to Republican-era houses runs along the Feng stream."},{"id":"qujiang-chetang-wu-ancestral-hall","name":"Wu Ancestral Hall, Chetang","name_zh":"车塘吴氏宗祠","pinyin":"Chētáng Wúshì Zōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":29.0553,"lon":118.9276,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qujiang-chetang-wu-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty ancestral hall of the Wu clan in Chetang village, Yunxi township, built in the Jiajing reign in the early 1530s. It is laid out as a square with halls on all four sides of the courtyard, and the front hall contains a theatre stage."},{"id":"jiangshan-xianxia-pass","name":"Xianxia Pass","name_zh":"仙霞关","pinyin":"Xiānxiá Guān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.3678,"lon":118.5089,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangshan-xianxia-pass","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fortified pass on the ancient Xianxia road over the Xianxia range, for centuries an important overland route between the Qiantang and Min river basins of Zhejiang and Fujian. Four stone gateways and about 5 km of stone-paved road survive; tradition says the road was opened by Huang Chao's rebel army in the late Tang. The pass was defended against the Qing by Southern Ming forces, and Chinese troops held the area against a Japanese advance in 1942."},{"id":"qujiang-xianyan-cave-inscriptions","name":"Xianyan Cave Inscriptions","name_zh":"仙岩洞摩崖题记","pinyin":"Xiānyán Dòng Móyá Tíjì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.9728,"lon":118.9714,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qujiang-xianyan-cave-inscriptions/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-sandstone cave with a mouth about 25 m wide and a depth of about 22 m, south of Hongxing village in Zhangtan, whose walls carry more than 50 carved inscriptions left by officials and scholars from the late 8th to the late 19th century, most of them from the Southern Song. The most valued, on the west wall, dates from 1121 and records the government troops sent against the Fang La rebellion. A temple that stood outside the cave was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution."},{"id":"jiangshan-nanwu-yang-ancestral-halls","name":"Yang Ancestral Halls, Nanwu","name_zh":"南坞杨氏宗祠","pinyin":"Nánwù Yángshì Zōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.5317,"lon":118.432,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangshan-nanwu-yang-ancestral-halls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two ancestral halls of the Yang clan in Nanwu village, Fenglin town: the inner hall in the village centre dates from the late Ming or early Qing, and the slightly later outer hall at the village entrance adds side wings. Both are three courtyards deep in the local Jiangshan style, each with an old well outside, and the village's temple fair is listed as Quzhou intangible heritage."},{"id":"qujiang-yaowang-mountain","name":"Yaowang Mountain","name_zh":"药王山","pinyin":"Yàowáng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Quzhou","lat":28.7651,"lon":118.9774,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qujiang-yaowang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area in southern Qujiang, part of the Ziweishan National Forest Park, promoted for its clean air and themed on traditional Chinese medicine, from which it takes its name ('Medicine King Mountain'). Its sights include the Mawei Waterfall, which drops 88 m, as well as a glass skywalk and a fibreglass slide."},{"id":"keqiao-anchang-ancient-town","name":"Anchang Ancient Town","name_zh":"安昌古镇","pinyin":"Ānchāng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.1402,"lon":120.487,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=keqiao-anchang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old canal town in northern Keqiao, named in the late Tang and listed among China's historic and cultural towns in 2005, with cobbled lanes and black-awning boats on its waterways. It is known for cured foods, with sausages, soy-sauce duck and dried fish hung under the eaves before the Lunar New Year, when the town holds a folk festival, and for the Renchang soy sauce works, founded in 1892 and still using traditional methods."},{"id":"keqiao-ancient-towpath","name":"Ancient Towpath, Keqiao","name_zh":"古纤道","pinyin":"Gǔ Qiàndào","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0822,"lon":120.4519,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/keqiao-ancient-towpath/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone towpath along the Eastern Zhejiang Canal from which boats were hauled by men on foot, first worn along the banks after the canal was dug in the Western Jin and rebuilt in stone in the Hongzhi reign of the Ming (1488–1505). The protected 7.5 km stretch runs from Banqiao in Qianqing to Shangxie bridge in Keqiao, partly along the bank and partly as a causeway out in the water, with bridges at intervals to let boats through, which earned it the name 'white jade dyke'."},{"id":"shaoxing-angsang-lake-causeway","name":"Angsang Lake Causeway","name_zh":"昂桑湖避塘","pinyin":"Ángsāng Hú Bìtáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0813,"lon":120.5529,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-angsang-lake-causeway/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone causeway about 3.5 km long that winds north–south across Angsang Lake on the northern edge of Shaoxing, built in the late Ming and finished after 1642 so that boats could shelter from wind and waves, while also linking the two shores. Its S-shaped bank of dressed stone, paved with large slabs, is broken by five stone beam bridges and has a small stone roadside pavilion carrying Qing inscriptions on its repair. The northern 1.5 km still has water on both sides, while the southern part has had water on one side only since land was reclaimed in the 1970s."},{"id":"shaoxing-bazi-bridge","name":"Bazi Bridge","name_zh":"八字桥","pinyin":"Bāzì Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0023,"lon":120.5878,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-bazi-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone beam bridge in the eastern part of Shaoxing's old city, rebuilt in 1256, whose stepped approaches split at both ends so that the bridge is shaped like the character 八 ('eight'); it is the only known early example of this form among China's simple beam bridges. It heads the protected group of Shaoxing's ancient bridges, which also includes eleven other stone bridges from the Yuan to the Republic in Yuecheng and Keqiao, among them the Guangning, Guangxiang, Tishan and Xiegong bridges in the old city."},{"id":"shangyu-caoe-temple","name":"Cao'e Temple","name_zh":"曹娥庙","pinyin":"Cáo'é Miào","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.9942,"lon":120.8677,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shangyu-caoe-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple on the west bank of the Cao'e River honouring Cao E, an Eastern Han girl who drowned in the river trying to save her father and became a model of filial piety; she was reburied here with a memorial stele in 151, and a shrine grew up around her grave. The present buildings, set out on three parallel axes with an opera stage, date from a rebuilding of 1931–36 after a fire in 1929 and are known for the dense carving of their columns, beams, brackets and doors. The temple also keeps a Song copy of the Cao E stele from 1093 and more than 30 couplets and plaques by noted calligraphers."},{"id":"shengzhou-chongren-old-town","name":"Chongren Old Town","name_zh":"崇仁古镇","pinyin":"Chóngrén Gǔzhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.6117,"lon":120.7031,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shengzhou-chongren-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village-town in western Shengzhou, settled before the Three Kingdoms, which became the home of the Qiu clan after they moved here in the 1040s and keeps more than 200 buildings from the early Ming to the Republic, among them 154 old courtyard gates (taimen), 14 tea and road pavilions and 51 old wells. Highlights are the Yushan ancestral hall of 1791, the largest in the town, the mid-Qing Wulian Taimen, a group of linked courtyards with fine woodcarving, a former pawnshop and the Republican-era town office and courthouse."},{"id":"xinchang-chuanyan-nineteen-peaks","name":"Chuanyan Nineteen Peaks","name_zh":"穿岩十九峰","pinyin":"Chuānyán Shíjiǔ Fēng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.3816,"lon":120.806,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinchang-chuanyan-nineteen-peaks","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area of red sandstone cliffs in Jingling town, south-west Xinchang, named after a row of nineteen peaks that rise above the meeting of several mountain streams. Paths climb to the peaks and run through Qianzhang Gorge (Qianzhang Yougu), a narrow ravine walked on a mostly level path, and the area also hosts events such as a motorcycle and music festival."},{"id":"shangyu-chunhui-school-baima-lake","name":"Chunhui Middle School Old Campus, Baima Lake","name_zh":"春晖中学旧址","pinyin":"Chūnhuī Zhōngxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0291,"lon":120.9201,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangyu-chunhui-school-baima-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private secondary school on the shore of Baima Lake, paid for by the merchant Chen Chunlan and opened in 1922 under the educator Jing Hengyi, where writers and artists such as Zhu Ziqing, Xia Mianzun, Feng Zikai and Zhu Guangqian taught in the 1920s; it pioneered co-education among Zhejiang's secondary schools. Its early buildings, joined by covered corridors, are still used by the school, while the teachers' houses along the lake outside the north gate, including Feng Zikai's Xiao Yangliu Wu, Xia Mianzun's Ping Wu and Li Shutong's Wanqing Shanfang, have been restored."},{"id":"xinchang-dafo-temple","name":"Dafo Temple, Xinchang","name_zh":"新昌大佛寺","pinyin":"Xīnchāng Dàfó Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.4967,"lon":120.8956,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinchang-dafo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the Shicheng hills on the edge of Xinchang town, founded in 345, whose great hall encloses a seated stone Maitreya carved into the cliff of Xianji Rock and completed in 516 after the work of three successive monks. Nearby, the Thousand Buddha Cliff (Qianfoyan) carries rows of small Buddha figures from the same Southern Dynasties period, and the grounds also hold a reclining Buddha hall, cliff inscriptions and a petrified forest."},{"id":"xinchang-dali-silk-world","name":"Dali Silk World, Xinchang","name_zh":"达利丝绸世界","pinyin":"Dálì Sīchóu Shìjiè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.5214,"lon":120.8362,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinchang-dali-silk-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial-tourism site at the works of Dali Silk, a silk textile and garment maker in Xinchang, which the company began developing around the theme of silk in 2007. Visitors see how silk is produced and learn about silk culture, and it suits travellers with an interest in textiles or a short stop in Xinchang."},{"id":"shaoxing-dashan-pagoda","name":"Dashan Pagoda","name_zh":"大善塔","pinyin":"Dàshàn Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0052,"lon":120.5764,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-dashan-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hexagonal, seven-storey brick pagoda 40.5 m tall in the centre of Shaoxing, named after Dashan Temple, founded in 504, in which it once stood. It burned with the temple in 1197 and was rebuilt in 1228, then repaired in 1403, 1669 and 1957; the wooden eaves and the stairs inside are gone, leaving a hollow brick shell with doorways and niches on every level."},{"id":"shaoxing-datong-school","name":"Datong School and Xu Xilin's Former Residence","name_zh":"大通学堂","pinyin":"Dàtōng Xuétáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0071,"lon":120.5671,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoxing-datong-school","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A school opened in 1905 in a former Qing granary by Xu Xilin and Tao Chengzhang of the anti-Qing Guangfuhui to train members of secret societies for an armed rising; after Xu left for Anhui it was run by Qiu Jin, who was arrested here on 13 July 1907 after Xu's failed Anqing uprising. Its halls and classrooms, restored from 1981, display documents and relics of these events. The protected site also covers Xu Xilin's birthplace, a Qing house of three halls with a library in Dongpu old town, about 7 km north-west."},{"id":"keqiao-daxianglin-doushuaitian","name":"Daxianglin and Doushuaitian","name_zh":"大香林·兜率天","pinyin":"Dà Xiānglín · Dōushuàitiān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0216,"lon":120.398,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=keqiao-daxianglin-doushuaitian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist-themed scenic area in Hutang, Keqiao, at the western end of the Kuaiji hills, known for more than 400 mu (about 27 hectares) of sweet osmanthus trees, among them one over 1,000 years old that is billed as the 'King of Chinese Osmanthus'. Higher up stand Longhua Temple and the Doushuaitian (Tushita) palace, a hall built around a giant seated Maitreya Buddha. The trees flower in autumn, when the area is at its busiest."},{"id":"zhuji-fengqiao-yuanyou-pagoda","name":"East Huacheng Temple Pagoda, Fengqiao","name_zh":"东化城寺塔","pinyin":"Dōng Huàchéngsì Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.7854,"lon":120.4223,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhuji-fengqiao-yuanyou-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A brick pagoda built in 1092 on the Ziwei hill ridge just south-east of Fengqiao, named after the East Huacheng Temple that once stood in front of it and also called the Yuanyou Pagoda after the reign in which it was built. Originally seven storeys of brick and timber, it now stands four storeys high as a bare brick shell on a stone base, with brick brackets and some bricks stamped with pagoda designs or the date of construction."},{"id":"shaoxing-east-lake","name":"East Lake, Shaoxing","name_zh":"东湖","pinyin":"Dōng Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0007,"lon":120.63,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-east-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small lake on the eastern edge of Shaoxing that fills an old quarry: from the Han dynasty onwards masons cut away half of a hill of grey stone, leaving sheer cliffs and deep pools, which the late-Qing local scholar Tao Junxuan enclosed with a long dyke and laid out as a garden. Small boats take visitors under stone bridges and into the cliff caves, such as Xiantao and Taogong caves, past pavilions along the shore, and the Tao She hall on the west side commemorates the 1911 revolutionary Tao Chengzhang."},{"id":"shangyu-fenghuangshan-kiln-sites","name":"Fenghuangshan Kiln Sites","name_zh":"凤凰山窑址群","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Shān Yáozhǐ Qún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.9118,"lon":120.8149,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangyu-fenghuangshan-kiln-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of kilns on the hill slopes behind Dashan village in Shangpu, Shangyu, which fired early celadon for daily use and for burials during only fifty or sixty years, from the late Three Kingdoms to the end of the Western Jin in the third and early fourth centuries. Excavated dragon kilns are displayed under timber shelters with boardwalks in the Fenghuangshan archaeological site park. About 2 km away is the Eastern Han Xiaoxiantan kiln site, whose finds show that mature porcelain was already being made in Zhejiang at that time, though there is little to see there."},{"id":"shaoxing-cai-yuanpei-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Cai Yuanpei","name_zh":"蔡元培故居","pinyin":"Cài Yuánpéi Gùjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0094,"lon":120.5794,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-cai-yuanpei-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940), the educator who was president of Peking University and founder of the Academia Sinica, and earlier a leader of the anti-Qing Guangfuhui. It is a traditional Shaoxing taimen house bought by his grandfather in the Daoguang reign, whose gatehouse and main hall keep Ming-style features, with a two-storey rear building added later, in the Jishan (Shusheng Guli) historic quarter."},{"id":"shangyu-fuzhi-mountain","name":"Fuzhi Mountain","name_zh":"覆卮山","pinyin":"Fùzhī Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.7465,"lon":120.9816,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangyu-fuzhi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain of the Siming range where Shangyu, Shengzhou and Yuyao meet, rising to about 860 m as the highest point in Shangyu; its name, 'the upturned wine cup', comes from a line by the fifth-century poet Xie Lingyun, who wrote of drinking and composing poems on the mountain, then turning his cup over. On its slopes in Lingnan township more than 20,000 small terraced fields, farmed for centuries, spill down past the old village of Dongcheng, and a dozen 'stone rivers' of tumbled boulders, regarded as relics of Ice Age glaciation, streak the hillside. The terraces turn yellow with rapeseed flowers in spring, when the township holds a flower festival."},{"id":"shaoxing-jianchu-land-purchase-inscription","name":"Jianchu Land-Purchase Inscription","name_zh":"汉建初元年买地刻石","pinyin":"Hàn Jiànchū Yuánnián Mǎidì Kèshí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.9742,"lon":120.7304,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-jianchu-land-purchase-inscription/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cliff inscription cut in AD 76 on the eastern slope of Tiao hill in Fusheng, recording in 20 characters that six brothers bought this hillside together as a burial ground, with the words 'Da Ji' ('great fortune') above. It is the oldest known cliff inscription in Zhejiang and the largest surviving land deed for a tomb in China, with a colophon of 1823 by the Qing scholar Wu Rongguang carved beside it, and the rock now sits inside a small railed shelter."},{"id":"keqiao-keyan-scenic-area","name":"Keyan Scenic Area","name_zh":"柯岩","pinyin":"Kē Yán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0495,"lon":120.4755,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/keqiao-keyan-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area of about 6.9 km² west of Shaoxing made up of three parts: the rocks of Ke hill, a stretch of Jian Lake and Luzhen, a water-town quarter. Its centrepiece is the Tiangong Great Buddha, a seated Maitreya 11.3 m high carved in the Song dynasty inside a great curved rock face, with Puzhao Temple behind it and inscriptions from the Ming and Qing dynasties on the Yungu rock, Qixing Rock and other cliffs."},{"id":"shaoxing-lu-xun-native-place","name":"Lu Xun Native Place & Shen Garden","name_zh":"鲁迅故里·沈园","pinyin":"Lǔ Xùn Gùlǐ · Shěn Yuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.995,"lon":120.5811,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-lu-xun-native-place/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The block on Lu Xun Middle Road where the writer Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren) was born in 1881 and grew up until 1898, now a historic quarter taking in his ancestral home, the family's New Taimen house with the Baicao Garden behind it, the Sanwei Study across the canal where he went to school, and the Shaoxing Lu Xun Memorial Hall, first opened in 1953. About 500 m east along the same road is Shen Garden, linked to the Song poet Lu You and his first wife Tang Wan, which was rebuilt from 1984 on a plan of the old garden and keeps a gourd-shaped pond, a well and an earth mound from the Song."},{"id":"shaoxing-yu-the-great-mausoleum","name":"Mausoleum of Yu the Great","name_zh":"大禹陵","pinyin":"Dàyǔ Líng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.9667,"lon":120.6094,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-yu-the-great-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The traditional burial place of Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of floods and founder of the Xia dynasty, at the foot of Kuaiji Mountain south-east of Shaoxing. The site has three parts: the tomb, marked by a stele pavilion inscribed 'Da Yu Ling' beside Yu Pool; the Yu Temple, first built in the early Liang dynasty and laid out as a palace-style complex; and the sacrificial hall, rebuilt in 2007–08. The temple grounds also hold the Goulou stele with its puzzling tadpole-like script and the Bianshi, a conical stone with a hole through it."},{"id":"shaoxing-lanting-orchid-pavilion","name":"Orchid Pavilion (Lanting)","name_zh":"兰亭","pinyin":"Lán Tíng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.929,"lon":120.496,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoxing-lanting-orchid-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The garden at the foot of Lanzhu hill where, in 353, the calligrapher Wang Xizhi and more than forty friends held a spring gathering, floating cups of wine down a winding stream and writing poems, for which he wrote the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems, the most celebrated work of Chinese running script. The present site was rebuilt in 1548 and restored to its Ming and Qing layout from 1979, with the Goose Pond, the Lanting stele, the Liushang pavilion beside the winding stream, the Wang Xizhi memorial hall and a stele carved with inscriptions by both the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors. A calligraphy museum and stone copies of the Preface by later masters complete the visit."},{"id":"keqiao-oriental-neverland","name":"Oriental Neverland (Kuwan Town)","name_zh":"东方山水乐园","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Shānshuǐ Lèyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0789,"lon":120.4407,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=keqiao-oriental-neverland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement-park complex in Keqiao, listed together with the surrounding 'Kuwan Town' leisure development, made up of the indoor Mountain Kingdom, the outdoor Coldplay Kingdom (Kuwan Wangguo) with several roller coasters including an inverted coaster, and a water park. It suits families and thrill-ride fans looking for a day of rides rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"keqiao-qiaobo-ice-snow-world","name":"Qiaobo Ice and Snow World","name_zh":"乔波冰雪世界","pinyin":"Qiáobō Bīngxuě Shìjiè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":30.0569,"lon":120.4722,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=keqiao-qiaobo-ice-snow-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An indoor ski centre beside the Keyan scenic area in Keqiao, founded by the former speed-skating world champion Ye Qiaobo, where a refrigerated hall with artificial snow allows skiing and snowboarding all year round. Its two broad, gentle trails suit beginners and children, and the complex also has an exhibition on skiing and the Winter Olympics, an ice rink and a hotel."},{"id":"shaoxing-qingteng-studio","name":"Qingteng Studio (Xu Wei's Former Residence)","name_zh":"青藤书屋","pinyin":"Qīngténg Shūwū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.9977,"lon":120.5742,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoxing-qingteng-studio","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace and study of Xu Wei (1521–1593), the Ming painter, calligrapher, poet and playwright whose free ink painting gave rise to the Qingteng school, named after one of his art names; the late Ming painter Chen Hongshou later lived here too. The protected unit also covers Xu Wei's tomb, a square stone-built mound restored in 1989 at the foot of Jiangpo hill in Lanting subdistrict, next to the Yinshan royal tomb."},{"id":"shaoxing-qiu-jin-former-residence","name":"Qiu Jin's Former Residence","name_zh":"秋瑾故居","pinyin":"Qiū Jǐn Gùjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.9906,"lon":120.5758,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoxing-qiu-jin-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home of the revolutionary and writer Qiu Jin at Hechangtang, on the south-west foot of Pagoda Hill, where she spent her girlhood and lived again from her return from Japan in 1906 until her execution in 1907. The brick-and-timber house of five successive halls, once part of a Ming official's villa, was acquired by her grandfather in 1890. The protected site also includes the Qiu Jin Martyr Memorial at Xuantingkou on Jiefang North Road, completed in 1930–33 at the place where she was executed."},{"id":"keqiao-shunwang-temple","name":"Shunwang Temple","name_zh":"舜王庙","pinyin":"Shùnwáng Miào","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.7895,"lon":120.6982,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=keqiao-shunwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple on Shunwang hill in Wangtan town, southern Keqiao, dedicated to the legendary sage-king Shun, who by local tradition took refuge here from the unrest stirred up by Yao's son Danzhu. The present buildings were rebuilt in the Xianfeng reign and again in 1862, and on about 1,760 m² they include a gate, an opera stage with double eaves and a coffered ceiling, front and rear halls and side wings."},{"id":"zhuji-sizhai-si-family-houses","name":"Si Family Houses, Sizhai","name_zh":"斯氏古民居","pinyin":"Sīshì Gǔmínjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.5719,"lon":120.4467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuji-sizhai-si-family-houses","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Fourteen large houses from the Qing and Republican periods in Sizhai, a hill village in Dongbaihu town where the Si clan has lived since the Tang. The largest is the Sishengju, known as the 'Thousand-Pillar House', a Jiaqing-era mansion covering 6,850 m², alongside the Faxiangju of the same period (3,257 m²) and the Huaguogong villa of the Daoguang reign."},{"id":"shengzhou-huatang-wang-ancestral-hall","name":"Wang Clan Ancestral Halls, Huatang","name_zh":"华堂王氏宗祠","pinyin":"Huátáng Wángshì Zōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.5555,"lon":121.0471,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shengzhou-huatang-wang-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two ancestral halls in Huatang village, Jinting town, the seat of a Wang clan descended from the fourth-century calligrapher Wang Xizhi. The great hall, begun in 1512 for Wang Qiong, a 36th-generation descendant, and his wife, covers about 1,800 m², and a newer hall stands beside it. Wang Xizhi's reputed tomb, with a stone pavilion and a memorial archway, lies in the Wang Xizhi former residence area in the same town."},{"id":"zhuji-wuxie-scenic-area","name":"Wuxie Scenic Area","name_zh":"五泄","pinyin":"Wǔxiè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.7346,"lon":120.0471,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuji-wuxie-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill scenic area in Wuxie town, in the north-west of Zhuji, named after a chain of five waterfalls, counted from the first to the fifth, that step down a forested gorge. The area is listed as a national scenic area and a national forest park."},{"id":"zhuji-xishi-hometown","name":"Xi Shi's Hometown (Xishi Guli)","name_zh":"西施故里","pinyin":"Xīshī Gùlǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.7017,"lon":120.2335,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuji-xishi-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourist area of about 1.44 km² on both banks of the Huan River at the foot of Zhuluo hill in Zhuji, built by the city from 2003 around the legendary home of Xi Shi, one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. Its core is the Xishi Temple, completed in 1990 using more than 12,000 carved beams, brackets, windows and other parts salvaged from old houses across Zhuji, and around it are a hall of famous women, a shrine to Fan Li, a folk museum and a shopping street built in old style."},{"id":"keqiao-yinshan-royal-tomb","name":"Yinshan Royal Tomb of Yue","name_zh":"印山越国王陵","pinyin":"Yìnshān Yuèguó Wánglíng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Shaoxing","lat":29.9344,"lon":120.5197,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/keqiao-yinshan-royal-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of a king of the Spring and Autumn state of Yue, possibly Yunchang, father of King Goujian, cut into the top of Yin hill and ringed by a moat; excavated in 1996–98 after tomb robbers struck, it was the first Yue royal tomb found in China. A museum hall built over the open pit shows the timber burial chamber, 34.8 m long with a rare triangular cross-section formed by more than 100 leaning beams, and a lacquered coffin about 6 m long hollowed from a single log."},{"id":"wenling-changyu-dongtian","name":"Changyu Dongtian Quarry Caves","name_zh":"长屿硐天","pinyin":"Chángyǔ Dòngtiān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.4347,"lon":121.4389,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenling-changyu-dongtian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill near Xinhe in Wenling honeycombed with man-made caverns left by some 1,500 years of quarrying stone slabs, now a national mine park and, with nearby Fangshan, a national scenic area. Linked halls, pillars and pools such as the Shuangmen, Guanxi, Shuiyun and Lingxiao caves can be explored on foot, and one cavern holds a giant carved stone bowl. It forms part of the Yandangshan Global Geopark, listed in 2005."},{"id":"jiaojiang-dachen-islands","name":"Dachen Islands","name_zh":"大陈岛","pinyin":"Dàchén Dǎo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.455,"lon":121.8952,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaojiang-dachen-islands","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of 29 islands and islets about 52 km off Taizhou, with Upper and Lower Dachen the two inhabited main islands, wooded hills that form a provincial forest park, sea-worn rocks, beaches and fishing harbours. The islands were held by the Republic of China until February 1955, when, after the loss of nearby Yijiangshan, its troops and the whole civilian population were evacuated to Taiwan under US Navy escort; Chiang Ching-kuo's former residence and old command posts and tunnels survive from that period. On Upper Dachen the Wushatou area has a cliffside walkway about 2.5 km long with a short glass skywalk."},{"id":"wenling-fangshan","name":"Fangshan, Wenling","name_zh":"方山","pinyin":"Fāng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.425,"lon":121.2398,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wenling-fangshan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flat-topped mountain of volcanic rhyolite in Daxi town, western Wenling, on the border with Yueqing, ringed by sheer cliffs but open on top, where lakes and ponds dot the summit plateau and wild azaleas flower in spring; the Taizhou government describes it as the largest Mesozoic rhyolite volcanic platform in Asia. The Wenling side is divided into the Fangshan, Nansongyan and Shifeng areas, and the mountain forms the eastern section of the Yandangshan Global Geopark, listed in 2005, and, with Changyu Dongtian, a national scenic area since 2006."},{"id":"linhai-enze-hospital","name":"Former Enze Hospital","name_zh":"恩泽医局旧址","pinyin":"Ēnzé Yījú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.8533,"lon":121.108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linhai-enze-hospital/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three two-storey Western-style buildings joined by covered bridges on the slope of Beigu Mountain in Linhai, the remains of the first Western-medicine hospital in Taizhou, opened by the British Anglican mission in 1901. In 1942 its doctors treated injured crewmen of a B-25 bomber from the Doolittle Raid that had come down off the Sanmen coast, including pilot Ted Lawson, whose leg was amputated here, before they were escorted west; Lawson told the story in his memoir Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Restored by Taizhou Hospital, the buildings now house its history museum, with exhibitions on the hospital's founding and the rescue of the American airmen."},{"id":"tiantai-guoqing-temple","name":"Guoqing Temple","name_zh":"国清寺","pinyin":"Guóqīng Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":29.1734,"lon":121.043,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tiantai-guoqing-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The temple at the southern foot of Tiantai Mountain where the Tiantai school of Buddhism began, founded in 598 under the Sui dynasty in fulfilment of the last wish of the school's founder Zhiyi and rebuilt under the Yongzheng Emperor in the 1730s. The Japanese monk Saichō studied here in 804–805 before founding the Tendai school, and the temple is still honoured as an ancestral seat of Tendai, with memorial steles set up by Japanese Buddhists. Its halls hold a 13-tonne Ming bronze Shakyamuni and Yuan-dynasty nanmu figures of the eighteen arhats, and outside the gate stands the hollow, roofless Sui Pagoda, one of the oldest brick pagodas in China."},{"id":"tiantai-houan-village","name":"Hou'an Village","name_zh":"后岸村","pinyin":"Hòu'àn Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":29.0862,"lon":120.8143,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiantai-houan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of farm-stay guesthouses in Jietou town, western Tiantai, beside the Shifeng stream below a long wall of cliffs known as the 'Ten-li Iron-Armoured Dragon'. Villagers quarried stone slabs here until the quarries were shut in 2008 because of the dust that had made many workers ill; the village then turned to rural tourism, with dozens of family guesthouses and restaurants and seasonal events such as peach-picking and lotus festivals. The Tang poet-recluse Hanshan is said to have lived for decades in the Hanyan cave in front of the village."},{"id":"huangyan-museum","name":"Huangyan Museum","name_zh":"黄岩博物馆","pinyin":"Huángyán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.6354,"lon":121.2494,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangyan-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The district museum of Huangyan, founded in 1984, with more than 8,000 objects ranging from Western Zhou proto-celadon and Tang and Song celadon to Buddhist relics of the Song dynasty. Its best-known holding is the silk clothing excavated from the Southern Song tomb of Zhao Boyun, hailed in China as 'the crown of Song dress'."},{"id":"wenling-jiangxia-tidal-power-station","name":"Jiangxia Tidal Power Station","name_zh":"江厦潮汐试验电站","pinyin":"Jiāngxià Cháoxī Shìyàn Diànzhàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.3433,"lon":121.2401,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wenling-jiangxia-tidal-power-station/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"China's first two-way tidal power station, built across the Jiangxia inlet at the northern end of Yueqing Bay, where the tidal range reaches 8.39 m; its first turbine began generating in May 1980 and the plant now has about 4.1 MW installed. A rock-fill barrage 670 m long holds back the tide, with a sluice, powerhouse and substation beside it, and the whole complex was listed as a national heritage site in 2019. It is a working plant, seen from outside: a local road crosses the barrage beside the sluices and powerhouse."},{"id":"wenling-jinqing-bridge","name":"Jinqing Great Bridge","name_zh":"金清大桥","pinyin":"Jīnqīng Dàqiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.4682,"lon":121.4523,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenling-jinqing-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-arch stone bridge 64 m long over the Jinqing waterway below Piyun Hill in Xinhe town, built in the early Jiaqing reign (around 1800) when an older flat bridge was rebuilt with arches. Its stepped deck rises between small platforms set with carved roundels of lotus, waterbirds, flowers and birds, the balustrades carry 28 posts on each side topped with lotus and lion carvings, and a square pavilion stands at each end. A modern road bridge built nearby in 1986 took over its traffic."},{"id":"linhai-jinshan-pagodas","name":"Jinshan Pagodas, Linhai","name_zh":"巾山塔群","pinyin":"Jīnshān Tǎqún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.8422,"lon":121.1136,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linhai-jinshan-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of old brick pagodas on and around Jinshan, the small twin-peaked hill in the south-east corner of Linhai's walled town, long the landmark of the former prefectural city. The tallest is the Qianfo ('Thousand Buddha') Pagoda in Longxing Temple at the western foot of the hill, a seven-storey hexagonal pagoda of 1299 about 28.7 m high whose upper storeys are faced with moulded Buddha-image bricks. The protected group also includes the Great East Pagoda on the eastern summit, rebuilt in 1865, and the Nanshandian Pagoda on the south-west slope, while Longxing Temple itself is honoured as one of the sources of Japanese Tendai Buddhism."},{"id":"huangyan-jiufeng-park","name":"Jiufeng Park","name_zh":"九峰公园","pinyin":"Jiǔfēng Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.6414,"lon":121.2731,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangyan-jiufeng-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hillside park on the eastern edge of Huangyan, named after the nine peaks that enclose its valley, opened in 1959 on the site of a Song-era monastery and a Qing academy and now covering about 106 hectares. Its oldest monument is the Ruilong Ganying Pagoda, a seven-storey, octagonal brick-and-timber pagoda 35.2 m tall from the 10th century, and paths lead on past springs, pools, waterfalls and pavilions towards the peaks. Local people come to walk and to fill bottles with spring water."},{"id":"yuhuan-kanmen-tide-station","name":"Kanmen Tide Station","name_zh":"坎门验潮所","pinyin":"Kǎnmén Yàncháosuǒ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.0891,"lon":121.2837,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuhuan-kanmen-tide-station","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The first tide-gauge station in China to be sited, designed and built by Chinese surveyors, set up in 1929–1930 in a rocky cove at Kanmen on the south-east coast of Yuhuan and still recording tides today. Its readings fixed the 'Kanmen zero' datum, from which heights in Zhejiang and many other provinces were measured from 1936. The historic features are small: the tide well of 1932 in a natural gully with its hut above, the three-walled Huilan sluice that calms the inflow, and a benchmark carved into the bedrock."},{"id":"xianju-lin-yingqi-memorial-arch","name":"Lin Yingqi Memorial Arch","name_zh":"林应麒功德牌坊","pinyin":"Lín Yìngqí Gōngdé Páifāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.887,"lon":120.8067,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianju-lin-yingqi-memorial-arch","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty memorial archway (paifang) in Fuying subdistrict north-east of Xianju town, honouring Lin Yingqi (1506–1583), a native of the area who passed the imperial jinshi examination in 1535 and served as a county magistrate and prefectural official. Known locally as the Panlong Fufeng arch, it became a provincial protected monument in 2017 and a national one in 2019."},{"id":"linhai-linghu-lake","name":"Linghu Lake Park","name_zh":"灵湖","pinyin":"Líng Hú","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.8632,"lon":121.1654,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linhai-linghu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake park in Linhai's newer eastern district, about 5 km east of the walled old town, laid out around a broad lake with an island, willow-lined causeways and waterside paths. It is a city park used by residents for walking and cycling rather than a sight in its own right, and suits a relaxed stroll after visiting the old town."},{"id":"xianju-nanfeng-pagoda","name":"Nanfeng Pagoda","name_zh":"南峰塔","pinyin":"Nánfēng Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.8594,"lon":120.746,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianju-nanfeng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hexagonal, seven-storey brick pagoda 23.8 m tall on Nanfeng Hill on the south side of Xianju town, built in 1032–1033 under the Northern Song and repaired in the Ming dynasty. Its brickwork imitates timber construction, with balconies, eaves and bracket sets on every storey, and the hollow core has footholds cut into the inner walls for climbing. The protected unit also includes the Song-dynasty Fuyinshan Pagoda elsewhere in the county."},{"id":"jiaojiang-qi-jiguang-memorial-temple","name":"Qi Jiguang Memorial Temple, Jiaojiang","name_zh":"椒江戚继光祠","pinyin":"Jiāojiāng Qī Jìguāng Cí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.6816,"lon":121.4477,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaojiang-qi-jiguang-memorial-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple complex in Jiaojiang's old quarter, the former Haimen garrison town, that combines the garrison's City God temple with a shrine to the Ming general Qi Jiguang, who was stationed here in the mid-16th century to fight the wokou pirates. First built in the early Ming and rebuilt in the late Qing, it is laid out along an axis of screen wall, bridge, front hall, opera stage, pond, viewing pavilion and main hall. Since 1987 it has housed the Qi Jiguang Memorial Hall with an exhibition on his campaigns against the pirates."},{"id":"huangyan-rouchuan-scenic-area","name":"Rouchuan Scenic Area","name_zh":"柔川","pinyin":"Róuchuān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.6371,"lon":121.0081,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangyan-rouchuan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area in Yutou township in the forested hills of western Huangyan (Rouchuan is the township's old name), following the Rouji stream, a tributary of the Yongning River, for about 20 km through the valleys. Along it are old bridges, temples and the Shatan old street, whose buildings include the township offices and clinic of the 1980s, together with campsites and pick-your-own orchards."},{"id":"xianju-oxygen-bar-town","name":"Shenxian Oxygen Bar Town","name_zh":"神仙氧吧小镇","pinyin":"Shénxiān Yǎngbā Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.7541,"lon":120.5968,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianju-oxygen-bar-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourism district of about 3.8 km² spanning 20 villages in Baita town, at the approach to Shenxianju, developed as one of Zhejiang's provincial 'characteristic towns' around the area's clean mountain air and its closeness to the 5A scenic area. Its villages, set among fields and streams, are lined with homestays and hotels. It works mainly as a base for visiting Shenxianju rather than as a sight in itself."},{"id":"xianju-shenxianju","name":"Shenxianju","name_zh":"神仙居","pinyin":"Shénxiānjū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.708,"lon":120.6069,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xianju-shenxianju/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 5A mountain scenic area in western Xianju county and the core of Xianju National Park, known for sheer cliffs, rock pillars and peaks of volcanic rhyolite that are often wrapped in cloud. Cable cars and escalators lift visitors to a cliff-hugging walkway, glass-floored viewing platforms and the Ruyi Bridge, a curving steel-and-glass footbridge opened in 2020 about 140 m above a valley. The area also hosts international high-altitude slackline events."},{"id":"sanmen-shepan-island","name":"Shepan Island","name_zh":"蛇蟠岛","pinyin":"Shépán Dǎo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":29.1435,"lon":121.5827,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanmen-shepan-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An island in Sanmen Bay, joined to the mainland on its Ninghai side by land reclamation in 2008, known as the 'Island of a Thousand Caves' for the roughly 1,300 caverns left by quarrying its red Shepan stone from the Song dynasty onwards. At Gaolou Rock two linked caverns together reach the size of two basketball courts, with clear pools about 10 m deep, and Huangnidong village keeps 55 houses built of the local stone. The island also has shrimp ponds and seafood restaurants."},{"id":"jiaojiang-taizhou-ocean-world","name":"Taizhou Ocean World","name_zh":"台州海洋世界","pinyin":"Tāizhōu Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.6639,"lon":121.4098,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaojiang-taizhou-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An aquarium beside Taizhou Civic Square in Jiaojiang, opened in 2005 in a five-storey building that is toured from the top floor downwards. Its galleries cover a tropical rainforest, coral-reef life and an underwater tunnel, alongside some amusement facilities, and it is aimed mainly at families with children."},{"id":"linhai-taozhu-fortress-town","name":"Taozhu Fortress Town","name_zh":"桃渚城","pinyin":"Táozhǔ Chéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.8289,"lon":121.5338,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linhai-taozhu-fortress-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming coastal fort town near the East China Sea in south-east Linhai, built in 1443 as one of the garrison posts raised against wokou pirates; Qi Jiguang wiped out a pirate band here in 1560. Its walls, about 1.4 km round and 4.5 m high, survive with three gates and their barbicans, and inside the lanes keep mostly Qing-dynasty houses, an ancestral hall and a Guandi temple in a town that is still lived in and busy on market days. Nearby, the rice fields of Taojiang Shisanzhu, cut into islets by the river, and the volcanic rock landscape of the Linhai geopark make a pleasant side trip."},{"id":"tiantai-mountain-shiliang","name":"Tiantai Mountain","name_zh":"天台山","pinyin":"Tiāntāi Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":29.2747,"lon":121.0583,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tiantai-mountain-shiliang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The forested granite range north of Tiantai town that gave its name to the Tiantai school of Buddhism, a 5A scenic area whose two main parts are Guoqing Temple at its foot (separate card) and the Shiliang area high on the mountain. At Shiliang two streams meet and plunge more than 30 m in three cascades beneath a natural stone beam about 7 m long, with the Middle and Lower Fangguang temples beside it and rock inscriptions from the Song onwards, including one attributed to Mi Fu. Huading, the main peak, has a national forest park, the Huading temple founded in 936, tea gardens and old cloud-brocade azaleas that flower in May."},{"id":"tiantai-great-waterfall-qiongtai-valley","name":"Tiantai Mountain Great Waterfall and Qiongtai Valley","name_zh":"天台山大瀑布（琼台仙谷）","pinyin":"Tiāntāi Shān Dà Pùbù (Qióngtái Xiāngǔ)","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":29.1946,"lon":121.0022,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiantai-great-waterfall-qiongtai-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area on the western slope of Tongbai Mountain, about 7 km north-west of Tiantai town, that joins the Tiantai Mountain Great Waterfall to Qiongtai Valley, a gorge of oddly shaped cliffs and rocks with plank walkways. According to the Taizhou government the waterfall drops 325 m in a long series of tiers and is up to 90 m wide; it can be viewed from a path of about 2.5 km along the top or from sightseeing lifts. The Taoist Tongbai Palace, regarded as the ancestral temple of the Southern school of Taoism, is close by."},{"id":"linhai-taizhou-fu-walled-city","name":"Walled City of Taizhou Fu","name_zh":"台州府城","pinyin":"Tāizhōu Fǔchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.85,"lon":121.1137,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linhai-taizhou-fu-walled-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Linhai's old walled town, seat of Taizhou prefecture from 591 until 1993, is now a 5A scenic area of 3.12 km² taking in the city wall, Ziyang Street, East Lake and Jinshan Hill. The wall follows the Ling River and climbs the ridge of Beigu Mountain; the Ming general Qi Jiguang raised it and added two-storey hollow watchtowers against pirate raids, and its river-facing bastions were given rounded fronts to withstand floods. Inside, the 1,080 m flagstone Ziyang Street is lined with old shops, small museums and craft workshops, and about 28,000 people still live in the old town."},{"id":"xianju-ancient-yue-rock-carvings","name":"Xianju Ancient Yue Rock Carvings","name_zh":"仙居古越族岩画群","pinyin":"Xiānjū Gǔ Yuèzú Yánhuà Qún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.9097,"lon":120.7661,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xianju-ancient-yue-rock-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rock carvings attributed to the ancient Yue people of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, found at seven sites in the hills of Xianju county, with more than 220 motifs over about 1,400 m² of rock. The carved designs include snakes, birds, bird-headed fish, horses, suns, human figures, knives, rakes and grid patterns, with snake and rake shapes at almost every site. This card is placed at the Songlong Hill site west of Zhaojiayang village in Fuying, the nearest to the county town; others lie at Zhongyangkeng in Guangdu and Xitang in Shangzhang."},{"id":"wenling-xinhe-lock-bridges","name":"Xinhe Lock Bridges","name_zh":"新河闸桥群","pinyin":"Xīnhé Zháqiáo Qún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.4987,"lon":121.4407,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wenling-xinhe-lock-bridges/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four old stone sluice-bridges on the canals around Xinhe town in eastern Wenling, the Zhongzha, Maci, Beizha and Xialu sluices, which served both as river crossings and as water gates. Each has two or three spans of stone beams resting on corbelled piers with cutwaters, and the plain Maci sluice is thought to survive from the Song or Yuan, the others from the Ming and Qing."},{"id":"yuhuan-xuanmen-bay-agricultural-park","name":"Xuanmen Bay Agricultural Sightseeing Park","name_zh":"漩门湾观光农业园","pinyin":"Xuánménwān Guānguāng Nóngyèyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.2445,"lon":121.2592,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuhuan-xuanmen-bay-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large agri-tourism park of nearly 10,000 mu (about 670 hectares) on the western edge of Qinggang town, Yuhuan, beside the Xuanmen Bay wetland and looking across Yueqing Bay to the Yandang mountains. It is divided into orchards, including a garden of pomelo varieties, a farming-culture area, a water garden, fishing ponds, a bird garden and a fishing-village area. It suits families and anyone curious about local fruit such as the Yuhuan pomelo."},{"id":"yuhuan-xuanmen-bay-wetland-park","name":"Xuanmen Bay National Wetland Park","name_zh":"漩门湾国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Xuánménwān Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.2151,"lon":121.2436,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuhuan-xuanmen-bay-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park of 31.48 km² in northern Yuhuan, where Yuhuan island meets the Chumen peninsula, made up of tidal flats, open water, freshwater marsh, islets and wooded hills. A stopover on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, it had recorded 320 bird species by September 2026, among them black-faced spoonbills, spoon-billed sandpipers and wintering Saunders's gulls, and it was named a provincial bird-watching site in 2023. Visitors can take boats on the lake, ride a small sightseeing train and visit the wetland science centre, and the Xuanmen Bay agricultural park lies next door."},{"id":"jiaojiang-yijiangshan-battle-site","name":"Yijiangshan Islands Battle Site","name_zh":"一江山岛战役遗址","pinyin":"Yījiāngshān Dǎo Zhànyì Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.6067,"lon":121.8107,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaojiang-yijiangshan-battle-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two small, steep islands about 30 km off Jiaojiang where the People's Liberation Army took the islands from Republic of China forces on 18 January 1955, its first combined operation of land, sea and air forces; the loss led the ROC to evacuate the nearby Dachen Islands the following month. More than 150 bunkers, gun positions, trenches, barracks and landing stages survive along some 8 km of trenches, and a visitor centre with a battle history exhibition, a memorial and a weapons display were added between 2008 and 2015. The protected unit also includes the battle's memorial tower on the mainland in Jiaojiang."},{"id":"xianju-yongan-river-greenway","name":"Yong'an River Greenway","name_zh":"永安溪绿道","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Xī Lǜdào","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Taizhou","lat":28.8247,"lon":120.7151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianju-yongan-river-greenway","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside route for cycling and walking along the Yong'an River, the 'mother river' of Xianju, which crosses the county's farmland basin from west to east. Along the river visitors can cycle the banks or take bamboo-raft trips, including a rafting stretch of about 5 km near the county town, with views of fields, woods and the hills framing the valley."},{"id":"ruian-bagua-hexi-bridges","name":"Bagua and Hexi Bridges","name_zh":"八卦桥和河西桥","pinyin":"Bāguà Qiáo hé Héxī Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.8458,"lon":120.4867,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruian-bagua-hexi-bridges","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Southern Song stone beam bridges in Taoshan town, western Rui'an. Bagua Bridge in Taofeng village, built in the Chunxi reign (1174–89), crosses the Tao stream on five spans 25.4 m long, its polished deck slabs carved with patterns to stop slipping; Hexi Bridge, at the western end of Huayuandi village, is a similar five-span bridge 24.5 m long."},{"id":"taishun-yuyan-bao-ancestral-hall","name":"Bao Ancestral Hall, Yuyan","name_zh":"玉岩包氏宗祠","pinyin":"Yùyán Bāoshì Zōngcí","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.4834,"lon":120.0222,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taishun-yuyan-bao-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large clan hall of the Bao family on a hillside in Yuyan village, Sixi town, founded in the Chenghua reign (1465–87) and rebuilt in 1847. Laid out on an axis that climbs the slope, it has an archway, outer gate, half-moon pond, gate hall, front hall, main hall and sacrificial hall over about 3,400 m², and it is part of the Sixi covered-bridge culture park."},{"id":"lucheng-caowanshan-site-museum","name":"Caowanshan Site Museum","name_zh":"曹湾山遗址","pinyin":"Cáowān Shān Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.0909,"lon":120.5384,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lucheng-caowanshan-site-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic hilltop settlement on Caowan Hill in Tengqiao town, more than 4,000 years old and belonging to the Haochuan culture, with a living area of stone footings and a cemetery of 35 graves. A site museum opened for trial visits in early 2025, showing replicas of the finds, such as a jade-inlaid handle and a pottery steamer, with interactive displays on the area's early farmers."},{"id":"cangnan-chixi-five-arch-bridge","name":"Chixi Five-Span Bridge","name_zh":"赤溪五洞桥","pinyin":"Chìxī Wǔdòng Qiáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.3447,"lon":120.5013,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangnan-chixi-five-arch-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-span stone beam bridge, 24.6 m long and only 1.7 m wide, crossing the stream at Guoxi village in Chixi town. When it was first built is unknown; the present bridge dates from a rebuilding in 1267, late in the Southern Song."},{"id":"yueqing-east-pagoda","name":"East Pagoda, Yueqing","name_zh":"乐清东塔","pinyin":"Yuèqīng Dōngtǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.1312,"lon":120.9657,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yueqing-east-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda about 18 m tall on Donggao Hill in Yuecheng, central Yueqing, moved here in the Xining reign (1068–77) after lightning destroyed an earlier tower, with further building in the 1170s. Its eaves are corbelled out in brick over bracket sets, many of its bricks carry donors' inscriptions, and the hill around it is now Dongta Park."},{"id":"cangnan-fanshan-alum-mine","name":"Fanshan Alum Mine","name_zh":"矾山矾矿遗址","pinyin":"Fánshān Fánkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.3392,"lon":120.4017,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangnan-fanshan-alum-mine","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old alum works of Fanshan, a town long known for producing potash and soda alum; the listed remains date from the Qing dynasty to 1994. On the north slope of Jilong Hill at Fudewan village survive five calcining furnaces, a tall water-boiling furnace and workshops, together with miners' stone houses, an old street of hillside homes from the late Qing and early Republic, and temples; Fudewan is now a listed historic village with craft workshops and guesthouses."},{"id":"pingyang-qizhen-temple-five-buddha-pagodas","name":"Five Buddha Pagodas of Qizhen Temple","name_zh":"栖真寺五佛塔","pinyin":"Qīzhēn Sì Wǔfó Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.6321,"lon":120.482,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyang-qizhen-temple-five-buddha-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A row of small hexagonal Song-dynasty stone pagodas from Qizhen Temple in Luoyang village near Aojiang, carved to imitate timber buildings with single eaves. Five were made and four survive, all without their finials; they first stood before the temple's release pond and were later moved and reassembled on their present site."},{"id":"yongjia-red-13th-army-headquarters","name":"Former Headquarters of the Red 13th Army","name_zh":"红十三军军部旧址","pinyin":"Hóng Shísān Jūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.3596,"lon":120.6945,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongjia-red-13th-army-headquarters/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Hu family ancestral hall of 1728 in Wuxia village, Wuchi township, northern Yongjia, where southern Zhejiang Red Army guerrillas set up the headquarters of the 13th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which stayed from May 1930 to autumn 1932. The timber courtyard hall is preserved, with a newer museum on the army's history beside it and a memorial monument on the slope opposite."},{"id":"ruian-liji-medical-school","name":"Former Liji Medical School","name_zh":"利济医学堂旧址","pinyin":"Lìjì Yīxuétáng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.7859,"lon":120.6298,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruian-liji-medical-school/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Liji Medical School in central Rui'an, founded in 1885 by the reformers Chen Qiu, Chen Jieshi and Chen Baoshan as a new-style school of Chinese medicine run on Western educational lines, which trained some 300 doctors and published its own journal from 1896. The courtyard complex pairs a Western-style five-bay main building with Chinese timber wings and a herb garden, and now houses the Liji Medical School Museum."},{"id":"yongjia-furong-village","name":"Furong Village","name_zh":"芙蓉村","pinyin":"Fúróng Cūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.3333,"lon":120.732,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongjia-furong-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chen clan village in Yantou town on the middle Nanxi River, said to have been founded at the end of the Tang dynasty and laid out to a 'seven stars and eight dippers' plan, with lamp platforms as the stars and wells as the dippers. Nearly 50 old buildings survive within the village wall and gates, including the Chen ancestral hall, Furong Academy, Furong Pavilion and large houses such as the Sima Residence."},{"id":"taishun-xuexi-hu-family-compound","name":"Hu Family Compound, Xuexi","name_zh":"雪溪胡氏大院","pinyin":"Xuěxī Húshì Dàyuàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.3908,"lon":119.9233,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taishun-xuexi-hu-family-compound","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled family mansion in Xuexi township, Taishun, built over some 40 years from 1832 to 1874 by Hu Dongwei, whose forebears had moved here from Qingyuan in the Ming dynasty. Behind a stone gateway, the front, lower and upper halls line a central axis, with finely carved beams, brackets and corbels showing dragons, phoenixes, flowers and figures."},{"id":"cangnan-hufa-temple-bridge-pagoda","name":"Hufa Temple Bridge and Pagoda","name_zh":"护法寺桥和塔","pinyin":"Hùfǎ Sì Qiáo hé Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.4624,"lon":120.5225,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangnan-hufa-temple-bridge-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Northern Song stone bridge and a small brick pagoda beside it in Hufasi village, Wangli town. The three-span beam bridge, 10.3 m long, carries an inscription dating it to 1088, while the 4.2 m pagoda, with carved water-and-cloud patterns and a two-tier pedestal, is said to be the last of nine that stood before the temple."},{"id":"wenzhou-impression-nantang","name":"Impression Nantang","name_zh":"印象南塘","pinyin":"Yìnxiàng Nántáng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.9992,"lon":120.667,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenzhou-impression-nantang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside leisure and shopping district in central Wenzhou along the Nantang River, combining Nantang Street, lined with restaurants and shops, with Bailuzhou Park, a culture village and waterside gardens. It is busiest in the evening, with a night market, a light show in Bailuzhou Park and lit-up river views, and suits a relaxed walk and dinner."},{"id":"wenzhou-jiangxin-islet","name":"Jiangxin Islet","name_zh":"江心屿","pinyin":"Jiāngxīn Yǔ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.0313,"lon":120.6418,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wenzhou-jiangxin-islet/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long islet in the Ou River opposite central Wenzhou and long the city's emblem, with Jiangxin Temple, founded in 1137 when monks filled the channel between two islets, the East and West Pagodas, a shrine to the Song loyalist Wen Tianxiang, and buildings recalling the poets Xie Lingyun and Meng Haoran. At the foot of the East Pagoda stands the former British Consulate, a verandahed three-storey building of 1894 from the treaty-port era, which now houses a museum on Wenzhou's opening as a port. Gardens and lakes fill the rest of the island."},{"id":"yongjia-jinzhao-xiantai-archways","name":"Jinzhao and Xiantai Archways","name_zh":"金昭牌坊和宪台牌坊","pinyin":"Jīnzhāo Páifāng hé Xiàntái Páifāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.3435,"lon":120.7284,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongjia-jinzhao-xiantai-archways","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Ming timber memorial archways in the Nanxi valley. The Jinzhao Arch in Shangcun village by Yantou, a six-post gateway with three roofs, 7.63 m tall, was raised in 1565 when Jin Zhao passed the highest imperial examination; the Xiantai Arch in Huatan village, Shatou, about 12 km to the south-east, is a four-post arch of 1505 built by the Wenzhou prefect and the Yongjia county magistrate in memory of Zhu Liangyi, a native of Huatan."},{"id":"wencheng-liu-bowen-hometown","name":"Liu Bowen's Hometown (Baizhangji Falls and Liu Ji Temple)","name_zh":"刘伯温故里","pinyin":"Liú Bówēn Gùlǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.8467,"lon":120.0108,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wencheng-liu-bowen-hometown/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wencheng County's 5A scenic area, named for the home region of Liu Ji (Liu Bowen), the strategist who helped found the Ming dynasty, combines two sites about 10 km apart. Baizhangji is a three-tier waterfall in a deep V-shaped ravine whose top fall drops 207 m in a single leap; in Nantian to the north-west, the Liu Ji Temple is a Ming timber hall complex of the Tianshun reign (1457–64) hung with commemorative plaques, and Liu Ji's tomb lies at the foot of Xiashan nearby."},{"id":"yueqing-middle-yandang-mountain","name":"Middle Yandang Mountain","name_zh":"中雁荡山","pinyin":"Zhōng Yàndàng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.1267,"lon":120.8482,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueqing-middle-yandang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area in the hills south-west of Yueqing, described as the 'toe' of the Yandang range and centred on Yuzeng Peak, a pale rock dome named for its resemblance to an ancient steamer pot. Trails link the peak with three lakes, Baishi, Zhongqian and Longshan, and with the waterfalls of the Xiji gorge, amid farmland villages. It is a separate area from the main Yandang Mountains 5A scenic area about 35 km to the north-east."},{"id":"yueqing-nange-archways","name":"Nange Archways","name_zh":"南阁牌楼群","pinyin":"Nángé Páilóuqún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.4027,"lon":121.0729,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueqing-nange-archways","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Five Ming-dynasty archways standing along the pebble-paved lane of Nange village, Xianxi town, raised between 1439 and 1544 to mark the examination honours and official ranks of the local Zhang clan. Each is about 8 m high, with square stone main posts, round timber side posts, dragon-head ridge ornaments and large red name boards with gilded characters."},{"id":"pingyang-nanji-islands","name":"Nanji Islands","name_zh":"南麂列岛","pinyin":"Nánjǐ Lièdǎo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.4648,"lon":121.0781,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyang-nanji-islands","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An archipelago of 52 islands in the East China Sea off Pingyang, protected since 1990 as one of China's first national marine nature reserves and part of UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves since 1998, known for the variety of its shellfish and seaweeds. The main island, Nanji, has the Dasha'ao beach, sea-eroded headlands at Sanpanwei and cliff inscriptions at Guoxing'ao, a cove named after Koxinga, who used the island as a base in the 17th century."},{"id":"yongjia-nanxi-river-ancestral-halls","name":"Nanxi River Ancestral Halls","name_zh":"楠溪江宗祠建筑群","pinyin":"Nánxī Jiāng Zōngcí Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.3133,"lon":120.555,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongjia-nanxi-river-ancestral-halls/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A protected group of Ming and Qing clan halls spread across villages of the Nanxi River valley in Yongjia. One of them, the Yongjia Commandery Hall in Shangcun, Bilian town, began as the Liu clan hall of the forebears of the Ming statesman Liu Ji and has an imperial-edict pavilion, gatehouse, opera stage, galleries and main hall arranged around courtyards. The others include Xiaosi Hall at Shatou and the main halls of the Zheng, Xie, Ye, Shao, Ji and Chen clans in other villages."},{"id":"yongjia-nanxi-river-scenic-area","name":"Nanxi River Scenic Area","name_zh":"楠溪江","pinyin":"Nánxī Jiāng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.2532,"lon":120.7378,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongjia-nanxi-river-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area along the Nanxi River, a clear, shallow tributary of the Ou that winds south through Yongjia County in 36 bends and 72 shoals, with pebble beaches, volcanic cliffs, waterfalls and the old clan villages of its middle reaches. Its eight sections include Daruoyan, where Taogong Cave, a huge natural cavern, was the retreat of the Daoist scholar Tao Hongjing. The river is on China's tentative list for World Heritage and forms the western part of the Yandangshan Global Geopark."},{"id":"longwan-guoan-temple-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Guo'an Temple","name_zh":"国安寺塔","pinyin":"Guó'ān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.9458,"lon":120.7498,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longwan-guoan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A solid stone pagoda built in 1090–1093 at Huang'ao in Yaoxi, Longwan District, nine storeys high on a hexagonal plan and shaped like a timber pavilion tower. Its top has been lost, and about 17 m of the tower survives."},{"id":"cangnan-puzhuang-fortress","name":"Puzhuang Fortress","name_zh":"蒲壮所城","pinyin":"Púzhuàng Suǒchéng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.2386,"lon":120.4424,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cangnan-puzhuang-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming coastal fortress near the Zhejiang–Fujian border, begun in 1384 against Japanese pirate raids and still a lived-in walled town, now called Pucheng. Its stone-faced walls, curved on the hill side and straight towards the sea, have three gates with square barbicans, and the street plan inside is unchanged since the Ming, with the City God temple, a Mazu temple and Ming-era houses. The national listing also covers the smaller Baiwan fort at Chixi and the Zhuangshi fort."},{"id":"ouhai-sanyang-wetland","name":"Sanyang Wetland","name_zh":"三垟湿地","pinyin":"Sānyáng Shīdì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.9574,"lon":120.7037,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ouhai-sanyang-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large wetland park on the south-eastern edge of central Wenzhou, where a dense grid of rivers breaks the land into 161 small islets, traditionally farmed with orchards of Ougan, the local citrus. Paths and bridges link gardens, a banyan grove, a bird island, the Wufuyuan area and the Nan Huaijin Academy, and 142 bird species have been recorded here. It was rated 4A in December 2023 and is an easy half-day outing from the city."},{"id":"ruian-shengjingshan-stone-halls","name":"Shengjingshan Stone Halls","name_zh":"圣井山石殿","pinyin":"Shèngjǐng Shān Shídiàn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.7282,"lon":120.4264,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruian-shengjingshan-stone-halls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A complex of stone-built temple halls on Shengjing Mountain in Mayu town, Rui'an, described as the oldest and largest of its kind in southern Zhejiang: it was founded in 1260, and the present halls date from the Wanli reign (1573–1620) to the late Qing. Inside is the 'holy well' that gives the mountain its name, a shallow spring said never to dry up or overflow, and the Baochang and Tongji temples stand nearby."},{"id":"taishun-shishui-stepping-stones","name":"Shishui Stepping Stones","name_zh":"仕水矴步","pinyin":"Shìshuǐ Dìngbù","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.364,"lon":119.8991,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taishun-shishui-stepping-stones/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stepping-stone crossing of 1795, rebuilt in 1820, across the river at Xidong village in Shiyang town, southern Taishun: 233 stones over 144 m, each step having a higher block of white granite and a lower one of bluestone so that two people can pass. Seen from a distance the line of stones looks like a keyboard, which gives it the local name 'piano bridge'."},{"id":"pingyang-shunxi-old-mansions","name":"Shunxi Old Mansions","name_zh":"顺溪古建筑群","pinyin":"Shùnxī Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.5682,"lon":120.1907,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyang-shunxi-old-mansions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shunxi town, deep in the hills of the South Yandang area in western Pingyang, keeps the Chen clan ancestral hall and ten large Chen family mansions, most built in the Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns (1736–1820). The large timber courtyard houses were built for branches of one clan living side by side, and their layout reflects traditional ideas of lineage and fengshui."},{"id":"pingyang-south-yandang-mountain","name":"South Yandang Mountain","name_zh":"南雁荡山","pinyin":"Nán Yàndàng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.6053,"lon":120.2789,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyang-south-yandang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area in western Pingyang with five sections of rocky peaks, caves, clear streams and waterfalls, long paired with the northern Yandang Mountains. The core Dongxidong section packs Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist temples among its cliffs and caves, and rows of Ming and Qing houses survive in the villages; the Shunxi section to the west holds the Chen family mansions."},{"id":"ruian-guanyin-temple-stone-pagoda","name":"Stone Pagoda of Guanyin Temple, Rui'an","name_zh":"观音寺石塔","pinyin":"Guānyīn Sì Shítǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.7859,"lon":120.6434,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruian-guanyin-temple-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hexagonal stone pagoda of 1068, originally called the Thousand Buddha Pagoda, at the southern foot of Wansong Hill in Zhouhu village, Longshan, on the eastern edge of central Rui'an. Carved in the form of a timber pavilion-style tower, it once had seven storeys, of which six survive to a height of 7.8 m."},{"id":"yueqing-zhenru-temple-stone-pagodas","name":"Stone Pagodas of Zhenru Temple","name_zh":"真如寺石塔","pinyin":"Zhēnrú Sì Shítǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.01,"lon":120.8172,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueqing-zhenru-temple-stone-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four hexagonal stone pagodas in front of Zhenru Temple in Chongshi village, Panshi town, the survivors of seven that once stood here; only one is complete, the other three having lost their tops. The temple was founded in 888 and rebuilt in 1298, and the pagodas belong to that Yuan-dynasty rebuilding."},{"id":"pingyang-su-buqing-hometown","name":"Su Buqing's Hometown, Tengjiao","name_zh":"苏步青故里","pinyin":"Sū Bùqīng Gùlǐ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.6787,"lon":120.33,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyang-su-buqing-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural tourism area in Tengjiao town, Pingyang, built around the hometown of the mathematician Su Buqing (1902–2003), a founder of differential geometry in China and later president of Fudan University. It takes in his late-Qing timber family house, a museum on his life, a hands-on mathematics hall and maths park, the old Tingzi street and a stele garden honouring Chinese chess champions, as Tengjiao is known for the game. It was rated 4A in December 2023."},{"id":"taishun-sixi-covered-bridge-culture-park","name":"Taishun Covered Bridge Culture Park (Xidong and Beijian Bridges)","name_zh":"泰顺廊桥文化园","pinyin":"Tàishùn Lángqiáo Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.4743,"lon":119.9958,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taishun-sixi-covered-bridge-culture-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A heritage park in Sixi town built around Xidong Bridge (1745) and Beijian Bridge (1803), two timber covered bridges with woven-beam arches that stand close together over the streams of Xiaqiao village. The park also takes in old buildings such as Zhang Shiyi's former residence and the Bao ancestral hall, and showcases Taishun's puppet theatre. The two bridges head the national listing of 15 Taishun covered bridges scattered across the county; three of them were swept away by floods in 2016 and rebuilt in 2017, reusing as much of their original timber as possible."},{"id":"taishun-tulou","name":"Taishun Tulou","name_zh":"泰顺土楼","pinyin":"Tàishùn Tǔlóu","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.552,"lon":119.7398,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taishun-tulou/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Six fortified earth buildings in Taishun County, built in the Fujian earth-building tradition between the Qing dynasty and the Republic. The listed buildings include Shangjiaoyang Tulou near Luoyang, a square two-storey block of rammed earth on a stone base, with timber rooms around a central courtyard and a defensive ditch, built in the late Qing by the Zeng clan, who came from the Quanzhou area of Fujian; around it the village's semicircular 'water-castle' houses ring the clan temple."},{"id":"yueqing-tieding-liuliu-park","name":"Tieding Liuliu Park","name_zh":"铁定溜溜","pinyin":"Tiědìng Liūliū","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.4123,"lon":121.1732,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueqing-tieding-liuliu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural theme park near Dajing in northern Yueqing, built around the growing of tiepi shihu (Dendrobium officinale), a medicinal orchid long associated with the Yandang area. It has three parts: a slide park with many indoor and outdoor slides, including a 1,620 m rail slide and a 61.8 m slide tower, a dendrobium culture park and a farming park. It suits families combining it with a visit to the Yandang Mountains."},{"id":"wencheng-tongling-mountain-forest-park","name":"Tongling Mountain Forest Park","name_zh":"铜铃山森林公园","pinyin":"Tónglíng Shān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.823,"lon":119.8491,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wencheng-tongling-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in western Wencheng, with forest over about 98% of its area and rare wildlife such as Cabot's tragopan. Its best-known sight is Tongling Gorge, an S-shaped ravine of about 500 m where swirling water has drilled deep potholes into the rock; the park also has Xiaoyaochi, a pool at about 1,000 m near a sunrise viewpoint, and Tonglingzhai, a cliff-top stronghold of a late-Yuan rebel leader. A pavilion built in 1997 commemorates Red Army soldiers killed in an ambush here in 1936."},{"id":"cangnan-wanyao-ancient-village","name":"Wanyao Ancient Village","name_zh":"碗窑古村","pinyin":"Wǎnyáo Gǔcūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.4912,"lon":120.2609,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangnan-wanyao-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old pottery village in a wooded valley above Yulong Lake in Qiaodun, founded in the early Ming, which preserves its old hand-worked bowl kilns and workshops. Old houses in early Qing style, with more than 300 rooms in all, climb the hillside, with an old temple, an opera stage, water-powered mills and a few stilt houses, and a three-tier waterfall drops into deep pools nearby. It was among the first villages named Chinese Traditional Villages in 2012."},{"id":"wencheng-forest-oxygen-town","name":"Wencheng Forest Oxygen Town","name_zh":"文成森林氧吧小镇","pinyin":"Wénchéng Sēnlín Yǎngbā Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.865,"lon":119.8321,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wencheng-forest-oxygen-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain resort area in western Wencheng, where Wencheng, Jingning and Taishun counties meet, made up of the Tianshengshan area in Xikeng She Ethnic Town and the Tonglingshan town area, with core areas above 1,000 m and forest covering about 96% of the land. Its facilities have included Swan Castle (Tian'ebao), an indoor ski hall, and Anfu Temple, a Buddhist temple of the Medicine Buddha, and the Tongling Mountain and Longqiyuan scenic areas lie within its bounds. It was rated 4A in 2018."},{"id":"wenzhou-amusement-park","name":"Wenzhou Amusement Park","name_zh":"温州乐园","pinyin":"Wēnzhōu Lèyuán","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.9101,"lon":120.6808,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenzhou-amusement-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wenzhou's first theme park, open for about two decades in Chashan south of the city, with a European-style zone, a cartoon zone, an adventure valley and a dinosaur zone, plus rides such as a suspended roller coaster added in 2008. The Wenzhou Polar Ocean World aquarium next door opened in 2019, and a third phase opened in May 2025 with a circus arena staging acrobatics and horseback acts and a mermaid-themed family hotel. It suits families with children."},{"id":"taishun-wuyanling-nature-reserve","name":"Wuyanling National Nature Reserve","name_zh":"乌岩岭","pinyin":"Wūyánlǐng","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.7101,"lon":119.6739,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taishun-wuyanling-nature-reserve/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national nature reserve of 18,861.5 ha in north-western Taishun, set up mainly to protect Cabot's tragopan, a pheasant found only in China, and one of the best-preserved subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests in eastern China. Only a small part is open to visitors: trails follow two streams past waterfalls and pools such as Baiyun Falls and Longjing Pool, and a paved path climbs to Baiyunjian (1,611 m), the highest peak in Wenzhou."},{"id":"dongtou-xiandieyan-banping-island","name":"Xiandieyan and Banping Island","name_zh":"仙叠岩·半屏山","pinyin":"Xiāndiéyán · Bànpíng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.8044,"lon":121.1384,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongtou-xiandieyan-banping-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two coastal sights in the Dongtou islands off the mouth of the Ou River. Banping ('half-screen') Island has a sheer east-facing sea cliff about 1.2 km long and 120 m high, said in local legend to be one half of a mountain whose other half lies in Taiwan, and a sandy beach at Dashalong on its north-west side; Xiandieyan, south-east of the Dongtou district centre, is a headland of stacked, wave-worn rocks. The cliffs show different shapes when seen from boats circling the island."},{"id":"yueqing-yandang-mountains","name":"Yandang Mountains","name_zh":"雁荡山","pinyin":"Yàndàng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.3642,"lon":121.0777,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yueqing-yandang-mountains/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main area of the North Yandang range in Yueqing, a 5A scenic area and Global Geopark of about 450 km², formed by volcanic eruptions more than 100 million years ago and eroded into cliffs, pinnacles, caves and waterfalls. Its 'three wonders' are the rock silhouettes of Lingfeng by night, the rope-crossing act between the cliffs at Lingyan and the Dalongqiu waterfall, and Lingyan also has Lingyan Temple and the Xiaolongqiu falls. Inside Longbi (Dragon's Nose) Cave in the Lingyan area, 94 cliff inscriptions from the Tang dynasty to modern times include one by the Song scholar Shen Kuo."},{"id":"longwan-yongchang-fort","name":"Yongchang Fort","name_zh":"永昌堡","pinyin":"Yǒngchāng Bǎo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.9083,"lon":120.8121,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longwan-yongchang-fort/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fortified village built in 1558 by the local Wang family against Japanese pirates, after two of their kinsmen were killed fighting the raiders, and described as the only surviving privately built walled town in Zhejiang. The rectangular fort keeps its north wall, most of the east wall and the east gate with its barbican and gun gallery, and a moat and two canals run through a village of old houses that includes the Wang ancestral hall."},{"id":"cangnan-yucang-mountain","name":"Yucang Mountain","name_zh":"玉苍山","pinyin":"Yùcāng Shān","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.5182,"lon":120.2946,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangnan-yucang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite mountain north-west of Cangnan's county town, rising to 921.5 m and protected as a national forest park since 1991. It is known for its 'stone sea' of rounded boulders in odd shapes, its sunrises and seas of cloud, and a handful of small upland lakes, and Fayun Temple, founded in the 1260s and rebuilt in 1983, stands at about 770 m."},{"id":"ruian-yuhai-library","name":"Yuhai Library","name_zh":"玉海楼","pinyin":"Yùhǎi Lóu","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.7846,"lon":120.6295,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruian-yuhai-library/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private library built in 1888 by the late-Qing scholar Sun Yirang and his father Sun Yiyan, counted among Zhejiang's four great private libraries and named after the Song scholar Wang Yinglin's encyclopedia Yuhai. The complex of about 8,000 m² joins the two-storey timber library, ringed by water on three sides, with the Baijin Taozhai and Sun Yirang's former residence; its surviving rare books have been moved to the Rui'an Museum for safekeeping."},{"id":"cangnan-yuliao-beach","name":"Yuliao Beach","name_zh":"渔寮","pinyin":"Yúliáo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":27.2645,"lon":120.52,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangnan-yuliao-beach","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A coastal scenic area near the southern end of Zhejiang's coast in Cangnan, centred on Yuliao beach, a broad sandy bay about 2 km long, with a smaller crescent beach at Wuchengao. Rock formations along the shore, such as the 'music stone' that rings when struck, and offshore islets frame the bay, which is used for sea bathing in summer."},{"id":"ouhai-zeya-scenic-area","name":"Zeya Scenic Area and Siliandui Paper Mills","name_zh":"泽雅","pinyin":"Zéyǎ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Wenzhou","lat":28.0028,"lon":120.4161,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ouhai-zeya-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large mountain scenic area west of Wenzhou, nicknamed the 'West Yandang', with eight sections of waterfalls, pools and gorges such as the Qipujian (Seven Waterfalls) ravine and Jinkeng Gorge. Zeya was long a 'paper mountain' of bamboo-paper makers, and at Siliandui four water-powered trip-hammer mills, first built in the early Ming, stand along a 230 m channel on the Longxi stream as a protected relic of traditional papermaking. The first section opened to visitors in 1990 as the papermaking trade declined."},{"id":"putuoshan-fayu-temple","name":"Fayu Temple","name_zh":"法雨寺","pinyin":"Fǎyǔ Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":30.0048,"lon":122.3892,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putuoshan-fayu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 'rear temple' and second-largest of Mount Putuo's three great temples, founded in 1580 as the Haichao Hermitage and renamed after the Kangxi Emperor granted the plaque 'Tianhua Fayu' ('heavenly flowers, Dharma rain') in 1699. Its halls climb the hillside below Foding Shan in six tiers, and the Guanyin Hall, also called the Nine Dragon Hall, is the most richly decorated."},{"id":"shengsi-huaniao-island-lighthouse","name":"Huaniao Island & Lighthouse","name_zh":"花鸟岛","pinyin":"Huāniǎo Dǎo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":30.8611,"lon":122.6733,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shengsi-huaniao-island-lighthouse","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The northernmost island of the Zhoushan archipelago, a small island whose blue-and-white painted village houses have earned it the nickname 'Santorini of the East', with clear-water bays, a sandy beach at South Bay and seasonal 'blue tears' of glowing plankton along the shore. On its north-western headland stands Huaniao Lighthouse, designed by the Scottish engineer David Marr Henderson and completed in 1870 to guide ships between the Yangtze mouth and the Pacific: a 16.5 m white-and-black tower with a copper dome, radio masts, service buildings and a fog signal, still in service. Visitor numbers on the island are capped each day."},{"id":"dinghai-nandong-art-valley","name":"Nandong Art Valley","name_zh":"南洞艺谷","pinyin":"Nándòng Yìgǔ","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":30.0938,"lon":122.1367,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dinghai-nandong-art-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in a small valley ringed by hills in Xinjian, Ganlan town, in the north of Zhoushan Island, once poor and remote and since redeveloped for rural tourism with an arts theme. Visitors come for its rural scenery, homestays and an old green steam train kept as a photo spot, and it is a stop on a national boutique rural tourism route together with the Ma'ao Museum."},{"id":"zhujiajian-nansha-beach","name":"Nansha Beach, Zhujiajian","name_zh":"朱家尖南沙","pinyin":"Zhūjiājiān Nánshā","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":29.8772,"lon":122.4039,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhujiajian-nansha-beach","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nansha is one of the five linked sandy beaches, about 6 km in all, that line the east coast of Zhujiajian Island, just south of Mount Putuo across a narrow strait. It is the venue of the Zhoushan International Sand Sculpture Festival, held on the beach each year since around 2000; outside festival time it is an open sandy beach, and the island's coast is also popular for surfing."},{"id":"putuoshan-puji-temple","name":"Puji Temple","name_zh":"普济寺","pinyin":"Pǔjì Sì","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":29.9878,"lon":122.3824,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putuoshan-puji-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 'front temple' and principal Guanyin shrine of Mount Putuo, which grew out of the shrine founded for a Guanyin image that the Japanese monk Egaku left on the island, and took its present name from a plaque given by the Kangxi Emperor. Its halls, largely rebuilt in 1731–34, cover about 37,000 m², and the main Yuantong Hall holds a Vairocana Guanyin surrounded by the bodhisattva's 32 manifestations. Beside it stands the Duobao Pagoda, a three-tier stone pagoda paid for by a Yuan prince in 1333–34 and the oldest surviving structure on the island."},{"id":"shengsi-five-fishing-villages","name":"Shengsi Five Fishing Villages","name_zh":"东海五渔村","pinyin":"Dōnghǎi Wǔ Yúcūn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":30.7087,"lon":122.4985,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shengsi-five-fishing-villages","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A string of five fishing villages in Wulong township on the east side of Sijiao, the main island of the Shengsi archipelago: Tian'ao, Huangsha, Bianjiao'ao, Huicheng and Shiwuzhi'ao. Bianjiao'ao's houses were painted in bright colours by teachers and students of the China Academy of Art, Huangsha has a village art museum and history hall, and fishermen's paintings, sea-view homestays and seafood are found throughout. It suits a slow day or two of island village life."},{"id":"shenjiamen-fishing-port-town","name":"Shenjiamen Fishing Port Town","name_zh":"沈家门渔港小镇","pinyin":"Shěnjiāmén Yúgǎng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":29.9443,"lon":122.2802,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenjiamen-fishing-port-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shenjiamen, on the south-east shore of Zhoushan Island, grew up around one of China's largest fishing harbours, sheltered by Lujiazhi Island and long the centre of the Zhoushan fishery. The 4A area takes in the harbour waterfront and the Zhoushan International Seafood Trade Center, where visitors can learn about the fishing industry and buy fresh seafood, and the seafront is known for its open-air seafood restaurants in the evening."},{"id":"putuo-taohua-island","name":"Taohua Island","name_zh":"桃花岛","pinyin":"Táohuā Dǎo","region_id":"330000","region":"Zhejiang","city":"Zhoushan","lat":29.8207,"lon":122.2881,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putuo-taohua-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilly island of about 44 km² south of Zhoushan Island, known across the Chinese-speaking world as the Peach Blossom Island of Louis Cha (Jin Yong)'s martial-arts novels, and used as a filming location for television adaptations of them. The scenic area spreads over six sections, among them the Tawan golden sands, Anqi Peak with Shengyan Monastery near the summit, and Taohua Valley, with beaches, rock formations, the seven-storey Jilin Pagoda and a bronze statue of Jin Yong set up in 2001."},{"id":"qianshan-baimatan","name":"Baimatan Rafting Area","name_zh":"白马潭","pinyin":"Báimǎ Tán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.7057,"lon":116.3636,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-baimatan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside scenic area in Shuihou town below the western side of Mount Tianzhu, run mainly for rafting. Bamboo-raft and inflatable-boat trips float down the river valley in summer, and a water-splashing rafting festival has been held there in July."},{"id":"susong-baiya-fortress","name":"Baiya Fortress","name_zh":"白崖寨","pinyin":"Báiyá Zhài","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.3667,"lon":116.1491,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=susong-baiya-fortress","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain-top stronghold on Baiya Shan in Zhifeng township, first built at the end of the Yuan dynasty and enlarged in the late Ming and late Qing. A stone wall about 4 km round, with five gate towers, encloses surviving buildings such as a Guandi temple and a Kuixing pavilion. In 1932 the Red Army's 27th Army was formed here, and in 2024 the fortress drew new visitors as a model for scenes in the video game Black Myth: Wukong."},{"id":"yuexi-dabie-rainbow-waterfall","name":"Dabie Mountains Rainbow Waterfall","name_zh":"大别山彩虹瀑布","pinyin":"Dàbié Shān Cǎihóng Pùbù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":31.1271,"lon":116.3136,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-dabie-rainbow-waterfall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A waterfall at Monkey Cliff in Huangwei village, northern Yuexi county, where a stream rising on Baima Peak, the highest summit of the Dabie Mountains, drops nearly 100 metres. Its spray throws up a rainbow on most sunny mornings, which earned the falls a place on China's first national list of weather and climate landscapes; a glass viewing platform faces the falls and boardwalks follow the stream."},{"id":"huaining-duxiu-mountain","name":"Duxiu Mountain","name_zh":"独秀山","pinyin":"Dúxiù Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.6183,"lon":116.7884,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaining-duxiu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill in Huangdun town, Huaining county, from which Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Chinese Communist Party, took his pen name. The scenic area is themed on him: a boardwalk circles the hill past four small pavilions with displays on the stages of his life, and outdoor activity grounds are used by school study groups. Family attractions such as a glass water slide, go-karts and lakeside camping have since been added by the Guanyin Cave reservoir at its foot."},{"id":"anqing-duxiu-park-chen-duxiu-tomb","name":"Duxiu Park and Tomb of Chen Duxiu","name_zh":"独秀园","pinyin":"Dúxiù Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.5739,"lon":116.9959,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqing-duxiu-park-chen-duxiu-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park in the northern outskirts of Anqing built around the tomb of Chen Duxiu, a leader of the New Culture Movement, founder of the magazine New Youth and a founder and early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, who died in 1942. His remains were brought here in 1947, and the grave was rebuilt in 1979 and again from 1998. The park adds a bronze statue, a stone gateway, inscriptions from New Youth and an exhibition hall on his life."},{"id":"yuexi-fayun-temple-pagoda","name":"Fayun Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"法云寺塔","pinyin":"Fǎyún Sì Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.8181,"lon":116.3811,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-fayun-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty brick pagoda in Qianfota village, Xiangchang town, the main survivor of the Fayun Temple that once stood here. Square in plan and seven storeys high, it has arched openings on each face of the upper storeys and niches with brick-carved Buddha figures, which give it its local name, Qianfo Ta (Thousand-Buddha Pagoda)."},{"id":"yuexi-feiqi-zhai","name":"Feiqi Zhai","name_zh":"飞旗寨","pinyin":"Fēiqí Zhài","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.8661,"lon":116.272,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-feiqi-zhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area around the peak of Feiqi Zhai in Lianyun township, west of Yuexi county town in the Dabie Mountains. It is best known for wild azaleas that bloom down its cliffs in spring, one of the sights of Yuexi's annual azalea festival in April and May."},{"id":"taihu-wuqiannian-culture-park","name":"Five Thousand Years Culture Park","name_zh":"五千年文博园","pinyin":"Wǔqiānnián Wénbó Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.4438,"lon":116.3248,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taihu-wuqiannian-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern cultural theme park on the hills at Taihu county town, built to showcase Chinese history and folk art rather than an old site. Its set pieces include a 35-metre statue of Laozi, a 490-metre stone dragon carved with the 47,035 characters of the Kangxi Dictionary, a hillside relief of the Along the River During the Qingming Festival scroll and a hall of more than 27,000 root carvings."},{"id":"taihu-huating-lake","name":"Huating Lake","name_zh":"花亭湖","pinyin":"Huātíng Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.4672,"lon":116.2475,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taihu-huating-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir in the hills north of Taihu county town, formed by the Hualiangting Dam, which was begun in 1958 and largely completed in 1976; it is now a national scenic area. Boats run out to islands and coves such as Moon Bay, and Xifeng Cave, a cliff-side site with an old temple, has views over the water."},{"id":"tongcheng-kongcheng-old-street","name":"Kongcheng Old Street","name_zh":"孔城老街","pinyin":"Kǒngchéng Lǎojiē","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":31.0298,"lon":117.0813,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongcheng-kongcheng-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market street in Kongcheng town that grew in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a river port between the Chaohu Lake region and the Yangtze. About 3 km long and paved with granite slabs, it winds in an S-shape past grey-brick shops and houses with upturned eaves, the old Tongxiang Academy and the Ni family mansion, built by a late-Qing prefect who retired here; the central sections were restored and partly rebuilt from 2009."},{"id":"anqing-linghu-park","name":"Linghu Park","name_zh":"菱湖","pinyin":"Líng Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.5199,"lon":117.0481,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqing-linghu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Linghu (Water Chestnut Lake) and the gardens around it form a large public park in the centre of Anqing, with pavilions, bridges and lawns along the water. The Huangmei Pavilion in the park hosts performances of Huangmei opera, the regional opera closely tied to Anqing."},{"id":"yuexi-miaodao-mountain","name":"Miaodao Mountain","name_zh":"妙道山","pinyin":"Miàodào Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.7822,"lon":116.1126,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-miaodao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park high in the Dabie Mountains of western Yuexi county, at the end of the G318 'Cloud Road' drive that also serves Mingtang Mountain and Tianxia Gorge. It is known for its ancient purple willows, locally said to be a thousand years old, set in deep mountain forest."},{"id":"yuexi-mingtang-mountain","name":"Mingtang Mountain","name_zh":"明堂山","pinyin":"Míngtáng Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.8759,"lon":116.0689,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-mingtang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-peaked mountain of the Dabie range in Hetu town, western Yuexi, whose main summit reaches 1,563 m; legend says it is named after the ritual hall (mingtang) set up here when Emperor Wu of Han honoured nearby Mount Tianzhu. A cable car climbs to the summit area, where a glass walkway, glass bridge and glass viewing platforms ring the main peak, and a long slide runs back down. High-altitude azaleas flower in late April and May, and the Huluhe gorge below has a chain of four waterfalls."},{"id":"qianshan-mount-tianzhu","name":"Mount Tianzhu","name_zh":"天柱山","pinyin":"Tiānzhù Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.7455,"lon":116.4499,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qianshan-mount-tianzhu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite mountain in Qianshan whose main summit, Tianzhu Peak (1,489 m), stands like a pillar above more than 50 lesser peaks; its old name, Wan Shan, gave Anhui its one-character abbreviation. Emperor Wu of Han honoured it as the 'Southern Peak' in 106 BC, and it is now part of a UNESCO Global Geopark. Cable cars and stepped trails lead to the summit area, the 450-metre boulder-cave passage of Shenmi Gu (Mysterious Valley) and the high mountain lake of Liandan Hu."},{"id":"anqing-nanguan-mosque","name":"Nanguan Mosque, Anqing","name_zh":"安庆南关清真寺","pinyin":"Ānqìng Nánguān Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.5045,"lon":117.0357,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqing-nanguan-mosque","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mosque in the southern part of Anqing's old city, near the Yangtze riverfront, whose Qing-dynasty buildings were listed as a national heritage site in 2013. It is one of a cluster of historic sites in the old city, with the Catholic cathedral, Shitaishi Mansion and Zhenfeng Pagoda all within about 1.5 km."},{"id":"yuexi-qingyun-gorge","name":"Qingyun Gorge","name_zh":"青云峡","pinyin":"Qīngyún Xiá","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":31.0781,"lon":116.3039,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-qingyun-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A river valley in Huangwei town in the Dabie Mountains of northern Yuexi county, developed as a scenic area whose main attraction is summer rafting. It lies about 6 km south of the Dabie Mountains Rainbow Waterfall, so the two can be visited on the same trip."},{"id":"anqing-sacred-heart-cathedral","name":"Sacred Heart Cathedral, Anqing","name_zh":"安庆天主堂","pinyin":"Ānqìng Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.5089,"lon":117.0431,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqing-sacred-heart-cathedral","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Catholic church in Anqing's old city, built by French Jesuits between 1866 and 1872, which in 1929 became the cathedral of the new Apostolic Vicariate of Anqing, then run by Spanish Jesuits. Worship stopped in 1957, and the church was repaired and reopened for services in 1983."},{"id":"qianshan-shangu-liuquan-inscriptions","name":"Shangu Liuquan Cliff Inscriptions","name_zh":"山谷流泉","pinyin":"Shāngǔ Liúquán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.6697,"lon":116.4893,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-shangu-liuquan-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stream gully at the southern foot of Mount Tianzhu, beside Sanzu Temple, whose boulders and rock walls carry several hundred inscriptions from the Tang dynasty to the Republican era, most of them along a stretch of under 300 metres. They include poems, travel notes and names left by visitors such as Wang Anshi, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, in every main script style. The gully, also called Shiniu Gudong (Stone Ox Ancient Cave), was landscaped as a culture park in 2009–2010."},{"id":"susong-shilian-cave-forest-park","name":"Shilian Cave National Forest Park","name_zh":"石莲洞","pinyin":"Shílián Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.1574,"lon":116.0827,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=susong-shilian-cave-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the hills on the western edge of Susong county town, named after Shilian (Stone Lotus) Cave. Paths across its four hill areas, Hexi Shan, Fuyu Shan, Yangjiao Jian and Luohan Jian, lead to caves, pools, pavilions and Buddhist temples, among them Lingyin Temple and Dongshan Temple."},{"id":"anqing-shitaishi-mansion","name":"Shitaishi Mansion","name_zh":"世太史第","pinyin":"Shìtàishǐ Dì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.5083,"lon":117.0421,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqing-shitaishi-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large brick-and-timber courtyard house in Anqing's old city, begun in the Wanli reign of the Ming as an official's home and rebuilt in the Qing dynasty. Its name, 'Mansion of Generations of Historians', refers to the Zhao family, who bought it in 1864 and produced four successive generations of Hanlin Academy scholars; the Buddhist leader Zhao Puchu was born here. Two parallel lines of halls and courtyards, restored in a three-year project completed in 2003, lead back to a small garden."},{"id":"qianshan-tianlong-pass","name":"Tianlong Pass","name_zh":"天龙关","pinyin":"Tiānlóng Guān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.7121,"lon":116.3995,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-tianlong-pass","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A narrow, steep-sided gorge in Shuihou village on the western flank of Mount Tianzhu, named for its winding course, likened to a dragon flying up to heaven. It lies beside a pass that in the Ming and Qing was the main way from the Yangtze lowlands into the Dabie Mountains, known locally as the 'First Pass of the Southern Sky'."},{"id":"yuexi-tianxia-gorge","name":"Tianxia Gorge","name_zh":"天峡","pinyin":"Tiānxiá","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.8235,"lon":116.0569,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-tianxia-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge in Hetu town, western Yuexi, on the southern slope of the watershed between the Yangtze and Huai rivers, with nine waterfalls of more than 30 metres along its streams. From late March to May a kilometre-long belt of wild azaleas flowers along a ridge above 600 metres, drawing big spring crowds, and the scenic area has a glass walkway."},{"id":"qianshan-tianxian-gorge","name":"Tianxian Gorge","name_zh":"天仙峡","pinyin":"Tiānxiān Xiá","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.7324,"lon":116.4308,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-tianxian-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain gorge in Tianzhu village, Shuihou town, close to the main Mount Tianzhu scenic area, opened in 2018 as a leisure area of streams, pools and highland village scenery. When it opened its attractions included a 1.6 km glass water slide, a flower valley and fountains."},{"id":"yuexi-tianyuewan-hot-spring","name":"Tianyuewan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"天悦湾","pinyin":"Tiānyuè Wān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.8693,"lon":116.3484,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuexi-tianyuewan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring and wellness resort in Yuexi county town, built around a hot-spring park with a cluster of hotels. It also has a sports and culture centre, a traditional Chinese medicine clinic and a branch of the Anhui Provincial Library, and is used by workers' unions in Anhui and Shanghai for rest-and-recuperation stays. It suits a soak after walking in the Dabie Mountains."},{"id":"qianshan-tianzhu-grand-canyon","name":"Tianzhu Grand Canyon","name_zh":"天柱大峡谷","pinyin":"Tiānzhù Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.7067,"lon":116.4687,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-tianzhu-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A steep valley on the south-eastern side of Mount Tianzhu, next to the main peak area, where a stream drops more than 200 metres through a chain of waterfalls; the highest, Tongtian Falls, falls about 100 metres. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in December 2024."},{"id":"tongcheng-confucian-temple","name":"Tongcheng Confucian Temple","name_zh":"桐城文庙","pinyin":"Tóngchéng Wénmiào","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":31.0545,"lon":116.946,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongcheng-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former county Confucian temple in the centre of Tongcheng, a town famed for the Tongcheng school of Qing-dynasty prose writers. Founded in the Yuan dynasty and moved to this site in the early Ming, it was rebuilt by local gentry in 1864–1866 after war damage that left only the Lingxing Gate standing. Its symmetrical courtyards, with a screen wall, a semicircular pond and bridge and the Dacheng Hall, now house the Tongcheng Museum."},{"id":"qianshan-wanguang-yuan","name":"Wanguang Garden and Taiping Pagoda","name_zh":"皖光苑","pinyin":"Wǎnguāng Yuàn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.6457,"lon":116.5551,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-wanguang-yuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped museum park in Meicheng, the centre of Qianshan, home to the Qianshan Museum and to memorial exhibitions on the novelist Zhang Henshui and on Cheng Changgeng, one of the founders of Peking opera. Its centrepiece is the Taiping Pagoda, a seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda rebuilt after a fire in 1154 and set inside and out with niches of brick-carved Buddhas."},{"id":"anqing-dalongshan-wulongxi","name":"Wulong Creek, Dalong Mountain","name_zh":"大龙山乌龙溪","pinyin":"Dàlóng Shān Wūlóng Xī","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.6192,"lon":117.067,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqing-dalongshan-wulongxi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded stream valley on the south-eastern side of Dalong Mountain National Forest Park, in the hills just north of Anqing city. About 4 km of looped walking trails run through the forest past the old Yuanzhao Temple, and the scenic area has added a glass bridge and a coloured toboggan slide; the forest farm has held an orange-season festival in autumn."},{"id":"tongcheng-xizi-lake","name":"Xizi Lake","name_zh":"嬉子湖","pinyin":"Xīzǐ Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.8264,"lon":117.0275,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongcheng-xizi-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural lake and wetland scenic area in Xizihu town, south-east Tongcheng, covering about 71 km², more than half of it water. Along with lakeside wetland walks it offers fishing, a resort hotel, a camping ground, boat and jet-ski rides, go-karts and other family amusements. In winter large flocks of migratory birds, including spoonbills and swan geese, gather on the shores."},{"id":"qianshan-xuejiagang-site","name":"Xuejiagang Site","name_zh":"薛家岗遗址","pinyin":"Xuējiāgǎng Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.5588,"lon":116.5952,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-xuejiagang-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic settlement and cemetery on a narrow mound near where the Qian and Wan rivers meet, south-east of Qianshan city, which gave its name to the Xuejiagang culture of the middle and lower Yangtze. Six excavations since 1979 have uncovered more than a hundred graves and some 3,000 objects, mainly stone tools, pottery and jade. The site is now presented to visitors as an archaeological site park."},{"id":"qianshan-yezhai-war-cemetery","name":"Yezhai Cemetery of Soldiers Killed in the War of Resistance","name_zh":"野寨抗日阵亡将士公墓","pinyin":"Yězhài Kàngrì Zhènwáng Jiàngshì Gōngmù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.6649,"lon":116.4936,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianshan-yezhai-war-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cemetery and memorial built in 1942–1943 at Yezhai, at the foot of Mount Tianzhu, for 985 soldiers of the Nationalist army's 176th Division killed fighting Japanese forces, paid for by people of 13 counties in Anhui and Hubei. Its communal grave, memorial hall, pavilion and memorial tower stand inside the campus of Yezhai Middle School, which was founded alongside the cemetery as a memorial school. A memorial garden with large reliefs of the division's war was added beside the graves in 2023."},{"id":"anqing-zhenfeng-pagoda","name":"Zhenfeng Pagoda","name_zh":"振风塔","pinyin":"Zhènfēng Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Anqing","lat":30.5036,"lon":117.0493,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anqing-zhenfeng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in the grounds of Yingjiang Temple on the Yangtze riverfront in Anqing, built in the late Ming dynasty around 1570. Standing at a bend of the river, it once served as a beacon for boats, and its storeys are set with hundreds of small brick-carved Buddha images. The temple around it is an active Chan (Zen) Buddhist monastery."},{"id":"bengbu-museum","name":"Bengbu Museum","name_zh":"蚌埠市博物馆","pinyin":"Bèngbù Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.9145,"lon":117.3807,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bengbu-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bengbu's city museum, a national first-grade museum, which moved in 2015 into a large new building on the west side of Citizens' Square whose design evokes Yu the Great cutting through the mountains to channel the Huai. Its galleries cover the region's prehistory, the history and culture of the Huai River and the city's modern growth. Star pieces include a Neolithic clay human head with facial markings from the Shuangdun site and a Yuan-dynasty blue-and-white jar from the tomb of Tang He."},{"id":"guzhen-gaixia-site","name":"Gaixia Site","name_zh":"垓下遗址","pinyin":"Gāixià Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":33.3264,"lon":117.551,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guzhen-gaixia-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An earth-walled settlement on the south bank of the Tuo River, known locally as Bawang Cheng (the Hegemon-King's City); excavations since 2007 have dated its walls to about 4,600 years ago, in the Dawenkou culture, and the county presents it as the oldest walled town found in Anhui. Tradition places here the Battle of Gaixia, where Xiang Yu heard the 'songs of Chu on all four sides' and parted from his consort Yu, and the archaeological park has spots linked to these stories alongside an intangible-heritage centre."},{"id":"huaiyuan-guo-river-first-bridge","name":"Guo River First Bridge, Huaiyuan","name_zh":"涡河一桥","pinyin":"Guōhé Yīqiáo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.9698,"lon":117.181,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaiyuan-guo-river-first-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite stone-arch road bridge across the Guo River at the foot of Gui Shan on the western edge of Huaiyuan town, begun in 1959 and, after a pause in construction, opened to traffic at the end of 1964, when it was the longest bridge on the Bengbu–Fuyang road. Its four main arches of 50 metres made it Anhui's first long-span stone-arch road bridge; it was listed as a national heritage site in 2019 and is best seen from the riverbank or on a walk across."},{"id":"bengbu-hequan-farm","name":"Hequan Farm","name_zh":"禾泉农庄","pinyin":"Héquán Nóngzhuāng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.9252,"lon":117.2329,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bengbu-hequan-farm","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farm-based leisure park on the western outskirts of Bengbu, founded in 2001, that mixes seasonal flower fields and fruit picking with restaurants, a hotel and guesthouses, children's rides and a row of workshops where sesame oil, vinegar and dendrobium liquor are made in front of visitors. It also stages folk performances such as Huagudeng (flower-drum lantern) dance and seasonal events like music festivals and a farmers' market, and suits families looking for a day out rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"bengbu-longzi-lake","name":"Longzi Lake","name_zh":"龙子湖","pinyin":"Lóngzǐ Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.9092,"lon":117.4055,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bengbu-longzi-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long, shallow lake on the eastern side of Bengbu, ringed by low hills and now enclosed by the growing city. Landscaped parks with lawns, wetlands and a long footbridge line both shores, and the scenic area also takes in Cao Shan, with the Bengbu Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery and the early-Ming tomb of Tang He."},{"id":"bengbu-huai-river-old-railway-bridge","name":"Old Bengbu Huai River Railway Bridge","name_zh":"蚌埠淮河铁路老桥","pinyin":"Bèngbù Huáihé Tiělù Lǎoqiáo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.9546,"lon":117.3547,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/bengbu-huai-river-old-railway-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A steel truss railway bridge across the Huai River at Bengbu, completed in May 1911 for the Tianjin–Pukou Railway; its opening turned Bengbu from a small market town into a railway city. Blown up in 1938 and again in 1949 and repaired each time, it was lengthened in 1987–1988 and still carries the Beijing–Shanghai line, now beside a twin bridge built in 2002. A monument at its southern end remembers six army railway divers who died while the crossing was being restored in 1949–1950."},{"id":"bengbu-shuangdun-site","name":"Shuangdun Site","name_zh":"双墩遗址","pinyin":"Shuāngdūn Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.9854,"lon":117.3249,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bengbu-shuangdun-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic settlement of more than 7,000 years ago in Xiaobengbu town north of the Huai River, type site of the Shuangdun culture, whose pottery bears over 600 incised signs showing animals, plants and daily life. The same park holds two earth mounds over 9 metres high, the 'twin mounds' of its name, one of which was found in 2006–2008 to be the tomb of Bai, ruler of the Spring and Autumn state of Zhongli. Opened as a national archaeological site park in June 2025, it has a museum with finds from both sites and an excavation area under a protective shed."},{"id":"bengbu-yuhui-village-site","name":"Yuhui Village Site","name_zh":"禹会村遗址","pinyin":"Yǔhuìcūn Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.8804,"lon":117.2002,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bengbu-yuhui-village-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Longshan-culture site of 4,400–4,100 years ago at the southern foot of Mount Tu, on the east bank of the Huai River, named after the tradition that Yu the Great gathered the lords at Tushan. Excavations from 2007 uncovered a large raised platform first read as a ritual altar; work in 2020 showed it to be part of the wall of a town of at least 18 hectares, which archaeologists describe as the largest Longshan walled town yet found in the middle Huai valley."},{"id":"bengbu-zhanggong-mountain-park","name":"Zhanggong Mountain Park","name_zh":"张公山公园","pinyin":"Zhānggōng Shān Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bengbu","lat":32.9249,"lon":117.338,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bengbu-zhanggong-mountain-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city park of about 110 hectares in western Bengbu, made up of Zhanggong Shan, a 71-metre hill, and the lake beside it. The seven-storey Wanghuai Pagoda, built on the summit in 1986 and a city landmark, looks out towards the Huai River, while lakeside galleries, a classical garden-within-a-garden and a pearl-mussel sculpture at the south entrance fill the rest of the grounds."},{"id":"bozhou-ancient-tunnels","name":"Ancient Tunnels of Bozhou (Cao Cao's Troop Tunnel)","name_zh":"亳州古地道","pinyin":"Bózhōu Gǔ Dìdào","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.8728,"lon":115.7708,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/bozhou-ancient-tunnels/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A network of underground passages beneath the old city of Bozhou, the home town of Cao Cao, begun in the late Eastern Han but surviving mostly from the Song dynasty; the tunnels radiate from the old crossroads of Dayushou and are built partly of earth and timber but mostly of brick. A section open to visitors is presented as 'Cao Cao's Underground Troop Tunnel', with low brick passages running several metres below the streets."},{"id":"bozhou-museum","name":"Bozhou Museum","name_zh":"亳州博物馆","pinyin":"Bózhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.8507,"lon":115.7786,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bozhou-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city museum of Bozhou, founded in 1959 and now a national second-grade museum, in a Han-style building among trees. Its permanent exhibition, 'Through Five Thousand Years', follows the city's history from early cultures on the Guo River and the Shang capital of Bo through the age of Laozi and Zhuangzi and the Han–Wei era of Cao Cao and Hua Tuo to the merchant town of later centuries. It stands beside Cao Cao Park, around which some of the excavated tombs of Cao Cao's clan lie."},{"id":"bozhou-cao-clan-tombs","name":"Cao Clan Tombs","name_zh":"曹氏家族墓群","pinyin":"Cáoshì Jiāzú Mùqún","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.8515,"lon":115.782,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bozhou-cao-clan-tombs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The burial ground of Cao Cao's family on the southern side of Bozhou, a scatter of Eastern Han tombs that includes those of his father Cao Song and his grandfather Cao Teng. Most were excavated in the 1970s after earlier looting and yielded jade burial suits sewn with silver and copper thread, jade pigs and hundreds of bricks inscribed in several scripts, including early cursive; Cao Teng's tomb had stone chambers with carved reliefs and paintings. A few excavated brick-and-stone chambers with carved doorways can be entered, while other tombs remain unexcavated mounds."},{"id":"bozhou-gujing-brewing-site","name":"Gujing Gongjiu Brewing Site and Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"古井贡酒酿造遗址","pinyin":"Gǔjǐng Gòngjiǔ Niàngzào Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.9914,"lon":115.6594,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bozhou-gujing-brewing-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of the Gujing Gongjiu distillery in Gujing town, where a Song-dynasty well, a Ming well and a set of fermentation pits in use since at least 1515, the date on a boundary brick found among them, are protected with the excavated remains of a Ming–Qing brewery. Around them the company's liquor culture park centres on a museum built in 1995, whose prizes include a Qing palace wine jar and samples of all 368 liquors entered in China's last national liquor competition in 1989, opposite a garden with a corridor of inscribed steles. The local liquor was sent as tribute to the Ming court, and the brand traces its method to a recipe Cao Cao presented to the Han emperor in 196."},{"id":"bozhou-huaxilou","name":"Huaxilou (Shanxi–Shaanxi Guild Hall)","name_zh":"花戏楼","pinyin":"Huāxì Lóu","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.8864,"lon":115.7675,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/bozhou-huaxilou/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A guild hall and temple to the war god Guan Yu built in the Qing dynasty by medicine merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi trading in Bozhou, on Xianning Street in the old northern quarter. Its popular name, 'flower opera tower', comes from the opera stage facing the main hall, covered in painted wood carvings of Three Kingdoms stories; the gateway is faced with intricate brick carving and flanked by a pair of tall iron flagpoles."},{"id":"bozhou-linyongcheng-forest-park","name":"Linyongcheng Forest Park","name_zh":"林拥城","pinyin":"Línyōngchéng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.7596,"lon":115.7293,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bozhou-linyongcheng-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park on the south-western edge of Bozhou laid out around a reservoir, also known as Yaodu Linhai, the 'forest sea of the medicine capital', after the city's role as a centre of the herbal-medicine trade. Besides woodland walks it has a botanical garden, family attractions and a virtual-reality 'metaverse' hall."},{"id":"mengcheng-museum","name":"Mengcheng Museum","name_zh":"蒙城博物馆","pinyin":"Méngchéng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.2356,"lon":116.5637,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengcheng-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The county museum of Mengcheng, home county of the philosopher Zhuangzi, opened in 2014 and now a national third-grade museum. Its main gallery presents the Neolithic village excavated at Yuchisi, 20 km north-east of the town, including the large pottery zun jars for which the site is known, some incised with early symbols; other galleries cover ancient Mengcheng, the local tradition of couplet writing and local role models."},{"id":"bozhou-nanjing-lane-qianzhuang","name":"Nanjing Lane Qianzhuang (Old Bank)","name_zh":"南京巷钱庄","pinyin":"Nánjīng Xiàng Qiánzhuāng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.8839,"lon":115.7692,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bozhou-nanjing-lane-qianzhuang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty qianzhuang, a traditional private bank and money-changer, on Nanjing Lane in the old northern quarter of Bozhou, a few minutes' walk from Huaxilou. Its grey-brick courtyard buildings, a national heritage site since 2013, can be visited."},{"id":"guoyang-tianjing-palace","name":"Tianjing Palace","name_zh":"天静宫","pinyin":"Tiānjìng Gōng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.5485,"lon":116.1856,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guoyang-tianjing-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple at Zhengdian village on the northern outskirts of Guoyang, on the spot that local tradition, recorded in Yuan- and Ming-dynasty steles, names as the birthplace of Laozi, the founder of Taoism. Long ruined, the temple site has been excavated and the temple rebuilt, and the cycle of Laozi legends told around it is listed as national intangible cultural heritage."},{"id":"mengcheng-wanfo-pagoda","name":"Wanfo Pagoda, Mengcheng","name_zh":"万佛塔","pinyin":"Wànfó Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.2644,"lon":116.5544,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengcheng-wanfo-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A thirteen-storey octagonal brick pagoda built in 1102, in the Northern Song dynasty, for the Xinghua Temple, which has since disappeared. Its walls are set with thousands of small Buddha images moulded in brick, which give the 'Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda' its name."},{"id":"bozhou-xuege-pagoda","name":"Xuege Pagoda","name_zh":"薛阁塔","pinyin":"Xuēgé Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Bozhou","lat":33.8649,"lon":115.7794,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bozhou-xuege-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eight-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda built between 1772 and 1812, in the Qing dynasty, in imitation of a timber tower. Originally called Wenfeng Pagoda, it stands on Xuege Road in central Bozhou."},{"id":"jiuhuashan-baisui-palace","name":"Baisui Palace","name_zh":"百岁宫","pinyin":"Bǎisuì Gōng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.4834,"lon":117.8039,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiuhuashan-baisui-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A ridge-top monastery above Jiuhua Street that grew from a Ming hermitage where the monk Wuxia (Haiyu) lived in the Wanli era and died aged 110; his body did not decay and, gilded, is still enshrined in the temple, and in 1630 the Chongzhen Emperor honoured him as a 'Bodhisattva of the Manifested Body'. Gate, halls, monks' cells and guest rooms are combined in one five-storey block against the rock, giving it the look of a castle from below; damaged by fire in 1717 and in the Taiping war, it was refurbished in 1982."},{"id":"guichi-baiyashan-pagoda","name":"Baiyashan Pagoda","name_zh":"百牙山塔","pinyin":"Bǎiyá Shān Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.668,"lon":117.4883,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guichi-baiyashan-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey, six-sided brick pagoda on the eastern foot of Baiya Hill in central Chizhou, built in 1538 under the prefect Lu Gang with money raised by the city's river-trade brokers, who gave it its name. About 34 m tall, it has arched doors, windows and niches on every storey and a spiral stair inside; damaged by lightning in the late Qing and by Japanese shelling, it was repaired in 1982 and 2001 and listed nationally in 2019 together with the city's other Ming pagoda, Qingxi Pagoda."},{"id":"guichi-dawang-cave","name":"Dawang Cave","name_zh":"大王洞","pinyin":"Dàwáng Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.3748,"lon":117.3611,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guichi-dawang-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 10 km² karst scenic area in Paifang town on the south bank of the Yangtze, Chizhou's first 4A site, built around the Dawang Cave, whose name was written by the calligrapher and Buddhist leader Zhao Puchu. Besides the cave it takes in a natural stone bridge, the Linyu Gorge, Dawang Lake and a cable car over the countryside."},{"id":"jiuhuashan-dayuan-culture-park","name":"Dayuan Cultural Park","name_zh":"大愿文化园","pinyin":"Dàyuàn Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.5391,"lon":117.8044,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuhuashan-dayuan-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist-themed park at Kecun, the northern foot of Mount Jiuhua, built around a 99-metre bronze statue of Ksitigarbha, the bodhisattva of the mountain; the height stands for Jiuhua's 99 peaks and the 99 years of Kim Gyo-gak, the monk revered as his incarnation. Halls, pavilions, bridges and towers in a modern blend of Tang and Huizhou styles surround the statue."},{"id":"shitai-guaitan-rafting","name":"Guaitan Rafting","name_zh":"怪潭","pinyin":"Guài Tán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.1707,"lon":117.5886,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shitai-guaitan-rafting","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A whitewater rafting run of about 4.5 km on a mountain river, taking around an hour and a half through three sets of rapids, six river bends and five clear pools between forested hills. The wider Guaitan scenic area at Diaoyutai in Hengdu town also has a valley of oddly shaped boulders, a wildlife specimen hall and forest walks, and in spring some 20 kinds of azalea flower along the banks."},{"id":"shitai-guniujiang-longmen","name":"Guniujiang Longmen Scenic Area (Shitai side)","name_zh":"牯牛降龙门景区","pinyin":"Gǔniújiàng Lóngmén Jǐngqū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.0867,"lon":117.4834,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shitai-guniujiang-longmen","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Shitai-county side of Guniujiang, a 6,700-hectare forest that has been a national nature reserve since 1988, Anhui's first forest-ecosystem reserve of that rank; its main summit, Guniu Dagang (1,727.6 m), is the third-highest peak in southern Anhui. Two areas are open to visitors: Longmen, with trails past Longmen Pool, a four-tier waterfall and old trees to Yanjia, an old village with a wall of Red Army slogans, and Shuanglong Valley, richest in the reserve's wildlife. A 2025–2026 upgrade added a hillside escalator, a natural-history hall and a 1.9 km twin-track glass water slide."},{"id":"jiuhuashan-huacheng-temple","name":"Huacheng Temple","name_zh":"化城寺","pinyin":"Huàchéng Sì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.4812,"lon":117.7972,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiuhuashan-huacheng-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The oldest and leading temple of Mount Jiuhua, in the middle of Jiuhua Street: tradition dates it to 401, and the Silla monk Kim Gyo-gak lived here in the 8th century, after which it was dedicated to Ksitigarbha and called the head of all the mountain's temples. Rebuilt in 1391, 1435 and 1681, it climbs in steps along a north–south axis through the Lingguan, Heavenly Kings and main halls to a Ming-dynasty sutra library. It was declared a national key Buddhist temple in 1983."},{"id":"dongzhi-hualong-cave","name":"Hualong Cave","name_zh":"华龙洞","pinyin":"Huálóng Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.1095,"lon":116.9483,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongzhi-hualong-cave/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Palaeolithic cave site on the southern slope of Meiyuan Hill where excavations since 2006 have recovered human fossils about 300,000 years old, including the skull known as 'Dongzhi Man', together with stone tools and the bones of giant pandas, stegodons and other animals. The excavated cave is now protected under a 680 m² Chinese-style shelter, with sculptures of ancient animals and a bronze hunting scene on the lawns outside; a site museum 1.2 km away, built to look like a cave inside, explains the finds in four galleries."},{"id":"qingyang-jiuhua-shenlong-valley","name":"Jiuhua Shenlong Valley","name_zh":"九华神龙谷","pinyin":"Jiǔhuá Shénlóng Gǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.4123,"lon":117.81,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyang-jiuhua-shenlong-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded gorge about 3 km long on the southern side of Mount Jiuhua, cut by streams from Pusatou and Loutai hills and known locally as 'nine drops and eighteen bends'. A path follows the stream past a chain of waterfalls, deep pools and boulders with names such as Shenlong Falls and Bathing Immortal Pool."},{"id":"guichi-jiuhua-tianchi","name":"Jiuhua Tianchi","name_zh":"九华天池","pinyin":"Jiǔhuá Tiānchí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.6306,"lon":117.6108,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guichi-jiuhua-tianchi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in south-eastern Guichi, developed from 2007 around the Siling Reservoir, a lake high in the hills known as the 'heavenly pool'. A trail of about 4 km climbs through the boulder-filled Glacier Stone Valley, named after ancient glaciation, to Longchi Falls and the lake, where boats cross the water; rafting and a zip line across a gorge are also on offer. At the entrance, Nuoxian Town, a street of new Huizhou-style buildings opened in 2024, stages evening shows built on local Nuo masked opera, with street processions, molten-iron 'fireworks' and aerial acts."},{"id":"qingyang-jiuziyan","name":"Jiuziyan","name_zh":"九子岩","pinyin":"Jiǔzǐ Yán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.5382,"lon":117.8537,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyang-jiuziyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rocky mountain area on the eastern side of the Jiuhua range that gave Mount Jiuhua its old name, Jiuzi ('Nine Sons') Mountain, and is regarded as the cradle of Buddhism there: among its relics is the spot where Kim Gyo-gak, later venerated as Ksitigarbha, first practised. Paths and a cable car lead up through pines, oddly shaped rocks, waterfalls and steep peaks."},{"id":"qingyang-jiyang-cao-ancestral-hall","name":"Jiyang Cao Ancestral Hall (Qingyang Museum)","name_zh":"济阳曹氏宗祠","pinyin":"Jǐyáng Cáoshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.6417,"lon":117.8394,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyang-jiyang-cao-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Ming–Qing clan halls that were taken down in villages near Lingyang and rebuilt in Qingyang town between 1991 and 1995, where they house the county museum: the Cao ancestral hall, with its gate tower, Minglun Hall and rear shrine, and the Chen clan's Xiaosi Hall. With them stands a four-pillar Qing stone archway honouring the filial piety of one Chen Liangtai."},{"id":"lingyang-shangzhang-li-ancestral-hall","name":"Li Ancestral Hall, Shangzhang","name_zh":"上章李氏宗祠","pinyin":"Shàngzhāng Lǐshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.4033,"lon":117.9344,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingyang-shangzhang-li-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Huizhou-style clan temple in Shangzhang village whose present buildings date from a rebuilding of 1781–1799, with a front hall, the Xulun ancestral hall and a two-storey rear shrine set one behind another. It is known for its carving: a pair of carved stone drums at the gate, the clan's family instructions cut into a screen wall, balustrades carved with scenes from opera, and richly carved and painted woodwork in the rear shrine."},{"id":"qingyang-lianfeng-yunhai","name":"Lianfeng Yunhai","name_zh":"莲峰云海","pinyin":"Liánfēng Yúnhǎi","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.5741,"lon":117.8371,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyang-lianfeng-yunhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area on Lianhua (Lotus) Peak (1,048 m) at the northern foot of the Jiuhua range, named for the seas of cloud often seen from the summit; the peak's shape also earns it the name Brush-Rest Mountain. Paths lead past rock caves, the stone-built Jingxin Temple of 1480 and the gate of a Taiping-era hill fort, and the scenic area has a hotel and a folk museum showing Qingyang farmers' paintings and farm tools."},{"id":"shitai-penglai-cave","name":"Penglai Cave","name_zh":"蓬莱仙洞","pinyin":"Pénglái Xiān Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.2294,"lon":117.5406,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shitai-penglai-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large limestone cave more than 3,000 m long near Ducun, the home village of the late-Tang poet Du Xunhe, formed on four levels: upper, middle and lower caves and an underground river. Its best-known formations are a white 'gauze curtain', fine 'heavenly threads', a wall like a landscape painting and a 'thousand-Buddha hill'; the cave reopened in March 2025 after a lighting upgrade that added projected light shows to several formations."},{"id":"guichi-qingxi-pagoda","name":"Qingxi Pagoda","name_zh":"清溪塔","pinyin":"Qīngxī Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.6863,"lon":117.5006,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guichi-qingxi-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda, originally named Miaoyin Pagoda, built between 1601 and 1612 under a succession of Chizhou prefects where the old course of the Qingxi River meets the Yangtze, on the north-eastern side of the city. About 56 m tall, it has arched doors, windows and Buddha niches (now empty) on every storey and stairs inside the walls; its finial was destroyed by lightning in 1642, Japanese shelling during the war left dozens of scars that can still be seen, and it was repaired in 1982, 2002 and from 2019."},{"id":"guichi-qishan-pingtian-lake","name":"Qishan Hill and Pingtian Lake","name_zh":"齐山·平天湖","pinyin":"Qí Shān Píngtiān Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.6411,"lon":117.5049,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guichi-qishan-pingtian-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 40 km² scenic area on the eastern edge of Chizhou that joins Qishan, a hill whose rocks carry cliff inscriptions left by visitors from the Tang dynasty to the Republic, among them a line attributed to the Song general Yue Fei, with Pingtian Lake and the wetland park on its southern shore. The lake, named after a line in Li Bai's 'Songs of Qiupu', is listed as a nationally important wetland, and its shores are laid out with paths and viewing points such as the Lotus Terrace."},{"id":"shitai-qiupu-river","name":"Qiupu River Scenic Area","name_zh":"秋浦河","pinyin":"Qiūpǔ Hé","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.2586,"lon":117.4268,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shitai-qiupu-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of the Qiupu River near Shitai, the 'river of poems' where Li Bai stayed on five occasions and wrote his seventeen 'Songs of Qiupu'. The scenic area combines a 4 km raft run through 14 rapids, Qiupu Fishing Village, a farm-stay with a Li Bai exhibition hall and hot-spring baths, and Baizhangya, a gorge fitted with rope bridges, wire walks and other outdoor-adventure courses."},{"id":"jiuhuashan-roushen-hall","name":"Shrine of Living Buddha","name_zh":"肉身宝殿","pinyin":"Ròushēn Bǎodiàn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.4787,"lon":117.7932,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiuhuashan-roushen-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hall on Shenguang Ridge above Jiuhua Street that houses the remains of Kim Gyo-gak, the Silla prince-monk who died in 794 and was venerated as Ksitigarbha; his body was placed in a stone stupa, around which the hall was later built. Inside the iron-tiled, pagoda-like hall a seven-storey octagonal wooden pagoda enshrines the stupa, surrounded by statues of Ksitigarbha and the Ten Kings of Hell. Unusually, the hall faces north, towards Kim's homeland in Korea."},{"id":"lingyang-taiping-shanfang","name":"Taiping Shanfang","name_zh":"太平山房","pinyin":"Tàipíng Shānfáng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.4084,"lon":117.8599,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingyang-taiping-shanfang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village school building in Suo village on the south side of Mount Jiuhua, first a hall of the Chen clan and turned into a school in 1771; it is one of the best-preserved old school buildings in Anhui. A gate hall, main hall and rear building with side rooms enclose small courtyards; the front halls date from the late Ming or early Qing and the rear building from the early Ming."},{"id":"shitai-xianyu-mountain","name":"Xianyu Mountain and the Jugen Pass Ancient Hui Road","name_zh":"仙寓山·榉根关古徽道","pinyin":"Xiānyù Shān Jǔgēn Guān Gǔ Huī Dào","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.0458,"lon":117.3551,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shitai-xianyu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain area in Xianyu town on the western arm of the Huangshan range, rising to 1,376 m, whose centrepiece is the Jugen Pass Ancient Hui Road: a 7.5 km stone-paved trade route of Tang origin by which Huizhou merchants carried tea and scholars' supplies, lined with old rest pavilions, inscribed steles and a stone-slab bridge of 1802. At the pass stands a stone wall and gateway built by Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army during the Taiping war. The scenic area also takes in Dashan, a village known for its selenium-rich farmland and long-lived residents, a stream gorge and a long dry toboggan run."},{"id":"guichi-xinghua-village","name":"Xinghua Village (Apricot Blossom Village)","name_zh":"杏花村","pinyin":"Xìnghuā Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.6459,"lon":117.4672,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guichi-xinghua-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped park on the western edge of Chizhou on the site that local tradition links to the 'apricot blossom village' of 'Qingming', the poem Du Mu wrote while prefect of Chizhou in the Tang dynasty; a Qing gazetteer of the village was included in the imperial Siku Quanshu collection. Apricot groves, streams and small bridges surround pavilions and halls named after poets, a poetry-reciting terrace and a wine shop."},{"id":"guichi-xiushan-gate-museum","name":"Xiushan Gate Museum","name_zh":"秀山门博物馆","pinyin":"Xiùshān Mén Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.6541,"lon":117.4768,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guichi-xiushan-gate-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private museum of traditional Chinese building crafts, opened in 2006 in the gate tower and walls of Xiushan Gate, the west gate of old Chizhou, which took its present name in 1235 in memory of Xiao Tong, the Liang-dynasty Crown Prince Zhaoming. Its halls are fitted out with carved wooden doors and windows, brackets, stone drums and lions, brick carvings and inscribed boards gathered from old buildings, alongside porcelain, paintings and embroidery."},{"id":"shitai-yulong-cave","name":"Yulong Cave","name_zh":"鱼龙洞","pinyin":"Yúlóng Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.3414,"lon":117.835,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shitai-yulong-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone cave in Qidu town named for the way it winds under the hill like a coiled dragon; its mouth, about 8 m wide and 5 m high and shaped like a crocodile's open jaws, is hung with stalactites above a clear pool that never dries. Inside, the air stays at an even temperature all year, and since a 2025 upgrade visitors ride track-guided dragon boats along the underground water past projected light shows."},{"id":"jiuhuashan-zhiyuan-temple","name":"Zhiyuan Temple","name_zh":"祇园寺","pinyin":"Qíyuán Sì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.483,"lon":117.7994,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiuhuashan-zhiyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the four great monasteries of Mount Jiuhua, a few minutes' walk from Huacheng Temple on Jiuhua Street, founded in the Jiajing era of the Ming as a small hermitage and named after the Jetavana grove where the Buddha taught. Most of the present halls are Qing, from the gate hall with its guardian figures and the Heavenly Kings Hall to the double-eaved main hall roofed in yellow glazed tiles, which houses gilded bronze statues of three Buddhas."},{"id":"shitai-zuishanye","name":"Zuishanye (Huangya Gorge and Ciyun Cave)","name_zh":"醉山野","pinyin":"Zuì Shānyě","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chizhou","lat":30.2544,"lon":117.5109,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shitai-zuishanye","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area in Yuanxi village just outside Shitai town with two parts. Huangya Grand Canyon is a wooded gorge of small dams, green pools and stepped falls fitted with a zip line over 300 m long, a glass bridge and a 'shouting fountain'; Ciyun Cave, opened in 2018, is a karst cave of stalagmites, stalactites, columns and flowstone curtains."},{"id":"laian-banta-battle-site","name":"Banta Battle Site and Wandong Revolutionary Memorial Hall","name_zh":"半塔保卫战旧址","pinyin":"Bàntǎ Bǎowèizhàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.6797,"lon":118.583,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laian-banta-battle-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Banta, a market town in northern Lai'an County, was the centre of the anti-Japanese base area that the Communist-led New Fourth Army set up east of the Tianjin–Pukou railway from August 1939, and gives its name to the Banta Defence, a battle fought over the town during the war. The battle site is protected as national heritage, and the town has a martyrs' cemetery and the Wandong (Eastern Anhui) Revolutionary Memorial Hall, a state museum."},{"id":"laian-chishan-lake-wetland","name":"Chishan Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"池杉湖","pinyin":"Chíshān Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.3779,"lon":118.6921,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laian-chishan-lake-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park in south-eastern Lai'an County on the border with Nanjing's Luhe District, named for the pond cypresses (Taxodium) that grow in its lake and form a flooded forest. The trees and open water are a gathering place for water birds, and the park was rated 4A in 2023."},{"id":"nanqiao-huangfu-mountain","name":"Huangfu Mountain","name_zh":"皇甫山","pinyin":"Huángfǔ Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.3365,"lon":118.0148,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanqiao-huangfu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A range of forested hills in Nanqiao District, west of Chuzhou, protected as a national forest park, with a provincial nature reserve named after it in the same hills. Rated 4A in 2023, it is a place for woodland walks rather than sights."},{"id":"fengyang-jiushan-cave","name":"Jiushan Cave","name_zh":"韭山洞","pinyin":"Jiǔshān Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.6396,"lon":117.5554,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengyang-jiushan-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large limestone cave in the Jiushan hills of Yinjian town in southern Fengyang County, inside the Jiushan National Forest Park and rated 4A in 2020. Old accounts say it could shelter several thousand people, and in the Southern Song the general Wang Weizhong built stone walls around it as a stronghold against the Jin, whose stockade site is a protected relic."},{"id":"fengyang-langxiang-maze-valley","name":"Langxiang Maze Valley","name_zh":"狼巷迷谷","pinyin":"Lángxiàng Mígǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.6516,"lon":117.5992,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengyang-langxiang-maze-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst scenic area in Fengyang County where narrow, winding passages cut through limestone form a natural maze, some so tight that visitors have to turn sideways or stoop to get through. Boardwalks link the maze with a cave and a Buddhist temple in the same hills, and it has been rated 4A since 2007."},{"id":"tianchang-longgang-ancient-town","name":"Longgang Ancient Town","name_zh":"龙岗古镇","pinyin":"Lónggǎng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.8844,"lon":119.0433,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianchang-longgang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longgang, now part of Tongcheng town in northern Tianchang, is an old market town where the Eighth Branch of the Communist-led Anti-Japanese Military and Political University (Kangda) ran its school from the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1944. The former school buildings in the town are protected as provincial heritage, and a memorial hall presents the school's history."},{"id":"fengyang-ming-huangling","name":"Ming Imperial Mausoleum (Huangling), Fengyang","name_zh":"明皇陵","pinyin":"Míng Huánglíng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.8141,"lon":117.5191,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengyang-ming-huangling","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb that Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming dynasty, built between 1366 and 1379 for his parents, about 7 km south of Fengyang town, in the county where he grew up in a poor family. Its spirit way is lined with 28 pairs of stone figures carved by 1369, among them qilin, lions, tigers, rams, horses with grooms, civil and military officials and eunuchs, and the Great Ming Imperial Tomb Stele near the mound is a key source on Zhu's family. The statues and stele were damaged in the Cultural Revolution and re-erected during restoration from 1982."},{"id":"fengyang-ming-zhongdu-imperial-city","name":"Ming Zhongdu Imperial City","name_zh":"明中都","pinyin":"Míng Zhōngdū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.8727,"lon":117.541,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengyang-ming-zhongdu-imperial-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of the 'Central Capital' that Zhu Yuanzhang began building at his birthplace in Fengyang in 1369 and abandoned in 1375; its planning served as the model for the later palaces of Nanjing and Beijing. Much was pulled down for bricks and farmland between 1950 and 1975, and what survives is part of the imperial-city wall with its gates, among them the Wu (Noon) Gate, and the base of the drum tower; most other structures are reconstructions from the 1990s onwards."},{"id":"chuzhou-mount-langya","name":"Mount Langya","name_zh":"琅琊山","pinyin":"Lángyá Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.2856,"lon":118.2822,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chuzhou-mount-langya/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A range of wooded hills on the south-western edge of Chuzhou, rising to 321 m, made famous by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu, who governed Chuzhou in the 1040s and wrote 'The Old Toper's Pavilion' about the Zuiweng Pavilion in its valley (the present pavilion is Qing). Up the valley is Langya Temple, founded in the 760s, whose Beamless Hall, a Ming brick-vaulted hall with no timber beams, is national heritage, as are more than 400 cliff and stele inscriptions, seven of them Tang, around the temple and the Zuiweng and Fengle pavilions. Lake Shenxiu, the Huifeng Pavilion and old paths make it a half-day walk."},{"id":"dingyuan-chihe-taiping-bridge","name":"Taiping Bridge, Chihe","name_zh":"池河太平桥","pinyin":"Chíhé Tàipíng Qiáo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.5217,"lon":117.9419,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingyuan-chihe-taiping-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A multi-arched stone bridge across the Chi River at the western end of Chihe town, built in 1375 by the Dingyuan magistrate on the official road linking Nanjing, Fengyang and Beijing, and the only Ming stone arch bridge left in northern Anhui. As first built it had 13 arches over 142 m; three central arches blown up in 1938 to slow the Japanese advance were later patched, and since 1985 the bridge has carried only pedestrians, with a full restoration completed in 2014. Its original stone lions and inscribed steles are lost."},{"id":"quanjiao-wu-jingzi-memorial-hall","name":"Wu Jingzi Memorial Hall","name_zh":"吴敬梓纪念馆","pinyin":"Wú Jìngzǐ Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.1043,"lon":118.2578,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanjiao-wu-jingzi-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum to Wu Jingzi (1701–1754), the Quanjiao-born author of The Scholars, often seen as China's foremost satirical novel, on Zoumagang on the northern edge of Quanjiao town, facing the site of his family home across the Xiang River. Opened in 1986 in Ming and Qing style and enlarged since 2019, it holds Wu family heirlooms, scholars' writings on Wu and works of calligraphy and painting, and his cenotaph stands in the grounds. His rebuilt family home, opened in 2015, is across the river."},{"id":"fengyang-xiaogang-village","name":"Xiaogang Village","name_zh":"小岗村","pinyin":"Xiǎogǎng Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Chuzhou","lat":32.8406,"lon":117.7677,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengyang-xiaogang-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village in Xiaoxihe town, Fengyang, where on the night of 24 November 1978 eighteen farmers secretly signed a pledge to divide the collective fields into household plots, a step later held up as the start of China's rural reforms. The 1979 grain harvest equalled the village's total for 1966–1970; the site of the pledge is protected as national heritage, and the Da Baogan (household contract) Memorial Museum tells the story. In 2024 UN Tourism named Xiaogang one of its Best Tourism Villages."},{"id":"yingshang-bali-river-scenic-area","name":"Bali River Scenic Area","name_zh":"八里河","pinyin":"Bālǐ Hé","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.5607,"lon":116.3016,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshang-bali-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bali River is a lakeside park in Balihe town, Yingshang County, built by local farmers from 1992 on a flood-prone marsh near where the Ying River meets the Huai, and opened in 1996 as a 'farmers' park'. Its sections include a bird garden, a 'World Scenery' area of concrete miniatures of foreign landmarks such as the Arc de Triomphe, Chinese-style gardens and pavilions, and flower islands, set in a 15.8 km² area that is mostly water. In 2013 it became northern Anhui's first 5A scenic area."},{"id":"yingshang-digou-scenic-area","name":"Digou Ecological Scenic Area","name_zh":"迪沟","pinyin":"Dígōu","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.8042,"lon":116.3743,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshang-digou-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area in Digou town, Yingshang County, made up of an ecological park that keeps peacocks, water birds, swans, parrots and monkeys among collections of rare plants, the Buddhist Zhuyin Temple and a culture square. It is mainly a day out for local families."},{"id":"funan-fengbaigang-lotus-park","name":"Fengbaigang Lotus Scenic Area","name_zh":"枫柏岗","pinyin":"Fēngbǎigǎng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.519,"lon":115.5433,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=funan-fengbaigang-lotus-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural lotus and wetland park near the seat of Dicheng town in southern Funan County, close to the Huai River. Its centrepiece is a lotus garden of about 400 mu (27 ha) crossed by boardwalks, pavilions and arched bridges, best when the lotuses flower in summer, with farm-style restaurants nearby."},{"id":"fuyang-ecological-park","name":"Fuyang Ecological Park","name_zh":"阜阳生态乐园","pinyin":"Fùyáng Shēngtài Lèyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.9343,"lon":115.7809,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyang-ecological-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large leisure park on the north-western edge of Fuyang that mixes farm-style sightseeing with family entertainment. Its sections include a culture garden on Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi, two Song writers linked with old Yingzhou (Fuyang), a tropical plant house, a pick-your-own orchard, a dinosaur park, a zoo and a children's amusement area with a Ferris wheel."},{"id":"fuyang-jinzhongzi-liquor-culture-park","name":"Jinzhongzi Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"金种子文化产业园","pinyin":"Jīnzhǒngzi Wénhuà Chǎnyè Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.8819,"lon":115.8489,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyang-jinzhongzi-liquor-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The visitor park of the Jinzhongzi (Golden Seed) baijiu company in southern Fuyang, whose distillery grew from the Fuyang County liquor works founded in 1949. It presents the company's brewing heritage, including fermentation pits the company dates to the Ming dynasty, alongside landscaped grounds, and suits visitors curious about Chinese liquor."},{"id":"linquan-magic-city-park","name":"Linquan Magic City","name_zh":"魔幻之都","pinyin":"Móhuàn Zhī Dū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":33.0782,"lon":115.2397,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linquan-magic-city-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourism complex on the west bank of the Liu'an River in western Linquan, themed on the 'Investiture of the Gods' legends of the Shang–Zhou period. It groups a Nezha-themed water park, a large zoo, a 'Fengshen' fantasy valley, a craft street, a theatre and a hotel. The zoo stages animal shows, such as sea lion and bird performances, and offers animal feeding."},{"id":"yingshang-mingqing-garden","name":"Ming-Qing Garden, Yingshang","name_zh":"明清苑","pinyin":"Míngqīng Yuàn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.6455,"lon":116.2685,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshang-mingqing-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A compound of Ming- and Qing-style courtyard buildings, including houses, a temple and an opera stage, beside the riverside park in Yingshang county town, a short walk from Guanzhong Old Street. Although it lies about 9 km north of the Bali River park, it is promoted as one of that scenic area's five sections, and local tourism material calls it the largest group of buildings in this style in northern Anhui."},{"id":"taihe-carnival-amusement-park","name":"Taihe Global Carnival Amusement Park","name_zh":"太和嘉年华游乐园","pinyin":"Tàihé Jiāniánhuá Yóulèyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":33.1455,"lon":115.594,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taihe-carnival-amusement-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park beside the Shaying River at Taihe, about 500 m west of the river's third bridge, whose rides include the 'Eye of Taihe' Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, a log flume and a water-play area. It is aimed at local families."},{"id":"fuyang-yingzhou-west-lake","name":"Yingzhou West Lake","name_zh":"颍州西湖","pinyin":"Yǐngzhōu Xīhú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.9184,"lon":115.6508,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyang-yingzhou-west-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yingzhou West Lake was a celebrated lake of Song-dynasty Yingzhou, today's Fuyang, praised by Ouyang Xiu and by Su Shi, who compared it with Hangzhou's West Lake, until Yellow River floods silted it up. The present lake was recreated from the 1980s about 4 km south-west of the old site and is now a national wetland park; its first phase, the South Lake area, combines wetland scenery with a historical and cultural zone devoted to Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi."},{"id":"yingshang-youjia-garden-wulihu-wetland","name":"You Family Garden and Wulihu Wetland Park","name_zh":"尤家花园·五里湖湿地公园","pinyin":"Yóujiā Huāyuán · Wǔlǐhú Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Fuyang","lat":32.6361,"lon":116.2189,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshang-youjia-garden-wulihu-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private garden begun in the late Qing beside Wuli Lake on the western edge of Yingshang town, together with the wetland park around the lake. The garden, ringed by water, is laid out in the Suzhou manner with rockeries, small bridges, pavilions, shaped pines and potted landscapes, and is nicknamed the 'Yu Garden of northern Anhui'; the wetland park adds lakeside paths for walking."},{"id":"hefei-anhui-art-museum","name":"Anhui Art Museum","name_zh":"安徽省美术馆","pinyin":"Ānhuī Shěng Měishùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7103,"lon":117.3208,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-anhui-art-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anhui's provincial art museum, opened in May 2022 on the north shore of Chao Lake in Hefei's Binhu New District, beside the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign Memorial Museum. The five-storey white steel-framed building of 50,000 m² has galleries of up to 2,000 m², a spiral staircase and a 70-metre suspension walkway, and shows changing exhibitions."},{"id":"hefei-anhui-museum","name":"Anhui Museum","name_zh":"安徽博物院","pinyin":"Ānhuī Bówùyuàn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.8041,"lon":117.2147,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-anhui-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anhui's provincial museum, whose main Shushan building opened in 2011 in Hefei's government district; its collection numbers about 220,000 objects. Highlights include the great Zhuke ding from the tomb of a Chu king at Shou County, the bells of the Marquis of Cai and the E Jun Qi bronze tallies, and a full-size relocated Huizhou house showing the region's wood, stone and brick carving."},{"id":"hefei-anhui-museum-luyang-building","name":"Anhui Museum Luyang Branch (Old Exhibition Building)","name_zh":"安徽博物院庐阳馆","pinyin":"Ānhuī Bówùyuàn Lúyáng Guǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.866,"lon":117.2696,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-anhui-museum-luyang-building","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The original Anhui Provincial Museum on Anqing Road in central Hefei, an exhibition building of 11,580 m² begun in 1954 and completed in 1956, the year the museum was formally founded. Since the main museum moved to its new Shushan building in 2011, the listed building has served as the museum's Luyang branch for exhibitions."},{"id":"chaohu-bantang-tulip-highland","name":"Bantang Tulip Highland","name_zh":"半汤郁金香高地","pinyin":"Bàntāng Yùjīnxiāng Gāodì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.6944,"lon":117.911,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaohu-bantang-tulip-highland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside flower park in the Chaohu Economic Development Zone near the Bantang hot springs, east of Chaohu city. Its slopes are planted with tulip fields, which are at their best in April, so it is mainly worth a visit in spring."},{"id":"feidong-baogong-hometown-park","name":"Bao Gong Hometown Cultural Park","name_zh":"包公故里文化园","pinyin":"Bāogōng Gùlǐ Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.9391,"lon":117.6935,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feidong-baogong-hometown-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A culture park opened in 2023 in Baogong town, Feidong County, where Bao Zheng, the Song official remembered as Judge Bao, was born and grew up. Laid out in Song style, it presents his life through three staged drama shows, a mystery game, a holographic theatre and craft activities. It includes the Huayuan Well, by tradition the well of the Bao family garden."},{"id":"hefei-baogong-park","name":"Baogong Park","name_zh":"包公园","pinyin":"Bāogōng Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.8604,"lon":117.2925,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hefei-baogong-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park along the Bao River in central Hefei dedicated to Bao Zheng (999–1062), the upright Song-dynasty official known to generations of opera and television audiences as Judge Bao. It contains the Bao Gong Shrine, a memorial temple with his statue, his four guards and the three bronze guillotines of the Judge Bao stories, his tomb complex rebuilt in 1987 to Song building rules, the Qingfeng Pavilion and the Fuzhuang garden."},{"id":"feidong-changlin-old-street","name":"Changlin Old Street","name_zh":"长临古街","pinyin":"Chánglín Gǔjiē","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.6906,"lon":117.4564,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feidong-changlin-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old street of Changlinhe, a town near the north shore of Chao Lake in Feidong County, lined with traditional houses and shops. Its Qing buildings include the provincially listed Wu family residence, a three-courtyard house in central-Anhui style, and the Liujiafan old houses and the Zhenhu Pagoda of 1892 stand a few kilometres to the south by the lake."},{"id":"baohe-dawei-farm-tourism-area","name":"Dawei Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"大圩","pinyin":"Dàwéi","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7742,"lon":117.3873,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baohe-dawei-farm-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farming town on the south-eastern outskirts of Hefei developed for farm tourism, where city residents come to pick seasonal fruit and vegetables and to fish. It makes an easy half-day outing from the city, best in the fruit-picking seasons."},{"id":"chaohu-feng-yuxiang-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Feng Yuxiang","name_zh":"冯玉祥旧居","pinyin":"Féng Yùxiáng Jiùjū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.6873,"lon":117.8435,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaohu-feng-yuxiang-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house in Zhuke village, Xiage town, where the Republican-era general Feng Yuxiang (1882–1948), known in the West as the 'Christian General', stayed on visits to his ancestral home in 1936–37. The compound of five buildings with 22 rooms over 4,690 m² includes his study, bedroom, guards' room, reception hall and garden."},{"id":"hefei-li-hongzhang-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Li Hongzhang","name_zh":"李鸿章故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Hóngzhāng Gùjū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.8663,"lon":117.2859,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hefei-li-hongzhang-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Part of the family mansion of Li Hongzhang (1823–1901), the late-Qing statesman who founded the Huai Army and the Beiyang Fleet and was for decades the face of the Qing court in foreign affairs, on the Huaihe Road pedestrian street in central Hefei. Restored and opened in 1999, the 2,000 m² compound in late-Qing Jianghuai style runs from the gate through front and middle halls to a two-storey rear building, with displays on his life and calligraphy and rooms furnished in Qing style."},{"id":"feixi-liu-mingchuan-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Liu Mingchuan","name_zh":"刘铭传旧居","pinyin":"Liú Míngchuán Jiùjū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7229,"lon":116.7834,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feixi-liu-mingchuan-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The moated, fortified manor of Liu Mingchuan (1836–1896), the Huai Army general who became the first governor of Taiwan under the Qing, 2 km north of Daqian Mountain in Feixi County. Built from 1868, it was his home after he left Taiwan in 1891; more than 40 buildings survive, restored and partly rebuilt in 2014–15, and the manor opened as a memorial museum."},{"id":"chaohu-zhang-zhizhong-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhang Zhizhong","name_zh":"张治中故居","pinyin":"Zhāng Zhìzhōng Gùjū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.658,"lon":117.537,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaohu-zhang-zhizhong-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace home of Zhang Zhizhong (1890–1969), a Nationalist general who in 1949 stayed on the mainland and later held senior posts in the People's Republic, at Hongjiatuan in Huanglu town on the north shore of Chao Lake. He also founded the Huanglu Normal School in the town in 1933."},{"id":"lujiang-tangchi-golden-peacock-hot-spring","name":"Golden Peacock Hot Spring Resort, Tangchi","name_zh":"金孔雀温泉度假村","pinyin":"Jīn Kǒngquè Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.3241,"lon":117.0957,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lujiang-tangchi-golden-peacock-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort with accommodation in Tangchi, a spa town in western Lujiang County and one of the two hot-spring areas around Chao Lake. It suits a relaxing overnight stay."},{"id":"feixi-guanting-forest","name":"Guanting Forest Park","name_zh":"官亭林海","pinyin":"Guāntíng Línhǎi","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7922,"lon":116.8928,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feixi-guanting-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large planted forest park on the Yangtze–Huai watershed at Guanting town in Feixi County, centred on Fengxiang Lake. A landmark on its eastern side marks the divide, where rain runs south-east to the Yangtze or north-west to the Huai, and a viewing platform in the middle of the forest looks over groves of red maple, cherry, plum, magnolia and crabapple, a rose garden and more than ten lotus ponds around the lake."},{"id":"hefei-hechai-1972","name":"Hechai 1972 Creative Park","name_zh":"合柴1972","pinyin":"Héchái 1972","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.8002,"lon":117.2395,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-hechai-1972","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A creative and leisure quarter opened in 2019 in the former Hefei Diesel Engine Factory, which started work in 1972 and whose site was later used as a prison until 2018. Watchtowers, domed workshops, a chimney and red-brick buildings have been kept and now house the Hefei Home Appliance Story Museum, a contemporary art museum, cafés and shops."},{"id":"hefei-binhu-national-forest-park","name":"Hefei Binhu National Forest Park","name_zh":"合肥滨湖国家森林公园","pinyin":"Héféi Bīnhú Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7245,"lon":117.3816,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-binhu-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 10.7 km² wetland forest park on the north shore of Chao Lake near the mouth of the Nanfei River, opened in two phases in 2012 and 2013 and made a national forest park in 2013. Paths lead through plantations of poplar, dawn redwood and privet and around 2.6 km² of ponds and wetland, making it a good place to walk or cycle on the edge of the Binhu New District."},{"id":"hefei-botanical-garden","name":"Hefei Botanical Garden","name_zh":"合肥植物园","pinyin":"Héféi Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.8729,"lon":117.1974,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 70-hectare botanical garden on the south-eastern shore of Dongpu Reservoir in Hefei's Shushan District, established in 1987 on the site of a former horticultural farm. It holds more than 2,000 plant species in nine themed gardens, among them plum, osmanthus, bamboo, magnolia, pomegranate, water and bonsai gardens."},{"id":"hefei-sunac-land","name":"Hefei Sunac Land","name_zh":"合肥融创乐园","pinyin":"Héféi Róngchuàng Lèyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.6981,"lon":117.2995,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-sunac-land","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large theme park in Hefei's Binhu New District, built as Wanda's Hefei park and now run by Sunac, with themed zones, rides and live shows. Rides include Soaring with Dragon, an Intamin launched roller coaster opened in 2016 that reaches 125 km/h, and the park suits families and thrill-ride fans, with a shopping mall next door."},{"id":"hefei-wildlife-park","name":"Hefei Wildlife Park","name_zh":"合肥野生动物园","pinyin":"Héféi Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.8383,"lon":117.1607,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hefei's main zoo, a wildlife park on Wangjiang West Road at the foot of Dashu Mountain on the western edge of the city. It suits families and can be combined with a walk up neighbouring Dashu Mountain forest park."},{"id":"hefei-huiyuan-garden","name":"Huiyuan Garden","name_zh":"徽园","pinyin":"Huī Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7857,"lon":117.2129,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-huiyuan-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park of gardens opened in September 2001 in Hefei's economic development zone, with about 45 sights; pavilions and gardens represent each of Anhui's cities, such as the Hefei and Lu'an gardens. It gives a quick overview of the province's regional architecture without leaving the city."},{"id":"chaohu-laoshan-island","name":"Mushan Island","name_zh":"姥山岛","pinyin":"Mǔshān Dǎo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.566,"lon":117.438,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaohu-laoshan-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded volcanic islet of 0.86 km² in the middle of Chao Lake, 3.5 km off Zhongmiao on the north shore. On its summit stands the Wenfeng Pagoda, a seven-storey, 51-metre octagonal pagoda of dressed stone begun in 1631 and finished in 1878 at Li Hongzhang's initiative, which holds 802 brick-carved Buddhas and 25 inscribed plaques. A shrine on the hillside and a sheltered harbour on the south shore add to a half-day trip with wide lake views."},{"id":"feixi-sanhe-ancient-town","name":"Sanhe Ancient Town","name_zh":"三河古镇","pinyin":"Sānhé Gǔzhèn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.5134,"lon":117.239,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/feixi-sanhe-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A river town where the Fengle, Hangbu and Xiaonan rivers meet near Chao Lake, scene of the Taiping army's 1858 victory over the Xiang Army at the Battle of Sanhe. Its 4.7 km² scenic area mixes a few older buildings, such as the Liu Tongxing shop-residence and the house where the physicist Chen-Ning Yang's family took refuge in 1937, with much new construction in traditional style along waterways and wide streets. It is known for its rice wine and makes an easy day trip from Hefei."},{"id":"hefei-sanshigang-farm-tourism-area","name":"Sanshigang Eco-Agricultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"三十岗","pinyin":"Sānshígǎng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.9486,"lon":117.077,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefei-sanshigang-farm-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural township of orchards and farmland on Hefei's north-western edge, developed for farm tourism with seasonal activities such as blossom viewing and fruit picking. The Three Kingdoms Xincheng Site Park lies within the township."},{"id":"hefei-three-kingdoms-xincheng-site-park","name":"Three Kingdoms Xincheng Site Park","name_zh":"三国新城遗址公园","pinyin":"Sānguó Xīnchéng Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.9137,"lon":117.1258,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hefei-three-kingdoms-xincheng-site-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ruins of Hefei's Xincheng ('New City'), a fortress the Wei general Man Chong built in 233 west of old Hefei to hold off the state of Wu, which besieged it several times without taking it. Excavations in 2004–05 uncovered three gates, a drill platform, a weapon-casting kiln and a cart road, and the park shows these with partly rebuilt walls and gates, a restored moat and exhibition halls in Han style. It suits visitors interested in the Three Kingdoms period."},{"id":"feixi-xiangyuan-flower-world","name":"Xiangyuan Flower World","name_zh":"祥源花世界","pinyin":"Xiángyuán Huā Shìjiè","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.6908,"lon":117.128,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feixi-xiangyuan-flower-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern flower-themed resort park built around Tanchong Lake at Shangpai town in Feixi County, south-west of Hefei. Themed gardens and seasonal flower fields are combined with children's play areas, boating and camping, and in early May it has hosted the Hefei Rose Season. It suits a family outing."},{"id":"feixi-xiaojingzhuang-village","name":"Xiaojingzhuang Village","name_zh":"小井庄","pinyin":"Xiǎojǐngzhuāng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.6328,"lon":116.8584,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feixi-xiaojingzhuang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small village in Shannan town, Feixi County, whose 32-household production team secretly divided its farmland among households on 5 September 1978, during a severe drought, an early case of the household contract system that spread through China's rural reforms. A memorial stone at the village entrance marks it as a birthplace of household contracting, a title more often given to Xiaogang village, which followed three months later."},{"id":"hefei-yangtze-crossing-campaign-memorial","name":"Yangtze River Crossing Campaign Memorial Museum","name_zh":"渡江战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Dùjiāng Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7124,"lon":117.3244,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hefei-yangtze-crossing-campaign-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum opened in 2012 on the north shore of Chao Lake about the People's Liberation Army's April 1949 crossing of the Yangtze, which ended with the capture of Nanjing. The complex runs from Liberation Square through the 44-metre-high main hall, built leaning forward at 49 degrees, past a group statue of the General Front Committee to Victory Square and a 99-metre victory tower. The rating also covers the neighbouring Anhui Celebrities Hall."},{"id":"feidong-yaogang-general-front-committee-site","name":"Yaogang Headquarters of the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign","name_zh":"渡江战役总前委旧址","pinyin":"Dùjiāng Zhànyì Zǒngqiánwěi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.8445,"lon":117.451,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/feidong-yaogang-general-front-committee-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of late-Qing courtyard houses in Yaogang, Feidong County, where the Communist General Front Committee under Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yi directed the Yangtze River Crossing Campaign in April 1949 before moving to Nanjing at the end of the month. Five restored buildings, including the committee's headquarters, secretariat and staff office and the office of the East China Bureau, show the leaders' rooms and campaign material, and a memorial museum stands alongside."},{"id":"lujiang-yefu-mountain","name":"Yefu Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"冶父山","pinyin":"Yěfǔ Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.2995,"lon":117.3356,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lujiang-yefu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill north-east of Lujiang town, protected as a national forest park and named, by legend, after the swordsmith Ou Yezi, who is said to have forged swords here. Its two Buddhist temples frame the walk: Shiji Temple at the foot of the mountain and Fuhu Temple on the summit."},{"id":"feixi-zipeng-mountain","name":"Zipeng Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"紫蓬山","pinyin":"Zǐpéng Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.7153,"lon":117.0009,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feixi-zipeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A range of low wooded hills in Feixi County south-west of Hefei, protected as a national forest park and laced with walking trails. Its main sight is Xilu Temple, a large Buddhist temple on the mountain."},{"id":"chaohu-ziwei-cave","name":"Ziwei Cave","name_zh":"紫微洞","pinyin":"Zǐwēi Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Hefei","lat":31.6521,"lon":117.8652,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaohu-ziwei-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone cave in the hills on the northern edge of Chaohu city, also called Shuangjing ('Twin Wells') Cave after its two shaft-like openings, about 3 km long with a main passage of some 1.5 km along an underground river. The scenic area also contains Wangqiao Cave, whose walls carry more than 620 carved Buddhist figures, almost all of them now headless."},{"id":"suixi-linhuan-wenchang-palace","name":"Huaihai Campaign General Front Committee Site (Wenchang Palace)","name_zh":"临涣文昌宫","pinyin":"Línhuàn Wénchāng Gōng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huaibei","lat":33.6903,"lon":116.5537,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixi-linhuan-wenchang-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wenchang Palace in Linhuan, a temple to the god of literature founded under the Tang and later used as an academy and a school, became the forward headquarters of the Communist Central Plains Field Army on 10 November 1948, during the Huaihai Campaign. The General Front Committee of Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Deng Xiaoping, Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin, set up on 16 November to direct the campaign, was based here until it moved to Xiaolijia village, about 5 km to the east, on 23 November. Opened as a memorial hall in 1988, its grey-brick courtyards hold six rooms, among them the committee's meeting room and the commanders' bedrooms restored to their 1948 state, with the rest given to displays on the campaign."},{"id":"suixi-linhuan-city-walls","name":"Linhuan Ancient City Walls","name_zh":"临涣古城墙","pinyin":"Línhuàn Gǔchéngqiáng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huaibei","lat":33.6979,"lon":116.5581,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixi-linhuan-city-walls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Linhuan, the ancient town of Zhi, is still ringed by rammed-earth walls first raised by the state of Song in the late Warring States period, nearly square in plan and shaded by tall trees. Used until the Yuan and little altered since, the walls are being repaired section by section, starting with the north. Inside, the town is known for its old teahouses serving 'stick tea' brewed from tea stalks and local spring water, often to the sound of Huaibei drum-song storytelling."},{"id":"suixi-liuzi-canal-site","name":"Liuzi Grand Canal Site","name_zh":"柳孜运河遗址","pinyin":"Liǔzī Yùnhé Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huaibei","lat":33.824,"lon":116.5984,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suixi-liuzi-canal-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Liuzi village lies on the Tongji Canal section of the Sui–Tang Grand Canal, and excavations here in 1999 and 2012–13 confirmed the canal's route and uncovered Tang boats, Song stone bridge piers and pottery from more than 20 kilns. It is a component of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site, and the excavated bridge remains, under a large protective hall, opened to the public in May 2025 as the Liuzi Canal Bridge Site Museum. Many of the finds are shown at the Huaibei Museum."},{"id":"huaibei-nanhu-park","name":"Nanhu Park","name_zh":"南湖","pinyin":"Nán Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huaibei","lat":33.9087,"lon":116.816,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaibei-nanhu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanhu (South Lake) is a lake and wetland park in Huaibei's Lieshan district, created on land that subsided above coal workings and part of the chain of reclaimed lakes that now runs through the city. Paths and 45 decorative bridges link 22 viewpoints around the water, which draws water birds. A monument to the first borehole of the Huaibei coalfield stands in the lake as a reminder of the city's mining past."},{"id":"lieshan-sijiliuyuan","name":"Sijiliuyuan Pomegranate Park","name_zh":"四季榴园","pinyin":"Sìjì Liúyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huaibei","lat":33.9242,"lon":116.962,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lieshan-sijiliuyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Sijiliuyuan is a rural scenic area in the hills of Lieshan district, built around more than 1,000 mu of pomegranate orchards surviving from the Ming and Qing, in an area where pomegranates have been grown since at least the Song and Yuan. It links the old orchards, the China Pomegranate Museum with more than 500 exhibits, and the Longji Tianlu scenic mountain road, with a ski slope opened in the winter of 2024–25, camping and children's play areas. Autumn, when the fruit is picked and a pomegranate festival is held, is the best time to come."},{"id":"suixi-old-town","name":"Suixi Ancient Town","name_zh":"濉溪古城","pinyin":"Suīxī Gǔchéng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huaibei","lat":33.9037,"lon":116.7793,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixi-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Suixi Ancient Town is a leisure district in Suixi county town, home of the Kouzi liquor brand, that joins Qianlong Lake park to an old-style shopping quarter. The lake area of about 2,550 mu has four boat piers and the Huili Pavilion lookout, and the 283 m South Street links it to a canal-side street lined with liquor workshops, silversmiths and long-established shops. It suits an evening stroll and local food."},{"id":"huaibei-xiangshan-park","name":"Xiangshan Park","name_zh":"相山公园","pinyin":"Xiàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huaibei","lat":33.9858,"lon":116.7898,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaibei-xiangshan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xiangshan Park covers the southern slopes of Xiangshan, a hill on the northern edge of central Huaibei that was one of the eight views of old Suzhou prefecture. Among its 18 sights are Xiantong Temple, founded under the Jin dynasty (265–420) and with Qing buildings and 22 steles from the Song to the Qing, along with springs, caves, Yinma Pool and the Zouming Terrace. During the Huaihai Campaign of 1948 the Communist commander Su Yu held a meeting of senior officers at the temple."},{"id":"shouxian-anfengtang-reservoir","name":"Anfengtang Reservoir (Quebei)","name_zh":"安丰塘","pinyin":"Ānfēng Táng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.2939,"lon":116.686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shouxian-anfengtang-reservoir/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anfengtang, known in antiquity as Quebei, is an irrigation reservoir in southern Shou County that tradition attributes to Sunshu Ao, chief minister of the state of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period, although some scholars argue it is no older than the Han. Still in use, it was rebuilt in 1978 and holds about 67 million m³ of water. A memorial hall to Sunshu Ao stands in Anfengtang town."},{"id":"shouxian-anhui-chu-culture-museum","name":"Anhui Chu Culture Museum (Shou County Museum)","name_zh":"安徽楚文化博物馆","pinyin":"Ānhuī Chǔ Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.5663,"lon":116.7966,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouxian-anhui-chu-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shou County's museum, founded in 1958, reopened in 2022 in a new 15,000 m² building as the Anhui Chu Culture Museum, inside the Shouchun City National Archaeological Site Park on the site of the capital the state of Chu moved to in 241 BC. Displays include Chu bronzes, a pile of 158 Chu gold coins, a bronze sword of a king of Yue and a recreated chariot-pit excavation. Visitors enter along a 40-metre glass walkway over a layer of Warring States roof-tile rubble found during building work."},{"id":"huainan-bagong-mountain","name":"Bagong Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"八公山","pinyin":"Bāgōng Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.6342,"lon":116.7917,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huainan-bagong-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A range of some 40 low peaks between Huainan and Shou County, named after the 'Eight Gentlemen' of the Western Han prince Liu An, who compiled the Huainanzi here and, by legend, invented tofu; the Battle of Fei River of 383 was fought below them. The scenic area on the Huainan side, a national forest park and national geopark, has a geological museum on the area's ancient fossils, including the 'Huainan worm', the White Pagoda Temple, the Huainan King's Palace, an immortals' terrace and a stone forest."},{"id":"huainan-datong-wanrenkeng-memorial","name":"Datong Wanrenkeng Memorial Hall (Huainan Japanese Occupation Sites)","name_zh":"大通万人坑教育馆","pinyin":"Dàtōng Wànrénkēng Jiàoyùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.6187,"lon":117.0493,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huainan-datong-wanrenkeng-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial hall in Huainan's Datong coal-mining district built at the Wanrenkeng ('ten-thousand-person pits'), three trenches on the northern foot of Shungeng Mountain that hold the remains of more than 10,000 miners and resistance fighters who died under the Japanese occupation of the Datong mines. Together with eight nearby sites built in 1938–41, including blockhouses, water dungeons, a miners' temple and the Japanese headquarters and ammunition depot, it was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 and as a national war memorial site in 2014. The memorial site covers about 31,000 m², with some 2,400 m² of exhibition rooms."},{"id":"maoji-jiaogang-lake-film-base","name":"Jiaogang Lake Film and Television Base","name_zh":"焦岗湖影视城","pinyin":"Jiāogǎng Hú Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.6231,"lon":116.6239,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maoji-jiaogang-lake-film-base","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large outdoor film set beside Jiaogang Lake, built as a backlot of walled mansions, farm courtyards, an old railway station and locomotive, trenches, an old hospital, a people's commune hall and dormitories for 'sent-down' youth. Parts of the CCTV drama Six Sisters were filmed here, and on holidays the base stages short live shows in its streets during the day and fire performances in the evening."},{"id":"maoji-jiaogang-lake","name":"Jiaogang Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"焦岗湖","pinyin":"Jiāogǎng Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.6169,"lon":116.63,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maoji-jiaogang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake of about 40 km² on the north side of the Huai River in Huainan's Maoji district, cut off from the river by embankments in the 1950s and now a national wetland park and water-conservancy scenic area. Visitors boat through reed beds and lotus ponds, fish, and watch birds such as common cranes, and lakeside restaurants serve local salted duck eggs and wine-lees fish."},{"id":"huainan-longhu-park","name":"Longhu Park, Huainan","name_zh":"龙湖公园","pinyin":"Lónghú Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.6563,"lon":117.0093,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huainan-longhu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huainan's oldest public park, laid out around a lake in Tianjia'an District from 1957 and opened in 1980. Rebuilt in 2008, it has quiet garden areas, a waterfront, boating on the lake, a small animal and plant garden, children's rides and a food area, and is a pleasant stop for an hour or two in the city."},{"id":"huainan-shangyao-forest-park","name":"Shangyao National Forest Park","name_zh":"上窑国家森林公园","pinyin":"Shàngyáo Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.7385,"lon":117.1632,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huainan-shangyao-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of about 30 wooded hills and 10.4 km² in Huainan's Datong District, near Shangyao town, one of the centres of the Tang-dynasty Shouzhou kilns. Paths lead to the Buddhist Dongshan Temple, a Ksitigarbha hall, a release pond and the exhibition hall of a New Fourth Army memorial forest."},{"id":"shouxian-confucius-temple","name":"Shou County Confucius Temple","name_zh":"寿县孔庙","pinyin":"Shòuxiàn Kǒngmiào","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.5785,"lon":116.7759,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouxian-confucius-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Confucian temple of Shou County stands on West Street inside the walled old town, a complex of Ming and Qing buildings that includes the Dacheng Hall and a Kuixing Pavilion, with old ginkgo trees in its courtyards. Until the new Anhui Chu Culture Museum opened in 2022, the county museum occupied buildings just south of the temple."},{"id":"shouxian-mosque","name":"Shou County Mosque","name_zh":"寿县清真寺","pinyin":"Shòuxiàn Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.5749,"lon":116.7759,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouxian-mosque","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mosque in Qingzhensi ('Mosque') Lane inside the walled old town of Shou County, whose surviving buildings date from the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 together with the town's Confucius Temple and is open to visitors."},{"id":"shouxian-old-town","name":"Shou County Old Town and City Wall","name_zh":"寿县古城","pinyin":"Shòuxiàn Gǔchéng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huainan","lat":32.5726,"lon":116.7786,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shouxian-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shou County's old town, the Shouchun of history and the last capital of the state of Chu, is still ringed by its city wall, rebuilt in the Southern Song with bricks stamped 'Jiankang' that can still be seen. All four gates, Binyang (east), Tongfei (south), Dinghu (west) and Jinghuai (north), keep their barbican enclosures, and the wall held back the Huai River floods of 1991 while the town sheltered refugees. Inside are the Confucius Temple, a Ming–Qing mosque and Bao'en Temple, and the low Bagong hills rise just north of the town."},{"id":"shexian-fancun-bao-ancestral-hall","name":"Bao Ancestral Hall, Fancun","name_zh":"歙县鲍氏宗祠","pinyin":"Shèxiàn Bàoshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9976,"lon":118.3646,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-fancun-bao-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Bao clan in Fancun village, Shangfeng township, completed in 1787 in the Qianlong era of the Qing. It survives intact and was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"shexian-beian-covered-bridge","name":"Bei'an Covered Bridge and Wu Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"北岸廊桥","pinyin":"Běi'àn Lángqiáo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9091,"lon":118.5751,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-beian-covered-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bei'an village in eastern Shexian has two national heritage sites side by side: a mid-Qing covered bridge of three stone arches, 33 m long, roofed over with an eleven-bay gallery with benches, window openings and a small shrine, and the Wu clan's Zhide Hall. The ancestral hall, founded in 1622, rebuilt in the late Qianlong era and enlarged in 1826, is three halls deep."},{"id":"shexian-changqing-temple-pagoda","name":"Changqing Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"长庆寺塔","pinyin":"Chángqìng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8621,"lon":118.4314,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-changqing-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey square brick-and-timber pagoda 23.1 m high, built in 1119 in the Northern Song at the foot of Xigan Hill on the south bank of the Lian River, facing the old town of Shexian; it is regarded as the oldest surviving pagoda in old Huizhou. The temple it was named after has gone, but the pagoda, standing in front of the present Taiping Xingguo Temple, keeps its Song form, with a gallery round the base, stone lotus thrones in its arched doorways and painted Buddhas on its walls."},{"id":"shexian-changxi-village","name":"Changxi Village","name_zh":"昌溪村","pinyin":"Chāngxī Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9163,"lon":118.6442,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-changxi-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village in south-eastern Shexian, founded in the Tang and home to the Wu clan since the Southern Song, which in Ming and Qing times was known as the first village of southern She and was filled with buildings paid for by its merchants. Two of its ancestral halls are national heritage: the Taihu Hall, whose main and rear halls were completed in 1579 and 1599, faces a large square where opera is staged at festivals, and the Yuangong branch hall of the Jiaqing era (1796–1820) stands behind a square pond and a wooden gateway."},{"id":"huangshanqu-xingcun-cheng-ancestral-hall","name":"Cheng Ancestral Hall, Xingcun","name_zh":"兴村程氏宗祠","pinyin":"Xīngcūn Chéngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.2772,"lon":118.08,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshanqu-xingcun-cheng-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Cheng clan in Xingcun village, Gantang town, on the north side of the Huangshan range, first built in the Ming and rebuilt in the late Qing. Its entrance hall, main hall and rear shrine hall run 58.6 m deep and 22.3 m wide over about 1,300 m²."},{"id":"huizhou-chengkan-village","name":"Chengkan Village","name_zh":"呈坎村","pinyin":"Chéngkǎn Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9238,"lon":118.2773,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huizhou-chengkan-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Luo clan in a basin ringed by hills beside the Zhongchuan stream, laid out on feng shui principles, with more than 120 Ming and Qing houses along three streets and 99 lanes; 49 of its buildings, including houses, ancestral halls, shops, watchtowers and bridges, are national heritage. Its centrepiece is the Luo Dongshu Ancestral Hall, begun in the Jiajing era and completed in the Wanli era on a plan modelled on a Confucian temple, with the Baolun Pavilion at the rear. Chengkan is a core part of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone."},{"id":"shexian-choushu-archways","name":"Choushu Memorial Archways","name_zh":"稠墅牌坊群","pinyin":"Chóushù Páifāng Qún","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.894,"lon":118.3465,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-choushu-archways","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four stone memorial archways at the entrance to Choushu, a village of the Wang clan of merchants in Zhengcun town, built between 1628 and the 1770s. They honour a father and son who both held office, three generations of a family, and two widows' chastity."},{"id":"yixian-daguling-gorge","name":"Daguling Gorge","name_zh":"打鼓岭","pinyin":"Dǎgǔ Lǐng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.088,"lon":117.8138,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixian-daguling-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A deep wooded gorge on the Dagu stream in Meixi township, in the mountains of Yi county, where a path climbs through bamboo forest past clear pools such as the Fairy Pool, a 'water-curtain cave' behind a falling spring and the three-tiered Sandie waterfall. Steep boardwalks lead on to a pavilion on the ridge at about 1,200 m, where visitors beat a drum that echoes round the valley."},{"id":"xiuning-dengfeng-bridge","name":"Dengfeng Bridge","name_zh":"登封桥","pinyin":"Dēngfēng Qiáo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8185,"lon":118.0456,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuning-dengfeng-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-arch stone bridge 148 m long across the Heng River at the northern foot of Mount Qiyun, on the old walking route up the Taoist mountain. First built in 1587 at the urging of the Huizhou prefect Gu Zhixian and rebuilt in its present form in 1791, it has a stone gateway at each end, of which the southern one is original."},{"id":"huangshanqu-east-huangshan-resort","name":"East Huangshan Resort (Huangshan Tea Farm)","name_zh":"东黄山度假区","pinyin":"Dōng Huángshān Dùjiàqū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.1532,"lon":118.2931,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshanqu-east-huangshan-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort area on the Huangshan Tea Farm at Tanjiaqiao, a state farm that has been run by Shanghai since 1965 and to which large numbers of young people from Shanghai were sent to work in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 2003 Shanghai's Bright Food group has turned the farm into a tourist area with hotels and tea gardens, and its 'educated youth town' recreates Shanghai lanes and shikumen-style houses, with themes drawn from the farm's sent-down past, Shanghai culture and tea."},{"id":"tangkou-emerald-valley","name":"Emerald Valley","name_zh":"翡翠谷","pinyin":"Fěicuì Gǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.1098,"lon":118.2196,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangkou-emerald-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded valley in Shancha village below the eastern side of Huangshan, whose stream runs through a chain of clear green pools and small waterfalls. Also called Lovers' Valley after a group of 36 young Shanghai hikers who were stranded here in 1986, it was a filming location for 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and hosts the Huangshan Qixi (Chinese Valentine's Day) festival each summer."},{"id":"huizhou-yansi-new-fourth-army-hq","name":"Former New Fourth Army Headquarters, Yansi","name_zh":"岩寺新四军军部旧址","pinyin":"Yánsì Xīnsìjūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8231,"lon":118.3306,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huizhou-yansi-new-fourth-army-hq/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Jin family compound at 22 Yinshan Road in Yansi, used as headquarters by the Communist-led New Fourth Army in the spring of 1938, when guerrilla units from eight southern provinces gathered here to be reorganised before moving to the front against Japan; the commanders Ye Ting and Xiang Ying lived in two of its three houses. A memorial museum stands across the lane from the compound, and the site also takes in the Ming Hongqiao covered bridge, beside which the army's code office worked, and the Ming Wenfeng Pagoda and Fengshan platform, where troops drilled and were reviewed."},{"id":"xiuning-wanzhegan-provincial-committee-site","name":"Former Seat of the Anhui–Zhejiang–Jiangxi Provincial Committee, Shiwukeng","name_zh":"中共皖浙赣省委驻地旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Wǎn Zhè Gàn Shěngwěi Zhùdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.5839,"lon":117.787,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuning-wanzhegan-provincial-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-storey house in Shiwukeng village, Wangcun town, in the hills of south-western Xiuning, which housed the Chinese Communist Party's Anhui–Zhejiang–Jiangxi provincial committee from its founding in April 1936 until it left in January 1937. The building was repaired in 2014 and listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"huangshanqu-furong-valley","name":"Furong Valley","name_zh":"芙蓉谷","pinyin":"Fúróng Gǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.191,"lon":118.1532,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshanqu-furong-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested gorge on the northern side of Huangshan, where a stream runs through bamboo groves past a chain of green pools and waterfalls. Alongside the natural scenery the valley has been fitted out with family attractions, including a 500 m glass water slide, a 2,170 m mountain coaster, a 400 m zip line and a 'sky mirror' viewing platform looking towards the Huangshan peaks."},{"id":"xiuning-guchengyan","name":"Guchengyan","name_zh":"古城岩","pinyin":"Gǔchéngyán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7823,"lon":118.2233,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuning-guchengyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded rise beside the Heng River on the eastern edge of Wan'an town, with a Ming pagoda of the early Jiajing era (1520s), where since 1999 old buildings from around Xiuning county that could not be preserved where they stood have been moved and rebuilt. It now holds four stone memorial archways, six Ming and Qing houses, two ancestral halls and two other buildings, among them the Gulin double-chastity archway of 1730 and the hall of the Huang clan."},{"id":"qimen-guniujiang-guanyintang","name":"Guniujiang: Guanyintang (Qimen side)","name_zh":"牯牛降观音堂","pinyin":"Gǔniújiàng Guānyīntáng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.0248,"lon":117.5238,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qimen-guniujiang-guanyintang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Qimen entrance to Guniujiang, a forested range on the border of Qimen and Shitai counties that continues the Huangshan mountains westwards, rising to 1,727.6 m and protected as a nature reserve since 1982, now a national nature reserve of about 67 km². Of the five scenic areas usually listed for the range, Guanyintang is the only one in Qimen; the other four are reached from Shitai county in Chizhou."},{"id":"shexian-yecun-hong-ancestral-hall","name":"Hong Ancestral Hall (Jingben Hall), Yecun","name_zh":"洪氏宗祠（敬本堂）","pinyin":"Hóngshì Zōngcí (Jìngběn Táng)","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.0314,"lon":118.8072,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-yecun-hong-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Jingben Hall, a branch ancestral hall of the Hong clan in Yecun village, Sanyang, founded in 1554 and repaired in 1807 and 1897. Five bays wide and three halls deep, it is entered through a carved brick gate tower and keeps a series of honorific boards in its two-storey rear shrine hall."},{"id":"shexian-sanyang-hong-ancestral-hall","name":"Hong Ancestral Hall, Sanyang","name_zh":"三阳洪氏宗祠","pinyin":"Sānyáng Hóngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.0241,"lon":118.7834,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-sanyang-hong-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Ming and Qing ancestral hall of the Hong clan, a lineage of merchants, in Sanyang town in the hills of north-eastern Shexian. It is three halls deep and was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"qimen-hongjia-mansion","name":"Hong Family Mansion, Qimen","name_zh":"洪家大屋","pinyin":"Hóngjiā Dàwū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8575,"lon":117.7134,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qimen-hongjia-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Huizhou mansion on East Street in Qishan, the Qimen county town, begun in 1844, whose four linked halls cover more than 1,200 m². In 1860, during the war against the Taiping rebels, the Qing commander Zeng Guofan made it his headquarters, and Taiping troops who took Qimen in 1862 left writing on a wall of its Chengze Hall."},{"id":"huizhou-hongkeng-archways","name":"Hongkeng Archways and Hong Family Temple","name_zh":"洪坑牌坊群及洪氏家庙","pinyin":"Hóngkēng Páifāng Qún jí Hóngshì Jiāmiào","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8186,"lon":118.3956,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huizhou-hongkeng-archways","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four surviving stone memorial archways, of an original seven, in Hongkeng village, Yansi town: two record the Hong clan's examination successes, among them the Shike archway erected in 1498, which lists 21 graduates down to the top scholar of 1809, and two honour widows' chastity. Beside them stands the Ming family temple of the Hong clan, a branch hall founded by Hong Yuan, a minister of works in Nanjing."},{"id":"tunxi-huashan-grottoes","name":"Huashan Mysterious Grottoes","name_zh":"花山谜窟","pinyin":"Huāshān Mí Kū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7483,"lon":118.3839,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tunxi-huashan-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of 36 large man-made caverns cut into the hills on the south bank of the Jian (Xin'an) River on the eastern edge of Tunxi, unrecorded in any historical source until they were found by chance in 2000. Stalactites inside are more than 1,700 years old, so the caves were dug no later than the Jin dynasty, but who made them and why is still unknown; some are held up by rows of stone pillars like underground halls, while others wind back to green pools."},{"id":"shexian-huizhou-ancient-city","name":"Huizhou Ancient City (Shexian)","name_zh":"徽州古城","pinyin":"Huīzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8676,"lon":118.4306,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-huizhou-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old town of Shexian (Huicheng), seat of Huizhou prefecture from the Song to the Qing, and the core of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone, whose other parts are Tangyue, Tangmo, Chengkan and the Qiankou Ming houses. At its centre stands the Xu Guo Archway of 1584, an eight-legged stone memorial arch covered in carving, built for the grand secretary Xu Guo, close to the gate towers of the old prefectural yamen. Nearby Doushan Street, a flagstone lane about 500 m long, is lined with the high walls and gateways of Qing merchants' and officials' mansions."},{"id":"xiuning-huangcun-jinshi-hall","name":"Jinshi Hall, Huangcun","name_zh":"黄村进士第","pinyin":"Huángcūn Jìnshì Dì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.68,"lon":118.1714,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuning-huangcun-jinshi-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming hall, also called the Huang family hall, built in 1532 by the Huang clan of Huangcun in Shangshan town to honour Huang Fu, who passed the palace examination in 1529. About 790 m² in area, it runs four sections deep through a gate tower, gatehouse, sacrificial hall and two-storey rear hall."},{"id":"qimen-lixi-village","name":"Lixi Village","name_zh":"历溪","pinyin":"Lìxī","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9838,"lon":117.4895,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qimen-lixi-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village in Likou town in northern Qimen, founded in the Southern Tang among tea hills on the Shunxi stream, which rises on the Guniujiang mountains. A bamboo grove, an old bridge and a grove of old trees with an ancient camphor mark the village entrance; the Heyi Hall and the village's other Ming and Qing buildings are protected at provincial level, and a gorge, the Lixi Grand Canyon, lies nearby."},{"id":"tunxi-liyang-in-lane","name":"Liyang in Lane","name_zh":"黎阳in巷","pinyin":"Líyáng in Xiàng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7085,"lon":118.2937,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tunxi-liyang-in-lane","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure quarter on the old Liyang street across the Heng River from Tunxi Old Street, redeveloped between 2007 and 2013 around the original street plan and about ten restored Huizhou houses, with new buildings around them. It is filled with bookshops, guesthouses, bars and craft workshops, and in 2022 it was named one of China's first national tourist and leisure quarters."},{"id":"xiuning-mount-qiyun","name":"Mount Qiyun","name_zh":"齐云山","pinyin":"Qíyún Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8083,"lon":118.0325,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuning-mount-qiyun/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of China's four sacred mountains of Taoism, a range of red sandstone (Danxia) cliffs and peaks rising to 585 m west of Huangshan city, where Taoist worship goes back to 758–760 and flourished in the Ming around the cult of Zhenwu, the Perfected Warrior. Paths lead past caves, cliff-side temples and shrines, and the mountain holds 305 cliff inscriptions and 232 stone tablets from the Northern Song onwards, the largest a tablet 7.6 m high below the Yuxu Palace inscribed by the Ming painter Tang Yin."},{"id":"yixian-nanping-village","name":"Nanping Village","name_zh":"南屏村","pinyin":"Nánpíng Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9016,"lon":117.8997,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yixian-nanping-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Ye clan at the foot of a hill west of the Yi county town, founded in the Northern Song, that keeps more than 300 Ming and Qing buildings, eight of them ancestral halls. Seven of its buildings are national heritage, including the Ye clan's Xuzhi Hall, the Ming Kuiguang branch hall, the Cheng clan hall, the Yinan Villa and the Bingling Pavilion."},{"id":"tangkou-nine-dragon-waterfall","name":"Nine Dragon Waterfall","name_zh":"九龙瀑","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Pù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.0961,"lon":118.2014,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangkou-nine-dragon-waterfall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A waterfall described as the largest at Huangshan, which drops 360 m in nine stages over a 600 m course from the cliffs of Xianglu Peak into a U-shaped valley on the eastern side of the mountain, forming nine cascades and nine pools. The last and largest fall is 120 m high and more than 20 m wide, and its Xixi stream valley is a place to paddle in summer."},{"id":"qimen-old-opera-stages","name":"Old Opera Stages of Qimen","name_zh":"祁门古戏台","pinyin":"Qímén Gǔ Xìtái","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8353,"lon":117.3606,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qimen-old-opera-stages","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of eleven opera stages built into clan ancestral halls in the villages of Xin'an township and Shanli town in western Qimen, dating from the late Ming to 1927. The oldest, in the Chen clan's Huiyuan Hall at Kengkou (1587), collapsed in a fire in 2013 and has been rebuilt on its site, while the Dundian Hall stage at neighbouring Pancun dates from the 1860s."},{"id":"shexian-dafu-pan-ancestral-hall","name":"Pan Ancestral Hall, Dafu","name_zh":"大阜潘氏宗祠","pinyin":"Dàfù Pānshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9,"lon":118.565,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-dafu-pan-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Pan clan in Dafu village, Bei'an town, built in 1585 in the late Ming and preserved intact. It is three halls deep and noted for its imposing scale and for fine wood and brick carving."},{"id":"yixian-pingshan-village","name":"Pingshan Village","name_zh":"屏山村","pinyin":"Píngshān Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.942,"lon":117.9751,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yixian-pingshan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Shu clan on the Jiyang stream north-east of the Yi county town, settled at the end of the Tang, that keeps more than 200 Ming and Qing houses. Its two linked clan halls, the Qing Shu Guangyu Hall in front and the Ming Shu Qingyu Hall behind, are entered through a rare seven-eaved gate tower said to have been permitted by the Chongzhen emperor to honour a loyal official of the clan."},{"id":"huizhou-qiankou-ming-houses","name":"Qiankou Ming Houses","name_zh":"潜口民宅","pinyin":"Qiánkǒu Mínzhái","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8712,"lon":118.2887,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huizhou-qiankou-ming-houses/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open-air museum of Ming-dynasty Huizhou architecture on a hillside at Qiankou, where about ten fine buildings that could not be kept safely in their home villages were taken down and re-erected from 1984 onwards. Houses, ancestral halls, a roadside pavilion and a stone archway are laid out like a traditional village, and the site is one of the five parts of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone."},{"id":"xiuning-xitou-sanhuai-hall","name":"Sanhuai Hall, Xitou","name_zh":"溪头三槐堂","pinyin":"Xītóu Sānhuái Táng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7333,"lon":118.1861,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuning-xitou-sanhuai-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Wang clan in Xitou village, Haiyang town, founded by Wang Jingtian in 1602 in the late Ming. It was once three halls deep and eleven bays wide, but its rear hall was pulled down in the 1950s; the two surviving halls, about 900 m², are joined by a large open courtyard with smaller courtyards in the side wings."},{"id":"huizhou-shuyuan-archways","name":"Shuyuan Memorial Archways","name_zh":"蜀源牌坊群","pinyin":"Shǔyuán Páifāng Qún","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9056,"lon":118.3315,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huizhou-shuyuan-archways","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three stone memorial archways at the entrance to Shuyuan village, Qiankou town: the Zanxian archway of the Jiajing era (1522–1566) honouring Bao Zhen, a 'centenarian' archway of 1742 for a woman who lived from 1644 to 1744, and a chastity archway of 1775. They are one of several archway groups in the countryside between Qiankou and Shexian, with those at Tangyue and Choushu."},{"id":"shexian-taiping-bridge","name":"Taiping Bridge, Shexian","name_zh":"歙县太平桥","pinyin":"Shèxiàn Tàipíng Qiáo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8654,"lon":118.4291,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-taiping-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 16-arch stone bridge 268 m long across the Lian River outside the west gate of the old Huizhou prefectural town, described as the largest old stone bridge in Anhui. Built in stone in the Hongzhi era (1488–1505) on the site of a 1234 pontoon bridge and rebuilt several times under the Qing, it lost its stone deck in a 1969 flood and was given a concrete one. The Taibai Pavilion and the Xin'an stele garden stand at its western end."},{"id":"huangshanqu-taiping-lake","name":"Taiping Lake","name_zh":"太平湖","pinyin":"Tàipíng Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.3914,"lon":118.0799,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshanqu-taiping-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake formed in 1970 by damming the Qingyi River, winding between forested hills in Huangshan district over about 88 km²; it was Anhui's first national wetland park. Boat trips run on the lake, and the lakeside resort area has a water park with motorboats, kart boats and kayaks."},{"id":"huizhou-tangmo-village","name":"Tangmo Village and Tangan Garden","name_zh":"唐模","pinyin":"Tángmó","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.872,"lon":118.3331,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huizhou-tangmo-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in Qiankou town threaded by the Tangan stream, with old trees, small bridges, pavilions and archways, and one of the five parts of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone. Its Tangan Garden, made in the early Qing by a wealthy merchant as a miniature of Hangzhou's West Lake for his mother, has a pavilion in the lake set with marble tablets of calligraphy by 18 masters of the Song to the Qing, among them Su Shi, Mi Fu and Dong Qichang, and nearby stand the octagonal Shadi pavilion, the Tongbao Hanlin archway and the Gaoyang covered bridge."},{"id":"shexian-tangyue-archways","name":"Tangyue Memorial Archways","name_zh":"棠樾牌坊群","pinyin":"Tángyuè Páifāng Qún","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.871,"lon":118.3651,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-tangyue-archways/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Seven stone memorial archways, built between 1420 and 1820, stand in a line on the approach to Tangyue, the home village of the Bao clan, merchants in Ming and Qing times, honouring filial piety, widows' chastity, charity and high office. Beside them are the Bao clan's Dunben Hall and the Qingyi Hall, an ancestral hall for the clan's women, and the village keeps a dozen listed old buildings. The large Bao Family Garden, destroyed in the Taiping war and rebuilt in 2002, is visited with the archways as one part of the Ancient Huizhou Culture Tourism Zone."},{"id":"tunxi-cheng-family-three-houses","name":"Three Houses of the Cheng Family","name_zh":"程氏三宅","pinyin":"Chéngshì Sān Zhái","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7119,"lon":118.3137,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tunxi-cheng-family-three-houses/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three Ming-dynasty houses of the Cheng family at Nos. 6, 7 and 28 Baishu Dongli Lane in Tunxi, the oldest begun at the end of the Yuan or start of the Ming. Each is a closed two-storey brick-and-timber house of two halls around a light well, with wood, brick and stone carving typical of Ming Huizhou homes; the older houses around them were cleared in 2007, and they now stand amid a new shopping street in old style."},{"id":"xiuning-tongan-hall","name":"Tong'an Hall, Xiuning","name_zh":"休宁同安堂","pinyin":"Xiūníng Tóng'ān Táng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7857,"lon":118.1731,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuning-tongan-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty Huizhou merchant's house at 152 Qining Street in Haiyang, the county town of Xiuning, preserved intact with five halls set one behind another. It covers about 1,300 m² and is known for the quality of its brick and wood carving."},{"id":"shexian-shitan-wu-ancestral-halls","name":"Wu Ancestral Halls, Shitan","name_zh":"石潭吴氏宗祠","pinyin":"Shítán Wúshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9375,"lon":118.6647,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-shitan-wu-ancestral-halls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two ancestral halls of the Wu clan in Shitan, a hillside village of Xiakeng town in eastern Shexian: the Xulun Hall, a Ming hall rebuilt in the Qing with five bays, three halls and a 'hundred-beam' hall, and the Qing-dynasty Chunhui branch hall. Both are known for delicate carving, and the village is popular with photographers for its seas of cloud and summer flower fields."},{"id":"qimen-xiangyuan-keemun-tea-park","name":"Xiangyuan Keemun Tea Culture Park","name_zh":"祥源祁红产业文化博览园","pinyin":"Xiángyuán Qíhóng Chǎnyè Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8446,"lon":117.7443,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qimen-xiangyuan-keemun-tea-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea park devoted to Keemun (Qimen) black tea on the eastern edge of the Qimen county town, built by the Xiangyuan group in new Huizhou-style buildings. It combines a Keemun tea museum of seven halls, a demonstration factory whose production lines can be watched from walkways, a centre where visitors can try hand-making the tea, and a garden of tea varieties; the park is a stop on the county's 'red and black' tea route launched in 2024."},{"id":"huizhou-xieyuda-tea-museum","name":"Xieyuda Tea Culture Museum","name_zh":"谢裕大茶文化博物馆","pinyin":"Xièyùdà Chá Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8697,"lon":118.3153,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huizhou-xieyuda-tea-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The museum of Xieyuda, a producer of Huangshan Maofeng green tea that takes its name from the Shanghai tea house of the 19th-century Huizhou merchant Xie Zheng'an, set in the company's tea expo park at Qiankou. Its displays trace the history of Huangshan Maofeng and of Huizhou's tea merchants, and the surrounding park has tea gardens of nearly 2,000 mu (about 130 hectares) and a rainbow slide."},{"id":"shexian-xinan-river-gallery","name":"Xin'an River Scenic Gallery","name_zh":"新安江山水画廊","pinyin":"Xīn'ān Jiāng Shānshuǐ Huàláng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8673,"lon":118.6114,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-xinan-river-gallery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of the Xin'an River of roughly 50 km through southern Shexian, between steep green hills dotted with Huizhou villages and old wharves, usually seen on boat trips from Shendu. Stops along the way include thousand-year-old camphor trees and the river villages of Jiusha and Miantan, and the banks are bright with rapeseed and azaleas in spring and with coloured leaves in autumn."},{"id":"tunxi-xinan-riverside","name":"Xin'an Riverside, Tunxi","name_zh":"新安江滨水旅游区","pinyin":"Xīn'ān Jiāng Bīnshuǐ Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7358,"lon":118.3528,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tunxi-xinan-riverside","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of the Xin'an River on the eastern side of Tunxi whose banks, once lined with wharves, have been landscaped as riverside parks for walking. Boat trips run on the river, including evening cruises to see the waterfront and the lit-up bridges."},{"id":"shexian-xiongcun-village","name":"Xiongcun Village and Zhushan Academy","name_zh":"雄村","pinyin":"Xióngcūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8174,"lon":118.4396,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-xiongcun-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Cao clan on the Jian River in southern Shexian, listed as a national historic and cultural village in 2014. Its main sight is the Zhushan Academy, founded beside the river in 1755, with an octagonal pavilion, a Wenchang pavilion and halls over about 2,000 m², and the village also keeps a group of five stone archways, several old houses and the Taohua embankment along the river."},{"id":"huizhou-xixinan-village","name":"Xixinan Village","name_zh":"西溪南村","pinyin":"Xīxīnán Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.838,"lon":118.279,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huizhou-xixinan-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village on the Fengle River, founded in 860, that was home to the Wu clan of salt merchants, who filled it with houses, gardens and halls; most were lost in fighting in 1856, but more than 100 Ming and Qing buildings remain along three old streets and three channelled streams. Its national heritage sites are the Laowu Pavilion, a mid-Ming two-storey house whose upper hall was the main living floor, and the Lürao Pavilion, a square roadside pavilion by a pond rebuilt in 1456, and beside the village a wetland grove of Chinese wingnut trees stretches for about 4 km."},{"id":"shexian-jincun-xu-ancestral-hall","name":"Xu Ancestral Hall (Dunmu Hall), Jincun","name_zh":"歙县许氏宗祠","pinyin":"Shèxiàn Xǔshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":30.0057,"lon":118.3197,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-jincun-xu-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Dunmu Hall, ancestral hall of the Xu clan in Jincun village, Xucun town, built in 1536 in the Ming dynasty. It is three halls deep, and its beams and columns carry extensive Huizhou painted decoration in the 'wrapped brocade' style; the front two halls were restored in 2014."},{"id":"shexian-xucun-old-village","name":"Xucun Old Village","name_zh":"许村","pinyin":"Xǔcūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9984,"lon":118.3186,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-xucun-old-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large old village of the Xu clan in north-western Shexian, where close to 200 Ming and Qing buildings, among them memorial archways, pavilions, a covered bridge, ancestral halls and houses, line an old street about 1.5 km long. Fifteen of them form a national heritage group, including the Gaoyang covered bridge, the Wuma archway and the Dabangbo ancestral hall, the last two restored in 2008–09."},{"id":"shexian-yuliang-dam","name":"Yuliang Dam and Old Street","name_zh":"渔梁坝","pinyin":"Yúliáng Bà","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.8583,"lon":118.4425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shexian-yuliang-dam/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ancient stone weir about 140 m long across the Lian River just south-east of Shexian town, first built in the Tang and rebuilt in 1605 from massive blocks locked together with stone dowels. It raised the river for boats, making Yuliang the main point from which Ming and Qing Huizhou merchants set out by water for Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Beside it runs Yuliang Street, a cobbled street of old houses and shops with lanes down to the wharves, where the Ming–Qing house of the salt-merchant family of the Qing seal carver Ba Weizu, the largest old residence in the village, was restored and opened as a museum."},{"id":"shexian-zhengcun-zheng-ancestral-hall","name":"Zheng Ancestral Hall, Zhengcun","name_zh":"郑氏宗祠","pinyin":"Zhèngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.858,"lon":118.3765,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-zhengcun-zheng-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Zheng clan in Zhengcun town, founded in the Chenghua era (around 1466) in memory of the late-Yuan recluse and Neo-Confucian scholar Zheng Yu. Covering 1,867 m² behind a richly carved four-pillar gateway, it is regarded as the largest ancestral hall in Shexian."},{"id":"tunxi-zhenhai-bridge","name":"Zhenhai Bridge","name_zh":"镇海桥","pinyin":"Zhènhǎi Qiáo","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.7113,"lon":118.2969,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tunxi-zhenhai-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-arch stone bridge, 133 m long, across the Heng River at the western end of Tunxi Old Street, near where the Shuai and Heng rivers meet to form the Xin'an, linking the old town with Liyang on the far bank. Recorded by 1491 and rebuilt in 1699, it was swept away by a flash flood in July 2020; its stones were salvaged and the restored bridge reopened in December 2021."},{"id":"shexian-changxi-zhou-ancestral-hall","name":"Zhou Ancestral Hall, Changxi","name_zh":"昌溪周氏宗祠","pinyin":"Chāngxī Zhōushì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Huangshan","lat":29.9072,"lon":118.6425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shexian-changxi-zhou-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Zhou clan, also called Liushun Hall, in the hamlet of Zhoubangtou on the edge of Changxi in south-eastern Shexian. Built in the Daoguang era (1821–1850), it is five bays wide and three halls deep, with an entrance hall, a sacrificial hall and a rear shrine hall."},{"id":"luan-dream-ocean-world","name":"Anhui Dream Ocean World","name_zh":"梦幻海洋大世界","pinyin":"Mènghuàn Hǎiyáng Dà Shìjiè","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.7483,"lon":116.4909,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luan-dream-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anhui Dream Ocean World is a commercial indoor aquarium of about 10,000 m² in the Zhedong trade centre in central Lu'an, opened by private investors as a marine-life exhibition and science-education venue. It suits families with children looking for a couple of hours indoors."},{"id":"huoshan-baimajian","name":"Baimajian (Main Peak of the Dabie Mountains)","name_zh":"白马尖","pinyin":"Báimǎ Jiān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.1136,"lon":116.1858,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huoshan-baimajian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baimajian, at 1,777 m the highest summit of the Dabie Mountains, rises in the far south-west of Huoshan County inside the Dabie Mountains nature reserve. The 4A Dabie Main Peak scenic area, a unit of the Dabie Mountains (Lu'an) National Geopark, also takes in the Longjing gorge, the Siwangbao lookout and Biehu Lake."},{"id":"jinan-dabieshan-fengqing-valley","name":"Dabieshan Fengqing Valley","name_zh":"大别山风情谷","pinyin":"Dàbié Shān Fēngqíng Gǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.4785,"lon":116.5565,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-dabieshan-fengqing-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Fengqing Valley is a forested valley scenic area in Hongshan village, next to the Dabieshan Grottoes, with a narrow rock cleft, waterfalls dropping into a lake, a stream with sandy banks, bamboo groves and a stand of nanmu trees. Local curiosities include coffins wedged in cliff crevices, old cave dwellings and the ruins of Taiping stockade, and an opera stage puts on Lu opera and local folk songs. It makes a summer outing for walkers from Lu'an."},{"id":"jinan-dabieshan-shiku","name":"Dabieshan Grottoes Scenic Area","name_zh":"大别山石窟","pinyin":"Dàbié Shān Shíkū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.4829,"lon":116.5488,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-dabieshan-shiku","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Dabieshan Grottoes are natural rock shelters and caves, not carved shrines, in a wooded scenic area with a 15 km² core in Hongshan village, part of the Dabie Mountains (Lu'an) National Geopark. The best known, Changyan Cave, was shaped by water, weathering and rockfall; other curiosities are coffins set in cliff niches, old cave dwellings and the ruins of earthen hill forts. The Tianfo Chan Temple, a late-Yuan foundation once called Jiulong Tang whose ruins remain on the summit of Hongshanzhai, has been rebuilt with a gate hall, a Heavenly Kings hall and a main hall."},{"id":"jinzhai-dawan-village","name":"Dawan Village","name_zh":"大湾村","pinyin":"Dàwān Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.3386,"lon":115.682,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhai-dawan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dawan is a tea-growing mountain village in Huashi township whose 2.5 km² scenic area combines tea gardens, farm guesthouses and a group of twelve ancient sandalwood trees with sites of the revolutionary period. Preserved buildings include the former office of the Communist Party's Anhui Provincial Work Committee and the former local soviet government and clinic. A folk museum displays Dabie farming tools, household goods and costume, and the village runs a rafting route."},{"id":"jinan-dongshisun","name":"Dongshisun Scenic Area","name_zh":"东石笋","pinyin":"Dōng Shísǔn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.314,"lon":116.5667,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-dongshisun","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dongshisun is a hill scenic area south of Maotanchang town whose slopes are built of stacked slabs of metamorphic rock, rising to just over 760 m. Its namesake is a free-standing rock pillar about 38 m tall, left where two faults meet and the surrounding rock collapsed. Paths lead past waterfalls, quartz-strewn slopes, pavilions and a small temple."},{"id":"yuan-dushan-revolutionary-sites","name":"Dushan Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"独山革命旧址群","pinyin":"Dúshān Gémìng Jiùzhǐ Qún","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.61,"lon":116.2224,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuan-dushan-revolutionary-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dushan is a market town in the Dabie foothills where a Communist-led uprising broke out in 1929, in the years when the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Soviet base was being formed. Along its old street, now branded 'Soviet City', a group of buildings including the uprising's headquarters is preserved and presented as a museum complex. Together with separate sites in Jinzhai County farther west, it forms part of the national heritage listing for the former Hubei–Henan–Anhui revolutionary base area."},{"id":"huoshan-foziling-reservoir","name":"Foziling Reservoir","name_zh":"佛子岭水库","pinyin":"Fózǐlǐng Shuǐkù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.3461,"lon":116.2728,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huoshan-foziling-reservoir/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Foziling Reservoir on the upper East Pi River was built between 1952 and 1954 as the first large water-conservancy and hydropower project of the People's Republic, and is officially called the 'first dam of New China'. Its 74.4 m reinforced-concrete multiple-arch dam, designed by the hydraulic engineer Wang Huzhen, was the first of its kind in China and is now a national heritage site. The scenic area around the lake includes hill outlines known as the 'Reclining Buddha' and 'Sleeping Beauty', a resort and rafting on the East Pi River."},{"id":"yuan-hengpaitou","name":"Hengpaitou Headworks","name_zh":"横排头","pinyin":"Héngpáitóu","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.601,"lon":116.3594,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuan-hengpaitou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hengpaitou, on the Pi River at Subu town, is the head of the Pi River main canal of the Pishihang irrigation district, a large scheme serving farmland in Anhui and Henan. The scenic area takes in the canal head on the river and the tree-lined canal that runs about 20 km north to Lu'an, with water views and pleasure boats. Subu, an old market town known for its food, lies next to it."},{"id":"huoshan-grand-canyon-rafting","name":"Huoshan Grand Canyon Rafting","name_zh":"霍山大峡谷","pinyin":"Huòshān Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.3637,"lon":116.186,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huoshan-grand-canyon-rafting","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Huoshan Grand Canyon is a rafting and adventure area on the Kongque River, where an 8 km run drops 160 m in total, with a largest single drop of 19 m, over smooth patterned rock beds between bamboo-covered slopes. Other attractions are the Baiyunxia waterfalls, the Feiyun glass suspension bridge, 188 m long and 108 m above the valley, and a slide through bamboo forest. Rafting runs in the summer season only."},{"id":"jinzhai-red-army-square","name":"Jinzhai Red Army Square","name_zh":"金寨红军广场","pinyin":"Jīnzhài Hóngjūn Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.6863,"lon":115.8685,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhai-red-army-square","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Red Army Square in Jinzhai county town is a memorial park on the county's revolutionary history, laid out around a monument tower to revolutionary martyrs. It brings together the Jinzhai County Revolution Museum, a Red Army martyrs' cemetery, a Red Army memorial hall and a monument to General Hong Xuezhi. Jinzhai is known in China as a 'county of generals' for the many army generals born here."},{"id":"yuan-jiugongzhai","name":"Jiugongzhai","name_zh":"九公寨","pinyin":"Jiǔgōngzhài","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.5889,"lon":116.2981,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuan-jiugongzhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jiugongzhai is a wooded hill in Shibanchong township, counted among the eight traditional sights of Lu'an and long associated with Buddhism. Legend says Emperor Wu of Liang built a temple here with materials supplied by nine elders from the villages below, which gave the hill its name ('Stockade of the Nine Elders'). Paths climb past Buddhist statue plazas, Gaofeng Temple, boulders such as Chessboard Rock and a waterfall."},{"id":"huoqiu-li-family-manor","name":"Li Family Manor","name_zh":"李氏庄园","pinyin":"Lǐshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":32.2764,"lon":115.939,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huoqiu-li-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Li Family Manor, also called Lijiawei, is a moated landlord's estate begun in 1856 by the Li clan, who by the late Qing held land across western Anhui and neighbouring Henan. Built over ten years in the moated-compound style of the Jianghuai region, it once had more than 430 rooms; only the western compound survives, restored in two phases from 2008, and a third phase of repairs was contracted in 2025. It is officially described as one of China's four great landlord manors."},{"id":"huoqiu-linhuaigang","name":"Linhuaigang Flood Control Project","name_zh":"临淮岗","pinyin":"Línhuáigǎng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":32.4562,"lon":116.2835,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huoqiu-linhuaigang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Linhuaigang is a flood-control scheme on the Huai River, described by the Lu'an government as the largest water-control project on the river, with a main dam, auxiliary dams, a diversion channel, a ship lock and sluices stretching some 78 km across the river plain north of Huoqiu. The scenic area built around it includes the main dam and a 49-bay sluice, an exhibition hall and a monument square on Huai River control, as well as wetlands and an old course of the river."},{"id":"huoshan-liuwan-qingxia","name":"Liuwan Qingxia Gorge Park","name_zh":"六万情峡","pinyin":"Liùwàn Qíngxiá","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.3651,"lon":116.189,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huoshan-liuwan-qingxia","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Liuwan Qingxia is a commercial leisure complex built around a wooded gorge in Luoerling town, rated 4A in 2025 and themed partly on the area's anti-Japanese war history. It combines a film-set town in Republican-era style, a children's activity zone, a gorge walk and a viewpoint at Longtou Rock with rides such as a glass water slide, a dry slide through bamboo, zip lines and boat trips, plus a staged show, 'Legend of the Dabie Mountains'. It suits families and groups looking for activities rather than quiet scenery."},{"id":"jinzhai-longjin-xidi","name":"Longjin Xidi Gorge","name_zh":"龙津溪地","pinyin":"Lóngjīn Xīdì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.7599,"lon":115.7745,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhai-longjin-xidi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longjin Xidi is a gorge scenic area about 8.5 km long in the hills of Quanjun township, developed by a private tourism company across the river from Xijiuhua Shan in Henan. A trail follows the valley past three pools, six waterfalls and named rocks and peaks, and a small sightseeing train runs through bamboo forest. A hotel and an outdoor-activity base stand near the entrance."},{"id":"jinzhai-meishan-reservoir","name":"Meishan Reservoir","name_zh":"梅山水库","pinyin":"Méishān Shuǐkù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.6683,"lon":115.8806,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhai-meishan-reservoir","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Meishan Reservoir on the upper Shi River is one of the large reservoirs built to control the Huai River, supplying flood control, power and water for 3.83 million mu of farmland in Anhui and Henan. The old town of Jinjiazhai, which gave Jinzhai County its name, lies beneath the lake, and the present county town sits beside the dam. A national water-conservancy scenic area since 2004, the lake can be toured by passenger boat from a pier that opened in 2026."},{"id":"huoshan-nanyue-shan","name":"Nanyue Shan","name_zh":"南岳山","pinyin":"Nányuè Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.3798,"lon":116.3127,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huoshan-nanyue-shan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanyue Shan is a 405 m hill rising 2.5 km south of Huoshan county town, steep on its southern face and gently sloping to the north. Over the centuries it has been known by several names, among them Tianzhu Shan, Huo Shan, Hengshan and 'Little Nanyue' (Little Southern Peak), and together with Foziling Reservoir it forms a provincial scenic area."},{"id":"jinzhai-tiantangzhai","name":"Tiantangzhai","name_zh":"天堂寨","pinyin":"Tiāntángzhài","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.1253,"lon":115.7731,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhai-tiantangzhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tiantangzhai, at 1,729 m the second-highest peak of the Dabie Mountains, stands on the Anhui–Hubei border on the watershed between the Huai and Yangtze rivers. The Anhui side is a national forest park of about 120 km², with peaks such as Baima Peak, forest cover of over 95 per cent and more than ten waterfalls along its stream valleys. A site linked to the Communist army's 1947 advance into the Dabie Mountains is also marked in the area."},{"id":"huoshan-tongluozhai","name":"Tongluozhai","name_zh":"铜锣寨","pinyin":"Tóngluó Zhài","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.1538,"lon":116.0494,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huoshan-tongluozhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tongluozhai is a steep, isolated peak of 1,096 m in the heart of the Dabie Mountains, within a 92 km² scenic area of pine-clad crags and oddly shaped rocks. Below it the Tongluo gorge runs for about 7 km past sheer cliffs, deep pools and waterfalls, with traces of an old plank road and of temples and houses. Its name ('Bronze Gong Stockade') comes from a legend that Emperor Wu of Han dreamed of the moon turning into a gong and falling onto the mountain."},{"id":"shucheng-wanfo-lake","name":"Wanfo Lake","name_zh":"万佛湖","pinyin":"Wànfó Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.2625,"lon":116.7908,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shucheng-wanfo-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wanfo Lake is the scenic name of Longhekou Reservoir, built by around 100,000 labourers mobilised from across Shucheng County from 1958 and largely finished in 1970 as a flood-control and irrigation source for the Pishihang irrigation district. The lake covers about 50 km² of a 135 km² scenic area, with wooded islands such as Zhouyu Island, the long earth dam, a reservoir memorial hall and the Longhe Pagoda. Boat trips between the islands and lakeside resorts make it a popular weekend escape from Hefei."},{"id":"shucheng-wanfo-mountain","name":"Wanfo Mountain","name_zh":"万佛山","pinyin":"Wànfó Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.0537,"lon":116.5463,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shucheng-wanfo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wanfo Mountain is a forested range in south-western Shucheng County, a national forest park and geopark of about 50 km² whose main peak, Laofoding, reaches 1,539 m. Trails climb past dozens of named peaks and rock formations, and the Jiutan valley holds a string of pools and waterfalls. Lesser sights include a small temple near the summit, a cave linked by legend to the monk Kim Gyo-gak before he went to Jiuhua Shan, and the site of a Red Army hospital."},{"id":"jinan-wanxi-rift-valley","name":"Wanxi Grand Rift Valley","name_zh":"皖西大裂谷","pinyin":"Wǎnxī Dà Liègǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.4734,"lon":116.5706,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-wanxi-rift-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Wanxi Grand Rift is a deep V-shaped cleft through a wooded hill in Taipingqiao village, part of the Dabie Mountains (Lu'an) National Geopark. Visitors scramble up the gorge floor between mossy cliff walls, using hands and feet to squeeze through three points so narrow that only one person can pass sideways. A rock shelter in the gorge is linked by local tradition with the late-Ming rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong, who is said to have camped his troops here."},{"id":"luan-wanxi-museum","name":"Wanxi Museum","name_zh":"皖西博物馆","pinyin":"Wǎnxī Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.7398,"lon":116.5197,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luan-wanxi-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Wanxi Museum is Lu'an's city museum, founded in 1980, whose present Hui-style building opened in 2011 and partly reopened in August 2025 after a refit. The main exhibition, renamed 'Into Lu'an', traces the region's history through bronzes, ceramics, burial customs and the revolutionary period, with a section on Gao Yao, the legendary judge associated with Lu'an. Smaller galleries are devoted to Lu opera and local folk customs."},{"id":"jinzhai-xianghongdian-reservoir","name":"Xianghongdian Reservoir","name_zh":"响洪甸水库","pinyin":"Xiǎnghóngdiàn Shuǐkù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.5606,"lon":116.1478,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhai-xianghongdian-reservoir","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xianghongdian Reservoir on the West Pi River was built between 1956 and 1958 behind an 87.5 m concrete gravity-arch dam for flood control, irrigation and power, and is a main source of the Pishihang irrigation district. The long, winding lake between steep wooded hills is navigable for more than 20 km and is promoted locally as western Anhui's 'Little Guilin'; the dam and the lake views are the main sights."},{"id":"jinzhai-yanzihe-canyon","name":"Yanzihe Grand Canyon","name_zh":"燕子河大峡谷","pinyin":"Yànzi Hé Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.2434,"lon":115.8897,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinzhai-yanzihe-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yanzihe Grand Canyon is a forested gorge about 5.8 km long in Yanzihe town, adjoining the Tiantangzhai area and part of the Dabie Mountains geopark. A walking route follows the stream past pools, cliffs and waterfalls, with a suspension bridge and a sinkhole-like basin promoted as 'Tiankeng Fairyland'. A glass water slide nearly 2.1 km long, with a drop of 133 m, runs down the valley."},{"id":"jinan-youran-lanxi","name":"Youran Lanxi Resort","name_zh":"悠然蓝溪","pinyin":"Yōurán Lánxī","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.7754,"lon":116.6456,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-youran-lanxi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Youran Lanxi is a large resort complex in Sanshipu town built by the Xingmao property group, laid out round a lake with new Chinese-style buildings, gardens, a big fountain square and stone-inscription galleries. Its themed zones are loosely based on the 'five rites' associated with Gao Yao, the legendary judge linked with Lu'an. It has hotels, a children's play area and shopping and bar streets."},{"id":"jinan-youran-nanshan","name":"Youran Nanshan Resort","name_zh":"悠然南山","pinyin":"Yōurán Nánshān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Lu'an","lat":31.6808,"lon":116.5432,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-youran-nanshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Youran Nanshan is a sports and leisure resort in Zhongdian town built by a property developer, with Mediterranean-style buildings, hotels and inns. Its facilities include an 18-hole golf course in the hills and indoor halls for basketball, tennis, swimming, table tennis and badminton. It suits visitors wanting a sporty stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"hanshan-baochan-mountain","name":"Baochan Mountain","name_zh":"褒禅山","pinyin":"Bāochán Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.7906,"lon":118.1307,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanshan-baochan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baochan Mountain, a wooded hill north-east of Hanshan county town, was once called Hua Shan and took its present name from the Tang monk Huibao, who built a hermitage at its foot and was buried here. In 1054 the statesman and writer Wang Anshi explored one of its caves and wrote the celebrated essay 'A Record of a Trip to Baochan Mountain', which made the hill widely known."},{"id":"maanshan-caishi-rock","name":"Caishi Rock","name_zh":"采石矶","pinyin":"Cǎishí Jī","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.6482,"lon":118.4547,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/maanshan-caishi-rock/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Caishi Rock is the cliff-bound foot of Cuiluo Hill where it juts into the Yangtze on the south-western edge of Ma'anshan, counted first of the river's three famous rocks and long a strategic crossing, where Song forces led by Yu Yunwen defeated an invading Jin army in 1161. Legend says the poet Li Bai drowned here trying to embrace the moon's reflection, and the hill is dotted with memorials to him, among them the Qing-dynasty Taibai Tower, a national heritage site, a Li Bai memorial museum and his cenotaph. Other sights include Sanyuan Cave, the Lin Sanzhi art museum and viewpoints over the river."},{"id":"dangtu-daqingshan-wildlife-world","name":"Daqingshan Wildlife World","name_zh":"大青山野生动物世界","pinyin":"Dàqīng Shān Yěshēng Dòngwù Shìjiè","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.5096,"lon":118.4999,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dangtu-daqingshan-wildlife-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Daqingshan Wildlife World is a commercial zoo and theme park of more than 2,000 mu in Taibai town, rated 4A in 2023, keeping over 3,000 animals of more than 200 species. Besides the animal exhibits it has a circus arena with staged shows, an outdoor-sports area, jungle adventure trails, an ice-and-snow hall and children's rides. It suits families with children."},{"id":"maanshan-dehuatang-bed-museum","name":"Dehuatang Chinese Antique Bed Museum","name_zh":"德化堂古床博物馆","pinyin":"Déhuàtáng Gǔchuáng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.656,"lon":118.511,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maanshan-dehuatang-bed-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Dehuatang museum in Ma'anshan's Yushan district is a private museum of traditional Chinese beds, displaying carved wooden beds, most of them from the Qing dynasty and the Republican era, with other old furniture in period room settings. It suits visitors interested in Chinese furniture and woodcarving and makes a short city stop."},{"id":"hexian-jilong-mountain","name":"Jilong Mountain and Banyue Lake","name_zh":"鸡笼山","pinyin":"Jīlóng Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.8062,"lon":118.2013,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hexian-jilong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jilong Mountain is a forested hill of about 240 m in western He County, an outlier of the Dabie range with some 20,000 mu of woodland. Known as 'Little Jiuhua north of the Yangtze' and as the 42nd of the Taoist blessed places, it has a Taoist Sanqing Hall, the Sanhe altar, a 'Southern Gate of Heaven', a limestone cave and the Buddhist Fenglin Chan Temple. The rated scenic area also takes in Banyue Lake."},{"id":"hanshan-lingjiatan-site","name":"Lingjiatan Site","name_zh":"凌家滩遗址","pinyin":"Língjiātān Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.4605,"lon":118.0484,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanshan-lingjiatan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lingjiatan, on the north bank of the Yuxi River, was a large late-Neolithic settlement of about 3800–3300 BC with double moats, a ritual altar platform and a cemetery rich in jade. Now a national archaeological park, it has a site museum opened in May 2025 that shows about 1,100 objects, among them jade human figures, a jade eagle bearing an eight-pointed star, an engraved jade plaque and an 88 kg jade pig found on top of the so-called 'king's tomb', 07M23. Lingjiatan ranks with the Hongshan and Liangzhu cultures as one of the three great jade-working centres of prehistoric China."},{"id":"maanshan-putang","name":"Putang National Holiday Park","name_zh":"濮塘","pinyin":"Pútáng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.6987,"lon":118.6605,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maanshan-putang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Putang is an area of about 20 km² of wooded hills on Ma'anshan's eastern edge, now run as the Putang National Holiday Park, with 49 peaks, 53 small valleys and eight reservoirs. Its forests and bamboo groves hold tea gardens and old trees, among them a ginkgo more than 800 years old and an evergreen holly whose crown spreads over 200 m²."},{"id":"hanshan-taihu-mountain","name":"Taihu Mountain","name_zh":"太湖山","pinyin":"Tàihú Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.5284,"lon":118.0423,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanshan-taihu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Taihu Mountain in southern Hanshan County is a wooded upland made up of the Taihushan National Forest Park, about 1,800 ha with 95% forest cover, and a deer park. A Buddhist centre since the Northern Song, it keeps a temple complex of long standing and is nicknamed 'Little Jiuhua north of the Yangtze'."},{"id":"dangtu-tomb-of-li-bai","name":"Tomb of Li Bai","name_zh":"李白墓","pinyin":"Lǐ Bái Mù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.4929,"lon":118.5143,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dangtu-tomb-of-li-bai/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Tang poet Li Bai, who died in Dangtu in 762, was reburied in 817 at the western foot of Qingshan (Green Hill), where his grave mound lies in a memorial garden with the Taibai Shrine. The shrine and some of the old inscriptions were destroyed in a Japanese air raid in 1938, and the tomb and shrine were restored from 1979. The tomb is the core of the Daqingshan Li Bai Culture Tourism Area, which also takes in the surrounding hills and rural-tourism villages such as Taohua."},{"id":"maanshan-zhu-ran-tomb","name":"Tomb of Zhu Ran","name_zh":"朱然墓","pinyin":"Zhū Rán Mù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.6708,"lon":118.4889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maanshan-zhu-ran-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This is the family burial ground of Zhu Ran (182–249), a general of the Eastern Wu state in the Three Kingdoms period, whose brick tomb, found in 1984, was the highest-ranking Wu burial excavated up to 2013. The brick chambers of his tomb and of a neighbouring family tomb can be seen in the site museum of the Three Kingdoms Zhu Ran Cultural Park. The tombs yielded more than 140 objects, over half of them painted lacquerware made in the Chengdu area, which fill a gap in surviving painting from the period."},{"id":"hexian-xiangquan-hot-springs","name":"Xiangquan Hot Springs","name_zh":"香泉","pinyin":"Xiāngquán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Ma'anshan","lat":31.8712,"lon":118.3189,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hexian-xiangquan-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xiangquan is a small hot-spring town in He County whose warm spring has been used for bathing for centuries; legend says the Liang-dynasty crown prince Xiao Tong was cured of a skin complaint here. On the old street a public open-air spring pool is still used by local people, while a resort nearby has more than 50 landscaped pools, and Xiangquan Lake hosts dragon-boat races. Mutton noodles are the town's best-known dish."},{"id":"xiaoxian-caiwa-huaihai-campaign-site","name":"Caiwa Huaihai Campaign Headquarters Site","name_zh":"蔡洼淮海战役旧址","pinyin":"Càiwā Huáihǎi Zhànyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":34.082,"lon":116.8776,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoxian-caiwa-huaihai-campaign-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village of Caiwa in Xiao county, headquarters of the East China Field Army during the Huaihai campaign of 1948–49, one of the decisive battles of the Chinese Civil War. The preserved buildings where the campaign's General Front Committee met are shown together with a memorial hall, and the only photograph of all five committee members together, Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, Chen Yi, Su Yu and Tan Zhenlin, was taken here."},{"id":"dangshan-pear-tree-king","name":"Dangshan Pear Tree King Scenic Area","name_zh":"砀山梨树王","pinyin":"Dàngshān Líshù Wáng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":34.4262,"lon":116.5281,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dangshan-pear-tree-king","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Old pear orchards around Liangli village in Dangshan, the county that calls itself China's pear capital and the home of the Dangshan Su pear, centred on an ancient tree known as the 'Pear Tree King'. The orchards are busiest during the pear-blossom festival in late March and early April, when opera is staged among the trees, and at the pear-picking festival in early September. Farm-stays, a pear-wine workshop and an exhibition hall on northern Anhui farming life have been added nearby."},{"id":"sixian-grand-canal","name":"Grand Canal, Sixian Section","name_zh":"隋唐大运河泗县段","pinyin":"Suí Táng Dà Yùnhé Sìxiàn Duàn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":33.5085,"lon":117.9363,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sixian-grand-canal","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The only stretch of the Sui–Tang Grand Canal in Anhui that still carries water: 28 km of the Tongji Canal, dug in 605 to join the Yellow River to the Huai, winds through Si county, and the 5.8 km section north-east of the county town is part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site inscribed in 2014. A walk along the old towpath follows banks that keep much of their original profile, and the Sui–Tang Grand Canal Museum, opened in 2019 on the north bank at Shilijing, tells the canal's story with models, maps and local finds such as a stone water-guardian beast dug up nearby."},{"id":"xiaoxian-huangcangyu-forest-park","name":"Huangcangyu National Forest Park","name_zh":"皇藏峪","pinyin":"Huángcángyù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":34.0274,"lon":117.0526,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaoxian-huangcangyu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded valley in the low limestone hills of Xiao county, named 'the valley where the emperor hid' after the tradition that Liu Bang, founder of the Han dynasty, sheltered here before his rise. Old trees, springs and caves such as Huangcang Cave and Sanxian Cave are linked by paths, with the Ruiyun Temple in the valley, and the area is known locally for its mushroom-stewed chicken."},{"id":"lingbi-modern-agriculture-expo-park","name":"Lingbi Modern Agriculture Expo Park","name_zh":"灵璧现代农业博览园","pinyin":"Língbì Xiàndài Nóngyè Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":33.5847,"lon":117.5298,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingbi-modern-agriculture-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A showcase farm park at the core of the Lingbi Sanhe provincial modern-agriculture demonstration zone, built around four large glasshouses: an agricultural science hall, an 'urban forest' hall, a desert-plant hall and a hall of city gardens and vegetable plots. It suits families and school groups interested in plants and farming."},{"id":"lingbi-stone-culture-park","name":"Lingbi Stone Culture Park","name_zh":"灵璧奇石文化园","pinyin":"Língbì Qíshí Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":33.5303,"lon":117.5381,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingbi-stone-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped park on the south-western side of Lingbi town, by the old Bian river, devoted to Lingbi stone, the ringing, intricately shaped limestone counted among China's four famous ornamental stones and used since antiquity for chime stones. Huizhou-style halls and pavilions in a classical-garden layout are set among display stones, and the main building, Bianyang Tower, houses the Lingbi Museum. A large stone market and 'stone town' next door sell rocks to collectors."},{"id":"yongqiao-new-bian-river","name":"New Bian River Scenic Area","name_zh":"新汴河","pinyin":"Xīn Biàn Hé","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":33.6696,"lon":116.9645,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongqiao-new-bian-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped riverside park along the New Bian River, a canal dug in the late 1960s for flood relief and irrigation, roughly parallel to the long-silted Bian canal of the Sui and Tang, where it passes the north of Suzhou city. At its head stand the Bian River Museum and the 'Yuanhang' (Setting Sail) sculpture; the north bank has 13 plazas on battles fought in the region, from the Dazexiang uprising and Gaixia to the Huaihai campaign, and the south bank 12 plazas on local customs and notable people."},{"id":"yongqiao-suzhou-museum","name":"Suzhou Museum (Anhui)","name_zh":"宿州市博物馆","pinyin":"Sùzhōu Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Suzhou","lat":33.6453,"lon":116.9588,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongqiao-suzhou-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city museum of Suzhou in northern Anhui, opened in 2010 in a Han-style building on a raised platform and rated a national first-grade museum in 2020. Its upper floors trace the area's history with more than 700 objects, from early settlements and the Qin–Han period to the Sui–Tang canal, the Ming and Qing and modern times, while a ground-floor folk-art hall covers local opera, the Yongqiao circus tradition, crafts, painting and Lingbi stones."},{"id":"tongling-datong-ancient-town","name":"Datong Ancient Town","name_zh":"大通古镇","pinyin":"Dàtōng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.811,"lon":117.7413,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongling-datong-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Datong, on the Yangtze south-west of Tongling, was one of Anhui's main river ports, and the sandbank of Heyuezhou across the narrow Que River was from the 1860s to the 1930s a salt market and steamer landing nicknamed 'Little Shanghai', with three streets and thirteen lanes. Heyuezhou's streets burned in 1938 and floods and the decline of river trade later emptied it, leaving abandoned lanes, while Lanxi Old Street on the Datong side keeps its flagstones and old shopfronts and is busy with visitors and snack stalls on holidays. Datong is a national historic and cultural town."},{"id":"yian-fenghuang-mountain","name":"Fenghuang Mountain","name_zh":"凤凰山","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.8751,"lon":118.0201,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yian-fenghuang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of low hills in Shun'an town, south-east of Tongling, known for Fengdan medicinal peony and named in 2000 'China's home of the medicinal peony'. Its peony garden holds more than 200 ornamental tree-peony varieties and more than 100 herbaceous peonies, including the four classic named cultivars; other sights are the Dishui Cliff and the 'Lovesick Tree'. The ancient copper-mine site at Jinniudong is nearby."},{"id":"zongyang-fushan-mountain","name":"Fushan Mountain","name_zh":"浮山","pinyin":"Fú Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.9215,"lon":117.2788,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zongyang-fushan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An extinct volcano of the early Cretaceous on the shore of Baidang Lake in northern Zongyang, which seems to float on the water and is called 'the foremost literary mountain' for the poets who came here, from Meng Jiao and Bai Juyi in the Tang to Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi and Wang Yangming. Its caves and rock walls carry hundreds of inscriptions from the Tang to the Republic, protected as national heritage, among temples, pagodas and pavilions, and the scholar Fang Yizhi is buried on the mountain. It is a national geopark and national forest park."},{"id":"yian-jinniudong-ancient-copper-mine","name":"Jinniudong Ancient Copper Mine","name_zh":"金牛洞古采矿遗址","pinyin":"Jīnniúdòng Gǔ Cǎikuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.8678,"lon":118.0223,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yian-jinniudong-ancient-copper-mine","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tongling has been called China's 'ancient copper capital', and the Dagongshan–Fenghuangshan mines straddling the Nanling–Tongling border were worked from the Western Zhou to the Song. The visitable part is Jinniudong, a low hill near Fenghuang Mountain where excavations exposed ancient shafts and galleries with mining tools and pottery from the Spring and Autumn period to the Western Han; it was the second ancient copper mine in China opened to visitors, after Tonglüshan in Hubei, and has a small site museum."},{"id":"yian-liqiao-water-town","name":"Liqiao Water Town","name_zh":"犁桥水镇","pinyin":"Líqiáo Shuǐzhèn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":31.0348,"lon":117.887,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yian-liqiao-water-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in Xilian town, north-east of Tongling, redeveloped into a 'water town' resort around its old street, where Ming and Qing buildings have been restored as small museums, a crafts street and boutique inns. The scenic area also includes the Manyuan garden and the old Liqiao street, and is lit up for night visits. It is a newly developed resort around an old village and suits an evening stroll or an overnight stay."},{"id":"zongyang-hanwu-cultural-park","name":"Qishan Hanwu Cultural Park","name_zh":"汉武文化生态园","pinyin":"Hànwǔ Wénhuà Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.7021,"lon":117.2398,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zongyang-hanwu-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A public hillside park on Qishan in Zongyang county town, themed on Emperor Wu of the Han, who by local tradition shot a flood dragon in the Yangtze at Zongyang on a southern tour and wrote the 'Song of Shengtang and Zongyang'; Zongyang became a county in 106 BC. The Hanwu Pavilion stands in the park."},{"id":"tongling-tianjing-lake","name":"Tianjing Lake Park","name_zh":"天井湖","pinyin":"Tiānjǐng Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.9421,"lon":117.7966,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongling-tianjing-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake park of over 1,200 mu in the centre of Tongling, named after the 'heavenly well' on a small island in the lake. The 4A scenic area combines the lake with a copper-culture garden, a Jiangnan-style garden, a lakeside square and the North Lake, and makes a pleasant walk in the city."},{"id":"tongling-museum","name":"Tongling Museum","name_zh":"铜陵市博物馆","pinyin":"Tónglíng Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.9822,"lon":117.8625,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongling-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city museum of Tongling, long known as China's 'ancient copper capital', is devoted to bronze and copper culture. Since 2020 it has also run a digital copper museum, with a hall of digital displays and a children's interactive area showing models and images of Chinese bronzes held in other museums at home and abroad. It stands beside the West Lake Wetland Park."},{"id":"tongling-xihu-wetland","name":"West Lake Wetland Park, Tongling","name_zh":"西湖湿地","pinyin":"Xīhú Shīdì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.9802,"lon":117.8519,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongling-xihu-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban wetland park laid out around West Lake in the Xihu new district on Tongling's north-eastern side, with lakes, planted woodland and paths for walking. The city museum stands on its eastern shore, so the two make an easy pair."},{"id":"yian-wutong-flower-valley","name":"Wutong Flower Valley","name_zh":"梧桐花谷","pinyin":"Wútóng Huāgǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.9406,"lon":118.1443,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yian-wutong-flower-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A countryside flower park in Zhongming town on Tongling's eastern border with Nanling and Fanchang, covering 15.4 km² of hills and farmland. It has a peony garden, a large field of Fengdan medicinal peony, a green-plum orchard, tulip beds, Wutong Lake with Rose Island and the Big and Little Jinshan hills, and is best in spring."},{"id":"yian-yongquan-resort","name":"Yongquan Resort","name_zh":"永泉旅游度假区","pinyin":"Yǒngquán Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Tongling","lat":30.9649,"lon":118.0196,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yian-yongquan-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farm-stay resort in the Yeshan forest park in Zhongming town, eastern Tongling, built in Huizhou garden style, with guest houses and villas, a food street of local snacks in Jiangnan-style buildings and a collection of Huizhou carvings. Its Siji Lanshan area adds an orchid garden and karst stone-forest scenery, and the resort suits a weekend stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"nanling-dapu-rural-world","name":"Dapu Rural World","name_zh":"大浦乡村世界","pinyin":"Dàpǔ Xiāngcūn Shìjiè","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.1116,"lon":118.4153,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanling-dapu-rural-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An agricultural tourism park at Dapu in Xuzhen town, northern Nanling County, that mixes flower fields and farm displays with family amusements. Attractions include an indoor wave pool, a glass bridge between islands, water slides, a rose maze and a small train, as well as a tropical plant house and a medicinal-plant garden used for study tours; rape and rose fields flower in spring and fireworks are put on during holidays. It suits families on a day out from Wuhu rather than sightseers."},{"id":"fanchang-kiln-site-park","name":"Fanchang Kiln Archaeological Park","name_zh":"繁昌窑遗址","pinyin":"Fánchāng Yáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.0686,"lon":118.1987,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanchang-kiln-site-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A kiln site of the Five Dynasties and Northern Song on the northern slopes of Ruomaojian and Zhuizishan hills, just south of Fanchang town, which specialised in bluish-white qingbai porcelain fired one piece to a saggar. Two excavated dragon kilns climbing the hillside, with mounds of waste saggars and sherds below, are shown in situ in a protective hall with an exhibition of finds. The site opened as an archaeological park on the May Day holiday of 2026, with pottery workshops, a Song-style tea house and costumed performances, and a site museum has been under construction since 2025."},{"id":"wuhu-fantawild-resort","name":"Fantawild Resort, Wuhu","name_zh":"芜湖方特","pinyin":"Wúhú Fāngtè","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3608,"lon":118.4641,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-fantawild-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of Fantawild theme parks in Jiujiang District on Wuhu's north-eastern side, run by the Huaqiang Fantawild group. The city government lists three parks: Fantawild Oriental Heritage (opened 2015), with more than 20 zones built around Chinese legends such as Nüwa mending the sky and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, plus a wooden roller coaster; Fantawild Dreamland (2010), with animation-themed attractions and fairground rides; and a water park. It suits families who want a full day of rides; Wuhu was also home to the chain's first large park, Fantawild Adventure, which opened in 2007 and closed in 2020."},{"id":"wuhu-former-british-consulate","name":"Former British Consulate, Wuhu","name_zh":"英驻芜领事署旧址","pinyin":"Yīng Zhù Wú Lǐngshìshǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3336,"lon":118.3611,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-former-british-consulate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"After the 1876 Chefoo Convention opened Wuhu as a treaty port, Britain built its consulate on Fanluo Hill above the Yangtze: the hilltop office of 1877 is a two-storey colonial building with arcaded verandahs on three sides, grey brick banded with red and a hipped iron roof. Two smaller red-brick buildings on the hillside, an assistants' block of the early 1900s and a customs administration office of 1912, are listed with it. Used as city government offices until 2010, the three buildings were being restored in 2026, and the city plans to use them for an exhibition on Wuhu's treaty-port history."},{"id":"wuwei-dai-anlan-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Dai Anlan","name_zh":"戴安澜故居","pinyin":"Dài Ānlán Gùjū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.0869,"lon":117.6686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuwei-dai-anlan-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home of Dai Anlan (1904–1942), a Nationalist army major general who commanded the 200th Division in the battles of Kunlun Pass and Toungoo and died of wounds in May 1942 while withdrawing from Burma. The house, in Lianxi, Hongxiang town, in south-western Wuwei, is a grey-brick building of two courtyards and three bays, repaired and fitted with displays of his cap, holster, medals, documents and personal belongings. Dai's tomb is on Zheshan hill in central Wuhu."},{"id":"wuhu-guangji-temple","name":"Guangji Temple, Wuhu","name_zh":"广济寺","pinyin":"Guǎngjì Sì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3393,"lon":118.3712,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhu-guangji-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the south-western slope of Zheshan hill in central Wuhu, founded in the 890s and long called 'Little Jiuhua' because pilgrims bound for Mount Jiuhua stopped here first to venerate a gold seal of the bodhisattva Dizang said to date from 757. Its oldest structure is the Zheta Pagoda behind the halls, a five-storey hexagonal brick pagoda of 1065, 28 m high, with a seated Dizang inside; most halls are recent rebuilds stepped up the slope in imitation of Jiuhua. 'The Zheta Pagoda in clearing mist' is counted first among Wuhu's traditional scenic views."},{"id":"wuwei-huangjin-pagoda","name":"Huangjin Pagoda","name_zh":"黄金塔","pinyin":"Huángjīn Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3398,"lon":117.9362,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuwei-huangjin-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Northern Song pagoda, dated in the county heritage register to 998, that stands beside the West River in Fenghe village on the edge of Wuwei's main town. It is one of the stops on Wuwei's heritage routes together with the Mi Fu Memorial Shrine, and lightning protection was fitted in 2024."},{"id":"wuhu-jiuzi-ancient-town","name":"Jiuzi Ancient Town","name_zh":"鸠兹古镇","pinyin":"Jiūzī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3753,"lon":118.4393,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-jiuzi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A newly built old-style town in Jiujiang District, developed by the Xinhualian group around the theme of the Huizhou merchants and put up by craftsmen in hand-worked Huizhou style. The Biandan River splits it in two: the west side holds buildings presenting merchant guild halls (Chaozhou, Huizhou and Hunan), the houses of notable families, an academy and a money shop, while the east side is given over to hotels, snack stalls, inns and bars. It is a modern resort town rather than a historic one and suits an evening stroll."},{"id":"wuhu-jiuzi-scenic-area","name":"Jiuzi Scenic Area (Mirror Lake)","name_zh":"鸠兹风景区","pinyin":"Jiūzī Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3306,"lon":118.3673,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-jiuzi-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wuhu's central lakeside district, made up of Jiuzi Square, Mirror Lake Park and the Zhongshan Road pedestrian street; Jiuzi is the city's ancient name. Mirror Lake (Jinghu), formed by the Large and Small Mirror lakes, was Wuhu's first open public park, and the pedestrian street is busiest in the evening when it is lit up. It makes an easy stroll combined with Zheshan and the riverfront."},{"id":"fanchang-maren-qifeng","name":"Maren Qifeng","name_zh":"马仁奇峰","pinyin":"Mǎrén Qífēng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":30.9695,"lon":118.152,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanchang-maren-qifeng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested range of limestone peaks rising to 316 m in Suncun town, where Fanchang meets Nanling and Tongling, protected as a national forest park and national geopark. Besides cliffs and rock formations, it has built attractions such as the 'Flying Dragon' glass bridge, a glass walkway on a cliff face and a cable car, and more recent additions include themed trails through a nanmu forest and, in winter, an artificial-snow park with snow slides. It suits a day of walking and rides."},{"id":"wuhu-old-customs-house","name":"Old Wuhu Customs House","name_zh":"老芜湖海关旧址","pinyin":"Lǎo Wúhú Hǎiguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3378,"lon":118.3516,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-old-customs-house","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wuhu's customs office, opened in 1877 after the Chefoo Convention made the city a treaty port, moved in 1919 into this building on the Yangtze waterfront, now inside Binjiang Park. The two-storey brick building faces the river, with a four-storey clock tower carrying clock faces on three sides and granite bands on its exposed-brick walls. Restored in 2023 and then fitted out for display, it opened to the public in April 2025."},{"id":"fanchang-renzidong-site","name":"Renzidong Palaeolithic Site","name_zh":"人字洞遗址","pinyin":"Rénzìdòng Yízhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.0637,"lon":118.0944,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanchang-renzidong-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fossil-bearing cave site on the southern slope of Laili Hill in Suncun town, Fanchang, discovered in 1998 and dated to the early Pleistocene, about 2.2–2.56 million years ago. Eleven seasons of excavation have produced fossils of about a hundred vertebrate species, among them sabre-toothed cats and a mastodon, and over 200 stone and bone pieces that the excavators read as human-made, which would make this one of the oldest traces of humans in Eurasia, a claim some archaeologists dispute. The site is being laid out as an archaeological park with a renovated exhibition hall and life-size reconstructions of the animals."},{"id":"wuwei-hongse-shanshuijian","name":"Shanshuijian Red Tourism Area","name_zh":"红色山水涧","pinyin":"Hóngsè Shānshuǐjiàn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.4059,"lon":117.7676,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuwei-hongse-shanshuijian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area in Hongmiao town, north-western Wuwei, built around the former headquarters of the Communist-led New Fourth Army's 7th Division, which fought in the Wanjiang region along the Yangtze during the war against Japan. It takes in the headquarters site at Sanshuijian, the 7th Division Memorial Hall and the Wanjiang Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery in Haiyun village, set among hills, flower fields and blueberry farms that also draw weekend visitors."},{"id":"wuhu-st-joseph-cathedral","name":"St. Joseph Cathedral, Wuhu","name_zh":"芜湖天主堂","pinyin":"Wúhú Tiānzhǔtáng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3313,"lon":118.3572,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhu-st-joseph-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Romanesque-style Catholic church on Heer Hill above the Yangtze in central Wuhu, built by French Jesuits: the first church was burned shortly before completion in the Wuhu riot of 1891, and the present building was finished in 1895 with the indemnity money. Its west front has twin bell towers 29 m high, and it became Anhui's first cathedral in 1921. Reopened in 1983 after use for other purposes during the Cultural Revolution, it faces Jihe Square, laid out in 2000."},{"id":"wanzhi-taoxin-shuiyun","name":"Taoxin Shuiyun Water Country","name_zh":"陶辛水韵","pinyin":"Táoxīn Shuǐyùn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.1522,"lon":118.4836,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanzhi-taoxin-shuiyun","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A water-country landscape around Taoxin town in Wanzhi District, between the Qingyi and Qing'an rivers, where an old grid of waterways is lined with large lotus fields. Both a 4A scenic area and a national water-conservancy scenic area, it holds a lotus festival each June (the sixth was in 2023), and its routes link Xianghu Island and Lianhuawan, the old village of Housha and fruit-picking farms. It is best in summer, when the lotus is in flower."},{"id":"wuhu-wang-jiaxiang-memorial-park","name":"Wang Jiaxiang Memorial Park","name_zh":"王稼祥纪念园","pinyin":"Wáng Jiàxiáng Jìniànyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3432,"lon":118.3567,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-wang-jiaxiang-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial garden built in 1986 on Shizi Hill in central Wuhu, in the grounds of the former St James Middle School, an Anglican mission school where the Communist leader Wang Jiaxiang (1906–1974) studied in 1924–25. It has a bronze statue, a memorial stele and an exhibition on his life told through documents, photographs and objects. The school's early 20th-century red-brick buildings, among them the 1910 St James Hall with its clock tower, are protected as national heritage but stand in a working school."},{"id":"wuhu-yugengshan-cultural-park","name":"Yugeng Hill Cultural Park","name_zh":"雨耕山","pinyin":"Yǔgēng Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3304,"lon":118.3589,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-yugengshan-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small hill beside the Catholic cathedral in central Wuhu whose mission buildings were turned in 2013 into a cultural and creative park with a wine theme. Its core is the former St Aloysius (Neisi) technical school, built by Spanish Jesuits in 1934–35: a large block stepping down the hill, five storeys on the lower side and two at the top, with strong vertical lines and Huizhou-style stepped gables. Beside it on the summit is the former British consul's residence of 1887–89, which the Catholic mission bought for offices in 1934."},{"id":"wanzhi-zhenshui-guanxiang","name":"Zhenshui Guanxiang Water Village","name_zh":"枕水官巷","pinyin":"Zhěnshuǐ Guānxiàng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.2557,"lon":118.5367,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanzhi-zhenshui-guanxiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanxiang is an old village in Liulang town, Wanzhi District, ringed by ponds planted with lotus and water lilies; the Tao family genealogy records 13 imperial officials from the village after the Song, whose private lanes gave it the name 'Officials' Lanes'. Rated 4A in 2020, the scenic area centres on the village and its water street and also takes in the Yiranxiang oil-pressing culture park, where traditional wooden presses are shown, a mushroom garden and farm stays. It suits a relaxed half day in the Wuhu countryside, with local 'eight water vegetables' dishes."},{"id":"wuhu-zheshan-park","name":"Zheshan Park","name_zh":"赭山公园","pinyin":"Zhěshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Wuhu","lat":31.3443,"lon":118.3717,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhu-zheshan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill park in the middle of Wuhu covering the two summits of Zheshan, named for its reddish-brown rock; the higher peak is 84.8 m and has long been the place to look out over the city and the Yangtze. Paths lead to garden spots such as Cuiming Garden and Shutian Pavilion, the Zhongshan Hall and the tombs of the educator Liu Xiping and of General Dai Anlan, and there is a small zoo with children's rides. Guangji Temple on the south-western slope belongs to the same 4A scenic area."},{"id":"jingxian-xuan-paper-culture-park","name":"China Xuan Paper Culture Park","name_zh":"中国宣纸文化园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Xuānzhǐ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.5672,"lon":118.4462,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-xuan-paper-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jing County is the home of Xuan paper, the absorbent paper prized for Chinese calligraphy and painting, whose hand-making craft is on the UNESCO intangible heritage list. This 4-hectare park at Wuxi includes the China Xuan Paper Museum, a traditional workshop where the old hand process is demonstrated, a room where old-style books are printed on the paper, and craft areas where visitors can try making paper, ink, brushes and inkstones."},{"id":"xuancheng-chinese-alligator-park","name":"Chinese Alligator Scenic Area","name_zh":"扬子鳄景区","pinyin":"Yángzǐ'è Jǐngqū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.908,"lon":118.7738,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuancheng-chinese-alligator-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The visitor area of the Anhui Chinese Alligator National Nature Reserve's breeding base on the southern edge of Xuancheng, opened to tourists in 1987 as 'China Alligator Lake' and renamed in 2016. Visitors see captive Chinese alligators, a critically endangered species found in the wild only along the lower Yangtze, in outdoor pools and a winter alligator house, and an education hall explains the breeding and release programme that helped Anhui's wild population pass 1,600 in a 2024 survey."},{"id":"ningguo-enlong-wooden-house-village","name":"Enlong World Wooden House Village","name_zh":"恩龙世界木屋村","pinyin":"Ēnlóng Shìjiè Mùwū Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.6609,"lon":118.9208,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningguo-enlong-wooden-house-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort and leisure park opened in 2001 on a 150-hectare site in the Qinglongwan forest area, built around clusters of timber holiday villas. Its grounds include a large ginkgo grove, orchards, a water park and a folk-culture park with model houses of several ethnic minorities. It is aimed at families and groups wanting a countryside stay rather than at heritage."},{"id":"jingxian-new-fourth-army-hq-yunling","name":"Former New Fourth Army Headquarters, Yunling","name_zh":"新四军军部旧址","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.6539,"lon":118.2214,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-new-fourth-army-hq-yunling","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From July 1938 to January 1941 the Communist-led New Fourth Army had its headquarters at Yunling, 25 km west of Jing county town, with its offices spread across 13 hamlets in a valley. Visitors see the command post in two former landlord houses at Luoli village where Ye Ting and Xiang Ying lived, the assembly hall in the Chen ancestral hall, the arms-repair workshop in a Guandi temple with a carved opera stage, and the memorial museum opened in 1985."},{"id":"jingxian-wang-jiaxiang-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Wang Jiaxiang","name_zh":"王稼祥故居","pinyin":"Wáng Jiàxiáng Gùjū","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.5481,"lon":118.0542,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-wang-jiaxiang-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing house in Hou'an village, Taohuatan town, where Wang Jiaxiang, a Communist Party leader and the People's Republic's first ambassador to the Soviet Union, was born in 1906 and lived during his primary-school years. A memorial hall of 2,630 m² was built beside it in 2006 for the centenary of his birth."},{"id":"xuancheng-guangjiao-temple-twin-pagodas","name":"Guangjiao Temple Twin Pagodas","name_zh":"广教寺双塔","pinyin":"Guǎngjiào Sì Shuāng Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.9756,"lon":118.7358,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuancheng-guangjiao-temple-twin-pagodas/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two seven-storey brick pagodas, about 17 m tall and imitating timber construction, were built in 1096 under the Northern Song and stand 26.9 m apart at the south-eastern foot of Jingting Mountain. They are all that survived when Guangjiao Temple, founded in 849 by the Chan master Huangbo Xiyun, was destroyed during the war with Japan; the temple halls were rebuilt in 2004–2006. The painter Shitao lived here as a monk in the Kangxi era."},{"id":"xuancheng-guantang-lake","name":"Guantang Lake Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"官塘湖","pinyin":"Guāntáng Hú","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":31.0623,"lon":118.7005,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuancheng-guantang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately developed eco-tourism and leisure area on the shore of Guantang Lake in the north of Xuancheng's economic development zone, formerly called the Guantang Lake Eco-Sightseeing Garden. The city government describes lakeside gardens and farm-style sightseeing, an intangible-heritage museum, water-based amusements, restaurants and lodging. It suits a relaxed half day rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"langxi-guantianxia-shifo-mountain","name":"Guantianxia Scenic Area (Shifo Mountain and Tianzi Lake)","name_zh":"观天下","pinyin":"Guān Tiānxià","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.8943,"lon":119.0863,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=langxi-guantianxia-shifo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This scenic area in Yaocun township, Langxi County, joins Shifo (Stone Buddha) Mountain, a 353 m hill long known as a Buddhist mountain, with Tianzi Lake, a 3.5 km² reservoir on its eastern side. Temples are built on the rocks of the summit among oddly shaped boulders, including a 32-tonne rocking stone, a cable car crosses the area and the lake is used for boating. A temple fair is held on the mountain each year on the 30th day of the seventh lunar month."},{"id":"jingxian-huangtian-village","name":"Huangtian Village","name_zh":"黄田","pinyin":"Huángtián","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.4614,"lon":118.4981,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-huangtian-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huangtian, in Langqiao town south of Jing county town, is a village of the Zhu clan founded in the Song whose Qing-dynasty houses survive in unusual numbers: 57 sites with 110 buildings. The best known is the Yangchuanwu, or 'foreign ship house' (Duchengtang), alongside halls such as Sishentang and Juxingtang, lanes with open and covered water channels, and the Fengzi River running past the village."},{"id":"jixi-huihang-ancient-trail","name":"Huizhou–Hangzhou Ancient Trail","name_zh":"徽杭古道","pinyin":"Huīháng Gǔdào","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.1421,"lon":118.765,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jixi-huihang-ancient-trail/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Huizhou–Hangzhou Ancient Trail is a stone-paved mountain path, begun in the Tang, along which Huizhou merchants carried goods towards Hangzhou, and it is now a popular hiking route. The classic section runs about 16 km from Fuling town in Jixi to Qingliangfeng in Zhejiang's Lin'an district, through the Qingliangfeng nature reserve and past the Jiangnan Diyiguan pass, old tea pavilions and stone bridges. The national listing also covers a section of the old eastern Huizhou road in Langxi County."},{"id":"jingde-jiangcun-village","name":"Jiangcun Village","name_zh":"江村","pinyin":"Jiāngcūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.2184,"lon":118.389,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingde-jiangcun-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jiangcun is a village of the Jiang clan in Baidi town, Jingde County, founded in the Sui–Tang period and at its height in the Qing, and listed as a national historic and cultural village in 2005. Its surviving Ming and Qing buildings include the Jiang ancestral hall, a filial-piety shrine, the Father-and-Son Jinshi memorial archway, several family halls and an old street, as well as the former homes of the mathematician Jiang Zehan and of Jiang Dongxiu, the wife of the scholar Hu Shi."},{"id":"jingde-confucian-temple","name":"Jingde Confucian Temple","name_zh":"旌德文庙","pinyin":"Jīngdé Wénmiào","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.2896,"lon":118.5359,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingde-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jingde's Confucian temple in the county town was founded under the Northern Song and repaired through the Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republican periods. The south-facing complex keeps its Pan pool and bridge, the Ji gate, shrines to famous officials and local worthies, side halls, the main Dacheng Hall and a Wenchang pagoda."},{"id":"xuancheng-jingting-mountain","name":"Jingting Mountain","name_zh":"敬亭山","pinyin":"Jìngtíng Shān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.9832,"lon":118.728,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuancheng-jingting-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jingting Mountain is a range of low wooded hills on Xuancheng's northern edge, rising to 324 m at Cuiyun Peak, and is known as the 'poetry mountain' of the south. Xie Tiao wrote of it in the fifth century, and Li Bai climbed it seven times and left some 45 poems about it; Bai Juyi, Du Mu, Su Shi and many others followed. Paths lead from the forest-park entrance past tea gardens to viewpoints over the city."},{"id":"jixi-longchuan-village","name":"Longchuan Village","name_zh":"龙川","pinyin":"Lóngchuān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.0788,"lon":118.6657,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jixi-longchuan-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longchuan is a Hu-clan village on the Dengyuan River 11 km east of Jixi county town, where the Ming general and official Hu Zongxian was born in 1512. Its Hu Clan Ancestral Hall, founded in the Song, rebuilt with funds raised by Hu Zongxian in the Jiajing era and restored in 1898, is known for more than 600 carved wooden panels. On the canal street stands the Yishi Shangshu stone archway of 1562, honouring two Hu ministers, and Hu Bingheng's residence is listed with it."},{"id":"xuanzhou-longquan-cave","name":"Longquan Cave","name_zh":"龙泉洞","pinyin":"Lóngquán Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.8251,"lon":118.9931,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanzhou-longquan-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave in the Shuidong area, south-east of Xuancheng, more than 2 km long, with halls such as the Milky Way Hall and White Dragon Palace and an underground river. Old inscriptions left on the walls by Southern Song and late Ming visitors survive inside, the air stays around 18°C all year, and the rebuilt Longquan Temple faces the cave exit."},{"id":"ningguo-qinglongwan","name":"Qinglongwan Eco-Tourism Resort","name_zh":"青龙湾","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Wān","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.5017,"lon":118.8244,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningguo-qinglongwan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qinglongwan is the resort area around Qinglong Lake, the reservoir of the Gangkouwan dam west of Ningguo, where about 34 km² of water and 38 islands lie among forested hills. Boat services run on the lake, and the wider area takes in the Tang-founded Baiyun Temple on a summit and the Banqiao reserve, which keeps a large stand of natural evergreen chinquapin forest. It suits boating, lakeside walks and a quiet overnight stay."},{"id":"guangde-qingqing-farm-estate","name":"Qingqing Farm Estate","name_zh":"箐箐庄园","pinyin":"Qìngqìng Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":31.0549,"lon":119.508,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangde-qingqing-farm-estate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farm park of about 100 hectares in Xinhang town, run by a local company that grows kiwifruit and raises free-range chickens. Visitors come for seasonal fruit picking in the orchards, lotus ponds and plum trees, and farm meals. It lies about ten minutes by road from Taiji Cave and is often combined with it."},{"id":"jixi-shangzhuang-village","name":"Shangzhuang Village","name_zh":"上庄","pinyin":"Shàngzhuāng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.1239,"lon":118.4347,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jixi-shangzhuang-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shangzhuang, in western Jixi County, is the home village of Hu Shi, the scholar and diplomat who was a leading figure of the New Culture Movement. The listed group of seven buildings includes his former residence, built by his father Hu Chuan in 1897, his family school, Hu Chuan's own house and the former house of the ink-maker Hu Kaiwen, and the village is open to visitors as a scenic area."},{"id":"xuanzhou-shuidong-old-town","name":"Shuidong Old Town","name_zh":"水东古镇","pinyin":"Shuǐdōng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.7895,"lon":118.9557,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanzhou-shuidong-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shuidong is a market town 29 km south-east of Xuancheng that grew rich in the Ming and Qing on river trade along the Shuiyang River and on its candied jujubes, and was named a national historic and cultural town in 2008. Its old streets keep Ming-era bluestone paving, the Dafudi mansion, the eighteen-step 'Shiba Ta' well, Ningdong Temple and a Catholic church, and several films and TV series have been shot there."},{"id":"jingxian-shuimo-tingxi","name":"Shuimo Tingxi Scenic Area","name_zh":"水墨汀溪","pinyin":"Shuǐmò Tīngxī","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.5803,"lon":118.6149,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-shuimo-tingxi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Tingxi, south-east Jing County, made up of the Danankeng, Majialing and Taoling sections across a planned 40 km² with about 80 per cent forest cover. Visitors come for forested gorges, streams and pools, tea gardens and terraced fields, an old arched stone bridge and the winding Taoling mountain road, and for cool air in summer."},{"id":"jingxian-shuixi-twin-pagodas","name":"Shuixi Twin Pagodas","name_zh":"水西双塔","pinyin":"Shuǐxī Shuāng Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.6967,"lon":118.3878,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-shuixi-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Song-dynasty brick pagodas stand on the south-eastern slope of Baiyun Hill at Shuixi, 2 km west of Jing county town on the far side of the Qingyi River. The Daguan Pagoda of 1108 is 45 m tall, square in its lower storeys and octagonal above, while the slender square Xiaofang Pagoda of 1161 rises 21.3 m."},{"id":"guangde-taiji-cave","name":"Taiji Cave","name_zh":"太极洞","pinyin":"Tàijí Dòng","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":31.1205,"lon":119.6086,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangde-taiji-cave/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Taiji Cave is a limestone cave system in Shilong Mountain, 38 km north-east of Guangde near where Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang meet; it is about 5.4 km long and was opened to visitors in 1986. The route passes through some 19 chambers of stalactites and flowstone on dry and water-filled levels, including a boat ride on the underground river, and Song- and Ming-era inscriptions survive in and around the cave. A cable car runs on the mountain outside."},{"id":"jingxian-taohuatan","name":"Taohuatan (Peach Blossom Pool)","name_zh":"桃花潭","pinyin":"Táohuā Tán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.49,"lon":118.1439,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-taohuatan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Taohuatan is a deep pool on the river 40 km west of Jing county town, famous from Li Bai's poem 'To Wang Lun', written when his friend saw him off here. On the east bank the Ming-built Tage Pavilion marks the old ferry where Wang Lun is said to have sung farewell, with old lanes behind it; across the water are the Huaixian Pavilion, Wang Lun's tomb and other sites, and downstream stands the octagonal Wenchang Pavilion of the Qianlong era."},{"id":"guangde-tianshou-temple-pagoda","name":"Tianshou Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"天寿寺塔","pinyin":"Tiānshòu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.8946,"lon":119.4184,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangde-tianshou-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey hexagonal brick-and-timber pagoda, 42.8 m tall, on Yingchun Street in the centre of Guangde and the only survivor of Tianshou Temple. First built in 979 and rebuilt in 1100–1105 after a fire, it was repaired many times; its present eaves and floors date from a 1984–86 restoration, and further repairs finished in 2017. An old well and a Ming-dynasty ginkgo stand beside it."},{"id":"jingxian-wannan-incident-martyrs-cemetery","name":"Wannan Incident Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"皖南事变烈士陵园","pinyin":"Wǎnnán Shìbiàn Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.7005,"lon":118.3905,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-wannan-incident-martyrs-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial cemetery opened in 1991 at the southern foot of Shuixi Hill, on the western edge of Jing county town, for the New Fourth Army soldiers killed in the Wannan (South Anhui) Incident of January 1941. The army's headquarters column of about 9,000, leaving Yunling, was surrounded and attacked by Nationalist government forces at Maolin in Jing County. The 15-hectare site centres on a monument inscribed by Deng Xiaoping, with an exhibition hall on the incident and a tomb of unknown soldiers."},{"id":"ningguo-xialin-waterfalls","name":"Xialin Jiutian Waterfalls","name_zh":"夏霖九天银瀑","pinyin":"Xiàlín Jiǔtiān Yínpù","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.4952,"lon":119.2338,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningguo-xialin-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley of about 11 km² at Xialin village in Zhongxi town, where the Huangshan and Tianmu ranges meet, known for its many waterfalls. Trails follow the Wolong and Feilong gorges past pools and falls such as Dalong Pool and the three-tiered Guanyin Falls, which drop more than 30 m, and a 1.5 km rafting run descends Wolong Gorge in the warm season."},{"id":"ningguo-xianren-pagoda","name":"Xianren Pagoda","name_zh":"仙人塔","pinyin":"Xiānrén Tǎ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.4498,"lon":119.2933,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningguo-xianren-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xianren (Immortal) Pagoda, also called Dangyang Pagoda, is a seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda built in 1143 under the Southern Song and repaired in the Qing. More than 26 m tall, it stands on a cliff at the mouth of a valley south of Zheting village in Xianxia town, south-east Ningguo. It makes a short stop rather than a destination in itself."},{"id":"xuancheng-xuanjiu-liquor-culture-park","name":"Xuanjiu Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"宣酒文化园","pinyin":"Xuānjiǔ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.9568,"lon":118.6944,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuancheng-xuanjiu-liquor-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The visitor park of the Xuanjiu baijiu distillery in Xuancheng's economic development zone, presenting the local liquor and how it is made. The company traces its craft to Ji Sou, a Tang-dynasty brewer of Xuancheng whose death Li Bai mourned in a short poem, while the modern distillery grew from four private workshops merged in 1951. It suits visitors interested in Chinese liquor and factory visits."},{"id":"jingxian-zhaji-village","name":"Zhaji Village","name_zh":"查济","pinyin":"Zhājì","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.5144,"lon":118.0316,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-zhaji-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhaji, 60 km west of Jing county town, has been home to the Zha clan since the Sui dynasty and stretches for about 1.5 km along three streams. More than 140 old structures survive, among them the Yuan-dynasty De Gong Hall, Ming and Qing ancestral halls such as the Baogong and Erjia halls, old village gates, pagodas and dozens of stone bridges. It is a national historic and cultural village and a popular base for art students who come to sketch."},{"id":"jingxian-houshan-zhang-ancestral-hall","name":"Zhang Ancestral Hall, Jingxian","name_zh":"张氏宗祠","pinyin":"Zhāngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.6424,"lon":118.2868,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxian-houshan-zhang-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clan hall of the Zhang family in Houshan village, Dingjiaqiao town, first built in the Hongzhi era of the Ming and rebuilt in 1880. The complex combines the ancestral hall with a clan schoolhouse, with about 1,300 m² of floor space."},{"id":"jixi-zhangshan-grand-canyon","name":"Zhangshan Grand Canyon","name_zh":"鄣山大峡谷","pinyin":"Zhāngshān Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.0922,"lon":118.7472,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jixi-zhangshan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge scenic area of about 15 km² at the southern entrance to the Qingliangfeng national nature reserve, 22 km south-east of Jixi county town where the Tianmu and Huangshan ranges meet. Trails follow the Zhang River past pools and waterfalls below Baizhangyan, a sheer rock face about 460 m high, and a crag said to resemble Mao Zedong's profile, which gives the canyon the nickname 'Great Man Valley'. A stretch of the old Huizhou–Hangzhou trail also passes through."},{"id":"jingde-zhuwang-village","name":"Zhuwang Village","name_zh":"朱旺村","pinyin":"Zhūwàng Cūn","region_id":"340000","region":"Anhui","city":"Xuancheng","lat":30.3608,"lon":118.4823,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingde-zhuwang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhuwang is a traditional village in Caijiaqiao town, Jingde County, with a history of about 1,300 years and 47 well-preserved Ming and Qing buildings. It is known for the 'nine wells and thirteen bridges' along its stream and for the old Fushan Academy, and it has been opened as a scenic area while villagers still live and trade there."},{"id":"pingtan-68-nautical-miles","name":"68 Nautical Miles Scenic Area","name_zh":"68海里","pinyin":"Liùshíbā Hǎilǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.4599,"lon":119.8546,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingtan-68-nautical-miles","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A coastal scenic area at Dong'ao village on Pingtan Island, named for the 68 nautical miles (about 126 km) of sea that separate Pingtan, the closest point of mainland China to Taiwan Island, from Hsinchu on the other side of the strait. It takes in Houyan Island and two neighbouring islets, known for rugged rocks and huge boulders, with a sandy beach beside them."},{"id":"yongtai-baijigou-waterfalls","name":"Baijigou Waterfalls","name_zh":"百漈沟","pinyin":"Bǎijì Gōu","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.7827,"lon":118.6788,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongtai-baijigou-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge just over 1 km long in Wutong town, western Yongtai, named for the scores of waterfalls large and small that pour into it, with walkways cut along the cliffs through a sinkhole-like canyon. The Dazhang River flows past its mouth, and rides such as a coloured slide, a zip line and a glass bridge have been added."},{"id":"fuzhou-black-pagoda","name":"Black Pagoda (Wuta)","name_zh":"乌塔","pinyin":"Wū Tǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0805,"lon":119.2956,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuzhou-black-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal granite pagoda at the eastern foot of Wushan Hill, begun in 941 by Wang Yanxi, ruler of the Min kingdom, and left at seven of its nine planned storeys when he was assassinated in 944. Weathering has darkened the stone, hence its popular name, and dark shale panels carved with Buddhas and donors' names are set into every storey. It is one of the few stone pagodas left from the Five Dynasties period and now stands among modern apartment blocks."},{"id":"luoyuan-chen-taiwei-palace","name":"Chen Taiwei Palace","name_zh":"陈太尉宫","pinyin":"Chén Tàiwèi Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.5996,"lon":119.4266,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyuan-chen-taiwei-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village temple at Qianxi in Zhongfang town that began in 909 as the ancestral hall of Chen Su, who had come to Fujian with Wang Shenzhi's army, and later became a shrine to him and to a descendant honoured for fighting the Mongols. The main hall, built without iron nails, has dense bracket sets rising to a square coffered ceiling and is counted with Fuzhou's Hualin Temple among Fujian's three great Song-era timber buildings. A Ming-dynasty gateway and opera stage stand in front."},{"id":"fuzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Fuzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"福州文庙","pinyin":"Fúzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.081,"lon":119.2972,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuzhou-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city's temple to Confucius, on a site that has held Fuzhou's government school since the Tang and its Confucian temple since the Song, rebuilt after a fire in 1851–52 and restored in the 2000s after decades as a school, a shopping arcade and a children's palace. Its axis runs from a stone lattice gate and a semicircular pond to the Dacheng Hall, a seven-bay hall with a double-eave hip-and-gable roof and unusually massive stone columns."},{"id":"fuzhou-national-forest-park","name":"Fuzhou National Forest Park","name_zh":"福州国家森林公园","pinyin":"Fúzhōu Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.1654,"lon":119.2749,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park of about 860 hectares in the hills on Fuzhou's northern edge, founded in 1960 as the city arboretum, also run as Fuzhou Botanical Garden and the first national forest park in Fujian. Paths wind through tree collections, glasshouses and themed gardens and along the Bayi Reservoir, beside which stands a huge old banyan known locally as the 'king of banyans'."},{"id":"lianjiang-guian-xintiandi","name":"Gui'an Xintiandi Resort","name_zh":"贵安新天地","pinyin":"Guì'ān Xīntiāndì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.2512,"lon":119.3966,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianjiang-guian-xintiandi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large resort and residential development built from 2011 by a property group in the Gui'an hot-spring area of Lianjiang county and rated 4A in 2014. It combines hot-spring hotels with the Gui'an Water World water park and an amusement park, and suits families wanting a resort break near Fuzhou."},{"id":"fuzhou-gushan-mountain","name":"Gushan (Drum Mountain)","name_zh":"鼓山","pinyin":"Gǔ Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0585,"lon":119.3906,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-gushan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain on Fuzhou's eastern edge, rising to 919 m, whose slopes hold Yongquan Temple, founded in 783, and more than 300 inscriptions carved into the rock from the Song dynasty onwards, among them calligraphy by Cai Xiang and Zhu Xi. Two Northern Song pottery pagodas stand in front of the temple, and paths link it with viewpoints and scenic spots such as Heshui Rock."},{"id":"pingtan-haitan-strait-underwater-sites","name":"Haitan Strait Underwater Sites","name_zh":"海坛海峡水下遗址","pinyin":"Hǎitán Hǎixiá Shuǐxià Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.4807,"lon":119.6939,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingtan-haitan-strait-underwater-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Haitan Strait between Pingtan Island and the mainland holds shipwrecks and lost cargo from the Five Dynasties to the Qing, among them the Wanjiao No. 1 wreck, whose excavation is described as the first large-scale underwater excavation China carried out entirely on its own. The wrecks cannot be visited, but finds from these waters are the subject of the China Underwater Archaeology exhibition hall in the Pingtan Ocean Science and Technology Culture Centre, which opened for trial visits in May 2024."},{"id":"fuzhou-hualin-temple","name":"Hualin Temple","name_zh":"华林寺","pinyin":"Huálín Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.1036,"lon":119.292,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuzhou-hualin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small temple compound at the foot of Pingshan Hill whose main hall, built in 964 when Fuzhou was ruled by the Wuyue kingdom, is regarded as the oldest surviving timber building south of the Yangtze. Its tiers of bracket sets and single-eave hip-and-gable roof preserve early Song carpentry, a style thought to have influenced Japanese temple building in the Kamakura period. The gate and side halls around it were added when the hall was restored in the 1980s."},{"id":"changle-jiutouma-residences","name":"Jiutouma Residences","name_zh":"九头马民居","pinyin":"Jiǔtóumǎ Mínjū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.9553,"lon":119.5557,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changle-jiutouma-residences/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled Qing-dynasty residential complex in Qiyang village, Heshang town, built by Chen Lihuan and his son from the Jiaqing era until about 1872 and named after nine large boulders scattered through it. Inside a 120 m square of 6 m walls stand 22 timber houses in five rows, each row with gates aligned so that all could be opened for weddings and funerals, and carved beams, doors and stone column bases throughout."},{"id":"pingtan-keqiutou-site","name":"Keqiutou Site Museum","name_zh":"壳丘头遗址","pinyin":"Kéqiūtóu Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.6325,"lon":119.7597,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingtan-keqiutou-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Neolithic to Shang-period settlement sites in northern Pingtan Island, about 7,500 to 3,000 years old, studied as possible early links in the spread of Austronesian-speaking peoples to Taiwan and across the Pacific. Shell-impressed pottery, stone adzes and shell-midden finds are shown in the Keqiutou Site Museum at Shangpan village, Suping, which became a branch of the China Archaeology Museum in 2025, and the 2023 excavations were named among China's top ten archaeological discoveries of that year."},{"id":"fuzhou-lin-zexu-memorial-hall","name":"Lin Zexu Memorial Hall","name_zh":"林则徐纪念馆","pinyin":"Lín Zéxú Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0815,"lon":119.2924,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-lin-zexu-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral shrine of Lin Zexu, the Qing commissioner who forced foreign merchants to hand over their opium and destroyed it at Humen in 1839, an act that led to the First Opium War. Built in 1905 at the foot of Wushan Hill, its halls and courtyards now house the Fuzhou Lin Zexu Memorial Hall, with an exhibition on his life."},{"id":"minhou-lingji-palace-stele","name":"Lingji Palace Stele","name_zh":"灵济宫碑","pinyin":"Língjì Gōng Bēi","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.8942,"lon":119.3875,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minhou-lingji-palace-stele","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming imperial stele 6.2 m tall on a tortoise base inside Lingji Palace at Qingpu village, a temple to the Southern Tang princes Xu Zhizheng and Xu Zhi'e said to date from 945. Its text, written out by the scholar Xie Jin, records the temple's rebuilding, and it stands under a square, 16-pillar double-eaved pavilion built in 1417; local tradition holds that Zheng He brought the stone from Nanjing."},{"id":"fuqing-longjiang-bridge","name":"Longjiang Bridge, Fuqing","name_zh":"龙江桥","pinyin":"Lóngjiāng Qiáo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.6942,"lon":119.4528,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuqing-longjiang-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty stone beam bridge at Haikou, built between 1113 and 1124 by monks of Taiping Temple, that spans 476 m across the Longjiang estuary on 39 boat-shaped piers. Its deck is made of stone beams about 9.5 m long, and a pair of small solid stone pagodas stands at the bridgehead."},{"id":"mawei-luoxing-pagoda","name":"Luoxing Pagoda","name_zh":"罗星塔","pinyin":"Luóxīng Tǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.9833,"lon":119.4524,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mawei-luoxing-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal stone pagoda on Luoxing Hill above the Min River at Mawei, rebuilt in the 1620s on the site of a Song-dynasty tower and long used as a landmark by ships. Foreign sailors named the anchorage below it the Pagoda Anchorage, scene of the 1884 Battle of Fuzhou, in which the pagoda was damaged. The hill, once an island in the river, is now joined to the shore."},{"id":"luoyuan-bay-ocean-world","name":"Luoyuan Bay Ocean World","name_zh":"罗源湾海洋世界","pinyin":"Luóyuán Wān Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.4624,"lon":119.6026,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyuan-bay-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A marine park in the Luoyuan Bay waterfront new town, built by a property group as part of a large resort and residential development and opened in 2015. Besides its aquarium halls and staged shows, an animal park with land animals and a camping and picnic area were added in 2026; it suits families."},{"id":"mawei-chuanzheng-heritage-area","name":"Mawei Shipyard Heritage Area (Foochow Arsenal)","name_zh":"船政文化景区","pinyin":"Chuánzhèng Wénhuà Jǐngqū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.9926,"lon":119.4417,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mawei-chuanzheng-heritage-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the Foochow Arsenal, the Qing navy yard and naval school founded at Mawei in 1866 with French engineers, which built steam transports and gunboats and trained many of the officers of the late-Qing Beiyang Fleet. Surviving workshops and the Chuanzheng Culture Museum tell its story, and one old machine shop now hosts an immersive staged show. A short walk away, the Mawei naval battle memorial hall, the Zhaozhong shrine and the martyrs' cemetery on Maxian Hill recall the Chinese sailors killed when a French squadron destroyed the Fujian fleet here on 23 August 1884."},{"id":"yongtai-mingshanshi-cave-temple","name":"Mingshan Shi Cave Temple","name_zh":"名山室","pinyin":"Míngshān Shì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.8819,"lon":118.7925,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongtai-mingshanshi-cave-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist cave temple on Gaogai Mountain in Dayang town, founded in 888 and given its name by the Min king in the late 920s, with timber halls built into a series of rock caves. Much Song and Yuan work survives, including an original Song patriarch hall, a small bluestone shrine holding a seated Guanyin, reliefs of Buddhist tales such as the prince who gave his body to a starving tigress, and old rock inscriptions."},{"id":"changle-minjiang-estuary-wetland","name":"Minjiang Estuary National Wetland Park","name_zh":"闽江河口国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Mǐnjiāng Hékǒu Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0265,"lon":119.6241,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changle-minjiang-estuary-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 282-hectare wetland park of tidal flats and restored fish ponds at the mouth of the Min River in north-east Changle, part of an estuary wetland that joined China's World Heritage tentative list in 2022 and became a Ramsar site in 2023. Boardwalks, bird hides and a wetland museum serve birdwatchers: tundra swans and swan geese winter here from October to February, and the rare Chinese crested tern visits in the warmer months."},{"id":"minhou-minyue-water-town","name":"Minyue Water Town","name_zh":"闽越水镇","pinyin":"Mǐnyuè Shuǐzhèn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.133,"lon":119.1166,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minhou-minyue-water-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern themed water town on the Min River at Zhuqi in Minhou, whose first phase opened in 2021 and which was rated 4A in 2024. Canals are lined with shops and restaurants built in old-street style, with an opera stage, pavilions and immersive staged shows."},{"id":"yongtai-oulebao-ocean-world","name":"Oulebao Ocean World, Yongtai","name_zh":"欧乐堡海洋世界","pinyin":"Ōulèbǎo Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.8763,"lon":119.0803,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongtai-oulebao-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A marine theme park in Geling town with aquarium halls of sea and polar animals, several theatres for staged marine-animal shows, and a water park next door. It is aimed at families on a day out from Fuzhou."},{"id":"yongtai-qingyun-mountain","name":"Qingyun Mountain","name_zh":"青云山","pinyin":"Qīngyún Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.7758,"lon":118.9711,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongtai-qingyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national key scenic area of deep gorges cut into volcanic rock in Linglu township, south of Yongtai town, made up of sections such as the Yuntian stone corridor, Baima Gorge, Shuilian Palace and Qinglong Waterfall, each with trails past cascades, pools and cliffs. The separately run Yunding scenic area occupies the plateau at the top of the same mountain."},{"id":"fuqing-ruiyan-mountain","name":"Ruiyan Mountain and Maitreya Statue","name_zh":"瑞岩山","pinyin":"Ruìyán Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.7131,"lon":119.4592,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuqing-ruiyan-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill at Haikou town east of Fuqing whose eastern foot holds a laughing, pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha about 9 m tall, carved into the rock between 1341 and 1368 and described as the largest Yuan-dynasty Maitreya in China. The pavilion that once sheltered it is long gone, leaving ten stone pillars and three steles, and a temple with a main hall and bell and drum towers stands on a hillside carved with some 170 inscriptions, among them some by the Ming general Qi Jiguang."},{"id":"fuzhou-sanfang-qixiang","name":"Sanfang Qixiang","name_zh":"三坊七巷","pinyin":"Sānfāng Qīxiàng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0857,"lon":119.292,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuzhou-sanfang-qixiang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Fuzhou's best-preserved old quarter, a grid of three lanes and seven alleys either side of pedestrianised Nanhou Street that keeps the walled-ward street plan laid out when the city walls were built in the late Tang. Behind high walls stand Ming-to-Republican courtyard houses of scholar-official families, several of them open to visitors, among them the translator Yan Fu's home on Langguan Alley and a mansion with Fuzhou's only waterside opera stage. The smaller Zhuzifang block, just east across Bayiqi Road, shares the national heritage listing."},{"id":"fuzhou-shangxiahang","name":"Shangxiahang Historic District","name_zh":"上下杭","pinyin":"Shàngxiàháng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0561,"lon":119.3031,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuzhou-shangxiahang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two parallel streets near the Min River in Taijiang district, Shanghang and Xiahang, that grew from riverside landing places into Fuzhou's main trading quarter after the city was opened as a treaty port in the 1840s. Tea, timber, paper and dried-goods merchants built warehouses and family shrines here, and traders from across Fujian set up guild halls. Many of these buildings survive in the restored district, some reused as teahouses and shops."},{"id":"changle-shengshou-pagoda","name":"Shengshou Pagoda","name_zh":"圣寿宝塔","pinyin":"Shèngshòu Bǎotǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.9647,"lon":119.5144,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changle-shengshou-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 27.4 m seven-storey octagonal stone pagoda imitating timber construction, built between 1096 and 1117 on Taping Hill in what is now Zheng He Park, Changle. Its base and walls are carved with flying musicians, guardian figures and some 200 small seated Buddhas, and in the early Ming it served as a lookout and landmark for Zheng He's fleets, which assembled at Changle before sailing."},{"id":"fuqing-shizhu-mountain","name":"Shizhu Mountain","name_zh":"石竹山","pinyin":"Shízhú Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.7091,"lon":119.2858,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuqing-shizhu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist holy mountain west of Fuqing known for its long-standing custom of dream-seeking, in which pilgrims sleep overnight in a cave shrine hoping for a dream that answers their prayers. Temple halls, towers and a pagoda climb the wooded slopes, and a lake with small islands lies at the foot of the mountain."},{"id":"pingtan-tannan-bay-haitan-ancient-city","name":"Tannan Bay and Haitan Ancient City","name_zh":"坛南湾、海坛古城","pinyin":"Tánnán Wān, Hǎitán Gǔchéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.4654,"lon":119.7819,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingtan-tannan-bay-haitan-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A combined scenic area in south-east Pingtan made up of Tannan Bay, a sweep of fine white sand with more than 25 km of sandy shore running south to Jiangjun Hill, and Haitan Ancient City, a commercial complex of shops and restaurants built in the style of an old walled town. The bay is known for 'blue tears', glowing plankton that can light up the surf on some nights, and part of it is a protected area for Chinese horseshoe crabs."},{"id":"minhou-tanshishan-site","name":"Tanshishan Site Museum","name_zh":"昙石山遗址","pinyin":"Tánshíshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.1463,"lon":119.15,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minhou-tanshishan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement mound on the north bank of the lower Min River, about 5,500 to 2,700 years old, that gave its name to the Tanshishan culture, the first archaeological culture identified in Fujian. A provincial site museum shows its pottery, stone and bone finds, and a hall built over the 1996 excavation displays restored graves, ditches and pottery kilns in place."},{"id":"mawei-tingjiang-fort","name":"Tingjiang Fort","name_zh":"亭江炮台","pinyin":"Tíngjiāng Pàotái","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0629,"lon":119.5088,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mawei-tingjiang-fort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of a Qing-dynasty gun battery at Nanban village in Tingjiang town, on the Min River downstream of Mawei, part of the defences along the river route to Fuzhou. It was added to the national heritage list in 2013 and is a minor site, best combined with the shipyard and naval battle memorials at Mawei."},{"id":"fuzhou-lin-zexu-tomb","name":"Tomb of Lin Zexu","name_zh":"林则徐墓","pinyin":"Lín Zéxú Mù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.1218,"lon":119.2739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-lin-zexu-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family tomb at the foot of Jinshi Hill, on Fuzhou's northern outskirts, where Lin Zexu, the official remembered for destroying opium at Humen in 1839, lies with his parents, wife, brother and sister-in-law. The grave is built of rammed lime and earth on four terraces, and Lin's descendants still gather here to pay their respects."},{"id":"mawei-minan-garrison-tombs","name":"Tombs of Qing Soldiers Who Served in Taiwan, Min'an","name_zh":"闽安戍台将士墓群","pinyin":"Mǐn'ān Shùtái Jiàngshì Mùqún","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.0496,"lon":119.4999,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mawei-minan-garrison-tombs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside cemetery on Hutou Hill at Min'an, the old garrison town on the lower Min River, where 135 men of the Qing navy's Min'an garrison are buried, each under a headstone giving his name and home town. They died in 1874, when the Qing government sent forces to Taiwan under Shen Baozhen after the Japanese expedition there that followed the Mudan Incident, and their remains were brought back to Min'an for burial. The national listing also covers similar tomb groups at Dongshan in Zhangzhou and Qinyu in Fuding."},{"id":"fuzhou-wushan-yushan-hills","name":"Wushan and Yushan Hills","name_zh":"乌山、于山","pinyin":"Wū Shān, Yú Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.078,"lon":119.2902,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-wushan-yushan-hills","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two small hills in the old city centre that, with Pingshan, make up Fuzhou's traditional 'Three Hills', their rocks covered with inscriptions carved from the Tang dynasty to modern times. Wushan's prize is the seal-script 'Prajna Terrace' inscription by the Tang calligrapher Li Yangbing, alongside carvings by Song figures such as Cheng Shimeng and Zhu Xi; Yushan, about 1 km east, adds the White Pagoda, a shrine to the general Qi Jiguang and more inscriptions. Both are landscaped hill parks with paths and lookouts over the city."},{"id":"changle-xianying-palace","name":"Xianying Palace Clay Sculptures","name_zh":"显应宫","pinyin":"Xiǎnyìng Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.9183,"lon":119.6438,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changle-xianying-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Mazu temple in Xianqi village, Zhanggang, founded in 1138 and buried by drifting sand in the late Qing, then found again in 1992 when villagers dug house foundations. More than 50 painted clay figures of Mazu, sea deities and local gods, mostly Ming and Qing, were excavated, and the old temple is kept as found beneath a new temple built above it in 1993, reached by steps from the bell tower."},{"id":"lianjiang-xishan-hot-spring-resort","name":"Xishan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"溪山温泉度假村","pinyin":"Xīshān Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.2053,"lon":119.4199,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianjiang-xishan-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in the Gui'an hot-spring area of Lianjiang county, with a hotel, thermal pools and leisure facilities. Together with neighbouring Gui'an Xintiandi it is one of two 4A-rated resorts in the area and suits a relaxing overnight stay near Fuzhou."},{"id":"yongtai-zhuangzhai-fortified-manors","name":"Yongtai Fortified Manors (Zhuangzhai)","name_zh":"永泰庄寨","pinyin":"Yǒngtài Zhuāngzhài","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.9208,"lon":118.5809,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongtai-zhuangzhai-fortified-manors","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Five Qing-dynasty fortified family compounds, known locally as zhuangzhai, in Yongtai's mountain villages, each a large timber-built residence covering roughly 3,000 to 10,000 m². The listed group is Renhe Zhuang in Tong'an, Shengping Zhuang in Dayang, Jishan Tang in Xiaba, Shao'an Zhuang in Dongyang and Zhongpu Zhai in Changqing, picked from more than 150 surviving compounds across the county."},{"id":"yongtai-yunding","name":"Yunding Scenic Area","name_zh":"永泰云顶","pinyin":"Yǒngtài Yúndǐng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Fuzhou","lat":25.7524,"lon":118.9699,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongtai-yunding","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain-top scenic area on the summit plateau of Qingyun Mountain in Linglu township, most of it above 1,100 m, opened in 2010. Meadows ring a small lake in an old volcanic crater, and there are terraced fields, a canyon trail past a chain of waterfalls and a walkway hung on the cliffs."},{"id":"liancheng-caigai-ancestral-hall","name":"Caigai Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"采陔公祠","pinyin":"Cǎigāi Gōngcí","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.3294,"lon":116.6788,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liancheng-caigai-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large late-Qing Hakka ancestral hall in Miaoshang village, Miaoqian town, dedicated to Jiang Caigai, a 14th-generation ancestor of the local Jiang clan. It has two main parts, the front Sixin Hall and the rear Juhuan Hall, and stands about 3.5 km from the Zhixi ancestral halls, so the two are easily seen together."},{"id":"longyan-central-red-communication-line","name":"Central Red Communication Line Sites","name_zh":"中央红色交通线旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Hóngsè Jiāotōngxiàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.4591,"lon":116.45,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyan-central-red-communication-line","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Relay stations on the secret route that in the early 1930s linked the Communist Party's underground headquarters in Shanghai with the Central Soviet Area, running via Hong Kong, Shantou and Dabu into western Fujian and on to Ruijin. The listed Fujian buildings are village houses, shops and ancestral halls in Yongding and Changting, among them the Chunsheng ancestral hall in Tufang, Changting, where the West Fujian party committee and soviet government moved in 1931, and the Bogong'ao station near Yongding town, the first stop after the route crossed from Guangdong. A memorial hall in Jinsha town, Yongding, tells the story with maps, objects and reconstructed scenes."},{"id":"changting-revolutionary-sites","name":"Changting Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"长汀革命旧址","pinyin":"Chángtīng Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.8369,"lon":116.3501,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changting-revolutionary-sites/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Six buildings in Changting's old town used by the Communist movement in 1929–33, when Changting was a key part of the Central Soviet Area. They include the Central Red Hospital in the former Gospel Hospital, founded by a British mission in 1904, the Fujian Provincial Soviet Government in the old Tingzhou prefectural examination hall, the Fourth Red Army headquarters at Xingeng Villa, where Mao Zedong and Zhu De stayed, and the provincial party committee in a former church."},{"id":"longyan-minxi-workers-peasants-bank","name":"Former Minxi Workers' and Peasants' Bank","name_zh":"闽西工农银行旧址","pinyin":"Mǐnxī Gōngnóng Yínháng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.1005,"lon":117.0308,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyan-minxi-workers-peasants-bank","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The building on Xiajing Lane in central Longyan where the West Fujian (Minxi) Soviet Government opened the Minxi Workers' and Peasants' Bank in September 1930 to counter the Nationalist economic blockade of the base area. It was the first financial institution set up in any of Fujian's revolutionary base areas and one of the earliest banks of the Central Soviet Area. It now stands in the restored Central Soviet Area Financial Street, a historic quarter of old buildings, exhibitions, shops and cafés."},{"id":"shanghang-guantian-li-ancestral-hall","name":"Guantian Li Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"官田李氏大宗祠","pinyin":"Guāntián Lǐshì Dàzōngcí","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":24.8615,"lon":116.5911,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghang-guantian-li-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral temple of Li Huode, regarded as the first of the Li clan to settle in Fujian, built in 1836 in Guantian village, Rentian town, and restored in 1909 and 1984. It is a large Hakka complex laid out like the character 回, with the entrance and main halls in the centre ringed by two-storey wings of more than a hundred rooms."},{"id":"liancheng-guanzhai-mountain","name":"Guanzhai Mountain","name_zh":"冠豸山","pinyin":"Guànzhài Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.7139,"lon":116.7856,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liancheng-guanzhai-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of sheer cliffs and rock pillars rising straight out of the plain just east of Liancheng town, named after a boulder said to resemble the head of the xiezhi, a mythical horned beast. The scenic area is split into several zones, including the main summit, Wulao Peak (661 m), Shimen Lake and the Zhu'an and Qishi stockades, and it was shortlisted as a national geopark in 2009. Liancheng's airport and railway station are both named after it."},{"id":"shanghang-gutian-congress-site","name":"Gutian Congress Site","name_zh":"古田会议会址","pinyin":"Gǔtián Huìyì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.2197,"lon":116.8214,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanghang-gutian-congress-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Liao clan ancestral hall in Gutian town, built in 1848 and later used as a school, where the Fourth Red Army held its ninth party congress on 28–29 December 1929 and adopted a resolution drafted by Mao Zedong that set the principle of party control over the army. The restored hall shows the meeting room and the offices used by Mao, Zhu De and Chen Yi. The 5A tourist area around it also takes in the Gutian Congress Memorial Hall, a museum opened in 1974, and nearby houses that served as the army's headquarters and political department."},{"id":"wuping-liangye-mountain","name":"Liangye Mountain","name_zh":"梁野山","pinyin":"Liángyě Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.1541,"lon":116.1434,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuping-liangye-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain near Wuping county town, protected as a national nature reserve, with gorges, cliffs, deep pools and a chain of waterfalls. Fairy Lake lies between the upper and lower falls near Yuncha village, and the reserve's broadleaf forest shelters a wide range of birds, animals and plants."},{"id":"shanghang-linjiang-lou","name":"Linjiang Lou","name_zh":"临江楼","pinyin":"Línjiāng Lóu","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.05,"lon":116.412,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghang-linjiang-lou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing brick and timber house on the north bank of the Ting River in Shanghang town, built as a paper merchant's warehouse and villa, with arched stone verandas on its ground and top floors. Mao Zedong stayed here for more than 20 days in autumn 1929, recovering from malaria after the Red Army took Shanghang, and wrote his poem 'Double Ninth' (to the tune 'Caisangzi') during the stay."},{"id":"changting-red-ninth-corps-long-march-site","name":"Long March Starting Point of the Red Ninth Corps","name_zh":"红九军团长征出发地","pinyin":"Hóng Jiǔ Jūntuán Chángzhēng Chūfādì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.5703,"lon":116.5483,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changting-red-ninth-corps-long-march-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanshou Hall, an early-Qing ancestral hall in Zhongwu village, Nanshan town, served in September 1934 as the headquarters of the Red Army's Ninth Corps, which with the 24th Division and local forces covered the main Red Army's withdrawal after the Nationalist attack on Songmaoling. On 30 September 1934 the corps held a rally in front of the hall and set off on the Long March."},{"id":"xinluo-longkong-cave","name":"Longkong Cave","name_zh":"龙硿洞","pinyin":"Lóngkōng Dòng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.2189,"lon":117.2446,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinluo-longkong-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave in Longkang village, Yanshi town, with passages on three levels, large chambers full of stalactites and other formations, and an underground river. A trail of about 2 km leads through the cave, and at its end visitors can take a wooden boat along the river to the exit."},{"id":"shanghang-caixi-investigation-sites","name":"Mao Zedong's Caixi Investigation Sites","name_zh":"毛泽东才溪乡调查旧址","pinyin":"Máo Zédōng Cáixī Xiāng Diàochá Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.2549,"lon":116.4148,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghang-caixi-investigation-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Buildings in Xiacai village, Caixi town, linked with Mao Zedong's third visit to Caixi in 1933, when he carried out a social survey of the township and wrote it up as 'The Caixi Township Investigation'. The group is made up of the former Caixi district soviet office, the district trade union hall known as Lenin Hall, the Glory Pavilion and the Lenin Platform."},{"id":"shanghang-meihuashan-tiger-park","name":"Meihuashan South China Tiger Park","name_zh":"梅花山华南虎园","pinyin":"Méihuāshān Huánán Hǔyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.2966,"lon":116.8738,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanghang-meihuashan-tiger-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A breeding and rewilding centre for the South China tiger, a critically endangered subspecies found only in China, on the southern slopes of the Meihuashan National Nature Reserve near Gutian. The Meihuashan South China Tiger Breeding Research Institute has run the programme since 1998, and visitors can watch the tigers in large grassy, wooded enclosures."},{"id":"liancheng-peitian-village","name":"Peitian Ancient Village","name_zh":"培田古村","pinyin":"Péitián Gǔcūn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.6423,"lon":116.6349,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liancheng-peitian-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Hakka village of the Wu clan in Xuanhe, Liancheng, founded in the late Yuan and early Ming, whose present buildings date from the Ming and Qing, many of them rebuilt in the late Qing. It sits in a small basin with a stream curving round its eastern side, and its lanes are lined with large family mansions, ancestral halls, private academies, memorial arches and temples. It was named a Chinese Historical and Cultural Village in 2005."},{"id":"wuping-qianlu-lake","name":"Qianlu Lake Wetland","name_zh":"千鹭湖","pinyin":"Qiānlù Hú","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.0526,"lon":116.0831,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuping-qianlu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland of hill ponds, small lakes and marshes among wooded valleys in Chengxiang town, just outside Wuping county town, forming part of the Zhongshan River National Wetland Park. Its name, 'lake of a thousand egrets', refers to the many egrets that live here and to the scattering of small lakes."},{"id":"wuping-shiyan-junqing-temple","name":"Shiyan Cave and Junqing Temple","name_zh":"狮岩","pinyin":"Shīyán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":24.8712,"lon":116.2211,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuping-shiyan-junqing-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone cave whose mouth looks like the open jaws of a lion, joined to Junqing Temple, the founding temple of Dingguang Buddha, the deified monk Zheng Ziyan from Tong'an whom Hakka communities honour as their protector. A statue of Dingguang sits inside the cave among stalactites, and the temple, founded in the early Song and granted its name by the court in 1011, is still an active place of worship. The Dingguang cult spread from here across the Hakka areas of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi and to Taiwan and South-East Asia."},{"id":"liancheng-sibao-book-trade-buildings","name":"Sibao Woodblock Printing Buildings","name_zh":"四堡书坊建筑","pinyin":"Sìbǎo Shūfāng Jiànzhù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.9083,"lon":116.7,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liancheng-sibao-book-trade-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Sibao, in the hills of northern Liancheng, was one of China's four main centres of woodblock printing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and many of its family printing and bookselling workshops survive in the villages of Wuge, Zhongnan, Siqiao and Tiancha. Most are courtyard houses built of fire-resistant brick, and old carved printing blocks and tools such as cutting frames, knives and ink vats are kept in the area."},{"id":"yongding-tianzi-hot-spring","name":"Tianzi Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"天子温泉","pinyin":"Tiānzǐ Wēnquán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":24.7521,"lon":116.7611,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongding-tianzi-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Dongxi village just outside Yongding town, with a large number of open-air thermal pools set in gardens styled after South-East Asia and a children's water play area. It is an easy stop for visitors staying in Yongding town on the way to or from the tulou."},{"id":"changting-tingjiang-wetland-park","name":"Tingjiang National Wetland Park","name_zh":"汀江国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Tīngjiāng Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.6056,"lon":116.3939,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changting-tingjiang-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A river wetland park on the Ting River at Sanzhou, in a part of Changting that was once among the worst-eroded red-soil areas of southern China, its bare hills nicknamed the 'Flaming Mountain'. Decades of soil-conservation work have reforested the slopes, and the park now has ponds and lotus beds where 424 vascular plant species and 180 wild vertebrate species have been recorded. The neighbouring village of Sanzhou is a listed historic village."},{"id":"changting-tingzhou-city-wall","name":"Tingzhou City Wall","name_zh":"汀州城墙","pinyin":"Tīngzhōu Chéngqiáng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.8357,"lon":116.3497,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changting-tingzhou-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The wall of the old Tingzhou prefectural city was first built of rammed earth in 769, faced with brick and stone in 1371 and partly rebuilt in modern times, and long stretches survive along the Ting River. At both ends it climbs the ridge of Wolong Hill, so that half the hill lies inside the town, and gates and towers such as Chaotian Gate and Sanyuan Pavilion stand at the edge of Changting's old streets."},{"id":"yongding-xibei-tianhou-palace","name":"Xibei Tianhou Palace","name_zh":"西陂天后宫","pinyin":"Xībēi Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":24.9703,"lon":116.8511,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongding-xibei-tianhou-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the sea goddess Mazu in Xibei village, Gaobei town, begun in 1542 and completed in 1662 by the local Lin clan, many of whose members had emigrated to South-East Asia. Its centrepiece is a seven-storey tower-like hall known locally as the Wenta, with Mazu on the ground floor and Guandi, Wenchang, Kuixing and Cangjie on the floors above; the complex also has a gateway and an opera stage facing the main hall."},{"id":"liancheng-zhixi-ancestral-halls","name":"Zhixi Ancestral Halls","name_zh":"芷溪宗祠建筑","pinyin":"Zhǐxī Zōngcí Jiànzhù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Longyan","lat":25.3211,"lon":116.6449,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liancheng-zhixi-ancestral-halls/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhixi village in Miaoqian town is packed with Qing-dynasty Hakka ancestral halls, most of them combined halls and family homes built on the 'nine halls and eighteen courtyards' plan and fronted by finely made gatehouses. The listed group includes the Chengchuan, Cuichou and Yang Hui halls and the Huang and Yang family temples, and Zhixi was among the first villages named Chinese Traditional Villages."},{"id":"jianou-beiyuan-imperial-tea-works-site","name":"Beiyuan Imperial Tea Works Site","name_zh":"北苑御焙遗址","pinyin":"Běiyuàn Yùbèi Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.0745,"lon":118.4368,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianou-beiyuan-imperial-tea-works-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the imperial tea works at Beiyuan, which sent tribute tea to the court from the 10th century until the early Ming dynasty and is best known for the pressed 'dragon and phoenix' tea cakes of the Song. Its main sight is a cliff inscription about 3.5 m high on a hilltop among tea gardens, in which the Fujian fiscal commissioner Ke Shi recorded the works' location, founding, boundaries and buildings in the 1040s. The walls, well and drains found by a 1995 excavation are being re-exposed under a conservation plan approved in 2025, which provides for an archaeological park with a visitor centre."},{"id":"wuyishan-chengcun-han-city-site","name":"Chengcun Han City Site (Minyue King City)","name_zh":"城村汉城遗址","pinyin":"Chéngcūn Hànchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.5467,"lon":118.0439,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuyishan-chengcun-han-city-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On the hills south-west of Chengcun village lie the ruins of an early Han-dynasty walled city, regarded as the largest and best-preserved of its period in southern China and often attributed to the Minyue kingdom that the Han conquered in 110 BC. Excavations since 1980 have exposed walls, gates, a water gate, palace and temple platforms, roads and wells over some 48 hectares, and the Minyue King City Museum beside the site displays the finds. The site is part of the Mount Wuyi World Heritage property, and Chengcun itself is a historic village with Ming and Qing houses."},{"id":"pucheng-baojiu-culture-park","name":"China Baojiu Culture Park, Pucheng","name_zh":"中国包酒文化博览园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Bāojiǔ Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":28.0139,"lon":118.5302,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pucheng-baojiu-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A visitor park opened in 2015 by a Pucheng drinks maker and also called 'Impression Xiaomi', in the Ronghuashan industrial zone north of Pucheng, built around baojiu, a traditional local rice wine. One of Fujian's first 'tourist factories', it combines a look at production with Hui-style buildings and Suzhou-style gardens, tastings, dining and shopping, and has a guesthouse on site."},{"id":"wuyishan-daanyuan","name":"Da'anyuan Scenic Area","name_zh":"大安源","pinyin":"Dà'ānyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.8696,"lon":117.8502,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyishan-daanyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Da'anyuan lies in Da'an village, Yangzhuang township, in the north of Wuyishan city on the north-western edge of the Wuyishan national nature reserve. The scenic area takes in forested valleys with clear streams and waterfalls, including a canyon below Huanggang Mountain and a stretch of an old tea road."},{"id":"jianou-dongyue-temple","name":"Dongyue Temple, Jian'ou","name_zh":"建瓯东岳庙","pinyin":"Jiàn'ōu Dōngyuè Miào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.0464,"lon":118.3422,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianou-dongyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the god of the Eastern Peak (Mount Tai) outside the old east gate of Jian'ou, facing the Jian River with Baihe Hill behind it. Rebuilt in 1672 and repaired many times since, the complex covers about 2.7 hectares, with a gate, front hall, opera stage and halls to the Eastern Peak god, the Empress (Niangniang), Guanyin and the Medicine Buddha. The main hall is five bays wide under a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof."},{"id":"shaowu-heping-ancient-town","name":"Heping Ancient Town","name_zh":"和平古镇","pinyin":"Hépíng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.163,"lon":117.2978,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaowu-heping-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Heping, in the south-west of Shaowu, grew up in the Tang and Song and flourished in the Ming and Qing as a rare walled market town, and is now a national historic and cultural town. Gate towers survive at the east and north gates with stretches of wall, and a flagstone main street about 600 m long runs past nearly 200 Ming and Qing buildings, among them the Heping Academy, a scholar-official's mansion and the county assistant magistrate's office. The Ming Jukui Pagoda also stands in the village."},{"id":"jianou-confucian-temple","name":"Jian'ou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"建瓯文庙","pinyin":"Jiàn'ōu Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.0428,"lon":118.3242,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianou-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Confucian temple of Jianning prefecture, moved to this site in 1405 and rebuilt in its present form between 1869 and 1879. Its axis runs from a screen wall through the Lingxing Gate, the crescent pool and the Ji Gate to the double-eaved Dacheng Hall, flanked by side galleries. It keeps a Ming stele engraving of Confucius after Wu Daozi and a stele of the Kangxi emperor; the Jian'ou Museum, long housed here, moved to a new building in 2023."},{"id":"jianou-jianzhou-ancient-city","name":"Jianzhou Ancient City, Jian'ou","name_zh":"建州古城","pinyin":"Jiànzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.0417,"lon":118.3223,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianou-jianzhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jian'ou was the seat of old Jianzhou, whose first character supplied the 'Jian' in Fujian's name. The scenic area centres on the Tiejinglan–Zizhi Street historic block, restored with nearly 50,000 salvaged old bricks, tiles and paving stones and reopened in 2023, including the Wanshou Palace with its restored opera stage. Workshops along the lanes show local crafts such as rubbings and Song-style whisked tea, among dozens of old-name shops."},{"id":"shaowu-jinkeng-red-tourism-area","name":"Jinkeng Red Tourism Area","name_zh":"金坑红色旅游景区","pinyin":"Jīnkēng Hóngsè Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.2539,"lon":117.1861,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaowu-jinkeng-red-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jinkeng is a township in the hills of western Shaowu, close to the Jiangxi border, that lay within the Communist Min–Gan (Fujian–Jiangxi) soviet area of 1933–35. The red-tourism area presents the former offices of the Min–Gan provincial Party committee and the East Army headquarters, the site of a battle at Huangtu Pass, Red Army slogans and a bullet-scarred wall, alongside the village's Qing-dynasty buildings, among them the Wenchang Palace, used as a temporary headquarters by the Red Army's Third Army Corps, and a Rulinlang mansion."},{"id":"shunchang-baoshan-temple-hall","name":"Main Hall of Baoshan Temple, Shunchang","name_zh":"宝山寺大殿","pinyin":"Bǎoshān Sì Dàdiàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":26.8871,"lon":117.6729,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunchang-baoshan-temple-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On the summit of Baoshan, at 1,304 m the highest peak in north-western Shunchang, stands a temple whose main hall was built in 1363, at the end of the Yuan dynasty, entirely of stone carved to imitate timber framing. The five-bay hall bears its dated founding inscription under the ridge and more than a dozen later Yuan, Ming and Qing inscriptions; the gate, front hall and side buildings were rebuilt in the Qing."},{"id":"shaowu-baoyan-temple-hall","name":"Main Hall of Baoyan Temple, Shaowu","name_zh":"宝严寺大殿","pinyin":"Bǎoyán Sì Dàdiàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.3437,"lon":117.4883,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaowu-baoyan-temple-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The only surviving building of Baoyan Temple, a Tang foundation in the centre of Shaowu that took this name in 1023. The hall was rebuilt in 1533 and is five bays square, about 11.6 m high under a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, with its date written in ink on the main beam. In October 1932, when Red Army forces held Shaowu, the county soviet government had its office here; the hall was restored in 2009."},{"id":"songxi-meikou-old-wharf","name":"Meikou Old Wharf, Songxi","name_zh":"梅口埠","pinyin":"Méikǒu Bù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.4219,"lon":118.7095,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songxi-meikou-old-wharf","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Meikou is a village on the Songxi River in Zhengdun town whose old landing, dated by the county to the Song dynasty, was a river port on the trade routes that carried tea north. The scenic area takes in the old wharf and ferry crossing, lanes of old houses including the Wu and Lu family compounds, a river-transport exhibition hall and a grove of old camphor trees, and stages folk performances and festivals."},{"id":"wuyishan-min-gan-ancient-post-road","name":"Min–Gan Ancient Post Road, Wuyishan","name_zh":"武夷山闽赣古驿道","pinyin":"Wǔyíshān Mǐn-Gàn Gǔ Yìdào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":28,"lon":118.1572,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyishan-min-gan-ancient-post-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A paved mountain road across the Fujian–Jiangxi border, first built in the Tang and Five Dynasties period, that climbs from Lingyang village in Langu township to the pass at Guanding on the provincial boundary. The protected section runs for about 2 km and is 1.8–2.3 m wide, with three stone arch bridges, two road pavilions, the ruins of the Qiuling post station, cliff inscriptions and a well along the way."},{"id":"zhenghe-shizhen-white-tea-town","name":"Shizhen Bay White Tea Town, Zhenghe","name_zh":"白茶小镇·石圳湾","pinyin":"Báichá Xiǎozhèn · Shízhèn Wān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.3773,"lon":118.7916,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenghe-shizhen-white-tea-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shizhen is a village almost encircled by water just west of Zhenghe town, which served as the county's river landing and goods depot in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its old houses keep the look of a traditional northern Fujian village, with white tea planted around them, and the scenic area adds the old wharf, the Xingxi Academy and white-tea gardens that present Zhenghe's tea culture. The county itself takes its name from the Zhenghe reign era of the Song emperor Huizong, said to have been granted for its tea."},{"id":"shaowu-tiancheng-gorge","name":"Tiancheng Gorge","name_zh":"天成奇峡","pinyin":"Tiānchéng Qíxiá","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.0547,"lon":117.2503,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaowu-tiancheng-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately run scenic area in the Jiangshi nature reserve, Xiaojiafang town, in the far south-west of Shaowu, counted as part of the Taining UNESCO Global Geopark. Its Danxia cliffs, forest and streams are kept close to their natural state, and visitors explore them on foot and by bamboo raft."},{"id":"jianyang-zhu-xi-tomb","name":"Tomb of Zhu Xi","name_zh":"朱熹墓","pinyin":"Zhū Xī Mù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.5703,"lon":117.6379,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianyang-zhu-xi-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The grave of Zhu Xi (1130–1200), the Southern Song philosopher whose commentaries on the Confucian classics shaped Neo-Confucianism and the imperial examinations for six centuries. He was buried in 1200 at the foot of Jiufeng Mountain in Houtang, Huangkeng; the pebble-built tomb has a headstone re-erected in 1717, and a pavilion rebuilt in 1987 shelters an 1848 stele marking the spirit way."},{"id":"jianyang-wuyi-huahua-world","name":"Wuyi Huahua World","name_zh":"武夷花花世界","pinyin":"Wǔyí Huāhuā Shìjiè","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.3182,"lon":118.0728,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianyang-wuyi-huahua-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure park of about 40 hectares in Kaoting village on the edge of Jianyang, which began in 2011 as a family farm. It now combines fruit and vegetable picking, a theme park, a petting area, a campground and guesthouses. Its Yanzhan tourist factory, with seven Song-style buildings and three traditional dragon kilns, shows how Jian-ware tea bowls are made."},{"id":"wuyishan-tea-expo-park","name":"Wuyi Tea Expo Park","name_zh":"中华武夷茶博园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Wǔyí Chábóyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.6428,"lon":117.9734,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyishan-tea-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This 7.8-hectare park in the Sangu resort area beside the Wuyi Mountains scenic area is devoted to Wuyi tea. A landscaped garden recalls famous writers on Wuyi tea, and the tea museum covers the history, legends and processing of Wuyi rock tea, with tea-art demonstrations. The park also holds the seating area for an open-air evening show staged against the landscape."},{"id":"wuyishan-xiangjiang-tea-garden","name":"Xiangjiang Tea Garden, Wuyishan","name_zh":"香江茗苑","pinyin":"Xiāngjiāng Míngyuàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.5901,"lon":117.9695,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyishan-xiangjiang-tea-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea company's visitor estate in Wuyishan's eco-enterprise park, rated a 4A scenic area in 2016 and listed by the province as a 'tourist factory' and a study-tour base. Set in a Jiangnan-style garden, it runs tea-making and tea-art sessions in which visitors try processing Wuyi rock tea by hand and taste the results."},{"id":"nanping-xiyuan-canyon","name":"Xiyuan Canyon","name_zh":"溪源峡谷","pinyin":"Xīyuán Xiágǔ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":26.6399,"lon":118.1194,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanping-xiyuan-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xiyuan Canyon is the core scenic area of the Mangdangshan national nature reserve, in Shangyang village on the western side of Nanping's Yanping district. A path follows the stream up a forested gorge, the 'canyon gallery', past the Zhongyan waterfall to Longde Temple and the Xiyuan Hermitage."},{"id":"shunchang-yangkou-red-tourism-town","name":"Yangkou Red Tourism Town","name_zh":"洋口红色旅游小镇","pinyin":"Yángkǒu Hóngsè Lǚyóu Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":26.8033,"lon":117.8985,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunchang-yangkou-red-tourism-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yangkou, on the Futun stream 12 km from Shunchang county town, was long a river port and market for north-western Fujian and in the 1930s was counted among the province's four best-known towns. In August 1933 the Red Army's East Army under Peng Dehuai held the town for 39 days and set up a soviet government, and the red-tourism town presents restored sites from that time, among them Peng Dehuai's office, the East Army political department and the soviet government office, together with a Red Army bridge and an exhibition hall on the town's revolutionary history."},{"id":"pucheng-yunfeng-temple","name":"Yunfeng Temple, Pucheng","name_zh":"云峰寺","pinyin":"Yúnfēng Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.7103,"lon":118.5083,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pucheng-yunfeng-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple in a fold of the hills about 2 km north-west of Cao village, Shuibeijie town, founded in the Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1482, is a compact Ming timber building about 11.6 m high under a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, and keeps steles recording the temple's history; a Heavenly Kings hall also survives."},{"id":"shaowu-yunling-mountain","name":"Yunling Mountain","name_zh":"云灵山","pinyin":"Yúnlíng Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.4293,"lon":117.3976,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaowu-yunling-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately run mountain scenic area beside National Road 316 in Longdou village, Shuibei town, north-west of Shaowu city. Its forested valleys are known for a 5.2 km canyon rafting run that starts from the 1,370 m Yunling Mountain and drops 216 m."},{"id":"wuyishan-zhangshantou-red-army-graves","name":"Zhangshantou Red Army Cemetery","name_zh":"张山头红军墓群","pinyin":"Zhāngshāntóu Hóngjūn Mùqún","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.8517,"lon":117.9441,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyishan-zhangshantou-red-army-graves","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Across about 19 hectares of low hills east of Zhangshantou hamlet lie more than 1,300 graves of Red Army soldiers and cadres from 22 counties of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi who died here between 1928 and 1935. Many were wounded men who died at a nearby Red Army hospital; others were executed in internal purges. The graves are simple earth mounds faced with brick or stone, and a stone marker carved 'Red Army grave' with a star is dated 1931."},{"id":"jianou-zhiqing-bridge","name":"Zhiqing Bridge, Jian'ou","name_zh":"值庆桥","pinyin":"Zhíqìng Qiáo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":26.7303,"lon":118.5151,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianou-zhiqing-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A timber covered bridge at the water-mouth of Huang village in Dikou town, first built in the Hongzhi reign of the Ming dynasty (1488–1505) and heavily repaired in 1706 and 1787. It spans about 30 m on stacked, cantilevered timber beams, and its gallery holds three shrines with traces of painted decoration and Ming inscriptions."},{"id":"wuyishan-ziyou-town-car-park","name":"Ziyou Town Car Theme Park, Wuyishan","name_zh":"自遊小镇汽车主题乐园","pinyin":"Zìyóu Xiǎozhèn Qìchē Zhǔtí Lèyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Nanping","lat":27.6412,"lon":117.9861,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyishan-ziyou-town-car-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately run, car-themed leisure park near the Wuyishan resort area, rated a 4A scenic area in 2015 and aimed at self-drive visitors. It combines car-culture attractions with a campground for camper vans and tents and hotel accommodation."},{"id":"ningde-baiheling-ancient-road","name":"Baiheling Ancient Road","name_zh":"白鹤岭古道","pinyin":"Báihèlǐng Gǔdào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.65,"lon":119.5186,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningde-baiheling-ancient-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone-stepped official road built in 1225–27 under Ding Daquan, then registrar of Ningde county, as part of the overland route between Fuzhou and Wenzhou; it climbs from the old west gate of Ningde over the hills towards Luoyuan. About 4.9 km survives in four sections of bluestone steps 2–3 m wide, passing a dozen rock inscriptions, eight inscribed tablets, two old bridges and the sites of pass gates and beacon towers."},{"id":"pingnan-baishuiyang","name":"Baishuiyang and Yuanyang Stream","name_zh":"白水洋·鸳鸯溪","pinyin":"Báishuǐyáng Yuānyāng Xī","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.0966,"lon":119.068,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingnan-baishuiyang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A crescent-shaped scenic area of about 66 km² in Pingnan county, built around volcanic-rock gorges and the Baishuiyang 'shallow-water square', a flat bedrock riverbed across which the stream spreads in an even sheet that visitors can wade through. Its 36 km of streams also take in Yuanyang (Mandarin Duck) Stream, named after the ducks it is known for, and summer activities include kayaking, water games and rock climbing. It is part of the Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark."},{"id":"fuan-baiyun-mountain","name":"Baiyun Mountain, Fu'an","name_zh":"福安白云山","pinyin":"Fú'ān Báiyún Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.1283,"lon":119.4599,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuan-baiyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 67 km² north-west of Fu'an and part of the Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark, known for its volcanic-rock mountain scenery. Its valleys hold granite canyons, deeply incised meandering streams and clusters of potholes worn into the stream beds, and the Jiulong Cave section is one of the main sights."},{"id":"zhouning-baofeng-silver-mine","name":"Baofeng Silver Mine Site","name_zh":"宝丰银矿遗址","pinyin":"Bǎofēng Yínkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.1103,"lon":119.1997,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouning-baofeng-silver-mine","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of a state silver mine worked from the 1080s until it was finally closed in 1510, at its height among the largest silver mines of Song China, around Shengyinlou Mountain in south-western Zhouning. More than 220 adits, about 40 smelting and miners' living sites, rock inscriptions and stone grinding wheels are spread over the hills, and the tunnels still show the marks of fire-setting used to crack the rock. It was named a provincial mine park in 2019, and an exhibition on the old mine has opened in the restored Baofeng official residence in Qinxi village, once the miners' settlement."},{"id":"gutian-cuiping-lake","name":"Cuiping Lake","name_zh":"翠屏湖","pinyin":"Cuìpíng Hú","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.6307,"lon":118.8121,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gutian-cuiping-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The reservoir of the Gutian River hydropower scheme, formed when the dam's sluices closed in June 1959, drowning the old county town of Gutian, which had been the county seat for more than a thousand years, and displacing more than 36,000 people. Its long arms wind between wooded hills and islands, and boat trips run on the lake."},{"id":"zherong-fengqi-wu-mansion","name":"Fengqi Wu Family Mansion","name_zh":"凤岐吴氏大宅","pinyin":"Fèngqí Wúshì Dàzhái","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.1924,"lon":120.0471,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zherong-fengqi-wu-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The largest old house in Zherong county and the only building in the hamlet of Fengqi in Zhayang township, so that the house and the village are one: a Wu family mansion of the Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns (1736–1820) whose walled core, outbuildings and terraces cover some 14,000 m². The main house is laid out symmetrically, two courtyards and three halls deep and three ranges wide, and finished in plain timber and brick."},{"id":"xiapu-guanyinting-fort","name":"Guanyinting Fort","name_zh":"观音亭寨","pinyin":"Guānyīntíng Zhài","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.0157,"lon":120.1036,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiapu-guanyinting-fort/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist shrine on the old post road at Banling, a She ethnic village in Shuimen township, first built in 1369, restored in 1791 and enclosed by a wall in 1863 against the Golden Coin Society uprising, which turned it into a small fort whose gate examination candidates bound for the capital passed through. Inside are a front hall and a rear main hall in timber; six stone columns carved with Chan sayings survive, and an 89 m stretch of the old post road runs past. She people from Fuding, Fu'an and Pingyang in Zhejiang gather here to sing at the Lantern and Double Ninth festivals."},{"id":"fuan-huang-ancestral-hall","name":"Huang Ancestral Hall, Fu'an","name_zh":"福安黄氏祠堂","pinyin":"Fú'ān Huángshì Cítáng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.0842,"lon":119.6355,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuan-huang-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Huang clan in Huangcuo Lane, Yangxia village, now on the edge of Fu'an city, founded in the late Song and rebuilt in 1694 on a plot of about 2,500 m². Behind a semicircular pond and screen wall it has front and rear halls five bays wide, with interior columns left out to make lofty open halls, a covered pavilion between them, and an opera stage with an archway-like facade flanked by two-storey galleries."},{"id":"jiaocheng-huotong-irrigation","name":"Huotong (Huang Ju) Irrigation System","name_zh":"霍童灌溉工程","pinyin":"Huòtóng Guàngài Gōngchéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.8596,"lon":119.403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaocheng-huotong-irrigation/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An irrigation system on both banks of the Huotong Stream at Huotong town, begun by the Sui official Huang Ju around 618 and still watering farmland today. On the right bank the Longyao canal runs along the hillside into Shiqiao village, where it once drove a cascade of water-powered rice pounders and still feeds ponds named after the sun, moon and stars; on the left bank the Pipa Cave channel ran through tunnels cut by heating the rock with fire and cracking it with water. It was listed as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2017."},{"id":"zhouning-jiulongji-carp-stream","name":"Jiulongji Waterfalls and Carp Stream","name_zh":"鲤鱼溪·九龙漈","pinyin":"Lǐyú Xī Jiǔlóng Jì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.0706,"lon":119.3744,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouning-jiulongji-carp-stream","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This 4A area joins two places near Zhouning town that together form a 13.5 km² national scenic area within the Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark. Jiulongji is a staircase of nine waterfalls dropping some 300 m over about 1 km through a gorge in volcanic rock. In the old village of Puyuan, settled by the Zheng clan in the early 13th century, villagers have long protected the carp in the stream that runs through it, a custom now on Fujian's provincial intangible heritage list."},{"id":"pingnan-jixia-village","name":"Jixia Village","name_zh":"漈下村","pinyin":"Jìxià Cūn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.852,"lon":118.9359,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingnan-jixia-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village in a mountain basin in Gantang township, Pingnan, where two streams meet below rows of timber houses built along the water; it is the ancestral home of the Qing general Gan Guobao and a national historic and cultural village. Its Ming street plan of three lanes along the slope and two up it survives, and the Longji Xiangong temple, dating back at least to 1550, has a double-eaved pyramidal roof and Qing paintings on its ceiling and wall panels. Restored houses now hold cafés and homestays, some run by newcomers, and the village keeps a midsummer festival of welcoming the immortal."},{"id":"zhouning-lingong-temple","name":"Lingong Zhongping Wang Ancestral Temple","name_zh":"林公忠平王祖殿","pinyin":"Língōng Zhōngpíngwáng Zǔdiàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.9817,"lon":119.4523,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhouning-lingong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral temple of Lin Gong (Lin Zugen), a Song-dynasty healer from Fu'an who was deified after ridding the district of wild animals and epidemics, in Shanyang village, Makeng township. Built from 1513, it keeps a Ming gate tower, bell and drum towers and a hip-and-gable main hall with carved altar tables, plus a Qing pavilion of 1805 above the gate; the side halls were rebuilt in 2007. Lin Gong worship has spread from here across eastern Fujian and to Taiwan and Singapore."},{"id":"gutian-linshui-palace","name":"Linshui Palace, Gutian","name_zh":"古田临水宫","pinyin":"Gǔtián Línshuǐ Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.5882,"lon":118.917,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gutian-linshui-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The founding temple of Chen Jinggu, Lady Linshui, a protective goddess of women, children and childbirth worshipped across Fujian, Taiwan and South-East Asia, in Daqiao town, Gutian. Founded around 792 and rebuilt after a fire in 1876–79, the hillside complex has a five-bay main hall with an opera stage and worship pavilion under carved octagonal ceilings in front, and side halls for her attendants and her mother. It is the centre of the Chen Jinggu cult, a national intangible heritage item, and receives pilgrims from more than 4,000 branch temples."},{"id":"fuding-mount-taimu","name":"Mount Taimu","name_zh":"太姥山","pinyin":"Tàimǔ Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.1244,"lon":120.182,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuding-mount-taimu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite mountain rising above the sea south of Fuding, long the sanctuary of the local goddess Taimu Niangniang and, from the Tang dynasty on, a centre of Buddhism with many temples on and around it. It is known for weathered granite peaks and pinnacles, caves among fallen boulders such as Seven Stars Cave, frequent mist and views over the coast and its islands. It is part of the Ningde UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2010."},{"id":"fuding-niulanggang","name":"Niulanggang Coast","name_zh":"牛郎岗","pinyin":"Niúláng Gǎng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.0592,"lon":120.2751,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuding-niulanggang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seaside scenic area on the Fuding coast south-east of Mount Taimu, with a flat, clean sandy beach backed by green hills and sea-worn rocks given names such as Mandarin Duck Reef, the Weaving Maid's Cave and a narrow sea cleft. It was rated 4A in 2024."},{"id":"fuan-shifeng-temple","name":"Shifeng Temple","name_zh":"狮峰寺","pinyin":"Shīfēng Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.9882,"lon":119.7747,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuan-shifeng-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple at the foot of Lion Peak in Baizhuyang village, Xibing town, founded in 892 and moved down from the summit in the Yongle reign of the Ming. Its main hall, rebuilt in 1612, is one of the few well-preserved Ming timber temple halls in Fujian, with a double-eaved roof, 24 stone columns and a painted octagonal coffered ceiling, and the Heavenly Kings Hall of 1876 is known for its painted plaster decoration. In 1933–34 the local Communist organisation used the temple as the base of the 'Red Belt' peasant movement in Fu'an and Xiapu."},{"id":"pingnan-wanan-bridge","name":"Wan'an Bridge","name_zh":"万安桥","pinyin":"Wàn'ān Qiáo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":26.8228,"lon":118.8444,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingnan-wanan-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Pingnan's Wan'an Bridge, 98.2 m long and described as the longest timber-arch covered bridge in China, is the best known of the covered bridges of north-eastern Fujian listed together as a national heritage unit. First recorded in 1090 and rebuilt many times, it crosses the stream at Changqiao on five stone piers carrying a 37-bay gallery; most of it burned down in August 2022, and the bridge seen today is a reconstruction, reusing the surviving timbers, that was accepted in October 2024. The listing also covers the Qiancheng and Baixiang bridges in Pingnan, the Luanfeng, Yangmeizhou and Chanxi bridges in Shouning, Dongyuan Bridge in Zherong, Tiandi Bridge in Gutian and Yuqing Bridge in Wuyishan."},{"id":"zherong-yuanyang-meadow","name":"Yuanyang Meadow","name_zh":"鸳鸯草场","pinyin":"Yuānyāng Cǎochǎng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Ningde","lat":27.1596,"lon":119.9552,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zherong-yuanyang-meadow","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An upland grassland on the hills of Dongyuan township, Zherong, promoted as 'the Hulunbuir of the south' for its rolling open meadows, and rated 4A in 2022. Trails link viewpoints such as the sky walkway and the Turtle Stone platform, and since 2024 a cross-country race has been run across the meadows each August."},{"id":"putian-baoen-temple-pagoda","name":"Bao'en Temple Pagoda, Putian","name_zh":"荔城报恩寺塔","pinyin":"Lìchéng Bào'ēn Sì Tǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4473,"lon":119.0129,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=putian-baoen-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-storey octagonal stone pagoda, 13 m tall, on the central axis of Bao'en Temple on Dongyan Hill in Putian, between the Mahavira Hall and the Guanyin Hall. Built in the Shaosheng years of the Northern Song (1094–98), it came through a major earthquake in 1604 undamaged and was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"xianyou-jiuli-lake","name":"Jiuli Lake","name_zh":"九鲤湖","pinyin":"Jiǔlǐ Hú","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4604,"lon":118.8231,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianyou-jiuli-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Zhongshan town, Xianyou, named after the legend of nine immortals who rode carp up to heaven. It is known for its lake, caves, rocks and above all the upper five of the Nine Cascades waterfalls, and the Ming traveller Xu Xiake, who came in 1620, ranked it with the Wuyi Mountains and Yuhua Cave as one of Fujian's three wonders. The area is also known for its tradition of dream divination, and an old trail restored in 2023–24 links it with Jiulonggu Forest Park downstream."},{"id":"putian-jiulonggu-forest-park","name":"Jiulonggu National Forest Park","name_zh":"九龙谷","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Gǔ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4403,"lon":118.8324,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=putian-jiulonggu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of about 1,090 hectares in Xinan village, Changtai town, with forest cover of over 95 per cent. It adjoins Jiuli Lake: of the nine cascades that Xu Xiake described in 1620, the lower four lie here, among them the General, Flying Phoenix and Chessboard falls, and a restored stretch of the old Xiake trail links the two scenic areas."},{"id":"xianyou-longhua-twin-pagodas","name":"Longhua Twin Pagodas","name_zh":"龙华双塔","pinyin":"Lónghuá Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.3455,"lon":118.6507,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianyou-longhua-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pair of old pagodas beside Longhua Temple in Dengta village, Longhua town, a few kilometres south-west of Xianyou county town; the national listing dates them to the Song and Qing dynasties. They became a provincial heritage site in 2001 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"meizhou-mazu-temple","name":"Meizhou Mazu Temple","name_zh":"湄洲妈祖祖庙","pinyin":"Méizhōu Māzǔ Zǔmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.0937,"lon":119.143,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/meizhou-mazu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Meizhou Island, off the coast of Putian, is revered as the birthplace of Mazu, the sea goddess whose worship spread along the Chinese coast, to Taiwan and across South-East Asia. The ancestral temple on Woniu Hill, first built in 987, was almost entirely destroyed in the Cultural Revolution and has been rebuilt and greatly enlarged since the 1980s with donations from worshippers in China and abroad, especially from Taiwan. The whole island is a 5A scenic area devoted to Mazu culture, with a beach beyond the temple."},{"id":"putian-mulan-weir","name":"Mulan Weir","name_zh":"木兰陂","pinyin":"Mùlán Bēi","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4092,"lon":118.9795,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putian-mulan-weir/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An irrigation weir across the Mulan River below Mulan Hill, completed in 1083 by Li Hong after two earlier attempts, the first led by a woman named Qian Siniang in 1064, were swept away. The 219 m barrage of interlocking granite blocks has 32 sluice openings between its piers, blocks the tide coming up from Xinghua Bay and feeds a network of canals; in 2014 it was among the first World Heritage Irrigation Structures. A park and memorial hall stand beside it."},{"id":"putian-ninghai-bridge","name":"Ninghai Bridge","name_zh":"宁海桥","pinyin":"Nínghǎi Qiáo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4196,"lon":119.0839,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=putian-ninghai-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old bridge across the mouth of the Mulan River at Qiaodou village, Huangshi, dated by the national listing to the Yuan dynasty and more than 700 years old; 'Sunrise at Ninghai' is one of Putian's traditional twenty-four views. For decades it carried road traffic on a concrete deck laid over the old structure until it was declared unsafe, and work began in 2012 on a new bridge about 100 m downstream to take the traffic off it."},{"id":"xiuyu-pinghai-tianhou-palace","name":"Pinghai Tianhou Palace","name_zh":"平海天后宫","pinyin":"Pínghǎi Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.1815,"lon":119.2685,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuyu-pinghai-tianhou-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty temple to Mazu in Pinghai village, on the coast of Xiuyu District south-east of Putian. Pinghai was from 1388 the seat of the Pinghai Guard, one of the Ming dynasty's main coastal-defence garrisons in Fujian, and the temple became a provincial heritage site in 1996 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"putian-arts-and-crafts-city","name":"Putian Arts and Crafts City","name_zh":"莆田工艺美术城","pinyin":"Pútián Gōngyì Měishù Chéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.3764,"lon":119.0626,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=putian-arts-and-crafts-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A trade and exhibition complex for Putian's craft industries, above all woodcarving and classical hardwood furniture, which with oil painting and gold and silver jewellery are among the city's traditional mainstays. It was the venue of the 2025 Cross-Strait (Putian) Crafts Fair, and its showrooms suit visitors interested in carving and furniture."},{"id":"putian-ruiyun-mountain","name":"Ruiyun Mountain Forest Park","name_zh":"瑞云山","pinyin":"Ruìyún Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.7247,"lon":119.023,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=putian-ruiyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in Dayang township, in the hills of northern Hanjiang District, whose peaks rise to over 1,000 m and are known for oddly shaped rocks, among them formations named the Heavenly Dog and the Sleeping Lion of the East. The scenic area includes the Fengwei waterfall and Yongxing Cave Temple, a provincial heritage site, and its forest shelters rare protected plants such as the Chinese yew."},{"id":"putian-guanghua-temple-pagoda","name":"Shijia Wenfo Pagoda, Guanghua Temple","name_zh":"释迦文佛塔","pinyin":"Shìjiā Wénfó Tǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4288,"lon":118.9868,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putian-guanghua-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 30.6 m tall on the east side of Guanghua Temple, at the foot of Phoenix Hill in southern Putian; its earliest inscription shows it was standing by 1165. Built to imitate a timber tower, it has stone bracketed eaves, seated Buddhas in niches and reliefs of lions, guardian figures and phoenixes, with stairs inside up to the top storey. Guanghua Temple, founded in the 6th century, was one of the four great Buddhist monasteries of Fujian."},{"id":"putian-shouxi-park","name":"Shouxi Park","name_zh":"绶溪公园","pinyin":"Shòuxī Gōngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4661,"lon":119.0151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=putian-shouxi-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shouxi Park follows the Shouxi, as the Yanshou stream, the largest tributary of the Mulan River, is called where it flows through central Putian. Developed since 2011 as the city's green heart, it is laid out around lychee groves, waterways, old bridges and village houses, in eight themed zones that include 'Fishing Boats on the Shouxi', one of Putian's traditional twenty-four views."},{"id":"xianyou-tianzhong-wanshou-pagoda","name":"Tianzhong Wanshou Pagoda","name_zh":"天中万寿塔","pinyin":"Tiānzhōng Wànshòu Tǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.2537,"lon":118.8608,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xianyou-tianzhong-wanshou-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A solid granite pagoda of the casket-stupa (baoqieyin) type on Tadou Hill in Fengting town, built in 1059 and also known as the Green Conch Pagoda. On a base 7.8 m square, its three-tier plinth is carved with dragons, the plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, and figures of Buddhas and guardian warriors, and its top has banana-leaf corner ornaments and a five-ring finial."},{"id":"xianyou-wuchen-pagoda","name":"Wuchen Pagoda","name_zh":"无尘塔","pinyin":"Wúchén Tǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.5735,"lon":118.5535,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianyou-wuchen-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-storey octagonal stone pagoda in Fengding village, Xiyuan township, high in the hills of north-western Xianyou. First built in 865 and rebuilt early in the Song dynasty, it imitates a timber pavilion-style tower, is hollow inside and stands 15.56 m tall. It is next to the old Jiuzuo Temple, about 2 km from the Xianshuiyang scenic area."},{"id":"xianyou-xianshuiyang","name":"Xianshuiyang","name_zh":"仙水洋","pinyin":"Xiānshuǐyáng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.5863,"lon":118.5816,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianyou-xianshuiyang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At about 870 m in Fengshan village, Xiyuan township, a mountain stream spreads ankle-deep for more than 600 m over a single, almost flat bed of brown rock. In summer it is a popular place to wade and splash, and the scenic area, rated 4A in 2026, has added a lakeside boardwalk, water games, artificial snow in winter and evening fire-and-light shows. Seven traditional villages lie around it, and the Jiuzuo Temple and Wuchen Pagoda are about 2 km away."},{"id":"xianyou-confucian-temple","name":"Xianyou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"仙游文庙","pinyin":"Xiānyóu Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.3635,"lon":118.6938,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xianyou-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in the Tang and moved to this site in 1002, Xianyou's Confucian temple was rebuilt after storm damage in 1678 and 1780 and restored again in 2006–09. Its axis runs from the main gate past the crescent pool and bridge and the Ji Gate to the double-eaved Dacheng Hall, which has carved stone dragon columns, an octagonal caisson ceiling and copies of Qing emperors' plaques. The Minglun Hall, a separate courtyard for study, lies to the east."},{"id":"putian-yuanmiao-temple","name":"Yuanmiao Temple","name_zh":"元妙观","pinyin":"Yuánmiào Guàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.4382,"lon":119.0132,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/putian-yuanmiao-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yuanmiao Guan in the old centre of Putian is a Taoist temple founded in 628 and rebuilt in 1015, whose Hall of the Three Purities is one of the rare Song-dynasty timber halls in southern China. The seven-bay hall rests on 20 stone columns under a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, with Song-style bracket sets and lotus column bases. Qing halls to the Eastern and Western Peaks and other gods stand alongside, with steles including one in the calligraphy of Emperor Huizong."},{"id":"putian-zhenhai-seawall","name":"Zhenhai Seawall","name_zh":"镇海堤","pinyin":"Zhènhǎi Dī","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Putian","lat":25.3965,"lon":119.1266,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=putian-zhenhai-seawall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone seawall along the shore of Huangshi town east of Putian, first built in the Tang dynasty's Yuanhe era (806–820) on the initiative of the Fujian regional commissioner Pei Ciyuan. In 1387 its stones were taken to build the Pinghai and Puxi garrison forts; it was rebuilt in 1826–27 and extended in 1964, and the surviving wall is about 3.5 km long and 3.7 m high."},{"id":"jinjiang-anping-bridge","name":"Anping Bridge","name_zh":"安平桥","pinyin":"Ānpíng Qiáo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.7101,"lon":118.4437,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinjiang-anping-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite beam bridge more than 2 km long across a tidal inlet between Anhai and Shuitou, completed in 1151 after 13 years' work and regarded as the longest ancient stone bridge surviving in China; its length gave it its other name, the Five-Li Bridge. Paved with stone slabs up to 11 m long laid on hundreds of stone piers, it has rest pavilions with Song guardian statues, small pagodas and a white hexagonal pagoda at its eastern end, and its surroundings have been laid out as a park. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"anxi-confucian-temple","name":"Anxi Confucian Temple","name_zh":"安溪文庙","pinyin":"Ānxī Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.0567,"lon":118.1828,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anxi-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A county Confucian temple founded in 1001 and rebuilt in 1686, set against Feng Hill in the centre of Anxi town and covering about 1.3 hectares. Its axis runs from a semicircular pool through the Lingxing and Ji gates to the Dacheng Hall, whose double-eaved roof rests on four finely carved stone dragon columns at the front, with the Chongsheng Hall behind and the Minglun Hall outside the east wall."},{"id":"anxi-xiping-tulou","name":"Anxi Tulou (Xiping)","name_zh":"安溪土楼","pinyin":"Ānxī Tǔlóu","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9707,"lon":117.8789,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anxi-xiping-tulou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three earthen fortified houses in the tea country of Xiping in south-western Anxi, separate from the better-known Fujian tulou of Yongding and Nanjing about 90 km to the south-west. Yingbao Lou, begun in 1372, is a two-storey rammed-earth block of 72 rooms behind a stone-arched gate and a square pond; Jusi Lou, of late-Ming origin, has massive river-cobble outer walls around a three-storey square building about 10 m high; and Taishan Lou dates from 1892."},{"id":"nanan-banpu-old-houses","name":"Banpu Old Houses","name_zh":"坂埔古厝","pinyin":"Bǎnpǔ Gǔcuò","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9695,"lon":118.2226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-banpu-old-houses","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hamlet of 13 large red-brick houses and two wells built by the Hong clan of Wengshan from the Qianlong reign of the Qing onwards, covering more than 6,000 m² in Liangshan village, Yingdu town. The group includes a house laid out on a chessboard plan, several ancestral and family halls and a house with an arrow tower."},{"id":"shishi-baogai-mountain","name":"Baogai Mountain","name_zh":"宝盖山","pinyin":"Bǎogài Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.7225,"lon":118.6727,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shishi-baogai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite hill about 209 m high on the eastern edge of Shishi, the highest in the city, crowned by Wanshou Pagoda, popularly the Gusao (Sisters-in-Law) Pagoda: a hollow five-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 22 m high, built in the Shaoxing era (1131–1162) as a landmark for ships, with stairs inside its walls. A niche on its top storey holds a relief of two women said to be the sisters-in-law of the legend, and the pagoda is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site. Huxiu Temple, founded in the Tang, stands at the eastern foot of the hill."},{"id":"yongchun-beixi-wenyuan","name":"Beixi Wenyuan Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"北溪文苑","pinyin":"Běixī Wényuàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.2477,"lon":118.237,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchun-beixi-wenyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural eco-tourism area in Beixi village, Hushan town, set in a wooded valley with streams and waterfalls. It makes an easy half-day outing from Yongchun town."},{"id":"nanan-cai-family-old-residences","name":"Cai Family Old Residences","name_zh":"蔡氏古民居","pinyin":"Càishì Gǔ Mínjū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8158,"lon":118.4092,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-cai-family-old-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of Qing-dynasty mansions in Zhangli, Guanqiao town, built from 1865 to 1911 by Cai Qichang, who had returned from the Philippines, and his son Cai Zishen. Spread over more than 3 hectares with nearly 400 rooms, the red-walled, red-tiled houses with swallowtail ridges are a showcase of southern Fujian residential architecture."},{"id":"jinjiang-caoan-manichaean-temple","name":"Cao'an","name_zh":"草庵","pinyin":"Cǎo'ān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.7736,"lon":118.5297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinjiang-caoan-manichaean-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small granite shrine in Luoshan, Jinjiang, long regarded as the only intact Manichaean temple in the world, with a relief of Mani as the 'Buddha of Light' carved into the rock face behind it in 1339. The seated figure, about 1.5 m high in a round niche, has a beard and a halo of 18 rays, and was later venerated as a Buddhist image. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"quanzhou-fujian-taiwan-kinship-museum","name":"China Museum for Fujian-Taiwan Kinship","name_zh":"中国闽台缘博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Mǐntáiyuán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9383,"lon":118.5847,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-fujian-taiwan-kinship-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large state museum opened in 2006 on the historical ties between Fujian and Taiwan, in a red-brick and white-stone building whose four long flights of steps climb to a roof terrace over the city. Its main galleries trace migration, family lineages, trade, culture and shared folk religion across the strait, and a further hall presents folk customs through the four seasons."},{"id":"quanzhou-chongfu-temple","name":"Chongfu Temple, Quanzhou","name_zh":"崇福寺","pinyin":"Chóngfú Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9202,"lon":118.5966,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-chongfu-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple founded around 960 in the north-east of Quanzhou's old city, whose national listing is for the Yinggeng Pagoda: a seven-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 11 m high from the early Song, older than the rebuilt stone pagodas of Kaiyuan Temple and regarded as the oldest in the city. The pagoda leans slightly, which is said to have given it its name. The temple's other treasures are a huge cauldron said to cook for a thousand people and a great Song bell."},{"id":"huian-chongwu-ancient-city","name":"Chongwu Ancient City","name_zh":"崇武古城","pinyin":"Chóngwǔ Gǔchéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8792,"lon":118.9306,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huian-chongwu-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite-walled coastal garrison town built from 1387 to defend the coast against wokou pirates, regarded as the most complete stone sea-wall town surviving in China. Its walls, about 2.5 km round and 7 m high with some 1,300 crenellations, watchtowers and four gates, were restored in the 1980s and enclose old stone houses, temples and ancestral halls."},{"id":"jinjiang-cizao-kiln-sites","name":"Cizao Kiln Sites (Jinjiaoyi Hill)","name_zh":"磁灶窑址","pinyin":"Cízào Yáozhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8535,"lon":118.4675,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-cizao-kiln-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of Song–Yuan dragon kilns on Jinjiaoyi Hill in Cizao town, among more than two dozen kiln sites along the Meixi River that made pottery for export to Japan and South-East Asia from the 6th to the early 20th century. Excavations in 2002 uncovered kilns, workshops and waste heaps with hundreds of restorable pieces, and a museum of ancient Quanzhou export ceramics stands at the site, which is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"quanzhou-deji-gate-site","name":"Deji Gate Site","name_zh":"德济门遗址","pinyin":"Déjìmén Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8972,"lon":118.5842,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-deji-gate-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The excavated foundations of Deji Gate, the southern gate of Song–Yuan Quanzhou through which goods passed to and from the riverside port, lie open beside Tianhou Temple. First built in 1230 and destroyed by fire in 1948, the site was dug in 2000 and shows city-wall footings from the Song to the Qing, inner and outer moats, a stone bridge and the walls of the barbican. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"nanan-taoyuan-palace-dharani-pillar","name":"Dharani Pillar of Taoyuan Palace","name_zh":"桃源宫陀罗尼经幢","pinyin":"Táoyuán Gōng Tuóluóní Jīngchuáng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9613,"lon":118.533,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-taoyuan-palace-dharani-pillar","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Northern Song stone pillar carved with Buddhist dharani texts, standing in Taoyuan Palace, a village temple in Taoyuan, Fengzhou town. It was among the first sites protected by Fujian province in 1961 and joined the national list in 2019."},{"id":"jinjiang-chendai-ding-ancestral-hall","name":"Ding Family Ancestral Hall, Chendai","name_zh":"陈埭丁氏宗祠","pinyin":"Chéndài Dīngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8267,"lon":118.6056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-chendai-ding-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Ding clan of Chendai, a Hui community whose forebears were Arabs who settled here in the early Ming. Founded in the Yongle era, burnt in 1560 and rebuilt in 1600, the hall is laid out like the character 回 around a central hall, and since 1985 it has housed an exhibition on the history of the Hui in Chendai."},{"id":"yongchun-hushan-fuxing-hall","name":"Fuxing Hall, Hushan","name_zh":"福兴堂","pinyin":"Fúxīng Táng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.2773,"lon":118.2436,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchun-hushan-fuxing-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A southern Fujian-style family house completed in 1947 in Tangxi village, Hushan town, five bays wide and two courtyards deep with flanking side wings. Built of brick, stone and timber with about 1,570 m² of floor space, it borrows Western decorative details and has been on the national list since 2019."},{"id":"shishi-jingsheng-villa","name":"Jingsheng Villa","name_zh":"景胜别墅","pinyin":"Jǐngshèng Biéshù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.7182,"lon":118.657,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shishi-jingsheng-villa","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A four-storey villa completed in 1948 in Longxue village, Baogai town, that blends a European verandah house with southern Fujian building traditions. Five bays wide with verandas on all sides, it is built of brick, stone, timber and concrete and has been on the national list since 2019."},{"id":"nanan-jiuri-mountain-inscriptions","name":"Jiuri Mountain Inscriptions","name_zh":"九日山","pinyin":"Jiǔrì Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9525,"lon":118.5213,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanan-jiuri-mountain-inscriptions/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A low hill at Fengzhou in Nan'an whose eastern and western peaks carry more than 70 cliff inscriptions from the Northern Song to the Qing, most of them Song. Several record the ceremonies at which Song officials prayed here each year for favourable winds for overseas shipping, and a stone Buddha was carved on the western peak in 965. As the Jiuri Mountain Wind-Praying Inscriptions it is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"dehua-jiuxian-mountain","name":"Jiuxian Mountain, Dehua","name_zh":"九仙山","pinyin":"Jiǔxiān Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.7077,"lon":118.1058,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dehua-jiuxian-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain of about 1,650 m in northern Dehua, on the meeting point of Chishui, Shangyong and Daming townships, with a scenic area of about 35 km² known for rime ice on its trees in winter. A Song–Yuan stone Maitreya statue, protected by the province, and a weather station stand on the mountain."},{"id":"quanzhou-kaiyuan-temple","name":"Kaiyuan Temple (Quanzhou)","name_zh":"开元寺","pinyin":"Kāiyuán Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9172,"lon":118.581,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-kaiyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Quanzhou's principal Buddhist temple, founded in 686 on West Street in the old city and covering some 7.8 hectares, is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site. Its twin five-storey granite pagodas, rebuilt in stone between 1228 and 1250 and 48 m and 44 m tall, are the tallest pair of stone pagodas in China, and the Ming main hall rests on 86 stone columns with carved flying musicians on its brackets. The grounds also hold Hindu carvings left by South Indian traders, an ordination platform and a memorial hall to the monk Hongyi."},{"id":"yongchun-kuixingyan-cliff-carvings","name":"Kuixing Rock Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"魁星岩摩崖造像","pinyin":"Kuíxīng Yán Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.3226,"lon":118.2585,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchun-kuixingyan-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Southern Song relief of the 'Three Sages of Huayan' — Shakyamuni flanked by the bodhisattvas Manjushri and Samantabhadra — carved on a rock face at the Kuixing Rock temple in Taochang, Shigu town, on the edge of Yongchun town. Protected by the province since 2001, it was added to the national list in 2019."},{"id":"quanzhou-laojun-rock","name":"Laozi Statue (Laojun Rock)","name_zh":"老君岩","pinyin":"Lǎojūn Yán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9478,"lon":118.5933,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-laojun-rock","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seated figure of the philosopher Laozi carved from a single natural granite boulder at the foot of Mount Qingyuan's western peak, over 5 m high and about 7 m wide and made no later than the Song dynasty. Regarded as the largest Song Taoist stone statue in China, it shows the sage with a flowing beard, one arm resting on a low table and the other hand on his knee. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"nanan-guanshan-li-residences","name":"Li Family Residences, Guanshan","name_zh":"观山李氏民居","pinyin":"Guānshān Lǐshì Mínjū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.0707,"lon":118.3261,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-guanshan-li-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three houses built between 1890 and 1936 in Guanshan village, Meishan township, by Li Gongcang, an overseas Chinese from Indonesia, and his eldest son Li Chengqi. They comprise a Western-influenced 'fanzai' house and two red-brick courtyard houses named after their builders, with about 1,400 m² of floor space in all."},{"id":"nanan-lin-family-residence","name":"Lin Family Residence, Nan'an","name_zh":"南安林氏民居","pinyin":"Nán'ān Línshì Mínjū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.063,"lon":118.3929,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-lin-family-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four side-by-side buildings — an ancestral hall, living quarters and a study — that the overseas Chinese builder Lin Lu designed for his home village of Manshanhong and completed in 1908. The red-brick courtyard houses follow southern Fujian tradition but have Western-style corner towers and imported cement floor tiles, and face a stone forecourt, a pond and a waterside pavilion."},{"id":"quanzhou-lingshan-islamic-tombs","name":"Lingshan Islamic Cemetery","name_zh":"灵山伊斯兰教圣墓","pinyin":"Língshān Yīsīlánjiào Shèngmù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9106,"lon":118.6156,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-lingshan-islamic-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two tombs on the southern slope of Ling Hill, revered by Chinese Muslims as the graves of two early missionaries whom Ming sources say came to Quanzhou in the Tang dynasty, lie under a stone pavilion rebuilt in 1962. In the stone gallery behind are an Arabic inscription of 1322 and a stele recording that the admiral Zheng He came to burn incense here in 1417 before one of his voyages. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"shishi-liusheng-pagoda-old-port-sites","name":"Liusheng Pagoda and Old Quanzhou Port Sites","name_zh":"六胜塔","pinyin":"Liùshèng Tǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8105,"lon":118.7213,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shishi-liusheng-pagoda-old-port-sites/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal five-storey granite pagoda 36 m high on the southern shore of Quanzhou Bay at Shihu, first built in 1111 and rebuilt in 1285 as a landmark for ships, its storeys carved with guardian figures and bodhisattvas. About 1 km away is Shihu Dock, an old wharf said to date from the Tang. Both belong to a national heritage group of old port buildings that also includes Wanshou Pagoda on Baogai Mountain and Zhenwu Temple with the Song docks at Fashi in Quanzhou city, all components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"jinjiang-anhai-longshan-temple","name":"Longshan Temple, Anhai","name_zh":"安海龙山寺","pinyin":"Ānhǎi Lóngshān Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.7256,"lon":118.4614,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-anhai-longshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Guanyin temple in Anhai town traditionally dated to 618, whose main image is a thousand-armed Guanyin that legend says was carved from a single camphor tree. The halls were rebuilt in 1831 with stone columns and carved bluestone panels at the gate, and hold calligraphy by the Ming master Zhang Ruitu and the monk Hongyi. Emigrants carried its cult abroad, and many temples trace their origin to it, including the Longshan temples of Bangka (Taipei), Lukang and Singapore."},{"id":"quanzhou-luoyang-bridge","name":"Luoyang Bridge","name_zh":"洛阳桥","pinyin":"Luòyáng Qiáo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9532,"lon":118.6752,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-luoyang-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone beam bridge across the tidal mouth of the Luoyang River, built in 1053–1059 under the prefect Cai Xiang, whose builders strengthened its foundations by cultivating oysters on the stones. It now runs about 730 m by way of a mid-river islet, lined with Song guardian figures, small stone pagodas and inscribed stelae, and a memorial temple to Cai Xiang stands near its southern end. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"quanzhou-qingyuan-mountain","name":"Mount Qingyuan","name_zh":"清源山","pinyin":"Qīngyuán Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9547,"lon":118.6081,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-qingyuan-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite hill range on the northern edge of Quanzhou, protected as a national scenic area and scattered with shrines, hundreds of cliff inscriptions and Song–Yuan stone statues. Besides the famous Laozi statue at its western foot (separate card), carved figures on its slopes include a Buddha in a stone shrine of 1364 at Mituo Rock and a rare group of three Tibetan-style Buddhas carved in 1292 at Bixiao Rock. The stupa of the monk Hongyi also stands on the mountain."},{"id":"jinjiang-nantian-temple-stone-buddhas","name":"Nantian Temple Stone Buddhas","name_zh":"南天寺","pinyin":"Nántiān Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.6845,"lon":118.4942,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-nantian-temple-stone-buddhas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside Buddhist temple on Daifeng Hill in Dongshi town, Jinjiang, known for its stone Buddha statues and cliff inscriptions of the Song and Ming dynasties. Protected by the province since 1985, the carvings were added to the national list in 2013."},{"id":"yongchun-niumulin","name":"Niumulin Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"牛姆林","pinyin":"Niúmǔlín","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.4243,"lon":117.9366,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchun-niumulin","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain eco-tourism area in Xiayang town in the far west of Yongchun, described by the county as one of the best-preserved native forests in Fujian, with several waterfalls along its paths. It has been a 4A scenic area since 2003 and makes a full-day trip from Yongchun town."},{"id":"quanzhou-qingjing-mosque","name":"Qingjing Mosque","name_zh":"清净寺","pinyin":"Qīngjìng Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9056,"lon":118.5869,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-qingjing-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1009 on Tumen Street in the old city, Qingjing is regarded as the oldest surviving mosque in China built in the Arab style, and it is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site. A tall gateway of dark diabase and white granite with pointed arches and a moon-watching platform on top leads to the roofless stone walls and columns of the original prayer hall. Beside them stand a smaller prayer hall of Ming foundation and a pavilion sheltering Yuan and Ming stelae on the mosque's restorations."},{"id":"huian-qingshan-palace","name":"Qingshan Palace, Hui'an","name_zh":"青山宫","pinyin":"Qīngshān Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9101,"lon":118.8674,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huian-qingshan-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A folk-religion temple in Qingshan village, Shanxia town, Hui'an, dedicated to Qingshan Ling'an Zunwang, a mountain deity worshipped across the three old counties of Quanzhou. Its buildings date from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it has been on the national heritage list since 2013."},{"id":"anxi-qingshuiyan-temple","name":"Qingshuiyan Temple","name_zh":"清水岩","pinyin":"Qīngshuǐ Yán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.1271,"lon":118.1139,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anxi-qingshuiyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain temple in Penglai town, Anxi, where the Northern Song monk Qingshui Zushi practised, and the mother temple of his cult, which spread with emigrants to Taiwan and South-East Asia. A pilgrims' stairway climbs to the main Penglai ancestral hall, and the grounds include a sacred spring, an ancient camphor tree, a square pond and a tree whose branches are said all to point north."},{"id":"quanzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Quanzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"泉州府文庙","pinyin":"Quánzhōu Fǔ Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9089,"lon":118.5856,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The prefectural Confucian temple and school of Quanzhou, on this site since the late 10th century and rebuilt in 1137, is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site. Its Dacheng Hall stands under a double-eaved, yellow-tiled hipped roof carried on carved dragon columns, with the school's Minglun Hall alongside. The side halls hold exhibitions on Quanzhou's history, the temple itself and the city's tradition of learning, and three Ming memorial shrines survive around the square."},{"id":"quanzhou-museum","name":"Quanzhou Museum","name_zh":"泉州博物馆","pinyin":"Quánzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9387,"lon":118.5814,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city museum, opened in 2005 in a large building in southern Fujian style at the foot of Mount Qingyuan, north of West Lake Park. Its permanent galleries cover Quanzhou's history and notable people and the culture of the Minnan region, including Nanyin music, local opera and puppetry, drawn from a collection of more than 10,000 objects."},{"id":"quanzhou-oulebao-ocean-kingdom","name":"Quanzhou Oulebao Ocean Kingdom","name_zh":"泉州欧乐堡海洋王国","pinyin":"Quánzhōu Ōulèbǎo Hǎiyáng Wángguó","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8601,"lon":118.7669,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-oulebao-ocean-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seaside theme-park complex at Zhangban on the northern shore of Quanzhou Bay, made up of three parks: a water park, an ocean park with marine-life exhibits and staged shows, and a fairy-tale park with rides. Rated 4A in 2023 and also a provincial tourist resort, it suits families with children."},{"id":"dehua-qudougong-kiln-site","name":"Qudougong Kiln Site (Dehua Kilns)","name_zh":"屈斗宫窑址","pinyin":"Qūdǒugōng Yáozhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.4899,"lon":118.251,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dehua-qudougong-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The excavated remains of a Song–Yuan kiln on the southern slope of Pozhai Hill at Dehua, the porcelain-making town of inland Quanzhou: a dragon kiln divided into chambers, a step towards the later stepped kiln. Found in 1953 and dug in 1976, it forms the Dehua Kilns component of the Quanzhou World Heritage site with the Weilin–Neiban kilns, and a display hall beside it shows more than 600 pieces from Dehua's old kilns."},{"id":"dehua-shiniu-mountain","name":"Shiniu Mountain","name_zh":"石牛山","pinyin":"Shíniú Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.6296,"lon":118.4738,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dehua-shiniu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite mountain in Shuikou town, north-eastern Dehua, named after a great rock on it that looks like a bull, and protected as a national forest park and national geopark. Its main peak rises to 1,782 m, and it is known for steep peaks, oddly shaped rocks and caves, the Daixian twin waterfalls with a total drop of 314 m, and the Shihu Temple, a folk-Taoist shrine."},{"id":"jinjiang-xizi-temple-stone-buddha","name":"Stone Buddha of Xizi Temple","name_zh":"西资寺石佛","pinyin":"Xīzī Sì Shífó","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.546,"lon":118.5894,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-xizi-temple-stone-buddha","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Song-dynasty stone Buddha carvings on Zhuowang Hill in Yanfeng village, Jinjing town, on the south-eastern coast of Jinjiang, kept at the hillside Xizi Temple. Protected by the province since 1985, they were added to the national list in 2013."},{"id":"quanzhou-tianhou-temple","name":"Tianhou Temple, Quanzhou","name_zh":"泉州天后宫","pinyin":"Quánzhōu Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8983,"lon":118.5844,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/quanzhou-tianhou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the sea goddess Mazu founded in 1196 near the old southern gate and river port, and regarded as one of the oldest and highest-ranking Mazu temples in China; many Mazu temples in Taiwan and South-East Asia trace their origin to it. Along its axis stand a gateway with a stage, a main hall with a richly decorated double-eaved roof and a Ming rear hall. It is one of the components of the Quanzhou World Heritage site."},{"id":"nanan-koxinga-tomb","name":"Tomb of Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong)","name_zh":"郑成功墓","pinyin":"Zhèng Chénggōng Mù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.7203,"lon":118.3936,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanan-koxinga-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hillside family tomb of Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), the Ming loyalist commander who defeated the Dutch East India Company on Taiwan at the siege of Fort Zeelandia in 1662 and died suddenly the same year. His remains were brought back to his home district and the tomb was built in 1699, holding him with his son and his father in nine chambers in three rows, fronted by a pair of carved stone columns and a stone lion. Items found in his coffin are shown at the Zheng Chenggong Memorial Hall in nearby Shijing."},{"id":"quangang-tukeng-village","name":"Tukeng Village","name_zh":"土坑村","pinyin":"Tǔkēng Cūn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.1638,"lon":118.9387,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quangang-tukeng-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former harbour village on the southern shore of Meizhou Bay in Houlong town, whose merchants prospered in the Ming and Qing from seaborne trade and from pawnshops, pharmacies, cloth shops and timber yards. Its red-brick mansions stand closely side by side along a grid of four main lanes and five cross lanes, and it is listed as a Famous Historic and Cultural Village of China."},{"id":"jinjiang-wudianshi-historic-quarter","name":"Wudianshi Historic Quarter","name_zh":"五店市","pinyin":"Wǔdiànshì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8205,"lon":118.5741,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-wudianshi-historic-quarter","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A restored historic quarter in central Jinjiang, said to be named after five shops opened here by the Cai clan in the Tang dynasty, with more than 130 Ming, Qing and early modern buildings: red-brick houses, Western-influenced 'fanzai' houses, ancestral halls and temples. Next to a modern shopping centre, it now holds museums and exhibition halls, studios, cafés and teahouses among the old houses."},{"id":"jinjiang-wulin-village","name":"Wulin Traditional Village","name_zh":"梧林传统村落","pinyin":"Wúlín Chuántǒng Cūnluò","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.7576,"lon":118.5913,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-wulin-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 600-year-old home village of emigrants to the Philippines and South-East Asia in Xintang, Jinjiang, with 132 historic buildings: red-brick southern Fujian mansions next to Gothic and Roman-style villas and hybrid 'fanzai' houses that returning emigrants built mainly in the 1930s. Restored from 2018 and opened as a scenic area, it has cafés and restaurants in the old houses and folk performances during festivals."},{"id":"nanan-wutayan-stone-pagodas","name":"Wutayan Stone Pagodas","name_zh":"五塔岩石塔","pinyin":"Wǔtǎyán Shítǎ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9015,"lon":118.469,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-wutayan-stone-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Song-dynasty stone pagodas at Wutayan ('Five Pagodas Rock'), a hillside temple on Longshui Hill near Zhukou village, Guanqiao town, Nan'an. Protected by the province since 1996, they were added to the national list in 2013."},{"id":"anxi-xiheshan-tieguanyin-park","name":"Xiheshan Tieguanyin Culture Park","name_zh":"溪禾山铁观音文化园","pinyin":"Xīhéshān Tiěguānyīn Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.0855,"lon":118.2047,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anxi-xiheshan-tieguanyin-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-themed leisure park on the edge of Anxi town built around Tieguanyin, the oolong tea for which Anxi is famous, and rated 4A in 2022. It combines tea gardens and a tea exhibition hall with flower fields, a lake, glass tea houses and children's play areas, and suits families and tea lovers."},{"id":"quanzhou-yang-amiao-residence","name":"Yang Amiao Residence","name_zh":"杨阿苗故居","pinyin":"Yáng Āmiáo Gùjū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.8857,"lon":118.5491,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-yang-amiao-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house of Yang Amiao, a late-Qing overseas Chinese, built over 18 years from 1894 to 1911 in Tingdian on the southern side of the Jin River. It is a large red-brick residence in the southern Fujian style laid out around five courtyards, with a square pavilion under a rolled roof added in front of the eastern flower hall."},{"id":"nanan-yingliang-stone-natural-history-museum","name":"Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum","name_zh":"英良石材自然历史博物馆","pinyin":"Yīngliáng Shícái Zìrán Lìshǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.6656,"lon":118.4267,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-yingliang-stone-natural-history-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum founded by a local stone merchant near Shuitou, the stone-trading town of Nan'an, in a modern building conceived like a book of stone pages. Its collection of more than 100,000 items runs from meteorites, minerals and gem crystals to fossils, the best known being 'Baby Yingliang', an oviraptorosaur embryo curled inside its egg, and a laboratory lets visitors watch fossils being prepared."},{"id":"yongchun-confucian-temple","name":"Yongchun Confucian Temple","name_zh":"永春文庙","pinyin":"Yǒngchūn Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.3243,"lon":118.2903,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchun-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The county Confucian temple of Yongchun, founded in the 1040s and rebuilt in 1785, on Taocheng Road in the county town. Facing south over some 3,000 m², it has a screen wall, the Lingxing Gate, a semicircular pool, the Ji Gate, side halls and a Dacheng Hall with a double-eaved roof, encircling verandas and four carved stone dragon columns at the front."},{"id":"quanzhou-yuanhe-1916-creative-park","name":"Yuanhe 1916 Creative Industry Park","name_zh":"源和1916创意产业园","pinyin":"Yuánhé 1916 Chuàngyì Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.9161,"lon":118.5745,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-yuanhe-1916-creative-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A creative park in former factory buildings on Xinmen Street at the western edge of Quanzhou's old city, centred on the Yuanhe Tang candied-fruit works founded in 1916 and later joined by neighbouring flour, television and jute mills. Old workshops, a barley store and a red-brick chimney more than 20 m tall have been kept and now house design and craft studios, shops and cafés, with exhibitions on the site's industrial past."},{"id":"dehua-yunlonggu","name":"Yunlonggu Gorge","name_zh":"云龙谷","pinyin":"Yúnlóng Gǔ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":25.6047,"lon":118.1704,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dehua-yunlonggu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge scenic area in Foling village, Guobao township, on the southern slopes of the Daiyun Mountains near Jiuxian Mountain, named after its long winding valley and a small temple, Yunlong Palace. Rated 4A in 2023, it is built around a frog mascot, with walking trails and boardwalks through the wooded valley, gorge rafting, a children's playground, a petting area and a campsite, and suits families."},{"id":"nanan-shijing-zhongxiandi","name":"Zhongxiandi Mansion, Shijing","name_zh":"中宪第","pinyin":"Zhōngxiàn Dì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Quanzhou","lat":24.63,"lon":118.4267,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-shijing-zhongxiandi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Qing-dynasty courtyard mansion on Yanping East Road in Shijing town, Nan'an, built for the family of Zheng Yunjin and known locally as the 'Ninety-Nine Rooms'. It is a protected example of southern Fujian residential architecture, on the national list since 2013."},{"id":"yongan-anzhen-fort","name":"Anzhen Fort","name_zh":"安贞堡","pinyin":"Ānzhēn Bǎo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":25.9918,"lon":117.7593,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongan-anzhen-fort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A huge fortified earthen house in Huainan town, Yong'an, built in 1885–99 by the local gentleman Chi Zhanrui and his son to protect their family from bandits, which it did through three sieges. Behind outer walls of stone and rammed earth 9 m high and 4 m thick, pierced by nearly 200 firing holes, more than 360 rooms are arranged in three courtyards rising 4 m up the slope, and the halls keep a wealth of murals and wood carving. It is regarded as the largest surviving earthen fort in the Sanming area."},{"id":"jianning-anti-encirclement-memorial-park","name":"Central Soviet Area Anti-Encirclement Memorial Park, Jianning","name_zh":"中央苏区反“围剿”纪念园","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Sūqū Fǎn Wéijiǎo Jìniànyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.8447,"lon":116.832,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianning-anti-encirclement-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park in the north of Jianning town on the county's role in the Red Army's campaigns against the Nationalist government's encirclement offensives of 1930–34; Red Army units took Jianning on 31 May 1931 in the last battle of the second campaign. It contains the former headquarters of the leading organs of the First Front Red Army, used in 1931–33, and the former residence of Zhou Enlai as head of its General Political Department, together with an exhibition hall on the campaigns and a bronze sculpture group nearly 100 m long."},{"id":"taining-dajin-lake-geopark","name":"Dajin Lake and Taining Geopark","name_zh":"泰宁大金湖","pinyin":"Tàiníng Dàjīn Hú","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.8681,"lon":117.0722,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taining-dajin-lake-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Taining's 5A scenic area covers the Taining UNESCO Global Geopark, about 490 km² of mainly Danxia red-sandstone landscape, part of which is inscribed in the China Danxia World Heritage Site. Its centrepiece is Dajin Lake, a reservoir filled from 1980 whose winding arms run between red cliffs, rock towers and gorges and are toured by boat, with shoreline sights such as Ganlu Temple. Other zones include the Shangqing Stream, the old county town and Jinnao Mountain."},{"id":"datian-earthen-forts","name":"Datian Earthen Forts","name_zh":"大田土堡群","pinyin":"Dàtián Tǔbǎo Qún","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":25.9477,"lon":117.7532,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day–1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/datian-earthen-forts/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Five fortified earthen houses (tubao) in Datian county make up this national heritage group: Pipa Fort in Jianshe town, Fanglian Fort in Junxi town, Anliang Fort in Taoyuan town, and Tai'an Fort and Guangchong Hall in Xiaohua village, Taihua town, built between the Qianlong reign (1736–95) and 1857. They were built as defensible family homes, with rammed-earth outer walls enclosing halls and living quarters, a building type typical of the hills of central Fujian. Two more forts, Guangyu and Shaohui in Guangping town, are provincial-level monuments."},{"id":"datian-daxianfeng-tea-garden","name":"Daxianfeng 'Tea Beauty' Scenic Area","name_zh":"大仙峰·茶美人","pinyin":"Dàxiān Fēng Chá Měirén","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":25.6212,"lon":117.8718,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datian-daxianfeng-tea-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-themed scenic area around Daxian Peak in Pingshan township, Datian, whose terraced tea gardens have been named among China's 30 most beautiful and whose cherry trees blossom in late winter. Datian grows about 70 per cent of China's 'Oriental Beauty' (meiren) tea, and monks at the Chongsheng Rock temple on Daxian Peak, founded in 1164, are recorded as growing tea around it. The mountain is also a provincial nature reserve."},{"id":"mingxi-dishuiyan-field-hospital","name":"Dishuiyan Red Army Field Hospital Site","name_zh":"滴水岩","pinyin":"Dīshuǐ Yán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.3791,"lon":117.1949,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mingxi-dishuiyan-field-hospital","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst cave about 2.5 km from Mingxi town where the Red Army ran a field hospital from 1931 to 1934, treating more than 250 of its own wounded and some 540 wounded prisoners; the cave had water and gave cover from air attack. A memorial stone marks the 'Former Site of the Red Army Field Hospital', and the area has been developed as a red-tourism scenic area, rated 4A in 2022."},{"id":"sanyuan-gexikao-forest-park","name":"Gexikao National Forest Park","name_zh":"格氏栲国家森林公园","pinyin":"Géshìkǎo Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.172,"lon":117.462,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanyuan-gexikao-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park at Louyuan in Xinkou town, south-west of Sanming, protecting a natural forest of Castanopsis kawakamii (gexikao), a tall evergreen of the beech family listed as near-threatened. The surrounding nature reserve holds about 700 hectares of it, and paths lead through the old trees of a park that is also run as a forest-wellness base."},{"id":"youxi-guifeng-village","name":"Guifeng Village","name_zh":"桂峰村","pinyin":"Guìfēng Cūn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.3055,"lon":118.5324,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youxi-guifeng-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside village in Yangzhong town, north-eastern Youxi, where 39 Ming and Qing buildings with yellow walls and dark tiles are stacked up three slopes around a valley; it is a national historic and cultural village, described as one of the best-preserved old villages in Fujian. It once stood on the road between Youxi and Fuzhou, and old houses such as the Stone Lion House and Louping Hall survive along with stone paths, ancient trees and inscribed tablets. Today it has homestays and tea houses and holds festivals such as an autumn crop-drying festival."},{"id":"youxi-guxi-xinghe","name":"Guxi Xinghe Resort","name_zh":"古溪星河","pinyin":"Gǔxī Xīnghé","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.1245,"lon":118.4849,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youxi-guxi-xinghe","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure resort in the hills of Tangchuan township, eastern Youxi, at about 870 m above sea level, developed since 2016 in what had been an empty mountain valley. It has hotels and homestays, including a hotel in the shape of an earthen tulou, farm fields, children's play areas and a park devoted to the local goddess Ma Xian, and holds seasonal events such as a rape-flower festival and a summer firefly season."},{"id":"jianning-jinnao-mountain-minjiang-source","name":"Jinnao Mountain (Minjiang Source Eco-tourism Area)","name_zh":"闽江源·金铙山","pinyin":"Mǐnjiāng Yuán Jīnnáo Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.7655,"lon":116.9529,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianning-jinnao-mountain-minjiang-source","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The eco-tourism area of Jinnao Mountain in south-eastern Jianning, inside the Minjiang Source national nature reserve; the range's main peak, Baishiding, reaches 1,858 m, and its spur Yanfeng Mountain is taken as the true source of the Min River. The forests hold ancient ginkgo and Japanese cedar, village cattle graze on the upland meadows in summer, and a cable car climbs towards the summit area."},{"id":"youxi-jiufu-mountain","name":"Jiufu Mountain","name_zh":"九阜山","pinyin":"Jiǔfù Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.1158,"lon":118.1001,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youxi-jiufu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area in Xicheng town, south-west of Youxi town, lying within the Jiufushan provincial nature reserve. An eco-tourism zone with a gate, visitor centre and other facilities was built in the reserve's experimental zone from 2013 and rated 4A in 2019. It is also a provincial forest-wellness base whose streams and shady forest draw visitors in summer."},{"id":"taining-jiulongtan","name":"Jiulongtan, Taining","name_zh":"九龙潭","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Tán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.9862,"lon":117.1858,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taining-jiulongtan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Danxia gorge north of Taining town where visitors drift on bamboo rafts between red cliffs and deep green pools. In the evening the 'Dream of Jiulongtan' night tour lights the gorge with projections, installations and a light show. It lies on the road to Shangqing, in the core of the Taining heritage and geopark landscape along with the Shangqing Stream and Zhuangyuan Rock."},{"id":"taining-mingqing-garden","name":"Mingqing Garden, Taining","name_zh":"明清园","pinyin":"Míngqīng Yuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.9148,"lon":117.2041,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taining-mingqing-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum park on the Jinxi River just east of Taining town, made up of dozens of old Ming- and Qing-style buildings collected from elsewhere; the first phase has nine buildings on different themes and a large collection of carved woodwork. Since 2022 one hall, the Baifu Guan, has displayed more than 100 Ming and Qing objects decorated with the character fu (good fortune), such as chests, plaques and steelyards."},{"id":"sanming-ruiyun-mountain","name":"Ruiyun Mountain","name_zh":"瑞云山","pinyin":"Ruìyún Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.3399,"lon":117.6477,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanming-ruiyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small hill scenic area of about 3 km² in Chenda town on the northern edge of Sanming city, combining forest with temple buildings and old rock inscriptions. Its sights include Tianma Rock and Ruiyun Cave, and groves of the rare Sichuan cycad and of ubame oak."},{"id":"sanming-sansteel-industrial-tour","name":"Sansteel Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"三钢工业旅游区","pinyin":"Sāngāng Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.2612,"lon":117.6134,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanming-sansteel-industrial-tour","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Industrial tours inside the works of Fujian Sansteel, the steel producer in the Liexi area of Sanming. The route links the 1958 Industrial Memory Park and Memory Hall, on the city's industrial past, a safety-education hall and three viewing areas in the working plant, where visitors follow steelmaking from molten iron through to the rolling mills. In 2026 it was named among Fujian's first priority projects for industrial tourism."},{"id":"taining-shangshu-di","name":"Shangshu Di, Taining","name_zh":"尚书第","pinyin":"Shàngshū Dì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.9016,"lon":117.1726,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taining-shangshu-di","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming mansion on Shangshu Street in Taining's old town, built in the late Wanli and Tianqi reigns (early 1600s) for Li Chunye, Minister of War: five houses side by side, each with three courtyards, on a plot about 80 m by 50 m. Next to it the Shide Tang, six parallel houses of the Chen family from the early to middle Ming, and several Qing houses and an ancestral hall complete a group often described as one of the most intact sets of Ming town houses in southern China."},{"id":"shaxian-snack-culture-city","name":"Shaxian Snack Culture City","name_zh":"沙县小吃文化城","pinyin":"Shāxiàn Xiǎochī Wénhuà Chéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.3993,"lon":117.7697,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaxian-snack-culture-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A food-themed quarter built from the late 2000s at the foot of Taojin Mountain on the north-west side of Shaxian town, laid out in the style of the mansions of the area's wealthy Ming and Qing families. It is the showcase for Shaxian snacks, the cheap eateries serving wontons (bianrou) and other local dishes that Shaxian people run in thousands of towns across China, and is lined with restaurants and shops."},{"id":"ninghua-shibi-hakka-ancestral-land","name":"Shibi Hakka Ancestral Land","name_zh":"石壁客家祖地","pinyin":"Shíbì Kèjiā Zǔdì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.2533,"lon":116.4829,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ninghua-shibi-hakka-ancestral-land","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shibi in Ninghua county is revered as the cradle of the Hakka people, the place where Hakka forebears settled before spreading south and overseas. The scenic area centres on the Shibi Hakka Ancestral Hall, said to be the largest of its kind and treated as the common ancestral temple of some 120 Hakka surnames; a World Hakka ancestor-worship ceremony has been held here each autumn since 1995."},{"id":"shaxian-shuimei-earthen-forts","name":"Shuimei Earthen Forts","name_zh":"水美土堡群","pinyin":"Shuǐměi Tǔbǎo Qún","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.3494,"lon":117.7198,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaxian-shuimei-earthen-forts","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three fortified earthen houses built by the Zhang family of Shuimei village, Shaxian, between the Daoguang and Tongzhi reigns (1821–74): Shuangji, Shuangxing and the largest, Shuangyuan, which covers about 6,000 m² and climbs the hillside in tiers. Their high, thick walls with a walkway, corner towers and firing holes enclose halls with painted wood carving, and a few Zhang households still live in Shuangyuan. Together they are described as the largest group of earthen forts in Shaxian and the only cluster of forts built side by side in Sanming."},{"id":"jianning-shuiwei-red-army-village","name":"Shuiwei Red Army Village","name_zh":"水尾红军小镇","pinyin":"Shuǐwěi Hóngjūn Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.6675,"lon":116.5537,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianning-shuiwei-red-army-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain village in Kefang township on the Fujian–Jiangxi border which was a rear base of the Red Army and seat of the Jianning county Soviet government in the early 1930s. Restored former sites include the headquarters of the Fujian–Jiangxi guerrilla column, a Red Army hospital, an arsenal, a Soviet-area bank and the Soviet government office, and the village now caters mainly for study groups, with homestays in a converted school."},{"id":"yongan-taoyuan-cave","name":"Taoyuan Cave and Linyin Stone Forest","name_zh":"桃源洞·鳞隐石林","pinyin":"Táoyuán Dòng Línyǐn Shílín","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.0238,"lon":117.4153,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongan-taoyuan-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Danxia landscape scenic area of about 29 km² north-east of Yong'an city, made up of Taoyuan Cave, Baizhang Rock and three other zones; its best-known sight is Yixiantian, a cleft 90 m high and 127 m long that narrows to 0.4 m and is climbed by 206 steps. Rebels of Deng Maoqi's Ming-dynasty uprising held a stockade here, and three gates and stretches of wall remain. The listing also covers the Linyin Stone Forest, a 1.2 km² field of rock pillars about 13 km north-west of the city."},{"id":"ninghua-tiane-cave","name":"Tian'e Cave, Ninghua","name_zh":"天鹅洞","pinyin":"Tiān'é Dòng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.32,"lon":116.8176,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ninghua-tiane-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of limestone caves east of Ninghua town, the core of a 143 km² national geopark of karst landscapes. Tian'e (Swan) Cave is dense with stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone, and visitors take a boat along the Shenfeng underground river, where pillars of rock rise from the water. The caves stay at about 18 °C all year."},{"id":"qingliu-tianfang-yuetan","name":"Tianfang Yuetan Hot Springs","name_zh":"天芳悦潭","pinyin":"Tiānfāng Yuètán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.1724,"lon":116.9268,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingliu-tianfang-yuetan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring and forest-wellness resort at Gaolai near Songkou in eastern Qingliu, in what the county describes as Fujian's densest belt of hot springs. Its pools are fed by natural springs, and visitors can cook eggs in the hot water; the resort is also a provincial water-conservancy scenic area and a holiday base for workers' rest-and-recuperation trips."},{"id":"sanming-wanshouyan-site","name":"Wanshouyan Site","name_zh":"万寿岩遗址","pinyin":"Wànshòuyán Yízhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.2711,"lon":117.4501,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanming-wanshouyan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small, isolated limestone hill at Yanqian, west of Sanming, whose caves hold the oldest known traces of people in Fujian: stone tools from Lingfeng Cave have been dated to about 185,000 years ago, and Chuanfan Cave preserves a stone-paved floor and drainage channel some 30,000–20,000 years old. Saved from quarrying in 2000, the site has had a museum since 2006, the only museum of a Palaeolithic site in Fujian, and opened as a national archaeological site park in 2019. The surrounding Wanshouyan culture-and-tourism town adds parkland, a children's play area themed on early cave life and a library branch in a converted steelworks building."},{"id":"youxi-xiatianxia","name":"Xiatianxia Scenic Area","name_zh":"侠天下","pinyin":"Xiá Tiānxià","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.1505,"lon":118.5504,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youxi-xiatianxia","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A martial-arts (wuxia) themed adventure area in Tangchuan township, eastern Youxi, which opened in 2015 as the county's first A-rated attraction. A plank walkway winds along the cliffs, and the main thrills are a two-level glass suspension bridge and a lift up the cliff built in the shape of a sword."},{"id":"yongan-wartime-capital-sites","name":"Yong'an Wartime Provincial Capital Sites","name_zh":"永安抗战旧址群","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Kàngzhàn Jiùzhǐ Qún","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":25.9571,"lon":117.3181,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongan-wartime-capital-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From 1938 to 1945 Yong'an was Fujian's wartime provincial capital, and twelve buildings used by the provincial government and its offices form this heritage group, listed among the national memorial sites of the War of Resistance against Japan in 2015. Most are old houses in and around Jishan village, about 4 km from the city centre, which held the provincial courts and health and education offices and, at Fuxing Fort, the Kuomintang's Taiwan party branch; the government itself worked from the Confucian temple in the city. Jishan was also where Fujian's music college was founded in 1940, soon one of the country's three national conservatories of the time."},{"id":"jiangle-yuhua-cave","name":"Yuhua Cave","name_zh":"玉华洞","pinyin":"Yùhuá Dòng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.6718,"lon":117.4949,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangle-yuhua-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone cave often described as the largest in Fujian, at the foot of Tianjie Mountain south-east of Jiangle town, with about 6 km of passages through six chambers and three underground streams thick with stalactites and stalagmites. The traveller Xu Xiake explored it in 1628 and compared it favourably with Zhanggong Cave in Yixing, and 17 inscriptions from the Song to the Republican period survive at the entrances and inside."},{"id":"sanming-zhengshun-temple","name":"Zhengshun Temple","name_zh":"正顺庙","pinyin":"Zhèngshùn Miào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.2614,"lon":117.6252,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanming-zhengshun-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the local deity Xie You in the Liexi area of central Sanming, founded in 1233 and regarded as the oldest and best-preserved timber building in the city. The seven-bay main hall is mostly Ming, but its spindle-shaped pillars, column bases and steps survive from the Song, and the gateway carries a 'Zhengshun' plaque said to be in the hand of Emperor Xiaozong. It housed the Sanming Museum from 1986 to 2012 and has held exhibitions again since 2016."},{"id":"youxi-zhu-xi-cultural-park","name":"Zhu Xi Cultural Park","name_zh":"朱子文化园","pinyin":"Zhūzǐ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Sanming","lat":26.1665,"lon":118.1795,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youxi-zhu-xi-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park at the birthplace of the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi, born here in 1130, on Gongshan hill on the south side of Youxi town. At its heart is the Nanxi Academy, founded in 1241 on the site of the house lent to his father where he was born, with the square half-mu pond named after one of his best-known poems; new Song-style buildings around it hold a Zhu Xi museum and further academy halls, and a second phase is being added."},{"id":"jimei-aoyuan-tan-kah-kee-tomb","name":"Aoyuan and the Tomb of Tan Kah Kee","name_zh":"鳌园","pinyin":"Áoyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.5678,"lon":118.1022,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jimei-aoyuan-tan-kah-kee-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled memorial garden on the Jimei waterfront holding the tomb of Tan Kah Kee (1874–1961), the Singapore-based businessman and philanthropist who founded the Jimei schools and Xiamen University; he began building the tomb in 1955 and was buried here in 1961. A long gallery of carved stone panels leads to the Jimei Liberation Monument, and behind it the turtle-shaped tomb is ringed with stone reliefs showing scenes from his life."},{"id":"xiamen-beichen-mountain","name":"Beichen Mountain","name_zh":"北辰山","pinyin":"Běichén Shān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.7925,"lon":118.2368,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-beichen-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill park of about 12 km² in Wuxian town, Tong'an, best known for the Twelve Dragon Pools, a chain of waterfalls and clear pools of different sizes running down a valley from near the top of the hill. It also has cultural spots such as the Hundred Dragon Garden."},{"id":"xiamen-jimei-school-village-and-university-buildings","name":"Early Buildings of Jimei School Village and Xiamen University","name_zh":"集美学村和厦门大学早期建筑","pinyin":"Jíměi Xuécūn hé Xiàmén Dàxué Zǎoqī Jiànzhù","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.5677,"lon":118.0981,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-jimei-school-village-and-university-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Thirty-one school and university buildings put up between the 1920s and the 1950s with money from Tan Kah Kee, in the 'Jiageng style' that combines Western and Chinese elements. They stand in Jimei School Village, the campus town he began in 1913 on the mainland shore facing Xiamen Island, among them the Nanxun and Daonan buildings, and on Xiamen University's main campus by the sea in Siming District."},{"id":"xiamen-fantawild-dreamland","name":"Fantawild Dreamland Xiamen","name_zh":"厦门方特梦幻王国","pinyin":"Xiàmén Fāngtè Mènghuàn Wángguó","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.6823,"lon":118.1688,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-fantawild-dreamland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park in Tong'an District opened in 2013 by the Huaqiang Fantawild group, covering about 40 hectares. Most of its main attractions are large indoor rides and shows using 4D film and other special effects, many on themes from Chinese stories and culture, and it suits a full day out with children."},{"id":"xiamen-huihe-stone-culture-park","name":"Huihe Stone Culture Park","name_zh":"惠和石文化园","pinyin":"Huìhé Shí Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.4903,"lon":118.1461,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-huihe-stone-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park in Huli District devoted to stone carving, with a stone-culture gallery, a stone carving museum, a treasure gallery and a hall of 'stone shadow carving', a southern Fujian craft listed as intangible heritage, plus space for workshops and folk performances. It runs study trips and family activities around stone carving and suits anyone curious about southern Fujian's stone-carving tradition."},{"id":"xiamen-hulishan-fort","name":"Hulishan Fort","name_zh":"胡里山炮台","pinyin":"Húlǐshān Pàotái","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.431,"lon":118.1016,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiamen-hulishan-fort/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A coastal fort on the south-eastern tip of Xiamen Island, completed in 1896 in a mix of European and Chinese styles, with granite ramparts, underground passages, barracks, magazines, lookout posts and a moat. Its main exhibit is a late-19th-century 280 mm Krupp breech-loading coastal gun, about 13 m long, the survivor of the fort's original pair; appraisals by the National Cultural Heritage Administration and the Krupp archive identified it as the largest surviving 19th-century coastal gun. The fort looks out across the water towards Kinmen."},{"id":"xiamen-laoyuanzi-folk-culture-park","name":"Laoyuanzi Folk Culture Park","name_zh":"老院子民俗文化风情园","pinyin":"Lǎoyuànzi Mínsú Wénhuà Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.6264,"lon":118.07,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-laoyuanzi-folk-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A commercial culture park opened in 2015 near Xiamen North Railway Station, with a folk-culture area built in southern Fujian style. Its centrepiece is 'Minnan Legend', a live-action show on southern Fujian history and folk life in which a 3,000-seat moving grandstand carries the audience between outdoor sets, with motorboat stunts, high diving and water effects ending with a statue of the sea goddess Mazu rising from the water."},{"id":"haicang-qingjiao-baijiao-ciji-palaces","name":"Qingjiao and Baijiao Ciji Palaces","name_zh":"青、白礁慈济宫","pinyin":"Qīng-Báijiāo Cíjì Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.489,"lon":117.9691,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haicang-qingjiao-baijiao-ciji-palaces/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Twin founding temples of Baosheng Dadi, the deified Song-dynasty physician Wu Tao, about 3 km apart on either side of the Xiamen–Zhangzhou boundary: the 'east palace' in Qingjiao village, Haicang District, Xiamen, and the 'west palace' in Baijiao village, Jiaomei town, Longhai District, Zhangzhou. Both were founded in the Shaoxing reign of the Southern Song and rebuilt in the Qing with some Song stonework surviving, and they are known for their carved stone dragon columns in southern Fujian style. They are the mother temples of Baosheng Dadi worship in southern Fujian, Taiwan and South-East Asia."},{"id":"xiamen-riyue-valley-hot-spring","name":"Riyue Valley Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"日月谷温泉","pinyin":"Rìyuègǔ Wēnquán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.5616,"lon":117.936,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-riyue-valley-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort at the foot of Tianzhu Mountain in Haicang, with indoor and outdoor thermal pools in gardens styled after South-East Asia, leisure facilities and a hotel. The resort describes its water as a mild, neutral silicate spring."},{"id":"xiamen-prison-break-site","name":"Site of the Xiamen Prison Break","name_zh":"厦门破狱斗争旧址","pinyin":"Xiàmén Pòyù Dòuzhēng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.4472,"lon":118.082,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-prison-break-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Siming county jail on Siming South Road, where on 25 May 1930 an armed Communist team led by Tao Zhu broke in and freed more than 40 imprisoned party members and supporters without loss. Three Republican-era cell blocks and an interrogation room survive inside a brick perimeter wall, and the site is now a small memorial museum with an exhibition on the break-out, replica instruments of torture and restored cells. The event inspired Gao Yunlan's novel 'Annals of a Provincial Town' (Xiaocheng Chunqiu)."},{"id":"xiamen-tianzhu-mountain-forest-park","name":"Tianzhu Mountain Forest Park","name_zh":"天竺山森林公园","pinyin":"Tiānzhúshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.5854,"lon":117.9304,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-tianzhu-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Forested hills in Dongfu, Haicang, on Xiamen's western mainland edge, with lakes and valleys, a bamboo garden of more than 200 kinds of bamboo and around 60 cultural spots, including small Buddhist and Taoist temples such as Longmen Temple and Zhenji Temple. Tianzhu Lake, at its eastern end, mirrors the temples and ridges around it."},{"id":"xiamen-botanical-gardens","name":"Xiamen Botanical Gardens","name_zh":"厦门园林植物园","pinyin":"Xiàmén Yuánlín Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.4534,"lon":118.0908,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiamen-botanical-gardens/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large botanical garden founded in 1960 on Wanshi Hill, close to central Xiamen, covering 4.91 km² and holding more than 9,000 plant species. It is laid out in 16 themed sections, among them a rainforest area, cactus, succulent, palm and bamboo gardens and a large bougainvillea collection, and several old temples such as Wanshilian Temple stand within the grounds."},{"id":"xiamen-chengyi-nature-exploration-museum","name":"Xiamen Chengyi Nature Exploration Museum","name_zh":"厦门诚毅自然探索馆","pinyin":"Xiàmén Chéngyì Zìrán Tànsuǒguǎn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.5959,"lon":118.0525,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-chengyi-nature-exploration-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An indoor family museum in Jimei, opened as the Chengyi Discovery Center with exhibits on space, aviation and navigation, which reopened on 3 July 2026 after a refit as a natural-history centre. Its four new halls, covering 7,260 m², use fossils, dioramas and hands-on displays to tell the story of life on Earth, with material from the National Museum of Natural History, the Hezheng Paleozoological Museum in Gansu and the Yingliang Stone Natural History Museum."},{"id":"xiamen-garden-expo-park","name":"Xiamen Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"厦门园林博览苑","pinyin":"Xiàmén Yuánlín Bólǎnyuàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.5831,"lon":118.0686,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the 6th China International Garden and Flower Expo in 2007, built on Xinglin Bay in Jimei by cutting channels through the bay's central islands to form nine islands joined by 16 bridges. About half of its roughly 10 km² is water, and the islands are laid out as gardens in many different styles, now used for flower shows, recreation and outdoor learning."},{"id":"xiamen-lingling-circus-city","name":"Xiamen Lingling International Circus City","name_zh":"灵玲国际马戏城","pinyin":"Línglíng Guójì Mǎxìchéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Xiamen","lat":24.5914,"lon":118.0468,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiamen-lingling-circus-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A circus-themed resort in Xinglin, Jimei, with a large circus theatre seating about 10,000, an 'animal kingdom' zoo area, a hotel and play areas for children. The theatre stages a resident circus show with acrobats from many countries alongside performing-animal acts."},{"id":"longhai-baitang-bay","name":"Baitang Bay","name_zh":"白塘湾","pinyin":"Báitáng Wān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.2295,"lon":118.0348,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhai-baitang-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baitang Bay, on the coast of Longjiao She Ethnic Township facing Xiamen across the water, has a 3.2-km crescent of sandy beach and the ancient volcanic crater at Niutou Shan, whose rows of basalt columns are nicknamed the 'terracotta warriors of the sea'. The resort area adds a visitor centre, an infinity pool by the sea, a volcano science hall, a container hotel, camping and caravan sites and flower fields."},{"id":"longhai-tianyi-remittance-bureau","name":"Former Tianyi Remittance Bureau","name_zh":"天一总局旧址","pinyin":"Tiānyī Zǒngjú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.485,"lon":117.8375,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhai-tianyi-remittance-bureau","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Tianyi bureau was founded in 1880 by Guo Youpin, an Overseas Chinese merchant in the Philippines, in his home village of Liuchuan to carry letters and money ('qiaopi') between emigrants and their families. By 1911 it had 28 branches in China and South-East Asia, and it handled a large share of southern Fujian's remittances before closing in 1928. The surviving buildings include the Wannan Lou of 1911 and a two-storey Chinese–Western office block of 1921."},{"id":"pinghe-gaofeng-valley","name":"Gaofeng Valley","name_zh":"高峰谷","pinyin":"Gāofēng Gǔ","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.3988,"lon":117.124,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinghe-gaofeng-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Gaofeng Valley is a mountain tea-garden resort near Guanfeng village in Xiazhai town, western Pinghe, run by a Zhangzhou state-owned group around some 1,000 mu (about 67 hectares) of tea gardens. Visitors come for walks through the tea gardens and wooded valley, tea-culture activities and on-site lodging."},{"id":"huaan-guanshe-she-village","name":"Guanshe She Village","name_zh":"官畲","pinyin":"Guānshē","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.9265,"lon":117.5771,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaan-guanshe-she-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanshe is a She ethnic village in the hills of Xinxu town, Hua'an County, promoted as 'Colourful Guanshe' for its brightly painted houses. It opened as a scenic area in 2019 and puts on She cultural events for visitors, such as displays of She wedding customs at holiday times."},{"id":"huaan-dadi-tulou-cluster","name":"Hua'an Tulou (Dadi Cluster)","name_zh":"华安土楼","pinyin":"Huá'ān Tǔlóu","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":25.0236,"lon":117.687,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaan-dadi-tulou-cluster/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Hua'an tulou tourist area centres on the Dadi cluster in Xiandu town: three large earthen houses, Eryi Lou, Nanyang Lou and Dongyang Lou, built by the Jiang family in the Qing dynasty and inscribed in 2008 as part of the Fujian Tulou World Heritage Site. Eryi Lou, built in 1770, has a four-storey outer ring around a single-storey inner ring, and each family's vertical section has its own staircase instead of shared open galleries. The cluster lies some 80 km north-east of the better-known Nanjing and Yongding tulou."},{"id":"zhangzhou-jiangdong-bridge","name":"Jiangdong Bridge","name_zh":"江东桥","pinyin":"Jiāngdōng Qiáo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.5173,"lon":117.7852,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangzhou-jiangdong-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Also known as the Hudu ('Tiger Crossing') Bridge, this crossing of the North Jiulong River began as a pontoon bridge in 1190, became a timber bridge on stone piers in 1210 and was rebuilt in stone after a fire in 1237. Bombing during the Second Sino-Japanese War left only five of the old piers, which were given a reinforced-concrete deck in 1969. Two spans still carry original stone beams about 23 m long, which the historian of science Joseph Needham judged to have no equal elsewhere."},{"id":"yunxiao-jintang-bay","name":"Jintang Bay","name_zh":"金汤湾","pinyin":"Jīntāng Wān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":23.7809,"lon":117.4081,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunxiao-jintang-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jintang Bay is a seaside hot-spring resort at Chendai town on the coast of Yunxiao County, built around a natural seawater hot spring with a high mineral content. Its seawater hot-spring park is the main draw for visitors."},{"id":"zhangzhou-lin-ancestral-hall","name":"Lin Ancestral Hall (Bigan Temple), Zhangzhou","name_zh":"漳州林氏宗祠","pinyin":"Zhāngzhōu Línshì Zōngcí","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.5092,"lon":117.6459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangzhou-lin-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built jointly by the Lin clans of Zhangzhou's seven counties, this ancestral hall on Zhencheng Lane is also called the Bigan Temple, because the Lins honour the ancient Shang-dynasty noble Bigan as their founding ancestor. Its surviving main hall and east corridor are Ming: the three-bay timber hall, under a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, keeps building features of the Song and Yuan periods."},{"id":"longhai-lin-family-charitable-estate","name":"Lin Family Charitable Estate","name_zh":"林氏义庄","pinyin":"Línshì Yìzhuāng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.4947,"lon":117.8486,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhai-lin-family-charitable-estate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This charitable estate was built in 1819–21 by Lin Pinghou, a native of the old Longxi County who made his fortune in Taiwan and founded the Lin Ben Yuan family of Banqiao, to support his clansmen at home. The courtyard complex has 99 rooms over about 2,500 m², and a stele of twelve polished black stone slabs set into the wall records how the estate was founded, funded and run."},{"id":"longhai-lukai-eco-manor","name":"Lukai Eco-Manor","name_zh":"鹭凯生态庄园","pinyin":"Lùkǎi Shēngtài Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.3915,"lon":117.7188,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhai-lukai-eco-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lukai Eco-Manor is a farm resort at Zhouzai village in the Shuangdi Overseas Chinese Farm, a state farm founded in 1960 to resettle Chinese returnees from Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia and other South-East Asian countries. It combines leisure farming with study visits for school groups and suits families looking for a countryside day out near Zhangzhou."},{"id":"dongshan-malan-bay","name":"Malan Bay","name_zh":"马銮湾","pinyin":"Mǎluán Wān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":23.7089,"lon":117.4849,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongshan-malan-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Malan Bay is a broad sandy bay in Kangmei town on the east coast of Dongshan Island, run as a public beach resort area. It makes an easy add-on to the Wind-Moved Rock and old town at Tongling, a few kilometres to the north."},{"id":"huaan-nanshan-palace","name":"Nanshan Palace, Hua'an","name_zh":"南山宫","pinyin":"Nánshān Gōng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.9764,"lon":117.5847,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaan-nanshan-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanshan Palace, on the eastern slope of Nanshan at Qinling village just south of Hua'an town, is a folk temple to the deities Shengzu Daxian and Dutong Sheren, founded in 1275 and rebuilt in 1505. Its main hall, dating from the late Ming or early Qing, is a three-bay timber building with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, an encircling gallery and an octagonal spiral coffered ceiling."},{"id":"pinghe-jiufeng-city-god-temple","name":"Pinghe City God Temple, Jiufeng","name_zh":"平和城隍庙","pinyin":"Pínghé Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.2556,"lon":117.0193,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinghe-jiufeng-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This Qing-dynasty City God temple stands in Jiufeng, which was the seat of Pinghe County from its founding in 1518 until 1949 and is now listed as a national historic and cultural town. A visit can be combined with Jiufeng's old streets and the tulou in the surrounding villages of western Pinghe."},{"id":"pinghe-sanping-temple","name":"Sanping Temple","name_zh":"三平寺","pinyin":"Sānpíng Sì","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.3522,"lon":117.4846,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pinghe-sanping-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Sanping Temple, in the hills of Wenfeng town in eastern Pinghe, grew from the retreat where the Tang Chan monk Yizhong (781–872), revered as the Sanping Patriarch, preached from the 820s. Its present buildings are Qing, and it keeps an edict plaque from Emperor Xuanzong of Tang granting him the title Guangji Dashi, a stone image of the patriarch and a camphor-wood statue of him with movable limbs. Worship of the patriarch spread with emigrants to Taiwan and South-East Asia and is listed as national intangible cultural heritage."},{"id":"changtai-shili-lanshan","name":"Shili Lanshan","name_zh":"十里蓝山","pinyin":"Shílǐ Lánshān","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.647,"lon":117.9389,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changtai-shili-lanshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shili Lanshan is a hillside leisure park in the Mayangxi Eco-Tourism Zone of Changtai, on the boundary with Xiamen, with flower fields, walking trails and a campsite that looks out over the lights of Xiamen after dark. It suits an easy half-day outing from Xiamen or Zhangzhou."},{"id":"zhangpu-southeast-flower-capital","name":"Southeast Flower Capital Expo Park","name_zh":"东南花都","pinyin":"Dōngnán Huādū","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.3303,"lon":117.6813,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangpu-southeast-flower-capital","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This flower park at Xiban village in Zhangpu's Guanxun town is the showground of Zhangzhou's annual flower expo, held here since 1999 and long known as the Cross-Strait Flower Expo; in 2025 it took place as the Southeast Modern Agriculture Expo and Flower Expo. The roads leading to it run through a long corridor of nurseries in one of the area's main flower-growing districts, and the park itself displays flowers, potted plants and nursery trees."},{"id":"zhangpu-tianfu-stone-carving-park","name":"Tianfu 'Crossing to Taiwan' Stone Carving Park","name_zh":"天福“唐山过台湾”石雕园","pinyin":"Tiānfú Tángshān Guò Táiwān Shídiāo Yuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.0589,"lon":117.7064,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangpu-tianfu-stone-carving-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 2003 beside the Tianfu service area on the coastal expressway, this sculpture park was paid for by Li Ruihe, the Taiwan-born founder of the Tianfu tea group, whose ancestors sailed to Taiwan from Zhangpu. About a hundred groups of stone carvings tell the story of the migrants who crossed the strait from southern Fujian to Taiwan ('Tangshan' was their old name for the mainland they left) and of their descendants who later returned to invest, and a second section shows Fujian and Taiwan folk customs."},{"id":"zhangpu-tianfu-tea-museum","name":"Tianfu Tea Museum","name_zh":"天福茶博物院","pinyin":"Tiānfú Chá Bówùyuàn","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.071,"lon":117.5047,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangpu-tianfu-tea-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built by the Tianfu tea group as a non-profit cultural project, this museum complex at the company's tea estate covers about 130 mu (8.7 ha). Its galleries trace some 3,000 years of Chinese tea culture and tea customs in other countries, alongside a hall on the company's history and a hall of calligraphy and painting."},{"id":"changtai-tianzhushan-happy-world","name":"Tianzhushan Happy World","name_zh":"天柱山欢乐大世界","pinyin":"Tiānzhùshān Huānlè Dàshìjiè","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.6186,"lon":117.8557,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changtai-tianzhushan-happy-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This theme park and resort inside the Tianzhu Mountain National Forest Park in Changtai was developed from 2011 and opened in 2017–18. Its centrepiece is an ocean park with a large aquarium tank, alongside an animal park with some 200 species, and staged dolphin and sea-lion shows are put on in its theatre."},{"id":"dongshan-wind-moved-rock","name":"Wind-Moved Rock and Guandi Temple, Dongshan","name_zh":"东山风动石","pinyin":"Dōngshān Fēngdòngshí","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":23.737,"lon":117.5328,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongshan-wind-moved-rock/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On the seaside rocks by the east gate of Tongshan, the stone-walled town built in 1387 to guard the coast against pirates, the Wind-Moved Rock is a huge boulder resting on a tiny base that seems to rock in the wind. The scenic area also takes in the old town's walls and gate and the Dongshan Guandi Temple, founded in 1387 and rebuilt in 1680, from which many of Taiwan's Guandi temples trace their incense. The Ming calligrapher and loyalist Huang Daozhou was born in the town."},{"id":"nanjing-wugengliao-blast-furnaces","name":"Wugengliao Backyard Blast Furnaces","name_zh":"五更寮土高炉群","pinyin":"Wǔgēngliáo Tǔgāolú Qún","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.5903,"lon":117.0783,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjing-wugengliao-blast-furnaces","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Eight cylindrical red-brick blast furnaces, each about 5 m tall, stand in a north–south row at Wugengliao in Shangtian village, the remains of an ironworks set up during the 1958 Great Leap Forward steel campaign. At its height the site had 24 furnaces, but poor-quality iron and difficult transport ended production in April 1960 and most were later demolished."},{"id":"huaan-xianzitan-rock-carvings","name":"Xianzitan Rock Carvings","name_zh":"仙字潭摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Xiānzìtán Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.7137,"lon":117.5764,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaan-xianzitan-rock-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xianzitan, the 'Pool of the Immortals' Writing', at Tainei village near Shajian in southern Hua'an, is named after the ancient carved marks on its cliff face, rock art that the national heritage listing dates to between the Neolithic and the Zhou dynasty. The carvings were among the first sites to be protected by Fujian province, in 1961, and in 2015 the China Rock Art Association put Xianzitan, the only site from Fujian, on its first list of certified rock-art sites."},{"id":"longwen-yundongyan","name":"Yundongyan","name_zh":"云洞岩","pinyin":"Yúndòngyán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.5026,"lon":117.7474,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longwen-yundongyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yundongyan ('Cloud Cave Rock') is a hill of small caves and boulders on the eastern edge of Zhangzhou city whose rocks carry more than 200 inscriptions from the Five Dynasties to the Qing, among them the characters 'Xishan Diyi' ('first among streams and hills') attributed to the Song philosopher Zhu Xi, who lectured here. It is a provincial-level scenic area with paths climbing past the carved rock faces."},{"id":"longhai-dongmei-fanzai-lou","name":"Zeng Family 'Fanzai Lou', Dongmei","name_zh":"东美曾氏番仔楼","pinyin":"Dōngměi Zēngshì Fānzǎilóu","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.4877,"lon":117.8075,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhai-dongmei-fanzai-lou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Completed in 1911 for the Zeng family of Dongmei, this compound of 13 buildings and 99 rooms mixes Chinese and Western styles: a front row of traditional southern Fujian houses, a central block in 'Nanyang Gothic' style and a rear row of red-brick arcaded buildings. It covers more than 5,300 m², laid out in five columns and three rows."},{"id":"zhangpu-confucian-temple","name":"Zhangpu Confucian Temple","name_zh":"漳浦文庙","pinyin":"Zhāngpǔ Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.1152,"lon":117.6105,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangpu-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhangpu's Confucian temple was founded in the Song dynasty and rebuilt in 1369, at the start of the Ming; only its Dacheng Hall survives. The hall, five bays wide and five deep, has a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, a front gallery and elaborate bracket sets under the eaves."},{"id":"zhangpu-coastal-volcano-geopark","name":"Zhangzhou Coastal Volcano National Geopark","name_zh":"漳州滨海火山国家地质公园","pinyin":"Zhāngzhōu Bīnhǎi Huǒshān Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.2082,"lon":118.0214,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangpu-coastal-volcano-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This national geopark protects the volcanic coast of southern Zhangzhou, shaped by eruptions millions of years ago; this scenic area covers its Zhangpu section between Qianting and Fotan. Columnar-jointed basalt, old craters, clusters of gas vents and lava formations line the shore and the offshore islets, notably Linjin Islet. The geopark's ancient crater at Niutou Shan, across the boundary in Longhai, is visited from Baitang Bay."},{"id":"zhangzhou-prefectural-confucian-temple","name":"Zhangzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"漳州府文庙","pinyin":"Zhāngzhōu Fǔ Wénmiào","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.5081,"lon":117.6489,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzhou-prefectural-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1139 and rebuilt in 1482, Zhangzhou's prefectural Confucian temple keeps its ceremonial gate, Dacheng Gate, side halls, terrace and Dacheng Hall in a south-facing compound of about 2,600 m². The five-bay main hall, under a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, shows features of early southern Fujian (Minnan) timber architecture."},{"id":"zhangzhou-stone-memorial-arches","name":"Zhangzhou Stone Memorial Arches","name_zh":"漳州石牌坊","pinyin":"Zhāngzhōu Shí Páifāng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.5083,"lon":117.6472,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangzhou-stone-memorial-arches/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four carved stone memorial archways stand in Zhangzhou's old town: two from the Ming Wanli reign (1605 and 1619) at Shuangmending on Hong Kong Road, honouring the officials Lin Shizhang and Jiang Mengyu, and two from the Qing Kangxi reign on Xinhua East Road, raised for the generals Lan Li (1707) and Xu Feng (1722). Each is a three-bay, five-roofed structure on twelve columns, 11–12.5 m tall, built of alternating grey-blue and white stone and regarded as fine examples of southern Fujian stone carving."},{"id":"zhangpu-zhaojiabao-yianbao","name":"Zhaojiabao and Yi'anbao Fortified Villages","name_zh":"赵家堡—诒安堡","pinyin":"Zhàojiābǎo — Yí'ānbǎo","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.1555,"lon":117.8219,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangpu-zhaojiabao-yianbao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhaojiabao is a walled village built from 1600 by Zhao Fan, a Ming official descended from the Southern Song imperial prince Zhao Ruohe, and enlarged by his son in 1634; its layout and features such as the Bianpai Bridge are said to imitate the Song capital Bianjing (Kaifeng), and Zhao descendants still live inside. Nearby Yi'anbao is a stone-walled fort town built in 1687 by the Qing official Huang Xingzhen, with gate towers, a walkway along the 6.7-m walls and rows of houses with swallowtail roof ridges."},{"id":"longhai-zhenhai-wei","name":"Zhenhai Wei Garrison Town","name_zh":"镇海卫城","pinyin":"Zhènhǎi Wèichéng","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.2585,"lon":118.0932,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhai-zhenhai-wei","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhenhai Wei was a Ming coastal garrison town founded in 1387; abandoned during the early Qing coastal evacuation, it was restored in 1681 as a garrison fort. About 2.7 km of its oval wall of rough stone blocks survives, 4–7 m high, with gates of granite slabs, and inside are three old streets, a Ming stone memorial arch, a City God temple and Ming stone arhat figures."},{"id":"zhangzhou-zhishan-red-building","name":"Zhishan Red Building (Former Headquarters of the East Route Red Army)","name_zh":"芝山红楼","pinyin":"Zhīshān Hónglóu","region_id":"350000","region":"Fujian","city":"Zhangzhou","lat":24.5176,"lon":117.6423,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangzhou-zhishan-red-building","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This three-storey Western-style brick building on the southern slope of Zhishan hill was built as the American trustees' house of the Xunyuan Middle School, a Reformed Church in America school that moved here from Gulangyu in 1925. After the Red Army's East Route Army took Zhangzhou on 20 April 1932, Mao Zedong stayed in the building for more than 20 days. It opened as a revolutionary memorial hall in 1957 and is now a museum on the Red Army's capture of Zhangzhou."},{"id":"yihuang-caoshan-scenic-area","name":"Caoshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"曹山景区","pinyin":"Cáoshān Jǐngqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.5622,"lon":116.1084,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yihuang-caoshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Mount Cao is where the Tang monk Benji taught, and he is counted as the second patriarch of the Caodong school of Chan Buddhism, which spread to Japan as Soto Zen. A cultural-creative street in the scenic area shows Yihuang opera, summer-cloth weaving and other local crafts. The provincial culture department lists it among Fuzhou's wellness destinations."},{"id":"guangchang-china-lotus-yaoxi","name":"China Lotus Scenic Area, Yaoxi","name_zh":"中国莲花景区","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Liánhuā Jǐngqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.5461,"lon":116.3092,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangchang-china-lotus-yaoxi","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yaoxi village in Yiqian town is one of the main lotus-growing areas of Guangchang, a county known as China's home of the white lotus. Its lotus fields were certified by Guinness World Records in July 2016 as the world's largest lotus pond. The flowers are at their best in midsummer."},{"id":"zixi-dajue-stream","name":"Dajue Stream Tourist Zone","name_zh":"大觉溪旅游区","pinyin":"Dàjué Xī Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.7101,"lon":117.1144,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zixi-dajue-stream","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Dajue Stream Tourist Zone is a 7.3 km countryside corridor along a stream in Zixi County, built by the county in 2018. It strings together grape-picking gardens, a bread plaza, guesthouses, a food village, a paragliding base, a pet park, a farming-culture park and seasonal flower fields. It suits visitors who want a gentle rural stop alongside Mount Dajue."},{"id":"yihuang-dasima-paifang","name":"Dasima Memorial Archway","name_zh":"大司马牌坊","pinyin":"Dàsīmǎ Páifāng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.5929,"lon":116.2866,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yihuang-dasima-paifang","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Dasima Archway is a six-column, three-bay memorial archway put up in 1574 to honour Tan Lun, a Ming minister of war who fought the wokou pirates. It is carved in relief and inscribed with the title Dasima and with Tan Lun's name and office. It is a national heritage unit and a quick stop for anyone in Yihuang."},{"id":"dongxiang-foling-park","name":"Foling International Park","name_zh":"佛岭国际公园","pinyin":"Fólǐng Guójì Gōngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":28.2088,"lon":116.62,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongxiang-foling-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Foling International Park is a landscaped park on wooded hills beside a reservoir south of Xiaogang, the district town of Dongxiang. It was laid out around Buddhist, traditional and local-culture themes within a natural setting, and was listed as a 4A scenic area in 2018. The district promotes it as a leisure and wellness destination."},{"id":"jinxi-hougong-campaign-sites","name":"Fourth Counter-Encirclement Campaign Sites, Hougong","name_zh":"中央苏区第四次反“围剿”战役遗址","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Sūqū Dìsì Cì Fǎn Wéijiǎo Zhànyì Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.8176,"lon":116.7631,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxi-hougong-campaign-sites","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Hougong is a village in Zuofang town, Jinxi County, where the Red First Front Army had its headquarters in 1933, during the fourth of the Nationalist government's encirclement campaigns against the Central Soviet Area. The preserved compound includes the headquarters building, the health department and the former quarters of Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang, with exhibitions inside and a memorial hall to the Jinxi campaign. It is one of two parts of a national heritage listing, the other being the Dengxian Bridge battle site in Gugang township, Le'an County."},{"id":"guangchang-ganzhu-old-street","name":"Ganzhu Old Street (Xuyuan Shouzhen), Guangchang","name_zh":"旴源首镇","pinyin":"Xūyuán Shǒuzhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.95,"lon":116.3683,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangchang-ganzhu-old-street","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Ganzhu Old Street is the historic street of Ganzhu, a small town in Guangchang county, and the centre of the Xuyuan Shouzhen scenic area. Eleven old buildings in the Ganzhu district have been restored as part of the Long March National Cultural Park, and seven red-history exhibition halls, among them the former headquarters of the Red Army's 9th Army Corps and an ancestral hall, are linked by a sketching base and walking trails. At holiday periods the street stages themed street performances and folk-music shows."},{"id":"jinxi-huwan-printing-quarter","name":"Huwan Book-Printing Quarter","name_zh":"浒湾书坊建筑群","pinyin":"Hǔwān Shūfāng Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.9197,"lon":116.5355,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxi-huwan-printing-quarter","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Huwan was a major commercial woodblock-printing centre in the Ming and Qing periods, and 14 historic buildings of its book trade are protected as one national heritage unit. They include block-printing workshops, a trading house, a silk shop, a granary and the Xu clan ancestral hall. Wander the old streets to see how a book town was laid out."},{"id":"lean-jinzhu-waterfalls","name":"Jinzhu Waterfalls","name_zh":"金竹飞瀑","pinyin":"Jīnzhú Fēipù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.0381,"lon":115.9368,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lean-jinzhu-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Jinzhu Waterfalls is a forested valley of waterfalls in Jinzhu She ethnic township in the southern mountains of Le'an County, and was named one of Jiangxi's hundred scenic spots. Summers are cool, heavy snow can linger in winter, and the township keeps She customs. Preserved revolution-era sites in the area include former residences of Red Army leaders."},{"id":"lean-jiupu-gorge","name":"Jiupu Gorge","name_zh":"九瀑峡","pinyin":"Jiǔpù Xiá","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.1315,"lon":115.9044,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lean-jiupu-gorge","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Jiupu Gorge, meaning Nine Waterfalls Gorge, is a forested mountain valley of streams and waterfalls in Zhaoxie town in the south of Le'an County, listed as a 4A scenic area in 2020. River rafting is one of the summer activities offered in the valley. A larger resort project around the gorge was under construction in 2023."},{"id":"guangchang-kuibi-lianhui-house","name":"Kuibi Lianhui Residence, Yiqian","name_zh":"奎璧联辉民宅","pinyin":"Kuíbì Liánhuī Mínzhái","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.5579,"lon":116.3213,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangchang-kuibi-lianhui-house","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Kuibi Lianhui is a Qing-dynasty residence and the largest surviving old house in Yiqian village, entered through a gatehouse inscribed with its name. Lotus carving runs through the house, from the timber pillars standing on round wooden bases like lotus seats to a stone second gate with three bands of lotus motifs. It is one of more than fifty Ming and Qing buildings in a village known for its white lotus."},{"id":"lichuan-old-town","name":"Lichuan Old Town","name_zh":"黎川古城","pinyin":"Líchuān Gǔchéng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.289,"lon":116.916,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-old-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Lichuan Old Town is the historic centre of Lichuan, a river town in the south-east of Fuzhou (Jiangxi), with a network of narrow lanes of old houses and shops beside the water. Its Old Street and Xianshi Street are protected as historic districts, and the streets host performances at festivals such as the Lunar New Year. It is a 4A scenic area."},{"id":"fuzhou-jx-lingufeng","name":"Lingu Peak","name_zh":"灵谷峰","pinyin":"Línggǔ Fēng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.9619,"lon":116.4838,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-jx-lingufeng","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Lingu Peak is a wooded hill of a little over 300 m on the eastern outskirts of Fuzhou (Jiangxi), laid out with footpaths and listed as a 4A scenic area in 2018. A local legend ties it to the poet Xie Lingyun, who governed Linchuan, and a Taoist hermitage he founded here. At the Lunar New Year, residents climb it to pray for blessings."},{"id":"lean-liukeng-village","name":"Liukeng Village","name_zh":"流坑古村","pinyin":"Liúkēng Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.2668,"lon":115.7689,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lean-liukeng-village/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Liukeng is a large village of Ming and Qing houses and ancestral halls between a lake and the Niutian river in Le'an County, founded under the Southern Tang in the 10th century and home mostly to the Dong clan. It is nicknamed the First Village of the Ages, has been a national heritage unit since 2001, and was in the first group of national historic and cultural villages in 2003. Old camphor trees line the river downstream."},{"id":"lean-longtu-paifang","name":"Longtu Xueshi and Cishi Chuanfang Gateways","name_zh":"龙图学士和刺史传芳牌楼门","pinyin":"Lóngtú Xuéshì Hé Cìshǐ Chuánfāng Páilóumén","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.1406,"lon":115.7142,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes to 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lean-longtu-paifang/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Two memorial gateways stand side by side, separated by a narrow lane, in Shuikou village in Le'an County. The Longtu Xueshi gateway was first built in 1368, rebuilt in 1473 and put up by the Peng family in memory of their ancestor Peng Yanzhao, while the Cishi Chuanfang gateway dates from the Yuan period and was rebuilt in 1751 for another ancestor, Peng Gan. It is a national heritage unit and a short stop for anyone interested in timber architecture."},{"id":"nancheng-magu-mountain","name":"Magu Mountain","name_zh":"麻姑山","pinyin":"Mágū Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.5393,"lon":116.5751,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nancheng-magu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Magu Mountain is a wooded mountain area west of Nancheng that Taoist tradition counts as the 28th of the 36 lesser cave-heavens, linked with the immortal Magu. In 771 the Tang calligrapher Yan Zhenqing, then prefect of Fuzhou, visited and wrote the Record of the Immortal Altar of Magu Mountain, one of the best-known works of his regular script. The mountain is a 4A scenic area that Fuzhou promotes for wellness stays."},{"id":"lichuan-hufang-min-gan-site","name":"Min-Gan Provincial Committee Site, Hufang","name_zh":"湖坊闽赣省委旧址","pinyin":"Húfāng Mǐn-Gàn Shěngwěi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.3357,"lon":117.0409,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-hufang-min-gan-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"In May 1933 the Min-Gan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party and its revolutionary committee were set up in the Gong family house at Hufang, and in June the Min-Gan military district was established in the Wu clan ancestral hall. The offices moved to Lichuan town in July 1933. Both buildings are protected as one national heritage unit."},{"id":"zixi-dajue-mountain","name":"Mount Dajue","name_zh":"大觉山","pinyin":"Dàjué Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.6968,"lon":117.1559,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zixi-dajue-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Mount Dajue is a forested mountain and canyon area of about 204 sq km on the western side of the Wuyi range in Zixi County, Fuzhou (Jiangxi). A cableway climbs the mountain, Dajue Temple sits inside a large granite cave, and a rafting run threads through the canyon. A cliff-side electric train about 11.8 km long was added in 2024, and a resort town at the foot of the mountain serves as the base."},{"id":"nanfeng-qiawan-village","name":"Qiawan Ancient Village","name_zh":"洽湾船形古镇","pinyin":"Qiàwān Chuánxíng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.2693,"lon":116.5713,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanfeng-qiawan-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Qiawan is a river village on the Canglang River in Nanfeng County whose core is Makou Street, the old river-port street, with more than twenty well-preserved Ming and Qing buildings, among them ancestral halls and old houses, and about a dozen small temples. The best-known building is the Hu clan ancestral hall, built between 1608 and 1623, with three halls, two courtyards and 256 pillars. The village is on China's list of traditional villages and is promoted as a boat-shaped ancient town."},{"id":"fuzhou-jx-sanweng-garden","name":"Sanweng Garden","name_zh":"三翁花园","pinyin":"Sānwēng Huāyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.9316,"lon":116.3472,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-jx-sanweng-garden","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Sanweng Garden is a riverside park in the urban area of Fuzhou (Jiangxi), laid out on both banks of the Fenggang River as seven themed gardens: an amusement park, azalea, Yuming, aquatic-flower, cherry, perennial-flower and rose gardens. It is a place for seasonal blossom and an easy walk, and local day-trip routes pair it with the city's memorials to Wang Anshi and Tang Xianzu. It was listed as a 4A scenic area in 2018."},{"id":"guangchang-shiwuli-stone-house","name":"Shiwuli Stone House, Yiqian","name_zh":"驿前石屋里民宅","pinyin":"Yìqián Shíwūlǐ Mínzhái","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":26.556,"lon":116.3224,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangchang-shiwuli-stone-house","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Shiwuli is a Qing house of 1716 in Yiqian old village, built entirely of polished stone. Two identical buildings are joined and divided into upper, middle and lower halls, with 27 rooms and seven skylight courtyards in all, on a plan 21 m wide and 38.6 m deep. It is a national heritage unit and sits a few minutes' walk from the Kuibi Lianhui residence."},{"id":"yihuang-tangyin-old-town","name":"Tangyin Old Town","name_zh":"棠阴古建筑群","pinyin":"Tángyīn Gǔ Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.4905,"lon":116.3084,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yihuang-tangyin-old-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tangyin is a market town founded in 1031 that grew rich on summer cloth woven from ramie in the Ming and Qing periods. Five of its buildings are national heritage units: the Cheng'en archway, the Bafujun ancestral temple, Yingen Pagoda, the Luo family compound and a Guanmaoting house, and a local history exhibition hall tells the town's story. Around 70 Ming and Qing buildings survive, including houses, ancestral halls, archways, a pagoda and bridges."},{"id":"yihuang-tan-lun-tomb","name":"Tomb of Tan Lun","name_zh":"谭纶墓","pinyin":"Tán Lún Mù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.4919,"lon":116.1868,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yihuang-tan-lun-tomb","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The tomb of Tan Lun, the Ming minister of war who fought the wokou pirates, was built in 1579 and covers about 3,000 sq m in Lianqian village, near Erdu town. It is laid out in five parts: a gate, a sacrificial way, an archway, a spirit way and the burial mound. It is a national heritage unit, and the Yihuang County Museum, also called the Tan Lun Memorial Hall, is in the same village."},{"id":"lichuan-tongsheng-jiuqu-dongli","name":"Tongsheng Jiuqu Dongli Scenic Area","name_zh":"同胜九曲东黎景区","pinyin":"Tóngshèng Jiǔqū Dōnglí Jǐngqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.2323,"lon":116.9024,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-tongsheng-jiuqu-dongli","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tongsheng Jiuqu Dongli is a privately funded leisure and holiday area on the shore of Liaoyuan Reservoir in Rifeng town, Lichuan County. It joins lake and hill scenery to buildings in traditional style, and is planned around leisure, culture and entertainment, sport and wellness. It is a 4A scenic area."},{"id":"nancheng-wannian-bridge","name":"Wannian Bridge","name_zh":"万年桥和聚星塔","pinyin":"Wànnián Qiáo Hé Jùxīng Tǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.5873,"lon":116.6544,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nancheng-wannian-bridge","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Wannian Bridge is a stone arch bridge over the Xu River at Nancheng, begun in 1635 and finished in 1647. It is 411 m long and 10 m high, with 23 arches carried on 24 piers. Juxing Pagoda stands on Wugang hill at the bridge head, so walk across and climb the hill to see the two together."},{"id":"fuzhou-jx-wenchang-li","name":"Wenchang Li","name_zh":"文昌里","pinyin":"Wénchāng Lǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":28.0034,"lon":116.3622,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-jx-wenchang-li","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Wenchang Li is a Ming–Qing-style historic district on the east bank of the Fu River in Fuzhou's old town, a provincially protected quarter with 11 listed buildings and 9 historic buildings among its lanes, shops and food stalls. It is a popular evening destination, with street events and a live-action show, Xun Meng Mudan Ting, based on The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu, the playwright from Fuzhou."},{"id":"fuzhou-jx-xiangaishan-park","name":"Xian'gai Mountain Agricultural Park","name_zh":"仙盖山农业观光园","pinyin":"Xiān'gàishān Nóngyè Guānguāngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.8172,"lon":116.3439,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-jx-xiangaishan-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Xian'gai Mountain Agricultural Park is a hillside leisure park south of Fuzhou (Jiangxi) that combines farming, sightseeing, traditional Chinese medicine and wellness-retirement facilities across more than 200 projects. Visitors come for walks among the farm gardens, a grass-sledding slope and cultural activities. It suits families and groups after a relaxed countryside outing."},{"id":"zixi-yelang-valley","name":"Yelang Valley","name_zh":"野狼谷","pinyin":"Yěláng Gǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.6308,"lon":116.9893,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zixi-yelang-valley","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yelang Valley, meaning Wild Wolf Valley, is a commercial outdoor-themed park in Caoping village, built around a wolf theme and offering wolf-culture experiences. It also has a guesthouse and a motorhome campsite. It is part of the Zhenxiang Countryside belt."},{"id":"fuzhou-jx-yulong-wanshou-palace","name":"Yulong Wanshou Palace","name_zh":"抚州玉隆万寿宫","pinyin":"Fǔzhōu Yùlóng Wànshòu Gōng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.9998,"lon":116.3634,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuzhou-jx-yulong-wanshou-palace","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yulong Wanshou Palace is a temple complex of Ming origin, rebuilt in the Qing, laid out along an east-facing axis of forecourt, gate, opera tower, front hall, Jingyang Shrine and pavilion. The axis is 94.5 m long and the site covers 4,205 sq m, with wing buildings, a Fire God temple and a Taoist priest's lodge at the sides. It is one of the Wanshou Palaces found across Jiangxi and has been a national monument since 2013."},{"id":"zixi-yulongwan-resort","name":"Yulongwan Resort","name_zh":"资溪御龙湾国际旅游度假区","pinyin":"Zīxī Yùlóngwān Guójì Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.8331,"lon":117.1238,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zixi-yulongwan-resort","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yulongwan International Resort is a leisure resort in Yongsheng village, Matoushan town, in the north of Zixi County, rated a 4A scenic area in 2018. Its facilities were listed at that time as a beach area, a leisure corridor, camping tents, a children's playground and a walking trail. Zixi's tourism officials promote it, with Mount Dajue, as a place for fresh air and rest."},{"id":"nanfeng-zenggong-park","name":"Zeng Gong Cultural Park","name_zh":"曾巩文化园","pinyin":"Zēng Gǒng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.1998,"lon":116.5259,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanfeng-zenggong-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Zeng Gong Cultural Park on the southern edge of Nanfeng is built around the memory of Zeng Gong, the Northern Song prose writer counted among the Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song. It holds the Zeng Gong Memorial Museum, opened in 2019 with six galleries, together with the Zeng Wending ancestral hall, a reading rock, an ink pond and cliff inscriptions. Come for the museum and the garden setting."},{"id":"zixi-zhenxiang-countryside","name":"Zhenxiang Countryside","name_zh":"真相乡村旅游景区","pinyin":"Zhēnxiàng Xiāngcūn Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.6152,"lon":116.9782,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zixi-zhenxiang-countryside","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Zhenxiang Countryside is a belt of villages in Wushi town in the south of Zixi County, promoted as one valley and four households: Yelang Valley plus the villages of Changxing, Chenfang, Caoping and Xinyue. Xinyue is a She village that stages folk performances, Chenfang has a restored opera stage and clan hall, and Caoping has rebuilt commune-era buildings with an exhibition on the sent-down youth of that period. The area is a 4A scenic area."},{"id":"jinxi-zhuqiao-village","name":"Zhuqiao Ancient Village","name_zh":"竹桥古村","pinyin":"Zhúqiáo Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Fuzhou","lat":27.9978,"lon":116.7545,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxi-zhuqiao-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Zhuqiao is a Jiangxi village founded in the late Yuan or early Ming that keeps the layout of Ming and Qing Gan-style houses, ancestral halls and memorial archways. It is one of Jinxi's national historic and cultural villages, and foreign guests were taken there during the 2024 Tang Xianzu international theatre month. It is a 4A scenic area."},{"id":"longnan-anjishan","name":"Anjishan Forest Park, Longnan","name_zh":"安基山","pinyin":"Ānjī Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.8381,"lon":114.6603,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longnan-anjishan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Anjishan is a provincial forest park in Chenglong town, west-south-west of Longnan, with dense woodland and a stretch of river. Visitors walk forest paths and take boat trips on the water."},{"id":"shicheng-bagua-nao","name":"Baguanao","name_zh":"八卦脑","pinyin":"Bāguà Nǎo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.5298,"lon":116.4804,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shicheng-bagua-nao","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A high-mountain scenic area in Gaotian town, in the north-east of Shicheng county, promoted by the county as a high-altitude azalea viewing spot. Rice terraces above 1,000 m, planted with the local tribute rice, lie in the same town."},{"id":"quannan-climbing-town","name":"China (Quannan) Climbing Town","name_zh":"中国(全南)攀岩小镇","pinyin":"Zhōngguó (Quánnán) Pānyán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.7894,"lon":114.4769,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quannan-climbing-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A sports-tourism complex in Chengxiang town, on the north-western side of Quannan, built around rock climbing, with a 15 m competition wall, four zones and eleven activity areas, plus a national training base for young climbers. Quannan is the home county of the speed-climbing world champion Zhong Qixin, and the town hosts national climbing events."},{"id":"xinfeng-navel-orange-park","name":"China Gannan Navel Orange Industrial Park","name_zh":"中国赣南脐橙产业园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gànnán Qíchéng Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.2214,"lon":115.0697,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinfeng-navel-orange-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A 5,400-mu (about 360-hectare) agricultural park in Anxi town, developed by the drinks company Nongfu Spring around a 5,000-mu navel orange demonstration orchard. It also has a 6,000 m² orange-culture exhibition hall and a glasshouse seedling nursery, and in 2018 it became Xinfeng county's first national 4A scenic area. It suits visitors interested in how Gannan navel oranges are grown and processed."},{"id":"ruijin-red-army-school-site","name":"Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army School Site, Ruijin","name_zh":"瑞金中央工农红军学校旧址","pinyin":"Ruìjīn Zhōngyāng Gōngnóng Hóngjūn Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8745,"lon":116.0306,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruijin-red-army-school-site/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Five adjoining Yang-clan ancestral halls in Shangyang, in Ruijin's old town, housed the Red Army's officer school in the early 1930s, one hall for each department: general affairs, political work, school affairs, instruction and the club. The brick-and-timber halls were built between 1608 and 1921 and cover about 6,100 square metres. The school ran six courses and trained more than 11,500 cadres under principals who included Liu Bocheng and Ye Jianying, before it was reorganised into the Red Army University and other schools in October 1933."},{"id":"ningdu-cuiweifeng","name":"Cuiweifeng","name_zh":"翠微峰","pinyin":"Cuìwēi Fēng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.5093,"lon":115.9811,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningdu-cuiweifeng","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A cluster of red-sandstone Danxia peaks and cliffs on the north-western edge of Ningdu town, with a path to the summit at Lingxiao Pavilion and a glass walkway on the mountainside. At the end of the Ming dynasty a group of scholars known as the Nine Masters of Yitang lived on the peak and ran a school there. The area closed in November 2022 for a large-scale upgrade and reopened on 1 October 2025."},{"id":"ganxian-dabaoguang-pagoda","name":"Dabaoguang Pagoda","name_zh":"大宝光塔","pinyin":"Dàbǎoguāng Tǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.225,"lon":115.2247,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganxian-dabaoguang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A white-marble memorial pagoda of the Tang dynasty, 4.5 m tall, standing inside the Daijue Hall of Baohua Temple in Tiancun town and also known as the Jade Stone Pagoda. It marks the tomb of the Chan monk Zhizang, who died in 817; the pagoda was destroyed in the suppression of Buddhism in 845, rebuilt in 853 and rebuilt again in 874. It stands on a three-tier Sumeru base, its body holds a small chamber flanked by inscriptions, and it is topped by a four-sided roof and finial, with a Northern Song stele recording its history in front of the hall."},{"id":"anyuan-dongsheng-wei","name":"Dongsheng Wei","name_zh":"东生围","pinyin":"Dōngshēng Wéi","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.0068,"lon":115.3255,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyuan-dongsheng-wei/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large square Hakka walled house built from 1842 in the Qing dynasty and extended three times over 25 years, listed as a national heritage unit in 2013. It faces west and is laid out as a rectangle within a rectangle, with 199 rooms, nine courtyards and 18 halls (locally called nine wells, eighteen halls), and with its outbuildings and outer gate it covers about 30,000 m²."},{"id":"ganzhou-fushou-ditch","name":"Fushou Ditch","name_zh":"福寿沟","pinyin":"Fúshòu Gōu","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8584,"lon":114.9472,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzhou-fushou-ditch","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Fushou Ditch is the Song-dynasty drainage network of Ganzhou's old city, begun in the Northern Song under the local prefect Liu Yi and about 12.6 km long, with sections still used as drains today. Its two main channels, Fu and Shou, are named for the way their routes trace those characters in seal script, and the system works with ponds, silt wells, coin-shaped drain covers and one-way water windows at the river outlets. The Fushougou Museum on Houde Road shows a length of the channel that is still in use."},{"id":"shicheng-ganjiang-source","name":"Gan River Source Scenic Area","name_zh":"赣江源","pinyin":"Gànjiāng Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.0246,"lon":116.3426,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shicheng-ganjiang-source","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A forested mountain area in Ganjiangyuan town, in the far south of Shicheng county, named for the headwaters of the Gan River that Shicheng counts as the river's source. The surrounding hills are protected as the Jiangxi Ganjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, and the scenic area was rated 4A in February 2026."},{"id":"ganzhou-city-wall","name":"Ganzhou City Wall","name_zh":"赣州城墙","pinyin":"Gànzhōu Chéngqiáng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8705,"lon":114.9403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ganzhou-city-wall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The best-preserved stretches of Ganzhou's Song-dynasty city wall run beside the Zhang and Gong rivers on the old city's two river sides, about 3.7 km in all, with brick and stone facing over a rammed-earth core roughly 7 m high. Gates such as Yongjin and Jianchun, bastions and crossbow platforms survive along the walk, and many wall bricks are stamped with reign dates from the Song to the Qing. State media describe it as the largest and best-preserved Song-dynasty city wall in China."},{"id":"ganzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Ganzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"赣州文庙","pinyin":"Gànzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8587,"lon":114.9438,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ganzhou-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Confucian temple founded in 1050 as the school of Gan County, on the site of an earlier Taoist temple. Most of the present buildings date from 1778 and stand in three parallel groups covering about one hectare, with the central axis running from the Dacheng Gate through side halls and shrines to the Dacheng Hall, and the Kuixing Pavilion and a scripture library on the east side."},{"id":"ganzhou-pagodas","name":"Ganzhou Pagodas","name_zh":"赣州佛塔","pinyin":"Gànzhōu Fótǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8593,"lon":114.9448,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour for the Ganzhou pagoda","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzhou-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Five hexagonal pagodas of similar style, built mostly in the Northern Song, are protected together as one national site. They are Ciyun Temple Pagoda in Ganzhou city, Dasheng Temple Pagoda in Xinfeng, Wuwei Temple Pagoda in Anyuan, Baofu Monastery Pagoda in Shicheng and Jiayou Temple Pagoda in Dayu. The pin is on Ciyun Pagoda, the one in Ganzhou's old city."},{"id":"longnan-guanxi-walled-houses","name":"Guanxi Walled Houses","name_zh":"关西围屋","pinyin":"Guānxī Wéiwū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.8474,"lon":114.9403,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longnan-guanxi-walled-houses/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Guanxi Xinwei is a Hakka walled mansion begun in 1798 and completed in 1827 by Xu Mingjun, a near-square block 83 m by 95 m inside 10 m-high walls, with watchtowers at the four corners and 27 gun loops in the walls. The scenic area around it takes in five more houses of the Guanxi group: Xichang, Pengao, Tianxin, Zhenxia and the Dashufang study. Inside, visitors see stone lions, carved window lattices, door-stones and an opera stage."},{"id":"xinfeng-gushan","name":"Gushan Scenic Area, Xinfeng","name_zh":"谷山","pinyin":"Gǔshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.3731,"lon":114.9045,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinfeng-gushan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A wooded hill park on the south-western edge of Xinfeng town, laid out as a forest park and topped by the Xinfeng Pavilion (Xinfeng Ge). It was rated a national 4A scenic area in June 2020."},{"id":"ganxian-hakka-culture-city","name":"Hakka Culture City, Ganxian","name_zh":"客家文化城","pinyin":"Kèjiā Wénhuà Chéng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8643,"lon":115.024,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganxian-hakka-culture-city","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Hakka-culture complex in the south of Meilin, the seat of Ganxian district, laid out as a group of Hakka-style buildings for ceremonies, exhibitions, trade and leisure, and home to the Jiangxi Hakka Museum. Its long cherry-blossom walkway is the main draw in spring, and the Gannan Hakka Culture Tourism Festival opened here in March 2026."},{"id":"huichang-hanxianyan","name":"Hanxianyan Scenic Area","name_zh":"汉仙岩","pinyin":"Hànxiānyán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.1968,"lon":115.7875,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huichang-hanxianyan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A red-sandstone Danxia hill and gorge area in the south of Huichang county, named after the legend that Han Zhongli, one of the Eight Immortals, attained immortality here. Stone carvings of the Eight Immortals stand at the entrance, and the trail climbs through narrow rock clefts past inscriptions cut over several centuries to a small cave linked with him, then drops to a slit-like gorge. Boats on Hanxian Lake give a view of the whole cliff face."},{"id":"xingguo-hongxinggu","name":"Hongxinggu Study Campus, Xingguo","name_zh":"红兴谷","pinyin":"Hóngxīng Gǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.3628,"lon":115.3371,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingguo-hongxinggu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A study and training campus of about 900 mu (60 hectares) on the north-western outskirts of Xingguo town, built by the Jiangxi expressway group and opened in 2023. It is designed to house about 5,000 students at once and receive up to 20,000 visitors a day, and runs study courses built around the county's revolutionary history. It forms part of Xingguo's red-tourism offer alongside the Generals' Park and other sites."},{"id":"ningdu-huangpi-central-bureau-conference-site","name":"Huangpi Site of the Central Bureau's First Enlarged Conference","name_zh":"黄陂中共苏区中央局第一次扩大会议旧址","pinyin":"Huángpí Zhōnggòng Sūqū Zhōngyāngjú Dìyī Cì Kuòdà Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.6907,"lon":115.8305,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningdu-huangpi-central-bureau-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A former village building in Shantang village, Huangpi town, north-west of Ningdu, where the Soviet-area Central Bureau of the Communist Party held its first enlarged conference in 1931, during the Jiangxi Soviet period. It was listed as a provincial site in 2018 and added to the national list in 2019, in the eighth batch."},{"id":"huichang-theatre-town","name":"Huichang Theatre Town","name_zh":"会昌戏剧小镇","pinyin":"Huìchāng Xìjù Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.6037,"lon":115.7799,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day, longer for an evening performance","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huichang-theatre-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A theatre quarter of about 128 mu (roughly 8.5 hectares) in Huichang town, developed with the director Stan Lai, whose father came from Huichang, and opened in January 2024. Old buildings were converted into theatres, including an ancestral hall made into a garden theatre, a former printing works and street houses, and they stand around a 300-year-old tree beside the Huichang Museum, which has a gallery on Lai's work. Seasons of plays and street performances by Chinese and foreign companies are staged here, so what is on depends on the dates."},{"id":"ganzhou-jiangnan-song-city","name":"Jiangnan Song City","name_zh":"江南宋城","pinyin":"Jiāngnán Sòngchéng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.869,"lon":114.9346,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzhou-jiangnan-song-city","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A historic-quarter tourist area of about 50 ha in the northern part of Ganzhou's old city, whose landmarks are Yugutai, the hilltop pavilion on the highest point of the urban area, and Bajing Terrace at the meeting of the Zhang and Gong rivers. The main street is a pedestrian street of Song-style timber buildings, entered through the Junmen gate tower and a plaza with statues of four Song-era figures linked to the city, and an outer zone takes in the Fushou Ditch museum and the Wei family compound. The street and gate tower are modern reconstructions, while the Song-dynasty city wall passes below Yugutai."},{"id":"yudu-jingtang-central-branch-bureau-site","name":"Jingtang Site of the Central Branch Bureau and Government Office","name_zh":"井塘中共中央分局、中央政府办事处旧址","pinyin":"Jǐngtáng Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Fēnjú Zhōngyāng Zhèngfǔ Bànshìchù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8966,"lon":115.6659,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yudu-jingtang-central-branch-bureau-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large brick-and-timber courtyard hall in Jingtang village, Huanglin township, used from late 1934 by the Central Branch Bureau of the Communist Party and the Central Government Office, the bodies that stayed in the Soviet area after the main Red Army set out on the Long March. Xiang Ying, secretary of the Branch Bureau, had his room at the front of the building. It was added to the national list in 2019."},{"id":"dingnan-jiuqu-resort","name":"Jiuqu Resort, Dingnan","name_zh":"九曲度假村","pinyin":"Jiǔqū Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.7228,"lon":115.1677,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingnan-jiuqu-resort","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A holiday resort on the Jiuqu river at Tianjiu town, Dingnan county, set in bamboo woods with a waterfall, boat rides on its lake and a street presenting Hakka intangible heritage. It is a national 4A scenic area and was named one of Jiangxi's summer-retreat destinations in 2023."},{"id":"yudu-long-march-departure-sites","name":"Long March Departure Sites, Yudu","name_zh":"中央红军长征出发地","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Chūfādì","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.9609,"lon":115.4255,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yudu-long-march-departure-sites/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"In October 1934 more than 86,000 Red Army troops gathered around Yudu and crossed the Yudu (Gong) River at night at several crossing points, the start of the Long March. The national heritage listing covers eight sites in and around the town: the east-gate ferry crossing used by the central leadership, other units' crossing points, and the headquarters and lodgings used before the departure, including those of the Central Military Commission, the First and Fifth Army Corps and the Gannan provincial Soviet government. A memorial park on the riverbank at the east-gate crossing has the Central Red Army Long March Departure Memorial Hall and a monument."},{"id":"ruijin-luohan-rock","name":"Luohan Rock, Ruijin","name_zh":"罗汉岩","pinyin":"Luóhàn Yán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.0081,"lon":116.1699,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruijin-luohan-rock","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A red-sandstone (Danxia) scenic area around the Chenshi Reservoir in Rentian town, north-east of Ruijin, where cliffs and oddly shaped rock stacks rise beside a lake. It forms one of the two districts of the Ruijin National Scenic Area, the other being the Yeping–Shazhouba revolutionary sites. The provincial tourism department promotes the wildflowers of spring and summer, and Chenshi is another name for the rock."},{"id":"yudu-luotian-rock-inscriptions","name":"Luotian Rock Inscriptions","name_zh":"罗田岩石刻","pinyin":"Luótián Yán Shíkè","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.9305,"lon":115.412,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yudu-luotian-rock-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A red-sandstone (Danxia) outcrop on the south bank of the Gong River just south of Yudu town, with temple buildings set against the cliff and some seventy inscriptions cut into the rock faces between the Northern Song and the Republic. The earliest dates from 1051, and the carvers include the Song scholar Zhou Dunyi, who left a poem here in 1063, as well as Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang and Wang Yangming."},{"id":"dayu-mei-pass","name":"Mei Pass","name_zh":"梅关","pinyin":"Méiguān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.3337,"lon":114.3396,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dayu-mei-pass/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain pass on the Meiling ridge between Jiangxi and Guangdong, on the old trade road that the Tang chancellor Zhang Jiuling had cut through the Dayu range in 716, about 5 m wide and 8 km long with a paved surface. The Ming-dynasty gate tower is inscribed Southern Guangdong's Mighty Pass on its north face and First Pass of Lingnan on its south face, and the Jiangxi side of the pass and the old road were listed as a national heritage unit in 2006. Plum trees were planted along the route, which gave the pass its name, and the road can be walked."},{"id":"longnan-nan-wudang-mountain","name":"Nan Wudang Mountain","name_zh":"南武当山","pinyin":"Nán Wǔdāng Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.6182,"lon":114.7184,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longnan-nan-wudang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A national scenic area of 13.5 sq km in Wudang town, near the Guangdong border, where 99 red-rock peaks rise from the valley beside National Road 105 to a main summit of 864 m. A stepped path climbs onto the elephant-shaped rock masses, and a suspended walkway, glass walkways, a glass bridge and a viewing platform run among the peaks. The name Wudang comes from a couplet that the Ming philosopher Wang Yangming wrote after climbing it."},{"id":"nankang-furniture-town","name":"Nankang Furniture Town","name_zh":"南康家居小镇","pinyin":"Nánkāng Jiājū Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.7018,"lon":114.7571,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nankang-furniture-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A purpose-built furniture-industry town in Jingba town, planned over 5 km² with a 2 km² core around a lake of more than 300 mu. It has a furniture-culture museum, a rosewood exhibition hall, Hakka walled-house-style buildings and folk performances, and lets visitors watch furniture production lines. It was named a national industrial-tourism demonstration base in 2023."},{"id":"ningdu-xiaoyuan-ningdu-conference-site","name":"Ningdu Conference Site, Xiaoyuan","name_zh":"宁都会议旧址","pinyin":"Níngdū Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.7653,"lon":116.0118,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningdu-xiaoyuan-ningdu-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Zeng family ancestral hall of Xiaoyuan village, built in the Kangxi reign of the Qing and known as the Bangshan Weng hall, where the Soviet-area Central Bureau of the Communist Party held a plenary meeting in early October 1932, known as the Ningdu Conference. The village, in Dongshanba town, has been developed for red tourism, with the hall and a village history hall used as teaching sites and a lotus pond in front."},{"id":"ningdu-uprising-headquarters","name":"Ningdu Uprising Headquarters Site","name_zh":"宁都起义指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Níngdū Qǐyì Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.477,"lon":116.0188,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningdu-uprising-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A two-storey brick-and-timber, western-style house built in 1916 as the pastor's residence of a church, in the centre of Ningdu. On 14 December 1931 the Nationalist 26th Route Army, stationed in Ningdu, announced an uprising and joined the Red Army, which formed it into the Fifth Army Corps. The building now houses the Ningdu Uprising Memorial Hall, whose displays cover the uprising and the Fifth Army Corps."},{"id":"yudu-pingshan","name":"Pingshan Scenic Area, Yudu","name_zh":"屏山","pinyin":"Píngshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.7036,"lon":115.4258,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yudu-pingshan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Pingshan is a mountain in the far south of Yudu county whose summit, at 1,314 m the highest in the county, is covered by about 50,000 mu (roughly 3,300 hectares) of natural grassland. Its slopes have forest, a waterfall and rock formations such as the Immortals Playing Chess stone, and the county describes the area as a summer retreat with lodging and dining. An evening live-action show in the grounds tells of the Red Army's departure from Yudu in the 1930s and shows Hakka wedding customs."},{"id":"longnan-qianxin-town","name":"Qianxin Town, Longnan","name_zh":"虔心小镇","pinyin":"Qiánxīn Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.7332,"lon":114.846,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day, or an overnight stay","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longnan-qianxin-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A hill resort town in Dongkeng village, Lintang township, developed as a wellness and holiday destination with tea growing and forest-based activities; about 100,000 mu (roughly 6,700 hectares) of forest land has been leased to it for that use. The provincial culture and tourism department counts it as a provincial 5A rural tourism site, and it is also a national 4A scenic area. It is a modern resort rather than a historic village, so it suits a few days' stay in the hills more than sightseeing."},{"id":"xunwu-qinglongyan","name":"Qinglongyan Scenic Area","name_zh":"青龙岩","pinyin":"Qīnglóngyán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.8091,"lon":115.6791,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunwu-qinglongyan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Danxia sandstone cliffs in Nanqiao town, south of Xunwu county town, developed as a hot-spring tourist resort. Its landmark is the Lingshi Wall, a red rock face 200 m high and 800 m long, with the Lingshi hot springs at its foot; the water is a mineral spring rich in lithium, radon, metasilicic acid and fluorine. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism's rural-tourism routes feature the springs as a winter trip, best between November and February."},{"id":"ruijin-cradle-of-the-republic","name":"Ruijin Cradle of the Republic Scenic Area","name_zh":"瑞金共和国摇篮景区","pinyin":"Ruìjīn Gònghéguó Yáolán Jǐngqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.9105,"lon":116.0684,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruijin-cradle-of-the-republic","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Ruijin was the seat of the Chinese Soviet Republic's central government from late 1931 until the Long March began in 1934, and this scenic area gathers four sets of sites from that period. They are Yeping, where the first national congress of soviets met in 1931 and offices and residences survive in former village buildings; the Red Well area at Shazhouba, to which the government moved in 1933; the Great Hall of the Second National Congress; and a memorial park with a history museum and a martyrs' memorial hall. Xinhua counts 26 nationally protected sites within the area."},{"id":"anyuan-sanbaishan","name":"Sanbaishan Scenic Area","name_zh":"三百山","pinyin":"Sānbǎi Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.017,"lon":115.452,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyuan-sanbaishan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A forested mountain area in south-eastern Anyuan, on the Jiangxi–Guangdong border, where the Dongjiang (East River), a main water source for Hong Kong and Guangdong, rises. The range also divides the Yangtze and Pearl river basins, and its main peak, Dongyuan Peak, reaches 1,164.5 m. Walkways lead to the East River First Waterfall, a single drop of more than 120 m, and a glass bridge, a plank walkway and a cableway have been added for views over the forest."},{"id":"chongyi-shangbao-terraces","name":"Shangbao Terraces","name_zh":"上堡梯田","pinyin":"Shàngbǎo Tītián","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.7673,"lon":114.0347,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongyi-shangbao-terraces","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Rice terraces of about 51,000 mu (some 3,400 ha) climbing the mountains of north-western Chongyi across Shangbao, Fengzhou and Sishun townships, with a history of more than 2,200 years. The slopes drop nearly 1,000 m and hold up to 62 tiers, watered by old gravity-fed channels. The terraces were inscribed as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in October 2022."},{"id":"ningdu-xiaobu-soviet-central-bureau-site","name":"Site of the Soviet Area Central Bureau, Xiaobu","name_zh":"中共苏区中央局旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Sūqū Zhōngyāngjú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.7859,"lon":115.8359,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningdu-xiaobu-soviet-central-bureau-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A former Gong clan ancestral hall, known locally as Xinwu ('new house'), in Chikan village beside Xiaobu town: a south-facing brick-and-timber building restored in 2008. On 15 January 1931 the Soviet-area Central Bureau of the Communist Party and a central revolutionary military commission were set up here, and Mao Zedong lived in the building. It is the centrepiece of the Xiaobu scenic area, which has a visitor centre and some 18 sites of the early 1930s, among them Zhu De's former residence, the First Front Army headquarters and hundreds of wall slogans."},{"id":"longnan-taiping-bridge","name":"Taiping Bridge, Longnan","name_zh":"太平桥","pinyin":"Tàipíng Qiáo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.656,"lon":114.6268,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longnan-taiping-bridge","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Qing-dynasty covered bridge over the Taiping River in Chetian village, Yangcun town, 50 m long, 4 m wide and 17.2 m high overall. The lower level has three piers and two arches, with the middle pier projecting about 5 m like a ship's prow. The upper level is a brick-and-timber pavilion open on four sides, flanked by a dry arch of 8.4 m span at each end."},{"id":"dingnan-taoyuan-lejing","name":"Taoyuan Lejing Park, Dingnan","name_zh":"桃源乐境","pinyin":"Táoyuán Lèjìng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.7653,"lon":115.0496,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingnan-taoyuan-lejing","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Taoyuan Lejing is a landscaped hill park on the edge of Dingnan town, themed on the 'Peach Blossom Spring' story by the poet Tao Yuanming. It is laid out around lakes in wooded hills and suits families looking for an easy outing from town."},{"id":"quannan-tianlong-mountain","name":"Tianlong Mountain, Quannan","name_zh":"天龙山","pinyin":"Tiānlóng Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.7871,"lon":114.596,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quannan-tianlong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area in Jinlong town, Quannan county, with trails through pine woodland. The county counts it among its four core scenic areas, alongside the Dinglong Taojiang resort, the Climbing Town and Yaxi village, and parts of it have been built as settings from the martial-arts novels of Jin Yong, such as Mantuo Villa. Hotels and guesthouses have been added around the scenic area."},{"id":"ganzhou-tongtian-rock","name":"Tongtian Rock","name_zh":"通天岩","pinyin":"Tōngtiān Yán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.9208,"lon":114.9028,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ganzhou-tongtian-rock/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A red-sandstone (Danxia) hill in Shuixi town, north-west of Ganzhou, whose caves and niches hold hundreds of Buddhist statues and well over a hundred inscriptions from the Song dynasty to the Republic, among them Wang Yangming's. Most of the carvings are Song, apart from a few standing Buddhas at Cuiwei Rock that date from the Tang. It is described as the southernmost grotto complex in mainland China and as the largest cave temple in the Jiangnan region."},{"id":"shicheng-tongtianzhai","name":"Tongtianzhai, Shicheng","name_zh":"通天寨","pinyin":"Tōngtiān Zhài","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.2804,"lon":116.3652,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shicheng-tongtianzhai","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Danxia (red-sandstone) scenic area in Qinjiang town, south-east of Shicheng, rising to a summit of about 600 m. It lies within the Shicheng geopark and is a provincial-level forest park, and the sights the county lists include an old stone wall and the site of Yuyu Temple."},{"id":"ganzhou-wulong-hakka-park","name":"Wulong Hakka Folk Park","name_zh":"五龙客家风情园","pinyin":"Wǔlóng Kèjiā Fēngqíng Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8375,"lon":114.9702,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzhou-wulong-hakka-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large leisure park of more than 2,000 mu (about 130 ha), with some 300 mu of water, on the south-eastern edge of Ganzhou's urban area. It is laid out around an ecology theme with Hakka and dragon-culture motifs, combining lakeside gardens and farm sightseeing with sports and outdoor-training grounds and conference and resort facilities. It suits families and groups wanting a half-day outing within the city."},{"id":"longnan-wushi-wei","name":"Wushi Wei, Longnan","name_zh":"龙南乌石围","pinyin":"Lóngnán Wūshí Wéi","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.6327,"lon":114.6697,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longnan-wushi-wei","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Ming-dynasty Hakka walled house in Yangcun town, built in the Wanli reign (1573–1620) and one of the 376 walled houses of Longnan. It joined the national list in 2019, in the eighth batch, and Longnan's walled houses as a group are on China's tentative list for World Heritage."},{"id":"xingguo-generals-park","name":"Xingguo Generals' Park","name_zh":"苏区干部好作风纪念园","pinyin":"Sūqū Gànbù Hǎo Zuòfēng Jìniànyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.3096,"lon":115.3394,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingguo-generals-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A memorial park of about 508 mu (34 hectares) on the south-western edge of Xingguo town, built around the Soviet-Area Cadres' Work Style exhibition hall, which shows 213 relics, 18 oil paintings and 12 large reconstructed scenes from the Soviet period, including a survey Mao Zedong made in Changgang township. The park, also called Generals' Park, has a generals' hall and a plaza with statues of Mao Zedong, Chen Yi and the 56 generals born in Xingguo, laid out along a Long March route."},{"id":"xingguo-revolutionary-sites","name":"Xingguo Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"兴国革命旧址","pinyin":"Xīngguó Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":26.3288,"lon":115.3477,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingguo-revolutionary-sites/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Five sites in and around Xingguo county town record the county's part in the Jiangxi Soviet of 1929–33. They are the Lianjiang Academy of 1718, where a land-revolution cadre training class was run in 1929; the former Jiangxi Military District headquarters with its reviewing stand; the Central Arsenal site group at Guantian; the hall where the first Jiangxi workers', peasants' and soldiers' congress met in May 1932; and Changgang village, where a survey of the township was made in 1933."},{"id":"xunwu-investigation-site","name":"Xunwu Investigation Site","name_zh":"寻乌调查旧址","pinyin":"Xúnwū Diàochá Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.9503,"lon":115.6444,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunwu-investigation-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A two-storey house of timber and earth with cobble-and-lime walls and a wooden arcade on its south front, built in 1917 as the home of an American missionary at the Matigang Catholic church in the county town. In May 1930 Mao Zedong and Zhu De brought the Fourth Red Army to Xunwu, and the army's front committee and Mao lodged here while he carried out a survey of the county's economy and society. It stands in an experience park in the same neighbourhood with a memorial hall on the survey, the county martyrs' memorial hall and a red-culture street opened in 2024."},{"id":"huichang-yangjiao-water-fort","name":"Yangjiao Water Fort","name_zh":"羊角水堡","pinyin":"Yángjiǎo Shuǐbǎo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.1903,"lon":115.7995,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huichang-yangjiao-water-fort/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Ming-dynasty rural military fort begun in 1544 in Yangjiao village, Junmenling town, and listed as a national heritage unit in 2013. About 861 m of the Ming wall survives with three gates, the east gate being the best preserved, and only the northern stretch has been lost. Watchtowers and the remains of Hakka ancestral halls can still be seen, restoration work began in September 2015, and the walled village is still home to about 1,000 people."},{"id":"shangyou-yangming-lake","name":"Yangming Lake","name_zh":"阳明湖","pinyin":"Yángmíng Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.8392,"lon":114.3971,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangyou-yangming-lake","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A reservoir of about 31 sq km on the border of Shangyou and Chongyi counties, formed by damming the Shangyou River and formerly known as Doushui Lake. Forested hills surround its many bays and islands, 427 bays and 42 islands by the county's count. It is a national forest park and wetland park as well as a 4A scenic area, and Shangyou County took over its operation in September 2022."},{"id":"longnan-yangming-xingu","name":"Yangming Xingu Scenic Area","name_zh":"阳明心谷","pinyin":"Yángmíng Xīngǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.9376,"lon":114.7952,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longnan-yangming-xingu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A landscaped park of about 113 ha on the east bank of the Tao River north of Longnan town, built on reclaimed mining land around the Yushi Xianyan cliff and opened on trial in June 2023. Halfway up the cliff, the Yuxu Cave holds inscriptions, including five poems by the Ming official and philosopher Wang Yangming, written in 1518 after he put down the Sanli uprising, and the cave inscriptions are protected at provincial level. The park's walkways and halls are themed around Wang Yangming's time in Longnan."},{"id":"chongyi-yangmingshan-forest-park","name":"Yangmingshan Forest Park, Chongyi","name_zh":"阳明山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Yángmíngshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.6601,"lon":114.3087,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongyi-yangmingshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A forest park of about 69 sq km on the Hunan–Guangdong–Jiangxi border, rising to 1,259.5 m beside the county town of Chongyi. It was once called Guanyin Mountain, then Yangling in memory of the Ming official Wang Yangming, who put down a rebellion here and set up Chongyi county, and it took its present name in 2017. Its sights include the Lanxi gorge and falls, a small lake called Xiaoyangming Lake, Yunyin Temple and a large bamboo forest."},{"id":"ruijin-yangxi-military-commission-sites","name":"Yangxi Sites: Central Military Commission and Marxism-Communism School","name_zh":"中革军委旧址与马克思共产主义学校旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggé Jūnwěi Jiùzhǐ Yǔ Mǎkèsī Gòngchǎnzhǔyì Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.9205,"lon":116.0609,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruijin-yangxi-military-commission-sites","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Two former clan halls of the Liu family in Yangxi, a hamlet of Yeping township just north-west of the Yeping memorial area, were used by the Chinese Soviet Republic. One housed the Central Revolutionary Military Commission, set up there on 25 November 1931 with Zhu De as chairman, and the other the Marxism-Communism School, a central party school opened in 1933. The State Council listed them separately, in 2013 and 2019."},{"id":"longnan-yanyi-wei","name":"Yanyi Wei, Longnan","name_zh":"燕翼围","pinyin":"Yànyì Wéi","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.6372,"lon":114.6296,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longnan-yanyi-wei/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Hakka walled house in Yangcun town, begun by Lai Fuzhi in 1650 and finished in 1677, rectangular in plan at 41.5 m by 31.8 m with outer walls 14.3 m high. Families still live in it, and visitors can eat Hakka dishes and buy local produce from residents inside; Yangcun village was in the first batch of Chinese traditional villages in 2012. It shares its national listing, from 2001, with Guanxi Xinwei about 39 km to the north-east."},{"id":"dayu-yashan","name":"Yashan, Dayu","name_zh":"丫山","pinyin":"Yāshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.4606,"lon":114.3883,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dayu-yashan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain resort area of more than 30,000 mu in Huanglong town, inside Meiguan National Forest Park and named after its highest peak, Shuangxiu, whose Y-shaped summit gives the place its name (ya means a fork). A 13 km elevated forest boardwalk, a glass walkway and Wolong gorge cross the forest, while the foot of the mountain has the A Duo leisure village and water-play areas and lodging is spread up the slopes. It was designated a national tourism resort in 2023 and suits families wanting a stay in the hills."},{"id":"quannan-yaxi-village","name":"Yaxi Ancient Village","name_zh":"雅溪古村","pinyin":"Yǎxī Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":24.9086,"lon":114.4725,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quannan-yaxi-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Hakka village in Longyuanba town, north of Quannan, notable for two walled houses: Fuxing Wei, built of rammed earth, and Yafeng Wei, built of stone. Visitors walk through courtyards, lanes and ancestral halls, and on festival nights a long fire dragon made of thousands of incense sticks is paraded through the village."},{"id":"anyuan-yongzhen-bridge","name":"Yongzhen Bridge","name_zh":"永镇桥","pinyin":"Yǒngzhèn Qiáo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.1255,"lon":115.2622,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyuan-yongzhen-bridge","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A covered timber bridge on granite piers over a river in Yongzhen village, Xinlong township, built in 1653 in the early Qing by a monk, Ao Liu, who raised the funds, and listed as a national heritage unit in 2013. It is 38.5 m long and 4.3 m wide, with three spans on two piers and two abutments, and a gallery of nine bays on top. Its beams are stacked fir logs laid in a cantilever pattern, with a different layout on the north and south halves."},{"id":"xinfeng-yudai-bridge","name":"Yudai Bridge","name_zh":"玉带桥","pinyin":"Yùdài Qiáo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.1011,"lon":115.0879,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinfeng-yudai-bridge","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A covered arch bridge over the Hushan river in Hushan township, built in 1740 under the Qianlong emperor and listed as a national heritage unit in 2013. It has three stone arches on two piers and curves in plan, with an arc 88.15 m long, a cobbled deck 3.8 m wide and a timber gallery in 32 sections, with a small pavilion that doubles as a shrine at the middle. A local wealthy man, Yu Fengqi, paid for it, which is why it is also called Fengqi Bridge."},{"id":"ruijin-yuxue-ruijing","name":"Yuxue Ruijing Scenic Area","name_zh":"浴血瑞京","pinyin":"Yùxuè Ruìjīng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ganzhou","lat":25.9142,"lon":115.9591,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruijin-yuxue-ruijing","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A red-tourism park in Jieyuan village, west of Ruijin, built around the live outdoor show Yuxue Ruijing, which the provincial tourism department presented in 2020 as the province's first real-scene performance project that visitors can take part in. 'Ruijing' was the name by which Ruijin was known as the capital of the Chinese Soviet Republic in the early 1930s. The park has been rated 4A since 2020."},{"id":"anfu-confucian-temple","name":"Anfu Confucian Temple","name_zh":"安福孔庙","pinyin":"Ānfú Kǒngmiào","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.3845,"lon":114.6075,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anfu-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Confucian temple and former county school, founded in 1081 under the Northern Song and moved to its present site in 1142; the buildings are mostly Qing, restored in 1863. A pool with a stone \"top graduate\" bridge, the Dacheng Gate and the Dacheng Hall stand on the main axis, and the hall has a glazed-tile hip roof and statues of Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi and twenty natives of Anfu. Part of the complex is used for displays on the history of Anfu County."},{"id":"taihe-baikou-city-site","name":"Baikou City Site, Taihe","name_zh":"白口城址","pinyin":"Báikǒu Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.7769,"lon":114.8719,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taihe-baikou-city-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The earthen walls and moat of a walled town of the Han to Jin periods on the south bank of the Gan River at Taihe, covering about 25 hectares in an inverted-trapezoid plan with a smaller inner town in the north. Archaeologists excavated part of it in 2001 and 2004–05 and found about ten gates. Some archaeologists identify it as the seat of the Han county of Luling."},{"id":"jian-bailuzhou-academy","name":"Bailuzhou Academy","name_zh":"白鹭洲书院","pinyin":"Báilùzhōu Shūyuàn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.1213,"lon":114.997,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jian-bailuzhou-academy/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An academy founded in 1241 by the prefect Jiang Wanli on Bailuzhou, an island in the Gan River in the middle of Ji'an, where Wen Tianxiang studied. It was rebuilt many times after floods and wars; the surviving halls, including Fengyue Tower and Yunzhang Pavilion, date from 1863, and a full restoration ran from 2013 to 2015. It later became a school and is now used for public lectures and study programmes."},{"id":"suichuan-baishuixian","name":"Baishuixian, Suichuan","name_zh":"白水仙","pinyin":"Báishuǐxiān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.3329,"lon":114.7227,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichuan-baishuixian","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain scenic area at Baishui village in Bizhou town, known for waterfalls, bamboo and rocks and listed as a provincial scenic area in 1995. The three-tier falls near the Baishuixian temple drop about 86 m, 50 m and 30 m, and the area also has the Seven Star Falls, a narrow cleft about 200 m deep called One-Line Sky, and rock features such as Eagle Beak Cliff. The name comes from the temple, built to honour three sisters recorded in a Qing gazetteer as having become immortals."},{"id":"qingyuan-baiyun-lake-jiangxingu","name":"Baiyun Lake Jiangxin Valley, Qingyuan","name_zh":"白云湖匠心谷","pinyin":"Báiyúnhú Jiàngxīngǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.7859,"lon":115.3396,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-baiyun-lake-jiangxingu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A lakeside wellness-resort area on the Baiyunshan Reservoir (Baiyun Lake) in Qingyuan District, under development since 2024 as a forest ecology-tourism and recuperation area. It combines accommodation, restaurants, exhibition space and water sports including a surfing facility, and has a tourist-boat landing on the shore, with others at Baiyun Bay and Shazhou Island. The first-phase visitor centre was completed in May 2026, so the area is new and still being built out."},{"id":"qingyuan-bixia-ancient-village","name":"Bixia Ancient Village","name_zh":"陂下古村","pinyin":"Bēixià Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.8077,"lon":115.2244,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-bixia-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A village of the Hu clan on the Fushui River in Futian town, founded in the Tang dynasty, with 36 ancestral halls, 18 old wells, three memorial archways, an old academy and polygonal halls rarely seen elsewhere. It was also a base of the 1930s Communist regional government: the first Party congress of south-west Jiangxi met from 22 to 29 March 1930 in the Hu clan's general ancestral hall (Dunren Hall), a nationally listed brick-and-timber building, and the Gonglüe county government moved to the village in 1932. A company now runs the village for visitors, with festival events and a riverside eco-park nearby."},{"id":"suichuan-caolin-red-market-town","name":"Caolin Red Market Town","name_zh":"草林红圩小镇","pinyin":"Cǎolín Hóngxū Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.2515,"lon":114.3935,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichuan-caolin-red-market-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A restored market town in the centre of Caolin, built around an old market street, a lower street, a floating bridge and a shopping street, with a red-poetry hall and a former residence of Mao Zedong; the county describes it as combining market culture, revolutionary history, tea and folk customs. In January 1928 Mao Zedong's force occupied Suichuan and held a mass meeting in the market's Wanshou Temple to announce its policy towards traders, and the market then supplied the Jinggang Mountains base with goods such as salt, cotton and medicine. His 1928 report on the Jinggang Mountains records market days drawing about 20,000 people."},{"id":"taihe-chatan-weir","name":"Chatan Weir","name_zh":"槎滩陂","pinyin":"Chátān Bēi","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.8322,"lon":114.6911,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taihe-chatan-weir","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A weir on the Niuhou River that splits the flow into irrigation canals, begun in the 10th century under the Southern Tang by Zhou Ju, a Southern Tang official, and still irrigating more than 50,000 mu (about 3,300 ha) of farmland. It is listed as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure and is a national water-conservancy scenic area, in a wooded gorge with a village beside the weir and a path along the bank. It is a quiet stop for anyone interested in historic engineering."},{"id":"qingyuan-futian-chengjing-hall","name":"Chengjing Hall, Futian","name_zh":"富田村诚敬堂","pinyin":"Fùtián Cūn Chéngjìngtáng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.8092,"lon":115.2503,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingyuan-futian-chengjing-hall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large ancestral hall in Futian village, begun in the mid-Ming and now mostly of the late Qing, laid out in a T shape with a gatehouse, forecourt, porch pavilion, main hall and ancestor hall. Red Army slogans remain on its inner and outer walls. The national listing groups 23 historic buildings around Futian and Donggu, including residences used by Mao Zedong, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, army hospital sites and former headquarters of the Red Army."},{"id":"jishui-china-jinshi-culture-park","name":"China Jinshi Culture Park, Jishui","name_zh":"中国进士文化园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Jìnshì Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.2052,"lon":115.1222,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishui-china-jinshi-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A classical-style garden park of about 30 hectares on Nanmen Zhou, a peninsula in the Gan River at the southern edge of Jishui town, built around the China Jinshi Museum on the holders of the highest imperial examination degree. Other parts of the park are a library tower, a pavilion for the top scorer, a Confucian temple, an opera stage, a street of scholars' mansions and replica examination cells, with more than 1,100 old books, portraits, calligraphy and paintings on display. Building began in October 2017."},{"id":"jian-county-dafeng-tianyuan","name":"Dafeng Tianyuan, Ji'an County","name_zh":"大丰田园","pinyin":"Dàfēng Tiányuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.0112,"lon":114.842,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jian-county-dafeng-tianyuan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A countryside leisure park in Dunhou town, listed as a provincial 4A rural tourism point in 2021 and a national 4A scenic area in 2022. It is aimed at family day trips from Ji'an and runs events such as evening light shows."},{"id":"jizhou-diaoyuan-village","name":"Diaoyuan Ancient Village","name_zh":"钓源古村","pinyin":"Diàoyuán Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.1881,"lon":114.8388,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jizhou-diaoyuan-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A village in Xingqiao town founded at the end of the Tang as the home of descendants of the Song writer Ouyang Xiu, with more than 150 ancestral halls, academies and houses in the Gan regional style. It is on the national list of traditional villages and is a Historic and Cultural Village of China. In recent years restored houses have been given over to guesthouses, exhibition spaces and creative workshops, and a cherry-blossom avenue leads to the entrance."},{"id":"qingyuan-donggu-base-area","name":"Donggu Revolutionary Base Area, Qingyuan","name_zh":"东固革命根据地","pinyin":"Dōnggù Gémìng Gēnjùdì","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.7263,"lon":115.3917,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-donggu-base-area","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A She ethnic township in the hills of Qingyuan District that became a Communist-held base area after the Donggu uprising of November 1927 and was a main battleground of the first three Nationalist encirclement campaigns of 1930–31. On its main street stands the nationally listed site of the Donggu Civilian Bank, set up in 1928 and merged into the Chinese Soviet state bank in 1932, and the Donggu Revolutionary Base Museum, in a former forestry-station building, shows more than 200 documents and objects on the base and the second campaign of spring 1931. The Donggu martyrs' cemetery joined the national list of martyrs' memorial facilities in February 2025."},{"id":"yongfeng-enjiang-old-town","name":"Enjiang Old Town, Yongfeng","name_zh":"恩江古城","pinyin":"Ēnjiāng Gǔchéng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.3187,"lon":115.4332,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongfeng-enjiang-old-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The restored old quarter of Enjiang, Yongfeng's county town on the Enjiang River, which the county says holds the largest and best-preserved Ming county-town site in Jiangxi: stretches of Ming city wall, an east gate facing the river bridge, and the sites of a county assistant's office and a minister's mansion. More than 160 old buildings have been repaired and the grid of lanes kept, and people still live and shop in the quarter. It is themed on Ouyang Xiu, the Song writer whose family came from Yongfeng, with museums, a Song-style night street and evening light shows."},{"id":"xingan-haimuyuan","name":"Haimuyuan","name_zh":"海木源","pinyin":"Hǎimùyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.5367,"lon":115.5563,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingan-haimuyuan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A valley resort at Muyuan and Haiyuan villages in the hills of Tanqiu township, known for rafting through a bamboo forest in the warmer months. It also has a jungle-crossing course, suspension bridges, a children's play area, the old Xinxia path, a small folk village and a guesthouse complex rated a four-star homestay in 2025. Rhododendrons colour the slopes in spring, and Qipan Mountain, close to 1,000 m, is the high point."},{"id":"jinggangshan","name":"Jinggangshan","name_zh":"井冈山","pinyin":"Jǐnggāngshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.5705,"lon":114.162,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinggangshan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The mountain base where Mao Zedong's forces settled from October 1927 and where Zhu De's troops joined them in April 1928, now a scenic area of eight zones around the town of Ciping, including Huangyangjie, Longtan and the main peak. The farmhouses used as headquarters, residences and a hospital were burned after the Red Army left in January 1929 and were rebuilt to their original form after 1949; they can be visited at Ciping, Dajing, Xiaojing and elsewhere, among forested ridges that are in flower with rhododendrons in April and May. The national heritage listing of 1961, made under the old Ninggang county, also includes sites outside the scenic area: Maoping, Longshi and Gucheng in Jinggangshan City, Sanwan, Longyuankou and the county town in Yongxin county, and the county town of Suichuan."},{"id":"xiajiang-jinmeihua","name":"Jinmeihua Scenic Area, Xiajiang","name_zh":"金梅花","pinyin":"Jīnméihuā","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.5024,"lon":115.2824,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiajiang-jinmeihua","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A tourism area in Jinping ethnic township, which the county calls the only multi-ethnic township in Jiangxi and where it lists nine groups: Jing, Zhuang, Dai, Yao, Miao, Dong, Yi, She and Han. It combines fruit orchards with a market of stalls in minority style, a pomegranate-orchard guesthouse and restaurant, a study base, and crafts such as wax-resist dyeing and traditional papermaking, and holds festivals such as the Third Day of the Third Month in spring. It suits families and groups for a half-day out."},{"id":"jishui-eastern-wu-tomb","name":"Jishui Eastern Wu Tomb","name_zh":"吉水东吴墓","pinyin":"Jíshuǐ Dōngwú Mù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.2053,"lon":115.1348,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishui-eastern-wu-tomb","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large Three Kingdoms brick tomb with a pyramid-shaped domed chamber and a surrounding corridor, found in 1991 during railway construction and dating from the late Eastern Wu period. It was moved about 200 m and rebuilt brick by brick at its present spot, with Jishui County Museum built around it, and more than 120 grave goods in bronze, iron, pottery, porcelain and stone were recovered."},{"id":"jian-county-jizhou-kiln","name":"Jizhou Kiln","name_zh":"吉州窑","pinyin":"Jízhōu Yáo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.0283,"lon":115.013,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jian-county-jizhou-kiln","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The site of a pottery town at Yonghe that made wares from the late Tang to the early Ming, best known for black-glazed tea bowls with leaf and paper-cut decoration. The national archaeological site park keeps 24 kiln mounds, and the Jizhou Kiln Museum shows white, green, qingbai and black-glazed wares, tea bowls, pillows, toys and figurines. A dragon kiln rebuilt in the 1980s is used for wood-firing events, and Yonghe is itself a listed historic town."},{"id":"yongfeng-junbu-first-front-army-hq","name":"Junbu Former Headquarters of the First Front Army, Yongfeng","name_zh":"君埠红一方面军总司令部旧址","pinyin":"Jūnbù Hóng Yī Fāngmiànjūn Zǒngsīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.7072,"lon":115.6662,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongfeng-junbu-first-front-army-hq","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A former Wanshou Palace temple hall in Laoxu village, Junbu township, rebuilt in the Republican period in brick and timber, 17 m wide and 39 m deep, which served as a headquarters of the Red First Front Army. The national listing also covers dozens of related sites across the township, mainly ancestral halls and houses used as army offices, field hospitals and billets, together with former residences of Zhu De, Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang at Zuofang."},{"id":"yongfeng-longgang-qianbiao-stele","name":"Longgang Qianbiao Stele and Xiyang Palace","name_zh":"泷冈阡表碑","pinyin":"Lónggāng Qiānbiǎo Bēi","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.8853,"lon":115.5883,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongfeng-longgang-qianbiao-stele","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A stone stele 2.12 m high, set up by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu on the path to his parents' tomb: the front carries his essay 'Longgang Qianbiao' (1,116 characters in 27 lines) in his own regular script, the back a genealogy of the Ouyang family. It stands in a two-storey pavilion in Xiyang Palace at Shaxi, a former Daoist temple at the Ouyang family home that also holds the Wenzhong ancestral hall, study halls and the joint tomb of Ouyang's parents. The stone is dark-green Qingzhou stone from Shandong."},{"id":"jian-luling-ecology-park","name":"Luling Culture and Ecology Park, Ji'an","name_zh":"庐陵文化生态园","pinyin":"Lúlíng Wénhuà Shēngtài Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.1415,"lon":115.0056,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jian-luling-ecology-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large park on the northern side of Ji'an, laid out in recent years as one of the city's ecological parks and named for Luling, the old name of the Ji'an region. Its lotus ponds draw local visitors in summer, and it makes an easy outdoor stop in the city."},{"id":"luling-new-area-renwengu","name":"Luling Renwengu, Ji'an","name_zh":"古后河人文谷","pinyin":"Gǔ Hòuhé Rénwéngǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.0798,"lon":114.9591,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luling-new-area-renwengu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A district of shops, restaurants and cultural spaces in Ji'an's Luling New Area, laid out along the revived Gu Houhe river and its green corridor. Its centre is Luling Old Street, where a food night market opened in August 2026, and the Luling Renwengu commercial street, which the province listed among its first demonstration commercial streets (reported in January 2023) and which was named in the first batch of national night-time culture and tourism consumption clusters. It is a modern urban development rather than a historic quarter, and suits an evening visit."},{"id":"taihe-majiazhou-camp-site","name":"Majiazhou Concentration Camp Site, Taihe","name_zh":"马家洲集中营旧址","pinyin":"Mǎjiāzhōu Jízhōngyíng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.7494,"lon":114.7857,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taihe-majiazhou-camp-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A camp run by the Nationalist provincial government in Taihe from 1940 to 1945, officially the Jiangxi Youth Training Institute, where almost 500 prisoners, among them senior Communist Party members, were held before the camp moved away in January 1945. The surviving site covers about 5,000 square metres, with the Wang clan ancestral hall, a row of three village houses that includes the main confinement room, 18 smaller houses and an old camphor tree. A memorial park, rated a national 4A scenic area as the Majiazhou Revolutionary History Memorial Park, has been built beside it."},{"id":"qingyuan-meibei-village","name":"Meibei Ancient Village","name_zh":"渼陂古村","pinyin":"Měibēi Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.9425,"lon":115.1153,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-meibei-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A village of more than a thousand years on the Fushui River in Wenpi town, promoted as a water-town \"generals' village\" and developed for visitors with a visitor centre, a trading street, a Wanshou Palace and water activities. Two national heritage sites stand here: the Liang clan's Yongmu Hall, which served as the Red Fourth Army's headquarters in 1930, and the site of the Beitou conference of 7 to 9 February 1930, at which Mao Zedong chaired a joint meeting of Party and army committees that adopted a land law. The listing also covers the home of Liang Xingchu and the Fourth Army's health-corps site at Mingde Hall."},{"id":"jishui-motan-peach-blossom-island","name":"Motan Peach Blossom Island, Jishui","name_zh":"墨潭桃花岛","pinyin":"Mòtán Táohuā Dǎo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.1764,"lon":115.0923,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishui-motan-peach-blossom-island","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A flower and orchard island in the middle of the Gan River south of Jishui town, planted with peach and cherry trees, rape fields and mugwort, and forming the core of the Jihu National Wetland Park. It is laid out for family days out, with children's play areas, a glass footbridge across the river and a craft market. Spring blossom in March is the main draw."},{"id":"anfu-dazhi-peng-family-stone-carvings","name":"Peng Family Stone Carvings, Dazhi","name_zh":"大智彭氏家族石刻","pinyin":"Dàzhì Péngshì Jiāzú Shíkè","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.5547,"lon":114.5728,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anfu-dazhi-peng-family-stone-carvings","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Fifteen natural granite boulders in four clusters along about 1 km of path through Dazhi village carry inscriptions cut between 1447 and 1497 by the Peng family, which produced five jinshi (imperial examination graduates) in four generations. The texts, in regular script, are poems exchanged with friends, epitaphs, tomb markers and records of visits, about 5,300 legible characters in all. Together they record the country life of a Ming official family."},{"id":"qingyuan-mountain-jingju-temple","name":"Qingyuan Mountain and Jingju Temple","name_zh":"青原山","pinyin":"Qīngyuánshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.0604,"lon":115.0481,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyuan-mountain-jingju-temple","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A wooded hill on the south-eastern edge of Ji'an with Jingju Temple, a national key Buddhist temple of the Han areas, founded in the Tang as Anyin Temple and renamed in the Song. It is the temple of the Chan master Xingsi, who taught here until his death in 740 and whose line led to the Caodong school, and the hill has the Qizu Pagoda, the Feilai Pagoda, a mountain pass gate, bridges, a pool and a spring."},{"id":"yongxin-sanwan-reorganisation","name":"Sanwan Reorganisation Site, Yongxin","name_zh":"三湾改编","pinyin":"Sānwān Gǎibiān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.8468,"lon":113.9681,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxin-sanwan-reorganisation","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"On 29 September 1927 the remnant of the Autumn Harvest Uprising force, fewer than 1,000 men, reached Sanwan, and its front committee under Mao Zedong decided at a meeting in the village to reorganise the 700 or so who stayed into a single regiment, with Party branches at company level and soldiers' committees. On 3 October the regiment assembled at the maple slope and set out for the Jinggang Mountains. The scenic area holds four national-level protected sites (Mao Zedong's former residence, the regimental headquarters, the soldiers' committee site and the maple slope), plus a memorial museum, the old village street and a red-maple lake."},{"id":"taihe-shukou-eco-island","name":"Shukou Eco-island, Taihe","name_zh":"蜀口生态岛","pinyin":"Shǔkǒu Shēngtài Dǎo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.7582,"lon":114.8251,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taihe-shukou-eco-island","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An island village in the Gan River at Mashi town, presented by the county as an ecological island. The old village of Shukou was founded in the Southern Song and still has ancestral halls, tombs, steles, plaques and old houses, and the county credits it with 21 jinshi. Paths round the island suit walking, cycling or a boat trip, and the village is known for its local tea and for carp-lantern performances."},{"id":"xiajiang-conference-site","name":"Site of the Xiajiang Conference","name_zh":"峡江会议旧址","pinyin":"Xiájiāng Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.5563,"lon":115.1519,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiajiang-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A late-Qing brick-and-timber house of two halls, with a floor area of 598 square metres, on Hengjie street in the old town of Baqiu. In October 1930, after the Red First Front Army had failed to take Changsha and had captured Ji'an, its general front committee and the Jiangxi provincial action committee held a joint meeting here from 17 to 19 October, chaired by Mao Zedong. The county has funded work on the site's surroundings and its exhibition, and the building is used for on-site lessons."},{"id":"yongxin-xiang-gan-provincial-committee-site","name":"Site of the Xiang-Gan Provincial Committee, Yongxin","name_zh":"湘赣省委机关旧址","pinyin":"Xiānggàn Shěngwěi Jīguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.9428,"lon":114.2436,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxin-xiang-gan-provincial-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Xiao clan's ancestral hall in the centre of Yongxin, built in 1914 of brick and timber, with a church-like front and three halls around two courtyards. The Xiang-Gan provisional provincial Party committee set up its office here on 1 August 1931 and left when the Red Army withdrew from the county town in February 1934. The listing also covers the former headquarters of the Xiang-Gan military district in the grounds of Ren Bishi Middle School."},{"id":"suichuan-taoyuan-terraces","name":"Taoyuan Terraces, Suichuan","name_zh":"桃源梯田","pinyin":"Táoyuán Tītián","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.0477,"lon":114.2443,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suichuan-taoyuan-terraces","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Rice terraces climbing the mountainsides around Taoyuan village in Zuo'an town, in a scenic area of 10 km² made up of six zones: Jiaozi Ding, Wangtian Qiu, Panlong Hui, Yunding Xingsu, Taoyuan Huajie and Yunxiao Xianju. The county describes the terraces as small as saucers and as long as ribbons, changing shape with the seasons, and the area adds mountain walks, farm activities, Hakka customs and an evening light show on the terraces. It makes a day trip for photography and country walking."},{"id":"wanan-tianbei-farmers-painting-village","name":"Tianbei Farmers' Painting Village, Wan'an","name_zh":"田北农民画村","pinyin":"Tiánběi Nóngmínhuà Cūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.627,"lon":114.6243,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanan-tianbei-farmers-painting-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A village near Gaopi town built up as a showcase for Wan'an farmers' painting, the county's folk art, which the county promotes as a cultural-tourism product. The village has been rated a national 4A scenic area and a provincial 5A rural tourism point, and it hosts family activities such as catching loaches and butterflies in the fields. It suits a short stop for anyone curious about rural folk art."},{"id":"qingyuan-wen-tianxiang-tomb","name":"Tomb of Wen Tianxiang","name_zh":"文天祥墓","pinyin":"Wén Tiānxiáng Mù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.771,"lon":115.2892,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingyuan-wen-tianxiang-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The tomb of Wen Tianxiang, the Southern Song chancellor executed in Dadu (now Beijing) in 1283 under the Yuan, who was reburied in his home district the next year. The earth mound is 2.6 m high and 5 m across, with a sacrificial platform, a spirit path and a stone archway in front; the tomb was restored in the Ming and Qing dynasties and rebuilt with provincial funds in 1983 and 1993."},{"id":"wanan-city-wall","name":"Wan'an City Wall","name_zh":"万安城墙","pinyin":"Wàn'ān Chéngqiáng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.458,"lon":114.783,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanan-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"About 1 km of Ming-period brick-and-stone town wall survives along the Gan River in Furong, the county town of Wan'an, with two of its gates, Guanlan and Wuyun, still standing. Building began in 1078 under the Northern Song and the wall was rebuilt in brick and stone in 1512, but most of it was pulled down after 1949. The 1927 Wan'an uprising entered the town through Wuyun Gate and set up the first county-level soviet government in Jiangxi."},{"id":"jishui-yanfang-village","name":"Yanfang Ancient Village","name_zh":"燕坊古村","pinyin":"Yànfāng Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.2159,"lon":115.0775,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishui-yanfang-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A village in Jintan town with a well-preserved Ming and Qing core of lineage halls, academies, memorial archways, houses, ponds and wells linked by lanes paved in stone, set among old camphor trees. The provincial tourism department's description records about 160 historic buildings, including 13 archways; the village was named a provincial historic and cultural village in 2003 and a national one in 2007. Spring Festival customs and markets are held here."},{"id":"jishui-yang-wanli-hometown","name":"Yang Wanli's Hometown, Bantang","name_zh":"杨万里故里","pinyin":"Yáng Wànlǐ Gùlǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.3191,"lon":115.0248,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishui-yang-wanli-hometown","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Bantang village in Huangqiao town was the home of the Southern Song poet Yang Wanli (1127–1206), and the county presents it as the Yang Wanli Poetry and Painting Town. The village keeps his tomb, a provincial protected site, the Yang clan's ancestral hall and the Nanxi bridge among old blue-brick houses, and the site of his former residence has been restored to show how he lived. Scenes from his poems have been recreated, and the village has a study base for school groups."},{"id":"anfu-yangshimu","name":"Yangshimu Scenic Area","name_zh":"羊狮慕","pinyin":"Yángshīmù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.5007,"lon":114.2525,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anfu-yangshimu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A scenic area of 37.5 km² on the Ji'an side of the Wugong Shan range, next to the Wugong Shan 5A area on the Pingxiang side, centred on a granite peak forest whose highest summit, Shisun Peak, is 1,764 m. The name comes from cloud formations that look like sheep and lions chasing each other, and the Song poet Yang Wanli wrote verse on the rock spires rising through the cloud. A high-level walkway gives views of the peaks and the sea of cloud, and walkers can climb to it from below through the Yeniu Waterfall Canyon."},{"id":"anfu-yeniu-waterfall-canyon","name":"Yeniu Waterfall Canyon","name_zh":"野牛瀑大峡谷","pinyin":"Yěniúpù Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.5276,"lon":114.2441,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anfu-yeniu-waterfall-canyon","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A gorge about 13 km long on the Wugong Shan range in Anfu, cut by the Gexian River, with waterfalls, pools, odd rock formations and old pines; it is the walking approach to the Yangshimu peaks. A walkway along the river in the lower gorge passes the Qinglong Falls, about 70 m high, and the Yeniu Falls, about 30 m, and reaches the wide Baiyun Falls. Beyond the end of the walkway the gorge continues as a hiking route."},{"id":"wanan-hongdoushan-wellness-valley","name":"Yew Wellness Valley, Wan'an","name_zh":"红豆杉养生谷","pinyin":"Hóngdòushān Yǎngshēnggǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.5293,"lon":114.5966,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanan-hongdoushan-wellness-valley","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A countryside leisure area near Lutian town, named for its yew trees (more than 300,000, according to a 2023 provincial tourism department article), which the area promotes as a natural oxygen bar. Visitors can walk among the trees and try yew products such as yew wine and yew pillows, and there is a restaurant and guesthouses, with flower-viewing events in spring. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"yongxin-qubai-yuanxia-village","name":"Yuanxia Village, Qubai","name_zh":"曲白院下","pinyin":"Qūbái Yuànxià","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":26.8193,"lon":114.2986,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxin-qubai-yuanxia-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A tourist village in Qubai township laid out in Jiangxi-style old-village architecture, with grey brick and tile, horse-head gables and flagstone lanes. It has a food street and food court, a playground, a guesthouse hotel, a large stage in period style, riverside stilt houses, bars and cafes, so it is more a place for an evening meal and a stay than for historic sights. The province lists it as a 3A rural tourism demonstration site."},{"id":"jian-county-yuntian-lugu","name":"Yuntian Lugu, Ji'an County","name_zh":"云天麓谷","pinyin":"Yúntiān Lùgǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.2428,"lon":114.8992,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jian-county-yuntian-lugu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A rural leisure area in Tongping town, north of Ji'an, built around a large fishing centre, landscaped gardens and orchards of Jinggang mandarins and pomelos. Visitors can fish, pick fruit in season and walk the grounds, which suit families on a day trip from Ji'an. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2022."},{"id":"xiajiang-yuzhi-wellness-valley","name":"Yuzhi Wellness Valley, Xiajiang","name_zh":"玉笥养生谷","pinyin":"Yùsì Yǎngshēnggǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Ji'an","lat":27.5587,"lon":115.2852,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiajiang-yuzhi-wellness-valley","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A wellness park at the foot of Yuzhi Mountain, built around Xiajiang's traditional Chinese medicine industry and opened to visitors in early 2019. It was planned in three zones for wellness experiences, cultural displays and forest recuperation, with exhibits and hands-on spaces on Chinese medicine, set among ancient-style buildings, small bridges and lanterns. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2022 and suits a relaxed half-day outing from the county seat."},{"id":"jingdezhen-ancient-kiln-folk-customs-museum","name":"Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Museum, Jingdezhen","name_zh":"古窑民俗博览区","pinyin":"Gǔyáo Mínsú Bólǎnqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.2872,"lon":117.1793,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingdezhen-ancient-kiln-folk-customs-museum","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An open-air museum complex built around the Zhen Kiln, a Qing-dynasty porcelain kiln that can fire dozens of kinds of ware at high and low temperatures and was lit again in June 2014. The grounds also hold workshops where craftspeople demonstrate hand-made porcelain and kiln firing, a Qing temple to Tong Bin, the kiln master worshipped as the kiln god, and two groups of historic buildings moved here: the Ming Garden, seven Ming buildings from villages in Fuliang, and the Qing Garden of four Qing buildings. It suits visitors who want to see traditional porcelain-making and old kilns in one place."},{"id":"fuliang-ancient-county-yamen","name":"Fuliang Ancient County Yamen","name_zh":"浮梁古县衙","pinyin":"Fúliáng Gǔ Xiànyá","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.3777,"lon":117.2457,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuliang-ancient-county-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The government compound of Fuliang, the county town that long administered the Jingdezhen porcelain area, built in the Daoguang reign (1821–50). The surviving buildings are the gate, a courtyard, the main hall, a second hall, the inner residence and the kitchen, which together make up a Qing magistrate's office and residence. Demonstrations of intangible-heritage crafts for visitors are held on the site."},{"id":"fuliang-gaoling-kaolin-mine","name":"Gaoling Kaolin Mine Site","name_zh":"高岭瓷土矿遗址","pinyin":"Gāolǐng Cítǔkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.4855,"lon":117.5296,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuliang-gaoling-kaolin-mine","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Gaoling (\"High Ridge\") is the hill village whose name gave the world the word kaolin: its white clay, mixed with local porcelain stone, made the thin white porcelain of Jingdezhen possible. The mining area covers about 10 square kilometres of old pits and white spoil slopes, crossed by a mountain trail of about 7 km that miners used to carry washed clay down to the river wharf. Mining has stopped, and the site is one of the five parts of the Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites, inscribed on the World Heritage List in July 2026."},{"id":"leping-guaishilin-stone-forest","name":"Guaishilin Stone Forest, Leping","name_zh":"怪石林","pinyin":"Guàishílín","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":28.7361,"lon":117.2663,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leping-guaishilin-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A scenic area of strangely shaped rock formations on the Wenshan hills where Leping meets Wannian county. It is made up of the stone forest itself, the Water Curtain Cave, a field of boulders and a peak viewpoint, with rocks that look like animals and figures as the main sight."},{"id":"leping-hongyan-xianjing","name":"Hongyan Xianjing Cave, Leping","name_zh":"洪岩仙境","pinyin":"Hóngyán Xiānjìng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.0414,"lon":117.4721,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leping-hongyan-xianjing","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A limestone cave in the foothills of Mao Mountain in north-eastern Leping, about 1.6 km long, with stalactites, an underground waterfall and more than 120 named rock formations. Outside the cave is a stone-forest area of about 9 hectares (140 mu) with a pavilion, and the scenic area also keeps the site of a Song-dynasty study hall of the statesman Hong Hao. The cave stays cool in summer and is promoted as a retreat from the heat."},{"id":"fuliang-huangyao-ceramics-park","name":"Huangyao Ceramics Park","name_zh":"皇窑","pinyin":"Huángyáo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.3258,"lon":117.2968,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuliang-huangyao-ceramics-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A ceramics culture park of about 14 hectares (210 mu) in Xianghu town, laid out in grey-brick, dark-tiled buildings with workshop scenes of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing periods. Visitors can follow the 72 stages of hand-made porcelain from clay to kiln and try some of them, and the park receives school study groups. It is a national demonstration base for hand-made porcelain production and research, so it suits visitors who want a hands-on introduction."},{"id":"jingdezhen-hutian-kiln-site","name":"Hutian Kiln Site and Folk Kiln Museum","name_zh":"湖田古瓷窑址","pinyin":"Hútián Gǔcí Yáozhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.2868,"lon":117.2456,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingdezhen-hutian-kiln-site/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Hutian was a large folk (non-imperial) kiln complex that fired from the Five Dynasties period into the Ming, best known for the pale blue-white qingbai porcelain of the Song dynasty. The Jingdezhen Folk Kiln Museum shows pieces found here, and the excavated site across the road keeps kiln foundations, workshop pits, a Yuan-dynasty brick road and a Ming gourd-shaped kiln, with a Song-Yuan dragon kiln and a Ming kiln under cover on the hillside behind. It is one of the five parts of the Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites, inscribed on the World Heritage List in July 2026."},{"id":"jingdezhen-helicopter-museum","name":"Jiangxi Helicopter Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"江西直升机科技馆","pinyin":"Jiāngxī Zhíshēngjī Kējìguǎn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.2555,"lon":117.1153,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingdezhen-helicopter-museum","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A science museum of about 10,000 square metres inside the grounds of a helicopter maker in Jingdezhen's high-tech zone; the city is one of China's helicopter-building centres and the Z-8 first flew here in 1985. It displays dozens of real helicopters, models and parts, some of which visitors can climb into, and offers virtual-reality flying and engine-assembly experiences and a view of the helicopter production line. It suits families and anyone interested in aviation."},{"id":"jingdezhen-mingfangyuan","name":"Mingfangyuan Ceramics Park","name_zh":"名坊园","pinyin":"Míngfāng Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.3679,"lon":117.179,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingdezhen-mingfangyuan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A ceramics-craft park built in traditional style in the Changnan New District on the north-western edge of Jingdezhen, with a planned area of 1.3 square kilometres. It houses studios of porcelain makers recognised as intangible-heritage practitioners, creation bases of art colleges, the Guoci Pavilion showroom of the Jingdezhen Ceramics Group, and a leisure complex called Jingdezhen Memory with restaurants, bars and performance space. It is a modern development for meeting porcelain makers and shopping for ceramics, not a historic quarter."},{"id":"leping-mingfentang-opera-stage","name":"Mingfentang Opera Stage, Hu'an","name_zh":"名分堂戏台","pinyin":"Míngfèntáng Xìtái","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":28.9017,"lon":117.0389,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/leping-mingfentang-opera-stage/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Mingfentang is the ancestral hall of the Cheng family of Hu'an village, begun in 1817, and its stage was added later and took three years to build. It is a double-sided \"mandarin-duck\" stage, 25 m wide, 12 m deep and 14 m high, with a fair-weather side facing the village square and a rainy-day side facing the main hall, the two backing onto each other. Leping is known as the home of Gan opera and has more than 400 old stages."},{"id":"fuliang-red-pagoda","name":"Red Pagoda, Fuliang","name_zh":"浮梁红塔","pinyin":"Fúliáng Hóngtǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.3759,"lon":117.2462,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuliang-red-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A nine-storey hexagonal brick pagoda, 40.47 m high, on the river road south of the old county yamen in Fuliang, also known as the Dasheng Pagoda. It was first built in 961 under the Northern Song and rebuilt in 1575 in the Ming; the city government restored it over two years from 1984 and reopened it to visitors. It is the landmark of the old county town and a short walk from the yamen."},{"id":"fuliang-shuangfeng-pagoda","name":"Shuangfeng Pagoda, Fuliang","name_zh":"浮梁双峰塔","pinyin":"Fúliáng Shuāngfēng Tǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.7735,"lon":117.2937,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuliang-shuangfeng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A six-sided, five-storey brick pagoda 19 metres high, built in the Tiansheng era (1023–32) of the Northern Song by the Huang family of Legong village on the site of the vanished Shuangfeng Temple. It stands in a gap between two peaks of Baolian Hill, with carved stone Buddha figures in its niches, and two old steles beside it, one Southern Song and one Ming, record the temple's history. It became a national heritage unit in 2019."},{"id":"jingdezhen-taoxichuan","name":"Taoxichuan Creative Quarter","name_zh":"陶溪川文创街区","pinyin":"Táoxīchuān Wénchuàng Jiēqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.298,"lon":117.2305,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingdezhen-taoxichuan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A former state porcelain-factory district east of the old centre, redeveloped from the mid-2010s as a creative quarter. It has artists' studios and ceramic shops, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Taoxichuan Art Museum, a theatre, and markets for ceramics and street food. It shows present-day Jingdezhen, where young potters from across China and abroad work and sell."},{"id":"jingdezhen-xiangjilong-ming-houses","name":"Xiangjilong Ming Houses","name_zh":"祥集弄民宅","pinyin":"Xiángjílòng Mínzhái","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.2963,"lon":117.2006,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingdezhen-xiangjilong-ming-houses/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Two timber-framed Ming houses, Numbers 3 and 11 in Xiangjishang lane, built in the Chenghua reign (1465–87) in the old quarter around the Imperial Kiln site. Both face west and share one plan, with high end walls, fire-gables to the north and south, timber frames and a veranda; Number 11 is the larger, with about 455 square metres of floor space. They are part of the town-centre porcelain production centre, one of the five components of the Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites, inscribed on the World Heritage List in July 2026."},{"id":"fuliang-yaoli-ancient-town","name":"Yaoli Ancient Town","name_zh":"瑶里古镇","pinyin":"Yáolǐ Gǔzhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jingdezhen","lat":29.5487,"lon":117.576,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuliang-yaoli-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain town in northern Fuliang that made porcelain before the Ming and later supplied porcelain clay and tea to Jingdezhen; its old name was written with the character for \"kiln\". Its Ming and Qing streets of Jiangxi-style houses stand along the river, with remains of kilns, workshops, wharves and old pack roads around them. In January 1938 Chen Yi presided here over the reorganisation of Red Army guerrilla units in south China before they moved to Anhui to form the New Fourth Army; the three buildings used, the Hongyi Temple, the Jingyi Hall that was his residence and the Cheng ancestral hall, are a national heritage unit."},{"id":"xiushui-autumn-harvest-headquarters-sites","name":"Autumn Harvest Uprising Headquarters Sites, Xiushui","name_zh":"工农革命军第一军第一师师部及第一团团部旧址","pinyin":"Gōngnóng Gémìngjūn Dìyī Jūn Dìyī Shī Shībù Jí Dìyī Tuán Tuánbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.0373,"lon":114.5652,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushui-autumn-harvest-headquarters-sites","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Two neighbouring sites in the old town of Xiushui, at the foot of Fenghuang Hill: the former headquarters of the 1st Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and the former Fengyan Academy, built in 1864, which housed its 1st Regiment. The division was assembled here in early September 1927, and a flag-presentation ceremony was held on 9 September, the day the Autumn Harvest Uprising began. The Xiushui Autumn Harvest Uprising Memorial Hall, opened close by in 1977, exhibits the background to the uprising and the formation of the division."},{"id":"jiujiang-balihu-lake","name":"Balihu Lake Scenic Area","name_zh":"八里湖","pinyin":"Bālǐ Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.6487,"lon":115.928,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiujiang-balihu-lake","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A lakeside leisure area in Jiujiang's Balihu New District, rated 4A in 2015, with Haiyun Beach, Balihu Park and Wenbo Park around the shore of Balihu Lake. The new district also has a poetry gallery, a museum and a city exhibition hall near the water. It suits an easy walk or picnic rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"dean-boyang-river","name":"Boyang River Scenic Area, De'an","name_zh":"博阳河","pinyin":"Bóyáng Hé","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.3862,"lon":115.6632,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dean-boyang-river","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A river-valley leisure area on the Boyang River at Niejiao town, in wooded hills with farmland along the banks. The main activity is rafting, on a 3.5 km course through woods and fields that suits the warm months, and the valley has also hosted a local folk-culture festival. It was rated 4A in 2020."},{"id":"wuning-changshui","name":"Changshui Scenic Area, Wuning","name_zh":"长水景区","pinyin":"Chángshuǐ Jǐngqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.1922,"lon":115.2523,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuning-changshui","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain-village scenic area around Changshui village, in the foothills of the Jiuling range in south-eastern Wuning, with yew trees, forest cover and a countryside guesthouse. It was rated 4A in 2021 and is paired with Luxi Cave and the Meeting Wuning night show on a one-day cool-summer route listed by the provincial tourism department in 2025. It suits a quiet rural stop rather than a major sight."},{"id":"xiushui-chen-family-hometown","name":"Chen Family Hometown, Xiushui","name_zh":"陈门五杰故里","pinyin":"Chén Mén Wǔ Jié Gùlǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":28.9837,"lon":114.6757,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushui-chen-family-hometown","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A village scenic area built around Fengzhutang, the Chen family's old house at Zhuduan, listed nationally as the former residence of Chen Baozhen and Chen Sanli. The family produced five well-known figures: the reforming official Chen Baozhen, the poet Chen Sanli, the painter Chen Hengke, the scholar Chen Yinke and the botanist Chen Fenghuai. The older block of the house dates from 1793 and has a central courtyard, the newer block from the Guangxu reign, with flagpole stones in front, and the village has a folk-experience area on Hakka farming customs."},{"id":"jiujiang-dasheng-pagoda","name":"Dasheng Pagoda","name_zh":"大胜塔","pinyin":"Dàshèng Tǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7247,"lon":115.9908,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiujiang-dasheng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A six-sided brick pagoda 42.38 m high, standing in the grounds of Nengren Temple in central Jiujiang and so also called the Nengren Temple Pagoda. It has a hollow core, and above the second storey the stairs cut diagonally through the walls from one balcony level to the next, a layout that dates it no earlier than the Song dynasty; the Ming gazetteer records large repairs under the Hongwu and Yongle emperors. It was listed as a provincial site in 1957 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"xiushui-donghuzhai","name":"Donghuzhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"东浒寨","pinyin":"Dōnghǔzhài","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":28.8748,"lon":114.5345,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushui-donghuzhai","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Zhengcun township, Xiushui county, where Jiangxi meets Hunan and Hubei, with red sandstone cliffs, a valley lake and a waterfall of over 30 m in a rock cave. It is named after two nearby hills shaped like a bell and a drum, which gave it the older name Bell-and-Drum Stockade. Its main draws are via ferrata climbing routes totalling about 3 km, a glass-floored bridge over Yinzi Stream and other adventure rides, so it suits active visitors."},{"id":"jiujiang-mobil-oil-site","name":"Former Mobil Oil Company Site, Jiujiang","name_zh":"美孚洋行旧址","pinyin":"Měifú Yángháng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7254,"lon":115.9739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiujiang-mobil-oil-site/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A three-storey brick-and-concrete office building on the Yangtze waterfront in Xunyang District, built for the Standard Oil (Mobil) company, which opened a branch in Jiujiang's British concession in 1910. The southern two thirds dates from 1910 and a smaller northern part from 1918, when the Asiatic Petroleum Company added to it. It recalls Jiujiang's years as a Yangtze treaty port and was listed as a national site in 2006."},{"id":"gongqingcheng-fuhua-mountain","name":"Fuhua Mountain Tourist Area, Gongqingcheng","name_zh":"富华山","pinyin":"Fùhuá Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.2268,"lon":115.8228,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongqingcheng-fuhua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A 4.76 sq km tourist area on the Poyang Lake shore in Gongqingcheng, opened to visitors in November 2023, that gathers a park, a wetland and several museums in one place. It includes the Gongqingcheng Museum, the Jiangxi Ecological Civilisation Exhibition Hall, an aerospace museum named after Qian Xuesen and a Poyang Lake model test base, along with the cemetery of Hu Yaobang, the party leader who named the settlement Gongqing. A newly built commercial street, Shanghai Memory 1955, adds shops and restaurants in the style of old Shanghai, and the area suits families and school groups."},{"id":"gongqingcheng-reclamation-culture-park","name":"Gongqing Reclamation Culture Park","name_zh":"共青垦荒文化体验园","pinyin":"Gòngqīng Kěnhuāng Wénhuà Tǐyànyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.2918,"lon":115.8155,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongqingcheng-reclamation-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A museum-style park on the site of the former Gongqing reclamation farm, where young volunteers from Shanghai began clearing land beside Poyang Lake in 1955; the farm later grew into Gongqingcheng. The old farm buildings have been repaired to look as they did in the 1950s and 1960s, and the park has reclamation tools on display, the site of the original Gongqing collective, a bonfire square, a VR hall and about 17 visiting sections. It suits school groups and anyone interested in how the city began."},{"id":"lushan-city-guanyin-bridge","name":"Guanyin Bridge","name_zh":"观音桥","pinyin":"Guānyīn Qiáo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.5153,"lon":116.0092,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushan-city-guanyin-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A single-span granite arch bridge over the Sanxia Stream at the southern foot of Mount Lushan, built in 1014 under the Northern Song and one of the oldest surviving stone arch bridges in China. It is made of 107 granite blocks joined by tongue-and-groove joints without mortar, and the date is carved on the arch. Poets from Su Shi and Huang Tingjian to Zhu Xi wrote about it, and it stands beside Qixian Temple."},{"id":"jiujiang-gutang-customs-house","name":"Gutang Customs House","name_zh":"姑塘海关旧址","pinyin":"Gūtáng Hǎiguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.6286,"lon":116.1386,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiujiang-gutang-customs-house","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A group of three Western-style brick-and-timber buildings (a tax office, an administration office and staff quarters) at Gutang, near where Poyang Lake meets the Yangtze. A customs post was set up here in 1723 under the Qing; the surviving buildings date from 1902, and the Lianxi district government describes them as the only fairly complete modern customs station left in Jiangxi. The site is promoted as the first pass on the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tea Road, with displays on its history in the buildings."},{"id":"xiushui-huang-tingjian-hometown","name":"Huang Tingjian's Hometown, Shuangjing","name_zh":"黄庭坚故里","pinyin":"Huáng Tíngjiān Gùlǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.0469,"lon":114.4865,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushui-huang-tingjian-hometown","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The village of Shuangjing on the Xiu River, birthplace of the Northern Song poet and calligrapher Huang Tingjian, laid out as a scenic area since 2017 so that the whole village forms the attraction. It has a newly built commercial old street, the Shuangjing Jinshi Garden recalling the village's many successful examination candidates, and the Gaofeng Academy, and the village is also known for Shuangjing tea. It is popular with school study groups."},{"id":"pengze-kairui-farm-complex","name":"Kairui Countryside Complex, Pengze","name_zh":"凯瑞田园综合体","pinyin":"Kǎiruì Tiányuán Zōnghétǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.9536,"lon":116.6649,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengze-kairui-farm-complex","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A farm-tourism complex of about 7,500 mu (500 hectares) in the Taibo Lake agricultural zone, where rice and crayfish are raised in the same fields. It has a farming museum, a hall on shrimp and crab farming, a village built around that theme, glasshouses, and walkways through orchards and bamboo. It suits families and anyone curious about modern Chinese agriculture, and has been rated 4A since 2022."},{"id":"pengze-longgong-cave","name":"Longgong Cave (Dragon Palace Cave), Pengze","name_zh":"龙宫洞","pinyin":"Lónggōngdòng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7033,"lon":116.4673,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengze-longgong-cave","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A karst cave group at the foot of Wulong Mountain in Tianhong town, south-west of Pengze town. The main cave, found in 1978, runs about 1.6 km underground at a steady 18°C all year, and the group also includes the Yuhu and Yuxian caves, a mountain temple and a forest park. A flower garden with a miniature train and other rides has been added on the surface."},{"id":"yongxiu-longyuan-gorge","name":"Longyuan Gorge, Yongxiu","name_zh":"龙源峡","pinyin":"Lóngyuánxiá","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.0872,"lon":115.4748,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxiu-longyuan-gorge","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A river gorge in the hills of the Yunshan area, deep inside the Yunju Mountain national scenic zone, with clear streams, cliffs and woods. A family-friendly rafting run through the gorge is its main activity in the warm months. It was rated 4A in February 2026."},{"id":"xiushui-luminggu-resort","name":"Luminggu Resort (Deer Valley)","name_zh":"鹿鸣谷","pinyin":"Lùmínggǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.0021,"lon":114.5841,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushui-luminggu-resort","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A family resort of about 2,000 mu (roughly 133 ha) on the edge of Xiushui town, built around a deer theme; its second phase, the former Xiushui hot-spring town, opened in January 2025. It combines hot-spring pools with a petting zoo where visitors can feed sika deer, plus evening shows and light displays. It suits families with children rather than anyone looking for heritage or scenery."},{"id":"jiujiang-lushan-xihai","name":"Lushan Xihai (Lushan West Sea)","name_zh":"庐山西海","pinyin":"Lúshān Xīhǎi","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.1983,"lon":115.4678,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiujiang-lushan-xihai/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large reservoir lake west of Mount Lushan, created between 1958 and 1972 by damming the Xiu River at Zhelin. Its 308 sq km of water spread mainly across Yongxiu and Wuning counties and are dotted with wooded islands, with boat trips and lakeside walks on offer. The scenic area has three sections, Zhelin, Jinkou and the Buddhist mountain of Yunju, and has been rated 5A since 2020."},{"id":"yongxiu-xihai-hot-spring-resort","name":"Lushan Xihai International Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"庐山西海国际温泉度假村","pinyin":"Lúshān Xīhǎi Guójì Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.1882,"lon":115.5143,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxiu-xihai-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A hot-spring resort at Yijiahe village on the south shore of the Xihai reservoir, listed by the province as Lushan Xihai Hot Spring Resort, with a large hotel, villas and a spa park of pools grouped by bathing style, among them Chinese, Japanese, Roman and Finnish sections and a herbal-bath cave. It also has a water-play area, and the hot water comes from a spring well. It makes a comfortable base for Lushan Xihai, the 5A lake scenic area, and for Yunju Mountain, and suits an overnight stay."},{"id":"wuning-luxi-cave","name":"Luxi Cave, Wuning","name_zh":"鲁溪洞","pinyin":"Lǔxī Dòng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.4436,"lon":115.2469,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuning-luxi-cave","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A cave in the Mufu Mountains near Luxi town, at the source of the Luxi River, with stalactites throughout and an underground stream running through it. The cool interior makes it a summer stop, and the provincial tourism department's 2025 cool-summer route pairs it with Changshui and the Meeting Wuning night show. It was rated 4A in February 2024."},{"id":"pengze-mangu-farm-complex","name":"Mangu Countryside Complex, Pengze","name_zh":"蔓谷田园综合体","pinyin":"Màngǔ Tiányuán Zōnghétǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.9215,"lon":116.6839,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengze-mangu-farm-complex","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A countryside leisure complex of about 7,900 mu (530 hectares) south-east of Pengze's national modern agriculture park, styled after the Wei and Jin dynasties. It has flower beds, rice-and-crayfish fields, a fruit-picking area, a fishing area, a children's play area, a small animal park, camping lawns, a hotel and guesthouses. It was rated 4A in February 2026."},{"id":"duchang-nanshan","name":"Nanshan Forest Park, Duchang","name_zh":"鄱阳湖南山","pinyin":"Póyánghú Nánshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.2574,"lon":116.1991,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duchang-nanshan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A wooded hill on the southern side of Duchang town, laid out as a forest park, with views over the wide waters of Poyang Lake and old temples. Local tradition ties the Song poet Su Shi's verse on Duchang to a visit to Nanshan. It makes an easy stop for lake views and a short walk."},{"id":"jiujiang-nanshan-park","name":"Nanshan Park, Jiujiang","name_zh":"南山公园","pinyin":"Nánshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.6659,"lon":115.9944,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiujiang-nanshan-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A wooded city park in Lianxi district, in the southern part of Jiujiang's built-up area, where residents relax and gather for events. It was the main venue of Jiangxi's 2022 intangible-heritage shopping festival, which brought together stalls for crafts, food and traditional medicine from across the province. It suits a short stop for green space in the city rather than a major sight."},{"id":"jiujiang-pipa-pavilion-xunyang-river","name":"Pipa Pavilion and Xunyang River Park","name_zh":"浔阳江琵琶亭","pinyin":"Xúnyángjiāng Pípá Tíng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7447,"lon":116.02,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiujiang-pipa-pavilion-xunyang-river","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A riverside park on the Yangtze bank in eastern Jiujiang, built around the rebuilt Pipa Pavilion, which takes its name from the Tang poet Bai Juyi's poem Song of the Pipa. Bai Juyi wrote it in 816 after hearing a pipa player on a boat on this stretch of river, then called the Xunyang River, while he was in exile in Jiujiang. The pavilion was rebuilt in 1988, and the park around it, with a pond, scenes from the poem and a digital show in which visitors talk with Bai Juyi, opened in April 2017."},{"id":"jiujiang-saicheng-lake","name":"Saicheng Lake Scenic Area","name_zh":"赛城湖","pinyin":"Sàichéng Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7061,"lon":115.9156,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiujiang-saicheng-lake","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A lakeside park and greenway on Saicheng Lake, in the Balihu New District on the western side of Jiujiang. Its shore path is used for walking, cycling and angling, and the park suits a short outdoor stop rather than a full outing."},{"id":"hukou-shizhongshan","name":"Shizhongshan (Stone Bell Mountain)","name_zh":"石钟山","pinyin":"Shízhōngshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7469,"lon":116.2173,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hukou-shizhongshan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A small hill on the Yangtze where Poyang Lake flows into the river, named for the bell-like booming of waves in the caves under its cliffs, a sound the Song poet Su Shi investigated by boat and described in his essay on the mountain. The hill commands the river-lake junction and was fought over by Taiping and Xiang Army fleets in the 1850s; the buildings on it, completed by 1860 and centred on a shrine hall, include Buddhist halls and a guest villa, and the rock is carved with inscriptions by Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Guo Moruo and others. The buildings and inscriptions are on the national list of protected sites, added in 2013."},{"id":"wuning-sunshine-29-resort","name":"Sunshine 29 Resort (Huayuan Valley), Wuning","name_zh":"阳光照耀29度假村","pinyin":"Yángguāng Zhàoyào 29 Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.2313,"lon":115.409,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuning-sunshine-29-resort","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A lakeside resort on more than a hundred islands and peninsulas of the Xihai reservoir in Yangzhou township, named for lying near latitude 29°N. Many of the islands are planted with a single flower, such as peach, magnolia, begonia or verbena, a flower festival is held each spring, and there is a sandy beach with water sports and wooden cabins. Boat routes link it with Wuning town and the main Lushan Xihai scenic area."},{"id":"jiujiang-suojianglou-pagoda","name":"Suojianglou Pagoda","name_zh":"锁江楼塔","pinyin":"Suǒjiānglóu Tǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7393,"lon":116.0023,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiujiang-suojianglou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A seven-storey, six-sided brick-and-stone pagoda about 25 m tall, standing on a rocky point on the south bank of the Yangtze, begun in the 1580s and completed in 1604 to guard Jiujiang against floods and fire and to favour success in the examinations. Also known as Huilong Pagoda, it leans slightly to the north-east after being hit by gunfire in the 1938 fighting for Jiujiang. Beside it stand the Suojianglou pavilion, rebuilt in 2004, and a digital museum about Jiujiang and the river."},{"id":"hukou-taishan-park","name":"Taishan Park, Hukou","name_zh":"台山公园","pinyin":"Táishān Gōngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7348,"lon":116.2468,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hukou-taishan-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A town park in the centre of Hukou, on Taishan Avenue, rated 4A as part of the county's Taishan scenic area, which also takes in Shizhong Park, the Hukou County Museum and a planning exhibition hall. The museum and Shizhong Park stand close by, so it fits into a walk around the town centre before or after a visit to Shizhongshan on the Yangtze."},{"id":"lushan-city-tangtaizong-hot-spring","name":"Tangtaizong Hot Spring Resort, Lushan","name_zh":"汤太宗温泉","pinyin":"Tāngtàizōng Wēnquán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.4244,"lon":115.9238,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-city-tangtaizong-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Wenquan town, on the southern side of Mount Lushan, built in Han and Tang style with bathing pools set into the hillside and a hotel on site. Wenquan is known for its mineral springs, and this resort draws on water that rises from deep wells at about 70°C. It suits a relaxed half-day soak or an overnight stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"lushan-city-tianmu-hot-spring","name":"Tianmu Hot Spring Resort, Lushan","name_zh":"庐山天沐温泉","pinyin":"Lúshān Tiānmù Wēnquán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.4173,"lon":115.9232,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-city-tianmu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Wenquan town, at the foot of Mount Lushan, combining spa pools with a hotel, restaurants and meeting and entertainment facilities. Wenquan's mineral springs are used by several resorts, of which this is one, and it suits a relaxed half-day soak or overnight stay more than sightseeing."},{"id":"ruichang-tongling-copper-mine","name":"Tongling Copper Mine Site","name_zh":"铜岭铜矿遗址","pinyin":"Tónglǐng Tóngkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7576,"lon":115.5537,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruichang-tongling-copper-mine","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The site of an ancient copper mine near Tongling village, worked from the middle Shang dynasty, about 3,300 years ago, until the Warring States period, and named one of China's ten major archaeological discoveries of 1991. Excavations uncovered more than a hundred mine shafts, galleries and open pits, many with timber supports. A museum opened in October 2024 in the new archaeological site park, with three sections on the site's place in bronze-age civilisation, the excavation and its techniques, and conservation, alongside a covered excavation area."},{"id":"jiujiang-tongwen-academy","name":"Tongwen Academy, Jiujiang","name_zh":"同文书院","pinyin":"Tóngwén Shūyuàn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7219,"lon":115.9897,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiujiang-tongwen-academy/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Three listed buildings in the grounds of Jiujiang Tongwen Middle School, in the old part of Jiujiang: the Tongwen Academy building and the office and classroom buildings of the former Ruli Girls' School. The academy was founded in 1867 and the girls' school, set up by the Methodist Episcopal mission, in 1873; the two schools merged after 1949, and the school took back the Tongwen name in 2002. The buildings were listed as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit in 2013."},{"id":"ruichang-tongyuan-paper-cutting-park","name":"Tongyuan Paper-Cutting Culture Park, Ruichang","name_zh":"铜源剪影文化园","pinyin":"Tóngyuán Jiǎnyǐng Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.7691,"lon":115.5411,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruichang-tongyuan-paper-cutting-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A culture park at Xiafan town, on both banks of the Nanyang River beside the Tongling mine site, built around Ruichang paper-cutting, a craft on China's national intangible heritage list. It is planned in five sections, among them a paper-cutting town with a museum of the craft, a street of craft studios and an opera stage, together with farmland, a mine park and an artists' quarter. The museum has a hands-on area where visitors can try the stages of paper-cutting."},{"id":"jiujiang-virtuous-mothers-park","name":"Virtuous Mothers Park, Jiujiang","name_zh":"中华贤母园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Xiánmǔ Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.6153,"lon":115.8992,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiujiang-virtuous-mothers-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A themed park on the western side of Jiujiang devoted to the figure of the exemplary mother in Chinese tradition. It has display halls and sculptures, and it includes the Jiangxi Virtuous Mothers Culture Museum."},{"id":"dean-wanjialing-memorial-park","name":"Wanjialing Victory Memorial Park","name_zh":"万家岭大捷纪念园","pinyin":"Wànjiālǐng Dàjié Jìniànyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.3392,"lon":115.7574,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dean-wanjialing-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A memorial park on the northern edge of De'an town commemorating the Battle of Wanjialing, fought in the hills of this county in autumn 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War between Chinese forces and the Japanese 106th Division. The exhibition hall shows relics and extracts from Japanese soldiers' diaries, and the park was added to China's national list of anti-war memorial facilities in 2015. The battlefield remains, including trenches and bunkers, lie in the hills at Moxi township and are a separate trip."},{"id":"lushan-city-white-deer-grotto-academy","name":"White Deer Grotto Academy","name_zh":"白鹿洞书院","pinyin":"Báilùdòng Shūyuàn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.5192,"lon":116.0364,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushan-city-white-deer-grotto-academy/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A former Confucian academy in a wooded valley at the foot of Wulao Peak on the southern side of Mount Lushan, counted among the Four Great Academies of China. A school was founded here in the 10th century, and the academy was rebuilt in 1179–80 by the neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi, whose rules for students influenced later academies. The grounds include a gate, courtyards and halls, a gallery of stone inscriptions, the Zhu Xi shrine and a man-made stone grotto with a carved deer."},{"id":"yongxiu-wucheng-bird-town","name":"Wucheng Migratory Bird Town","name_zh":"吴城候鸟小镇","pinyin":"Wúchéng Hòuniǎo Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.189,"lon":116.0138,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxiu-wucheng-bird-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A historic trading town on the western shore of Poyang Lake that has become a centre for watching wintering waterbirds, which gather on the lake's wetlands in large flocks. Bird-watching points with hides and towers are set around the nearby lakes, and Wanghu Pavilion in the town looks out over the water. In the high-water season from April to September, a 5 km section of the Yongwu Road at Dahuchi can be covered by shallow water and is promoted as a \"water road\"."},{"id":"wuning-xihaiwan","name":"Xihai Bay (Xihaiwan), Wuning","name_zh":"西海湾","pinyin":"Xīhǎiwān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.2588,"lon":115.082,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuning-xihaiwan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A lakeside park that makes up much of the centre of Wuning town, joining Chaoyang Lake, the Shatian River wetland park and several smaller parks with bridges, pavilions and waterside walks. Boats for cruises on the Xihai reservoir leave from the pier here, and in the evening a staged water show, Meeting Wuning, is performed with the shoreline lit up. It is an easy stop for a stroll or a boat trip."},{"id":"lushan-city-xiufeng","name":"Xiufeng Scenic Area","name_zh":"秀峰","pinyin":"Xiùfēng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.4732,"lon":115.9817,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushan-city-xiufeng/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A scenic area at the southern foot of Mount Lushan, centred on Longtan pool and the site of Xiufeng Temple, which was founded under the Southern Tang. The rock faces and steles carry inscriptions from the Tang dynasty to the Republic, among them the Tang Zhongxing Stele by Yan Zhenqing, of which three of the four original stones survive, and a stele by Wang Yangming. Its waterfalls and peaks are linked with Li Bai's poem on viewing a waterfall on Mount Lushan."},{"id":"yongxiu-yunju-mountain-zhenru-temple","name":"Yunju Mountain and Zhenru Temple","name_zh":"云居山真如寺","pinyin":"Yúnjūshān Zhēnrú Sì","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.0967,"lon":115.5747,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongxiu-yunju-mountain-zhenru-temple/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Buddhist mountain in western Yongxiu, one of the three sections of the Lushan Xihai 5A scenic area, rising to about 970 m, with cool summers and wooded valleys that hold waterfalls, among them a 120 m drop at Five Dragon Pool. At its centre is Zhenru Chan Temple, founded in the early 9th century in the Tang dynasty and the ancestral temple of the Caodong school of Chan Buddhism, with halls rebuilt from 1953. A short walk east of the temple, the pagoda court holds memorial pagodas of Chan masters from the Tang to the Yuan dynasties, which form the nationally listed Zhenru Temple Pagoda Forest."},{"id":"lushan-city-ziyang-embankment","name":"Ziyang Embankment","name_zh":"紫阳堤","pinyin":"Zǐyáng Dī","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Jiujiang","lat":29.4418,"lon":116.0388,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushan-city-ziyang-embankment/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A curved stone embankment about a kilometre long on the western shore of Poyang Lake, at the southern end of Ziyang South Road in Nankang, the seat of Lushan City. It was extended in 1179 by the neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi while he was prefect of Nankang, and is named after his pen name Ziyang. Built of stacked stone blocks 7–8 m wide, it has stone bridges to the shore and arched openings that let fishing boats pass through."},{"id":"anyi-ancient-villages","name":"Anyi Ancient Villages","name_zh":"安义古村群","pinyin":"Ānyì Gǔcūnqún","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.75,"lon":115.596,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyi-ancient-villages","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Anyi Ancient Villages is a group of three villages, Luotian, Shuinan and Jingtai, arranged in a triangle in Shibi town, Anyi county, at the foot of the Meiling hills. The villages date from the Tang dynasty and are listed as Chinese traditional villages; Luotian grew into an old market town on the pilgrim route to Meiling and the Wanshou Palace at Xishan. The lanes have been developed for visitors with homestays, a regional snack street, teahouses and cafés."},{"id":"nanchang-august-first-uprising-memorial","name":"August 1st Nanchang Uprising Memorial Hall","name_zh":"南昌八一起义纪念馆","pinyin":"Nánchāng Bāyī Qǐyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6782,"lon":115.8846,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchang-august-first-uprising-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"On 1 August 1927 the Chinese Communist Party launched the Nanchang Uprising, with its general headquarters in this building, the former Jiangxi Grand Hotel, a five-storey brick-and-timber block of 1923 with 96 rooms around a courtyard. The memorial hall, founded in 1956 and open since 1959, displays the events of the uprising, and the second-floor offices and bedrooms of Zhou Enlai and Lin Boqu are part of the building. The 1961 national heritage listing, 'Headquarters of the August 1 Uprising', also covers four other sites in the city, among them the headquarters of He Long and Ye Ting and Zhu De's former residence."},{"id":"wanli-meiling-bamboo-sea-pearl","name":"Bamboo Sea Pearl, Meiling","name_zh":"竹海明珠","pinyin":"Zhúhǎi Míngzhū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.7994,"lon":115.7326,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanli-meiling-bamboo-sea-pearl","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Bamboo Sea Pearl, once known as the main peak of Meiling, is a bamboo-covered valley in the heart of the Meiling hills whose slopes climb to the Hualaoji peak, more than 800 m high. A series of coloured cascades drops over rocks at the entrance, and odd-shaped boulders, among them a tortoise-shaped one, stand among the bamboo."},{"id":"jinxian-chen-family-archways","name":"Chen Family Memorial Archways, Luoyuan","name_zh":"陈氏牌坊","pinyin":"Chénshì Páifāng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.4284,"lon":116.2895,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxian-chen-family-archways","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Two memorial archways of the Ming period stand one behind the other in Luoyuan Chen village, Qili township. The older, the Zhoujin ('Brocade by Day') Archway of 1410, is a four-pillar brick archway about 5 m high that honours Chen Mo, a scholar who took part in compiling the Yongle Encyclopedia; the Lixue Mingxian (Neo-Confucian Worthies) Archway of 1637, about 12 m to its south, is a timber archway of about 6 m with stone lions at its pillars."},{"id":"nanchang-fangda-steel-works-tour","name":"Fangda Special Steel Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"方大特钢工业旅游区","pinyin":"Fāngdà Tègāng Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6567,"lon":115.9816,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-fangda-steel-works-tour","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An operating steel works in Qingshanhu district opened to visitors as an industrial tourism area, rated 4A in June 2022 as the first steelmaker in Jiangxi and the third in China to receive the rating. The plant, which makes spring flat steel and leaf springs for vehicles, has a visitor centre and a gift shop, and a tour can take in a rolling-mill line, a steelmaking plant, a control centre, a wetland landscape at the coking plant and a company exhibition hall. Leisure and study-tour programmes are also offered."},{"id":"nanchang-fenghuanggou","name":"Fenghuanggou Scenic Area","name_zh":"凤凰沟","pinyin":"Fènghuánggōu","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.374,"lon":116.0005,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-fenghuanggou","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Fenghuanggou is a tea-growing and leisure estate of about 6 sq km in red-soil hills in Huangma township, Nanchang County, run as a modern agriculture demonstration park. Terraced tea gardens covering more than 2,100 mu (about 140 hectares) surround a cherry-blossom valley that flowers from late February to April, and the ginkgoes turn gold in December. Lakes, wetland, fruit and vegetable picking and a silk-and-mulberry theme add to a visit, which suits families and photographers in the flowering seasons."},{"id":"nanchang-new-fourth-army-hq","name":"Former Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, Nanchang","name_zh":"南昌新四军军部旧址","pinyin":"Nánchāng Xīnsìjūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6705,"lon":115.8908,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchang-new-fourth-army-hq/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A two-storey French-style house built in 1915 for the warlord Zhang Xun served as the headquarters of the New Fourth Army from 6 January to 4 April 1938, and afterwards housed the CPC Southeast Bureau and the army's Jiangxi liaison office until March 1939. The house and two other buildings stand in a compound beside an exhibition building opened in 2011, which holds a permanent display, 'The Iron New Fourth Army', on the army's formation and wartime service."},{"id":"nanchang-southeast-bureau-site","name":"Former Site of the CPC Southeast Bureau","name_zh":"中共中央东南分局旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Dōngnán Fēnjú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6691,"lon":115.8922,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-southeast-bureau-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"This is a courtyard of six brick-and-timber houses built in 1917 as a salt merchant's home, on Dongshuyuan Street in Nanchang's Xihu district. The CPC Central Committee's Southeast Bureau, formed in January 1938 and known outwardly as the New Fourth Army's Jiangxi liaison office, first worked here before moving into the army's headquarters building nearby. The houses were restored in 2017 and opened with an exhibition on the bureau."},{"id":"nanchang-greenland-303-observation-hall","name":"Greenland Central 303 Observation Hall","name_zh":"绿地中心303观光厅","pinyin":"Lǜdì Zhōngxīn 303 Guānguāngtīng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6877,"lon":115.856,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-greenland-303-observation-hall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"This is an observation hall high up in one of the twin Greenland Central Plaza towers, supertall skyscrapers of 303 m and 59 floors built between 2011 and 2015. The towers stand in the Honggutan business district on the west bank of the Gan River, and the hall appears on the provincial tourism department's city leisure routes."},{"id":"xinjian-guaishiling","name":"Guaishiling Ecological Park","name_zh":"怪石岭","pinyin":"Guàishílǐng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.8638,"lon":115.8203,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjian-guaishiling","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Guaishiling Ecological Park is a hill-and-lake leisure area of about 4,200 mu (some 280 hectares) at Xixia town, north-west of Nanchang. Its crags include a natural climbing wall, and a 4.38 km agricultural viewing corridor is built in the form of a Great Wall, with trails, fishing and campsites in the grounds. It is a farm-and-leisure park rather than a wild landscape, and suits families and day trippers."},{"id":"nanchang-haihun-marquisate-park","name":"Haihun Marquisate Archaeological Park","name_zh":"海昏侯国遗址公园","pinyin":"Hǎihūn Hóuguó Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":29.0337,"lon":115.9348,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchang-haihun-marquisate-park/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Haihun was a Western Han marquisate whose first marquis, Liu He, had been king of Changyi and briefly emperor in 74 BC; the park protects its capital, Zijincheng, its cemeteries and his tomb garden, which a rescue excavation uncovered in 2011. In the tomb garden of about 46,000 sq m the main tomb and a chariot-and-horse pit are displayed under cover, along with the foundations of sacrificial halls, and the garden yielded more than 10,000 sets of gold, jade, bronze, lacquer and bamboo-slip finds. The Haihun Marquisate Museum on the same site shows the finds; the park opened in 2020 and the tomb garden itself to visitors in December 2023."},{"id":"wanli-hongya-danjing","name":"Hongya Danjing","name_zh":"洪崖丹井","pinyin":"Hóngyá Dānjǐng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.7299,"lon":115.7242,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wanli-hongya-danjing/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Hongya Danjing is a wooded gorge at the entrance to the Meiling hills, with a waterfall and cliffs carved with old inscriptions, the clearest dated 1185. A legend tells of Hongya, a music master of the Yellow Emperor, who dug five wells here to make elixirs and devised the twelve-tone scale, and the place is one of the Ten Views of Yuzhang, the old name for Nanchang. It has been a provincial heritage site since 1985, and Nanchang's old names Hongzhou and Hongdu are traced to it."},{"id":"jinxian-lidu-distillery-site","name":"Lidu Distillery Site","name_zh":"李渡烧酒作坊遗址","pinyin":"Lǐdù Shāojiǔ Zuōfang Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.2237,"lon":116.1592,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxian-lidu-distillery-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"This is a distillery site of the Yuan to Qing dynasties, found in 2002 when an old workshop of the Lidu liquor works was being rebuilt, and named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of that year. The excavation turned up 22 cellars, 13 of the Yuan and 9 of the Ming, six of which are still in use, together with wells, hearths and two distillation bases. Visitors can see the old cellars and demonstrations of traditional brewing, and the site is also on China's list of national industrial heritage."},{"id":"wanli-meiling-lion-peak","name":"Lion Peak, Meiling","name_zh":"梅岭狮子峰","pinyin":"Méilǐng Shīzǐfēng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.8258,"lon":115.7206,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanli-meiling-lion-peak","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Lion Peak is a peak on the north-western side of the Meiling hills in Wanli district, named for its resemblance to a crouching lion, with a stream valley, bamboo woods, boulders, a suspension bridge and a summit viewpoint. The scenic area has also added adventure and water activities, and the district promotes it as a cool retreat for the city in summer."},{"id":"nanchang-oct-happy-xianghu","name":"OCT Happy Xianghu","name_zh":"华侨城欢乐象湖","pinyin":"Huáqiáochéng Huānlè Xiànghú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.629,"lon":115.88,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-oct-happy-xianghu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"OCT Happy Xianghu is a leisure district developed by the OCT (Overseas Chinese Town) group on the west shore of Xianghu lake, rated 4A in 2022. It includes the Maya Beach water park, which the provincial tourism department lists on its summer city route."},{"id":"nanchang-pavilion-of-prince-teng","name":"Pavilion of Prince Teng","name_zh":"滕王阁","pinyin":"Téngwáng Gé","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.684,"lon":115.8757,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchang-pavilion-of-prince-teng/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Pavilion of Prince Teng is a nine-storey, 57.5 m tower on the east bank of the Gan River, counted with Yueyang Tower and the Yellow Crane Tower as one of the three great towers of south China. The first pavilion was built in 653 and became famous through Wang Bo's preface of 675; it was destroyed and rebuilt many times, and the present Song-style concrete building, based on Liang Sicheng's sketches, was completed in 1989. Inside are murals of historical figures from Jiangxi and a bronze scale model of the pavilion, and the grounds were extended northwards in 2024."},{"id":"nanchang-qingyunpu-bada-shanren","name":"Qingyunpu (Bada Shanren Memorial Hall)","name_zh":"青云谱","pinyin":"Qīngyúnpǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6078,"lon":115.9119,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchang-qingyunpu-bada-shanren/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Qingyunpu is a Taoist retreat of long standing on the southern edge of Nanchang where the painter Bada Shanren (Zhu Da, about 1626 to about 1705), a descendant of the Ming imperial house, lived after the fall of the Ming; since 1959 it has been a memorial hall to him. Courtyards among old camphor trees hold his paintings and life story, a garden corridor of stone slabs shows more than 120 of his works, and a newer hall built in 2009–10 displays original paintings. Outside the gate lies Meihu Lake, whose shore is the Bada Shanren Meihu scenic area, with newer arts and culture venues."},{"id":"nanchang-shengjin-pagoda","name":"Shengjin Pagoda","name_zh":"绳金塔","pinyin":"Shéngjīn Tǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6642,"lon":115.8953,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchang-shengjin-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Shengjin Pagoda is a seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda, 50.86 m high, outside the old Jinxian Gate of Nanchang; the first pagoda dates from 904–907 and the present one was rebuilt in 1713–14. A temple, the Qianfo or Taxia Temple, stands at its foot, a temple fair is held on the site each autumn, and the surrounding old street is known for evening food stalls."},{"id":"nanchang-sunac-theme-park","name":"Sunac Theme Park, Nanchang","name_zh":"南昌融创乐园","pinyin":"Nánchāng Róngchuàng Lèyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.5804,"lon":115.7815,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-sunac-theme-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Sunac Theme Park is an amusement park in the Jiulonghu area of Honggutan district, part of the Sunac cultural-tourism complex on the south-western side of Nanchang. It runs amusement rides and staged shows, and Sunac's separate ocean park, Sunac Sea World, stands in the same area."},{"id":"nanchang-tianxiang-garden","name":"Tianxiang Garden","name_zh":"天香园","pinyin":"Tiānxiāngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6568,"lon":115.9515,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-tianxiang-garden","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tianxiang Garden is a 1,150 mu (about 77 hectares) former horticultural farm turned wetland park in Qingshanhu district, on the eastern side of Nanchang, where lakes and marsh draw large flocks of wild birds. Birdwatching is the main draw, and in spring the garden holds a peony festival."},{"id":"xinjian-tongyuan-gorge","name":"Tongyuan Gorge","name_zh":"铜源峡","pinyin":"Tóngyuánxiá","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6959,"lon":115.6973,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjian-tongyuan-gorge","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tongyuan Gorge is a scenic area in the wooded hills of Xinjian district on the Meiling side of Nanchang, rated 4A in 2024. The city promotes it for spring flowers, with rapeseed fields of about 100 mu and a thousand peach trees, and the provincial tourism department lists it first on a one-day summer route of mountain and stream scenery that goes on to the Meiling hills and Guaishiling."},{"id":"nanchang-wanshou-palace-quarter","name":"Wanshou Palace Historic Quarter","name_zh":"万寿宫历史文化街区","pinyin":"Wànshòugōng Lìshǐ Wénhuà Jiēqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6772,"lon":115.8823,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-wanshou-palace-quarter","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A quarter of lanes and shops rebuilt in old style around the Tiezhu Wanshou Palace, the Taoist temple of the Xu Xun cult, which stood in Nanchang's old city from the fourth century until it was burned down in the Cultural Revolution; the quarter opened in February 2021. Streets of grey brick and tile hold restaurants and shops selling local snacks and gifts, and an open-air stage is used for evening performances. It is lively after dark, and the city promotes a walking route linking it with the Pavilion of Prince Teng."},{"id":"nanchang-xiaoping-path","name":"Xiaoping Path, Nanchang","name_zh":"小平小道","pinyin":"Xiǎopíng Xiǎodào","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.6751,"lon":115.7959,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchang-xiaoping-path/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Deng Xiaoping and his wife Zhuo Lin were sent to Xinjian county, Jiangxi, in October 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, and stayed until February 1973; he worked at the county tractor repair factory and walked each day between it and his residence, a route later called the Xiaoping Path. The site keeps the workshop where he worked, with his bench and tools, the path with a visitors' walkway, an exhibition hall opened in 2013 with six display sections, and the former residence, which stands in the grounds of what is now the Nanchang Army Academy."},{"id":"nanchang-yuanchengji-old-nanchang-quarter","name":"Yuanchengji Nanchang Urban Culture Quarter","name_zh":"原城纪·南昌城市文化街区","pinyin":"Yuánchéngjì · Nánchāng Chéngshì Wénhuà Jiēqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.5257,"lon":115.9544,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchang-yuanchengji-old-nanchang-quarter","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yuanchengji is a street quarter of about 250 mu (roughly 17 hectares) built in the Yinsanjiao area south-east of central Nanchang and opened in September 2020, designed to recall the city in the Republican era. Its two- to six-storey buildings are new, made in old-street style, and hold an arcade food street, a tea house staging Gan-region opera, craft and intangible-heritage workshops, shops and a boutique hotel. It is a place for a food-and-shopping stroll, not a historic district."},{"id":"jinxian-yuling-shanguan-yunting-villa","name":"Yuling Shanguan and Yunting Villa","name_zh":"羽琌山馆和云亭别墅","pinyin":"Yǔlíng Shānguǎn hé Yúntíng Biéshù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.4738,"lon":116.068,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinxian-yuling-shanguan-yunting-villa/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yuling Shanguan and Yunting Villa are two walled garden-residences of the Chen family, the west and east estates of a group of Qing-period houses in Aixi Chen village, Jiaqiao town. Yuling Shanguan covers about 4,500 sq m and has study rooms, a library tower and the Lianchun Pavilion beside a pond; Yunting Villa was begun in 1863 and belonged to Chen Kuicai, a provincial graduate of the Xianfeng reign, and his son Chen Yingchen, a Guangxu-reign jinshi. The estates stand in a working village among brick courtyards and ponds."},{"id":"jinxian-zuojiazhai-eco-park","name":"Zuojiazhai Eco-Park","name_zh":"佐家寨生态乐园","pinyin":"Zuǒjiāzhài Shēngtài Lèyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Nanchang","lat":28.4685,"lon":116.2266,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxian-zuojiazhai-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Zuojiazhai is a countryside leisure park of about 2,200 mu (150 hectares) on the Maogang farm in Qianfang town, Jinxian county, laid out around orchards, flower fields and the Yanming lake. Spring brings cherry blossom and flowering ground-cover phlox, with fruit picking, a long kiwi-fruit corridor, a tropical plant garden and family play areas, and the park stages a live-action show about the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. It was added to the national 4A list in February 2026."},{"id":"pingxiang-anyuan-miners-strike-memorial-hall","name":"Anyuan Miners' Strike Memorial Hall","name_zh":"安源路矿工人运动纪念馆","pinyin":"Ānyuán Lùkuàng Gōngrén Yùndòng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.6084,"lon":113.8915,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingxiang-anyuan-miners-strike-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A museum on the slope of Niuxingling in Anyuan, the old coal-mining quarter of Pingxiang, housed in a building opened in 1969 that replaced a first exhibition set up in the former workers' club in 1956. Its displays follow the labour movement at the Anyuan collieries and on the Zhuzhou–Pingxiang railway between 1921 and 1930, centred on the miners' and railway workers' strike of September 1922, with large sculpture groups in the halls. The museum also runs the original sites nearby, among them the club, the former colliery office and the mine portal, which have their own entries on this map."},{"id":"pingxiang-anyuan-miners-club-site","name":"Anyuan Railway and Mine Workers' Club Site","name_zh":"安源路矿工人俱乐部旧址","pinyin":"Ānyuán Lùkuàng Gōngrén Jùlèbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.6071,"lon":113.8923,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingxiang-anyuan-miners-club-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The club of the Anyuan railway and mine workers, founded in May 1922, moved in 1923–24 into a new two-part building on Banbian Street square, designed and paid for by its members: a two-storey office block at the front and a lecture hall behind. The national listing, made in 1982 and extended in 2006, also covers the club's earlier premises at Niujiaopo, which served as the headquarters of the September 1922 strike, the former colliery office where negotiations took place, and the site of a military meeting held in September 1927 before the Autumn Harvest Uprising. The memorial hall on the slope above looks after the site."},{"id":"pingxiang-anyuan-night-school-site","name":"Anyuan Workers' Night School Site","name_zh":"安源路矿工人补习夜校旧址","pinyin":"Ānyuán Lùkuàng Gōngrén Bǔxí Yèxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.607,"lon":113.8897,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingxiang-anyuan-night-school-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A small building dating from 1922 on the slope of Niuxingling in Anyuan, listed nationally in 2019 as the site of the night school for railway and mine workers that was run alongside the Anyuan workers' club. It stands next to the club's earlier premises, which served as the strike headquarters in September 1922, and about 200 m south-west of the memorial hall."},{"id":"luxi-wugong-shan-huajianli","name":"Huajianli, Wugong Shan","name_zh":"武功山花涧里","pinyin":"Wǔgōng Shān Huājiànlǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.5023,"lon":114.113,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luxi-wugong-shan-huajianli","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Huajianli is a leisure and culture-tourism complex at the foot of Wugong Shan, built as a lowland attraction to go with the mountain. It stages shows, camp-site parties and food markets at holiday times, and hosted an outdoor electronic-music festival in 2022. It is a modern development in a village setting rather than a historic site, and has since been rated a national 4A scenic area."},{"id":"xiangdong-mashan-xingfu-village","name":"Mashan Happiness Village","name_zh":"麻山幸福村","pinyin":"Máshān Xìngfú Cūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.5575,"lon":113.7807,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangdong-mashan-xingfu-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A rural-tourism village on the edge of Mashan town in the south-west of Pingxiang's Xiangdong District, set among farmland and rated a national 4A scenic area. Mashan town has been named one of China's key rural-tourism towns and a provincial 'scenery unrivalled' tourism town. It is a countryside destination for day visits rather than a single sight."},{"id":"pingxiang-anyuan-shenggong-hall","name":"Shenggong Hall (Former Pingxiang Colliery Head Office)","name_zh":"盛公祠","pinyin":"Shènggōng Cí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.6045,"lon":113.8943,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingxiang-anyuan-shenggong-hall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A three-storey, German-style brick-and-timber building at the top of a slope, put up in 1898 when the Pingxiang colliery opened as its head office and later used as quarters for the German engineers the colliery employed. After the death in 1916 of Sheng Xuanhuai, general manager of the Hanyeping company that owned the colliery, the building was renamed Shenggong Hall in his memory. Traces of a gun platform built for the colliery's guards survive in front, and the hall was listed nationally in 2013."},{"id":"luxi-wugong-shan","name":"Wugong Shan Scenic Area (Luxi side)","name_zh":"武功山","pinyin":"Wǔgōng Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.492,"lon":114.1239,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luxi-wugong-shan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Pingxiang (Luxi county) side of the Wugong Shan range is a national 5A area on a granite ridge that rises to Baihe Peak (Jinding), the range's highest point at 1,918 m. The upper slopes are covered by wide alpine meadows, and walkers come for the sunrise and sea of cloud at the top, with cable cars and shuttle buses easing the climb and a sacrificial site beside the summit protected as a provincial relic. A small geology museum in the basement of the visitor centre explains the range, which became a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2024."},{"id":"luxi-xianfeng-sanbao","name":"Xianfeng Sanbao Leisure Park","name_zh":"仙凤三宝","pinyin":"Xiānfèng Sānbǎo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.7205,"lon":114.1741,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luxi-xianfeng-sanbao","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A countryside leisure park at Zhuyuan village, Xuanfeng town, rated a national 4A scenic area as an agricultural leisure and sightseeing park. Pingxiang's tourism authorities promote it as a place for family outings and farmland leisure within reach of the city. It is a modern commercial park built on farmland, not a historic place."},{"id":"shangli-yangqi-shan","name":"Yangqi Shan and Putong Temple Pagodas","name_zh":"杨岐山","pinyin":"Yángqí Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.8338,"lon":113.885,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shangli-yangqi-shan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yangqi Shan is a wooded karst mountain north of Pingxiang, regarded as the ancestral home of the Yangqi school of Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Putong Temple, founded in 713 and renamed in the 1040s when the monk Fanghui began the school there, has two small Tang pagodas in its grounds, one octagonal (2.35 m) and one shaped like a square pavilion, which are a national heritage unit. The scenic area also includes the Nielong Cave, a lit karst cave used as a summer retreat, and a small geology museum."},{"id":"xiangdong-yueshang-guanghan","name":"Yueshang Guanghan, Guanghanzhai","name_zh":"月上广寒","pinyin":"Yuèshàng Guǎnghán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.3792,"lon":113.7491,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangdong-yueshang-guanghan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A countryside scenic area in Guanghanzhai township, in the forested hills in the south of Pingxiang's Xiangdong District, rated a national 4A scenic area in 2025. People's Daily Jiangxi describes the township's Dashajiang river valley, its village tofu and bamboo-shoot workshops and its village guesthouses. It is a rural leisure area rather than a single sight."},{"id":"luxi-wugong-shan-yunding","name":"Yunding Area, Wugong Shan","name_zh":"武功山云顶","pinyin":"Wǔgōng Shān Yúndǐng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.4971,"lon":114.1654,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luxi-wugong-shan-yunding","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yunding is a separately rated part of the Luxi side of Wugong Shan, listed as a national 4A scenic area in its own right in 2022 rather than as part of the 5A core. Local tourism authorities join it with the Jinding area around the summit as a 'Yunding–Jinding' circuit. Its start point is the car park at Dongjiang village on the northern side of the range, from which paths climb towards the ridge."},{"id":"pingxiang-anyuan-zongpingxiang-mine-portal","name":"Zongpingxiang Mine Portal, Anyuan","name_zh":"总平巷矿井口","pinyin":"Zǒngpíngxiàng Kuàngjǐngkǒu","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Pingxiang","lat":27.6055,"lon":113.8967,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingxiang-anyuan-zongpingxiang-mine-portal","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The main entrance to the Anyuan colliery, built in 1898: a red-brick gateway about 6 m high set against the hillside and facing north, with a central arch leading down to the workings, guard rooms on both sides and, above the arch, a hammer-and-pick motif with the three characters of its name. The miners' and railway workers' strike of September 1922 began here on 14 September, when workers came up out of the pit on a signal and blocked the entrance until the strike ended a few days later. Mao Zedong went down the mine through it in the autumn of 1921, and the portal has been a provincial heritage site since 1957 and a national one since 2013."},{"id":"yugan-daming-flower-sea","name":"Daming Flower Sea, Yugan","name_zh":"大明花海","pinyin":"Dàmíng Huāhǎi","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.7861,"lon":116.545,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yugan-daming-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Daming Flower Sea is a flower-themed leisure park on the shore of Daming Lake, one of the lakes inside the Kangshan dyke on the south-east side of Poyang Lake. Work began in 2016, and the park has planted gardens of roses, crape myrtle and cherry trees, a landscaped waterfall and areas for wedding photography. It is a commercial attraction, and what is in bloom depends on the season."},{"id":"yiyang-dieshan-culture-park","name":"Dieshan Culture Park, Yiyang","name_zh":"叠山文化园","pinyin":"Diéshān Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.4038,"lon":117.4334,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-dieshan-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Dieshan Culture Park is centred on Dieshan Academy, a provincial protected site on the Xin River bank, first built in 1318 in memory of Xie Fangde (sobriquet Dieshan), a Southern Song loyalist who refused to serve the Yuan dynasty and died in 1289. The academy was rebuilt in the Ming dynasty and keeps its lecture hall, river-view tower, Wenchang pavilion and osmanthus garden; Fang Zhimin and Shao Shiping studied here between 1916 and 1919. The park became a national 4A scenic area in 2024 and is a stop on a Fang Zhimin heritage route launched in Yiyang in 2025."},{"id":"yanshan-ehu-academy","name":"Ehu Academy","name_zh":"鹅湖书院","pinyin":"Éhú Shūyuàn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.2588,"lon":117.8149,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanshan-ehu-academy/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Ehu Academy stands at the foot of Mount Ehu on the spot where, in 1175, the philosophers Zhu Xi, Lu Zuqian, Lu Jiuyuan and Lu Jiuling held the debate known as the Ehu Meeting. The academy took its present name in the Ming dynasty, and its layout dates largely from a Qing rebuilding of 1717 that added a gatehouse, stone archway, hall, ceremonial pool, arched bridge, stele pavilion and imperial-book tower, with rows of student cells beside them. It has been a national heritage site since 2006 and is also a national 4A scenic area."},{"id":"yushan-sanqingshan-fairy-valley","name":"Fairy Valley (Sanqingshan)","name_zh":"三清山神仙谷","pinyin":"Sānqīngshān Shénxiān Gǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.882,"lon":118.0097,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushan-sanqingshan-fairy-valley","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Fairy Valley is a stream valley at the foot of Mount Sanqing, one of several smaller scenic areas around the mountain that are separate from the summit circuits. Streams and small waterfalls run through wooded hills, and the valley is set up for outdoor activities such as stream-tracing and forest crossing, with a caravan campsite among its experience bases."},{"id":"shangrao-ankeng-gong-ancestral-halls","name":"Gong Ancestral Halls, Ankeng","name_zh":"安坑龚氏宗祠","pinyin":"Ānkēng Gōngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.2847,"lon":117.9993,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shangrao-ankeng-gong-ancestral-halls/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Two Qing-dynasty ancestral halls of the Gong clan stand 80 m apart in Ankeng village: Daigong Hall, built between 1743 and 1751, and Xuqian Hall, built between 1747 and 1772. Two large stone slabs on either side of Daigong Hall's rear hall are carved with scenes from the play Huansha Ji, 44 scenes with 240 figures between them. The listing, made in 2013, also names two memorial archways."},{"id":"guangfeng-redwood-culture-park","name":"Guangfeng Redwood Culture and Creative Industry Park","name_zh":"广丰红木文化创意产业园","pinyin":"Guǎngfēng Hóngmù Wénhuà Chuàngyì Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.3977,"lon":118.1014,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangfeng-redwood-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"This is an industrial-tourism park for the redwood furniture and wood-carving trade in Yangkou town, run by a local redwood company and named a provincial industrial-tourism demonstration base in 2022. It is a modern commercial park rather than a historic site, aimed at visitors interested in redwood furniture and carving."},{"id":"yiyang-guifeng","name":"Guifeng, Yiyang","name_zh":"龟峰","pinyin":"Guīfēng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.313,"lon":117.4,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-guifeng","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Guifeng, in Yiyang County, is a cluster of 36 Danxia peaks of red rock rising above forest on the southern edge of the Xin River basin, with stone pillars, isolated crags, natural arches and caves. It is the Guifeng section of the China Danxia World Heritage property, inscribed in 2010, and its cliff inscriptions are a provincial-level protected site. The Ming-dynasty traveller Xu Xiake praised it as a rarity under heaven, and it became a national 5A scenic area in 2017."},{"id":"yushan-guanxi-hu-ancestral-hall","name":"Hu Ancestral Hall, Guanxi","name_zh":"官溪胡氏宗祠","pinyin":"Guānxī Húshì Zōngcí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.5161,"lon":118.3806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yushan-guanxi-hu-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Hu clan's ancestral hall in Guanxi, built in 1614 and restored in 1884, is a two-storey brick-and-timber complex of about 2,020 square metres with a gate, main hall, opera stage and side rooms. A plaque inside reads Qinghua Yimai, tracing the clan to Qinghua in Wuyuan, and a couplet plays on the form of the character Hu. Guanxi belonged to Jiangshan in Zhejiang until 1952, when it was transferred to Yushan, and repairs to the hall began in 2010."},{"id":"yushan-huaiyu-mountains","name":"Huaiyu Mountains, Yushan","name_zh":"怀玉山","pinyin":"Huáiyù Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.8897,"lon":117.9672,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushan-huaiyu-mountains","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Huaiyu hills in north-west Yushan County, next to Mount Sanqing, rise to Yungai Peak (1,538 m) and Yuya Peak (1,380 m) and have been a place of learning since the Southern Song, when Zhu Xi lectured here. In January 1935 the Red Army's 10th Army Corps was defeated in the Huaiyushan campaign in these hills, and Fang Zhimin, a leader of the Min-Zhe-Gan base area, was captured. The Qingpin Garden has a statue of Fang Zhimin and a stele carved with his essay 'Qingpin', and is a stop on a Fang Zhimin heritage route launched in 2025."},{"id":"wuyuan-huangling","name":"Huangling Village","name_zh":"篁岭","pinyin":"Huánglǐng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3236,"lon":118.1133,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuyuan-huangling/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Huangling is a hillside village of Ming and Qing Huizhou-style houses; its residents were moved to a new village at the foot of the hill, and the old houses were restored for visitors, with cable cars linking the two. It is known for terraces of rapeseed flowers in March and April and for the autumn custom of drying chillies, pumpkins and flowers on large bamboo trays set out on roofs and window ledges. The UN World Tourism Organization named it one of its Best Tourism Villages in 2023, and it became a national 5A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"wuyuan-jiangwan","name":"Jiangwan, Wuyuan","name_zh":"江湾","pinyin":"Jiāngwān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3709,"lon":118.0463,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-jiangwan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Jiangwan is a lived-in Huizhou-style old town in the east of Wuyuan County, with ancestral halls, memorial archways, old houses, theatres and waterways. Its large Xiao-Jiang ancestral hall was rebuilt in 2003, and a folk-custom museum and local crafts such as She inkstone carving show the town's traditions. It has been a national 5A scenic area since 2013."},{"id":"wuyuan-likeng-tuochuan","name":"Likeng Residences, Tuochuan","name_zh":"理坑村民居","pinyin":"Lǐkēng Cūn Mínjū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.527,"lon":117.8247,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-likeng-tuochuan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Likeng in Tuochuan township, not the Li-clan Likeng (李坑) at Qiukou, is a Yu-clan village founded in the late Yuan or early Ming dynasty, whose families produced Ming ministers of works and of personnel. More than fifty Ming and Qing buildings survive, and five of them, the Tianguan Shangqing Mansion, Sima Mansion, Yunxi Villa, Yousong Hall and Fushou Hall, are the nationally listed Likeng residences (2006). The village lies in a mountain valley and is a China Historic and Cultural Village."},{"id":"wuyuan-likeng-qiukou","name":"Likeng Village","name_zh":"李坑","pinyin":"Lǐkēng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3257,"lon":117.9266,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuyuan-likeng-qiukou/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Likeng, in Qiukou town, is a Li-clan village where lanes follow a winding stream crossed by dozens of stone, timber and brick bridges, with Ming and Qing houses on both banks. Four Ming houses and dozens from the Qing survive, and the village's families produced nine jinshi in the Song dynasty; named views such as the Twin Bridges and the Jiao Spring are marked along the stream. Do not confuse it with Likeng (理坑) in Tuochuan township, a different village listed separately."},{"id":"shangrao-lingshan-craftsman-town","name":"Lingshan Craftsman Town","name_zh":"灵山工匠小镇","pinyin":"Língshān Gōngjiàng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.4901,"lon":117.9126,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangrao-lingshan-craftsman-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A craft-themed tourist district on the road from Shangrao towards Lingshan, listed by local government among the cultural-industry projects of the former Shangrao County. Its second phase opened in 2020, and it was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2019. It is a modern development rather than a historic quarter, and suits a short stop on the way to Lingshan."},{"id":"wuyuan-lingyan-cave","name":"Lingyan Cave, Wuyuan","name_zh":"灵岩洞","pinyin":"Língyán Dòng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.4774,"lon":117.6151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-lingyan-cave","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Lingyan Cave is a group of 36 limestone caves in the mountains of northern Wuyuan, whose walls carry more than 2,000 inscriptions left by visitors over the centuries, among them the words 'Wu Hui Zhu Xi' linked to the philosopher Zhu Xi. The inscriptions have been a provincially protected site since 2006, and the surrounding hills became a national forest park in 1993 and a provincial scenic area in 1995."},{"id":"hengfeng-min-zhe-gan-provincial-offices","name":"Min-Zhe-Gan Provincial Offices Site, Geyuan","name_zh":"闽浙赣省委机关旧址","pinyin":"Mǐn Zhè Gàn Shěngwěi Jīguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.6192,"lon":117.6475,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hengfeng-min-zhe-gan-provincial-offices/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"In December 1932 the Chinese Soviet Republic's Gandongbei (north-east Jiangxi) province was renamed Min-Zhe-Gan, and its party committee and government were based in Fenglin village in Geyuan town until the offices left in November 1934. The nationally listed group covers the provincial party and government offices, the military district headquarters, the open ground known as the Red Square and the fifth branch of the Red Army school, part of a wider set of 34 sites in and around Geyuan. The Geyuan scenic area takes in Fenglin, with the low single-storey offices, an exhibition hall and the square, and Geyuan village about 3 km to the south-east, with the Red Army school site, Lenin Park, an old opera stage and a martyrs' memorial hall."},{"id":"dexing-mount-damao","name":"Mount Damao, Dexing","name_zh":"大茅山","pinyin":"Dàmáo Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.8499,"lon":117.7821,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dexing-mount-damao","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Damaoshan is a mountain of the Huaiyu range in the south-east of Dexing, with a main peak of 1,392 m, and has been a national scenic area since 2012. The scenic area has three parts: the mountain itself, Wufengdong, known for rock formations, clear pools and streams and sites from the revolutionary period, and Shuangxi Lake, a reservoir south-west of the main peak. Bamboo groves and mountain streams line the valley, and the area suits a day trip from Dexing."},{"id":"yanshan-mount-gexian","name":"Mount Gexian","name_zh":"葛仙山","pinyin":"Gěxiān Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.0711,"lon":117.7009,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanshan-mount-gexian/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Mount Gexian is a 1,096 m peak of the Wuyi range in Yanshan County, a Taoist mountain where legend holds that the Taoist Ge Xuan became an immortal. Its slopes hold the Yuxu temple complex (the Gexian Ancestral Temple, rebuilt many times and last repaired in 1928) and the Buddhist Ciji Temple, first built in 1593, and a cable car opened in 2017 takes about ten minutes to reach the upper area. At the foot, Gexian Village is a resort of hotels, homestays and evening shows built since 2016."},{"id":"shangrao-lingshan","name":"Mount Lingshan","name_zh":"灵山","pinyin":"Líng Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.5484,"lon":117.8266,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangrao-lingshan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Lingshan is a granite mountain in the north of Guangxin District, with 72 peaks and 36 waterfalls, rock formations known as Sleeping Beauty, the Dragon's Spine and the Kissing Fish, and a main summit of 1,496 m. It is counted as the 33rd of Taoism's 72 blessed lands, with old temples such as Shiren Hall and Shicheng Temple nearby. It has been a national-level scenic area since 2009, and spring brings rhododendrons on the high slopes and terraced fields below."},{"id":"yiyang-nanyan-grotto","name":"Nanyan Grotto","name_zh":"南岩石窟","pinyin":"Nányán Shíkū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.3697,"lon":117.4344,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiyang-nanyan-grotto/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Nanyan Grotto is a Southern Song rock-cut shrine inside a half-moon-shaped hollow in a Danxia cliff, beside Nanyan Temple on the southern edge of Yiyang town. The cave mouth is about 60 m wide and 15 m high, and its walls hold 28 niches with 45 Buddhist figures, including a main Sakyamuni group with attendants, eighteen arhats in round-arched niches, a Water-Moon Guanyin and donor figures. The carving dates from the Jiading era (1208–1224), and the grotto has been a national heritage site since 2013."},{"id":"yushan-sanqingshan-pastoral-idyll","name":"Pastoral Idyll (Sanqingshan)","name_zh":"三清山田园牧歌","pinyin":"Sānqīngshān Tiányuán Mùgē","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.9489,"lon":118.0608,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushan-sanqingshan-pastoral-idyll","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Pastoral Idyll is a countryside-style holiday area beside the mountain road near the Jinsha entrance on the eastern side of Mount Sanqing. It is themed on Jiangnan (lower Yangtze) folk culture and is built around farmhouse-style guest rooms, restaurants, a hot spring and evening bonfire entertainment."},{"id":"dexing-phoenix-lake","name":"Phoenix Lake, Dexing","name_zh":"凤凰湖","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.9162,"lon":117.5941,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dexing-phoenix-lake","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Phoenix Lake is a reservoir in wooded hills on the southern side of Dexing city, laid out as a lakeside park with walking paths; the Dexing Museum stands in the scenic area. A stone-flagged old trail, the Phoenix Ancient Path, runs along the inner end of the lake and over Phoenix Ridge. It became a national 4A scenic area in 2024 and suits a short local outing rather than a long trip."},{"id":"yugan-pipa-lake","name":"Pipa Lake, Yugan","name_zh":"琵琶湖","pinyin":"Pípá Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.6878,"lon":116.681,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yugan-pipa-lake","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Pipa Lake is a lakeside wetland park on the south-western edge of Yugan town, laid out around a large urban lake with a peninsula plaza, walkways, a pavilion and a Ferris wheel. It was built as part of the county's three-lake tourism plan with Poyang Lake and Daming Lake, and a night-market arcade and a public reading room have since been set up there. It suits a short stroll by the water rather than a long visit."},{"id":"poyang-lake-national-wetland-park","name":"Poyang Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"鄱阳湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Póyáng Hú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.1322,"lon":116.6764,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=poyang-lake-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Poyang Lake National Wetland Park covers channels, islands and shoreline at Wujincha, on the Poyang County side of China's largest freshwater lake. The lake is a winter refuge for migratory waterbirds, including a large share of the world's Siberian cranes, and the park is one of the bird-watching sites Jiangxi promotes to visitors. It suits a day of birdwatching in the winter months."},{"id":"yushan-qili-street","name":"Qili Street, Yushan","name_zh":"七里街","pinyin":"Qīlǐ Jiē","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.6725,"lon":118.2362,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushan-qili-street","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Qili Street is an old street in the south-west of Yushan town, beside the Bingxi river, and the scenic area includes a street of inkstone carvers. Their Luowen inkstones are the town's best-known craft, and Yushan holds the title of home of Luowen inkstones. It suits a short walk to look at the inkstones and the old quarter."},{"id":"wuyuan-qinghua-rainbow-bridge","name":"Qinghua Rainbow Bridge","name_zh":"清华彩虹桥","pinyin":"Qīnghuá Cǎihóng Qiáo","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.4172,"lon":117.7697,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuyuan-qinghua-rainbow-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A covered beam bridge across the Le'an River at Qinghua, about 140 m long on four stone piers with five openings, with a timber gallery along the deck and a shrine to Yu the Great on one pier. Records date it to the Song dynasty or to the Qianlong reign of the Qing, and it takes its name from a line by Li Bai; it was nationally listed in 2006. Floods in July 2020 destroyed part of the deck and gallery between the east approach and the second pier, and in March 2026 the provincial culture and tourism department reported that emergency repairs had been carried out."},{"id":"poyang-raozhou-ancient-town","name":"Raozhou Ancient Town, Poyang","name_zh":"饶州古镇","pinyin":"Ráozhōu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.04,"lon":116.7003,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=poyang-raozhou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Raozhou Ancient Town is a tourism and leisure quarter in the north of Poyang town, laid out in old-street style around a pond, with shops selling local snacks and sweets such as scallion biscuits (congsu bing) and filled sugar (guanxin tang). It was named one of China's first national tourism and leisure districts in 2022. The name recalls Raozhou, the prefecture whose seat was at Poyang for many centuries."},{"id":"shangrao-concentration-camp","name":"Shangrao Concentration Camp Site","name_zh":"上饶集中营","pinyin":"Shàngráo Jízhōngyíng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.418,"lon":117.9562,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangrao-concentration-camp","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"From March 1941 to mid-1942 the Nationalist government held captured New Fourth Army officers and other Communist-aligned prisoners at several sites around Shangrao, and the national listing covers prison sites at Maojialing, Zhoutian, Licun and Qifengyan. At Maojialing, in the south of the city, the original prison site stands beside a memorial cemetery, a monument and a memorial museum that opened in 1978 and has had a new building since 2005. In May 1942 a group of prisoners escaped from Maojialing, and the camp was moved to Fujian the following month."},{"id":"wannian-shennongyuan","name":"Shennongyuan (Shennong Palace Cave), Wannian","name_zh":"神农源","pinyin":"Shénnóngyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.7098,"lon":117.2529,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wannian-shennongyuan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Shennongyuan is a scenic area in the hills of Dayuan town, Wannian County, built around the Shennong Palace karst cave, whose stalactites and underground river are the main sight. The county promotes it, together with the nearby Xianrendong archaeological site, as a base for learning about rice culture and geology. It suits visitors interested in caves, or anyone combining a visit with the prehistoric site."},{"id":"guangfeng-shidu-wang-mansion","name":"Shidu Wang Family Mansion","name_zh":"十都王家大屋","pinyin":"Shídū Wángjiā Dàwū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.3472,"lon":118.3991,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangfeng-shidu-wang-mansion","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A large merchant's house in Shidu village, Songfeng township, built in 1769 by the local paper merchant Wang Zhixian and also called Zhixian Dawu. The brick, timber and stone building covers about 5,200 square metres with 103 rooms, 36 light wells, 3 wells and 4 ponds, and its joints are cut so tightly that no wedge was used anywhere. It was listed as a provincial site in 2018 and a national one in 2019, and is a good example of the big houses of north-east Jiangxi."},{"id":"wuyuan-shuimo-shanghe","name":"Shuimo Shanghe, Wuyuan","name_zh":"水墨上河","pinyin":"Shuǐmò Shànghé","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3274,"lon":117.8995,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-shuimo-shanghe","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Shuimo Shanghe is a tourism development around Shanghe village in Qiukou town, themed on Huizhou culture and built as a cultural-industry park that was complete by 2019. It combines the old village with newly built hotels, guesthouses and visitor facilities beside a lake, and Wuyuan's government counts it among the county's large resort-scale scenic areas."},{"id":"wuyuan-sixi-yancun","name":"Sixi and Yancun Villages, Wuyuan","name_zh":"思溪延村","pinyin":"Sīxī Yáncūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3419,"lon":117.7988,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-sixi-yancun","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Sixi and Yancun are neighbouring villages in Sikou town, just over a kilometre apart, both listed as China Historic and Cultural Villages (Yancun in the fourth batch, Sixi in 2014). Yancun was founded in the Northern Song dynasty and keeps 53 well-preserved Ming and Qing houses, among them the Congting and Dujing halls, with a visitor centre, a village history museum, an old opera stage and a bridge. Sixi has its own merchants' houses, bridge and halls, protected at city or county level."},{"id":"guangfeng-tongbo-mountain","name":"Tongbo Mountain, Guangfeng","name_zh":"铜钹山","pinyin":"Tóngbó Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.2598,"lon":118.2765,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangfeng-tongbo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Tongbo Mountain is the highest part of Guangfeng, a forested ridge of the Wuyi range on the Fujian border whose main peak reaches 1,534.6 m; its northern slopes have been a national forest park since 2002. The visitor area is built around Jiuxian Lake, a large reservoir among the hills, with other areas such as Baihuayan in the surrounding hills. It suits a day of lake and forest scenery in the mountains south of Guangfeng."},{"id":"wuyuan-wangkou","name":"Wangkou Village","name_zh":"汪口","pinyin":"Wāngkǒu","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3507,"lon":117.9912,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-wangkou","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Wangkou is an old trading village of the Yu clan, founded in the early 12th century and surrounded by water on three sides, which lay on the land route from Huizhou through Wuyuan to Raozhou; its shops and merchants flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties. A county-protected group of more than twenty old houses, halls, bridges and wharves survives, and the Pingdu weir across the river is provincially protected. The Yu clan ancestral hall (Renben Hall, built in 1736) is one of the national-level Wuyuan ancestral halls, and the village is a China Historic and Cultural Village (third batch)."},{"id":"shangrao-wangxian-valley","name":"Wangxian Valley","name_zh":"望仙谷","pinyin":"Wàngxiān Gǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.6825,"lon":117.811,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangrao-wangxian-valley","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Wangxian Valley is a rock-walled gorge in Wangxian township, in the north of Guangxin District, developed as a tourist destination with a cliff-and-immortals fantasy theme and known for its night views. Yanpu Old Street, its shopping and dining street, has been recognised as a national tourism and leisure district. Shangrao's tourism bureau lists it among the city's busiest sights, with more than 3 million visitors in 2025."},{"id":"wuyuan-wengongshan","name":"Wengong Mountain, Wuyuan","name_zh":"文公山","pinyin":"Wéngōng Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.164,"lon":117.7722,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-wengongshan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Wengong Mountain is a wooded hill in the hills south-west of Wuyuan town, named after the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi (posthumous title Wengong), whose family came from Wuyuan. It is where Zhu Xi came to honour his ancestors' tomb and planted 24 fir trees, which makes it one of Wuyuan's Zhu Xi sites alongside Xi Garden and Lingyan Cave. It suits visitors interested in Zhu Xi or a quiet walk in the forest."},{"id":"wuyuan-dazhangshan-wolonggu","name":"Wolong Valley, Dazhangshan","name_zh":"大鄣山卧龙谷","pinyin":"Dàzhāngshān Wòlóng Gǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.5216,"lon":117.748,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-dazhangshan-wolonggu","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Wolong Valley is a wooded mountain gorge in Dazhangshan township, in the high ground of northern Wuyuan, where a stream drops through pools and small waterfalls. Paths follow the valley, with a viewing platform and a covered bridge along the route. Shangrao's 2025-26 tourism plans list a resort town at the valley as a project under construction."},{"id":"wuyuan-ancestral-halls","name":"Wuyuan Ancestral Halls","name_zh":"婺源宗祠","pinyin":"Wùyuán Zōngcí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.4593,"lon":117.7006,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuyuan-ancestral-halls/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Seven clan halls scattered across Wuyuan make up this national-level group, listed in 2006 and built between the early Ming dynasty (Yuqing Hall at Huangcun in Tuochuan township, 1403–1424) and 1864 (Chengyi Hall at Zhifeng). One of them, the Huang clan's Jingyi Hall of 1683, is also called the hundred-pillar hall. The pin marks Jingyi Hall in a different Huangcun, in Dazhangshan township; another of the seven, the Yu clan's Renben Hall of 1736, stands in Wangkou."},{"id":"wuyuan-xi-garden","name":"Xi Garden, Wuyuan","name_zh":"熹园","pinyin":"Xīyuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.2561,"lon":117.8482,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-xi-garden","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Xi Garden is a Huizhou-style garden complex on the edge of Wuyuan town, on the site of Zhujiazhuang, the village where Zhu Xi's second- and third-generation ancestors lived. It is laid out around Zhufei Pond, with old Huizhou houses on the east side, the Zunjing Pavilion, a ring of ponds in the middle, an exhibition of She inkstones on the west and the Ziyang Academy on the north, with a shrine to three sages in the grounds. It is used for ceremonies for Zhu Xi's descendants, such as a 2019 visit by descendants from Korea."},{"id":"wannian-xianrendong-diaotonghuan","name":"Xianrendong and Diaotonghuan Caves","name_zh":"仙人洞、吊桶环遗址","pinyin":"Xiānréndòng, Diàotǒnghuán Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.7363,"lon":117.1733,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wannian-xianrendong-diaotonghuan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Xianrendong is a limestone cave in Dayuan basin, and Diaotonghuan a rock shelter on a hillside about 800 m away; together they hold deposits from roughly 35,000 to 9,000 years ago. Excavations between 1962 and 1999 turned up pottery about 20,000 years old, among the earliest known, and rice phytoliths showing that rice was being cultivated some 12,000 years ago. The site has an exhibition hall and a display area with simulated scenes of Stone Age life, such as threshing grain, fishing and making pottery."},{"id":"wuyuan-yantian","name":"Yantian Village, Wuyuan","name_zh":"严田","pinyin":"Yántián","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3652,"lon":117.6477,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-yantian","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yantian is a village settled by Li-clan families in Fuchun town, in north-western Wuyuan, strung along the old Huizhou–Raozhou post road, with a Ming-dynasty patrol post among its hamlets. At the village's water-mouth stand ancient camphor trees, beside old stone bridges, a pavilion and a spring, and a camphor folk park built in 2002 with workshops for paper umbrellas, tofu, oil pressing and mushroom growing. Several of its bridges and old houses are protected at county level."},{"id":"dexing-yinju-stone-tribe","name":"Yinju Stone Tribe, Dexing","name_zh":"隐居·石头部落","pinyin":"Yǐnjū Shítou Bùluò","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.9583,"lon":117.9455,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dexing-yinju-stone-tribe","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yinju Stone Tribe is a hill hamlet in Dexing whose 18 surviving houses were built in the 1960s and 70s from river pebbles and flat stones, bonded with a clay-and-lime mortar mixed with glutinous rice. The local government restored fallen houses and added an old-style timber complex around them with folk-custom displays, shops, a covered bridge and an opera stage, so the site is part vernacular village and part new tourist development. It suits visitors interested in rural building traditions."},{"id":"wuyuan-yitian-cultural-tourism-city","name":"Yitian Cultural Tourism City, Wuyuan","name_zh":"翼天文化旅游城","pinyin":"Yìtiān Wénhuà Lǚyóu Chéng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.2017,"lon":117.8395,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-yitian-cultural-tourism-city","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yitian Cultural Tourism City is a purpose-built visitor complex on a river bend south of Wuyuan town, run by the Yitian cultural-tourism company, whose core project is Mengli Laojia ('Old Home in Dreams'), a large live outdoor show with a landscape backdrop. The show presents the struggles of Huizhou merchants, a love story, success in the imperial examinations and a life of retirement, and the complex is also marketed as the Mengli Laojia performing-arts tourist resort. It is a modern development, not a historic site."},{"id":"poyang-yongfu-temple-pagoda","name":"Yongfu Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"永福寺塔","pinyin":"Yǒngfú Sì Tǎ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.9922,"lon":116.6739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/poyang-yongfu-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Yongfu Temple Pagoda is a nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda, 49 m high, built in 1024 in the Northern Song dynasty in imitation of a timber tower, with arched doorways on all eight sides and bracket sets under the eaves. It stands in Poyang town with a public culture plaza at its foot, and has been a national heritage site since 2013."},{"id":"wuyuan-xinyuan-yu-ancestral-hall","name":"Yu Ancestral Hall, Xinyuan","name_zh":"新源俞氏宗祠","pinyin":"Xīnyuán Yúshì Zōngcí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3533,"lon":117.7381,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-xinyuan-yu-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Yu clan's ancestral hall, called Yiqing Hall, stands in Xinyuan village in Sikou town and was first built in 1565, in the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty. It is a national-level site listed in 2013 and suits a short stop when touring Wuyuan's villages."},{"id":"wuyuan-yuantou-village","name":"Yuantou Village, Wuyuan","name_zh":"源头古村","pinyin":"Yuántóu Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3993,"lon":117.6025,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-yuantou-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yuantou is a small village in a mountain valley in Fuchun town, a settlement of the Wu clan founded in the early Ming dynasty, with a stream, small bridges, a traditional water-mouth grove and old Huizhou-style houses. Old red-bean yew trees grow nearby and rapeseed fields colour the valley in spring. It is quieter and smaller than Wuyuan's best-known villages."},{"id":"wuyuan-yuanyang-lake","name":"Yuanyang Lake (Mandarin Duck Lake), Wuyuan","name_zh":"鸳鸯湖","pinyin":"Yuānyāng Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.3198,"lon":117.5298,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-yuanyang-lake","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yuanyang Lake is a reservoir among wooded hills in Fuchun town, both a nature reserve and a tourist scenic area, promoted as a winter roosting ground for wild mandarin ducks, which arrive in autumn and leave in spring. It suits a quiet visit in the cooler months, when the birds are present."},{"id":"yushan-sanqingshan-yulian-waterfalls","name":"Yulian Waterfalls (Sanqingshan)","name_zh":"三清山玉帘瀑布","pinyin":"Sānqīngshān Yùlián Pùbù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.9346,"lon":118.0811,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushan-sanqingshan-yulian-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A separate 4A scenic area in the Sanqingshan area, laid out as a walk up a forested valley below the mountain's north-eastern slopes, past a series of named waterfalls, nine in all. It offers streams, pools and woodland rather than the granite summit scenery of the main mountain, and suits a short visit alongside it."},{"id":"shangrao-yungu-tianyuan-agri-town","name":"Yungu Tianyuan Eco-Agriculture Town","name_zh":"云谷田园生态农业小镇","pinyin":"Yúngǔ Tiányuán Shēngtài Nóngyè Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.3744,"lon":118.0213,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangrao-yungu-tianyuan-agri-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A farm-themed leisure park on the southern side of Shangrao, in Guangxin District, built around smart farming: a vertical vegetable factory and a fruit-and-vegetable base were shown to provincial officials in June 2024, and an aerospace science exhibition opened in 2023. Its first phase opened in 2020, and it is one of four national 4A scenic areas in Guangxin District. It suits families and anyone curious about modern farming rather than traditional villages."},{"id":"yushan-kaopeng","name":"Yushan Examination Hall (Kaopeng)","name_zh":"玉山考棚","pinyin":"Yùshān Kǎopéng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.674,"lon":118.2534,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yushan-kaopeng/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Yushan Kaopeng is a Qing-dynasty imperial examination hall of four blue-brick buildings with 100 individual candidate cells in two rows either side of a stone-paved central passage, on more than 2,000 m². It was first built in 1792, rebuilt in 1838 and repaired in 1867, and is described as one of very few such compounds still standing south of the Yangtze. It became a national heritage site in 2019 and draws visitors interested in the imperial examination system."},{"id":"wuyuan-fengshan-zha-ancestral-hall","name":"Zha Ancestral Hall, Fengshan","name_zh":"凤山查氏宗祠","pinyin":"Fèngshān Zhāshì Zōngcí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":29.4739,"lon":117.8683,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyuan-fengshan-zha-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Zha clan's ancestral hall in Fengshan village was built in 1664 and named Xiaoyi Hall by the prefect of Huizhou; it was damaged in 1854, rebuilt in 1864 and enlarged in 1898. It covers about 2,460 square metres, with a forecourt, a garden, a large pond, a main hall and a rear hall. It was listed as a national site in 2013."},{"id":"yugan-zhongyi-culture-park","name":"Zhongyi Culture Park (Zhongchen Temple), Kangshan","name_zh":"忠义文化园","pinyin":"Zhōngyì Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.8863,"lon":116.4212,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yugan-zhongyi-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The park is built around Zhongchen Temple, which stands beside Poyang Lake at Kangshan and honours 36 Ming generals, among them Han Cheng and Ding Pulang, killed in the 1363 Battle of Lake Poyang, where Zhu Yuanzhang defeated Chen Youliang. The temple has three halls in a row, the Dingjiang King hall, a Guanyin hall and the main hall of the loyal officers; the present buildings date from the Qing dynasty and have been restored since 1995. Around them the park has added old-style buildings, gardens, a performance hall and a shopping street, and it was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2018."},{"id":"guangfeng-longxi-zhu-ancestral-hall","name":"Zhu Ancestral Hall, Longxi","name_zh":"龙溪祝氏宗祠","pinyin":"Lóngxī Zhùshì Zōngcí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Shangrao","lat":28.4745,"lon":118.4578,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangfeng-longxi-zhu-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Longxi is a village near the Zhejiang border whose residents are mostly of the Zhu clan and speak the Jiangshan dialect. Its Zhu Ancestral Hall, first built in the Chenghua era of the Ming dynasty, has three halls in sequence with carved and painted decoration, and the village also has the three-tiered Wenchang Pavilion, rebuilt in 1866 and 12.3 m high. The hall's building craft is on Jiangxi's provincial intangible heritage list (2008)."},{"id":"fenyi-dongcun-china-cave-capital","name":"China Cave Capital, Dongcun","name_zh":"中国洞都","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Dòngdū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":28.0323,"lon":114.8401,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyi-dongcun-china-cave-capital","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Dongcun township, in the north-east of Fenyi county, promotes itself as China's cave capital, and the 4A scenic area opens some of its karst caves to visitors. Xinyu's government lists it among the city's scenic sights alongside Fairy Lake."},{"id":"xinyu-fairy-lake","name":"Fairy Lake, Xinyu","name_zh":"仙女湖","pinyin":"Xiānnǚ Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":27.7319,"lon":114.7905,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinyu-fairy-lake/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Fairy Lake is the Jiangkou reservoir on the Yuan river, a large artificial lake of about 50 km² south-west of Xinyu, dotted with nearly a hundred wooded islands. It was renamed in 1994 after a legend, recorded in the Jin-dynasty Soushen ji, of feathered fairy maidens who came down to earth, and is now run as a national tourist resort built around that legend and the Qixi (Chinese Valentine's Day) festival. Visitors take boats among the islands, visit the three islands rebuilt in 2024 with staged shows, and can drive the 34 km lakeside road."},{"id":"xinyu-hongyang-cave","name":"Hongyang Cave","name_zh":"洪阳洞","pinyin":"Hóngyáng Dòng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":27.783,"lon":114.6346,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyu-hongyang-cave","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A karst cave 983 m long with stalactites and stalagmites under coloured lighting, kept at a steady temperature of about 20°C that makes it a summer retreat. Outside the entrance there are a sunken stage, a non-powered play area, a small train and a slide. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in February 2026, and Xinyu's tourism bureau groups it with Fairy Lake and Jieqiao village."},{"id":"fenyi-jieqiao-ancient-village","name":"Jieqiao Ancient Village","name_zh":"介桥古村","pinyin":"Jièqiáo Gǔcūn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":27.8003,"lon":114.6842,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyi-jieqiao-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A village just south of Fenyi town with Ming and Qing family halls, promoted as the home village of the Ming grand secretary Yan Song (1480–1567). It has been developed for visitors, with evening shows such as role-play dramas, opera and molten-iron sparks, and a second phase was under construction in 2024. Xinyu's tourism bureau groups it with Hongyang Cave and Fairy Lake."},{"id":"xinyu-jinshishan-mine-park","name":"Jinshishan Mine Park","name_zh":"金石山","pinyin":"Jīnshí Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":27.9207,"lon":114.8352,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyu-jinshishan-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Jinshishan is a century-old mine in Ouli town, restored and turned into a leisure park covering about 1,278 mu (some 85 hectares), with more than 200 mu of new woodland and 360 mu of grass over the old workings. Its attractions include a central cascade, a mine-tunnel exploration hall, a high combined tower and a cliff-top viewing area, with a resort section in old-town style. Jiangxi Daily reported large crowds there in May 2026, and the provincial list names it the Xinyu Jinshishan resort."},{"id":"xinyu-luofang-conference-sites","name":"Luofang Conference and Xingguo Investigation Sites","name_zh":"罗坊会议和兴国调查会旧址","pinyin":"Luófāng Huìyì Hé Xīngguó Diàochá Huì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":27.838,"lon":115.119,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyu-luofang-conference-sites","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Four preserved houses around Luofang town record the Red First Front Army's stay in October and early November 1930. In Chenjianao village, a brick-and-timber house of the early Republic was the venue of a joint meeting of the army's general front committee and the Jiangxi provincial action committee, known as the Luofang Conference, and Mao Zedong lodged in it; the other listed houses, in nearby villages, are the site of his interviews with eight Xingguo soldiers, the army's headquarters where Zhu De lodged, and the Jiangxi provincial soviet government office. A memorial hall to the conference stands in Luofang town."},{"id":"fenyi-shuanglin-xiabu-park","name":"Shuanglin Ramie Cloth Culture Tourism Area","name_zh":"双林夏布","pinyin":"Shuānglín Xiàbù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":27.9352,"lon":114.7571,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenyi-shuanglin-xiabu-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A culture-tourism area at Shuanglin town, in the heartland of Fenyi's ramie-cloth industry; Fenyi is known as the home of xiabu, 'summer cloth' woven by hand from ramie fibre. The grounds combine exhibition space on weaving and Xiabu embroidery, which is a national intangible heritage item, with an experience village for hands-on workshops. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2021, and the county was upgrading its experience village in 2024."},{"id":"xinyu-shuixi-third-army-corps-hq-site","name":"Shuixi Site of the Third Army Corps Command Post","name_zh":"水西红三军团指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Shuǐxī Hóng Sān Jūntuán Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Xinyu","lat":27.8059,"lon":115.0115,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyu-shuixi-third-army-corps-hq-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A late-Qing ancestral hall of the Liao clan in Shapo village, Shuixi town: a south-facing brick-and-timber building of three halls and two courtyards with 561 m² of floor space. At the end of September 1930, after the attack on Changsha, the Red First Front Army moved back into Jiangxi, and while its front committee met at Luofang the Third Army Corps under Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan took up defensive positions, with its command post here. It was listed as a provincial site in 2018 and as a national one in 2019, in the eighth batch."},{"id":"tonggu-autumn-harvest-uprising-sites","name":"Autumn Harvest Uprising Sites, Tonggu","name_zh":"铜鼓秋收起义纪念地","pinyin":"Tónggǔ Qiūshōu Qǐyì Jìniàndì","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.5223,"lon":114.3635,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonggu-autumn-harvest-uprising-sites","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A group of sites in Yongning, the county town of Tonggu, centred on the Xiao ancestral hall, a two-block timber-and-earth building of the 1870s on Dingjiang East Road. In August 1927 a Liuyang peasant force took up quarters there, and on 10 September Mao Zedong, then secretary of the front committee, announced its reorganisation as the 3rd Regiment of the First Division of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army and briefed officers on the plan for the Autumn Harvest Uprising. A memorial hall beside it, completed in 1977, covers the uprising."},{"id":"gaoan-baifengling","name":"Baifengling Horticultural Park, Gao'an","name_zh":"百峰岭","pinyin":"Bǎifēnglǐng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.3088,"lon":115.1431,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoan-baifengling","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A horticulture-themed scenic area in the countryside of Gao'an. It was rated national 4A in 2020 and was among 20 scenic areas in Yichun reported as drawing the most visitors over the 2023 National Day holiday. It suits a short rural outing from Gao'an."},{"id":"yichun-chandu-culture-expo-park","name":"Chandu Culture Expo Park, Yichun","name_zh":"禅都文化博览园","pinyin":"Chándū Wénhuà Bólǎn Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":27.8194,"lon":114.4381,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-chandu-culture-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A cultural park on Chan (Zen) Buddhism on the eastern side of Yichun city, in a prefecture that promotes itself as a holy land of Chan. It was rated national 4A in 2015 and hosts seasonal events such as a moon-festival market, a Chinese-style garden fair, a food market and music nights. It suits an easy visit from the city centre."},{"id":"jingan-chinese-traditional-culture-park","name":"Chinese Traditional Culture Park, Jing'an","name_zh":"中华传统文化园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Chuántǒng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.9389,"lon":115.4078,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingan-chinese-traditional-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"An antique-style cultural park of more than 2,000 mu (about 133 ha) in Baofeng town, built as a traditional-culture study base, where a city-gate opening ceremony and a Confucius ceremony were held in 2018. It was rated national 4A in 2019."},{"id":"shanggao-conglin-liquor-expo-park","name":"Conglin Liquor Expo Park, Shanggao","name_zh":"五谷村丛林酒博园","pinyin":"Wǔgǔ Cūn Cónglín Jiǔbó Yuán","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.2815,"lon":114.9422,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanggao-conglin-liquor-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A liquor-culture visitor park (the name means 'liquor expo park') at Wugu village on the northern edge of Shanggao town. It was rated national 4A in 2017. It suits a short stop for visitors interested in Chinese liquor culture."},{"id":"yifeng-dongshan","name":"Dongshan, Yifeng","name_zh":"洞山","pinyin":"Dòngshān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.5371,"lon":114.8697,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yifeng-dongshan","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain village in Tong'an township where the Tang monk Liangjie founded Puli Chan Temple, regarded as the ancestral temple of the Caodong school of Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Beside the temple, Fengqu Bridge, a stone arch bridge dated 1098, is the third Northern Song stone arch bridge with a dated inscription found in Jiangxi, after Guanyin Bridge on Lushan and Mingshui Bridge on Gezao Mountain. The village is a provincial rural tourism point promoted as 'Zen-realm Dongshan', and it hosted a rural Zen culture festival in 2018."},{"id":"wanzai-xianyuan-revolutionary-base","name":"Former Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Revolutionary Base, Xianyuan","name_zh":"湘鄂赣革命根据地旧址","pinyin":"Xiāng È Gàn Gémìng Gēnjùdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.3006,"lon":114.2589,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanzai-xianyuan-revolutionary-base","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"From April 1932 to January 1934 the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi provincial Party committee and provincial soviet government were based at Xiaoyuan, now Xianyuan village. The listed buildings are late-Qing houses and ancestral halls that housed the Party committee, the soviet government, the military district and the newspaper Red Flag, among other offices. The village has added exhibition halls on the base's history, on taxation in the period and on the workers' movement."},{"id":"zhangshu-gezao-mountain","name":"Gezao Mountain, Zhangshu","name_zh":"阁皂山","pinyin":"Gézào Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":27.8968,"lon":115.5888,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangshu-gezao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Daoist mountain south of Zhangshu, regarded as the ancestral mountain of the Lingbao school of Daoism and counted as the 36th of Daoism's blessed lands. Relics include the Chongzhen Palace, an immortals' bridge, a pool for releasing animals and an alchemy well, and the Song-dynasty Mingshui Bridge, built in 1111 across a gorge. That bridge is a single stone arch 7.3 m long, with a 34-character dedication carved on its sides, and is a national heritage unit."},{"id":"wanzai-henghui-art-agriculture-park","name":"Henghui Art Agriculture Park, Wanzai","name_zh":"恒晖艺术农业","pinyin":"Hénghuī Yìshù Nóngyè","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.2289,"lon":114.4814,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanzai-henghui-art-agriculture-park","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A farm-tourism park in the countryside near Sanxing town, run under the name 'art agriculture' (yishu nongye). It was the first scenic area in Wanzai county to be rated national 4A, in 2017. It suits a short rural outing from Wanzai town."},{"id":"fengcheng-hongzhou-kiln","name":"Hongzhou Kiln, Fengcheng","name_zh":"洪州窑遗址","pinyin":"Hóngzhōu Yáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":27.9085,"lon":115.7758,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengcheng-hongzhou-kiln","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Hongzhou celadon was fired around Fengcheng from the late Eastern Han onwards, and the kiln is counted among the six famous celadon kilns of the Tang; 44 kiln sites in 19 villages lie in six townships on both banks of the Gan River. At Wanniling an old dragon kiln survives and is still fired, and a workshop and display hall there make and explain Hongzhou celadon to visitors, including study groups. Wanniling has been a provincial industrial-heritage tourism base since 2022."},{"id":"gaoan-hualin-papermaking-site","name":"Hualin Papermaking Workshop Site, Gao'an","name_zh":"华林造纸作坊遗址","pinyin":"Huálín Zàozhǐ Zuōfang Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.6358,"lon":115.1743,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoan-hualin-papermaking-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Remains of bamboo-paper workshops in the hills of the Hualin Mountain scenic area near Zhouling village, where archaeologists found the foundations of sixteen water-driven stamping mills along the streams and excavated workshops from the Southern Song to the Ming. The remains allow the whole bamboo-paper process described in Song Yingxing's Ming-dynasty Tiangong Kaiwu to be traced."},{"id":"fengxin-jimei-stone-archway","name":"Jimei Stone Archway, Fengxin","name_zh":"济美石坊","pinyin":"Jìměi Shífāng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.7123,"lon":115.1417,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxin-jimei-stone-archway","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A four-sided stone memorial archway, 12.2 m high and 4.15 m wide, carved to imitate timber construction, standing on the north bank of the Liao River. It was built between 1599 and 1601 to honour the Ming official Hu Shiyuan and his Song-dynasty forebears, and the tablets over its gateways carry the title Jimei and the word for an imperial decree. It joined the national list in 2019."},{"id":"gaoan-jingxian-jia-ancestral-hall","name":"Jingxian Jia Ancestral Hall, Gao'an","name_zh":"景贤贾氏宗祠","pinyin":"Jǐngxián Jiǎshì Zōngcí","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.1975,"lon":115.3631,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoan-jingxian-jia-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A Ming-dynasty clan ancestral hall in the middle of Jiajia village, with four halls in sequence on a site of about 1,870 m²: the Zhoujin Hall, a front pavilion for bowing, a rear shrine hall and a Guanyin hall. Chinese sources describe the surrounding village as the oldest and largest surviving traditional village in Gao'an, and a fairly complete one. The hall joined the national list in 2013."},{"id":"jingan-lizhouao-eastern-zhou-tomb","name":"Lizhou'ao Eastern Zhou Tomb Museum, Jing'an","name_zh":"李洲坳东周墓葬","pinyin":"Lǐzhōu'ào Dōngzhōu Mùzàng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.893,"lon":115.2884,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingan-lizhouao-eastern-zhou-tomb","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A museum at the site of a large Eastern Zhou tomb in Shuikou township, excavated in 2007 after looters broke into it, where a mound about 12 m high covered a pit with 47 coffins, a main burial and 46 accompanying ones. The excavation was named one of China's ten major archaeological discoveries of 2007 and produced more than a thousand objects, among them over 300 textile pieces. The museum, opened in 2010, shows finds from the tomb."},{"id":"fengcheng-love-flower-town","name":"Love Flower Town, Fengcheng","name_zh":"爱情花卉小镇","pinyin":"Àiqíng Huāhuì Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.3105,"lon":115.656,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengcheng-love-flower-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A flower-themed park of about 4.7 km² at Tancheng village in Meilin town, built from 2018 on former barren hills around a flower and nursery-stock business. Its sights include a bird-and-flower garden, a lake called Love Sea, a rose garden, a southern plant garden, a flower-castle hotel and a water-screen film show, and a small railway runs through the flower beds. It is promoted as a romantic outing for couples."},{"id":"jingan-mazu-pagoda-pavilion","name":"Mazu Pagoda Pavilion, Baofeng Temple","name_zh":"马祖塔亭","pinyin":"Mǎzǔ Tǎtíng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":29.0059,"lon":115.4068,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingan-mazu-pagoda-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A hexagonal granite pavilion of 1085 inside Baofeng Temple, covering the tomb pagoda of the Tang Chan master Mazu Daoyi, whose pagoda was first built in 791. The square two-storey marble pagoda was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt to its old form in 1993, while the pavilion survived. The temple took the name Baofeng when the pagoda was rebuilt in 850."},{"id":"shanggao-mengshan-silver-mine","name":"Mengshan Silver Mine Site","name_zh":"蒙山银矿遗址","pinyin":"Méngshān Yínkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.0396,"lon":114.8862,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanggao-mengshan-silver-mine","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Remains of a silver-mining district on Mount Meng that worked from the Southern Song to the Ming, about 160 years in all, around the Taizi cliff. The site covers main mine adits, open-cast trenches, a smelting area, a stone-slab road with old bridges, mine-ban inscriptions and the site of the Zhengde Academy. It was listed nationally in 2013, and a provincial archaeological park project was approved there in December 2025."},{"id":"yichun-mingyue-mountain","name":"Mingyue Mountain","name_zh":"明月山","pinyin":"Míngyuè Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":27.5996,"lon":114.2883,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-mingyue-mountain","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A 136 km² mountain on the border of Yichun's Yuanzhou district and An'fu county, named for its half-moon outline, with its main peak, Taiping, at 1,735.6 m. Sights include the Yungu waterfall, the Qingyun plank walkway, old stone pagodas on the slopes and a summit lake with small-train camps. It has been a national 5A scenic area since 2015, and the hot-spring town of Wentang lies at its foot."},{"id":"yichun-mingyue-qianguqing","name":"Mingyue Qianguqing Theme Park, Yichun","name_zh":"宜春宋城明月千古情","pinyin":"Yíchūn Sòngchéng Míngyuè Qiāngǔqíng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":27.6832,"lon":114.2797,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-mingyue-qianguqing","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A commercial theme park in Wentang town, developed with the Songcheng Performance Group and opened on 28 December 2018. Its main attraction is a staged song-and-dance show, Mingyue Qianguqing, drawing on Jiangxi history and folk customs, with scenes on porcelain, the moon goddess Chang'e and the legend of Empress Mingyue. It was rated national 4A in 2019 and is usually combined with Mingyue Mountain and Wentang's hot springs."},{"id":"tonggu-qixingling","name":"Qixingling Ski Resort, Tonggu","name_zh":"七星岭","pinyin":"Qīxīnglǐng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.441,"lon":114.1876,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonggu-qixingling","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A mountain resort in Paibu town with a ski area whose slopes the county uses for mass-participation ski races. A new slope was added in 2023, and the resort is on the provincial tourism department's 2025 list of summer cool-weather routes, together with Tangli and Tianzhufeng. It was rated national 4A in 2024."},{"id":"yichun-qiyin-valley","name":"Qiyin Valley","name_zh":"栖隐谷","pinyin":"Qīyǐn Gǔ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":27.621,"lon":114.3442,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-qiyin-valley","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A wooded valley on the eastern side of Mingyue Mountain, run as a separate scenic area from the main mountain gate near Wentang and rated national 4A in 2022. Qiyin Temple on Mount Yang, one of Jiangxi's old Chan monasteries, stands nearby."},{"id":"jingan-sanzhualun","name":"Sanzhualun Forest Park, Jing'an","name_zh":"三爪仑","pinyin":"Sānzhǎolún","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":29.0519,"lon":115.2559,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingan-sanzhualun","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A forested valley area in northern Jing'an county, run as a national forest park and best known for river rafting and a small forest train. The park is divided into the Kuang Zhong garden, Luojiaping, Baofeng and Panlong Lake zones, and the white cliffs of Baiya Mountain are among its sights. It was rated national 4A in 2007."},{"id":"shanggao-battle-sites","name":"Shanggao Battle Sites","name_zh":"上高会战遗址","pinyin":"Shànggāo Huìzhàn Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.1489,"lon":114.7773,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanggao-battle-sites","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Four wartime sites of the 1941 Battle of Shanggao, mostly old ancestral halls and village houses, were opened with displays in September 2020: the general headquarters of the Chinese 19th Army Group, its women's battlefield service corps, a wartime prison and the command post of the 58th Division. In March 1941 Japanese forces advanced on Shanggao and were fought by Chinese units for about 25 days; Chinese sources record some 15,000 Japanese casualties. A cemetery on the eastern edge of Shanggao town holds more than 9,000 Chinese soldiers."},{"id":"tonggu-tianzhufeng","name":"Tianzhufeng, Tonggu","name_zh":"天柱峰","pinyin":"Tiānzhùfēng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.6369,"lon":114.538,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tonggu-tianzhufeng","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area on the shore of Jiulong Lake in Daduan town, in the county with the highest forest cover in Jiangxi. Boat trips on the lake, a glass bridge and night tours are among its newer attractions. It was rated national 4A in 2019 and is on the provincial tourism department's 2025 list of summer cool-weather routes."},{"id":"gaoan-zhu-shi-tomb","name":"Tomb of Zhu Shi, Gao'an","name_zh":"朱轼墓","pinyin":"Zhū Shì Mù","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.4058,"lon":115.1149,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoan-zhu-shi-tomb","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The tomb of Zhu Shi (1665-1736), a Gao'an man who served three Qing emperors, as governor of Zhejiang and later as Minister of Personnel and grand secretary. The burial ground, about 160 m long and 60 m wide on a hillside, has a symmetrical line of spirit-way stele, markers, a stone archway, stone deer, horses and figures, a worship platform and the burial mound. Its size and carving are unusual among Qing officials' tombs."},{"id":"wanzai-ancient-town","name":"Wanzai Ancient Town","name_zh":"万载古城","pinyin":"Wànzǎi Gǔchéng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.1051,"lon":114.4398,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanzai-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A restored historic quarter in the centre of Wanzai (the Tianxia old-town district) with Ming and Qing buildings, including 26 ancestral halls, old houses and granaries, restored over about five years. It was rated national 4A in 2019 and listed in 2022 among China's selected projects combining intangible heritage with tourism, and local operas such as lantern opera and Nuo opera are staged here weekly. Wanzai is a fireworks town, and the old quarter holds firework displays at festivals."},{"id":"yichun-yuanzhou-qiaolou","name":"Yuanzhou Qiaolou (Drum Tower)","name_zh":"袁州谯楼","pinyin":"Yuánzhōu Qiáolóu","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":27.7969,"lon":114.3781,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichun-yuanzhou-qiaolou","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A gate tower built in 944 under the Southern Tang as part of the Yuanzhou prefectural offices, now known as the Yichun Drum Tower. In 1219 it was fitted with water clocks, a gnomon and a south-pointing needle and served as a local observatory; experts in 1994 judged it the oldest surviving local time observatory site in China. A double-eaved timber hall about 23 m wide and 13 m high stands on a platform 5.5 m high."},{"id":"zhangshu-zhuweicheng-site","name":"Zhuweicheng Site, Zhangshu","name_zh":"筑卫城遗址","pinyin":"Zhùwèichéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yichun","lat":28.0366,"lon":115.607,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangshu-zhuweicheng-site","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A settlement enclosure on the north slope of Dagu Hill, named for the earth walls that encircle it and measuring about 410 by 360 m. The south-west rampart is recorded at 17 m high, and excavations in 1974 and 1977 found a late Neolithic layer under an Eastern Zhou one. The national listing now also covers the Guozishan tombs, about 300 m to the west, whose large Eastern Zhou tomb was named one of China's six major new archaeological discoveries of 2021; a provincial archaeological park project approved in 2023 has built a visitor service centre here."},{"id":"guixi-baihe-lake-xixili","name":"Baihe Lake Xixili, Guixi","name_zh":"白鹤湖嘻嘻哩","pinyin":"Báihè Hú Xīxīlī","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yingtan","lat":28.4386,"lon":117.0516,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guixi-baihe-lake-xixili","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A family leisure park on the shore of Baihe Lake, a reservoir in north-western Guixi; its water park opened on 30 April 2023. It has water-play rides, boat trips on the lake, an artificial sand beach, a children's play area and off-road rides, with more than 30 hands-on attractions in all. It suits families with children in summer."},{"id":"yujiang-schistosomiasis-control-exhibition-area","name":"China Schistosomiasis Control Red Flag Exhibition Area, Yujiang","name_zh":"中国血防红旗博览区","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Xuèfáng Hóngqí Bólǎnqū","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yingtan","lat":28.2095,"lon":116.8181,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yujiang-schistosomiasis-control-exhibition-area","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A memorial area in Yujiang about the campaign against schistosomiasis, a snail-borne parasitic disease. Yujiang county was declared to have eliminated the disease in 1958, the first in China, and the area presents that history in three parts: the China Schistosomiasis Control Memorial Hall, built in 1978 with halls on the disease and the campaign; Tongle Park opposite it, where a 1978 stele carries Mao Zedong's poem \"Farewell to the God of Plague\"; and the village of Lantian Songjia, with its campaign sites and a village history museum."},{"id":"yujiang-lingxi-lake","name":"Lingxi Lake Eco-tourism Area, Yujiang","name_zh":"灵溪湖","pinyin":"Língxī Hú","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yingtan","lat":28.2436,"lon":116.7134,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yujiang-lingxi-lake","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A lakeside leisure area around Lingxi Town in Yangxi township, Yujiang district, rated a 4A scenic area in early 2024. The town is used for school study trips and art-sketching groups and stages holiday events such as comic-themed exhibitions."},{"id":"yingtan-longhu-shan","name":"Mount Longhu","name_zh":"龙虎山","pinyin":"Lónghǔ Shān","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yingtan","lat":28.1002,"lon":116.9585,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yingtan-longhu-shan/","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"Red sandstone peaks, cliffs and caves rise above the Luxi River south of Yingtan, in a landscape that is one of the six parts of the China Danxia World Heritage Site (2010) and an old centre of Daoism. The main visit is a bamboo-raft ride on the river beneath the cliffs of Xianshuiyan, where ancient cliff coffins can be seen, with walks to viewpoints and the Immortal City area. The Tianshi Mansion and Shangqing Palace are in Shangqing town, about 9 km to the south-east."},{"id":"guixi-qingmaojing","name":"Qingmaojing Forest Scenic Area, Guixi","name_zh":"青茅境","pinyin":"Qīngmáojìng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yingtan","lat":27.9104,"lon":117.3501,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guixi-qingmaojing","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"A forest scenic area in the Shuangzhen forest farm in the mountains of southern Guixi, with bamboo groves, a sea of cloud seen from the main peak after rain, and the Sandie waterfall, which falls in three tiers for a total drop of more than 100 metres. It is promoted as a cool, clean-air retreat in summer."},{"id":"guixi-tianshi-mansion-shangqing-palace","name":"Tianshi Mansion and Shangqing Palace","name_zh":"嗣汉天师府与大上清宫","pinyin":"Sìhàn Tiānshīfǔ Yǔ Dàshàngqīnggōng","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yingtan","lat":28.047,"lon":117.0324,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guixi-tianshi-mansion-shangqing-palace","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The Tianshi Mansion in Shangqing town was the home and ritual seat of the Celestial Masters, the hereditary heads of the Zhengyi school of Daoism, and covers 42,000 square metres. Most of what stands is Qing-dynasty or modern rebuilding, with older parts such as the Celestial Masters' residence hall, a Yuan stele with text by Zhao Mengfu and a bronze bell cast in 1351. About 1.2 km east are the ruins of Daishangqing Palace, a vast Daoist temple that burned in 1930 and is now an excavated site with an exhibition hall."},{"id":"guixi-xianshuiyan-cliff-tombs","name":"Xianshuiyan Cliff Tombs","name_zh":"仙水岩崖墓群","pinyin":"Xiānshuǐyán Yámùqún","region_id":"360000","region":"Jiangxi","city":"Yingtan","lat":28.0932,"lon":116.9587,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guixi-xianshuiyan-cliff-tombs","verified":"2026-10-24","summary":"The cliffs above the Luxi River hold more than seventy natural caves, some 30 to 50 metres above the water, in which people of the ancient Yue culture placed coffins and grave goods about 2,600 years ago, in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Excavations in 1978–79 cleared 18 tombs with 37 coffins and more than 220 objects, among them a flat drum, a zither and parts of a primitive loom, all rare finds. Visitors see the cave mouths from the river and from viewpoints along the cliff."},{"id":"boxing-dayuzhang-forest-park","name":"Dayuzhang Forest Park","name_zh":"打渔张森林公园","pinyin":"Dǎyúzhāng Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.3335,"lon":118.1851,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boxing-dayuzhang-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dayuzhang Forest Park is a provincial forest park of wetland, woodland and canals on the south bank of the Yellow River in Qiaozhuang town, Boxing County, centred on the headworks of the Dayuzhang Yellow River irrigation scheme. The county says it has over 100 plant species and some 40 bird species, and its sights include the diversion sluice and a hydraulic-engineering museum, the Huazhao flower garden, a crabapple orchard, wetland, a reservoir with a greenway and a camping base. It suits a quiet day of cycling, fishing and watching the river."},{"id":"binzhou-du-shoutian-residence","name":"Du Shoutian Residence","name_zh":"杜受田故居","pinyin":"Dù Shòutián Gùjū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.4792,"lon":117.962,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binzhou-du-shoutian-residence","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is the former home of Du Shoutian, a Qing scholar-official who served as an imperial tutor, in Binbei, north of Binzhou city. The courtyard compound dates from the Wanli era of the Ming and once had hundreds of rooms in some 28 courtyards, but only the embroidery tower, a reception hall and parts of the main and side ranges survive, in the plain northern-Shandong style of the Ming and Qing. Plaques over the gate and hall record the family's official ranks, and the house is also a provincial integrity-education base."},{"id":"boxing-mada-lake","name":"Mada Lake","name_zh":"麻大湖","pinyin":"Mádà Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.0936,"lon":118.0857,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boxing-mada-lake","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Mada Lake is a freshwater lake and reed wetland south of Boxing county town, about 7 km from east to west and up to 3.5 km wide, which became a national wetland park in 2013. Reeds, cattails and lotus cover much of the shallow water, boats run through channels in the reeds, and the lake is known locally for lotus root, salted duck eggs and fish dishes. It suits a quiet half-day of wetland scenery and local food, with summer lotus the main draw."},{"id":"binzhou-puhu-scenic-area","name":"Puhu Scenic Area, Binzhou","name_zh":"蒲湖风景区","pinyin":"Púhú Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.3577,"lon":118.0248,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binzhou-puhu-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Puhu is a large lake park on the southern edge of Binzhou, between the Yellow River's main and secondary embankments, planned at about 543 hectares of which 180 had been developed by 2017. Its landmark is the Yellow River Tower, a modern tower on the lake's east shore that opened in 2021, and the park also has gardens, boats, a martyrs' cemetery and fishing areas. It is a local leisure park for walking and boating rather than a heritage site."},{"id":"huimin-sun-wu-ancient-city","name":"Sun Wu Ancient City","name_zh":"孙武古城","pinyin":"Sūn Wǔ Gǔchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.4834,"lon":117.5051,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huimin-sun-wu-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Sun Wu Ancient City is the main tourist zone of Huimin County town, which claims the strategist Sun Wu, author of The Art of War, as a native son. It groups the Wuding Prefectural Yamen, which also holds the former Bohai revolutionary base-area offices, the Wusheng Garden park with weapons and folk museums, the Art of War City theme complex and a park along the moat, all set against a surviving stretch of Song-period city wall. Much of the zone is modern construction, so it suits visitors interested in Sun Tzu and Chinese military culture more than architecture."},{"id":"huimin-weiji-ancient-town","name":"Weiji Ancient Town and Wei's Manor","name_zh":"魏集古镇","pinyin":"Wèijí Gǔzhèn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.2908,"lon":117.7467,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huimin-weiji-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Weiji Ancient Town is a tourist zone in Weiji town, one of Huimin County's Yellow River towns, that links two groups of Ming-Qing-style buildings, Wei's Manor and the Weiji old village, along a new old-style street. Wei's Manor, a national heritage unit, is a fortified landowner's compound completed in 1893: a walled rectangle of about 84 by 46 m with round corner turrets and some 48 rooms in six courtyards. The old village is a modern imitation of Ming-Qing houses with more than 200 snack shops, workshops and small attractions, and folk performances in the evenings."},{"id":"wudi-ancient-city","name":"Wudi Ancient City","name_zh":"无棣古城","pinyin":"Wúdì Gǔchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.74,"lon":117.5974,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudi-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wudi Ancient City is a walled old town of about 11.5 hectares in the centre of Wudi County, partly original and partly rebuilt in old style since 2010, with a moat and a lotus bay. The county says it keeps the Tang-period Dajue Temple and Haifeng Pagoda, a stretch of Song city wall, the Ming county-yamen hall and the Qing residence of the epigraphy scholar Wu Shifen, while its museum, intangible-heritage hall, shops and evening events are newer additions. It suits an easy half-day of strolling and boat rides on the moat."},{"id":"huimin-xincheng-tianyuan-ecological-park","name":"Xincheng Tianyuan Eco-tourism Area","name_zh":"鑫诚田园生态旅游区","pinyin":"Xīnchéng Tiányuán Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.442,"lon":117.6437,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huimin-xincheng-tianyuan-ecological-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Xincheng Tianyuan is a large commercial farm-leisure park in Madian town, Huimin County, planned at about 15,000 mu and built round greenhouses and orchards. It has Dutch-style smart greenhouses, a flower house, an animal-feeding area, an EU-standard organic orchard, a 'Forest Tribe' zone opened in 2021 and the Sheng Ge Di Bay hot-spring water park, and it offers camping and bonfire evenings. It is a family destination rather than a heritage or nature sight."},{"id":"boxing-zhangbafo-xingguo-temple","name":"Zhangbafo Buddha at Xingguo Temple","name_zh":"丈八佛（兴国寺）","pinyin":"Zhàngbāfó (Xīngguó Sì)","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.0913,"lon":118.2262,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boxing-zhangbafo-xingguo-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhangbafo is a standing stone Buddha of the Northern Dynasties, 7.1 m high including its pedestal, which stands in Xingguo Temple in Zhangbafo village, Hubin town; the county dates the carving to the first year of the Tianping era (534). The figure wears a robe over both shoulders and stands on a lotus pedestal carved with guardian figures, an incense burner, garudas and groups of donors, 26 figures in all, and the county calls it a large, well-preserved stone statue carved in the round for the north Shandong plain. The temple around it was rebuilt from 1998 with halls, a chanting hall, a dining hall and a visitor centre."},{"id":"zhanhua-winter-jujube-eco-tourism-area","name":"Zhanhua Winter Jujube Eco-tourism Area","name_zh":"沾化冬枣生态旅游区","pinyin":"Zhānhuà Dōngzǎo Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Binzhou","lat":37.6847,"lon":117.8936,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhanhua-winter-jujube-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a jujube orchard park of about 500 mu in Xiawa town, the original home of the Zhanhua winter jujube, a crisp, apple-sized variety, about 20 km from Zhanhua town. It is laid out in three zones, including a lake area, with a covered bridge, a landscaped hill, a waterfall, a jujube-culture corridor, a research institute, a picking garden and reed wetland along the Qinkou River. The trees flower in early summer and carry fruit in autumn, which is the main season for a visit."},{"id":"ningjin-debai-acrobatics-cricket-valley","name":"Debai Acrobatics and Cricket Valley, Ningjin","name_zh":"德百杂技蟋蟀谷","pinyin":"Débǎi Zájì Xīshuàigǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":37.5873,"lon":116.7922,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningjin-debai-acrobatics-cricket-valley","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a leisure complex of about 1,000 mu (roughly 67 ha) south of Ningjin town, developed by the Debai group and themed on the county's acrobatics and cricket-keeping traditions. It includes the Dezhou Wild Animal Kingdom (a zoo with more than 1,500 animals and a circus theatre), a courtyard-style family-culture park, a jade museum, an acrobatics school with a theatre and museum, an artificial ski slope and a hot-spring garden hotel. It suits a family day out; the animal and acrobatics shows are staged performances."},{"id":"xiajin-debai-hot-spring-resort","name":"Debai Hot Spring Resort, Xiajin","name_zh":"德百温泉度假村","pinyin":"Débǎi Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":37.0362,"lon":116.1106,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiajin-debai-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Debai is a hot-spring hotel complex in Suliuzhuang town, Xiajin County, in the area of the Yellow River Old Course Forest Park. It has indoor and outdoor hot-spring pools, an indoor swimming pool and spa facilities, and Xiajin's government lists it among the county's main leisure attractions. It suits a relaxing half-day or overnight stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"dezhou-dongzi-garden","name":"Dongzi Garden","name_zh":"董子园","pinyin":"Dǒngzǐ Yuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":37.4421,"lon":116.3695,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dezhou-dongzi-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dongzi Garden is a riverside memorial park in Dezhou commemorating the Han-dynasty Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu. Its centrepiece is the 24.8 m Dongzi Reading Terrace, with a hall and shrine and a Confucian-culture exhibition hall beneath it, a 6 m bronze statue in front, and a lake with bridges, pavilions and a stone boat. Dezhou's tourism bureau dates the original terrace to the Sui dynasty and says it was destroyed in war in the Republican period, so what stands now is a modern rebuilding."},{"id":"qingyun-haidao-jinshan-temple","name":"Haidao Jinshan Temple, Qingyun","name_zh":"海岛金山寺","pinyin":"Hǎidǎo Jīnshān Sì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":37.812,"lon":117.3744,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingyun-haidao-jinshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Haidao Jinshan Temple is a large Buddhist temple complex on the northern edge of Qingyun, rebuilt from 2004 after an older temple that Dezhou's tourism bureau dates to the Sui dynasty was destroyed in the Ming. The scenic area has three zones, worship halls, a commercial area and landscaped grounds, and the bureau describes it as the largest group of antique-style buildings in the surrounding area. It suits a short stop for those interested in modern temple building in northern Shandong."},{"id":"qihe-ole-fortress-dream-world","name":"Quancheng Ole Fortress Dream World","name_zh":"泉城欧乐堡梦幻世界","pinyin":"Quánchéng Ōulèbǎo Mènghuàn Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":36.7524,"lon":116.8351,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qihe-ole-fortress-dream-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dream World is a theme park in Qihe County with zones styled on European and Western themes, such as a Dutch family town, a western town and a castle, dozens of rides including several roller coasters, a horse show, an international circus and fireworks. It is aimed at families and thrill-seekers. The same resort also has an ocean-and-polar aquarium, a water park and an animal park."},{"id":"qihe-ole-fortress-polar-ocean-world","name":"Quancheng Ole Fortress Ocean and Polar World","name_zh":"泉城欧乐堡海洋极地世界","pinyin":"Quánchéng Ōulèbǎo Hǎiyáng Jídì Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":36.7445,"lon":116.833,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qihe-ole-fortress-polar-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a large indoor aquarium in Qihe County, completed in 2011, with more than ten halls including a tropical rainforest, an undersea tunnel, shark and turtle halls, a polar animal hall, a seal island and a 5D cinema. It has two show theatres, a mermaid underwater performance and a marine-animal show, both staged for audiences. It suits families, and it belongs to the same Ole Fortress resort as the Dream World theme park, less than 1 km to the north."},{"id":"leling-thousand-year-jujube-forest","name":"Thousand-Year Jujube Forest, Leling","name_zh":"千年枣林景区","pinyin":"Qiānnián Zǎolín Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":37.758,"lon":117.2579,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leling-thousand-year-jujube-forest","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This rural tourist area in Zhuji town, Leling, is built around old jujube (Chinese date) orchards, with more than a thousand trees that the local government says are over 1,000 years old, a garden of nearly 600 jujube varieties and a 'mother-and-child' tree of more than 700 years. Inside it stands the Jilu Border Region Memorial Park, opened in 2014, with a museum on the Jilu Border Region, a wartime anti-Japanese base area across northern Shandong and neighbouring parts of Hebei, plus a memorial plaza, a martyrs' stele forest and a tunnel exhibit. It suits a half-day in early autumn, when the fruit ripens."},{"id":"dezhou-sulu-king-tomb","name":"Tomb of the Sultan of Sulu","name_zh":"苏禄王墓","pinyin":"Sūlù Wángmù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dezhou","lat":37.4711,"lon":116.2899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dezhou-sulu-king-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"In 1417 the Eastern King of Sulu, from an old Southeast Asian kingdom in what is now the Philippines, led a delegation of about 340 people to the Ming court and died at Dezhou on the way home, where he was buried; his wife and two sons were later laid beside him. The tomb, in Beiying village on the northern edge of Dezhou, is described by the Decheng district government as the only intact tomb of a foreign king in China with descendants still guarding it; they are now in the twenty-second generation. A museum beside it, a national second-class museum since 2024, presents the history."},{"id":"guangrao-guandi-temple-main-hall","name":"Guangrao Guandi Temple Main Hall","name_zh":"广饶关帝庙大殿","pinyin":"Guǎngráo Guāndìmiào Dàdiàn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.0567,"lon":118.4007,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangrao-guandi-temple-main-hall/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This Southern Song timber hall, first built in 1128 as the main hall of a Guan Yu temple, is described by the city culture bureau as the only surviving Song-period timber hall in Shandong; it now serves as the main hall of the Sun Wu Shrine. Its single-eaved gable-and-hip roof and bracket sets, repaired in the Ming and Qing, are a rare example of Song-period carpentry, and the surrounding shrine is a modern Song-style compound with exhibitions on Sun Wu, inscribed steles and a long porcelain-carved copy of The Art of War. It stands beside the Dongying History Museum in Guangrao town and has been a national protected monument since 1996."},{"id":"dongying-gudao-locust-forest","name":"Gudao Locust Forest, Hekou","name_zh":"孤岛槐树林温泉","pinyin":"Gūdǎo Huáishùlín Wēnquán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.9003,"lon":118.8215,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongying-gudao-locust-forest","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Gudao Locust Forest is a large locust-tree plantation on the Yellow River delta, in Gudao town, Hekou district, made into a 4A scenic area with an entrance gate, a visitor centre, boardwalks, a festival square and a waterside food street. The draws are woodland walks and seasonal events such as the locust-blossom festival, a windmill festival and photography exhibitions that the area has hosted. Official pages also list local geothermal water among its resources, which explains the 'hot spring' in its official name."},{"id":"dongying-hongtan-wetland","name":"Hongtan Wetland","name_zh":"红滩湿地","pinyin":"Hóngtān Shīdì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.543,"lon":118.9246,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongying-hongtan-wetland","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Hongtan Wetland is a coastal tourist area in Kenli district, on the Bohai shore behind a seawall at the edge of broad tidal mudflats. Its reed beds and seepweed flats, which turn red in autumn, are a stopover for migratory birds, and visitors can walk the seawall or go out onto the mudflats at low tide to gather shellfish. It suits families wanting an informal day at the coast."},{"id":"dongying-lancuihu-resort","name":"Lancuihu Resort, Dongying","name_zh":"揽翠湖旅游度假区","pinyin":"Lǎncuìhú Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.412,"lon":118.58,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongying-lancuihu-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Lancuihu is a lakeside leisure area on the south-west edge of Dongying city, rated 4A in 2015, whose lawns and lakeshore are used for camping and a lawn music season. The city culture and tourism bureau describes plans for hot-spring hotels, a golf course, botanical gardens and water sports, and the area lies about a kilometre from the Yellow River Delta Zoo. It suits visitors wanting an outdoor day or a stay near the city rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"dongying-mingcuihu-wetland","name":"Mingcuihu Wetland, Hekou","name_zh":"鸣翠湖湿地","pinyin":"Míngcuìhú Shīdì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.8824,"lon":118.5049,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongying-mingcuihu-wetland","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Mingcuihu is a large lake and wetland park on the edge of Hekou's new town, designed around the themes of the Yellow River, oil, the sea and wetlands. The official page gives about 5,000 mu (roughly 330 hectares) of park with 3,500 mu of water and an 8 km shoreline, with themed zones for culture, leisure and wetland ecology. It was rated 4A in 2022 and suits an easy lakeside walk."},{"id":"guangrao-red-liuji","name":"Red Liuji, Guangrao","name_zh":"红色刘集","pinyin":"Hóngsè Liújí","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":36.9676,"lon":118.5182,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangrao-red-liuji","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Liuji is a village in Dawang town, Guangrao, that was home to one of the earliest rural Communist Party branches in Shandong, which kept and used a first-edition Chinese translation of the Communist Manifesto, as local government pages tell it. The visit centres on a museum on the branch's former site and a Communist Manifesto memorial hall, with an underground tunnel exhibit, a Qi brush craft hall and a hall for local folk opera. It has also been used as a filming location for television dramas on the party's early history."},{"id":"guangrao-sunzi-culture-tourism-area","name":"Sunzi Culture Tourism Area, Guangrao","name_zh":"孙子文化旅游区","pinyin":"Sūnzǐ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.0454,"lon":118.4512,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangrao-sunzi-culture-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Sunzi Culture Tourism Area is a themed leisure district on Sunwu Lake in Guangrao's new eastern district, devoted to Sun Wu (Sun Tzu), author of The Art of War, whom Guangrao claims as a native son. Its core is the Sunzi Cultural Park, with a ceremonial entrance plaza of bronze chariot groups and drum-shaped walls, a large hall and exhibits on military thought. It is a modern development rather than a historic site, and Guangrao holds an annual Sunzi Culture Tourism Festival, the eighteenth opening on 11 September 2026."},{"id":"dongying-tianning-temple","name":"Tianning Temple, Kenli","name_zh":"天宁寺","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.571,"lon":118.4171,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongying-tianning-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tianning Temple is a large modern Buddhist temple complex in the west of Kenli district, built beside the Tianning Lake wetland park; its main hall was consecrated in 2013 and the area was rated 4A in 2014. The temple has a main hall and a relic pagoda surrounded by side halls, and the city culture and tourism bureau lists a folk-culture street, a Buddhist academy and a riverside park among the wider area's facilities. It suits visitors interested in contemporary Chinese Buddhist architecture and a quiet wetland setting."},{"id":"dongying-yellow-river-delta-zoo","name":"Yellow River Delta Zoo","name_zh":"黄河三角洲动物园","pinyin":"Huánghé Sānjiǎozhōu Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.4191,"lon":118.5911,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongying-yellow-river-delta-zoo","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Yellow River Delta Zoo is an urban zoo on the south-west side of Dongying, opened in the early 2010s on about 1,000 mu (roughly 65 hectares) of land. In 2019 the city's culture and tourism bureau reported more than 100 species and over a thousand animals, including giraffes, white tigers and white rhinos, and a dinosaur-themed play area and a jellyfish exhibit have been added since. It suits families, and it was rated a 4A area in 2018."},{"id":"dongying-yellow-river-estuary-tourism-area","name":"Yellow River Estuary Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"黄河口生态旅游区","pinyin":"Huánghékǒu Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Dongying","lat":37.7448,"lon":119.1423,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongying-yellow-river-estuary-tourism-area/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This 5A area is the visitor section of the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, where the Yellow River meets the Bohai Sea on some of China's youngest land. It has natural willow woods, wetlands and reed beds with boardwalks and a bird museum near the entrance, and the autumn carpet of red seepweed is a seasonal draw. The reserve was set up in 1992 and counts more than 360 bird species, including oriental storks; the area opened to visitors in 2005 and was rated 5A in 2020."},{"id":"shanxian-baishou-baishi-memorial-arches","name":"Baishou and Baishi Memorial Arches","name_zh":"百寿坊及百狮坊","pinyin":"Bǎishòufāng Jí Bǎishīfāng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":34.7965,"lon":116.0811,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanxian-baishou-baishi-memorial-arches","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"These are two stone memorial arches of the Qianlong era standing about 100 m apart in the old centre of Shan County: the Baishi Arch of 1769, carved with a hundred lions, and the Baishou Arch of 1765, carved with the character for longevity in a hundred scripts. The Baishi Arch is 13.5 m high, a four-pillar, three-bay arch with a hip-and-gable roof, and the Baishou Arch is almost identical, both with fine relief carving of lions, dragons, clouds and peonies. They stand in a public square (Paifang Square) in the town centre."},{"id":"heze-caozhou-peony-garden","name":"Caozhou Peony Garden","name_zh":"曹州牡丹园","pinyin":"Cáozhōu Mǔdan Yuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.2803,"lon":115.4916,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heze-caozhou-peony-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Caozhou Peony Garden is a large peony park on the north side of Heze city, described by the city government as holding 1,237 peony varieties and more than 600 herbaceous peony varieties. It peaks in April during the city's peony festival, when the flower beds are joined by costume events and stage shows, and it also has a national-flower museum and a street of craft stalls."},{"id":"shanxian-fulong-lake-resort","name":"Fulong Lake Resort, Shan County","name_zh":"浮龙湖","pinyin":"Fúlóng Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":34.638,"lon":115.9588,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanxian-fulong-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Fulong Lake is a large reservoir-lake resort of about 21 sq km of water in the south-west of Shan County, on the course of the old Yellow River, with a lakeside plaza, a long jetty, islands, a rose garden and a Taoist temple, the Laojun Temple. Boats, electric carts and a small train link the sights, and a spring-summer culture festival is held there each year. It is a family and leisure destination for a day by the water rather than a historic site."},{"id":"yuncheng-guanyin-temple-pagoda","name":"Guanyin Temple Pagoda, Yuncheng","name_zh":"郓城观音寺塔","pinyin":"Yùnchéng Guānyīnsì Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.6029,"lon":115.9385,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-guanyin-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yuncheng's Guanyin Temple Pagoda, also called the Tang Pagoda, is an octagonal storeyed brick pagoda built in 931 in the Five Dynasties period, when the Later Tang ruled. Seven storeys originally, it now has five and stands about 32 m high; its eaves are made of brick bracket sets and hung with bells, and an interior stair is recorded as leading up through the core chamber. The pagoda stands in the north of the town beside a small park."},{"id":"shanxian-jianshan-scenic-area","name":"Jianshan Scenic Area, Shan County","name_zh":"幵山","pinyin":"Jiānshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":34.7789,"lon":116.1158,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanxian-jianshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Jianshan is a lakeside park in the development zone on the east side of Shan County town, laid out around a small hill and Jianshan Lake, with a walking path round the water, boats and a glass bridge. It also holds statues of local figures such as Empress Lü and the Four Gentlemen poets, a red-tourism education base, and, nearby, the Mingran Art Museum and the county cultural centre. It suits a short stroll in town rather than a full-day trip."},{"id":"juye-jinshan-scenic-area","name":"Jinshan Scenic Area, Juye","name_zh":"金山","pinyin":"Jīnshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.2347,"lon":116.2256,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=juye-jinshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Jinshan is a low hill in Hetaoyuan town, about 1.5 km from north to south and rising to 133 m, with karst caves, springs and walking paths; part of it lies in a provincial geopark. On its south slope the local gazetteer places the Qin Wang Dong, a large man-cut cave that it identifies as an unfinished Western Han royal tomb, and the Jinshan Han tombs are a national heritage unit. The hill is the main sight of the Jinshan tourism zone, which also takes in nearby Qinglong and Baihu hills and a stone-built hill village."},{"id":"juye-confucian-temple-dacheng-hall","name":"Juye Confucian Temple","name_zh":"巨野文庙","pinyin":"Jùyě Wénmiào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.3946,"lon":116.0899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/juye-confucian-temple-dacheng-hall/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Juye Confucian Temple is a Ming-dynasty temple moved to its present site in 1383, of which only the Dacheng Hall survived the temple's closure in 1947. The hall is a five-bay building with a double-eaved gable-and-hip roof, green glazed tiles and carved stone columns, modelled on the Dacheng Hall at Qufu; the gate and side wings were rebuilt in the 1990s and 2000s. A calligraphy corridor of the Analects and old cypresses line the courtyard."},{"id":"shanxian-science-technology-museum","name":"Shan County Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"单县科技馆","pinyin":"Shànxiàn Kējìguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":34.8019,"lon":116.0986,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanxian-science-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The museum is a modern science centre of about 24,500 square metres in the north of Shan County town. Its permanent hall has 11 zones and over 300 exhibits arranged around the spirit, beauty and dream of science, and there are three cinemas (4D, VR and dome) and eight hands-on science labs. It is a family or school-group stop rather than a sight for heritage or scenery."},{"id":"juancheng-sun-bin-tourist-city","name":"Sun Bin Tourist City","name_zh":"孙膑旅游城·亿城寺","pinyin":"Sūn Bìn Lǚyóuchéng · Yìchéng Sì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.6428,"lon":115.7155,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=juancheng-sun-bin-tourist-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Sun Bin Tourist City is a large park of about 999 mu (roughly 67 hectares) in Jishan town, Juancheng County, built on the site of the old Yicheng Temple and opened in 2008. It combines a memorial zone for the Warring States strategist Sun Bin with a Buddhist temple area and gardens; sights named by the county include tombs attributed to Sun Bin and Jing Ke and a joint tomb of the legendary friends Yang and Zuo. It is a modern built attraction for people interested in Chinese military culture, with seasonal festivals and stage performances."},{"id":"yuncheng-water-margin-heroes-city","name":"Water Margin Heroes City","name_zh":"水浒好汉城","pinyin":"Shuǐhǔ Hǎohàn Chéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.5843,"lon":115.9266,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuncheng-water-margin-heroes-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a theme park built in the style of a Song-dynasty town, in Yuncheng County, the home area of Song Jiang, Chao Gai and other characters in the novel Water Margin. Walled courtyards, streets, a reconstructed county yamen and regular costumed performances recreate scenes from the story, and the park is lit up for lantern events at the Spring Festival. It is a modern, commercial attraction for families and fans of the novel, not a historic old town."},{"id":"chengwu-wohua-pagoda","name":"Wohua Pagoda","name_zh":"卧化塔","pinyin":"Wòhuà Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.0834,"lon":116.1141,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengwu-wohua-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wohua Pagoda, also called Tian Pagoda, in Datianji town is a Tang-dynasty pagoda that the county describes as the oldest surviving above-ground building in south-west Shandong. Its stone base was found in 2007, a survey has shown that part of the structure lies underground, and the county has repaired it and built a surrounding wall and visitor routes since 2016. It is a small, quiet monument for those interested in early pagodas."},{"id":"caoxian-yellow-river-old-course-wetland","name":"Yellow River Old Course Wetland Scenic Area, Cao County","name_zh":"曹县黄河故道湿地风景区","pinyin":"Cáoxiàn Huánghé Gùdào Shīdì Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":34.8225,"lon":115.4185,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caoxian-yellow-river-old-course-wetland","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This wetland scenic area of about 512 hectares lies in Weiwan town on the bed the Yellow River left behind when it changed course in 1855, beside the Taihangdi reservoir. Its attractions include a lotus pond, reed beds, a peach-and-plum grove, a flower field and a flying camp, with rapeseed in spring and lotus in summer. It is a low-key rural outing for the flowers, boating and photography, not a heritage site."},{"id":"juye-yongfeng-pagoda","name":"Yongfeng Pagoda, Juye","name_zh":"永丰塔","pinyin":"Yǒngfēng Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Heze","lat":35.393,"lon":116.0899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=juye-yongfeng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yongfeng Pagoda is an octagonal brick pavilion-style pagoda in the south-east corner of Juye old town, about 31 m high with five surviving storeys; local records say it was begun in the Tang dynasty and finished in the Song. It stands beside water, with a tortoise-based stele on its south side, and is the old 'Fanta morning glow' view of the town. It is a short stop usually combined with the Confucian temple."},{"id":"zhangqiu-baimai-springs","name":"Baimai Springs","name_zh":"百脉泉公园","pinyin":"Bǎimàiquán Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.7188,"lon":117.5311,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangqiu-baimai-springs/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A public park in the centre of Mingshui, Zhangqiu, built around the Baimai group of artesian karst springs, one of Jinan's 'seventy-two famous springs'. The main spring rises in a rectangular pool about 25 m long in the courtyard of the Dragon Spring Temple, with small lakes fed by the springs around it and a poetry garden for the Song poet Li Qingzhao, who is associated with Zhangqiu. Mingshui Ancient Town, a new town built in old style, opened beside the park in 2023-24."},{"id":"zhangqiu-baimaiquan-liquor-culture-park","name":"Baimaiquan Liquor Culture Tourist Area","name_zh":"百脉泉酒文化旅游区","pinyin":"Bǎimàiquán Jiǔ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.7169,"lon":117.5652,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangqiu-baimaiquan-liquor-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A visitor area built around the Baimaiquan distillery in Mingshui, Zhangqiu, with liquor-culture displays and a visitor centre, a shop and a restaurant. It was rated a 4A scenic area in December 2021, the first in Zhangqiu themed on industrial tourism, and suits visitors interested in how Chinese grain spirit is made."},{"id":"jinan-baotu-spring-daming-lake-scenic-area","name":"Best Spring Under Heaven Scenic Area (Baotu Spring and Daming Lake)","name_zh":"天下第一泉景区","pinyin":"Tiānxià Dìyī Quán Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6607,"lon":117.0094,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinan-baotu-spring-daming-lake-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The five-A scenic area at the heart of Jinan's old town, made up of Baotu Spring Park, the Five Dragon Pool, the old-city moat and its Huancheng Park, and Daming Lake, with Baotu, Black Tiger and Five Dragon Pool as the three spring groups. Baotu Spring, which the Qianlong Emperor named 'First Spring under Heaven', is the best known of the city's 72 named springs, and a boat trip along the moat leads on to Daming Lake. Inside Baotu Spring Park, Wanzhuyuan is a courtyard house of 13 courtyards with spring pools and carved stone, wood and brick, built in the early twentieth century for the Beiyang general Zhang Huaizhi and now part of the park."},{"id":"zhangqiu-chengziya-site","name":"Chengziya Site","name_zh":"城子崖遗址","pinyin":"Chéngzǐyá Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.7348,"lon":117.3564,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangqiu-chengziya-site/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The type site of China's Longshan culture, where the black-pottery culture of some 4,000 years ago was first identified in 1928 and excavated in 1930 and 1931. The rectangular rammed-earth city wall enclosed about 20 hectares, and a hall protects a section of the west wall. The Chengziya Ruins Museum beside the site, opened in 1994, shows the finds, and the site was added to China's list of national archaeological site parks in December 2017."},{"id":"licheng-daxinzhuang-site","name":"Daxinzhuang Site","name_zh":"大辛庄遗址","pinyin":"Dàxīnzhuāng Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.7116,"lon":117.1058,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/licheng-daxinzhuang-site/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large Shang-period settlement on the north-eastern edge of Jinan that became an urban centre in the early 13th century BCE and grew into one of the biggest Shang sites outside the Central Plains. Oracle bones with inscriptions found here in 2003 were reported as the first of their kind outside Anyang. The remains lie below ground; the site museum nearby, opened on a trial basis in December 2025, shows more than 800 finds."},{"id":"pingyin-cuiping-mountain-duofo-pagoda","name":"Duofo Pagoda, Cuiping Mountain","name_zh":"翠屏山多佛塔","pinyin":"Cuìpíngshān Duōfó Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.2214,"lon":116.3692,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyin-cuiping-mountain-duofo-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A Buddhist pagoda of the Ming and Qing periods standing on the summit of Cuiping Mountain in Pingyin county; its name means 'many-Buddhas pagoda'. It was listed as a provincial protected site in 1977 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"laiwu-fanggan-eco-area","name":"Fanggan Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"房干生态旅游区","pinyin":"Fánggān Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.4339,"lon":117.4462,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laiwu-fanggan-eco-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill and gorge scenic area at Fanggan village in Xueye subdistrict, Laiwu, which the Jinan tourism bureau describes as combining mountains, water, forest, springs, waterfalls and rock formations. It is promoted for hiking and clean mountain air, and the village has a small rural-memory museum. It suits a half-day outdoor trip in summer."},{"id":"jinan-fantawild-oriental-heritage","name":"Fantawild Oriental Heritage, Jinan","name_zh":"济南方特东方神画","pinyin":"Jǐnán Fāngtè Dōngfāng Shénhuà","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.7032,"lon":116.8733,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-fantawild-oriental-heritage","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A theme park in Huaiyin district belonging to the Fantawild group's Oriental Heritage line, which takes Chinese culture and folk stories as its themes. It has rides and show attractions, with parades, stage performances, seasonal festivals and evening openings. It suits families with children and is a full-day visit."},{"id":"jinan-cheeloo-university-buildings","name":"Former Cheeloo University Buildings","name_zh":"原齐鲁大学近现代建筑群","pinyin":"Yuán Qílǔ Dàxué Jìnxiàndài Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6533,"lon":117.0137,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-cheeloo-university-buildings","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The early-twentieth-century campus of Cheeloo University, a mission university run by American, British and Canadian church bodies, was laid out around a central garden. The surviving halls, including Bergen Hall (1917) and the Alumni Gate (1924), combine a Western collegiate layout with Chinese roofs and decorative details. The site is now Shandong University's Baotuquan campus together with Qilu Hospital."},{"id":"licheng-four-gates-pagoda","name":"Four Gates Pagoda","name_zh":"四门塔","pinyin":"Sìmén Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.453,"lon":117.1298,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/licheng-four-gates-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A single-storey stone pagoda of square plan, about 7 m along each side, with an arched doorway in each face and a roof of stacked stone slabs, standing beside the ruins of Shentong Temple. An inscription found inside the roof in 1972 dates it to 611, in the Sui dynasty, and it is thought to be the oldest surviving pavilion-style stone pagoda in China. Inside, a central pillar carries four seated Buddhas dated to 544, and an old pine and two small Tang-dynasty pagodas stand nearby."},{"id":"jinan-hongjitang-tcm-culture-area","name":"Hongjitang Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Tourist Area","name_zh":"宏济堂中医药文化旅游景区","pinyin":"Hóngjìtáng Zhōngyīyào Wénhuà Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6583,"lon":117.2398,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-hongjitang-tcm-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A tourist area built by the Hongjitang pharmaceutical group in the Linuo Science Park, laid out in late Ming and early Qing style around a lake modelled on a smaller Daming Lake. It has the Shandong Hongjitang Museum of Chinese medicine, a 456 m relief wall on the history of Chinese medicine, workshops where gelatin and other products are made, and a garden of medicinal plants. It suits visitors curious about traditional medicine."},{"id":"jinan-impression-spring-world","name":"Impression Jinan Spring World","name_zh":"印象济南·泉世界","pinyin":"Yìnxiàng Jǐnán · Quánshìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6773,"lon":116.9032,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-impression-spring-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A shopping, dining and leisure block in Huaiyin district, newly built to resemble traditional Jinan architecture. Its water features include a large music fountain on the main square, small cascades along the lanes and a shallow stream where children paddle in summer. It has craft shops and a food street and is lit up at night, so it suits an evening stroll or a family outing."},{"id":"jinan-jiaoji-railway-museum","name":"Jiaoji Railway Museum (Former Jinan Station)","name_zh":"胶济铁路博物馆","pinyin":"Jiāojì Tiělù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6681,"lon":116.9861,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinan-jiaoji-railway-museum/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The 1915 station building of the German-built Jiaoji (Qingdao-Jinan) railway, in European style with an Ionic stone colonnade and a mansard roof, once held a station hotel and later railway offices. It is now the main building of the Jiaoji Railway Museum, with galleries on how the line was built and its effect on Shandong, a reconstructed station-master's room and a steam locomotive on show. It suits railway and architecture enthusiasts."},{"id":"zhangqiu-jinan-botanical-garden","name":"Jinan Botanical Garden","name_zh":"济南植物园","pinyin":"Jǐnán Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6198,"lon":117.4637,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangqiu-jinan-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A botanical garden in the hills of Zhangqiu District, east of Jinan, laid out in themed areas that include a colour-plant garden and a rose garden. Spring brings flowering crabapple, cherry and peony, summer daylilies, roses and lotus, and autumn ginkgo and maple colour, while a climate-controlled subtropical hall holds more than 600 kinds of tropical plants. Its open lawns are used for picnics and camping, so it suits a spring or autumn day out."},{"id":"jinan-garden-expo-park","name":"Jinan International Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"济南国际园博园","pinyin":"Jǐnán Guójì Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.5455,"lon":116.8078,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large lakeside park in Changqing District, built for the 7th China International Garden Expo, held from September 2009 to May 2010. It has show gardens, flower beds, a sandy shore and boat trips on Changqing Lake, with camping lawns, children's rides and seasonal events. It suits a relaxed day out, especially in the spring flower season."},{"id":"jinan-sunac-cultural-tourism-city","name":"Jinan Sunac Cultural Tourism City","name_zh":"济南融创文旅城","pinyin":"Jǐnán Róngchuàng Wénlǚchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6651,"lon":117.191,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-sunac-cultural-tourism-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large leisure complex in Licheng district, east of central Jinan, opened in May 2021 and built new rather than historic. It combines an amusement park with rides and shows, a water park, an indoor sea-themed attraction, a shopping mall, hotels and a riverside bar street. In summer the amusement park opens for evening programmes, and the complex suits families."},{"id":"zhangqiu-jinan-wildlife-world","name":"Jinan Wildlife World","name_zh":"济南野生动物世界","pinyin":"Jǐnán Yěshēng Dòngwù Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6158,"lon":117.4566,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangqiu-jinan-wildlife-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A safari-style wildlife park in the hills of Zhangqiu District, with a walking area in the north and a drive-through area in the south. Its attractions include a sea lion hall, a kangaroo park, an elephant house and a crocodile pond, and in summer 2026 it ran a night zoo with a train ride and staged performances. It suits families with children."},{"id":"licheng-jinxiangshan-park","name":"Jinxiangshan Amusement Park","name_zh":"金象山乐园","pinyin":"Jīnxiàngshān Lèyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.4751,"lon":117.109,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-jinxiangshan-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain amusement park in the wooded southern hills of Licheng district. The operator lists more than 200 attractions, including rides, a water-play area, a rainbow-coloured photo valley and jungle-crossing courses. It suits families and school or company groups."},{"id":"jinan-jiudingta-ethnic-park","name":"Jiudingta Chinese Ethnic Park","name_zh":"九顶塔中华民族欢乐园","pinyin":"Jiǔdǐngtǎ Zhōnghuá Mínzú Huānlèyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.4195,"lon":117.1305,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-jiudingta-ethnic-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A theme park in the hills of Liubu, south-east of Jinan, built around replica villages that stage the architecture, song, dance and food of China's ethnic groups. It reopened after a refit in March 2025, with staged live-action plays by day and a fire-themed show in the evening. It is an entertainment park rather than a historic site and suits families."},{"id":"jinan-jiuru-mountain-waterfalls","name":"Jiuru Mountain Waterfalls","name_zh":"九如山瀑布群","pinyin":"Jiǔrúshān Pùbùqún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.4881,"lon":117.2924,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-jiuru-mountain-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A wooded mountain valley in Jinan's southern hills where streams and waterfalls run through the woodland. It is run as a leisure resort, with a spring-fed swimming pool, timber cabins, a flower valley, craft workshops and summer-evening music events. It suits a day trip or an overnight stay in the warm months."},{"id":"laiwu-battle-memorial-hall","name":"Laiwu Battle Memorial Hall","name_zh":"莱芜战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Láiwú Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.2169,"lon":117.6867,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/laiwu-battle-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A memorial museum on Huangshan hill in Laiwu, now a district of Jinan, opened in 1997 on the site of an earlier martyrs' cemetery. It covers the Laiwu Campaign of 20–23 February 1947 and the wartime resistance in central Shandong, with an exhibition hall, a panorama painting 17 m high showing the fighting north of the town, a martyrs' memorial tower and an open-air weapons display. It suits visitors interested in the history of the Chinese civil war."},{"id":"gangcheng-laiwu-campaign-command-post","name":"Laiwu Campaign Command Post Site","name_zh":"莱芜战役指挥所旧址","pinyin":"Láiwú Zhànyì Zhǐhuīsuǒ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.2253,"lon":117.9079,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gangcheng-laiwu-campaign-command-post","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A restored village courtyard in Shiwanzi, Gangcheng District, where Chen Yi, commanding the East China Field Army, had his command post during the Laiwu Campaign of February 1947. The main rooms were restored in 1980 and opened as an exhibition room that shows the desk, chairs and bed collected from the time. It became a provincial heritage site in 1977 and a national one in 2013."},{"id":"licheng-laozhuang-great-buddha","name":"Laozhuang Great Buddha","name_zh":"老庄大佛","pinyin":"Lǎozhuāng Dàfó","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.5362,"lon":117.1206,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-laozhuang-great-buddha","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large seated Buddha carved into the rock at the south foot of Qingtong Mountain, more than 9 m high and dated to the late Sui or early Tang, regarded as the largest rock-cut Buddha in Shandong. The temple that stood here has gone, but eight smaller Yuan and Ming figures, inscriptions and a cave about 30 m deep beside the pedestal survive, and the Baihua spring lies below a cliff to the south-west."},{"id":"changqing-lianhua-cave-grotto","name":"Lianhua Cave Grotto, Changqing","name_zh":"莲花洞石窟","pinyin":"Liánhuādòng Shíkū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.45,"lon":116.8313,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changqing-lianhua-cave-grotto","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A small rock-cut Buddhist cave in the hills of Wufeng, near Shiwo village, dated by provincial records to the Northern Qi and Sui periods. The cave has a painted lotus-pattern coffered ceiling, five main statues and more than 300 small figures. A doorway added in 1626 carries the inscription 'Holy Buddha Lotus Cave'."},{"id":"changqing-lingyan-temple","name":"Lingyan Temple","name_zh":"灵岩寺","pinyin":"Língyán Sì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.3647,"lon":116.9797,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changqing-lingyan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A Buddhist temple in a valley on the north-western edge of the Mount Tai range, counted among China's four famous temples. Its Hall of a Thousand Buddhas holds 40 painted clay arhat figures, 32 of them of Song date and 8 Ming, and the 11th-century Pizhi Pagoda rises about 55 m. The Stupa Forest of 167 memorial stupas, some from the Tang, completes a visit."},{"id":"laiwu-lotus-mountain","name":"Lotus Mountain, Laiwu","name_zh":"莲花山","pinyin":"Liánhuā Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.0791,"lon":117.6482,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laiwu-lotus-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A representative scenic area of Laiwu's southern hills, named for its ring of peaks, which resemble a lotus. It has 36 summits and 72 valleys, with gorges, odd rock formations, caves, waterfalls and pools, and its main peak, Lianhuajian, is about 991 m, the highest in Jinan. It was rated a 4A scenic area in 2023."},{"id":"jinan-luokou-yellow-river-railway-bridge","name":"Luokou Yellow River Railway Bridge","name_zh":"泺口黄河铁路大桥","pinyin":"Luòkǒu Huánghé Tiělù Dàqiáo","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.7266,"lon":117.0006,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinan-luokou-yellow-river-railway-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A steel truss railway bridge across the Yellow River at Luokou, built in 1909–12 by the German firm MAN for the Tianjin-Pukou line, with the largest spans of any railway bridge in China at the time. It was damaged in the wars of 1928, 1930 and 1937 and repaired each time, and became part of the Handan-Jinan railway in 2000. It is a landmark of the early railway age along the river."},{"id":"jinan-may-third-incident-site","name":"May 3rd Incident Site, Jinan","name_zh":"五三惨案遗址","pinyin":"Wǔsān Cǎn'àn Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6594,"lon":116.9806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinan-may-third-incident-site/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The former office of the Nationalist government's special commissioner in Shandong, on Jingsi Road in Jinan's old Commercial Port district. On 3 May 1928, during a clash between Chinese Nationalist and Japanese forces known as the Jinan incident, the diplomat Cai Gongshi and members of his staff were killed at this building. It now houses a memorial to Cai Gongshi on the upper floor and, on the ground floor, the Commercial Port Museum on the city's opening to foreign trade in 1904."},{"id":"laiwu-qi-great-wall-jinyang-pass","name":"Qi Great Wall at Jinyang Pass","name_zh":"齐长城锦阳关段","pinyin":"Qí Chángchéng Jǐnyángguān Duàn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.5048,"lon":117.5223,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/laiwu-qi-great-wall-jinyang-pass/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain pass on the Laiwu–Zhangqiu border where the Qi Great Wall, the oldest surviving wall of its kind in China, runs along the ridge of Jinping Mountain. West of the pass a stretch of wall survives with its parapet, battlements and peepholes, and a gate tower stands on the ridge; the Qi Great Wall Culture Museum opened just south of the pass in 2026. Walking and cycling routes link the pass with other passes and old stone villages along the wall."},{"id":"licheng-red-leaf-valley","name":"Red Leaf Valley","name_zh":"红叶谷","pinyin":"Hóngyè Gǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.4896,"lon":117.1602,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licheng-red-leaf-valley","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hillside park in Jinan's southern hills where more than 4,000 mu (about 270 hectares) of wild smoke-tree scrub turns red each autumn. Stone steps and paths climb the slopes, the seven-storey Wanye Tower looks over the valley, and Xuanqiu Lake reflects the colours. The park also has themed gardens, including roses, plum and azaleas, and a small temple, Xingjiao Temple."},{"id":"jinan-sacred-heart-cathedral","name":"Sacred Heart Cathedral, Jinan","name_zh":"洪家楼天主教堂","pinyin":"Hóngjiālóu Tiānzhǔjiàotáng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6858,"lon":117.06,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinan-sacred-heart-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jinan, built in 1901–05 with Boxer indemnity money and extended in 1906, in twin-towered Gothic Revival style on a Latin-cross plan. It was designed by the Franciscan brother Korbinian Paugger and built by local stonemasons, with 48 m stone towers and black Chinese roof tiles over the nave. It was closed in 1966 and reopened on Christmas Day 1985."},{"id":"jinan-shandong-ancient-architecture-museum","name":"Shandong Ancient Architecture Museum","name_zh":"山东古建筑博物馆","pinyin":"Shāndōng Gǔjiànzhù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6554,"lon":117.0074,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-shandong-ancient-architecture-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is the Jinan mother institute of the Red Swastika Society, a Republic-era charitable body that began in Jinan. Building started in 1934 and produced a four-courtyard complex of concrete halls in traditional timber style, with a tall glazed-tile screen wall, a main hall under a green-glazed roof and a twelve-sided, two-storey pavilion at the rear. After restoration it opened to the public in February 2026 as the Shandong Ancient Architecture Museum, which shows traditional building components, techniques and models."},{"id":"jinan-thousand-buddha-mountain","name":"Thousand Buddha Mountain","name_zh":"千佛山","pinyin":"Qiānfó Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6374,"lon":117.0291,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinan-thousand-buddha-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A wooded hill on the southern edge of Jinan, counted with Baotu Spring and Daming Lake as one of the city's three famous sights. About 130 Buddha figures carved in the Sui dynasty remain on the Thousand Buddha Cliff, and Xingguochan Temple, a Tang foundation, stands on the slope, with paths and a chairlift leading up. From the ridge there are views north across the city towards the Yellow River."},{"id":"licheng-thousand-buddha-cliff","name":"Thousand-Buddha Cliff","name_zh":"千佛崖","pinyin":"Qiānfó Yá","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.4543,"lon":117.127,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/licheng-thousand-buddha-cliff/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A cliff face of Buddhist rock carvings beside the ruins of Shentong Temple in the hills near Liubu, with more than 200 carved figures and dozens of inscriptions. Most were carved in the 7th century, in the Tang dynasty, and they are regarded as the largest group of cliff statues in Shandong, including figures of a Tang princess and her husband. The national listing also covers the Dragon-Tiger Pagoda, a Tang-period pagoda nearby, and the Nine-Summit Pagoda."},{"id":"jinan-weier-road-historic-buildings","name":"Wei'er Road Historic Buildings, Jinan","name_zh":"纬二路近现代建筑群","pinyin":"Wěi'èr Lù Jìnxiàndài Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6629,"lon":116.99,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinan-weier-road-historic-buildings","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A group of nine buildings dated 1901–32 along Wei'er Road and neighbouring streets in Jinan's old commercial district, among them the former Deutsch-Asiatische Bank of 1901, the Shandong postal administration building of 1919, a Bank of Communications branch, the former German consulate and clinic, and the Xiaoguanghan cinema. They are examples of the banks, offices and cinemas of early-twentieth-century Jinan. The former Xiaoguanghan cinema now holds a small museum."},{"id":"laiwu-xiangshan-tourist-area","name":"Xiangshan Tourist Area, Laiwu","name_zh":"香山旅游区","pinyin":"Xiāngshān Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.3932,"lon":117.387,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laiwu-xiangshan-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain resort area in Dawangzhuang town, in the north-west of Laiwu District, centred on Xiangshan (918.7 m) with two gorges, Jiutian and Shimen, and three highland villages. These are Wangshimen, described as Shandong's highest administrative village, Shiwuzi, kept in its original mountain style, and Zhujiayu; the area also has forest, springs, lakes and old Buddhist and Daoist sites. It is known for its red and yellow autumn leaves and suits a day of walking and sightseeing."},{"id":"jinan-xiaotang-mountain-han-shrine","name":"Xiaotang Mountain Han Shrine","name_zh":"孝堂山郭氏墓石祠","pinyin":"Xiàotángshān Guōshì Mù Shící","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.3983,"lon":116.6018,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinan-xiaotang-mountain-han-shrine/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A small stone offering shrine from the early Eastern Han dynasty, standing on Xiaotang Mountain near the Yellow River. It is the only known shrine of its period still standing in its original form, a building about 4 m long whose black stone walls are carved in shallow relief with processions, hunting, entertainments and mythological scenes, plus visitors' inscriptions from the 2nd century and a Northern Qi eulogy on the outer wall. Tradition links it with the filial exemplar Guo Ju, and it is now sheltered by a protective hall within a walled precinct."},{"id":"pingyin-yongji-bridge","name":"Yongji Bridge, Pingyin","name_zh":"永济桥","pinyin":"Yǒngjì Qiáo","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.1699,"lon":116.2619,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyin-yongji-bridge","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A single-arch bluestone bridge over the Langxi River at Dong'e, built in the Wanli reign of the Ming dynasty to replace earlier bridges on the site, the first of which dated from 1500. Dragon heads are carved on the arch crown on both the north and south faces, and it is the largest-span old stone arch bridge in Jinan. It stood at the gate of the old walled town of Dong'e and was still carrying local traffic when reported in 2014."},{"id":"zhangqiu-zhujiayu-ancient-village","name":"Zhujiayu Ancient Village","name_zh":"朱家峪","pinyin":"Zhūjiāyù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jinan","lat":36.6569,"lon":117.5835,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangqiu-zhujiayu-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill village in Guanzhuang, Zhangqiu, founded in the early Ming and kept largely intact, with more than 200 Ming and Qing buildings, bluestone lanes and 99 stone bridges, including a Kangxi-era double bridge that separated foot traffic from flood water. The Zhu clan ancestral hall, the Wenchang Pavilion and the old Shanyin school survive, and the village was a filming location for the television drama Chuang Guandong. It was named in the second batch of China Historic and Cultural Villages and among the first China Traditional Villages in 2012."},{"id":"zoucheng-zhu-state-ancient-city","name":"Ancient City of the Zhu State, Zoucheng","name_zh":"邾国故城","pinyin":"Zhūguó Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.3094,"lon":117.0186,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoucheng-zhu-state-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Remains of the capital of Zhu (later Zou), a small state of the Zhou period, which moved here in 614 BC and held the city for over three centuries. Stretches of rammed-earth wall, mostly 3–4 m high and up to about 7 m, survive around Jiwangcheng village at the foot of Mount Yi, enclosing a square roughly 2.5 km on a side. The interior is farmland and villages, with a raised mound in the north-centre that is thought to have been the palace area."},{"id":"wenshang-baoxiang-temple","name":"Baoxiang Temple, Wenshang","name_zh":"宝相寺","pinyin":"Bǎoxiàng Sì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.7304,"lon":116.483,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenshang-baoxiang-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the north-west of Wenshang town, renamed Baoxiang by a Song emperor. Its centrepiece is the Taizi Lingzong Pagoda, a Song-dynasty brick pagoda that is itself a national protected monument; the crypt beneath it was opened in 1994 and yielded Buddhist relics, among them one venerated as a Buddha tooth."},{"id":"sishui-bian-bridge","name":"Bian Bridge","name_zh":"卞桥","pinyin":"Biàn Qiáo","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.6286,"lon":117.5064,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sishui-bian-bridge","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A three-arch stone bridge over the Si River at Quanlin in Sishui County, 25 m long, 7 m wide and 6.5 m high, rebuilt in 1181 under the Jin dynasty on an older bridge of the late Tang. Its balustrades are carved with figures, flowers, landscapes, birds and animals, a pair of stone lions sits at each end on lotus-flower bases, and the arches have openwork dragon heads. It stands on the old road from Yanzhou and Qufu towards Linyi and was one of the Ten Sights of Sishui."},{"id":"qufu-mencius-mother-cemetery","name":"Cemetery of Mencius' Mother","name_zh":"孟母林","pinyin":"Mèngmǔ Lín","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.4911,"lon":116.9778,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qufu-mencius-mother-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A wooded family cemetery in Fu village, south of Qufu, where the parents of the philosopher Mencius and some of his descendants are buried. A tree-lined approach leads to a memorial hall in front of the tomb of Mencius's mother, and other Meng family tombs lie to the north-west, one of them marked by a Yuan-dynasty stele of 1333. It is counted among the four Mencius sites, with the temple, mansion and cemetery in Zoucheng."},{"id":"zoucheng-chongxing-pagoda","name":"Chongxing Pagoda","name_zh":"重兴塔","pinyin":"Chóngxīng Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.3994,"lon":116.9672,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zoucheng-chongxing-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A nine-storey, octagonal brick pagoda in the pavilion style, built in the early Northern Song dynasty in the old town of Zoucheng. It was listed as a city-level monument in 1985, a provincial one in 2006 and a national one in 2013. It lies about 1 km north of the Mencius Temple, so it fits easily into a visit there."},{"id":"jining-cixiao-jianwan-archway","name":"Cixiao Jianwan Memorial Archway, Jining","name_zh":"慈孝兼完坊","pinyin":"Cíxiào Jiānwán Fāng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.4078,"lon":116.5775,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jining-cixiao-jianwan-archway","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A Qing-dynasty stone memorial archway standing in a street in Jining's old town, listed as a provincial protected site in 2006 and as a national one in 2013. Its name means roughly \"kindness and filial piety both fulfilled\". It takes only a few minutes to see."},{"id":"qufu-confucius-six-arts-city","name":"Confucius Six Arts City","name_zh":"孔子六艺城","pinyin":"Kǒngzǐ Liùyì Chéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.5816,"lon":116.9914,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qufu-confucius-six-arts-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A modern cultural leisure complex just south of Qufu's old town, built around Confucius's Six Arts: rites, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy and mathematics. It has a Six Arts experience zone and a folk-customs zone showing local life in Confucius's hometown, along with shops, restaurants and entertainment. It is a purpose-built attraction rather than a historic site, and suits visitors with spare time after the main Confucian sites."},{"id":"jining-east-great-mosque","name":"East Great Mosque, Jining","name_zh":"济宁东大寺","pinyin":"Jǐníng Dōngdà Sì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.4038,"lon":116.5823,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jining-east-great-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mosque first built in the early Ming dynasty and later enlarged and restored, on the west bank of Jining's old canal. Built in the Chinese timber style along an east–west axis, it runs from a canal-side gate and a stone archway through courtyards and a domed tower to a prayer hall 28 m wide, with a three-storey rear hall and a moon-viewing tower behind. The hall was built to hold more than 2,000 worshippers."},{"id":"qufu-former-qufu-normal-school","name":"Former Qufu Normal School","name_zh":"曲阜师范学校旧址","pinyin":"Qūfù Shīfàn Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.5927,"lon":116.9871,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qufu-former-qufu-normal-school","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Three groups of buildings from a former teacher-training school stand beside the Temple of Confucius: an early twentieth-century assembly hall, an H-shaped teaching block, and a Qing-dynasty examination hall of the former Yanzhou prefecture. The school opened in 1905 as a new-style college in the old examination hall, and the teaching block now houses a memorial museum on the school's Communist Party branch. The site was listed nationally in 2019."},{"id":"zoucheng-fushan-xihuang-temple-site","name":"Fushan Xihuang Temple Site","name_zh":"凫山羲皇庙遗址","pinyin":"Fúshān Xīhuáng Miào Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.1934,"lon":116.8147,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoucheng-fushan-xihuang-temple-site","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The ruins of a large temple to Fuxi and Nüwa on the west slope of Fushan in Guoli town, first recorded on a stele of 931. What survives is a group of stone pillars and stelae and the foundations of a hall, now protected by a boundary wall and stele pavilions. A ceremony honouring Fuxi and Nüwa is held at the site each spring on the third day of the third lunar month."},{"id":"weishan-fuxi-temple","name":"Fuxi Temple, Weishan","name_zh":"伏羲庙","pinyin":"Fúxī Miào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.1298,"lon":116.8075,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weishan-fuxi-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A temple to the legendary ruler Fuxi at the foot of Phoenix Hill, in Liangcheng town on the shore of Dushan Lake. The main hall stands on a six-metre bluestone terrace, traditionally the mound of Fuxi's tomb; it is a five-bay, single-eaved building with a hip-and-gable roof of glazed tiles and Song-period stone pillars inside, and with twelve stelae recording repairs it is all that remains of a once larger courtyard complex. A cave behind the hall holds Jin-dynasty cliff-carved poems, and springs rise behind the temple."},{"id":"jinxiang-guangshan-temple-pagoda","name":"Guangshan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"光善寺塔","pinyin":"Guāngshàn Sì Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.0662,"lon":116.3061,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiang-guangshan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick-and-stone pagoda 49 m high, also called the Wenfeng Pagoda, standing in Xinghu Park in the centre of Jinxiang. The county government dates its foundation to 630 in the Tang, with the present tower rebuilt in 1561 under the Ming and restored in 1914 and 1999; Japanese artillery shelled off one and a half storeys in 1938. Inside are carved stone Buddha groups on the third and fifth floors, and a stair from the north door of the ground floor climbs the tower."},{"id":"jining-iron-pagoda","name":"Iron Pagoda of Chongjue Temple, Jining","name_zh":"崇觉寺铁塔","pinyin":"Chóngjué Sì Tiětǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.4108,"lon":116.5765,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jining-iron-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal pagoda with an iron shell over a brick core, 23.8 m tall, begun in 1105 under the Northern Song and completed in 1581 when the top two storeys and a gilded finial were added. Its cast panels carry inscriptions and relief figures of seated Buddhas. It stands in the grounds of the former Chongjue Temple, now the old site of the Jining Museum, and cannot be climbed."},{"id":"liangshan-jiagudui-peasant-village","name":"Jiagudui Peasant Village","name_zh":"贾堌堆农家寨","pinyin":"Jiǎgùduī Nóngjiāzhài","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.8917,"lon":116.0411,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangshan-jiagudui-peasant-village","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A rural tourism village opened in 2016 in Jiagudui village, Dalukou town, built around farming culture and village folk customs. Its attractions include a pottery-making park, a folk-custom street, guesthouses, a folk performance hall, a campsite and flower fields. The activities are aimed mainly at families, and seasonal events include harvest festivals and costume garden parties."},{"id":"yanzhou-jinkou-dam","name":"Jinkou Dam","name_zh":"金口坝","pinyin":"Jīnkǒu Bà","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.5511,"lon":116.849,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanzhou-jinkou-dam","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A stone dam across the Si River on the eastern edge of Yanzhou, still used as a crossing by road traffic and pedestrians. Its first form dates to the Northern Wei in the early 6th century (sources give 514 or 529); the Yuan rebuilt it as an overflow dam and the Ming lengthened and raised it, and it rests on timber piles with dressed stone blocks held together by iron clamps, which earned it the name Gold-Mouth Jade Dam. It has five sluice openings and two carved stone beasts from the Yuan at the ends of the wing walls, and visitors can walk along the top."},{"id":"zoucheng-kangwanggu-flower-world","name":"Kangwang Valley Flower World, Zoucheng","name_zh":"康王谷花世界","pinyin":"Kāngwánggǔ Huā Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.366,"lon":117.4131,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoucheng-kangwanggu-flower-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A flower-themed leisure and agri-tourism park in eastern Zoucheng, built in the late 2010s around flower fields and a lake. Indoor halls cover flowers, tropical plants and vegetable growing, and there are areas for picking fruit and vegetables. It is a modern family-oriented attraction rather than a historic site."},{"id":"wenshang-lianhua-lake-wetland","name":"Lianhua Lake Wetland Park, Wenshang","name_zh":"莲花湖湿地","pinyin":"Liánhuā Hú Shīdì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.7686,"lon":116.5165,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenshang-lianhua-lake-wetland","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A provincial-level wetland park of about 290 hectares on the northern edge of Wenshang town, opened in 2011 and laid out around lakes and islands. It has zones for plant viewing, fruit picking, amusement attractions and folk-custom displays, and a folk museum, the Zhongdu Folk Museum, stands at its north-east corner. It suits a relaxed half-day outing."},{"id":"qufu-lu-state-ancient-city","name":"Lu State Ancient City Archaeological Park, Qufu","name_zh":"曲阜鲁国故城","pinyin":"Qūfù Lǔguó Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.6025,"lon":116.999,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qufu-lu-state-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The capital of the state of Lu for some 870 years from the early Western Zhou, the city covered about 10 sq km and occupied the eastern and northern parts of present-day Qufu. The archaeological park centres on the excavated palace area around the Temple of Duke Zhou, and takes in the Wangfutai burial area, the Wuyu Terrace, an iron-smelting site and a site museum. The city wall can only be faintly traced on the ground, so it is best for visitors with an interest in early Chinese history."},{"id":"qufu-shaohao-mausoleum","name":"Mausoleum of Shaohao","name_zh":"少昊陵","pinyin":"Shàohào Líng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.6093,"lon":117.0327,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qufu-shaohao-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The tomb of Shaohao, one of the legendary Five Emperors, in Jiuxian village east of Qufu, a large earthen mound inside an enclosure of old trees with a sacrificial hall built in 1738. In front of the tomb stands Shou Qiu, a stepped stone pyramid about 8.7 m high, faced in stone in the early 12th century to mark the legendary birthplace of the Yellow Emperor, with a small pavilion on top. To the south stand the two huge Song steles of the vanished Jingling Palace, one of them left blank and known as the Sorrow of Ten Thousand stele."},{"id":"zoucheng-mencius-temple-and-mansion","name":"Mencius Temple and Mansion, Zoucheng","name_zh":"孟庙孟府","pinyin":"Mèngmiào Mèngfǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.3905,"lon":116.9683,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zoucheng-mencius-temple-and-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Temple of Mencius, also called the Yasheng Temple, honours the philosopher Mencius, the 'Second Sage' after Confucius, in his hometown of Zoucheng; its present buildings are largely Qing-dynasty work of the Kangxi years, grouped around a main hall with a green glazed-tile roof. Beside it, the Mencius Mansion was the residence of his descendants, who held a hereditary post in the Hanlin Academy, and is one of the best-preserved historic residential complexes in Shandong. Together with the Mencius cemetery north-east of town they are known as the 'Three Meng' sites."},{"id":"liangshan-shuipo-liangshan","name":"Mount Liang (Shuipo Liangshan Scenic Area)","name_zh":"水泊梁山","pinyin":"Shuǐpō Liángshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.7885,"lon":116.0968,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liangshan-shuipo-liangshan/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Mount Liang is a low hill, about 198 m high, in Liangshan County that the classic Chinese novel Water Margin made the stronghold of 108 outlaw heroes. The scenic area is built around that story, with structures put up to match the novel's descriptions, and it is also a provincial forest park and geopark. It will mainly interest readers and fans of the novel."},{"id":"zoucheng-mount-yi","name":"Mount Yi, Zoucheng","name_zh":"峄山","pinyin":"Yìshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.3149,"lon":117.028,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoucheng-mount-yi","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A granite hill south of Zoucheng, known in ancient times as Dongshan, the \"eastern mountain\" that the Mencius says Confucius climbed. Its slopes have granite outcrops, caves and Ming and Qing rock inscriptions, along with rebuilt academy buildings and a cave academy traditionally linked with Confucius. It is also a provincial scenic area and a national forest park, and suits a half-day walk."},{"id":"jining-nanchi-garden","name":"Nanchi Garden, Jining","name_zh":"南池","pinyin":"Nánchí","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.3939,"lon":116.5768,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jining-nanchi-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A garden park in the south of Jining, themed on the city's Grand Canal heritage, the poets Li Bai and Du Fu, and the Queen Mother of the West. The northern half has classical-style pavilions, archways, a gallery of inscribed steles and a shrine to Du Fu called the Shaoling Shrine, while the southern half is planted as an arboretum and flower gardens. It suits a relaxed stroll rather than a long visit."},{"id":"wenshang-nanwang-canal-hub","name":"Nanwang Hub of the Grand Canal","name_zh":"大运河南旺枢纽","pinyin":"Dàyùnhé Nánwàng Shūniǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.5883,"lon":116.363,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenshang-nanwang-canal-hub","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Nanwang, in Wenshang County, is the summit of the Grand Canal, about 38.5 m above sea level, where Ming engineers in the Yongle years built a stone-faced diversion at the junction with the Xiaowen River so that its water could be shared between the northward and southward channels. The works are a World Heritage component of the Grand Canal and the core of a national archaeological site park, which includes the excavated Dragon King Temple complex. It suits visitors interested in canal engineering more than scenery."},{"id":"weishan-nanyang-ancient-town","name":"Nanyang Ancient Town","name_zh":"南阳古镇","pinyin":"Nányáng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.0965,"lon":116.667,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weishan-nanyang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Nanyang is a small town on a long, narrow island in Nanyang Lake, one of the Four Lakes of southern Shandong, with the old Grand Canal running along it. After a lock was built there in 1331 it grew into a busy canal port and was nicknamed 'second Jining' in the Ming and Qing periods. It is promoted as part of the Weishan Lake tourism area."},{"id":"qufu-nishan-confucius-temple-and-academy","name":"Nishan Confucian Temple and Academy","name_zh":"尼山孔庙及书院","pinyin":"Níshān Kǒngmiào Jí Shūyuàn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.5036,"lon":117.2178,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qufu-nishan-confucius-temple-and-academy/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A temple on Mount Ni, the hill traditionally held to be the birthplace of Confucius, with an academy beside it, set in the hills east of Qufu. It was first built in the 950s, rebuilt in 1417 in the Ming dynasty and repaired several times, reaching its present form in the Qing; repairs in 1925 were funded by Confucius's 77th-generation descendant Kong Decheng. It is a separate visit from the main Temple of Confucius, Kong Family Mansion and Cemetery in Qufu."},{"id":"jiaxiang-qingshan-temple","name":"Qingshan Temple and Scenic Area, Jiaxiang","name_zh":"青山寺","pinyin":"Qīngshān Sì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.33,"lon":116.3042,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaxiang-qingshan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hillside temple group on the western slope of Qingshan, south of Jiaxiang, which began as a shrine to the ruler of the Western Zhou state of Jiao and later became a joint Buddhist and Daoist temple. The surviving buildings are mostly Qing and Republican-era, rising up the slope from a Mount Tai palace archway through the Huijigong Hall to a ten-thousand-Buddha pavilion, with 58 stelae dating from the Song onwards. The surrounding hill is run as a 4A scenic area with several more temples and springs."},{"id":"zoucheng-shangjiushan-village","name":"Shangjiushan Stone Village","name_zh":"上九山村","pinyin":"Shàngjiǔshān Cūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.1979,"lon":116.8725,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoucheng-shangjiushan-village","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Shangjiushan is a hill village of stone houses in Shiqiang town, Zoucheng. China Daily describes it as a rare stone village founded in the early Northern Song period and named after the nine hills around it, and media reports count more than 300 residences in Ming and Qing style. It was added to the seventh batch of China's Historic and Cultural Villages in 2019 and suits a slow walk through the old stone courtyards."},{"id":"qufu-shimen-mountain","name":"Shimen Mountain, Qufu","name_zh":"石门山","pinyin":"Shímén Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.7828,"lon":117.1185,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qufu-shimen-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A wooded hill once called Longmen Mountain and renamed for two facing peaks that look like a stone gate; the main peak, Shenghan, is 406 m high. The hill has twenty-four named scenic spots, some of them caves, and a Qing-dynasty temple complex; places on it are traditionally linked with Confucius studying the Book of Changes and with a gathering of the poets Li Bai and Du Fu. It suits a half-day hike for visitors based in Qufu."},{"id":"sishui-sishuibin-riverside-park","name":"Sishui Bin Riverside Park","name_zh":"泗水滨","pinyin":"Sìshuǐ Bīn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.6845,"lon":117.2467,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sishui-sishuibin-riverside-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A landscaped riverside park of about 62 hectares on the Si River, laid out in a modern style as the core public space of the new eco-city district of Sishui County town. Its name, \"the banks of the Si\", echoes a line by the Song philosopher Zhu Xi. The Sishui County Museum stands beside the park's plaza and takes visitors at weekends and on public holidays only by prior booking."},{"id":"jining-taibai-lake","name":"Taibai Lake Scenic Area","name_zh":"太白湖","pinyin":"Tàibái Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.3148,"lon":116.5957,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jining-taibai-lake","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Taibai Lake is a lake and wetland scenic area of about 22 sq km on the southern side of Jining, laid out between the old canal on the east and the Grand Canal on the west as an eco-tourism area that combines sightseeing with wetland protection and water purification. Its lotus beds flower in midsummer. It suits a relaxed outing within the city rather than a full day trip."},{"id":"qufu-temple-of-duke-zhou","name":"Temple of Duke Zhou, Qufu","name_zh":"周公庙","pinyin":"Zhōugōng Miào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.6013,"lon":116.999,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qufu-temple-of-duke-zhou/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The temple honours the Duke of Zhou, brother of King Wu of Zhou, and served as the ancestral temple of the state of Lu at the heart of its ancient capital, in the north-east of present-day Qufu. A temple was set up on the site of Lu's ancestral temple in 1008 and repaired several times under the Yuan, Ming and Qing; statues of the Duke of Zhou and the Duke of Lu now stand in the Yuansheng Hall. It is a separate site from the main Temple of Confucius, Kong Family Mansion and Cemetery."},{"id":"qufu-temple-of-yan-hui","name":"Temple of Yan Hui","name_zh":"颜庙","pinyin":"Yán Miào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.6003,"lon":116.9885,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qufu-temple-of-yan-hui/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A temple to Yan Hui, the favourite disciple of Confucius, in the north of Qufu's old town; the buildings date from the Yuan to the Qing, with the present layout set in the Ming dynasty. The central of its three parallel axes of gates, halls and courtyards leads to the main Fusheng Hall with its carved dragon pillars, and a pavilion over a well marks the humble lane in which, according to the Analects, Yan Hui lived. Stelae from the Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties stand in the courtyards, and the temple is a separate site from the main Temple of Confucius, Kong Family Mansion and Cemetery."},{"id":"jiaxiang-zengzi-temple","name":"Temple of Zengzi","name_zh":"曾庙","pinyin":"Zēng Miào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.2569,"lon":116.3117,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaxiang-zengzi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The temple to Zeng Shen (Zengzi), a disciple of Confucius, at the foot of Nanwu Hill in southern Jiaxiang, whose founding is traditionally dated to 426 BC. The present Ming-dynasty layout, set within red walls on a north-south axis, has more than thirty buildings, among them a gate hall, an imperial stele pavilion and the Zongsheng Hall, in grounds with many old stelae and cypress trees. Zengzi's tomb lies about 500 m to the west."},{"id":"zoucheng-tieshan-gangshan-rock-carvings","name":"Tieshan and Gangshan Rock Carvings","name_zh":"铁山、岗山摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Tiěshān, Gǎngshān Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.4138,"lon":116.9613,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoucheng-tieshan-gangshan-rock-carvings","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Buddhist scripture and a dedicatory eulogy are carved in very large characters across a sloping granite face of Tieshan on the north-western edge of Zoucheng, dated by its own text to 579, in the Northern Zhou period. The main panel is about 61 m by 17 m, and about 700 of the original 946 characters of the sutra survive; the carvings are prized for their calligraphy. A scatter of smaller carvings from 580 lies on the rocks of a ravine on neighbouring Gangshan, to the north."},{"id":"zoucheng-ming-prince-of-lu-tomb","name":"Tomb of Prince Huang of Lu, Zoucheng","name_zh":"明鲁王陵","pinyin":"Míng Lǔwáng Líng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.4753,"lon":117.0057,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoucheng-ming-prince-of-lu-tomb","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The tomb of Zhu Tan (1370–1390), tenth son of the Ming founder, the Hongwu Emperor, and the first Prince of Lu, at the southern foot of Jiulong Mountain. The underground chambers were excavated in 1970–71, yielding more than 2,000 objects, and have been open to visitors since 1988; a second excavated tomb, that of a consort, lies about 60 m to the west. Many of the finds are displayed in the Shandong Museum in Jinan."},{"id":"sishui-wanzi-qianhong-resort","name":"Wanzi Qianhong Eco-Wellness Resort","name_zh":"万紫千红生态养生旅游度假区","pinyin":"Wànzǐ Qiānhóng Shēngtài Yǎngshēng Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.4971,"lon":117.4169,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sishui-wanzi-qianhong-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wanzi Qianhong is a modern leisure resort built around a lake in the hills of Sizhang town, Sishui County, marketed for countryside relaxation and 'eco-wellness'. It has accommodation and outdoor activities, and the setting is rural hill country rather than a historic site. It suits visitors who want a quiet stay or an outdoor day trip from Qufu."},{"id":"jining-weishan-lake","name":"Weishan Lake","name_zh":"微山湖","pinyin":"Wēishān Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":34.6554,"lon":117.2337,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jining-weishan-lake/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The 5A scenic area covers about 77 sq km of Weishan Lake and its shore in Weishan County; the lake is described as the largest freshwater lake in northern China. It takes in Weishan Island, a stretch of the Grand Canal and the Weishan Lake National Wetland Park, where egrets gather in a bird forest in the evenings. Lotus beds flower in summer, and fishermen on the island have traditionally kept cormorants for fishing."},{"id":"jiaxiang-wu-family-shrines","name":"Wu Family Shrines","name_zh":"武氏祠","pinyin":"Wǔshì Cí","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.2831,"lon":116.3425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaxiang-wu-family-shrines","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Wu Family Shrines are the remains of a late Eastern Han family cemetery in Jiaxiang County: stone offering shrines and a pair of stone gate towers, begun in 147 CE, whose walls are covered in carved reliefs of myth and history. The carved stones are displayed on the site in a museum that opened in 2015, whose hall for the gate towers was designed by the architect Luo Zhewen. The reliefs have been recorded since the Song dynasty."},{"id":"qufu-xianhe-flower-sea-park","name":"Xianhe Flower Sea Eco-Park","name_zh":"仙河花海生态乐园","pinyin":"Xiānhé Huāhǎi Shēngtài Lèyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.7696,"lon":117.0632,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qufu-xianhe-flower-sea-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Xianhe Flower Sea is a leisure park of flower fields beside a large lake in the northern part of Qufu, in the area promoted as the Qufu International Slow City. It offers flower viewing, family activities and water recreation, and was rated a 4A scenic area in 2019. It is a modern, commercial park rather than a historic site, aimed mainly at families and groups."},{"id":"yanzhou-xinglong-pagoda","name":"Xinglong Pagoda","name_zh":"兴隆塔","pinyin":"Xīnglóng Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.5603,"lon":116.829,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanzhou-xinglong-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A thirteen-storey octagonal brick pagoda 54 m high in the north-east of Yanzhou's old town, standing in the grounds of the Yanzhou Museum. The tower is built in two stages, a thick lower body of seven storeys with internal galleries and steps and six much narrower storeys above, which gives it a pagoda-on-a-pagoda profile; first built in 602 under the Sui, the present tower dates from the Song and was repaired after a 17th-century earthquake. Excavation of its underground chamber in 2008 produced a stone casket, a gilded silver coffin and a gold relic bottle, and the museum shows local archaeology including Neolithic pottery from nearby sites."},{"id":"jinxiang-yangshan-battle-memorial","name":"Yangshan Battle Memorial, Jinxiang","name_zh":"羊山战斗纪念地","pinyin":"Yángshān Zhàndòu Jìniàndì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.1778,"lon":116.239,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiang-yangshan-battle-memorial","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill and village site where, in July 1947, forces of the People's Liberation Army under Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping fought the Nationalist 66th Division in the Southwest Shandong Campaign. A martyrs' cemetery and memorial tower were built on the eastern summit in 1950, and the Southwest Shandong Campaign Memorial Museum stands in the grounds. The surrounding tourist area adds military-themed attractions and a street built in old style."},{"id":"yanzhou-catholic-church","name":"Yanzhou Catholic Church","name_zh":"兖州天主教堂","pinyin":"Yǎnzhōu Tiānzhǔ Jiàotáng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Jining","lat":35.547,"lon":116.8175,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanzhou-catholic-church/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A German-built Catholic compound in the south-west of old Yanzhou, begun in 1897 and from 1946 the China headquarters of the Society of the Divine Word. The large Gothic cathedral finished in 1899 was destroyed in 1966, but the two-storey brick-and-timber bishop's house of 1901 and a monastery building with a cross and red-tiled roof survive. It was the mission centre for south-western Shandong and is listed as evidence of the exchange between Western and Chinese architecture."},{"id":"donge-ejiao-culture-tourism-area","name":"Dong'e Ejiao Culture Tourism Area","name_zh":"东阿阿胶文化旅游区","pinyin":"Dōng'ē Ējiāo Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.3458,"lon":116.2351,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donge-ejiao-culture-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a themed tourist complex run by the Dong'e Ejiao company around ejiao, the donkey-hide gelatin used in Chinese medicine that Dong'e is known for. Its parts include Ejiao City, a replica old-street quarter built as a film set for late-Qing and early-Republican Jinan and Dong'e, the China Ejiao Museum, an experience factory, a hill with a temple to the medicine kings, and a donkey museum and breeding centre. It suits visitors interested in Chinese medicine, industrial tourism or period street scenes."},{"id":"liaocheng-dongchang-lake","name":"Dongchang Lake","name_zh":"东昌湖","pinyin":"Dōngchāng Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.4441,"lon":115.955,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaocheng-dongchang-lake","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dongchang Lake surrounds the square, walled old town of Liaocheng and began in 1070, in the Northern Song period, as the town moat. Today it covers over five square kilometres with a shoreline of about 16 km, a lakeside park along the west shore and the Grand Canal passing beside it. It suits an easy walk or boat trip, with the old town's main sights (Guangyue Tower, the guildhall, the iron pagoda) around it."},{"id":"liaocheng-guangyue-tower","name":"Guangyue Tower","name_zh":"光岳楼","pinyin":"Guāngyuè Lóu","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.4442,"lon":115.9642,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liaocheng-guangyue-tower/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Guangyue Tower is a four-storey timber tower on a brick-and-stone base at the centre of Liaocheng's old town, begun in the early Ming dynasty as a lookout and about 33 m tall. Climbing it gives views over the old town and the lake, and its upper floors hold stone tablets and plaques, including one attributed to the Kangxi emperor; both Kangxi and Qianlong climbed it. It has been a national protected monument since 1988 and is the best-known landmark of Liaocheng's 'water city'."},{"id":"shenxian-han-family-cemetery","name":"Han Family Cemetery, Shen County","name_zh":"韩氏家族墓地","pinyin":"Hánshì Jiāzú Mùdì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.1865,"lon":115.5122,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenxian-han-family-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This Tang-dynasty cemetery belongs to a family of military officials that included a governor of the Weibo region, and it preserves the stone figures that lined the tomb avenues: a carved horse, a groom, a warrior, a kneeling sheep and tiger, tomb markers and a spirit-way stele over 6 m tall topped with coiled dragons. The carving is bold and simple round sculpture, and the stele carries about 3,800 characters of inscription valued by calligraphy scholars. It lies in farmland north of Liangpiying village and is of interest mainly to specialists in Tang stone sculpture."},{"id":"liaocheng-longxing-temple-iron-pagoda","name":"Iron Pagoda of Longxing Temple, Liaocheng","name_zh":"隆兴寺铁塔","pinyin":"Lóngxīng Sì Tiětǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.4482,"lon":115.9748,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaocheng-longxing-temple-iron-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This twelve-storey octagonal iron pagoda stands on a carved stone base beside the Grand Canal, in the old Longxing Temple precinct. The Liaocheng tourism bureau calls it the city's oldest surviving ancient structure: it was first built in the Song dynasty, collapsed in the Ming and was re-erected in 1466, and its cast-iron body is about 15.5 m tall. The stone base is carved with dragons, phoenixes, musicians and guardian figures."},{"id":"yanggu-jingyang-ridge-lion-tower","name":"Jingyang Ridge and Lion Tower","name_zh":"景阳冈·狮子楼旅游区","pinyin":"Jǐngyánggāng · Shīzilóu Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.0886,"lon":115.9756,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanggu-jingyang-ridge-lion-tower","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This 4A area pairs two Water Margin sites in Yanggu County. Jingyang Ridge, where the novel has the outlaw Wu Song kill a man-eating tiger, is a wooded sand ridge with a Wu Song temple, a mountain-god shrine, a stele garden and a lake, and it stands on a Neolithic Longshan-culture walled town known from excavation rather than visible remains. The Lion Tower district in Yanggu old town, about 18 km west, has a Song-style tavern building and a recreated shopping street from the story."},{"id":"yanggu-jingyanggang-liquor-park","name":"Jingyanggang Liquor Culture Scenic Area, Yanggu","name_zh":"景阳冈酒文化旅游景区","pinyin":"Jǐngyánggāng Jiǔ Wénhuà Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.1083,"lon":115.7738,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanggu-jingyanggang-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a visitor attraction built since 2008 on the grounds of the Jingyanggang distillery in Yanggu, which makes baijiu, China's grain spirit, and it was rated a 4A area in December 2023. It includes a liquor museum, an exhibition on Yanggu's history, a gallery of local industrial heritage, a Ming-and-Qing-style brewing workshop, hands-on craft rooms and a long relief corridor of the Water Margin heroes. It suits visitors curious about baijiu or the Water Margin theme."},{"id":"liaocheng-jiuzhouwa-rose-park","name":"Jiuzhouwa Rose Park","name_zh":"九州洼月季公园","pinyin":"Jiǔzhōuwā Yuèjì Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.4328,"lon":116.0441,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaocheng-jiuzhouwa-rose-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Jiuzhouwa is a city park in Liaocheng's high-tech zone built around rose gardens, combined with wetland and play areas, and it was rated a 4A scenic area in December 2024. The city tourism bureau describes it as a theme park, city park, wetland park and cultural park in one, planned around rose-themed gardens and a rose display belt. It suits a family outing or an easy stroll close to the city."},{"id":"liaocheng-kong-fansen-memorial-hall","name":"Kong Fansen Memorial Hall","name_zh":"孔繁森同志纪念馆","pinyin":"Kǒng Fánsēn Tóngzhì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.4561,"lon":115.9523,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaocheng-kong-fansen-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This memorial hall in Liaocheng commemorates Kong Fansen, a local-born official who worked in Tibet from 1979 and became party secretary of Ali Prefecture, and who died in a road accident in November 1994 on a trip to Xinjiang. Opened in 1995 on a site of about 19,000 square metres, it has a permanent exhibition of photographs, personal objects, reconstructed scenes and multimedia, plus temporary exhibition and lecture halls. It is one of Liaocheng's red-tourism sites and is also rated a national second-level museum."},{"id":"linqing-canal-customs-house","name":"Linqing Canal Customs House","name_zh":"临清运河钞关","pinyin":"Línqīng Yùnhé Chāoguān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.8392,"lon":115.6925,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linqing-canal-customs-house","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Linqing Customs House was one of eight Ming and Qing customs posts on the Grand Canal and, by the Wanli era, the one collecting the most duty, about a quarter of the national total; founded in 1429, it is the only canal customs house to survive in China. About 80 buildings remain, including the ceremonial gate, the north and south passage halls, an office hall and a boat-dues room. It is now run as a tourist site with period-style games and cultural demonstrations, and has opened for evening visits since August 2025."},{"id":"liaocheng-shanxi-shaanxi-guildhall","name":"Shanxi–Shaanxi Guildhall, Liaocheng","name_zh":"聊城山陕会馆","pinyin":"Liáochéng Shānshǎn Huìguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.4386,"lon":115.9746,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liaocheng-shanxi-shaanxi-guildhall/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This temple-guildhall was paid for by Shanxi and Shaanxi merchants who traded in Liaocheng; building began in 1743 and the complex reached its present form by 1809. Along its main axis stand a gate, an opera stage, bell and drum towers, a hall to the god of war Guan Yu and the Chunqiu Pavilion, rich in stone, brick and wood carving and inscribed couplets. It shows how the canal trade shaped Liaocheng, and it has been a national protected monument since 1988."},{"id":"donge-yushan-cao-zhi-tomb","name":"Tomb of Cao Zhi, Yushan","name_zh":"鱼山曹植风景区","pinyin":"Yúshān Cáo Zhí Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.1756,"lon":116.2125,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donge-yushan-cao-zhi-tomb","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This scenic area on Yushan hill beside the Yellow River holds the tomb of Cao Zhi, the poet-prince of the Three Kingdoms period; it was begun in 233 AD, opened by archaeologists in 1951 and has had its chamber sealed since. The visit takes in the burial mound and memorial buildings, a Sui-dynasty stele and several hilltop viewpoints. It was rated a 4A area in December 2024, and the tomb has been a national protected monument since 1996."},{"id":"liaocheng-tuqiao-lock","name":"Tuqiao Lock Remains","name_zh":"土桥闸遗址","pinyin":"Tǔqiáozhá Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.6558,"lon":115.9027,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaocheng-tuqiao-lock","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tuqiao Lock is a Ming-dynasty canal lock, first built in 1471 on the Grand Canal and excavated in 2010–11 as the first lock on the canal to be fully uncovered. Built of blue stone with swallowtail joints, it has a lock mouth about 6 m wide and a side channel, and it was repaired in 2013 and listed as a national monument the same year. It is a quiet rural canal relic rather than a developed attraction, of interest to canal-history enthusiasts."},{"id":"linqing-wanyuan-garden","name":"Wanyuan Garden, Linqing","name_zh":"宛园","pinyin":"Wǎnyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.8609,"lon":115.6997,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linqing-wanyuan-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wanyuan is a modern Suzhou-style garden beside the Grand Canal in the north-west of Linqing, with pavilions, rockeries, ponds and brick, wood and clay carving made by craftsmen from Suzhou, according to the city's tourism pages. A second park carrying the Wanyuan name, the Canal Style Park (East Wanyuan), opened in September 2023 with replica Ming and Qing buildings, shows and food stalls. It suits a relaxed visit alongside Linqing's canal sights, and it is a recreated garden rather than a historic one."},{"id":"guanxian-xiaocheng-city-ruins","name":"Xiaocheng City Ruins, Guan County","name_zh":"萧城遗址","pinyin":"Xiāochéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.6256,"lon":115.4292,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanxian-xiaocheng-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Xiaocheng is the earthen-walled site of a Song-period military town in Guan County, traditionally attributed to the Liao Empress Dowager Xiao in 1004; county officials call it the best-preserved Song–Liao fortress site south of the Great Wall. The square circuit of walls survives among the fields, with gate barbicans and a raised mustering platform, and the walls have been conserved and turfed in a recent project. It is a quiet open-air site for history enthusiasts, with a village inside the walls."},{"id":"gaotang-xingguo-temple-pagoda","name":"Xingguo Temple Pagoda, Gaotang","name_zh":"兴国寺塔","pinyin":"Xīngguó Sì Tǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Liaocheng","lat":36.9672,"lon":116.2389,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaotang-xingguo-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This eleven-storey octagonal brick pagoda rises about 39 m above the street of Liangcun town in Gaotang County; the Qing gazetteer called it a Song pagoda, and a Ming stele records repairs in 1478. Its brickwork imitates timber construction, with brick and ceramic brackets under the eaves, and a Tang-dynasty locust tree 20 m to the north gives the local pairing 'Song pagoda, Tang locust'. It has been a national protected monument since 2013 and is seen mainly from outside."},{"id":"linshu-cangmashan-guanshan","name":"Cangma Mountain and Guan Mountain","name_zh":"苍马山·冠山","pinyin":"Cāngmǎshān Guānshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.952,"lon":118.6931,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linshu-cangmashan-guanshan","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Cangma Mountain and Guan Mountain are two wooded hill areas north-east of Linshu town, listed together as one 4A scenic area. Cangma Mountain is a municipal-level nature reserve with forest trails on stone steps and a sightseeing bus, while Guan Mountain, about 3 km to the east, has a long-established Taoist temple and views over the surrounding fields and villages. It is a local hiking and leisure area rather than a major sight."},{"id":"mengyin-daigu-landform","name":"Daigu Landform Scenic Area, Mengyin","name_zh":"岱崮地貌","pinyin":"Dàigù Dìmào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.9376,"lon":118.1385,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengyin-daigu-landform","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Daigu is the type locality of the 'gu' landform: flat-topped mesas capped by a 20–30 m layer of Cambrian limestone, with about 30 clustered around Daigu town in Mengyin County. The scenic area gives views of the mesas, a grassland and camping area, and a former Third Front military-industry site, and the surrounding hills are peach orchards that blossom in spring."},{"id":"yishui-dongfang-ruihai-hot-spring-resort","name":"Dongfang Ruihai International Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"东方瑞海国际温泉度假村","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Ruìhǎi Guójì Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.749,"lon":118.6211,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yishui-dongfang-ruihai-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dongfang Ruihai is a hot-spring resort and hotel complex in the south of Yishui town, on about 250 mu (roughly 17 hectares) that the county government says holds thermal baths, restaurants and conference rooms; the hotel was rated four-star in 2010. It is a modern leisure complex rather than a heritage site, and suits families or groups who want a soak."},{"id":"yishui-firefly-cave-underground-canyon","name":"Firefly Water Cave and Underground Grand Canyon","name_zh":"萤火虫水洞·地下大峡谷","pinyin":"Yínghuǒchóng Shuǐdòng Dìxià Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.7077,"lon":118.4457,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yishui-firefly-cave-underground-canyon","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This 5A area has two cave attractions in Yishui County about 8 km apart. The Underground Grand Canyon is a karst cave more than 6 km long where visitors travel by boat along an underground river among stalactites, and the Firefly Water Cave takes visitors by boat across a dark underground lake where fireflies glow on the ceiling. Above ground there is also a butterfly valley and rafting down a cliff waterfall."},{"id":"linyi-wang-xizhi-residence-xiyanchi","name":"Former Residence of Wang Xizhi and Xiyanchi Tombs, Linyi","name_zh":"王羲之故居","pinyin":"Wáng Xīzhī Gùjū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.0707,"lon":118.336,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linyi-wang-xizhi-residence-xiyanchi/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A small classical-style garden in central Linyi commemorating the calligrapher Wang Xizhi, whom the city counts among its natives. The Inkstone-Washing Pool (Xiyanchi), the Book-Airing Terrace, the Goose Pond and a pavilion sit beside newer calligraphy galleries and a stele corridor, and the park is a provincially protected site (Wang Xizhi's Hometown Site, 2006). Two brick tombs of the late Western Jin or early Eastern Jin period, found in the park's north-east corner in 2003 and now on the national list as the Xiyanchi tombs, are shown in an underground museum."},{"id":"junan-dadian-provincial-government-115th-division-hq","name":"Former Shandong Provincial Government and 115th Division HQ, Dadian","name_zh":"山东省政府和八路军115师司令部旧址","pinyin":"Shāndōng Shěng Zhèngfǔ Hé Bālùjūn Yīyīwǔ Shī Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.3386,"lon":118.7673,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=junan-dadian-provincial-government-115th-division-hq","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A manor of the Zhuang family, built in the Ming and Qing dynasties in Dadian town, which in the 1940s housed the Eighth Route Army's 115th Division headquarters and the Shandong provincial government set up under the Communist Party. The compound has the former provincial government and division headquarters buildings, exhibition halls on the Shandong anti-Japanese base area and the Zhuang family's gardens and former homes. It is a national patriotic-education demonstration base and was included in a national list of 100 red-tourism routes in 2021."},{"id":"hedong-guantang-hot-spring-resort","name":"Guantang Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"观唐温泉度假村","pinyin":"Guāntáng Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.2644,"lon":118.4834,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hedong-guantang-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Guantang is a hot-spring resort of about 790 mu (roughly 50 hectares) in the Tangtou hot-spring zone in the north of Hedong district. It combines open-air thermal pools, a hotel and a conference centre with Wenshuixiang, a cluster of Ming and Qing buildings brought from Jiangxi, Anhui and elsewhere and set along a waterway. It is a leisure resort rather than a heritage site, and suits travellers who want to relax for an afternoon after sightseeing in the area."},{"id":"pingyi-han-que-museum","name":"Han Que Gate Towers, Pingyi County Museum","name_zh":"皇圣卿阙、功曹阙","pinyin":"Huángshèngqīng Què, Gōngcáo Què","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.5164,"lon":117.6256,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyi-han-que-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Two Eastern Han stone que (free-standing gate towers), the Huangshengqing Que of AD 86 and the Gongcao Que of AD 87, are displayed indoors in the Han Que Room of Pingyi County Museum in Lianhuashan Park. They carry relief carvings, and the museum also holds Han pictorial stones and other local finds; the que were moved into town from their original site on Babuding hill north of the county seat."},{"id":"yinan-hongshizhai-resort","name":"Hongshizhai Resort","name_zh":"红石寨","pinyin":"Hóngshízhài","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.656,"lon":118.4122,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-hongshizhai-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Hongshizhai is a leisure resort on the shore of Xiangshan Lake in Tongjing town, developed by the operator of nearby Zhuquan village. Linyi's official tourism account lists a cliff-edge fast-car ride, a cliffside glass rafting course, coloured slides and a glass bridge among its attractions, and the county also describes a car-camping ground. It is a commercial adventure resort aimed at families and young visitors, and is often combined with Zhuquan village."},{"id":"hedong-huangshan-dongyi-culture-park","name":"Huangshan Dongyi Culture Park","name_zh":"皇山东夷文化园","pinyin":"Huángshān Dōngyí Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.0397,"lon":118.3841,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hedong-huangshan-dongyi-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Huangshan Dongyi Culture Park is a park at the foot of Huang Hill in Linyi's Economic and Technological Development Zone, built around the Linyi Dongyi Culture Museum. The museum is a state-run museum on the Dongyi, the ancient peoples of eastern China, in a building designed to resemble a phoenix feather, with eight themed halls. It is a modest urban stop of an hour or two."},{"id":"pingyi-jiujianpeng-village","name":"Jiujianpeng Village Scenic Area","name_zh":"九间棚","pinyin":"Jiǔjiānpéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.3075,"lon":117.7407,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyi-jiujianpeng-village","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Jiujianpeng is a mountain village at about 640 m on Longding Mountain in Difang town, whose people once lived in a natural rock shelter and later built roads, brought in electricity and terraced the slopes. Visitors come for the terraced orchards and honeysuckle fields along a hill road of about 10 km (the 'Nine Bends, Eighteen Gardens'), the village exhibition hall and its story as a rural self-help model known as the 'Jiujianpeng spirit'."},{"id":"lanling-national-agricultural-park","name":"Lanling National Agricultural Park","name_zh":"兰陵国家农业公园","pinyin":"Lánlíng Guójiā Nóngyè Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.8327,"lon":118.0228,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanling-national-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Lanling National Agricultural Park is a large farm-tourism park in Bianzhuang subdistrict, built to show modern vegetable and fruit growing, with greenhouses, soilless-cultivation displays and picking gardens. Its fields carry seasonal flowers such as rape blossom and sunflowers, and there are lotus ponds. It suits families and school groups, and ties in with Lanling's reputation as a vegetable-growing county."},{"id":"lanshan-linyi-science-technology-museum","name":"Linyi Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"临沂市科技馆","pinyin":"Línyí Shì Kējìguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.0884,"lon":118.3509,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanshan-linyi-science-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Linyi Science and Technology Museum is the city's municipal science museum, a large modern building in the Beicheng New Area near the meeting of the Yi, Fang and Liuqing rivers. It has more than 300 hands-on exhibits covering physics, chemistry, biology and astronomy, and is rated a 4A scenic area. It suits families and school groups."},{"id":"linyi-zoological-botanical-garden","name":"Linyi Zoological and Botanical Garden","name_zh":"临沂动植物园","pinyin":"Línyí Dòngzhíwùyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.9864,"lon":118.5384,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyi-zoological-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Linyi Zoological and Botanical Garden is a large municipal park in the south-east of Hedong district, combining a zoo, planted botanical areas and landscaped lakes. The animal enclosures are the main attraction, so it is mainly a family day out rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"hedong-longyuan-tourist-area","name":"Longyuan (Dragon Garden) Tourist Area","name_zh":"临沂龙园","pinyin":"Línyí Lóngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.3167,"lon":118.4619,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hedong-longyuan-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Longyuan is a resort and rural-tourism complex next to the Tangtou hot-spring zone in Hedong district, built in Huizhou and Suzhou-garden style around a dragon-culture theme, so its buildings are modern rather than historic. The Hedong district government lists its main parts as a dragon-culture 'ancient town', a children's park, a dinosaur park and a 'Love Valley', and a group of nine museums is spread through it. It suits families and school groups looking for a day out."},{"id":"yinan-maquan-leisure-park","name":"Maquan Leisure Park","name_zh":"沂蒙马泉休闲园","pinyin":"Yíméng Mǎquán Xiūxiányuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.6607,"lon":118.4551,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-maquan-leisure-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Maquan Leisure Park is an orchard-and-farm park in the hills of Tongjing town, Yinan County, developed from 2012 as a 'pastoral complex' with agricultural demonstration and elder-care themes. Cherries are the main crop, among more than 150,000 fruit trees that also include sweet persimmon, grape, hawthorn and chestnut, and visitors can pick fruit and stay in forest cabins. It suits families on a countryside day out."},{"id":"mengyin-menglianggu","name":"Menglianggu Campaign Memorial Area","name_zh":"孟良崮","pinyin":"Mèngliánggù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.5797,"lon":118.1886,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengyin-menglianggu","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Menglianggu is a small mountain of about 1.5 sq km in Mengyin County where, in May 1947, People's Liberation Army forces surrounded a Nationalist army unit in the Menglianggu campaign of the Chinese Civil War. A memorial museum stands nearby and a monument on the hill, and a live-action show called 'Heroes of Menglianggu' is staged in the area. The museum became a national defence education demonstration base in 2015."},{"id":"linyi-yimeng-mount-meng-scenic-area","name":"Mount Meng (Yimengshan) Scenic Area","name_zh":"沂蒙山景区","pinyin":"Yíméngshān Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.5134,"lon":117.8228,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyi-yimeng-mount-meng-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Mount Meng is Shandong's second-highest mountain (Guimeng Peak, 1,156 m) and forms the Mengshan park of the Linyi Yimengshan UNESCO Global Geopark. Its 5A rating covers the Guimeng area in Pingyi and the Yunmeng area in Mengyin, with granite peaks, turtle-shaped rocks and waterfalls, together with Mount Yi in Linqu, Weifang, further north. The neighbouring Tianmeng area in Fei County, with a suspension bridge, a cable car and a cliff-side walkway, is run separately, as is each area, so most visitors choose one."},{"id":"linyi-new-fourth-army-hq-site","name":"New Fourth Army Headquarters Site, Linyi","name_zh":"临沂新四军军部旧址","pinyin":"Línyí Xīnsìjūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.138,"lon":118.3971,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyi-new-fourth-army-hq-site","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A memorial park and museum in Linyi's Hedong District marking the site where the New Fourth Army headquarters was last based, in 1946-47, and where the East China Military Region and East China Field Army were set up. The district government names the New Fourth Army Headquarters Memorial as its only state-run museum. The complex also includes the East China Field Army memorial and former residences of commanders including Chen Yi and Su Yu."},{"id":"tancheng-tan-state-old-capital","name":"Old Capital of the Tan State, Tancheng","name_zh":"郯国故城","pinyin":"Tánguó Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.6314,"lon":118.3483,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tancheng-tan-state-old-capital","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"These are the remains of the capital of the small Zhou-period state of Tan, on the north side of Tancheng, which stayed a county and commandery seat from the Qin and Han to the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The rammed-earth wall enclosed an irregular four-sided area with a perimeter of about 4.7 km, and only parts of the west and north walls survive, with a raised area in the north-east thought to mark a military platform. The nearby Tanguo Ancient City is a modern street, not this site."},{"id":"lanling-zengguo-old-capital","name":"Old Capital of the Zeng State, Lanling","name_zh":"鄫国故城","pinyin":"Zēngguó Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.8879,"lon":117.9097,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanling-zengguo-old-capital","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Remains of the capital of the Zeng state, a small state of the Zhou period, in the villages of Cheng and Chenghou in Lanling County, which was still occupied in the Han. The county government says traces of the city wall, palace foundations and moat survive, and promotes the site as the ancestral home of people with the surname Zeng."},{"id":"yinan-daqingshan-breakout-battle-sites","name":"Sites of the Daqingshan Breakout Battle","name_zh":"临沂大青山突围战遗址","pinyin":"Línyí Dàqīngshān Tūwéizhàn Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.4915,"lon":118.1902,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-daqingshan-breakout-battle-sites","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"These sites commemorate the Daqingshan breakout of 30 November 1941, when thousands of people from Eighth Route Army, Shandong Party and government offices and the Anti-Japanese University's First Branch broke out of a Japanese encirclement at heavy cost; the dead included the German journalist Hans Shippe. The national listing covers the Daqingshan Martyrs' Cemetery near Shuanghou town, laid out in 1944 on about 1.7 hectares, and the former school buildings of the University's First Branch at Donggaozhuang village in Sunzu town. A separate memorial hall and square for the battle stands on the Fei County side of Daqing Mountain."},{"id":"tancheng-ginkgo-tourist-area","name":"Tancheng Ginkgo Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"郯城银杏生态旅游区","pinyin":"Tánchéng Yínxìng Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.5861,"lon":118.1433,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tancheng-ginkgo-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A 9.9 sq km belt of old ginkgo groves along both banks of the Yi River in south-west Tancheng, which the county government calls China's largest ancient-ginkgo area, with about 48,000 fruit-bearing trees over a century old. The main sites are the Ginkgo and Old Plum Garden in Xincun, with a ginkgo the county puts at over 3,000 years old and 41.9 m tall, a Suzhou-style garden and the ruins of the Guangfu Temple, and the Zhonghua Ginkgo Garden in Chongfang town, which grows 103 ginkgo cultivars."},{"id":"tancheng-tanguo-ancient-city","name":"Tanguo Ancient City, Tancheng","name_zh":"郯国古城","pinyin":"Tánguó Gǔchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.6018,"lon":118.3617,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tancheng-tanguo-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tanguo Ancient City is a modern district built in Han–Tang style on Huangting Road in Tancheng, which opened in May 2021 and draws on local stories such as Confucius's visit to the Tan ruler. The completed part has the Tan King's Palace, with live-action performances, and an 'Imperial Street' of food and shopping that includes an academy, a commandery-office hall and an intangible-heritage exhibition hall. It is a recreated old-style street, not the historic Tan capital, and suits an evening visit."},{"id":"yishui-tiangu-underground-gallery","name":"Tiangu Natural Underground Gallery","name_zh":"天谷·天然地下画廊","pinyin":"Tiāngǔ Tiānrán Dìxià Huàláng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.6947,"lon":118.417,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yishui-tiangu-underground-gallery","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tiangu is a karst cave in Liuhuyu village, Yuandongtou town, whose stalactites are shaped like birds, animals and landscapes, hence the name 'natural underground gallery'. Above ground the site also runs rafting, grass-sliding and village-style activities."},{"id":"yishui-tianshang-wangcheng","name":"Tianshang Wangcheng (Royal City in the Sky)","name_zh":"天上王城","pinyin":"Tiānshàng Wángchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.9499,"lon":118.3541,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yishui-tianshang-wangcheng","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tianshang Wangcheng occupies the flat top of Jiwang Gu, a cliff-edged mesa of about 577 m with a ring of stone walls and old foundations from the Spring and Autumn period. Archaeologists found a large tomb on the summit in 2012, later named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2013, and the site now offers costumed historical performances, views over the surrounding mesas and stalls selling local snacks."},{"id":"pingyi-tianyu-natural-museum","name":"Tianyu Natural Museum","name_zh":"天宇自然博物馆","pinyin":"Tiānyǔ Zìrán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.5185,"lon":117.6143,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyi-tianyu-natural-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tianyu Natural Museum, opened in 2004, is a large natural-history museum in Pingyi town with 28 exhibition halls and more than 390,000 items, mainly fossils and mineral and gem specimens from different geological periods. The collection includes more than 1,100 dinosaur fossils and over 2,200 bird fossils. It is one of Pingyi's best-known attractions and suits families and anyone interested in palaeontology."},{"id":"lingang-wuji-guigu","name":"Wuji Guigu","name_zh":"无极鬼谷","pinyin":"Wújí Guǐgǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.3255,"lon":119.1023,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingang-wuji-guigu","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wuji Guigu is a commercial scenic area in the hills and lake country of Zhulu town, themed on Guiguzi, the Warring States-period thinker. The Junan county government lists glass-slide rafting, boat trips on Jixin Lake and waterfalls among its attractions, and the area straddles the Linyi-Rizhao border. It suits families and groups looking for activities more than heritage."},{"id":"yishui-xueshan-rainbow-valley","name":"Xueshan Rainbow Valley","name_zh":"雪山彩虹谷","pinyin":"Xuěshān Cǎihóng Gǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.7904,"lon":118.6914,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yishui-xueshan-rainbow-valley","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Xueshan Rainbow Valley is a leisure park in a wooded valley on the eastern side of Yishui town, best known for an artificial rainbow made with sprayed water and light that the park says can be seen in every season. Its other zones include a 'Lovers' Valley', a 'Happy Valley' of rides and a war-games valley, and it is aimed at families and young visitors rather than sightseers."},{"id":"lanling-yayougou-scenic-area","name":"Yayougou Scenic Area","name_zh":"压油沟","pinyin":"Yāyóugōu","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":34.9265,"lon":117.9634,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanling-yayougou-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yayougou is a rural tourism area in the hills of Lanling County, laid out around a Yimeng stone-house village with flagstone lanes, converted guesthouses and folk performances. It also has a small animal-contact area with alpacas, deer and peacocks. It suits families and weekend visitors from Linyi and Zaozhuang."},{"id":"yishui-yimeng-huakai","name":"Yimeng Huakai Tourist Area, Yishui","name_zh":"沂蒙花开","pinyin":"Yíméng Huākāi","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.9402,"lon":118.3932,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yishui-yimeng-huakai","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yimeng Huakai is a family-oriented park with an agricultural theme at Yinjiayu village in Quanzhuang town, Yishui County, which the county government lists as a 4A scenic area. Its children's area, Yaya Fantasy City, has VR games, handicraft workshops and a swing bridge."},{"id":"yinan-yimeng-red-film-base","name":"Yimeng Red Film and TV Base","name_zh":"沂蒙红色影视基地","pinyin":"Yíméng Hóngsè Yǐngshì Jīdì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.6741,"lon":118.3019,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-yimeng-red-film-base","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Yimeng Red Film and TV Base, also known as Hongsao Hometown Tourist Area, was set up in 2008 in Changshanzhuang village, an old stone village in Mamuchi township, as a location for filming wartime dramas; more than 400 films and series have been shot there. It now doubles as a red-tourism area with museum courtyards and live-action performances about the wartime Yimeng village women known as 'Hongsao', and villagers work there as extras."},{"id":"fei-yimeng-yunpu-dongtian","name":"Yimeng Yunpu Dongtian, Fei County","name_zh":"沂蒙云瀑洞天","pinyin":"Yíméng Yúnpù Dòngtiān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.414,"lon":118.0385,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fei-yimeng-yunpu-dongtian","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A scenic area in Fei County laid out in four parts: the Finger-moving Stone (a balancing rock), Tianmeng Lake, the Yunpu Dongtian zone of rock formations and small waterfalls, and a water park. Paths wind through a maze of tall rock formations beside the lake, where visitors can take boats. The county describes it as a core scenic area of the Yimengshan geopark."},{"id":"yinan-beizhai-han-tombs","name":"Yinan Han Tombs (Beizhai)","name_zh":"沂南北寨汉墓","pinyin":"Yínán Běizhài Hànmù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.5451,"lon":118.418,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-beizhai-han-tombs","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A museum built over an Eastern Han tomb group at Beizhai village, near Yinan county town, which opened in 1996. The main tomb is a large multi-chamber stone tomb whose 42 carved reliefs show battles, sacrifices, processions, banquets and music-and-acrobatics scenes, and a second tomb excavated in 1994 produced more than 80 objects. The county describes it as the most complete Han tomb of its kind found in China."},{"id":"yinan-zhisheng-hot-spring-resort","name":"Zhisheng Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"智圣汤泉","pinyin":"Zhìshèng Tāngquán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.5662,"lon":118.4775,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-zhisheng-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhisheng is a large hot-spring resort at the north-eastern edge of Yinan town, themed on Zhuge Liang, the Three Kingdoms strategist whom Yinan counts among its natives, with Han-style buildings set in a Jiangnan-style garden. It combines thermal baths, a water park, a hotel and conference facilities, and Linyi's official tourism account describes pools among flower plantings in spring. It suits visitors who want a soak after sightseeing in the Yimeng hills."},{"id":"yinan-zhujialin-eco-tourism-area","name":"Zhujialin Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"朱家林","pinyin":"Zhūjiālín","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.7033,"lon":118.2104,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-zhujialin-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhujialin is a rural area in the hills of Andi town that Yinan County has redeveloped since 2016 as a 'pastoral complex' of themed guesthouses, a 'field living room' and flats for creative start-ups. The county has also restored hillsides, reservoirs and old irrigation channels, building 32 ponds and a 5.4 km chain of landscape waterways, and the area was named to Shandong's 2023 list of ecological tourism areas. It suits visitors who want a quiet countryside stay."},{"id":"yinan-zhuquan-village","name":"Zhuquan Village, Yinan","name_zh":"竹泉村","pinyin":"Zhúquán Cūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Linyi","lat":35.6464,"lon":118.4332,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinan-zhuquan-village","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhuquan ('Bamboo Spring') is an old village of stone houses built around springs and bamboo groves, renamed in the Qianlong era. From 2008 it was redeveloped as a tourist area, with the villagers rehoused in a new settlement, so it now works as a restored village resort that opened in 2009. Visitors walk the stone lanes, springs and bamboo, and can stay in village homestays."},{"id":"shinan-badaguan","name":"Badaguan","name_zh":"八大关","pinyin":"Bādàguān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0538,"lon":120.3457,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shinan-badaguan/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A district of villas and tree-lined streets between Huiquan Bay and Taiping Bay, laid out mostly in the 1930s, with some 200 buildings in the styles of more than twenty countries. Its streets are named after ancient mountain passes and are each planted with a different tree, so the area is known for blossom in spring and colour in autumn. The national heritage listing covers 236 individual buildings, including Huashi Lou, a stone mansion on the shore."},{"id":"pingdu-blue-tree-valley-youth-expo-park","name":"Blue Tree Valley Youth Expo Park","name_zh":"蓝树谷青少年世博园","pinyin":"Lánshùgǔ Qīngshàonián Shìbóyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.7986,"lon":120.0937,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingdu-blue-tree-valley-youth-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A park of hands-on experience halls for children and teenagers in Yunshan town. The halls cover subjects such as science, electricity, weather and earthquakes, construction, traffic, fire safety and traditional crafts. It suits families with school-age children."},{"id":"huangdao-cangma-mountain-resort","name":"Cangma Mountain Resort","name_zh":"藏马山国际旅游度假区","pinyin":"Cángmǎshān Guójì Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.7935,"lon":119.766,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangdao-cangma-mountain-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A leisure resort area on the south slope of Cangma Mountain in the West Coast New Area, laid out along Kaicheng Road. Its ski slope was upgraded in 2024 with night skiing and a snow-ring run, and hosted a provincial skiing challenge in January 2025; the district's autumn 2025 tourism programme also lists a Cangma Mountain sports carnival and a flight camp. It is mainly a family leisure destination for Qingdao residents."},{"id":"laoshan-chaoliandao-lighthouse","name":"Chaoliandao Lighthouse","name_zh":"朝连岛灯塔","pinyin":"Cháoliándǎo Dēngtǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.8948,"lon":120.8758,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/laoshan-chaoliandao-lighthouse/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A German-era lighthouse on Chaolian Island, a small island in the Yellow Sea about 31 km off the Laoshan coast, built in 1902–03 and the oldest surviving lighthouse in Qingdao. The grey sandstone tower is octagonal and joined to a stone keeper's house with a red-tiled roof and stepped gables. It was damaged in 1914 and again in 1945, repaired afterwards, and added to the national heritage list in 2019."},{"id":"pingdu-dazeshan-zhizang-temple","name":"Dazeshan Stone Inscriptions and Zhizang Temple Tomb Pagodas","name_zh":"大泽山石刻及智藏寺墓塔林","pinyin":"Dàzé Shān Shíkè Jí Zhìzàng Sì Mùtǎlín","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.9935,"lon":120.0177,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingdu-dazeshan-zhizang-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhizang Temple is a Buddhist temple on the slopes of Dazeshan, a hill area in northern Pingdu better known for its grapes, and it is surrounded by more than 300 stone inscriptions and steles from the Northern Song to the late Qing, most of them Ming and Qing. Three Ming rock carvings stand around the temple, and near the nearby Rizhao Nunnery more than 120 merit steles, mostly Qing and Republican, form a long line known as a merit-stele forest. The heritage unit also includes the temple's forest of tomb pagodas."},{"id":"huangdao-dazhu-mountain","name":"Dazhu Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"大珠山","pinyin":"Dàzhūshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.7973,"lon":119.9992,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangdao-dazhu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 65 km² in the south of the West Coast New Area, whose main peak, Dazhaiding, rises to 486 m. Shimen Temple stands on the summit among many cave shrines with Buddha figures, and the slopes are known for wild azaleas that flower in spring. With neighbouring Xiaozhu Mountain it forms the 'Shuangzhu Qianyun' view, one of the old eight sights of Jiaozhou."},{"id":"laoshan-huadong-vineyard","name":"Huadong Vineyard","name_zh":"华东百利酒庄","pinyin":"Huádōng Bǎilì Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.1645,"lon":120.5165,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laoshan-huadong-vineyard","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A winery estate in the Laoshan hills east of central Qingdao. The city's English tourism page lists a vineyard, a grape-culture gallery, a sculpture garden, a wine cellar and a cherry orchard among its sights. It suits visitors interested in Chinese wine who want a short trip out of the city."},{"id":"pingdu-jimo-ancient-city","name":"Jimo Ancient City Site","name_zh":"即墨故城","pinyin":"Jímò Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.6838,"lon":120.2637,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingdu-jimo-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The site of Jimo, a walled city that was a regional centre on the Shandong peninsula from the Eastern Zhou period to the 6th century and is linked to General Tian Dan's 'fire-ox' victory over the state of Yan. About 1.1 km of the rammed-earth east wall still stands above ground, up to about 5 m high, among farmland. The heritage unit also includes the Liuqu Hills tomb group about 10 km to the north, mostly Han-period tombs."},{"id":"huangdao-langyatai","name":"Langyatai","name_zh":"琅琊台","pinyin":"Lángyátái","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.6494,"lon":119.902,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangdao-langyatai/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A coastal hill in the south of the West Coast New Area where, according to the Records of the Grand Historian, Qin Shi Huang stayed for three months in 219 BC and had a terrace built. Excavations since 2019 have uncovered a T-shaped rammed-earth platform of about 45,000 m² on the 183 m summit, with a stair of hollow bricks decorated with dragon patterns, rooms below the platform and drainage pipes. It was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013 and named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2025."},{"id":"huangdao-lingshan-bay-city-balcony","name":"Lingshan Bay City Balcony","name_zh":"灵山湾城市阳台","pinyin":"Língshānwān Chéngshì Yángtái","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.8681,"lon":120.0488,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangdao-lingshan-bay-city-balcony","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A seafront park and bathing beach on Lingshan Bay in the West Coast New Area, laid out over about 72 hectares (1,075 mu) behind a long sandy beach. It was created in the clean-up of the bay's shoreline and is linked to a continuous coastal path for walking and cycling. Lingshan Island, the tallest island in northern China, lies about 10 km offshore."},{"id":"chengyang-maogong-mountain","name":"Maogong Mountain","name_zh":"毛公山","pinyin":"Máogōng Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.2699,"lon":120.4914,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengyang-maogong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Maogong Mountain is a hill area of about 3.2 sq km in Chengyang district, known for a natural rock about 8.3 m high that locals say resembles a standing figure of Mao Zedong in a tunic suit; villagers came across it in 2008 while building a hiking path. Footpaths lead past other named rock formations, and a corridor and wall displays along the route present Chinese Communist Party history and quotations. It is mainly a walking and local sightseeing spot."},{"id":"qingdao-mingyue-seaweed-world","name":"Mingyue Seaweed World","name_zh":"明月海藻世界","pinyin":"Míngyuè Hǎizǎo Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.8125,"lon":119.9986,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingdao-mingyue-seaweed-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Mingyue Seaweed World is an industrial-tourism site run by the Mingyue seaweed company in the West Coast New Area, opened to visitors in June 2021. Its visit route takes in a seaweed science museum, laboratory areas, a seaweed-themed zone called the Seaweed Tribe, a health workshop and an on-site hotel. It suits families and school groups curious about how a seaweed business works."},{"id":"laoshan-old-stone-man-garden","name":"Old Stone Man Garden","name_zh":"石老人观光园","pinyin":"Shílǎorén Guānguāngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0977,"lon":120.5033,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laoshan-old-stone-man-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A seaside park in eastern Qingdao named after the Old Stone Man, a sea stack once about 18 m high that local legend says is a fisherman turned to stone while calling for his daughter, carried off by the Dragon King's son. The stack's upper part collapsed in October 2022, so what remains is a reduced pillar. The park has sea views, green hills and bamboo, and suits a short stop on the eastern seafront."},{"id":"pingdu-chashan-scenic-area","name":"Qingdao Chashan Scenic Area","name_zh":"茶山风景区","pinyin":"Cháshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.9304,"lon":119.9809,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingdu-chashan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill scenic area north of Pingdu, laid out in seven zones, including children's play, eco-tourism, villa stays and a pilgrimage area, under the theme of rocks, springs, flowers and temples. A walking route of about 2.5 km runs from the entrance to Banruo Temple, a Buddhist temple built in Qing timber style, passing a well called Zhuangyuan Well and a hillside Guanyin figure shaped from planted evergreens. It suits a half-day outing from Pingdu."},{"id":"chengyang-fantawild-dreamland","name":"Qingdao Fantawild Dreamland","name_zh":"青岛方特梦幻王国","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Fāngtè Mènghuàn Wángguó","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.2082,"lon":120.2744,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengyang-fantawild-dreamland","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A theme park of nearly 700,000 m² in the Hongdao area on the north-west shore of Jiaozhou Bay, run by Fantawild. Its rides and shows retell themes from Chinese culture through film projection and interactive technology. It suits families and visitors who want a theme-park day rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"qingdao-forest-wildlife-world","name":"Qingdao Forest Wildlife World","name_zh":"青岛森林野生动物世界","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Sēnlín Yěshēng Dòngwù Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.981,"lon":120.0525,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingdao-forest-wildlife-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A wildlife park in the Xiaozhushan hills of the West Coast New Area, which keeps animals such as elephants and runs nature-study programmes on animal care for school groups. It stands beside Zhushan National Forest Park, and in 2025 it hosted the Qingdao launch of the Earth Day and bird-protection-week publicity campaign. It suits families with children."},{"id":"huangdao-golden-beach","name":"Qingdao Golden Beach Resort Area","name_zh":"金沙滩","pinyin":"Jīnshātān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.9592,"lon":120.2438,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangdao-golden-beach","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A crescent-shaped beach in Huangdao more than 3,500 m long and about 300 m wide, backed by resort buildings and restaurants. Visitors come for sea views, swimming and beach activities such as sand sculpture, kite flying, speedboat rides and ocean rowing. It suits family beach days in summer."},{"id":"licang-horticultural-expo-park","name":"Qingdao Horticultural Expo Park","name_zh":"青岛世界园艺博览园","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Shìjiè Yuányì Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.1982,"lon":120.4936,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=licang-horticultural-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The former site of the 2014 World Horticultural Exposition, on hills around a reservoir in Licang district and covering about 190 hectares. It has themed gardens with more than 1,700 types of plants. It suits garden visitors and families for half a day."},{"id":"qingdao-olympic-sailing-center","name":"Qingdao Olympic Sailing Center","name_zh":"青岛奥林匹克帆船中心","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Àolínpǐkè Fānchuán Zhōngxīn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0557,"lon":120.3911,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingdao-olympic-sailing-center/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Built for the sailing events of the 2008 Olympics, this harbour and promenade of about 45 hectares on Fushan Bay is now a waterfront leisure area, with marinas, a long breakwater walk known as Lovers' Dam and the Olympic Sailing Museum, whose two-storey building holds material from the 2008 Games. Signs are in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean, and sightseeing boats have sailed onto the bay from the harbour. The 5A scenic area is run together with Qingdao Underwater World, an aquarium on the old-town seafront."},{"id":"chengyang-olympic-sculpture-park","name":"Qingdao Olympic Sculpture & Culture Park","name_zh":"青岛奥林匹克雕塑文化园","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Àolínpǐkè Diāosù Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.2849,"lon":120.391,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengyang-olympic-sculpture-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A landscaped city park in Chengyang district, formerly Chengyang Century Park, turned into a sculpture park to mark the 2008 Olympic sailing events held at Qingdao. It has a World Olympic Boulevard, a China Olympic Champion Road and ten themed sculpture groups beside its main paths, with planted areas for plant study. It suits a short stop for a walk among the sculptures."},{"id":"qingdao-polar-ocean-park","name":"Qingdao Polar Ocean Park","name_zh":"青岛极地海洋公园","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Jídì Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0686,"lon":120.4372,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingdao-polar-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"An ocean park on the Fushan Bay shore in Laoshan district, built around an aquarium hall of polar and marine animals that includes penguins, polar bears, dolphins and belugas. It stages shows with dolphins and belugas, and a 360-degree dome cinema was added in 2023. It suits families with children."},{"id":"qingdao-tv-tower","name":"Qingdao TV Tower","name_zh":"青岛电视塔","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Diànshìtǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0689,"lon":120.3502,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingdao-tv-tower","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A 232 m lattice broadcasting tower completed in the mid-1990s on Taiping Hill, inside Julin Park, with an observation deck. It suits a short stop for views over the city, combined with a walk in the park."},{"id":"qingdao-wine-museum","name":"Qingdao Wine Museum","name_zh":"青岛葡萄酒博物馆","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Pútáojiǔ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0723,"lon":120.3428,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingdao-wine-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"An underground museum devoted to wine on Yan'an 1st Road in Shibei district, opened in 2010 and described as the first wine-themed underground museum in mainland China. Texts, pictures, video, objects and sculptures trace the origins, development and production of wine, and there are interactive areas such as a wine bank, a world bar and cellars. It suits visitors with an interest in wine culture."},{"id":"qingdao-yinhai-yacht-club","name":"Qingdao Yinhai International Yacht Club","name_zh":"青岛银海国际游艇俱乐部","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Yínhǎi Guójì Yóutǐng Jùlèbù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0568,"lon":120.4179,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingdao-yinhai-yacht-club","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A yacht marina and club on the eastern stretch of Qingdao's seafront, with docks and berths, dry docks, a sailing training base, launch ramps and a clubhouse. The city's English tourism page names a site marking China's sea-level datum, a sightseeing tower and a sculpture group called Voyager among the nearby sights. It suits visitors interested in boats and the modern waterfront."},{"id":"jimo-rose-town","name":"Rose Town, Jimo","name_zh":"玫瑰小镇","pinyin":"Méigui Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.5813,"lon":120.4427,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jimo-rose-town","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A rose-growing park and visitor area on farmland in Lingshan subdistrict, which opened to visitors in 2015 after rose planting began there in 2012. State media report more than 3,000 mu (about 200 hectares) of roses in over 1,200 varieties, an underground culture corridor of nearly a kilometre, and rose-based foods and cosmetics. The flowers bloom and are harvested around May, when it is busiest."},{"id":"jiaozhou-shaohai-scenic-area","name":"Shaohai Scenic Area, Jiaozhou","name_zh":"少海风景区","pinyin":"Shàohǎi Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.2364,"lon":120.0778,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaozhou-shaohai-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A lakeside wetland park on the edge of Jiaozhou. It is listed as a national wetland park and a national water-conservancy scenic area, and takes its name from Shaohai, an old name for Jiaozhou Bay. It suits an easy walk by the water."},{"id":"jimo-tiantai-hot-spring-resort","name":"Tiantai Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"天泰温泉度假区","pinyin":"Tiāntài Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.43,"lon":120.6436,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jimo-tiantai-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Wenquan on the Jimo coast, with hotel accommodation. It is a spa and leisure destination rather than a sightseeing one. It suits visitors who want a soak and a stay outside Qingdao."},{"id":"shibei-tsingtao-beer-museum","name":"Tsingtao Beer Museum","name_zh":"青岛啤酒博物馆","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Píjiǔ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":36.0789,"lon":120.3414,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shibei-tsingtao-beer-museum/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A museum in the original red-brick buildings of the Tsingtao brewery, founded here in 1903 by German and British merchants and listed as a national heritage unit. It opened in 2003 as China's first beer museum and covers the history of the brewery and of brewing, with a production area, tasting of fresh beer, and holographic and projection displays. It suits anyone interested in industrial heritage or Qingdao's German past."},{"id":"qingdao-binhai-university-animal-museum","name":"World Animal Natural Ecology Museum, Qingdao Binhai University","name_zh":"青岛滨海学院世界动物自然生态博物馆","pinyin":"Qīngdǎo Bīnhǎi Xuéyuàn Shìjiè Dòngwù Zìrán Shēngtài Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.9817,"lon":120.1623,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingdao-binhai-university-animal-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A natural-history museum on the campus of Qingdao Binhai University, with more than 4,000 animal specimens from Africa, the Americas and elsewhere, including king cheetah, white rhinoceros, giant panda, golden eagle and crested ibis. Animals are displayed in reconstructed habitat scenes, and further sections cover marine life and the evolution of the universe. It is a national second-grade museum and a national science-education base, and suits families and school groups."},{"id":"huangdao-zhushan-forest-park","name":"Zhushan National Forest Park","name_zh":"珠山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Zhūshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Qingdao","lat":35.9786,"lon":120.07,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangdao-zhushan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A forested granite mountain park on Xiaozhu Mountain, whose main peak, Dading, reaches 724.9 m and which continues the Laoshan range. It became a national forest park in 2000 and, with Dazhu Mountain, forms the 'Shuangzhu Qianyun' view counted among the old eight sights of Jiaozhou. It suits walkers who want a mountain day without leaving the Qingdao area."},{"id":"wulian-daqing-mountain","name":"Daqing Mountain, Wulian","name_zh":"大青山","pinyin":"Dàqīng Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.6672,"lon":119.1916,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulian-daqing-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Daqing Mountain is a forested hill area of about 30 km² south-west of Wulian town, with gorges, caves, waterfalls and a pagoda, plus a hotel and play facilities on the upper slopes. A Taiji culture plaza hosts Taiji tournaments, including a tenth invitational event in 2026. It suits a day of hill walking and sightseeing."},{"id":"lanshan-dengshan-scenic-area","name":"Dengshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"磴山","pinyin":"Dèng Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.2272,"lon":119.3206,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanshan-dengshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dengshan is a forested hill about 3 km from the coast in Hushan town, Lanshan District, with springs, bamboo groves and the Hongyun Temple. Its 'Dengshan spring dawn' is ranked first among the old Eight Views of Haiqu, an old name for the Rizhao area, and magpies are common. A snow-play park and a Spring Festival temple fair were held here in early 2026."},{"id":"juxian-fulai-mountain","name":"Fulai Mountain","name_zh":"浮来山","pinyin":"Fúlái Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.5971,"lon":118.7338,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=juxian-fulai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Fulai Mountain is a wooded hill about 300 m high west of Ju County town, with a temple complex around Dinglin Temple, traditionally the home of Liu Xie, author of the literary treatise The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons. A ginkgo beside the temple is given by local authorities as more than 4,000 years old, and the hill also has a hall shared by Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, a Daoist temple and a Liu Xie exhibition. It suits half a day of temples and walking."},{"id":"juxian-fulaiqing-tea-resort","name":"Fulaiqing Tea Resort","name_zh":"浮来青旅游度假区","pinyin":"Fúláiqīng Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.3943,"lon":118.6603,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=juxian-fulaiqing-tea-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Fulaiqing is a tea-themed leisure resort in Xiazhuang town, Ju County, built around a large organic tea garden and a tea-culture hall, with a museum on the 'South Tea to the North' project that began in the 1950s. The Rizhao tourism bureau also lists a deer park, an artificial ski slope and summer rafting, as of 2021. It suits families and anyone curious about northern tea growing."},{"id":"wulian-heihushan-hunting-ground","name":"Heihushan Hunting Ground","name_zh":"黑虎山狩猎旅游区","pinyin":"Hēihǔshān Shòuliè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.6291,"lon":119.1451,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulian-heihushan-hunting-ground","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Heihushan is a company-run hunting ground and holiday resort in the hills of Wulian County, on the west shore of Shimuzi Reservoir. The Rizhao tourism bureau describes it as a legally registered hunting ground with game such as pheasant, wild boar and hare, and says hunting is by members' reservation only. The grounds also have lodging, meeting rooms and an agricultural sightseeing area."},{"id":"rizhao-liujiawan-tidal-flat-park","name":"Liujiawan Tidal Flat Park","name_zh":"刘家湾赶海园","pinyin":"Liújiāwān Gǎnhǎiyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.2823,"lon":119.4222,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rizhao-liujiawan-tidal-flat-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Liujiawan is a beach park on the coast of Taoluo town, with about 5.4 km of shoreline backed by a coastal forest belt. At low tide a broad tidal flat is exposed where visitors dig for clams, razor clams and crabs, a local pastime known as ganhai, and there are also sea bathing, sand sports and a golf practice range. It suits families wanting a half day at the seaside."},{"id":"donggang-longmengu-resort","name":"Longmengu Mountain Resort","name_zh":"龙门崮","pinyin":"Lóngméngù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.5495,"lon":119.126,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donggang-longmengu-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Longmengu is a 16 km² mountain-and-lake resort in Sanzhuang town, centred on a flat-topped crag, or gu, 416 m high. Rong'an Group developed it from 2003 and it opened in May 2009, with a lake, gorges and caves, and fruit picking in autumn. It suits a relaxed day out in the hills."},{"id":"rizhao-ocean-park","name":"Rizhao Ocean Park","name_zh":"日照海洋公园","pinyin":"Rìzhào Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.4317,"lon":119.5652,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rizhao-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Rizhao Ocean Park is a modern marine park on Bihai Road in the Shanhaitian resort area, made up of an aquarium and a four-seasons flower-and-bird garden. It was added to the 4A list in late 2021. It suits families looking for an indoor stop on the city's seafront."},{"id":"rizhao-seaside-national-forest-park","name":"Rizhao Seaside National Forest Park","name_zh":"日照海滨国家森林公园","pinyin":"Rìzhào Hǎibīn Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.5421,"lon":119.6225,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rizhao-seaside-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a coastal forest of black pine, metasequoia and locust trees planted on former salt flats from 1960, covering about 8 km² along some 7 km of sandy shoreline north of Rizhao. It was approved as a national forest park in 1992 and has a beach, cycling routes and seaside hotels, although open fires are banned throughout. It suits a day of cycling or a beach walk."},{"id":"rizhao-tiantai-mountain","name":"Tiantai Mountain Sun Culture Area, Rizhao","name_zh":"天台山","pinyin":"Tiāntái Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.2397,"lon":119.3248,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rizhao-tiantai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tiantai Mountain is a wooded hill, 258 m high, in Taoluo town, built up as a sun-culture park around five low peaks. According to the Rizhao tourism bureau it has three themed areas, a place of worship, a sunrise platform and a Shangshu (Book of Documents) area, and it also runs tea tastings, craft workshops and festivals such as a New Year sunrise event. A hot-spring inn is attached."},{"id":"rizhao-wanpingkou-seaside","name":"Wanpingkou Seaside Scenic Area","name_zh":"万平口海滨风景区","pinyin":"Wànpíngkǒu Hǎibīn Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.4084,"lon":119.5598,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rizhao-wanpingkou-seaside","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wanpingkou is Rizhao's main seafront leisure area, built around a sandy beach of roughly 4 km, a lagoon, several plazas, a wedding park and an RV camp. It was rebuilt in 2016 and also has attractions such as a water-slide and children's activity parks. It suits a half day by the sea close to the city centre."},{"id":"juxian-wengweng-paradise","name":"Wengweng Paradise","name_zh":"嗡嗡乐园","pinyin":"Wēngwēng Lèyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.529,"lon":118.9943,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=juxian-wengweng-paradise","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wengweng Paradise is a bee-themed leisure park in the hills of Longshan town, Ju County, which the Rizhao tourism bureau describes as Shandong's first bee-culture experience park. It has a bee-science museum, a bee-hive maze, lavender flower fields, an organic tea garden, a lake and a children's activity camp. It was added to the 4A list in late 2021 and suits families."},{"id":"wulian-mountain","name":"Wulian Mountain","name_zh":"五莲山","pinyin":"Wǔlián Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.6867,"lon":119.3946,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulian-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Wulian Mountain is a granite mountain area of about 73 km² in Wulian County, made up of Wulian Mountain itself, neighbouring Jiuxian Mountain and the Longtan gorge and lake. The main peak is 515.7 m high, and sights include rock peaks and viewpoints, the Ming-dynasty Guangming Temple, a provincial heritage site, and wild azaleas that flower in May. It suits a day of walking in hill scenery."},{"id":"lanshan-yaowangcheng-site","name":"Yaowangcheng Site","name_zh":"尧王城遗址","pinyin":"Yáowángchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Rizhao","lat":35.303,"lon":119.3458,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanshan-yaowangcheng-site","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yaowangcheng is a settlement of the Longshan culture, among the largest known in Shandong, where excavations since 1934 have found triple city walls, house foundations, burials and sacrificial platforms, and more than 10,000 objects. It is a national heritage unit (sixth batch, 2006). An archaeological site park opened on the site at the end of 2023, with an exhibition of the finds and hands-on archaeology and pottery activities."},{"id":"dongping-baifo-mountain","name":"Baifo Mountain and Grottoes","name_zh":"白佛山","pinyin":"Báifó Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":35.9511,"lon":116.4278,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongping-baifo-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A 370 m hill on the western side of Dongping, the county seat, whose cliff grottoes are centred on a Shakyamuni statue about 6.7 m high, carved in 587 in the Sui dynasty and protected as a national unit. The hill also has the Sanjiao (Three Teachings) Temple, with Buddhist, Confucian and Daoist figures, two caves called Black Cloud and White Cloud, and a landscaped park and lotus-sculpture plaza within a scenic area of about 10 square kilometres. The county rebuilt the scenic area from 2023 with a hotel and seasonal events such as an autumn chrysanthemum show, and locals traditionally climb the hill for a temple fair on the second day of the second lunar month."},{"id":"feicheng-taoshan-chaoyang-cave","name":"Chaoyang Cave, Taoshan","name_zh":"陶山朝阳洞石刻造像","pinyin":"Táoshān Cháoyáng Dòng Shíkè Zàoxiàng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.2879,"lon":116.6159,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feicheng-taoshan-chaoyang-cave","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A natural limestone cave on the north-west cliff of the main peak of Taoshan in Hutun town, in three chambers whose walls hold Buddhist and Daoist statues and more than 80 carvings and inscriptions from the Song dynasty to the Republic. They include figures of Guan Yu with his attendants and a 1125 inscription of the words 'Kuai Zai Dong' that the national cultural heritage authority has listed among its famous ancient inscriptions. Taoshan is traditionally linked with Fan Li, the Spring and Autumn minister who became a merchant, and the cave, listed in 2019, is the first national protected unit in Feicheng that is a separate site of its own."},{"id":"feicheng-chunqiu-ancient-town","name":"Chunqiu Ancient Town","name_zh":"春秋古镇","pinyin":"Chūnqiū Gǔzhèn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.1796,"lon":116.72,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feicheng-chunqiu-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A newly built town in classical northern Chinese style in Feicheng's Xincheng area, on more than 400 mu (roughly 27 hectares) with about 150,000 square metres of floor space. Its theme is the Spring and Autumn period, laid out as separate Qi and Lu zones, and it combines shops, restaurants, lodging, performances and an evening street scene rather than historic buildings. It holds an annual culture and tourism festival, the twelfth edition in autumn 2025, and suits an evening stroll or meal."},{"id":"daiyue-culai-hot-spring-valley","name":"Culai Mountain Forest Hot Spring Wellness Valley","name_zh":"徂徕山森林温泉康养度假谷","pinyin":"Cúlái Shān Sēnlín Wēnquán Kāngyǎng Dùjià Gǔ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.0748,"lon":117.2195,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daiyue-culai-hot-spring-valley","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hot-spring and wellness resort in the foothills of Culai Mountain, where a Tai'an government article of 2025 says the springs stand on the site of the Tang-dynasty 'Qianfeng bath'. A winter ski ground beside it has four pistes (beginner, intermediate, advanced and snowboard) and snow-tube runs. It is a modern resort rather than a sightseeing stop, and suits a winter weekend."},{"id":"taian-dai-temple","name":"Dai Temple","name_zh":"岱庙","pinyin":"Dàimiào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.1947,"lon":117.1251,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taian-dai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The principal temple of the god of Mount Tai, in the old town of Tai'an at the southern foot of the mountain, where emperors held sacrifices to the mountain. The compound of about 100,000 square metres is centred on the Song-dynasty Tianzhang Hall (enlarged by imperial order in 1009), which holds a Daoist wall painting 62 m long, and the grounds also hold more than 200 stone tablets, old cypress and locust trees and the surviving fragments of the Qin-dynasty Mount Tai stele. The Tai'an Museum is housed in the temple, and many visitors come here before or after climbing the mountain."},{"id":"daiyue-dawenkou-stone-bridge","name":"Dawenkou Ancient Stone Bridge","name_zh":"大汶口古石桥","pinyin":"Dàwènkǒu Gǔ Shíqiáo","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":35.9463,"lon":117.0963,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daiyue-dawenkou-stone-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A long stone-slab bridge over the Dawen River on the southern edge of Dawenkou town, first built in the Longqing reign (1567–72) of the Ming dynasty. It runs for about 571 m between the town and Ningyang County, on slabs 3.5 m long and 52 cm wide laid five abreast, and the slabs still carry wheelbarrow ruts. It became a national protected unit in 2013 and is an easy stop alongside the Dawenkou Site."},{"id":"daiyue-dawenkou-site","name":"Dawenkou Site","name_zh":"大汶口遗址","pinyin":"Dàwènkǒu Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":35.9469,"lon":117.0854,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daiyue-dawenkou-site/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The type site of the Neolithic Dawenkou culture, beside the Dawen River in Daiyue District. It was first found in 1959 and excavated three times, covers about 820,000 square metres, and was occupied through the Beixin, Dawenkou and Longshan phases, some 2,500 years in all. It now operates as the Dawenkou Archaeological Site Park, officially listed as a national archaeological site park in 2025, with a site museum, a protected display of house foundations and excavation areas."},{"id":"dongping-lake","name":"Dongping Lake","name_zh":"东平湖","pinyin":"Dōngpíng Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":35.9437,"lon":116.3025,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongping-lake/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Shandong's second-largest freshwater lake, described as the surviving water of the 'eight hundred li' Liangshan marsh of the novel Water Margin and a key point on the eastern route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. The county government gives a total area of 627 square kilometres, of which the permanent old lake is about 209 square kilometres. Lakeside tourism around Laohu includes boat trips, reed wetlands and fish-based local food, a large double-hulled sightseeing boat added in autumn 2026, and the Great Song Never-Night City, a Song-style district with costumed night shows."},{"id":"taian-fantawild","name":"Fantawild Adventure, Tai'an","name_zh":"泰山方特欢乐世界","pinyin":"Tàishān Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.2372,"lon":117.1869,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taian-fantawild","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A theme park of the Fantawild chain on the north-eastern side of Tai'an, opened in 2010 and built around science-fiction and fantasy themes. Its rides and shows include Dinosaur Crisis, Future Police, the Mysterious Valley and Conch Bay, together with a water-play area. It is a modern amusement park aimed at families and teenagers."},{"id":"dongping-hongding-mountain-sutras","name":"Hongding Mountain Cliff Sutras","name_zh":"洪顶山摩崖刻经","pinyin":"Hóngdǐngshān Móyá Kèjīng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.0646,"lon":116.2385,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongping-hongding-mountain-sutras","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Buddhist sutra texts carved in large characters on rock faces of Hongding Mountain, covering close to 1,400 square metres and including dedications dated 563–564 in the Northern Qi dynasty, regarded as the earliest cliff sutras in Shandong. The texts include the Wenshu Prajna Sutra and the Renwang Sutra, in a bold script close to that of the Han-dynasty Zhang Qian stele. The mountain stands in Jiuxian township near the north-western shore of Dongping Lake."},{"id":"dongping-jiliang-mountain-carvings","name":"Jiliang Mountain Rock Carvings","name_zh":"棘梁山石刻","pinyin":"Jíliángshān Shíkè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.0113,"lon":116.1239,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongping-jiliang-mountain-carvings","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Buddhist rock-cut figures on Sili hill (also called Jiliang Mountain) in Daimiao town. The county government counts more than 1,000 carved figures from the Northern Qi, Tang and Song periods, which has earned the cliff the names 'Thousand Buddha Cliff' and 'the stone-carving museum of western Shandong'. The hill is also linked in local accounts with the Water Margin story, and the carvings became a national protected unit in 2013."},{"id":"dongping-kunlun-mountain","name":"Kunlun Mountain Scenic Area, Dongping","name_zh":"昆仑山景区","pinyin":"Kūnlúnshān Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.01,"lon":116.1676,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongping-kunlun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill-and-lakeshore scenic area at Nantangzi village on the western shore of Dongping Lake, not to be confused with the Kunlun mountain range. The county government says it was developed from 2008 around film-set villages built for the new Water Margin television series (the Zhu and Song family manors), and lists a stone-carving gallery, a seven-star waterfall, the restored Yueyan Temple and later additions including a glass walkway, zip-line, rock climbing and a children's maze. The village beside it offers fishing-family stays, so it suits a relaxed rural and lake day out."},{"id":"daiyue-culai-mountain-uprising-site","name":"Site of the Culai Mountain Armed Uprising","name_zh":"徂徕山抗日武装起义旧址","pinyin":"Cúlái Shān Kàngrì Wǔzhuāng Qǐyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.0413,"lon":117.2283,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daiyue-culai-mountain-uprising-site","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A memorial site in the Culai Mountain area for the armed uprising of the winter of 1937–38. The Shandong provincial committee of the Chinese Communist Party moved to Culai Mountain in December 1937, announced an uprising on New Year's Day 1938 and formed the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Fourth Detachment of the Eighth Route Army. A memorial monument stands in Culai Mountain National Forest Park, a privately run museum on the old site at Moshanyu village tells the story, and the site became a national protected unit in 2013."},{"id":"daiyue-sun-tribe","name":"Sun Tribe","name_zh":"太阳部落","pinyin":"Tàiyáng Bùluò","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.039,"lon":117.1105,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daiyue-sun-tribe","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A theme park in Manzhuang town built around prehistoric life and the Dawenkou culture of the Tai'an area. It has a Dawenkou culture exhibition hall, a replica ancient village, rides and cinema attractions with titles such as Nuwa Mends the Sky and Ancient Battle, a live-action show about a mountain flood, and an animal park. It suits families with children."},{"id":"taian-baotailong-tourist-area","name":"Taishan Baotailong Tourist Area","name_zh":"泰山宝泰隆旅游区","pinyin":"Tàishān Bǎotàilóng Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.1479,"lon":117.2382,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taian-baotailong-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A tourist area in Qiujiadian town, east of Tai'an, built around the Tai'an Underground Dragon Palace, a show cave with stalactites, flowstone and stone columns. A Tai'an government article of 2025 says the cave stays at about 18 °C all year and that visitors can also raft about 3,000 m along an underground stream. The steady temperature makes it a comfortable stop in winter."},{"id":"daiyue-tianyi-lake","name":"Tianyi Lake","name_zh":"天颐湖","pinyin":"Tiānyí Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.0689,"lon":117.105,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daiyue-tianyi-lake","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A lakeside leisure area in Manzhuang town, south of Tai'an, that operates as the Taishan Flower Sea scenic area and has a Ferris wheel. Activities reported by the city government include nature-study sessions for school groups, seasonal themed events and an aerospace exhibition held over National Day 2024. It suits a family afternoon rather than a sightseeing visit."},{"id":"daiyue-xiao-daheng-tomb","name":"Tomb of Xiao Daheng","name_zh":"萧大亨墓地石刻","pinyin":"Xiāo Dàhēng Mùdì Shíkè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.1185,"lon":117.0264,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daiyue-xiao-daheng-tomb","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The tomb of Xiao Daheng (1532–1612), a Tai'an man who served as Ming minister of war and minister of justice. It was built on the emperor's order and finished in 1617, and is known for the stone sculpture along its approach, including a memorial archway, ornamental pillars, warriors, tigers, sheep, horses and attendants. It became a national protected unit in 2013, and a Tai'an government report of October 2024 mentions conservation work at the site."},{"id":"feicheng-wubu-stone-village","name":"Wubu Stone Village (Huodamen)","name_zh":"五埠岭伙大门","pinyin":"Wǔbùlǐng Huǒdàmén","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":35.9941,"lon":116.6453,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=feicheng-wubu-stone-village","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill village of dry-stone houses, with more than 200 courtyards of the Ming, Qing and Republican periods and the nickname 'first stone village of Shandong'. Its 'huodamen' are family compounds in which several households share one gate, with gates inside gates and lanes inside lanes, and a stone-slab lane marks the old boundary between Tai'an and Dongping prefectures. Since 2016 the village has been renovated with craft workshops, a food street and evening events, so it is now part heritage village and part tourist village."},{"id":"xintai-xinfu-mountain","name":"Xinfu Mountain (Lotus Mountain)","name_zh":"新甫山","pinyin":"Xīnfǔ Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":36.0269,"lon":117.6837,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xintai-xinfu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain scenic area on Xinfu Mountain, also called Lotus Mountain from its nine peaks, which rises to 994 m north-west of Xintai. A Tai'an government account of 2017 says Emperor Wu of Han built a detached palace on the mountain and that the hill's shape earned it the name 'Little Mount Tai'; the area opened to visitors in 2005 and has Guanyin-themed temple buildings, among them the Guanyin Pavilion and Taiping Chan Temple. It suits a mountain-and-temple day trip from Xintai."},{"id":"ningyang-yan-hui-temple","name":"Yan Hui Temple and Yan Forest, Ningyang","name_zh":"宁阳颜子庙","pinyin":"Níngyáng Yánzǐ Miào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Tai'an","lat":35.8927,"lon":116.68,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningyang-yan-hui-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A memorial temple and family burial grove for Yan Hui (Yan Zi), Confucius's favourite disciple, who is venerated as the 'Restored Sage' (Fusheng). The temple at Sigao village keeps Yuan-dynasty building features, described as 'the second beams do not rest on the main beam', and the protected unit also covers the Yan Forest (Yanlin), the family burial ground. It is a different site from the Yan Temple in Qufu, and became a national protected unit in 2013."},{"id":"weifang-bailang-oasis-wetland-park","name":"Bailang Oasis Wetland Park","name_zh":"白浪绿洲湿地公园","pinyin":"Báilàng Lǜzhōu Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.6771,"lon":119.101,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weifang-bailang-oasis-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A long riverside wetland park on the upper Bailang River, running about 6.7 km from the Bailang River reservoir in the south to Baotong Street in the north on the western side of Weifang's urban area. It is laid out in three parts, a leisure area, a wetland science area and a cultural park, and is a national urban wetland park. It suits a walk or cycle beside the river."},{"id":"zhucheng-changshan-culture-museum-park","name":"Changshan Culture Museum Park","name_zh":"常山文化博物苑","pinyin":"Chángshān Wénhuà Bówùyuàn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":35.9025,"lon":119.3981,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhucheng-changshan-culture-museum-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This museum park lies on the northern slope of Changshan, the hill south of Zhucheng where the Song poet Su Shi came to pray for rain in 1075 while serving as the local magistrate. Opened around 2011 in Ming-and-Qing palace style, it has dozens of halls, a Buddhist temple and a 21.9 m seated bronze Guanyin, and it displays Buddhist statues, terracotta figures and other art from a local family's private collection. It suits visitors interested in Buddhist art who want a gentle hillside walk."},{"id":"changle-china-gem-city","name":"China Gem City, Changle","name_zh":"中国宝石城","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Bǎoshíchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.7285,"lon":118.852,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changle-china-gem-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large gem and jewellery trading centre in Changle, the county known for its sapphires, laid out as a tourist area that includes the China Sapphire Museum. The museum has exhibits on gem types, the volcanic origin of the local sapphires, processing and gem identification, and the market halls sell sapphires, gold, jade and other jewellery. It suits visitors interested in gems or shopping, and it is a commercial centre rather than a historic site."},{"id":"anqiu-dongjiazhuang-han-tomb","name":"Dongjiazhuang Han Pictorial Stone Tomb, Anqiu","name_zh":"安丘董家庄汉画像石墓","pinyin":"Ānqiū Dǒngjiāzhuāng Hàn Huàxiàngshí Mù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.4374,"lon":119.1917,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqiu-dongjiazhuang-han-tomb","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large Eastern Han tomb built from 224 stone blocks, 103 of them carved, found in 1959 and later re-erected in Anqiu town. A passage, three chambers and two side rooms carry carved scenes in several techniques, from shallow relief to openwork, including chariot processions, music and acrobatics, hunting, mythical beasts, Fuxi and Nüwa and historical stories, with three richly carved central pillars. It is of most interest to visitors with a taste for Han stone carving."},{"id":"linqu-dongzhen-temple","name":"Dongzhen Temple","name_zh":"东镇庙","pinyin":"Dōngzhèn Miào","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.198,"lon":118.6648,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linqu-dongzhen-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dongzhen Temple stands at the foot of Mount Yi (Yishan), the 'Eastern Guardian' among China's five guardian mountains, where emperors and officials sent sacrifices; a shrine to the mountain was ordered in 594, in the Sui dynasty, and the temple moved to this site in the Song. The listed site is the main hall of a compound that was rebuilt and repaired many times, nine times in the Ming alone, and a forest of stone tablets, mostly Yuan to Qing, records imperial rites, repairs and visitors' poems. A local memorial ceremony has been held again each spring since 1979."},{"id":"weifang-fangzi-german-japanese-buildings","name":"Fangzi German and Japanese Buildings (Fangci Town)","name_zh":"坊子德日建筑群","pinyin":"Fāngzi Dérì Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.6008,"lon":119.1628,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weifang-fangzi-german-japanese-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Fangci Town in Weifang's Fangzi district grew from 1898 as a railway and coal-mining town under German and then Japanese control. It keeps 166 German and Japanese buildings in a core area of 1.97 sq km, together with the 1902 railway station, the former German military headquarters, a locomotive turntable and a coal-mine site, now mixed with art spaces, shops and cafés. It suits anyone who likes industrial and early-20th-century architecture on an easy walking visit."},{"id":"zhucheng-wang-jinmei-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Wang Jinmei","name_zh":"王尽美故居","pinyin":"Wáng Jìnměi Gùjū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":35.9007,"lon":119.1624,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhucheng-wang-jinmei-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is the former home of Wang Jinmei (1898–1925), a founder of the Chinese Communist Party and an early organiser of its Shandong branch, in the village where he was born. The house is a restored three-room dwelling with earth walls and a thatched roof, rebuilt on its old foundations in 1960 and enclosed by a wall. It has been a national heritage site since 2006 and is a modest red-tourism stop in the countryside south-west of Zhucheng."},{"id":"weifang-happy-sea-beach","name":"Happy Sea Beach, Weifang","name_zh":"欢乐海沙滩","pinyin":"Huānlèhǎi Shātān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":37.2186,"lon":119.2207,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weifang-happy-sea-beach","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"An artificial sand beach about 1,600 m long on the Bohai Bay coast in Weifang's Binhai district, opened in 2012 as the city's first sea-side beach. It is set up for paddling and swimming with lifeguards, beach games and camping, with fairground-style rides along the shore. It suits families on a summer day trip."},{"id":"weifang-jinbao-paradise","name":"Jinbao Paradise, Weifang","name_zh":"金宝乐园","pinyin":"Jīnbǎo Lèyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.656,"lon":119.1195,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weifang-jinbao-paradise","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A combined zoo, amusement park and botanical garden in the southern part of Weifang's urban area, opened in the 1990s on the site of a former swamp. The zoo is the main attraction, with tigers, lions, leopards, lemurs and red-crowned cranes, and there are also a children's petting area, rides and a poplar grove with hammocks. It suits families with children."},{"id":"anqiu-jingzhi-liquor-city","name":"Jingzhi Liquor City, Anqiu","name_zh":"景芝酒之城","pinyin":"Jǐngzhī Jiǔ zhī Chéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.311,"lon":119.3969,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqiu-jingzhi-liquor-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A liquor-culture visitor area built around the Jingzhi distillery in Jingzhi town, south-east of Anqiu. The company was formed in 1948 by merging 72 village distilleries and is known for its sesame-aroma baijiu, and its traditional brewing technique is listed as national intangible cultural heritage. It is a company-run attraction for visitors interested in baijiu, not a historic site."},{"id":"qingzhou-jiulongyu","name":"Jiulongyu, Qingzhou","name_zh":"九龙峪","pinyin":"Jiǔlóngyù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.5628,"lon":118.489,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingzhou-jiulongyu","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill resort and amusement area on the southern edge of Qingzhou, with seasonal flower fields (cherry and rape blossom in spring, sunflowers and lavender in summer, chrysanthemums in autumn), rides such as a roller coaster and carousel, a small zoo, a high-level walkway and a winter snow-and-ice park. It is a commercial leisure area aimed mainly at families, with a guesthouse in a converted village inside it. Folk performances and craft sessions are also offered."},{"id":"shouguang-judian-lake","name":"Judian Lake, Shouguang","name_zh":"水上王城·巨淀湖","pinyin":"Shuǐshàng Wángchéng·Jùdiàn Hú","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":37.0678,"lon":118.6823,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouguang-judian-lake","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A lake and wetland scenic area in north-west Shouguang on the remains of the ancient Judian marsh, now about 12,000 mu (some 800 hectares) of shallow water fed by four rivers and described locally as Weifang's largest natural wetland. Visitors can boat on the lake, walk a wetland corridor to watch birds and use a water-themed play area. The lake is also promoted as a red-tourism site for local revolutionary history."},{"id":"linqu-lancuihu-hot-spring-resort","name":"Lancui Lake Hot Spring Resort, Linqu","name_zh":"揽翠湖天沐温泉度假村","pinyin":"Lǎncuìhú Tiānmù Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.5126,"lon":118.5811,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linqu-lancuihu-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hot-spring and leisure resort on the eastern edge of Linqu, with a hotel, indoor and outdoor hot-spring pools, meeting rooms and restaurants. It is a commercial multi-pool resort rather than a natural hot-spring site. Weifang's tourism bureau pairs it with Mount Yi and the Shanwang fossil site on wellness routes in Linqu."},{"id":"shouguang-linhai-ecological-expo-park","name":"Linhai Ecological Expo Park, Shouguang","name_zh":"林海生态博览园","pinyin":"Línhǎi Shēngtài Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":37.1435,"lon":118.7346,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouguang-linhai-ecological-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large wetland park built on saline-alkali land near the Bohai coast in north Shouguang, with lotus ponds, a long wetland water channel and lakes. Visitors can take boat rides among the lotus, which flowers in summer when a lotus festival is held, and see displays on the area's salt-making and fishing traditions. It suits a slow half-day outing rather than a sightseeing circuit."},{"id":"qingzhou-longxing-temple-site","name":"Longxing Temple Site, Qingzhou","name_zh":"青州龙兴寺遗址","pinyin":"Qīngzhōu Lóngxīng Sì Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.6829,"lon":118.4569,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingzhou-longxing-temple-site/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Longxing Temple was a Buddhist temple in Qingzhou, founded in the Northern and Southern Dynasties period and later lost. In 1996 a pit near its hall base, found under a school sports field, yielded hundreds of stone Buddhist statues from the Northern Wei to the Northern Song, many still with paint and gilding. The find spot is now partly an open park, while the statues are the star exhibits of the Qingzhou Museum, so come here for the context and go to the museum for the sculpture."},{"id":"changyi-qingshan-xiushui","name":"Qingshan Xiushui, Changyi","name_zh":"青山秀水","pinyin":"Qīngshān Xiùshuǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.7557,"lon":119.4561,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changyi-qingshan-xiushui","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A leisure park made from an abandoned quarry in Changyi, developed by the Jinbao group and opened to the public in July 2015, described locally as Weifang's first scenic area built on a reclaimed mine. Its features include a bamboo grove, a swan lake, a bird garden, an animal park with African species, a lavender garden, and camping and RV grounds. It suits family days out rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"anqiu-qingyunshan-folk-park","name":"Qingyun Mountain Folk Park, Anqiu","name_zh":"青云山民俗游乐园","pinyin":"Qīngyúnshān Mínsú Yóulèyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.4412,"lon":119.2443,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqiu-qingyunshan-folk-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hillside theme park on Qingyun Mountain in south-east Anqiu, billed locally as the first folk-custom park of Shandong. It is divided into a Jiangnan-style garden area, an ethnic-customs area, an animal park and an adventure valley, with attractions such as a glass skywalk, a rainbow slide, horse riding and archery. It is aimed mainly at families."},{"id":"qingzhou-ancient-city","name":"Qingzhou Ancient City","name_zh":"青州古城","pinyin":"Qīngzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.6771,"lon":118.4736,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingzhou-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A restored Ming and Qing-style old town in the centre of Qingzhou, on the site of several successive walled cities, with the open section mostly in the old Nanyang city. Its lanes and shop streets include the Ou Garden, the Zhaode ancient street, the Zhenjiao Mosque (founded in 1302, present buildings Qing), a memorial hall to the painter Li Cheng and, on Linglongshan South Road, two carved stone arches built between 1522 and 1566 in front of the site of the mansion of the Ming Prince of Heng. It is the old-town core of Qingzhou's 5A scenic area, which also takes in Yunmen Mountain and the Qingzhou Museum."},{"id":"gaomi-red-sorghum-town","name":"Red Sorghum Town, Gaomi","name_zh":"红高粱小镇","pinyin":"Hóng Gāoliáng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.4761,"lon":119.9492,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaomi-red-sorghum-town","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Red Sorghum Town is a tourism complex in the Dongbei Township area of Gaomi, the home district of the Nobel laureate Mo Yan, whose novel Red Sorghum Family was adapted as a Zhang Yimou film and as a TV series that began shooting in Gaomi in 2013. Its main attraction is a walled film-set town built in old style, with the Shan family compound and a bandit stronghold from the TV series, and Mo Yan's former residence stands about 500 m away. It suits fans of the book and films, and families looking for a rural day out."},{"id":"weifang-shihu-garden","name":"Shihu Garden","name_zh":"十笏园","pinyin":"Shíhù Yuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.7142,"lon":119.0999,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weifang-shihu-garden/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A small private garden built in 1885 in the old Weicheng district, covering about 2,000 square metres and named 'Ten Tablets' after its modest size. Courtyards, halls, rockeries, a pond and trees are packed into the compound, which was bought by the wealthy Ding family and now houses a museum. It lies inside a restored cultural district, the 4A scenic area, and suits a short stop for a compact Qing-period garden."},{"id":"linqu-shimenfang","name":"Shimenfang Scenic Area, Linqu","name_zh":"石门坊","pinyin":"Shíménfāng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.5089,"lon":118.4215,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linqu-shimenfang","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hill scenic area west of Linqu county town, known for its autumn colour: more than 3,000 mu (about 200 hectares) of natural woodland of smoke trees and maples turn red among pines and cypresses in October. The county government and local media promote it as Linqu's main red-leaf spot. The foliage is the main reason to go, so time a visit for October."},{"id":"shouguang-polar-ocean-world","name":"Shouguang Polar Ocean World","name_zh":"寿光极地海洋世界","pinyin":"Shòuguāng Jídì Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.8391,"lon":118.7776,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouguang-polar-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A marine-themed aquarium and leisure complex in Shouguang, with displays of sea and polar animals and scenery, an underwater tunnel and a children's play area. A marine theatre stages shows, including a mermaid performance. It is aimed mainly at families with young children."},{"id":"shouguang-vegetable-hi-tech-demonstration-park","name":"Shouguang Vegetable High-tech Demonstration Park","name_zh":"寿光蔬菜高科技示范园","pinyin":"Shòuguāng Shūcài Gāokējì Shìfànyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.8553,"lon":118.8136,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shouguang-vegetable-hi-tech-demonstration-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A national-level agricultural science and technology park on the east side of Shouguang, established in 2000 as the home of the Shouguang International Vegetable Sci-tech Fair, which is held every spring. Visitors walk through modern greenhouses, seedling-raising and plant-propagation demonstrations and variety displays, including a climate-controlled exhibition hall. It suits anyone curious about Shouguang's place in Chinese vegetable growing, and the fair period is the busiest."},{"id":"qingzhou-taihe-mountain","name":"Taihe Mountain, Qingzhou","name_zh":"泰和山","pinyin":"Tàihéshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.5304,"lon":118.2478,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingzhou-taihe-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 20 square kilometres in the south-western hills of Qingzhou, combining forest, valley scenery and religious sites. Its two main zones are the Tianyuan Valley, with temple buildings including the Taihe Temple, and the Huanghuaxi (Yellow Flower Stream) valley, with streams and waterfalls. It suits a day out in the hills."},{"id":"qingzhou-tuoshan-grottoes","name":"Tuoshan Grottoes","name_zh":"驼山石窟","pinyin":"Tuóshān Shíkū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.649,"lon":118.4309,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingzhou-tuoshan-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tuoshan, or Camel Mountain, rises south-west of Qingzhou and carries five main grottoes with 638 Buddhist statues, carved from the Northern Zhou to the Tang along the mountain's eastern edge near the summit. The grottoes are protected by cages and the tallest figure, a seated Buddha, is over 7 m high, while the summit has Haotian Temple, a group of old buildings with a theatre, a Yuhuang hall and a Yuan-dynasty stone hall without beams. It is one of the larger groups of cliff-carved Buddhist images in Shandong and pairs well with Yunmen Mountain nearby."},{"id":"weifang-weixian-internment-camp-museum","name":"Weixian Internment Camp Site Museum","name_zh":"潍县西方侨民集中营旧址博物馆","pinyin":"Wéixiàn Xīfāng Qiáomín Jízhōngyíng Jiùzhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.7015,"lon":119.1261,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weifang-weixian-internment-camp-museum/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The site is an American Presbyterian mission compound founded in 1882, which the Japanese turned into an internment camp during the Second World War, holding more than 2,000 foreign civilians, including 327 children. Seven of the original buildings survive and house a museum with displays on the mission compound, the camp and the wider anti-fascist war, beside a peace park on the Yu River. Internees included the Olympic champion Eric Liddell, who died there in 1945."},{"id":"anqiu-world-kite-park","name":"World Kite Park, Anqiu","name_zh":"世界风筝公园","pinyin":"Shìjiè Fēngzheng Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.5334,"lon":119.1894,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anqiu-world-kite-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A kite park in Anqiu, part of the Qilu Jiudi tourist area, which received the title 'World Kite Park' from the international kite federation in March 2024. It has a large kite-flying field, a three-storey kite culture centre with exhibition halls, flower fields and a food street, and it is the main venue of the Weifang International Kite Festival each April. Go in April for the competitions and mass kite-flying."},{"id":"hanting-yangjiabu-folk-art-garden","name":"Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden","name_zh":"杨家埠民间艺术大观园","pinyin":"Yángjiābù Mínjiān Yìshù Dàguānyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.7583,"lon":119.2156,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanting-yangjiabu-folk-art-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A folk-art park in Hanting district, built on the site of the old Ming and Qing village of Yangjiabu, whose woodblock New Year prints and kites are both national intangible cultural heritage. It has four zones, heritage culture, old-village culture, a folk-art old street and live-scene performances, and next to the old shop street stands a surviving group of print-workshop houses. It suits visitors interested in how New Year prints and kites are made."},{"id":"qingzhou-yangtianshan-forest-park","name":"Yangtianshan National Forest Park, Qingzhou","name_zh":"仰天山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Yǎngtiānshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.4533,"lon":118.2681,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingzhou-yangtianshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A forested mountain park in the hills of south-west Qingzhou, known as a summer retreat and for its spring locust-blossom season. It has karst caves and cliffs and the Buddhist remains of the Wenshu temple, and the park offers log cabins, RV pitches and camping grounds on site. It suits a day of cool air and walking in the hills."},{"id":"zhucheng-dinosaur-gully-tourism-area","name":"Zhucheng Dinosaur Gully and Dinosaur Halls","name_zh":"诸城恐龙文化旅游区","pinyin":"Zhūchéng Kǒnglóng Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":35.9244,"lon":119.3257,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhucheng-dinosaur-gully-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Dinosaur Gully is the fossil site south-west of Zhucheng where giant hadrosaur bones were recognised in 1964, and it is now protected under shelters; its fossil corridor is about 500 m long and 30 m deep, with nearly 10,000 bones exposed in the slope. Around it the city has built halls devoted to individual dinosaurs, including a Tyrannosaur Hall about 2.5 km to the north, and a national dinosaur fossil museum was under construction on the gully site in 2025. It suits families and fossil enthusiasts who want to see bones in the rock rather than only mounted skeletons."},{"id":"zhucheng-dinosaur-museum","name":"Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum","name_zh":"诸城恐龙博物馆","pinyin":"Zhūchéng Kǒnglóng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":36.0099,"lon":119.3901,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhucheng-dinosaur-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhucheng Dinosaur Museum stands in Dinosaur Park on the north-western side of the city, in a pyramid-like building beside a lake. Its best-known exhibit is the skeleton of Zhuchengosaurus, a hadrosaur about 16.6 m long and 9.1 m high, dug up at Dinosaur Gully in Zhucheng. Other halls cover Cretaceous life, fossil bones and a dome-screen cinema, which makes it a good first stop for families and anyone interested in palaeontology."},{"id":"zhucheng-zoo","name":"Zhucheng Zoo","name_zh":"诸城动物园","pinyin":"Zhūchéng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weifang","lat":35.9364,"lon":119.4452,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhucheng-zoo","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhucheng Zoo is a municipal zoo on the south-eastern side of the city, with animals such as giraffes, zebras and ostriches and a petting area where visitors can feed alpacas. By summer 2026 a new intangible-heritage station offering crafts such as paper-cutting and sugar painting had opened beside the animals, and the grounds also have a Ferris wheel. It suits families with children."},{"id":"weihai-british-buildings","name":"British Buildings of Weihaiwei","name_zh":"威海英式建筑","pinyin":"Wēihǎi Yīngshì Jiànzhù","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.5152,"lon":122.1226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihai-british-buildings","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Two surviving buildings from the British lease of Weihai (1898 to 1930), a former Chinese Regiment building and a colonial official's residence dated 1900 and 1901, stand in a compound at 1 Beishan Road in central Weihai. They form one national heritage unit (seventh batch, 2013) among roughly 68 old Western-style house sites in the city, most near the seafront and on Liugong Island. It suits a short stop on a walk through the old town."},{"id":"rongcheng-chengshantou-cape","name":"Chengshantou Cape","name_zh":"成山头","pinyin":"Chéngshāntóu","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.3923,"lon":122.6976,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongcheng-chengshantou-cape","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Chengshantou is the rocky cape at the eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, with the sea on three sides and eroded coastal cliffs. On the headland stand the Qin Shihuang Temple, described as China's only temple to the first Qin emperor, who visited in 219 BC, and Weihai's oldest lighthouse. It suits a half day of coastal walking and sightseeing."},{"id":"rongcheng-chishan-fahua-temple","name":"Chishan Fahua Temple and Scenic Area","name_zh":"赤山","pinyin":"Chìshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":36.903,"lon":122.3936,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongcheng-chishan-fahua-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Chishan Fahua Temple is a Tang-style Buddhist temple at the foot of Red Mountain near Shidao, rebuilt in the late 1980s on the site of a temple founded in 823 by the Silla general Jang Bogo, where the Japanese monk Ennin stayed in 839. The scenic area also holds a memorial pagoda to Jang Bogo, put up in 1991, and a large statue of the Red Mountain god. The temple is promoted as a Buddhist site linking China, Korea and Japan."},{"id":"rushan-furudonghai-cultural-park","name":"Furudonghai Cultural Park","name_zh":"福如东海文化园","pinyin":"Fúrúdōnghǎi Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":36.8345,"lon":121.7243,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rushan-furudonghai-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Furudonghai ('fortune like the Eastern Sea') is a modern cultural-tourism complex of 1,700 mu (about 1.1 km²) inside the Silver Beach resort, themed on fortune culture, the eastward voyages and Dongyi culture. It is laid out in four zones, for a calligraphy and painting institute, a resort hotel, a yacht club and shops, with gardens of more than 200 plant species, and was rated 4A in 2017. It suits a stroll alongside a beach visit."},{"id":"weihai-huancuilou-park","name":"Huancuilou Park","name_zh":"环翠楼公园","pinyin":"Huáncuìlóu Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.5041,"lon":122.1035,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihai-huancuilou-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Huancuilou Park is a hill park in the middle of Weihai, named after the Huancui Tower, with wooded paths, viewpoints over the city and sports courts. It suits a short walk in the city centre."},{"id":"weihai-likou-mountain","name":"Likou Mountain","name_zh":"里口山","pinyin":"Lǐkǒu Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.4729,"lon":122.0889,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihai-likou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Likou Mountain is a range of hills with peaks above 400 m on the south-western edge of Weihai, made a provincial scenic area in 2004 and described by the city as an urban mountain park. Its orchards produce the well-known Likou peaches, and since 2024 it has added a camping base and a guesthouse street, with a visitor centre at Guangfu Temple. It was rated 4A in December 2021."},{"id":"rongcheng-liucun-stone-tombs","name":"Liucun Stone Tombs","name_zh":"留村石墓群","pinyin":"Liúcūn Shímùqún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":36.9598,"lon":122.4612,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongcheng-liucun-stone-tombs","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Liucun Stone Tombs are a group of Yuan-dynasty tombs faced in granite blocks, in fields west of Liucun village in Rongcheng's Ningjin sub-district, built for the Cheng family who moved here from Luoyang. About ten survive, seven of them well preserved, with their stone casings intact above ground. They were repaired in 2016 and are listed by Shandong as a provincial archaeological site park."},{"id":"liugong-island","name":"Liugong Island","name_zh":"刘公岛","pinyin":"Liúgōng Dǎo","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.5034,"lon":122.1859,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liugong-island/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Liugong Island is a pine-covered island of 3.15 km² at the mouth of Weihai Bay, the base of China's Beiyang Fleet in the 1890s and the place where the fleet was defeated in 1895, later used by Britain as a naval base. Visitors see the restored Naval Office, a war exhibition hall, the iron pier, gun batteries and museums on the island's history and the British lease. Its war sites form a national heritage unit and the island is a 5A scenic area."},{"id":"rongcheng-nahaixiang-seaside-resort","name":"Nahaixiang Seaside Resort","name_zh":"那香海","pinyin":"Nàxiānghǎi","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.4016,"lon":122.4085,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongcheng-nahaixiang-seaside-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Nahaixiang is a coastal leisure area on Huanhai Road in Rongcheng, with a long sandy beach, a pine belt and resort buildings behind it. Attractions include a Ferris wheel, beach water sports and a boat route to Jiming Island, and the Weihai city government names it among the area's places for a seaside outing. It suits a family beach day."},{"id":"rushan-silver-beach-resort","name":"Rushan Silver Beach Resort","name_zh":"乳山银滩","pinyin":"Rǔshān Yíntān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":36.8244,"lon":121.6701,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rushan-silver-beach-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Silver Beach is a seaside resort district on the south coast of the Shandong Peninsula, named for its pale sandy beaches, which the Rushan government puts at 21.7 km. Development began in 1992, it became a provincial tourist resort in 1994 and a 4A area in 2002, and hotels, apartment blocks and leisure venues now line the shore. It suits a beach holiday rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"wendeng-shengjingshan-cliff-inscriptions","name":"Shengjingshan Cliff Inscriptions","name_zh":"圣经山摩崖","pinyin":"Shèngjīngshān Móyá","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.2017,"lon":121.7925,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wendeng-shengjingshan-cliff-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Shengjingshan is a wooded mountain in Gejia town, Wendeng District, where cliff inscriptions dating from the Jin to Yuan dynasties are protected as a national heritage unit. The mountain is associated with Quanzhen Daoism; a trail passes Daodejing text carved into the rock and reaches a bronze statue of Laozi at the summit. A district-run scenic area manages the site, with a shuttle, a reservoir boardwalk and a plaza dedicated to the seven Quanzhen masters."},{"id":"weihai-huaxia-city","name":"Weihai Huaxia City","name_zh":"威海华夏城","pinyin":"Wēihǎi Huáxià Chéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.4234,"lon":122.1102,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihai-huaxia-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Huaxia City is a large themed scenic area in Huancui District, built from 2003 over abandoned quarries on Longshan and rated 5A in 2017. Buildings in traditional Chinese style, a Jiaodong folk-customs museum, lakes and reservoirs and a nine-bend 'lovers' street' sit among restored woodland, and a live show has been staged in a former quarry pit. It suits families and a full day out."},{"id":"weihai-international-bathing-beach","name":"Weihai International Bathing Beach","name_zh":"威海国际海水浴场","pinyin":"Wēihǎi Guójì Hǎishuǐ Yùchǎng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.5287,"lon":122.0417,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihai-international-bathing-beach","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The International Bathing Beach is a sandy beach about 2.8 km long on Weihai's north coast, between Majia Mountain and Yandun Mountain and backed by a pine belt. The city marked out six swimming zones in 2021, and the beach has changing rooms, boat rides and amusements. It suits a half day of swimming in summer or a seafront walk at other times."},{"id":"weihai-seafront-qiaoxiang-cruise","name":"Weihai Seafront Park Belt and Qiaoxiang Cruise","name_zh":"海滨生态公园风景带·侨乡号游轮","pinyin":"Hǎibīn Shēngtài Gōngyuán Fēngjǐngdài · Qiáoxiāng Hào Yóulún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.4936,"lon":122.1383,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihai-seafront-qiaoxiang-cruise","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This 4A listing combines a waterfront park belt on Weihai's seafront with the Qiaoxiang, a sightseeing ship that sails on Weihai Bay. The ship's pier is on Dengta Road, next to the Liugong Island ferry terminal. It suits a short harbour cruise combined with a visit to Liugong Island."},{"id":"wendeng-tianmu-hot-spring-resort","name":"Weihai Tianmu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"天沐温泉度假区","pinyin":"Tiānmù Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.0797,"lon":122.066,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wendeng-tianmu-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Tianmu is a hot-spring and conference resort in Zoujiachuang village, Zhangjiachan town, Wendeng District, set in wooded hills. The Wendeng tourism bureau describes a hotel with lake-view rooms, a conference centre and a spa area with 66 pools, including an indoor swimming hall and open-air hot springs. It suits an overnight hot-spring stay or a day trip."},{"id":"huancui-xianguding-hill-park","name":"Xianguding Hill Park","name_zh":"仙姑顶","pinyin":"Xiāngūdǐng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Weihai","lat":37.4591,"lon":122.1081,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huancui-xianguding-hill-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Xianguding is a Daoist-themed hill park on Huanshan Road, south of central Weihai, with a temple complex, statues and small lakes among the hills. It suits a short outing from the city centre."},{"id":"qixia-aishan-hot-spring-resort","name":"Aishan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"艾山温泉度假村","pinyin":"Àishān Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.4122,"lon":120.8182,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixia-aishan-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Aishan Hot Spring Resort is a hot-spring complex beside the village of Aishantang, at the foot of Mount Ai north of Qixia town, with open-air pools and resort accommodation. It is set in a rural hill landscape and suits a quiet day out or an overnight stay."},{"id":"changdao-south-north-changshan","name":"Changdao: South and North Changshan Islands","name_zh":"长岛南北长山","pinyin":"Chángdǎo Nánběi Chángshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.9885,"lon":120.686,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 to 2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changdao-south-north-changshan","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Nanchangshan and Beichangshan, two linked islands in the Bohai Strait, make up the main sightseeing area of the Changdao archipelago. The north island has the tall sea cliffs of Jiuzhangya and the curving beach of Crescent Bay (Yueyawan); the south island has sea-eroded rock formations at Wangfu Reef, the folk-culture park of Xianjingyuan and Changdao town, with its small museum."},{"id":"yantai-changyu-international-wine-city","name":"Changyu International Wine City","name_zh":"张裕国际葡萄酒城","pinyin":"Zhāngyù Guójì Pútáojiǔ Chéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5758,"lon":121.1737,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantai-changyu-international-wine-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Changyu International Wine City is the winery-tourism area of Changyu, which began making wine in Yantai in 1892, in the Yantai Economic-Technological Development Area. Its visitor core is the Changyu Castel Winery, a chateau in European style set among vineyards, with a tasting room; the wider wine city, begun in 2012, adds a large wine-production centre. It suits wine enthusiasts and anyone wanting a half-day out from Yantai."},{"id":"yantai-changyu-wine-culture-museum","name":"Changyu Wine Culture Museum","name_zh":"张裕酒文化博物馆","pinyin":"Zhāngyù Jiǔ Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5412,"lon":121.4008,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantai-changyu-wine-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The museum stands on the original premises of Changyu, founded in Yantai in 1892 by the overseas Chinese businessman Zhang Bishi and regarded as the start of modern winemaking in China. Its centrepiece is the century-old underground wine cellar, a national heritage unit since 2013, where visitors can see the cellar and taste wine, while interactive displays and galleries cover the company's history, including a commemorative plate from the Panama exposition. It suits anyone interested in wine or in the history of Yantai as a treaty port."},{"id":"yantai-cishan-hot-spring-town","name":"Cishan Hot Spring Town","name_zh":"磁山温泉小镇","pinyin":"Císhān Wēnquán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5534,"lon":121.0719,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantai-cishan-hot-spring-town","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Cishan Hot Spring Town is a hot-spring resort on the lower slopes of Cishan hill in the western part of the Yantai development zone, with hot-spring bathing, accommodation, restaurants and meeting rooms. It is one part of a larger wellness and retirement community developed by a local chemicals group. It suits a relaxing day out or a short stay from Yantai."},{"id":"changdao-daheishan-island","name":"Daheishan Island","name_zh":"大黑山岛","pinyin":"Dàhēishān Dǎo","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.9671,"lon":120.6221,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changdao-daheishan-island/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Daheishan is a volcanic island at the western end of the Changshan Islands in the Bohai Strait, about 70 minutes by ferry from Penglai. Its main sights are the quartzite cliffs, sea caves and coastal walkway of Longzhua Shan (Dragon Claw Mountain), a national geopark site, and a long sand beach at Tuowei. At Beizhuang village the national-listed Beizhuang site is a prehistoric settlement about 6,500 years old, and the Beizhuang Prehistoric Site Museum shows finds from its excavations."},{"id":"laizhou-daji-mountain","name":"Daji Mountain, Laizhou","name_zh":"大基山","pinyin":"Dàjī Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.1539,"lon":120.0195,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laizhou-daji-mountain","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Daji Mountain is a forested valley and peak (478 m) on the south-east edge of Laizhou that has long been a Taoist retreat associated with the Quanzhen master Qiu Chuji, and temple halls around Daji Lake, including the Taiqing Palace, were rebuilt from the early 2000s. Its cliffs carry 24 historic inscriptions, among them calligraphy cut in 512 by the Northern Wei official Zheng Daozhao, and the hills hold a Yueshi-culture site about 4,000 years old. Newer additions include a 1.6 km rafting course and, in summer, a water-jetpack show."},{"id":"longkou-ding-family-residence","name":"Ding Family Residence, Longkou","name_zh":"丁氏故宅","pinyin":"Dīngshì Gùzhái","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.651,"lon":120.5231,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 to 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longkou-ding-family-residence","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A Qing-dynasty courtyard compound built by the Ding family of Huang County, nicknamed 'Ding Baiwan' (Ding the Millionaire) and once counted among Shandong's richest families. Four courtyard complexes (the Aifu, Lüsu, Baosu and Chongjian halls) and a private garden survive, with 55 buildings of brick and timber. It has housed part of Longkou Museum since 1985, with period room displays and a memorial hall to Ding Foyan."},{"id":"yantai-fujian-guild-hall","name":"Fujian Guild Hall, Yantai","name_zh":"烟台福建会馆","pinyin":"Yāntái Fújiàn Huìguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5375,"lon":121.3919,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantai-fujian-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Fujian Guild Hall, also called the Tianhou Palace, is a Qing-dynasty guild hall and temple to the sea goddess Mazu (Tianhou) built by merchants from Fujian, in southern Fujian style with a gate hall, main hall, rear hall and opera stage, and richly carved in wood and stone. Unusually, it faces north towards the sea. It now houses the Yantai Folk Museum, a branch of the Yantai Museum, with displays on Mazu worship and local folk customs."},{"id":"yantai-haichang-fishermans-wharf","name":"Haichang Fisherman's Wharf","name_zh":"海昌渔人码头","pinyin":"Hǎichāng Yúrén Mǎtóu","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5182,"lon":121.4474,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantai-haichang-fishermans-wharf","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Despite its name, Haichang Fisherman's Wharf is a modern waterfront leisure development on a small land-tied island in Laishan district, with the sea on three sides and buildings in Victorian and Georgian-inspired style. Its main attraction is the Haichang Whale Shark Marine Park, an aquarium, and there is also an amusement area, a food court, a beach play area at the Second Bathing Beach and a pier. It suits families and an easy afternoon by the sea."},{"id":"haiyang-tourist-resort","name":"Haiyang Tourist Resort","name_zh":"海阳旅游度假区","pinyin":"Hǎiyáng Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":36.6921,"lon":121.195,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyang-tourist-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Haiyang Tourist Resort stretches along the seafront south-east of Haiyang town, centred on a long sandy beach backed by pine woodland, hotels and villas. It also has a sand-sculpture park, a wetland park and the sports venues left from the third Asian Beach Games, held here in 2012. It suits a beach holiday or a stop on a coastal road trip."},{"id":"changdao-houji-island-lighthouse","name":"Houji Island Lighthouse","name_zh":"猴矶岛灯塔","pinyin":"Hóujīdǎo Dēngtǎ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":38.0583,"lon":120.6415,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour (seen from a boat)","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changdao-houji-island-lighthouse","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Built in 1882 under a British engineer on a small uninhabited island in the Bohai Strait, this is the first lighthouse in the Miaodao (Changshan) archipelago and, according to the national heritage administration, the first modern lighthouse around the Bohai Sea. The 14-metre tower stands with an engine house, a fog-signal platform, the remains of a gun battery and former staff quarters that include a dining hall, a dance hall and a chapel, and the station keeps much of its original layout. The island, about a kilometre long, is ringed by steep cliffs."},{"id":"yantai-jinshatan-seaside-park","name":"Jinshatan (Golden Sand Beach) Seaside Park","name_zh":"金沙滩海滨公园","pinyin":"Jīnshātān Hǎibīn Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5733,"lon":121.2605,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantai-jinshatan-seaside-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A long seaside park on Bajiao Bay (also called Taozi Bay) in Yantai's Development Zone, with a wide bathing beach of fine pale sand backed by a belt of coastal woodland. About 15 km of shoreline is divided into ten zones with plazas, boardwalks and a salt-marsh wetland park, and the bay hosts sailing regattas, a marathon and beach music festivals. It is mainly a summer swimming and promenade spot for people staying in Yantai."},{"id":"penglai-junding-winery","name":"Junding Winery","name_zh":"君顶酒庄","pinyin":"Jūndǐng Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.7482,"lon":120.8332,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 to 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=penglai-junding-winery","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Junding Winery is a winery estate that settled in Penglai in 2007 and is named by the Shandong tourism department among Yantai's leisure wineries for wine tourism. It lies in the Nanwang area south-east of the town and suits visitors who want to add a winery stop to Penglai's coastal sights."},{"id":"muping-kunlong-hot-spring","name":"Kunlong Hot Spring","name_zh":"崑龙温泉","pinyin":"Kūnlóng Wēnquán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.3287,"lon":121.772,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=muping-kunlong-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Kunlong Hot Spring is a hot-spring resort in Longquan town, on the northern foot of Mount Kunyu, with indoor and outdoor pools, a spa, a hotel and water-play areas. Longquan belongs to a district of long-established hot springs in the Kunyu foothills. It suits a relaxing day out or an overnight stay, particularly in cooler weather."},{"id":"laiyang-cretaceous-geopark","name":"Laiyang Cretaceous National Geopark","name_zh":"莱阳白垩纪国家地质公园","pinyin":"Láiyáng Bái'èjì Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":36.882,"lon":120.6547,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laiyang-cretaceous-geopark","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This national geopark south of Laiyang protects Cretaceous rocks about 140 to 65 million years old that have yielded dinosaurs, dinosaur eggs, pterosaurs and large numbers of insects, which is why Laiyang is known as the home of Chinese dinosaurs. The geological museum, completed in 2015, has galleries on the Laiyang fauna, the dinosaur family and dinosaur eggs, and its restored skeletons include Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a horned duck-billed dinosaur found here that is known in China as the first dinosaur of New China."},{"id":"zhaoyuan-luoshan-gold-culture-area","name":"Luoshan Gold Culture Tourist Area, Zhaoyuan","name_zh":"罗山黄金文化旅游区","pinyin":"Luóshān Huángjīn Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.4424,"lon":120.4757,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaoyuan-luoshan-gold-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Luoshan Gold Culture Tourist Area is built around the Zhaoyuan Gold Museum, at the foot of Luoshan in a city whose gold-mining history local media put at about 2,000 years. The museum has 11 exhibition halls on the geology, mining and refining of gold, gold culture in China and abroad, and the Jiaodong gold-supply story of the war years; behind it, a former mine tunnel is set up for visitors to walk through wearing safety helmets. It suits families and anyone curious about mining."},{"id":"qixia-mou-manor","name":"Mou's Manor","name_zh":"牟氏庄园","pinyin":"Móushì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.3187,"lon":120.8281,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixia-mou-manor","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Mou's Manor is a clan estate of three groups of linked courtyard houses in the Jiaodong style, with more than 480 rooms on over 20,000 m², built by the Mou family from the Yongzheng reign of the early Qing dynasty to the 1930s. The estate's staff stage short costumed skits about the family's life for visitors. It inspired a novel and a television series about the family, and suits anyone interested in rural life in late imperial China."},{"id":"muping-kunyu-mountain","name":"Mount Kunyu","name_zh":"昆嵛山","pinyin":"Kūnyú Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.2866,"lon":121.7295,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/muping-kunyu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Mount Kunyu is a forested granite range at the eastern end of the Shandong peninsula, rising to 923 m at Taibo Peak and regarded as the birthplace of Quanzhen Daoism in the 12th century. The visitor area is run as Kunyu Mountain National Forest Park, with separate sub-areas that include Shimenli, Jiulongchi, Wuran Temple, Yanxia Cave and Yuegu Hall. It suits hiking and temple visits from Yantai between spring and autumn."},{"id":"muping-charity-home-museum","name":"Muping Museum (Former Charity Home)","name_zh":"牟平区博物馆（恤养院旧址）","pinyin":"Mùpíng Qū Bówùguǎn (Xùyǎngyuàn Jiùzhǐ)","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.3838,"lon":121.6068,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 to 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=muping-charity-home-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The former Muping Charity Home, a complex dating from 1933 that was listed as a national heritage unit in 2019, is now the main building of Muping District Museum. Its permanent exhibition covers the history of Muping, 'the thousand-year-old county', and the collections are strongest in Neolithic finds and modern revolutionary relics, with calligraphy, paintings and stone carvings. The museum also runs two other sites in the district: the Leishenmiao battle site and a hall on the early anti-Japanese resistance in the Jiaodong peninsula."},{"id":"longkou-nanshan-scenic-area","name":"Nanshan Scenic Area, Longkou","name_zh":"龙口南山旅游景区","pinyin":"Lóngkǒu Nánshān Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5688,"lon":120.4726,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longkou-nanshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Nanshan is a large scenic area run by the Nanshan Group in the hills south of Longkou, best known for a seated tin-bronze Buddha of about 380 tonnes that stands above a long flight of 360 steps. Beneath the Buddha's lotus base are halls and a Buddhism museum, and the grounds also hold a jade Buddha hall, the rebuilt Nanshan Chan Temple and a history park laid out along the Chinese dynasties, with a seaside resort area on the Bohai coast belonging to the same complex. Most of the buildings are modern or rebuilt, and it suits a full day out from Longkou."},{"id":"penglai-ole-bao-dream-world","name":"Ole Bao Dream World, Penglai","name_zh":"蓬莱欧乐堡梦幻世界","pinyin":"Pénglái Ōulèbǎo Mènghuàn Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.8141,"lon":120.7854,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=penglai-ole-bao-dream-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A theme park on the Penglai coast that opened in the mid-2010s, built in a European style and laid out in seven themed zones with more than 40 rides and attractions. It is run by the same tourism group as Sanxian Mountain and Penglai Polar Ocean World, and a separate water park of the same brand, opened in 2017, stands nearby. It suits families and teenagers rather than visitors interested in heritage."},{"id":"penglai-polar-ocean-world","name":"Penglai Polar Ocean World","name_zh":"蓬莱海洋极地世界","pinyin":"Pénglái Hǎiyáng Jídì Shìjiè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.8251,"lon":120.7423,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=penglai-polar-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A marine park close to Penglai Pavilion, run by the same tourism group as the Eight Immortals and Sanxian Mountain parks. It has aquarium halls and a marine theatre where dolphins perform in staged shows. It suits families with children and works as an indoor add-on to a visit to Penglai."},{"id":"penglai-qi-jiguang-hometown","name":"Qi Jiguang's Hometown and Ancestral Temple, Penglai","name_zh":"戚继光故里","pinyin":"Qī Jìguāng Gùlǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.8098,"lon":120.7475,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 to 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=penglai-qi-jiguang-hometown","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Qi Jiguang, the Ming general famed for defending the coast against raiders, came from Dengzhou, now Penglai, and this 19,000 square metre compound in the old city centre preserves his family's quarter: the family residence, a weapons hall and the three-courtyard ancestral temple, built in 1635 as the Biaogong Temple and open to the public since 1985. Two granite memorial arches of 1565, each about 9.5 m high, stand 140 m apart at either end of Paifang Street. Qi's tomb, a restored brick vault of 1589 with stone figures, lies separately on the south slope of Zhi Hill, about 10 km from the temple."},{"id":"qixia-taixu-palace","name":"Taixu Palace, Qixia","name_zh":"太虚宫","pinyin":"Tàixū Gōng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.3412,"lon":120.8316,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixia-taixu-palace","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Taixu Palace is a large Daoist temple complex on the shore of Changchun Lake, built on the former home of Qiu Chuji, the Daoist master born in Qixia who founded the Dragon Gate branch of Quanzhen Daoism. It has more than 30 halls, among them a Three Pure Ones hall that the local tourism bureau bills as the largest in China, and it hosts temple fairs around the Lunar New Year. It suits visitors interested in Daoism, and can be combined with nearby Mou's Manor."},{"id":"penglai-wulin-christian-church","name":"Wulin Christian Church, Penglai","name_zh":"武霖基督教圣会堂","pinyin":"Wǔlín Jīdūjiào Shènghuìtáng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.8087,"lon":120.7488,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=penglai-wulin-christian-church","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Built in 1872 by the American Southern Baptist missionary Tarleton Crawford, this brick-and-timber chapel with an attached bell tower is described as the oldest surviving church in Shandong. It is linked with the missionary Lottie Moon, who worked in Dengzhou, and a memorial stele to her stands at the entrance. It is still used by the local Christian congregation."},{"id":"muping-yangma-island","name":"Yangma Island","name_zh":"养马岛","pinyin":"Yǎngmǎ Dǎo","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.4656,"lon":121.6146,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=muping-yangma-island","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yangma Island is a low island of about 14 km² off the north coast of Muping, linked to the mainland by a bridge, with sandy and rocky shores and a long coastal park along its rocky edge. Tianma Square at the entrance is built around Qin-dynasty and horse-culture themes, since tradition says the First Emperor of Qin kept his horses here. It suits a seaside day out from Yantai."},{"id":"yantai-hill","name":"Yantai Hill","name_zh":"烟台山","pinyin":"Yāntái Shān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5474,"lon":121.397,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yantai-hill/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yantai Hill is a small hill on the waterfront in the city centre, named after the beacon tower built on it in 1398 to warn of pirate raids, which gave the city its name. After Yantai was opened as a treaty port in 1861, consulates, customs offices, banks and churches were built on and around it, and the surviving group of 38 buildings, listed nationally in 2006, is described as the most complete former consular quarter in China. Some buildings now house small museums, such as the port-opening exhibition and the Bing Xin memorial hall, and the hill also has a lighthouse and a long evergreen walkway."},{"id":"yantai-west-battery","name":"Yantai West Battery","name_zh":"烟台西炮台","pinyin":"Yāntái Xīpàotái","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.5502,"lon":121.3552,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 to 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantai-west-battery","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A Qing-dynasty coastal fort on the summit of Tongshen Hill, begun in 1876, enlarged in 1887 and fitted with Krupp guns in 1899 under German engineers; the guns were removed after the 1901 Boxer Protocol. About 700 m of walls link the two surviving gun emplacements, with a gate inscribed 'Dongfan', a drill ground and a semi-underground command post, and the guns on show are replacements gathered around 1980. It is now the West Battery Defence Park, with retired military hardware added after it became a park in 1990."},{"id":"laizhou-yunfengshan-tianzhushan-inscriptions","name":"Yunfengshan and Tianzhushan Cliff Inscriptions","name_zh":"云峰山、天柱山摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Yúnfēng Shān, Tiānzhù Shān Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":37.1242,"lon":119.9639,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day (Yunfeng Mountain); a day for both sites","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laizhou-yunfengshan-tianzhushan-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A group of Northern Wei cliff inscriptions by the calligrapher Zheng Daozhao and his son, which mark the shift of Chinese script from clerical to regular style. On Yunfeng Mountain near Laizhou, the Zheng Wengong Stele (the lower stele, dated 511) stands in a pavilion partway up the hillside, with more carvings near the summit; on Tianzhu Mountain in Pingdu, about 18 km to the south, the matching upper stele is cut into a cliff above a statue of Zheng at the foot of the hill. Both are reached on foot up stone steps, and Yunfeng is also a wooded hill with views from the top."},{"id":"haiyang-zhaotuan-landmine-warfare-site","name":"Zhaotuan Landmine Warfare Site","name_zh":"赵疃地雷战遗址","pinyin":"Zhàotuǎn Dìléizhàn Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Yantai","lat":36.7241,"lon":120.938,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 to 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyang-zhaotuan-landmine-warfare-site","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhaotuan is a hill village in Haiyang where, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, local militia used home-made stone and iron mines against Japanese and puppet-regime troops stationed nearby, a campaign that the 1962 film Landmine Warfare drew on. Surviving traces include the Crescent Bridge minefield area and Signal Hill, which has a martyrs' monument, tombs and a pavilion. The village also has a small exhibition hall and the former homes of local militia heroes."},{"id":"shanting-baodugu-forest-park","name":"Baodugu National Forest Park","name_zh":"抱犊崮国家森林公园","pinyin":"Bàodúgù Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.9909,"lon":117.7146,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanting-baodugu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Baodugu is a flat-topped crag about 584 m high and the centre of a national forest park in Shanting District. A stepped path climbs through woods to the summit, where an archway and a pavilion were built in 2000; in 1923 bandits who had seized a train (the Lincheng Outrage) took their hostages up here. It suits a day of hill walking from Zaozhuang."},{"id":"taierzhuang-biyang-ancient-city","name":"Biyang Ancient City Site","name_zh":"偪阳故城","pinyin":"Bīyáng Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.5408,"lon":117.5253,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taierzhuang-biyang-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"These are the earthen walls of Biyang, a small Zhou-period state that a coalition of rival states destroyed in 563 BC. The roughly rectangular city had a wall circuit of about 3.4 km and six gates found by survey, and the remains now lie in farmland near Houtang village. The local government has put up a display stele and a viewing platform on the north wall."},{"id":"yicheng-guanshi-pomegranate-garden","name":"Guanshi Pomegranate Garden","name_zh":"冠世榴园","pinyin":"Guànshì Liúyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.776,"lon":117.5402,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yicheng-guanshi-pomegranate-garden","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Guanshi Liuyuan is a large pomegranate orchard in the hills of Yicheng District, which local records trace back to the Western Han. Paths run among old trees, springs and viewing pavilions towards Qingtan Temple, a valley temple that the city gazetteer dates to the Tang, with blossom in May and fruit in autumn. It suits an easy day among the orchards, with markets and festivals at blossom and harvest time."},{"id":"shanting-moon-bay-wetland-park","name":"Moon Bay Wetland Park (Yueliangwan)","name_zh":"月亮湾湿地公园","pinyin":"Yuèliàngwān Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":35.1444,"lon":117.287,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanting-moon-bay-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Moon Bay is a lakeside national wetland park in Chengtou town, Shanting District, where the town has added a water-screen film show and other evening attractions. It has run light-and-fountain shows and family events in holiday seasons, including a snow-play area in winter. It suits an easy half-day outing with children rather than a sightseeing trip."},{"id":"tengzhou-mozi-science-culture-city","name":"Mozi Science and Technology Culture City","name_zh":"墨子科技文化城","pinyin":"Mòzǐ Kējì Wénhuàchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":35.0857,"lon":117.167,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengzhou-mozi-science-culture-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This district in central Tengzhou is organised around the Longquan Pagoda, an octagonal nine-storey brick-and-stone pagoda about 43 m high that the national heritage list dates to the Ming dynasty. Around it are six museums (the Tengzhou Museum and the Han Stone Reliefs Museum, both national first-class museums, plus museums on the philosopher Mozi, the craftsman Lu Ban and ink-stones, and an art museum) and a folk-culture street with a food court. It suits a half-day of Han-dynasty carved stones and local history."},{"id":"xuecheng-railway-guerrillas-scenic-area","name":"Railway Guerrillas Scenic Area","name_zh":"铁道游击队景区","pinyin":"Tiědào Yóujīduì Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.7918,"lon":117.2777,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuecheng-railway-guerrillas-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is a memorial park and film-set complex on a hill in Xuecheng District, dedicated to the Railway Guerrillas, a local armed unit that fought Japanese forces on the railways around Zaozhuang. It has a 33 m memorial monument (1995) with an approach stair and a gallery of inscriptions, plus a street of Republic-era-style buildings put up as a TV-series set, where live-action battle shows are staged at holiday times. It suits visitors interested in the red-tourism theme or a family day out."},{"id":"taierzhuang-ancient-town","name":"Taierzhuang Ancient Town","name_zh":"台儿庄古城","pinyin":"Tái'érzhuāng Gǔchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.5583,"lon":117.7396,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taierzhuang-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Taierzhuang is a Grand Canal port town that was badly damaged in the 1938 battle and rebuilt in old canal-town style between 2009 and 2013, covering about 2 km². It has lanes and canal waterways with boat rides, dozens of small themed museums and evening shows, and it contains the North Mosque of 1742, one of the buildings in the national battlefield-site listing. It suits a day of wandering on foot, and the memorial hall and old railway station about 1.5 km to the west add the wartime history."},{"id":"taierzhuang-battle-memorial-hall","name":"Taierzhuang Battle Memorial Hall","name_zh":"台儿庄大战纪念馆","pinyin":"Tái'érzhuāng Dàzhàn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.5581,"lon":117.7257,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taierzhuang-battle-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This museum opened in 1993 to commemorate the Battle of Taierzhuang of March–April 1938, which Chinese accounts describe as the first major Chinese victory over Japanese forces in the war. Its displays include documents and relics, a film hall and a circular panorama hall that combines a painting with modelled terrain, lighting and sound to stage the street fighting. It stands about 1 km west of the old town, and the Li Zongren Museum in the old railway station is a short walk away."},{"id":"tengzhou-weishan-lake-red-lotus-wetland","name":"Weishan Lake Red Lotus Wetland","name_zh":"微山湖红荷湿地","pinyin":"Wēishānhú Hónghé Shīdì","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":35.1167,"lon":116.8445,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengzhou-weishan-lake-red-lotus-wetland","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This wetland on the shore of Weishan Lake, in Tengzhou's Binhu town, is known for wild red lotus and reed beds; Tengzhou's government puts the reeds at about 30 km² and calls it a national wetland park. Visitors can take boat trips among the lotus and reeds, and the flowers bloom in summer. It suits a summer day trip, with lake-fish meals and seasonal events."},{"id":"zaozhuang-xiantanshan-hot-spring-town","name":"Xiantanshan Hot Spring Town","name_zh":"仙坛山温泉小镇","pinyin":"Xiāntánshān Wēnquán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.7767,"lon":117.6042,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zaozhuang-xiantanshan-hot-spring-town","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Xiantanshan Hot Spring Town is a hot-spring resort in the wooded hills of Xiwangzhuang town, on the south-eastern edge of Zaozhuang. Besides the hot-spring baths, its valley park, Xiantan Mangu, has a lawn used for camping, children's activities and evening performances at holiday times. It suits a short leisure break or a relaxed local day out rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"shanting-xiongershan-geopark","name":"Xiong'er Mountain Geopark","name_zh":"熊耳山国家地质公园","pinyin":"Xióng'ěrshān Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":35.0064,"lon":117.626,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanting-xiongershan-geopark","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This national geopark in Beizhuang town, Shanting District, centres on a limestone mesa 509 m high, one of the flat-topped crags typical of southern Shandong. Its main sight is the Shuanglong Great Rift, a deep fissure that local press says stays at about 18°C all year, together with karst caves and a geological museum opened in 2004. It suits walkers and families looking for cool shade in hot weather."},{"id":"tengzhou-xue-state-ancient-city","name":"Xue State Ancient City","name_zh":"薛国故城","pinyin":"Xuēguó Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.9076,"lon":117.1893,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengzhou-xue-state-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Xue ancient city was the capital of the state of Xue, which local accounts date from the Xia dynasty to the Warring States and where Lord Mengchang of Qi was later enfeoffed. Its rammed-earth walls run about 10.6 km round and enclose 7.4 km² of villages and farmland, and surveys found twelve gates and iron-working workshops inside. Tengzhou has landscaped a demonstration stretch of wall and is building an archaeological park, so the remains are still mostly earthen banks among villages and fields."},{"id":"tengzhou-yingtai-hot-spring-resort","name":"Yingtai Eco Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"盈泰生态温泉度假村","pinyin":"Yíngtài Shēngtài Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":35.0401,"lon":117.1467,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengzhou-yingtai-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yingtai is a hot-spring resort in Hongxu town, south of Tengzhou city, which the Zaozhuang tourism authorities list among the city's winter hot-spring destinations. It is a leisure complex for bathing and short stays rather than a sightseeing site, and it runs seasonal hot-spring programmes around holidays. It suits a restful half-day or overnight break from Tengzhou."},{"id":"shanting-yiyun-stone-village","name":"Yiyun Stone Village","name_zh":"翼云石头部落","pinyin":"Yìyún Shítou Bùluò","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":35.1109,"lon":117.4951,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanting-yiyun-stone-village","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Yiyun Stone Village is a hillside village of stone-slab houses in Shancheng subdistrict, Shanting District, restored in the old style after the original Xinglongzhuang village was relocated. The district government calls it the largest and best-preserved group of stone-slab houses in Shandong, and it now has a blacksmith's shop, an old opera stage, a stone-house memory museum and an intangible-heritage museum. It suits a half-day among traditional rural architecture."},{"id":"zaozhuang-zhongchenhao-kiln-site","name":"Zhongchenhao Kiln Site","name_zh":"中陈郝窑址","pinyin":"Zhōngchénhǎo Yáozhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.8837,"lon":117.4596,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zaozhuang-zhongchenhao-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Zhongchenhao is a village in Zouwu town, Xuecheng District, where a long-running pottery kiln site is protected as a national heritage unit; the list dates the kilns from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Qing. The village has a ceramics museum, and local authorities are developing its pottery heritage as a tourism and creative-industry asset. It suits visitors with a particular interest in Chinese ceramics."},{"id":"zaozhuang-zhongxing-coal-company-site","name":"Zhongxing Coal Mining Company Site","name_zh":"中兴煤矿公司旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngxīng Méikuàng Gōngsī Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zaozhuang","lat":34.8776,"lon":117.5668,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zaozhuang-zhongxing-coal-company-site","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This is the former base of the Zhongxing Coal Mining Company in Shizhong District, which the local government says was founded in 1878 and was China's first national joint-stock company. The surviving buildings include the company office block, which houses the Zhongxing Culture Museum, a steel mine headframe, the Dianguang (Electric Light) Building, a mining engineers' house and a bullet-scarred blockhouse, within a mine park. It suits visitors interested in China's early industrialisation."},{"id":"linzi-ancient-qi-capital","name":"Ancient Linzi","name_zh":"临淄齐国故城","pinyin":"Línzī Qíguó Gùchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.8897,"lon":118.338,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzi-ancient-qi-capital","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Linzi was the capital of the state of Qi for centuries, and its ruins in Qidu town cover about 15 sq km, with a large city and a smaller palace city at its south-western corner. Sections of the rammed-earth walls still stand, some 5–6 m high, the remains of the 14 m-high Huangong platform mark the old palace area, and an archaeological site park at one of the drainage outlets shows the culverts that carried water out under the wall. The Qi Culture Museum and the horse pit hall, described on separate cards, show finds from the city and its tombs."},{"id":"boshan-bashan-tcm-health-area","name":"Bashan Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Tourism Area","name_zh":"岜山中医药健康旅游景区","pinyin":"Bāshān Zhōngyīyào Jiànkāng Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.535,"lon":117.8413,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boshan-bashan-tcm-health-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A traditional Chinese medicine themed visitor area in Bashan village, Yucheng town, on the northern edge of Boshan, named as one of the first demonstration bases for TCM health tourism in Shandong. Provincial tourism material published in 2023 lists a TCM culture hall (with wax figures of famous physicians, a medicinal-diet hall and an ointment-culture hall), a ceramics-and-glass base with a masters' gallery, the Moon Lake park and a cultural and sports centre."},{"id":"boshan-ceramics-glass-art-centre","name":"Boshan Ceramics and Glass Art Centre","name_zh":"博山陶瓷琉璃艺术中心","pinyin":"Bóshān Táocí Liúlí Yìshù Zhōngxīn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.489,"lon":117.8465,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boshan-ceramics-glass-art-centre","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"An arts complex on Yanshan Park North Road in central Boshan, the district long known for its pottery and glass. It brings together a glass art museum, a ceramics museum, exhibition halls and a hands-on workshop area where visitors can try making pieces, plus an art hotel and a ceramics garden. It suits those who want to see Boshan's craft traditions indoors rather than at working kilns."},{"id":"gaoqing-chenzhuang-western-zhou-museum","name":"Chenzhuang–Tangkou Site and Gaoqing Western Zhou Museum","name_zh":"陈庄—唐口遗址","pinyin":"Chénzhuāng–Tángkǒu Yízhǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":37.0722,"lon":117.7962,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoqing-chenzhuang-western-zhou-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A small site museum at Chenzhuang village in Huagou town, Gaoqing, beside the Chenzhuang–Tangkou archaeological site, which is listed nationally with dates from the Western Zhou to the Warring States. Excavations here in 2008–10 found more than 50 bronze vessels, nearly ten of them inscribed, with texts that scholars link to the founder of the state of Qi, and the museum tells the story of the site and its finds. It suits visitors interested in the early history of Qi."},{"id":"linzi-china-ancient-cart-museum","name":"China Ancient Cart Museum","name_zh":"中国古车博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gǔchē Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.8364,"lon":118.3813,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linzi-china-ancient-cart-museum/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"This museum on the east bank of the Zi River stands on the Neolithic Houli site, where a pit of buried Spring and Autumn period chariots and horses was uncovered in 1990 during construction of the Jinan–Qingdao expressway. The pit hall lies under the expressway's bridge approach and shows the remains where they were found, while a separate gallery displays 19 reconstructed vehicles from the Shang dynasty to the Qing and nearly a hundred models. It suits visitors interested in early Chinese transport or the archaeology of the Qi state."},{"id":"zichuan-german-japanese-mining-buildings","name":"German and Japanese Buildings of the Zibo Mining Group","name_zh":"淄博矿业集团德日建筑群","pinyin":"Zībó Kuàngyè Jítuán Dé-Rì Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.6301,"lon":117.9878,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zichuan-german-japanese-mining-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A group of German- and Japanese-style stone and brick buildings in Hongshan, Zichuan, built from 1904, when German interests opened the Zichuan coal mine, and extended after Japan took over the mine in 1914. A Zichuan government account counts about 18 buildings, among them offices, residences, a watchtower, a bell tower and a reinforced-concrete Shinto shrine of 1917. They are listed as a national modern-historical site and are of interest mainly for the industrial history of Shandong's coal mining."},{"id":"gaoqing-guojing-liquor-culture-park","name":"Guojing Liquor Culture Expo Park","name_zh":"国井酒文化博览园","pinyin":"Guójǐng Jiǔ Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":37.1845,"lon":117.8574,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoqing-guojing-liquor-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A visitor park built around the Guojing liquor distillery on the north-eastern edge of Gaoqing town. It takes in the old Bandaojing well site, an underground store of aged baijiu, a winery museum and a traditional brewing workshop, and visitors can see parts of the modern production line. It is aimed at those curious about how Chinese grain spirit is made."},{"id":"boshan-hongye-shiyan","name":"Hongye Shiyan Scenic Area, Boshan","name_zh":"红叶柿岩","pinyin":"Hóngyè Shìyán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.4909,"lon":117.8093,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boshan-hongye-shiyan","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A canyon park close to Boshan, with about 95 per cent forest cover, a stone-built Ming–Qing village, a red-leaf forest that colours in autumn and a pool called Wucai Tan. Visitor additions include a suspended walkway, a glass-bottomed water slide about 2 km long, a lit 'time tunnel' and a replica of part of the Qi Great Wall. It is a leisure destination with modern attractions and is best known for its autumn colour."},{"id":"zichuan-huicun-ancient-tower","name":"Huicun Ancient Tower","name_zh":"洄村古楼","pinyin":"Huícūn Gǔlóu","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.5934,"lon":117.9201,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zichuan-huicun-ancient-tower","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A courtyard complex of stone-based towers in Huicun village, Kunlun town: a four-storey main tower about 20 m high in the north, two two-storey pavilions about 15 m high on either side and a single-storey hall to the south, built of local stone and grey brick. The national heritage list dates it to the Ming dynasty, while a local account attributes it to Sun Tingquan (1613–74), an official from Boshan. It was protected as a provincial monument in 2013 and as a national heritage unit in 2019."},{"id":"boshan-kaiyuan-cave","name":"Kaiyuan Cave, Boshan","name_zh":"开元溶洞","pinyin":"Kāiyuán Róngdòng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.4059,"lon":118.0344,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boshan-kaiyuan-cave","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A karst cave in the hills of Yuanquan town, south-east of Boshan, named after Tang-dynasty Kaiyuan-era inscriptions cut into its rock. The main passage is about 745 m long and up to 30 m wide and high, with stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone curtains and other formations. It is promoted as one of the finest caves in Shandong."},{"id":"linzi-dongzhou-horse-pit","name":"Linzi Tombs (Eastern Zhou Horse Pit)","name_zh":"临淄墓群（东周殉马坑）","pinyin":"Línzī Mùqún (Dōngzhōu Xùnmǎkēng)","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.8867,"lon":118.37,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzi-dongzhou-horse-pit","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The Linzi tombs are more than 150 aristocratic burials from the Zhou to Han dynasties scattered around the Qi capital, many of them marked by earth mounds. The part most easily visited is the Eastern Zhou horse pit at Heyatou village, now the Duke Jing of Qi horse-pit hall, where more than 600 sacrificed horses lie in a pit about 215 m long that runs round three sides of the main tomb attributed to Duke Jing of Qi (reigned 547–490 BC)."},{"id":"huantai-mati-lake-wetland-park","name":"Mati Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"马踏湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Mǎtà Hú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":37.0773,"lon":118.0643,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huantai-mati-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A wetland park of reed beds, canals and lotus ponds on a low plain in Qifeng town, north-eastern Huantai, with about 10 sq km of core wetland. Visitors get around by small boat; the park also has a wetland museum with a 5D cinema and a shrine to five sages, and the lake is known for its lotus in summer. Local festivals include a water-wedding and lantern festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month."},{"id":"zichuan-pu-songling-liaozhai-city","name":"Pu Songling Former Residence and Liaozhai City","name_zh":"蒲松龄故居·聊斋城","pinyin":"Pú Sōnglíng Gùjū · Liáozhāi Chéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.6307,"lon":118.003,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zichuan-pu-songling-liaozhai-city/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"Pu Songling (1640–1715), author of the ghost and fox tales 'Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio', was born and lived in Pujiazhuang, now part of Zichuan. The museum there keeps his rebuilt family home, the Liuquan spring where tradition has him gathering stories from passers-by, his family cemetery, and exhibition rooms of manuscripts, editions and portraits. It is part of Liaozhai City, a modern themed garden of pavilions, a rebuilt temple and displays based on his stories."},{"id":"linzi-qi-culture-museum","name":"Qi Culture Museum, Linzi","name_zh":"齐文化博物院","pinyin":"Qí Wénhuà Bówùyuàn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.813,"lon":118.3588,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzi-qi-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large museum complex in Linzi, developed from the earlier Qi State History Museum, that tells the story of the state of Qi, whose capital stood here for centuries. Its galleries run from the pre-Qi cultures through the Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods to the Jixia Academy and the Han, with a stone-carving hall and an animal-shaped bronze zun among the showpieces. A separate football museum covers cuju, the ancient ball game that Linzi promotes as the origin of football."},{"id":"zichuan-qishan-scenic-area","name":"Qishan Scenic Area, Zichuan","name_zh":"齐山","pinyin":"Qíshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.5144,"lon":118.194,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zichuan-qishan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 36 sq km south of Taihe town, billed as themed on Qi culture, with a 7.5 km walking route past a waterfall, a cliff-top spot called Tangsanzhai, an old plank road and a cave called Qimen Cave. Its own account mentions traces of the Qi Great Wall and army camps, and later ties to the Ming rebel Tang Sai'er and to the Anti-Japanese War. Rafting, a slide and a children's play area have been added, and the highest point is about 868 m."},{"id":"gaoqing-swan-lake-slow-city","name":"Swan Lake Slow City, Gaoqing","name_zh":"天鹅湖国际慢城","pinyin":"Tiān'é Hú Guójì Mànchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":37.232,"lon":117.8933,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoqing-swan-lake-slow-city","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A leisure area of lakes, reed wetland and farmland beside the Yellow River in northern Gaoqing, admitted to the international Cittaslow ('slow city') network in 2019. Facilities include lakeside walkways, bird-watching platforms, a hot-spring district and themed attractions drawing on local legend and history. It is built mainly for weekend leisure and countryside stays rather than heritage."},{"id":"zichuan-tanxishan","name":"Tanxishan Scenic Area, Zichuan","name_zh":"潭溪山","pinyin":"Tánxīshān","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.4977,"lon":118.2002,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zichuan-tanxishan","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A mountain resort on the Zibo–Qingzhou border, in the Ezhuang area of Taihe town, with about nine sq km open to visitors, more than a hundred natural sights and a highest peak of 867 m. Local accounts link the hill to a Ming prince who studied in a cave and to the rebel Tang Sai'er, with an old command platform, a temple and ancient steles. The resort, which marked its 16th anniversary in 2026, also has a glass bridge, a glass-bottomed rafting course and a cliff swing."},{"id":"huantai-wang-yuyang-hometown","name":"Wang Yuyang's Hometown, Huantai","name_zh":"王渔洋故里","pinyin":"Wáng Yúyáng Gùlǐ","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.9499,"lon":117.935,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huantai-wang-yuyang-hometown","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"The hometown of Wang Yuyang (Wang Shizhen, 1634–1711), a Qing-dynasty poet who rose to be Minister of Justice, in the old town of Xincheng, Huantai. The scenic area centres on his family residence of restored Ming–Qing courtyards, and also takes in the Zhongqin Shrine, now a memorial hall with exhibition rooms and a garden of carved stones, and the 1619 brick memorial arch known as Sishi Gongbao. The residence and the arch are both national heritage units."},{"id":"gaoqing-qingcheng-wenchang-pavilion","name":"Wenchang Pavilion, Qingcheng","name_zh":"青城文昌阁","pinyin":"Qīngchéng Wénchāngé","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":37.1853,"lon":117.6917,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoqing-qingcheng-wenchang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A three-storey Qing-dynasty pavilion, also called Kuixing Lou, standing at a crossroads in the old county town of Qingcheng, Gaoqing. It is about 20 m tall and rises from a 7 m brick-and-stone base pierced by a cross-shaped archway through which the two main streets pass, with green-glazed tiles and bells hanging from its eaves. Built between 1736 and 1756 and repaired in 1841, it became a martyrs' shrine in 1946."},{"id":"linzi-xitian-temple-buddha","name":"Xitian Temple Buddha, Linzi","name_zh":"西天寺造像","pinyin":"Xītiān Sì Zàoxiàng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.8561,"lon":118.337,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzi-xitian-temple-buddha","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A Northern Wei stone Buddha about 5.6 m tall, the national heritage unit known as the Xitian Temple statue, which stands north of Xiguan village in Qidu town, Linzi, and which the district government describes as the largest and most complete movable single-stone Buddha in east China. The temple that first housed it was, according to tradition, founded under the Later Zhao ruler Shi Hu, destroyed in the Yuan period and rebuilt in the Ming. The figure has a full face and a topknot of curled hair, wears a full robe and stands on a lotus base."},{"id":"boshan-yan-wenjiang-temple","name":"Yan Wenjiang Temple","name_zh":"颜文姜祠","pinyin":"Yán Wénjiāng Cí","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.4817,"lon":117.8497,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boshan-yan-wenjiang-temple","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A temple complex at the foot of Phoenix Mountain in Boshan, dedicated to Yan Wenjiang, a legendary filial daughter-in-law who, in the story, fetched spring water from afar for her husband's parents. It has a Yuan-dynasty main hall among its three courtyards and a square spring pool at the traditional source of the Xiaofu River. The temple is the focus of an annual folk procession at the end of the fifth and sixth lunar months."},{"id":"yiyuan-rong-cave-group","name":"Yiyuan Rong Cave Group","name_zh":"沂源溶洞群","pinyin":"Yíyuán Róngdòng Qún","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.2674,"lon":118.0661,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiyuan-rong-cave-group/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A cluster of Ordovician limestone caves on the southern slope of Lushan, in Nanlushan town north-west of Yiyuan, several of which are open to visitors. The best known, Jiutian Cave, runs for about 518 m through nine halls and is noted for its unusually varied crystal deposits, especially its 'stone flowers'. Nearby Qianren (Thousand-Men) Cave yielded Palaeolithic remains in 1965 and was used by the Eighth Route Army as an arsenal in 1938–39."},{"id":"boshan-yuanshan-forest-park","name":"Yuanshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"原山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Yuánshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.4808,"lon":117.8304,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boshan-yuanshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A hilly forest park of about 1,700 hectares on the south-western edge of Boshan, approved as a national forest park in 1992. Walking routes pass the Song-dynasty Yuhuang Palace, Ming and Qing temple buildings in the woods, a field of karst boulders known as the 'stone sea' and a stretch of the Warring States Qi Great Wall. It suits an easy half-day walk from Boshan town."},{"id":"zhoucun-ancient-commercial-city","name":"Zhoucun Ancient Commercial City","name_zh":"周村古商城","pinyin":"Zhōucūn Gǔ Shāngchéng","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.7979,"lon":117.8353,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhoucun-ancient-commercial-city/","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A preserved merchant quarter in Zhoucun District, built around Dajie (Main Street) and the silk-market and silver-market streets, with more than 50,000 sq m of Ming and Qing buildings in a 60-hectare area. Zhoucun grew into an inland trading hub and was opened as a commercial port in 1904. Today the quarter has shops, old workshops and small museums on silk, printing, tobacco and early banking, plus temple compounds and the local shaobing flatbread."},{"id":"zibo-ceramics-glass-museum","name":"Zibo Ceramics and Glass Museum","name_zh":"淄博陶瓷琉璃博物馆","pinyin":"Zībó Táocí Liúlí Bówùguǎn","region_id":"370000","region":"Shandong","city":"Zibo","lat":36.8273,"lon":117.9809,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zibo-ceramics-glass-museum","verified":"2026-10-23","summary":"A large city museum in Zibo's cultural centre devoted to the ceramics and coloured glass (liuli) for which the city is known. Its five floors trace pottery from the Houli culture some 10,000 years ago to the Qing and Republican periods, glassware from the Western Zhou onwards, and modern work by master ceramicists and glass artists from China and abroad, with hands-on workshops. It makes a useful introduction to Zibo's craft traditions before visiting Boshan."},{"id":"anyang-cao-cao-mausoleum","name":"Cao Cao Mausoleum","name_zh":"曹操高陵","pinyin":"Cáo Cāo Gāolíng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.2427,"lon":114.2603,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-cao-cao-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Cao Cao (155–220), the statesman, general and poet of the late Eastern Han, at Xigaoxue village, excavated from 2008 and confirmed by archaeologists in 2009. The Cao Cao Gaoling Ruins Museum, opened in April 2023, is a hall built over the whole site: it covers the brick tomb with its sloping entrance passage, front and rear chambers and four side rooms, together with the remains of the spirit road, the enclosure walls, ditches and buildings in front of the tomb. Its exhibition of 488 objects includes stone tablets naming 'King Wu of Wei', Cao Cao's title, and twelve pottery ding vessels of the kind reserved for an emperor."},{"id":"linzhou-ancient-chestnut-park","name":"Chinese Ancient Chestnut Park","name_zh":"中华古板栗园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Gǔ Bǎnlì Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.0656,"lon":113.7381,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzhou-ancient-chestnut-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park at the eastern foot of the Linlü Mountains, west of Sangyuan village in Huanghua town, laid out around a grove of old Chinese chestnut trees. The city government counts more than 3,000 old chestnut trees here, some 1,300 of them over 600 years old, set among hills and village scenery."},{"id":"huaxian-daokou-ancient-town","name":"Daokou Ancient Town","name_zh":"道口古镇","pinyin":"Dàokǒu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.5832,"lon":114.5072,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaxian-daokou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An old canal town on the Wei River, the Hua County stretch of the Grand Canal, which grew up in the Sui and Tang era of grain shipping. Along the canal the Shunhe streets and Yimian Street run for about 3 km, lined with more than 1,000 rooms of old shops and houses, mostly two-storey hard-gable buildings with grey tile roofs, a large group of Ming and Qing northern townhouses. The town is also the home of Daokou braised chicken (shaoji)."},{"id":"neihuang-daxing-temple-pagoda","name":"Daxing Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"大兴寺塔","pinyin":"Dàxīng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.9165,"lon":114.7239,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neihuang-daxing-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A solid Song-dynasty brick pagoda of seven close-set storeys on an octagonal plan, more than 20 m high, standing alone on the site of Daxing Temple north-west of Peicun village and so locally called the Peicun Pagoda. Corbelled brick eaves rest on brick brackets and lotus petals imitating timber work, and a single arched opening pierces the fourth storey on the south side."},{"id":"anyang-gaoge-temple","name":"Gaoge Temple","name_zh":"高阁寺","pinyin":"Gāogé Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.0966,"lon":114.3516,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-gaoge-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Despite its name not a monastery but a pavilion that survives from the Ming Prince of Zhao's palace in Anyang's old town, rebuilt in 1470 and originally called the Dashi Pavilion. The pavilion, with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof of green glazed tiles, rises more than 20 m on a brick platform about 8 m high, reached by 32 stone steps between stone balustrades with carved lions and dragons; it was restored in 2023."},{"id":"anyang-hanwang-temple-zhoujin-hall","name":"Han Wang Temple and Zhoujin Hall","name_zh":"韩王庙与昼锦堂","pinyin":"Hánwáng Miào yǔ Zhòujǐn Táng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.0916,"lon":114.3542,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyang-hanwang-temple-zhoujin-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial temple to Han Qi, chief minister under three Northern Song emperors, and the Zhoujin Hall he built while governing Xiangzhou, standing side by side in the south-east of Anyang's old town. The temple was rebuilt in 1298 and keeps its main hall and side rooms, while the hall, moved beside it in 1498, keeps its gates, side rooms and a book tower. The temple holds more than twenty stelae, among them the 'Record of the Zhoujin Hall', composed by Ouyang Xiu and written by the calligrapher Cai Xiang."},{"id":"linzhou-honggu-temple-qianfodong","name":"Honggu Temple Pagoda and Qianfodong Grottoes","name_zh":"洪谷寺塔与千佛洞石窟","pinyin":"Hónggǔ Sì Tǎ yǔ Qiānfó Dòng Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.008,"lon":113.7022,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzhou-honggu-temple-qianfodong","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Remains of Honggu Temple on Honggu Mountain in the Linlü range south-west of Linzhou: a pagoda and the Qianfodong (Thousand Buddha Cave), whose carved Buddhas and engraved sutras include dated inscriptions of the early Tang. The mountain is traditionally associated with the landscape painter Jing Hao, whose art name was Hongguzi, 'Master of Honggu'."},{"id":"anyang-lingquan-temple-grottoes","name":"Lingquan Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"灵泉寺石窟","pinyin":"Língquán Sì Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.0422,"lon":114.0731,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-lingquan-temple-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Cliff carvings around Lingquan Temple, founded in 546 as Baoshan Temple, where the slopes of Baoshan and Lanfeng hills hold more than 200 niches and relief stupas from the Eastern Wei to the Song, many of them memorials to monks and nuns, so that the valley is known as the Ten-Thousand-Buddha Gully. The highlight is the Dazhusheng Cave of 589, guarded by two carved divine kings at its door, with Buddhas on three walls and figures of 24 patriarchs of the Dharma transmission. The temple buildings are modern reconstructions."},{"id":"anyang-ma-family-manor","name":"Ma Family Manor","name_zh":"马氏庄园","pinyin":"Mǎshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.1514,"lon":114.1455,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-ma-family-manor/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The well-preserved mansion compound of Ma Piyao, a late-Qing governor of Guangxi and Guangdong, built from the Guangxu reign into the early Republic in Xijiang village, its courtyards covering more than 20,000 m². In May and June 1947 Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping made it the headquarters of the Shanxi–Hebei–Shandong–Henan Field Army and held the meetings here that launched the Southwest Shandong campaign; rooms in the west court display maps, lamps and other objects from that time."},{"id":"huaxian-mingfu-temple-pagoda","name":"Mingfu Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"明福寺塔","pinyin":"Míngfú Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.5539,"lon":114.5486,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaxian-mingfu-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda, about 40 m tall, in the Hua County seat and the only survivor of Mingfu Temple. It is listed as a Song-dynasty building; after lightning damage it was repaired in 1929 and rebuilt to seven storeys."},{"id":"anyang-museum-of-chinese-writing","name":"National Museum of Chinese Writing","name_zh":"中国文字博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Wénzì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.1139,"lon":114.3877,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-museum-of-chinese-writing/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national museum devoted to writing, opened in 2009 in Anyang, the city where the Shang oracle bones were found. Its main building takes the shape of an ancient character for 'city wall' and is decorated with Shang-style bronze motifs. The permanent exhibition traces the origin and evolution of Chinese characters against the world's writing systems and the scripts of China's minority peoples, with a gallery on the discovery and study of the oracle bones."},{"id":"linzhou-red-flag-canal","name":"Red Flag Canal","name_zh":"红旗渠","pinyin":"Hóngqí Qú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.2317,"lon":113.8091,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linzhou-red-flag-canal/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An irrigation canal cut along the cliffs of the Taihang Mountains by the people of Lin County (now Linzhou) between 1960 and 1969 to bring water from the Zhang River; the trunk canal is 70.6 km long and the whole network of branches about 1,500 km. The work cut 211 tunnels and built 151 aqueducts, and official reports put the death toll at 81. Visitors walk cliff-side stretches of the channel and see the Red Flag Canal Memorial Hall at Fenshuiling, where the trunk canal divides into three main branches; the hall, reopened in its present form in 2014, tells the story of the construction with about 320 photographs and more than 1,100 objects."},{"id":"neihuang-sanyangzhuang-han-site","name":"Sanyangzhuang","name_zh":"三杨庄遗址","pinyin":"Sānyángzhuāng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.7308,"lon":114.7621,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neihuang-sanyangzhuang-han-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Han-dynasty farming village buried by a Yellow River flood about 2,000 years ago and found in 2003 while a Yellow River diversion channel was being dug at Sanyangzhuang. In a surveyed area of about 1 km², archaeologists have found more than ten farmstead courtyards with roads, ponds and fields and excavated four of them over 9,000 m², a rare intact picture of country life in the late Western and early Eastern Han. The Anyang government lists the Sanyangzhuang Han Site Museum here among the city's sights."},{"id":"linzhou-taihang-grand-canyon","name":"Taihang Grand Canyon","name_zh":"太行大峡谷","pinyin":"Tàiháng Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.1721,"lon":113.7036,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzhou-taihang-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national geopark of sheer cliffs, terraced fields and gorges on the eastern escarpment of the Taihang Mountains west of Linzhou, covering 89 km² and stretching about 50 km from north to south, with peaks up to 1,739 m and more than 1,000 m of relief. Its main areas are the Peach Blossom Valley (Taohuagu) with its pools and waterfalls, the Taihang Tianlu cliff-top road, the Wangxiangyan cliffs and the Xianxia Valley, and activities include river rafting and a zip line."},{"id":"tangyin-tanghe-wetland-park","name":"Tanghe National Wetland Park","name_zh":"汤河国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Tānghé Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.9011,"lon":114.2827,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangyin-tanghe-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Anyang's first national wetland park, along the Tang River west of Tangyin, with open water, wetlands and riverside paths. It lies on the central route of birds migrating through China and in winter draws flocks of waterfowl such as spot-billed ducks, teals and falcated ducks."},{"id":"tangyin-dream-valley","name":"Tangyin Dream Valley","name_zh":"汤阴梦幻谷","pinyin":"Tāngyīn Mènghuàn Gǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.9611,"lon":114.3967,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangyin-dream-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An amusement park in Tangyin's Antang new town, between Tangyin and Anyang, built around modern rides. According to the city government it has nearly 30 large and medium rides, including a Ferris wheel, and more than 50 family attractions such as rainbow slides and a glass-floored bridge, so it suits families with children."},{"id":"linzhou-yangtai-temple-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Stone Pagodas of Yangtai Temple","name_zh":"阳台寺双石塔","pinyin":"Yángtái Sì Shuāng Shítǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.7991,"lon":113.8996,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzhou-yangtai-temple-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A pair of square stone pagodas with close-set eaves, built in 750 under the Tang, standing side by side at the site of Yangtai Temple on the north bank of the Qi River. The better-preserved west pagoda, about 3 m tall with seven tiers, is carved with Buddhas in niches, guardians, musicians, flying apsaras and dragons and bears the donor's dated inscription; the temple's other buildings are modern."},{"id":"linzhou-wanquan-lake","name":"Wanquan Lake","name_zh":"万泉湖","pinyin":"Wànquán Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.8471,"lon":113.9213,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linzhou-wanquan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A spring-fed lake and wetland in southern Linzhou where the Qi and Xi rivers meet, named for the many springs that feed it. Paths, plank walkways over the water, bridges and pavilions link its sights, which include the old Shimen Temple and named rock formations."},{"id":"anyang-wenfeng-pagoda","name":"Wenfeng Pagoda in Anyang","name_zh":"文峰塔","pinyin":"Wénfēng Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.098,"lon":114.3435,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-wenfeng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The landmark of Anyang's old town, the brick pagoda of Tianning Temple, first built in 952 under the Later Zhou and 38.65 m tall, whose five storeys widen as they rise to give it an umbrella-like outline. Brick reliefs of Buddhist scenes and columns wrapped by coiled dragons ring the base, and the top carries a Tibetan-style finial added under the Qing; the temple's gate and main halls around it were partly rebuilt in 2001."},{"id":"neihuang-xiangyu-industrial-tour","name":"Xiangyu Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"翔宇工业旅游景区","pinyin":"Xiángyǔ Gōngyè Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.9581,"lon":114.8757,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neihuang-xiangyu-industrial-tour","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A factory tour at the Anyang Rehabilitation Science City, run by a maker of rehabilitation and physiotherapy equipment and rated 4A in December 2025. Visitors ride sightseeing carts through the production halls, where welding robots and laser cutters turn out some 600 kinds of rehabilitation products, and visit a rehabilitation medicine museum of nearly 6,000 m², a children's rehabilitation experience centre, a museum on mugwort and a traditional Chinese medicine wellness centre. It suits visitors interested in industry and health care rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"anyang-xiaonanhai-grottoes","name":"Xiaonanhai Grottoes","name_zh":"小南海石窟","pinyin":"Xiǎonánhǎi Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.0392,"lon":114.1064,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-xiaonanhai-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Three small Buddhist caves cut into the limestone cliff of Guigai Hill above the Xiaonanhai spring in the Northern Qi Tianbao era (550s). The middle cave, sponsored by the eminent monk Sengchou, is the richest, with carved Buddhas and long engraved sutra texts; the east cave was moved beside it in 1999, and the group is close in style to the Xiangtangshan caves in Hebei."},{"id":"anyang-xingyang-temple-pagoda","name":"Xingyang Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"兴阳禅寺塔","pinyin":"Xīngyáng Chánsì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.0268,"lon":114.0451,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyang-xingyang-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Song-dynasty octagonal brick pagoda of seven close-set storeys, the only survivor of Xingyang Temple, founded under the Tang, at Lijiazhuang village south-west of Anyang. Brick brackets imitating timber carry each eave, and the ground-floor chamber, entered from the south, holds the stone Buddha that gives the tower its local name, the Zhangba (Eighteen-Foot) Buddha Pagoda."},{"id":"anyang-xiuding-temple-pagoda","name":"Xiuding Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"修定寺塔","pinyin":"Xiūdìng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.1958,"lon":113.9984,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyang-xiuding-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The only survivor of Xiuding Temple, founded in 494, a single-storey square pagoda of the Tang dynasty at the foot of Qingliang Mountain. Its walls are faced entirely with 3,775 relief bricks in more than 70 designs, showing curtains and tassels, guardian kings, dancers, flying figures, elephants, horses and lions, a cladding regarded as unique in China."},{"id":"anyang-yonghe-bridge","name":"Yonghe Bridge","name_zh":"永和桥","pinyin":"Yǒnghé Qiáo","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.1002,"lon":114.566,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyang-yonghe-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-arch bluestone bridge, 39.5 m long, over the old course of the Huan River at Yonghe Ji village east of Anyang, whose lower structure dates from the Song and Jin and whose deck was relaid under the Ming. Dragon heads in high relief project from the piers, the arch stones are carved with clouds and dragons, heavenly horses, sea lions, oxen and sheep, and the balustrades carry historical scenes and flowers, with lions and peaches on the posts."},{"id":"tangyin-youli-city","name":"Youli City","name_zh":"羑里城","pinyin":"Yǒulǐ Chéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.9553,"lon":114.3493,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tangyin-youli-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site north of Tangyin held by tradition to be Youli, where the last Shang king imprisoned Ji Chang, later King Wen of Zhou, who is said to have worked out the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes (Yijing) here. Excavation has found deposits from the Longshan culture to the Shang and Zhou, and the site keeps Ming buildings including the Yanyi archway, the ceremonial gate, the main gate and the second hall. It holds Yijing-themed festivals and ceremonies honouring King Wen."},{"id":"anyang-yuanlin-yuan-shikai-tomb","name":"Yuanlin (Tomb of Yuan Shikai)","name_zh":"袁林","pinyin":"Yuán Lín","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.1258,"lon":114.3482,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anyang-yuanlin-yuan-shikai-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Yuan Shikai (1859–1916), the first president of the Republic of China, who tried to make himself emperor in 1915–16, built in 1916–1918 on the north bank of the Huan River. Its long axis copies the layout of Ming and Qing imperial tombs on a slightly lesser scale but mixes in Western elements: a large brick screen wall, stone bridges, a memorial archway of reinforced concrete, stone officials and animals in the dress of the time, a stele pavilion, the Jingren Hall and the tomb behind iron gates. It reopened in 2021 after its first major restoration in a century."},{"id":"tangyin-yue-fei-temple","name":"Yue Fei Temple, Tangyin","name_zh":"汤阴岳飞庙","pinyin":"Tāngyīn Yuè Fēi Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":35.9201,"lon":114.3485,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangyin-yue-fei-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial temple in the home county of Yue Fei (1103–1142), the Song general who fought the Jurchen Jin and was put to death under a frame-up, rebuilt on this site in 1450 under the Ming and extended under the Qing. Behind the Jingzhong archway stand the gate, the imperial stele pavilion, the main hall and shrines including one showing his mother tattooing loyalty on his back and others to his sons, with walls set with inscribed stelae, among them copies of his own calligraphy. An eastern extension opened in 2014 adds museum displays on his life."},{"id":"anyang-zhangde-city-god-temple","name":"Zhangde Prefecture City God Temple","name_zh":"彰德府城隍庙","pinyin":"Zhāngdé Fǔ Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Anyang","lat":36.0962,"lon":114.3491,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyang-zhangde-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The city god temple of the old Zhangde prefecture in Anyang's walled town, restored in 1369 and again in 1454 under the Ming, with five courtyards and six main halls on its axis. Restored from 1982 and now used as a museum of local folk art and customs, it gained a north gate onto the old-town streets in 2021."},{"id":"heshan-adouzhai","name":"Adouzhai","name_zh":"阿斗寨","pinyin":"Ādǒu Zhài","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":36.0438,"lon":114.1668,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heshan-adouzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cypress-covered hill where, according to local legend, Liu Shan (A Dou), the last ruler of Shu Han and the man behind the saying 'too happy to think of Shu', was secretly held after his surrender to Wei. Remains of an old stockade wall, a grove of ancient cypresses, a tomb attributed to Liu Shan and the clear Jinxian River below make it a quiet walk, with flower gardens in the village at its foot."},{"id":"xun-county-bixia-palace","name":"Bixia Palace, Xun County","name_zh":"碧霞宫","pinyin":"Bìxiá Gōng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.6601,"lon":114.539,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xun-county-bixia-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple complex on top of Fuqiu Hill at the south end of Xun County's old town, founded in 1542 for the goddess Bixia Yuanjun and enlarged through the Ming, Qing and Republican periods. Past the gate, opera stage and lotus pool, the main hall has carved eaves and paintings of the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, and a triple-eaved sleeping hall closes the rear court, where a Tang stone pagoda and sutra pillar now stand. It is the focus of Xun County's large first-lunar-month temple fair, a national intangible heritage item."},{"id":"qi-county-chaoyang-mountain","name":"Chaoyang Mountain","name_zh":"朝阳山","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.6526,"lon":114.1261,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qi-county-chaoyang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain area just west of Qi County town, best known for Chaoyang Temple, a 'hanging temple' built against the rock face, and an Eastern Wei cave carved with rows of small Buddha figures. Local tradition makes the mountain a winter retreat of the Shang king Di Xin and a place visited by Confucius, and a hill-climbing festival is held here every year."},{"id":"xun-county-dapi-mountain","name":"Dapi Mountain","name_zh":"大伾山","pinyin":"Dàpī Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.6625,"lon":114.5544,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xun-county-dapi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small hill on the eastern edge of Xun County town whose Tianning Temple shelters the Great Stone Buddha, a colossal seated Maitreya carved from the cliff, begun by most accounts in the Northern Qi and finished in the early Tang, inside a pavilion rebuilt in 1445. The hill holds hundreds of carvings and inscriptions, among them Northern Wei stone beasts, a Tang inscription in praise of the hill, a poem by the Ming philosopher Wang Yangming and calligraphy by Wang Duo. The national listing also covers the Thousand Buddha Cave on Fuqiu Hill in the old town."},{"id":"qi-county-guling-mountain","name":"Guling Mountain","name_zh":"古灵山","pinyin":"Gǔlíng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.6771,"lon":114.1173,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day–1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qi-county-guling-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taihang mountain area north-west of Qi County promoted as a setting of the Investiture of the Gods legends and a centre of the cult of the goddess Nüwa, with a Nüwa Palace temple complex, rafting on Taigong Lake, a glass suspension bridge and a cable car towards a bronze-roofed summit shrine. A procession-style outdoor show on the Investiture of the Gods is staged daily with costumed characters around the grounds, and nearby Liangshuiquan village has been turned into guesthouses."},{"id":"hebi-jinshan-qi-river-tourism-area","name":"Jinshan Qi River Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"金山淇河文化旅游区","pinyin":"Jīnshān Qíhé Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.7841,"lon":114.2094,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hebi-jinshan-qi-river-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside tourism area of about 14 km² on the Qi River in Jinshan subdistrict, Qibin district, combining the Qi River national wetland park, a Palaeogene volcanic-geology heritage park and the riverside village of Xugou, which has been developed for rural tourism with a riverbank camping ground and restaurants. It is a place for riverside walks rather than major sights, and stages costumed Book of Songs parades on holidays."},{"id":"qibin-sangyuan-town-taiji-bend","name":"Sangyuan Town and Taiji Bend","name_zh":"桑园小镇·太极图","pinyin":"Sāngyuán Xiǎozhèn · Tàijítú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.8277,"lon":114.1308,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qibin-sangyuan-town-taiji-bend","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural resort village in the Taihang hills west of Hebi, opened in 2017, with guesthouses, a forest playground, a glass walkway, an eco-trail along the Qi River and summer water rides. Nearby the Qi River doubles back on itself between wooded hills in a bend promoted as a natural taiji, or yin-yang, symbol."},{"id":"shancheng-shilin-meeting-site","name":"Shilin Meeting Site","name_zh":"石林会议旧址","pinyin":"Shílín Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.9233,"lon":114.2465,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shancheng-shilin-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village where, in June 1947, Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping held a military conference at Falong Temple while the headquarters of their Shanxi–Hebei–Shandong–Henan Field Army stayed here for 12 days during the Civil War. The temple, the courtyard used as army headquarters, the commanders' quarters and an ancient cypress have been restored with exhibitions, and in 2022 the site became Hebi's first red-tourism 4A scenic area."},{"id":"qi-county-wey-state-capital","name":"Wey State Capital Ruins","name_zh":"卫国故城","pinyin":"Wèiguó Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.6186,"lon":114.1945,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qi-county-wey-state-capital","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of Zhaoge, capital of the Zhou state of Wey and traditionally also the last capital of the Shang, which enclosed a rectangular city around today's Qi County town until it was abandoned in the Western Han. Only four broken stretches of rampart survive among streets and fields, and Wey State Capital Ruins Park in the town has been laid out around the wall remains, linked to the Meishui riverside garden; the Zhaixing Terrace and Zhaoge Old Street are close by."},{"id":"hebi-wuyan-mountain","name":"Wuyan Mountain","name_zh":"五岩山","pinyin":"Wǔyán Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.9343,"lon":114.1074,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hebi-wuyan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taihang foothill in Jijiashan township, Heshan district, named for its five valleys and five rocky peaks, which tradition makes the retreat of Sun Simiao, the Tang physician revered as the King of Medicine. Paths link spots associated with him, among them his hermitage, an alchemy site, a library pavilion, a herb store, a stone mortar and an apricot grove, making it a destination for those interested in traditional Chinese medicine as much as for walkers."},{"id":"qibin-xuantiandong-stone-pagoda","name":"Xuantiandong Stone Pagoda","name_zh":"玄天洞石塔","pinyin":"Xuántiāndòng Shítǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.8457,"lon":114.0662,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qibin-xuantiandong-stone-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A square, nine-storey pagoda built entirely of stone on the north bank of the Qi River near Panshitou Reservoir, first raised in the Yuan dynasty and rebuilt in 1512–1514. Each storey is carved with rows of small Buddha niches and with guardian figures at the corners; Jin-dynasty statues of the disciples Ananda and Kasyapa found in its crypt in 1998 are now in Hebi Museum."},{"id":"xun-county-ancient-town","name":"Xun County Ancient Town","name_zh":"浚县古城","pinyin":"Xùnxiàn Gǔchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.669,"lon":114.5418,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xun-county-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Ming walled town of Xun County, begun in 1370 on the Wei River section of the Grand Canal and now promoted as the Liyang City cultural tourism area. A surviving stretch of wall runs along the river by the Yunxi Bridge, and inside, streets radiate from the Wenzhi Pavilion to the county yamen, the Confucian Temple, a Hanlin mansion traditionally linked to the Duanmu family and round earthen granaries of the 1950s. Evening light shows, folk performances and clay-whistle crafts keep the streets busy, above all during the great temple fair in the first lunar month."},{"id":"qi-county-yunmeng-mountain","name":"Yunmeng Mountain","name_zh":"云梦山","pinyin":"Yúnmèng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.6005,"lon":114.0635,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day–1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qi-county-yunmeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taihang mountain valley west of Qi County, also called Qingyan Mountain, where tradition places the retreat of Guiguzi, the Warring States master of strategy said to have taught Sun Bin, Pang Juan, Su Qin and Zhang Yi. The valley's caves, waterfall and 'Five-li Ghost Valley' are promoted as China's first military academy, and its cliffs carry nationally listed inscriptions from the Song dynasty to the Republican era. Paths also climb to the Nantianmen gate, the Bagua City temple complex and a hilltop grassland."},{"id":"hebi-zhaoge-culture-park","name":"Zhaoge Culture Park","name_zh":"朝歌文化园","pinyin":"Zhāogē Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Hebi","lat":35.6807,"lon":114.2656,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hebi-zhaoge-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Shang-themed cultural park on the Qi River, inspired by the Lutai site that local tradition links with the Deer Terrace where Di Xin, the last Shang king, hoarded his treasure and burned himself to death. Its centrepiece is a modern five-storey Lutai Pavilion, 38 metres high, built in Shang high-terrace style, in a park of about 25 hectares with riverside paths, a small tourist train and boat rides. It is a park for strolling rather than an archaeological display."},{"id":"qinyang-yu-state-ancient-city","name":"Ancient City of the Yu State","name_zh":"邘国故城","pinyin":"Yúguó Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.1785,"lon":112.9135,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyang-yu-state-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Yu, a walled town of the Western Zhou state granted to a son of King Wu, later a Han marquisate, south-east of Yutai village north of Qinyang. The north wall and part of the east wall of its eastern enclosure still stand 2–7 m high and up to 22 m thick, with traces of a moat outside; next to it, work on a park about the Yu clan, which traces its surname to this state, began in 2020."},{"id":"qinyang-shuinanguan-mosque-arabic-stele","name":"Arabic Stele at Shuinanguan Mosque","name_zh":"水南关清真寺阿文碑","pinyin":"Shuǐnánguān Qīngzhēnsì Āwén Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.1045,"lon":112.9407,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyang-shuinanguan-mosque-arabic-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A bluestone stele of the Yuan dynasty or earlier, 1.8 m tall, carved with the Islamic declaration of faith in archaic Arabic script inside a circle, with lotus and peony borders on the back; it was found more than 3 m underground when the Shuinanguan Mosque in Qinyang was rebuilt. Kept at the mosque with Ming and Qing steles recording its history, it is early evidence of Muslim settlement in the area, and in 2023 it was named on the national list of famous ancient steles."},{"id":"xiuwu-baijiayan-temple-pagoda","name":"Baijiayan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"百家岩寺塔","pinyin":"Bǎijiāyán Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.4306,"lon":113.4076,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuwu-baijiayan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick pagoda of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) that belonged to the Baijiayan temple, at Baijiayan in the Yuntai Mountain area. The level ground below the Baijiayan cliffs is said to have been one of the meeting places of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the 3rd-century poets and recluses who lived around Shanyang."},{"id":"qinyang-beida-mosque","name":"Beida Mosque","name_zh":"沁阳北大寺","pinyin":"Qìnyáng Běidà Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.095,"lon":112.9365,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qinyang-beida-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the largest and best-preserved historic mosque complexes in Henan, rebuilt in 1580 and enlarged under the Qing in Chinese palace style, facing east in three courtyards. Behind a gate hall roofed in peacock-blue tiles, a reception hall, two prayer halls and a vaulted rear chamber are joined under linked roofs crowded with more than 70 glazed ridge beasts, and over ten Ming and Qing steles survive."},{"id":"wenxian-chenjiagou","name":"Chenjiagou","name_zh":"陈家沟","pinyin":"Chénjiāgōu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":34.9428,"lon":113.1446,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxian-chenjiagou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village in Wen County where Chen Wangting created taijiquan in the late Ming, recognised by China's national martial-arts authorities in 2007 as the birthplace of the art, which UNESCO inscribed as intangible heritage in 2020. The scenic area takes in the Taijiquan Ancestral Hall, the taijiquan museum, the East Gully where the art is said to have been created, the place where Yang Luchan learned it and the Chen Zhaopi memorial garden. Taijiquan enthusiasts from around the world come to train at its many martial-arts schools."},{"id":"wenxian-cisheng-temple","name":"Cisheng Temple","name_zh":"慈胜寺","pinyin":"Císhèng Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":34.972,"lon":112.8847,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxian-cisheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple at Dawu village in the west of Wen County, first founded in the Tang, destroyed in the wars at the end of the Northern Song and rebuilt under the Yuan, from which most of its surviving buildings date. It is a rural stop for those interested in early timber architecture."},{"id":"xiuwu-dangyangyu-kiln-site","name":"Dangyangyu Kiln Site","name_zh":"当阳峪窑址","pinyin":"Dāngyángyù Yáozhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2782,"lon":113.2415,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuwu-dangyangyu-kiln-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of a large Song-period folk kiln at the southern edge of Dangyangyu village, known for its varied wares, especially white-slipped carved stoneware and marbled 'jiaotai' porcelain; examples are in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Part of the kiln remains is shown under a glass protective hall, and the village keeps the marbled-porcelain craft alive, now a national intangible heritage item, with a museum and working potteries beside the old kiln site."},{"id":"jiaozuo-dasha-river-ecological-park","name":"Dasha River Ecological Park","name_zh":"大沙河生态公园","pinyin":"Dàshā Hé Shēngtài Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.1677,"lon":113.274,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaozuo-dasha-river-ecological-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A long riverside park along the Dasha River as it runs through urban Jiaozuo, with a wide water surface that draws egrets and other wild birds, waterside paths and lawns. On the south bank, the Taihang bonsai garden, opened in 2023, is laid out as a Chinese-style garden of rockeries, a lake, pavilions and covered walkways. It suits an easy stroll rather than a full day out."},{"id":"jiaozuo-fucheng-shang-city-site","name":"Fucheng Shang City Site","name_zh":"府城遗址","pinyin":"Fǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.1955,"lon":113.1852,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaozuo-fucheng-shang-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An early Shang walled town of about 3,600 years ago, a square of roughly 300 m a side on a terrace at Fucheng village on the western side of Jiaozuo. Low rammed-earth walls 2–3 m high still stand on the west and north sides, and excavations inside found large rammed-earth palace foundations. It is for visitors with a keen interest in early Chinese archaeology; a site park has been planned."},{"id":"jiaozuo-film-and-television-city","name":"Jiaozuo Film and Television City","name_zh":"焦作影视城","pinyin":"Jiāozuò Yǐngshì Chéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2629,"lon":113.2021,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaozuo-film-and-television-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A film studio and theme park built from 1995 by the Jiaozuo government and China Central Television, with about 2.5 km² of sets in the style of Spring and Autumn, Warring States, Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms architecture. Many historical dramas were shot here; visitors walk the sets, watch staged performances and try period games such as archery and pitch-pot."},{"id":"jiaozuo-forest-zoo","name":"Jiaozuo Forest Zoo","name_zh":"焦作市森林动物园","pinyin":"Jiāozuò Shì Sēnlín Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2251,"lon":113.1857,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaozuo-forest-zoo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A zoo laid out in woodland in Jiefang district, Jiaozuo, with more than 100 species, including Siberian tigers, red pandas and meerkats. Children can feed some tame animals, and staged animal shows are held; it suits families with young children."},{"id":"wuzhi-jiaying-temple","name":"Jiaying Temple (Jiayingguan)","name_zh":"嘉应观","pinyin":"Jiāyìng Guàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.0384,"lon":113.5037,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuzhi-jiaying-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple complex founded in 1723 on the orders of the Yongzheng Emperor as the temple of the dragon kings of the Huai, Yellow and other rivers, close to the north bank of the Yellow River. About 50 Qing buildings survive in two courtyards, among them the imperial stele pavilion, the Great King Hall and the Pavilion of Yu the Great, and it once housed the Yellow River control headquarters of Fu Zuoyi and Soviet advisers. It is a good stop for anyone interested in the long history of taming the Yellow River."},{"id":"mengzhou-laojia-mogou","name":"Laojia Mogou Village","name_zh":"老家莫沟","pinyin":"Lǎojiā Mògōu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":34.9162,"lon":112.6495,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengzhou-laojia-mogou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Mogou, a village in Xiguo town ringed by gullies on three sides, which since 2015 has been renovated in place for rural tourism under the name 'Laojia Mogou' ('Old Home Mogou'). Restored cave dwellings, many now guesthouses, line the Wenshui stream, and attractions added since 2019 include a glass footbridge and a sightseeing train round the village. It suits a relaxed rural day out with local snacks."},{"id":"wuzhi-miaole-temple-pagoda","name":"Miaole Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"妙乐寺塔","pinyin":"Miàolè Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.0753,"lon":113.3206,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhi-miaole-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 13-storey square brick pagoda of the dense-eave type, 34 m tall and hollow inside, first built in the Tang and rebuilt in 955 under the Later Zhou. It stands at Dongzhang village, the temple it belonged to having long disappeared."},{"id":"wenxian-mixue-tea-drink-dream-factory","name":"Mixue Daka International Tea-Drink Dream Factory","name_zh":"蜜雪集团·大咖国际茶饮梦工厂","pinyin":"Mìxuě Jítuán Dàkā Guójì Cháyǐn Mènggōngchǎng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":34.9108,"lon":113.1384,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxian-mixue-tea-drink-dream-factory","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An industrial-tourism site at the central factory of Daka International, which supplies the Mixue Bingcheng chain of freshly made drinks, in Wen County. Visitors see exhibits on the history of milk tea and canned food, holographic and Hainan-themed halls and a fruit-cutting game, and can make their own drinks; it opened to visitors in early 2023 and is popular with school study tours. A 3 km 'sweet avenue' links it with Chenjiagou, the birthplace of taijiquan."},{"id":"wuzhi-qinglong-palace","name":"Qinglong Palace","name_zh":"青龙宫","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Gōng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.1232,"lon":113.3755,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuzhi-qinglong-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to the Azure Dragon rain god at Wanhuazhuang village on the north-western edge of Wuzhi county town, founded in the Ming and rebuilt by imperial order in 1813. Its opera stage, worship hall, Jade Emperor pavilion and rear halls keep Ming and Qing steles and plaques, and a large temple fair with rain-praying rites, a provincial intangible heritage item, is held on the second day of the second lunar month; a 9.99 m bronze dragon stands on the square in front."},{"id":"boai-qingtianhe-cliff-carvings","name":"Qingtianhe Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"青天河摩崖","pinyin":"Qīngtiān Hé Móyá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.3666,"lon":112.9921,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boai-qingtianhe-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Buddhist carvings on the riverside cliffs of the Dan River north of Bo'ai, in two groups. Deep in the gorge of the Qingtianhe scenic area are a line-engraved Guanyin with sutra text and a record of road building dated 509, under the Northern Wei. Downstream at Shifotan, about 9 km north of Bo'ai town, 59 niches of Sui and Tang Buddhas line about 60 m of cliff, and some of the lowest emerge only when the water is low."},{"id":"qinyang-sansheng-pagoda","name":"Sansheng Pagoda of Tianning Temple","name_zh":"天宁寺三圣塔","pinyin":"Tiānníng Sì Sānshèng Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.0871,"lon":112.9449,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyang-sansheng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 13-storey brick pagoda 32.76 m tall, built in 1171 under the Jin dynasty for the Tianning Temple, whose dense eaves taper in a smooth parabolic outline. The temple has gone, and the pagoda now stands in the grounds of the Qinyang Museum in the south-east of the old city."},{"id":"xiuwu-shanling-mausoleum-of-emperor-xian","name":"Shanling Mausoleum of Emperor Xian of Han","name_zh":"汉献帝禅陵","pinyin":"Hàn Xiàndì Shànlíng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.3633,"lon":113.4357,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuwu-shanling-mausoleum-of-emperor-xian/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Liu Xie, Emperor Xian, the last emperor of the Han dynasty, who abdicated in favour of Cao Pi in 220 and died in 234 as Duke of Shanyang; his empress Cao Jie, a daughter of Cao Cao, was buried with him in 260. A round earthen mound about 7 m high stands south of Guhan village, with three Qing-dynasty memorial steles and two smaller mounds nearby. It makes a short stop for those following the Three Kingdoms story."},{"id":"jiaozuo-shanyang-ancient-city","name":"Shanyang Ancient City Site","name_zh":"山阳故城","pinyin":"Shānyáng Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2473,"lon":113.2852,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiaozuo-shanyang-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Shanyang, a walled town from the Eastern Zhou to the Northern Qi whose county became the fief of the deposed Emperor Xian of Han in 220. Sections of its rammed-earth wall still rise above ground, about 1,850 m along the north side and 1,350 m along the east, round an enclosure of some 3 km² now swallowed by the eastern part of Jiaozuo. Finds from the Han tombs around it, including a jar inscribed 'Shanyang', are in the Jiaozuo Museum."},{"id":"xiuwu-shengguo-temple-pagoda","name":"Shengguo Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"胜果寺塔","pinyin":"Shèngguǒ Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2313,"lon":113.439,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuwu-shengguo-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 27 m tall in Xiuwu county town, first built in the Tang and rebuilt in 1097 under the Northern Song. Unusually for the region, its stairway runs partly inside the pagoda and partly along the outer wall between storeys, and its iron finial carries a 1617 inscription; the temple halls beside it were rebuilt in the 1990s."},{"id":"jiaozuo-tianhe-park","name":"South–North Water Diversion Tianhe Park","name_zh":"南水北调天河公园","pinyin":"Nánshuǐ Běidiào Tiānhé Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.224,"lon":113.2666,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaozuo-tianhe-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park running for about 10 km along both banks of the South–North Water Diversion central-route canal where it crosses urban Jiaozuo. Along it are the South–North Water Diversion branch of the National Gazetteer Museum, opened in 2021, which displays project records and machinery such as a tunnel-boring machine, as well as Jiaozuo's Fire God Temple and the Enzhou Post Station street. It suits a walk or bike ride and a close look at one of China's largest water-transfer schemes."},{"id":"qinyang-zhaijian-valley-taiping-temple-grottoes","name":"Taiping Temple Grottoes, Zhaijian Valley","name_zh":"窄涧谷太平寺石窟","pinyin":"Zhǎijiàngǔ Tàipíng Sì Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2058,"lon":112.7723,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyang-zhaijian-valley-taiping-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Buddhist caves and niches cut along about 160 m of limestone cliff in Zhaijian Valley, west of the main peak of Shennong Mountain, begun in the Northern Wei and added to until the Qing, though mostly Sui and Tang. The Thousand Buddha Cave is lined with small niches labelled with Buddha names, and six larger niches include a 3.4 m standing Medicine Buddha with an inscription of 861; three Buddha heads have been stolen since 1994."},{"id":"wuzhi-qianfo-pavilion","name":"Thousand Buddha Pavilion, Wuzhi","name_zh":"千佛阁","pinyin":"Qiānfó Gé","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.0993,"lon":113.3847,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhi-qianfo-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple group at the north end of South Street in Wuzhi county town, founded in 1557 under the Ming and repaired in 1856, of which the gate hall, the middle Buddha hall and the pavilion itself survive. The pavilion, about 18 m high with three tiers of green-glazed eaves, rests on load-bearing brick walls, and the three buildings are not set on a single axis."},{"id":"mengzhou-tomb-of-han-yu","name":"Tomb of Han Yu","name_zh":"韩愈墓","pinyin":"Hán Yù Mù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":34.9048,"lon":112.7115,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengzhou-tomb-of-han-yu/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Han Yu (768–824), the Tang essayist, poet and Confucian thinker counted first of the Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song, on a hillside at Hanzhuang village west of Mengzhou. A mound more than 10 m high stands behind an ancestral hall and offering hall that hold 13 steles on his life, within a memorial park with a gateway, spirit way and exhibition hall."},{"id":"qinyang-tomb-of-zhu-zaiyu","name":"Tomb of Zhu Zaiyu","name_zh":"朱载堉墓","pinyin":"Zhū Zǎiyù Mù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2018,"lon":112.9871,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinyang-tomb-of-zhu-zaiyu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Zhu Zaiyu (1536–1611), the Ming prince, mathematician and music theorist who in 1584 set out twelve-tone equal temperament by precise calculation, below Jiufeng Mountain north-east of Qinyang. A low mound about 2.5 m high stands at the end of a 126 m spirit way, beside a corridor of more than 50 m of inscriptions by modern musicologists, dancers, poets and calligraphers; fragments of his 1624 spirit-way stele are kept in the Zhu Zaiyu Memorial Hall."},{"id":"mengzhou-xianshengwang-temple","name":"Xianshengwang Temple","name_zh":"显圣王庙","pinyin":"Xiǎnshèngwáng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":34.8875,"lon":112.7493,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengzhou-xianshengwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village temple on the southern edge of Mengzhou whose three-bay main hall dates from the Yuan dynasty, with Qing-dynasty dance and opera stages in front. The temple was moved here in 1759 after Yellow River floods, and the hall keeps early timber techniques such as an interior without inner columns and differing brackets on its front and rear eaves."},{"id":"zhongzhan-xidajing-1919","name":"Xidajing 1919 Cultural Tourism Park","name_zh":"西大井1919","pinyin":"Xīdàjǐng 1919","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2378,"lon":113.1569,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongzhan-xidajing-1919","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A culture and leisure park on the site of the Wangfeng coal mine, known locally as Xidajing ('West Big Shaft'), which the British-owned Pekin Syndicate began building in 1919. The English-built pithead frame still stands beside a square on the site of the 1925 coal miners' strike, close to the former office of the Jiaozuo mining district people's committee, with a themed street and a mine archive hall nearby. It doubles as a red-education base, with exhibitions and short dramas on the history of the Jiaozuo coal miners."},{"id":"boai-xiguan-mosque","name":"Xiguan Mosque, Bo'ai","name_zh":"西关清真寺","pinyin":"Xīguān Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.1688,"lon":113.0525,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=boai-xiguan-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque in Chinese palace style in the western quarter of Bo'ai county town, enlarged in 1405, whose surviving buildings date from the Qing. Its two-storey gate tower, prayer hall and main hall are roofed in blue glazed tiles, and the brick screen wall and woodwork are carved with peonies, lotuses and chrysanthemums."},{"id":"shanyang-yaowang-temple","name":"Yaowang Temple, Jiaozuo","name_zh":"药王庙","pinyin":"Yàowáng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2773,"lon":113.297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanyang-yaowang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to Sun Simiao, the Tang physician revered as the King of Medicine, at Liguizuo village on the north-eastern edge of Jiaozuo; inscriptions record its founding in the early 12th century, and its main hall dates from the Yuan dynasty. The old hall, restored in 2021, stands among halls rebuilt in 2005–2008, and the courtyard keeps an old cypress, a well and a stele pierced with round and square holes; the temple long served the local trade in Huaiqing medicinal herbs."},{"id":"jiaozuo-yuanrong-temple","name":"Yuanrong Temple","name_zh":"圆融寺","pinyin":"Yuánróng Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.2746,"lon":113.2314,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaozuo-yuanrong-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An active Buddhist temple in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains at Dangyangyu village, Xiuwu County, just north of Jiaozuo. It is run as a scenic area rather than as a listed monument, and it lies about 1 km from the Dangyangyu kiln site, so the two can be visited together."},{"id":"xiuwu-yuntai-mountain","name":"Yuntai Mountain","name_zh":"云台山","pinyin":"Yúntái Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.4326,"lon":113.356,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiuwu-yuntai-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 190 km² scenic area of red-rock gorges, sheer cliff walls, waterfalls and pools in the southern Taihang Mountains, part of the Yuntai Mountain UNESCO Global Geopark, rising to 1,308 m at Zhuyu Peak. Besides gorges such as Red Stone Gorge it takes in the Fenglin Gorge reservoir behind a 100 m stone arch dam, the 4 km Zifang Lake and a valley of wild Taihang macaques. The same 5A listing covers Shennong Mountain in Qinyang and the Qingtianhe gorges in Bo'ai, which make further day trips."},{"id":"wenxian-yuxian-temple","name":"Yuxian Temple, Wen County","name_zh":"遇仙观","pinyin":"Yùxiān Guàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.0403,"lon":113.0802,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxian-yuxian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple of two courtyards below the Qin River dyke at Xubu village, about 12 km from Wen county town, founded under the Yuan as a river-god shrine and rebuilt in the Ming and Qing. On its axis stand the gate, the Jade Emperor Hall of 1527 and the Hall of the Three Pure Ones under green glazed tiles, flanked by smaller side shrines and a bell tower."},{"id":"jiaozuo-zhaibuchang-village","name":"Zhaibuchang Village","name_zh":"寨卜昌村","pinyin":"Zhàibǔchāng Cūn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiaozuo","lat":35.1421,"lon":113.1118,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaozuo-zhaibuchang-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fortified village of Ming and Qing courtyard houses, most built in the 18th and 19th centuries, with the Wang clan ancestral hall, about 2 km of the village wall of 1868, a moat and three stone bridges. The houses are decorated with carved brick, stone and wood, and the courtyard that served as headquarters of the Ninth Column of the Shanxi–Hebei–Shandong–Henan Field Army, founded here in 1947, holds a military history display."},{"id":"jiyuan-zhi-ancient-city","name":"Ancient City of Zhi","name_zh":"轵国故城","pinyin":"Zhǐguó Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.0401,"lon":112.6114,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiyuan-zhi-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled town of Zhi, founded in the Spring and Autumn period and later the seat of Han and Northern dynasties lords, whose rammed-earth ramparts enclose the modern town of Zhicheng south of Jiyuan. The walls, roughly 2 km on each side, survive best on the east and south, where stretches still stand 1–9 m high among the fields; Daming Temple and the Guandi Temple are in the same town."},{"id":"jiyuan-daming-temple","name":"Daming Temple, Jiyuan","name_zh":"大明寺","pinyin":"Dàmíng Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.0375,"lon":112.5951,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiyuan-daming-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple at Zhicheng, south of Jiyuan, on the site of an ancestral shrine of the Western Han lords of Zhi; it became a monastery in 1040 and was rebuilt over thirty years from 1276. Thirteen Yuan, Ming and Qing buildings stand on a three-courtyard axis, and the Yuan middle Buddha hall is one of only four Yuan wooden halls left in Henan, with an ancient tree spreading in front of it."},{"id":"jiyuan-erxian-temple","name":"Erxian Temple, Jiyuan","name_zh":"济源二仙庙","pinyin":"Jǐyuán Èrxiān Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.1045,"lon":112.7105,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiyuan-erxian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming and Qing temple at Daxu village in Lilin, north-east of Jiyuan, dedicated to Wei Huacun, a Western Jin Taoist woman venerated as the Lady of the Purple Void. Four halls, among them the Zixu Yuanjun Hall and the Jingying Hall, stand on one axis in a compound about 111 m long with a dozen old steles."},{"id":"jiyuan-fengxian-guan","name":"Fengxian Taoist Temple","name_zh":"奉仙观","pinyin":"Fèngxiān Guàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.1004,"lon":112.5736,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiyuan-fengxian-guan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple in central Jiyuan founded in 685, whose Sanqing Hall, rebuilt in 1184 under the Jin dynasty, is one of the three oldest wooden buildings in Henan. The hall is a classic example of 'reduced-column' framing, with only two of its eight interior columns kept, and its huge beams of thorn-wood root gave the temple its popular name, Jingliang Guan; a Tang stele with an image of Laozi stands in front."},{"id":"jiyuan-zhicheng-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Zhicheng","name_zh":"轵城关帝庙","pinyin":"Zhǐchéng Guāndì Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.0391,"lon":112.5982,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiyuan-zhicheng-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu, the deified Three Kingdoms general, in Zhicheng town south of Jiyuan. Its buildings date from the Jin dynasty (12th–13th century) and the Qing, and it is counted among Jiyuan's group of early wooden buildings, alongside the Jidu Temple and Daming Temple."},{"id":"jiyuan-jidu-temple","name":"Jidu Temple","name_zh":"济渎庙","pinyin":"Jǐdú Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.1088,"lon":112.5764,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiyuan-jidu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The temple of the god of the Ji, one of the four great rivers of ancient China, founded in 582 at the river's eastern spring and the largest and most complete of the temples to the Four Rivers. Twenty-three buildings from the Song to the Qing stand on three axes, including a rear hall of 973 that is the oldest wooden building in Henan, a Ming wooden archway gate and the spring-fed pools of the Beihai Shrine with a Song stone balustrade. It is the core of the Jishui Source cultural tourism area, which also takes in Longquan Lake and a peony garden."},{"id":"jiyuan-mount-wangwu","name":"Mount Wangwu","name_zh":"王屋山","pinyin":"Wángwū Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.1495,"lon":112.2685,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiyuan-mount-wangwu/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist mountain north-west of Jiyuan, ranked first of the Ten Grotto-Heavens of Taoism and the setting of the fable of the Foolish Old Man who moved the mountains. A stepped pilgrim path and a cableway climb to Tiantan Peak (1,715 m), where the Yellow Emperor is said to have sacrificed to Heaven. Near the entrance stands Yangtai Palace, built in 724–727 for the Taoist master Sima Chengzhen, whose Ming Sanqing Hall and three-storey Yuhuang Pavilion have stone columns carved with Taoist figures and stories."},{"id":"jiyuan-wulongkou","name":"Wulongkou Scenic Area","name_zh":"五龙口","pinyin":"Wǔlóngkǒu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.1547,"lon":112.6837,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiyuan-wulongkou/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The gorge where the Qin River breaks out of the Taihang Mountains north-east of Jiyuan, home to a national nature reserve for Taihang macaques and to some of China's oldest irrigation works. Water has been drawn off here since the Qin dynasty, and the Ming tunnel intakes of the Yongli and Guangji canals survive, topped by shrines with stone statues of the officials who built them. Monkeys roam the slopes, and the scenic area also has hot springs and a gallery for the landscape painter Jing Hao."},{"id":"jiyuan-xiaogoubei-yinhe-gorge","name":"Xiaogoubei–Yinhe Gorge Scenic Area","name_zh":"小沟背·银河峡","pinyin":"Xiǎogōubèi Yínhé Xiá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.2468,"lon":112.1812,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiyuan-xiaogoubei-yinhe-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested valley at Shaoyuan in the far west of Jiyuan, known for volcanic-rock scenery: a streambed full of multicoloured boulders, a long ridge said to look like a giant turtle and a cliff of pale rock shapes nicknamed 'baby cliff'. Local legend makes it the place where the goddess Nüwa melted coloured stones to mend the sky, and walkways follow the stream past pools and falls; the scenic area runs a water-splashing festival in summer and an ice-fall festival in winter."},{"id":"jiyuan-yanqing-temple-pagoda","name":"Yanqing Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"延庆寺塔","pinyin":"Yánqìng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.1102,"lon":112.5603,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiyuan-yanqing-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song brick pagoda on the north-western edge of Jiyuan, built in 1034–1036 on the site of Yanqing Temple beside the Longtan spring, the western source of the ancient Ji River. Six-sided, seven storeys and about 28 m tall, it is decorated with more than a thousand bricks carved with Buddha figures, and an internal stair winds up to the sixth storey; a Song stele inside records its building."},{"id":"jiyuan-yellow-river-three-gorges","name":"Yellow River Three Gorges","name_zh":"黄河三峡","pinyin":"Huánghé Sānxiá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Jiyuan","lat":35.0608,"lon":112.1348,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiyuan-yellow-river-three-gorges","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stretch of the Yellow River at Xiaye in south-western Jiyuan, where the reservoir upstream of the Xiaolangdi Dam fills three gorges, Gushan, Longfeng and Bali, between steep peaks. Boat trips run through the gorges, a cableway climbs to the Xuantian karst cave and Taohua Island gives views over the water, and a 6 km rafting run operates in summer."},{"id":"xiangfu-aisijia-agricultural-carnival","name":"Aisijia Agricultural Carnival","name_zh":"爱思嘉农业嘉年华","pinyin":"Àisījiā Nóngyè Jiāniánhuá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.6303,"lon":114.2115,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangfu-aisijia-agricultural-carnival","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism park in the countryside south-west of Kaifeng, built around six themed exhibition halls on modern farming. Outdoors it has a children's farm, flower fields and play areas, including an adventure playground without powered rides. It suits families with young children."},{"id":"kaifeng-hanyuan-stele-forest","name":"China Hanyuan Stele Forest","name_zh":"中国翰园碑林","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Hànyuán Bēilín","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8108,"lon":114.3386,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaifeng-hanyuan-stele-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A garden of modern stone inscriptions just west of Dragon Pavilion Park, founded in 1985 by the retired Kaifeng official Li Gongtao and built up largely with his own family's money. Long covered corridors display calligraphy, paintings and seal carving cut in stone, arranged in sections for Song-dynasty texts, emperors and statesmen, ethnic-minority scripts and international friendship, set among classical garden buildings. It appeals mainly to visitors interested in Chinese calligraphy."},{"id":"kaifeng-daxiangguo-temple","name":"Daxiangguo Temple","name_zh":"大相国寺","pinyin":"Dà Xiàngguó Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7925,"lon":114.3488,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-daxiangguo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large Buddhist temple in the centre of Kaifeng, with roots in the 6th century, refounded in 706 and renamed Daxiangguo Temple in 712, which under the Northern Song was the capital's leading monastery and a major trading market. Flooded in 1642 and rebuilt under the Qing, it keeps an octagonal Glazed Hall with a four-faced, thousand-armed Guanyin, the only image to survive when the temple was turned into a market in 1927. The temple's Buddhist music is listed as national intangible heritage, and a statue recalls the Water Margin hero Lu Zhishen uprooting a willow here."},{"id":"qixian-dayun-temple-pagoda","name":"Dayun Temple Pagoda, Qi County","name_zh":"杞县大云寺塔","pinyin":"Qǐxiàn Dàyún Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.339,"lon":114.8334,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qixian-dayun-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda of the Ming dynasty at Wagang village, south of Qi County town, the surviving landmark of the former Dayun Temple. Each storey is marked by brick eaves, and the pagoda stands on its own in a fenced enclosure. It was listed as a national monument in 2019 and is a quick stop for pagoda enthusiasts touring the countryside of eastern Henan."},{"id":"kaifeng-dongda-mosque","name":"Dongda Mosque, Kaifeng","name_zh":"开封东大寺","pinyin":"Kāifēng Dōng Dàsì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7948,"lon":114.3581,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-dongda-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The principal mosque of Kaifeng's Hui Muslim community, first of the city's 'thirteen mosques' and historically called the leading mosque of Henan. The present buildings date from a rebuilding of 1655 and a restoration of 1846, arranged in three courtyards with a screen wall, gates, side halls, a prayer hall with a rolled roof and a lecture hall, and a women's mosque stands across the street. It is an active place of worship in the old Hui quarter east of the centre."},{"id":"kaifeng-dragon-pavilion","name":"Dragon Pavilion","name_zh":"龙亭","pinyin":"Lóng Tíng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8094,"lon":114.3468,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-dragon-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing palace-style hall raised on a brick platform of 72 steps on the site of the Northern Song imperial palace in the north of Kaifeng's old city. The platform began as an artificial hill in the garden of the Ming princes of Zhou, and the hall, built in the 18th century and rebuilt to the old design in 1856, faces an avenue between Panjia and Yangjia lakes, in a park whose gates have been rebuilt since 1985. The park also marks the sites of the Song palace walls and of its Daqing Hall."},{"id":"kaifeng-liu-qingxia-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Liu Qingxia","name_zh":"刘青霞故居","pinyin":"Liú Qīngxiá Gùjū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7984,"lon":114.3556,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-liu-qingxia-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Kaifeng home of Liu Qingxia (1877–1922), a wealthy supporter of the Tongmenghui and of education, who funded revolutionaries and the Henan magazine published in Tokyo, founded Henan's first girls' school and in 1922 gave her family fortune to education. Built in 1880, the house is two parallel three-courtyard compounds with carved doorways, now a memorial museum with displays on her life and on the 1911 Revolution in Henan. The national listing also covers two of her family's courtyard houses in Weishi county town."},{"id":"kaifeng-henan-university-historic-buildings","name":"Henan University Historic Buildings","name_zh":"河南留学欧美预备学校旧址","pinyin":"Hénán Liúxué Ōu-Měi Yùbèi Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8134,"lon":114.3633,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaifeng-henan-university-historic-buildings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The early buildings of Henan University, founded in 1912 as the Henan Preparatory School for Study in Europe and America, on its old Minglun campus beside the Iron Pagoda. Some sixteen buildings of the 1910s to 1930s combine Chinese roofs and bracket sets with Western columns and detailing, among them Building No. 6 of 1919, the Boya Building of 1925 and the archway-style south gate of 1936, and the campus also keeps steles of the old Henan examination hall. The great auditorium of 1934 was gutted by fire in May 2024 during restoration works, and a repair contract was let in late 2025."},{"id":"lankao-jiao-yulu-memorial-park","name":"Jiao Yulu Memorial Park","name_zh":"焦裕禄纪念园","pinyin":"Jiāo Yùlù Jìniànyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8331,"lon":114.8159,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lankao-jiao-yulu-memorial-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park on the old Yellow River dyke at the northern edge of Lankao town for Jiao Yulu, the county's Communist Party secretary from 1962 until his death in 1964, who led local campaigns against drifting sand, waterlogging and salinised soil. It holds his white-marble tomb, where he was reburied in 1966 at his own request, a memorial hall opened in 1994 with exhibits on his life, a monument to revolutionary martyrs and a grove of paulownia trees. It is a national patriotic-education base and receives many Communist Party delegations."},{"id":"kaifeng-city-wall","name":"Kaifeng City Wall","name_zh":"开封城墙","pinyin":"Kāifēng Chéngqiáng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8015,"lon":114.3281,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-city-wall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kaifeng's Qing-dynasty city wall, rebuilt in grey brick in 1842 after a Yellow River flood, still runs for 14.4 km around the old city and is among the longest surviving city walls in China. Its circuit goes back to the Tang city of Bianzhou, rebuilt in 781, and roughly matches the inner city of the Northern Song capital. Its gate towers are modern reconstructions, the best known being the Daliang Gate on the west side, rebuilt in 1998."},{"id":"kaifeng-parachute-tower","name":"Kaifeng Parachute Tower","name_zh":"开封伞塔","pinyin":"Kāifēng Sǎntǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7561,"lon":114.3673,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaifeng-parachute-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reinforced-concrete tower about 85 m tall, built in 1955–56 to train airborne troops and sport parachutists, who were hoisted beneath open canopies and released from three cantilevered platforms near the top. It ends in a lotus-shaped crown with a star-shaped lightning rod and fell out of use as jumps from aircraft took over. Since 2021 it has been the centre of a national-defence education base with an exhibition hall and a display of military equipment."},{"id":"kaifeng-prefecture-office","name":"Kaifeng Prefecture Office (Kaifeng Fu)","name_zh":"开封府","pinyin":"Kāifēng Fǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7906,"lon":114.3411,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaifeng-prefecture-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern reconstruction of the government office of Kaifeng Prefecture, which ran the Northern Song capital and where Bao Zheng, the 'Judge Bao' of later legend, served as prefect. It was built following the Song building manual Yingzao Fashi as a large complex of halls and courtyards on the north shore of Baogong Lake. It suits visitors interested in Song government and the Judge Bao stories, and pairs with the Lord Bao Memorial Temple across the lake."},{"id":"kaifeng-lord-bao-memorial-temple","name":"Lord Bao Memorial Temple, Kaifeng","name_zh":"开封包公祠","pinyin":"Kāifēng Bāogōng Cí","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7938,"lon":114.3332,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-lord-bao-memorial-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial temple to Bao Zheng (999–1062), the Northern Song official who became China's byword for incorruptible justice as 'Judge Bao' of opera and television. Rebuilt in 1984 on the west shore of Baogong Lake on the site of a temple first raised under the Jin and Yuan, it has gates, a screen wall, a stele pavilion and halls that tell his life with a bronze statue, wax figures, models, rubbings and inscriptions. It pairs naturally with the rebuilt Kaifeng Prefecture office across the lake."},{"id":"kaifeng-po-pagoda","name":"Po Pagoda","name_zh":"繁塔","pinyin":"Pó Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7706,"lon":114.3588,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-po-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The oldest standing building in Kaifeng, a Northern Song brick pagoda begun in the 970s for Tianqing Temple on the Fan Terrace beside Yuwangtai and finished around 990 after some twenty years of work. Only three massive storeys remain below a small seven-tier pagoda added on top in the early Qing, giving it a squat, bell-like outline; its outer walls are set with dozens of kinds of moulded Buddha bricks, and sutras and donors' names are carved inside. Tradition says the upper storeys were pulled down in the early Ming, though one recent study argues the present shape is close to the original."},{"id":"zhuxian-qifeng-old-garden","name":"Qifeng Old Garden, Zhuxian","name_zh":"启封故园","pinyin":"Qǐfēng Gùyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.6279,"lon":114.267,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuxian-qifeng-old-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern scenic area in old-town style at Zhuxian, one of the four great trading towns of Qing China, with a lake, bridges, a gate tower, a teahouse and shops built in traditional style. It is a place for a stroll and for Zhuxian's woodblock New Year prints, a national intangible-heritage craft. The historic Yue Fei Temple and Zhuxian Mosque are nearby in the town."},{"id":"kaifeng-qingming-shanghe-park","name":"Qingming Shanghe Park","name_zh":"清明上河园","pinyin":"Qīngmíng Shànghé Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8099,"lon":114.3341,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaifeng-qingming-shanghe-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Song-dynasty theme park opened in 1998 on the west shore of Longting Lake, built after Zhang Zeduan's 12th-century scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival and the Song building manual Yingzao Fashi. The southern part recreates the scroll's street life around a copy of its Rainbow Bridge, with craft workshops, food stalls and costumed performances such as Kaifeng drum troupes, while the northern part is laid out as an imperial garden round a lake. It is a staged, crowd-pleasing picture of Song city life rather than a historic site."},{"id":"kaifeng-shanshangan-guild-hall","name":"Shanshangan Guild Hall","name_zh":"山陕甘会馆","pinyin":"Shān Shǎn Gān Huìguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7982,"lon":114.3474,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-shanshangan-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A guild hall built in 1776 by merchants from Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu living in Kaifeng, on the site of a Ming mansion of the descendants of the general Xu Da. It is famous for its carving in wood, stone and brick, best seen on the screen wall, the only old opera stage left in Kaifeng, a six-pillared green-tiled archway and the main hall to Guan Yu with seven tiers of wooden carving under its eaves. On the main hall's gables the merchants inscribed their mottos, 'fair trade' and 'profit through righteousness'."},{"id":"kaifeng-northern-song-dongjing-city-site","name":"Site of Dongjing, the Northern Song Capital","name_zh":"北宋东京城遗址","pinyin":"Běi Sòng Dōngjīng Chéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7912,"lon":114.3451,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-northern-song-dongjing-city-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of Dongjing, capital of the Northern Song from 960 to 1127, lie buried under modern Kaifeng beneath the silt of later Yellow River floods. In the city centre the excavated Zhouqiao bridge and Bian River site, with a Ming arch bridge on Song foundations and Northern Song stone river walls carved with sea horses, cranes and clouds, is open as a public archaeology site. The pits reach the Song river banks about 10 m below today's streets, showing how deep the old capital lies."},{"id":"kaifeng-tianbo-yang-mansion","name":"Tianbo Yang Mansion","name_zh":"天波杨府","pinyin":"Tiānbō Yáng Fǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8113,"lon":114.3416,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaifeng-tianbo-yang-mansion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Song-style complex built in the 1990s beside the lakes of the Dragon Pavilion area, recreating the mansion of the Yang family generals, whose wars against the Liao are retold in the popular Generals of the Yang Family stories. It has a mock government office with a tower and halls of sculpted scenes from the stories, a family temple, a garden and a drill ground used for costumed shows. It suits visitors who know the Yang family tales from opera or television."},{"id":"kaifeng-wansui-mountain-wuxia-city","name":"Wansui Mountain Wuxia City","name_zh":"万岁山武侠城","pinyin":"Wànsuì Shān Wǔxiá Chéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.8196,"lon":114.3396,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaifeng-wansui-mountain-wuxia-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A martial-arts-themed park on the northern edge of Kaifeng's old city, run as a scenic area since 2003 and renamed Wansui Mountain Wuxia City in December 2023. Costumed performers stage shows across its old-style streets and arenas throughout the day, and one street skit, a matchmaking scene starring the character Wang Po, went viral on Douyin in 2024 and made the park famous across China. It suits families and anyone after lively entertainment rather than history."},{"id":"weishi-xingguo-temple-pagoda","name":"Xingguo Temple Pagoda, Weishi","name_zh":"尉氏兴国寺塔","pinyin":"Wèishì Xīngguó Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.4081,"lon":114.1977,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weishi-xingguo-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hexagonal brick pagoda of eight storeys, about 30 m tall, first built in the Taiping Xingguo era of the early Northern Song as the relic pagoda of Xingguo Temple, known locally as the Dongguan (East Suburb) Pagoda. Its upper three storeys were rebuilt in 1546, and its walls inside and out hold some 410 Buddha niches, with a spiral stair round a central column. Flood silt has buried the base, so the entrance now lies slightly below ground level."},{"id":"kaifeng-yanqing-temple","name":"Yanqing Temple (Jade Emperor Pavilion)","name_zh":"延庆观","pinyin":"Yánqìng Guàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.7932,"lon":114.3404,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaifeng-yanqing-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple of the Quanzhen school founded in 1233 where its founder Wang Chongyang died in 1170, renamed Yanqing Guan in 1373 and repeatedly destroyed by floods and war. Its one old building is the Jade Emperor Pavilion, an 18 m brick tower imitating timber in Yuan style, square below with a domed, yurt-like chamber holding a bronze statue of Zhenwu, and an eight-sided pavilion on top sheltering a white-marble Jade Emperor. Sunk in a waterlogged pit after it was dug out of flood silt in 1984, the pavilion was jacked up by more than 3 m in 2010, and an exhibition hall beneath it explains the temple's history and the lifting."},{"id":"lankao-yellow-river-bend","name":"Yellow River Bend Scenic Area, Lankao","name_zh":"黄河湾风景区","pinyin":"Huánghé Wān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.9217,"lon":114.7778,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lankao-yellow-river-bend","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside scenic area at Dongbatou, where the Yellow River makes the last great bend of its course before turning north-east to the sea, and where in 1855 it burst its dyke and abandoned its old course to the south. Laid out along the levees and the Dongbatou river-training works, it has riverside walking paths, a tourist train on the old Lankao–Dongbatou railway line, an exhibition hall, a camper-van site and wetland where water birds gather. A memorial pavilion marks Mao Zedong's inspections of the river here in the 1950s, and the area is linked with Jiao Yulu's campaign against the county's drifting sand."},{"id":"zhuxian-yue-fei-temple","name":"Yue Fei Temple, Zhuxian","name_zh":"朱仙镇岳飞庙","pinyin":"Zhūxiānzhèn Yuè Fēi Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.6139,"lon":114.2585,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhuxian-yue-fei-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to the Southern Song general Yue Fei, founded in 1478 at Zhuxian, the town his army reached after defeating the Jin at Yancheng, and regarded as one of China's principal Yue Fei temples. Behind the gate are a worship pavilion facing iron kneeling figures of Qin Hui and the others blamed for his death, a main hall with a seated statue of Yue Fei, stele pavilions carved with poems attributed to him including Man Jiang Hong, and a rear hall with bronze figures of Yue Fei and his wife. The listed site also includes a temple to Guan Yu."},{"id":"zhuxian-mosque","name":"Zhuxian Mosque","name_zh":"朱仙镇清真寺","pinyin":"Zhūxiānzhèn Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Kaifeng","lat":34.607,"lon":114.2585,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhuxian-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque founded in the Ming and rebuilt in 1738, a reminder that Zhuxian's Ming and Qing trade drew Hui merchants who built several mosques in the town. Its east-facing gate stands on stone columns carved with landscapes and couplets beneath dense wood carving of dragons, phoenixes, lions and leaping carp, and the prayer hall is formed by two linked buildings under green glazed tiles. Two stele pavilions keep Qing inscriptions, one of them in Arabic dated 1805."},{"id":"yancheng-bian-temple-stele","name":"Bi'an Temple Stele","name_zh":"彼岸寺碑","pinyin":"Bǐ'àn Sì Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.5878,"lon":113.9826,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yancheng-bian-temple-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song stone pillar from the vanished Bi'an Temple, known locally as the 'Dragon Pagoda', made up of a carved image section, a panel of seal-script text and a base carried on eight openwork columns carved with coiling dragons. It stands under a pavilion on a brick platform in the grounds of a middle school on Haihe Road."},{"id":"wuyang-jiahu-liquor-culture-park","name":"Jiahu Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"贾湖酒文化园","pinyin":"Jiǎhú Jiǔ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.438,"lon":113.6186,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuyang-jiahu-liquor-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The baijiu distillery and visitor park of the Jiahu liquor company in Wuyang county town, named after the Neolithic Jiahu site in the same county, where residues of one of the earliest known fermented drinks were found. Among Huizhou-style buildings, visitors see traditional and mechanised distilling workshops, cellar pits and workshops listed as provincial industrial heritage in 2023, rows of old wooden storage vats, a temperature-controlled cellar and an old well called Wuquan."},{"id":"wuyang-jiahu-site-museum","name":"Jiahu Site and Museum","name_zh":"贾湖遗址","pinyin":"Jiǎhú Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.6182,"lon":113.6651,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuyang-jiahu-site-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Neolithic settlement of Jiahu, lived in from about 9,000 to 7,500 years ago, yielded bone flutes made from the wing bones of red-crowned cranes that can still be played, along with signs carved on tortoise shells, early rice and traces of fermented drink. The site museum, opened in 2023 beside Jiahu village, shows the flutes and other finds, and walkways in the archaeological park next to it lead through four timber shelters with displays of a soil profile, house foundations and the origins of farming."},{"id":"linying-nanjie-village","name":"Nanjie Village","name_zh":"南街村","pinyin":"Nánjiē Cūn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.806,"lon":113.9539,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linying-nanjie-village/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village on the southern edge of Linying town, widely described as China's last Maoist village, which collectivised its farming and industry in 1986; a statue of Mao Zedong flanked by portraits of Engels and Lenin stands on its main square, and images of Marx and Stalin appear around the village. Its village-run food factories, best known for instant noodles, have paid for housing and welfare, and the model has drawn both praise and scepticism in the Chinese press. It receives many domestic red-tourism visitors."},{"id":"luohe-shali-rivers-scenic-area","name":"Sha–Li Rivers Scenic Area","name_zh":"沙澧河风景区","pinyin":"Shā-Lǐ Hé Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.5791,"lon":114.054,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luohe-shali-rivers-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A belt of riverside parks along both banks of the Sha and Li rivers through central Luohe, centred on their confluence and built from 2007 on top of the city's flood-control works. Paths link themed gardens, beaches and promenades with rubber dams, sluices and historic spots such as an iron ox cast to guard the river, an old ferry landing and a Guanyin pavilion, and the rivers have hosted dragon-boat races."},{"id":"luohe-shenzhou-bird-park","name":"Shenzhou Bird Park","name_zh":"神州鸟园","pinyin":"Shénzhōu Niǎoyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.5489,"lon":114.0142,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luohe-shenzhou-bird-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A bird-themed park in Yuanhui district on the south side of Luohe, developed from the former Kaiyuan Forest Park and once called the Golden Phoenix Bird Culture Park. It suits families looking for an easy outing in the city."},{"id":"linying-shoushan-platform","name":"Shoushan Platform and Steles","name_zh":"受禅台","pinyin":"Shòushàn Tái","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.8662,"lon":113.8043,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linying-shoushan-platform","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The earthen platform at Fancheng where in 220 Emperor Xian, the last ruler of the Han, abdicated in favour of Cao Pi, son of Cao Cao, who founded the Wei dynasty of the Three Kingdoms. Two steles carved that year survive in a small temple just north of the platform, one recording the officials' petition urging Cao Pi to take the throne and the other the abdication itself; the halls that once stood on the platform are long gone."},{"id":"linying-xiaoshang-bridge","name":"Xiaoshang Bridge","name_zh":"小商桥","pinyin":"Xiǎoshāng Qiáo","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.719,"lon":113.9617,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linying-xiaoshang-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A red-sandstone arch bridge over the Xiaoshang River, traditionally dated to 584 under the Sui and rebuilt in early Song style, with one main arch and a small open arch at each end. The arch stones carry reliefs of heavenly horses, lions and lotus flowers, and small carved strongmen at the corners seem to hold the arch up on their shoulders. The scenic area also has a memorial park to Yang Zaixing, a general under Yue Fei who was killed fighting the Jin near the river in 1140."},{"id":"luohe-xu-shen-culture-park","name":"Xu Shen Cultural Park and Tomb","name_zh":"许慎文化园","pinyin":"Xǔ Shèn Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luohe","lat":33.6127,"lon":114.0937,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luohe-xu-shen-culture-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A culture park of about 10 hectares built around the tomb of Xu Shen, the Eastern Han scholar who compiled the Shuowen Jiezi, regarded as the first comprehensive dictionary of Chinese characters. A Han-style hall named for Xu Shen's honorific 'sage of characters', an 80 m avenue of characters carved with famous calligraphy, a dictionary museum, an exhibition hall on the Shuowen Jiezi and a stele forest of more than a thousand stones line the axis leading to the tomb. The earth mound stands on a low rise with steles put up by local magistrates in 1656, 1707 and 1876."},{"id":"songxian-baiyun-mountain","name":"Baiyun Mountain","name_zh":"白云山","pinyin":"Báiyún Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.6814,"lon":111.8473,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/songxian-baiyun-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high forested part of the Funiu range in southern Song County, on the watershed of the Yangtze, Yellow and Huai rivers, protected as a national forest park and nature reserve. Its summit, Yuhuang Peak (2,216 m), is a sunrise and sea-of-clouds viewpoint, and the area has the Jiulong Falls, about 100 m high, pools, a granite 'little Huangshan' ridge and primeval forest. It became a 5A scenic area in 2011."},{"id":"luanchuan-baoduzhai","name":"Baoduzhai Old Stockade Village","name_zh":"抱犊寨","pinyin":"Bàodú Zhài","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.9545,"lon":111.3328,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-baoduzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An old fortified mountain village (zhai) at Dahong in Sanchuan town, western Luanchuan, run as a scenic area around the stockade and its old village houses. In 2026 the county was repairing the old village and its infrastructure and building a Party clean-government education base there."},{"id":"luoyang-china-national-flower-garden","name":"China National Flower Garden","name_zh":"中国国花园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Guóhuāyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6577,"lon":112.4523,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-china-national-flower-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large peony garden, laid out from 2001 in the riverside Luopu Park on the south bank of the Luo River, over part of the Sui–Tang city site. It grows peonies of more than a thousand varieties in nine colour groups, and two climate-controlled halls opened in 2022 and 2024 hold rare and late-flowering kinds so that the show lasts into early May, followed by herbaceous peonies. It is at its best during the Luoyang Peony Festival in April."},{"id":"luanchuan-chongdugou","name":"Chongdugou","name_zh":"重渡沟","pinyin":"Chóngdù Gōu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.9281,"lon":111.6742,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-chongdugou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain valley in north-eastern Luanchuan, in the core area of the Funiu Mountain Global Geopark, known for its springs and waterfalls and its extensive bamboo groves. The valley villages have turned to tourism: the wider Chongdugou zone has more than 500 boutique guesthouses and farm inns, evening markets and shows, and it was named a provincial night-economy cluster in 2026."},{"id":"luoyang-dahehui","name":"Dahehui, Luoyang","name_zh":"大河荟","pinyin":"Dàhé Huì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5944,"lon":112.4431,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-dahehui","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cultural leisure complex in Luolong District that opened in autumn 2023, built around immersive digital entertainment. Its centrepiece is the walk-through multimedia show Tracing the Ode to the Luo River Goddess, alongside a digital museum, shops, a Sui–Tang themed designer hotel and a cluster of role-play mystery game venues; it suits younger visitors and an evening out."},{"id":"xinan-daimei-mountain","name":"Daimei Mountain","name_zh":"黛眉山","pinyin":"Dàiméi Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":35.0364,"lon":111.9287,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinan-daimei-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the far north of Xin'an County, on the south bank of the Yellow River upstream of the Xiaolangdi Dam. It is one of the scenic areas of the Daimeishan part of the Wangwushan–Daimeishan geopark, which also takes in Longtan Grand Canyon and Qingyao Mountain nearby and was named a global geopark in 2006."},{"id":"ruyang-dinosaur-valley-rafting","name":"Dinosaur Valley Rafting","name_zh":"恐龙谷漂流","pinyin":"Kǒnglóng Gǔ Piāoliú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.9189,"lon":112.2393,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruyang-dinosaur-valley-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercial river-rafting attraction on a mountain stream at Chunshu village in Jincun township, in the hills of southern Ruyang County. Rafting on the stream is the main activity, and the scenic area was operating in 2026."},{"id":"xinan-dongzhen-temple","name":"Dongzhen Temple, Xin'an","name_zh":"洞真观","pinyin":"Dòngzhēn Guàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7149,"lon":112.0291,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinan-dongzhen-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple on Lanke hill south of Tiemen town, next to the Wangqiao Cave, centred on a Hall of the Three Pure Ones with bracketed eaves. It was already established by about 1300: Yuan inscriptions of 1301 and 1309, recorded in the county gazetteer, show its priests praying for the emperor's long life and the authorities protecting its lands, and it later housed the county's Taoist office."},{"id":"luoyang-zhou-royal-chariot-museum","name":"Eastern Zhou Royal Horse and Chariot Museum","name_zh":"天子驾六博物馆","pinyin":"Tiānzǐ Jià Liù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6747,"lon":112.4368,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-zhou-royal-chariot-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum opened in 2003 over excavated burials of the Eastern Zhou royal city, from which the Zhou kings ruled for some five centuries after 770 BC and whose remains lie under central Luoyang on both banks of the Jian River. It is named after its chariot pit with the remains of a six-horse team, the 'Son of Heaven drives six' of the ancient texts, shown where it was found alongside other horse-and-chariot burials, tombs and bronzes from the royal city and its cemetery."},{"id":"luoyang-eighth-route-army-office","name":"Eighth Route Army Luoyang Office Memorial Hall","name_zh":"八路军驻洛办事处纪念馆","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Zhù Luò Bànshìchù Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6782,"lon":112.4751,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-eighth-route-army-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The liaison office that the Communist Eighth Route Army kept in Luoyang from 1938 to 1942, during the war against Japan, when the city was the headquarters of the Nationalist First War Zone; it was closed in early 1942 on that command's orders. The memorial hall, first opened in 1987, occupies three adjoining Qing-dynasty brick-and-timber courtyard houses with about 150 rooms."},{"id":"yanshi-erlitou-xia-capital-site-museum","name":"Erlitou Site Museum of the Xia Capital","name_zh":"二里头夏都遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Èrlǐtóu Xiàdū Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6833,"lon":112.6887,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanshi-erlitou-xia-capital-site-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large museum opened in 2019 next to the Erlitou site, the Bronze Age settlement that many Chinese archaeologists identify as a capital of the Xia dynasty, a link the museum's own name asserts but which remains unproven. Five permanent galleries show the finds from six decades of digging, including turquoise-inlaid bronze plaques with animal masks, early bronze ding and jue vessels and large jade blades. The building, clad in rammed earth and aged copper, was designed by a team from Tongji University; the excavated site beside it is laid out as a national archaeological site park."},{"id":"yiyang-fuchang-pavilion","name":"Fuchang Pavilion","name_zh":"福昌阁","pinyin":"Fúchāng Gé","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.4756,"lon":111.8737,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-fuchang-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-storey Taoist pavilion on a cliff top above the site of the old town of Fuchang, in an area where Emperor Yang of Sui once built a palace; the present building goes back to the Ming and was thoroughly repaired in 1819. A long flight of stone steps climbs the slope to it, its roofs are covered in yellow and green glazed tiles, and caves and small shrines cut into the cliff around it honour Taoist, Buddhist and Confucian figures together."},{"id":"luanchuan-funiu-mountain-ski-resort","name":"Funiu Mountain Ski Resort","name_zh":"伏牛山滑雪度假乐园","pinyin":"Fúniú Shān Huáxuě Dùjià Lèyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.7384,"lon":111.4759,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-funiu-mountain-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain ski resort at Yangshuping village in the Funiu range west of Luanchuan, shortlisted in 2023 as a national-level ski tourism resort, the only one in Henan. Besides outdoor winter pistes served by lifts it has year-round indoor skiing, night skiing in season, camping and family activities."},{"id":"yanshi-tang-gongling","name":"Gongling Mausoleum of the Tang","name_zh":"恭陵","pinyin":"Gōng Líng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6332,"lon":112.8111,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshi-tang-gongling","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The imperial-style tomb of Li Hong, fifth son of Emperor Gaozong and eldest son of Wu Zetian, on Hutuo ridge north-east of Goushi town. A broad spirit way lined with stone sculptures leads to a truncated-pyramid earth mound inside a square enclosure, pairs of stone lions stand at its gates, and the smaller mound of his consort, Lady Pei, rises just to the north-east."},{"id":"luoyang-guanlin-temple","name":"Guanlin Temple","name_zh":"关林","pinyin":"Guānlín","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6098,"lon":112.4774,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-guanlin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The traditional burial place of the head of Guan Yu, the Three Kingdoms general later worshipped as a god, which Cao Cao is said to have buried here with princely honours in 220. Behind the temple, rebuilt from 1592 with Ming and Qing halls along a long axis, rises the tomb mound; it is traditionally regarded as the only Guan Yu temple entitled to the rank of 'lin', a term otherwise used for the Confucius cemetery in Qufu. Guan Yu's cult and its temple fair are a listed national intangible heritage, and the complex is one of the 'Guan Yu Cultural Sites' put forward for World Heritage."},{"id":"xinan-han-hangu-pass","name":"Han Hangu Pass, Xin'an","name_zh":"汉函谷关","pinyin":"Hàn Hángǔ Guān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7189,"lon":112.1729,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinan-han-hangu-pass","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Han-dynasty Hangu Pass on the road between Luoyang and Chang'an, distinct from the older Qin pass of the same name at Lingbao, and since 2014 a component of the Silk Roads World Heritage site. Excavations in 2012–2013 uncovered roads, gate platforms and walls, which are shown in an archaeological site park with a museum."},{"id":"yibin-haoze-tulip-park","name":"Haoze International Tulip Park","name_zh":"豪泽国际郁金香花海欢乐城","pinyin":"Háozé Guójì Yùjīnxiāng Huāhǎi Huānlèchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5549,"lon":112.5892,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yibin-haoze-tulip-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower park in Yibin District, south-east of central Luoyang, planted with tulip fields that flower in spring, with fairground rides and children's play areas. It suits a family outing in tulip season."},{"id":"luoyang-henan-fu-confucian-temple","name":"Henan Prefecture Confucian Temple","name_zh":"河南府文庙","pinyin":"Hénán Fǔ Wénmiào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6827,"lon":112.4764,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-henan-fu-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Confucian temple and prefectural school of old Henan Prefecture, in the south-east of Luoyang's Old Town, probably founded in the Jin or Yuan period and enlarged in the 1650s. The Ming-dynasty Halberd Gate and the five-bay Dacheng Hall with its glazed hip-and-gable roof survive, with the Minglun Hall behind; a primary school that occupied the buildings was moved out after 2006 and the temple restored."},{"id":"songxian-two-chengs-hometown","name":"Hometown of the Two Chengs","name_zh":"两程故里","pinyin":"Liǎng Chéng Gùlǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.2205,"lon":112.1802,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songxian-two-chengs-hometown","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village where the Northern Song Neo-Confucian philosopher Cheng Yi lived in later life, named the 'Hometown of the Two Chengs' by the Ming court in 1455 in honour of him and his brother Cheng Hao. Their memorial temple has a ceremonial gate, a hall with statues of the brothers and commemorative plaques, steles and old cypresses, beside a courtyard of Ming–Qing two-storey houses, and a stone arch of 1462 stands at the east end of the village. The complex is now also used for exhibitions on family traditions and integrity for official study visits."},{"id":"yiyang-huaguo-mountain","name":"Huaguo Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"花果山","pinyin":"Huāguǒ Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.3471,"lon":111.838,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-huaguo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain in south-western Yiyang County that shares its name with the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, home of the Monkey King in Journey to the West, and plays on the story with a Water Curtain Cave square and Monkey King themes. Other scenic areas in China, among them Huaguo Mountain in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, also draw on the Monkey King story."},{"id":"luoyang-huiluo-hanjia-granaries","name":"Huiluo and Hanjia Granaries (Grand Canal)","name_zh":"回洛仓·含嘉仓遗址","pinyin":"Huíluò Cāng Hánjiā Cāng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7141,"lon":112.4912,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-huiluo-hanjia-granaries/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two walled state granaries founded in 605 under Emperor Yang of Sui to hold grain shipped to Luoyang along the Grand Canal, inscribed in 2014 as part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site. The Luoyang Granary Museum, set up in 2015, looks after both: at Huiluo, north of the old city, excavated storage pits, a simulated stretch of the granary-city wall and the granary road are shown where they were found. At Hanjia, nearer the Old Town, a hall covers Pit 160, which still held grain when it was excavated in 1972."},{"id":"yanshi-jiulong-temple","name":"Jiulong Temple, Yanshi","name_zh":"偃师九龙庙","pinyin":"Yǎnshī Jiǔlóng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7182,"lon":112.924,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshi-jiulong-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside temple built by the boatmen of the Yiluo River to honour Huang Shoucai, a folk hero of flood control, and to pray for safe passage; its main hall was finished in 1811 and the rear hall in 1817. The brick-and-timber main hall, rear hall and two-storey bell and drum towers keep painted beams and carvings that show Huang's work on the rivers."},{"id":"yiyang-lingshan-temple","name":"Lingshan Temple, Yiyang","name_zh":"灵山寺","pinyin":"Língshān Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5052,"lon":112.0988,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-lingshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple founded in 1163 under the Jin dynasty at the northern foot of Lingshan hill, facing north across the Luo River, and rebuilt several times under the Ming and Qing; its Great Compassion Hall and main hall still keep Jin-period beams and columns. The main hall holds Ming statues of the Buddhas of the Three Ages, a small pagoda is pieced together from carved stones of six periods from the Northern Wei to the Qing, and an old ginkgo stands in the courtyard; a temple fair is held here each spring."},{"id":"yichuan-longfengshan-ancient-town","name":"Longfengshan Ancient Town","name_zh":"龙凤山古镇","pinyin":"Lóngfèng Shān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.4463,"lon":112.3982,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichuan-longfengshan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large leisure town in Song-dynasty style built on former gullies and slopes north-west of Yichuan county town, with new walls open for walking, lanes, courtyards, food stalls, shops and guesthouses. It is busiest in the evening, when the buildings are lit up, and also runs a study camp on the Neo-Confucianism of the Cheng brothers, whose tombs are nearby."},{"id":"luoyang-fengxiang-hot-spring","name":"Longmen Fengxiang Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"凤翔温泉","pinyin":"Fèngxiáng Wēnquán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5546,"lon":112.45,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-fengxiang-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the southern edge of Luoyang, near the Longmen Grottoes, with thermal pools and an on-site hotel. It suits a relaxed half day after sightseeing at Longmen."},{"id":"xinan-longtan-grand-canyon","name":"Longtan Grand Canyon","name_zh":"龙潭大峡谷","pinyin":"Lóngtán Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.969,"lon":112.004,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinan-longtan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 12 km U-shaped gorge cut by the Qing River into purple-red quartz sandstone in northern Xin'an County, the core of the Wangwushan–Daimeishan UNESCO Global Geopark. The trail runs through narrow slot sections, past a chain of deep pools and waterfalls and rippled rock surfaces. It became a 5A scenic area in 2013."},{"id":"luanchuan-longyuwan-forest-park","name":"Longyuwan National Forest Park","name_zh":"龙峪湾","pinyin":"Lóngyù Wān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.7273,"lon":111.7399,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-longyuwan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the Funiu Mountains of Luanchuan County, which the city government describes as a core ecological scenic area of the range. Wooded valleys and streams lie below high ridges, among them Jijiaojian, at about 2,210 m the highest point in Luanchuan County."},{"id":"luanchuan-huilan-orchid-park","name":"Luanchuan Huilan Orchid Culture Park","name_zh":"栾川蕙兰文化产业园","pinyin":"Luánchuān Huìlán Wénhuà Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.8538,"lon":111.8968,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-huilan-orchid-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park in Heyu town devoted to the huilan orchid (Cymbidium faberi), which opened in April 2023 with the first Luanchuan Huilan festival and which the city describes as the largest orchid park of its kind in northern China. It combines orchid nurseries and research with display halls, an orchid market, study programmes and leisure areas, and suits visitors interested in Chinese orchids."},{"id":"luanchuan-zhuhai-wildlife-park","name":"Luanchuan Zhuhai Wildlife Park","name_zh":"竹海野生动物园","pinyin":"Zhúhǎi Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.9297,"lon":111.7219,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-zhuhai-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wildlife park in the Chongdugou valley area of north-eastern Luanchuan, best known for its Siberian tigers: more than 200 live here, and in 2026 an agriculture-ministry laboratory named it a Siberian tiger breeding base. A primeval-forest section with a hill-climbing trail opened in 2023, and a cableway serves the park."},{"id":"luoyang-ancient-tombs-museum","name":"Luoyang Ancient Tombs Museum","name_zh":"洛阳古墓博物馆","pinyin":"Luòyáng Gǔmù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7342,"lon":112.4081,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-ancient-tombs-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The most accessible part of the Mangshan Tombs, the imperial and noble cemeteries of six dynasties spread over the loess hills north of Luoyang: a museum opened in 1987 and upgraded in 2022, where 25 excavated tombs from the Western Han to the Song and Jin have been moved and rebuilt underground. Visitors can walk down into the Jingling, the tomb of the Northern Wei emperor Xuanwu, and a separate hall shows painted murals taken from tombs of eight dynasties. Another visitable part of the unit is the walled, cypress-shaded Han Guangwu Emperor's Tomb near the Yellow River in Mengjin, long held to be Liu Xiu's tomb, though that identification is disputed."},{"id":"yibin-lavender-manor","name":"Luoyang Lavender Manor","name_zh":"薰衣草庄园","pinyin":"Xūnyīcǎo Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5971,"lon":112.5087,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yibin-lavender-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lavender-themed flower farm in Yibin District near the Longmen Grottoes, begun in 2013 as an agri-tourism project on the Yi River ecological corridor. It suits a short family visit when the lavender is in flower."},{"id":"luoyang-luoyi-ancient-town","name":"Luoyi Ancient Town","name_zh":"洛邑古城","pinyin":"Luòyì Gǔchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6821,"lon":112.4785,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-luoyi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tourist quarter in the east of Luoyang's old city, largely built in recent years in traditional style around surviving monuments: the Wenfeng Pagoda, a stretch of the Jin–Yuan city wall, the Xintan pond and the Henan Prefecture Confucian Temple. It is best known for Hanfu costume hire and photography, and has craft workshops, guesthouses, food stalls, evening lights and costumed street events at festivals."},{"id":"luoyang-luze-guild-hall","name":"Luze Guild Hall (Luoyang Folk Customs Museum)","name_zh":"潞泽会馆","pinyin":"Lù Zé Huìguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6808,"lon":112.4831,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-luze-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A guild hall and temple to Guan Yu built in 1744–1759 by merchants from Lu'an and Zezhou prefectures in Shanxi, beside the Chan River east of the old city; it is described as the largest and best-preserved group of old buildings in central Luoyang. Behind the gate tower, its two-storey opera stage, one of the widest in Henan, faces a double-eaved main hall with elaborate wood carving and carved column bases. Since 1987 it has housed the Luoyang Folk Customs Museum."},{"id":"yanshi-xingfu-temple-hall","name":"Main Hall of Xingfu Temple, Yanshi","name_zh":"偃师兴福寺大殿","pinyin":"Yǎnshī Xīngfú Sì Dàdiàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6502,"lon":112.6957,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanshi-xingfu-temple-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The one surviving hall of Xingfu Temple, founded in 1509 and repaired under the Kangxi emperor and again in the Republican era; the courtyard around it later served as the Gaoya village school. The hall has a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof of green glazed tiles, and inside its timber frame is built differently on each side, with long beams on the east and full-height columns on the west, a layout known locally as 'east beams, west columns'."},{"id":"luanchuan-laojun-mountain-jiguan-cave","name":"Mount Laojun and Jiguan Cave","name_zh":"老君山·鸡冠洞","pinyin":"Lǎojūn Shān Jīguān Dòng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.7205,"lon":111.6437,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luanchuan-laojun-mountain-jiguan-cave/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the main peaks of the Funiu range, renamed in the Tang after the legend that Laozi retired here to cultivate the Way; Taoist temples have stood on it since the Northern Wei, and three cable-car lines and a long ridge walkway lead up towards the Golden Summit, a cluster of Taoist halls on the crest. The joint 5A area also includes Jiguan Cave a few kilometres west of Luanchuan town, a limestone cave 5.6 km long, of which about 1.8 km of stalactite halls is open, at an even 18 °C year-round."},{"id":"songxian-muzhaling","name":"Muzhaling Scenic Area","name_zh":"木札岭","pinyin":"Mùzhá Lǐng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.7643,"lon":112.2523,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songxian-muzhaling","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain area at Checun in south-eastern Song County, on the northern side of the Funiu range and within the Funiu Mountain nature reserve. One of its sights is Guanmao ('Official's Hat') Peak, and a small ski field lies just to the west of the scenic area."},{"id":"luoyang-han-wei-old-city","name":"Old City of Luoyang (Han–Wei Luoyang)","name_zh":"汉魏洛阳故城","pinyin":"Hàn Wèi Luòyáng Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.724,"lon":112.6089,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-han-wei-old-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of the capital of the Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin and Northern Wei, about 15 km east of modern Luoyang, abandoned after the Sui built a new city to the west in 605; it is part of the Silk Roads World Heritage Site. In the national archaeological park, stretches of rammed-earth city wall survive, and the foundations of the Changhe palace gate and the base of the Yongning Temple pagoda are laid out for visitors. The site museum, opened in July 2025, explains the city in three themed halls."},{"id":"luoyang-peony-pavilion","name":"Peony Pavilion and Luoyang Peony Museum","name_zh":"牡丹阁","pinyin":"Mǔdān Gé","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5772,"lon":112.4512,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-peony-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large pavilion-style building at the southern end of Luoyang's modern city axis, opened on trial during the 2022 peony festival, which houses the Luoyang Peony Museum, showing the history of peony growing, peony varieties, peony-themed relics and the modern peony industry with documents, objects, film and live plants. The outdoor garden around it is planted with named peony varieties, including several plants about a century old, and a roving costumed show is staged inside during the April peony festival."},{"id":"xinan-qiantang-zhizhai","name":"Qiantang Zhizhai Museum","name_zh":"千唐志斋","pinyin":"Qiān Táng Zhì Zhāi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7392,"lon":112.0144,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinan-qiantang-zhizhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A collection of carved tomb epitaphs described as China's largest, gathered in the 1930s by Zhang Fang from tombs looted around Luoyang and set into the walls of 15 brick-vaulted rooms beside his house in Tiemen. The name means 'Studio of a Thousand Tang Epitaphs': most of the more than 1,400 stones date from the Tang dynasty, with smaller numbers from the Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui and Song, and they are a major source for the study of Tang history."},{"id":"yiyang-qicai-fairy-tale-animal-kingdom","name":"Qicai Fairy Tale Animal Kingdom","name_zh":"七彩童话动物王国","pinyin":"Qīcǎi Tónghuà Dòngwù Wángguó","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.482,"lon":111.9789,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-qicai-fairy-tale-animal-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A zoo and amusement park in Lianzhuang town, Yiyang County, combining animal and plant collections with funfair rides, pick-your-own farm areas and school study programmes. It reopened in January 2025 after an upgrade that added a tiger free-roaming area, a hippo house and a large circus arena, with staged sea-lion and parrot shows; it suits families with children."},{"id":"xinan-qingyao-mountain","name":"Qingyao Mountain","name_zh":"青要山","pinyin":"Qīngyāo Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.8993,"lon":111.9244,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinan-qingyao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain area in north-western Xin'an County, linked in legend with the Yellow Emperor. Its Lianzhu and Shuanglong gorges hold strings of pools and waterfalls, reached in places by boardwalks and suspension bridges; Shuanglong Gorge is cut into purple-red quartz sandstone, and a restored Ming-dynasty Shuanglong (Twin Dragon) Temple stands by the Black and White Dragon pools. The streams are a protected habitat for the Chinese giant salamander."},{"id":"luoyang-shanshan-guild-hall","name":"Shanxi–Shaanxi Guild Hall (Wanli Tea Road Museum)","name_zh":"洛阳山陕会馆","pinyin":"Luòyáng Shān Shǎn Huìguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6768,"lon":112.4759,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-shanshan-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A guild hall and Guan Yu temple built from about 1711 to 1721 by merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi near the old river port south of the city wall. Its glazed screen wall, opera stage, worship hall and main hall frame two courtyards with Qing carving and painted beams. Since April 2023 it houses the Luoyang Wanli Tea Road Museum, on the caravan tea trade between southern China and Russia in which Luoyang was a staging post."},{"id":"yanshi-shengxian-taizi-stele","name":"Shengxian Taizi Stele","name_zh":"升仙太子碑","pinyin":"Shēngxiān Tàizǐ Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5665,"lon":112.8472,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanshi-shengxian-taizi-stele/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stele set up in 699 on Goushan hill by Empress Wu Zetian, who stayed here on her way to the sacrifices at Mount Song; its text retells the legend of Prince Jin of Zhou, said to have risen to heaven from this hill, and links it to her own reign. Wu Zetian wrote both the heading, in the 'flying white' brush style with bird-like flourishes, and the cursive main text, her only surviving calligraphy, while the back carries a poem and lists of names written by Xue Yao, Xue Ji and Zhong Shaojing."},{"id":"luoning-shenlingzhai","name":"Shenlingzhai National Forest Park","name_zh":"神灵寨","pinyin":"Shénlíng Zhài","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.2875,"lon":111.7078,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoning-shenlingzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park of about 53 km² in the mountains south-east of Luoning town, rising to 1,859 m. It is known for its great rock slabs, called the 'stone waterfalls', for natural stands of lacebark pine and a bamboo grove unusually far north, and for its gorge and the Yuhuang Hall of a former Taoist temple."},{"id":"luoyang-shuiquan-grottoes","name":"Shuiquan Grottoes","name_zh":"水泉石窟","pinyin":"Shuǐquán Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5237,"lon":112.6498,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-shuiquan-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist cave on the cliffs of Wan'an Mountain, enlarged from a natural cavern in the Northern Wei, with two large standing Buddhas on either side of a natural fissure in the back wall and walls crowded with small carved niches. Outside, a damaged Northern Wei inscription records the monk Tanfu who led the work, and a Tang niche of Amitabha dated 713 is cut into the cliff."},{"id":"yanshi-song-mausoleum-quarry","name":"Song Mausoleums Quarry","name_zh":"宋陵采石场","pinyin":"Sòng Líng Cǎishíchǎng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5245,"lon":112.7547,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshi-song-mausoleum-quarry","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The valley on the east side of Niuxin hill where stone was cut and roughed out for the Northern Song imperial tombs at Gongyi, about 25 km away. The valley walls show quarry faces, wedge holes and cutting lines, half-finished column bases and animal figures lie on the valley floor, cart ruts are worn into the rock of the old haul road, and carved inscriptions record quarrying for the tomb of Emperor Zhezong in 1100."},{"id":"luoyang-jianxi-soviet-style-buildings","name":"Soviet-style Buildings of Jianxi","name_zh":"涧西苏式建筑群","pinyin":"Jiànxī Sūshì Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6735,"lon":112.3741,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-jianxi-soviet-style-buildings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The factory halls and workers' housing built from 1954 in Luoyang's Jianxi District for the industrial projects China undertook with Soviet aid in the 1950s, including the First Tractor Works and the Luoyang copper works. The housing quarters, such as blocks 2 and 10, are in Soviet neoclassical style with Chinese cloud-pattern ornament and are seen from the street on a walk along Wuhan Road and Jianshe Road."},{"id":"yanshi-huisheng-palace-stele","name":"Stele of Huisheng Palace","name_zh":"会圣宫碑","pinyin":"Huìshèng Gōng Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7116,"lon":112.8992,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshi-huisheng-palace-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large Northern Song stele with a dragon crest and a tortoise base, erected in 1034 at Huisheng Palace, a hall built for rites at the Song imperial tombs where portraits of the first three Song emperors were enshrined. The palace has gone, but the stele still stands where it was set up, on Fenghuang hill above Sigou village, its sides carved with clouds and cranes and its base with waves."},{"id":"luoyang-sui-tang-city-botanical-garden","name":"Sui–Tang City Site Botanical Garden","name_zh":"隋唐城遗址植物园","pinyin":"Suí Táng Chéng Yízhǐ Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6367,"lon":112.4419,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-sui-tang-city-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A botanical garden and peony park laid out over part of the Sui–Tang city site south of the Luo River. In April, during the Peony Festival, its peony gardens are the setting for Tang-costume parades, lion dances and fire performances, and later-flowering varieties extend the season."},{"id":"luoyang-sui-tang-imperial-city","name":"Sui–Tang Luoyang City Site (Yingtian Gate and Mingtang)","name_zh":"隋唐洛阳城","pinyin":"Suí Táng Luòyáng Chéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.677,"lon":112.4546,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-sui-tang-imperial-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Luoyang as rebuilt by Emperor Yang of Sui from 605, the eastern capital of the Sui and Tang and, under Empress Wu Zetian, the capital of her Zhou dynasty. Its palace heart is a national archaeological park: the Yingtian Gate, the palace's main gate, rebuilt in 2016–2019 over its excavated base, which is shown inside, and Wu Zetian's Mingtang (Hall of Light) and Tiantang, whose foundations are protected and shown under modern halls, together with the Jiuzhou Pond. Dingding Gate, the outer city's south gate 5 km away, has its own museum over the excavated remains."},{"id":"songxian-tianchi-mountain","name":"Tianchi Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"天池山","pinyin":"Tiānchí Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.2452,"lon":111.8424,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songxian-tianchi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain area in north-western Song County, made up of the Tianchi ('Heavenly Lake'), Feilaishi ('Flying Rock'), Yunü Stream and Erlang Gully sections. Feilaishi is known for its steep crags and Yunü Stream for its quiet wooded gorge."},{"id":"luanchuan-tianhe-grand-canyon","name":"Tianhe Grand Canyon","name_zh":"天河大峡谷","pinyin":"Tiānhé Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.8205,"lon":111.3165,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-tianhe-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain canyon scenic area at Jiaohe in western Luanchuan, with a cableway up to Wusheng Peak. In March the cornelian cherries grown around Jiaohe for traditional medicine come into flower, and the scenic area has held a blossom festival at that time."},{"id":"yichuan-fan-zhongyan-tomb","name":"Tomb of Fan Zhongyan","name_zh":"范仲淹墓","pinyin":"Fàn Zhòngyān Mù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.4948,"lon":112.5424,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichuan-fan-zhongyan-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The family cemetery of Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), the Northern Song statesman and writer, known locally as the Fan Garden; it is laid out in front and rear sections planted with cypresses, with the tombs of his mother and his sons near his own. A spirit way lined with stone officials, rams, lions and gate pillars leads to a memorial hall with a gilded seated statue of Fan, and the steles include the Song spirit-way stele whose heading was written by Emperor Renzong and whose text was composed by Ouyang Xiu."},{"id":"yichuan-cheng-brothers-culture-park","name":"Tombs of the Cheng Brothers (Cheng Brothers Culture Park)","name_zh":"二程文化园","pinyin":"Èr Chéng Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.4235,"lon":112.4005,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichuan-cheng-brothers-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The cemetery of Cheng Hao (1032–1085) and Cheng Yi (1033–1107), the Northern Song brothers who founded the Neo-Confucian 'study of principle', and of their father Cheng Xiang, at the foot of Jing Hill on the west side of Yichuan town. Three earth mounds stand in a triangle behind a memorial shrine with statues of the three men, with Qing-dynasty stelae before the graves and Ming stone figures, rams and tigers along the spirit way. A culture park built around the old cemetery opened in 2017."},{"id":"yibin-wanan-mountain-summit-park","name":"Wan'an Mountain Summit Park","name_zh":"万安山山顶公园","pinyin":"Wàn'ān Shān Shāndǐng Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.517,"lon":112.5926,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yibin-wanan-mountain-summit-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park along the crest of Wan'an Mountain, the 937 m ridge on the south-eastern edge of the Luoyang basin, facing the Song Mountains. A ridge road links a string of viewpoints and rock outcrops, and the summit has small temples to the White Dragon King and the Patriarch as well as the Yuquan Temple; fields of coreopsis flower on the top in early summer."},{"id":"mengjin-wanfoshan-grottoes","name":"Wanfoshan Grottoes","name_zh":"万佛山石窟","pinyin":"Wànfóshān Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.9464,"lon":112.5425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengjin-wanfoshan-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of Northern Wei Buddhist caves cut into a hillside on the north bank of the Yellow River, in the part of Mengjin that was Jili District until 2021. The upper and lower temple areas hold more than 300 figures, among them a cliff-carved standing Buddha about 5 m tall flanked by bodhisattvas, groups of the Buddhas of the Three Ages and reliefs of donors in procession that show the influence of Yungang. After rainwater flooded some statues in 2022, shelters were built and the enclosure walls and gatehouse repaired."},{"id":"luanchuan-wangfu-bamboo-sea","name":"Wangfu Bamboo Sea","name_zh":"王府竹海","pinyin":"Wángfǔ Zhúhǎi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.9786,"lon":111.5412,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-wangfu-bamboo-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley at Wangfugou in northern Luanchuan with large bamboo groves, rare this far north in China, along with waterfalls and springs. It was named in a 2024 national list of summer-retreat destinations compiled with weather services, and again in the National Climate Center's 2026 summer-climate map."},{"id":"mengjin-weipo-xinxu","name":"Weipo Xinxu","name_zh":"魏坡·新序","pinyin":"Wèipō Xīnxù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7577,"lon":112.4103,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengjin-weipo-xinxu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure and shopping quarter opened in 2024 in and around the old village of Weipo at Chaoyang, Mengjin, where grey-brick lanes and courtyards have been fitted out with cafés, shops, restaurants, a courtyard hotel and event spaces. It is a modern commercial district in an old-village setting rather than a historic site, suited to an afternoon or evening stroll."},{"id":"yiyang-wuhua-temple-pagoda","name":"Wuhua Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"五花寺塔","pinyin":"Wǔhuā Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.4462,"lon":111.7879,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-wuhua-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda of the Song dynasty, the only survivor of the long-vanished Wuhua Temple, on the west bank of the Lianchang River north of Sanxiang town. It is hollow and built in the pavilion style, with real doorways on the south face of several storeys and blind doors on the other faces."},{"id":"mengjin-xiaolangdi-dam","name":"Xiaolangdi Dam Scenic Area","name_zh":"小浪底水利枢纽","pinyin":"Xiǎolàngdǐ Shuǐlì Shūniǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.9159,"lon":112.3775,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengjin-xiaolangdi-dam/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The visitor area at the south end of the Xiaolangdi Dam, the 154 m dam built across the Yellow River in 1994–2001 at the exit of its last gorge, mainly to control silt and floods. The main sight is the water-and-sediment flushing, usually run in early summer, when the outlet tunnels release jets of muddy water; in 2026 a viewing season ran from mid-June to early July."},{"id":"luoyang-xigong-barracks","name":"Xigong Barracks","name_zh":"洛阳西工兵营","pinyin":"Luòyáng Xīgōng Bīngyíng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6708,"lon":112.4317,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luoyang-xigong-barracks/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern-style barracks begun in 1914 under Yuan Shikai and greatly enlarged by the warlord Wu Peifu after 1920, which in the war against Japan served as headquarters of the First War Zone. The surviving core includes the headquarters courtyard, the two-storey house Wu Peifu built as his office, a study built in 1939 in the style of Yan'an cave dwellings and the remains of an old bridge over the Luo River. Since 2021 it has housed the Luoyang War of Resistance Memorial Hall, whose exhibition presents the Communist-led resistance in western Henan with photographs, documents and objects."},{"id":"ruyang-xitai-mountain","name":"Xitai Mountain","name_zh":"西泰山","pinyin":"Xītài Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.8277,"lon":112.2749,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruyang-xitai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain scenic area at Fudian in southern Ruyang County, with Lovers' Valley and the Shengshui Lake. It is best known for its rhododendrons, celebrated each spring with a rhododendron festival that reached its 21st edition in 2023."},{"id":"luanchuan-yangzigou","name":"Yangzigou Scenic Area","name_zh":"养子沟","pinyin":"Yǎngzǐ Gōu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":33.7323,"lon":111.6762,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luanchuan-yangzigou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded valley on the slopes a few kilometres east of Mount Laojun, south-east of Luanchuan town. It is known for its damp, cool air and dense vegetation, and in 2026 the National Climate Center listed it among the country's forest summer retreats."},{"id":"yanshi-shang-city-site","name":"Yanshi Shang City Site","name_zh":"偃师商城遗址","pinyin":"Yǎnshī Shāngchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.7192,"lon":112.7642,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshi-shang-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled city at Yanshi, found in 1983 and identified by many archaeologists as Xibo, an early capital of the Shang dynasty, was enclosed by three rings of rammed-earth walls around a palace city. In the palace area the foundation of the palace's pool garden and its drainage channel have been exposed and can be seen on the ground. It pairs with the Erlitou site museum, about 8 km to the west."},{"id":"yiyang-han-state-capital","name":"Yiyang Ancient City of the State of Han","name_zh":"宜阳韩都故城","pinyin":"Yíyáng Hándū Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.5095,"lon":111.9459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-han-state-capital","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled city of Yiyang, a western stronghold of the Warring States kingdom of Han, unrelated to the later Han dynasty, which Qin troops captured in 307 BC; the city stayed in use into the early Han dynasty. Its rammed-earth walls survive best on the east and north sides, still standing several metres high with traces of the moat outside, and a palace enclosure lay in the north-west corner."},{"id":"luoyang-zhougong-temple","name":"Zhougong Temple Museum","name_zh":"洛阳周公庙","pinyin":"Luòyáng Zhōugōng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6775,"lon":112.4561,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-zhougong-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to the Duke of Zhou, the Western Zhou statesman, said to have been founded by the Sui general Wang Shichong and rebuilt many times; in 1932, when the Nationalist government briefly moved to Luoyang, it housed the Examination Yuan. Its Ming and Qing halls now form a museum, also called the Luoyang Capital Cities Museum, which also takes in the excavated eastern tower of the Yingtian Gate of the Sui–Tang palace next door."},{"id":"luoyang-zushi-temple","name":"Zushi Temple","name_zh":"祖师庙","pinyin":"Zǔshī Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Luoyang","lat":34.6912,"lon":112.4721,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoyang-zushi-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty temple hall on North Street (Beidajie) in Luoyang's Old Town, listed as a national monument in 2006. Its surviving main hall stands under a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof, in a street quarter that was being redeveloped for tourism in 2024."},{"id":"xinye-baihetan-park","name":"Baihetan Park","name_zh":"白河滩公园","pinyin":"Báihétān Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.5234,"lon":112.3406,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinye-baihetan-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside park stretching for nearly 10 km along the Bai River at Xinye, landscaped over some 8 km² with footpaths, waterside platforms and themed gardens of tulips, peach, cherry and roses. It holds seasonal flower shows and works Three Kingdoms themes into its landscaping, and was raised from 3A to 4A in 2025."},{"id":"neixiang-baotianman-gorge-rafting","name":"Baotianman Gorge Rafting","name_zh":"宝天曼峡谷漂流","pinyin":"Bǎotiānmàn Xiágǔ Piāoliú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.3844,"lon":111.9129,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neixiang-baotianman-gorge-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A whitewater rafting trip on the Tuan River through the gorges on the southern side of the Baotianman nature reserve in the Funiu Mountains. The run drops about 239 m and takes around three and a half hours past rapids, bends, pools and rocks standing in the riverbed; it suits active visitors rather than a quiet sightseeing day."},{"id":"nanzhao-baotianman","name":"Baotianman Scenic Area (Nanzhao)","name_zh":"南召宝天曼","pinyin":"Nánzhào Bǎotiānmàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.521,"lon":111.9567,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanzhao-baotianman","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Nanzhao County side of the Baotianman forests, near Qiaoduan in the Funiu Mountains, where the nature reserve's main peak reaches about 1,830 m. Sights include Baotian Cave, a limestone cave with stalactites, and Baotian Gorge, where a walkway of about 4.5 km follows a chain of pools and waterfalls through the forest."},{"id":"neixiang-baotianman","name":"Baotianman Scenic Area (Neixiang)","name_zh":"宝天曼","pinyin":"Bǎotiānmàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.5003,"lon":111.9137,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neixiang-baotianman","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The visitor area of the Baotianman National Nature Reserve in the Funiu Mountains, a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2001 that protects an unusually complete forest on the transition between China's subtropical and warm-temperate zones. Trails lead through old-growth woodland, gorges, streams and waterfalls in a reserve with more than 3,000 plant species, and in spring the slopes are bright with flowering azaleas."},{"id":"xichuan-danjiang-daguanyuan","name":"Danjiang Daguanyuan","name_zh":"丹江大观苑","pinyin":"Dānjiāng Dàguānyuàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.8339,"lon":111.5457,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xichuan-danjiang-daguanyuan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside resort park built by a private company on peninsulas and islets on the north shore of the Danjiangkou Reservoir, the source of the middle route of the South–North Water Transfer Project. Besides lake views and boats it has modern buildings on Chu and Buddhist themes, including the Fanli Pavilion, the Chufeng Tower, a large Guanyin statue, a recreation of Xiangyan Temple's flooded lower temple and a memorial hall for the water-transfer project."},{"id":"nanzhao-danxia-temple-pagoda-forest","name":"Danxia Temple Pagoda Forest","name_zh":"丹霞寺塔林","pinyin":"Dānxiá Sì Tǎlín","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.5105,"lon":112.5507,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanzhao-danxia-temple-pagoda-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Monks' funerary pagodas of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, in three groups lying 200–760 m from Danxia Temple, a Buddhist monastery at Liushan in Nanzhao County. Fourteen brick and stone pagodas survive among old pines and cypresses, ranging from single-storey stupas to multi-eaved and lama-style towers, several carved in relief."},{"id":"fangcheng-deyunshan-botanical-garden","name":"Deyunshan Botanical Garden","name_zh":"德云山风情植物园","pinyin":"Déyúnshān Fēngqíng Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.1841,"lon":113.1045,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangcheng-deyunshan-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercial flower park laid out since 2015 on the hills at Erlangmiao, south-east of Fangcheng town, below a wind farm. Large plantings of tree peonies and cherry trees bloom in spring, and the site also has a hillside wildlife park and a children's amusement area."},{"id":"nanyang-echeng-temple-pagoda","name":"Echeng Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"鄂城寺","pinyin":"Èchéng Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.1718,"lon":112.6131,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanyang-echeng-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple at Shiqiao north of Nanyang, named after the Han county of Xi'e, with a six-sided brick pagoda founded in 617 under the Sui and rebuilt in the Song. The pagoda stands about 19 m high with seven storeys, the top four restored in recent decades, and has Buddha figures set into its second storey. The courtyard keeps a Qing gate and halls, a pair of Song stone lions dated 1099 and Ming and Qing steles."},{"id":"neixiang-erlong-mountain","name":"Erlong Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"中原二龙山","pinyin":"Zhōngyuán Èrlóng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.4812,"lon":111.7506,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neixiang-erlong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the north of Neixiang County, inside the Funiu Mountain Global Geopark, named for a ridge of ten linked peaks said to look like two dragons playing with a pearl. The area rises to about 1,380 m and is promoted for its scenery and as a place of pilgrimage and meditation, with Han, Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist cultural themes."},{"id":"fangcheng-fogou-cliff-carvings","name":"Fogou Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"佛沟摩崖造像","pinyin":"Fógōu Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.1147,"lon":113.3688,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangcheng-fogou-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Song-dynasty Buddhist figures carved in niches on the slope of Xiangshan hill in eastern Fangcheng County, at a spot known locally as Foyegou ('Buddha gully'). Some 32 niches hold 138 figures, the largest about 1.4 m tall, and the carvings became a national heritage unit in 2013. The township was building a tourism project at the site in 2024."},{"id":"dengzhou-fusheng-pagoda","name":"Fusheng Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"福胜寺塔","pinyin":"Fúshèng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.6819,"lon":112.0823,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengzhou-fusheng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick pagoda in the centre of Dengzhou, built in 1032 under the Northern Song with thirteen storeys, cut to seven by war damage at the end of the Yuan and repaired in the early Ming. About 38 m tall and octagonal, it is faced with more than 2,000 carved bricks of Buddhas, guardians and musicians; the gold coffin and silver casket found in its crypt in 1988 are now in the Henan Museum."},{"id":"xixia-guanhe-rafting","name":"Guanhe River Rafting","name_zh":"鹳河漂流","pinyin":"Guànhé Piāoliú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.4962,"lon":111.4696,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixia-guanhe-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A whitewater rafting run of about 12 km on the upper Laoguan (Guan) River in the mountains of Xixia County, through some eighteen rapids. It was among the first commercial rafting trips developed in central China and suits active visitors."},{"id":"dengzhou-huazhou-academy","name":"Huazhou Academy","name_zh":"花洲书院","pinyin":"Huāzhōu Shūyuàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.6746,"lon":112.093,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengzhou-huazhou-academy/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An academy founded in the 1040s by the statesman Fan Zhongyan while he was governor of Dengzhou, where he wrote his famous essay 'On Yueyang Tower'. The present buildings, in Qing style, form five courtyards with a semicircular pool and bridge and a shrine to Fan, beside the Baihuazhou garden of pools and rockeries and a stretch of Ming earthen city wall."},{"id":"xichuan-jingziguan","name":"Jingziguan Old Town","name_zh":"荆紫关古镇","pinyin":"Jīngzǐguān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.2497,"lon":111.0167,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xichuan-jingziguan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming and Qing trading town on the Dan River where Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi meet, whose long old street keeps more than 2,000 rooms of old houses and some 700 shopfronts. Along it stand the old pass gate, a Shan-Shaan guild hall, the Yuwang, Pinglang and Wanshou halls, a mosque, a Buddhist temple and a stele pavilion at the spot where one can stand in three provinces at once."},{"id":"xixia-laojun-cave","name":"Laojun Cave Scenic Area","name_zh":"老君洞","pinyin":"Lǎojūn Dòng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.6009,"lon":111.6395,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixia-laojun-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large forested mountain area at Erlangping in northern Xixia County, in the core of the Funiu Mountain Global Geopark, with more than a dozen peaks over 1,000 m, rivers and springs. Legend says Laozi lived here in retreat, and the cave that gives the area its name is promoted as a Taoist grotto-heaven."},{"id":"xixia-longtan-gully","name":"Longtan Gully Scenic Area","name_zh":"龙潭沟","pinyin":"Lóngtán Gōu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.5139,"lon":111.6113,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixia-longtan-gully","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A narrow gorge in the mountains north of Xixia town where a stream drops through a chain of about nineteen waterfalls and deep pools, the highest fall about 35 m. The walk up the valley passes cliffs and huge boulders in thick forest, making it a good half-day outing."},{"id":"zhenping-yangan-temple-hall","name":"Main Hall of Yang'an Temple","name_zh":"阳安寺大殿","pinyin":"Yáng'ān Sì Dàdiàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.101,"lon":112.0942,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenping-yangan-temple-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Ming-dynasty Buddhist hall in Yantai village, about 20 km north-west of Zhenping town, on a temple site founded in 656. The square, three-bay hall with a hip-and-gable roof keeps mid-Ming brackets and beams in local Henan style, and inside stands a marble statue of Bodhidharma dated 1525."},{"id":"nanyang-prefectural-yamen","name":"Nanyang Prefectural Yamen","name_zh":"南阳府衙","pinyin":"Nányáng Fǔyá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.9954,"lon":112.5318,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanyang-prefectural-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The office of the prefects of Nanyang from 1271, under the Yuan, to the end of the Qing, described as the only prefecture-level yamen in China to survive complete. More than 150 rooms of mostly Qing date stand on an axis about 240 m long, with courts, offices and the prefect's residence laid out as a museum of local government."},{"id":"neixiang-county-yamen","name":"Neixiang County Yamen","name_zh":"内乡县衙","pinyin":"Nèixiāng Xiànyá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.0504,"lon":111.8432,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/neixiang-county-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Regarded as the best-preserved Qing county government office in China, it was rebuilt in 1894 on a site that had been the seat of Neixiang County since 1304, served as the county government until 1968 and became a museum in 1984. Gates and three main halls line the central axis, leading from the magistrate's courtroom back to his offices and living quarters, with the county jail in the south-west corner and rooms furnished to show how a county was run."},{"id":"zhenping-puti-temple","name":"Puti Temple, Zhenping","name_zh":"菩提寺","pinyin":"Pútí Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.1318,"lon":112.2693,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenping-puti-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple on Xinghua Mountain at Laozhuang in north-eastern Zhenping County, founded in the 650s under the Tang; the buildings on its main axis are Ming and Qing. It keeps palm-leaf sutras and Burmese Buddha images, and stands among old ginkgo and magnolia trees in a forest park with a lake."},{"id":"fangcheng-qifeng-mountain","name":"Qifeng Mountain Ecotourism Area","name_zh":"七峰山","pinyin":"Qīfēng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.4001,"lon":112.9774,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangcheng-qifeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The eastern end of the Funiu Mountains in northern Fangcheng County, a ridge of seven peaks topping out at 768 m with cliffs, caves, ravines and forest. Remains of the Chu Great Wall, the chain of defences the state of Chu built around the Nanyang Basin from the Spring and Autumn period, run along the ridge, which is why the area is promoted as home of the 'oldest Great Wall'. Walking trails, including one past stretches of the wall, make it a day out from Nanyang."},{"id":"fangcheng-seventy-two-pools","name":"Seventy-Two Pools Scenic Area","name_zh":"七十二潭","pinyin":"Qīshí'èr Tán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.412,"lon":112.9578,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangcheng-seventy-two-pools","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river valley in the hills north of Fangcheng where the stream runs over broad sheets of bare rock, forming a long chain of pools and small falls that visitors can wade through. The scenic area adds commercial attractions such as a glass bridge, a glass slide and other rides, so it suits families looking for water play rather than a quiet walk."},{"id":"sheqi-shan-shaan-guild-hall","name":"Sheqi Shan-Shaan Guild Hall","name_zh":"社旗山陕会馆","pinyin":"Shèqí Shān-Shǎn Huìguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.0576,"lon":112.9399,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sheqi-shan-shaan-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A guild hall and temple to Guan Yu built over 136 years, from 1756 to 1892, by merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi trading in the town of Shedian. Its glazed-tile screen wall, the Xuanjian opera tower, a stone archway and the great worship hall are covered in fine wood, brick and stone carving. The scenic area also takes in other sights of Shedian old town, among them a fire-god temple, an old escort agency and a Qing tax office."},{"id":"nanyang-yisheng-shrine","name":"Shrine of the Medical Sage (Zhang Zhongjing Tomb)","name_zh":"医圣祠","pinyin":"Yīshèng Cí","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.0002,"lon":112.5481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanyang-yisheng-shrine/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb and memorial shrine of Zhang Zhongjing, the Eastern Han physician revered in China as the 'Medical Sage' and author of the Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases. Most of what stands today was rebuilt after the shrine was wrecked in the Cultural Revolution: a Han-style gate with paired towers, the tomb, halls with statues of famous Chinese doctors and the Zhang Zhongjing Museum of traditional medicine."},{"id":"xixia-sishan-forest-park","name":"Sishan National Forest Park","name_zh":"寺山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Sìshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.2885,"lon":111.4616,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixia-sishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested hill park across the Guan River from Xixia town, covering about 7.5 km² of woodland, pools and viewpoints. Paths lead to Matou Hill, the Heilong Pool, the ruins of an academy linked with the Jin-dynasty poet Yuan Haowen and the rebuilt Randeng Temple, a modern group of Buddhist halls with a large nine-dragon screen wall."},{"id":"tanghe-sizhou-pagoda","name":"Sizhou Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"泗洲寺塔","pinyin":"Sìzhōu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.697,"lon":112.8367,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tanghe-sizhou-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda in Tanghe town, founded in 1095 as part of the Puti Temple of Tangzhou and rebuilt in 1377 under the Ming, with its top repaired after lightning strikes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Octagonal and modelled on a wooden tower, it has a stair spiralling round a central column inside and Buddha figures set into its walls."},{"id":"nanyang-zhang-heng-tomb","name":"Tomb of Zhang Heng","name_zh":"张衡墓","pinyin":"Zhāng Héng Mù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.171,"lon":112.6084,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanyang-zhang-heng-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Zhang Heng (78–139), the Eastern Han astronomer, mathematician and poet who presented the first known seismoscope to the court in 132, at Shiqiao in his home district of Xi'e. The mound, about 79 m round, stands in a Han-style memorial park with the Zhang Heng Museum, which has an exhibition on his life and working replicas of his seismoscope, water-powered armillary sphere, south-pointing carriage and distance-measuring cart."},{"id":"tongbai-huaiyuan","name":"Tongbai Mountain Huaiyuan Scenic Area","name_zh":"桐柏山淮源","pinyin":"Tóngbǎi Shān Huáiyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.3533,"lon":113.3498,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongbai-huaiyuan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The forested country around the source of the Huai River in the Tongbai Mountains on the Henan–Hubei border, beginning just outside Tongbai town. Its four sections take in the Huai source, Taibai Peak (about 1,140 m, the highest point in southern Henan), Taohua Cave and the Shuilian (Water Curtain) Cave, a Taoist grotto-heaven; the Yuntai Chan Temple, ancestral temple of the Baiyun branch of Chan Buddhism, is also in the area."},{"id":"tongbai-revolutionary-memorial-hall","name":"Tongbai Revolutionary Memorial Hall","name_zh":"桐柏革命纪念馆","pinyin":"Tóngbǎi Gémìng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.3547,"lon":113.4029,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongbai-revolutionary-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial hall in Tongbai founded in 1984 to commemorate those who died in and around the county during the Long March period, the War of Resistance against Japan and the civil war. The county saw heavy fighting, including the Red 25th Army's breakout from an encirclement at Xiemaling in November 1934 during the Long March."},{"id":"nanyang-wolong-gang","name":"Wolong Gang","name_zh":"卧龙岗武侯祠","pinyin":"Wòlónggāng Wǔhóu Cí","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.9806,"lon":112.5009,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanyang-wolong-gang/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The shrine to the Three Kingdoms strategist Zhuge Liang on Wolong Gang, the low ridge south-west of central Nanyang where he is said, in a disputed tradition, to have lived and farmed for about ten years before joining Liu Bei. Worship here goes back to the Jin dynasty and the present halls are Yuan to Qing, with a thatched pavilion on the site of his supposed cottage and some 400 steles, among them the 'Chu Shi Biao' memorials in the hand of Yue Fei. The Nanyang Han Stone Carving Museum stands at the foot of the same ridge."},{"id":"nanzhao-wuduo-mountain","name":"Wuduo Mountain","name_zh":"五朵山","pinyin":"Wǔduǒ Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.3399,"lon":112.205,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanzhao-wuduo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist mountain on the border of Nanzhao and Zhenping counties whose five rocky summits rise to 1,665 m; tradition links it with Yin Xi, some 2,500 years ago, and the Tang Taoist Wu Yun. The scenic area combines the climb to the peaks and the Wanfu Palace temple with a lakeside resort area at Jiulong Lake and a gorge with water play."},{"id":"xichuan-xiangyan-temple","name":"Xiangyan Temple","name_zh":"香严寺","pinyin":"Xiāngyán Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":32.7814,"lon":111.4347,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xichuan-xiangyan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in the hills at Cangfang, founded in the Tang dynasty as the seat of the Chan master Nanyang Huizhong and long counted among the four great temples of the Central Plains. Only the upper temple survives, as the lower temple was submerged by the Danjiangkou Reservoir in 1978; its Ming and Qing halls, library and stone archway are known for their brick, wood and stone carving and for a large mural in the main hall."},{"id":"xixia-dinosaur-park-laojieling","name":"Xixia Dinosaur Remains Park and Laojieling","name_zh":"西峡恐龙遗迹园—老界岭","pinyin":"Xīxiá Kǒnglóng Yíjìyuán – Lǎojièlǐng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.2324,"lon":111.681,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixia-dinosaur-park-laojieling","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two separate parts of the Funiu Mountain Global Geopark in Xixia County share this 5A listing. The Dinosaur Remains Park at Danshui shows a Cretaceous bed of fossil dinosaur eggs with more than 1,000 eggs exposed, together with an egg-fossil museum and a park of model dinosaurs. Laojieling, about 50 km to the north, is a forested ridge on the divide between the Yangtze and Yellow River basins that rises to over 2,200 m at Jijiaojian."},{"id":"neixiang-yunlu-mountain","name":"Yunlu Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"云露山","pinyin":"Yúnlù Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.3125,"lon":112.0633,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neixiang-yunlu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of bamboo groves, forest and waterfalls at Mashankou in eastern Neixiang County, part of the Funiu Mountain Global Geopark. The developed sections follow the Yunlu River, with places to paddle, and climb to the Yaowang and Baota waterfalls; old stone walls on the ridges are attributed to the Chu Great Wall."},{"id":"zhenping-international-jade-city","name":"Zhenping International Jade City","name_zh":"镇平国际玉城","pinyin":"Zhènpíng Guójì Yùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Nanyang","lat":33.0675,"lon":112.1531,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenping-international-jade-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large jade-trading complex of shops and workshops at Shifosi, the town at the heart of Zhenping County's jade-carving industry, built with private investment in the 2010s. Visitors can browse carved jade and see carving and processing at work, and the town's older jade markets, such as Yudiaowan, are close by."},{"id":"pingdingshan-baiguihu-wetland-park","name":"Baiguihu National Urban Wetland Park","name_zh":"白龟湖湿地公园","pinyin":"Báiguī Hú Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.7635,"lon":113.1794,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingdingshan-baiguihu-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland park on the north shore of Baiguishan Reservoir, a lake built in 1958–66 on the south-western edge of Pingdingshan, designated a national urban wetland park in 2009. Boardwalks, lawns and squares run along the shore, making it a place for lakeside walks next to the city museum."},{"id":"wugang-dengtaijia","name":"Dengtaijia Scenic Area, Wugang","name_zh":"灯台架","pinyin":"Dēngtáijià","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.1619,"lon":113.5537,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugang-dengtaijia","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill area in southern Wugang named after its 808 m main peak, said to resemble an old lamp stand. Trails and a cliff-side walkway of about 2 km lead past pools and waterfalls such as the Tianchi plunge pool, and through gorges in layered sandstone, conglomerate and shale that preserve fossil mud cracks and other traces of ancient climates; a glass bridge and a water slide are extras."},{"id":"wugang-erlang-mountain","name":"Erlang Mountain, Wugang","name_zh":"二郎山","pinyin":"Èrláng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.2689,"lon":113.5603,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugang-erlang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested hill on the south shore of Shimantan Reservoir, part of the Shimantan National Forest Park and named after the legend of the god Erlang carrying mountains to chase the suns. Visitors climb to a Jade Emperor hall, rebuilt in 2000 after the old one was destroyed by Japanese bombing in 1941, cross a 286 m glass suspension bridge and a footbridge over the water, and can take bamboo-raft or boat trips on the reservoir."},{"id":"ruzhou-faxing-temple-pagoda","name":"Faxing Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"法行寺塔","pinyin":"Fǎxíng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":34.1654,"lon":112.8442,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruzhou-faxing-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick multi-eaved pagoda about 30 m tall on Tasi Street in Ruzhou, standing on the site of the former Faxing Temple. Its square lower storey keeps the look of its Tang origins, though the upper part was altered in the Song, and the top two storeys and the bronze finial are an early Qing repair; the finial is inscribed with the year 1653."},{"id":"ruzhou-fengxue-temple","name":"Fengxue Temple","name_zh":"风穴寺","pinyin":"Fēngxué Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":34.2283,"lon":112.8914,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruzhou-fengxue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside temple north-east of Ruzhou that keeps about 140 bays of buildings dating from the Tang to the Qing, laid out like a garden among streams and cliffs. Its oldest structure is the nine-storey Qizu Pagoda of 738, built for the remains of the monk Zhen; other highlights are a bell tower holding an iron bell cast in 1125, a Jin-dynasty middle hall and two pagoda forests with more than 80 monks' stupas from the Yuan to the Qing."},{"id":"lushan-huamei-valley","name":"Huamei Valley","name_zh":"画眉谷","pinyin":"Huàméi Gǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.7811,"lon":112.3383,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-huamei-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded valley beside national road G311 near Mount Yao, named after the hwamei songbirds that nest there and opened to visitors in 2004. Paths follow a stream past a chain of pools and waterfalls, including a six-tier fall, to a cliff-side walkway, a glass bridge and viewpoints in the forest, with water-play attractions near the entrance."},{"id":"jia-county-confucian-temple","name":"Jia County Confucian Temple","name_zh":"郏县文庙","pinyin":"Jiáxiàn Wénmiào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.969,"lon":113.2085,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jia-county-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Confucian temple and county school founded in 1206 under the Jin dynasty and rebuilt many times, with 22 surviving buildings laid out with the school on the left and the temple on the right. The main Dacheng Hall has green-glazed tiles and front columns carved with coiling dragons, and the octagonal two-storey Wenkui Tower, first built in 1579, stands on a red-stone platform. It is run as the Jia County Confucian Temple Museum."},{"id":"jia-county-shanxi-shaanxi-guild-hall","name":"Jia County Shanxi–Shaanxi Guild Hall","name_zh":"郏县山陕会馆","pinyin":"Jiáxiàn Shān-Shǎn Huìguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.9767,"lon":113.1953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jia-county-shanxi-shaanxi-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A guild hall founded in 1693 by merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi in the western suburb of Jia County town, used for lodging, trade, gatherings and worship. A stage tower sits above the entrance gate between bell and drum towers, facing a hall to Guan Yu and a rear hall, and the screen wall carries a brick-carved dragon."},{"id":"ruzhou-jiufeng-mountain","name":"Jiufeng Mountain, Ruzhou","name_zh":"九峰山","pinyin":"Jiǔfēng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.9866,"lon":112.6596,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruzhou-jiufeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A range of low forested peaks in south-western Ruzhou, named for nine summits that legend links to the Jade Emperor's daughters; the highest, Dazhai, reaches 895 m. Designated a national forest park in 2011 and developed by a private company since the mid-2010s, it has gorges, colourful rock strata and walking trails."},{"id":"jia-county-linfengzhai","name":"Linfengzhai","name_zh":"临沣寨","pinyin":"Línfēng Zhài","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.8931,"lon":113.2659,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jia-county-linfengzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village enclosed by walls of red sandstone, built in 1862 by the Zhu family, local salt merchants, to replace an earlier earth wall. The walls, over 6 m high and about 1.1 km round with three gates and a moat, enclose Ming and Qing courtyard houses decorated with wood, brick and stone carving, and the gates still have slots for flood boards."},{"id":"ye-county-longquan-stone-bridge","name":"Longquan Li River Stone Bridge","name_zh":"龙泉澧河石桥","pinyin":"Lóngquán Lǐhé Shíqiáo","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.5018,"lon":113.4296,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ye-county-longquan-stone-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flat stone-slab bridge of 33 spans across the Li River, also called Cuihua Bridge, recorded in the Ming dynasty and long the main crossing on the north–south road here. It is about 65 m long, with iron cramps binding its slabs, dragon heads carved on the upstream ends of the piers and wheel ruts worn into the granite carriageway; traffic moved to a concrete bridge 150 m upstream in 1981."},{"id":"baofeng-majie-storytelling-fair","name":"Majie Storytelling Fair Site","name_zh":"马街书会","pinyin":"Mǎjiē Shūhuì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.8181,"lon":113.0477,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baofeng-majie-storytelling-fair","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The home of the Majie Storytelling Fair, at which folk storytellers and ballad singers from across China gather every year on the 13th day of the first lunar month, a custom said to date back to 1315 and listed as national intangible heritage in 2006. The scenic area has an exhibition hall of Chinese quyi (storytelling and ballad arts), a hall devoted to the storyteller Liu Lanfang, a Fire God temple and a sculpture square, but the fair day is by far the liveliest time to come."},{"id":"lushan-mount-yao-spring-temple-buddha","name":"Mount Yao and Spring Temple Buddha","name_zh":"尧山－中原大佛","pinyin":"Yáo Shān Zhōngyuán Dàfó","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.7303,"lon":112.2955,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushan-mount-yao-spring-temple-buddha/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This 5A area joins two separate sights in western Lushan County. Mount Yao (formerly Shirenshan), at the eastern end of the Funiu Mountains, is a granite mountain area of about 268 km² rising to about 2,150 m, known for human-shaped rock pinnacles, waterfalls, forest and autumn colour, with a cable car and a cliff walkway up towards the summit. About 15 km to the east, Foquan Temple is home to the Spring Temple Buddha, a copper statue completed in 2008 that stands 128 m tall including its lotus throne."},{"id":"lushan-mozi-culture-tourism-area","name":"Mozi Culture Tourism Area","name_zh":"墨子文化旅游区","pinyin":"Mòzǐ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.7672,"lon":112.3575,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-mozi-culture-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed visitor area opened in 2016 at the foot of Mount Yao, built around the Warring States philosopher Mozi, whom Lushan claims as a native. Its core is a new street built in old-street style with food stalls, shops, craft workshops and an inn, served by a narrow-gauge sightseeing train, and paths continue up a side valley to waterfalls, a glass bridge and a dry slide. It suits families who combine it with Mount Yao."},{"id":"pingdingshan-museum","name":"Pingdingshan Museum","name_zh":"平顶山博物馆","pinyin":"Píngdǐngshān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.7655,"lon":113.1836,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingdingshan-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Pingdingshan's main history museum, opened in 2012 in a building designed by Tsinghua University's architectural design institute, with walls modelled on bundles of bamboo slips. Its permanent displays cover the history and culture of the Pingdingshan area, and its collection includes bronzes from the noble cemetery of the Western Zhou state of Ying, excavated in the city."},{"id":"baofeng-qingliangsi-ru-kiln-site","name":"Qingliangsi Ru Kiln Site","name_zh":"清凉寺汝官窑遗址","pinyin":"Qīngliángsì Rǔ Guānyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.9266,"lon":112.8574,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baofeng-qingliangsi-ru-kiln-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village site where archaeologists in 2000 confirmed the kilns of Ru ware, the rare duck-egg blue stoneware made for the Northern Song court around 1100, after surveys and excavations that began in 1987. The excavated kilns, glazing workshops and clay-settling pits are preserved inside an exhibition hall built over them, which opened in January 2017, and a separate Ru kiln museum with more than 1,000 exhibits opened in the village later that year."},{"id":"ruzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Ruzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"汝州文庙","pinyin":"Rǔzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":34.1647,"lon":112.8366,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruzhou-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Confucian temple and prefectural school of Ruzhou, converted in 1370 from a Yuan shrine and enlarged in 1811. Its Qing buildings include gateways, shrines to local worthies and a five-bay Dacheng Hall under a green-glazed hipped roof, and the northern half of the complex has housed the city's Ru porcelain museum."},{"id":"ruzhou-houwan-taishan-temple","name":"Taishan Temple, Houwan","name_zh":"侯湾泰山庙","pinyin":"Hóuwān Tàishān Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":34.1374,"lon":112.9849,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruzhou-houwan-taishan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village temple to the god of Mount Tai at Houwan in eastern Ruzhou, with Ming and Qing buildings around a courtyard. It is still used for local worship and was listed as a national monument in 2019."},{"id":"jia-county-three-su-tombs","name":"Three Su Tombs, Jia County","name_zh":"三苏园","pinyin":"Sānsū Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":34.0796,"lon":113.0923,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jia-county-three-su-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The burial ground of the Song dynasty writer Su Shi (Su Dongpo) and his brother Su Zhe, with a cenotaph for their father Su Xun added in the Yuan dynasty, at the foot of Xiao Emei hill. Beside the three mounds stand a shrine founded in 1350 with Yuan-period painted clay statues of the three Su, the Guangqing Temple, and a stele forest of Su Shi's poems carved around 2000 in modern calligraphy, with a lake laid out in 2002."},{"id":"lushan-western-henan-revolution-memorial","name":"Western Henan Revolution Memorial Hall, Lushan","name_zh":"豫西革命纪念馆","pinyin":"Yùxī Gémìng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.7398,"lon":112.9008,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-western-henan-revolution-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former base of the Communist Party's Henan–Shaanxi–Hubei front and rear committees, which made Lushan their seat in 1947–48, in the town's former county Party committee compound. Deng Xiaoping lived in its two-storey Western-style house, known locally as the Pastor's House, in 1948 and on 25 April that year addressed a joint meeting of the committees at the town's gospel hall. The Western Henan Revolution Memorial Hall, opened here in 2004, shows photographs and objects from the period."},{"id":"wugang-xianglong-valley","name":"Xianglong Valley, Wugang","name_zh":"祥龙谷","pinyin":"Xiánglóng Gǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.1948,"lon":113.5016,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugang-xianglong-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A canyon scenic area in the hills of southern Wugang with waterfalls, cliffs, forest and a small lake, rising to Longwangzhuang (866 m), which the city's tourism bureau gives as the highest point in Wugang. Local legends tie spots along the trail to the Han emperor Guangwu (Liu Xiu), the Yang family generals and other figures."},{"id":"pingdingshan-xiangshan-temple","name":"Xiangshan Temple, Pingdingshan","name_zh":"香山寺","pinyin":"Xiāngshān Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.818,"lon":113.1873,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingdingshan-xiangshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple on Daxiang Shan north-west of Pingdingshan, revered as the place where, in a legend recorded here in the Song dynasty, the bodhisattva Guanyin attained enlightenment. Its treasures are the nine-storey Guanyin Dashi Pagoda, about 33 m tall and rebuilt in 1068 by order of Emperor Shenzong, and a stele of 1100 carrying the biography of the Great Compassionate Bodhisattva in the calligraphy of Cai Jing, one of 15 Song-to-Qing steles kept in the temple. Most of the halls have been rebuilt since 2008."},{"id":"lushan-yaoshan-canyon-rafting","name":"Yaoshan Grand Canyon Rafting","name_zh":"尧山大峡谷漂流","pinyin":"Yáoshān Dàxiágǔ Piāoliú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.7348,"lon":112.355,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-yaoshan-canyon-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercial rafting run on a mountain river in the Mount Yao area, where visitors paddle inflatable boats down a winding channel with drops, rapids and calmer stretches. It is a summer outing for families and groups rather than a sight in itself."},{"id":"jia-county-yaozhuang-tourism-area","name":"Yaozhuang Tourism Area","name_zh":"姚庄旅游区","pinyin":"Yáozhuāng Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.8716,"lon":113.2826,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jia-county-yaozhuang-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tourism area covering six villages of Yaozhuang Hui Township in southern Jia County, where just over half of the roughly 10,000 residents are Hui Muslims. It mixes orchards, a tea garden and eco-farms offering fruit picking with small culture venues such as a hall devoted to Xinyi Liuhe boxing and an old well, and suits a half-day country outing."},{"id":"ye-county-yamen","name":"Ye County Yamen","name_zh":"叶县县衙","pinyin":"Yèxiàn Xiànyá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.6227,"lon":113.3447,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ye-county-yamen","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The county government compound of Ye, founded in 1396 under the Ming and often described as the only Ming county yamen surviving in China; it is now run as a museum. Only the five-bay main hall survives from the Ming, the other halls being Qing rebuilds, laid out along a central axis flanked by two side courtyards."},{"id":"ye-county-yeyi-ancient-city","name":"Yeyi Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"叶邑故城","pinyin":"Yèyì Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Pingdingshan","lat":33.4916,"lon":113.2843,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ye-county-yeyi-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of a walled town of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods at Jiuxian village, once a capital of the small state of Xu and the fief of Shen Zhuliang, Lord of She under the state of Chu. Stretches of rammed-earth wall up to about 5.5 m high survive along a circuit of about 9 km, the north wall was consolidated in 2024, and dozens of large tomb mounds lie in the surrounding fields."},{"id":"nanle-cangjie-mausoleum","name":"Cangjie Mausoleum, Nanle","name_zh":"仓颉陵","pinyin":"Cāngjié Líng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":36.1562,"lon":115.0492,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanle-cangjie-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A round earth mound 3 m high at Shiguan village, honoured as the grave of Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, with Ming-dynasty stone figures, lions, columns and a stone gateway in front and a Cangjie temple beside it. The ground beneath is the Shiguan site, a moated Neolithic village of the Yangshao and Longshan cultures, and a Cangjie culture museum stands nearby; the county holds a Cangjie culture week at the site each spring."},{"id":"puyang-dongbeizhuang-acrobatics-park","name":"Dongbeizhuang Acrobatics Culture Park","name_zh":"东北庄杂技文化园区","pinyin":"Dōngběizhuāng Zájì Wénhuà Yuánqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.7964,"lon":115.1794,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puyang-dongbeizhuang-acrobatics-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park in Dongbeizhuang, a village whose acrobatic tradition the national intangible-heritage list dates to the late Yuan or early Ming dynasty, more than 500 years ago, with troupes of the Liu, Qiao and Li families. At its centre is the Central Plains Acrobatics Museum, described by state media as China's first stand-alone museum on acrobatics, with a 360-degree cinema. Traditional acrobatics are performed for visitors, especially at festivals, and the village puts on its own show at Spring Festival."},{"id":"qingfeng-danguai-revolutionary-base","name":"Former Hebei–Shandong–Henan Border Region Base, Danguai","name_zh":"单拐革命旧址","pinyin":"Shànguǎi Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.8256,"lon":115.2173,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingfeng-danguai-revolutionary-base","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Danguai, a village in Qingfeng County where the Communist Party's Hebei–Shandong–Henan sub-bureau and military region headquarters moved in September 1944; Deng Xiaoping, then acting head of the North China Bureau, worked here for three months in 1945. The leaders' former quarters and the Chen ancestral hall, used as the military region's first arsenal, are preserved among the village houses, and a memorial museum founded in 2004 and expanded in 2016 has exhibition halls on the wartime base and its arms production."},{"id":"puyang-huiluan-stele","name":"Huiluan Stele","name_zh":"回銮碑","pinyin":"Huíluán Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.7036,"lon":115.005,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puyang-huiluan-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song stele carved in 1055 by order of Emperor Renzong with the poem 'The Khitans Leave the Border', written in his own hand by Emperor Zhenzong after the Chanyuan peace with the Liao. The broken original stands in a pavilion on Yujing Street beside a replica made in 1978 from rubbings and a poem stele of the Republican period."},{"id":"nanle-confucian-temple","name":"Nanle Confucian Temple","name_zh":"南乐文庙","pinyin":"Nánlè Wénmiào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":36.0709,"lon":115.2099,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanle-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Confucian temple of Nanle County town on South Street, a provincially protected monument whose surviving Qing buildings are the main Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng Shrine to Confucius's ancestors. It became a 4A scenic area in 2025 and hosts cultural events and summer activities for families."},{"id":"puyang-pushang-park","name":"Pushang Park","name_zh":"濮上园","pinyin":"Púshàng Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.7822,"lon":114.9475,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puyang-pushang-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large park and leisure resort around a lake on the west side of Puyang city, used for strolls, seasonal lantern fairs and family outings. In February 2026 a family area called Longqi Island opened on an island in the lake, with a sandy beach, water play, children's rides, camping and evening shows."},{"id":"puyang-pushui-town","name":"Pushui Town","name_zh":"濮水小镇","pinyin":"Púshuǐ Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.6789,"lon":115.0191,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puyang-pushui-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A recently built leisure quarter in Puyang County town with pavilions and towers in traditional style, food stalls, shops and evening entertainment. It is busiest at night and on holidays, with events such as a summer water-splashing festival, costume parades and sparks of molten iron thrown in the traditional da tiehua performance."},{"id":"puyang-qicheng-ruins","name":"Qicheng Ruins Park","name_zh":"戚城遗址","pinyin":"Qīchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.7523,"lon":115.0263,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puyang-qicheng-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A heritage park in Puyang city on the site of Qi, a Spring and Autumn town of the state of Wey where, according to the Chunqiu and Zuozhuan, the feudal lords met seven times; some place the death of Confucius's disciple Zilu here in 480 BC. About 1.5 km of the town's rammed-earth wall still stands in the park, built up over the Longshan, Spring and Autumn and Han periods. The park, laid out from 1991, has displays of the site and its finds alongside memorial sights, and now also hosts intangible-heritage workshops and a traditional-style academy."},{"id":"fanxian-baiyige-field-army-headquarters","name":"Shanxi–Hebei–Shandong–Henan Field Army Headquarters Site","name_zh":"晋冀鲁豫野战军指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Jìn-Jì-Lǔ-Yù Yězhànjūn Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.824,"lon":115.4881,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanxian-baiyige-field-army-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baiyige village, just south of Fan County's new town, is where the Shanxi–Hebei–Shandong–Henan Field Army under Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping rested during the Civil War and, in late 1946, held a week-long meeting of its regiment-level and senior officers. Liu and Deng lodged in a villager's house and the meeting was held in a farm courtyard and threshing ground on the edge of the village; the site became a national heritage unit in 2019. Fan County lists it among its heritage sites for visitors and planned further repair and display work there in 2025."},{"id":"puyang-tangwu-gong-stele","name":"Tangwu Gong Stele","name_zh":"唐兀公碑","pinyin":"Tángwù Gōng Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Puyang","lat":35.7148,"lon":115.2217,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puyang-tangwu-gong-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty stele of 1356 shaped like a small roofed building: a square pillar inscribed on all four sides in clerical script under a carved stone roof with a lotus finial. Its text tells how a Tangut family came from the Helan Mountains with the Mongol armies and settled here; villagers named Yang nearby regard themselves as their descendants and built the protective pavilion in 1985."},{"id":"shanzhou-anguo-temple","name":"Anguo Temple, Shanzhou","name_zh":"安国寺","pinyin":"Ānguó Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.6006,"lon":111.6829,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanzhou-anguo-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside Buddhist temple founded in the Sui dynasty, nicknamed the Glazed-Tile Temple for the glazed tiles on its halls, with buildings mostly of the Ming and Qing. Gates and front, middle and rear halls climb the slope in two courtyards divided by a brick 'fire wall' with a central gate tower in imitation of timber, and the halls keep brick and wood carving."},{"id":"sanmenxia-baolun-temple-pagoda","name":"Baolun Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"宝轮寺塔","pinyin":"Bǎolún Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7917,"lon":111.1486,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanmenxia-baolun-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A square brick pagoda with closely set eaves, built in 1176–77 under the Jin dynasty, standing in Shanzhou Park on the site of the old Shanzhou city in western Sanmenxia. It is nicknamed the Toad Pagoda because clapping near its base produces an echo like a croaking toad."},{"id":"shanzhou-ganshan-forest-park","name":"Ganshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"甘山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Gān Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.544,"lon":111.2214,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanzhou-ganshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the mountains about 20 km south of Sanmenxia, rising to Ganlu Peak at about 1,885 m, with forest walks, autumn red-leaf areas, a water play area and a butterfly valley. It also has an outdoor activity base, mountain-bike facilities and a ski centre for winter."},{"id":"sanmenxia-guo-state-museum","name":"Guo State Museum","name_zh":"虢国博物馆","pinyin":"Guóguó Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7867,"lon":111.2046,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sanmenxia-guo-state-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum built over the cemetery of the Western Zhou state of Guo on Shangcunling in northern Sanmenxia, where hundreds of burials, chariot pits and sacrificial pits were excavated from 1956 onwards. Its galleries show bronzes and jades from the tombs of the Guo rulers Guo Ji and Guo Zhong, among them a jade-handled iron sword, and visitors can walk into the excavated pits where real chariots and horses were buried some 2,800 years ago."},{"id":"lingbao-hangu-pass","name":"Hangu Pass","name_zh":"函谷关","pinyin":"Hángǔ Guān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.6345,"lon":110.9218,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingbao-hangu-pass/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of the ancient pass that guarded the narrow corridor between the Central Plain and the Wei valley, fortified by the state of Qin in the Warring States period and fought over for centuries afterwards. Legend says that Laozi wrote the Tao Te Ching here at the request of the pass keeper Yinxi before heading west, and since 1992 the site has been rebuilt with a new east gate tower and Taoist halls such as the Taichu Palace."},{"id":"lingbao-hanshan","name":"Hanshan Mountain, Lingbao","name_zh":"汉山","pinyin":"Hàn Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.4727,"lon":110.5303,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingbao-hanshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high, thickly wooded mountain in Guxian town, Lingbao, next to the Xiaoqinling nature reserve, whose Jinding summit rises to about 2,200 m. Old Buddhist and Taoist sites survive on the mountain, among them the Sanhuang and Sanguan caves and the Yuhuang Pavilion, along with rock formations tied to local legends. A passenger ropeway climbs the mountain."},{"id":"yima-hongqing-temple-grottoes","name":"Hongqingsi Grottoes","name_zh":"鸿庆寺石窟","pinyin":"Hóngqìng Sì Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7081,"lon":111.9706,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yima-hongqing-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small group of Buddhist cave shrines cut in the Northern Wei into an east-facing hillside at Shifo ('Stone Buddha') village, east of Yima: five caves hold 46 niches and more than 120 carved figures. It is of interest to visitors who follow early cave sculpture on the route between Luoyang and Sanmenxia."},{"id":"lushi-city-god-temple","name":"Lushi City God Temple","name_zh":"卢氏城隍庙","pinyin":"Lúshì Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.0541,"lon":111.0439,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushi-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to the city god, the town's protective deity, in the county town of Lushi. The county government calls it one of the larger and best-preserved ancient building complexes in western Henan, with a gate, a performance stage, an offering hall and a main hall flanked by side corridors; it was founded at the end of the Yuan, rebuilt in the early Ming, again in 1464–66 and after a fire in 1550, and repaired several times since 1949 with heritage funds."},{"id":"sanmenxia-miaodigou-site-park","name":"Miaodigou Archaeological Site Park and Museum","name_zh":"庙底沟考古遗址公园","pinyin":"Miàodǐgōu Kǎogǔ Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7736,"lon":111.1578,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanmenxia-miaodigou-site-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of a Neolithic village of the Yangshao culture's Miaodigou phase (about 4000–3500 BC), with a later Miaodigou II layer, excavated in 1956–57 ahead of the Sanmenxia Dam and again in 2002. An archaeological park covers part of the site, and the Miaodigou Museum beside it, designed by Tsinghua University and opened in October 2021, displays painted pottery and other finds from recent excavations."},{"id":"shanzhou-miaoshang-sunken-courtyards","name":"Miaoshang Village Sunken Courtyards","name_zh":"庙上村地坑窑院","pinyin":"Miàoshàng Cūn Dìkēng Yáoyuàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.6166,"lon":111.2062,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanzhou-miaoshang-sunken-courtyards","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farming village on the loess tableland south of Sanmenxia whose homes are dug into the ground: each courtyard is a square pit with cave rooms cut into its walls, so the village stays hidden from view until the pit edges. It is on the national list of Chinese traditional villages, its Qing to Republican-era courtyards are a national heritage unit, and some are used for a courtyard holiday village."},{"id":"lingbao-niangniang-mountain","name":"Niangniang Mountain, Lingbao","name_zh":"娘娘山","pinyin":"Niángniang Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.4862,"lon":110.7591,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingbao-niangniang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A granite mountain and national geopark about 13 km west-south-west of Lingbao, known for its 'stone waterfalls', dark streaks running down bare granite slabs that look like ink paintings. Paths lead past the Baichi Waterfall, a string of pools and a Niangniang temple towards the summit at 1,563 m."},{"id":"shanzhou-dikengyuan","name":"Shanzhou Sunken Courtyard Scenic Area","name_zh":"陕州地坑院","pinyin":"Shǎnzhōu Dìkēngyuàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.6904,"lon":111.1328,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanzhou-dikengyuan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village of sunken courtyard houses at Beiying, south of Sanmenxia, opened as a scenic area: square pits are dug into the loess and cave rooms cut into their walls, hiding the village below ground level, a building craft listed as national intangible heritage in 2011. Some courtyards are open as folk-culture displays, guesthouses and snack stalls."},{"id":"shanzhou-shihao-xiaohan-road","name":"Shihao Section of the Xiaohan Ancient Road","name_zh":"崤函古道石壕段","pinyin":"Xiáohán Gǔdào Shíháo Duàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7196,"lon":111.5084,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanzhou-shihao-xiaohan-road","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A surviving stretch of the Xiaohan road, the ancient route between Chang'an and Luoyang through the Xiao Mountains and the Hangu pass, where a limestone road surface and roadside water-storage features can still be seen on the hillside. In 2014 it was inscribed as part of the 'Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an–Tianshan Corridor' World Heritage Site, and Du Fu wrote his 'Three Officers' poems in this area in 759."},{"id":"lushi-shuanglongwan","name":"Shuanglongwan Scenic Area","name_zh":"双龙湾","pinyin":"Shuānglóng Wān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":33.9966,"lon":110.8303,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushi-shuanglongwan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river-valley scenic area near the source of the Luo River in western Lushi County, named after the peaks Dalongtou and Xiaolongtou, around which the river winds in an S-shaped loop. It combines riverside walks with caves, side valleys of peach blossom, rafting and evening illuminations."},{"id":"sanmenxia-swan-lake-wetland-park","name":"Swan Lake National Urban Wetland Park","name_zh":"天鹅湖国家城市湿地公园","pinyin":"Tiān'é Hú Guójiā Chéngshì Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7795,"lon":111.1405,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanmenxia-swan-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large wetland park on the Yellow River flats between the eastern and western halves of Sanmenxia, known for the large flocks of wild swans that winter on its lakes from October. Paths link islands, pavilions and lakes, and the park also has a peony garden that blooms in April and lotus ponds in summer."},{"id":"lushi-wengcheng-waterfall","name":"Wengcheng Waterfall","name_zh":"瓮城瀑布","pinyin":"Wèngchéng Pùbù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":33.7466,"lon":110.8707,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushi-wengcheng-waterfall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small valley in Shiziping township, Lushi County, with five waterfalls in succession, the highest being the 61 m Wengcheng Waterfall, which freezes in winter. Boardwalks follow the stream, and the area also has guesthouses, farm restaurants and children's play areas."},{"id":"mianchi-xianmen-mountain","name":"Xianmen Mountain, Mianchi","name_zh":"仰韶仙门山","pinyin":"Yǎngsháo Xiānmén Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.9124,"lon":111.8553,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianchi-xianmen-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain valley scenic area in Duancun township, about 30 km from Mianchi town, developed by the Yangshao liquor company as part of its tourism estate; it held its opening ceremony and 4A plaque unveiling in April 2023. Walks lead through wooded valleys and flower fields to a lake, the company stores liquor in caves in the hillside, and there is a long drift-rafting run."},{"id":"mianchi-yangshao-liquor-estate","name":"Yangshao Liquor Estate","name_zh":"仰韶酒庄","pinyin":"Yǎngsháo Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7641,"lon":111.7795,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianchi-yangshao-liquor-estate","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The factory tourism area of the Yangshao liquor group in Mianchi, built around its distillery with brewing workshops, a cellar of liquor stored in caves, a museum of world liquor history, company exhibition halls and a pedestrian culture street. It suits visitors interested in Chinese baijiu and how it is made."},{"id":"mianchi-yangshao-village-site","name":"Yangshao Village Site and Yangshao Culture Museum","name_zh":"仰韶村遗址","pinyin":"Yǎngsháo Cūn Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.8168,"lon":111.778,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianchi-yangshao-village-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village where the Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson found Neolithic painted pottery in 1921, giving its name to the Yangshao culture; the site was settled roughly 7,000 to 6,000 years ago and also has Longshan remains. The Yangshao Culture Museum, opened in 2011 and reopened in September 2024 after a refit, presents the finds and the story of the discovery, and a national archaeological site park around the excavation areas has been open since 2021."},{"id":"lingbao-yanzishan-forest-park","name":"Yanzishan National Forest Park","name_zh":"燕子山","pinyin":"Yànzi Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.5167,"lon":111.0559,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingbao-yanzishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the hills of Chuankou township, Lingbao, with stands of pagoda trees and dawn redwoods, several reservoirs and a cluster of waterfalls. It has restaurants, lodging and walking trails and is run as a forest-wellness destination."},{"id":"mianchi-yellow-river-danxia","name":"Yellow River Danxia Gorges","name_zh":"黄河丹峡","pinyin":"Huánghé Dānxiá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.936,"lon":111.6744,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianchi-yellow-river-danxia","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on the south bank of the Yellow River in Potou township, north of Mianchi, where red-rock cliffs and gorges run down to the river above the Xiaolangdi reservoir. It is made up of several gorges with rock formations, streams and pools, and offers rafting."},{"id":"sanmenxia-yellow-river-park","name":"Yellow River Park, Sanmenxia","name_zh":"黄河公园","pinyin":"Huánghé Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.7949,"lon":111.2014,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanmenxia-yellow-river-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside park about 5 km long on the terraces above the Yellow River along the northern edge of Sanmenxia, running from the Maojin ferry west to the Yellow River bridge. It keeps the natural banks, gullies and vegetation, with gardens, paths and viewpoints over the river flats, and suits an easy walk from the city."},{"id":"lushi-yuxi-grand-canyon","name":"Yuxi Grand Canyon","name_zh":"豫西大峡谷","pinyin":"Yùxī Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.2411,"lon":111.1436,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushi-yuxi-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A narrow river gorge more than 30 km long in the mountains of northern Lushi County, with a chain of waterfalls and plunge pools, the best known being the Dacongtan Waterfall. Its main draw is a 6 km drift-rafting route that passes through three rock tunnels and over a series of waterfall drops."},{"id":"lushi-yuxi-herb-garden","name":"Yuxi Herb Garden","name_zh":"豫西百草园","pinyin":"Yùxī Bǎicǎo Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.2411,"lon":111.1373,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushi-yuxi-herb-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tourism park next to the Yuxi Grand Canyon that combines fields of Chinese medicinal herbs and flowers with fruit picking, a recreated western Henan village and local food. It makes an easy stop on a trip to the canyon."},{"id":"sanmenxia-zhongliu-dizhu","name":"Zhongliu Dizhu Scenic Area (Sanmenxia Dam)","name_zh":"中流砥柱","pinyin":"Zhōngliú Dǐzhù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Sanmenxia","lat":34.8294,"lon":111.3447,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sanmenxia-zhongliu-dizhu/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside scenic area built around the Sanmenxia Dam, begun in 1957 and brought into use in 1960–61 as the first major dam on the Yellow River, and the Dizhu rock just downstream, the 'pillar in midstream' that has withstood the current for millennia and gave Chinese a proverb for steadfastness. Besides views of the dam and the gorge, the area has a museum, a park on the flood-control legend of Yu the Great, terraced fields, a riverside sightseeing train and a shopping street."},{"id":"yongcheng-chongfa-temple-pagoda","name":"Chongfa Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"崇法寺塔","pinyin":"Chóngfǎ Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":33.9422,"lon":116.3732,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongcheng-chongfa-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An octagonal nine-storey brick pagoda 34.6 m tall, built in 1093–1098 under the Northern Song, standing in the martyrs' cemetery in the north-east corner of Yongcheng's old town; the temple itself has gone. Its interior combines several stair layouts, and 323 yellow- and green-glazed tiles showing the Buddha with two disciples are set into its walls."},{"id":"suixian-fengqi-lake","name":"Fengqi Lake, Sui County","name_zh":"凤栖湖","pinyin":"Fèngqī Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.4807,"lon":115.0576,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-fengqi-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside park in Sui county town created from 2018 on the site of a disused brickworks. It is best known for evening cultural events, such as the molten-iron 'fire flower' performances, drone shows and folk shows staged at Spring Festival."},{"id":"suiyang-huaihai-campaign-general-front-committee-site","name":"Former Headquarters of the Huaihai Campaign General Front Committee","name_zh":"商丘淮海战役总前委旧址","pinyin":"Shāngqiū Huáihǎi Zhànyì Zǒngqiánwěi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.2833,"lon":115.654,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suiyang-huaihai-campaign-general-front-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site at Zhangcaiyuan village, 12 km south-east of Shangqiu's old city, that from 30 December 1948 to 24 March 1949 housed in turn the General Front Committee of the Huaihai Campaign, the Central Plains Field Army headquarters and the front committee for the Yangtze River crossing. Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng and Chen Yi directed the final phase of the campaign from here, and the site has been protected since 1963."},{"id":"yongcheng-chenguanzhuang-huaihai-campaign-memorial","name":"Huaihai Campaign Chenguanzhuang Memorial","name_zh":"淮海战役陈官庄纪念馆","pinyin":"Huáihǎi Zhànyì Chénguānzhuāng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.0122,"lon":116.5784,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongcheng-chenguanzhuang-huaihai-campaign-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park of about 13 ha at Chenguanzhuang, where the Chenguanzhuang encirclement battle of the Huaihai Campaign, in the Chinese Civil War of 1948–49, was fought. Founded in 1963 and enlarged in 1974 and 2007–2012, it has a 24.6 m monument, a memorial hall of about 9,000 m², an exhibition on the fallen, a cemetery with a crypt of remains and a 200 m wall of names, and stone reliefs and bronze statues of the campaign's commanders."},{"id":"xiayi-longgang-bay","name":"Longgang Bay Scenic Area","name_zh":"龙港湾","pinyin":"Lónggǎng Wān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.2406,"lon":116.209,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiayi-longgang-bay","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farm-tourism and study-tour park at Yinzhuang village, Taiping town, Xiayi County, whose rated scenic area covers about 55 ha of a 340 ha agricultural base. It has strawberries grown on raised racks in greenhouses, an aquaponics hall, a computer-controlled seedling factory, wetland flower fields and a fruit theme park, and also runs farming study courses for school groups."},{"id":"yongcheng-mount-mangdang","name":"Mount Mangdang","name_zh":"芒砀山","pinyin":"Mángdàng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.1925,"lon":116.4967,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongcheng-mount-mangdang/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cluster of low hills in northern Yongcheng, rising to 156.8 m, where Liu Bang, the future founder of the Han dynasty, began his revolt against the Qin by slaying a white serpent, and where the Western Han kings of Liang cut their tombs deep into the rock. Visitors can enter the vast rock-cut tombs of King Xiao of Liang and his queen, whose tomb runs about 210 m, and see Chen Sheng's grave, the memorial to Liu Bang's uprising, the cliff where Confucius is said to have sheltered from rain and the foundations of a Han ritual hall on the main peak. Finds such as a jade burial suit and the 'Four Deities' mural are in the Shangqiu Museum and the Henan Museum."},{"id":"suixian-north-lake","name":"North Lake, Sui County","name_zh":"睢县北湖","pinyin":"Suīxiàn Běi Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.4364,"lon":115.0658,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-north-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake of about 3.3 km² on the north side of Sui county town, formed when the old walled city of Suizhou was drowned after the Yellow River dykes were breached in 1642. Islands that were the higher parts of the old city now hold gardens such as the Xiang Garden, where the county museum is housed, and the lake is used for canoeing training and triathlon races."},{"id":"shangqiu-riyue-lake","name":"Riyue Lake, Shangqiu","name_zh":"日月湖","pinyin":"Rìyuè Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.3733,"lon":115.6705,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangqiu-riyue-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An artificial lake of about 1 km² in the business district of Shangqiu's new town, dug as part of the new district's water system to store Yellow River water for irrigation and as a landscaped park. It is an urban park rather than a natural lake, suited to an evening stroll."},{"id":"yongcheng-riyue-lake","name":"Riyue Lake, Yongcheng","name_zh":"永城日月湖","pinyin":"Yǒngchéng Rìyuè Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":33.917,"lon":116.3889,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongcheng-riyue-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large park created from 2009 on land that had subsided over coal workings between Yongcheng's old and new towns, planned to cover 24 km², about a quarter of it water. Lakes, wetlands, islands and gardens with pavilions, towers and bridges make up its 'twenty-four views', and it was named a national water-conservancy scenic area in 2014."},{"id":"shangqiu-ancient-city","name":"Shangqiu Ancient City","name_zh":"商丘古城","pinyin":"Shāngqiū Gǔchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.3878,"lon":115.6128,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shangqiu-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled city of Guide prefecture, built in 1511 after floods destroyed the earlier town, whose brick inner wall (about 4.4 km round), broad moat-lake and outer earthen rampart give it the 'round outside, square inside' plan of a Chinese coin. Inside the four gates the old grid of lanes survives, much restored since the 2010s, with the prefectural Confucian temple, the Mu family courtyard house and the Zhuang Hui Tang residence of the late-Ming writer Hou Fangyu, while outside lie the Ebo (Fire God) Terrace and the rebuilt Yingtian Academy. Several older cities, including the Zhou-dynasty capital of the Song state, lie buried beneath and around it."},{"id":"shangqiu-museum","name":"Shangqiu Museum","name_zh":"商丘博物馆","pinyin":"Shāngqiū Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.3631,"lon":115.5869,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangqiu-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shangqiu's city museum, which opened in a new building on Huashang Avenue in 2016 and holds about 19,000 objects, mostly from excavations in the region. Highlights include finds from the Western Han royal tombs of Liang at Mount Mangdang, among them a jade suit sewn with gold thread."},{"id":"suixian-shengshou-temple-pagoda","name":"Shengshou Temple Pagoda, Yanzhuang","name_zh":"阎庄圣寿寺塔","pinyin":"Yánzhuāng Shèngshòu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.3168,"lon":114.8896,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-shengshou-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A six-sided, nine-storey brick pagoda of the dense-eave type, roughly 20 m tall, built under the Northern Song for the Shengshou Temple, which no longer exists, at Yanzhuang village. Repaired in 1985, it is the only national heritage unit in Sui County."},{"id":"minquan-wanggongzhuang-painting-village","name":"Wanggongzhuang Painting Village","name_zh":"王公庄","pinyin":"Wánggōngzhuāng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.826,"lon":115.2864,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minquan-wanggongzhuang-painting-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village about 25 km north-east of Minquan county town known as China's first tiger-painting village, where more than 900 villagers work in painting, mostly tigers in the traditional Chinese style. Visitors walk a street of galleries, see the art exhibition hall and browse paintings for sale, and there is also a fruit-picking garden and a study-tour base."},{"id":"zhecheng-ancient-city","name":"Zhecheng Ancient City Site","name_zh":"柘城故城","pinyin":"Zhèchéng Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Shangqiu","lat":34.0857,"lon":115.2916,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhecheng-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Zhecheng's county town from the Warring States period to the Ming, abandoned in the 16th century when Yellow River silt built up outside its walls and left the interior lower than the land around, so that it became a lake. A 230 m stretch of rammed-earth wall, 5–10 m high, survives above ground with the sites of the Xiehe Terrace, linked with the worship of Laozi, and other old landmarks, now part of the Ronghu Lake park on the north side of the present town."},{"id":"huixian-baiquan","name":"Baiquan Gardens, Huixian","name_zh":"百泉","pinyin":"Bǎiquán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.486,"lon":113.7809,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-baiquan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A classical garden of Ming and Qing halls and pavilions around a spring-fed lake at the foot of Sumen Hill on the north-west edge of Huixian town; the springs now flow mainly after heavy rain and the lake is topped up from outside. The hill was a retreat for scholars and holds the home and teaching place of the Song philosopher Shao Yong, a Ming Confucian temple, the terrace of the Wei–Jin recluse Sun Deng and many carved steles. The Baiquan herb fair, centuries old and listed as national intangible heritage, takes its name from the place."},{"id":"huixian-baiyun-temple","name":"Baiyun Temple, Huixian","name_zh":"白云寺","pinyin":"Báiyún Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.486,"lon":113.5285,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-baiyun-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple founded in the Tang dynasty in the Baiyun Temple National Forest Park on the southern slopes of the Taihang Mountains; its main hall, with glazed dragon and lotus ridge decoration, is Ming, and most other buildings are Qing. Memorial pagodas of monks from the Song to Ming periods stand around the temple and on the wooded slope behind, and the temple keeps a stele of 1008 on its Five Hundred Arhats hall and some very old ginkgo trees; the Qianlong Emperor visited in 1750."},{"id":"huixian-baligou","name":"Baligou Scenic Area","name_zh":"八里沟","pinyin":"Bālǐ Gōu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.5931,"lon":113.5418,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-baligou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A canyon scenic area in the Taihang Mountains north-west of Huixian, rated 5A in 2019, where three tiers of red cliffs enclose deep valleys with a string of pools and waterfalls, among them the Tianhe (Heavenly River) Waterfall. Paths link sights such as a 'one-thread-of-sky' cleft and the Black Dragon Pool, and the area now also takes in the Tianjie Mountain and Jiulian Mountain sections on the heights above."},{"id":"huixian-baoquan","name":"Baoquan Scenic Area","name_zh":"宝泉","pinyin":"Bǎoquán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4472,"lon":113.4765,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-baoquan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area under the red Taihang cliffs west of Huixian, rated 5A in December 2024. It has two linked parts: the Grand Canyon, a gentle valley of streams, pools and waterfalls suited to families, and Ya Tianxia on the cliffs above, which opened in April 2023. A cableway, a lift inside the cliff and the glass-floored Xiangyun platform give views over the lake, the cliff-top zone offers via ferrata, bungee jumping and a cliff roller coaster, and evening light shows are projected on the cliffs and waterfalls."},{"id":"changyuan-boyu-junzi-culture-area","name":"Boyu Village Gentleman Culture Area, Changyuan","name_zh":"伯玉君子文化旅游区","pinyin":"Bóyù Jūnzǐ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.1766,"lon":114.7408,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changyuan-boyu-junzi-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tourism area in Boyu village on the edge of Changyuan, the home of Qu Boyu, a statesman of the Spring and Autumn state of Wey whom Confucius praised as a true gentleman. The village, put on Henan's first provincial list of place-name cultural heritage in 2025, is the ancestral seat of the Qu clan and has been developed around the theme of 'gentleman culture'; a clan ancestral ceremony and culture festival took place here in March 2026."},{"id":"xinxiang-daguan-stele","name":"Daguan Stele, Xinxiang","name_zh":"新乡文庙大观圣作之碑","pinyin":"Xīnxiāng Wénmiào Dàguān Shèngzuò zhī Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.3044,"lon":113.8693,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxiang-daguan-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stone stele of 1108 carrying Emperor Huizong's regulations for state schools, written out in his own slender 'thin gold' calligraphy under a six-character heading by the minister Cai Jing. It is one of several surviving copies of this Daguan-era stele in China and stands in a pavilion in the grounds of the former Xinxiang county Confucian temple, in a compound used by local government offices."},{"id":"yanjin-dajue-temple-wanshou-pagoda","name":"Dajue Temple and Wanshou Pagoda, Yanjin","name_zh":"大觉寺万寿塔","pinyin":"Dàjué Sì Wànshòu Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.1456,"lon":114.1957,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanjin-dajue-temple-wanshou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple in the north-west of Yanjin town whose seven-storey Ming pagoda, the Wanshou Pagoda, gives its name to the square in front. The temple was founded in the Tang dynasty under another name and called Dajue after a mid-Ming rebuilding; besides the main hall it has a shrine to Lu Ban and Ge Hong and steles of the Yuan to Qing periods, including one written by the Yuan calligrapher Zhao Mengfu. A small museum is housed inside the temple."},{"id":"pingyuan-fenghu-lake-park","name":"Fenghu Lake Park","name_zh":"凤湖","pinyin":"Fèng Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.0107,"lon":113.7408,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyuan-fenghu-lake-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large landscaped lake in the centre of the new Pingyuan district, across the Yellow River from Zhengzhou, built as a reservoir for Yellow River water and opened as a park that was rated 4A in 2019. Paths circle the lake past a history and folk-culture section, lawns and plazas, cherry-tree walks, a wetland area with lotus and a wooded central island."},{"id":"weihui-dharani-pillar","name":"Five Dynasties Dharani Pillar, Weihui","name_zh":"陀罗尼经幢","pinyin":"Tuóluóní Jīngchuáng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4077,"lon":114.0686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihui-dharani-pillar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stone dharani pillar of the Five Dynasties period engraved with Buddhist incantations, rising from a plain shaft through several carved tiers to a jewel-shaped finial. It now stands indoors under a skylight in a building in the north of Weihui town."},{"id":"xinxiang-heshuo-library","name":"Former Heshuo Library","name_zh":"河朔图书馆旧址","pinyin":"Héshuò Túshūguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.3114,"lon":113.8632,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxiang-heshuo-library","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A library building completed in 1935 in central Xinxiang, in a Chinese palace style with a raised central bay under curved tiled roofs. The district government describes it as a witness to the 1946 Nationalist–Communist talks in which Zhou Enlai, Zhang Zhizhong and the American envoy George Marshall took part. It faces a public square, and conservation works on the building have been carried out since 2024."},{"id":"huixian-gongcheng-city-site","name":"Gongcheng City Site","name_zh":"共城城址","pinyin":"Gōngchéng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4561,"lon":113.8051,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-gongcheng-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Gong, the Zhou-period city whose ruler Gong Bo He is traditionally said to have governed during the Gonghe Regency that began in 841 BC, the first precisely dated year in Chinese history. A grassy section of its earthen rampart survives in the town of Huixian, lined by a paved walk with a stone balustrade and marked by a large heritage plaque."},{"id":"huixian-guanshan-geopark","name":"Guanshan Geopark","name_zh":"关山","pinyin":"Guān Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.5721,"lon":113.5509,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-guanshan-geopark","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national geopark in the Taihang Mountains north-west of Huixian, named after the ancient Zixia pass on a route through the range. Its scenery comes from cliff collapse and fissuring: forests of rock pillars, a narrow 'one-thread-of-sky' cleft, natural rock bridges and sheer walls, together with waterfalls and pools along the Pangu stream and a cave system known as Baibao Cave."},{"id":"huixian-jiaoding-mountain","name":"Jiaoding Mountain","name_zh":"轿顶山","pinyin":"Jiàodǐng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.704,"lon":113.6299,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-jiaoding-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Taihang range north of Huixian, rated 4A in 2015, with red cliffs and forested slopes reached by a mountain road that visitors may drive up. It is also a provincial-level holiday area and forest-wellness base, and is a popular spot for snow scenery in winter."},{"id":"xinxiang-jinghua-garden","name":"Jinghua Garden, Xinxiang","name_zh":"京华园","pinyin":"Jīnghuá Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.1887,"lon":113.7788,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxiang-jinghua-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped leisure park in Xiaoji town, Xinxiang County, run by a local company. The city's culture bureau counts it among the scenic areas that combine sightseeing with a theme park, and it has also been listed as a national agricultural-tourism demonstration site. It is a modern built attraction rather than a historic garden, and suits a short family outing from Xinxiang."},{"id":"yuanyang-jiuduo-rouduo-braised-meat-park","name":"Jiuduo Rouduo Braised Meat Culture Park","name_zh":"九多肉多酱卤文化园","pinyin":"Jiǔduō Ròuduō Jiànglǔ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.0474,"lon":113.9297,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanyang-jiuduo-rouduo-braised-meat-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A factory-tour attraction at the plant of Jiuduo Rouduo, a maker of soy-braised meats and side dishes in the industrial zone of Yuanyang County. A viewing corridor runs past the production workshops, and exhibition halls and a small garden present the company and the tradition of jianglu braised meat. It suits visitors curious about how Chinese packaged food is made."},{"id":"yuanyang-linglong-pagoda","name":"Linglong Pagoda, Yuanyang","name_zh":"玲珑塔","pinyin":"Línglóng Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.0003,"lon":113.7853,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanyang-linglong-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tall hexagonal brick pagoda of 1105, imitating a timber pavilion tower, outside the east gate of Yuanwu town; it belonged to Shanhu Temple, which burnt down in the Qing dynasty. The tower leans noticeably to the north-east, and its lowest storey is buried in Yellow River silt."},{"id":"weihui-longwoyan-forest-park","name":"Longwoyan Forest Park","name_zh":"龙卧岩","pinyin":"Lóngwò Yán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.6872,"lon":113.9465,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihui-longwoyan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A provincial-level forest park in the Taihang foothills of northern Weihui, around Longwoyan village, which has turned to village tourism. It is a wooded hill area for walks, and in winter it runs ice-and-snow play areas."},{"id":"xinxiang-luwang-mausoleum","name":"Mausoleum of the Prince of Lu","name_zh":"潞王陵","pinyin":"Lùwáng Líng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4192,"lon":113.9203,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinxiang-luwang-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tombs of Zhu Yiliu, Prince Jian of Lu and a younger brother of the Wanli Emperor, and of his secondary consort Zhao, laid out side by side on the southern slope of Fenghuang Mountain on the model of the emperor's own Dingling tomb near Beijing. A spirit way of stone officials and animals leads past stone archways and a three-arched bridge to gates, a sacrificial hall, a soul tower and walled burial mounds, all within bluestone walls. Many of the sculptures were damaged in the 1960s, while the consort's tomb, used as a prison from 1953 to 2005, came through largely intact."},{"id":"yanjin-guangtang-temple-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Guangtang Temple","name_zh":"广唐寺塔","pinyin":"Guǎngtáng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.2364,"lon":114.1407,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanjin-guangtang-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Song-period brick pagoda, the surviving structure of Guangtang Temple, standing in a village north of Yanjin town. Each of its storeys is marked by a band of brick bracket-work under the eaves, with small arched openings and lattice-patterned panels in the walls."},{"id":"weihui-paomaling-geopark","name":"Paomaling Geopark","name_zh":"跑马岭","pinyin":"Pǎomǎ Lǐng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.6391,"lon":113.9801,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihui-paomaling-geopark","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A provincial-level geopark and forest park in the Taihang foothills of northern Weihui, named after the ridge of the same name. It is an area of wooded hills for walking and scenery, and at the Spring Festival it has staged Ming-themed costume performances."},{"id":"yanjin-shamen-city-site","name":"Shamen City Site","name_zh":"沙门城址","pinyin":"Shāmén Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.289,"lon":114.1266,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanjin-shamen-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The sand-covered remains of a walled town and ferry crossing on an old course of the Yellow River, known locally as Wuqi City, with layers from the Warring States and Han periods beneath Song and Jin–Yuan remains. It was a Song ferry point and, in the late Jin and early Yuan, the seat of Weizhou prefecture until the river moved and floods buried it; stretches of the west and north earthen walls survive among woodland."},{"id":"huixian-tianwang-temple-shanji-pagoda","name":"Shanji Pagoda of Tianwang Temple","name_zh":"天王寺善济塔","pinyin":"Tiānwáng Sì Shànjì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4647,"lon":113.7999,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-tianwang-temple-shanji-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty brick pagoda, the surviving structure of the former Tianwang Temple in the town of Huixian. Its tall shaft rises in tiers of brick bracket-work eaves with small arched openings, and it now stands in a small fenced square among new housing."},{"id":"xinxiang-dingjue-temple-dharani-pillar","name":"Tang Dharani Pillar of Dingjue Temple","name_zh":"尊胜陀罗尼经幢","pinyin":"Zūnshèng Tuóluóní Jīngchuáng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.2999,"lon":113.9202,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxiang-dingjue-temple-dharani-pillar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An octagonal Tang-dynasty stone pillar engraved with the Usnisa Vijaya Dharani sutra, which once stood at Dingjue Temple in Xinxiang and is described by the Weibin district government as one of only two surviving Tang dharani pillars in China. It is now kept indoors at the Pingyuan Museum in eastern Xinxiang, the home of Xinxiang Museum, whose displays also cover the Neolithic Mengzhuang site in Huixian."},{"id":"weihui-bigan-temple","name":"Temple and Tomb of Bi Gan","name_zh":"比干庙","pinyin":"Bǐgān Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4634,"lon":114.0806,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weihui-bigan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple and tomb complex for Bi Gan, the Shang-dynasty prince who was executed for rebuking the last Shang king, Di Xin, and was later worshipped as a god of wealth. A temple was first founded here in 494, and the present screen wall, gates and sacrificial hall are Ming and Qing rebuilds on an axis that ends at the earthen burial mound, ringed by old cypresses. Among the steles is one whose four characters are traditionally attributed to Confucius, and a Bi Gan culture festival with temple fairs and lantern shows is held each spring."},{"id":"weihui-wangjing-tower","name":"Wangjing Tower, Weihui","name_zh":"望京楼","pinyin":"Wàngjīng Lóu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4095,"lon":114.076,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weihui-wangjing-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A two-storey hall of brick and stone built in 1591 by Zhu Yiliu, Prince of Lu and the only full brother of the Wanli Emperor, who raised it out of longing for his mother in Beijing; its name means 'gazing towards the capital'. It is a vaulted 'beamless' hall with no timber frame, faced with bluestone outside and white stone within. The library hall that once stood on its roof is gone, but a carved four-pillar stone archway still stands up there."},{"id":"huixian-wulongshan","name":"Wulongshan Tourist Area","name_zh":"五龙山","pinyin":"Wǔlóng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.4944,"lon":113.8618,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-wulongshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure and amusement complex in Changcun town just north-east of Huixian, with a children's amusement park, a ski slope in winter and staged shows, among them one on the Battle of Muye, in which the Zhou overthrew the Shang. It suits families looking for rides and entertainment rather than scenery."},{"id":"weihui-xiangquan-temple-grottoes","name":"Xiangquan Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"香泉寺石窟","pinyin":"Xiāngquán Sì Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.5554,"lon":113.9693,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weihui-xiangquan-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain temple on Linluo Mountain whose cliff carvings date from the Northern Qi: a Thousand Buddha Cave with groups of Buddha and bodhisattva figures and, beside it, a carved passage of the Avatamsaka (Huayan) Sutra. Later additions include the stone pagoda of the founding monk Sengchou, a stone pavilion of a thousand Buddhas, and the characters 'Xiangquan' (fragrant spring) carved by the Ming Prince of Lu above the spring that gives the temple its name."},{"id":"xinxiang-ximing-temple-stele","name":"Ximing Temple Buddhist Stele","name_zh":"西明寺造像碑","pinyin":"Xīmíng Sì Zàoxiàng Bēi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.2228,"lon":113.7617,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxiang-ximing-temple-stele","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large Northern Wei Buddhist stele carved with a triad of the Buddha Amitayus between the bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta, set against a backscreen decorated with lotus petals, seated Buddhas, flying apsaras and flame patterns. Broken up in the 1960s–70s and buried by villagers, it was dug up, pieced together and re-erected in the early 1990s, and the shelter built over it now forms the Xinxiang County Museum of Stone Carving at Xiaosongfo village."},{"id":"yuanyang-yuanwu-city-god-temple","name":"Yuanwu City God Temple","name_zh":"原武城隍庙","pinyin":"Yuánwǔ Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinxiang","lat":35.0001,"lon":113.7828,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuanyang-yuanwu-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple to the city god on East Street in the old town of Yuanwu, founded in 1369. Its main hall and worship hall date from the founding and keep Yuan-period building features, the front and middle halls were added in the late Ming, and Ming and Qing steles stand in the courtyards. The leaning Linglong Pagoda is a few hundred metres away."},{"id":"huangchuan-huang-state-city-site","name":"Ancient City of the Huang State","name_zh":"黄国故城","pinyin":"Huángguó Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.1627,"lon":114.9944,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangchuan-huang-state-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The capital of the Zhou-dynasty state of Huang, north-west of Huangchuan town: a rectangular enclosure of rammed-earth walls, still several metres high in places, with a moat outside the east wall. Inside, archaeologists have found wells, bronze-casting workshops and a raised palace platform."},{"id":"huaibin-jiang-state-city-site","name":"Ancient City of the Jiang State","name_zh":"蒋国故城","pinyin":"Jiǎngguó Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.3414,"lon":115.4802,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaibin-jiang-state-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of a walled city at Qisi, linked by ancient texts to the Zhou-dynasty state of Jiang and later the Chu town of Qisi and a Han county seat. Broken stretches of wall survive on three sides of the roughly rectangular enclosure, and the present-day village of Qisi stands within it."},{"id":"gushi-anshan-forest-park","name":"Anshan Forest Park","name_zh":"安山森林公园","pinyin":"Ānshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.2233,"lon":115.9065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gushi-anshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A provincial forest park on Anshan, a wooded hill in Quanhepu township in the east of Gushi County. A Daoist temple, Anshan Nainai Temple, stands near the summit."},{"id":"gushi-chen-yuanguang-ancestral-temple","name":"Chen Yuanguang Ancestral Temple","name_zh":"陈元光祖祠","pinyin":"Chén Yuánguāng Zǔcí","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.2835,"lon":115.8816,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gushi-chen-yuanguang-ancestral-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An ancestral temple in Chenji town honouring Chen Yuanguang (657–711), the Tang general from Gushi who is revered in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and among emigrant communities in Taiwan and South-East Asia as the 'Sacred King who Opened Zhangzhou'. It was founded by his grandson in the Tianbao era of the Tang, and the present halls date from the Jiaqing reign of the Qing."},{"id":"pingqiao-chengyang-city-site","name":"Chengyang City Site Archaeological Park","name_zh":"城阳城址","pinyin":"Chéngyáng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.3624,"lon":114.0485,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingqiao-chengyang-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Chengyang, an Eastern Zhou walled town that was a military stronghold of the state of Chu, surrounded by Chu tombs. Parts of the city wall and the outline of its moat survive, and a tomb excavated here in 1957 yielded a set of bronze bells. The site museum, opened in 2014 inside the archaeological park, is devoted to Chu culture, with bronzes, pottery, lacquered wood and jade, and halls built over two excavated tomb chambers."},{"id":"xinxian-dabie-mountains-camping-park","name":"Dabie Mountains Camping Park","name_zh":"大别山露营公园","pinyin":"Dàbié Shān Lùyíng Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.6044,"lon":114.9065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-dabie-mountains-camping-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A campground park at the eastern edge of Xin County town, opened in 2017, where self-drive groups can stay overnight, with campfires in the evening. It suits travellers who want to stay out in the Dabie hills while visiting the county's old villages and revolutionary sites."},{"id":"guangshan-dasu-mountain-forest-park","name":"Dasu Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"大苏山","pinyin":"Dàsū Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.8644,"lon":114.7835,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangshan-dasu-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park of low wooded hills south-west of Guangshan town, set up in 2015 and taking in Dasu Mountain, Longshou Mountain and the Wangmu Daoist temple area. The monk Huisi taught in the area in the 550s and 560s, and his disciple Zhiyi, later the leading figure of the Tiantai school of Buddhism, studied under him on Dasu Mountain from 560 to 567. Jingju Temple, which honours this tradition, stands in the park, and Su Shi wrote a poem on a visit to it."},{"id":"guangshan-deng-yingchao-ancestral-home","name":"Deng Yingchao's Ancestral Home","name_zh":"邓颖超祖居","pinyin":"Dèng Yǐngchāo Zǔjū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.0092,"lon":114.8982,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangshan-deng-yingchao-ancestral-home","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of Qing-dynasty courtyard houses in Guangshan town where the grandfather and father of Deng Yingchao, the Communist leader and wife of Premier Zhou Enlai, lived. Restored in 2001 and 2006, its three courtyards hold exhibitions on the lives of Deng and Zhou with personal belongings, a corridor of inscribed tablets and a marble bust of Deng."},{"id":"xinxian-dingliwan-village","name":"Dingliwan Village","name_zh":"丁李湾","pinyin":"Dīnglǐwān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.7379,"lon":114.9503,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-dingliwan-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hamlet in Balifan town, Xin County, whose old houses were built by families with roots in southern Anhui and northern Jiangxi, in a Hui style of high horse-head gables, grey brick on stone bases, carved brick and stone gatehouses and narrow stone-paved lanes. Five tall gatehouses line the north bank of the village pond, one of them belonging to the house of a Qing prefect, and in 2012 it was named one of the first Chinese Traditional Villages."},{"id":"xinxian-red-1st-army-headquarters","name":"Former Headquarters of the Red Army's 1st Army","name_zh":"红一军司令部旧址","pinyin":"Hóng Yī Jūn Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.509,"lon":114.7841,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-red-1st-army-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-room brick-and-timber farmhouse with a walled courtyard in Huanggufan village, used in 1930 as headquarters of the Red Army's 1st Army, formed that spring with Xu Jishen as commander and Xu Xiangqian as his deputy. The middle room was the commanders' meeting room, the south room Xu Jishen's bedroom and the north room the mess."},{"id":"xinxian-red-25th-army-headquarters","name":"Former Headquarters of the Red Army's 25th Army","name_zh":"红二十五军司令部旧址","pinyin":"Hóng Èrshíwǔ Jūn Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.5024,"lon":114.8406,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-red-25th-army-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site used in 1933 as headquarters of the Red Army's 25th Army, the force that set out on its own Long March from Hejiachong in neighbouring Luoshan County in November 1934. It stands in Fangwan village, Jianchanghe township, in the hills of southern Xin County near the Hubei border, a few kilometres from the former 1st Army headquarters and the border soviet government site."},{"id":"xinxian-eyuwan-border-soviet-government-site","name":"Former Site of the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Border Special District Soviet Government","name_zh":"鄂豫皖边特区苏维埃政府旧址","pinyin":"È-Yù-Wǎn Biān Tèqū Sūwéi'āi Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.4979,"lon":114.8095,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-eyuwan-border-soviet-government-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former seat, in Yangfan village, of the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Border Special District Soviet Government, which the Communist-led base area proclaimed in June 1930. It is one of a cluster of 1930s Red Army and soviet sites in the hills of southern Xin County, close to the former 1st Army headquarters."},{"id":"xinxian-xu-shiyou-hometown","name":"General Xu Shiyou's Hometown and Memorial Hall","name_zh":"许世友将军故里","pinyin":"Xǔ Shìyǒu Jiāngjūn Gùlǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.4855,"lon":114.9891,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-xu-shiyou-hometown","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The birthplace of Xu Shiyou (1906–1985), one of the founding generals of the People's Liberation Army, who as a boy trained at Shaolin Temple, in the hamlet of Xujiawa in Hepu village. The site takes in his family home, a memorial hall on his life and his grave: he asked to be buried beside his mother, and in 1985 Deng Xiaoping approved this exception to the rule that senior leaders be cremated."},{"id":"luoshan-guishan-lake","name":"Guishan Lake Park","name_zh":"龟山湖","pinyin":"Guīshān Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.2448,"lon":114.4897,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoshan-guishan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake park north of Luoshan county town, beside the Youdian township seat, laid out in recent years around a lake with surrounding woodland and walkways. The paths have been themed as an 'intellectual property park', with signboards and illustrations about patents, trademarks and intangible-heritage crafts, and the park makes an easy walk for anyone staying in Luoshan."},{"id":"luoshan-hejiachong-long-march-site","name":"Hejiachong (Red 25th Army Long March Starting Point)","name_zh":"何家冲","pinyin":"Héjiāchōng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.8189,"lon":114.295,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoshan-hejiachong-long-march-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village in Tiepu town, Luoshan County, where about 2,900 soldiers of the Red Army's 25th Army assembled by an old ginkgo tree on 16 November 1934 before setting out on their own Long March, which reached northern Shaanxi in September 1935. The He family ancestral hall, a Ming-dynasty building that served as the army's headquarters, is now a memorial hall with period furniture, oil lamps and army shoes on display."},{"id":"shihe-hejiazhai-campsite","name":"Hejiazhai Campsite","name_zh":"何家寨露营基地","pinyin":"Héjiāzhài Lùyíng Jīdì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.0242,"lon":113.8852,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day (or overnight)","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shihe-hejiazhai-campsite","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside campsite and tent-hotel resort among the tea gardens of Haojiachong village, Shihegang town, opened in 2022, with white tent lodges scattered over the slopes and a shuttle up to the hilltop. When it opened it also had a mirror-glass photo platform and a glass water slide through the woods, plus tea-themed study programmes for school groups."},{"id":"shangcheng-huangbaishan-forest-park","name":"Huangbai Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"黄柏山","pinyin":"Huángbǎi Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.3962,"lon":115.3149,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangcheng-huangbaishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park of forested ridges and valleys in the Dabie Mountains at the southern tip of Shangcheng County, where Henan meets Hubei and Anhui. Fayan Temple, a Buddhist monastery, stands within the park."},{"id":"shangcheng-jingangtai-maoer-peak","name":"Jingangtai Maoer Peak Scenic Area","name_zh":"金刚台猫耳峰","pinyin":"Jīngāng Tái Māo'ěr Fēng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.7452,"lon":115.4905,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangcheng-jingangtai-maoer-peak","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area on Jingangtai, the highest peak of the Dabie Mountains in Henan, within the Jingangtai National Geopark south-east of Shangcheng town. It takes its name from Maoer ('cat's ear') Peak and suits a day of hill walking on the Henan–Anhui border."},{"id":"shangcheng-jingangtai-xihe-scenic-area","name":"Jingangtai Xihe Scenic Area","name_zh":"金刚台西河景区","pinyin":"Jīngāngtái Xīhé","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.731,"lon":115.5443,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangcheng-jingangtai-xihe-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Jingangtai National Geopark in the Dabie Mountains of Shangcheng County, made up of a tea-terraced gorge, the Huatuo Valley, a lake ringed by a waterside boardwalk and a river gorge used for rafting. Reports from 2023 and 2024 list canyon trails, a glass suspension bridge, a treetop adventure course and ziplines, and the valley is one of the main sources of Shangcheng's high-mountain green tea."},{"id":"xinxian-jinlanshan-forest-park","name":"Jinlan Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"金兰山","pinyin":"Jīnlán Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.6526,"lon":114.825,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-jinlanshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the wooded Dabie hills on the north-western edge of Xin County town. In 1932 the Red Army fought a blocking action along the line from Fushanzhai to Jinlan Mountain during the Nationalist encirclement campaigns against the base area."},{"id":"shihe-linglong-lake","name":"Linglong Lake","name_zh":"灵龙湖","pinyin":"Línglóng Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.9716,"lon":114.1458,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shihe-linglong-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir lake about 5 km long in the tea and bamboo hills of Dongshuanghe township, created in 1965 as the Longwangsi Reservoir, whose waters covered the site of the old Longwang Temple. The scenic area around it combines forest, tea gardens and an old ginkgo tree with lakeside platforms, boating and fishing, and its first phase, finished in 2016, added a folk-culture village and a food street."},{"id":"luoshan-lingshan-mountain","name":"Lingshan Scenic Area, Luoshan","name_zh":"灵山","pinyin":"Líng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.8992,"lon":114.2172,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoshan-lingshan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A granite mountain in Lingshan town, south-west Luoshan County, with forested slopes, streams and waterfalls, forming part of the Dongzhai national bird reserve. Its best-known sight is Lingshan Temple, said to date back to the Northern Wei, where monks and nuns share one temple and a large temple fair is held on the first day of the third lunar month."},{"id":"xixian-longhu-park","name":"Longhu Park, Xi County","name_zh":"息县龙湖公园","pinyin":"Xī Xiàn Lónghú Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.3527,"lon":114.7549,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-longhu-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A long lake park through the middle of Xi County town, created from a former reservoir, with willow-lined embankments, an island and boats on the lake. It was rated 3A until the province raised it to 4A in December 2025, and it makes an easy stroll for anyone staying in town."},{"id":"xinyang-mount-jigong","name":"Mount Jigong","name_zh":"鸡公山","pinyin":"Jīgōng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.8042,"lon":114.0773,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinyang-mount-jigong/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested ridge of the Dabie Mountains on the Henan–Hubei border, named after the rooster-shaped crag of Baoxiao Peak and long a summer retreat thanks to its cool climate. From 1898 to 1936 foreign missionaries and diplomats, along with Chinese military figures and businessmen, built hundreds of villas in various styles here, and the surviving early-20th-century buildings are protected as a national heritage site. Paths link the villa quarter with viewpoints and wooded valleys in what is also a national nature reserve."},{"id":"xinyang-nanwan-lake","name":"Nanwan Lake","name_zh":"南湾湖","pinyin":"Nánwān Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.1244,"lon":114.0031,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyang-nanwan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large reservoir in wooded hills just south-west of Xinyang, made by damming the Shi River in 1952–1955, whose dam face carries Mao Zedong's call to harness the Huai River. Three of its islands have been developed for visitors as Tea, Bird and Monkey islands, and Xianyin Temple, first founded in the Southern Dynasties, stands below Xian Mountain at the eastern end. The hills upstream are a main growing area for Xinyang Maojian tea."},{"id":"xixian-pugongshan-mine-park","name":"Pugongshan Mine Park","name_zh":"濮公山矿山公园","pinyin":"Púgōng Shān Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.304,"lon":114.7278,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-pugongshan-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mine park on Pugong Hill, across the Huai River from Xi County town, where a former quarry has been landscaped and replanted around a lake among the hills. A natural history museum stands on the site, and the park makes a short outing from Xi County, an ancient county seat on the Huai."},{"id":"xinxian-eyuwan-soviet-capital-museum","name":"Revolutionary Museum of the Capital of the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Soviet Area","name_zh":"鄂豫皖苏区首府革命博物馆","pinyin":"È-Yù-Wǎn Sūqū Shǒufǔ Gémìng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.6192,"lon":114.8741,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-eyuwan-soviet-capital-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xin County town, then called Xinji, became the seat of the Communist-led Hubei–Henan–Anhui (Eyuwan) soviet base area in 1931, and former offices of the base survive here, among them those of the Party's Eyuwan Bureau, the soviet government and the Fourth Front Army headquarters. The museum beside them, opened in 1990 and rated a national first-grade museum in 2017, covers the ten years of the base area with weapons, banners, documents, seals, currency and land certificates, plus a gallery on generals from the county."},{"id":"xinyang-taohuazhai-scenic-area","name":"Taohuazhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"桃花寨","pinyin":"Táohuā Zhài","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.836,"lon":113.9726,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyang-taohuazhai-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested valley about 8 km west of the Jigong Mountain scenic area, named after a local legend of a peach-blossom fairy and known for its streams, pools and waterfalls. Xinyang's official tourism account listed boat trips on its lake, a glass suspension bridge, slides, bungee jumping and jungle rafting among its activities in 2021, so it is aimed at families and groups looking for outdoor fun rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"shihe-wenxin-tea-village","name":"Wenxin Tea Village","name_zh":"文新茶村","pinyin":"Wénxīn Chácūn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.0164,"lon":113.913,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shihe-wenxin-tea-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tea-themed tourist village in Shihegang town, in the hills south-west of Xinyang where Xinyang Maojian, one of China's best-known green teas, is grown. Visitors can pick leaves in the tea gardens and watch the tea being fired by hand, a craft listed as national intangible heritage. Nanwan Lake is nearby."},{"id":"gushi-west-jiuhua-mountain","name":"West Jiuhua Mountain","name_zh":"西九华山","pinyin":"Xī Jiǔhuá Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.8024,"lon":115.7884,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gushi-west-jiuhua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill scenic area in Chenlinzi town in southern Gushi County, near the Anhui border, built around Miaogao Temple, a Buddhist temple whose monks' stupas are a provincial heritage site. Tea gardens and bamboo groves cover the slopes, and the area is also a provincial geopark."},{"id":"xinxian-wuzhanling-resort","name":"Wuzhanling Eco-tourism Resort","name_zh":"武占岭","pinyin":"Wǔzhàn Lǐng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.6716,"lon":114.7066,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-wuzhanling-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure resort in the wooded valleys of Doushanhe township, Xin County, built around a river-rafting run and also known as Wuzhanling Rafting. It suits a summer day out rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"xinxian-xihe-maopu-villages","name":"Xihe and Maopu Old Villages","name_zh":"西河毛铺","pinyin":"Xīhé Máopù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.6209,"lon":115.0196,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxian-xihe-maopu-villages","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two old villages in Zhouhe township: Xihe, a settlement more than 700 years old that sits between green hills and the West River and keeps over 150 old houses of grey brick and dark tile, and Maopu, whose Loushang Louxia hamlet is a listed Chinese Traditional Village. Their Qing houses are listed as heritage buildings, and Xihe has become a busy rural-tourism village with guesthouses and restaurants."},{"id":"xixian-xizhou-shanhai-forest-park","name":"Xizhou Shanhai Forest Park","name_zh":"息州杉海","pinyin":"Xīzhōu Shānhǎi","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":32.364,"lon":114.7149,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-xizhou-shanhai-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park on the north-western edge of Xi County town, developed from the old state forest farm and named for its \"sea\" of dawn redwood, pond cypress and bald cypress. It also has large groves of Chinese wingnut and Masson pine, Ma Yuan Square and a cultural hall about Lady Xi, linked with the ancient state of Xi from which the county takes its name, and makes a shady walk close to town."},{"id":"guangshan-yongji-bridge","name":"Yongji Bridge, Guangshan","name_zh":"永济桥","pinyin":"Yǒngjì Qiáo","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.8176,"lon":114.9076,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangshan-yongji-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A multi-arch granite bridge, also called Wanjin Bridge, first built in the Ming dynasty, that links the north and south streets of Popihe town across the Popi River. The arches grow larger towards the middle, giving the deck a gentle hump, and the parapets keep carved posts and stone lions."},{"id":"guangshan-zhonggulou-family-park","name":"Zhonggulou Family Park","name_zh":"钟鼓楼亲子乐园","pinyin":"Zhōnggǔlóu Qīnzǐ Lèyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xinyang","lat":31.7895,"lon":114.8887,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangshan-zhonggulou-family-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A children's nature park in Popihe town, Guangshan County, laid out on a former forest farm. It has terraced flower beds, playgrounds with slides, climbing nets and sandpits, and cabin lodging, and is aimed at families with young children."},{"id":"xuchang-baling-bridge","name":"Baling Bridge Scenic Area","name_zh":"灞陵桥","pinyin":"Bàlíng Qiáo","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.0224,"lon":113.7796,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuchang-baling-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park on the western side of Xuchang marking the place where, in Three Kingdoms legend, Guan Yu took his leave of Cao Cao and lifted the parting gift of a robe on the tip of his blade. The original three-arched stone bridge was lost to water works; a modern bridge stands in the park, which also keeps a tablet put up by the late-Ming general Zuo Liangyu. The park's nationally listed Guan Yu Temple, a courtyard complex of halls and a pavilion founded in 1689 and rich in Ming and Qing steles, is unusual in honouring Guan Yu and Cao Cao together in its main hall."},{"id":"yuzhou-china-jun-porcelain-culture-park","name":"China Jun Porcelain Culture Park","name_zh":"中国钧瓷文化园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Jūncí Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1471,"lon":113.5102,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuzhou-china-jun-porcelain-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed park on the north side of Yuzhou devoted to Jun ware, one of the celebrated Song-dynasty ceramics, laid out as a palace-style garden around Tiancheng Pavilion, a building about 50 m tall. The pavilion's halls display the history of Jun porcelain and the work of local kilns, and workshops in the park let visitors try throwing a pot on the wheel. It has hosted several of the city's Jun porcelain festivals."},{"id":"xuchang-chunqiu-tower","name":"Chunqiu Tower Scenic Area","name_zh":"春秋楼","pinyin":"Chūnqiū Lóu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.0276,"lon":113.822,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuchang-chunqiu-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled complex of Ming and Qing-style buildings in the centre of Xuchang's old city, built around the tower where, in Three Kingdoms lore, Guan Yu sat up at night reading the Spring and Autumn Annals while he was held by Cao Cao. The same scenic area takes in the nationally listed Confucian Temple, founded in the Tang and rebuilt several times since, with a screen wall, a semicircular pool and the Dacheng Hall, so that temples to Guan Yu and Confucius stand side by side. A live drama on Guan Yu's story is staged by day and a light show in the evening."},{"id":"xiangcheng-city-wall","name":"City Wall of Xiangcheng","name_zh":"襄城城墙","pinyin":"Xiāngchéng Chéngqiáng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":33.8492,"lon":113.4671,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangcheng-city-wall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The western side of Xiangcheng's old county wall, the only part left after the south, east and north walls were pulled down between the Republican era and the 1970s. The wall was faced with brick in the late Ming, wrecked by Li Zicheng's rebels and rebuilt in 1651; it now runs along the western edge of the old town, a few hundred metres from the Confucian Temple."},{"id":"yuzhou-dahongzhai","name":"Dahongzhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"大鸿寨","pinyin":"Dàhóngzhài","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.2554,"lon":113.0836,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Most of a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuzhou-dahongzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park of about 36 km² in the hills of north-western Yuzhou, named after Dahong, a minister of the legendary Yellow Emperor whom local tradition places here; its highest peak, Wofo Mountain, is 1,156 m. Paths lead past cliffs, caves, streams and pools, and the slopes turn red in the second half of October. Shuttle transport, a glass bridge with a slide and other rides have been added for day-trippers."},{"id":"yanling-huadu-hot-spring-town","name":"Huadu Hot Spring Town","name_zh":"花都温泉小镇","pinyin":"Huādū Wēnquán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.0816,"lon":114.0602,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-huadu-hot-spring-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Chenhuadian town, set among Yanling's flower nurseries, with geothermal bathing pools, a hotel and guesthouses. Camping and seasonal events are held in the grounds, and it makes a base for touring the county's gardens."},{"id":"yuzhou-huaibang-guild-hall","name":"Huaibang Guild Hall","name_zh":"怀邦会馆","pinyin":"Huáibāng Huìguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1687,"lon":113.4639,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuzhou-huaibang-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A guild hall built in 1872 by medicine merchants from Huaiqing prefecture, who traded their 'four Huai herbs' through Yuzhou, one of China's historic medicine markets. Behind a long brick screen wall, its gate-cum-opera stage, side galleries and linked worship and main halls are roofed in peacock-blue glazed tiles and richly carved; the main hall honours Guan Yu flanked by the physicians Zhang Zhongjing and Sun Simiao. It now houses the Yuzhou Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture."},{"id":"yanling-jianye-green-base","name":"Jianye Green Base","name_zh":"建业绿色基地","pinyin":"Jiànyè Lǜsè Jīdì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1447,"lon":114.1727,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-jianye-green-base","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A plant-growing and garden base among the nurseries of Yanling, promoted on the city's 2026 spring flower routes for its anthuriums and crab-apple blossom. The county names it among its main gardens alongside the Flower Expo Garden and Tangyun; expect seasonal planting rather than historic sights."},{"id":"yanling-jinyu-herb-manor","name":"Jinyu Herb Manor","name_zh":"金雨香草庄园","pinyin":"Jīnyǔ Xiāngcǎo Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.0945,"lon":114.0801,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-jinyu-herb-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A herb-themed hot-spring resort in Yanling whose bathing pools are infused with fragrant herbs. It is one of several spa resorts the county promotes together with its flower gardens, and suits a relaxing half-day rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"jianan-lingjing-xuchang-man-site","name":"Lingjing Xuchang Man Site","name_zh":"灵井“许昌人”遗址","pinyin":"Língjǐng Xǔchāngrén Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.069,"lon":113.6805,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianan-lingjing-xuchang-man-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The spring-side site where two skull caps of 'Xuchang Man', an archaic human who lived here roughly 100,000 to 130,000 years ago, were dug up in 2007 and 2014, together with stone and bone tools and animal fossils; the finds were published in Science in 2017. A display hall at the excavation area, fitted with a recently completed digital exhibition, presents the dig and its finds."},{"id":"yuzhou-pojie-guanwang-temple-hall","name":"Main Hall of Guanwang Temple, Pojie","name_zh":"坡街关王庙大殿","pinyin":"Pōjiē Guānwáng Miào Dàdiàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.2117,"lon":113.2939,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuzhou-pojie-guanwang-temple-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The one surviving hall of a village temple to Guan Yu, nationally listed as a Yuan-dynasty timber building and repaired in recent years. It is a modest grey-tiled hall in its own walled yard among village houses, of interest mainly to those looking for early Chinese timber architecture."},{"id":"yuzhou-mausoleum-prince-ding-of-zhou","name":"Mausoleum of Zhu Su, Prince Ding of Zhou","name_zh":"周定王陵","pinyin":"Zhōu Dìngwáng Líng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.3155,"lon":113.5674,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuzhou-mausoleum-prince-ding-of-zhou/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The hillside tomb of Zhu Su (1361–1425), fifth son of the founding Ming emperor, who as Prince of Zhou compiled the Jiuhuang bencao, a pioneering guide to wild plants that can be eaten in times of famine. His tomb and that of a consort were cut into the hills as large brick-vaulted underground palaces, robbed long ago and now empty; the consort's tomb has 18 vaulted chambers off a ring corridor wide enough for a bus. The two tombs and the wooded hills around them are run as a small scenic area."},{"id":"yanling-qianming-temple-pagoda","name":"Qianming Temple Pagoda, Yanling","name_zh":"乾明寺塔","pinyin":"Qiánmíng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1073,"lon":114.1884,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-qianming-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tall six-sided brick pagoda on Longxing ridge in the north-west of Yanling town, rebuilt in the Song dynasty for a temple first founded in 604; the temple itself has long gone. Its storeys carry brick-carved brackets, blind windows and niches with Buddha figures, and repairs in 1996 found a gilt-bronze Buddha and Ming sutras in its finial."},{"id":"xiangcheng-qianming-temple","name":"Qianming Temple, Xiangcheng","name_zh":"乾明寺","pinyin":"Qiánmíng Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":33.8221,"lon":113.4714,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangcheng-qianming-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the north slope of Shoushan hill south of Xiangcheng, first founded on the summit in 934 and rebuilt several times since; because it faces north it is nicknamed the 'Back-Shadow Temple'. Its finest pieces are a carved-brick screen wall of 1551, showing the Yellow Emperor gathering copper on Shoushan and other legends, and the central Buddha hall with a hip-and-gable roof. A large forest of monks' pagodas west of the temple was destroyed in 1968."},{"id":"yuzhou-shenhou-ancient-town","name":"Shenhou Ancient Town","name_zh":"神垕古镇","pinyin":"Shénhòu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1198,"lon":113.2218,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuzhou-shenhou-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A pottery town in the hills south-west of Yuzhou where Jun ware has been made since the Tang and Song, and which is still full of working kilns, studios and showrooms. Its winding old street keeps Ming and Qing houses, the Bolingweng Temple with its opera stage and other shrines, and the town was named a national historic and cultural town in 2005. The town's kiln-site museum is open, and many workshops let visitors watch the firing or try the potter's wheel."},{"id":"changge-shierliancheng","name":"Shi'erliancheng Eastern Zhou Walls","name_zh":"十二连城","pinyin":"Shí'èr Liánchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.2632,"lon":113.7977,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changge-shierliancheng","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Broken stretches of rammed-earth wall winding through the fields north-west of Laocheng in Changge, dated by archaeologists to the Eastern Zhou and thought to be a defensive long wall built by the state of Wei. The name, 'twelve linked walls', comes from the separate sections of earthwork, in which the tamped layers are still clearly visible; bronze weapons have been found along them."},{"id":"xiangcheng-shoushan-scenic-area","name":"Shoushan Scenic Area","name_zh":"首山","pinyin":"Shǒu Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":33.8105,"lon":113.4776,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangcheng-shoushan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill just south of Xiangcheng town, linked in legend with the Yellow Emperor, who is said to have mined copper here, and ringed by rapeseed fields whose spring flowering has drawn an annual festival since 2018. A walking path circles the hill and leads to a viewing platform on the summit, and Qianming Temple lies at the hill's northern foot."},{"id":"yanling-tangyun-eco-tourism-area","name":"Tangyun Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"唐韵生态旅游区","pinyin":"Tángyùn Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1346,"lon":114.0921,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-tangyun-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A garden park among Yanling's plant nurseries that combines a cherry-blossom garden with courtyards, pavilions and colonnades built in Tang-dynasty style among flowering trees. A new Tang-themed section with costume experiences opened in 2026, and the park is a regular stop on the county's spring flower routes."},{"id":"jianan-tianbao-palace","name":"Tianbao Palace","name_zh":"天宝宫","pinyin":"Tiānbǎo Gōng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1575,"lon":113.6543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianan-tianbao-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple complex north-west of Xuchang, founded in 1240 as an abbey, raised to a 'palace' in 1269, destroyed at the end of the Yuan and rebuilt from the Ming onwards. Along its central axis a triple-arched gate, an offering pavilion on stone columns and halls to Yue Fei, Guan Yu, the Jade Emperor and the Thunder Patriarch lead to the broad Zhenwu Hall, roofed in green glazed tiles and fronted by columns carved with dragons and phoenixes."},{"id":"yuzhou-tianning-wanshou-temple","name":"Tianning Wanshou Temple, Yuzhou","name_zh":"天宁万寿寺","pinyin":"Tiānníng Wànshòu Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1667,"lon":113.4632,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuzhou-tianning-wanshou-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Yuzhou's old city whose surviving buildings, nationally listed in 2019, date from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties. A tall red-walled hall under a green-glazed roof stands on a street in the old town."},{"id":"xuchang-wenfeng-pagoda","name":"Wenfeng Pagoda, Xuchang","name_zh":"许昌文峰塔","pinyin":"Xǔchāng Wénfēng Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.0189,"lon":113.8319,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xuchang-wenfeng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tall octagonal brick pagoda of 13 storeys, built in 1615 on the initiative of the prefect of Xuzhou, Zheng Zhenguang, and also known as the Wenming Pagoda. It stands in a courtyard on Wenfeng Road, now run as the Wenfeng Pagoda Cultural Relics Protection Centre, with three Ming and Qing steles recording its building and repairs in front; it can no longer be climbed."},{"id":"yanling-wucai-dadi","name":"Wucai Dadi Flower Fields","name_zh":"五彩大地","pinyin":"Wǔcǎi Dàdì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1488,"lon":114.0884,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-wucai-dadi","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A sightseeing park of flower fields in the core of Yanling County's nursery-growing district, planned in 2015 and laid out from 2016 as part of the county's flower-tourism drive. Expect seasonal flower displays rather than historic sights."},{"id":"xiangcheng-confucian-temple","name":"Xiangcheng Confucian Temple","name_zh":"襄城文庙","pinyin":"Xiāngchéng Wénmiào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":33.8515,"lon":113.4713,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangcheng-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A county Confucian temple and school on Limin West Street in Xiangcheng, on this site since the Song and rebuilt many times. Two Ming buildings survive: the Dacheng Hall, rebuilt in the 15th century on Yuan foundations, and the Kuibi, a glazed screen wall of 1585 decorated with panels of coloured brick relief, along with traces of the semicircular pool and the Lingxing Gate."},{"id":"yanling-xingguo-temple-pagoda","name":"Xingguo Temple Pagoda, Yanling","name_zh":"兴国寺塔","pinyin":"Xīngguó Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.052,"lon":114.2053,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-xingguo-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick pagoda, nationally listed as Song-dynasty work, standing in a village south of Yanling town as the only surviving part of Xingguo Temple. The Qianming Temple Pagoda in town is Yanling's other nationally listed pagoda, and the two make a short detour from the county's gardens."},{"id":"jianan-xudu-han-wei-city-site","name":"Xudu Han–Wei City Site","name_zh":"汉魏许都故城","pinyin":"Hàn Wèi Xǔdū Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":33.9894,"lon":114.0193,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianan-xudu-han-wei-city-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Xu, where Cao Cao brought the last Han emperor in 196 and where the court stayed until the Wei capital moved to Luoyang in the 220s. Most of the city now lies under farmland, but parts of the inner earthen wall survive and the Yuxiu Terrace, where Emperor Xian is said to have sacrificed to Heaven and Earth, still rises above the fields with temple halls on top. Just to the north, Zhang Gong Shrine is said locally to mark where Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei camped when they were received by Emperor Xian."},{"id":"yanling-national-flower-expo-garden","name":"Yanling National Flower and Plant Expo Garden","name_zh":"鄢陵国家花木博览园","pinyin":"Yānlíng Guójiā Huāmù Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.0997,"lon":114.1472,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-national-flower-expo-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large landscaped garden in Yanling's new town, built in 2002 to show off the county's centuries-old nursery and flower trade, with themed areas for bamboo, wintersweet, bonsai, conifers and tropical plants. It also works as a showground and market for nursery stock and hosted early editions of the Central China Flower and Tree Fair, which is still held in Yanling every autumn. Come for plants and bonsai rather than historic sights."},{"id":"yuzhou-jun-kiln-site-museum","name":"Yuzhou Jun Kiln Site Museum","name_zh":"禹州钧官窑址博物馆","pinyin":"Yǔzhōu Jūnguānyáozhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Xuchang","lat":34.1686,"lon":113.4721,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuzhou-jun-kiln-site-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum on the Juntai kiln site in Yuzhou, source of the 'official' Jun wares made for the imperial court, whose date (late Northern Song or early Ming) is still debated; the kilns were found in 1964 and excavated from 1974. The building, designed by the architect Qi Kang and opened in 2011, presents the excavated remains and a chronological exhibition on Yuzhou's history and Jun ware drawn from a collection of about 1,500 objects. The national listing also covers the kiln sites at Shenhou, where a separate kiln-site museum is open."},{"id":"xingyang-aoparara-water-park","name":"Aoparara Water Park, Xiangdiwan","name_zh":"香堤湾·奥帕拉拉水公园","pinyin":"Xiāngdīwān · Àopàlālā Shuǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7552,"lon":113.445,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyang-aoparara-water-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An outdoor summer water park next to the Xiangdiwan hotel on Zhongyuan West Road in Yulong town, Xingyang, on the western edge of Zhengzhou, built around a large wave pool. It suits families wanting a day in the water close to the city."},{"id":"xinmi-western-henan-anti-japanese-memorial-park","name":"Central Plains Western Henan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Park","name_zh":"中原豫西抗日纪念园","pinyin":"Zhōngyuán Yùxī Kàngrì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5989,"lon":113.2056,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinmi-western-henan-anti-japanese-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park in Tianzhongwan village, deep in the Fuxi Mountain area of Xinmi, where General Pi Dingjun set up the Communist-led Western Henan anti-Japanese base area in 1944. It was developed by the local tourism company around Pi Dingjun's former office and keeps the wartime site as a memorial and patriotic-education base."},{"id":"gongyi-zhulin-changshou-mountain","name":"Changshou Mountain, Zhulin","name_zh":"竹林长寿山","pinyin":"Zhúlín Chángshòu Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.6985,"lon":113.136,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongyi-zhulin-changshou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill park of about 8.7 km² at Zhulin town in eastern Gongyi, best known for its autumn red leaves and for rocks likened to a dragon and a turtle, which gave it its old name of Longgui Mountain. Trails lead past ponds, a temple hall and three ancient trees, and there are a glass bridge, swing bridges and other thrill rides, along with a food street built in old-town style."},{"id":"erqi-cherry-valley","name":"Cherry Valley, Zhengzhou","name_zh":"樱桃沟","pinyin":"Yīngtáo Gōu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.6217,"lon":113.584,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=erqi-cherry-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural area of loess gullies, woods and cherry orchards about 15 km south-west of central Zhengzhou, crossed by walking trails and dotted with old villages, some of whose houses now hold artists' and makers' studios. Cherries have been grown here for centuries and are a local speciality. It makes an easy half-day walk out of the city."},{"id":"zhongmu-china-greening-expo-garden","name":"China Greening Expo Garden, Zhengzhou","name_zh":"中国绿化博览园","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Lǜhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7556,"lon":113.924,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongmu-china-greening-expo-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped park of about 190 hectares in Zhongmu county east of Zhengzhou, opened in 2010 as the China Greening Expo Garden and laid out around a central lake with themed gardens. It also has a large musical fountain and an exhibition hall, and makes an easy, flat outing."},{"id":"dengfeng-chongfu-palace","name":"Chongfu Palace","name_zh":"崇福宫","pinyin":"Chóngfú Gōng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4753,"lon":113.0386,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-chongfu-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple at the foot of Wansui Peak that grew from a shrine founded under Han Emperor Wu and under the Northern Song became a court-managed temple, whose superintendents included Fan Zhongyan, Sima Guang and the Cheng brothers. After centuries of decline and use as a livestock farm in the 1970s it was restored in 2010. Four Qing halls survive, among them the vaulted brick Jade Emperor and Sanyuan halls, along with some 50 old trees and more than ten steles."},{"id":"zhengzhou-dahecun-site","name":"Dahecun Site and Museum","name_zh":"大河村遗址","pinyin":"Dàhécūn Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.8437,"lon":113.6938,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengzhou-dahecun-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Neolithic settlement on the northern edge of Zhengzhou, lived in mainly during the Yangshao period and later in the Longshan, Erlitou and Shang periods, where excavations since 1972 have found house foundations, burials and much painted pottery. Its best-known find is a row of four joined houses whose walls still stand about a metre high, dated to about 5,000 years ago. A new site museum in the Dahecun archaeological park, which opened in 2025, shows more than 1,600 objects on the Yangshao culture."},{"id":"xinmi-dahuting-han-tombs","name":"Dahuting Han Tombs","name_zh":"打虎亭汉墓","pinyin":"Dǎhǔtíng Hànmù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5133,"lon":113.2863,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinmi-dahuting-han-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two large Eastern Han tombs under earth mounds at Dahuting village, Niudian town, west of Xinmi, attributed to Zhang Boya, a commandery governor, and his wife. The western tomb is lined with about 200 m² of carved stone reliefs and the eastern with about 100 m² of painted murals, and between them the scenes include banquets, acrobats, rent collection and a tofu workshop; the tombs are famous for how well they are preserved. Visitors can go down into the western tomb, while the eastern tomb is shown as a replica."},{"id":"dengfeng-daxiongshan-xianren-valley","name":"Daxiong Mountain Xianren Valley","name_zh":"大熊山仙人谷","pinyin":"Dàxióng Shān Xiānrén Gǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.2894,"lon":113.1349,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengfeng-daxiongshan-xianren-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain-valley scenic area of about 36 km² in Xuzhuang town, Dengfeng, with a lake, streams, waterfalls, caves and red-rock cliffs. Added attractions include a 266 m glass bridge, a dry toboggan run, river rafting and an exhibition hall on the revolutionary history of western Henan. It suits a day of walking and, in summer, water play."},{"id":"dengfeng-city-god-temple","name":"Dengfeng City God Temple","name_zh":"登封城隍庙","pinyin":"Dēngfēng Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4586,"lon":113.026,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengfeng-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to the city god, the protector deity of the county seat, founded in the early Ming and laid out facing south in three courtyards on a site of about 8,200 m² in the old centre of Dengfeng. Its more than 90 Ming and Qing halls and rooms include the main hall and the east and west galleries, which were restored between 2016 and 2018."},{"id":"xingyang-dharani-pillar","name":"Dharani Pillar, Xingyang","name_zh":"佛顶尊胜陀罗尼经幢","pinyin":"Fódǐng Zūnshèng Tuóluóní Jīngchuáng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7836,"lon":113.4049,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyang-dharani-pillar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Jin-dynasty stone pillar of 1203, about 7 m high, whose octagonal shaft is carved with the Usnisa Vijaya Dharani, a Buddhist protective incantation, and a second sutra on filial piety, above a base with relief figures of guardians. Its top has lotus tiers and four niches holding carved figures. It stands in a modern painted pavilion in Xingyang city, the shaft behind glass, and was listed as a national monument in 2019."},{"id":"gongyi-du-fu-birthplace","name":"Du Fu's Birthplace","name_zh":"杜甫故里","pinyin":"Dù Fǔ Gùlǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7955,"lon":113.058,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongyi-du-fu-birthplace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park below Bijia Hill in Nanyaowan village, Zhanjie town, Gongyi, at the place traditionally held to be where the Tang poet Du Fu (712–770) was born and spent his childhood. Spread over about 25 hectares, its halls, statues and gardens trace his life and the poetry that earned him the title 'Sage of Poetry'."},{"id":"zhengzhou-erqi-memorial-tower","name":"Erqi Memorial Tower","name_zh":"二七纪念塔","pinyin":"Èrqī Jìniàntǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7533,"lon":113.6604,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengzhou-erqi-memorial-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 63 m twin-towered memorial in Erqi Square in central Zhengzhou, built in 1971 in a Chinese pavilion style at the spot where two Zhengzhou leaders of the Beijing–Hankou railway workers' strike of 7 February 1923 were killed. Visitors can enter the tower, whose floors hold exhibitions, and a clock near the top plays 'The East Is Red' on the hour. The national listing also covers the Erqi Memorial Hall of 1951–53 on Qiantang Road, about 700 m to the south, built on the site of the theatre where the railway workers' union was founded and now holding an exhibition on the strike."},{"id":"zhengzhou-ersha-creative-park","name":"Ersha Creative Park (former No. 2 Grinding Wheel Factory)","name_zh":"郑州第二砂轮厂旧址","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Dì'èr Shālúnchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.744,"lon":113.5889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengzhou-ersha-creative-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A major grinding-wheel factory of the 1950s, designed by an East German industrial design institute and built in 1956–64 in Zhongyuan district, western Zhengzhou, with Bauhaus-influenced concrete workshops including the vast sawtooth-roofed ceramic wheel shop. After production ended in the 2010s the listed buildings were converted into the Ersha cultural and creative park, with exhibitions, workshops, shops and cafés."},{"id":"dengfeng-fanjiamen","name":"Fanjiamen Scenic Area","name_zh":"范家门","pinyin":"Fànjiāmén","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5627,"lon":113.0953,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengfeng-fanjiamen","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural scenic area run by a village tourism company in the hills of Tangzhuang town, north-east of Dengfeng, rated 4A at the end of 2023. Visitors come for Lintai Mountain, a spring said never to run dry, the Lailong limestone cave of about 1.3 km formed along an old underground river, a glass suspension bridge and a small natural lake, with further attractions such as a glass slide and a zip line."},{"id":"zhengzhou-fantawild-adventure","name":"Fantawild Adventure Zhengzhou","name_zh":"郑州方特欢乐世界","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7672,"lon":113.9244,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengzhou-fantawild-adventure","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A technology-themed amusement park opened in 2012 in Zhongmu county east of Zhengzhou, with roller coasters, a flying-theatre ride and dark rides on science-fiction, myth and history themes. It is part of the Fantawild resort, which also has the Fantawild Dreamland park, a water park and a hotel."},{"id":"dengfeng-fawang-temple","name":"Fawang Temple","name_zh":"法王寺","pinyin":"Fǎwáng Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5035,"lon":113.0206,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-fawang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple at the foot of Taishi Mountain that by tradition was founded in AD 71, which would make it one of the earliest in China; its halls are Qing buildings and rebuilds made after 1987. On the slope behind stand six old pagodas, led by a fifteen-tiered square brick pagoda about 35 m tall, dated to the Sui or early Tang, with smaller Tang and Five Dynasties pagodas and a Yuan pagoda of 1316. The notch between two peaks east of the temple frames the rising moon at the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the traditional sights of Mount Song."},{"id":"huiji-fengle-farm-malawan-water-park","name":"Fengle Farm Resort and Malawan Wave Pool","name_zh":"丰乐农庄·马拉湾海浪浴场","pinyin":"Fēnglè Nóngzhuāng · Mǎlāwān Hǎilàng Yùchǎng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.9161,"lon":113.5612,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huiji-fengle-farm-malawan-water-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure resort opened in 2003 beside the Yellow River levee in Huiji district, north of Zhengzhou, with a large hotel, hot-spring baths, gardens, an animal area, go-karts and a baseball park. Its Malawan water park, built around a large wave pool, opens only in the summer months."},{"id":"xinmi-fengquan-lake","name":"Fengquan Lake Scenic Area","name_zh":"凤泉湖","pinyin":"Fèngquán Hú","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5921,"lon":113.2161,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinmi-fengquan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The largest scenic area in the Fuxi Mountain tourist zone of north-western Xinmi, covering about 10 km² of red-rock hills, ravines and a lake; it is on the official list as Sanquan Lake. Paths climb to the Xiaoma plateau and run through the Qifeng ravine, and the area has the Phoenix Sky Bridge, a glass suspension bridge, as well as a glass slide and a 2 km mountain coaster. It suits a day of walking with some thrill rides."},{"id":"xinzheng-fengtai-temple-pagoda","name":"Fengtai Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"凤台寺塔","pinyin":"Fèngtái Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.3897,"lon":113.7173,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinzheng-fengtai-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The only survivor of the long-vanished Fengtai Temple: a hollow, nine-tiered hexagonal brick pagoda with closely spaced eaves, 19.1 m high and built before 1081 in the Northern Song. Its tall first storey has a door on the east side, and footholds set into the inner walls rise to the eighth tier; the pagoda was repaired by the local government in 2018."},{"id":"xingyang-hanba-erwang-cheng","name":"Forts of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu","name_zh":"汉霸二王城","pinyin":"Hàn Bà Èrwáng Chéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.9511,"lon":113.4658,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingyang-hanba-erwang-cheng/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of two forts built facing each other across the Honggou ravine by Liu Bang and Xiang Yu in the Chu–Han war at the end of the Qin, a stand-off remembered as the origin of the river dividing the board in Chinese chess. Erosion by the Yellow River has carried away most of both forts, leaving chiefly their southern rammed-earth walls, about 460 m of Liu Bang's fort and 260 m of Xiang Yu's as measured in 2009, on the bluff above the river."},{"id":"xinmi-fuxi-grand-canyon","name":"Fuxi Grand Canyon","name_zh":"伏羲大峡谷","pinyin":"Fúxī Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.6099,"lon":113.19,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinmi-fuxi-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A red sandstone gorge about 5 km long in the Fuxi Mountain area of north-western Xinmi, with walkways under overhanging cliffs and a series of natural waterfalls. Local legends of Fuxi and Nüwa are attached to many of its features. It is one of several scenic areas in the Fuxi Mountain tourist zone and can be combined with the nearby Red Stone Forest."},{"id":"dengfeng-gaocheng-observatory","name":"Gaocheng Astronomical Observatory","name_zh":"观星台","pinyin":"Guānxīng Tái","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4024,"lon":113.1407,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-gaocheng-observatory/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick-and-stone observatory built in 1276 to designs by the Yuan astronomers Guo Shoujing and Wang Xun: a 9.46 m truncated tower with a 31 m stone 'sky-measuring scale' laid due north, on which the noon shadow of a gnomon was read to fix the length of the year. Nearby stand the Duke of Zhou's shadow-measuring platform, where a stone gnomon was set up in 723 under the Tang, and a Duke of Zhou temple, and the grounds also hold an exhibition hall on the Yangcheng ancient city site. The observatory is part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng World Heritage site."},{"id":"gongyi-grottoes","name":"Gongyi Grottoes","name_zh":"巩县石窟","pinyin":"Gǒngxiàn Shíkū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.8129,"lon":113.0241,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gongyi-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist cave temple cut into the foot of Mount Dali on the north bank of the Yiluo River, begun under the Northern Wei around AD 500 and added to until the Song. Its five caves, most with a carved central pillar, hold some 7,700 figures, and three of them have relief processions of an emperor and empress with their courts. A Qing-dynasty hall survives from the temple in front of the caves."},{"id":"xingyang-gubaidu-feihuang","name":"Gubaidu Feihuang Tourist Area","name_zh":"古柏渡飞黄","pinyin":"Gǔbǎidù Fēihuáng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.8923,"lon":113.2298,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyang-gubaidu-feihuang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An outdoor recreation area on the south bank of the Yellow River at Wangcun, Xingyang, run together with the neighbouring Gubaidu cherry garden. Its main draws are long sand slides down the riverside slopes, a children's sand-slide area, camel rides on the sands and a sightseeing cable car."},{"id":"xingyang-gubaidu-cherry-blossom-garden","name":"Gubaidu Fengle Cherry Blossom Garden","name_zh":"古柏渡丰乐樱花园","pinyin":"Gǔbǎidù Fēnglè Yīnghuāyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.8741,"lon":113.2297,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyang-gubaidu-cherry-blossom-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large cherry-blossom park near the Yellow River in Wangcun town, northern Xingyang, planted with more than 80 varieties of cherry tree in four themed sections. It lies where the South–North Water Diversion canal passes under the Yellow River, and a museum of that river crossing, built in 2018, stands inside the park. It is at its best in the spring blossom season."},{"id":"xinmi-guchengzhai-walled-site","name":"Guchengzhai Walled Site","name_zh":"古城寨城址","pinyin":"Gǔchéngzhài Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4659,"lon":113.6495,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinmi-guchengzhai-walled-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled town of the late Neolithic Longshan culture in Guchengzhai village, Quliang town, east of Xinmi, whose rammed-earth walls still stand 5–16 m high on the south, north and east sides, with gaps marking two gates and traces of the moat. The west wall was washed away by the Zhen River, and excavations inside found the foundations of a large palace hall with surrounding corridors."},{"id":"xinzheng-huangdi-hometown","name":"Hometown of the Yellow Emperor (Xuanyuan Temple)","name_zh":"黄帝故里","pinyin":"Huángdì Gùlǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4024,"lon":113.721,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinzheng-huangdi-hometown","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial complex of about 7 hectares on the northern edge of old Xinzheng, honoured as the birthplace of the legendary Yellow Emperor, Huangdi, where a large ancestor-worship ceremony is held each year on the third day of the third lunar month. At its heart is the Qing-dynasty Xuanyuan Temple on a low mound, with a gate, a main hall holding a seated statue of Huangdi, side halls for his consorts Leizu and Momu and a brick bridge of 1570 in front, set between a worship plaza and a plaza of Chinese surnames. The national listing also covers two small stone halls, a Ming cliff inscription and a long stone stockade wall on Fenghou Ridge in the Juci hills, south-west of Xinzheng."},{"id":"xinzheng-huayang-ancient-city","name":"Huayang Ancient City","name_zh":"华阳故城","pinyin":"Huáyáng Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5613,"lon":113.7124,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinzheng-huayang-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled town of the Zhou period, said to have been the capital of the small state of Hua before it passed to Zheng and then Han; near it Qin defeated the allied Zhao and Wei armies in 273 BC. Its rectangular rammed-earth walls, about 2.3 km round, still rise 10–14 m on the north side with bastions and a silted moat, the west wall stands about 9 m high, and the south wall is largely built over by the houses of Huayangzhai village."},{"id":"dengfeng-huishan-temple","name":"Huishan Temple","name_zh":"会善寺","pinyin":"Huìshàn Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4934,"lon":112.9989,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-huishan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple below Jicui Peak that began as a Northern Wei detached palace, became a temple in the 6th century and took its present name under the Sui; it counts as one of the four great monasteries of Mount Song. Its main hall is a Yuan-dynasty timber building with large bracket sets, and the compound keeps steles from the Eastern Wei to the Tang. Just to the west stands the brick pagoda of the Tang monk Jingzang, built after his death in 746 and described as the only surviving Tang octagonal brick pagoda imitating timber construction, with several Qing brick pagodas nearby."},{"id":"zhongmu-jianye-huayi-film-town","name":"Jianye Huayi Brothers Film Town","name_zh":"建业·华谊兄弟电影小镇","pinyin":"Jiànyè · Huáyì Xiōngdì Diànyǐng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.777,"lon":113.9964,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongmu-jianye-huayi-film-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A film-themed town in Zhongmu county east of Zhengzhou, built in old-street style as a set of film streets: Zhengzhou Street recreates the city's Dehua Street, Datong Road and Fushou Street as they looked about a century ago, and Taiji Street is themed on the film Tai Chi. It has street performances, film-themed shows and rides, craft workshops, restaurants and themed guesthouses, and suits families combining it with the nearby theme parks."},{"id":"xingyang-jing-ancient-city","name":"Jing Ancient City","name_zh":"京城古城址","pinyin":"Jīngchéng Gǔchéngzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7212,"lon":113.4352,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingyang-jing-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled town of Jing, the first capital of the state of Zheng after its move east and the fief of Duan, the rebellious brother of Duke Zhuang of Zheng in a famous episode of the Zuo Zhuan chronicle. About eight stretches of its rammed-earth walls, more than 1 km in all and 3–10 m high with clearly visible tamping layers, survive within the Jingxiangcheng Site Ecological Park, opened in 2008."},{"id":"gongyi-kang-baiwan-manor","name":"Kang Baiwan Manor","name_zh":"康百万庄园","pinyin":"Kāng Bǎiwàn Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7655,"lon":112.9447,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gongyi-kang-baiwan-manor/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The fortified hillside estate of the Kang family of merchants and landowners, who lived here for some four centuries from the late Ming, at Kangdian beside the Luo River in Gongyi. Built against the loess slope and ringed by walls, it combines street-front houses with cave dwellings: 33 courtyards, 53 multi-storey buildings and 73 cave dwellings in all, with fine brick, wood and stone carving. The rooms keep the family's furniture and inscribed boards, among them the well-known 'Liuyu' plaque of family precepts."},{"id":"xinzheng-later-zhou-tombs","name":"Later Zhou Imperial Tombs","name_zh":"后周皇陵","pinyin":"Hòu Zhōu Huánglíng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5621,"lon":113.6965,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinzheng-later-zhou-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tombs of the rulers of the Later Zhou, the last of the Five Dynasties, near Guodian town: Songling of the founder Guo Wei, Qingling of Emperor Shizong (Chai Rong) and Shunling of the last emperor, Chai Zongxun. Qingling, the largest, is a mound in a walled enclosure of about four hectares with a sacred way and 33 steles dating from 1426 to 1909. Songling is a 10 m mound with a single stele and no stone figures, as Guo Wei asked to be buried simply."},{"id":"xinmi-mi-county-yamen","name":"Mi County Yamen","name_zh":"密县县衙","pinyin":"Mìxiàn Xiànyá","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5157,"lon":113.3615,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinmi-mi-county-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The government compound of old Mi County at the centre of Xinmi's old town, seat of the county from 616 until the 1970s; the present buildings date from a rebuilding under the Kangxi Emperor. Its five courtyards hold the main and ceremonial gates, three halls for justice and administration, a two-storey tower and a walled jail used until 2003, with lotus ponds inside the main gate. It is now a museum of local government in imperial China."},{"id":"dengfeng-nanyue-temple","name":"Nanyue Temple, Dengfeng","name_zh":"南岳庙","pinyin":"Nányuè Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.3735,"lon":112.9763,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-nanyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple in the middle of Dajindian town, said to have been founded under the Jin dynasty, with courtyards of halls to popular gods that have mostly been rebuilt. The main Fujun Hall is the historic core: a three-bay building with a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof of grey tiles, bracket sets under the eaves and beams painted with dragons, standing on a terrace, with a timber frame that the heritage bureau dates to the Jin dynasty."},{"id":"gongyi-northern-song-imperial-tombs","name":"Northern Song Imperial Tombs","name_zh":"宋陵","pinyin":"Sòng Líng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7445,"lon":112.9801,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gongyi-northern-song-imperial-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The burial ground of the Northern Song emperors, spread over some 30 km² around Gongyi, where seven emperors and the father of the dynasty's founder lie with their empresses and hundreds of courtiers. More than 900 stone figures survive along the spirit roads, among them elephants, horses with grooms, rams, lions, foreign envoys and officials, many standing in open fields. The Yongzhao Tomb of Emperor Renzong (died 1063), in Gongyi city next to the Gongyi Museum, is the only one whose gate towers and walled enclosure have been rebuilt and is the easiest to visit."},{"id":"zhongmu-only-henan","name":"Only Henan: Land of Dramas","name_zh":"只有河南·戏剧幻城","pinyin":"Zhǐyǒu Hénán · Xìjù Huànchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.8001,"lon":113.9938,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhongmu-only-henan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An immersive theatre park opened in June 2021 in Zhongmu county, directed by Wang Chaoge: a walled 'fantasy city' of rammed loess, 328 m on each side, set among wheat fields. Inside, three main theatres and dozens of smaller courtyard stages run some 700 minutes of performances on Henan's history and culture, from historical figures of the Central Plains to the famine of 1942–43 and the building of the railways. Seeing the three main theatre shows and some of the shorter pieces takes most of a day."},{"id":"xingyang-qianchi-pagoda","name":"Qianchi Pagoda","name_zh":"千尺塔","pinyin":"Qiānchǐ Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.6303,"lon":113.3805,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingyang-qianchi-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song hexagonal brick pagoda, also called the Empress Cao Pagoda, about 15 m high, on the summit of Dazhou Mountain within the former Shengshou Temple. Legend says Emperor Renzong had it built so that his empress, a local woman, could see her home from the capital. The summit also has the temple ruins, Ming and Qing steles, stone Buddhas and the remains of a stone and brick stockade wall."},{"id":"dengfeng-qimu-que","name":"Qimu Que Gates","name_zh":"启母阙","pinyin":"Qǐmǔ Què","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4742,"lon":113.0413,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-qimu-que/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A pair of stone gate pillars built in AD 123 in front of a Han shrine to the mother of Qi, son of Yu the Great, who in legend turned into the split boulder that still lies about 190 m to the north. Each pillar, just over 3 m high, is built of stacked stone blocks and capped with a carved imitation of a tiled roof. With the Taishi and Shaoshi gates it is one of the three Han 'que' of Mount Song in the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng World Heritage site."},{"id":"dengfeng-qingliang-temple","name":"Qingliang Temple, Dengfeng","name_zh":"清凉寺","pinyin":"Qīngliáng Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.453,"lon":112.9268,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengfeng-qingliang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small mountain temple below Qingliang Peak on the southern side of Shaoshi Mountain, whose main hall was rebuilt in 1216 under the Jin dynasty and keeps its hip-and-gable roof of grey tiles trimmed with green glaze, bracket sets and stone column bases. The temple has two courtyards, and a Jin stele of 1216 recording the rebuilding stands beside the hall, with a few later inscriptions."},{"id":"gongyi-qinglong-mountain-ciyun-temple","name":"Qinglong Mountain and Ciyun Temple","name_zh":"青龙山·慈云寺","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Shān · Cíyún Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.6677,"lon":113.0679,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gongyi-qinglong-mountain-ciyun-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested range of about 51 km² south-east of Gongyi city, a forest park since 1998, with waterfalls, pools and lakes linked by lakeside trails, red leaves in autumn and frozen falls in winter. In its heart stands Ciyun Temple, by tradition founded in AD 64 and counted among China's earliest Buddhist temples; its halls have been rebuilt in recent years, but more than 100 carved stones survive, including 52 Ming and Qing steles and 43 monks' stupa inscriptions."},{"id":"xinmi-red-stone-forest","name":"Red Stone Forest, Fuxi Mountain","name_zh":"红石林","pinyin":"Hóng Shílín","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5931,"lon":113.2478,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinmi-red-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An area of red sandstone pinnacles and cliffs, about 8 km², around Jianshan and Niuxinshi villages in the Fuxi Mountain area of north-western Xinmi. An outdoor escalator climbs the hillside, a ring-shaped glass walkway runs along the cliffs, and a cliff-top hotel and restaurants serve the wider Fuxi Mountain resort. It can be combined with the Fuxi Grand Canyon nearby."},{"id":"dengfeng-sanzu-hermitage-pagoda","name":"Sanzu Hermitage Pagoda","name_zh":"三祖庵塔","pinyin":"Sānzǔ Ān Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.512,"lon":113.0138,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengfeng-sanzu-hermitage-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seven-tiered square brick pagoda of 1223, about 10 m tall, with a curving outline and a carved lotus finial, standing at the site of the Sanzu Hermitage, once called Zhulin Temple, in a mountain valley north of the Songyue Pagoda. The site also keeps Ming and Qing stone carvings, an old ginkgo tree, a cave known as the Luohan Cave and a rebuilt three-bay hall."},{"id":"dengfeng-shaoshi-que","name":"Shaoshi Que Gates","name_zh":"少室阙","pinyin":"Shǎoshì Què","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.493,"lon":112.977,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-shaoshi-que/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The stone gate pillars of the Han-dynasty shrine to Shaoshi Mountain, dated by their inscriptions to about AD 118–123 and restored in 1972. Their faces carry more than 70 shallow reliefs, among them a fox chasing a hare, horse racing, cuju football, cockfighting and the animals of the four directions, and the west pillar bears a seal-script title naming the gate. They are part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng World Heritage site."},{"id":"zhengzhou-xingyang-ancient-city","name":"Site of Ancient Xingyang and Guxing Ironworks Museum","name_zh":"荥阳故城","pinyin":"Xíngyáng Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.8766,"lon":113.5279,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengzhou-xingyang-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of the Han-dynasty city of Xingyang at Guxing town, north-west of Zhengzhou, a stronghold fought over by Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, whose rammed-earth walls still stand up to 20 m high on three sides. Outside its west gate lay a large state ironworks of the Han commandery of Henan, and a site museum there shows the remains of a Han blast furnace with iron tools and casting moulds from the excavations."},{"id":"dengfeng-songyang-academy","name":"Songyang Academy","name_zh":"嵩阳书院","pinyin":"Sōngyáng Shūyuàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4815,"lon":113.0271,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-songyang-academy/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the four great academies of the Northern Song, founded as a Buddhist temple in 484, later a Taoist temple and from 1035 a Confucian academy where the philosophers Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi taught. Its Qing-period courtyards hold a hall to Confucius, a lecture hall, a shrine to the sage-kings Yao and Yu and the Duke of Zhou, and a library, and two ancient cypresses that legend says Han Emperor Wu ennobled as generals. By the gate stands the Tang stele of 744, about 9 m tall and the largest ancient stele in Henan; the academy is part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng World Heritage site."},{"id":"dengfeng-songyue-pagoda","name":"Songyue Pagoda","name_zh":"嵩岳寺塔","pinyin":"Sōngyuè Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5016,"lon":113.0159,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-songyue-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in the Northern Wei in the early 520s, this brick pagoda about 40 m high is the oldest surviving brick pagoda in China and the oldest multi-eaved one, and its twelve-sided plan is unique among Chinese pagodas of its type. Fifteen closely stacked eaves rise above a tall first storey, and the pagoda stands in the grounds of the former Songyue Temple at the foot of Mount Song. It was inscribed in 2010 as part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng World Heritage site."},{"id":"dengfeng-taishi-que","name":"Taishi Que Gates","name_zh":"太室阙","pinyin":"Tàishì Què","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4519,"lon":113.0678,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-taishi-que/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Twin stone gate pillars built in AD 118 at the head of the sacred way to the Han shrine of Taishi Mountain, standing about 500 m south of Zhongyue Temple and regarded as its symbolic gateway. Each just under 4 m high and capped with a carved stone roof, they are decorated in shallow relief with chariot processions, acrobats, the animals of the four directions and an elephant-like creature. They form one of the three Han 'que' of Mount Song in the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng World Heritage site."},{"id":"xinzheng-ouyang-xiu-tomb","name":"Tomb of Ouyang Xiu","name_zh":"欧阳修墓","pinyin":"Ōuyáng Xiū Mù","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4022,"lon":113.6006,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinzheng-ouyang-xiu-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The family cemetery of the Northern Song statesman, historian and essayist Ouyang Xiu, who died in 1072 and was buried here in 1075 with his wife, sons and grandsons nearby. The walled compound of about 1.1 hectares has a gate, an offering hall and side halls repaired since 1994, and behind them the burial mounds with stone figures of men, sheep and monkeys and Ming and Qing steles. A tall brick stele tower in front of the memorial shrine holds a Qing re-carving of the spirit-way inscription composed by Su Zhe."},{"id":"zhongmu-shousheng-temple-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas of Shousheng Temple","name_zh":"寿圣寺双塔","pinyin":"Shòushèng Sì Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4973,"lon":113.9928,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongmu-shousheng-temple-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two hexagonal brick pagodas of the late Northern Song, standing 20 m apart in Ranjia village, Huangdian town, south-east of Zhengzhou; the temple itself has gone. The western pagoda keeps seven storeys, about 30 m high, and the eastern four, both without their tops, and their walls carry rows of small carved brick Buddhas and brick brackets."},{"id":"xinzheng-yellow-emperor-romance-park","name":"Yellow Emperor Romance Park","name_zh":"黄帝千古情","pinyin":"Huángdì Qiāngǔ Qíng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5998,"lon":113.6396,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinzheng-yellow-emperor-romance-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A theme park built by Songcheng Performance with the Xinzheng government around a large stage show, 'Yellow Emperor Romance', a song-and-dance spectacle about the Yellow Emperor and the history of the Central Plains. Around it are a giant statue of the Yellow Emperor, a holographic theatre, an exhibition hall on Yellow Emperor culture, a haunted house, a market street with craft workshops and a large indoor children's play area."},{"id":"huiji-yellow-river-fujing-eco-world","name":"Yellow River Fujing Eco World","name_zh":"黄河富景生态世界","pinyin":"Huánghé Fùjǐng Shēngtài Shìjiè","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.9059,"lon":113.7387,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huiji-yellow-river-fujing-eco-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism park of more than 600 hectares on the Yellow River floodplain at Huayuankou, north of Zhengzhou, set up to hold down wind-blown sand by farming it. Visitors can walk among organic crop fields, try farm activities and use its leisure facilities, and it suits families with children."},{"id":"xinmi-yinji-international-resort","name":"Yinji International Tourist Resort","name_zh":"银基国际旅游度假区","pinyin":"Yínjī Guójì Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4835,"lon":113.5407,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinmi-yinji-international-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large resort complex in Liuzhai town, Xinmi, south-west of Zhengzhou, combining an indoor ice-and-snow park, a water park, hot-spring baths, an animal park and an ocean-themed park with hotels and a lakeside shopping street. It is built for family stays of a day or two rather than for sightseeing."},{"id":"dengfeng-yongtai-temple","name":"Yongtai Temple","name_zh":"永泰寺","pinyin":"Yǒngtài Sì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5222,"lon":112.9756,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-yongtai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist nunnery on the western side of Mount Song, founded in 521 and, by local tradition, named after Princess Yongtai, a sister of the Northern Wei emperor who became a nun here; most of its halls are modern rebuilds. Its chief monument is the Tang-dynasty Yongtai Temple Pagoda, an eleven-tiered square brick pagoda about 24 m tall, joined by a small Jin pagoda of 1209 and a Ming lama-style pagoda of 1638."},{"id":"xinzheng-yuanling-ancient-city","name":"Yuanling Ancient City","name_zh":"苑陵故城","pinyin":"Yuànlíng Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4766,"lon":113.8458,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinzheng-yuanling-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walls of Yuanling, a fortified town of the Zheng and Han states that became a county seat under the Qin in 230 BC and lost that status in the early Tang. Its rammed-earth ramparts, about 4 km round, are best preserved on the east and north sides, where they stand up to 16 m and 9 m high with bastions. Since 2017 they have formed the Yuanling Ancient City site park, zone C of the Zhengzhou Garden Expo Park."},{"id":"dengfeng-yuxi-palace","name":"Yuxi Palace","name_zh":"玉溪宫","pinyin":"Yùxī Gōng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.5298,"lon":113.1516,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-yuxi-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village Taoist temple in Tuguan, Tangzhuang town, originally called Yuqi Palace, founded in the Ming and repaired in the Qing. Its Ming Jade Emperor Hall has a hip-and-gable roof of glazed tiles with dragon and lotus ridge ornaments and two-tier bracket sets, and the temple also has the Qing Jiuku (Nine Sufferings) and Sanguan (Three Officials) halls, with more than ten steles and stone carvings from the Ming to the Republican era."},{"id":"dengfeng-zhaixinglou","name":"Zhaixinglou Scenic Area","name_zh":"摘星楼","pinyin":"Zhāixīng Lóu","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.2636,"lon":113.0963,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengfeng-zhaixinglou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Daxiong Mountain provincial forest park in Xuzhuang town, south of Dengfeng, opened in the late 2010s beside Yanglin village. Alongside hiking trails it has built attractions such as a tree-top walk, water and dry slides and a zip line, plus a visitor centre, a memorial hall to the wartime Nanshan breakout battle, a hotel and guesthouses. It suits families on a day out from Zhengzhou or Dengfeng; the separate Xianrengu scenic area lies on the same mountain."},{"id":"gongyi-zhang-hu-manor","name":"Zhang Hu Manor","name_zh":"张祜庄园","pinyin":"Zhāng Hù Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.6971,"lon":113.1915,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongyi-zhang-hu-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The hillside residence of the Zhang family, owners of a private bank and a coal mine, in Xinzhong village in eastern Gongyi, built mostly in the late Qing and Republican years. Its 13 courtyards combine some 30 cave dwellings cut into the slope with some 80 rooms in street-front buildings, partly in Western style. During the war against Japan it housed the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army's Western Henan detachment, and it is now open to visitors."},{"id":"zhengzhou-city-god-temple","name":"Zhengzhou City God Temple","name_zh":"郑州城隍庙","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7533,"lon":113.6808,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengzhou-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple founded in the early Ming and repaired many times since, dedicated to Ji Xin, the Han general venerated as Zhengzhou's city god. Along its axis stand a gate with elaborate bracketing, a 12 m two-storey opera tower with 19 ridges of glazed ornament, the main hall and a rear sleeping hall, most under green glazed tiles, and a temple fair is held from the 18th day of the third lunar month. The national listing also covers the Dacheng Hall of Zhengzhou's Confucian Temple a few hundred metres to the south."},{"id":"zhengzhou-garden-expo-park","name":"Zhengzhou Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"郑州园博园","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4633,"lon":113.8631,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengzhou-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The 119-hectare site of the 11th China (Zhengzhou) International Garden Expo, in the Airport Economy Zone south-east of Zhengzhou, laid out as 94 outdoor show gardens. Most were made by mainland Chinese cities in the imperial, Suzhou and Lingnan garden traditions, and 18 by cities in 15 other countries."},{"id":"zhongmu-haichang-ocean-park","name":"Zhengzhou Haichang Ocean Park","name_zh":"郑州海昌海洋公园","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Hǎichāng Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7875,"lon":113.9828,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongmu-haichang-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A marine theme park in Zhongmu county east of Zhengzhou, with aquarium halls for whale sharks, polar animals, penguins and jellyfish, an Ultraman-themed hall and some twenty rides including a Ferris wheel. Staged animal shows are held with dolphins, belugas and other marine mammals, and the resort has three themed hotels."},{"id":"zhengzhou-mosque","name":"Zhengzhou Mosque","name_zh":"郑州清真寺","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7563,"lon":113.6727,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengzhou-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhengzhou's oldest and largest mosque, also called the Beida Mosque after nearby North Street, with origins no later than the Ming and traditional Chinese-style buildings dating from the mid-Qing onwards. Facing east, it has a hip-and-gable gate, a two-storey moon-watching tower whose stone columns carry couplets in Chinese and Arabic, and a prayer hall made of several linked roofs; it is still in use for worship."},{"id":"zhengzhou-shang-city","name":"Zhengzhou Shang City","name_zh":"郑州商都古城","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Shāngdū Gǔchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7476,"lon":113.6807,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengzhou-shang-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The visitor area on the remains of Zhengzhou's early Shang-dynasty capital, a national heritage site whose rammed-earth inner wall ran for about 7 km round what is now the heart of the city. The 0.21 km² area between Chengdong Road, Chengnan Road, Zijingshan Road and East Street combines the Shang capital national archaeological park, with paths along and over stretches of the ancient city wall, the Zhengzhou Shang Capital Site Museum with about 5,500 m² of galleries, and the museum of the city's archaeology institute showing its major excavated finds."},{"id":"dengfeng-xiangshan","name":"Zhengzhou Xiangshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"郑州香山","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Xiāng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4314,"lon":113.2902,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengfeng-xiangshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure area built around Xiang Mountain in Daye town on the eastern side of Mount Song, named after a shrine that, by local tradition, people raised to the Tang poet Bai Juyi after he toured the area as governor in 830. Its core is the Xiangxi Valley of streams, small lakes and waterfalls, with fairy-tale buildings such as 'hobbit houses' and a castle aimed at children. Around it are a Bai Juyi square, guesthouses, old mountain villages and a group of cave dwellings restored by villagers."},{"id":"zhengzhou-yellow-river-cultural-park","name":"Zhengzhou Yellow River Cultural Park","name_zh":"郑州黄河文化公园","pinyin":"Zhèngzhōu Huánghé Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.9513,"lon":113.511,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengzhou-yellow-river-cultural-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former Zhengzhou Yellow River Scenic Area, a national scenic area and geopark on the hills along the south bank of the Yellow River about 20 km north-west of central Zhengzhou, with wide views where the river leaves the hills for the plain. Its five open sections include the colossal busts of the legendary emperors Yan and Huang, 106 m high including the hill they rise from and finished in 2007, the 'Mother Yellow River' statue, Yueshan Temple hill with its pavilions, and a memorial where Mao Zedong viewed the river in 1952."},{"id":"xinzheng-zheng-han-ancient-city","name":"Zheng–Han Ancient City","name_zh":"郑韩故城","pinyin":"Zhèng Hán Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.3858,"lon":113.7302,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinzheng-zheng-han-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The capital of the state of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn period and then of the state of Han, whose irregular rammed-earth walls, about 19 km round, survive in long stretches in and around modern Xinzheng where the Shuangji and Huangshui rivers meet. Its main display is the Zheng State Chariot Pits museum at the Houduanwan noble cemetery, where a great tomb and pits of dismantled chariots and horse skeletons are shown in place. Pit 3, excavated in 2017, held four vehicles, including a richly decorated carriage, and the bones of 122 horses."},{"id":"xingyang-zhijidong-cave","name":"Zhijidong Cave Site","name_zh":"织机洞遗址","pinyin":"Zhījī Dòng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.6457,"lon":113.3242,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyang-zhijidong-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cave on the western slope of Dalu Mountain whose deposits, up to 24 m deep in 23 layers, yielded more than 6,500 stone artefacts and many animal fossils in excavations between 1990 and 1995, from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic. The cave mouth, 13–16 m wide and about 5 m high, can be seen from a railed walkway."},{"id":"zhengzhou-zhongyuan-tower","name":"Zhongyuan Tower","name_zh":"中原福塔","pinyin":"Zhōngyuán Fútǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.7247,"lon":113.7228,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhengzhou-zhongyuan-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Henan's radio and television tower in south-eastern Zhengzhou, 388 m to the tip of its mast and built in 2008–09 entirely of steel, on a base shaped like a ritual cauldron. Lifts run to the observation floors, and since 2020 an open-air walkway at 281 m, a tilting viewing platform and a glass slide have been added. The base holds a 175 m-long panorama painting of Henan's scenery."},{"id":"dengfeng-zhongyue-temple","name":"Zhongyue Temple","name_zh":"中岳庙","pinyin":"Zhōngyuè Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhengzhou","lat":34.4592,"lon":113.0678,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dengfeng-zhongyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The temple of the god of Mount Song, the Central Sacred Peak, where emperors had sacrifices offered; it traces its origins to the Qin dynasty, and its present buildings are Qing reconstructions after a fire at the end of the Ming. The walled precinct of about 11 hectares has some 400 bays of gates and halls on a long axis, more than 300 old cypresses and more than 100 steles and cast pieces, including Song-dynasty iron guardian figures and Han-dynasty stone figures. It is still a Taoist temple and is one of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng inscribed as a World Heritage site in 2010."},{"id":"fugou-dacheng-academy","name":"Dacheng Academy","name_zh":"大程书院","pinyin":"Dà Chéng Shūyuàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":34.0575,"lon":114.3858,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fugou-dacheng-academy","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An academy founded in 1075 by the Neo-Confucian philosopher Cheng Hao while he was magistrate of Fugou, and named after him, the elder of the two Cheng brothers. It moved several times before settling on its present site in 1704, and today's buildings come from a large rebuilding of 1884–85: the gate and Dragon Gate, the lecture hall, east and west examination halls, shrines to Cheng Hao and others, and a Wenchang pavilion. Tucked into the streets of the county town, it is described locally as the best-preserved old academy in northern China."},{"id":"fugou-lutan-school-ji-hongchang-residence","name":"Former Lütan School and Ji Hongchang's Former Residence","name_zh":"吕潭学校旧址","pinyin":"Lǚtán Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":34.116,"lon":114.4582,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fugou-lutan-school-ji-hongchang-residence/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village school founded in 1921 in a former temple at Lütan by Ji Hongchang (1895–1934), a general who fought the Japanese in Chahar in 1933, joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was executed by the Nationalist government that year. The school gate and the Zhongshan lecture hall stand on the axis with classrooms to either side, and about 60 m to the east is his courtyard home with its gatehouse, guard rooms and his own room. School groups visit for guided talks on his life; the larger Ji Hongchang Memorial Hall is in Fugou county town."},{"id":"zhoukou-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Zhoukou","name_zh":"周口关帝庙","pinyin":"Zhōukǒu Guāndì Miào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.6336,"lon":114.6399,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhoukou-guandi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu that also served as the guild hall of Shanxi and Shaanxi merchants trading at Zhoukou, where three rivers meet; it was begun in 1693 and finished in 1852 after repeated enlargements. Its three courtyards hold more than 140 bays of halls, galleries and an opera stage, with cast-iron flagpoles 22 m tall given by merchants in 1797 and a stone archway of 1765 densely carved with dragons, immortals and scenes from legend. It has been run as a museum since 1986 and is famed for its stone and wood carving."},{"id":"zhoukou-jianye-canal-town","name":"Jianye Canal Town, Zhoukou","name_zh":"建业运河古镇","pinyin":"Jiànyè Yùnhé Gǔzhèn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.6273,"lon":114.8121,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhoukou-jianye-canal-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure area built from 2017 along Zhoukou's old canal, with a commercial street in old-town style, a large food hall of Central Plains dishes, homestays, camping, boat trips and a farm area. Its own troupe stages short shows on local themes such as Laozi and the canal trade, along with costume parades and wire-flying acts. It is a modern resort-style complex rather than a historic town and suits an evening out."},{"id":"xiangcheng-nandun-ancient-city","name":"Nandun Ancient City Site","name_zh":"南顿故城","pinyin":"Nándùn Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.4404,"lon":114.8436,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangcheng-nandun-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Nandun, capital of the small state of Dun after it was pushed south by Chen, until Chu conquered it in 496 BC, with remains from the Xia and Shang to the end of the Han. A long stretch of the rammed-earth north wall still stands, repaired since 2018, and opposite it rises Guangwu Terrace with a temple to Emperor Guangwu of Han. It is run as a small scenic area with paths and lighting among old trees and tombs."},{"id":"huaiyang-pingliangtai-ancient-city","name":"Pingliangtai Ancient City Site","name_zh":"平粮台古城遗址","pinyin":"Píngliángtái Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.7083,"lon":114.9233,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaiyang-pingliangtai-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled town of the Longshan culture, built more than 4,000 years ago, with square rammed-earth walls about 185 m along each side; it is described as the earliest square-planned town found in China. Excavations found jointed pottery drainage pipes described as the country's earliest urban drainage system, guardrooms beside the south gate, rows of mud-brick houses and the oldest wheel ruts yet found in China, and the site was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2019. A site museum with a model of the town and finds from the excavations is open on the site, and the national archaeological park around the walls is still being developed."},{"id":"taikang-gaoxian-shousheng-temple-pagoda","name":"Shousheng Temple Pagoda, Gaoxian","name_zh":"高贤寿圣寺塔","pinyin":"Gāoxián Shòushèng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":34.2263,"lon":114.7438,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taikang-gaoxian-shousheng-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hexagonal seven-storey brick pagoda, 28.5 m tall, first built in the Song and rebuilt in 1518, which leans visibly to the north-east, probably because of soft ground on that side. Set into the south wall of each storey are stone Buddha images, 211 in all, with 14 inscriptions, which record that it was built only in spring and autumn; its bricks are bonded with sticky-rice mortar. It is a quick but unusual stop in the countryside of northern Zhoukou."},{"id":"shangshui-shousheng-temple-pagoda","name":"Shousheng Temple Pagoda, Shangshui","name_zh":"商水寿圣寺塔","pinyin":"Shāngshuǐ Shòushèng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.7388,"lon":114.2621,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shangshui-shousheng-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hexagonal nine-storey brick pagoda, 41.5 m tall, begun in 1033 at the site of the vanished Shousheng Temple on the bank of the Sha River. Each storey has carved brick Buddhas, corner pilasters and bracket sets under the eaves, and a spiral stair inside climbs through the floors. During repairs in 1998 Ming bronze Buddhas and a sutra scroll were found in the iron finial, one image dated 1552."},{"id":"huaiyang-taihao-mausoleum","name":"Taihao Fuxi Mausoleum","name_zh":"太昊陵","pinyin":"Tàihào Líng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.7531,"lon":114.8822,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaiyang-taihao-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A vast temple-and-tomb complex to Fuxi (Taihao), the legendary first of China's Three Sovereigns, honoured here since at least the Tang and laid out in its present form by the Ming and Qing along an axis of about 750 m through nine courtyards and a succession of gates. The main Tongtian Hall enshrines Fuxi holding the eight trigrams, the Xianren Hall behind it honours Nüwa, and at the north end rises the earthen burial mound, 13.5 m high, round above and square below. From the second day of the second lunar month to the third of the third, a huge temple fair brings pilgrims, ritual dances and Huaiyang's black clay 'nini gou' toys; the 5A area also includes part of the town's Dragon Lake."},{"id":"taikang-confucian-temple","name":"Taikang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"太康文庙","pinyin":"Tàikāng Wénmiào","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":34.0668,"lon":114.8622,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taikang-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The county Confucian temple of Taikang, founded in 1426, wrecked in the wars at the end of the Ming and repaired under the Qing. Two Qing halls remain: a five-bay worship hall with carved and painted brackets and beams, and the seven-bay, double-eaved Dacheng Hall on a terrace with a dragon-carved stone ramp. The Dacheng Hall mixes northern and southern building traditions, with a combined beam frame, a two-part front roof slope rare in Henan and large upswept corners in a southern style."},{"id":"luyi-taiqing-palace","name":"Taiqing Palace (Laozi's Birthplace), Luyi","name_zh":"太清宫","pinyin":"Tàiqīng Gōng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.8601,"lon":115.5483,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luyi-taiqing-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Taoist temple at the traditional birthplace of Laozi, recorded as a Laozi shrine since AD 165 and raised by the Tang emperors, who claimed Laozi as their ancestor, into the imperial Taiqing Palace in 743. Today's Taiji Hall dates from the Qing or the early Republic, but the grounds keep a Tang stele of Emperor Xuanzong's commentary on the Daodejing, a stele of about 8 m composed and written by Emperor Zhenzong of Song after his visit in 1014, an iron pillar and ancient cypresses. In front is a modern square with a 27 m granite statue of Laozi, and the related Mingdao Palace stands in Luyi town."},{"id":"huaiyang-xiangetai","name":"Xiangetai (Confucius Memorial Terrace)","name_zh":"弦歌台","pinyin":"Xiángē Tái","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.7283,"lon":114.877,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaiyang-xiangetai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Confucian shrine on an island in a lake at the south-west corner of Huaiyang old town, built to recall how Confucius and his disciples were trapped without food between the states of Chen and Cai and he went on teaching and playing music. A Confucius temple was moved here in 721 onto an old Han crossbow-training terrace, and the present layout dates from the Ming and Qing, with a gate bearing a 1711 inscription and a seven-bay main hall of 1714 ringed by a gallery of 24 square stone columns, rare in Confucian temples. The academy buildings behind it are modern reconstructions."},{"id":"shangshui-ye-family-manor","name":"Ye Family Manor, Dengcheng","name_zh":"叶氏庄园","pinyin":"Yèshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.6571,"lon":114.4699,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangshui-ye-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The family seat of the Ye merchants, who grew rich from river trade on the Sha River, built in stages over more than a century from the Kangxi to the Xianfeng reigns in the old town of Dengcheng. Three main compounds survive, the Tanglou, Five-Gate and High-Gate courtyards, with tall gatehouses, an open two-storey hall and carved brick, wood and stone throughout, and the city describes it as the largest and best-preserved Qing manor in eastern Henan. It is run as a museum."},{"id":"xiangcheng-yuanzhai-old-residences","name":"Yuanzhai Old Residences (Yuan Shikai's Family Home)","name_zh":"袁寨古民居","pinyin":"Yuánzhài Gǔ Mínjū","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.3436,"lon":114.9607,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangcheng-yuanzhai-old-residences","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The fortified manor of the Yuan family, bought and rebuilt from 1857 by the official Yuan Jiasan, where Yuan Shikai, later President of the Republic of China and briefly self-proclaimed emperor, spent his childhood. Left, central and right groups of courtyards survive with 13 houses and halls, decorated with carved animals and figures on their roof ridges and in brick, stone and wood, beside a garden with rockeries and a pond."},{"id":"zhoukou-wildlife-world","name":"Zhoukou Wildlife World","name_zh":"周口野生动物世界","pinyin":"Zhōukǒu Yěshēng Dòngwù Shìjiè","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhoukou","lat":33.6833,"lon":114.6284,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhoukou-wildlife-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large safari park and entertainment complex opened around 2020 in Zhoukou Forest Park, with walk-through animal areas, a drive-through enclosure where visitors tour in their own cars or a park train, a bird garden and a ride zone with roller coasters. Its theatres stage acrobatic and circus shows, including staged animal acts, in keeping with Zhoukou's reputation as a home of Chinese acrobatics, and a themed hotel opened in 2026. It suits families with children."},{"id":"xiping-baoyan-temple-pagoda","name":"Baoyan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"宝严寺塔","pinyin":"Bǎoyán Sì Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":33.3896,"lon":114.0226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiping-baoyan-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song brick pagoda of seven storeys on a hexagonal plan, 28.8 m tall, in Xiping county town and the only remnant of Baoyan Temple. Its brickwork imitates a timber tower, with a niche of carved flying figures on the first storey and a stair that climbs to the sixth floor. Damaged by Japanese shelling during the war, it stands in a small park laid out in 2017 beside a memorial tower to soldiers killed in the War of Resistance against Japan."},{"id":"shangcai-cai-state-capital","name":"Cai State Capital Ruins","name_zh":"蔡国故城","pinyin":"Càiguó Gùchéng","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":33.2749,"lon":114.2481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangcai-cai-state-capital","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The capital of the Zhou-dynasty state of Cai, first granted to King Wu's brother Shu Du and the seat of its rulers for about 500 years, around present-day Shangcai county town. Stretches of its rammed-earth walls survive, and on the north wall rises a large rammed-earth beacon platform of the Warring States period, which the county describes as the earliest beacon tower found in China. On the west wall stands the Wanghe Tower, a small complex of Ming-era halls linked with the Double Ninth festival climb."},{"id":"xincai-caihongfang-liquor-park","name":"Caihongfang Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"蔡洪坊酒文化园","pinyin":"Càihóngfāng Jiǔ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.7645,"lon":114.9761,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xincai-caihongfang-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working baijiu distillery and visitor park on the south bank of the Hong River in Xincai county town, built on the former state-run Xincai distillery and covering more than 600 mu. Visitors see the Cai liquor museum, a recreated hand-made qu (fermentation starter) workshop, the base-liquor warehouses and a tasting centre, plus the Central Plains Liquor Culture Hall on the history of Chinese and local liquor, an exhibition on local party history, a botanical garden and a children's playground."},{"id":"xiping-dongqiao-site","name":"Dongqiao Site (Leizu's Hometown)","name_zh":"董桥遗址","pinyin":"Dǒngqiáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":33.3939,"lon":113.757,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiping-dongqiao-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Neolithic settlement site of about 48 ha at Dongqiao village, mainly of the Yangshao culture with later Longshan, Erlitou, Zhou and Han layers, which local tradition identifies with the Xiling clan of Leizu, the Yellow Emperor's consort credited with inventing silk-making. The village has built a Leizu temple, a site museum and a village history hall beside it, and holds a large temple fair and Leizu ceremony around the sixth day of the third lunar month."},{"id":"suiping-chayashan-weixing-commune","name":"Former Site of the Chayashan Weixing People's Commune","name_zh":"嵖岈山卫星人民公社旧址","pinyin":"Cháyáshān Wèixīng Rénmín Gōngshè Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":33.2069,"lon":113.7413,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suiping-chayashan-weixing-commune","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The headquarters of China's first people's commune, formed on 20 April 1958 by merging some twenty farming cooperatives west of Suiping, whose reports of record grain yields made the front page of the People's Daily that summer during the Great Leap Forward; Mao Zedong visited it in November 1958. The compound, opened to visitors in 2002 and run as a museum, keeps the 1958 office building with slogans of the time still on its walls."},{"id":"zhumadian-jinding-mountain","name":"Jinding Mountain","name_zh":"金顶山","pinyin":"Jīndǐng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.8566,"lon":113.8264,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhumadian-jinding-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in Yifeng town where the Funiu and Tongbai ranges meet, on the climatic border between the subtropical and warm-temperate zones, with six peaks, dense mixed forest and rock formations. Besides hiking paths and an old mountain stockade, the scenic area has a water park and a zoo aimed at day-trippers from Zhumadian."},{"id":"xiping-jiudian-iron-works","name":"Jiudian Iron Works Site","name_zh":"酒店冶铁遗址","pinyin":"Jiǔdiàn Yětiě Yízhǐ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":33.2527,"lon":113.6683,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiping-jiudian-iron-works","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An ironworking site of the Warring States to Jin periods on both sides of the Tanshan reservoir south of Chushan town, linked in ancient texts with the famous Tangxi and Longquan swords. Its centrepiece is a Warring States smelting furnace excavated in 1987, still 2.25 m high, which the county describes as the oldest and most complete of its kind found in China, kept in a protective building beside a small exhibition hall."},{"id":"queshan-laole-mountain","name":"Laole Mountain","name_zh":"老乐山","pinyin":"Lǎolè Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.849,"lon":113.9049,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=queshan-laole-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested range of nine linked peaks at the eastern end of the Funiu and Tongbai mountains, the mountain scenery nearest to Zhumadian city, rising to 813 m at Yuhuang Peak. A national forest park with more than 95% forest cover, it is a Taoist mountain whose summit was historically ringed by temples and a worship terrace, and it is promoted as a place for the Double Ninth (Chongyang) festival climb."},{"id":"suiping-mount-chaya","name":"Mount Chaya","name_zh":"嵖岈山","pinyin":"Cháyá Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":33.1296,"lon":113.7323,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suiping-mount-chaya/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A granite massif on the eastern edge of the Funiu Mountains, a national geopark whose main scenic area of about 50 km² is crowded with weathered rock pinnacles, caves and small lakes carved from granite about 140–120 million years old. It was a filming location for CCTV's Journey to the West television series, and the scenic area has added a dry 'sky rafting' run nearly 2 km long, a moving walkway up the slope and a cliff-side slide."},{"id":"runan-nanhai-chan-temple","name":"Nanhai Chan Temple","name_zh":"南海禅寺","pinyin":"Nánhǎi Chánsì","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.9948,"lon":114.3613,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=runan-nanhai-chan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large working Buddhist monastery on the south-eastern edge of Runan town, enclosed on three sides by the Ru River and rebuilt from 1992 to 2007 under the monk Mingcheng on the site of the old Xiaonanhai temple. Its halls cover some 50,000 m², among them a Mahavira Hall of more than 6,000 m² housing a huge seated Shakyamuni, approached through a 31 m-high gateway and a line of granite archways."},{"id":"pingyu-xiugong-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Monk Xiugong (Puzhao Temple Pagoda)","name_zh":"秀公戒师和尚塔","pinyin":"Xiùgōng Jièshī Héshang Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.9553,"lon":114.4695,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyu-xiugong-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 14 m brick funerary pagoda built in 1194, under the Jin dynasty, by the disciples of Xiugong, abbot of Puzhao Temple, who had died the year before; the temple itself has gone. The hexagonal tower of seven storeys has brick eaves imitating timber brackets, a dated inscription over the doorway on the second storey and empty niches above, and a small garden was laid out around it in 2022."},{"id":"zhumadian-royal-post-station","name":"Royal Post Station (Huangjia Yizhan)","name_zh":"皇家驿站","pinyin":"Huángjiā Yìzhàn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.9346,"lon":113.9984,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhumadian-royal-post-station","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern culture-and-leisure town in Ming–Qing style in Zhumadian's Yicheng district, themed on the area's long history as a stop on the imperial courier-station network. Its 'seven streets and three lanes', among them an old street and a canal-side water street, are lined with restaurants, shops and inns around Feima Square, the Mawang Pavilion, an opera stage, Confucian and military temples and a post-station museum. It is busiest in the evening, with a night market, light shows and performances."},{"id":"runan-runing-stone-bridges","name":"Runing Stone Bridges","name_zh":"汝宁石桥","pinyin":"Rǔníng Shíqiáo","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":33.0047,"lon":114.3664,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/runan-runing-stone-bridges/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two Ming-dynasty stone bridges over the Ru River at Runan, the old seat of Runing prefecture: the Jimin Bridge at the east gate, first made of stone in 1483, and the Hongji Bridge at the north gate, built in 1505, each with five arches and about 55 m long. Their piers have pointed cutwaters facing the current, and the Jimin Bridge's balustrade carries carved lions and panels of plum, orchid, bamboo, cloud and qilin designs."},{"id":"biyang-tongshan-scenic-area","name":"Tongshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"铜山","pinyin":"Tóng Shān","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.7195,"lon":113.5884,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=biyang-tongshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A provincial scenic area in Biyang County made up of Tongshan mountain, the Tongshan Lake reservoir and Yunwu Peak, with forested hills, caves, waterfalls, temples and Taoist halls. The reservoir covers about 16 km² and is dotted with islands reached by boat, and the area is also a national forest park and a national water-conservancy scenic area."},{"id":"runan-wuying-pagoda","name":"Wuying Pagoda","name_zh":"悟颖塔","pinyin":"Wùyǐng Tǎ","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.9958,"lon":114.3539,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/runan-wuying-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A nine-storey hexagonal brick pagoda in pavilion style, more than 20 m tall, in the south of Runan town, popularly called the Shadowless Pagoda from the saying that it casts no shadow at noon on the winter solstice. Its gently tapering, parabolic outline rises from a sumeru base carved with goats, children and flowers, and imitation-timber brick brackets support every eave."},{"id":"zhengyang-stone-que","name":"Zhengyang Stone Que","name_zh":"正阳石阙","pinyin":"Zhèngyáng Shíquè","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.6062,"lon":114.3942,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengyang-stone-que","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An Eastern Han stone que, the kind of ceremonial gate pillar once set before tombs and shrines, standing in the north-east of Zhengyang county town. Locals call it Wangxiang Tai, the 'terrace for gazing homeward', after a folk tale of a dead merchant who climbed it to look back at his family before returning to life."},{"id":"queshan-zhugou-revolutionary-memorial","name":"Zhugou Revolutionary Memorial Hall","name_zh":"竹沟革命纪念馆","pinyin":"Zhúgōu Gémìng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"410000","region":"Henan","city":"Zhumadian","lat":32.7872,"lon":113.7254,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=queshan-zhugou-revolutionary-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former seat of the CPC Central Plains Bureau and the Henan provincial party committee in 1938–39 in Zhugou town, known at the time as 'Little Yan'an', where Liu Shaoqi and Li Xiannian worked. The memorial hall, founded in 1956 with a name plaque written by Zhou Enlai, keeps 66 rooms of the bureau and its offices, stretches of the village wall and the New Fourth Army drill ground, with an exhibition of more than 1,000 documents, photographs and objects."},{"id":"badong-baren-river-gorge","name":"Baren River Gorge, Badong","name_zh":"巴人河","pinyin":"Bārén Hé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.8931,"lon":110.3141,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=badong-baren-river-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst river gorge in Chadianzi town, Badong County, also called the Three Gorges Women's Valley, where the scenic area climbs from about 350 to 1,650 metres above sea level. The route passes Qinglang Peak, a three-sided cliff reached along a narrow ridge path, the Longyin Palace limestone cave, a covered bridge and three iron-chain footbridges. The lower valley adds a rafting run, a slide and zip lines, and the shaded gorge is promoted locally as a place to escape the summer heat."},{"id":"enshi-daqingjiang","name":"Daqingjiang Scenic Area, Enshi","name_zh":"大清江","pinyin":"Dà Qīngjiāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.2487,"lon":109.6646,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enshi-daqingjiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A boat-based scenic area on the Qing River in Enshi, spread across Sancha, Shadi and Xintang townships, where large passenger boats run along about 87 km of river between karst cliffs and villages. On the bank, the Honghua peak-forest area has riverside paths, a 1,056-metre cable car across the river and via ferrata climbing routes. Developed from 2012, it suits visitors who want to see the river's scenery from the water rather than on foot."},{"id":"lichuan-dashuijing-old-buildings","name":"Dashuijing Old Buildings","name_zh":"大水井古建筑群","pinyin":"Dàshuǐjǐng Gǔjiànzhù Qún","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.5783,"lon":109.0342,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-dashuijing-old-buildings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of buildings in the mountains of Lichuan, mostly Qing-dynasty and Republican-era, that the Li family built up from the former residence of the Huang tusi (local chiefs). The main parts are the Li ancestral hall (built 1846-49), the Li family manor and the 1940s courtyard house of Li Gaiwu, with an old flagstone road and a bridge among the protected elements. Together they have 24 courtyards and more than 200 rooms, and the complex has been a national protected site since 2001."},{"id":"jianshi-dixin-valley","name":"Dixin Valley, Jianshi","name_zh":"地心谷","pinyin":"Dìxīn Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.6538,"lon":110.0747,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianshi-dixin-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A deep limestone gorge in Gaoping town, Jianshi County, with cliff-hugging plank walkways, a glass bridge more than 200 metres above the valley floor and more than a thousand river-scoured potholes in the stream bed. The scenic area also contains the Jianshi Man site, where Homo erectus remains were found together with fossils of the giant ape Gigantopithecus, roughly two million years old, and a stretch of the old Ba salt road. It opened to visitors in 2014 and has since added rafting, a hillside lift and a hotel built into the cliff."},{"id":"enshi-tusi-city","name":"Enshi Tusi City","name_zh":"恩施土司城","pinyin":"Ēnshī Tǔsī Chéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.3034,"lon":109.4676,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enshi-tusi-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A replica tusi (hereditary chieftain) manor complex on a hillside in the city of Enshi, opened in 2002, combining Tujia, Miao and Dong architecture, carving and painting. It includes a gate tower, the nine-courtyard Jiujin Hall, a hall to the legendary Ba leader Lin Jun, bell and drum towers and a flower garden, linked by loop paths past more than thirty sights. It is a modern re-creation rather than a surviving site, but it gives a quick introduction to the tusi system that governed Tujia areas from the Yuan dynasty until the 1730s."},{"id":"lichuan-fobao-mountain","name":"Fobao Mountain, Lichuan","name_zh":"佛宝山","pinyin":"Fóbǎo Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.1977,"lon":108.7336,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-fobao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the hills of Lichuan, with forest cover of more than 95 per cent. Its canyon section has boardwalks, including a glass walkway and a cliff-side plank road, as well as a rafting route and waterfall viewing. It is a day out for visitors based in Lichuan who want to get into the hills."},{"id":"hefeng-manshanhong-martyrs-cemetery","name":"Hefeng Manshanhong Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"鹤峰满山红烈士陵园","pinyin":"Hèfēng Mǎnshānhóng Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.8882,"lon":110.0324,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefeng-manshanhong-martyrs-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial cemetery on a wooded hillside on the south side of Hefeng town, begun in 1959 and expanded in 1978 as the cemetery of the Hunan-Hubei border soviet area. It holds the graves of Red Army commander Duan Dechang, He Long's sister He Ying and others associated with the revolutionary struggle in the border area. The grounds, about 10 hectares, include a main tomb, a monument, a martyrs' shrine, an exhibition hall of relics and a bronze statue of He Long, and the cemetery is a nationally protected martyrs' memorial and the core of the Manshanhong scenic area."},{"id":"lichuan-longchuan-shuixiang","name":"Longchuan Shuixiang","name_zh":"龙船水乡","pinyin":"Lóngchuán Shuǐxiāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.2887,"lon":108.8283,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-longchuan-shuixiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside scenic area on the Qing River in Liangwu township, built as a tourism project by Hubei Communications Investment Group on the theme of the Longchuan Diao, a Lichuan folk song listed as national intangible heritage. Visitors travel by boat into the Shuilian water cave, where the air stays around 18 °C, and the grounds include a wetland park with an open-air stage used for folk shows and water-borne fire-spark displays. It suits a half-day stop for cool air and a staged folk-culture show."},{"id":"enshi-luyuanping","name":"Luyuanping","name_zh":"鹿院坪","pinyin":"Lùyuànpíng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.5075,"lon":109.1752,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enshi-luyuanping","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cliff-ringed hollow in Banqiao town, about 1,700 metres above sea level and more than 500 metres deep, with a farming hamlet, streams, waterfall groups and karst crevices on its floor. Until 2021 the only way in was a steep cliff path; now a 380-metre inclined lift takes about three minutes, a cliff-side slide runs beside the waterfalls and a 158-metre conveyor 'magic carpet' eases the climb back. It is a cool summer retreat."},{"id":"laifeng-maodong-cave","name":"Maodong Cave","name_zh":"卯洞","pinyin":"Mǎodòng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.2318,"lon":109.2419,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1.5–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laifeng-maodong-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river cave on the Youshui River at Baifusi in Laifeng County, close to where Hubei meets Hunan and Chongqing, where the river flows through an opening about 58 metres wide and 36 metres high and runs underground for some 215 metres. The visit is a boat trip through the cave and down the gorge beyond, between limestone peaks and cliffs, and takes a little over an hour; the boat route opened to visitors in 2021. Local legend says the craftsman-god Lu Ban chiselled the cave in a rabbit year, month and hour, hence the name."},{"id":"xuanen-pengjiazhai","name":"Pengjiazhai Stilt-House Village","name_zh":"彭家寨","pinyin":"Péngjiāzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.6756,"lon":109.6225,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanen-pengjiazhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tujia village of Qing-dynasty timber stilt houses (diaojiaolou) on a hillside beside the Longtan River in Lianghekou village, jointed by mortise and tenon with almost no nails. About 30 households still live in the old houses, and the village is promoted as an open-air museum of Tujia life, with rapeseed flowers in spring and rice-planting and harvest activities later in the year. It was listed as a national protected site in 2013."},{"id":"xianfeng-pingbaying-forest-park","name":"Pingbaying National Forest Park","name_zh":"坪坝营国家森林公园","pinyin":"Píngbàyíng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.4016,"lon":108.979,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianfeng-pingbaying-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park of about 154 km² in the mountains of south-western Xianfeng County, close to the Chongqing border, with forest cover of over 90 per cent. Its features include the Sidong Gorge, a cluster of sinkholes and through-caves in woodland, and extensive azalea woods. It suits a half-day of forest walking."},{"id":"hefeng-pingshan-rongmei-tusi-site","name":"Pingshan Canyon and Rongmei Tusi Site","name_zh":"屏山·容美土司遗址","pinyin":"Píngshān Róngměi Tǔsī Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.9388,"lon":110.0734,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefeng-pingshan-rongmei-tusi-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village inside a cliff-ringed canyon, the site of the Jue Fu, the main seat of the Rongmei tusi (hereditary chieftains of the Tian family), built from the late Ming dynasty and abandoned after the Qing ended the tusi system in 1735. What survives are stone platforms, an opera-stage ruin carved with the words 'Shan Gao Shui Chang', the Xiaokunlun study terrace and Wanquan Cave across about 50 hectares, and the more visited part today is the canyon, where boats and boardwalks follow a clear green river between the cliffs. A Red Army hospital was also set up in the village in 1930."},{"id":"badong-shennong-stream","name":"Shennong Stream","name_zh":"神农溪","pinyin":"Shénnóng Xī","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":31.0434,"lon":110.3262,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/badong-shennong-stream/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Yangtze tributary running about 60 km from the Shennongjia mountains through four gorges (Shennong, Mianzhu, Parrot and Longchang) to meet the river opposite Badong town. Visitors travel up the lower stream by tourist boat past cliffs with hanging coffins left by the ancient Ba people, and can try small wooden 'pea-pod' boats hauled by trackers, a practice kept going for tourism after it ended elsewhere on the Yangtze. It suits a half-day boat excursion from Badong."},{"id":"enshi-shizhou-old-city-wall","name":"Shizhou Old City Walls, Enshi","name_zh":"施州城址","pinyin":"Shīzhōu Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.2647,"lon":109.4713,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enshi-shizhou-old-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving walls and gates of Shizhou, the old walled city of Enshi, in the Liujiaoting area of the present city. The wall, begun in the Song dynasty and extended under the Yuan, Ming and Qing, climbs the hillsides instead of following a plain-city plan, and a stretch of about 1.9 km with Song, Ming and Qing sections is preserved. Visitors can climb the South Gate Tower (Chaoyang Gate), which has a small display hall and a view over the old town, and walk through the passage of the West Gate (Jinhua Gate)."},{"id":"xuanen-shiziguan-gorge","name":"Shiziguan Gorge, Xuan'en","name_zh":"狮子关","pinyin":"Shīzi Guān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.9785,"lon":109.5432,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanen-shiziguan-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river-gorge scenic area just east of Xuan'en town, about 9.6 km long, with steep rock walls and narrow passes such as the Lion's Mouth. The whole route can be toured by car, and the area also offers paddle-boarding and kayaking and a spot where wild macaques can be seen."},{"id":"enshi-suobuya-stone-forest","name":"Suobuya Stone Forest","name_zh":"梭布垭石林","pinyin":"Suōbùyā Shílín","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.5771,"lon":109.5729,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enshi-suobuya-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst stone forest of about 21 square kilometres in the north-west of Enshi, formed in the Ordovician period around 460 million years ago, with limestone pinnacles, narrow slot canyons and visible fossils. The scenic area has four main sections, Qinglong Temple, Lianhuazhai, Mozigou and Jiulonghui, and lies at about 1,000 metres, so it is cool in summer. It sits where Enshi, Jianshi and Fengjie in Chongqing meet."},{"id":"xianfeng-tangya-river-huangjindong","name":"Tangya River Scenic Area, Xianfeng","name_zh":"唐崖河景区","pinyin":"Tángyáhé Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.953,"lon":109.0822,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianfeng-tangya-river-huangjindong","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on the upper Tangya River at Huangjindong in the north of Xianfeng County, centred on Huangjin Cave, a large river cave that the Tangya River flows through. A trail runs upstream from the visitor centre to the cave portal, and the area has offered rafting down the river and through the cave. It suits a half-day outing in warm weather."},{"id":"xianfeng-tangya-tusi-site","name":"Tangya Tusi Fortress","name_zh":"唐崖土司城址","pinyin":"Tángyá Tǔsī Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.6908,"lon":109.0056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianfeng-tangya-tusi-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of the seat of the Qin family, hereditary Tujia chiefs (some scholars say Mongol in origin) of Tangya, who ruled the district under the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties until the Qing replaced hereditary chiefs with appointed officials in 1735. The city, built from 1355, lies between a hill and the Tangya River and was laid out in three tiers, an outer city, an inner city and a palace city, covering about 74 hectares, with carved stone figures among the surviving remains. It is one of three Tusi Sites inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015."},{"id":"lichuan-tenglong-cave","name":"Tenglong Cave","name_zh":"腾龙洞","pinyin":"Ténglóng Dòng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.3368,"lon":108.9816,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lichuan-tenglong-cave/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cave system on the Qing River with about 59.8 km of passages on five levels, where the river drops more than 30 m at the entrance and flows on underground. Visitors walk a section of the cave, and a theatre inside stages a sung-and-danced show on Tujia history and customs, in air that stays at roughly 12–18 °C all year. Xinhua describes it as one of the largest known caves in Asia, and it is a popular escape from the summer heat."},{"id":"enshi-tujia-daughters-city","name":"Tujia Daughters' City, Enshi","name_zh":"土家女儿城","pinyin":"Tǔjiā Nǚ'ér Chéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.273,"lon":109.4988,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enshi-tujia-daughters-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A shopping and leisure district in Enshi, built in the style of a Tujia old town and opened as a street quarter in 2013, with stilt-house lanes, shops, restaurants, inns, a Tujia folk museum and a theatre. It is themed on the Nü'er Hui, a traditional Tujia folk gathering, which is staged here as a regular event. It is a modern, commercial place rather than a historic quarter, popular in the evening and for photo studios that hire out Tujia and Miao costumes."},{"id":"xuanen-wujiatai-tea-village","name":"Wujiatai Tribute Tea Village, Xuan'en","name_zh":"伍家台","pinyin":"Wǔjiātái","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.081,"lon":109.5279,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanen-wujiatai-tea-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tea-growing village in Xuan'en County whose tea was presented to the Qianlong emperor in the 1780s, earning it the label 'tribute tea' and an imperial plaque. Boardwalks wind through the tea gardens, with chances to watch or try picking and hand processing, and the village has a tea museum; the tea gardens are a provincial-level protected site, and the tea is on the China-EU geographical indications list. It is a small, rural stop, busiest in spring when the tea is picked."},{"id":"hefeng-wuliping-revolutionary-sites","name":"Wuliping Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"五里坪革命旧址","pinyin":"Wǔlǐpíng Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.895,"lon":110.3425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hefeng-wuliping-revolutionary-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small basin town in Hefeng County that was the centre of the Hunan–Hubei border soviet area in 1929–33, when He Long led the Red Fourth Army and Second Army Corps to build a base in the region. The protected group centres on the old street, which keeps late-Qing and early-Republican houses, and lists 20 former Red Army and soviet sites, among them the border regiment's headquarters, a clothing workshop, soviet government offices and a prison, plus the seat of the Party's border-region committee and a military training class."},{"id":"badong-wuxiakou","name":"Wuxiakou (Wu Gorge Mouth), Badong","name_zh":"巫峡口","pinyin":"Wūxiá Kǒu","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":31.0152,"lon":110.3119,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=badong-wuxiakou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on Damian Mountain above the Yangtze at the eastern mouth of the Wu Gorge, the middle gorge of the Three Gorges, just upriver of Badong county town. A cable car and a tourist road climb the hillside to viewpoints over the sharp bend where the river leaves the gorge. The mouth of Shennong Stream lies only a few kilometres downriver."},{"id":"laifeng-xianfo-temple-grottoes","name":"Xianfo Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"仙佛寺石窟","pinyin":"Xiānfó Sì Shíkū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.5561,"lon":109.4553,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laifeng-xianfo-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cliff-carving site on the west bank of the Youshui River in Xiangfeng town, facing Hunan's Longshan County across the water. Four main niches hold 13 Buddhist figures, carved between the Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties period, and a side niche to the south adds sixteen small niches, each holding a small Buddha. It is one of the few surviving cliff-carving groups of this age in the middle Yangtze region, and the temple halls that once stood in front were destroyed in the 1960s."},{"id":"xuanen-town-gongshui-river","name":"Xuan'en Town and Gongshui River","name_zh":"浪漫宣恩旅游区","pinyin":"Làngmàn Xuān'ēn Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.9925,"lon":109.4858,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"An evening","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanen-town-gongshui-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The county town of Xuan'en, run as a scenic area in its own right and built around the Gongshui River that flows through it. In summer the riverbanks host evening trips by bamboo raft and black-awning boat, with staged performances such as fire-spark (iron-flower) displays and dances. It suits an evening stopover for visitors already in the county."},{"id":"laifeng-yangmei-ancient-village","name":"Yangmei Ancient Village, Laifeng","name_zh":"杨梅古寨","pinyin":"Yángméi Gǔzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.5965,"lon":109.305,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laifeng-yangmei-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area made up of two villages, Huangbaiyuan and Shiqiao, in Sanhu township, known for its groves of old Chinese bayberry (yangmei) trees, some of them more than 300 years old. The villages keep Tujia stilt houses, old courtyards, an old theatre stage, a water-powered mill and parts of an old salt road, linked by a tourist road. The fruit ripens around midsummer, the busiest time to visit."},{"id":"xuanen-yaotianyan-sinkhole","name":"Yaotianyan Sinkhole, Xuan'en","name_zh":"矅天眼","pinyin":"Yàotiānyǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":29.9884,"lon":109.4062,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanen-yaotianyan-sinkhole","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A natural sinkhole (tiankeng) more than 290 m deep in Luoquanyan village, Jiaoyuan township, Xuan'en County, set among karst pinnacles and developed as a scenic area. After rain waterfalls pour into the pit, and in summer visitors go down to its cool depths, which Xinhua has reported as one of the county's popular cool-down destinations."},{"id":"badong-yesanguan-forest-flower-sea","name":"Yesanguan Forest Flower Sea","name_zh":"野三关森林花海","pinyin":"Yěsānguān Sēnlín Huāhǎi","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.7064,"lon":110.2905,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=badong-yesanguan-forest-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower-field attraction in the Tiechanghuang forest park on a plateau above Yesanguan town in Badong County, at more than 1,700 m. It is one of three main sights of the Lüchongpo resort area, with a ski field and a holiday village, where summer temperatures average about 22 °C. It suits a summer day trip to cooler hills."},{"id":"jianshi-yesanxia","name":"Yesanxia (Wild Three Gorges), Jianshi","name_zh":"野三峡","pinyin":"Yěsānxiá","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.3607,"lon":109.9768,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianshi-yesanxia","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain and river scenic region in Jianshi County, built around the Jingyang stretch of the Qing River and the neighbouring Yesan River. Its main parts are Butterfly Rock cave, the Huanghe peak forest of karst towers, Jingyang Gorge on the Qing River and the Xiaoxihu (Little West Lake) resort area, a cool hill retreat in summer. The old Jingyang pass and old street lie along the river."},{"id":"lichuan-yulong-cave","name":"Yulong Cave, Lichuan","name_zh":"玉龙洞","pinyin":"Yùlóng Dòng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.3894,"lon":109.1254,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-yulong-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A show cave in Tuanbao township with passages on three levels, found in 1992 when villagers searching for water in a drought came across it. A trail runs along a gorge and over a bridge to the cave mouth, and about 1.6 km of passage is open, lit in colour, with folk dances in traditional costume staged on site. The rock formations are named for what they resemble, such as a swan on its nest and a group of elephants."},{"id":"lichuan-yumuzhai","name":"Yumuzhai","name_zh":"鱼木寨","pinyin":"Yúmùzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":30.5272,"lon":108.6468,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lichuan-yumuzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fortified Tujia village on a hilltop ringed by cliffs, founded in the Hongwu reign (1368–98) by the Ma family of local chiefs and described as the best-preserved Tujia fort. It has four gates, a Qing-dynasty watchtower house and more than 30 old tombs with carved steles and stone sculpture, and over a hundred households, mostly Tujia, still live there. It suits visitors interested in Tujia history and village architecture."},{"id":"badong-yuxian-valley","name":"Yuxian Valley (Wuyuan Cave), Badong","name_zh":"雨仙谷","pinyin":"Yǔxiān Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Enshi","lat":31.0271,"lon":110.4222,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=badong-yuxian-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area in the hills just outside Badong town, built around Wuyuan Cave, a large cave with a flowing spring and stalactites, and the gorge outside it, where the air stays around 20 °C. The grounds hold Three Gorges stone inscriptions, pavilions and a stele garden recalling the statesman Kou Zhun, as well as the Night Rain Pool, a constant-temperature outdoor pool on the Yangtze bank named after a poem by Li Shangyin. It suits a half-day combining a cave walk and the poetry sites."},{"id":"ezhou-guanyin-pavilion","name":"Ezhou Guanyin Pavilion","name_zh":"鄂州观音阁","pinyin":"Èzhōu Guānyīn Gé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.412,"lon":114.886,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ezhou-guanyin-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Buddhist–Daoist temple built on a rock reef in the Yangtze at Longpanji, first built in its present form in 1345 and rebuilt several times since. Its three halls, which include shrines to Guanyin and Laozi, a two-storey pavilion and a lookout pavilion stand on a stone platform in the river, the whole complex being about 30 m long and 24 m high, and at summer high water the river rises around the base. A small park was laid out around it in 2007."},{"id":"liangzihu-fengqi-oasis-expo-park","name":"Fengqi Oasis Ecological Civilisation Expo Park","name_zh":"凤栖绿洲生态文明博览园","pinyin":"Fèngqī Lǜzhōu Shēngtài Wénmíng Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.3121,"lon":114.5975,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangzihu-fengqi-oasis-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside expo park in Liangzihu district, close to the Wuhan boundary, whose main building is the Liangzi Lake Ecological Civilisation Exhibition Hall, a two-storey hall of about 18,000 m² on lake protection and water-ecology restoration, described locally as the first of its kind in central China. Displays use interactive screens and 3D projection to cover the lake's history, its wetland ecosystem and local development. Outside are a lakeside camping ground, waterways, a boardwalk and a viewing platform; the park was rated 4A in December 2024."},{"id":"liangzihu-liangzi-island","name":"Liangzi Island","name_zh":"梁子岛","pinyin":"Liángzi Dǎo","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.2596,"lon":114.5675,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangzihu-liangzi-island","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 2.2 km² island in Liangzi Lake, reached by boat from the mainland, with a settlement of grey-tiled stone houses, farmland, small hills and lake views. The lake is the original home of the Wuchang bream, and the island is promoted as a quiet lakeside escape for walks and local fish dishes."},{"id":"ezhou-lianhua-mountain-park","name":"Lianhua Mountain Park, Ezhou","name_zh":"莲花山","pinyin":"Liánhuā Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.3822,"lon":114.8952,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ezhou-lianhua-mountain-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill park on the south side of Ezhou beside Yanglan Lake, built up with more than 30 man-made sights in dragon and lotus motifs. They include a gate tower, a pagoda called Yuanming Tower, the Jielong dragon terrace and a prayer hall, so it reads as a municipal leisure park rather than a historic site."},{"id":"ezhou-wuwang-city-ruins","name":"Wuwang City Ruins, Ezhou","name_zh":"吴王城遗址","pinyin":"Wúwángchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.4052,"lon":114.8879,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ezhou-wuwang-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of the city that Sun Quan founded in 221 and named Wuchang, capital of the Wu kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period. The walled town was roughly 1,000 m by 500 m, between the Yangtze to the north and the South Lake; today only a stretch of rammed-earth south wall about 60 m long and 4 m high and a section of moat survive within the modern city. Little else is visible, so it is a short stop for readers of Three Kingdoms history."},{"id":"huarong-xingfuyuan-farm-park","name":"Xingfuyuan Farm Park","name_zh":"杏福园","pinyin":"Xìngfúyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.5664,"lon":114.7831,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huarong-xingfuyuan-farm-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farm-tourism estate beside a lake in Duandian town, developed from 2014 by a Taiwanese-owned company on formerly fallow land. Current attractions listed by the district government include an orchid hall, a lakeside beach and water-play area, a pet park, farming study programmes and outdoor sports, with orchards and flower greenhouses around them. It is a modern leisure development rather than a heritage site, suited to families on a day out from Ezhou or Wuhan."},{"id":"ezhou-xishan-scenic-area","name":"Xishan Scenic Area, Ezhou","name_zh":"西山风景区","pinyin":"Xīshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.4109,"lon":114.8645,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ezhou-xishan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded hill park in the west of Ezhou, once called Fanshan, that preserves traces of the Wu state of the Three Kingdoms, whose ruler Sun Quan is said to have built a palace here. Paths lead past Lingquan Temple, the Songfeng Pavilion linked with the Song poet Huang Tingjian, a Wu king's summer palace, a sword-testing stone and an accession altar, and the poet Su Shi often came across the river from Huangzhou to wander here. It has been a 4A area since 2022."},{"id":"ezhou-yiting-inscription","name":"Yiting Inscription Rock Carving","name_zh":"怡亭铭摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Yítíngmíng Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Ezhou","lat":30.4126,"lon":114.8786,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ezhou-yiting-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A natural rock on the Yangtze bank outside Ezhou's former north gate, carved in AD 765 with a short text in praise of the Yiting pavilion that once stood here, in seal script by Li Yangbing and clerical script by Li Ju, with the text by Pei Qiu. Local authorities describe it as Li Yangbing's only surviving seal-script carving on its original stone, and it was cut out of the river shallows in 2003 and re-set on the bank under a pavilion. The stone is small, about 3.8 m by 3.3 m, so it suits a short stop with the nearby Guanyin Pavilion."},{"id":"macheng-baizi-pagoda","name":"Baizi Pagoda, Macheng","name_zh":"柏子塔","pinyin":"Bǎizǐ Tǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.2601,"lon":115.1069,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macheng-baizi-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tang-dynasty brick pagoda on Jiulong Hill in Yanjiahe township, built in 783 by the monk Xuying and named after a cypress that once grew from its top. It is a hexagonal multi-storey tower: originally nine storeys, two were destroyed by bombing in the war against Japan, and seven survive to a height of 34.72 m. It is described as the oldest surviving multi-storey brick pagoda in Hubei."},{"id":"luotian-bodaofeng","name":"Bodaofeng, Luotian","name_zh":"薄刀峰","pinyin":"Bódāofēng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.108,"lon":115.569,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luotian-bodaofeng","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Bodaofeng is a mountain scenic area in Shengli town in the north of Luotian county, in the Dabie Mountains of north-eastern Hubei, and is promoted as a cool summer retreat. It has ridges, pine-covered rock formations and a lake called Yuanmeng ('Dream-Fulfilling') Lake, and the Hubei Daily reported that Huanggang's 2025 summer tourism season was launched on its shore. It is a national forest park and suits visitors who want hill scenery and a cooler climate."},{"id":"huanggang-dongpo-chibi","name":"Dongpo Chibi","name_zh":"东坡赤壁","pinyin":"Dōngpō Chìbì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.4572,"lon":114.8628,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huanggang-dongpo-chibi/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dongpo Chibi is a complex of pavilions and halls on a reddish-brown rock bluff in the north-west of Huangzhou, which once stood on the north bank of the Yangtze before silt left it several hundred metres from the river. The poet Su Shi (Su Dongpo), exiled to Huangzhou in the Northern Song, wrote his Red Cliff Rhapsody and other famous pieces here, and a prefect renamed the site Dongpo Chibi in the late Kangxi reign. Most of the buildings seen today date from a restoration in 1868, and 139 stone tablets carved from rubbings of Su's handwriting are set into the pavilions."},{"id":"hongan-dong-biwu-residence","name":"Former Residence of Dong Biwu","name_zh":"董必武故居","pinyin":"Dǒng Bìwǔ Gùjū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.2881,"lon":114.6129,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-dong-biwu-residence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dong Biwu (1886–1975) was one of the delegates at the founding congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and served as acting Chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1972 to 1975. His former residence in Hong'an is a Qing-period house, listed in 2006 as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit and run as a memorial museum. A memorial hall to him also stands in the county's martyrs' cemetery."},{"id":"hongan-li-xiannian-residence","name":"Former Residence of Li Xiannian","name_zh":"李先念故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Xiānniàn Gùjū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.1505,"lon":114.5141,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-li-xiannian-residence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Li Xiannian (1909–1992) was born in Hong'an and served as President of the People's Republic of China from 1983 to 1988. His former residence in Gaoqiao town, a Qing-period house, was listed in 2006 as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit and stands within a memorial park with a memorial hall about his life. The park is one of the red-tourism sites of Hong'an, a county known for the large number of senior army officers it produced."},{"id":"yingshan-four-seasons-flower-sea","name":"Four Seasons Flower Sea, Yingshan","name_zh":"四季花海","pinyin":"Sìjì Huāhǎi","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.7049,"lon":115.6405,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshan-four-seasons-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Four Seasons Flower Sea is a modern leisure and study-tour resort about 1 km south of Yingshan county seat (Wenquan town), beside the upper Bailianhe reservoir and centred on planted flower fields. It also has a hot-spring area, a water-play zone, hotels and guesthouses, and study programmes with a revolutionary-history theme. It is a commercial development rather than a heritage or wilderness site and suits families and weekend visitors from Wuhan."},{"id":"huangmei-gaota-temple-pagoda","name":"Gaota Temple Pagoda, Huangmei","name_zh":"黄梅高塔寺塔","pinyin":"Huángméi Gāotǎ Sì Tǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.0742,"lon":115.9431,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangmei-gaota-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song-dynasty pagoda standing in the built-up area of Huangmei town, beside Guta East Road. It has been protected at provincial level since the first batch of listings and nationally since 2019. As Huangmei is the base town for Wuzu and Sizu temples, it makes a quick stop on the way."},{"id":"wuxue-guangji-shiguang-park","name":"Guangji Shiguang Riverside Park, Wuxue","name_zh":"广济时光景区","pinyin":"Guǎngjì Shíguāng Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":29.845,"lon":115.5488,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxue-guangji-shiguang-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guangji Shiguang is a riverside park about 2 km long on the north bank of the Yangtze at Wuxue, built from 2013 and opened in January 2016. A central walkway runs between the river embankment and the waterfront, with a main square marked by a large helm sculpture, bronze sculptures on local trades and a terrace for looking out over the river. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2018 and suits a short riverside walk rather than a trip of its own."},{"id":"macheng-guifeng-mountain","name":"Guifeng Mountain, Macheng","name_zh":"龟峰山","pinyin":"Guīfēng Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.1072,"lon":115.2256,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macheng-guifeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guifeng Mountain is a mountain scenic area in Guishan town, Macheng, at the southern foot of the central Dabie Mountains near the Hubei–Henan–Anhui border. Its nine peaks rise to 1,320 m at Daofeng Peak, and about 95 per cent of the area is forested. It is best known for a stand of old azaleas that local sources describe as covering about 100,000 mu and that blooms in spring, and it forms part of the Dabie Mountains geopark."},{"id":"hongan-huangma-uprising-memorial-park","name":"Huangma Uprising and Eyuwan Soviet Area Memorial Park","name_zh":"黄麻起义和鄂豫皖苏区纪念园","pinyin":"Huángmá Qǐyì Hé Èyùwǎn Sūqū Jìniànyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.2955,"lon":114.6206,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-huangma-uprising-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This memorial park in Hong'an town, the county seat, commemorates the Huangma Uprising of November 1927, when Communist-led peasant forces rose in Huang'an (now Hong'an) and Macheng, and the Hubei–Henan–Anhui revolutionary base area that followed. Set on a wooded hillside, it has a martyrs' monument, memorial halls for Dong Biwu and Li Xiannian, an exhibition hall on the history of the base area, and the graves of those who died. The county museum's curator told China Daily that Hong'an lost about 140,000 of its people in the wars of that era."},{"id":"hongan-jinxiu-tongluo","name":"Jinxiu Tongluo Scenic Area, Hong'an","name_zh":"锦绣铜锣景区","pinyin":"Jǐnxiù Tóngluó Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.2472,"lon":114.6177,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-jinxiu-tongluo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A privately run leisure park of about 4,200 mu (roughly 280 hectares) on the southern edge of Hong'an county seat, beside the Daoshui River. Its landmark is a giant bronze gong, and the park also has a children's play area, a petting-animal park, a military-themed park, a night market, a music fountain, a vintage green train, a riverside campsite and a water-screen light show on Hong'an's revolutionary history. It is aimed at families on a day out and is not a place of historic interest."},{"id":"macheng-lei-ancestral-hall","name":"Lei Ancestral Hall, Macheng","name_zh":"麻城雷氏祠","pinyin":"Máchéng Léishì Cí","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.9444,"lon":115.226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macheng-lei-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Lei clan in Leishici village, south-east of Macheng, a building of the Qing to Republican periods. It was protected at provincial level in 2008 and added to the national list in 2019, and the village takes its name from it. The hall is in a village, so check access locally before making a special trip."},{"id":"qichun-li-shizhen-culture-tourism-area","name":"Li Shizhen Culture Tourism Area, Qichun","name_zh":"李时珍文化旅游区","pinyin":"Lǐ Shízhēn Wénhuà Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.09,"lon":115.366,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qichun-li-shizhen-culture-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A health-tourism area on the shore of Chilong Lake National Wetland Park in the south of Qichun county, built around the legacy of Li Shizhen (1518–1593), the Ming-dynasty physician who compiled the Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica). Its main parts are a culture plaza with a large statue of Li, the Bencao Gangmu Hall, an all-timber exhibition building using mortise-and-tenon joints, a herb garden planted with species from the book, and Qiai Town, a visitor town built in Ming–Qing style with craft workshops, herbal teas and performances. It complements the displays at the Li Shizhen Memorial Hall in Qizhou, and suits families and anyone curious about traditional Chinese medicine."},{"id":"qichun-lishan-eco-tourism-area","name":"Lishan Eco-tourism Area, Qichun","name_zh":"李山生态旅游区","pinyin":"Lǐshān Shēngtài Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.4928,"lon":115.7565,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qichun-lishan-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village-based tourism area of about 3 sq km in Lishan village, Datong town, in the north-east of Qichun county, developed around tea and the area's revolutionary history. The provincial tourism department lists an artificial lake with a lakeside pavilion, a tea-culture park, a tea street and a 600 mu (about 40 hectares) tea plantation, together with a Red Army cave, a red-culture plaza and gallery, a folk-culture wall and hands-on farming activities. It suits a half-day village outing for visitors already in the area rather than a reason to travel to the region."},{"id":"yingshan-long-march-park","name":"Long March National Cultural Park, Yingshan Section","name_zh":"长征国家文化公园英山园区","pinyin":"Chángzhēng Guójiā Wénhuà Gōngyuán Yīngshān Yuánqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.9129,"lon":115.9397,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshan-long-march-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Long March-themed park in Taojiahe township on the southern slope of the Dabie Mountains, a key assembly area of the Red 25th Army before its Long March in 1934. The park marks the episode with statues of soldiers, exhibition halls and walking trails, including a 17.3 km history trail, and one trail reaches the surviving trenches of the Niubeiji (Ox-back Ridge) blocking action. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in December 2025."},{"id":"macheng-martyrs-cemetery","name":"Macheng Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"麻城烈士陵园","pinyin":"Máchéng Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.1829,"lon":115.0133,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macheng-martyrs-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A martyrs' cemetery and memorial park of about 11 hectares in Macheng, built to commemorate those who died in the Huangma Uprising and the Hubei–Henan–Anhui Soviet area. Its monument carries inscriptions by Ye Jianying and Li Xiannian, and the grounds hold the Macheng Revolutionary Memorial Hall and a memorial hall to General Wang Shusheng. It is on China's list of classic red-tourism areas and fits a red-tourism route through Macheng and neighbouring Hong'an."},{"id":"yingshan-nanwudang","name":"Nanwudang (Southern Wudang) Scenic Area, Yingshan","name_zh":"大别山南武当","pinyin":"Dàbiéshān Nánwǔdāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.0905,"lon":115.78,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshan-nanwudang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Wujiashan National Forest Park in the Dabie Mountains of northern Yingshan, promoted as 'Southern Wudang'. It combines forested mountain and river-gorge scenery with a Daoist temple complex, the Wusheng Palace, and has a ski area in winter. It suits a day in the hills for walking and views."},{"id":"qichun-puyang-temple","name":"Puyang Temple (Puyang Guan), Qichun","name_zh":"普阳观","pinyin":"Pǔyáng Guàn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.2502,"lon":115.4044,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qichun-puyang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Puyang Guan is a Daoist temple on Fuhu Hill in Caohe, the county seat of Qichun, and the named core of the Li Shizhen Medical-Daoist Culture Tourism Area on the Hubei A-level list. The area's theme is the traditional medicine of Qichun, the home town of Li Shizhen."},{"id":"hongan-qiliping-revolutionary-sites","name":"Qiliping Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"七里坪革命旧址","pinyin":"Qīlǐpíng Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.4661,"lon":114.6498,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-qiliping-revolutionary-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qiliping is a small town in northern Hong'an county that was a centre of the Communist-led Hubei–Henan–Anhui revolutionary base area between 1927 and 1934, and its surviving sites are listed together as a national heritage unit. They include Changsheng Street, a 600 m stone-paved lane of black-tiled wooden buildings with former Red Army canteens, a pharmacy, post office, union office and bank, where tailors' and blacksmiths' workshops still operate. The Red Army's Fourth Front Army was founded here in November 1931, and a revolutionary memorial hall occupies the former Lenin Primary School."},{"id":"xishui-sanjiaoshan","name":"Sanjiaoshan Scenic Area, Xishui","name_zh":"三角山","pinyin":"Sānjiǎo Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.4951,"lon":115.5212,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xishui-sanjiaoshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sanjiaoshan is a mountain scenic area in Lüyang township, Xishui, on the southern slopes of the Dabie Mountains, and is also a national forest park. Activities reported by the Hubei Daily include rafting through the Longtan Gorge, a bungee platform, a camper-van campsite and a ski area. It suits visitors who want outdoor activities and a cooler summer day out from Wuhan or Huanggang."},{"id":"hongan-shuangcheng-pagoda","name":"Shuangcheng Pagoda, Hong'an","name_zh":"双城塔","pinyin":"Shuāngchéng Tǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.4295,"lon":114.6473,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-shuangcheng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shuangcheng Pagoda stands among fields at Zhoujiadun village, in the hills of northern Hong'an county. The national heritage listing dates it to the Song dynasty, although a local account on Chinese Wikipedia credits Zou Pusheng, a general of the late-Yuan rebel leader Xu Shouhui, with building it. It was listed in 2013 in the seventh batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units and fits well with a visit to the Qiliping revolutionary sites nearby."},{"id":"huangmei-sizu-temple","name":"Sizu Temple, Huangmei","name_zh":"四祖寺","pinyin":"Sìzǔ Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.1207,"lon":115.7922,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangmei-sizu-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The temple of Daoxin, the Fourth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, founded in 624 and rebuilt several times in the Ming and Qing. Its national listing covers three old pagodas (the brick Pilu Pagoda of 651, 11.34 m high, where Daoxin died; the hexagonal stone Zhongsheng Pagoda of 1099, 8 m high; and the small Song-dynasty Robe-and-Bowl Pagoda) and two old bridges, while the temple also keeps cliff inscriptions. It is an active temple in hill country, usually visited together with Wuzu Temple."},{"id":"yingshan-taohuachong-resort","name":"Taohuachong Resort, Yingshan","name_zh":"桃花冲","pinyin":"Táohuāchōng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.9658,"lon":116.0539,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshan-taohuachong-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Taohuachong is a mountain resort area in Caopandi town, in the east of Yingshan county in the Dabie Mountains. Its ski resort has seven runs, the longest about 1.2 km, and opens in winter; canyon rafting is a summer attraction. It suits visitors looking for winter sports or a cooler summer break within reach of Wuhan."},{"id":"hongan-tiantai-mountain","name":"Tiantai Mountain, Hong'an","name_zh":"天台山","pinyin":"Tiāntái Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.536,"lon":114.6233,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-tiantai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tiantai Mountain is a forested mountain area in the far north of Hong'an county, on the Hubei–Henan border, with a platform-shaped main peak, steep rock faces and named viewpoints along its stone steps. The scenic area also includes the Duitian River, where summer rafting runs down a bed of bluestone slabs. It is a national forest park and suits visitors who want a day of hiking or rafting in the hills north of Wuhan."},{"id":"luotian-tiantangzhai","name":"Tiantangzhai, Luotian","name_zh":"天堂寨","pinyin":"Tiāntángzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.0981,"lon":115.7334,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luotian-tiantangzhai/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tiantangzhai is a forested massif in the Dabie Mountains that straddles the Hubei–Anhui border and forms the watershed between the Yangtze and the Huai rivers; this entry is the Hubei side, reached from Jiuzihe town in Luotian county. It is a core part of the Dabie Mountains geopark and is popular in summer for its cooler air, with rafting and a wire-assisted flying ride among the activities near Jiuzihe. The Anhui side, in Jinzhai county, is a separate scenic area with its own rating."},{"id":"yingshan-bi-sheng-tomb","name":"Tomb of Bi Sheng","name_zh":"毕昇墓","pinyin":"Bì Shēng Mù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.0078,"lon":115.9326,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingshan-bi-sheng-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Bi Sheng (died 1051), a Song-dynasty artisan, is credited with inventing the world's first movable type, made of fired clay. A tomb stele identified as his was found in 1990 at Wuguidun village, Caopandi town, Yingshan, which is why Yingshan is regarded as his hometown, and the tomb was listed in 2019 in the eighth batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units. Yingshan's Bi Sheng Memorial Park, opened in 2023, uses modern displays to show clay and wooden movable-type printing."},{"id":"qichun-li-shizhen-tomb","name":"Tomb of Li Shizhen, Qichun","name_zh":"李时珍墓","pinyin":"Lǐ Shízhēn Mù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.0461,"lon":115.3533,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qichun-li-shizhen-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The burial place of Li Shizhen (1518–1593), the Ming-dynasty physician and naturalist who compiled the Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica). He lies east of his parents' tomb on the shore of Yu Lake, outside the old city of Qizhou; after 1949 the grounds were extended with a stone archway, lotus pond, arched bridge and statue. A memorial hall to the west has a stele gallery, a herb-medicine hall and a herb garden, which makes it a good stop for anyone interested in the history of Chinese medicine."},{"id":"wuxue-tongtian-river-scenic-area","name":"Tongtian River Scenic Area, Wuxue","name_zh":"通天河景区","pinyin":"Tōngtiānhé Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.139,"lon":115.7024,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxue-tongtian-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tongtian River is a themed tourist area in a hill valley in Yuchuan town, Wuxue, built around the story of Journey to the West. Its attractions follow that novel and include staged shows with scenes such as 'Havoc in Heaven' on weekends and holidays. It is an entertainment-style attraction that suits families and groups rather than a heritage or wilderness site."},{"id":"xishui-wanniantai-stage","name":"Wanniantai Stage, Xishui","name_zh":"万年台戏台","pinyin":"Wànniántái Xìtái","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.2819,"lon":115.1978,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xishui-wanniantai-stage","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wanniantai Stage (the name means 'ten-thousand-year stage') is a Qing-dynasty traditional opera stage in Xishui county. It was listed in 2013 in the seventh batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units, and a stele recording the listing stands beside it."},{"id":"hongan-doushan-wu-family-hall","name":"Wu Family Hall in Doushan","name_zh":"陡山吴氏祠","pinyin":"Dǒushān Wúshì Cí","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.0626,"lon":114.6753,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongan-doushan-wu-family-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Wu Family Hall is a clan ancestral hall at Doushan village, Baliwan town, built in 1763 by the local Wu lineage and enlarged in 1871 and 1902. It faces north and has three courtyards on a plan about 25 m wide and 56 m deep, with a double-eaved gate tower called Guanle Tower built in the style of a memorial archway. Its main attraction is the carved stone, wood and brick decoration, and it was listed in 2006 as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit."},{"id":"macheng-wunaoshan-forest-park","name":"Wunaoshan National Forest Park, Macheng","name_zh":"五脑山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Wǔnǎoshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.2083,"lon":114.9904,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macheng-wunaoshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the wooded hills just north-west of Macheng city, run by its own management office. It is known for a large camellia garden of about 5,000 mu with more than 560 varieties, and also has azalea and chrysanthemum gardens; within it stands Wunaoshan Temple, a Qing-dynasty temple under provincial protection since 1992. It is a green half-day outing from the city."},{"id":"qichun-wuyunshan","name":"Wuyunshan Ecotourism Area, Qichun","name_zh":"雾云山","pinyin":"Wùyún Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.6429,"lon":115.737,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qichun-wuyunshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain tea-and-terrace area in the hills of northern Qichun, at an average altitude of about 800 m. The main sights are the Wuyunshan tea gardens and the Leigongyan terraces, about 110 mu of paddy fields split into 310 small plots down a 120 m slope and described as about a thousand years old. The core scenic area covers about 2,000 mu (roughly 130 hectares)."},{"id":"huangmei-wuzu-temple","name":"Wuzu Temple, Huangmei","name_zh":"五祖寺","pinyin":"Wǔzǔ Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.1872,"lon":115.9367,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangmei-wuzu-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Chan (Zen) Buddhist temple on Dongshan hill, founded in 654, where the Fifth Patriarch Hongren taught. Tradition places here the verse contest between Shenxiu and Huineng that led to Huineng being named his successor. The national heritage listing covers its stone pagodas, old gate, halls and a run of cliff inscriptions, one of them attributed to Su Dongpo."},{"id":"macheng-xiaoganxiang-cultural-park","name":"Xiaoganxiang Cultural Park, Macheng","name_zh":"孝感乡文化园","pinyin":"Xiàogǎnxiāng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":31.1661,"lon":115.0161,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macheng-xiaoganxiang-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern city park in Macheng themed on 'Xiaogan Township', the place that many Sichuan and Chongqing families name as the origin of their ancestors in the Ming and Qing 'Huguang fills Sichuan' migrations. Historians debate how far that family memory matches real origins, and the park is best seen as a heritage-themed memorial space, not a historic site. It is a place for descendants of those migrants to visit when tracing their roots."},{"id":"huanggang-yiai-lake","name":"Yi'ai Lake, Huanggang","name_zh":"遗爱湖","pinyin":"Yí'ài Hú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.4495,"lon":114.9027,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huanggang-yiai-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An urban lake in the middle of Huanggang's built-up area, made up of an east and a west lake joined by a narrow channel, with about 3.2 sq km of water. It serves as the city's lakeside leisure park and landscape, and the shore park includes a forest of stone stelae and Yunxiang Tower. A pleasant stroll to combine with Dongpo Red Cliff in the west of the city."},{"id":"wuxue-zhenggong-pagoda","name":"Zhenggong Pagoda, Wuxue","name_zh":"郑公塔","pinyin":"Zhènggōng Tǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huanggang","lat":30.0098,"lon":115.7762,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxue-zhenggong-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhenggong Pagoda is an ancient pagoda in Wuxue, in south-eastern Hubei. It was listed in 2013 in the seventh batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units, which classes it as an ancient building of the Yuan to Ming period."},{"id":"yangxin-dishuiya-waterfalls","name":"Dishuiya Waterfalls","name_zh":"滴水涯","pinyin":"Dīshuǐyá","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":29.6954,"lon":115.0346,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxin-dishuiya-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley scenic area in Paishi town built around a waterfall group that the county government calls the 'three falls and nine pools', the main fall dropping about 68 m. Attractions added in recent years include stream rafting, a glass walkway, a dry slide, a hobbit-themed play area, camping, orchards and flower plantings. A small stalactite cave and a local tale that the Song poet Su Shi visited add colour, and the area was rated 4A in December 2025."},{"id":"huangshi-dongfang-mountain","name":"Dongfang Mountain","name_zh":"东方山","pinyin":"Dōngfāngshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.2098,"lon":114.9368,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshi-dongfang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested hill of about 475 m with three main peaks, described as the largest forest park in Huangshi's urban area and named for the Han writer Dongfang Shuo, who by local tradition studied and practised Daoism here. Its two main stops are Honghua Chan Temple, an old Buddhist temple described as a thousand years old, and Dongchang Pavilion, a modern nine-storey Tang-style tower run as an immersive entertainment attraction with costume experiences and staged shows. It suits a half-day of walking from the city."},{"id":"huangshi-hanyeping-ironworks-site","name":"Hanyeping Iron and Coal Works Site","name_zh":"汉冶萍煤铁厂矿旧址","pinyin":"Hànyěpíng Méitiě Chǎngkuàng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.2075,"lon":115.1184,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshi-hanyeping-ironworks-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Surviving remains of the Hanyeping Coal and Iron Company, formed in 1908 when the Hanyang ironworks founded by the Qing official Zhang Zhidong was combined with the Daye iron mine and the Pingxiang coal mine; Chinese state media call it Asia's earliest combined iron, steel and coal enterprise. In Huangshi the listed remains are a blast-furnace trestle, an ironmaking furnace, a watch tower, an ore unloader and Japanese- and European-style residences along the Yangtze, and a museum has been set up in a former workers' club. It suits visitors interested in industrial history, ideally combined with the Huaxin cement works in the city."},{"id":"huangshi-national-mine-park","name":"Huangshi National Mine Park","name_zh":"黄石国家矿山公园","pinyin":"Huángshí Guójiā Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.2205,"lon":114.9098,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshi-national-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mine park on the site of the Daye iron mine, where records of mining go back to the third century and which was mechanised in the late Qing. Its centrepiece is a vast terraced open pit, more than 2 km long and over 400 m deep, which visitors look down into, set among reclaimed slopes planted with locust trees and tunnel displays. The park opened in 2007 and in 2018 joined China's first list of protected industrial heritage."},{"id":"huangshi-oct-dinosaur-wonderland","name":"Huangshi OCT Dinosaur Wonderland","name_zh":"黄石华侨城恐龙奇域","pinyin":"Huángshí Huáqiáochéng Kǒnglóng Qíyù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.1104,"lon":115.0473,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangshi-oct-dinosaur-wonderland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A dinosaur-themed holiday resort on the shore of Daye Lake, opened in 2024. Its main park, the Dinosaur Dream Factory, has more than 30 large outdoor rides, indoor digital attractions and staged shows, with a 99 m illuminated Ferris wheel and go-karts in the neighbouring park and a shopping-and-dining street and hotels alongside. It is a modern theme park rather than a heritage site, and suits families with children."},{"id":"huangshi-huaxin-cement-works","name":"Huaxin Cement Works (Huaxin 1907)","name_zh":"华新水泥厂旧址","pinyin":"Huáxīn Shuǐníchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.2238,"lon":115.0732,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangshi-huaxin-cement-works/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cement works founded in 1907 and shut down in 2007, which supplied cement for national projects such as the Great Hall of the People and the Wuhan Yangtze Bridge; its brick halls, conveyor galleries, slag store and wet-process rotary kilns, including two large kilns imported from the United States, have been preserved. Since 2022 the site has been reopened as the Huaxin 1907 Cultural Park, with a cement museum, an exhibition hall in the former slag store, cafés, markets and open-air events. It stands in the middle of Huangshi and takes an hour or two."},{"id":"daye-leishan-scenic-area","name":"Leishan Scenic Area, Daye","name_zh":"雷山风景区","pinyin":"Léishān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.0338,"lon":114.7927,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daye-leishan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill scenic area in Chengui town, about 15 km west of Daye, covering some 55 km² in three zones: Xiaoleishan, with pines and oddly shaped rocks, Daquangou, a stream gorge with cascades and a reservoir, and Tiantaishan. A hot-spring resort stands inside the area, and an old nunnery, Lianhua An, lies in the Daquangou gorge. It suits a half-day outing from Daye."},{"id":"daye-longfeng-mountain-eco-park","name":"Longfeng Mountain Eco-Park, Daye","name_zh":"龙凤山","pinyin":"Lóngfèngshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":29.9034,"lon":114.8293,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daye-longfeng-mountain-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural-tourism park of nearly 14,000 mu around the twin peaks of Qinglong and Yufeng at Shuanggangkou in Liurenba town, run by one company as a farming-and-tourism enterprise. It has a fruit-and-vegetable picking park, a study and training base with a swimming pool, and a hill park with hiking paths, hydrangea, cherry and azalea plantings, timber cabins and a camping ground. The nearby Red Third Army sites are part of what the park promotes."},{"id":"yangxin-longgang-revolutionary-sites","name":"Longgang Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"龙港革命旧址","pinyin":"Lónggǎng Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":29.6265,"lon":114.9515,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxin-longgang-revolutionary-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cluster of former Communist offices and residences in Longgang, an old market town on the Hubei–Jiangxi border that served in the late 1920s and early 1930s as a base for the party's east Hubei committee and Soviet government, and was nicknamed 'Little Moscow'. About 70 sites survive, many of them along the old street known as Red Army Street, where nearly a hundred wall slogans and murals remain. Visitors can also see a memorial museum, Red Army cemeteries and the former residence of Peng Dehuai."},{"id":"daye-red-third-army-site","name":"Red Third Army Group Revolutionary Site","name_zh":"红三军团革命旧址","pinyin":"Hóng Sān Jūntuán Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":29.9393,"lon":114.829,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daye-red-third-army-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former landowner's house in Liurenba village, a brick-and-timber complex of two-storey buildings (about 2,400 m²) with a classical Western-style façade, where in June 1930 an enlarged military committee meeting decided to form the Red Third Army Group from the Red Fifth and Eighth Armies. Peng Dehuai was named commander and Teng Daiyuan political commissar. The building is now the Red Third Army Group memorial museum."},{"id":"daye-shangfeng-ancient-village","name":"Shangfeng Ancient Village","name_zh":"上冯古村","pinyin":"Shàngféng Gǔcūn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.0382,"lon":114.9742,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daye-shangfeng-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside village in Jinhu subdistrict, Daye, nicknamed the village of the 'nine ancients' for its surviving old houses, paths, trees, wells and ancestral halls; local accounts date it to the late Yuan dynasty, some 600 years ago. About forty old houses with grey walls, dark tiles and stepped gables stand among stone paths and wells, a stone forest and a small mountain pond lie in the hills behind, and the village is on China's list of traditional villages. A walk-through scenic show called 'Shangfeng You Xi', a market street and other performances were added for visitors, and the area was rated 4A in December 2025."},{"id":"daye-soldiers-revolt-site","name":"Site of the Daye Soldiers Revolt","name_zh":"大冶兵暴旧址","pinyin":"Dàyě Bīngbào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.0898,"lon":114.9631,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daye-soldiers-revolt-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former Wubei military academy, begun in 1827 and later a school, where on 14 December 1929 a platoon leader named Cheng Zihua, a Communist Party member serving in the Nationalist army, led an armed uprising with Red Army support that is known as the Daye Soldiers' Revolt. Four linked single-storey brick-and-timber buildings of about 2,500 m² survive on the grounds of Daye Foreign Language School, and a memorial exhibition hall opened in them in 2021. It is a short visit for anyone interested in the revolutionary period."},{"id":"daye-tonglushan-ancient-copper-mine","name":"Tonglüshan Ancient Copper Mine","name_zh":"铜绿山古铜矿遗址","pinyin":"Tónglǜshān Gǔtóngkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.0844,"lon":114.94,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daye-tonglushan-ancient-copper-mine/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An ancient copper-mining and smelting site that was worked from at least the Spring and Autumn period, and probably earlier, until the Han dynasty. It came to light in 1973 when modern miners broke into ancient shafts, galleries and furnaces, and part of it is preserved in a museum built over a surviving shaft in the 1980s, now joined by a new museum that opened in June 2023. Indoor galleries explain how the copper was found, mined and smelted, outdoor areas show the excavated workings, and in 2025 the site became a National Archaeological Site Park."},{"id":"yangxin-xiandao-lake","name":"Xiandao Lake","name_zh":"仙岛湖","pinyin":"Xiāndǎohú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":29.8021,"lon":114.8278,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxin-xiandao-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir lake in the northern foothills of the Mufu Mountains, once marketed as Qiandao ('Thousand Island') Lake, with about 1,002 wooded islands scattered across roughly 30 km² of water. The hills around it are well wooded, and local sights include relics linked to the Tang poet Luo Binwang, who is said to have retired here, and a Ming-dynasty bell. It is a provincial scenic area and tourist resort, and suits a day trip from Huangshi or Wuhan."},{"id":"daye-zhaoshan-peach-village","name":"Zhaoshan Ancient Village and Peach Country","name_zh":"沼山古村桃乡","pinyin":"Zhǎoshān Gǔcūn Táoxiāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Huangshi","lat":30.1446,"lon":114.7183,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daye-zhaoshan-peach-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural-tourism area built around Zhaoshan village in Bao'an town, known for its 'gouxue' (blood) peach, with nearly 3,500 mu (about 230 ha) of groves in the village itself that blossom in spring and fruit in summer. Visitors also come for a coffee shop, a plant-dye shop and an immersive water-borne evening show, 'In Peach Blossom Land', staged in the village, and for the rapeseed, plum and chrysanthemum fields of neighbouring villages. It was rated 4A in 2024 and suits a relaxed half day out of Daye or Huangshi."},{"id":"jingmen-geek-park","name":"Geek Park, Jingmen","name_zh":"极客公园","pinyin":"Jíkè Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":30.9815,"lon":112.0835,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingmen-geek-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An aviation-themed park inside the iFlyer (Aifeike) Aviation Town in Jingmen's Zhanghe New Area, described as an aircraft museum. The collection of Chinese-built aircraft and models runs from the CJ-6 trainer to the J-20 fighter and includes real airframes such as a Shuihong-5 flying boat and a Y-5 transport. The town around it also offers wind-tunnel flying and light-aircraft flights, and the park is a regular stop for school study tours, so it suits families and aviation fans."},{"id":"zhongxiang-huangxian-cave","name":"Huangxian Cave","name_zh":"黄仙洞","pinyin":"Huángxiān Dòng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.413,"lon":112.9521,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongxiang-huangxian-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst cave in Kedian town, on the Dahong Mountain side of Zhongxiang, about 2.6 km long and known for a large hall of rimstone pools and other stalactite formations. The rimstone pools cover about two hectares, and a small traditional village, Shuimeiping, stands on the hill above the cave. It suits visitors who like caves and a day in the hills."},{"id":"zhongxiang-huiyuan-nonggu-park","name":"Huiyuan Nonggu Experience Park","name_zh":"汇源农谷体验园","pinyin":"Huìyuán Nónggǔ Tǐyànyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.113,"lon":112.7942,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongxiang-huiyuan-nonggu-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agricultural experience park inside Dakou National Forest Park in Zhongxiang, certified as a 4A scenic area in July 2020. Its attractions are a space-agriculture exhibition hall, a creative fruit-and-vegetable farm, a science demonstration centre, small vegetable plots, a livestock and grain experience zone and a traditional games area. It is pitched at families and school groups as an outdoor classroom on nature and farming."},{"id":"jingmen-garden-expo-park","name":"Jingmen Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"荆门园博园","pinyin":"Jīngmén Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.0151,"lon":112.1697,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingmen-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped park of about 140 hectares in south-west Jingmen, built on a former coal-mine subsidence area and construction-waste landfill and opened in April 2022 as the main venue of the third Hubei Garden Expo. It was laid out among hills and a lake with 32 show gardens from the expo's participating cities and other bodies, including Jingmen's own garden, a Wuhan garden and a Shennongjia garden, plus a flower valley planted above the mined-out ground. It suits a few hours of easy strolling and garden-viewing rather than a heritage visit."},{"id":"jingshan-lulin-mountain","name":"Lulin Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"绿林山","pinyin":"Lùlín Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.3431,"lon":113.0649,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingshan-lulin-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area at Lulin town in northern Jingshan, on the Dahong Mountain side, tied by local tradition to the Lulin peasant uprising of AD 17 against Wang Mang's Xin dynasty, which gave Chinese the phrase for outlaws of the green forest. Sights include Meiren Valley, a rafting run on Yuanyang Creek and the Lulin Ancient Stockade, presented as the rebels' training base. Where the original Lulin Mountain lay is disputed, since ancient and modern sources place it in different areas."},{"id":"zhongxiang-pengdun-rural-world","name":"Pengdun Rural World","name_zh":"彭墩乡村世界","pinyin":"Péngdūn Xiāngcūn Shìjiè","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":30.9993,"lon":112.3386,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongxiang-pengdun-rural-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural-tourism site in and around Pengdun village in Shipai town, built around modern farming and village life. It includes village scenery, farmers' housing, a farmers' park, six agricultural bases and an old-town-style quarter. It suits a relaxed countryside outing rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"jingmen-qujialing-site","name":"Qujialing Site and Archaeological Park","name_zh":"屈家岭遗址","pinyin":"Qūjiālǐng Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":30.8274,"lon":112.8926,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingmen-qujialing-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The type site of the Qujialing culture, a Neolithic farming culture of the middle Yangtze, where a village some 5,000 years old yielded carbonised rice and painted pottery cups of eggshell thinness. The national archaeological site park, in trial operation since November 2019, has a site museum, open-air areas marking a dozen excavated spots and landscaped areas on the themes of rice and water. Excavations since 2015 uncovered a large ritual building and a prehistoric water-control system, and were named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2023."},{"id":"jingmen-shengjingshan","name":"Shengjingshan Eco-tourism Area","name_zh":"圣境山","pinyin":"Shèngjìng Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.1243,"lon":112.1511,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingmen-shengjingshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill and woodland eco-tourism area on the edge of Jingmen, best known for paragliding, with launch points, a large purpose-built landing ground and a training base that runs multi-day courses. It has hosted international paragliding competitions, and walking routes follow old paths through older woods across just over 5 square kilometres. It opened to visitors in 2019 and suits active day trips and anyone who wants to watch or try paragliding."},{"id":"jingshan-henan-hubei-border-region-committee","name":"Site of the CPC Henan-Hubei Border Region Committee","name_zh":"中共豫鄂边区委员会旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Yù'È Biānqū Wěiyuánhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.2214,"lon":113.0824,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingshan-henan-hubei-border-region-committee","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A preserved former headquarters in Jingshan of the Henan-Hubei Border Region Committee, the Communist Party committee of the Henan-Hubei border base area during the war against Japan. The committee was formed in Jingshan in late December 1939, the New Fourth Army's Henan-Hubei Advance Column was set up there in January 1940 under Li Xiannian, and in 1941 the column was reorganised as the Fifth Division. The site is a nationally protected modern historical site, listed in 2013 for the period 1940–42."},{"id":"jingshan-sujialong-site","name":"Sujialong Tombs and Site Park","name_zh":"苏家垄墓群","pinyin":"Sūjiālǒng Mùqún","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.3284,"lon":113.3087,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingshan-sujialong-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cemetery, settlement and bronze-working site of the Zeng state, a vassal of the Zhou dynasty, excavated in the 2010s, with inscribed bronzes, chariot-and-horse pits and the remains of a bronze-smelting workshop. A site park with a museum and a visitor centre has been built, and the visitor route runs from the museum past the tomb group to the Luoxing smelting site. It suits visitors interested in early Chinese bronzes and the Zeng state."},{"id":"jingshan-taizishan-forest-park","name":"Taizishan National Forest Park","name_zh":"太子山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Tàizǐ Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":30.9199,"lon":112.9084,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingshan-taizishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the hills of south-western Jingshan, with wooded walking trails. It suits a half day of walking in woodland."},{"id":"zhongxiang-wenfeng-pagoda","name":"Wenfeng Pagoda, Zhongxiang","name_zh":"钟祥文风塔","pinyin":"Zhōngxiáng Wénfēng Tǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.1653,"lon":112.5934,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhongxiang-wenfeng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A white-painted Buddhist pagoda of the rare bowl-and-spire (fubo) stupa type, standing in the grounds of Bao'en Temple on Longshan hill in Zhongxiang. A pagoda was first raised here in 880 as a tower of earth, and the present brick-and-mortar tower is a Ming rebuilding of 1389, rising more than 20 metres and topped by a finial of twenty-one stacked rings. It has been a national protected monument since 2006."},{"id":"zhongxiang-xianling-tomb","name":"Xianling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty","name_zh":"明显陵","pinyin":"Míng Xiǎnlíng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.2057,"lon":112.6298,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhongxiang-xianling-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The joint tomb of Zhu Youyuan, a Ming prince, and his wife, rebuilt to imperial standard after their son became the Jiajing Emperor and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000 with other Ming and Qing imperial tombs. Its plan differs from the other Ming tombs: a vase-shaped outer wall, a nine-bend ceremonial stream crossed by stone bridges, a winding dragon-shaped spirit way lined with stone figures, and two burial mounds joined by a stone causeway. Fire destroyed the timber halls in 1642, so what survives is mostly stonework, gates, stelae and foundations."},{"id":"jingmen-zhanghe-reservoir","name":"Zhanghe Reservoir","name_zh":"漳河风景区","pinyin":"Zhānghé Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingmen","lat":31.0669,"lon":111.9283,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingmen-zhanghe-reservoir/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large reservoir on the Zhanghe river west of Jingmen, built between 1958 and 1966 mainly for irrigation and water supply, with islands and many inlets across about 100 square kilometres of water. The scenic area around it offers lake views from named viewpoints and islands, and the reservoir was designated a national water-conservancy scenic area in 2002. It suits a relaxed day by the water rather than a sightseeing circuit."},{"id":"jingzhou-balingshan-tombs","name":"Balingshan Tombs","name_zh":"八岭山古墓群","pinyin":"Bālǐngshān Gǔmùqún","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.4395,"lon":112.0775,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingzhou-balingshan-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large field of earth-mounded tombs scattered over the wooded hills of Balingshan National Forest Park north-west of Jingzhou, with nearly 500 mounds recorded and burials ranging from the Eastern Zhou to the Ming dynasty. They include tombs of Ming princes of the Liao line, among them Prince Jian of Liao (Zhu Zhi, who died in 1424 and whose tomb was excavated in 1987), and tombs attributed to rulers of the 10th-century Jingnan state. Expect forest paths and grass-covered mounds; the Liao prince's tomb area is separately rated as a scenic spot by the Hubei list."},{"id":"jingzhou-chuwang-chariot-pits","name":"Chuwang Chariot and Horse Pits (Xiongjiazhong)","name_zh":"楚王车马阵","pinyin":"Chǔwáng Chēmǎzhèn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.6122,"lon":112.01,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingzhou-chuwang-chariot-pits","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xiongjiazhong is an Eastern Zhou burial ground of the Chu state, with a main earth mound 16 m high, a companion tomb about half its size and 40 chariot-and-horse pits. An exhibition hall about 133 m long covers Pit 1, 132.6 m long, where the 43 chariots and 164 horses excavated so far are laid facing west. The occupant is unconfirmed, with one proposal naming King Zhao or King Hui of Chu, and the site park is also called the Xiongjiazhong National Archaeological Site Park."},{"id":"honghu-wetland-tourist-area","name":"Honghu Wetland Ecological Tourist Area","name_zh":"洪湖湿地生态旅游区","pinyin":"Hónghú Shīdì Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":29.8279,"lon":113.4044,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=honghu-wetland-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This lakeside leisure area of more than 4,400 mu (about 290 ha) on the eastern shore of Hong Lake, at the edge of Honghu city, centres on a 1,500-mu wetland garden of flowers, aquatic plants and reed marsh. The Honghu tourist port, with 102 berths, runs boats onto the lake, and the area also has a lakeside hotel, a greenway, camping and fishing grounds and red-themed walking routes and a water-stage play on the Honghu story. Flowers bloom in spring, lotus in summer and wintering birds can be seen in the cold months."},{"id":"honghu-xiangexi-martyrs-memorial","name":"Hunan–West Hubei Soviet Martyrs' Memorial, Honghu","name_zh":"湘鄂西苏区革命烈士陵园","pinyin":"Xiāng'èxī Sūqū Gémìng Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":29.7959,"lon":113.4485,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=honghu-xiangexi-martyrs-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This memorial park on the Yangtze embankment in the south-west of Honghu city is built around the Hunan–West Hubei Soviet martyrs' cemetery and memorial hall, a nationally protected martyrs' memorial site of more than 350 mu (about 23 ha). It records the Communist-led revolutionary base that grew up around Hong Lake around 1930–32 under leaders including He Long, with a monument, a martyrs' shrine, an exhibition hall and a statue of He Long. A memorial park to the 1998 flood-fighting effort and a riverside park lie alongside, between the Yangtze and the lake."},{"id":"jingzhou-jinan-chu-capital-site","name":"Jinan City of Chu","name_zh":"楚纪南故城","pinyin":"Chǔ Jìnán Gùchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.4057,"lon":112.1903,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingzhou-jinan-chu-capital-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jinan was a capital of the Chu state in the Warring States period, a walled city of about 16 km², measuring 4.5 km by 3.5 km, just north of Jingzhou. Stretches of earth rampart and moat survive, with 84 rammed-earth building platforms inside (61 in the south-east palace quarter) and more than 400 wells found in excavations; the listing also takes in two Chu cemeteries, Yutaishan and Tianxingguan. Parts of the site, including the south gate of the east wall and the palace area, have been developed as the Chu Jinan Old City Archaeological Site Park."},{"id":"gongan-jingjiang-flood-diversion-sluice","name":"Jingjiang Flood Diversion Sluice, Gong'an","name_zh":"荆江分洪闸","pinyin":"Jīngjiāng Fēnhóng Zhá","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.2835,"lon":112.1361,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongan-jingjiang-flood-diversion-sluice","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Jingjiang flood diversion works were built in 1952 in 75 days to protect the Yangtze's Jingjiang reach and the Jianghan plain from flooding, and are a nationally listed water-control project. The north (inflow) sluice at Taipingkou is 1,054 m long with 54 gates, while a second control sluice with 32 gates stands far to the south on the Hu Du river at Huangshantou. The north sluice is run as a waterside scenic area on the Yangtze's south bank, across the river from Jingzhou, and both Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai wrote inscriptions for the project."},{"id":"jingzhou-ancient-city-wall","name":"Jingzhou Ancient City","name_zh":"荆州古城","pinyin":"Jīngzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.3503,"lon":112.2105,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingzhou-ancient-city-wall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jingzhou's old town is enclosed by a brick-faced rampart about 8.8 m high, rebuilt in 1646 on Ming foundations and regarded as one of the best-preserved city walls in southern China. Gate towers such as Binyang Tower on the east side mark the old gates, and the old town also holds the Jingzhou Museum, Taoist temples and shrines to the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu. The area is tied to Three Kingdoms stories such as Liu Bei 'borrowing' Jingzhou and Guan Yu's defeat here, and the wall is on China's tentative World Heritage list."},{"id":"jingzhou-garden-expo-park","name":"Jingzhou Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"荆州园博园","pinyin":"Jīngzhōu Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.4224,"lon":112.2211,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingzhou-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This park was built for Hubei's second garden expo, held here from 28 September to 28 November 2019, and has stayed open as a public park since. It was laid out with 45 show gardens (17 from Hubei's cities and prefectures, 11 from counties and 17 by garden designers), a main exhibition hall and a water-town landscape of ponds and channels. It lies in the Jinan area close to the site of the ancient Chu capital, and suits an easy half day of garden-walking."},{"id":"jingzhou-museum","name":"Jingzhou Museum","name_zh":"荆州博物馆","pinyin":"Jīngzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.3556,"lon":112.1745,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingzhou-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The regional museum of Jingzhou, founded in 1958, holds some 196,000 items, most of them from excavations in and around the city. Its permanent displays cover the prehistoric cultures of the Jianghan plain, bronzes, jades, bamboo-slip documents, ceramics and lacquerware, with the Mashan tomb textiles and the preserved body of a Western Han man from Fenghuangshan tomb 168 among the highlights. Kaiyuan Guan, one of Jingzhou's three nationally listed Taoist temples, stands in the museum grounds."},{"id":"jingzhou-ocean-world","name":"Jingzhou Ocean World","name_zh":"荆州海洋世界","pinyin":"Jīngzhōu Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.3573,"lon":112.2661,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingzhou-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jingzhou Ocean World is a marine-themed leisure park in Shashi District, open since 2016, with an aquarium (the Undersea Park) and a separate summer water park, both refurbished and reopened on 18 June 2026. The aquarium has polar, Yangtze river and shore-combing play zones, with staged shows including a dolphin meet-and-greet, a mermaid performance and a parade. It suits families with children rather than anyone looking for local heritage."},{"id":"honghu-qujiawan-revolutionary-base","name":"Qujiawan Old Street (Hunan–West Hubei Base Sites)","name_zh":"瞿家湾湘鄂西革命根据地旧址","pinyin":"Qújiāwān Xiāng'èxī Gémìng Gēnjùdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":29.9686,"lon":113.188,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=honghu-qujiawan-revolutionary-base","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qujiawan is a small riverside town whose stone-paved old street of more than 40 brick-and-timber buildings served in the early 1930s as the capital of the Communist-led Hunan–West Hubei revolutionary base. Former offices and quarters line the street, with a martyrs' cemetery and exhibition halls in the town explaining the base's history. It is a designated patriotic-education base, and the listing's era is given as 1930–1932."},{"id":"shishou-taoyuan-town","name":"Taoyuan Town, Shishou","name_zh":"桃源小镇","pinyin":"Táoyuán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":29.6762,"lon":112.7182,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shishou-taoyuan-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Taoyuan Town is a purpose-built countryside leisure complex at the foot of Lujiao Peak in Taohuashan town, developed by a Hubei provincial culture-and-tourism group on about 325 hectares (4,873 mu). It is laid out as the peak area plus three themed zones, named for flower fields, a peach-blossom village and a rice-field village, with 24 sights in all, and takes its theme from the Chinese 'peach-blossom land' ideal. The surrounding Taohua Mountain range is known locally for its spring blossom, which is the best time to go."},{"id":"jingzhou-three-taoist-temples","name":"Three Taoist Temples of Jingzhou","name_zh":"荆州三观","pinyin":"Jīngzhōu Sānguàn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.3608,"lon":112.1926,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingzhou-three-taoist-temples","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The nationally listed Three Taoist Temples are Taihui Guan, Xuanmiao Guan and Kaiyuan Guan, all with Ming and Qing halls on older foundations. Taihui Guan, west of the old town, was rebuilt in 1393 by Zhu Bai, Prince of Xiang; Xuanmiao Guan on Jingbei Road has the Jade Emperor Pavilion and a Yuan-dynasty stele recording the founding of its palace; and Kaiyuan Guan, with its Thunder God Hall and Sanqing Hall, stands inside the Jingzhou Museum grounds."},{"id":"jingzhou-wanshou-pagoda","name":"Wanshou Pagoda","name_zh":"万寿宝塔","pinyin":"Wànshòu Bǎotǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.3174,"lon":112.2246,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingzhou-wanshou-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wanshou Pagoda is a seven-storey octagonal brick-and-stone tower 40.46 m high, built between 1548 and 1552 for Prince Zhu Xian of Liao to pray for the Jiajing Emperor's long life. It stands on the Jingjiang embankment at Guanyinji, a rocky spur jutting into the Yangtze, and its lowest storey is now buried below the raised dike. Wanshou Park around it also has a 1998 flood memorial pavilion and carved marks of the high-water levels of 1954 and 1998."},{"id":"songzi-weishui-scenic-area","name":"Weishui Scenic Area, Songzi","name_zh":"洈水","pinyin":"Wéishuǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":29.9601,"lon":111.582,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songzi-weishui-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Weishui is a large reservoir resort in the hills of south-west Songzi, built round an earth dam about 9 km long whose construction began in 1958, with a lake of roughly 37 km² dotted with hundreds of wooded islands. It also takes in a national forest park of about 53 km² and karst caves such as Yan Jiangjun Cave, 2.2 km long with a flooded section, with boat trips on the lake and a large car-camping base below the dam. A memorial to the 1928 Jiulinggang uprising stands nearby."},{"id":"songzi-xiejiaping-tujia-tourist-area","name":"Xiejiaping Tourist Area, Songzi","name_zh":"卸甲坪","pinyin":"Xièjiǎpíng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":30.0211,"lon":111.3003,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songzi-xiejiaping-tujia-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xiejiaping is the only Tujia ethnic township in Jingzhou, set in hills rising to 815 m on the Hunan border at the far south-west of Songzi, with a tourist area planned at about 5,300 mu (some 350 hectares). The sights mix scenery and Tujia culture: the Ming-Qing Huanglin bridge and a cluster of stilt houses, a canyon with waterfalls and karst scenery, a hot-spring area at Quchihe, and a Tujia folk museum and folk-custom street, with local Tujia folk songs and hand-waving dances. According to legend the name, roughly 'Armour-off Flat', comes from the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu taking off his armour here."},{"id":"honghu-yuexi-peninsula-hot-spring-resort","name":"Yuexi Peninsula Hot Spring Resort, Honghu","name_zh":"悦兮半岛","pinyin":"Yuèxī Bàndǎo","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":29.9123,"lon":113.5893,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=honghu-yuexi-peninsula-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yuexi Peninsula is a hot-spring resort in Wulin town, Honghu, built around mineral water drawn from about 2,000 m underground at about 76 °C and a large column-free glass-and-steel indoor spring hall. Guests stay in the on-site hotel, some rooms opening straight onto outdoor pools, and the grounds also have a summer water park. It is a leisure resort rather than a sightseeing or heritage stop, suited to an overnight or half-day break from Wuhan."},{"id":"shishou-zoumaling-neolithic-city-site","name":"Zoumaling Neolithic City Site","name_zh":"走马岭遗址","pinyin":"Zǒumǎlǐng Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Jingzhou","lat":29.6754,"lon":112.5234,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shishou-zoumaling-neolithic-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zoumaling is a late Neolithic walled settlement of the Qujialing culture beside Shangjin Lake, with an earth-banked enclosure about 370 m by 300 m, three gates in its east and west walls and traces of houses inside. The Jingzhou government describes it as among the earliest and largest late-prehistoric walled sites confirmed along the Yangtze. It is being developed as a national archaeological site park; for now visitors mostly see the earth banks and moat in farmland, with a few reconstructed thatched huts."},{"id":"qianjiang-longwan-archaeological-park","name":"Longwan Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"龙湾国家考古遗址公园","pinyin":"Lóngwān Guójiā Kǎogǔ Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Qianjiang","lat":30.2356,"lon":112.7605,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianjiang-longwan-archaeological-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The park preserves the Longwan site, the remains of a Chu detached palace-and-garden complex of the Eastern Zhou period that archaeologists think may be the Zhanghua Terrace, centred on the Fangyingtai mound. Because earthen remains survive poorly in the damp south, the display hall shows a full-size model of the excavated terrace base above, with real remains such as a shell-paved road, drainage pipes and a side gate exposed below. The Longwan Site Museum, about 2 km from the park gate, shows excavated finds and models of the palace."},{"id":"shennongjia-dajiuhu-wetland","name":"Dajiuhu Wetland","name_zh":"大九湖","pinyin":"Dàjiǔhú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shennongjia","lat":31.476,"lon":110.015,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shennongjia-dajiuhu-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high mountain basin at about 1,730 m on the western edge of Shennongjia, covering roughly 20 km², with sub-alpine peat bog, wet meadow, streams and small lakes ringed by hills, a rare habitat in central China that is listed as a wetland of international importance. It is also a water source for the middle route of the South–North Water Transfer scheme, and the area keeps traces of Quaternary glaciation, karst sinkholes and the old Sichuan–Hubei salt road. All visitors switch to a park shuttle bus at the Pingqian transfer centre, and a small train and buses run within the scenic area."},{"id":"shennongjia-hongping-gallery","name":"Hongping Gallery","name_zh":"红坪画廊","pinyin":"Hóngpíng Huàláng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shennongjia","lat":31.6749,"lon":110.4247,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shennongjia-hongping-gallery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain valley area around Hongping town in central Shennongjia, at about 1,600 m, known as Hongping Gallery after a series of paintings by the artist Zhang Bu and popular with painters and photographers. The Gallery Valley section has a 'pearl curtain' waterfall whose flow changes with the seasons and a narrow cleft, the 'line of sky', with 499 stone steps and about 200 m of height difference. Autumn colour and cloud are its main draws, and it combines easily with nearby Tianyan."},{"id":"shennongjia-shennong-tianchi","name":"Shennong Tianchi","name_zh":"神农天池","pinyin":"Shénnóng Tiānchí","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shennongjia","lat":31.8187,"lon":110.5284,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shennongjia-shennong-tianchi","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercially run valley park at Shennongjia's northern entrance, opened in 2014 as Batao Yuan and renamed Shennong Tianchi in 2023. Local legend calls it Emperor Yan's orchard, and the name Batao refers to the wild Ba walnut trees that still grow here; streams, pools and marshy meadows run through Qinling fir forest around a giant fir known as Jiulong Shensha, and the developed area of about 8 km² has an RV and camping ground, a forest adventure park and a winter snow park. It is more a leisure park than wilderness, and suits an easy half day on the way in or out of Shennongjia."},{"id":"shennongjia-tianyan-scenic-area","name":"Tianyan Scenic Area, Shennongjia","name_zh":"天燕景区","pinyin":"Tiānyàn Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shennongjia","lat":31.7263,"lon":110.4689,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shennongjia-tianyan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest and mountain-pass scenic area in central Shennongjia, named for Yanzi Ya ('Swallow Pass') in the north and Tianmen Ya ('Heaven's Gate Pass') in the south, the latter the highest point of the G209 highway through the area. Highlights are primeval forest, sea-of-cloud and 'Buddha's light' effects at the passes, a high bridge over Yanzi Ya and a cave said to shelter tens of thousands of swiftlets, and the Shennongjia government counts more than 2,400 plant and 200 animal species here. The area is tied to local lore of the 'wild man' (Yeren) and to the Han epic 'Heian Zhuan' (Book of Darkness), and takes about two hours."},{"id":"shiyan-zhangwan-bailongtan","name":"Bailongtan Scenic Area","name_zh":"百龙潭","pinyin":"Bǎilóng Tán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.6033,"lon":110.7017,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiyan-zhangwan-bailongtan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded stream valley with a canyon walkway on the western edge of Shiyan, in Zhangwan District. Local tourism pages describe running streams, dense greenery and shaded paths, and it is promoted as a cool place to walk in summer. A short outing for people already in Shiyan rather than a reason to come to the region."},{"id":"danjiangkou-canglanghai","name":"Canglanghai, Danjiangkou","name_zh":"沧浪海","pinyin":"Cāngláng Hǎi","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.5586,"lon":111.4725,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danjiangkou-canglanghai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure area and boat landing on Danjiangkou Reservoir, in the new district at the edge of Danjiangkou city. Most visitors come for a boat trip on the reservoir; the memorial park for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project stands close by. A low-key stop for people already in Danjiangkou city, best combined with the dam and the memorial park."},{"id":"zhuxi-cixiaogou-cliff-inscription","name":"Cixiaogou Imperial Timber Cliff Inscription","name_zh":"慈孝沟“采皇木”摩崖","pinyin":"Cíxiàogōu Cǎihuángmù Móyá","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.1817,"lon":109.7194,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuxi-cixiaogou-cliff-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Ming-dynasty rock inscription in a gorge in Eping township, carved in 1558 on a cliff to mark the felling of giant nanmu timbers that were sent to Beijing to build the imperial palace. Its nine vertical lines, 73 characters in all, were composed by Liao Xikui, then magistrate of Guanghua county, and describe the search for the timber and its finding; the gorge took the name Cixiao in the same period. The panel measures about 1.7 by 1.8 metres."},{"id":"yunyang-dafeng-granary","name":"Dafeng Granary, Yunyang","name_zh":"大丰仓","pinyin":"Dàfēng Cāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.8134,"lon":110.8101,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-dafeng-granary","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty state granary in the old town of Yunyang, on a rise beside the bridgehead of the Yunyang Han River Bridge, rebuilt in 1881 on the site of an earlier prefectural granary. Three black-tiled brick buildings, a main granary with two smaller ones, stand on timber frames with louvred ventilation windows, and old steles and memorial arches gathered from the surrounding countryside are kept in the courtyard. National heritage funding paid for a restoration that began in 2018 and had finished its main structures by late 2019, with a plan to open it as a grain- and farming-culture exhibition."},{"id":"shiyan-donggou-red-tourism-area","name":"Donggou Red Tourism Area","name_zh":"东沟红色旅游景区","pinyin":"Dōnggōu Hóngsè Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.5023,"lon":110.843,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiyan-donggou-red-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A red-tourism area in Donggou village, Maota township, in the hills south of Shiyan, centred on a restored Ming–Qing house that holds the Central Plains Breakout (Northwest Hubei) History Memorial Hall. Local sources say the Red Third Army under He Long was active in the area in 1931, and that in 1946 forces that had broken out of the Central Plains under Li Xiannian and Wang Shusheng set up a Communist-led county government here. As of 2020 the hall had about a dozen exhibition rooms and some 120 relics, and the grounds also have an old theatre stage, a village schoolhouse, a martyrs' cemetery, flower gardens and craft workshops."},{"id":"zhuxi-gan-ancestral-hall","name":"Gan Ancestral Hall, Zhuxi","name_zh":"甘氏宗祠","pinyin":"Gānshì Zōngcí","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.3142,"lon":109.6031,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuxi-gan-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty clan ancestral hall in Ganjialing village, Zhongfeng town, built in memory of Gan Jifang, a local garrison officer of the early Qing, and enlarged in the mid-18th and late 19th centuries. It is a brick-and-timber courtyard compound with a main hall, rear hall, side wings and a gate tower under grey-tiled roofs, with a stone-framed gate and some murals and painted decoration, at the heart of a village named in 2012 among China's traditional villages. A Hubei Daily report of February 2026 says the hall has been turned into a cultural display venue, which makes it a short stop for anyone exploring rural north-west Hubei."},{"id":"zhushan-gaojia-huawu","name":"Gaojia Huawu","name_zh":"高家花屋","pinyin":"Gāojiā Huāwū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.444,"lon":109.7585,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhushan-gaojia-huawu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty family residence in Xiejiagou village, Zhuping township, in the hills of north-west Zhushan county near the Hubei–Shaanxi–Sichuan border. Building began in 1797 and took about thirty years, and the house is noted for its horse-head (matou) fire walls and its many carvings. Its name means 'flower house'."},{"id":"fangxian-guanyin-cave","name":"Guanyin Cave, Fangxian","name_zh":"观音洞","pinyin":"Guānyīn Dòng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.0215,"lon":110.7225,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangxian-guanyin-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple-and-cave site on a hill about 3 km south of Fangxian county town. The county describes its layout as one hall, two caves, three star gods and four views: an ancestral-master hall, side-by-side caves for Guanyin and Guandi (Guan Yu), figures of the star gods Fu, Lu and Shou, and a few viewpoints. Its Qing-dynasty buildings are listed as a provincial heritage site, and it makes a short stop before heading on to Yeren Cave."},{"id":"yunyang-hanjiang-green-valley","name":"Hanjiang Green Valley","name_zh":"汉江绿谷","pinyin":"Hànjiāng Lǜgǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.8153,"lon":111.0418,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-hanjiang-green-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure area of about 6 km² in Anyang town, Yunyang, with a herb garden of about 330 hectares, a flower field on the water of over 60 hectares, more than 200 hectares of grassland and three themed 'manor' areas. Activities include fishing, barbecue and camping, go-karts, high-level swings and water play, with some twenty rides in all. It is also a national water-conservancy scenic area and a soil-conservation demonstration park."},{"id":"danjiangkou-honggan-ping-orchard","name":"Honggan Ping Orange Orchard, Junxian","name_zh":"红甘苹橘海","pinyin":"Hóng Gānpíng Júhǎi","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.6592,"lon":111.1047,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danjiangkou-honggan-ping-orchard","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercial 'smart orchard' beside Danjiangkou Reservoir in Junxian town, run by the Honggan Ping company and rated 4A as an agri-tourism site. Visitors walk a viewing corridor that shows the sensors and data used to manage the citrus groves, pick fruit and join study visits on automated crop protection and harvesting. It suits families and anyone curious about Danjiangkou's citrus industry."},{"id":"yunyang-huxiaotan-gorge","name":"Huxiaotan Gorge","name_zh":"虎啸滩","pinyin":"Hǔxiàotān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":33.0042,"lon":110.6882,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-huxiaotan-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river-gorge scenic area on the Baiquan River in Baiquan village, Daliu township, named 'Tiger Roar Shoal' for the sound of the water pounding the rocks. About thirty natural and cultural sights are strung along the valley, including cliffs, stepped waterfalls, a chain of pools, caves such as the White Tiger Cave and the ruins of an old temple to the Wood Dragon. It is noticeably cooler than Shiyan city in summer, so it is mostly visited then."},{"id":"danjiangkou-jingle-palace","name":"Jingle Palace, Danjiangkou","name_zh":"静乐宫","pinyin":"Jìnglè Gōng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.5616,"lon":111.5393,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danjiangkou-jingle-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist palace complex on the north shore of Jingle Lake, at the north-eastern edge of Danjiangkou city. It is a reconstruction, built between 2000 and 2006, of the Ming-dynasty Jingle Palace, founded in 1418 in old Junzhou and counted as the first of the Wudang Mountains' great palaces, which went under water when Danjiangkou Reservoir filled in 1967. Some 830 relics, including an archway and a tortoise-borne stele, were moved to higher ground beforehand, so the halls are new; the complex is a working Taoist site that held an ordination programme in 2023."},{"id":"yunyang-jiulong-falls","name":"Jiulong Falls, Yunyang","name_zh":"郧阳九龙瀑","pinyin":"Yúnyáng Jiǔlóngpù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":33.116,"lon":110.8329,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-jiulong-falls","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A gorge scenic area in Nanhuatang town, Yunyang district, named 'Nine Dragons Falls' for the series of waterfalls along its stream; the district lists its core area as about 18 km². Walking paths follow the stream between cliffs, pools and woodland. In summer a 2.5 km rafting course runs through the gorge, and a cliff-side sightseeing car and bamboo-raft rides are also on offer."},{"id":"yunxi-longtan-river","name":"Longtan River, Yunxi","name_zh":"郧西龙潭河","pinyin":"Yúnxī Lóngtán Hé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.8516,"lon":110.1881,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunxi-longtan-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A waterfall and gorge scenic area in Yangwei town, run as a provincial forest park and geopark, with more than sixty sights, over forty of them connected with waterfalls. The route takes in a flight of more than 80 cascades, including the Great Dragon Falls (Dalongpu). A traditional paper-making workshop is also on the route."},{"id":"zhushan-nuwa-mountain","name":"Nüwa Mountain, Zhushan","name_zh":"女娲山","pinyin":"Nǚwā Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.2868,"lon":109.9829,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhushan-nuwa-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Baofeng town built around the legend of Nüwa, the goddess who in Chinese myth mended the sky and made the first people. Visitors climb to pray for blessings and hear the Nüwa stories, and the summit looks over a sea of cloud, and sometimes the sunrise, when the weather allows. An immersive intangible-heritage hall in the grounds shows more than 200 craft and folk-art items from over ten local categories."},{"id":"yunyang-qinglongshan-dinosaur-eggs","name":"Qinglongshan Dinosaur Egg Fossil Geopark","name_zh":"青龙山恐龙蛋化石群国家地质公园","pinyin":"Qīnglóngshān Kǒnglóngdàn Huàshíqún Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.8113,"lon":110.7166,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-qinglongshan-dinosaur-eggs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national geopark in Liupi town protecting a field of Cretaceous dinosaur eggs left where they were laid, with at least 300,000 eggs estimated, which state media describe as the largest known in-situ concentration. Visitors see the fossils and exhibition panels, and the park has added smart-glasses and hologram displays showing dinosaurs hatching. It is popular with family and school groups."},{"id":"yunxi-shangjin-ancient-city","name":"Shangjin Ancient City","name_zh":"上津古城","pinyin":"Shàngjīn Gǔchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":33.1402,"lon":110.0388,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunxi-shangjin-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A compact walled town on the east bank of the Jinqian River, close to the Shaanxi border, roughly 400 by 300 metres with walls about 7 m high, and known locally as the 'Emperor's Ferry' for its river crossing on the way towards Xi'an. The walls were begun in 1368, at the start of the Ming, and fully repaired in 1802, although the national listing dates the town to the Qing; visitors can walk on the wall, see the Shanxi–Shaanxi guildhall and an old street in Ming and Qing style, and take a boat trip on the river. Shangjin was named a national historic and cultural town in 2007."},{"id":"shiyan-museum","name":"Shiyan Museum","name_zh":"十堰市博物馆","pinyin":"Shíyàn Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.6439,"lon":110.7904,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiyan-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The municipal museum of Shiyan, a national second-grade museum in the city centre close to Beijing North Road. Its displays cover dinosaurs, early humans (including replicas of the Yunxian Man skulls, Homo erectus fossils roughly a million years old found at Xuetangliangzi in Yunyang District), the Wudang Mountains, the Danjiangkou reservoir and Shiyan's car industry, plus finds from the South-to-North Water Diversion reservoir area. Worth an hour for anyone interested in the human and natural history of the Shiyan area."},{"id":"danjiangkou-taiji-gorge","name":"Taiji Gorge","name_zh":"太极峡","pinyin":"Tàijí Xiá","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.7476,"lon":111.3779,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danjiangkou-taiji-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A red-sandstone gorge on the western side of Danjiangkou Reservoir, in Shigu town. It was known as Shuanglong ('Twin Dragons') Gorge before its rename, after the Qinglong and Huanglong ridges that face each other across it. Its Danxia-type landforms led to its listing as a Hubei provincial geopark in 2008."},{"id":"zhuxi-taohuadao-hangtu-town","name":"Taohuadao Rammed-Earth Town","name_zh":"桃花岛夯土小镇","pinyin":"Táohuādǎo Hāngtǔ Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.33,"lon":109.8046,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuxi-taohuadao-hangtu-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern rural tourism town in Shuiping town, built in rammed-earth style from about 2018 and called Peach Blossom Island (Taohuadao); its Chinese name, Hangtu Xiaozhen, means 'rammed-earth town'. Its offer is built around health and wellness, including herbal-medicine meals and daoyin exercise sessions, and it has been named one of China's intangible-heritage tourism towns. Local itineraries often pair it with the Longwangya tea gardens."},{"id":"yunxi-tianhe-scenic-area","name":"Tianhe Scenic Area, Yunxi","name_zh":"郧西天河","pinyin":"Yúnxī Tiānhé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.9756,"lon":110.4086,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunxi-tianhe-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside scenic area on the Tianhe at the southern edge of Yunxi county town, built around the county's Qixi (Double Seventh) culture, which is on China's national list of intangible cultural heritage. Features include Xuanguguan, a temple complex in traditional style laid out with a lake, caves, bridges, pavilions and halls, and Cherry Blossom Valley, planted with cherry trees around small bridges and pavilions. The county has also rebuilt an old street as the Qixi Sky Street, with immersive projection performances."},{"id":"yunxi-tianhekou","name":"Tianhekou, Yunxi","name_zh":"天河口","pinyin":"Tiānhékǒu","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.8636,"lon":110.3955,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunxi-tianhekou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The place where the Tianhe ('Heavenly River') flows into the Han, in Guanyin town, linked by local tradition to the Qixi (Double Seventh) legend of the cowherd and the weaver girl. The 4A area, about 1.7 km² and rated in December 2025, is a recent development with a wetland park, a riverside loop, a lion-head cliff viewpoint, a visitor centre, farmstays and an RV campsite. Yunxi's Qixi tradition is on China's national list of intangible cultural heritage."},{"id":"danjiangkou-wudang-daming-peak","name":"Wudang Daming Peak","name_zh":"武当大明峰","pinyin":"Wǔdāng Dàmíng Fēng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.4239,"lon":110.8827,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danjiangkou-wudang-daming-peak","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Guanshan town, west of the Wudang Mountains' main peak, which Shiyan's tourism commission puts at about 1,316 m in height and roughly 39 sq km in area. It has a cliff-side plank walkway, a narrow 'strip of sky' gorge and the 'South Heavenly Gate' viewpoint, plus a glass skywalk, a cliff swing, zip lines and via ferrata climbing. A newer, activity-led area that gained its 4A rating in 2023, it suits active visitors with a car more than temple-hunters."},{"id":"wudangshan-happy-valley","name":"Wudang Happy Valley","name_zh":"武当山快乐谷","pinyin":"Wǔdāngshān Kuàilè Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.494,"lon":111.1372,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudangshan-happy-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A commercial adventure and amusement park in a wooded river valley in the Wudang Special Zone, about 5 km from the entrance of the Wudang Mountains scenic area and next to Taiji Lake. The special zone's tourism bureau lists a 75 m bungee jump, a rafting course of about 5.8 km, zip lines, a cliff swing and go-karts, plus a children's area with a dozen or so rides. It suits families and groups who want a lively half day alongside a trip to the Wudang temples; it is not a heritage visit."},{"id":"danjiangkou-wudang-south-pilgrim-path","name":"Wudang South Pilgrim Path","name_zh":"武当山南神道","pinyin":"Wǔdāngshān Nán Shéndào","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.3608,"lon":110.8882,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danjiangkou-wudang-south-pilgrim-path","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walking-oriented scenic area on the south-western flank of the Wudang Mountains in Guanshan town, on the old pilgrim route by which worshippers from Sichuan, Shaanxi and western Hubei once came to Wudang. Danjiangkou's tourism bureau describes a route of about 20 km along the Jiudao River with plank walkways, streams and rocky peaks, strung with the Lüjiahe folk-song village, the former headquarters of the Red Third Army and rock features such as 'Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl' and 'Dragon-Slaying Cliff'. Known locally as Wudang's 'back garden', it suits visitors who want the countryside and hiking side of Wudang rather than the main temples."},{"id":"yunxi-wulong-river","name":"Wulong River Scenic Area","name_zh":"五龙河","pinyin":"Wǔlóng Hé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":33.0417,"lon":110.5445,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunxi-wulong-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested gorge scenic area on the Wulong River, a tributary of the Tianhe that rises in the Qinling foothills on the Hubei–Shaanxi border, nicknamed 'little Jiuzhaigou' locally for its clear water, waterfalls and woods. Sights include the Wangyou Bridge, the Silver Curtain waterfall and a narrow slot called 'Line of Sky', and the Xiangu Gorge has a high glass-floored walkway."},{"id":"fangxian-yeren-cave-and-valley","name":"Yeren Cave and Valley, Fangxian","name_zh":"野人洞·野人谷","pinyin":"Yěrén Dòng · Yěrén Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":31.9189,"lon":110.732,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangxian-yeren-cave-and-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A limestone cave and a wooded gorge about 25 km south of Fangxian county town, named after local 'wild man' (yeren) stories; the best known tells of a farmer's encounter at the cave mouth in 1974. The cave has two levels joined by an artificial stairway, with varied stalactite formations lit by coloured lights, and stays cool in summer; the valley beside it has a long gorge with cliff-side walkways and a lake with boats. The wild man is folklore rather than a confirmed species, and the area is promoted mainly as a summer retreat."},{"id":"shiyan-sai-wudang-yunlong-valley","name":"Yunlong Valley, Sai Wudang","name_zh":"赛武当云龙谷","pinyin":"Sàiwǔdāng Yúnlóng Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.465,"lon":110.7158,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiyan-sai-wudang-yunlong-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large mountain-resort development in the Sai Wudang hills south of central Shiyan, in Maojian District, planned over about 24 km² in three phases with wellness, hot-spring, family-study, mountain-sports and folk-culture zones. Sai Wudang, also called Fulong Mountain, takes its name from a main peak that stands about 118 m higher than Wudang's Tianzhu Peak. The district lists the resort as partly open on a trial basis, and a folk-customs museum and a science museum there are stops on a Maojian tourist bus route."},{"id":"zhushan-turquoise-culture-area","name":"Zhushan Turquoise Culture Tourist Area","name_zh":"竹山绿松石文化旅游区","pinyin":"Zhúshān Lǜsōngshí Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Shiyan","lat":32.2143,"lon":110.2346,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhushan-turquoise-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed cultural-tourism complex in Zhushan county town, between the Du and Huo rivers, built around turquoise, which is mined in several counties of north-west Hubei including Zhushan, and around local legends and history, from the Nüwa myth to the ancient Yong state and the Peach Blossom Spring story. The county describes it as one core, one street, one district and one waterside corridor, with staged performances, commercial space and river-front walks. It was rated a national 4A area only in December 2025."},{"id":"suixian-baopu-valley","name":"Baopu Valley Wellness Resort","name_zh":"抱朴谷","pinyin":"Bàopǔ Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":32.2684,"lon":113.4834,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-baopu-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wellness resort of about 12 km² in forested hills at the head of the Huai River, on the Hubei–Henan border. It is built around traditional Chinese medicine, with a clinic offering herbal baths, moxibustion and massage, plus forest cabins, guesthouses and walking routes. Local descriptions also mention Xinyi Zhai, a hill stockade dated to the Song dynasty, and a waterfall; it was rated 4A in December 2023."},{"id":"suizhou-dahong-mountain","name":"Dahong Mountain","name_zh":"大洪山","pinyin":"Dàhóng Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.5329,"lon":112.9691,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suizhou-dahong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stand-alone mountain massif of about 305 km² that straddles Suizhou, Jingshan and Zhongxiang, with 127 km² and its highest peak, Baozhu Peak (1,055 m), in Suizhou. Visitors come for the rebuilt Ci'en Buddhist temple on the peak, Bailong Pool (a crater lake high in the hills), two karst caves, a very large ancient ginkgo said to have been planted by Emperor Guangwu of the Han, and a rafting stream. It has been a national scenic area since 1988, and the hills were the base of the Lülin rebels at the end of the Western Han."},{"id":"zengdu-jiukouyan-fifth-division-hq","name":"Former HQ of the New Fourth Army's Fifth Division, Jiukouyan","name_zh":"新四军第五师司令部旧址","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Dìwǔshī Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.4591,"lon":113.3808,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zengdu-jiukouyan-fifth-division-hq","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"In June 1940 the headquarters of the New Fourth Army's Hubei–Henan force moved into the Sun family compound at Jiukouyan, a Qing-dynasty courtyard house built in 1733 with 56 rooms in a three-hall, two-courtyard layout, and the Fifth Division was formally established there on 5 April 1941 under Li Xiannian. The compound is now a memorial museum showing the headquarters' offices and living quarters, and the village has further wartime sites, among them a branch of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, a newspaper office and an arsenal, plus a memorial garden opened in 2015. The village is also a listed traditional village."},{"id":"guangshui-gaogui-santan","name":"Gaogui Santan Scenic Area","name_zh":"高贵三潭","pinyin":"Gāoguì Sāntán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.8586,"lon":113.9315,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangshui-gaogui-santan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park and provincial scenic area on the Hubei–Henan border at the foot of the old Pingjing Pass, known for its waterfalls and pools (the 'three pools' of the name), the summit of Dagui Mountain and a grove of qingtan (wingceltis) trees of more than 2,000 mu that local officials bill as the largest in China. It also has the old pass road with a surviving beacon tower, Yang Gong Ridge (named for the Ming official Yang Lian, a native of the area) and Longpa Zhai, a hill fortress protected at provincial level. It became Guangshui's first 4A scenic area in 2023."},{"id":"suixian-xiyouji-park","name":"Journey to the West Park, Sui County","name_zh":"西游记公园","pinyin":"Xīyóujì Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.6192,"lon":112.8595,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-xiyouji-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large leisure resort themed on the novel Journey to the West, covering about 260 hectares in the hills near Dahong Mountain. It combines hot-spring pools, a zoo, a glass bridge, a rose field and themed play areas with more than 800 hotel and cabin rooms on site. It suits families and groups on a leisure break rather than sightseers."},{"id":"suixian-xiyouji-rafting","name":"Journey to the West Rafting, Huaihe","name_zh":"西游记漂流","pinyin":"Xīyóujì Piāoliú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":32.3209,"lon":113.5177,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-xiyouji-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rafting run of about 9 km down the Longtan stream in the Tongbai Mountains, with nine bends and more than 30 rapids over about two and a half to three hours, ending close to the expressway exit at Huaihe. Rafting is in four-person boats and runs only in summer, typically from late June to early September."},{"id":"suizhou-leigudun-tombs","name":"Leigudun Tombs","name_zh":"擂鼓墩古墓群","pinyin":"Léigǔdūn Gǔmùqún","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.7308,"lon":113.3444,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suizhou-leigudun-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The cemetery of the rulers of the state of Zeng in the Warring States period, spread over a low rise on the north-western edge of Suizhou as eight burial grounds covering about 116 hectares. The best-known tomb is that of Marquis Yi of Zeng, opened in 1978 and yielding more than 15,000 objects, among them a set of 65 bronze bells whose originals are now in the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan. A protective display building stands over the tomb pit, and the Suizhou Museum next door displays Zeng-state bronzes and gives chime-bell performances."},{"id":"suixian-shennong-tribe","name":"Shennong Tribe","name_zh":"神农部落","pinyin":"Shénnóng Bùluò","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":32.2845,"lon":113.5224,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-shennong-tribe","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A theme park in the Tongbai Mountains built around rock carvings that county officials present as prehistoric images of the legendary farmer-god Shennong, a sun god and a three-legged sun bird. Visitors walk through sacrificial gardens to the sun and the moon, a stone-carving area and a garden themed on a supposed Shennong script, in a development first rated AAA in 2021. It is best treated as a cultural theme park; the dating and interpretation of the carvings come from the local authorities."},{"id":"suizhou-cultural-park","name":"Suizhou Cultural Park","name_zh":"随州文化公园","pinyin":"Suízhōu Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.7143,"lon":113.3977,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suizhou-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large landscaped park in the eastern part of Suizhou, laid out around the city's cultural themes: the legendary farmer-god Shennong, the Zeng chime bells, the Spring and Autumn minister Ji Liang (whose statue stands partway up the hillside) and the Sui dynasty, which took its name from the city. It is a quiet city park rather than a major sight, and city itineraries pair it with the Suizhou Museum and the Marquis Yi tomb site."},{"id":"zengdu-thousand-year-ginkgo-valley","name":"Thousand-Year Ginkgo Valley","name_zh":"千年银杏谷","pinyin":"Qiānnián Yínxìng Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.4419,"lon":113.2963,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zengdu-thousand-year-ginkgo-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley of ancient ginkgo trees strung along about 12 km of five villages in Luoyang town, with around 300 trees more than a thousand years old. The leaves turn gold from mid-October to late November, which is the main season. After a year-long closure for rebuilding, it reopened in December 2024 and the resort district held its formal opening in July 2025, with new visitor facilities and guesthouses."},{"id":"suixian-tianwangzhai-fortress","name":"Tianwangzhai Hill Fortress","name_zh":"田王寨","pinyin":"Tiánwángzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":32.3102,"lon":113.3124,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-tianwangzhai-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill fortress of stone walls that follow nine hilltops on Gucheng Mountain in the Tongbai range, with gates and beacon towers; local accounts date it to the end of the Song or the Yuan period. It is a provincially protected relic, billed as the best-preserved stockade of its kind in central China, and part of the Hubei section of the Long March National Cultural Park, with displays on the Red 25th Army's Taibai meeting during the Long March. Cliff walls and a waterfall add a scenic side for those who like hill walking."},{"id":"suixian-lishan-yandi-hometown","name":"Yandi Hometown Park, Lishan","name_zh":"炎帝神农故里","pinyin":"Yándì Shénnóng Gùlǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Suizhou","lat":31.8522,"lon":113.2921,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixian-lishan-yandi-hometown","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park at Lishan, which Suizhou promotes as the birthplace of Yandi (Shennong), the legendary farmer-god and herbalist. Its core area of about 3.4 km² has more than 60 sights, among them the Shennong Cave said to be his birthplace, a statue of Yandi, an ancestor-worship plaza, the Yandi hall and a herb garden. Ceremonies are held each year around his traditional birthday on the 26th day of the fourth lunar month, and the Suizhou rite is on China's national intangible heritage list."},{"id":"tianmen-bailong-temple","name":"Bailong Temple, Tianmen","name_zh":"白龙寺","pinyin":"Báilóng Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Tianmen","lat":30.8588,"lon":113.3399,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianmen-bailong-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Zaoshi town, north-east of Tianmen, said to have been founded in the Southern Dynasties. The protected buildings are of Ming date and are described as well preserved, and the temple was listed as a national protected monument in 2013."},{"id":"tianmen-shijiahe-site","name":"Shijiahe Site","name_zh":"石家河遗址","pinyin":"Shíjiāhé Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Tianmen","lat":30.7611,"lon":113.0776,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianmen-shijiahe-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Neolithic walled settlement of about 8 square kilometres, occupied from about 3900 to 1800 BC and described in state media as the largest, best preserved and longest-lived prehistoric walled settlement found in the middle Yangtze; it is the type site of the Shijiahe culture. Excavations found city walls and moats, large buildings, ritual areas and hundreds of jade pieces. The Shijiahe Site Museum opened to the public on 19 May 2026 and shows finds in six exhibition sections, including jade human-head figures, and the site park also has a performance centre and the excavated Yinxintai area."},{"id":"tianmen-lu-yu-hometown-garden","name":"Tea Sage Hometown Garden","name_zh":"茶圣故里园","pinyin":"Cháshèng Gùlǐ Yuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Tianmen","lat":30.6559,"lon":113.1668,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianmen-lu-yu-hometown-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park in the old town of Tianmen, ancient Jingling, honouring Lu Yu, the Tang-dynasty author of the Classic of Tea, who is revered as the Sage of Tea and was born in the town. It gathers sites linked to his memory, among them a pavilion named for him, Wenxue (Literary) Spring and the ancient Wild Goose Bridge. It suits visitors interested in tea history and a gentle walk through the old town."},{"id":"huangpi-dayuwan-ancient-village","name":"Dayuwan Ancient Village","name_zh":"大余湾","pinyin":"Dàyúwān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.0296,"lon":114.3675,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-dayuwan-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside village at the foot of Mulan Mountain, founded in the early Ming dynasty by the Yu family from Wuyuan in Jiangxi, with dozens of Ming and Qing houses in Jiangxi style, horse-head gables and stone-paved lanes; it is a China Historic and Cultural Village. It is run as a scenic area with folk shows such as shadow puppets, puppet plays and bronze-bell music, and each autumn crops are laid out on the roofs for a drying festival."},{"id":"wuhan-delin-apartments","name":"Delin Apartments (Hankou Residence of CPC Leaders)","name_zh":"中共中央领导人汉口住地旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Lǐngdǎorén Hànkǒu Zhùdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5879,"lon":114.2914,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-delin-apartments","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Delin Apartments is a three-storey Western-style apartment block built in 1925 in Hankou's former British concession. After the Communist Party was driven underground in July 1927 it housed senior party figures: Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao stayed first, then Qu Qiubai, Li Weihan and Deng Xiaoping, and several meetings were held there before the party centre moved back to Shanghai in September 1927. The building was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"wuhan-university-early-buildings","name":"Early Buildings of Wuhan University","name_zh":"武汉大学早期建筑","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Dàxué Zǎoqī Jiànzhù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5425,"lon":114.3581,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-university-early-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of university buildings put up between 1930 and 1936 on Luojia Hill beside East Lake, combining palace-style Chinese roofs with modern reinforced-concrete frames; 15 sites with 26 buildings are listed as national heritage. They include the old library, the courtyard buildings of the arts and law schools and the hillside men's dormitory, nicknamed the Cherry Blossom Castle for the trees around it. The buildings are still in use on a working campus, so visitors mostly walk between them."},{"id":"wuhan-hankou-modern-buildings","name":"Early Modern Buildings of Hankou","name_zh":"汉口近代建筑群","pinyin":"Hànkǒu Jìndài Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5836,"lon":114.2941,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-hankou-modern-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of European-style banks, consulates and company offices along Yanjiang Avenue and the streets behind it, dating from the decades after Hankou opened as a treaty port in 1861 and five foreign powers took concessions here. The listing covers the former German consulate, the HSBC and Yokohama Specie Bank buildings and the 1909 water tower, with five more buildings added in 2019, among them the former Russo-Chinese Bank. Most are still offices or banks and are best seen from the street, though a few have museums inside."},{"id":"wuhan-east-lake","name":"East Lake, Wuhan","name_zh":"东湖","pinyin":"Dōng Hú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5651,"lon":114.3689,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-east-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A freshwater lake of about 33 sq km in Wuchang, among the largest urban lakes in China, whose scenic area is divided into six zones including Tingtao, Moshan and Luoyan. Visitors walk or cycle the lakeside greenway, which opened in 2016 and now runs for more than 100 km, and visit Moshan, which has a cherry-blossom park and the Chu City attraction. The Hubei Provincial Museum stands on the western shore."},{"id":"wuhan-eighth-route-army-office","name":"Eighth Route Army Office in Wuhan","name_zh":"八路军武汉办事处旧址","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Wǔhàn Bànshìchù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6086,"lon":114.304,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-eighth-route-army-office/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This four-storey building at 57 Changchun Street in Hankou was the Wuhan office of the Eighth Route Army from December 1937 until October 1938, from which the Communist Party liaised with the Nationalist government; the party's Yangtze Bureau also worked here. It was destroyed in a 1944 air raid, rebuilt to the original design in 1978 and opened as a memorial in 1979. Restored offices and bedrooms of Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao, Dong Biwu, Ye Jianying and others are shown with a permanent exhibition on Wuhan in the War of Resistance, refreshed in 2025."},{"id":"wuhan-fengwa-ancient-village","name":"Fengwa Ancient Village","name_zh":"凤娃古寨","pinyin":"Fèngwá Gǔzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.9107,"lon":114.7508,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-fengwa-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cultural-tourism complex in Fenghuang town, Xinzhou District, billed as a cluster of Ming and Qing-style buildings, with antique and folk-custom displays, leisure facilities and local food. In the evenings and at festivals it runs light shows, a fireworks theatre and folk performances, including a staged 'tossing the embroidered ball' wedding-choice show at one of its towers. It is a commercial attraction that suits families and day-trippers wanting a half-day out from Wuhan."},{"id":"wuhan-zhan-tianyou-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhan Tianyou","name_zh":"詹天佑故居","pinyin":"Zhān Tiānyòu Gùjū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5877,"lon":114.294,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-zhan-tianyou-residence/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A two-storey Western-style brick house that the railway engineer Zhan Tianyou (Jeme Tien Yow) designed for himself in Hankou's former Russian concession and lived in from 1913 until his death in 1919. Zhan, a Yale graduate known as the Father of China's Railroads, was chief engineer of the Beijing–Zhangjiakou line and was in Hankou to direct the Guangdong–Hankou and Sichuan–Hankou railway projects. The house was repaired and opened as an exhibition room in 1993 and is now the Zhan Tianyou Former Residence Museum."},{"id":"wuhan-gude-temple","name":"Gude Temple","name_zh":"古德寺","pinyin":"Gǔdé Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6212,"lon":114.3019,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-gude-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An active Buddhist temple in Hankou, founded in 1877 as a small hermitage and expanded in the early twentieth century into one of Wuhan's four main monasteries. Its halls, built mainly between 1916 and 1934, are an unusual mix of styles, and Jawaharlal Nehru noted its cluster of Indian-style pagodas on a visit in 1954. In 1911 its monks tended wounded soldiers of the Wuchang Uprising, and the remains of more than 3,000 fallen revolutionaries were buried beside it."},{"id":"wuhan-hankou-cpc-propaganda-department-site","name":"Hankou Site of the CPC Central Propaganda Department","name_zh":"汉口中共中央宣传部旧址","pinyin":"Hànkǒu Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Xuānchuánbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5889,"lon":114.2872,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-hankou-cpc-propaganda-department-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This building in Hankou's Fuyili lane housing, built in 1917, was the seat of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department from March to September 1927. After restoration it opened as an exhibition hall on the department and on Qu Qiubai, who lived there, and it was listed as a national protected site in 2013. It is a small, single-building stop in old Hankou."},{"id":"wuhan-hankow-customs-house","name":"Hankow Customs House","name_zh":"江汉关大楼","pinyin":"Jiānghànguān Dàlóu","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5786,"lon":114.292,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-hankow-customs-house","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in 1924 for the Hankou customs office, this four-storey Renaissance-style building has granite Corinthian colonnades and a clock tower, and was Wuhan's tallest building when it opened. The clock still chimes the Westminster tune. Since 2015 the interior has been the Jianghan Customs Museum, with a reconstruction of the 1920s customs hall."},{"id":"wuhan-happy-valley","name":"Happy Valley Wuhan","name_zh":"武汉欢乐谷","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Huānlè Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5937,"lon":114.3874,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-happy-valley/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Happy Valley Wuhan is an amusement park run by the OCT group, the fifth in its Happy Valley chain, in the eastern suburbs near East Lake; it opened in April 2012. Its rides include a wooden racing coaster and several launched and looping coasters, spread over themed zones. It is a day out for families and thrill-seekers rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"jiangxia-hesheng-bridge-cemetery","name":"Hesheng Bridge Northern Expedition Cemetery","name_zh":"贺胜桥北伐阵亡将士陵园","pinyin":"Hèshèngqiáo Běifá Zhènwáng Jiāngshì Língyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.0359,"lon":114.3556,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxia-hesheng-bridge-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial garden for National Revolutionary Army soldiers who died in the Battle of Hesheng Bridge, fought on 29–31 August 1926 during the Northern Expedition against Wu Peifu's forces and won by the expedition army. The cemetery dates from 1929 and was added to the national heritage list in 2019; the city also lists it among its municipal-level memorials to fallen soldiers. A flight of stone steps rises through landscaped grounds to a small domed pavilion and monument wall."},{"id":"caidian-huabohui-flower-town","name":"Huabohui Flower Town","name_zh":"武汉花博汇","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Huābóhuì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.4944,"lon":114.0665,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caidian-huabohui-flower-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower-themed leisure town in Caidian's Sino-French Eco-City, near Houguan Lake national wetland park, with a planned area of 5,300 mu (about 350 hectares). It combines flower fields with rural-experience activities, children's entertainment and holiday stays, and since 2024 has run an immersive evening walk with light projections, live performances and fire shows. It is a commercial, family-oriented attraction."},{"id":"jiangxia-huaishanji-embankment","name":"Huaishanji Embankment","name_zh":"槐山矶驳岸","pinyin":"Huáishānjī Bó'àn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.3467,"lon":114.1237,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxia-huaishanji-embankment","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A long granite embankment on the Yangtze bank at the foot of Huaishan, begun in the Ming dynasty's Jiajing reign so that boats could be hauled and moored safely past the rocky, fast-flowing stretch at Jinkou. Its three stepped tiers include a towpath, and it is described as the only surviving ancient shipping structure of its kind on the Yangtze. It was restored between 1997 and 2002, and makes a short stop alongside the Zhongshan Warship Museum, about 500 m away."},{"id":"huangpi-huaxiang-chagu","name":"Huaxiang Chagu Tea Valley","name_zh":"花乡茶谷","pinyin":"Huāxiāng Chágǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.0136,"lon":114.4972,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-huaxiang-chagu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tea-plantation leisure area on Honggang Mountain in Caijiazha subdistrict, Huangpi, which was rated 4A in 2022. The tea hills are planted with plum, cherry and other blossom, drawing most visitors from late winter to spring, and the park holds poetry-and-tea events through the year, including a poetry festival held since 2017. It is a commercial park suited to a relaxed half day."},{"id":"huangpi-jinli-tusicheng","name":"Jinli Tusicheng Tujia Scenic Area","name_zh":"锦鲤土司城","pinyin":"Jǐnlǐ Tǔsīchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.2746,"lon":114.2207,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-jinli-tusicheng","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure park themed on Tujia and Miao culture in the hills of northern Huangpi, built in the style of a tusi (hereditary chieftain) fortress town with stilt houses rather than as a historic site. Its main attraction is a rafting course of several kilometres that combines an elevated glass section with a canyon section, and it also has waterfall viewpoints, a splash plaza and folk shows. It is a commercial park, mainly for families and groups."},{"id":"caidian-jinlong-shuizhai","name":"Jinlong Shuizhai Eco-Park","name_zh":"金龙水寨","pinyin":"Jīnlóng Shuǐzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.545,"lon":113.9267,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caidian-jinlong-shuizhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure park beside Jinlong Lake in Caidian, planted with camellias, lotus, osmanthus and plum so that something is in flower in each season, and known for its lotus ponds, which can be toured by boat in summer. The district lists a waterfall, a long embankment path, a tea garden, an artificial beach, a deer-themed forest play area, a lotus-root museum and an equestrian club among its features. It suits casual family outings."},{"id":"caidian-jiuzhen-mountain","name":"Jiuzhen Mountain","name_zh":"九真山","pinyin":"Jiǔzhēn Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.4826,"lon":113.9564,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caidian-jiuzhen-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded range of nine linked peaks in Caidian whose main summit, at 276 m, is billed as the highest point on the Jianghan Plain; forest covers more than 90% of the scenic area. Trails pass the site of the Jiuzhen Daoist temple, said to have been founded in the Wei-Jin period and long since vanished, and a valley named for the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi of the Boya and Zhong Ziqi 'high mountains, flowing water' friendship legend. It is mainly a local day-walk and spring-outing spot."},{"id":"jiangxia-lianghu-manxiang","name":"Lianghu Manxiang Leisure Park","name_zh":"梁湖漫乡","pinyin":"Liánghú Mànxiāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.2882,"lon":114.427,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangxia-lianghu-manxiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lianghu Manxiang is a countryside leisure park in Wulijie, in the south-east of Wuhan's Jiangxia District, run as a large farm resort with guesthouses and meeting rooms, picking and fishing, farm-life activities and bonfire evenings. Provincial media report that it has added a play area with equipment that needs no power, a camping ground and seasonal fruit picking, including mulberries. It is aimed mainly at families and school groups on short stays from the city rather than at sightseers."},{"id":"wuhan-mulan-cultural-ecological-tourist-area","name":"Mulan Cultural and Ecological Tourist Area","name_zh":"木兰文化生态旅游区","pinyin":"Mùlán Wénhuà Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.0963,"lon":114.3874,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-mulan-cultural-ecological-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national 5A area in northern Huangpi District made up of four parts tied to the legend of Mulan, which local tradition places here: Mulan Mountain, a long-standing religious site with an ancient building complex that is also part of a national geopark; Mulan Tianchi (Heavenly Lake), a forest canyon of waterfalls and pools; Mulan Grassland, a steppe-themed park; and Yunwu Mountain, known for its azaleas in spring. Mulan Mountain covers about 30 sq km. Sightseeing buses run within the scenic area."},{"id":"huangpi-mulan-huaxiang","name":"Mulan Huaxiang Flower Village","name_zh":"木兰花乡","pinyin":"Mùlán Huāxiāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.2429,"lon":114.3797,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-mulan-huaxiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former old hamlet in Huangpi, renovated from the mid-2010s and opened as a scenic area in 2017, now a flower and night-tour destination with seasonal flower beds, an animal park, a tropical-plant garden, rides and a children's water park. 'Mulan Night City', a street built in Northern Wei style that opened in 2023, stages shows and light displays in the evening. It is a commercial, family-oriented attraction."},{"id":"huangpi-mulan-qingliangzhai","name":"Mulan Qingliangzhai","name_zh":"木兰清凉寨","pinyin":"Mùlán Qīngliángzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.2973,"lon":114.2104,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-mulan-qingliangzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 10 sq km in the hills of northern Huangpi, known for autumn foliage (a red-maple festival has run since 2015) and as a summer refuge from the city heat. Activities include a glass-bottomed rafting run, a glass walkway and a zip line, and a hillside guesthouse now keeps many visitors overnight. It is a commercial leisure area rather than a wilderness."},{"id":"huangpi-mulan-shengtian","name":"Mulan Shengtian","name_zh":"木兰胜天","pinyin":"Mùlán Shèngtiān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.0371,"lon":114.4241,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-mulan-shengtian","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill-ringed leisure area in Wangjiahe, Huangpi, developed from a former forest farm, with about 90% forest cover, streams, a waterfall and rock formations. Its main draw is the Forest Water Kingdom, a large summer water park with slides, a big pool, a sand beach and a long shaded rafting channel. It is a commercial park aimed at families and young groups."},{"id":"huangpi-mulan-water-town","name":"Mulan Water Town","name_zh":"木兰水镇","pinyin":"Mùlán Shuǐzhèn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.9559,"lon":114.4176,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-mulan-water-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A military-themed leisure park in Wangjiahe, Huangpi, laid out beside a lake and river junction with the look of a Jiangnan water town rather than any historic fabric. Activities listed on the district and city pages include amphibious vehicle rides, off-road buggy rides, live-action CS-style games, jungle courses and field camping. Evening events have included molten-iron sparks and a lit bamboo dragon raft on the lake, so it suits families and groups looking for an activity day."},{"id":"huangpi-panlongcheng","name":"Panlongcheng","name_zh":"盘龙城遗址","pinyin":"Pánlóngchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.7003,"lon":114.2582,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2-3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangpi-panlongcheng/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The remains of a walled Shang-dynasty city of about 1500-1300 BCE on the north bank of the Yangtze, uncovered by a flood in 1954 and described by the Wuhan government as the highest-ranking and largest early Shang site known in the Yangtze valley. Excavations have found city walls, palace foundations, high-status tombs and a bronze-casting workshop outside the walls, and the site was named one of China's ten major archaeological discoveries of 2024. It is a national archaeological site park, and its museum, opened in 2019, shows bronzes, jades and pottery from the digs while the walls and foundations are laid out in the grounds."},{"id":"wuhan-qingchuan-pavilion","name":"Qingchuan Pavilion","name_zh":"晴川阁","pinyin":"Qíngchuān Gé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5587,"lon":114.2799,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-qingchuan-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qingchuan Pavilion stands on a rocky point at the foot of Turtle Hill in Hanyang, where the Han River meets the Yangtze, facing Yellow Crane Tower across the water. The scenic area, rebuilt in the 1980s and early 1990s, centres on the Qingchuan tower, first built in the 1540s to honour Yu the Great's flood control, and includes the Iron Gate tower, which houses an exhibition on Wuhan's flood-control history. The nationally listed part is Yuji Palace, a temple to Yu dating back to the Southern Song, whose present buildings were put up in 1863."},{"id":"wuhan-cpc-fifth-congress-site","name":"Site of the 5th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party","name_zh":"中共五大会址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Wǔdà Huìzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5534,"lon":114.293,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-cpc-fifth-congress-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This former primary school in Wuchang is where the Chinese Communist Party's Fifth National Congress opened in April 1927, in the school's covered playground, before the delegates moved to another Wuhan venue to continue in secret. The compound was restored to its 1927 layout and opened as a memorial in 2007, with the playground rebuilt and a historical exhibition on the congress. Chen Tanqiu, an early party member, taught and lived at the school from 1922 to 1927."},{"id":"wuhan-august-7-conference-site","name":"Site of the August 7 Conference","name_zh":"八七会议会址","pinyin":"Bāqī Huìyì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.589,"lon":114.2945,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-august-7-conference-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-storey brick-and-concrete block in Hankou's former Russian concession, originally part of a foreign-built apartment complex, where leaders of the Chinese Communist Party met in secret on 7 August 1927, after the Kuomintang had turned on its communist allies, to decide the party's course. Mao Zedong's remark that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun is associated with this meeting. The building is now a memorial museum, with an exhibition on the conference on the ground floor and a reconstruction of the meeting room upstairs."},{"id":"wuhan-jinghan-railway-union-site","name":"Site of the Beijing–Hankou Railway General Union","name_zh":"京汉铁路总工会旧址","pinyin":"Jīnghàn Tiělù Zǒnggōnghuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6268,"lon":114.3123,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-jinghan-railway-union-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This small brick-and-timber house in Hankou's Jiang'an District, a former private home, served as headquarters of the Beijing–Hankou Railway General Union after its founding meeting in Zhengzhou was broken up in February 1923. The railway strike organised from here was violently suppressed on 7 February 1923. It has been a memorial since 1981 with an exhibition on the strike, and was shifted slightly when Jiefang Avenue was widened in 1995."},{"id":"wuhan-cpc-central-offices-site","name":"Site of the CPC Central Committee Offices in Wuhan","name_zh":"武汉中共中央机关旧址","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Jīguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5903,"lon":114.2931,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-cpc-central-offices-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This three-storey brick-and-timber building in Hankou's old Russian concession district was rented by the Communist Party's Central Committee as offices and a residence in 1927, after it moved from Shanghai to Wuhan, and left the same year. It was repaired from 2014 and, together with two neighbouring historic buildings, opened as a memorial museum on 30 September 2016. Its permanent exhibition on the party centre's months in Wuhan includes 31 restored rooms, among them the Politburo Standing Committee's meeting room and the living quarters of leaders such as Cai Hesen."},{"id":"wuhan-hankou-new-fourth-army-hq-site","name":"Site of the New Fourth Army Headquarters, Hankou","name_zh":"汉口新四军军部旧址","pinyin":"Hànkǒu Xīnsìjūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6088,"lon":114.3056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-hankou-new-fourth-army-hq-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This was the first headquarters of the New Fourth Army, set up in Hankou in late 1937 when Communist-led guerrilla forces in southern China were reorganised under the National Revolutionary Army; the headquarters moved to Nanchang in January 1938. Two surviving buildings on Shengli Street were restored by the city in 2005 and now hold a memorial hall, which opened in 2006: one hall carries the history exhibition, the other has the meeting room and staff offices restored along with the commanders' office-bedrooms. The site was listed as a national protected site in 2013."},{"id":"wuhan-nationalist-government-site","name":"Site of the Wuhan Nationalist Government (Nanyang Building)","name_zh":"武汉国民政府旧址","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Guómín Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5783,"lon":114.2813,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-nationalist-government-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A five-storey reinforced-concrete building of 1921 in Hankou, put up by the brothers who ran the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, which housed the offices of the Wuhan Nationalist Government from December 1926 to March 1927. The third floor has been restored since 1988 with the hall where the Kuomintang's Second Central Executive Committee held its plenary session in 1927 and some of the government's offices, shown as an exhibition. The building is also known as the Nanyang Building."},{"id":"wuhan-sixth-war-zone-surrender-hall","name":"Surrender Hall of the Sixth War Zone, Wuhan","name_zh":"国民政府第六战区受降堂旧址","pinyin":"Guómín Zhèngfǔ Dìliù Zhànqū Shòuxiángtáng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5875,"lon":114.265,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-sixth-war-zone-surrender-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A white-walled Chinese-style hall of about 400 square metres in Zhongshan Park, built in 1942 as an ancestral hall for the Qing viceroy Zhang Zhidong. On 18 September 1945 General Sun Weiru took the Japanese surrender for the Sixth War Zone here, and it is one of a few surviving surrender venues in mainland China. An exhibition open since 2000 recreates the ceremony at life size with wax figures alongside wartime documents and photographs, and the hall was listed as a national protected site in 2019."},{"id":"wuhan-soviet-air-volunteers-tomb","name":"Tomb of the Soviet Air Volunteers, Wuhan","name_zh":"苏联空军志愿队烈士墓","pinyin":"Sūlián Kōngjūn Zhìyuànduì Lièshìmù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6121,"lon":114.2953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-soviet-air-volunteers-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial cemetery in Jiefang Park holding the remains of Soviet air volunteers who were based in Wuhan in 1938 and died fighting Japan. The remains were moved here in 1956 from the Hankou International Cemetery, and the grounds have a square-based obelisk and a long granite tomb platform inscribed in Chinese and Russian. It became a national protected site in 2019."},{"id":"wuhan-ming-chu-princes-tombs","name":"Tombs of the Ming Princes of Chu","name_zh":"明楚王墓","pinyin":"Míng Chǔwáng Mù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.4112,"lon":114.5146,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-ming-chu-princes-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The burial ground of nine Ming-dynasty princes of Chu on Longquan Mountain in Jiangxia District, a line that began when the Hongwu Emperor's sixth son, Zhu Zhen, was enfeoffed at Wuchang in 1370. Prince Zhao's enclosure, with a gate, halls and stele pavilion rebuilt in 1988 and an excavated underground chamber, is the best preserved and reopened in December 2021 with a new exhibition hall, while archaeologists have been clearing the foundations of other enclosures since 2015. The site was among the first group of Hubei provincial heritage parks named in 2021 and was approved in December 2022 as a national archaeological site park project."},{"id":"wuhan-uprising-gate","name":"Uprising Gate","name_zh":"起义门","pinyin":"Qǐyì Mén","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.528,"lon":114.3019,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-uprising-gate/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Formerly called Zhonghe Gate, this is the only one of Wuchang's nine city gates left after the walls were pulled down following the 1926 Northern Expedition siege. The Wuchang Uprising of October 1911 began among soldiers stationed near the gate. The tower was rebuilt in 1981, and the surrounding park was redone for the 1911 centenary with a stele gallery, a covered corridor and a pavilion."},{"id":"wuhan-botanical-garden","name":"Wuhan Botanical Garden","name_zh":"武汉植物园","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5466,"lon":114.4172,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A research botanical garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1956, whose Moshan campus of about 59 hectares lies on the shore of East Lake. It has 17 specialty gardens, among them a kiwifruit collection and what the garden describes as East Asia's largest aquatic plant garden. It suits plant lovers and families after a half-day walk by the lake."},{"id":"wuhan-garden-expo-park","name":"Wuhan Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"武汉园博园","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.623,"lon":114.2057,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A public park of about 214 hectares built on a former landfill for the 10th China International Garden Expo in 2015 and kept as a city park afterwards, with its northern part in Dongxihu District and its southern part in Qiaokou District. The Expo laid it out with themed gardens from Chinese cities, and a 2020-23 survey recorded 73 bird species there, up from 26 before the restoration. It suits a half-day stroll or a family outing, and holds a large lantern fair each Chinese New Year."},{"id":"wuhan-wisco-steelworks-tourism-zone","name":"Wuhan Iron and Steel (WISCO) Cultural Tourism Zone","name_zh":"武钢文化旅游区","pinyin":"Wǔgāng Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6206,"lon":114.4355,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2-3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-wisco-steelworks-tourism-zone","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tourism zone of about 6.1 square kilometres inside the working Wuhan Iron and Steel (WISCO) plant in Qingshan, which opened in February 2023. Its core is Blast Furnace 1, first tapped in September 1958 and retired in October 2019, now an industrial-heritage park with a history exhibition on the ground floor, a recreated casting floor above and a viewing platform, with the plant's rail lines beside it still in use. The furnace was listed as national industrial heritage in 2021, and the zone was named a national industrial-tourism demonstration site in 2023."},{"id":"wuhan-museum","name":"Wuhan Museum","name_zh":"武汉博物馆","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6138,"lon":114.251,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The city's main local-history museum, in Hankou's Jianghan District; the present building opened in 2001 and the museum was named a first-grade national museum in 2008. Its permanent galleries cover Wuhan's ancient history, including models of the Shang-dynasty city of Panlongcheng, and its modern history from 1848 to 1949, alongside collections of bronzes, jades, ceramics and Ming and Qing paintings and calligraphy. Its prize piece is a Yuan-dynasty blue-and-white plum vase."},{"id":"wuhan-peasant-movement-institute","name":"Wuhan Peasant Movement Institute","name_zh":"武汉农民运动讲习所旧址","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Nóngmín Yùndòng Jiǎngxísuǒ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5561,"lon":114.2951,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-peasant-movement-institute","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A late-Qing courtyard school of four brick-and-timber halls, opened in 1904 as a primary school, which housed the Kuomintang's Central Peasant Movement Training Institute in 1927, with Deng Yanda as director and Mao Zedong as deputy director. About 800 students from 17 provinces trained here between March and June that year. The halls now hold restored offices, classrooms and dormitories, plus exhibitions on the institute and the peasant movement."},{"id":"wuhan-planning-exhibition-hall","name":"Wuhan Planning Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"武汉规划展示馆","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Guīhuà Zhǎnshìguǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6621,"lon":114.2898,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-planning-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wuhan Planning Exhibition Hall occupies the east wing of the Citizens' Home civic complex in northern Jiang'an and explains the city's history, growth and development plans over three floors. It has scale models, maps and multimedia displays, with sections on the city's history, the two-river four-bank waterfront, transport and the master plan, and since March 2023 a geology gallery with a relief model of Wuhan. It is an easy, indoor stop for anyone curious about how modern Wuhan is laid out."},{"id":"wuhan-polar-ocean-resort","name":"Wuhan Polar Ocean Resort","name_zh":"武汉极地海洋度假区","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Jídì Hǎiyáng Dùjiàqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.6658,"lon":114.2732,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-polar-ocean-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An ocean-themed resort in Dongxihu District with aquarium displays, a polar-themed Ice Kingdom that uses animal models, and staged shows such as costumed mermaid performances and a penguin parade. Since July 2025 it has also had a 91 m Ferris wheel and a circus theatre with an ocean-themed big-top show. The complex includes a hotel, restaurants and a spa, and suits families with children looking for a day out."},{"id":"wuhan-sports-center","name":"Wuhan Sports Center","name_zh":"武汉体育中心","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Tǐyù Zhōngxīn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5044,"lon":114.1664,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-sports-center/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A sports complex in Zhuankou, in Wuhan's economic development zone, built in 2002 around a 54,000-seat stadium that staged matches at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and has been home to Wuhan Three Towns football club. It also has an arena, a swimming hall and landscaped plazas that make up the park rated as a 4A scenic area. In 2020 it served as one of the city's temporary Fangcang hospitals for mild COVID-19 cases."},{"id":"caidian-wuhan-wildlife-kingdom","name":"Wuhan Wildlife Kingdom","name_zh":"武汉野生动物王国","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Yěshēng Dòngwù Wángguó","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5571,"lon":113.9416,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=caidian-wuhan-wildlife-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An animal-themed park on Wumei Mountain in Caidian, on a hill that was quarried until around 2000 and has since been replanted; it opened in December 2020. Animals include giraffes, zebras, camels and tigers, with animal parades by day and, since July 2026, evening sessions with shows and guided night visits. It is a commercial park aimed mainly at families with children."},{"id":"wuhan-yangtze-river-bridge","name":"Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge","name_zh":"武汉长江大桥","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Chángjiāng Dàqiáo","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5518,"lon":114.2835,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-yangtze-river-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The first permanent bridge across the Yangtze, opened in October 1957, links Snake Hill in Wuchang with Turtle Hill in Hanyang; it carries a road on its upper deck, with pedestrian walkways on both sides, and a railway line below. It became a national heritage unit in 2013 and is still in daily use, so the walk across gives views up and down the river. The Wuchang bridgehead tower, closed for years, reopened on a trial basis on 2 October 2026 as the pedestrian stairway up to the deck."},{"id":"wuhan-wuying-pagoda","name":"Wuying Pagoda","name_zh":"无影塔","pinyin":"Wúyǐng Tǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5358,"lon":114.3296,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-wuying-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seven-storey, eight-sided stone pagoda dated to 1270, in the last years of the Southern Song, and built to imitate a timber pagoda; it is often described as the oldest surviving structure in Wuhan. Carved figures of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats and guardians decorate its base and body. After it began to tilt badly it was moved in 1963 from the site of the lost Xingfu Temple to its present spot at the foot of Hongshan, and its name ('Shadowless') comes from a legend that it casts no shadow at noon on the summer solstice."},{"id":"wuhan-xinhai-revolution-museum","name":"Xinhai Revolution Museum (Wuchang Uprising Memorial)","name_zh":"辛亥革命博物院","pinyin":"Xīnhài Gémìng Bówùyuàn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5444,"lon":114.3008,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-xinhai-revolution-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Xinhai Revolution Museum is made up of two sites a short walk apart on the south side of Snake Hill, both about the Wuchang Uprising of October 1911. The north district is the Red Building, a 1910 assembly hall where revolutionaries and soldiers declared the Hubei military government on 11 October 1911, with its council chamber and offices restored; Sun Yat-sen spoke there in April 1912. The south district, built for the 1911 centenary, has a historical exhibition on the revolution, and Shouyi Square, with a 1931 bronze of Sun Yat-sen, lies between the two."},{"id":"huangpi-yaojiashan","name":"Yaojiashan Red Village","name_zh":"姚家山","pinyin":"Yáojiāshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.2532,"lon":114.1877,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-yaojiashan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain village on the Huangpi-Dawu border that served as the base of the New Fourth Army's Fifth Division, whose political and military organs were stationed there from the early 1940s until 1946 under Li Xiannian. Several preserved buildings, including the assembly hall in a clan shrine and former residences, form what the district describes as the only well-preserved group of revolutionary-era buildings in Wuhan, and a museum on the division opened in 2015. The valley also has stream-tracing and camping in summer."},{"id":"huangpi-yecun-valley","name":"Yecun Valley","name_zh":"野村谷","pinyin":"Yěcūn Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":31.0182,"lon":114.4658,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangpi-yecun-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A family leisure valley in Wangjiahe, Huangpi, with rafting runs, a shallow stream with a stepped weir, and a paddling water park with water-bamboo beds and slides. The grounds also have an earth-art play area, rose beds, go-karts and camping, and an avenue of ginkgo trees that colours in autumn. It is a commercial park aimed at families with young children."},{"id":"wuhan-cug-yifu-museum","name":"Yifu Museum of China University of Geosciences","name_zh":"中国地质大学逸夫博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Dìzhì Dàxué Yìfū Bówùguǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5199,"lon":114.3948,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1-2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuhan-cug-yifu-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A natural-science museum on the China University of Geosciences campus beside East Lake, holding about 40,000 geological specimens, several thousand of them rare. Six permanent halls cover the planet and Earth, the origin and evolution of life, minerals and rocks, gems and jade, mineral resources and a donated collection, with dinosaur skeletons among the fossils. The building was completed in 2003 and its design draws on geology, biomimicry and astronomy."},{"id":"wuhan-zhiyin-cultural-area","name":"Zhiyin Cultural Area (Guqin Terrace and Moon Lake)","name_zh":"知音文化旅游区","pinyin":"Zhīyīn Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.5567,"lon":114.2583,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-zhiyin-cultural-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Zhiyin Cultural Area is Wuhan's name for a group of sights in Hanyang built around the legend of Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi, in which a guqin player found a friend who truly understood his music (a 'zhiyin'). State media describe it as one hill, one lake, one garden and one pavilion: Turtle Hill, Moon Lake, the Guqin Terrace garden and Qingchuan Pavilion. The Guqin Terrace, on the south shore of Moon Lake, is the core: a small garden of halls and courtyards around a white-marble platform said to be where Boya played, first built in the Northern Song and rebuilt in the Jiaqing era of the Qing."},{"id":"jiangxia-zhongshan-warship-museum","name":"Zhongshan Warship Museum","name_zh":"中山舰博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngshānjiàn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.3478,"lon":114.129,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangxia-zhongshan-warship-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhongshan Warship Museum, in the Yangtze-side town of Jinkou, is built around the restored Zhongshan, a gunboat built in Japan in 1913 and renamed in 1925 after Sun Yat-sen. The ship was sunk by Japanese forces in 1938, raised from the river in 1997 and restored, and the museum has shown it with relics from the wreck since 2011. The grounds also hold military vehicles and aircraft in the open air."},{"id":"wuhan-ziwei-urban-pastoral-park","name":"Ziwei Urban Pastoral Park","name_zh":"武汉紫薇都市田园","pinyin":"Wǔhàn Zǐwēi Dūshì Tiányuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Wuhan","lat":30.8174,"lon":114.6043,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhan-ziwei-urban-pastoral-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A countryside leisure park on Ziwei Ridge in Cangbu, Xinzhou District, opened in 2014 on former scrub slopes and known for plant weaving: sculptures and lettering made from living plants. In March 2024 it opened a wetland cherry garden of islands, bridges and boat rides, and it holds seasonal flower and folk festivals. It is a modern leisure attraction rather than a historic site, and it suits a half-day family outing from Wuhan."},{"id":"zaoyang-baishui-temple","name":"Baishui Temple, Zaoyang","name_zh":"白水寺","pinyin":"Báishuǐ Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.9754,"lon":112.7515,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zaoyang-baishui-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hilltop temple complex at Wudian, south of Zaoyang, commemorating Liu Xiu (Emperor Guangwu), founder of the Eastern Han dynasty, whose ancestral home is placed in this district. The scenic area gathers some twenty sights around Lion Hill and the Gun River, including the temple buildings, a stele gallery, old wells and a memorial pavilion at the source of the Baishui stream. It suits visitors interested in Han-dynasty history who are already in Zaoyang."},{"id":"zaoyang-han-city","name":"China Han City, Zaoyang","name_zh":"中国汉城","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Hànchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.1177,"lon":112.7834,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zaoyang-han-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Han-dynasty-style capital built in modern times on the eastern side of Zaoyang to honour Liu Xiu (Emperor Guangwu) and present Han culture; it is a themed attraction and film location, not a historic site. Visitors walk among its palace buildings and food and market streets, watch staged shows such as the imperial guard's city-opening welcome, and try craft demonstrations including traditional papermaking, movable-type printing and paper-cutting. It suits families and anyone wanting an easy introduction to Han culture, and in summer it also runs an evening programme."},{"id":"yicheng-chuhuangcheng-city-ruins","name":"Chuhuangcheng City Ruins","name_zh":"楚皇城","pinyin":"Chǔhuángchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.651,"lon":112.3037,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yicheng-chuhuangcheng-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of a large walled city from the Eastern Zhou to Han periods, covering about 2.2 km² beside Zhengji town, with a smaller inner town in the north-east. Scholars disagree on which Chu city it was, with Yan, Ruo and the capital Ying all proposed. The walls were recorded at 2–4 m high, so expect earthen banks among farmland rather than reconstructed buildings."},{"id":"gucheng-chengen-temple","name":"Cihe Cheng'en Temple","name_zh":"茨河承恩寺","pinyin":"Cíhé Chéng'ēn Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.9877,"lon":111.7953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gucheng-chengen-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty Buddhist temple in a valley on the north side of Wuduo Mountain in Cihe town, south-eastern Gucheng. It was founded in the Sui dynasty, enlarged in 1421 under the Yongle Emperor with the Shaolin monk Juecheng in charge, and renamed Cheng'en in 1457. The surviving buildings include the Heavenly Kings Hall and a square main hall, just over 21 m on each side, with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof."},{"id":"gucheng-daxie-mountain","name":"Daxie Mountain","name_zh":"大薤山","pinyin":"Dàxiè Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.155,"lon":111.387,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gucheng-daxie-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain in south-western Gucheng, run as a national forest park and holiday area, whose main peak, Daughter Peak, reaches about 1,099 m. Forest cover is above 90 per cent and summers average about 22 °C, so it is promoted as a summer retreat. Its best-known feature is a group of more than fifty villas built between 1903 and 1910 by missionaries from eight countries, among them the building where a county soviet government was set up under He Long's Red Army in 1931."},{"id":"xiangzhou-fenghuangzui-site","name":"Fenghuangzui Site, Xiangyang","name_zh":"凤凰咀遗址","pinyin":"Fènghuángzuǐ Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.2476,"lon":111.9864,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangzhou-fenghuangzui-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Neolithic walled settlement at Longwang town, north-west of Xiangyang, dated by the provincial culture and tourism department to roughly 5,200 to 3,900 years ago and described as the largest and highest-ranking central settlement found so far in the Nanyang–Xiangyang Basin. Excavations since 2016 have found a wall, a moat, round houses, ash pits and pottery of the Qujialing culture, and in 2019 one excavated round house could be seen under a protective shed beside display boards. An archaeological site park with a museum is being built around it, and the provincial department put the museum's main structure at about 80 per cent complete at the end of 2025."},{"id":"xiangyang-prince-palace-green-screen-wall","name":"Green Screen Wall, Xiangyang Prince's Palace","name_zh":"襄阳王府绿影壁","pinyin":"Xiāngyáng Wángfǔ Lǜyǐngbì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0155,"lon":112.1521,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyang-prince-palace-green-screen-wall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The only part of the Ming prince of Xiang's palace in Xiangyang to survive its burning in 1641 is this stone screen wall, about 25 m long and up to 6.6 m high, carved with dragons among clouds and waves and named for its dark green colour. It stands in the old walled city beside the rebuilt Xiang prince's palace, which opened with displays in 2024. A short stop that fits easily with a walk on the city wall."},{"id":"xiangyang-guangde-temple","name":"Guangde Temple, Xiangyang","name_zh":"广德寺","pinyin":"Guǎngdé Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0103,"lon":112.0357,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyang-guangde-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working Buddhist temple on the western edge of Xiangyang, founded in the Tang dynasty as Yunju Temple and renamed Guangde in the Ming. Its main draw is the Ming-dynasty Duobao ('Many Treasures') Pagoda behind the main hall, begun in 1494: a brick-and-stone base about 7 m high carrying a 10 m Tibetan-style stupa, ringed by smaller pagodas, with 48 stone Buddha figures set in niches. The other surviving buildings were rebuilt in the Qing."},{"id":"baokang-hengchong","name":"Hengchong Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"横冲","pinyin":"Héngchōng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.72,"lon":111.1046,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baokang-hengchong","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high-mountain forest area on the main ridge of the Jing Mountains in Houping town, at about 1,700 m on average and rising to just under 1,950 m, so it stays cool in summer. The county lists forest paths, a blueberry-picking garden, log-cabin lodgings and, in winter, a ski field. It lies in the same township as Wudaoxia Gorge, so the two fit into one trip."},{"id":"xiangyang-huangjiawan","name":"Huangjiawan Scenic Area","name_zh":"黄家湾","pinyin":"Huángjiāwān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.9676,"lon":112.0729,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyang-huangjiawan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure area of about 9.8 km² on the western outskirts of Xiangyang's Xiangcheng district, which local tradition names as the birthplace of Huang Yueying, the wife of Zhuge Liang. The district government lists fishing, picnic and barbecue spots and active attractions such as grass-sliding and zip-lines. It suits families wanting an outdoor day out in the same western tourism belt as Longzhong rather than a historic site."},{"id":"baokang-jiulu-zhai","name":"Jiulu Zhai, Baokang","name_zh":"九路寨","pinyin":"Jiǔlù Zhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.5232,"lon":111.1388,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baokang-jiulu-zhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst mountain area in Xiema town, in the south of Baokang County, at about 1,200 m on average. The county lists limestone peaks such as Chuwang Peak, Candle Peak and Elephant Trunk Peak, Huanglong Cave, a glass suspension bridge and a cableway across the gorge."},{"id":"xiangyang-li-zengbo-inscription","name":"Li Zengbo Victory Inscription","name_zh":"李曾伯纪功铭","pinyin":"Lǐ Zēngbó Jìgōngmíng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0078,"lon":112.1314,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyang-li-zengbo-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Southern Song cliff inscription carved in 1254 on a rock face at the east foot of Zhenwu Hill, beside the entrance to the Xianshan greenway south-west of Xiangyang's old city. Its 79-character text, set in a framed panel about 5 m high and 4.5 m wide, records how the Song commander Li Zengbo retook the twin cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng in 1251; the three large title characters have worn away. It is a short stop for anyone interested in Song history or calligraphy, and the traditional site of Liu Bei's horse leaping the Tan stream lies close by."},{"id":"baokang-liuzhuya","name":"Liuzhuya Mountain Resort, Baokang","name_zh":"六柱垭","pinyin":"Liùzhù Yā","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.7804,"lon":110.8797,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baokang-liuzhuya","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high-mountain leisure area at up to about 1,500 m, built on reclaimed phosphate-mining land in Huanglongguan village, Maqiao town, and rated 4A in 2024. About 90 hillside B&Bs include 72 timber cabins named after the disciples of Confucius and cliff-edge guesthouses, and there are camping, a stream-trekking route in the Suxi canyon and a ski slope in winter. It is mainly a summer retreat for a night or two away from the lowland heat."},{"id":"xiangyang-longzhong","name":"Longzhong","name_zh":"古隆中","pinyin":"Gǔ Lóngzhōng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.9935,"lon":112.0259,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyang-longzhong/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Longzhong is the wooded hillside west of Xiangyang that tradition names as the place where the Three Kingdoms strategist Zhuge Liang lived quietly before Liu Bei called on him three times, the origin of the saying about visiting the thatched cottage three times. The grounds mix Ming and Qing buildings with newer additions, and the sights include the Wuhou Temple, the Sangu Hall, a thatched-hut pavilion and the Liujiao well. Nanyang in Henan makes a rival claim to be where Zhuge Liang farmed, so the link is tradition rather than settled fact."},{"id":"xiangzhou-lumen-mountain","name":"Lumen Mountain, Xiangyang","name_zh":"鹿门山","pinyin":"Lùmén Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.9084,"lon":112.257,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangzhou-lumen-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded hill south-east of Xiangyang, once called Suling Mountain, whose present name comes from a shrine said to have been founded in the Eastern Han with a pair of stone deer beside its path. It is known as a retreat for scholars and poets: Pang Degong, who is credited with the nicknames 'Sleeping Dragon' for Zhuge Liang and 'Young Phoenix' for Pang Tong, the Tang poet Meng Haoran, and the late-Tang writer Pi Rixiu. Sights include the entrance archway, the Meng Garden memorial hall to Meng Haoran (opened 2003), a hall commemorating Zhuge Liang's study with Pang Degong, and a slope of weathered rocks."},{"id":"xiangyang-migong-temple","name":"Migong Temple","name_zh":"米公祠","pinyin":"Mǐgōng Cí","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0317,"lon":112.1386,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyang-migong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A shrine on the north bank of the Han River in Fancheng, first built in the Yuan dynasty, enlarged in the Ming and rebuilt in the Qing, and dedicated to the Northern Song calligrapher Mi Fu, who took the sobriquet 'Idle Scholar of Xiangyang'. The four-courtyard compound covers about 16,000 m² and includes a worship hall dating from 1693, the Baojin Hall of 1866, and a collection of stone tablets with 58 steles and 45 carved copies of Mi Fu's calligraphy. It suits calligraphy lovers and anyone strolling the Fancheng riverfront."},{"id":"nanzhang-mountain-strongholds","name":"Nanzhang Mountain Strongholds","name_zh":"南漳山寨群","pinyin":"Nánzhāng Shānzhài Qún","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.3707,"lon":111.8813,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanzhang-mountain-strongholds","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Nanzhang County has more than a thousand old stone mountain strongholds, and six built by local communities as refuges in the Ming and Qing dynasties make up the national listing. Chunqiu Stronghold in Donggong town is the one developed as a tourist area: a wall about 1.15 km long encloses more than 150 stone-built rooms on a hill ringed on three sides by the Maoping River. It suits anyone interested in vernacular defensive architecture in a mountain setting."},{"id":"xiangyang-oct-fantasy-resort","name":"OCT Fantasy Resort, Xiangyang","name_zh":"襄阳华侨城奇幻度假区","pinyin":"Xiāngyáng Huáqiáochéng Qíhuàn Dùjià Qū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0014,"lon":112.2538,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyang-oct-fantasy-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large leisure resort developed by OCT in Xiangyang's Dongjin New Area, opened in stages from 2020. It combines the Fantasy Valley space-exploration theme park, the Dream Beach water park, a children's park, a hot-spring bathing area, a leisure town and several themed hotels. It suits families and groups after an amusement-park day and is a modern entertainment development, not a historic site."},{"id":"gucheng-shiziyan","name":"Shiziyan Reservoir Scenic Area","name_zh":"狮子岩","pinyin":"Shīzi Yán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0463,"lon":111.7673,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gucheng-shiziyan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside scenic area in Jinniusi village, Cihe town, built around Shiziyan Reservoir (completed in 1976 on the Mo River, a tributary of the Han) and named for a hill said to resemble a lion. It covers about 6.5 km² and offers a lakeside greenway, a beach, a glass water slide, forest cabins and an off-road vehicle base. It also stages fantasy-themed (xianxia) character shows and night events, so it suits a half-day or overnight outing from Xiangyang."},{"id":"xiangyang-tang-city","name":"Tang City, Xiangyang","name_zh":"襄阳唐城","pinyin":"Xiāngyáng Tángchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.9878,"lon":112.1763,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day, or an evening","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyang-tang-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tang-dynasty-style film set and tourist complex at the foot of Xianshou Hill beside the Han River, built in the 2010s and now marketed as Shengshi Tangcheng ('Prosperous Tang City'); none of it is historic. Its gate towers, palace halls, mansions, temples and market streets follow a Chang'an layout, with canals said to echo the 'eight rivers around Chang'an', and more than a hundred film and television productions have shot here. A walk-through night show, 'Dream of the Great Tang', is the main evening draw, and the operator has been refurbishing the site since 2025."},{"id":"baokang-wudaoxia-gorge","name":"Wudaoxia Gorge","name_zh":"五道峡","pinyin":"Wǔdào Xiá","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.7163,"lon":111.2119,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baokang-wudaoxia-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested stream gorge inside the Wudaoxia nature reserve, close to the main peak of the Jing Mountains, with a path of about 5 km beside the stream, waterfalls and old trees including a golden-thread nanmu. Its five gorge sections are named after the legend of Bian He, the Chu man said to have found a raw jade here and offered it to the king, and a lit karst cave retells the story. The area closed in 2023 and reopened on 1 October 2025 after a seven-month upgrade that added a new entrance with a lift, a lakeside walk and a family play area; rafting began in June 2026."},{"id":"xiangyang-xiangfan-wharves","name":"Xiangfan Wharves, Xiangyang","name_zh":"襄樊码头遗址","pinyin":"Xiāngfán Mǎtóu Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0259,"lon":112.1417,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyang-xiangfan-wharves","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The surviving river landings on both banks of the Han River at Xiangyang's old city and across the river at Fancheng, 26 of which make up this national heritage unit; they recall the city's old role as a crossing of boat and road routes, summed up as 'southern boats, northern horses', and belong to the Wanli Tea Road World Heritage nomination. Many are now buried or built over, but on the old-city bank the gate towers of the Xiaobeimen, Guanting and Tiezhuang landings still stand by the river below the city wall. The easiest way to see them is on a walk along the north wall, combined with a visit to the old city."},{"id":"nanzhang-xiangshui-river","name":"Xiangshui River Gorge","name_zh":"香水河","pinyin":"Xiāngshuǐ Hé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.6127,"lon":111.7008,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanzhang-xiangshui-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested river gorge at Putuo'an village in Xueping town, in the south-west of Nanzhang County, known for its chain of waterfalls, with more than fifty named sights including the Seven-Colour Falls and the Three-Tier Falls. A cable car and footpaths run through the gorge, and the cool upland air makes it a summer destination."},{"id":"xiangyang-ancient-city","name":"Xiangyang Ancient City","name_zh":"襄阳古城","pinyin":"Xiāngyáng Gǔchéng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.0203,"lon":112.1452,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyang-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walled old city of Xiangyang on the south bank of the Han River, whose mostly Ming-dynasty walls, 7.3 km round, are a national monument and are ringed by a moat up to 250 m wide, the basis of the saying 'iron Xiangyang'. Inside are the Zhaoming Tower, the old city's central landmark, and North Street, lined with tea houses, craft shops and snack stalls, while on the river side the gate towers of the old Xiaobeimen and Guanting wharves still stand. A 2025 city plan covers renovation of the Zhaoming Tower and North Street area, so some buildings may be under works."},{"id":"gucheng-yanhe-village","name":"Yanhe Village","name_zh":"堰河村","pinyin":"Yànhé Cūn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":32.2996,"lon":111.3209,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gucheng-yanhe-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tea-growing village in Wushan town, Gucheng, developed into a rural-tourism area; the county tourism bureau reports about 1,200 mu (80 ha) of tea gardens and more than fifty family-run farm restaurants and guesthouses in the village. Visitors come for the tea slopes, village lanes and countryside meals rather than any historic sight. It suits a relaxed stop in the Gucheng countryside."},{"id":"baokang-yaozhihe","name":"Yaozhihe Resort, Baokang","name_zh":"尧治河","pinyin":"Yáozhìhé","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiangyang","lat":31.8437,"lon":110.8164,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baokang-yaozhihe","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain village in Maqiao town, near the Fang County and Shennongjia borders, that has turned from phosphate mining to tourism. Visitors find waterfalls, a mining museum and an agricultural-culture museum, farmhouse B&Bs, and part of a belt of old mine tunnels about 20 km long that has been opened as the Sanjie Dongtian cave attraction. The village name is tied to a local legend that the ancient ruler Yao stayed here, and the cool upland air makes it a summer destination."},{"id":"xianning-chutian-yaochi-hot-spring","name":"Chutian Yaochi Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"楚天瑶池温泉","pinyin":"Chǔtiān Yáochí Wēnquán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.821,"lon":114.3238,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianning-chutian-yaochi-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the bank of the Gan River in Xianning's urban area, at the site of the Feitan ('boiling pool') archway, which local sources call the marker of the 'first spring of central China'. More than 40 pools in ten types are set into the hillside, alongside a constant-temperature swimming pool, herbal baths, spa treatments and a children's pool. It is an easy add-on to a day in Xianning."},{"id":"xianning-wenquan-valley-resort","name":"Hot Spring Valley Resort, Xianning","name_zh":"温泉谷","pinyin":"Wēnquán Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.8213,"lon":114.3151,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianning-wenquan-valley-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large hot-spring resort beside the main gate of Qianshan National Forest Park on the edge of Xianning. The bathing area is split into six zones, including indoor halls, a Chu-style area, Japanese-style and South-East Asian-style areas, and Thai-style bath houses, with a water-play area and more than 80 bathing and spa attractions in all. A resort hotel and a tea house on site make it suitable for an overnight stay as well as a day visit."},{"id":"tongshan-jiugong-mountain","name":"Jiugong Mountains","name_zh":"九宫山","pinyin":"Jiǔgōngshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.4062,"lon":114.6672,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongshan-jiugong-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain resort in the Mufu range on the Hubei–Jiangxi border, with a main summit of about 1,650 m and summer temperatures that local authorities put at around 21°C. The scenic area is known for Yunzhong Lake, a high-altitude lake at about 1,230 m, waterfalls and a Song-dynasty Daoist heritage, and it has a ski slope in winter and a wind farm on the ridges. It is a summer escape for visitors from Wuhan, and the tomb of Li Zicheng lies at the western foot."},{"id":"chongyang-lingmi-town-baiyashan","name":"Lingmi Town and Baiya Mountain, Chongyang","name_zh":"柃蜜小镇·白崖山","pinyin":"Língmì Xiǎozhèn · Báiyáshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.3509,"lon":114.0959,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongyang-lingmi-town-baiyashan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural resort built and run by a private tourism company at Fanshang village in Jintang town, Chongyang County, in the hills around Baiya Mountain. County media describe timber-cabin lodgings, more than 10,000 peach trees, a rose garden and fruit-growing, with peach blossom in March and April and pick-your-own fruit later in the year. It suits a countryside weekend rather than a particular sight."},{"id":"tongshan-longyin-mountain-resort","name":"Longyin Mountain Resort","name_zh":"龙隐山","pinyin":"Lóngyǐnshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.668,"lon":114.6309,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongshan-longyin-mountain-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain leisure park built around 2020 beside Yinshui Cave in Dafan town, on a hill about 519 m above sea level overlooking Fushui Lake. It combines adventure attractions such as a glass bridge, cliff swing, jungle crossing and glass slide with viewpoints, including a stone-forest area, a high meadow and Jiulongding Plaza overlooking the islands of the lake. It suits families and thrill-seekers and pairs easily with the cave next door."},{"id":"chibi-longyou-hot-spring-resort","name":"Longyou Chibi Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"龙佑赤壁温泉","pinyin":"Lóngyòu Chìbì Wēnquán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.6826,"lon":113.8241,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chibi-longyou-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort complex at the foot of Wuhong Mountain beside Lushui Lake, built in Han-Tang style around a hotel, a lakeside spring centre and villas. The city describes more than 40 pools scattered through the wooded hillside, and a 2023 refit added an infinity pool and a children's water park, with a hot-spring bath in every room. It is mainly for soaking and staying rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"chibi-lushui-lake","name":"Lushui Lake","name_zh":"陆水湖","pinyin":"Lùshuǐ Hú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.6947,"lon":113.8894,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chibi-lushui-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir of about 57 sq km on the Lu River near Chibi, created in 1958 as a test dam for the Three Gorges and Gezhouba projects, with more than 800 islands among wooded hills and national scenic area status since 2002. Visitors tour the islands by boat, and the park has a dinosaur-themed island with a mine-train ride, an animal petting park, a water-play area and outdoor-activity grounds. It makes an easy half-day trip that combines with the Red Cliff site."},{"id":"chibi-three-kingdoms-red-cliff-battlefield","name":"Red Cliff Ancient Battlefield, Chibi","name_zh":"三国赤壁古战场","pinyin":"Sānguó Chìbì Gǔzhànchǎng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.8845,"lon":113.6195,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chibi-three-kingdoms-red-cliff-battlefield","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on the south bank of the Yangtze in Chibi, built around a cliff carved with the two large characters for 'Red Cliff', which tradition credits to the general Zhou Yu after the Battle of Red Cliffs in AD 208, though who wrote them and when is debated. The grounds hold a statue of Zhou Yu, a shrine to Zhuge Liang on the Wind-Worship Platform, the Fengchu Hermitage for Pang Tong (built in 1846), a stele gallery, a battle museum and a large area of newly built Han-style buildings. Scholars disagree about where the battle was fought, with sites near Wuhan and in Jiayu also proposed, so it works best as a Three Kingdoms memorial."},{"id":"xianning-sanjiang-forest-hot-spring","name":"Sanjiang Forest Hot Spring","name_zh":"三江森林温泉","pinyin":"Sānjiāng Sēnlín Wēnquán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.811,"lon":114.3228,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianning-sanjiang-forest-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the eastern foot of Qianshan National Forest Park, beside the Gan River on the edge of Xianning city. More than 70 open-air pools and bath houses are set into the wooded hillside among osmanthus trees and bamboo, and local sources describe the water as a weakly radioactive sulphate-radon spring. It is a place to soak for an afternoon rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"jiayu-shanhu-hot-spring","name":"Shanhu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"山湖温泉","pinyin":"Shānhú Wēnquán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.947,"lon":113.9008,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayu-shanhu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the north shore of Bai Lake in the Sanhu–Lianjiang lake area of Jiayu County, opened in 2009 with a four-star hotel, a boat pier and a bathing centre. The county describes about 50 pools in seven themed zones, with water at 47–60°C of an alkaline sulphate-calcium type, plus a salt-flotation hall and spa treatments. It suits an overnight stay beside the lake."},{"id":"xianning-taiyi-hot-spring","name":"Taiyi Hot Spring","name_zh":"太乙温泉","pinyin":"Tàiyǐ Wēnquán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.7829,"lon":114.3037,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianning-taiyi-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Taiyi village, Fushan, on the southern edge of Xianning city, beside Taiyi Cave, a karst cave, and a lake of more than 200 mu. The original resort opened in 2009 and was rebuilt in 2025–26 as the family-oriented Taiyi Tianmu Hot Spring Resort, which began reopening in February 2026. It now has wooded-hillside pools, a summer water park and a hotel, and the cave stays at about 18°C."},{"id":"jiayu-tianye-countryside-park","name":"Tianye Countryside Park, Guanqiao","name_zh":"田野乡村公园","pinyin":"Tiányě Xiāngcūn Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.9268,"lon":113.9573,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayu-tianye-countryside-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural leisure park built around Group 8 of Guanqiao village in Jiayu County, with two lakes, a provincial forest park of about 1,800 mu and a 3.3 km lakeside greenway. Other features are a tea house on the highest point, glass greenhouses where visitors pick fruit, a farm museum recording the village's development since the 1978 reforms, and two squares with statues of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. It is a family day out that shows a modern model village rather than a historic one."},{"id":"xianan-tingsiqiao-northern-expedition-battlefield","name":"Tingsiqiao Battle Site (Northern Expedition)","name_zh":"北伐汀泗桥战役遗址","pinyin":"Běifá Tīngsìqiáo Zhànyì Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.8203,"lon":114.163,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianan-tingsiqiao-northern-expedition-battlefield","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of the battle of Tingsiqiao on 26–27 August 1926, when the National Revolutionary Army's Fourth Army took the town from forces of the warlord Wu Peifu during the Northern Expedition. It has three parts: a martyrs' cemetery laid out in 1929 with tombs, a monument and a pavilion; the low hills of Tanao Mountain, where trenches, bunkers and gun emplacements survive; and a memorial museum in the town that opened in 2009. It suits visitors interested in modern Chinese history, and the museum is officially designated a national patriotic-education base."},{"id":"tongshan-li-zicheng-tomb","name":"Tomb of Li Zicheng","name_zh":"李自成墓","pinyin":"Lǐ Zìchéng Mù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.3959,"lon":114.5709,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongshan-li-zicheng-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park on the western side of the Jiugong Mountains with a Qing-period tomb mound that has been identified since the 1950s as the grave of Li Zicheng, the rebel leader who set up the short-lived Shun regime and is said to have died near here in 1645. The park has a stone memorial archway, an offering platform, the tomb, an exhibition hall and a slope marking his last battle. Whether he died here is disputed, and graves are also claimed in Tongcheng and in Shimen, Hunan."},{"id":"tongshan-wang-mingfan-mansion","name":"Wang Mingfan Mansion","name_zh":"王明璠府第","pinyin":"Wáng Míngfán Fǔdì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.6257,"lon":114.4486,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongshan-wang-mingfan-mansion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A late-Qing family compound in Wutian village, Dalu township, built for Wang Mingfan, who was granted a court title in 1901 that gives the gate plaque its name, 'Dafudi'. An ancestral hall with a wooden opera stage forms the central axis, flanked by symmetrical blocks of houses five courtyards deep, with a school, gardens and craft workshops, all under grey tiles with stone-paved courtyards. Local media describe it as one of the largest surviving Qing-period houses in Hubei, and an old-style pedestrian street has been built beside it."},{"id":"xianan-xiangyanghu-cultural-figures-sites","name":"Xiangyang Lake Cultural Figures' Former Sites","name_zh":"向阳湖文化名人旧址","pinyin":"Xiàngyánghú Wénhuà Míngrén Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.9094,"lon":114.1774,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianan-xiangyanghu-cultural-figures-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of former buildings by Xiangyang Lake where, from September 1969, the Ministry of Culture ran a 'May Seventh' cadre school; more than 6,000 staff and writers passed through, among them Bing Xin, Shen Congwen, Feng Xuefeng and Zang Kejia. The protected area has 144 houses of brick-and-tile and mud-brick, a brickworks and three bridges, spread over several sub-sites including the school headquarters, a hospital and Shen Congwen's former dwelling. The plain rural buildings record a 20th-century chapter of Chinese literary life, and interest depends on knowing the writers."},{"id":"tongcheng-yaogu-mountain-guyao-village","name":"Yaogu Mountain and Guyao Village, Tongcheng","name_zh":"药姑山·古瑶村","pinyin":"Yàogūshān · Gǔyáo Cūn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.3715,"lon":113.704,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongcheng-yaogu-mountain-guyao-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Daping township, Tongcheng County, on Yaogu Mountain (also called Longjiao Mountain, summit about 1,260 m), known for nearly 10,000 mu of wild cherry blossom in March and April, waterfalls and a long reputation as a source of medicinal herbs. At the foot, Guyao village is presented as a base for Yao culture, with a small exhibition hall, a temple to a General Li, a Yao-style street and farm-stay guesthouses. A trail runs from the visitor centre past Yao heritage sites and the Old Dragon Pool to the Sanxian Temple."},{"id":"xianning-yellow-crane-tower-liquor-town","name":"Yellow Crane Tower Forest Liquor Town","name_zh":"黄鹤楼森林美酒小镇","pinyin":"Huánghèlóu Sēnlín Měijiǔ Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.8788,"lon":114.3387,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianning-yellow-crane-tower-liquor-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A visitor area inside the working Yellow Crane Tower baijiu distillery in Xianning's high-tech zone, set among wooded hills and a lake. Visitors can see a liquor museum, a field of large ceramic ageing jars and cellars dug into hillside caves. It is a factory tour for anyone curious about baijiu, and it also receives school study groups."},{"id":"tongshan-yinshui-cave","name":"Yinshui Cave","name_zh":"隐水洞","pinyin":"Yǐnshuǐ Dòng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xianning","lat":29.6635,"lon":114.6309,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongshan-yinshui-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst cave about 5 km long in Dafan town, Tongshan County, billed as Hubei's first geological park, with an underground stream, stalactite forests and chambers averaging about 30 m high. Visitors can tour it by boat on the underground river, by small train and on foot. The cave stays at about 18–20°C all year, which makes it a popular summer visit."},{"id":"xiantao-mengli-shuixiang","name":"Mengli Shuixiang Water-Town Park, Xiantao","name_zh":"梦里水乡","pinyin":"Mènglǐ Shuǐxiāng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiantao","lat":30.3009,"lon":113.0152,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiantao-mengli-shuixiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A countryside tourism area beside the Zhaoxiyuan forest farm in Xiantao, laid out as a Jianghan water-village scene with a lotus-pond village (Hetang), wetland paths, painted boats and farm scenes such as ox carts. People's Daily described it in 2023 as a well-known draw, and it appears on Hubei's 2023 spring flower route for Xiantao and Jingmen. It suits a relaxed half day in the countryside, best in the flower season."},{"id":"xiantao-mianyang-town","name":"Mianyang Town, Xiantao","name_zh":"沔阳小镇","pinyin":"Miǎnyáng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiantao","lat":30.2976,"lon":113.2807,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiantao-mianyang-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A newly built old-style town on the shore of Pai Lake in Xiantao, with Jingchu-style houses laid out beside the water. Craft workshops let visitors watch or try straw-stalk painting, paper-cutting, shell carving and shadow puppetry. It is a modern recreation rather than a historic town, and suits an easy half-day outing."},{"id":"anlu-baizhao-mountain-li-bai-area","name":"Baizhao Mountain (Li Bai Cultural Area), Anlu","name_zh":"白兆山","pinyin":"Báizhàoshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.3258,"lon":113.5597,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anlu-baizhao-mountain-li-bai-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Yandian town, Anlu, linked to the Tang poet Li Bai, who local tradition says lived in the Baizhao Mountain area for about ten years and married a local woman. Sights include a Li Bai memorial hall and Peach Blossom Cave, where he is said to have lived as a recluse. Anlu promotes the area as the centre of its Li Bai heritage tourism."},{"id":"dawu-beishan-red-leaf-area","name":"Beishan Red Leaf Area, Dawu","name_zh":"北山红叶","pinyin":"Běishān Hóngyè","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.4468,"lon":114.4018,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dawu-beishan-red-leaf-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An autumn-colour area around Beishan village in Sigu town, in the hills of south-eastern Dawu County, known for stands of Chinese tallow trees whose leaves turn red from late October into November. Dawu promotes the red-leaf season each autumn with a festival that brings markets and evening events to the village. The colour is seasonal, so time a visit for the second half of autumn."},{"id":"xiaochang-guanyin-lake","name":"Guanyin Lake, Xiaochang","name_zh":"观音湖","pinyin":"Guānyīnhú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.3301,"lon":114.1456,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaochang-guanyin-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake-and-hills leisure district in the north of Xiaochang County, organised around Guanyin Lake, a reservoir, with the nearby hill called Dawu Mountain, which has Buddhist heritage. It is administered as a resort district in its own right, and what it offers is lakeside scenery, countryside walks and spring blossom. It suits a relaxed day out from Xiaogan."},{"id":"xiaonan-jinhui-manor","name":"Jinhui Manor, Xiaonan","name_zh":"金卉庄园","pinyin":"Jīnhuì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.0107,"lon":113.9445,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaonan-jinhui-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower-viewing and picking estate in Pengxing township, just north of Xiaogan city, best known for its spring tulips. It is a seasonal family outing rather than a full-day destination."},{"id":"dawu-new-fourth-army-fifth-division-hq","name":"New Fourth Army Fifth Division Headquarters and Memorial Hall, Baiguoshuwan","name_zh":"新四军五师司令部旧址","pinyin":"Xīn Sìjūn Wǔshī Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.4318,"lon":114.2016,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dawu-new-fourth-army-fifth-division-hq","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The village of Baiguoshuwan was the headquarters of the New Fourth Army's Fifth Division from 1942 to 1945, when the Communist-led force operated behind Japanese lines in central China. The headquarters, political department and staff offices were spread across village houses of grey brick and black tile, which now stand beside a memorial hall with historic photographs, wartime objects and accounts of the division's commanders and base areas. Xinhua describes the village as the command centre for the war in the border area of Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Hunan and Jiangxi."},{"id":"anlu-qianchong-ancient-ginkgo","name":"Qianchong Ancient Ginkgo Area, Anlu","name_zh":"钱冲古银杏","pinyin":"Qiánchōng Gǔ Yínxìng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.3962,"lon":113.3426,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anlu-qianchong-ancient-ginkgo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village area in Wangyizhen town, Anlu, noted for its old ginkgo trees, whose leaves turn gold in autumn. Anlu promotes it as one of its three core 4A scenic areas, alongside Baizhao Mountain and the Shengshi Wenying cherry park, and features its golden ginkgo colour on its autumn route. It is a seasonal stop, so time a visit for the ginkgo colour."},{"id":"anlu-shengshi-wenying-cherry-park","name":"Shengshi Wenying Cherry Blossom Park, Anlu","name_zh":"盛世闻樱","pinyin":"Shèngshì Wényīng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.2097,"lon":113.7414,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anlu-shengshi-wenying-cherry-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower park in the countryside of Lidian town, Anlu, best known for its cherry blossom in spring. People's Daily named it among Hubei's cherry-blossom viewing spots in 2023, and Anlu lists it as one of its three core 4A scenic areas. It is a seasonal stop for photography and family outings, so check the bloom before travelling."},{"id":"dawu-shibatan-gorge","name":"Shibatan (Eighteen Pools) Gorge, Dawu","name_zh":"大悟十八潭","pinyin":"Dàwù Shíbā Tán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.781,"lon":114.1753,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dawu-shibatan-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain gorge in Sanli town, in the north of Dawu County, with a string of green pools and small waterfalls along a mountain stream. It is also visited in autumn for its red leaves, and a tourist road named after it, the Shibatan Tourist Road, runs up to the area from Dawu. It suits a half-day nature walk, especially in spring and autumn."},{"id":"xiaochang-shuangfeng-mountain","name":"Shuangfeng Mountain, Xiaochang","name_zh":"双峰山","pinyin":"Shuāngfēngshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.1617,"lon":114.168,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaochang-shuangfeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill resort and national forest park in Xiaochang County, in the foothills of the Dabie Mountains, centred on its twin-summit main peak, Shuangru Peak, which at 888 m is billed as the highest peak in Xiaogan. Forest covers about 89 per cent of the park, and the sights include an old hill stockade (Baiyun), Shuangfeng Academy, Huilong Temple, a spring and a car-camping site. Local tradition ties the area to the Dong Yong and Seventh Fairy legend, and it suits a day of easy walking from Xiaogan."},{"id":"yingcheng-tangchi-hot-spring","name":"Tangchi Hot Spring, Yingcheng","name_zh":"汤池温泉","pinyin":"Tāngchí Wēnquán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":30.9127,"lon":113.3417,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingcheng-tangchi-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort area in Tangchi town, in the west of Yingcheng, a town that takes its name from its springs. The water stays above 72°C all year, and Yingcheng holds the title of 'hometown of hot springs', with hotels and spa resorts built around the springs. It suits an overnight soak or a relaxed weekend stay."},{"id":"hanchuan-tianyu-lake","name":"Tianyu Lake, Hanchuan","name_zh":"天屿湖","pinyin":"Tiānyǔhú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":30.5429,"lon":113.835,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanchuan-tianyu-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure area on Tianyu Lake beside Makou town in Hanchuan. It has been developed as a leisure district with lakeside walks, bridges, small islands with pavilions, boat trips and a hotel. It suits a light family outing from Hanchuan."},{"id":"xiaonan-tianzi-lake-resort","name":"Tianzi Lake Eco-Resort, Xiaonan","name_zh":"天紫湖","pinyin":"Tiānzǐhú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.1074,"lon":113.9746,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaonan-tianzi-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure resort on Tianzi Lake in Xiaogang town, north of Xiaogan city, with a hotel, hot-spring pools and water-play areas. The resort promotes the local legend that the Seventh Fairy came down to earth here to meet Dong Yong, the folk tale behind Xiaogan's 'filial piety' name. It is aimed at short family and group stays and day visits from Xiaogan."},{"id":"yunmeng-xiangyunwan","name":"Xiangyunwan, Yunmeng","name_zh":"祥云湾","pinyin":"Xiángyúnwān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.0143,"lon":113.7733,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunmeng-xiangyunwan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A recently built cultural-tourism complex in Yunmeng County in traditional Chinese architectural styles, arranged as Yunmeng Old Street (a dry street and a water street) plus a series of gardens. It is a newly built attraction rather than an original historic district, and suits a half-day outing from Xiaogan."},{"id":"yingcheng-national-mine-park","name":"Yingcheng National Mine Park","name_zh":"应城国家矿山公园","pinyin":"Yìngchéng Guójiā Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":30.9815,"lon":113.5101,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingcheng-national-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former gypsum and rock-salt mining area in Yingcheng, a city known for gypsum, brine and hot springs, now landscaped as a national mine park. It holds the China Gypsum Museum and industrial-heritage displays on the area's geology and mining history, alongside leisure and hot-spring facilities, according to a 2026 state-media report. It suits visitors interested in industrial history who are already in the Yingcheng area."},{"id":"dawu-zhongyuan-military-region-site","name":"Zhongyuan Military Region Site, Xuanhuadian","name_zh":"中原军区旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngyuán Jūnqū Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Xiaogan","lat":31.692,"lon":114.4899,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dawu-zhongyuan-military-region-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of historic buildings in the small town of Xuanhuadian where the Communist Party's Central Plains Bureau and the Central Plains Military Region were headquartered from January to June 1946. The protected buildings include the headquarters, an assembly hall, the commanders' residence and the site of talks that Zhou Enlai held with US and Nationalist representatives that year. The Central Plains Breakout, in which the force left the encircled area, began from this district on 26 June 1946, and a renovated memorial hall in the town covers it with multimedia displays."},{"id":"dangyang-baibaozhai-rock-dwellings","name":"Baibaozhai Rock Dwellings, Dangyang","name_zh":"百宝寨岩屋","pinyin":"Bǎibǎozhài Yánwū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.9511,"lon":111.6736,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dangyang-baibaozhai-rock-dwellings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of nearly 200 Qing-dynasty dwellings cut into the cliffs on both banks of the Ju River in Yuquan subdistrict. The caves are built in two storeys linked by passages, with remains of living quarters, defensive features and religious traces inside. They sit within the Baibaozhai riverside scenic area, known locally for its clear water and green hills and used for camping, where a ferry stop at the old rock houses is planned."},{"id":"yiling-bailihuang-grassland","name":"Bailihuang Alpine Grassland","name_zh":"百里荒高山草原","pinyin":"Bǎilǐhuāng Gāoshān Cǎoyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.9508,"lon":111.5133,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiling-bailihuang-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A highland meadow area of about 40 km² on the ridges of Fenxiang township in northern Yiling district, at an average altitude of about 1,200 m, with open pasture, pine woods, gorges and a row of wind turbines. It is cooler than Yichang city in summer, and activities include horse riding, glass water slides and paragliding. Local promotion presents it as a place for spring flowers, summer coolness, autumn colour and winter snow."},{"id":"wufeng-chaibuxi-grand-canyon","name":"Chaibuxi Grand Canyon","name_zh":"柴埠溪大峡谷","pinyin":"Cháibùxī Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.2201,"lon":110.9091,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wufeng-chaibuxi-grand-canyon/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A band-shaped karst canyon of about 60 km² in the Wuling Mountains in Wufeng county, with rock pillars, sheer cliffs and forested peaks above a stream, often compared with Zhangjiajie, which lies in the same range. The scenic area is split into four zones, Tanzikou, Dawankou, Jiaokou and Duanshankou, plus a protected inner area, with more than 120 named sights and Tujia villages in the valley. It became a national forest park in 1995."},{"id":"changyang-man-site","name":"Changyang Man Site","name_zh":"长阳人遗址","pinyin":"Chángyáng Rén Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.2701,"lon":111.0698,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours on site","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changyang-man-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A limestone cave known as Longdong, or dragon cave, at Zhongjiawan village, where a fossil upper jaw and teeth of an early modern human were found in 1956. The find, named Changyang Man, is dated to about 195,000 years ago and is among the earliest human remains found south of the Yangtze, though the original fossils were sent to a research institute in Beijing. The cave has an inscribed marker at its entrance, and the surrounding village has been redeveloped around the site."},{"id":"xingshan-chaotianhou-rafting","name":"Chaotianhou Rafting, Gaolan","name_zh":"朝天吼漂流","pinyin":"Cháotiānhǒu Piāoliú","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":31.207,"lon":110.896,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingshan-chaotianhou-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rafting site on the Gaolan River in Xingshan county, where the main run is 6.5 km long with a 148 m drop through a wooded valley. A newer cave route runs through a lit tunnel and a waterfall cave, and night runs are also offered. The rafting season opens in late April."},{"id":"yichang-chexi-folk-culture-area","name":"Chexi Folk Culture Area, Yichang","name_zh":"车溪民俗旅游区","pinyin":"Chēxī Mínsú Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.6607,"lon":111.069,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichang-chexi-folk-culture-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A folk-culture park in Chexi, a Tujia village in Tucheng township, built around museums and demonstrations of traditional country life. Attractions include a water-wheel museum, a farm-life and Tujia museum, a cluster of old workshops where paper, oil, pottery and liquor are made, and a folk village, along a route of about 10 km. The local government also lists caves, a gorge and a large wild wintersweet grove among its ten sub-areas."},{"id":"yuanan-066-missile-base-site","name":"Former 066 Missile Base (Third Front), Yuan'an","name_zh":"三线航天066导弹基地旧址","pinyin":"Sānxiàn Hángtiān 066 Dǎodàn Jīdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":31.0828,"lon":111.6319,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanan-066-missile-base-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former inland defence-industry base of the Third Front programme, begun in 1969 in the hills of Yuan'an, where ground-to-ground tactical missiles were developed. It was listed as a national protected site in 2019 and as a national industrial heritage site in 2024, covering the old office district and the Hongfeng factory area. A visitor route now runs through the base's history museum, the former office, communications and archive buildings, a hall of missile models and a bronze statue of Wang Zhenhua, one of the base's leading figures."},{"id":"dangyang-guanling-tomb","name":"Guanling (Guan Yu's Tomb), Dangyang","name_zh":"关陵","pinyin":"Guān Líng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.8433,"lon":111.7658,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dangyang-guanling-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb and temple complex where, by local tradition, the body of the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu was buried, while his head is traditionally said to lie at Luoyang. It is laid out on a central axis through five courtyards and four halls, from a stone archway to a round earth mound about seven metres high under old trees, and is counted as one of three major Guan Yu temples in China. Its temple fair is on China's national intangible heritage list."},{"id":"yiling-huangling-temple","name":"Huangling Temple","name_zh":"黄陵庙","pinyin":"Huánglíng Miào","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.8425,"lon":111.0761,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiling-huangling-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple complex on the south bank of the Yangtze just below the Three Gorges Dam, dedicated to Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of the floods. Its main building, the five-bay Yu Wang Hall with a double-eaved roof, was rebuilt in 1618 and has carved timberwork and painted ceilings, and marks on its nanmu columns record the Yangtze floods of 1860 and 1870. The compound, about 2 hectares on a hillside, also has an opera stage and a shrine to Zhuge Liang."},{"id":"yidu-three-gorges-jiufenggu","name":"Jiufenggu (Nine Phoenix Valley)","name_zh":"九凤谷","pinyin":"Jiǔfèng Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.3101,"lon":111.2696,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yidu-three-gorges-jiufenggu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stream valley about 3 km long in the hills of Wuyanquan town at roughly 800 m altitude, where faulting has cut a narrow U-shaped gorge with cliffs, stalactites, deep pools and waterfalls up to about 20 m high. Visitors walk and wade up the stream, with a zip-line and other adventure activities, and the valley is planted with flowers such as crape myrtle, cherry and azalea. It is mainly a summer cool-off spot, developed as a leisure destination by a private company."},{"id":"zigui-jiuwanxi-scenic-area","name":"Jiuwanxi Scenic Area, Zigui","name_zh":"九畹溪景区","pinyin":"Jiǔwǎnxī Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.805,"lon":110.8258,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zigui-jiuwanxi-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jiuwanxi is a tributary of the Yangtze in Zigui whose mouth faces the Cow Liver and Horse Lung Gorge on the Three Gorges reservoir. Its lower reach has been developed as a rafting and gorge-scenery route, and the cliffs hold rock-coffin burials from the Zhou to Han periods. The name recalls a line in Qu Yuan's poem Li Sao about growing orchids, and local legend ties the poet to the stream."},{"id":"xingshan-li-laiheng-fortress-sites","name":"Li Laiheng's Anti-Qing Fortress Sites","name_zh":"李来亨抗清遗址","pinyin":"Lǐ Láihēng Kàngqīng Yízhǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":31.3529,"lon":110.783,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingshan-li-laiheng-fortress-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Remains of the mountain strongholds of Li Laiheng, a commander of the former Shun rebel army who kept resisting the Qing in these hills until 1664. The best-known section, near Baicheng village in Huangliang town, has short stretches of three stone wall lines still standing 3-6 m high, with stone mortars, house foundations and a stone arch bridge. Dozens of other stockade and cave-fort sites are scattered over the hills of Xingshan, so this is a site for history enthusiasts rather than a developed attraction."},{"id":"yuanan-mingfeng-mountain","name":"Mingfeng Mountain, Yuan'an","name_zh":"鸣凤山","pinyin":"Míngfèng Shān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":31.053,"lon":111.6059,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanan-mingfeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A red-sandstone hill 408 metres high, circled by water on three sides, with a Taoist temple complex that local tradition dates to the Liang dynasty and links to the Wudang Mountains. The local government lists more than 50 sights, including caves such as Yanxia Cave, a lake, a gorge and the golden-roofed hall at the summit. It is a provincial-level scenic area, and pilgrims come to pray for children and good fortune."},{"id":"yiling-nanbian-old-houses","name":"Nanbian Old Houses","name_zh":"南边民居","pinyin":"Nánbiān Mínjū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.9637,"lon":111.2712,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiling-nanbian-old-houses/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two Qing-dynasty courtyard compounds, Laohao and Baohe, about 200 m apart on a mountainside in a small valley village in Huanghua town, listed as a national heritage site in 2019. The family house was first built in 1801 and the surviving buildings date from the Xianfeng reign (1851–61), with finely carved stone, wood and brick showing flowers, animals and folk tales. In 1941 a Nationalist army division set up its headquarters in the village after the fall of Yichang."},{"id":"yiling-nanjinguan-grand-canyon","name":"Nanjinguan Grand Canyon","name_zh":"南津关大峡谷","pinyin":"Nánjīnguān Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.9056,"lon":111.2086,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiling-nanjinguan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An 8 km forested canyon on the Xiling Gorge side of Yiling district, with a height difference of about 400 m between its ends, developed for hiking, stream-tracing and canyoning (rope descents down the stream), alongside zip-line and cliff-climbing activities. A boardwalk path of about 6.8 km runs through the woods, and the Xialao stream area is popular with Yichang residents for paddling in hot weather. The canyon was rated 4A in December 2025."},{"id":"changyang-qingjiang-fangshan","name":"Qingjiang Fangshan Scenic Area, Changyang","name_zh":"清江方山","pinyin":"Qīngjiāng Fāngshān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.5188,"lon":110.9973,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changyang-qingjiang-fangshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of about 60 square kilometres in the core of the Qingjiang National Forest Park, with karst peaks, ravines, streams and waterfalls above Zhengjiabang village. Visitors follow forest paths and a cliff-side plank walkway of just over 6 kilometres, passing old trees and some of the 30 or so caves recorded in the area. Scenery is the main draw, so it suits hikers and photographers."},{"id":"changyang-qingjiang-gallery","name":"Qingjiang Gallery","name_zh":"清江画廊","pinyin":"Qīngjiāng Huàláng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.463,"lon":111.1327,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changyang-qingjiang-gallery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A boat-trip scenic area on the Qingjiang River above the Geheyan Dam in Changyang county, where the reservoir winds between steep wooded cliffs and hundreds of small islands. Boats run about 25 km upstream from the Qingjiang Gallery wharf to Wuluozhongli Mountain, which Chinese tradition names as the birthplace of the Ba people, ancestors of today's Tujia. Daoying Gorge (\"Reflection Gorge\") is another main stop, and the area is also known for local Tujia song and dance."},{"id":"yidu-qingjiang-tianlongwan","name":"Qingjiang Tianlongwan Resort","name_zh":"清江天龙湾","pinyin":"Qīngjiāng Tiānlóngwān","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.5014,"lon":111.3088,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yidu-qingjiang-tianlongwan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside leisure resort on the Qingjiang River reservoir in Yidu, with a hotel, a sand beach, water sports such as speedboats and pedal boats, and an outdoor team-building ground. Sightseeing boats run from here along the Qingjiang, and the resort is marketed as a short-trip destination from Yichang. It suits families and groups looking for a relaxed waterside break rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"yidu-qinglin-leisure-area","name":"Qinglin Leisure Tourism Area, Yidu","name_zh":"青林休闲旅游区","pinyin":"Qīnglín Xiūxián Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.4845,"lon":111.3499,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yidu-qinglin-leisure-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure area of about 8.5 square kilometres on the Qing River below the Geheyan Dam, spread between Honghuatao and Gaobazhou towns and named after a former temple, Qinglin Temple. It is built around Qinglinsi village, which is known as China's riddle village, and also has a riddle-themed town, an 18-hole golf course, citrus orchards and the shore of the Gaobazhou reservoir. It suits families and anyone wanting an easy countryside day out from Yichang."},{"id":"zigui-fenghuangshan-ancient-buildings","name":"Qu Yuan's Hometown, Zigui","name_zh":"屈原故里","pinyin":"Qū Yuán Gùlǐ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.8292,"lon":110.9833,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zigui-fenghuangshan-ancient-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qu Yuan's Hometown is a tourist area on Phoenix Hill beside the Yangtze at Maoping, built around the Fenghuangshan Ancient Buildings, a national heritage group of Qing-dynasty buildings moved here because their original sites in Zigui were to be flooded by the Gezhouba and Three Gorges reservoirs. The 24 buildings, four bridges, two city gates, an archway and a well include ancestral halls, river-god temples, a multi-storey pavilion and the Qu Yuan Temple, which honours the poet Qu Yuan, a native of Zigui. The hill lies less than 2 km from the Three Gorges Dam in a straight line and gives views of it; the area is the second part of the joint 5A Three Gorges Dam and Qu Yuan's Hometown tourist area."},{"id":"yiling-shipai-fortress","name":"Shipai Fortress","name_zh":"石牌要塞","pinyin":"Shípái Yàosài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.7816,"lon":111.1435,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiling-shipai-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of the Shipai fortress, a Yangtze position between the Three Gorges and Gezhouba dams that Chinese naval gunners fortified in 1938 and that was defended in May 1943 against a Japanese offensive aimed at Chongqing. The scenic area combines a war memorial museum built on the former military ground, a memorial monument and military-themed rafting on Yangjia stream. It overlaps with the Three Gorges Tribe scenic area, which lists the same museum and rafting among its sights."},{"id":"yiling-three-gorges-ancient-stockades","name":"Three Gorges Ancient Stockades","name_zh":"三峡古兵寨","pinyin":"Sānxiá Gǔ Bīngzhài","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.999,"lon":111.2897,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiling-three-gorges-ancient-stockades","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A heritage park in Huanghua town built around the hilltop stone stockades (bingzhai) of northern Yiling, more than 100 of which survive in the town according to local officials. The best preserved, Majia, Lijia and Baima, keep walls, beacon and watch towers, barracks and troop passages, and a small museum that opened in November 2024 explains how local historians date the stockades from the Spring and Autumn period to the Second World War. The Yangjiahe stockade group inside the park is a provincial-level protected site."},{"id":"yidu-three-gorges-citrus-vinegar-estate","name":"Three Gorges Citrus Vinegar Estate","name_zh":"三峡橘醋","pinyin":"Sānxiá Júcù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.4492,"lon":111.4138,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yidu-three-gorges-citrus-vinegar-estate","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A company-run visitor estate of about 1.85 km² in Yidu's citrus-growing country, with orchards, lakes and wetland around a citrus-vinegar brewing estate that opened to visitors in March 2023. Visitors see the brewing and storage halls, a citrus culture centre with exhibits on the history and varieties of citrus, a vinegar-themed walkway and a gallery of dried tangerine peel, and can pick fruit in the harvest season. It is a modern food-and-farm attraction rather than a historic site, suited to families and food-minded travellers."},{"id":"yuanan-longyin-valley","name":"Three Gorges Longyin Valley, Yuan'an","name_zh":"三峡龙隐谷","pinyin":"Sānxiá Lóngyǐn Gǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.9765,"lon":111.5875,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanan-longyin-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley scenic area in Hualinsi town in the Taiping mountains, with waterfalls, a covered bridge, a small lake and riverside platforms in its valley section. The Yichang government also lists the Taiqing Cave, a limestone cave open to visitors, and a children's study-tour base with field classes, outdoor-skills activities and an outdoor combat-game field. It suits families and school groups for a day out."},{"id":"zigui-orange-valley-zhaxi-river","name":"Three Gorges Orange Valley and Zhaxi River Area, Zigui","name_zh":"三峡橙谷·环吒溪河景区","pinyin":"Sānxiá Chénggǔ Huán Zhàxīhé Jǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":31.0683,"lon":110.6813,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zigui-orange-valley-zhaxi-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural scenic area in Shuitianba township, in the north-west of Zigui county, strung along the Zhaxi River through hillsides of navel-orange orchards; the township has about 4,700 hectares of them. Visitors can paraglide over the orchards, ride a sightseeing mini-train through the orange groves, or take dragon-boat rides on the river, and there is a riverside walkway. It was rated 4A by Hubei's tourism department at the end of 2024."},{"id":"yiling-three-gorges-tribe","name":"Three Gorges Tribe","name_zh":"三峡人家","pinyin":"Sānxiá Rénjiā","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.7867,"lon":111.1485,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiling-three-gorges-tribe","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area of about 14 km² around Dengying Gorge, the stretch of Xiling Gorge between the Gezhouba and Three Gorges dams, built around the way of life of Yangtze boatmen and Tujia villagers. Highlights include stilt-house settings beside Longjin Stream, a boat trip round the Mingyue Bend where the river turns about 110 degrees, and Dengying Cave, a cave about 1,500 m long with an underground stream. Folk songs, boatmen's chants and dance shows are staged for visitors, so it is best seen as a cultural-tourism development rather than an old village."},{"id":"yiling-three-gorges-waterfall","name":"Three Gorges Waterfall","name_zh":"三峡大瀑布","pinyin":"Sānxiá Dàpùbù","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.9482,"lon":111.3186,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiling-three-gorges-waterfall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A waterfall 102 m high and 80 m wide in a limestone canyon in northern Yiling district, the main one of more than 30 falls along the valley stream. A path lets visitors walk through the curtain of falling water, so expect to get wet; a via ferrata route along the cliff and a cliff-side café have been added in recent summers. The scenic area, rated 5A in July 2022, also includes Golden Lion Cave and the cave spring known as Lovers' Spring."},{"id":"yichang-three-travellers-cave","name":"Three Travellers' Cave","name_zh":"三游洞","pinyin":"Sānyóu Dòng","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.7673,"lon":111.2605,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yichang-three-travellers-cave/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A limestone cave in a cliff above the Yangtze at the mouth of Xiling Gorge, named for two literary meetings: the poets Bai Juyi, his brother Bai Xingjian and Yuan Zhen explored it in 819, and Su Xun and his sons Su Shi and Su Zhe followed in 1056. The cave is about 30 m deep, and more than 40 inscriptions and steles survive inside and outside it, among them a Ming-dynasty recut of Bai Juyi's preface. Paths lead up to a hilltop pavilion with a view along the river and down to Lu You Spring, a small pool where the Song poet Lu You drew water to make tea in 1169."},{"id":"yichang-tianran-pagoda","name":"Tianran Pagoda","name_zh":"宜昌天然塔","pinyin":"Yíchāng Tiānrán Tǎ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.6647,"lon":111.3217,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yichang-tianran-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An eight-sided, seven-storey brick-and-stone pagoda 43 m high on the north bank of the Yangtze in Binjiang Park, with guardian figures carved around its base. Tradition says the first pagoda here was built in the Jin dynasty; the present one was rebuilt in 1790–92 with donations from local gentry. A spiral stair of 145 stone steps runs inside, and the pagoda stands beside the Yichang Yangtze River Bridge carrying the Yichang–Wanzhou railway."},{"id":"zigui-wudieshui-canyon","name":"Wudieshui Grand Canyon (Three Gorges Bamboo Sea), Zigui","name_zh":"五叠水大峡谷","pinyin":"Wǔdiéshuǐ Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.7273,"lon":110.9112,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zigui-wudieshui-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested stream valley on the south bank of the Yangtze at Sixi, Maoping, known for bamboo groves, caves and waterfalls, and also promoted as the Three Gorges Bamboo Sea. It has a core area of about 9 square kilometres with more than 300 kinds of bamboo, around ten caves and a tiered waterfall; a cave, a bamboo-raft pool and a waterfall are among the open sights. The canyon reopened on 16 July 2026 after upgrades that include a moving walkway up the slope, a waterfall-side platform, a zip-line and a staged folk-wedding show."},{"id":"yuanan-wulingxia-kou","name":"Wuling Gorge Mouth, Yuan'an","name_zh":"武陵峡口","pinyin":"Wǔlíng Xiákǒu","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":31.2575,"lon":111.5814,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanan-wulingxia-kou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst gorge and spa area of about 10 square kilometres in Yangping town, with a five-kilometre gorge path, some thirty viewpoints and four linked caves called Moon, Poplar, Soldiers-and-Horses and Sinkhole. Along the gorge are Qing-dynasty stone inscriptions, a stone tower, a stone stockade and temples, and the resort also has a hot-spring bathing area, rooms and a restaurant. It suits visitors who want a gorge walk and a soak in one day."},{"id":"zhijiang-xiannu-jiji-theme-park","name":"Xiannü Jiji Theme Park, Zhijiang","name_zh":"仙女吉吉主题公园","pinyin":"Xiānnǚ Jíjí Zhǔtí Gōngyuán","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.5388,"lon":111.7156,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhijiang-xiannu-jiji-theme-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village-based leisure park in Xiangxiang village, Xiannü town, presented as a citrus-themed park and rated 4A in December 2023. Its orange-and-white buildings are styled on Greek island villages, and an orange-cat mascot called Jiji appears across the park. It is aimed at families, with orchard-picking, camping, an animal park opened in July 2026 where visitors feed alpacas, deer and other gentle animals, and a water-play area with citrus-themed slides and evening water games."},{"id":"yichang-xilingxia-kou","name":"Xiling Gorge Mouth Scenic Area, Yichang","name_zh":"西陵峡口风景区","pinyin":"Xīlíng Xiákǒu Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.77,"lon":111.2599,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichang-xilingxia-kou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area around the eastern mouth of Xiling Gorge, where the Yangtze leaves the Three Gorges on the north-west edge of Yichang. The Yichang government's tourism page lists eight sub-areas, among them Leizu Temple, Baima Cave, Peach Village, a leisure park and the Xialaoxi stream, which is used for rafting and swimming. It is a short trip from the city for gorge and river scenery."},{"id":"yidu-yang-shoujing-academy","name":"Yang Shoujing Academy and Wetland","name_zh":"杨守敬书院","pinyin":"Yáng Shǒujìng Shūyuàn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.3797,"lon":111.3251,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yidu-yang-shoujing-academy","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern academy complex, built from 2005, in honour of Yang Shoujing (1839–1915), the Yidu-born historical geographer who completed the 80-volume Shuijing zhu shu, a commentary on the ancient waterways classic. Lecture halls, a library and a shrine stand beside the Gaobazhou reservoir near where the Yangtze, Qingjiang and Yuyang rivers meet, with a wetland education area and a water-sports zone. It is a recreated cultural park; Yang's actual former home and tomb are separate sites in Yidu town."},{"id":"yiling-yangjiawan-old-house","name":"Yangjiawan Old House","name_zh":"杨家湾老屋","pinyin":"Yángjiāwān Lǎowū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.8273,"lon":111.056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiling-yangjiawan-old-house","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-dynasty brick-and-timber mansion in Sandouping, begun in 1787 and enlarged in the Daoguang years (1820–50), two courtyards deep and eleven rooms wide, with seven patios. Its carved doorways and painted decoration show local craftsmanship, and in 1939–45 it served as a river-defence headquarters for the Chinese army. It is the only protected building left in its original place within the Three Gorges Dam works area."},{"id":"yichang-museum","name":"Yichang Museum","name_zh":"宜昌博物馆","pinyin":"Yíchāng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.6358,"lon":111.375,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichang-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yichang's main museum, a large modern building that opened in September 2019 in Wujiagang District next to the city's planning exhibition hall, and rated a first-grade national museum in December 2020. Its galleries, about ten in all, cover local history, natural history, folk customs and traditional architecture, drawn from a collection of some 58,000 items."},{"id":"dangyang-yuquan-temple","name":"Yuquan Temple, Dangyang","name_zh":"玉泉寺","pinyin":"Yùquán Sì","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.7897,"lon":111.6803,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dangyang-yuquan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the eastern slope of Yuquan Hill, said to have been founded in the 6th century and given its present name in the Sui dynasty; it is counted as an ancestral seat of the Tiantai school and as one of the national key temples of Han Buddhism. Highlights are a cast-iron pagoda from the Song dynasty, a large Sui-period iron cauldron, a Tang-dynasty ginkgo tree over 1,300 years old and a stone carving of Guanyin attributed to the painter Wu Daozi. The temple was rebuilt between 2003 and 2008, and the surrounding forest park also has Three Kingdoms sites linked to Guan Yu."},{"id":"xingshan-zhaojun-village","name":"Zhaojun Village","name_zh":"昭君村","pinyin":"Zhāojūn Cūn","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":31.2601,"lon":110.7243,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingshan-zhaojun-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The traditional birthplace of Wang Zhaojun, the Han-dynasty court lady sent to marry a Xiongnu ruler, set beside the Xiangxi River in Xingshan county. The grounds, about 2.7 km², hold a memorial hall with Han and Tang objects excavated locally, a study academy, and landmarks named for her legend such as the Dressing Platform, a zither-playing terrace and Niangniang Spring. The writer Guo Moruo inscribed the names of the hall and the village."},{"id":"changyang-muqiaoxi-resort","name":"Zhuoer Muqiaoxi Eco-tourism Resort, Changyang","name_zh":"卓尔木桥溪生态旅游度假区","pinyin":"Zhuó'ěr Mùqiáoxī Shēngtài Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"420000","region":"Hubei","city":"Yichang","lat":30.6511,"lon":110.9703,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changyang-muqiaoxi-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A private resort planned over about 15 square kilometres in Muqiaoxi village, developed from 2017 by the Zhuoer group in a river valley of cliffs, waterfalls and forest. It combines scenery with outdoor activities, caravan and tent camping, a Tujia village zone and hotels. It was rated 4A in January 2022 and suits families and outdoor-activity groups."},{"id":"changde-planning-exhibition-hall","name":"Changde Planning Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"常德市规划展示馆","pinyin":"Chángdé Shì Guīhuà Zhǎnshìguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.053,"lon":111.6728,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changde-planning-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city's urban planning museum, run by the Changde natural resources and planning bureau and open since 2013, presents Changde's history, culture and planned growth in a series of themed sections. Alongside the displays it runs activities such as child volunteer guides, a photo hunt for 'city memories' and quizzes on local history. It gives a quick indoor overview of the city."},{"id":"hanshou-changde-wildlife-world","name":"Changde Wildlife World","name_zh":"常德野生动物世界","pinyin":"Chángdé Yěshēng Dòngwù Shìjiè","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":28.8117,"lon":111.9527,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Most of a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanshou-changde-wildlife-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large zoo and safari-style park of about 2,500 mu (170 ha) in Hanshou County, opened in 2022, which now keeps more than 7,000 animals of over 200 species, among them Asian elephants, Siberian tigers, African lions and pumas. Besides the enclosures there are staged animal shows in a forest theatre and a circus theatre, a small sightseeing train, a petting area and a children's amusement park added in 2024. It is aimed at families on a day out from Changde or Changsha."},{"id":"lixian-chengtoushan-site","name":"Chengtoushan Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"城头山遗址","pinyin":"Chéngtóushān Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6821,"lon":111.6548,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lixian-chengtoushan-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chengtoushan, on the Liyang plain north-west of Li County town, is a round Neolithic town about 325 m across inside a rammed-earth wall and moat that were first built in the Daxi culture more than 6,000 years ago and enlarged several times before the town was abandoned around 4,000 years ago. Excavations from 1991 uncovered house platforms, pottery kilns, cemeteries, an altar, very early fired bricks and rice paddies that are among the oldest known anywhere. Since 2016 the site has been a national archaeological site park, with the walls and moat laid out for visitors and a site museum for the finds."},{"id":"lixian-duoan-bridge","name":"Duo'an Bridge","name_zh":"多安桥","pinyin":"Duō'ān Qiáo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6393,"lon":111.7648,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-duoan-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eleven-arch stone bridge 211 m long across the Dan River outside the east gate of old Lizhou, first built in 1786 and rebuilt after flood damage in 1820–1821. Its boat-shaped piers stand on timber-pile foundations, and the deck has stone balustrades, a pavilion at mid-span, a stone archway at each end and more than 20 inscribed steles. A restoration begun in late 2023 was finished in December 2024, when the bridge reopened."},{"id":"taoyuan-fenglin-flower-sea","name":"Fenglin Flower Sea, Taoyuan","name_zh":"枫林花海","pinyin":"Fēnglín Huāhǎi","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.0312,"lon":111.5018,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taoyuan-fenglin-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower-field park of about 2,000 mu (130 ha) in Weihui New Village, in the Fengshu Uyghur and Hui Ethnic Township, with large seasonal flower fields and a vineyard. The township is home to the largest Uyghur community outside Xinjiang, and the area also takes in the former residence of the historian Jian Bozan, the tomb of the early-Ming general Hala Bashi and a mosque more than 600 years old."},{"id":"linli-lin-boqu-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Lin Boqu","name_zh":"林伯渠故居","pinyin":"Lín Bóqú Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.5312,"lon":111.6058,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linli-lin-boqu-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Lin Boqu (1886–1960), a member of the Tongmenghui and of the Chinese Communist Party from 1921, who chaired the Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region government, was secretary-general of the Central People's Government and later vice-chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and is counted among the 'Five Elders' of Yan'an. The house, built in the Tongzhi reign of the late Qing and repaired in 1985, is a southern-style courtyard house of three successive courtyards on a hillside, with about 857 m² of floor space; it opened as a memorial in 1986 under a name board written by Deng Xiaoping. A life exhibition hall completed in 2019 shows documents, photographs and more than 1,200 objects, and the grounds also take in a bronze-statue square, the Lin family graves and a memorial archway; his ashes were brought back to Xiumei in 2013."},{"id":"lixian-huawa-temple-pagoda","name":"Huawa Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"花瓦寺塔","pinyin":"Huāwǎsì Tǎ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.9182,"lon":111.7253,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-huawa-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Northern Song brick pagoda in Huawa village in the far north of Li County, octagonal and solid, rising seven storeys and about 22 m from a base about 5.5 m across. Its walls copy brackets and other timber details in brick, and an arched passage on the north side leads to an underground chamber with an eight-sided caisson ceiling. Excavation around the base in 2010 found the foundations of the temple that once stood with it."},{"id":"dingcheng-huayanxi-forest-park","name":"Huayanxi National Forest Park","name_zh":"花岩溪","pinyin":"Huāyánxī","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":28.6799,"lon":111.55,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingcheng-huayanxi-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park designated in 1997 at the northern foot of the Jiulong Mountains, an offshoot of the Xuefeng range, where Dingcheng, Taoyuan and Anhua meet, covering about 75 km² of wooded hills and streams. Forest covers about 95 per cent of the land, with Chinese yew, dawn redwood and other rare trees, and large numbers of egrets breed here."},{"id":"changde-iron-sutra-pillar","name":"Iron Sutra Pillar, Changde","name_zh":"常德铁幢","pinyin":"Chángdé Tiěchuáng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.0371,"lon":111.6983,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changde-iron-sutra-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hollow cast-iron Buddhist sutra pillar of the Northern Song, about 4.3 m tall and weighing some 1.5 tonnes, which stood beside Qianming Temple at Deshan until it was moved to Binhu Park in central Changde in 1979. Its 17 sections, fitted together with tenons, are cast with Buddha figures, guardian strongmen, dragons, tigers and lotus patterns, sutra text and the names and posts of the officials and donors who paid for it. The city's heritage office describes it as the only Song-dynasty iron sutra pillar known in China."},{"id":"shimen-jiashan-temple","name":"Jiashan Temple","name_zh":"夹山寺","pinyin":"Jiāshān Sì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.565,"lon":111.4829,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shimen-jiashan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chan Buddhist monastery in Jiashan National Forest Park, founded in 870 by the monk Shanhui and known from the Song to the Qing as Lingquan Chan Monastery; the Song master Yuanwu Keqin is said to have taught here the koan commentaries collected as the Blue Cliff Record, and the temple is promoted as a cradle of 'tea and Chan' culture. Most of its halls were pulled down after 1949 and rebuilt from 1992 to an 18th-century description, leaving the Qing-repaired old main hall, now the Guanyin Hall, as the chief survivor. On the western slope a mausoleum stands over the grave of the monk Fengtianyu, whom a 1993 conference in Shimen identified as the peasant rebel leader Li Zicheng, a claim that remains disputed and is also made for a tomb at Tongshan in Hubei."},{"id":"changde-kale-planet-theme-park","name":"Kale Planet Theme Park, Changde","name_zh":"常德卡乐星球","pinyin":"Chángdé Kǎlè Xīngqiú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.0784,"lon":111.7466,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changde-kale-planet-theme-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park on Peach Blossom Island in Liuye Lake, opened in January 2020 and built by the culture-tourism technology arm of the OCT (Overseas Chinese Town) group together with Changde's city investment company. Its five themed zones hold more than 20 large indoor and outdoor rides and shows around a fairy-tale castle, and it stages seasonal events such as New Year fireworks and a summer festival. It suits families with children and teenagers."},{"id":"jinshi-lingxi-camellia-oil-estate","name":"Lingxi Camellia Oil Estate, Jinshi","name_zh":"灵犀茶油庄园","pinyin":"Língxī Cháyóu Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.3964,"lon":111.945,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinshi-lingxi-camellia-oil-estate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A camellia-oil estate on the shore of Maoli Lake in Jinshi, run by a local camellia-oil producer, that has been developed into a leisure and wellness area; provincial media describe it as Hunan's first eco-wellness estate built around camellia oil. Visitors can see the camellia plantations and the oil-pressing works as well as lakeside wetland scenery, art and leisure spaces and exhibits on ecology."},{"id":"changde-liuye-lake-resort","name":"Liuye Lake Tourist Resort","name_zh":"柳叶湖","pinyin":"Liǔyè Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.0865,"lon":111.7337,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changde-liuye-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Liuye Lake, a lake of about 17.6 km² on the north-eastern edge of Changde, is the centre of a tourist resort set up in 1993, rated 4A in 2010 and named a national-level tourist resort in 2020. Its shores have parks and waterfront paths, a Ferris wheel, a statue of the Tang poet Liu Yuxi and lakeside hotels, while Peach Blossom Island in the lake holds a water park and the Kale Planet theme park, which has its own card. The resort combines sightseeing, water recreation and lakeside dining a short trip from the city centre."},{"id":"lixian-lizhou-city-wall","name":"Lizhou Ancient City Wall","name_zh":"澧州古城墙","pinyin":"Lǐzhōu Gǔchéngqiáng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6336,"lon":111.7491,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-lizhou-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The surviving south-eastern stretch, about 1.9 km long, of the wall of Lizhou, the prefectural city that became Li County town; it was raised in rammed earth in 1372, when the seat moved here, faced with brick in 1404 and repaired many times under the Ming and Qing. The wall stands on dressed bluestone footings, and on the section between the Little South Gate and the East Gate rises the octagonal timber Lipu Tower, also called the Bafang Tower, rebuilt in 1804. Below it lies the octagonal Cangyan pond with the Yuxian Bridge and its pavilion."},{"id":"lixian-lizhou-confucian-temple","name":"Lizhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"澧州文庙","pinyin":"Lǐzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6367,"lon":111.7519,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-lizhou-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The temple of the former Lizhou prefectural school, founded in 965, moved to this site in the early Ming and rebuilt in 1841–1844, covering about 8,000 m². On its north–south axis are the front gate, the Pan pool with the Zhuangyuan Bridge, the Lingxing Gate, the Dacheng Gate, the Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng Shrine, flanked by bell and drum towers, stele corridors and shrines to local worthies and loyal officials. In 1925 He Long, then garrison commander of Lizhou, ran a political training school here, and the temple now houses the Li County Museum."},{"id":"shimen-longwang-cave","name":"Longwang Cave, Shimen","name_zh":"龙王洞","pinyin":"Lóngwáng Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6541,"lon":111.0596,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shimen-longwang-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone cave in Baiyun town, Shimen County, beside the waters of the Xianyang Lake national wetland park, opened to visitors in 1988 as the county's first tourist site. Its halls of stalactites, stalagmites and columns are lit with coloured sound-and-light effects, installed in a 2015–2016 upgrade and themed on local dragon legends, and a walkway leads through. It is a different cave from the better-known Longwang Cave at Jiangya in Cili County."},{"id":"anxiang-nanchanwan-jin-tombs","name":"Nanchanwan Jin Tombs (Tomb of Liu Hong)","name_zh":"南禅湾晋墓群","pinyin":"Nánchánwān Jìn Mùqún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6552,"lon":112.1546,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anxiang-nanchanwan-jin-tombs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Warring States settlement remains, Jin-to-Tang kilns and tombs in Huangshantou Forest Park, best known for the tomb of Liu Hong, the Western Jin general and governor of Jingzhou, excavated in 1991. His square brick chamber, about 3.8 m across under a domed vault 4.2 m high, yielded 78 objects including tortoise-knob gold seals, a gold belt buckle with dragons and a carved jade cup, and a small museum has been built in front of the tomb. In 2025 it was named one of Hunan's first village museums."},{"id":"lixian-pengshan-scenic-area","name":"Pengshan Scenic Area, Li County","name_zh":"彭山","pinyin":"Péng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6133,"lon":111.6932,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-pengshan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill area in Linan town, across the Li River from Li County town, rated 4A and listed as a national forest-wellness pilot base. It is laid out for nature and geology study trails, folk-custom activities, a revolutionary-history study section and a Chan meditation and wellness area, and in 2021 it was named a provincial study-tour base. It is set up mainly for school study trips and local day visitors."},{"id":"shimen-confucian-temple","name":"Shimen Confucian Temple","name_zh":"石门文庙","pinyin":"Shímén Wénmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.5875,"lon":111.3692,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shimen-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The county Confucian temple of Shimen, founded in 1052 and moved in 1504 to this site near the north bank of the Li River, with most of its present buildings from Qing rebuilding. Three ranges and two courtyards survive on the axis, with the Pan pool and Zhuangyuan Bridge, the Lingxing Gate, the Dacheng Gate and the double-eaved Dacheng Hall of 1779, flanked by stele corridors, bell and drum towers and side halls. In the 1920s and 1930s it housed the county peasant association, a Soviet county government and the headquarters of the Red Second and Sixth Army Groups."},{"id":"taoyuan-taohuayuan","name":"Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Land)","name_zh":"桃花源","pinyin":"Táohuāyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":28.7943,"lon":111.4359,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taoyuan-taohuayuan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Taohuayuan, facing the Yuan River about 15 km south-west of Taoyuan county town, is the place long identified with Tao Yuanming's fable The Peach Blossom Spring, and temples and Daoist halls have stood here since the Tang. Most of the present shrines, pavilions and bridges, among them the Yuanming Shrine, the Taohua Daoist temple, the Fangzhu Pavilion and the Yuxian Bridge, come from late-Qing rebuilding and restorations of 1979–1988, and together they form a national heritage unit. The 15.8 km² scenic area, rated 5A in 2020, is divided into Taohua Hill, Taoyuan Hill, Qinren Village and Taoxian Ridge, with peach groves along the valleys."},{"id":"taoyuan-xingzi-palace","name":"Xingzi Palace","name_zh":"星子宫","pinyin":"Xīngzǐ Gōng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.3847,"lon":111.2585,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taoyuan-xingzi-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Daoist temple complex on the summit of Xingzi Mountain in Reshi town, founded in 1370 by the Daoist Zhang Daohui as the Sanyuan Palace, renamed after the mountain and enlarged in the late Ming and early Qing and again in 1784, 1807 and 1829. Along its axis stand the Baizi Hall, the Wangye Hall, the South Gate of Heaven, the main Xingzi Palace hall, a sleeping hall and a kitchen hall, all built of stone, carved and roofed with cast-iron tiles."},{"id":"lixian-yu-family-memorial-arch","name":"Yu Family Memorial Arch","name_zh":"余家牌坊","pinyin":"Yújiā Páifāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changde","lat":29.6942,"lon":111.7058,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-yu-family-memorial-arch","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A white-marble chastity arch about 15 m high and 8 m wide in Pailou village, completed in 1842 by the official Yu Yuechan in honour of his mother, née Luo, who was widowed at 24. The three-tier arch, splayed on plan, carries the words 'by imperial decree' and the provincial governor's request for the honour, and is covered in openwork and relief carving of figures, birds, auspicious animals and flowers."},{"id":"changsha-ecological-zoo","name":"Changsha Ecological Zoo","name_zh":"长沙生态动物园","pinyin":"Chángshā Shēngtài Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.039,"lon":113.0107,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-ecological-zoo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Changsha's main zoo, opened in 2010 when the old city zoo in Martyrs' Park moved to this 100-hectare site at Muyun in the southern suburbs. It shows more than 300 species in walk-through areas and a drive-through zone, with sections for education, landscaped grounds and leisure, and suits families."},{"id":"changsha-landscape-ecology-garden","name":"Changsha Landscape and Ecology Garden","name_zh":"长沙园林生态园","pinyin":"Chángshā Yuánlín Shēngtài Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2969,"lon":113.035,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-landscape-ecology-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped garden park beside the Laodao River at Luohanzhuang village in Kaifu District, on the northern outskirts of Changsha, with about 68 hectares open in its first phase out of a planned 200. It is known for its native Chinese cherry trees, more than ten early-flowering varieties of which the first bloom in February, and lies at the centre of the district's rural leisure area around Shaping and Baixia. It suits a walk or a family outing rather than a special trip."},{"id":"changsha-riverside-culture-park","name":"Changsha Riverside Culture Park","name_zh":"长沙滨江文化园","pinyin":"Chángshā Bīnjiāng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2452,"lon":112.975,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-riverside-culture-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural complex on the Beichen Delta where the Liuyang River joins the Xiang, fully opened in 2015 on the site of a former chemical works, grouping the Changsha Museum, the city planning exhibition hall, the Changsha Library, a concert hall and a viewing tower. The Changsha Museum's two permanent galleries cover the city's ancient and modern history, with Shang and Zhou bronzes and Changsha-kiln ceramics as its strengths, and the riverside park makes an easy half-day stop."},{"id":"changsha-underwater-world","name":"Changsha Underwater World","name_zh":"长沙海底世界","pinyin":"Chángshā Hǎidǐ Shìjiè","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2352,"lon":113.0501,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-underwater-world/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An aquarium and marine theme park opened in 2000 in north-eastern Changsha, beside Window of the World, with a 76-metre walk-through tunnel and freshwater and marine galleries. A polar hall keeps belugas, dolphins, walruses, seals and penguins, the park has staged animal shows in a theatre of about 1,800 seats, and there are a water park with slides and a wave pool and a children's playground; it suits families with children."},{"id":"changsha-cheng-qian-mansion","name":"Cheng Qian's Mansion","name_zh":"程潜公馆","pinyin":"Chéng Qián Gōngguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1922,"lon":112.972,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-cheng-qian-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The two-storey house at Baiguoyuan in central Changsha where Cheng Qian, the Nationalist governor of Hunan, lived in 1949, and where talks with Communist representatives are said to have prepared the province's peaceful handover in August that year. Restored in 2011, it opened in 2015 as a museum of the peaceful handover of Hunan, with the history of the 1949 uprising downstairs and Cheng Qian's life upstairs."},{"id":"liuyang-dawei-mountain","name":"Dawei Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"大围山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Dàwéi Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.42,"lon":114.12,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuyang-dawei-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of about 47 km² on the Hunan–Jiangxi border in north-eastern Liuyang, rising to 1,607.8 m at Qixing Ridge, the highest point in the Changsha area, and the source of the Liuyang River. Trails lead through forest past more than 100 waterfalls and landforms attributed to Quaternary glaciers, azaleas cover Wuzishi Peak (1,515 m) in summer, and the mountain also has old temples such as Yuquan Temple and sites of the 1930s Red Army base."},{"id":"ningxiang-he-shuheng-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of He Shuheng","name_zh":"何叔衡故居","pinyin":"Hé Shūhéng Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0544,"lon":112.0374,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningxiang-he-shuheng-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The farmhouse in Shatian township, western Ningxiang, where the Communist revolutionary He Shuheng (1876–1935), who ran the Party's early Hunan committee with Mao Zedong, was born and lived for 26 years; Mao stayed here for three nights in 1917. Built in 1785, it is a single-storey house of 23 rooms behind an earth-brick wall, and its rooms show his glasses, pocket watch and clothes with photographs and copies of his books."},{"id":"liuyang-hu-yaobang-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Hu Yaobang","name_zh":"胡耀邦故居","pinyin":"Hú Yàobāng Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0819,"lon":113.8833,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liuyang-hu-yaobang-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hu Yaobang (1915–1989), who headed the Communist Party as chairman and then general secretary from 1981 to 1987, was born in this Qing brick-and-timber farmhouse of 19 rooms beside the Minxi River in Cangfang village, Zhonghe town, and left it at the age of 15. Restored and opened in 1995, the house is the centre of a 4A scenic area that also has a memorial exhibition hall of 2006 on his life, an ancestral hall, the family graves and a square."},{"id":"changsha-county-huang-xing-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Huang Xing","name_zh":"黄兴故居","pinyin":"Huáng Xīng Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1202,"lon":113.0989,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-county-huang-xing-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huang Xing (1874–1916), the revolutionary leader often named with Sun Yat-sen as a founder of the Republic of China, was born in this Qing farmhouse of the 1860s at Liangtang in Huangxing town, south-east of Changsha, and lived here until 1896. Twelve of its original 32 rooms survive, furnished as family rooms and with an exhibition on his life, and a memorial hall to Hunan's figures of the 1911 Revolution opened in the back garden in 2015. His tomb, also part of this national listing, is on Yuelu Mountain."},{"id":"ningxiang-huaminglou-liu-shaoqi-residence","name":"Former Residence of Liu Shaoqi (Huaminglou)","name_zh":"花明楼刘少奇故居","pinyin":"Huāmínglóu Liú Shàoqí Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0378,"lon":112.6435,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningxiang-huaminglou-liu-shaoqi-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969), president of the People's Republic from 1959 until he was purged in the Cultural Revolution, at Huaminglou in south-eastern Ningxiang. The family farmhouse, a brick-and-timber courtyard house of 1871 with about 20 rooms, was restored to its 1961 appearance and reopened in 1980 after Liu's posthumous rehabilitation, and the scenic area around it adds a memorial hall, a bronze statue square and exhibition halls. Mao Zedong's birthplace at Shaoshan is about 20 km away, so the two are often visited together."},{"id":"liuyang-tan-sitong-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Tan Sitong","name_zh":"谭嗣同故居","pinyin":"Tán Sìtóng Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1448,"lon":113.6255,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liuyang-tan-sitong-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home in central Liuyang of Tan Sitong (1865–1898), the reformer and thinker who was executed at 33 with five others when the Hundred Days' Reform failed in 1898. It is a timber-framed courtyard house of 24 rooms behind fire walls, in the Jiangnan style, and since 2013 the national listing has also covered his tomb and memorial shrine elsewhere in Liuyang."},{"id":"ningxiang-xie-juezai-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xie Juezai","name_zh":"谢觉哉故居","pinyin":"Xiè Juézāi Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0829,"lon":112.0588,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningxiang-xie-juezai-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Xie Juezai (1884–1971), the Communist politician and educator who was president of the Supreme People's Court from 1959 to 1965, in Shatian township, western Ningxiang. The brick-and-timber house of 1850 within a walled yard was a meeting place for local revolutionaries such as He Shuheng, and its rooms show period furniture, an inkstone and his early poems, manuscripts and diaries."},{"id":"changsha-county-xu-teli-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xu Teli","name_zh":"徐特立故居","pinyin":"Xú Tèlì Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0726,"lon":113.2806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-county-xu-teli-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Xu Teli (1877–1968), the educator who taught Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen and Tian Han and later sat on the Communist Party's Central Committee, in Teli village, Jiangbei town, south-east of Changsha. The late-Qing farmhouse, built by his grandfather in the Tongzhi reign (1862–1874), was restored by the county and opened to visitors in 2005."},{"id":"changsha-first-normal-school-site","name":"Former Site of Hunan First Normal School","name_zh":"湖南省立第一师范学校旧址","pinyin":"Húnán Shěnglì Dìyī Shīfàn Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.18,"lon":112.9666,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-first-normal-school-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mao Zedong studied at this teacher-training school from 1913 to 1918 and then worked here, and the old campus is now the Mao Zedong and First Normal School Memorial Museum, with his classroom, dormitory, study room and the school hall laid out as they were. The school traces its roots to Chengnan Academy, founded in 1161, and its 1912 buildings, mainly Western in style with courtyards and pavilion roofs and modelled on Tokyo's Aoyama Normal School, were rebuilt to the original design in 1966–68 after the 1938 fire."},{"id":"changsha-xinmin-study-society-site","name":"Former Site of the Xinmin Study Society","name_zh":"新民学会成立会旧址","pinyin":"Xīnmín Xuéhuì Chénglìhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1968,"lon":112.9467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-xinmin-study-society-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This small timber-framed house in Rongwan, below Yuelu Mountain, was the rented home of Cai Hesen's family, and on 14 April 1918 Mao Zedong, Cai Hesen, Xiao Zisheng and ten others founded the Xinmin (New People's) Study Society here, a student society that went on to play a part in the Chinese revolution. The house was destroyed during the war with Japan and rebuilt to its original form in 1984, with plaques inscribed by Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yun over the door."},{"id":"liuyang-yonghe-first-front-army-site","name":"Founding Site of the Red First Front Army, Yonghe","name_zh":"红一方面军成立旧址","pinyin":"Hóng Yī Fāngmiànjūn Chénglì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.3045,"lon":113.843,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuyang-yonghe-first-front-army-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On 23 August 1930 the Red Army's First Army Group under Mao Zedong and Zhu De and Third Army Group under Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan met at the Li family house in Yonghe, northern Liuyang, and merged into the First Front Army, the force also known as the Central Red Army. The house, a Qing residence completed in the Jiaqing reign (1796–1820) in the style of eastern Hunan, is shown with guided tours, and a sculpture of the meeting stands outside."},{"id":"ningxiang-guanshan-ancient-town","name":"Guanshan Ancient Town","name_zh":"关山古镇","pinyin":"Guānshān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.3004,"lon":112.6729,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningxiang-guanshan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism village in Jinzhou town, Ningxiang, built around a Three Kingdoms theme from the local story that Guan Yu camped his troops here during his campaign against Changsha. White-walled houses in Hui style stand beside two lakes, with Three Kingdoms–themed halls and squares, a folk museum, shadow-puppet shows, farm restaurants and guesthouses, and a Three Kingdoms lantern festival has been held here."},{"id":"changsha-han-changsha-kingdom-royal-tombs","name":"Han Changsha Kingdom Royal Tombs","name_zh":"汉代长沙王陵墓群","pinyin":"Hàndài Chángshā Wáng Língmù Qún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2708,"lon":112.9299,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-han-changsha-kingdom-royal-tombs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The kings and queens of the Western Han vassal kingdom of Changsha were buried in the hills along the west bank of the Xiang, in a belt of some 30 km² from Tianma Hill in the south to Fengpanling in Wangcheng in the north, where more than 20 tombs of kings and members of the royal family have been identified. Part of the cemetery has been laid out as the Han Changsha Kingdom Archaeological Site Park, which offers history talks, Han-style performances and seasonal events in its grounds, and Wangling Park, a city park in Yuelu District, encloses another group of the royal tombs."},{"id":"wangcheng-heimi-peak","name":"Heimi Peak National Forest Park","name_zh":"黑麋峰","pinyin":"Hēimí Fēng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.4597,"lon":113.0146,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wangcheng-heimi-peak/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The highest hill in Wangcheng at 590.5 m, on the district's north-eastern border, protected as a national forest park of about 41 km² with forest covering over 80 per cent. Trails for walking and cycling pass a reservoir on the way to a Buddhist temple on the summit, and the mountain is linked by tradition to the Tang monk-calligrapher Huaisu and, through legends and rock carvings, to the Daoist immortal Lü Dongbin."},{"id":"changsha-huayi-brothers-movie-town","name":"Huayi Brothers Movie Town (Changsha)","name_zh":"华谊兄弟电影小镇","pinyin":"Huáyì Xiōngdì Diànyǐng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0815,"lon":112.9114,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-huayi-brothers-movie-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film-themed leisure town carrying the Huayi Brothers name, opened in 2018 in the Dawangshan resort area of south-western Changsha and built around a replica Italian town modelled on Assisi and Venice, with 35 buildings, five squares, a waterfront and 22 bridges, Italian restaurants and craft shops, and film-set experiences. A second area recreates Republican-era Changsha as it looked before the 1938 fire, and the town suits a few hours of strolling and photography."},{"id":"changsha-hunan-botanical-garden","name":"Hunan Botanical Garden","name_zh":"湖南省植物园","pinyin":"Húnán Shěng Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1075,"lon":113.0258,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-hunan-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 120-hectare botanical garden in Yuhua District, southern Changsha, founded in 1985 as the Hunan Forest Botanical Garden and renamed in 2021, which combines research and conservation with public gardens. Its ten or so specialist gardens include cherry, magnolia, azalea, camellia, osmanthus, bamboo and shade-plant collections, with rare trees such as Cathaya and the dove tree."},{"id":"wangcheng-jinggang-ancient-town","name":"Jinggang Ancient Town","name_zh":"靖港古镇","pinyin":"Jìnggǎng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.4608,"lon":112.7857,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wangcheng-jinggang-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old river port on the west bank of the Xiang where the Wei River once flowed in, a rice market and salt depot busy enough to be called 'Little Hankou' until the river was diverted in 1957; it was here that Zeng Guofan, beaten by the Taiping in 1854, threw himself into the river and was pulled out by his men. Its streets of Ming, Qing and Republican-era houses, shops and guild halls, over 1,000 traditional buildings in all, were restored and opened as a scenic area in 2008, the year it was named a national historic and cultural town."},{"id":"liuyang-jinshoutang-hunan-soviet-government-site","name":"Jinshoutang (Former Hunan Provincial Soviet Government)","name_zh":"锦绶堂","pinyin":"Jǐnshòu Táng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.4612,"lon":114.027,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuyang-jinshoutang-hunan-soviet-government-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jinshoutang is a manor-like Qing complex of house and ancestral hall with more than 100 rooms, built from 1897 by a widow of the Tu family in memory of her husband, in Chudong village, Daweishan town, near the Jiangxi border. In 1931 the Hunan Provincial Soviet Government was based here for more than nine months, and red slogans of the time survive on its walls, with its mimeograph room in the attic of the north court."},{"id":"wangcheng-lei-feng-memorial-hall","name":"Lei Feng Memorial Hall","name_zh":"雷锋纪念馆","pinyin":"Léi Fēng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2074,"lon":112.8396,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wangcheng-lei-feng-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum in Wangcheng District to Lei Feng (1940–1962), the People's Liberation Army soldier who became the subject of a nationwide campaign from 1963 that held him up as a model of selfless service. Opened in 1968 and enlarged several times, it displays his diaries, books, clothes and work tools, a group of clay figures and inscriptions by national leaders, in grounds of about 11 hectares."},{"id":"liuyang-confucius-temple","name":"Liuyang Confucius Temple","name_zh":"浏阳文庙","pinyin":"Liúyáng Wénmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1475,"lon":113.6285,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liuyang-confucius-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A palace-style Confucian temple modelled on the one at Qufu, moved to this site in 1818 and rebuilt in 1843, with its gates, bell and drum pavilions and Dacheng Hall complete. Tan Sitong and Tang Caichang started a mathematics society in its Kuiwen Pavilion in 1895, and from 1991 the temple housed the Liuyang Museum, which has since moved to a new building elsewhere in the city; its ceremonial music for Confucius has been a national intangible heritage item since 2014."},{"id":"changsha-longping-rice-culture-park","name":"Longping Rice Culture Park","name_zh":"隆平水稻文化园","pinyin":"Lóngpíng Shuǐdào Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1929,"lon":113.0538,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-longping-rice-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park in Furong District, eastern Changsha, centred on the Longping Rice Museum, which opened fully in 2019 with three main halls on the history of rice, rice science and Yuan Longping (1930–2021), the agronomist who developed the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. Around the museum in Longping Central Park are a rice-culture square and rice terraces used for hands-on paddy-farming activities, in the district that houses China's national hybrid rice research centre."},{"id":"changsha-mawangdui-han-tombs","name":"Mawangdui Han Tombs","name_zh":"马王堆汉墓","pinyin":"Mǎwángduī Hàn Mù","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2086,"lon":113.0217,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-mawangdui-han-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site in eastern Changsha where the tombs of Li Cang, chancellor of the Changsha Kingdom and Marquis of Dai, his wife Xin Zhui and a son were excavated in 1972–74, yielding Xin Zhui's remarkably preserved body, silk paintings, lacquerware and silk manuscripts that include early versions of the Laozi and the Book of Changes. All the finds are in the Hunan Museum's Mawangdui galleries, about 3.5 km to the west, while at the site itself, in the grounds of the Mawangdui campus of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, the pit of Tomb 3 has been kept under a protective hall."},{"id":"ningxiang-weishan-miyin-temple","name":"Miyin Temple","name_zh":"密印寺","pinyin":"Mìyìn Sì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1805,"lon":111.9653,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningxiang-weishan-miyin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chan Buddhist monastery on Mount Wei (Weishan) in western Ningxiang, founded in the early 9th century by the monk Lingyou, whose teaching gave rise to the Weiyang (also romanised Guiyang) school of Chan, and named Miyin by imperial grant in 849. It has burned and been rebuilt many times, most recently after a fire in 1918, and its halls, including the Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas, stand within the Weishan national scenic area of forested hills, also known for Weishan Maojian tea. A giant statue of the thousand-armed Guanyin stands on the hillside in the same scenic area."},{"id":"wangcheng-qianlong-lake","name":"Qianlong Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"千龙湖","pinyin":"Qiānlóng Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.42,"lon":112.7,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangcheng-qianlong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park around the former Getang Reservoir of 1956 in Jinggang town, Wangcheng, whose two lakes, Qianlong and Tuantou, lie among the farmland of the Dazhongyuan polder. A resort village opened in 2004 offers a hotel and conference centre, fishing, water sports and farm produce, and the lake hosts dragon-boat races, including a qualifier of Hunan's provincial dragon-boat league in 2026."},{"id":"changsha-qingshuitang-xiang-district-committee-site","name":"Qingshuitang (Former Site of the CCP Xiang District Committee)","name_zh":"清水塘","pinyin":"Qīngshuǐtáng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2037,"lon":112.9836,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-qingshuitang-xiang-district-committee-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From late 1921 to April 1923 this small southern-style house at 22 Qingshuitang was the secret office of the Communist Party's Xiang (Hunan) District Committee, with Mao Zedong as secretary, and the home of Mao and Yang Kaihui, whose rooms are furnished as they were. It was the only building linked to the Party's early history in Changsha to survive the great fire of 1938, and it now stands in the grounds of the Changsha Party History Museum beside the ponds that gave Qingshuitang its name, with a statue of Mao put up in 1969."},{"id":"changsha-county-sanzhen-tiger-park","name":"Sanzhen Tiger Park","name_zh":"三珍虎园","pinyin":"Sānzhēn Hǔyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.5756,"lon":113.3375,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-county-sanzhen-tiger-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A captive tiger breeding centre in Jinjing town, northern Changsha County, holding Siberian and Bengal tigers that visitors watch from boardwalks through the woods and from railed viewing points. There is a nursery area with young cubs and visitors can take part in feeding; it suits families with children rather than anyone looking for wildlife in the wild."},{"id":"changsha-shiyan-lake","name":"Shiyan Lake","name_zh":"石燕湖","pinyin":"Shíyàn Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0133,"lon":113.0849,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-shiyan-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake ringed by wooded hills at Tiaoma in Yuhua District, where Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan meet, run as a 10 km² leisure scenic area. Its features include a glass skywalk across the lake and an island, a glass plank walk, a dragon-boat course and a large outdoor team-building base, and it suits families and groups on a day out from the city."},{"id":"liuyang-wenjiashi-autumn-harvest-uprising-site","name":"Site of Joining Forces in Wenjiashi of Autumn Harvest Uprising","name_zh":"秋收起义文家市会师旧址","pinyin":"Qiūshōu Qǐyì Wénjiāshì Huìshī Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.0467,"lon":113.9256,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuyang-wenjiashi-autumn-harvest-uprising-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wenjiashi, a market town on the Jiangxi border, is where the units of the Autumn Harvest Uprising led by Mao Zedong regrouped on 19 September 1927, after their attacks on the cities had failed. They met at the Liren School, which occupies the Wenhua Academy of 1841, whose gate, halls, Dacheng Hall for Confucius and study rooms have been restored, and a memorial museum built beside it in 1977 displays documents, photographs and objects from the uprising."},{"id":"ningxiang-tanheli-site","name":"Tanheli Site","name_zh":"炭河里遗址","pinyin":"Tànhélǐ Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.156,"lon":112.1063,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ningxiang-tanheli-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Western Zhou walled town with palace foundations on a terrace where the Duanxi stream meets the Wei River in Huangcai, western Ningxiang, in an area that has yielded hundreds of Shang and Zhou bronzes, among them the Four-Goat Square Zun and the Da He square ding with a human face. The site is now a national archaeological park, and the Tanheli Bronze Museum, opened in 2016, displays finds from the site and the story of bronze-making south of the Yangtze. Beside it is Tanhe Ancient City, a Zhou-themed park built by the Songcheng group and opened in 2017."},{"id":"liuyang-taoshuwan-liu-family-mansion","name":"Taoshuwan Liu Family Mansion","name_zh":"桃树湾刘氏大屋","pinyin":"Táoshùwān Liúshì Dàwū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":27.9262,"lon":113.6766,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuyang-taoshuwan-liu-family-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A vast Qing country mansion in Jingang town, southern Liuyang, built in 1849–1853 by the landowner Liu Yunzhuang: four courtyards deep on three parallel axes, it has around 400 rooms within tamped-earth outer walls and covers some 21,000 m², with a stele recording its construction. After 1949 it was divided among village families, and following a full repair in 2014 an exhibition on local worthies opened inside in 2016."},{"id":"changsha-county-tian-han-culture-park","name":"Tian Han Culture Park","name_zh":"田汉文化园","pinyin":"Tián Hàn Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.3242,"lon":113.2019,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-county-tian-han-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A culture park in Guoyuan town, Changsha County, built around the birthplace of Tian Han (1898–1968), the playwright and poet who wrote the lyrics of 'March of the Volunteers', now China's national anthem. His earth-brick family house, restored on its original site, stands at the back of the park, with the Tian Han Art Centre and its exhibition, an old-style timber opera stage, a drama arts street and National Anthem Square, and the park holds flag-raising ceremonies and performances about Tian Han and the anthem."},{"id":"changsha-tianxin-pavilion","name":"Tianxin Pavilion","name_zh":"天心阁","pinyin":"Tiānxīn Gé","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1894,"lon":112.988,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-tianxin-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The three-storey Tianxin Pavilion stands on the only surviving stretch of Changsha's city wall, a brick rampart of Ming origin some 250 m long and 13 m high that escaped the demolition of the walls in 1923–24. A pavilion has stood here since at least the 18th century; the present one, rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1983–84 after the 1938 fire, has two side pavilions joined by corridors, and the surrounding Tianxin Park has a 1946 memorial pagoda to the dead of the war against Japan."},{"id":"changsha-zeng-guofan-tomb","name":"Tomb of Zeng Guofan","name_zh":"曾国藩墓","pinyin":"Zēng Guófān Mù","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.082,"lon":112.8959,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-zeng-guofan-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Zeng Guofan (1811–1872), the Qing statesman who raised the Xiang Army against the Taiping Rebellion, and his wife, on Fulong Hill in Pingtang, south-west Changsha, where he was reburied in 1873. The granite-faced mound with a three-metre stele, stone gate towers and pairs of stone horses, lions and officials was badly damaged in the Cultural Revolution and later looted, and was restored from 1998, the first phase finishing in 2002."},{"id":"wangcheng-tongguan-kiln-site","name":"Tongguan Kiln Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"长沙铜官窑遗址","pinyin":"Chángshā Tóngguānyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.4209,"lon":112.8222,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wangcheng-tongguan-kiln-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Changsha kilns, strung along the east bank of the Xiang River at Tongguan, made glazed stoneware from the Tang to the Five Dynasties and are seen as the birthplace of underglaze painted decoration, often with poems and proverbs, for markets as far away as Japan, Southeast Asia, West Asia and Africa. The national archaeological site park, opened in 2012, covers the kiln remains and potsherd heaps around Wazhaping, and its Changsha Tongguan Kiln Museum (opened 2018) shows more than 1,000 pieces beside a full-size replica of the Belitung or 'Black Stone', a 9th-century Arab ship wrecked with a cargo of Changsha ware. The Tongguan Kiln Guofeng Park theme resort lies just to the south."},{"id":"wangcheng-tongguan-kiln-guofeng-park","name":"Tongguan Kiln Guofeng Park","name_zh":"铜官窑国风乐园","pinyin":"Tóngguānyáo Guófēng Lèyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.4131,"lon":112.8319,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangcheng-tongguan-kiln-guofeng-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large theme park and resort opened in 2018 beside the Tongguan kiln site, with streets in Tang-dynasty style, eight small museums including one on Changsha ware, performance venues, guesthouses and three hotels. Its programme runs from day into evening with a stunt show about the Belitung ('Black Stone') shipwreck, a flying-theatre ride and folk-art performances, and at its southern end is Tongguan Old Street, a historic street of pottery workshops."},{"id":"changsha-window-of-the-world","name":"Window of the World (Changsha)","name_zh":"长沙世界之窗","pinyin":"Chángshā Shìjiè Zhī Chuāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.2389,"lon":113.0548,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-window-of-the-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 40-hectare theme park opened in 1997 in north-eastern Changsha that combines scaled-down copies of famous buildings from around the world, such as Neuschwanstein Castle and the Pharos of Alexandria, with amusement rides and seasonal festivals. It suits families and groups with children."},{"id":"liuyang-panshi-grand-canyon","name":"Xixi Panshi Grand Canyon","name_zh":"西溪磐石大峡谷","pinyin":"Xīxī Pánshí Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.3775,"lon":114.1412,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuyang-panshi-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A boulder-choked ravine on the south-eastern slopes of the Dawei Mountain range at Tianxi village, Zhangfang town, where a stream drops through pools and cascades between great rocks. Villagers developed it from 2015 with plank walks, trails, a glass bridge across the gorge and a grass slide, and the area now also has a children's play park, fruit picking and some 70 village guesthouses."},{"id":"changsha-county-yang-kaihui-memorial","name":"Yang Kaihui Former Residence and Memorial Hall","name_zh":"杨开慧故居和纪念馆","pinyin":"Yáng Kāihuì Gùjū hé Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.5908,"lon":113.2051,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-county-yang-kaihui-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Yang Kaihui (1901–1930), Mao Zedong's second wife and mother of three of his sons, who was arrested and executed in 1930, in Kaihui town, northern Changsha County. The site groups her family's earth-brick house of 1795 with 36 rooms, her tomb in a memorial garden with a marble statue and a stele of Mao's poem in her memory, the Yangsi temple school where she studied, and a memorial hall opened in 2010 on her life and those of her father Yang Changji and her sons."},{"id":"changsha-yanghu-wetland-park","name":"Yanghu Wetland Park","name_zh":"洋湖湿地公园","pinyin":"Yánghú Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1292,"lon":112.934,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-yanghu-wetland-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park of about 480 hectares at the mouth of the Jin River on the west bank of the Xiang in southern Yuelu District, created on the old Yanghu flood polder from 2010 and opened in stages from 2011. Boardwalks and paths wind through ponds and reed beds with more than 700 plant species and some 130 bird species, with the Egret Pagoda as a landmark and outdoor sculptures from the park's international sculpture festivals."},{"id":"changsha-county-yingzhu-mountain","name":"Yingzhu Mountain","name_zh":"影珠山","pinyin":"Yǐngzhū Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.5328,"lon":113.1854,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changsha-county-yingzhu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested ridge of about 509 m in Fulin town, northern Changsha County, with more than 70 linked peaks and spurs, terraced fields, pools, bamboo groves and rock outcrops, and sunrise views over the clouds from the top. It was a battlefield of the Battles of Changsha in the war against Japan, and the Yingzhu Mountain War of Resistance Site Park has an exhibition hall, a former command post and trenches from a 1944 battle."},{"id":"changsha-yuelu-academy","name":"Yuelu Academy","name_zh":"岳麓书院","pinyin":"Yuèlù Shūyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.1839,"lon":112.936,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-yuelu-academy/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 976 under the Northern Song at the eastern foot of Yuelu Mountain, Yuelu Academy was one of China's most renowned Confucian academies, where the Neo-Confucian scholars Zhu Xi and Zhang Shi lectured, and its courtyards of lecture halls, library, shrines and a Confucian temple were restored after damage in the Cultural Revolution. It became the Hunan Institute of Higher Learning in 1903 and is part of Hunan University, whose early campus buildings around it, from the Western-style Second Building of 1926 to Liu Shiying's auditorium and old library of 1946–53 with traditional-style roofs, are also protected. Most visitors combine it with a walk up Yuelu Mountain behind."},{"id":"changsha-yuelu-mountain-orange-isle","name":"Yuelu Mountain and Orange Isle","name_zh":"岳麓山·橘子洲","pinyin":"Yuèlù Shān Júzizhōu","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.19,"lon":112.9294,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changsha-yuelu-mountain-orange-isle/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yuelu Mountain, a wooded ridge about 300 m high on the west bank of the Xiang River facing central Changsha, has the Lushan Temple founded in 268, the Ming-dynasty Daoist Yunlu Palace, the Aiwan (Autumn-Admiring) Pavilion of 1792 and, near the summit, a 1212 rock-cut copy of the Yu Stele with 77 archaic characters, as well as the tombs of the 1911 revolutionaries Huang Xing and Cai E. Orange Isle, a sand island some 5 km long in the river, has gardens at its southern tip with a giant sculpture of the young Mao Zedong (2009) and a stele of his 1925 poem 'Changsha'. The two are listed together as one 5A scenic area; Yuelu Academy at the foot of the mountain has its own card."},{"id":"liuyang-zhouluo-grand-canyon","name":"Zhouluo Grand Canyon","name_zh":"周洛大峡谷","pinyin":"Zhōuluò Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":28.4306,"lon":113.6633,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuyang-zhouluo-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area around Shizhu Peak (1,359.7 m) in Shegang town, northern Liuyang, at the source of the Laodao River, with a core of about 14 km² of streams, waterfalls, quartz-veined rock and wild osmanthus groves. Old houses such as the Chen family mansion and a water-mouth pagoda stand in the valley villages, which also have hotels and farm restaurants."},{"id":"ningxiang-huitang-zilongwan-hot-spring","name":"Zilongwan Hot Spring Resort, Huitang","name_zh":"紫龙湾温泉","pinyin":"Zǐlóngwān Wēnquán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Changsha","lat":27.9835,"lon":112.3399,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningxiang-huitang-zilongwan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Huitang, the spa town of south-western Ningxiang, set on a hillside below Mount Dongwu and looking over the man-made Zilong Lake. It has open-air thermal pools among trees, water-play facilities and a resort hotel, and suits a relaxing stay rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"suxian-711-uranium-mine","name":"711 Uranium Mine Heritage Site","name_zh":"核工业711功勋铀矿旧址","pinyin":"Hégōngyè Qīyīyī Gōngxūn Yóukuàng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.903,"lon":113.0543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suxian-711-uranium-mine","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of China's first large uranium mine to be found and worked, at Xujiadong north of Chenzhou: an airborne survey found the deposit in 1956, production began in 1963 (as Mine 711 from 1964), it supplied uranium for China's first atomic bomb, and mining ended in 1994. The old mine settlement has since been reopened to visitors as '711 Time Town', with the miners' housing, club and an air-raid-shelter exhibition hall, sculptures recreating underground work and photo exhibitions, period-style performances on public holidays, and places to eat and stay."},{"id":"rucheng-ancestral-halls","name":"Ancient Ancestral Halls of Rucheng","name_zh":"汝城古祠堂群","pinyin":"Rǔchéng Gǔ Cítáng Qún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.5547,"lon":113.6218,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rucheng-ancestral-halls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rucheng County keeps more than 700 clan ancestral halls, the oldest from 1231 and most of them Qing, and nine, from the Ming to the Republic, form this national heritage group. They include the Taibao Di at Waisha (1486), a Zhu clan hall renamed in memory of the Ming minister Zhu Ying; the Li hall (1437) and the timber memorial arch called Bajiao Lou (1489) at Guang'ansuo in Tuqiao; the Lu and Ye halls at Jinshan; and the Zhou halls at Xianfeng."},{"id":"yongxing-banliang-village","name":"Banliang Ancient Village","name_zh":"板梁古村","pinyin":"Bǎnliáng Gǔcūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":26.0826,"lon":112.8616,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxing-banliang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Liu-clan farming village in Gaotingsi town, Yongxing County, first built in 1358, whose lanes of grey-brick houses, ancestral halls and gateways survive largely from the Ming and Qing; 29 old buildings make up the national heritage group, among them the Upper Village Ancestral Hall of 1443 and the early-Ming Lower Village hall. The Middle Village hall (1420) is also a site of the 1928 Xiangnan Uprising, where local peasant forces seized the militia's guns. The village is lived in, with small stalls and guesthouses for visitors."},{"id":"guiyang-baoshan-mine-park","name":"Baoshan National Mine Park","name_zh":"宝山国家矿山公园","pinyin":"Bǎoshān Guójiā Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.7413,"lon":112.716,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiyang-baoshan-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mine park on Baoshan hill on the western edge of Guiyang county town, set up by the Baoshan non-ferrous metals company on a hill mined since ancient times. A small train takes visitors into the old underground workings, where scenes and tools show ancient mining methods, and there are also a modern open pit and processing works to see; the park became a 4A scenic area in 2014."},{"id":"zixing-dongjiang-lake","name":"Dongjiang Lake","name_zh":"东江湖","pinyin":"Dōngjiāng Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.8728,"lon":113.3094,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zixing-dongjiang-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir of about 160 km² among the hills of Zixing, held back by a 157 m double-curvature arch dam on the Lei River that was built in stages between 1958 and 1992. Its best-known sight is the Xiao Dongjiang gorge below the dam, where mist often lies on the water in the early morning and fishermen's boats are photographed from a riverside walkway. Boats run out across the lake to islands such as Doushuai Island, and the dam itself is part of the scenic area."},{"id":"suxian-feitian-mountain","name":"Feitian Mountain","name_zh":"飞天山","pinyin":"Fēitiān Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.9184,"lon":113.1211,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suxian-feitian-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national geopark of red Danxia sandstone north-east of Chenzhou, where a river winds between cliffs and rock towers weathered into shapes likened to people and animals. Named sights include the Chuantan rock arch, the Heitan cave and the 'Niukou hanging coffins', old coffins placed in a cliff niche whose origin is unknown."},{"id":"yizhang-deng-zhongxia-residence","name":"Former Residence of Deng Zhongxia","name_zh":"邓中夏故居","pinyin":"Dèng Zhōngxià Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.4714,"lon":113.0368,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yizhang-deng-zhongxia-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Deng Zhongxia (1894–1933), an early member of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the labour movement, including the Canton–Hong Kong strike of 1925–26, who was captured and executed by the Nationalist government in 1933. The house in Dengjiawan village is a small two-storey grey-brick farmhouse of the southern Hunan type, about 130 m², kept as a memorial with its family rooms."},{"id":"rucheng-fuquan-hot-spring-resort","name":"Fuquan Hot Spring Resort, Rucheng","name_zh":"福泉山庄","pinyin":"Fúquán Shānzhuāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.5326,"lon":113.9051,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rucheng-fuquan-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort at Reshui ('hot water') town in eastern Rucheng, near the Jiangxi and Guangdong borders, built over a geothermal field whose springs reach 91–98 °C, among the hottest in southern China. The resort has dozens of outdoor pools, villas and a hotel set among bamboo-covered hills, and in the town people still boil eggs, peanuts and chestnuts directly in the spring water."},{"id":"suxian-gaoyi-ridge","name":"Gaoyi Ridge","name_zh":"高椅岭","pinyin":"Gāoyǐ Lǐng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.9682,"lon":113.1642,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suxian-gaoyi-ridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Danxia landscape of red sandstone cliffs and ridges on the border of Suxian District and Zixing, north-east of Chenzhou, covering about 50.5 km². It lies close to Feitian Mountain, Dongjiang Lake and Banliang village, and guesthouses, cafés and campsites have grown up around its visitor centre."},{"id":"yizhang-new-year-uprising-headquarters","name":"Headquarters of the South Hunan New Year Uprising","name_zh":"湘南年关暴动指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Xiāngnán Niánguān Bàodòng Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.4013,"lon":112.9443,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yizhang-new-year-uprising-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing courtyard compound at 26 Zhongxia Street in Yizhang county town, built under the Shunzhi emperor as the garrison commander's office and later a girls' vocational school, which Zhu De and Chen Yi used as their headquarters for the 'New Year' rising of January 1928 that opened the Xiangnan (South Hunan) Uprising. Its two courtyards of two-storey grey-brick and timber buildings are furnished as in 1928, and a memorial hall beside them tells the story of the uprising."},{"id":"zixing-huilong-mountain","name":"Huilong Mountain","name_zh":"回龙山","pinyin":"Huílóng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":26.0628,"lon":113.3986,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zixing-huilong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain of about 1,413 m north of Dongjiang Lake in Zixing, rated 4A in December 2024 and visited for sunrise, sunset and sea-of-cloud views from the top and for wild azaleas in May. A hotel, cliff-side guesthouses and a campsite on the mountain let visitors stay overnight, and it is marketed together with the lake ('the lake by day, the mountain by night')."},{"id":"rucheng-jiulongjiang-forest-park","name":"Jiulongjiang National Forest Park","name_zh":"九龙江国家森林公园","pinyin":"Jiǔlóngjiāng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.4262,"lon":113.8067,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rucheng-jiulongjiang-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park on the former Daping state forest farm in south-eastern Rucheng County, on the Hunan–Guangdong border, covered mostly in natural broadleaf forest and rising to Fuyin Peak (1,381 m). The Jiulong River rises in the park and flows south into Guangdong, and a trail follows the Qinglong Gorge past a series of waterfalls; a glass walkway was added in 2017."},{"id":"yizhang-third-blockade-headquarters","name":"Long March Third Blockade Headquarters Site","name_zh":"中央红军长征突破第三道封锁线指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Tūpò Dìsān Dào Fēngsuǒxiàn Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.3966,"lon":113.0242,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yizhang-third-blockade-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Kuang clan ancestral hall (Qingbai Tang) in Baishidu village, a two-storey brick-and-timber hall with fire-gable walls built in 1861. From here Zhou Enlai and Liu Bocheng directed the Central Red Army on 10 November 1934 as it took Baishidu, a town on the Guangdong–Hankou railway, and broke through the Nationalists' third blockade line on the Long March; a stone marker stands outside."},{"id":"beihu-longnu-hot-spring","name":"Longnü Hot Spring","name_zh":"龙女温泉","pinyin":"Lóngnǚ Wēnquán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.8532,"lon":113.0109,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihu-longnu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort area at Tongkenghu on the north-western edge of Chenzhou, near National Road 106, built around a carbonated spring at about 40 °C used for both bathing and drinking. The site is tied to the Tang tale of Liu Yi, the scholar who carried a letter for the Dragon King's daughter (the 'dragon maiden') herding sheep in exile, and has a Dragon Maiden shrine; its hotel has villas with private hot-spring pools."},{"id":"yizhang-mangshan","name":"Mangshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"莽山","pinyin":"Mǎng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":24.9595,"lon":112.8673,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yizhang-mangshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large mountain forest at the southern tip of Yizhang County on the Hunan–Guangdong border, protected as a national nature reserve and national forest park; its subtropical forest has species named after it, such as the Mangshan pit viper. The main visitor zone is Wuzhi Feng (Five-Finger Peak), where a cableway, a vertical lift and cliff-side walkways run to the summit viewpoints, so that older and less mobile visitors can get up too."},{"id":"beihu-emperor-yi-mausoleum","name":"Mausoleum of Emperor Yi","name_zh":"义帝陵","pinyin":"Yìdì Líng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.7964,"lon":113.0268,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihu-emperor-yi-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Xiong Xin, Emperor Yi of Chu (died 206 BC), the figurehead ruler of the rebels against the Qin, whom Xiang Yu sent away to Chen County (today's Chenzhou) and had murdered; the people of Chen buried him here, in what is now the middle of the city. In a small walled park are the round earth mound ringed with granite, a marble tombstone, two stele pavilions with the 'New Stele of Emperor Yi', carved in 1059 with a 1345 record of temple repairs on the back, and its copy, and a memorial shrine with a bronze statue and murals of the Chu–Han wars."},{"id":"guiyang-xiangkun-opera-stages","name":"Old Kunqu Opera Stages of Guiyang","name_zh":"湘昆古戏台","pinyin":"Xiāngkūn Gǔ Xìtái","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":26.0326,"lon":112.4823,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiyang-xiangkun-opera-stages","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three Qing-dynasty theatre stages built into clan ancestral halls in villages of Guiyang County, linked with Xiang Kun, the local Hunan branch of Kunqu opera: the Luo clan hall stage at Daxi (1653, restored 1854), the Ouyang clan hall stage at Xiayang (1718) and the Wei clan hall stage at Zhaojin (1863). The stages stand at the front of their halls, facing the shrines across inner courtyards; those at Daxi and Xiayang have hipped roofs and coffered ceilings, and Daxi and Zhaojin keep painted wooden screens."},{"id":"rucheng-shazhou-village","name":"Shazhou Village (Half a Quilt Story)","name_zh":"沙洲村","pinyin":"Shāzhōu Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.5371,"lon":113.359,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rucheng-shazhou-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yao village in western Rucheng County known for the 'half a quilt' story: in November 1934, as the Central Red Army crossed the area on the Long March, three women soldiers who lodged with a villager, Xu Jiexiu, cut their only quilt in two and left her half. Xi Jinping retold the story in his 2016 speech marking the 80th anniversary of the Long March, and since 2017 Shazhou and four neighbouring villages have been developed into a red-tourism area of about 3.2 km², with the 'Warmth of Half a Quilt' exhibition hall, a sculpture and, in Xiushui village, a 1922 house used as the Red Army headquarters."},{"id":"yongxing-shilangtan-inscriptions","name":"Shilangtan Cliff Inscriptions","name_zh":"侍郎坦摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Shìlángtǎn Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":26.0715,"lon":113.1525,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongxing-shilangtan-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-sandstone overhang about 12 m high and 150 m long on the north bank of the Bian River, as the Lei River is called in Yongxing, named 'the Vice-Minister's Overhang' after the Tang writer Han Yu, who moored his boat here. Its walls carry about 14 inscriptions from the Southern Dynasties, the Tang and the Qing, including two of Han Yu's own 'Changli passed here', confirmed by experts as his calligraphy in 2009."},{"id":"guidong-fourth-red-army-meeting-site","name":"Site of the Fourth Red Army Front Committee Meeting","name_zh":"红四军前委扩大会议旧址","pinyin":"Hóngsìjūn Qiánwěi Kuòdà Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":26.0809,"lon":113.9383,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guidong-fourth-red-army-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Tang family house (Tangjia Dawu) in Guidong county town, with the adjoining City God Temple, where in 1928 the forces of Mao Zedong and Zhu De held an enlarged meeting of the Fourth Red Army's front committee after the setback known as the 'August Defeat'. The meeting reviewed the defeat, put a new action committee under Mao in charge and decided to take the army back to the Jinggangshan base in Jiangxi; listed in 2019 as Guidong's first national heritage site, the house is now a museum of the Red Army's activities in Guidong."},{"id":"suxian-suxian-ridge","name":"Suxian Ridge","name_zh":"苏仙岭","pinyin":"Sūxiān Lǐng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.8104,"lon":113.0406,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suxian-suxian-ridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill on the north-eastern edge of central Chenzhou, named after the legend of a local man who became an immortal ('Su the Immortal'); paths climb past the White Deer Cave, the 'Ascension Stone' and other spots tied to the story. Its cliff inscriptions, carved from the Tang to the Republic, are a national heritage site, the best known being the 'Three Excellences Stele': Qin Guan's poem on his stay at a Chenzhou lodge, with a colophon by Su Shi, in the calligraphy of Mi Fu. It makes an easy half-day walk from the city centre."},{"id":"suxian-tiantang-hot-spring","name":"Tiantang Hot Spring","name_zh":"天堂温泉","pinyin":"Tiāntáng Wēnquán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.8884,"lon":113.0582,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suxian-tiantang-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort at Tiantang village in Xujiadong, on the northern edge of Chenzhou, developed in the 2000s around a spring that comes up at about 52 °C. It has Japanese-style open-air pools in landscaped grounds, with a hotel and villas on site, and suits a relaxed half day or an overnight stay."},{"id":"suxian-wangxianling","name":"Wangxian Ridge","name_zh":"王仙岭","pinyin":"Wángxiān Lǐng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.7701,"lon":113.0781,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suxian-wangxianling","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill scenic area on the south-eastern edge of Chenzhou city, with walks among streams and small waterfalls under the trees. It lies close to the city centre and has long been paired with Suxian Ridge on a day out from Chenzhou."},{"id":"beihu-wanhuayan-cave","name":"Wanhuayan Cave","name_zh":"万华岩","pinyin":"Wànhuáyán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.7062,"lon":112.9323,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihu-wanhuayan-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave in the south-western outskirts of Chenzhou, in Beihu District, where lit paths lead past stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone, and the walls carry inscriptions left by visitors from the Song dynasty onwards. An underground river runs through it, and from around the May Day holiday through the summer an 1,800 m rafting route of about 40 minutes follows the river inside the cave, which stays at about 18–20 °C all year. It is managed together with Suxian Ridge as one scenic area."},{"id":"guidong-wanyang-mountain","name":"Wanyang Mountain","name_zh":"万洋山","pinyin":"Wànyáng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":26.1609,"lon":114.0385,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guidong-wanyang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in Guidong County near the Jiangxi border, part of the Luoxiao range, whose high meadows above 1,500 m, natural tarn and lines of wind turbines are marketed as a 'southern grassland'; azaleas flower on the slopes in spring. Rated 4A in August 2026, it is promoted as a cool summer retreat, with average summer temperatures around 21 °C and forest cover of about 95%."},{"id":"suxian-xiangnan-uprising-memorial","name":"Xiangnan Uprising Memorial Hall and Sites","name_zh":"湘南起义纪念馆","pinyin":"Xiāngnán Qǐyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.7919,"lon":113.0393,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suxian-xiangnan-uprising-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Xiangnan (South Hunan) Uprising of January–April 1928, led by Zhu De and Chen Yi, briefly put more than ten counties of southern Hunan under communist control before the troops withdrew to join Mao Zedong at Jinggangshan; the national heritage group covers buildings linked to it in ten counties. In Chenzhou the places to see are the memorial hall on Dongta Ridge, opened in 2010, with about 3,700 m² of exhibitions in five sections, and the late-Qing Chen family house at 35 Xingzhong Street, about 700 m away, which served as the uprising's headquarters and the Chen County soviet government's office and has been restored and open since 2008."},{"id":"rucheng-xiuyi-arch","name":"Xiuyi Arch","name_zh":"绣衣坊","pinyin":"Xiùyī Fāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.5496,"lon":113.6821,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rucheng-xiuyi-arch","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A white stone memorial arch of 1519 at the entrance to the Fan family village of Yidao, on the edge of Rucheng town, raised for the censor Fan Lu ('embroidered robe' was a name for imperial censors), who was jailed after denouncing the Prince of Ning's dealings with eunuchs and cleared when the prince rebelled. Said to be the oldest stone arch in Hunan, it has three openings under three tiers of stone hipped roofs carved with lions and phoenixes. Behind it stand the Fan family temple of 1485, with a plaque presented by Wang Yangming, and the Zhongcheng Hall of 1522, both built for the same family."},{"id":"linwu-xiyao-green-valley","name":"Xiyao Green Valley National Forest Park","name_zh":"西瑶绿谷","pinyin":"Xīyáo Lǜgǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.217,"lon":112.3944,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linwu-xiyao-green-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park, set up in 2010, in the Xishan Yao Township of south-western Linwu County, where forested mountains fall from 1,720 m to about 300 m into deep valleys with streams, waterfalls and caves. Paths follow the valley, a cherry valley planted in 2015 with some 2,000 trees flowers in early April, and the Yao hamlet of Taoyuanping lies deep in the hills."},{"id":"beihu-yangtianhu-grassland","name":"Yangtianhu Grassland","name_zh":"仰天湖大草原","pinyin":"Yǎngtiānhú Dàcǎoyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Chenzhou","lat":25.5131,"lon":112.8337,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihu-yangtianhu-grassland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A high grassland of rolling hilltops at around 1,300 m in the mountains south-west of Chenzhou, in Beihu District. Summer temperatures average about 20 °C, so it fills up in July and August with visitors from Chenzhou and the Guangdong cities to the south, who walk the meadows, ride horses and stay on for sunsets and starry skies. A 2022 season of the Hunan TV show 'Chinese Restaurant' was filmed here."},{"id":"leiyang-cai-lun-memorial-park","name":"Cai Lun Memorial Park","name_zh":"蔡伦纪念园","pinyin":"Cài Lún Jìniànyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.4062,"lon":112.8513,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leiyang-cai-lun-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park in central Leiyang, home town of Cai Lun, the Eastern Han court official credited with improving papermaking around AD 105. At its core is Cai Hou Temple, a brick-and-timber shrine rebuilt in the late Qing on the site said to be his old home, beside Caizi Pond. The park around it was laid out in 2001 and includes a cenotaph tomb and a workshop demonstrating traditional papermaking."},{"id":"leiyang-cailun-bamboo-sea","name":"Cailun Bamboo Sea","name_zh":"蔡伦竹海","pinyin":"Cài Lún Zhúhǎi","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.2051,"lon":112.9852,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leiyang-cailun-bamboo-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large area of bamboo forest in Huangshi Town in south-eastern Leiyang, the home district of the papermaking pioneer Cai Lun. Stone paths lead through the bamboo from a visitor centre with a statue of Cai Lun to old hand-papermaking workshops, where craftsmen show the traditional process of soaking, pounding and sheet-forming bamboo pulp. Since December 2024 the old Shangbao crystal mine inside the area, known for its fluorite specimens, has been open as a mine park."},{"id":"changning-china-seal-mountain","name":"China Seal Mountain","name_zh":"中国印山","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Yìn Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.2069,"lon":112.4936,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changning-china-seal-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone hillside in Miaoqian Town, Changning, known locally as Yanbeiling, on which thousands of designs of historic Chinese seals have been carved into the rocks since 2003. The project was started by the printmaker Wu Guowei, and the carvings reproduce seals from Shang bronze seals to the Qin imperial seal and Tang official seals, in both relief and intaglio; the scenic area, reopened after an upgrade in 2020, also takes in a cave and flower fields."},{"id":"hengyang-dongzhou-island","name":"Dongzhou Island","name_zh":"东洲岛","pinyin":"Dōngzhōu Dǎo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.8713,"lon":112.6327,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hengyang-dongzhou-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An island about 2 km long in the Xiang River in central Hengyang, whose peach blossom ('Dongzhou peach waves') was one of the city's eight traditional views. Its main sight is Chuanshan Academy, founded in 1878 in honour of the philosopher Wang Fuzhi and moved to the island in 1885 by Peng Yulin, who appointed the scholar Wang Kaiyun as its head; the academy was restored in a renovation of the whole island, which reopened in 2018. Luohan Temple, old camphor trees and a sandy beach at the island's tip, exposed when the river is low, complete a gentle walk."},{"id":"hengdong-luo-ronghuan-residence","name":"Former Residence of Luo Ronghuan","name_zh":"罗荣桓故居","pinyin":"Luó Rónghuán Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.0751,"lon":113.1496,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengdong-luo-ronghuan-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Luo Ronghuan (1902–1963), a Communist commander who led political work in the Red Army and was made a marshal of the People's Liberation Army in 1955, in Nanwan Village, Ronghuan Town, Hengdong County. The family house was restored and opened to visitors in 1985, and a memorial hall nearby has a full-length bronze statue of him outside."},{"id":"hengyang-wang-fuzhi-residence","name":"Former Residence of Wang Fuzhi (Xiangxi Caotang)","name_zh":"王船山故居","pinyin":"Wáng Chuánshān Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.2231,"lon":112.2047,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengyang-wang-fuzhi-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xiangxi Caotang is the thatched retreat where the Ming loyalist philosopher Wang Fuzhi (Wang Chuanshan, 1619–1692) spent his final years writing, in Qulan Town, Hengyang County. Built in 1675, the modest brick-and-timber house of about 176 m² is a typical rural home of southern Hunan, and the national listing also covers his tomb in the same area."},{"id":"hengyang-xia-minghan-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xia Minghan","name_zh":"夏明翰故居","pinyin":"Xià Mínghàn Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.1903,"lon":112.262,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengyang-xia-minghan-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral home of Xia Minghan (1900–1928), an early Communist organiser executed in Hankou in 1928 and remembered for the poem he wrote before his death, in Lizi Village, Hongshi Town, Hengyang County. The Qing-era compound of 45 rooms, built around 1745, was restored and opened in 2005. It now holds an exhibition on his life, a calligraphy display and restored living rooms."},{"id":"hengyang-xiangnan-student-union-site","name":"Former Site of the Xiangnan Student Union","name_zh":"湘南学联旧址","pinyin":"Xiāngnán Xuélián Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.9078,"lon":112.6131,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengyang-xiangnan-student-union-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former premises of the Xiangnan (Southern Hunan) Student Union, a student federation active in Hengyang from the May Fourth period of 1919, on the east bank of the Xiang River. The site and its memorial hall hold exhibitions on the union and early revolutionary activity in southern Hunan, including a room associated with Mao Zedong. It hosted the opening of Hunan's Red Tourism Festival in 2022."},{"id":"hengyang-goulou-peak","name":"Goulou Peak","name_zh":"岣嵝峰","pinyin":"Gǒulǒu Fēng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.1331,"lon":112.6156,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengyang-goulou-peak","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Goulou Peak is one of the main summits of the Hengshan range, rising in the north-east of Hengyang County on the border with Hengshan County, inside a national forest park set up in 1995 that covers about 2,070 ha, takes in five of Mount Heng's 72 peaks and rises to 1,143 m. It gave its name to the Goulou Stele, an inscription in tadpole-like script traditionally attributed to Yu the Great, of which later copies are carved on Yuelu Mountain in Changsha and elsewhere. The forested mountain was rated a 4A scenic area in 2026."},{"id":"nanyue-grand-temple","name":"Grand Temple of Mount Heng","name_zh":"南岳大庙","pinyin":"Nányuè Dàmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.2485,"lon":112.7289,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanyue-grand-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The largest temple on Mount Heng, at the northern end of Nanyue old town at the foot of the mountain, dedicated to the god of the Southern Peak. First recorded in 725, it was rebuilt in 1882 on the pattern of the imperial palace in Beijing after a fire, earning the nickname 'little Forbidden City of the south'. Nine gates, pavilions and halls stand on its central axis, including the main hall with 72 stone columns, one for each peak, and eight Taoist and eight Buddhist compounds flank them."},{"id":"hengyang-ornamental-stone-museum","name":"Hengyang Ornamental Stone Museum","name_zh":"衡阳奇石文化博物馆","pinyin":"Héngyáng Qíshí Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.9069,"lon":112.5139,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengyang-ornamental-stone-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private museum of ornamental stones in Zhengxiang District, the first private museum approved by Hunan's cultural relics bureau, run by the collector Liu Xuanling. Its two main halls show large and small decorative stones respectively, and galleries on minerals, crystals, fossils and geology serve as a science education base for young people."},{"id":"hengyang-huiyan-peak","name":"Huiyan Peak","name_zh":"回雁峰","pinyin":"Huíyàn Fēng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.8913,"lon":112.6091,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hengyang-huiyan-peak/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 97 m hill in Yanfeng District, traditionally counted as the first of Mount Heng's 72 peaks and the source of Hengyang's nickname 'Wild Goose City', from the old belief that geese flying south turned back here. The hilltop park has the rebuilt Yanfeng Temple, first founded in the Southern and Northern dynasties, the 35 m Huiyan Pavilion, and a small memorial hall at Wang Fuzhi's birthplace on its western slope."},{"id":"nanyue-mount-heng","name":"Mount Heng","name_zh":"南岳衡山","pinyin":"Nányuè Héng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.2972,"lon":112.6897,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanyue-mount-heng/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mount Heng, the Southern Peak among China's Five Great Mountains, is a granite range counted as 72 peaks, whose highest point, Zhurong Peak, stands at about 1,300 m above Nanyue town. Long a centre of both Buddhism and Taoism, its slopes hold temples such as Zhusheng, Fuyan and Shangfeng, and cliff inscriptions from the Southern and Northern dynasties to the Republican era are scattered over some 375 spots. The mountain is also a national nature reserve, with evergreen broadleaf forest giving way to dwarf forest and grassland above about 800 m."},{"id":"hengyang-nanhu-park","name":"Nanhu Park","name_zh":"南湖公园","pinyin":"Nánhú Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.86,"lon":112.5848,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengyang-nanhu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park around a former reservoir on the south-western side of central Hengyang, opened in 2014 and the city's largest urban wetland park. Boardwalks, zig-zag bridges and pavilions ring the lake, with restaurants and tea rooms on the shore."},{"id":"nanyue-martyrs-shrine","name":"Nanyue Martyrs' Shrine","name_zh":"南岳忠烈祠","pinyin":"Nányuè Zhōngliè Cí","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.2688,"lon":112.7125,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanyue-martyrs-shrine/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial shrine below Xianglu Peak on the lower slopes of Mount Heng, planned in 1938 and completed in 1943 by the Nationalist government for soldiers killed in the War of Resistance against Japan, and regarded as one of the earliest and largest such memorials in China. Laid out like the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, a 240 m axis climbs from a memorial arch past a tower shaped as five artillery shells and a stele hall to the cross-shaped sacrificial hall. Collective cemeteries of several Nationalist divisions and the tombs of a dozen generals lie on the surrounding hills."},{"id":"hengnan-qishan-forest-park","name":"Qishan Forest Park","name_zh":"岐山","pinyin":"Qí Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.8682,"lon":112.1327,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengnan-qishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qishan, formerly called Fenghuang Shan and counted among the 72 peaks of Mount Heng, is a hill in the west of Hengnan County rising to 741 m, protected as a provincial forest park since 1998. Its secondary broadleaf forest is rich in nanmu trees and has 26 ancient ginkgos, ten of them more than 300 years old. Renrui Temple, a provincial heritage site, stands on the mountain."},{"id":"hengyang-shigu-academy","name":"Shigu Academy","name_zh":"石鼓书院","pinyin":"Shígǔ Shūyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.9152,"lon":112.6123,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengyang-shigu-academy","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shigu Academy stands on Shigu Hill, where the Zheng and Lei rivers join the Xiang in the north of Hengyang city. Founded around 810 under the Tang and twice given imperial name boards in the Song, it is often counted among the four great academies of the Song, and the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi wrote a record of it in 1187. The old buildings were destroyed by Japanese bombing in 1939, and today's complex is a Qing-style reconstruction that opened in 2007."},{"id":"changning-shuikoushan-mining-heritage","name":"Shuikoushan Lead-Zinc Mining Heritage & Labour Movement Memorial","name_zh":"水口山铅锌矿冶遗址","pinyin":"Shuǐkǒushān Qiānxīn Kuàngyě Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.5548,"lon":112.5852,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changning-shuikoushan-mining-heritage","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mining in the Shuikoushan area of Changning goes back more than a thousand years, and the Qing government set up a mining bureau here in 1896; the listed industrial site has 19 features above and below ground, including old shafts, smelting halls and workers' housing. In 1922 Mao Zedong visited the mine, and later that year the miners' club organised a major strike. Visitors can see a new labour-movement memorial hall, opened in 2021, and the older exhibition hall in a building put up in 1953 for Soviet experts."},{"id":"qidong-siming-mountain","name":"Siming Mountain","name_zh":"四明山","pinyin":"Sìmíng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.8374,"lon":111.5819,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qidong-siming-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain on the western edge of Qidong County, said to take its name from the four neighbouring counties it looks out over; it became a provincial forest park in 2004 and a national forest park in 2014. Besides woodland walks, the mountain has Siming Temple, said to date from the early Tang, and the late-Ming Tengyun Zushi Hall."},{"id":"hengnan-dayu-wang-ancestral-hall","name":"Wang Ancestral Hall, Dayu Village","name_zh":"大渔村王氏宗祠","pinyin":"Dàyú Cūn Wáng Shì Zōngcí","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.6647,"lon":112.5074,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengnan-dayu-wang-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ancestral hall of the Wang clan in Dayu Village, Lijiang Town, in southern Hengnan County, founded under the Northern Song, restored in the Yongle reign of the Ming and repaired several times under the Qing; it has been a national heritage site since 2013. The Ming-style hall stands on 48 stone columns with more than 300 carved brackets and keeps 32 inscribed couplets attributed to figures from Ouyang Xiu to Zuo Zongtang. The clan still gathers here for an ancestral rite every winter."},{"id":"changning-zhongtian-village","name":"Zhongtian Village Historic Buildings","name_zh":"中田村古建筑群","pinyin":"Zhōngtián Cūn Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":26.1745,"lon":112.5171,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changning-zhongtian-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Li clan in Miaoqian Town, Changning, settled in 1404 by descendants of Ming-dynasty soldier households from the Chaling garrison. Its 28 listed buildings date from the Ming dynasty to the Republican era and were made a national heritage site in 2019. China Seal Mountain lies in the same town, so the two can be seen together."},{"id":"hengshan-zijin-mountain","name":"Zijin Mountain","name_zh":"紫金山","pinyin":"Zǐjīn Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Hengyang","lat":27.2356,"lon":112.8569,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengshan-zijin-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill beside Kaiyun, the county town of Hengshan County, counted in the Mount Heng range as Jinzi Peak. The scenic area covers 4.35 km² with forest cover of about 87%, mixing woodland paths with a few cultural sites, and is promoted as a cool summer retreat."},{"id":"anjiang-hybrid-rice-memorial-park","name":"Anjiang Agricultural School Hybrid Rice Memorial Park","name_zh":"安江农校杂交水稻纪念园","pinyin":"Ānjiāng Nóngxiào Zájiāo Shuǐdào Jìniànyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.3493,"lon":110.1461,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anjiang-hybrid-rice-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former campus of the Anjiang Agricultural School in Anjiang town, where the rice scientist Yuan Longping taught and did research from 1953 and where his team developed China's three-line hybrid rice system. The memorial park keeps school buildings from 1939 to the 1980s, among them Yuan's former home, the assembly hall, a genetics laboratory, a glasshouse and the experimental rice fields, and the Hybrid Rice Birthplace Museum, opened in 2024, stands about 1 km away. Across the Yuan River lies the Gaomiao Neolithic site, where carbonised rice grains about 7,400 years old have been found."},{"id":"tongdao-baiyi-temple","name":"Baiyi Temple","name_zh":"白衣观","pinyin":"Báiyī Guàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.2023,"lon":109.5232,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongdao-baiyi-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple of 1759 in Boyang town, western Tongdao, also called the Qianqiu White Pagoda and described as the only Taoist temple in the Dong region. Its centrepiece is a five-storey octagonal timber tower 18.92 m tall with a spiral wooden stair inside and lattice windows on every floor, enclosed by a brick wall."},{"id":"xupu-chongshi-academy","name":"Chongshi Academy, Xupu","name_zh":"溆浦崇实书院","pinyin":"Xùpǔ Chóngshí Shūyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.4127,"lon":110.5327,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xupu-chongshi-academy","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty clan academy in the old village of Yanban, Longtan town, founded in 1834 as the Yanling family school of the Wu clan and renamed Chongshi Academy in 1855. Behind its original archway-style gate the brick-and-timber building has three halls round courtyards, with murals and clay reliefs of landscapes, flowers and birds, carved stones set into a screen wall and a half-moon pond in front; it became a national heritage unit in 2019."},{"id":"xupu-chuanyan-mountain","name":"Chuanyan Mountain","name_zh":"穿岩山","pinyin":"Chuānyán Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.7049,"lon":110.5681,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xupu-chuanyan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area in Tongxihe town in the Xuefeng Mountains of Xupu County, rated 4A in 2019, with the hilltop Fengxiang Yao village of guesthouses as its main base. An 18 km walking route through it follows the line of march of the Red Second and Sixth Army Groups past an iron-chain bridge over the Shixi River, the old village of Yan'ejie, a stretch of old tea-horse road and Red Army pavilions and bridges."},{"id":"yuanling-eryou-mountain","name":"Eryou Mountain","name_zh":"二酉山","pinyin":"Èryǒu Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":28.5213,"lon":110.2856,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanling-eryou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill at the meeting of the You River and the Youxi stream north-west of Yuanling town, tied by legend to the scholar Fu Sheng, who is said to have hidden banned books in a cave here during the Qin book burning; the place became a byword for learning in Chinese. Rated 4A in 2025 and promoted as China's Book Mountain, it has a stepped path up to the cave, a visitor centre with exhibition rooms and a floating footbridge across the river."},{"id":"jingzhou-feishan","name":"Feishan Mountain","name_zh":"飞山","pinyin":"Fēi Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.6038,"lon":109.6491,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingzhou-feishan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 720 m mountain north-west of Jingzhou town whose summit temple honours Yang Zaisi (860–954), a local leader of the Five Dynasties period who styled himself Lord of Feishan and is revered across the Hunan–Guizhou–Guangxi borderlands. The summit temple was first built in the Yuanfeng period (1078–1085) of the Song dynasty and rebuilt in 1903 after a fire, and the mountain also has a Qing temple of 1693, a Chan Buddhist temple rebuilt in 2005, the Taoist Fangguang Temple at its foot and old defensive trenches."},{"id":"xupu-xiang-jingyu-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xiang Jingyu","name_zh":"向警予故居","pinyin":"Xiàng Jǐngyǔ Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.9093,"lon":110.5857,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xupu-xiang-jingyu-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An early Qing courtyard house of pine and fir timber in Xupu county town where Xiang Jingyu (1895–1928), an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party and of its women's movement, was born. Together with an exhibition on her life and a square with her bronze statue it forms the Xiang Jingyu Memorial, opened in 1981; she was executed by the Kuomintang in Wuhan in 1928."},{"id":"hongjiang-gaomiao-site","name":"Gaomiao Archaeological Site","name_zh":"高庙遗址","pinyin":"Gāomiào Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.3632,"lon":110.1578,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongjiang-gaomiao-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic shell-midden site on a terrace of the Yuan River opposite Anjiang town, whose lower layers of about 7,800 to 6,600 years ago define the Gaomiao culture, known for white pottery stamped with phoenix-bird, fanged beast-face and eight-pointed star designs and for large ritual remains. Excavated in 1991, 2004, 2005 and 2024 and named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2005, it now has a site museum, opened in 2024, that shows more than 240 objects and specimens, and is being developed as a national archaeological park."},{"id":"huitong-gaoyi-ancient-village","name":"Gaoyi Ancient Village","name_zh":"高椅古村","pinyin":"Gāoyǐ Gǔcūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.9556,"lon":110.0136,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huitong-gaoyi-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dong village in Gaoyi township, Huitong County, ringed by hills on three sides and a river on the fourth, where 104 houses built between 1380 and 1881 survive. Most villagers are surnamed Yang and trace their descent from the 10th-century local leader Yang Zaisi; it became a China Historical and Cultural Village in 2007 and was rated 4A in 2025."},{"id":"hongjiang-ancient-commercial-town","name":"Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town","name_zh":"洪江古商城","pinyin":"Hóngjiāng Gǔ Shāngchéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.1178,"lon":109.9998,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongjiang-ancient-commercial-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old river port where the Wu River joins the Yuan, which in Ming and Qing times was the main transit point for the produce of south-western Hunan and eastern Guizhou. More than 380 buildings from the Ming dynasty to the Republican era survive, among them temples, money shops, trading houses, foreign firms, workshops, shops and inns, 18 of them protected at national level; named buildings include the likin tax office, the Suzhou and Changde guild halls and an old opium house."},{"id":"tongdao-huangdu-dong-village","name":"Huangdu Dong Culture Village","name_zh":"皇都侗文化村","pinyin":"Huángdū Dòng Wénhuà Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.1084,"lon":109.7227,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongdao-huangdu-dong-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dong village in Pingtan township, Tongdao, run as a cultural scenic area, with timber stilt houses, drum towers and covered bridges. Visitors are met at the village gate with Dong welcome customs, and Dong songs and dances are staged for them at a performance ground; there are village guesthouses for overnight stays."},{"id":"hecheng-huangyan-eco-tourism-area","name":"Huangyan Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"黄岩生态旅游区","pinyin":"Huángyán Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.4779,"lon":110.0932,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hecheng-huangyan-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst upland on the slopes of Liangshan south-east of Huaihua city, at an average altitude of about 850 m, that is a provincial tourist resort and forest park and is promoted as a summer retreat. It takes in the Huaihua Grand Canyon and Baima scenic spots and Daping village, where villagers have planted flower fields among the rocks and built cliff walkways and ziplines; grass sledding and rock climbing are also on offer."},{"id":"zhongfang-jingping-ancient-village","name":"Jingping Ancient Village","name_zh":"荆坪古村","pinyin":"Jīngpíng Gǔcūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.4256,"lon":109.9341,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongfang-jingping-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of Ming and Qing brick-and-timber houses on the west bank of the Wu River in Zhongfang County, most of whose residents belong to the Pan clan. Its old buildings include the Pan ancestral hall, a Guandi temple and stone memorial archways; it is a China Historical and Cultural Village, was rated 4A in 2025, and keeps up a tradition of qin music linked to a Qing scholar of the clan."},{"id":"hecheng-jiufeng-agricultural-park","name":"Jiufeng Modern Agricultural Expo Park","name_zh":"九丰现代农博园","pinyin":"Jiǔfēng Xiàndài Nóngbóyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.567,"lon":110.0442,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hecheng-jiufeng-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern agricultural park in Hecheng District, Huaihua, that opened in June 2018, built around large climate-controlled show glasshouses growing vegetables, fruit and some 360 unusual varieties. Its zones include farming-technology displays, vegetable and fruit growing areas, leisure areas and an ocean-themed science hall, and it mainly suits families from the city."},{"id":"xinhuang-longxi-ancient-town","name":"Longxi Ancient Town","name_zh":"龙溪古镇","pinyin":"Lóngxī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.3676,"lon":109.1626,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhuang-longxi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old riverside quarter of Longxikou in Xinhuang county town, near the Guizhou border, shaped by Ming and Qing trade on the Wu River, with more than 200 old buildings including a group of historic merchant houses. The Longxi Academy here was revived in 2012 from the Wuyang Academy founded in 1821, and during the war against Japan the architects Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin stopped in the town for about ten days on their way south-west."},{"id":"yuanling-longxing-temple","name":"Longxing Temple","name_zh":"龙兴讲寺","pinyin":"Lóngxīng Jiǎngsì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":28.453,"lon":110.3879,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanling-longxing-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the southern foot of Huxi Hill in Yuanling town, traditionally founded in 628 by order of the Tang emperor Taizong, whose halls preserve building styles from the Song to the Qing and are described as the oldest surviving group of timber buildings in Hunan. The Mahavira Hall of the late Yuan or early Ming, nearly 20 m high on 24 nanmu columns, carries a plaque by the Ming calligrapher Dong Qichang, and the philosopher Wang Yangming is recorded as lecturing here for a month on his way back from exile in Guizhou. From the Guanyin Pavilion at the back there are views over the Yuan River."},{"id":"tongdao-matian-drum-tower","name":"Matian Drum Tower","name_zh":"马田鼓楼","pinyin":"Mǎtián Gǔlóu","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":25.9612,"lon":109.7839,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongdao-matian-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dong drum tower in Matian village, Pingyang township, in the far south of Tongdao, first built in the Shunzhi reign of the early Qing and restored in 1984. The all-timber tower is 18.72 m high with nine tiers of eaves, the top tier octagonal and the rest four-sided; its eave boards are painted with flowers, birds and insects, and clay tigers, dragons, snakes and phoenixes stand on its corners."},{"id":"tongdao-pingtan-covered-bridges","name":"Pingtan River Covered Bridges","name_zh":"坪坦风雨桥","pinyin":"Píngtǎn Fēngyǔqiáo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.0517,"lon":109.715,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongdao-pingtan-covered-bridges","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nine Dong covered bridges with long timber galleries span the Pingtan River in Pingtan township and Longcheng town; they were built between 1755 and 1853, and most were repaired in the 20th century. The longest, the Huilong Bridge of 1761, is about 63 m long with 22 bays, and the bridges still carry villagers on foot."},{"id":"hongjiang-qianyang-ancient-town","name":"Qianyang Ancient Town","name_zh":"黔阳古城","pinyin":"Qiányáng Gǔchéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.1938,"lon":109.8124,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongjiang-qianyang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old walled town of Qiancheng, former seat of Qianyang County, sits where the Wu River meets the Yuan, with water on three sides, and keeps about 0.8 km² of flagstone lanes lined mainly with Ming and Qing buildings. Survivals include the west Zhongzheng Gate with its gate tower, the bell and drum tower, the Wanshou Palace, the Baoshan Academy, the old county yamen and the Chifeng Pagoda. Furong Tower, a garden pavilion complex built in memory of the Tang poet Wang Changling, has a stele corridor of more than a hundred carved inscriptions in the hands of Yan Zhenqing, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu and other calligraphers."},{"id":"xupu-simeng-danxia","name":"Simeng Danxia Scenic Area","name_zh":"思蒙碧水丹霞","pinyin":"Sīméng Bìshuǐ Dānxiá","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.8386,"lon":110.5228,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xupu-simeng-danxia","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of the Xu River at Simeng, west of Xupu county town, where red Danxia sandstone cliffs and peaks rise above the water, a landscape locally nicknamed little Guilin. Downstream the river enters the Quzi Gorge, named after the poet Qu Yuan, whose poem Crossing the River is tied by local tradition to this valley."},{"id":"yuanling-chenzhou-missionary-case-site","name":"Site of the Chenzhou Missionary Case","name_zh":"辰州教案发生地","pinyin":"Chénzhōu Jiào'àn Fāshēngdì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":28.4554,"lon":110.3998,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanling-chenzhou-missionary-case-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Western-style church and mission buildings on Malu Lane in Yuanling town, where two British missionaries of the China Inland Mission were killed in August 1902 after rumours during an epidemic accused them of poisoning, an affair known as the Chenzhou Missionary Case. With the indemnity, the American Reformed Church mission that took over built a chapel and school in 1907 and several missionaries' houses, and later a hospital and girls' school, beside a Catholic church. In 1938 the buildings housed offices of the Hunan provincial government after it moved temporarily to Yuanling."},{"id":"huitong-su-yu-hometown","name":"Su Yu's Hometown","name_zh":"粟裕故里","pinyin":"Sù Yù Gùlǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.9372,"lon":109.7326,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huitong-su-yu-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The home village of Su Yu (1907–1984), a leading Communist military commander who later served as Chief of the PLA General Staff and held the rank of Senior General; he was born into a Dong family in Fengmushujiao village, now part of Pingcun town. The scenic area joins his former home to the Su Yu Memorial Hall, devoted to his life and military career, with a memorial square, a bronze statue, a lake and an outdoor display of aircraft, tanks and other heavy weapons."},{"id":"mayang-teng-daiyuan-memorial-hall","name":"Teng Daiyuan Memorial Hall","name_zh":"滕代远纪念馆","pinyin":"Téng Dàiyuǎn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.8693,"lon":109.8002,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mayang-teng-daiyuan-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial hall by the Jin River in Mayang county town to Teng Daiyuan (1904–1974), a Miao native of Mayang who was one of the leaders of the Pingjiang Uprising, a senior Red Army political commissar and later the first Minister of Railways of the People's Republic. Opened on 2 November 1986 with its name written by Hu Yaobang, it traces his life in ten sections with more than 300 photographs, more than 60 original documents and objects and two reconstructed scenes. His former home in Yanmen town, with some of his belongings, belongs to the same scenic area."},{"id":"tongdao-conference-site","name":"Tongdao Conference Site (Gongcheng Academy)","name_zh":"通道转兵纪念地","pinyin":"Tōngdào Zhuǎnbīng Jìniàndì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.3174,"lon":109.6266,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongdao-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Gongcheng Academy in Xianxi town was founded in 1105 as the Luomeng Academy and rebuilt by Dong craftsmen in 1792, and is one of the more complete academies surviving in a Dong area. On 12 December 1934 leaders of the Central Red Army on the Long March met here and decided to turn west into Guizhou rather than north into western Hunan, the episode known as the Tongdao Turn. The Tongdao Turn Memorial Hall stands beside the academy."},{"id":"tongdao-wanfo-mountain","name":"Wanfo Mountain","name_zh":"万佛山","pinyin":"Wànfó Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.2657,"lon":109.8653,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongdao-wanfo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Danxia landscape of red sandstone peaks, cliffs and forest in Wanfoshan town, Tongdao, whose main summit rises to 635 m; together with nearby Dong villages it became a national scenic area in 2009. Named sights include the Wanfo summit, Qiansui Peak and Xianrenju, and the summit looks out over hundreds of peaks rising from the forest."},{"id":"chenxi-bandit-suppression-memorial-park","name":"West Hunan Bandit Suppression Memorial Park","name_zh":"湘西剿匪胜利纪念园","pinyin":"Xiāngxī Jiǎofěi Shènglì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":28.0058,"lon":110.188,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chenxi-bandit-suppression-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The national heritage unit for the 1949–1952 campaign in which the PLA's 47th Army fought armed bandit groups across western Hunan has two parts: the 47th Army headquarters building in Yuanling town and the memorial hall in Victory Park on the high ground of old Chenxi town. At the park the memorial hall has steles at its gate listing those killed in the campaign, a museum opened in 2004 shows documents and objects from the campaign in 22 counties, and a victory monument stands in the park."},{"id":"xupu-xuefeng-mountain-war-sites","name":"Xuefeng Mountain War of Resistance Sites","name_zh":"湘西雪峰山抗战旧址","pinyin":"Xiāngxī Xuěfēng Shān Kàngzhàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.3982,"lon":110.5099,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xupu-xuefeng-mountain-war-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national heritage unit made up of sites from the Battle of West Hunan, fought around the Xuefeng Mountains from April to June 1945 when Japanese forces advanced towards the Zhijiang airfield and were driven back, spread over Xupu and Chenxi counties in Huaihua and Dongkou County in Shaoyang. Its main visitable part is the Wang clan ancestral hall in Wantan village, Huangmaoyuan town, next to Longtan in southern Xupu, which served as a field hospital for more than 2,000 wounded soldiers during the Battle of Longtan and now holds an exhibition of medical equipment, captured Japanese items and other wartime objects. In Chenxi the unit includes the wartime Nanzhuangping arsenal and four bunkers, one of them in Chenxi's Victory Park."},{"id":"tongdao-yutou-dong-village","name":"Yutou Dong Village","name_zh":"芋头侗寨","pinyin":"Yùtóu Dòngzhài","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":26.1389,"lon":109.7094,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongdao-yutou-dong-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dong village in Shuangjiang town founded in the Hongwu reign of the early Ming and rebuilt after a fire in the Shunzhi reign of the Qing, its seven clusters of houses strung along the Yutou stream. Its old buildings include four drum towers, among them the Lusheng Drum Tower, three covered bridges, a gate tower, two Sa altars, two old wells, 78 timber stilt houses and a stretch of old post road."},{"id":"zhijiang-confucian-temple","name":"Zhijiang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"芷江文庙","pinyin":"Zhǐjiāng Wénmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.4507,"lon":109.6799,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhijiang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Confucian temple of Yuanzhou prefecture on Xiaobei Street in Zhijiang town, moved to its present site in 1859 and built in 1862–63. Along its axis lie the Pan pool, the Ji Gate, a dance terrace, the 12 m Dacheng Hall with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof and the Chongsheng shrine, and it also holds a 1921 epitaph stone whose heading was written by the novelist Shen Congwen."},{"id":"zhijiang-surrender-memorial","name":"Zhijiang Surrender Memorial","name_zh":"芷江受降旧址","pinyin":"Zhǐjiāng Shòuxiáng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.4534,"lon":109.7168,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhijiang-surrender-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site in Qiliqiao village outside Zhijiang town where, on 21 August 1945, a Japanese delegation led by Major General Takeo Imai received the Chinese terms for the surrender of Japan's forces in China, the first step towards the formal surrender ceremony in Nanjing that September. It keeps the 1938 buildings of the Chinese Army headquarters and He Yingqin's office, a memorial museum opened in 1995, and the stone surrender memorial arch first built in 1946–47, destroyed in 1966 and rebuilt from old photographs in 2010."},{"id":"zhijiang-tianhou-temple","name":"Zhijiang Tianhou Temple","name_zh":"芷江天后宫","pinyin":"Zhǐjiāng Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Huaihua","lat":27.4409,"lon":109.6784,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhijiang-tianhou-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the sea goddess Mazu on Jiangxi Street in Zhijiang town, first built in the Kangxi reign and enlarged in 1748 by Fujian merchants as their guild hall; it is described as the largest surviving Mazu temple in inland China. Its 10.6 m bluestone gateway, carved in the form of a gate tower, carries 95 relief panels of flowers, animals and legends, and behind it lie a stage, the main hall and a Guanyin hall flanked by halls to the God of Wealth and Guandi."},{"id":"shuangfeng-cai-hesen-memorial-hall","name":"Cai Hesen Memorial Hall","name_zh":"蔡和森纪念馆","pinyin":"Cài Hésēn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.4603,"lon":112.1971,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangfeng-cai-hesen-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum in Shuangfeng town to Cai Hesen (1895–1931), an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party and friend of Mao Zedong who argued for the Bolshevik approach from France and was executed in 1931, and to his family. It stands on Cai Hesen Square with a statue group of the family and the Cai Chang Library, named after his sister, the first chair of the All-China Women's Federation; the family home is about 22 km to the east."},{"id":"xinhua-daxiongshan","name":"Daxiongshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"大熊山","pinyin":"Dàxióng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":28.1934,"lon":111.2956,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhua-daxiongshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain forest park in northern Xinhua whose peaks include Jiulong Feng (1,622 m), the highest in central Hunan, and Daxiong Feng (1,602 m), with gorges, waterfalls, old forest and more than 40 summits over 1,000 m. Local tradition makes it the homeland of Chiyou, the legendary rival of the Yellow Emperor, and there are a Chiyou culture park and hall, the rebuilt Xiongshan Temple, a forest of old monks' stupas and Qing rock inscriptions."},{"id":"shuangfeng-cai-hesen-cai-chang-residence","name":"Former Residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang","name_zh":"蔡和森、蔡畅故居","pinyin":"Cài Hésēn Cài Chàng Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.428,"lon":112.4167,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangfeng-cai-hesen-cai-chang-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangjia Hall, a late-Qing brick-and-timber farmhouse in Yangqiu village, Jingzi town, where the family of the early Communist leader Cai Hesen (1895–1931) settled in 1899 and where his sister Cai Chang, later first chair of the All-China Women's Federation, was born in 1900. The single-storey house of about 550 m², U-shaped around a main hall, side wings and a courtyard, carries a name board written by Deng Xiaoping in 1985; the family had to sell it in 1908."},{"id":"shuangfeng-zeng-guofan-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zeng Guofan","name_zh":"曾国藩故居","pinyin":"Zēng Guófān Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.4122,"lon":112.4553,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shuangfeng-zeng-guofan-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family seat of Zeng Guofan (1811–1872), the Qing statesman whose Xiang Army put down the Taiping Rebellion, at Heye in eastern Shuangfeng. Fuhou Hall, a mansion of over 9,000 m² behind a crescent pond, was enlarged for his family from 1865 and finished in 1875, and its four library buildings once held more than 300,000 volumes, one of the largest private libraries of modern China; his birthplace, the Baiyu Hall farmhouse, is also in Heye."},{"id":"xinhua-fengjia-red-second-corps-hq","name":"Long March HQ of the Red 2nd Army Corps, Fengjia","name_zh":"红二军团长征司令部旧址","pinyin":"Hóng'èr Jūntuán Chángzhēng Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.8115,"lon":110.8044,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhua-fengjia-red-second-corps-hq","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A house called Zhuyuan in Shangtuan village, Fengjia town, where the Red 2nd Army Corps under He Long, some 9,000 troops, set up its headquarters after reaching Fengjia on 12 December 1935, a few weeks into the Long March that the 2nd and 6th Corps had begun from Sangzhi. The troops rested here and gathered grain, straw sandals and clothing with help from local people, and the restored house is open as a memorial site."},{"id":"lianyuan-longshan-forest-park","name":"Longshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"龙山","pinyin":"Lóng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.5233,"lon":111.8269,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lianyuan-longshan-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested range on Lianyuan's southern border, a national forest park since 2007 centred on Yueping Peak (1,513 m), with forest cover of over 90% and seven scenic sections, among them the Feishuiya waterfall valley. Known as a 'mountain of medicinal herbs', it has on its summit the Medicine King Hall honouring Sun Simiao, the Tang physician said to have gathered herbs and written here, first built in the Tang and brought to its present form in 1887."},{"id":"lianyuan-meijiang","name":"Meijiang Scenic Area","name_zh":"湄江","pinyin":"Méi Jiāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.9095,"lon":111.7396,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianyuan-meijiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst national geopark of about 128 km² along the winding Mei River in north-western Lianyuan, opened to visitors from 1992: sheer limestone walls known as the Ten-li Painted Wall, the Three Rock Gates, natural bridges, two lakes, waterfalls and caves such as Xianren Cave, which stays at about 25°C and has a waterfall inside. Its six main areas are Guanyin Cliff, Cangjun Cave, Xianren Fu, Saihai Lake, Longquan Gorge and Dajiangkou, and visitors walk cliff paths or float down the river on rafts."},{"id":"xinhua-meishan-longgong-cave","name":"Meishan Longgong Cave","name_zh":"梅山龙宫","pinyin":"Méishān Lónggōng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.9499,"lon":111.2747,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhua-meishan-longgong-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst cave system by the Zi River in Youxi township, formed where the Taoxi stream sinks into the hills, with galleries stacked through some 80 m of height: flowstone and stalactites above, helictites and 'frost' crystals on old river sands, a great rubble pile called the Golden Mountain in the Water and stalagmite forests below. About 2,870 m have been explored, and the 1.9 km visitor route includes a 466 m stretch of underground river travelled by boat."},{"id":"xinhua-sanliandong","name":"Sanliandong Scenic Area","name_zh":"三联峒","pinyin":"Sānlián Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.5393,"lon":111.2315,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhua-sanliandong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area of gorges and ridges in Sanliandong village, Weishan township, in Xinhua County. It is laid out around two walking routes, one up a stream gorge called Bingquan Xia (Ice Spring Gorge) with pools and waterfalls, the other along the rocky Longji Feng (Dragon's Spine) ridge."},{"id":"xinhua-north-pagoda","name":"Xinhua North Pagoda","name_zh":"新化北塔","pinyin":"Xīnhuà Běi Tǎ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.7605,"lon":111.3014,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhua-north-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal pagoda about 42 m tall, begun in 1834 on Huilong Hill on the west bank of the Zi River at Xinhua town. It stands on a granite base, with a body of grey brick and some stone, iron-tiled eaves and a cast-bronze finial."},{"id":"xinhua-ziquejie-terraces","name":"Ziquejie Rice Terraces","name_zh":"紫鹊界梯田","pinyin":"Zǐquèjiè Tītián","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Loudi","lat":27.7083,"lon":110.9439,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhua-ziquejie-terraces","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rice terraces covering tens of thousands of mu on the mountains of Shuiche and Fengjia towns in western Xinhua, farmed for more than 2,000 years and watered entirely by natural seepage and spring flow, with no ponds or dams. They are listed as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System, a World Heritage Irrigation Structure and a national scenic area, and paths and viewpoints look over terraces climbing from the valleys to the ridges."},{"id":"xinshao-baishuidong","name":"Baishuidong Scenic Area","name_zh":"白水洞","pinyin":"Báishuǐ Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.4471,"lon":111.4397,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinshao-baishuidong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area in Yantang Town, Xinshao County, with two main sections: Bailong Cave, known for its towering 'Southern Sky Pillar', a curtain of flowstone and an 'undersea world' chamber, and a walk through the Baishuidong gorge. The caves and waters here have drawn visitors since the Ming dynasty, and Qing writers left travel accounts of them."},{"id":"shaoyang-baoqing-city-wall","name":"Baoqing Prefecture City Wall","name_zh":"宝庆府古城墙","pinyin":"Bǎoqìngfǔ Gǔ Chéngqiáng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.2418,"lon":111.454,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoyang-baoqing-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The surviving north side of the walls of old Baoqing, today's Shaoyang, with the Qingfeng (north) gate, the Linjin gate and about 1.3 km of wall. The walls were rebuilt in 1372 and repaired in 1852; the other three sides were pulled down in 1939, during the war against Japan, to make it easier for residents to evacuate."},{"id":"shaoyang-cai-e-former-residence","name":"Cai E's Former Residence","name_zh":"蔡锷故居","pinyin":"Cài È Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.1553,"lon":111.5234,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoyang-cai-e-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The farmhouse in Cai'e Township, Daxiang District, where Cai E, the general who led the 1915–16 National Protection War against Yuan Shikai's attempt to restore the monarchy, was born in 1882. The simple three-bay mud-brick house collapsed in 1950 and was rebuilt to its original form in 1991; a neighbouring house holds an exhibition on his life, and the surrounding Cai E hometown scenic area was rated 4A in 2021."},{"id":"chengbu-dankou-miao-script-carvings","name":"Dankou Miao Script Stone Carvings","name_zh":"丹口苗文石刻群","pinyin":"Dānkǒu Miáowén Shíkèqún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.3137,"lon":110.1734,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengbu-dankou-miao-script-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Stones carved with an old Miao script, other symbols and pictures, found in 2011 during a national heritage survey scattered over the field banks and hillsides around Douchongtou in Xian'e village, Dankou Town, Chengbu. Archaeologists identified the writing as Miao in 2014–16, most of it carved in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and 92 sites with carved stones or building foundations have since been recorded in the village. They are rare evidence of a written form of the Miao language, long thought to have had no script of its own."},{"id":"dongkou-ancestral-halls","name":"Dongkou Ancestral Halls","name_zh":"洞口宗祠建筑群","pinyin":"Dòngkǒu Zōngcí Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.9977,"lon":110.6778,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongkou-ancestral-halls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of ten clan ancestral halls and the Marshal Zhong Temple scattered across Dongkou County, built between the Ming dynasty and the Republican era, among them the halls of the Yang clans of Jintang and Qutang and of the Tan, Wang, Huang, Liao and Xiao families. They were listed together as a national monument in 2013, and the Qutang Yang hall also housed a section of the Whampoa Military Academy's second branch during the war against Japan."},{"id":"suining-red-seventh-army-command-post","name":"Former Command Post of the Seventh Red Army","name_zh":"中国工农红军第七军指挥所旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gōng-Nóng Hóngjūn Dì-qī Jūn Zhǐhuīsuǒ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.5044,"lon":110.041,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suining-red-seventh-army-command-post/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Long clan ancestral hall in Zhaishi, then the seat of Suining County, which the Seventh Red Army under Deng Xiaoping, Li Mingrui and Zhang Yunyi used as its headquarters after taking the town on 21 December 1930. Only the gatehouse of the old hall survived later demolition; the rebuilt two-storey courtyard reopened in November 2023 with displays recreating the commanders' rooms and meetings."},{"id":"wugang-whampoa-academy-second-branch","name":"Former Site of the Whampoa Military Academy Second Branch","name_zh":"黄埔军校第二分校旧址","pinyin":"Huángpǔ Jūnxiào Dì-èr Fēnxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.725,"lon":110.649,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugang-whampoa-academy-second-branch","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Buildings used by the second branch of the Whampoa Military Academy after it moved to Wugang in autumn 1938, during the war against Japan. The listed site comprises the Zhongshan Hall, the Faxiang Rock site and the former residence of General Li Minghao, the hall and the house restored by 2021, and a later listing added the Yin clan hall in neighbouring Dongkou County, quarters of the academy's 14th Officers' Corps."},{"id":"suining-huangsang","name":"Huangsang Ecotourism Area","name_zh":"黄桑","pinyin":"Huángsāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.3732,"lon":110.1295,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suining-huangsang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested area in south-western Suining County around the Huangsang National Nature Reserve, where forest covers more than 90% of the land. Its sights include a relict forest of long-bracted hemlock (Tsuga longibracteata), waterfalls, a sea of cloud on the high slopes and Shangbao, a Dong village on China's tentative list for World Heritage since 2012."},{"id":"longhui-huayao-huxingshan","name":"Huxingshan Huayao Villages","name_zh":"虎形山花瑶","pinyin":"Hǔxíngshān Huāyáo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.5419,"lon":110.7101,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhui-huayao-huxingshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A high mountain township in north-western Longhui, averaging about 1,350 m above sea level, that is home to the Huayao ('Flowery Yao'), a Yao group known for their cross-stitch embroidery and bright costumes. In villages such as Chongmudang, wooden houses stand among groves of ancient trees that the Huayao revere, the Datuo stone waterfall is nearby, and the cool summers draw visitors escaping the heat."},{"id":"xinning-langshan","name":"Mount Langshan","name_zh":"崀山","pinyin":"Làng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.3911,"lon":110.7519,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinning-langshan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 108 km² area of red Danxia sandstone in Xinning County, with flat-topped mesas, free-standing pillars and walls of rock, sheer red cliffs and narrow slot canyons above the clear Fuyi River. It is one of the six areas inscribed together as the China Danxia World Heritage Site in 2010, and its zones include Bajiaozhai, Lajiao (Chilli) Peak, the narrow Tianyi Xiang passage, the Fuyi River, Zixiadong and Tianshengqiao."},{"id":"shaoyang-north-pagoda","name":"Shaoyang North Pagoda","name_zh":"邵阳北塔","pinyin":"Shàoyáng Běi Tǎ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.2504,"lon":111.4668,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoyang-north-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey brick-and-stone pagoda on the north bank where the Zi and Shao rivers meet, built between 1573 and 1582 to improve the city's fengshui. Lotus patterns decorate its eaves and three stacked iron vases form the finial, one of which was shaken down during a Japanese air raid."},{"id":"shaoyang-tangtian-wartime-institute","name":"Tangtian Wartime Lecture Institute","name_zh":"塘田战时讲学院旧址","pinyin":"Tángtián Zhànshí Jiǎngxuéyuàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.8499,"lon":111.2244,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoyang-tangtian-wartime-institute","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing country villa built in 1877 for the official Xi Baotian at Tangtianshi in Shaoyang County, where in June 1938 the historian Lü Zhenyu, sent by the Communist educator Xu Teli, opened the Tangtian Wartime Lecture Institute; the Nationalist authorities closed it in April 1939. The villa survives as four rows of timber-framed buildings between fire walls, with sixteen blocks and more than sixty rooms."},{"id":"longhui-wei-yuan-former-residence","name":"Wei Yuan's Former Residence","name_zh":"魏源故居","pinyin":"Wèi Yuán Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.4764,"lon":110.899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhui-wei-yuan-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Wei Yuan (1794–1857), the late-Qing scholar whose Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (Haiguo Tuzhi) urged China to learn from Western technology after the First Opium War and influenced reformers in Japan. The two-storey timber courtyard house in Xuetangwan village, Simenqian Town, dates from the early Qianlong era and is enclosed by a rammed-earth wall."},{"id":"wugang-city-wall","name":"Wugang City Wall","name_zh":"武冈城墙","pinyin":"Wǔgāng Chéngqiáng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.7291,"lon":110.6297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugang-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Surviving stretches of the old walls of Wugang, about 1.45 km of an original circuit of nearly 5.9 km, unusual for being built of large stone blocks on both faces rather than earth faced with brick. The walls were rebuilt in stone from 1371 under the Ming; four gates survive, and the Xuanfeng tower still stands over the southern Jichuan gate."},{"id":"shaoyang-xiangjiao-liquor-park","name":"Xiangjiao Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"湘窖生态文化酿酒城","pinyin":"Xiāngjiào Shēngtài Wénhuà Niàngjiǔ Chéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.2767,"lon":111.4491,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoyang-xiangjiao-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The distillery and visitor park of Hunan Xiangjiao Liquor, a baijiu maker that grew out of the Shaoyang wine factory founded in 1957. Tours show the traditional process, with grain fermented in old mud pits and the spirit aged in pottery jars, and visitors can blend their own liquor, taste several aroma styles and walk the landscaped grounds; it suits those curious about Chinese spirits."},{"id":"shaodong-yinjiatang","name":"Yinjiatang Mansion","name_zh":"荫家堂","pinyin":"Yìnjiātáng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":27.1445,"lon":111.9746,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaodong-yinjiatang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A vast family mansion in Qingshui village, Yangqiao Town, Shaodong, begun in 1823 by the rice-trading Shen brothers and known locally as 'the 108 rooms'. Laid out four halls deep and eleven rows wide around many small courtyards, it has carved beams and window frames, a family opera stage and an ancestral hall at the rear, and was restored from 2017."},{"id":"chengbu-yulong-caves","name":"Yulong Caves","name_zh":"玉龙洞","pinyin":"Yùlóng Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.3519,"lon":110.3192,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengbu-yulong-caves","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of limestone show caves in Chengbu County made up of five connected caves (Yulong, Baiyun, Hongxi, Yangjiao and Biyun) and a natural shaft called Luosi Well, with varied stalactite formations. The caves stay at about 18–23 °C all year, and the area was rated 4A in August 2026."},{"id":"wugang-yunshan-forest-park","name":"Yunshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"云山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Yún Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Shaoyang","lat":26.65,"lon":110.6189,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugang-yunshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain forest park just south of Wugang, an outlier of the Xuefeng range with seventy-one peaks rising to Zixiao Peak at 1,372.5 m, known for drifting cloud and cool summers. The Austrian botanist Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti collected plants here in 1921, and eleven of the new species found are named after the mountain."},{"id":"xiangtan-beiwusheng-guild-hall","name":"Beiwusheng Guild Hall","name_zh":"北五省会馆","pinyin":"Běi Wǔshěng Huìguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.8592,"lon":112.9062,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangtan-beiwusheng-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A guild hall and temple to Guan Yu built around 1665 by merchants from five northern provinces (Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan and Shandong) at the Eleventh Wharf on the Xiang River, when Xiangtan was one of the great trading towns of central China. Also called the Guansheng Hall, it is described by the city as the largest intact Guan Yu temple in Hunan, with a front courtyard, carved dragon stone columns and a statue of Guan Yu in the main hall."},{"id":"xiangxiang-dongshan-academy","name":"Dongshan Academy","name_zh":"东山书院","pinyin":"Dōngshān Shūyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.733,"lon":112.5467,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangxiang-dongshan-academy","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing academy at the foot of Dongtai Hill in Xiangxiang, founded in 1895 and finished in 1900, which in 1905 became a modern-style higher primary school; the young Mao Zedong was admitted in 1909, and the generals Chen Geng and Tan Zheng also studied here. Its buildings, largely as built, follow the Hunan academy plan, with a moat and stone bridge before the gate, three halls on the axis, five study wings on each side and a library, plus some Western touches; the classroom added in 1905, where Mao studied, survives. The academy is part of Dongshan School, still a working secondary school, and the historic area is open as a 4A scenic area."},{"id":"shaoshan-mao-zedong-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Mao Zedong, Shaoshan","name_zh":"韶山毛泽东同志故居","pinyin":"Sháoshān Máo Zédōng Tóngzhì Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.9116,"lon":112.4896,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shaoshan-mao-zedong-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The farmhouse at Shaoshanchong where Mao Zedong was born in 1893 and grew up: an earth-walled, U-shaped house of the central Hunan type, shared with a neighbouring family across the central hall, confiscated by the Nationalist government in 1929 and restored to its original form in 1950, with the family's bedrooms, kitchen and farm tools on show. It is the heart of the Shaoshan 5A scenic area, which also takes in the Mao Zedong Memorial Museum (opened 1964) with his personal belongings, the Mao clan ancestral hall and the Nan'an old village school, a square with a large bronze statue (1993), and Dishui Cave, a secluded villa compound built for Mao in 1960–62 about 4 km away, where he stayed in 1966. Shaoshan is one of the main destinations of Chinese 'red tourism'."},{"id":"xiangtan-peng-dehuai-residence","name":"Former Residence of Peng Dehuai","name_zh":"彭德怀故居","pinyin":"Péng Déhuái Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.6637,"lon":112.6471,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangtan-peng-dehuai-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home of Peng Dehuai (1898–1974), the general who commanded the Chinese People's Volunteers in the Korean War and was defence minister from 1954 until he was purged after clashing with Mao Zedong over the Great Leap Forward at the 1959 Lushan Conference. The mud-brick, tile-roofed house of 17 rooms at Wushi, which Peng paid to rebuild in 1925, stands about 30 m from the site of the thatched cottage where he was born. Around it the Peng Dehuai Memorial Hall, a 4A scenic area of about 30 ha, adds a biographical exhibition and a Korean War hall, a bronze statue, the Dehuai Pavilion and his tomb."},{"id":"xiangtan-qi-baishi-residence","name":"Former Residence of Qi Baishi","name_zh":"齐白石故居","pinyin":"Qí Báishí Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.4771,"lon":112.8879,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangtan-qi-baishi-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace and early home of Qi Baishi (1864–1957), the painter known for his playful shrimps, mice and birds, at Xingdou Pond in Baishi town, Xiangtan County, where he lived for 36 years. It is a modest earth-walled, thatched farmhouse of the 1850s in the central Hunan style, five bays wide, with a wooded hill behind and a lotus pond in front, the scenery of many of his early sketches."},{"id":"xiangxiang-maohu-water-village","name":"Maohu Water Village","name_zh":"茅浒水乡","pinyin":"Máohǔ Shuǐxiāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.7492,"lon":112.5822,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangxiang-maohu-water-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure park on Dongshan Island, a sandbar in the Lian River below Dongtai Hill on the eastern edge of Xiangxiang, built around the theme of Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army, whose river navy, by local legend, trained here. Visitors cross the 128 m 'Xiang Army Bridge' hung with plaques of the army's leaders' writings, can take a river trip on a full-size replica of the gunboat Weijing, and see an old ferry boat linked to stories of the young Mao Zedong."},{"id":"yuetang-mount-zhao","name":"Mount Zhao","name_zh":"昭山","pinyin":"Zhāo Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.9739,"lon":113.0171,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuetang-mount-zhao/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 185 m hill on the east bank of the Xiang River at the Xiangtan–Changsha border, whose misty views after rain were painted by Mi Fu as 'Mountain Market in Clearing Mist', one of the classic Eight Views of Xiaoxiang; legend says King Zhao of Zhou drowned in the pool below. Zhaoshan Temple, first built in the Tang, stands on the summit with wide views of the river, Guanyin Temple lies at the foot, and a Qing granite path about 13 km long crosses the front and back hills."},{"id":"yuetang-panlong-grand-view-garden","name":"Panlong Grand View Garden","name_zh":"盘龙大观园","pinyin":"Pánlóng Dàguānyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.8842,"lon":113.0273,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuetang-panlong-grand-view-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large privately developed flower park in Yuetang District, Xiangtan, in the green belt between Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, best known for an azalea garden with about 800 varieties in some 150,000 pots that flowers in March and April. Seasonal displays follow through the year, with a rose garden in late spring, a lotus pond and grape picking in summer, and shows and night events added in 2026."},{"id":"xiangxiang-shuifumiao-reservoir","name":"Shuifumiao Reservoir (Shuifu Scenic Area)","name_zh":"水府庙水库","pinyin":"Shuǐfǔmiào Shuǐkù","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.7096,"lon":112.1793,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangxiang-shuifumiao-reservoir","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large irrigation reservoir on the Lian River, built in 1958–63, whose main body lies in western Xiangxiang, with the dam at Xikou in Shuangfeng County; its winding arms and dozens of wooded islands form a national wetland park and the Shuifu scenic area. Boats leave from the scenic-area wharf for trips among the islands, where egrets gather, and it is a popular weekend outing for families driving from Xiangtan and Loudi."},{"id":"shaoshan-yintian-yinhe","name":"Yintian Yinhe Scenic Area","name_zh":"银田银河","pinyin":"Yíntián Yínhé","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.8843,"lon":112.6065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaoshan-yintian-yinhe","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside scenic area along the Shao River at Yintian town in eastern Shaoshan, rated 4A in 2026 after about ten years of water-environment works turned an irrigation channel and the old river into a green corridor. It mixes riverside paths, farmland views and water-conservancy works with red-history study visits and rural leisure, and suits a stop on the way between Xiangtan and the Mao sites at Shaoshan."},{"id":"yuetang-zhaoshan-seaside-water-park","name":"Zhaoshan City Seaside Water Park","name_zh":"昭山城市海景水上乐园","pinyin":"Zhāoshān Chéngshì Hǎijǐng Shuǐshàng Lèyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangtan","lat":27.93,"lon":113.0085,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuetang-zhaoshan-seaside-water-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A summer water park of about 18 ha in the Zhaoshan area between Changsha, Xiangtan and Zhuzhou, themed as a tropical beach, with an artificial sand beach and wave pool, large slides, children's water-play areas and an indoor sun-sheltered hall. It suits families on hot days and opens only in the summer season."},{"id":"jishou-aizhai-shibadong-dehang","name":"Aizhai Bridge, Shibadong Village and Dehang Gorge","name_zh":"矮寨·十八洞·德夯大峡谷","pinyin":"Ǎizhài · Shíbādòng · Déhāng Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.3353,"lon":109.5921,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jishou-aizhai-shibadong-dehang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 5A scenic area west of Jishou that joins three places: the Aizhai suspension bridge, opened in 2012, whose 1,176 m main span carries the G65 expressway more than 330 m above the Dehang gorge; the Dehang canyon itself, with cliffs, stone peaks, Miao villages and the 216 m Liusha waterfall; and Shibadong, a Miao village in Huayuan County. Shibadong is known in China as the place where the 'targeted poverty alleviation' policy was first proposed, and UN Tourism named it one of its Best Tourism Villages in 2024."},{"id":"huayuan-biancheng-chadong","name":"Biancheng (Chadong)","name_zh":"边城茶峒","pinyin":"Biānchéng Chádòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.5048,"lon":109.2747,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huayuan-biancheng-chadong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside town on the Qingshui River where Hunan, Guizhou and Chongqing meet; formerly called Chadong, it was renamed Biancheng in 2005 after Shen Congwen's novella Border Town (Biancheng), which is set here. Visitors walk the stone lanes, cross the river on the hand-pulled cable ferry, stand at the three-province boundary marker and visit Cuicui Island, with a 9 m marble statue of the novel's heroine by the artist Huang Yongyu."},{"id":"yongshun-buermen","name":"Bu'ermen","name_zh":"不二门","pinyin":"Bù'èrmén","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.9878,"lon":109.8435,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongshun-buermen","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rocky stretch of the Mengdong River just south of Yongshun county town, listed for an archaeological site of the Shang and Zhou periods and now a national forest park. Its name comes from the Buddhist idea of 'the gate of non-duality', and the park has inscriptions carved into the cliffs, a Guanyin rock shrine, temples and a hot spring."},{"id":"fenghuang-giant-panda-park","name":"Fenghuang Giant Panda Park","name_zh":"凤凰中华大熊猫苑","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Zhōnghuá Dàxióngmāo Yuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":27.969,"lon":109.51,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenghuang-giant-panda-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A giant panda park about 7 km west of Fenghuang old town, opened in July 2020 with eight pandas brought from the Dujiangyan Qingchengshan base of the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Sichuan. The pandas are kept in glass-fronted indoor halls and outdoor enclosures, and the park is mainly visited by families staying in Fenghuang."},{"id":"yongshun-tawo-revolutionary-base-site","name":"Former Site of the Hunan–Hubei–Sichuan–Guizhou Revolutionary Base (Tawo)","name_zh":"塔卧湘鄂川黔革命根据地旧址","pinyin":"Tǎwò Xiāng-È-Chuān-Qián Gémìng Gēnjùdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":29.1948,"lon":109.9585,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongshun-tawo-revolutionary-base-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Seven old courtyard compounds in Tawo Town, Yongshun, that housed the provincial Communist Party committee, revolutionary committee, military district, party school, a branch of the Red Army school, a radio station and an arsenal of the Hunan–Hubei–Sichuan–Guizhou base area, set up by the Second and Sixth Red Army Groups under He Long and Ren Bishi in 1934–35. A memorial hall, a martyrs' monument and a cemetery stand beside the old buildings, which belong to the same national monument as the base's first headquarters in Zhangjiajie and its later sites at Ciyantang and Xinglongjie in Longshan County, which have their own memorial hall."},{"id":"yongshun-furong-town","name":"Furong Ancient Town","name_zh":"芙蓉镇","pinyin":"Fúróng Zhèn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.7452,"lon":109.9406,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongshun-furong-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tujia town in Yongshun County built on cliffs above a waterfall that drops into the You River; formerly called Wangcun, it took its present name in 2007 after the film Hibiscus Town was shot here. It also keeps the Xizhou Bronze Pillar of 940, an eight-sided column inscribed with the truce between the Chu ruler Ma Xifan and the local chief Peng Shichou, which was moved here in 1971 when the Fengtan hydropower dam was built and is now displayed in the town's folk-customs museum, a former mission chapel of 1931."},{"id":"huayuan-gumiao-river-gorge","name":"Gumiao River Hundred Waterfalls Gorge","name_zh":"古苗河百瀑大峡谷","pinyin":"Gǔmiáo Hé Bǎipù Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.5706,"lon":109.5075,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huayuan-gumiao-river-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 12.8 km gorge on the Gumiao River in Huayuan County, a river the local Miao regard as their mother river, with more than a hundred waterfalls large and small. About 4.8 km of the gorge, with some twenty waterfalls, is open to visitors along cliff walkways and riverside paths, a walk of about an hour and a half."},{"id":"guzhang-hongshilin","name":"Hongshilin Red Stone Forest","name_zh":"红石林","pinyin":"Hóngshílín","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.707,"lon":109.8743,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guzhang-hongshilin","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national geopark in Guzhang County where columns of red carbonate rock, laid down on an ancient sea floor some 450 million years ago, form a stone forest with a core area of more than 20 km². The rock looks reddish-brown in sunshine and turns dark when wet, so the forest changes colour with the weather."},{"id":"fenghuang-huangsiqiao-old-fort","name":"Huangsiqiao Old Fort","name_zh":"黄丝桥古城","pinyin":"Huángsīqiáo Gǔchéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":27.9133,"lon":109.3646,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenghuang-huangsiqiao-old-fort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small garrison town about 24 km west of Fenghuang, enclosed by a complete ring of blue-grey stone walls with battlements and gate towers that can be walked round in about ten minutes. It is one of the sites of the national monument 'Fenghuang Old Fortresses', which also covers the Shujiatang and Lahao fortified villages and the Wangpotun outpost, built to control the Miao frontier; local tradition dates the fort to the Tang dynasty, while the listing dates the fortifications to the Qing."},{"id":"yongshun-laosicheng","name":"Laosicheng","name_zh":"老司城","pinyin":"Lǎosīchéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":29.0158,"lon":109.9353,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongshun-laosicheng/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ruined capital of the Peng clan, the Tujia chieftains (tusi) who ruled the Yongshun area from the 10th century until the Qing ended their rule in the 1720s; the walled city by the Lingxi River was their seat from the Southern Song onwards. Excavated palace and office quarters, streets, city walls, chieftains' tombs and temple sites survive, and the city has been one of the three Tusi Sites on the World Heritage List since 2015; a museum nearby explains the finds."},{"id":"longshan-liye-ancient-town","name":"Liye Ancient Town","name_zh":"里耶古城","pinyin":"Lǐyē Gǔchéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.7888,"lon":109.2946,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longshan-liye-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A town on the You River in southern Longshan County, where excavations in 2002 uncovered a walled town of the Warring States period and, in one of its wells, more than 36,000 inscribed Qin-dynasty slips. The Liye Qin Slips Museum, opened in 2010, displays the slips with bronzes and pottery, and the excavated city site lies close by in the old town."},{"id":"luxi-pushi-ancient-town","name":"Pushi Ancient Town","name_zh":"浦市古镇","pinyin":"Pǔshì Gǔzhèn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.0867,"lon":110.1036,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luxi-pushi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former river port on the Yuan River in Luxi County that thrived in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when it was nicknamed 'Little Nanjing'. Its listed old buildings include the Wanshou Palace guild hall, the ancestral halls and family compounds of the Li and Ji clans, a Li family academy, old merchant houses and shops, an escort agency and an embroidery tower, and the town is regarded as the birthplace of Chenhe high-pitched opera (Chenhe Gaoqiang)."},{"id":"jishou-qianzhou-old-town","name":"Qianzhou Old Town","name_zh":"乾州古城","pinyin":"Qiánzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.2587,"lon":109.6952,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishou-qianzhou-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old walled town on the Wanrong River in southern Jishou, the prefecture capital, with stone-paved lanes, old gates and a riverside street. Its listed monument is the Confucian Temple, founded in 1729, burnt during a Miao uprising in the 1790s and rebuilt from 1801; after losses in the Cultural Revolution only the double-eaved Dacheng Hall, the semicircular pool and its bridge survived, and the temple was restored in 2007, with two side halls now holding exhibitions on the war against Japan and on notable people of Xiangxi."},{"id":"fenghuang-qiliang-cave","name":"Qiliang Cave","name_zh":"奇梁洞","pinyin":"Qíliáng Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":27.9884,"lon":109.5902,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenghuang-qiliang-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst cave at the foot of a cliff in Qiliangqiao village, Tuojiang town, a few kilometres north of Fenghuang old town. Inside are an underground stream and halls of stalactites and other formations, and it is easily combined with a stay in Fenghuang."},{"id":"longshan-rebala","name":"Rebala Tujia Villages","name_zh":"惹巴拉","pinyin":"Rěbālā","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.9972,"lon":109.5009,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longshan-rebala","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of Tujia villages along the Laoche River in Miao'ertan Town, Longshan County, with wooden houses, a large covered bridge and the tall Chongtian tower; Rebala and neighbouring Liuhe were among the first villages named Chinese traditional villages in 2012. The area holds Tujia brocade-weaving events and was rated 4A in 2026."},{"id":"longshan-taiping-mountain","name":"Taiping Mountain, Longshan","name_zh":"太平山","pinyin":"Tàipíng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":29.4922,"lon":109.4959,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longshan-taiping-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain park about 4 km from Longshan county town, long a Buddhist site with temple halls on its slopes. Springs from the karst hills gather in a six-tiered waterfall more than 30 m high that falls into a pool ringed by peaks, and after rain the mountain is known for its sea of cloud."},{"id":"longshan-wulong-mountain-gorge","name":"Wulong Mountain Grand Canyon","name_zh":"乌龙山大峡谷","pinyin":"Wūlóng Shān Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":29.1821,"lon":109.29,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longshan-wulong-mountain-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst canyon in Guitang Town, Longshan County, covering about 41 km² of the Wulongshan National Geopark and riddled with caves, of which surveys have counted 212. The main sights are Feihu (Flying Tiger) Cave, Remi Cave, Lianyu Cave, Shihua Cave and the Pidu River."},{"id":"jishou-xiangxi-ethnic-culture-park","name":"Xiangxi Ethnic Culture Park","name_zh":"湘西民族文化园","pinyin":"Xiāngxī Mínzú Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.2212,"lon":109.6668,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishou-xiangxi-ethnic-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural complex in the Xiangxi high-tech zone of Jishou, planned from 2015 as a showcase of the prefecture's Tujia and Miao heritage. Its centrepiece is the Xiangxi Prefecture Museum, in a new building opened in 2017, whose five permanent exhibitions cover the region's history, folk customs and revolutionary history and the intangible heritage of the Tujia and Miao, a useful introduction before travelling on to the old towns."},{"id":"luxi-yuanshui-painted-cliffs","name":"Yuanshui Painted Cliffs","name_zh":"沅水画壁","pinyin":"Yuánshuǐ Huàbì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Xiangxi","lat":28.2253,"lon":110.2083,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luxi-yuanshui-painted-cliffs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside scenic area at Baisha, the county town of Luxi, where cliffs known as the 'ten-li painted wall' line the Yuan River, a stretch of river associated with the writing of Shen Congwen. Visitors come for walks and water-based activities along the cliffs, and the area was rated 4A in July 2025."},{"id":"anhua-tea-horse-road","name":"Anhua Tea-Horse Road Scenic Area","name_zh":"安化茶马古道","pinyin":"Ānhuà Chámǎ Gǔdào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.2349,"lon":111.3549,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-tea-horse-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge-and-forest scenic area in Jiangnan town, eastern Anhua, built around stretches of the old mountain trade road on which Anhua's dark tea was carried out by horse caravans; the county presents it as the starting point of the Hunan section of the Ten-Thousand-Li Tea Road. Visitors hike the old road and cliff-side and riverside paths through a deep valley past relics of the caravan trade and Meishan folk culture, a good day for walkers."},{"id":"anhua-baihuazhai","name":"Baihuazhai Tea Garden","name_zh":"百花寨","pinyin":"Bǎihuā Zhài","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.3684,"lon":111.628,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-baihuazhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-and-countryside scenic area around Baihuazhai hill above Taoxi town in Anhua, centred on an organic tea plantation and an eco-farm that also grows rice, fruit and vegetables. Since 2021 the area has been developed as a combined tea, culture and wellness project, and it suits a rural outing for those interested in Anhua's tea."},{"id":"nanxian-changjiao-massacre-memorial","name":"Changjiao Massacre Memorial Hall","name_zh":"厂窖惨案遗址","pinyin":"Chǎngjiào Cǎn'àn Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":29.158,"lon":112.2431,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanxian-changjiao-massacre-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The memorial site in Changjiao town, Nan County, for the Changjiao massacre of 9–12 May 1943, in which Japanese troops killed some 30,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers trapped between the rivers of the Dongting Lake plain, according to Chinese surveys. A memorial monument of 1986 and a memorial hall of 2008, refitted in 2015, stand in a small lakeside park, close to the 'thousand-person pit' where victims were buried."},{"id":"anhua-chaxiang-huahai-flower-park","name":"Chaxiang Huahai Flower Park","name_zh":"茶乡花海","pinyin":"Cháxiāng Huāhǎi","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.4349,"lon":111.3296,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-chaxiang-huahai-flower-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park in Anhua County laid out beside the large Chaxiang Huahai resettlement community, built for villagers moved out of the mountains under the poverty-relief programme, and opened to visitors in April 2020. Seasonal flower beds and a viewing platform make it a local leisure spot, and it hosts events such as the county's spring dark-tea picking festival."},{"id":"anhua-covered-bridges","name":"Covered Bridges of Anhua (Yongxi Bridge)","name_zh":"安化风雨桥","pinyin":"Ānhuà Fēngyǔ Qiáo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.283,"lon":111.4184,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-covered-bridges","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of roofed timber 'wind-and-rain' bridges, 29 of them spread over 17 townships of Anhua County, of which eleven were listed together in 2013. The best known is the Yongxi Bridge in Xitan village, Jiangnan town, built in 1878 and the oldest surviving covered bridge in the county; others in good condition include the Sixian, Madu, Shiyi and Yanzi bridges."},{"id":"nanxian-luowen-graffiti-village","name":"Luowen Graffiti Village","name_zh":"罗文村","pinyin":"Luówén Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":29.3599,"lon":112.4361,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanxian-luowen-graffiti-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farming village in Wuzui township, Nan County, on a spit of land between the waterways of the Dongting Lake plain, whose houses are painted with large colourful graffiti murals and which is ringed by flower fields, best known for rapeseed blossom in early spring. Once an ordinary village, it has been named a Hunan model 'beautiful village' and a national key rural-tourism village, with a music square and farm restaurants for day visitors."},{"id":"yiyang-lutheran-mission-buildings","name":"Lutheran Mission Buildings, Yiyang","name_zh":"信义校会建筑群","pinyin":"Xìnyì Xiàohuì Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.5855,"lon":112.3454,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-lutheran-mission-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four buildings put up by the Lutheran mission in Yiyang between 1904 and 1924 in a mix of Chinese and Western styles: the teaching building and two teachers' houses of the former Xinyi (Lutheran) University on Taohualun, and a pastor's house at Wumafang across the Zi River. The college was one of Hunan's well-known mission schools of its day, and the buildings were restored in 2019–20."},{"id":"anhua-meicheng-confucian-temple","name":"Meicheng Confucian and Martial Temples","name_zh":"梅城文武庙","pinyin":"Méichéng Wénwǔ Miào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.142,"lon":111.6402,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-meicheng-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anhua's old Confucian temple and its neighbouring Martial Temple in Meicheng town, listed together in 2019. The Confucian temple, founded in 1072 and rebuilt in 1822, keeps a lingxing gate more than 10 m high, a half-moon pool and a double-eaved Dacheng Hall roofed in yellow glazed tiles, and the young Mao Zedong stayed in a side room by its gate in 1917 and 1925."},{"id":"anhua-meishan-culture-park","name":"Meishan Culture Park","name_zh":"梅山文化园","pinyin":"Méishān Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.2855,"lon":111.6566,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-meishan-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately built culture park in Xianxi town, eastern Anhua, begun in 2007 to present the history, customs and folk art of the old Meishan region of central Hunan. Visitors walk past a village gate, the Wan family compound, an old opera stage, stilt houses and a covered bridge to a Meishan folk museum, and a small exhibition recalls the young Mao Zedong's two study tours through Anhua; tea gardens and orchards surround it."},{"id":"yiyang-qingxi-village","name":"Qingxi Village (Zhou Libo's Home Village)","name_zh":"清溪村","pinyin":"Qīngxī Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.5476,"lon":112.3095,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-qingxi-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village in Xielingang town, Heshan District, on the southern outskirts of Yiyang where the writer Zhou Libo was born in 1908 and later lived while writing about country life, and which is presented as the real-life setting of his 1958 novel Great Changes in a Mountain Village (山乡巨变). His family house, a timber courtyard home of 28 rooms built in 1788, is the centrepiece, with an old-style street built nearby, a digital exhibition, writers' reading rooms and a hall of books signed by contemporary authors among the fields."},{"id":"anhua-qingyun-cave","name":"Qingyun Cave (Yunshang Jiuge)","name_zh":"青云洞","pinyin":"Qīngyún Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.3263,"lon":110.9105,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-qingyun-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural limestone cave in Maluxi village, Malu town, in western Anhua County, reopened in April 2023 after redevelopment by a private tourism company. Inside, projection mapping, glasses-free 3D screens and a holographic film tell a fantasy story based on Qu Yuan's poem cycle the Nine Songs among the cave's natural formations."},{"id":"anhua-qujiang-tea-garden","name":"Qujiang Tea Garden","name_zh":"渠江茶园","pinyin":"Qújiāng Cháyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.0911,"lon":110.9621,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-qujiang-tea-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea garden of more than 500 mu (about 33 ha) in Daan village, Qujiang town, in the hills of western Anhua, one of the historic sources of Anhua dark tea and listed as a national heritage site in 2019. Besides the tea bushes, it keeps timber farmhouses set along the stream and the foot of the hills, old paths, wells and inscribed steles from the tea trade."},{"id":"taojiang-taohuajiang-bamboo-forest","name":"Taohuajiang Bamboo Forest","name_zh":"桃花江竹海","pinyin":"Táohuājiāng Zhúhǎi","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.5188,"lon":112.1745,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taojiang-taohuajiang-bamboo-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large bamboo forest on the edge of Taojiang county town, which the county presents as one of China's ten great 'bamboo seas', with more than 50,000 mu (about 33 km²) of continuous bamboo. Walking routes and shuttle buses lead through the groves past a bamboo culture museum, the Tianwen Academy and Jinpen Temple, making it an easy green half-day out from Yiyang."},{"id":"yiyang-tianyi-muguo-wood-art-park","name":"Tianyi Muguo Wood Art Park","name_zh":"天意木国","pinyin":"Tiānyì Mùguó","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.4051,"lon":112.4039,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-tianyi-muguo-wood-art-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wood-art park by Yuxing Lake in the Yuxingshan area of Yiyang's Eastern New District, opened in September 2018 by a Zhuhai company and presented as a 'world wood culture museum'. Its halls display large root and wood carvings, including scenes from classic novels such as Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber, and one hall is given over to wood carvings of the Long March; it suits a couple of hours for anyone interested in carving."},{"id":"yiyang-olympic-park","name":"Yiyang Olympic Park","name_zh":"益阳奥林匹克公园","pinyin":"Yìyáng Àolínpǐkè Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.5551,"lon":112.3521,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiyang-olympic-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A sports park in Heshan District on the south side of Yiyang, built for the 2002 Hunan Provincial Games, with a 30,000-seat stadium, a 5,000-seat arena, a swimming hall, outdoor pools and public fitness grounds. It was the main venue of the 15th Hunan Provincial Games, which opened there in September 2026, and is otherwise a local leisure and sports space rather than a sightseeing attraction."},{"id":"anhua-yuntai-mountain","name":"Yuntai Mountain, Anhua","name_zh":"云台山","pinyin":"Yúntái Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.3736,"lon":110.9818,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anhua-yuntai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-growing mountain in Malu town, western Anhua, whose top is a basin of about 9 km² rising to 998 m and often wrapped in cloud, known locally as 'the plain on the mountain'. A sightseeing cable car climbs to tea-garden viewpoints, a glass walkway and glass suspension bridge, a rainbow slide, Longquan Cave, Shenxian Rock and a folk-culture village, and the summit is a favourite place to watch sunrise over a sea of cloud."},{"id":"yiyang-zhenyan-academy","name":"Zhenyan Academy","name_zh":"箴言书院","pinyin":"Zhēnyán Shūyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.4466,"lon":112.3043,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiyang-zhenyan-academy","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An academy founded by Hu Linyi, a Qing official and leader of the Xiang Army, and completed in the 1860s, which became a school in 1905 and was rebuilt on its original site in Heshan District, opening to the public on 31 December 2023. The 1.4-hectare complex of rebuilt and new halls includes a Dacheng Hall, a lecture hall, a library, a memorial shrine, a pavilion and a garden, with exhibitions on the academy and the Zhenyan school that grew from it."},{"id":"taojiang-zijinwan-happy-kingdom","name":"Zijinwan Happy Kingdom","name_zh":"紫金湾欢乐王国","pinyin":"Zǐjīnwān Huānlè Wángguó","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yiyang","lat":28.5115,"lon":112.1918,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taojiang-zijinwan-happy-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park on the east side of the Taohuajiang bamboo forest outside Taojiang county town, with fairground rides and play areas aimed at families with children. It is a local family day out rather than a sight in itself."},{"id":"lingling-chaoyang-rock","name":"Chaoyang Rock","name_zh":"朝阳岩","pinyin":"Cháoyáng Yán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.2079,"lon":111.6098,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingling-chaoyang-rock","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside cliff and cave on the west bank of the Xiao River in Lingling, named 'Facing the Morning Sun' in 765 by the Tang poet-official Yuan Jie, who wrote an inscription and a poem for it, and one of the classic Eight Views of Yongzhou. Its walls carry about 150 inscriptions from the Tang onwards, including a record of a visit by Zhou Dunyi in 1066 and a later carving of Liu Zongyuan's poem 'The Old Fisherman', and the site is now a small park."},{"id":"daoxian-chen-shuxiang-memorial-park","name":"Chen Shuxiang Red Culture Park","name_zh":"陈树湘红色文化园","pinyin":"Chén Shùxiāng Hóngsè Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.5854,"lon":111.5757,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daoxian-chen-shuxiang-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park at Guitou village, Meihua town, Dao County, built to commemorate Chen Shuxiang, commander of the Red Army's 34th Division, and the soldiers of his division. The 34th formed the rearguard of the Central Red Army at the Battle of the Xiang River in late 1934; cut off on the east bank, the survivors fought back into southern Hunan, where Chen was wounded and captured in Dao County on 9 December and took his own life the next day. The memorial hall presents documents, objects and reconstructed scenes, and the grounds hold Chen's tomb, a tomb of 34th Division soldiers and a monument."},{"id":"lingling-danyan-cave-inscriptions","name":"Danyan Cave Inscriptions","name_zh":"淡岩石刻","pinyin":"Dàn Yán Shíkè","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.1161,"lon":111.6103,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingling-danyan-cave-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cave south of Lingling, also called Danshan Rock, whose walls bear some 200 recorded inscriptions, three-quarters of them from the Song dynasty, by visitors including Zhou Dunyi, Huang Tingjian and Yang Wanli. Legend links it with Zhou Zhenshi, a Qin-dynasty recluse said to have lived in the cave, and its 'Autumn Moon at Danyan', when moonlight falls through an opening in the roof at the Mid-Autumn Festival, is one of the Eight Views of Yongzhou."},{"id":"lingling-dongshan-confucian-martial-temples","name":"Dongshan Hill & Lingling Confucian and Martial Temples","name_zh":"东山·零陵文武双庙","pinyin":"Dōng Shān · Línglíng Wénwǔ Shuāngmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.2209,"lon":111.6141,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingling-dongshan-confucian-martial-temples","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The wooded hill inside the old city of Lingling, opened as a park in 2018, which gathers several of Yongzhou's oldest buildings: the Confucian Temple, whose double-eaved great hall with yellow glazed tiles and dragon-carved marble columns dates from 1775, and the neighbouring Martial Temple, whose opera stage is used for performances. Also on the hill are Fahua Temple, founded in the Tang and long known as Gaoshan Temple, where Liu Zongyuan once lodged, and the Lütian Hermitage, marking where the monk-calligrapher Huaisu is said to have practised on banana leaves. The old East Gate, Huaisu's inkstone-washing pond and a stele of his 'Thousand Character Classic' were restored when the park was built."},{"id":"lengshuitan-former-residence-of-li-da","name":"Former Residence of Li Da","name_zh":"李达故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Dá Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.358,"lon":111.6087,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lengshuitan-former-residence-of-li-da","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home in Caishi town, Lengshuitan, of Li Da (1890–1966), the Marxist philosopher and educator who was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party and later president of Wuhan University. Born at Lanjiaoshan in what was then Lingling County, he studied in Japan before returning in 1920; the house is a national heritage site, with an exhibition hall on his life showing photographs, documents and personal belongings."},{"id":"lingling-xujiaqiao-generals-mansion","name":"General's Mansion, Xujiaqiao","name_zh":"许家桥将军府","pinyin":"Xǔjiāqiáo Jiāngjūn Fǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.1292,"lon":111.4878,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingling-xujiaqiao-generals-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An official-style residence in Xujiaqiao village, Shuzipu township, south-west of Lingling, begun around the end of the Yuan and the start of the Ming dynasty. Facing west, it consists of two parallel rows of buildings, each four courtyards deep, covering about 2,500 m², and was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"jiangyong-goulan-yao-village","name":"Goulan Yao Village","name_zh":"勾蓝瑶寨","pinyin":"Gōulán Yáo Zhài","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.0973,"lon":111.1786,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyong-goulan-yao-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled Yao village in Lanxi township, Jiangyong, founded in the Ming dynasty and spread over about 6 km², defended by stone walls, watch houses and gate towers. Within them stand some 30 listed structures, including ancestral halls, temples, an academy, shops, covered bridges, pavilions and an old paved road, among more than 300 Ming and Qing houses. The village keeps its own customs, notably the 'Xini' (mud-washing) festival."},{"id":"dongan-guangli-bridge","name":"Guangli Bridge","name_zh":"广利桥","pinyin":"Guǎnglì Qiáo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.3831,"lon":111.1739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongan-guangli-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing covered bridge, also called the Flower Bridge, over the Dongxi River at Zixishi town in Dong'an County, built in 1773 and repaired in 1876. Three stone arches carry a 36.8 m timber gallery of 17 bays with benches for travellers, crowned by a triple-eaved pavilion in the middle and archway-style pavilions at each end, their ridges decorated with figures, qilin, dragons and fish."},{"id":"daoxian-guizailing-ritual-site","name":"Guizailing Ritual Site","name_zh":"鬼崽岭遗址","pinyin":"Guǐzǎi Lǐng Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.3136,"lon":111.4737,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daoxian-guizailing-ritual-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A low hill in the south of Dao County scattered with thousands of small carved stone figures, mostly between about 30 cm and 1 m tall and including officials, soldiers and pregnant women, at a site usually described as a place of ritual. The local name means 'Hill of the Ghost Children', and the State Council listing dates the site to between the Song and Qing dynasties."},{"id":"ningyuan-dongantou-hanlin-ancestral-hall","name":"Hanlin Ancestral Hall, Dong'antou","name_zh":"东安头翰林祠","pinyin":"Dōng'āntóu Hànlín Cí","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.4346,"lon":111.999,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningyuan-dongantou-hanlin-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ancestral hall in Dong'antou village, Wanjing town, begun in 1736 to honour Li Fu, a Ming-dynasty metropolitan graduate, and covering about 6,700 m² with its forecourt. Behind a crescent pond stand a memorial archway of three bays and eight columns under double eaves, carved and painted with birds, flowers, figures and paired dragons, then a gate hall, opera stage, side wings, upper and lower halls and a sedan-chair pavilion shaped like an eight-bearer palanquin."},{"id":"ningyuan-jiuanbei-hanlin-ancestral-hall","name":"Hanlin Ancestral Hall, Jiu'anbei","name_zh":"久安背翰林祠","pinyin":"Jiǔ'ānbèi Hànlín Cí","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.4381,"lon":112.0108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningyuan-jiuanbei-hanlin-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Li clan in Jiu'anbei, a village at the foot of the Jiuyi Mountains whose families all share the surname, named after the clan's Song-dynasty scholars who reached the Hanlin Academy. Behind a half-moon terrace by a pond, a wooden memorial gateway of four columns and three roofs, its main roof carried on seven tiers of bracket sets and flanked by a pair of stone lions, leads to the gate, an eight-column wooden opera stage and five halls in sequence around five courtyards, with carved animals and flowers on the beams. Tradition dates the lower halls to the Song and the gateway to the Ming, with the upper halls added under the Qing, and villagers still use it for banquets, meetings and festival performances."},{"id":"jianghua-baojing-he-family-mansion","name":"He Family Mansion, Baojing","name_zh":"宝镜何家大院","pinyin":"Bǎojìng Héjiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":24.8818,"lon":111.7112,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianghua-baojing-he-family-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-to-Republican mansion complex in Baojing village, Dayu town, in the south of Jianghua, begun in the early Qing by the He clan ancestor He Yingqi. Its gate towers, halls, a galleried 'running-horse' building, the Mingyuan Tower and other houses cover about 11,000 m², with the 500 m² He clan ancestral hall on the north side, and many carved plaques from the Qing survive."},{"id":"lingling-shanmuqiao-hu-family-mansion","name":"Hu Family Mansion, Shanmuqiao","name_zh":"杉木桥胡家大院","pinyin":"Shānmùqiáo Hújiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.3397,"lon":111.837,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingling-shanmuqiao-hu-family-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clan compound in Shanmuqiao village, Youtingxu town, in the east of Lingling, begun in the early Qing. Its mainly brick-and-timber buildings consist of a central public hall flanked by 40 side houses, with a total floor area of about 4,800 m², and it was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"lanshan-huxi-huang-ancestral-hall","name":"Huang Ancestral Hall, Huxi Village","name_zh":"虎溪黄氏宗祠","pinyin":"Hǔxī Huángshì Zōngcí","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.4544,"lon":112.0526,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanshan-huxi-huang-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Qing-dynasty clan hall of the Huangs at the centre of Huxi, a village of about a thousand people, most of them Huangs who settled here at the end of the Ming beside an old market that straddles the Lanshan–Ningyuan county line. Entered through three gateways, the hall has an opera stage just inside the door facing the ancestral shrine across its lower and upper halls, and more than 50 old houses with painted eaves, carved windows and inscribed lintels spread out around it. Red Army units camped in the village twice during the Long March in the autumn of 1934."},{"id":"shuangpai-huaqiangu-moon-lake","name":"Huaqiangu Flower Valley & Moon Lake, Shuangpai","name_zh":"花千谷·月湖","pinyin":"Huāqiān Gǔ · Yuè Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.0038,"lon":111.68,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangpai-huaqiangu-moon-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern flower-valley and lakeside leisure area at Xiadeng village on the edge of Longbo, Shuangpai's county town, created as part of the county's 'Longbo International Slow City' rural-tourism scheme. It was rated 3A in 2019 and raised to 4A at the end of 2023; expect landscaped flower gardens and a lake for a stroll rather than a natural or historic sight."},{"id":"lingling-huilong-pagoda","name":"Huilong Pagoda","name_zh":"廻龙塔","pinyin":"Huílóng Tǎ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.2386,"lon":111.6115,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingling-huilong-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A brick-and-stone pagoda on a rock outcrop on the east bank of the Xiao River at the northern edge of Lingling's old town, built in 1584 by the local official Lü Huo to protect the city from floods. About 38 m tall and octagonal, it has a ground storey of bluestone blocks, green-glazed eaves and seven storeys inside, where the stairs change direction at every level between its double walls. It has been a national heritage site since 2013, and its reflection in the river at sunset is a well-known local view."},{"id":"ningyuan-shenxia-li-ancestral-hall","name":"Li Ancestral Hall, Shenxia","name_zh":"神下李氏宗祠","pinyin":"Shénxià Lǐshì Zōngcí","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.5536,"lon":112.0948,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningyuan-shenxia-li-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Li clan in Shenxia village, Lengshui town, east of Ningyuan county town, begun in 1753 and finished the following year. The hall covers about 1,250 m² and is one of two Ningyuan clan halls added to the national heritage list in 2019."},{"id":"daoxian-lianxi-zhou-dunyi-hometown","name":"Lianxi, Hometown of Zhou Dunyi","name_zh":"濂溪故里","pinyin":"Liánxī Gùlǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.5104,"lon":111.5054,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daoxian-lianxi-zhou-dunyi-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Loutian village in Qingtang town, Dao County, birthplace of the Northern Song philosopher Zhou Dunyi (1017–1073), a founder of Neo-Confucianism whose sobriquet Lianxi is the name of the stream at his home. Its cluster of Ming and Qing buildings is protected, and the village has a memorial hall, the Lianxi Academy and a square, with lotus fields that recall his essay 'On the Love of the Lotus' and flower in summer. The Moon Cave (Yueyan), another sight linked with Zhou, lies about 13 km to the west."},{"id":"lingling-liuzi-temple-liu-zongyuan-area","name":"Liuzi Temple & Liu Zongyuan Cultural Area","name_zh":"柳子庙·柳宗元文化旅游区","pinyin":"Liǔzǐ Miào · Liǔ Zōngyuán Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.2211,"lon":111.6033,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingling-liuzi-temple-liu-zongyuan-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside quarter on the west bank of the Xiao River in Lingling, the old town of Yongzhou, built around the places where the Tang writer Liu Zongyuan lived for ten years in exile from 805. At its centre is Liuzi Temple, founded in 1056 and moved in 1144 to its present site where the Yu Stream meets the Xiao; the three-courtyard hall with its opera stage dates from an 1877 rebuilding and holds the 'Lizi Stele', a text by Han Yu written out by Su Shi. The old Liuzi Street, the Yu Stream and the pools and hills Liu described in his 'Eight Records of Yongzhou' make up the rest of the area."},{"id":"xintian-long-family-compound","name":"Long Family Compound","name_zh":"龙家大院","pinyin":"Lóngjiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.8173,"lon":112.1183,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xintian-long-family-compound","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Long clan at Jiantou town in Xintian County, set against hills on three sides, whose Ming-to-Republican houses follow a plan described as 'three halls, nine light wells, 24 lanes and 48 houses'. The grey-brick buildings, with stepped fire walls, carved woodwork and painted eaves, carry 128 couplets on doorways and walls, each in a different calligraphic hand, on themes of farming, study and a quiet life away from office. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 and the village is now a scenic area with flower fields round it."},{"id":"ningyuan-mausoleum-of-emperor-shun","name":"Mausoleum of Emperor Shun, Jiuyi Mountain","name_zh":"九嶷山舜帝陵","pinyin":"Jiǔyí Shān Shùndì Líng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.3615,"lon":111.9786,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningyuan-mausoleum-of-emperor-shun","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The temple-mausoleum of Shun, the legendary sage-king whom the Records of the Grand Historian say died on a tour of the south and was buried at Jiuyi, set below Shunyuan Peak in the Jiuyi Mountains. Moved here in 1371 and rebuilt several times, it was restored between 1985 and 1998 with a gate, sacrificial halls, a spirit way of stone figures and some thirty Qing stelae recording imperial sacrifices, and the ceremony to Shun held here is national intangible heritage. About 3 km south, at Yuguan Rock, the excavated foundations of the earlier Tang and Song temple form an archaeological park beside cliff carvings, among them a large 'Jiuyi Shan' inscription by the Southern Song writer Fang Xinru."},{"id":"ningyuan-confucian-temple","name":"Ningyuan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"宁远文庙","pinyin":"Níngyuǎn Wénmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.5941,"lon":111.9355,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningyuan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The county Confucian temple and school of Ningyuan, founded in the Tang and moved to this site in the south-west of the county town in 965, with the present buildings dating from a rebuilding of 1873–1882. Laid out on a north–south axis over about 10,000 m², it runs from a screen wall and crescent pond through the Lingxing and Dacheng gates to the Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng shrine, flanked by memorial archways, side halls, a scripture pavilion and the Minglun lecture hall."},{"id":"jiangyong-qianjiadong","name":"Qianjiadong, Yao Ancestral Homeland","name_zh":"千家峒","pinyin":"Qiānjiādòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.3852,"lon":111.31,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyong-qianjiadong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of three mountain basins north of Jiangyong county town, covering about 200 km², which Yao communities in southern China, South-East Asia and beyond know from their manuscript histories as the homeland their twelve clans were forced to leave in 1305. Scholars meeting in Jiangyong in 2002 identified this valley as that homeland, and it now has a Pan Wang (ancestor king) temple and square, old Yao temples and tombs, and forest scenery including the Dabo waterfall."},{"id":"jindong-sangonglei-waterfalls","name":"Sangonglei Waterfalls","name_zh":"三公垒瀑布群","pinyin":"Sāngōnglěi Pùbùqún","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.1768,"lon":112.0935,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jindong-sangonglei-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A chain of waterfalls on a forest stream in the core of Jindong National Forest Park, in the Jindong district that holds Hunan's largest state forest farm. A boardwalk of about 3.2 km follows the stream past more than 20 falls and pools, and a streamside café and paddling area opened in 2026; the district is also known for river rafting and forest homestays."},{"id":"jiangyong-shanggantang-village","name":"Shanggantang Village","name_zh":"上甘棠村","pinyin":"Shànggāntáng Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.1525,"lon":111.1822,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyong-shanggantang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Zhou-clan village in Xiacengpu town, Jiangyong, on the site of the Han-dynasty county seat of Xiemu, where the family has lived since 828 and around 200 Ming and Qing houses survive. At the village entrance the three-arched Buying Bridge, first built in 1126, stands beside the four-storey Wenchang Pavilion of 1620, and the Yuebei Pavilion cliff nearby is covered with inscriptions, among them the characters for loyalty, filial piety, integrity and honour, each nearly 2 m tall, attributed to Wen Tianxiang."},{"id":"qiyang-shidongyuan-longxi-li-compound","name":"Shidongyuan: Tao Zhu's Birthplace & Longxi Li Family Compound","name_zh":"石洞源·龙溪李家大院","pinyin":"Shídòngyuán · Lóngxī Lǐjiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.4864,"lon":112.0303,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiyang-shidongyuan-longxi-li-compound","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area in Panshi town, eastern Qiyang, centred on Shidongyuan, the village where the senior Communist Party leader Tao Zhu (1908–1969) was born, with his former residence, the Shidongyuan reservoir and the nearby Longxi Li Family Compound. The Li compound, a large group of Ming and Qing courtyard houses listed as a national heritage site in 2013, is admired for its carved and painted beams."},{"id":"dongan-shude-villa-tang-shengzhi","name":"Shude Villa (Former Residence of Tang Shengzhi)","name_zh":"树德山庄","pinyin":"Shùdé Shānzhuāng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.575,"lon":111.5026,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongan-shude-villa-tang-shengzhi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A country estate at Zhaojiajing village, Luhongshi town, built in 1927 by Tang Shengzhi, the Hunan general who commanded the defence of Nanjing in 1937 and later joined the 1949 Hunan peace uprising. Its brick, stone and timber buildings combine a symmetrical southern-Hunan layout with Western details and include a gatehouse, living and reception blocks, a watchtower, guard rooms, a library and an octagonal pavilion, set in gardens with ponds."},{"id":"dongan-shunhuang-mountain","name":"Shunhuang Mountain","name_zh":"舜皇山","pinyin":"Shùnhuáng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.3684,"lon":111.0098,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongan-shunhuang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested range on Dong'an County's western border with Xinning County, protected as a national forest park, whose main peak rises to 1,882 m. Its name comes from the legend that the sage-king Shun hunted and lived on the mountain during his tour of the south. At Damiaokou on its eastern foot is Shunhuang Cave, found in 1984 by a villager gathering firewood: more than 700 m of passages and chambers hung with stalactites and lit with coloured lights."},{"id":"shuangpai-suiyuan-lou-tantian","name":"Suiyuan Lou Complex, Tantian Village","name_zh":"岁圆楼","pinyin":"Suìyuán Lóu","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.6691,"lon":111.6367,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangpai-suiyuan-lou-tantian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Qing-dynasty courtyard houses built in the late 1830s in Tantian, a village whose families are all surnamed He and, by their genealogy, descend from a settlement founded in the early 11th century. Three parallel compounds of three courtyards each, with wooden gate towers and stepped 'horse-head' fire walls, are divided by narrow flagstone lanes shut by heavy wooden doors; the gateways carry painted fret patterns and opera scenes, painted murals and clay figures survive inside, and a four-courtyard guest house stands in front. Around them the village keeps a flagstone post road, two old stone arch bridges, wells and the He clan hall."},{"id":"qiyang-wuxi-cliff-inscriptions","name":"Wuxi Cliff Inscriptions (Wuxi Stele Forest)","name_zh":"浯溪碑林","pinyin":"Wúxī Bēilín","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.5681,"lon":111.8421,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiyang-wuxi-cliff-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Cliffs on the west bank of the Xiang River where the Wuxi stream flows in, about 2 km west of Qiyang, carved since the Tang dynasty with around 500 poems, records and pieces of calligraphy by figures including Yan Zhenqing, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fu. The best known is the 'Ode to the Restoration of the Great Tang', composed by Yuan Jie and written by Yan Zhenqing, prized as the 'three wonders' cliff for its text, calligraphy and stone. A digital museum of the carvings opened in the visitor centre in December 2024."},{"id":"ningyuan-xiaguan-village","name":"Xiaguan Ancient Village","name_zh":"下灌村","pinyin":"Xiàguàn Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.4726,"lon":112.0108,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningyuan-xiaguan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large old farming village in Wanjing town, Ningyuan, which clan records say was founded in 499 and which now spans four administrative villages along streams below the Jiuyi Mountains. It is known as the home of Li He (808–873), remembered as the first top-ranked graduate of the imperial examinations from Hunan, and its stone-flagged lanes, small bridges and old houses are presented as a scenic area. Villagers link the place with 'yezi xi', an old leaf-card game, and card and mahjong tables are a common sight along its street."},{"id":"yongzhou-xianggui-ancient-road","name":"Xianggui Ancient Road, Yongzhou Section","name_zh":"湘桂古道永州段","pinyin":"Xiāngguì Gǔdào Yǒngzhōu Duàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.5984,"lon":111.5802,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongzhou-xianggui-ancient-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Part of the old overland route between the Xiang River basin and Lingnan, also called the Xiao–He road, which leaves Dao County on two branches, through Jianghua and through Jiangyong, to Fuchuan and Hezhou in Guangxi. Widened under the Qin and in use until the early 1950s, it is protected as some 30 relics along the way: old town and barracks sites, bridges, roadside pavilions, a shop street, villages and stretches of paving. Among the restored points are the Hailong Temple in Dao County, the Lingshan Hermitage and a memorial rest pavilion in Jiangyong, and a pavilion-and-bridge pair and the Huifeng and Yuquan pavilions in Jianghua, so a visit means driving between scattered sites rather than one walk."},{"id":"jianghua-yanghua-rock-inscriptions","name":"Yanghua Rock Inscriptions","name_zh":"阳华岩摩崖","pinyin":"Yánghuá Yán Móyá","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.1877,"lon":111.6445,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianghua-yanghua-rock-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A south-facing limestone cliff and cave below Huishan hill at Zhuyuanzhai village, just east of Jianghua county town, carved with some 40 inscriptions from the Tang to the Qing, 38 of them still legible. The best known is the 'Inscription on Yanghua Rock' composed in 766 by Yuan Jie, prefect of Daozhou, and cut on the rock by the county magistrate Qu Lingwen in three scripts side by side (clerical, seal and the older zhou script). The cliff was consolidated and the carvings repaired in 2017."},{"id":"shuangpai-yangmingshan-national-forest-park","name":"Yangmingshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"阳明山","pinyin":"Yángmíng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.0659,"lon":111.9461,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shuangpai-yangmingshan-national-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain forest park in north-eastern Shuangpai County, a national forest park since 1992, rising to about 1,625 m. Its upper slopes carry more than 100,000 mu (some 6,700 ha) of wild azaleas that flower in spring, among forest with rare conifers such as Chinese Douglas fir and southern yew. The developed areas take in the azalea slopes, Wanshou Temple, Wanhe Lake and the source of the Xiaohuang River, and the park also has sites linked to the Red Army's Sixth Army Group on the Long March."},{"id":"jianghua-yaoshan-water-town","name":"Yaoshan Water Town (China Love Town), Shuikou","name_zh":"瑶山水城","pinyin":"Yáoshān Shuǐchéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":24.9535,"lon":111.7381,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianghua-yaoshan-water-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourism district in Shuikou, Jianghua, a new town built from 2016 for about 15,000 people moved from the Cengtianhe reservoir area and from poor mountain villages, which the county promotes as a Yao-themed 'China Love Town'. Its water street (Yaodu Shuijie), opened in 2019, mixes new Yao-style stilt houses with Huizhou-style courtyards, shops and food stalls and is lit up in the evenings, with the legend of the Yao ancestor Pan Wang and the third princess as its theme. The town also stages events such as group weddings in Yao dress and part of the county's Pan Wang Festival."},{"id":"lengshuitan-yongzhou-forest-botanical-garden","name":"Yongzhou Forest Botanical Garden","name_zh":"永州森林植物园","pinyin":"Yǒngzhōu Sēnlín Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.3863,"lon":111.7623,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lengshuitan-yongzhou-forest-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yongzhou's forest botanical garden, laid out since 2013 on the grounds of the city's forestry research institute in Yitang town, on the eastern edge of Lengshuitan district, and covering about 520 ha (7,800 mu) of mostly wooded hills. More than 2,000 kinds of trees, bamboos, flowers and climbers grow in themed gardens such as the cherry, osmanthus, camellia and bamboo gardens, alongside a forestry park with a garden for each of Yongzhou's counties and a wetland park round a reservoir. It is a local weekend park for walks and plant-spotting rather than a major sight."},{"id":"daoxian-yuchanyan-cave","name":"Yuchanyan","name_zh":"玉蟾岩遗址","pinyin":"Yùchán Yán Yízhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.6067,"lon":111.4828,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daoxian-yuchanyan-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small limestone cave at Baishizhai in Shouyan town, Dao County, known locally as Toad Cave, where excavations in 1993–1995 and 2004–2005 found pottery dated to about 18,000 years ago, among the oldest known anywhere, and rice grains that Chinese archaeologists regard as some of the earliest cultivated rice. The cave mouth faces south-east about 5 m above the surrounding ground, and the site is protected as a national heritage site."},{"id":"lanshan-yunbing-mountain","name":"Yunbing Mountain","name_zh":"云冰山","pinyin":"Yúnbīng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":25.1928,"lon":112.2305,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanshan-yunbing-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area at Nanfeng'ao on the Hunan–Guangdong border south of Lanshan, where a flight of 520 steps climbs to a 1,388 m pass and a viewing platform that straddles the two provinces. It is visited for sunrises and seas of cloud in summer and for rime and ice on the trees in winter, with mossy forest, bamboo valleys and azaleas on the way up."},{"id":"lingling-zhou-family-compound-ganyantou","name":"Zhou Family Compound, Ganyantou","name_zh":"周家大院","pinyin":"Zhōujiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yongzhou","lat":26.0237,"lon":111.5095,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingling-zhou-family-compound-ganyantou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of Zhou-clan mansions at Ganyantou (also written Jianyantou) in Fujiaqiao town, Lingling, where six well-preserved Ming and Qing courtyard compounds stand together; the largest dates from the Tongzhi reign (1862–1874). Billed locally as the 'finest old mansion of Xiaoxiang', the village is a nationally listed historic village and heritage site."},{"id":"linxiang-6501-tunnels","name":"6501 Underground Tunnels","name_zh":"6501景区","pinyin":"Liùwǔlíngyī Jǐngqū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.3467,"lon":113.5205,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxiang-6501-tunnels","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An unfinished man-made tunnel complex in the hills of Zhongfang, south-east of Linxiang, whose purpose has never been officially disclosed: three levels of passages, halls and shafts run for more than 10 km and cover over 80,000 m². Since an upgrade in 2019 the caverns hold an aerospace science exhibition with Long March rocket and satellite models, while outside there are military vehicle rides, archery, CS-style combat games and weapon models, aimed mainly at school study tours."},{"id":"yueyang-cishi-pagoda","name":"Cishi Pagoda","name_zh":"慈氏塔","pinyin":"Císhì Tǎ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.3709,"lon":113.0858,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yueyang-cishi-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A solid seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda 39 m tall on Taqian Street near the lakeshore, one of the oldest surviving pagodas in Hunan, with Buddha niches on four sides of each upper storey. Repairs in 2015 found an inscription dated 1066 and more than 1,000 Tang and Song coins in the spire, pushing its accepted date back from 1242, and it now stands in the restored historic district along Dongting South Road."},{"id":"yunxi-dajitou-jetty","name":"Dajitou Jetty","name_zh":"大矶头","pinyin":"Dàjītóu","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.592,"lon":113.2729,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunxi-dajitou-jetty","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A man-made jetty of 1879 on the south bank of the Yangtze at Lucheng, built out from a hill and natural reefs as three stepped granite platforms covering some 1,500 m², where boats on the river were towed and navigation markers set up. It was reported in 2010 as the only intact man-made jetty of its kind left on the middle and lower Yangtze, and the three centipedes carved in relief on its walls were meant to tame the river's dragons."},{"id":"yueyang-county-dayunshan","name":"Dayunshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"大云山","pinyin":"Dàyún Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.2633,"lon":113.5128,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueyang-county-dayunshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain of 911 m on the border of Yueyang County and Linxiang, a national forest park since 1996 and an old Daoist and Buddhist pilgrimage hill whose restored temples draw worshippers from Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, above all at the fairs on the third day of the third lunar month and the ninth day of the ninth. On a cliff beside Longxing Palace is the 'Three Battles, Three Victories' inscription of December 1942, four characters each over 2 m tall with a commentary signed by the Nationalist general Yang Sen, marking the defence of Changsha against three Japanese offensives."},{"id":"pingjiang-jiayi-new-fourth-army-office","name":"Former New Fourth Army Liaison Office, Jiayi","name_zh":"新四军平江通讯处旧址","pinyin":"Xīnsìjūn Píngjiāng Tōngxùnchù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.6427,"lon":113.8436,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingjiang-jiayi-new-fourth-army-office","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pair of two-storey timber shop-houses on Upper Street in the old market town of Jiayi, once the Tianhe general store and the Yichang pharmacy, which from 1938 housed the New Fourth Army's Pingjiang liaison office together with the Communist special committee for the Hunan–Hubei–Jiangxi border. On 12 June 1939, during the wartime alliance between the two parties, troops of the Nationalist general Yang Sen surrounded the office and killed six of its staff, including Tu Zhengkun; the Communist side calls this the Pingjiang Massacre, and the site is listed under that name."},{"id":"pingjiang-cpc-county-committee-site","name":"Former Pingjiang County CPC Committee (Mao Jianqing's House)","name_zh":"中共平江县委旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Píngjiāng Xiànwěi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.7078,"lon":113.6023,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingjiang-cpc-county-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 1919 country house of Mao Jianqing (1891–1932), a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University who became Pingjiang's Communist Party secretary in 1927 and moved the county committee into his family home. From here the committee directed the 1927 Autumn Harvest risings and the 'March assault on the city' of 1928, in which more than 200,000 people took part; of the original courtyard compound only the two-storey rear block and side rooms survive, with Mao's tomb nearby."},{"id":"miluo-ren-bishi-residence","name":"Former Residence of Ren Bishi","name_zh":"任弼时故居","pinyin":"Rèn Bìshí Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.5194,"lon":113.1385,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=miluo-ren-bishi-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Ren Bishi (1904–1950), a senior Communist military and political leader who was political commissar of He Long's Second Front Army on the Long March, in Bishi town in southern Miluo. The timber farmhouse of 31 rooms, with a name board written by Deng Xiaoping in 1980, stands beside a memorial hall showing close to 200 objects and more than 400 photographs, and a square with a 7.1 m bronze statue."},{"id":"pingjiang-changshou-soviet-sites","name":"Hunan–Hubei–Jiangxi Soviet Sites, Changshou","name_zh":"湘鄂赣省苏维埃旧址","pinyin":"Xiāng-È-Gàn Shěng Sūwéi'āi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.7167,"lon":113.9258,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingjiang-changshou-soviet-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three sites in and near Changshou, an old market town on the upper Miluo River in eastern Pingjiang, added in 2019 to the national listing of the Hunan–Hubei–Jiangxi revolutionary base, whose main sites are at Wanzai in Jiangxi. On Xinan Street stand the Romanesque Catholic church of 1929, where the region's first congress of workers', peasants' and soldiers' delegates met in September 1931 and set up the provincial soviet government, and the neighbouring Protestant chapel where Peng Dehuai and Teng Daiyuan's Fifth Red Army held an enlarged meeting in October 1929; the provincial party, soviet and military headquarters were in a rammed-earth Qing farmhouse at Gaibandong in Shiyan village."},{"id":"junshan-jiangtun-bay","name":"Jiangtun Bay (Finless Porpoise Bay)","name_zh":"江豚湾","pinyin":"Jiāngtún Wān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.4464,"lon":113.0506,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=junshan-jiangtun-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reach of the Yangtze bank at Qigongling in Junshan District, about 107 ha, where the Hualong sand and gravel wharf was demolished in 2017 and the shore cleared and replanted. Yangtze finless porpoises are now often seen in the bend of the river here; on the bank are a monitoring post of the East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve, an eco-trail and viewing platforms, and behind the embankment an exhibition hall on the protection of the Yangtze presents the area's finless porpoises, Père David's deer and migratory birds."},{"id":"yueyang-junshan-island","name":"Junshan Island","name_zh":"君山岛","pinyin":"Jūnshān Dǎo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.3594,"lon":113.009,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yueyang-junshan-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilly island of 0.96 km² with 72 small peaks in Dongting Lake, about 9 km west of Yueyang Tower, tied to the legend of Emperor Shun's two consorts Ehuang and Nüying, whose tears are said to have spotted the bamboo that grows around their tomb here. Paths wind through the tea gardens that produce Junshan Silver Needle tea to the consorts' tomb and temple, the Liu Yi Well from a Tang tale, old rock inscriptions and other sites, with wide views over the lake."},{"id":"junshan-wild-lotus-world","name":"Junshan Wild Lotus World","name_zh":"君山野生荷花世界","pinyin":"Jūnshān Yěshēng Héhuā Shìjiè","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.5183,"lon":112.8507,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=junshan-wild-lotus-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake of wild lotus at Tuanhu in Junshan District, where more than 10,000 mu (about 670 ha) of lotus grows in continuous beds and over 300 cultivated varieties have been added. Visitors go by boat through the lotus beds and walk shaded paths to a lotus-viewing tower, an old well, stepping-stone and lotus-viewing bridges and pavilions; it is at its best in summer, when the flowers open from about late June."},{"id":"linxiang-longjiaoshan-yao-relics","name":"Longjiao Mountain Yao Relics","name_zh":"龙窖山","pinyin":"Lóngjiào Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.4127,"lon":113.7234,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxiang-longjiaoshan-yao-relics","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In the Longjiao Mountains of north-eastern Linxiang, on the Hunan–Hubei border, lie the remains of a highland settlement area that the Yao people regard as Qianjiadong, their ancestral homeland, occupied from the Western Jin to the Northern Song until its people moved away after about 1010. Spread over some 78 km² are more than 40 groups of relics, among them stone-cairn tombs, stone houses and wells, stilt-house foundations and the 'three passes and nine locks' defensive works, and the mountain has been a provincial scenic area since 2006."},{"id":"pingjiang-mufu-mountain","name":"Mufu Mountain (Tianyue Mufushan)","name_zh":"幕阜山","pinyin":"Mùfù Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.9879,"lon":113.8276,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingjiang-mufu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main peak of the Mufu range, about 1,600 m high, on Hunan's border with Hubei and Jiangxi in northern Pingjiang, a national forest park since 2005 that stays cool even in midsummer. The mountain has cliffs, waterfalls and pools, over 1,000 ha of natural Huangshan pine, more than a hundred rock inscriptions and the sites of old Daoist retreats, for Daoists counted it the 25th of their 36 grotto-heavens; shuttle buses run within the scenic area."},{"id":"pingjiang-uprising-memorial","name":"Pingjiang Uprising Memorial Hall","name_zh":"平江起义纪念馆","pinyin":"Píngjiāng Qǐyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.6964,"lon":113.5931,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingjiang-uprising-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Tianyue Academy, founded in 1720 and moved to this site in 1867, a complex of white gable walls and grey tiles now within the grounds of Pingjiang No. 1 Middle School, where Peng Dehuai, Teng Daiyuan and Huang Gonglüe launched the Pingjiang Uprising on 22 July 1928 and formed the Fifth Red Army. The academy has been a memorial since the 1980s; the present complex, opened in 2008 and refreshed in 2018, adds an exhibition hall on the uprising and on Peng's career to the restored rooms, with an equestrian bronze of Peng Dehuai (1990) on the square in front."},{"id":"miluo-quzi-cultural-park","name":"Quzi Cultural Park and Qu Yuan Temple","name_zh":"屈子文化园","pinyin":"Qūzǐ Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.8876,"lon":113.0388,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/miluo-quzi-cultural-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The memorial temple of Qu Yuan, the Warring States poet whose drowning in the Miluo River is remembered at the Dragon Boat Festival, stands at the foot of Yusi Hill by the river: its brick-and-timber halls around three courtyards were moved here in 1754 after floods, the triple gate carries 13 reliefs of his life, and a stele forest of 356 carved inscriptions was added in 1995. Since 2017 the temple has been the core of the Quzi Cultural Park, some 6 km² with a new Quzi Academy, Dragon Boat Festival folk-culture areas and riverside wetland, which also takes in the eleven grave mounds on Miluo Hill, about 6 km to the south-east, that tradition since the Tang has held to be Qu Yuan's tombs."},{"id":"yueyang-shengan-temple","name":"Sheng'an Temple","name_zh":"圣安寺","pinyin":"Shèng'ān Sì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.3326,"lon":113.0822,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueyang-shengan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Buddhist temple on the northern spur of Lengjia Hill above South Lake, rebuilt from 1997 by monks from Nanyue on the site of a Tang-dynasty monastery whose abbot Wuxing was commemorated in inscriptions by the writer Liu Zongyuan. Five courtyards climb the slope past a five-arched gateway, the Hall of Heavenly Kings and the main hall to a Guanyin hall with a 5 m gilded camphor-wood thousand-armed Guanyin, and on the summit a nine-storey pagoda 53 m tall looks over South Lake, the city and Dongting Lake."},{"id":"pingjiang-shiniuzhai","name":"Shiniuzhai National Geopark","name_zh":"石牛寨","pinyin":"Shíniú Zhài","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.9046,"lon":113.9795,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingjiang-shiniuzhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Danxia sandstone landscape of about 62 km² in north-eastern Pingjiang, a national geopark of long red cliff walls, rock 'waterfalls', natural bridges and narrow slot gorges, named after an old stone stronghold whose walls survive for some 2 km; the main source of the Miluo River rises here. It is also run as an adventure park, with a 300 m cliff-face stairway dropping 260 m, a glass viewing platform cantilevered 58.5 m out from a peak, a shop hung on the cliff and a cliffside inn."},{"id":"linxiang-wujianshan-forest-park","name":"Wujianshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"五尖山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Wǔjiānshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.4644,"lon":113.4246,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxiang-wujianshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill of five peaks, the highest 588 m, rising just south-west of Linxiang city, a national forest park since 2008 that covers about 2,880 ha with forest cover of 98%. A mountain road and stone paths lead to old secondary forest, a large stele-forest museum of carved calligraphy, an open-air Guanyin statue, a Qu Yuan academy and farm restaurants, and it works largely as Linxiang's city park."},{"id":"xiangyin-confucius-temple","name":"Xiangyin Confucius Temple","name_zh":"湘阴文庙","pinyin":"Xiāngyīn Wénmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.6735,"lon":112.8764,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyin-confucius-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in the Northern Song and moved to this site in the early 1100s, Xiangyin's temple of Confucius lost many of its halls to Japanese bombing during the war against Japan, and a road cut through it in 1954 now separates the front court from the main buildings. The surviving Lingxing Gate, memorial archways, crescent pool and Zhuangyuan bridge lead to the Dacheng Gate and the double-eaved Dacheng Hall rebuilt in 1744, and the temple now houses the Xiangyin County Museum."},{"id":"xiangyin-yangsha-lake-resort","name":"Yangsha Lake Resort","name_zh":"洋沙湖","pinyin":"Yángshā Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.6359,"lon":112.8666,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyin-yangsha-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort district built around the 4.3 km² Yangsha Lake on the southern edge of Xiangyin town, opened in 2017 and themed on the area's old fishing-village culture. After an upgrade it reopened in May 2026 with a fishing-village water town, a farmers' market, a waterside flower street, children's play areas and animal-contact attractions alongside its lakeside hotels and walks, and it is aimed at families from Changsha and nearby cities."},{"id":"yueyang-confucian-temple","name":"Yueyang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"岳阳文庙","pinyin":"Yuèyáng Wénmiào","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.3791,"lon":113.0914,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueyang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1046 by Teng Zijing, the prefect who rebuilt Yueyang Tower, the city's Confucian temple and school keeps its double-eaved Dacheng Hall, 16 m high, whose nanmu columns, lotus-carved column bases and beams are Song-dynasty work beneath a roof rebuilt in 1872. The Dacheng Gate, shrines to local worthies and officials, the crescent pool, the Zhuangyuan bridge and the Lingxing Gate also survive, and the buildings were restored from 2016."},{"id":"yueyang-yuezhou-customs-house","name":"Yuezhou Customs House","name_zh":"岳州关","pinyin":"Yuèzhōu Guān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.4384,"lon":113.1451,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yueyang-yuezhou-customs-house","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hunan's first customs house, opened at Chenglingji in 1899 when Yuezhou, where the Yangtze meets Dongting Lake, became the first port the Qing government opened to foreign trade on its own initiative. Of three British-style buildings finished in 1901 only the hilltop assistant's residence survives, a two-storey arcaded house of brick, timber and stone with fireplaces and tall windows, listed as 20th-century architectural heritage in 2020 and set in landscaped grounds above the port."},{"id":"xiangyin-yuezhou-kiln-museum","name":"Yuezhou Kiln Site Museum","name_zh":"岳州窑遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Yuèzhōu Yáo Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.6743,"lon":112.8739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyin-yuezhou-kiln-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yuezhou ware, the celadon made along the lower Xiang River from the Han to the Tang, was ranked among the six best wares for tea bowls in Lu Yu's 8th-century Classic of Tea, and 26 kiln sites have been found on both banks around Xiangyin. The museum was built in 2003 over the Mawangkan kiln site in Xiangyin town, where a Sui-dynasty dragon kiln was excavated in 1997; it shows celadon and kiln furniture, including Southern Dynasties bowl fragments marked 'Taiguan' that point to supply for the court, and opened an underground gallery in 2010."},{"id":"yueyang-county-zhangguying-village","name":"Zhangguying Village","name_zh":"张谷英村","pinyin":"Zhānggǔyīng Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":29.0099,"lon":113.4749,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yueyang-county-zhangguying-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clan village of the Zhang family below Bijia Hill in south-eastern Yueyang County, where connected houses built from the Ming and extended through the Qing form three great blocks, Dangdamen, Wangjiaduan and Shangxinwu, with 1,732 rooms, 206 skylit courtyards and 62 lanes over more than 50,000 m². Each hall is built around its courtyards and opens into the next, so much of the village can be crossed under cover, and its drains, light wells and fire-water pools still work; descendants of the founder Zhang Guying still live here."},{"id":"xiangyin-zuo-zongtang-cultural-park","name":"Zuo Zongtang Cultural Park and Memorial Temple","name_zh":"左宗棠文化园","pinyin":"Zuǒ Zōngtáng Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Yueyang","lat":28.6646,"lon":112.8895,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangyin-zuo-zongtang-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park of about 18 ha in Xiangyin, the home county of Zuo Zongtang (1812–1885), the Qing general and statesman who fought the Taiping and other rebellions and led the reconquest of Xinjiang, and whose name was borrowed for the dish General Tso's chicken. Its core is the Zuo Wenxiang Temple, built on imperial order by the Hunan governor Wu Dacheng after Zuo's death and completed in 1892, around which a 2012 extension added a memorial museum of eight galleries, an 11.1 m granite statue on a square, a gallery of poems and couplets on steles and a 'chronology avenue'."},{"id":"wulingyuan-baofeng-lake","name":"Baofeng Lake","name_zh":"宝峰湖","pinyin":"Bǎofēng Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.3258,"lon":110.5469,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulingyuan-baofeng-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An artificial lake in a gorge at Suoxiyu in the Wulingyuan scenic area, formed when villagers dammed the valley for hydropower in the 1970s and named after Baofeng Mountain behind it. Ringed by forested sandstone peaks, it is seen by boat, and it was a filming location for the TV series Journey to the West."},{"id":"sangzhi-he-long-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of He Long","name_zh":"贺龙故居","pinyin":"Hè Lóng Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.4775,"lon":110.1636,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sangzhi-he-long-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of He Long (1896–1969), a founder of the Red Army and later a marshal of the People's Liberation Army, at Hongjiaguan in Sangzhi County. The family house has been restored to its original appearance, and the He Long Memorial Hall and a bronze statue of him stand beside it."},{"id":"yongding-hunan-hubei-sichuan-guizhou-base-site","name":"Former Site of the Hunan–Hubei–Sichuan–Guizhou Revolutionary Base (Dayong)","name_zh":"湘鄂川黔革命根据地旧址","pinyin":"Xiāng-È-Chuān-Qián Gémìng Gēnjùdì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.1278,"lon":110.4792,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongding-hunan-hubei-sichuan-guizhou-base-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former Catholic church on Jiefang Road in old Dayong, now central Zhangjiajie, where the Communist provincial committee, revolutionary committee and military district of the Hunan–Hubei–Sichuan–Guizhou base area were set up in November 1934, with Ren Bishi and He Long at their head. The brick-and-timber building covers about 810 m² and is one of several sites of the base listed together; the others are in Yongshun and Longshan counties in Xiangxi."},{"id":"wulingyuan-huanglong-cave","name":"Huanglong Cave","name_zh":"黄龙洞","pinyin":"Huánglóng Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.368,"lon":110.6147,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulingyuan-huanglong-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large karst cave in the Suoxiyu area of Wulingyuan, east of the town, with two dry and two water-filled levels, underground rivers, waterfalls and an underground lake. The guided route of about two hours includes a boat ride on an underground river, and a 20 m stone pillar known as the Sea-Calming Needle is its best-known formation."},{"id":"cili-jiangya-hot-spring","name":"Jiangya Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"江垭温泉","pinyin":"Jiāngyā Wēnquán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.5039,"lon":110.7573,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cili-jiangya-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Jiangya Town, Cili County, where nine streams, all tributaries of the Lishui, meet. The spring was struck during construction of the Jiangya hydropower dam in the 1990s and rises from a depth of about 350 m at 52–54°C; its bicarbonate water now feeds the resort's pools."},{"id":"sangzhi-jiutian-cave","name":"Jiutian Cave & Fenglian Creek","name_zh":"九天峰恋","pinyin":"Jiǔtiān Fēngliàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.3264,"lon":110.1152,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sangzhi-jiutian-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large karst cave in Shuidong Village, Lifuta Town, about 10 km from Sangzhi county town, named for the nine skylights that open from its roof to the surface. Discovered in 1987, it has three levels with underground rivers, pools and natural bridges, and more than 3,300 columns and pinnacles over 3 m tall. Its exit leads into the forested peaks of Fenglian Creek, the other half of the scenic area."},{"id":"sangzhi-liujiaping-long-march-starting-point","name":"Long March Starting Point of the Red Second Front Army","name_zh":"红二方面军长征出发地","pinyin":"Hóng'èr Fāngmiànjūn Chángzhēng Chūfādì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.4658,"lon":110.2314,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sangzhi-liujiaping-long-march-starting-point","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Liujiaping in Sangzhi County is where the Red Army's Second and Sixth Corps, led by He Long, Ren Bishi and others, set out on their Long March on 19 November 1935, after a military meeting here decided on a strategic withdrawal. The site has the memorial hall of the Second Front Army's Long March starting point, with group statues of its leaders, a monument and an equestrian statue of He Long."},{"id":"cili-longwang-cave","name":"Longwang Cave","name_zh":"龙王洞","pinyin":"Lóngwáng Dòng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.4405,"lon":110.729,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cili-longwang-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large limestone cave in Jiangya Town, Cili County, about 17 km east of the Wulingyuan scenic area, named after the legend of a dragon king living in the deep pool outside it. Found by local people in 1979 and run by the Huanglong Cave company since 2013, it has dozens of halls and corridors with underground rivers and lakes. It reopened on a trial basis in March 2026 after an upgrade."},{"id":"zhangjiajie-puguang-temple","name":"Puguang Temple","name_zh":"普光禅寺","pinyin":"Pǔguāng Chánsì","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.1282,"lon":110.4836,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangjiajie-puguang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on Jiefang Road in central Zhangjiajie, founded in 1413 under the Ming by the military commander Yong Jian and renovated in 1733. Along its axis stand the gate, bell and drum towers, the Mahavira Hall, a Hall of Arhats with 18 arhat statues, a Guanyin Hall and the three-storey Yuhuang Pavilion. It is listed together with neighbouring old buildings, among them the Taoist Gaozhen Temple and a Wenchang pavilion."},{"id":"yongding-shiyanping-village","name":"Shiyanping Village","name_zh":"石堰坪村","pinyin":"Shíyànpíng Cūn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.0442,"lon":110.8807,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongding-shiyanping-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tujia village in Wangjiaping Town, in the hills of eastern Yongding District, with 182 timber stilt houses, most built in the Qing dynasty; 85 in the core area are well preserved. Built on the slopes without levelling the ground, the mortise-and-tenon houses sit among terraced fields, old weirs and forest. It was among the first villages named Chinese Traditional Villages in 2012."},{"id":"yongding-tian-family-compound","name":"Tian Family Compound","name_zh":"田家大院","pinyin":"Tiánjiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.1206,"lon":110.5156,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongding-tian-family-compound","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tujia family compound, also known as the Old Courtyard (Lao Yuanzi), in Pengjia Lane off Yongding Avenue, built in the Yongzheng era of the Qing (1723–35) by Tian Qiyuan. Of its original 160 rooms only about 30 survive, covering some 2,000 m², and the house was restored after the provincial heritage bureau approved a repair plan in 2021."},{"id":"zhangjiajie-tujia-folk-custom-park","name":"Tujia Folk Custom Park (Tusi City)","name_zh":"张家界土家风情园","pinyin":"Zhāngjiājiè Tǔjiā Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.1275,"lon":110.4589,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiajie-tujia-folk-custom-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A commercial park of Tujia-style timber buildings on the western side of Zhangjiajie city, including a chieftain's compound known as Tusi City, with displays of Tujia architecture and customs and staged song-and-dance shows. It is an easy stop within the city for an introduction to the Tujia people, whose homeland takes in Zhangjiajie."},{"id":"cili-wanfu-hot-spring","name":"Wanfu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"万福温泉","pinyin":"Wànfú Wēnquán","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.4191,"lon":111.1674,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cili-wanfu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort on a hillside by the Cili East exit of the Changde–Zhangjiajie expressway, opened in 2016. Naturally flowing water at about 53°C feeds pools in nine zones, alongside a water park with slides, a hilltop hotel and a shopping street. It suits travellers wanting a soak between Zhangjiajie and Changde."},{"id":"wulingyuan-xibu-street","name":"Xibu Street","name_zh":"溪布老街","pinyin":"Xībù Lǎojiē","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.3472,"lon":110.5524,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulingyuan-xibu-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pedestrian street in Wulingyuan town, built in old-street style and lined with shops, snack stalls and restaurants, which the district counts among its cultural-tourism brands. It is listed as an intangible-heritage experience base, presenting crafts and folk culture of western Hunan."},{"id":"cili-zhangjiajie-difeng","name":"Zhangjiajie Difeng Gorge","name_zh":"张家界地缝","pinyin":"Zhāngjiājiè Dìfèng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.299,"lon":110.9653,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cili-zhangjiajie-difeng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A narrow karst slot gorge in Jinlong Village, Lingxi Town, in eastern Cili County, also called the Chaoyang Difeng ('earth crack'). The gorge averages nearly 200 m deep yet narrows to about 3 m across at the top, an unusual crack-like landform of the karst."},{"id":"cili-zhangjiajie-grand-canyon","name":"Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon","name_zh":"张家界大峡谷","pinyin":"Zhāngjiājiè Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.4281,"lon":110.6892,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cili-zhangjiajie-grand-canyon/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested gorge at Sanguansi in Cili County, east of the Wulingyuan scenic area, best known for the glass-bottomed bridge, officially named Yuntiandu, strung across it. Opened in August 2016, the bridge is 430 m long and about 300 m above the canyon floor, and was the world's longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge at the time. It was designed by the Israeli architect Haim Dotan and can hold up to 800 people at once."},{"id":"cili-zhangjiajie-snow-world","name":"Zhangjiajie Snow World","name_zh":"张家界冰雪世界","pinyin":"Zhāngjiājiè Bīngxuě Shìjiè","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhangjiajie","lat":29.2623,"lon":110.7068,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cili-zhangjiajie-snow-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An indoor ski and ice centre in Yanghe Township, Cili County, opened in December 2019, with a snow-hall building of over 63,000 m² that takes up to 1,000 people at a time for skiing, skating and snow play. It offers families visiting Zhangjiajie a winter-sports option in any season."},{"id":"chaling-ancient-city-wall","name":"Chaling Ancient City Wall","name_zh":"茶陵古城墙","pinyin":"Chálíng Gǔ Chéngqiáng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.7955,"lon":113.5537,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaling-ancient-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Southern Song city wall of Chaling, built of stone in 1231–32 along the Mi River, of which about 1.5 km survives with two gates and their barbicans (Yingxiang and Yingxun), a ramp and more than 700 m of riverside embankment. It is described as the only well-preserved Song-dynasty stone city wall in Hunan; an iron rhinoceros set up to guard the embankment also survives, and restored stretches and the Yingxiang Gate tower stand by the river in the old town."},{"id":"zhuzhou-fantawild-adventure","name":"Fantawild Adventure Zhuzhou","name_zh":"株洲方特欢乐世界","pinyin":"Zhūzhōu Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.993,"lon":113.1878,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuzhou-fantawild-adventure","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large theme park of the Chinese Fantawild chain in Shifeng District, northern Zhuzhou, opened in 2011, with themed indoor attractions, outdoor rides and shows. Its sister park Fantawild Dreamland, opened in 2016, stands next door, and both have staged holiday night events with drone shows; it suits families and ride fans."},{"id":"liling-qunli-porcelain-factory","name":"Former Qunli Porcelain Factory","name_zh":"醴陵群力瓷厂旧址","pinyin":"Lǐlíng Qúnlì Cíchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.6732,"lon":113.4785,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liling-qunli-porcelain-factory","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Qunli Porcelain Factory in north-western Liling, founded in 1958 as the Liling Art Porcelain Factory with state funds to make fine underglaze-painted porcelain, which produced tableware for national leaders, the Great Hall of the People and the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and so earned the nickname 'Red Official Kiln'. Production stopped in 2011; the brick workshops and old machinery have been kept, and after repairs prompted by a 2024 inspection the core workshop reopened as a cultural space for exhibitions and hands-on activities."},{"id":"liling-li-lisan-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Li Lisan","name_zh":"李立三故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Lìsān Gùjū","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.6569,"lon":113.5256,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liling-li-lisan-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The childhood home of Li Lisan (1899–1967), a Chinese Communist politician and Politburo member, on the eastern side of Liling, known as Yuyuan ('Taro Garden') from the name over its gate. It is a single-storey courtyard farmhouse in eastern-Hunan style with 32 rooms behind yellow walls, built in the 1880s and bought by his grandfather in 1891."},{"id":"chaling-huahu-valley","name":"Huahu Valley","name_zh":"花湖谷","pinyin":"Huāhú Gǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.8077,"lon":113.6837,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaling-huahu-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately developed rural resort in Yantang town east of Chaling, built by the Hunan Wanzhang Group round flower fields, a lake and a gorge; its crape-myrtle garden opened in 2018. Family activities include a high rafting chute down the gorge, coloured slides, horse riding, animal petting and camping, and the resort hosts a grassland music festival, held for the third time in October 2026."},{"id":"youxian-jiuxian-lake","name":"Jiuxian Lake","name_zh":"酒仙湖","pinyin":"Jiǔxiān Hú","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.2025,"lon":113.5697,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youxian-jiuxian-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir in the hills of north-eastern You County, held back by a 50 m earth dam on the You River built in 1958–60 and renamed from Jiubujiang Reservoir in 2004, with about 11 km² of clear water among forested hills. It is now a lake resort and national wetland park with a 22 km lakeside trail, paddleboarding, camping and family events."},{"id":"liling-weishan-kilns","name":"Liling Kilns at Weishan","name_zh":"醴陵窑","pinyin":"Lǐlíng Yáo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.7593,"lon":113.4871,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liling-weishan-kilns","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The national listing for the Liling kilns, which fired ceramics from the Song to the Republican era, centres on Weishan village in the hills north of Liling, long the heart of the local porcelain industry and known mainly for blue-and-white bowls. Its best-preserved works, the Yuexingwan old kiln factory, founded in the Guangxu era and fired until the 1980s, keeps its clay-refining and shaping workshops, a painting shop and a stepped climbing kiln, restored in 2010–11."},{"id":"liling-lujiang-academy","name":"Lujiang Academy","name_zh":"渌江书院","pinyin":"Lùjiāng Shūyuàn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.6533,"lon":113.4867,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liling-lujiang-academy","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A traditional academy in western Liling, founded in 1175 and moved to its present site in the Qing dynasty, with whose teaching the scholars Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming and Zuo Zongtang are all associated. Its halls and courtyards were restored and reopened to the public in 2016, and Liling's old stone Lujiang Bridge is a short walk away."},{"id":"liling-lujiang-bridge","name":"Lujiang Bridge","name_zh":"渌江桥","pinyin":"Lùjiāng Qiáo","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.6541,"lon":113.4953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liling-lujiang-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A ten-arch stone bridge over the Lu River in central Liling, built in 1925 just upstream of a crossing recorded since the Song and destroyed many times by floods and war. About 187 m long and 8 m wide, it is described as the longest old stone arch bridge in Hunan, and it reaches Zhuangyuan islet in mid-river by a side approach; the name plaque was written by Kang Youwei."},{"id":"yanling-yan-emperor-mausoleum","name":"Mausoleum of the Yan Emperor","name_zh":"炎帝陵","pinyin":"Yándì Líng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.4198,"lon":113.6649,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanling-yan-emperor-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of four places in China honoured as the tomb of the Yan Emperor (Shennong), the legendary ancestor credited with farming and herbal medicine, at Luyuanpo in Luyuan town, Yanling County, beside the Mi River. A temple was first built here in 967 under the Song; its halls burnt in 1954 and were razed in the Cultural Revolution, then rebuilt in 1986–88, and the complex now spreads over a sacrificial hall, the mausoleum hall, a memorial garden and a stele forest on the hill. The memorial rites held here are on China's national intangible heritage list."},{"id":"yanling-red-army-slogan-museum","name":"Red Army Slogan Museum","name_zh":"红军标语博物馆","pinyin":"Hóngjūn Biāoyǔ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.4913,"lon":113.7674,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-red-army-slogan-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum in Yanling county town devoted to the slogans that Red Army units painted on village walls in this area in the late 1920s and early 1930s, opened in 2011 and described as the only museum of its kind in China. Wall panels removed from old buildings are shown in its halls, most written in lime or charcoal, one in purple dye from a local dye works and one on a wooden board; the county counts 339 surviving slogans at 115 sites, many still in place in the villages."},{"id":"zhuzhou-shennong-city","name":"Shennong City Park","name_zh":"神农城","pinyin":"Shénnóng Chéng","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":27.824,"lon":113.117,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuzhou-shennong-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large modern park in Tianyuan District, central Zhuzhou, themed on the Yan Emperor Shennong and laid out round Yandi Square with its statue of Shennong carrying a herb basket, Shennong Lake, the tall Shennong Tower and the Shennong Grand Theatre. It is a modern civic landmark rather than a historic site, good for an evening stroll, and holds a Shennong temple fair at the Spring Festival; the Yan Emperor's actual mausoleum is in Yanling County."},{"id":"yanling-shennong-valley","name":"Shennong Valley National Forest Park","name_zh":"神农谷","pinyin":"Shénnóng Gǔ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.5051,"lon":114.0212,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-shennong-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the mountains of eastern Yanling County, covered in primary forest and threaded by streams and waterfalls such as the Zhulian (Pearl Curtain) Falls. Six areas with some 40 named sights, among them Jiashui, Taohuaxi and Jiuqushui, are reached by trails from the Nanmuba visitor centre, and its cool summers draw visitors escaping the heat."},{"id":"yanling-shuikou-party-branch-site","name":"Shuikou Site of Mao Zedong's First Company Party Branch","name_zh":"水口连队建党旧址","pinyin":"Shuǐkǒu Liánduì Jiàndǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.3226,"lon":113.8046,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanling-shuikou-party-branch-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Ye family ancestral hall in Shuikou town, southern Yanling County, where on 15 October 1927 Mao Zedong admitted six soldiers of his Autumn Harvest Uprising force to the Communist Party in the upstairs room, founding the first party branch at company level. The preserved hall is fronted by a memorial square laid out in 2011, and nearby stand the Zhu family hall, used as the regiment's headquarters, and the Jiang family house where Mao lodged."},{"id":"chaling-workers-peasants-soldiers-government-site","name":"Site of the Chaling Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Government","name_zh":"茶陵县工农兵政府旧址","pinyin":"Chálíng Xiàn Gōng-Nóng-Bīng Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.8001,"lon":113.5609,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaling-workers-peasants-soldiers-government-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old prefectural and county yamen of Chaling, an official compound in use from the Southern Song to the Qing, where the Communists set up China's first county-level 'workers', peasants' and soldiers' government' during the Jinggangshan base period. The restored compound of about 1.8 ha, with grey-brick halls and tall stepped gable walls, keeps the layout of an imperial county office and houses exhibitions on that government."},{"id":"chaling-yunyang-mountain","name":"Yunyang Mountain","name_zh":"云阳山","pinyin":"Yúnyáng Shān","region_id":"430000","region":"Hunan","city":"Zhuzhou","lat":26.7627,"lon":113.4711,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaling-yunyang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain rising straight behind Chaling county town, protected as a national forest park of about 89 km², which local tradition links with the Yan Emperor Shennong and with tea, and which was briefly honoured as the Southern Peak in the early Tang. Paths lead to the Nanyue Palace and the Ziyun and Baiyun temples, caves, gorges and viewpoints, and pilgrims crowd the Nanyue Palace for its temple fair in the sixth and seventh lunar months."},{"id":"chaoan-congxi-ancestral-hall","name":"Congxi Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"从熙公祠","pinyin":"Cóngxī Gōng Cí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.4747,"lon":116.6425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaoan-congxi-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ancestral hall in Jinsha village, Caitang town, built between 1870 and 1883 with money from Tan Hiok Nee (Chen Xunian), the Chaozhou-born merchant who became the leading kangchu, or plantation chief, of Johor in Malaya; it is named after his courtesy name, Congxi. It is known for intricate Chaozhou stone carving, including double-sided openwork panels of plum, bamboo, chrysanthemum, birds and animals, alongside gilded woodcarving and porcelain-shard mosaics. Two carved panels stolen in 2006 were recovered and returned the following year."},{"id":"xiangqiao-danfu-yuan","name":"Danfu Yuan","name_zh":"淡浮院","pinyin":"Dànfú Yuàn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6816,"lon":116.6961,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangqiao-danfu-yuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private collection museum and garden on the eastern side of Chaozhou, also known as Yanfeng Academy, built on the initiative of the Thai Chinese businessman Guo Fengyuan to promote Chinese culture and exchange between China and Thailand. Its halls and corridors show antiques, calligraphy and carved stone qilin and lions in landscaped grounds, and a memorial hall honours notable Chaoshan merchants."},{"id":"raoping-daoyun-lou","name":"Daoyun Lou","name_zh":"道韵楼","pinyin":"Dàoyùn Lóu","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.9768,"lon":116.823,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/raoping-daoyun-lou/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal fortified earthen house of the Huang family in Nanlian village, Sanrao town, northern Raoping, begun in 1477 and finished in 1587 after three generations of building; its eight-sided plan gives it the nickname Bagua Lou. Its rammed-earth wall, with water channels along the top against fire attack, encloses rings of houses, lanes and wells arranged in multiples of eight around a large central yard, and some families still live inside."},{"id":"chaoan-dongshan-lake-hot-spring","name":"Dongshan Lake Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"东山湖温泉度假村","pinyin":"Dōngshān Hú Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.5087,"lon":116.5821,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaoan-dongshan-lake-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort by Dongshan Lake on the northern side of Sangpu Mountain in southern Chao'an District, near where Chaozhou, Shantou and Jieyang meet. Its pools are set at different levels across a landscaped hillside above the lake, with a hotel and other leisure facilities."},{"id":"raoping-green-island-resort","name":"Green Island Tourist Resort","name_zh":"绿岛旅游山庄","pinyin":"Lǜdǎo Lǚyóu Shānzhuāng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6973,"lon":116.8666,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=raoping-green-island-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eco-tourism resort on the former Wanshanhong farm in Qiandong town, Raoping County, laid out around lakes, bamboo groves and orchards with a hotel, play areas and farming activities, and also used as a study-tour base for school groups. Its 'kiln chicken', baked in a stone oven, is a local speciality."},{"id":"chaozhou-guangji-bridge","name":"Guangji Bridge","name_zh":"广济桥","pinyin":"Guǎngjì Qiáo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6652,"lon":116.6515,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaozhou-guangji-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Also called Xiangzi Bridge, this crossing of the Han River below Chaozhou's east gate was begun in the 1170s as a pontoon bridge and built up over centuries into stone-pier spans from each bank joined by a central section of moored boats that could be opened to let ships through. Restored in 2003–07 to its Ming appearance, with its pontoon boats and the pavilions and tower houses on its piers rebuilt, it is now a pedestrian bridge and is traditionally counted among China's four great ancient bridges."},{"id":"chaozhou-han-wengong-temple","name":"Han Wengong Temple","name_zh":"韩文公祠","pinyin":"Hán Wéngōng Cí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6667,"lon":116.6558,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chaozhou-han-wengong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial temple to the Tang writer and statesman Han Yu, who served as prefect of Chaozhou after being demoted, set on the western slope of Bijia Hill on the east bank of the Han River, facing the old town. First founded in 999 and moved to this site in 1189, its present halls date mainly from the Ming and Qing, and steles inside include a Qing recutting of Su Shi's inscription for Han Yu's temple."},{"id":"xiangqiao-chaozhou-old-town-residences","name":"Historic Residences of Chaozhou Old Town","name_zh":"潮州老城古民居建筑群","pinyin":"Cháozhōu Lǎochéng Gǔmínjū Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6711,"lon":116.6415,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangqiao-chaozhou-old-town-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Ming, Qing and Republican-era houses in three historic quarters of Chaozhou's walled town, the Ten Lanes by the South Gate, the Xu Fuma Mansion quarter and the old West Gate street, listed together as a national heritage site in 2013. They include scholar-officials' mansions such as the Dafu Di houses in Jiadi Lane and Xingning Lane, the Zhuo residence of the Tongzhi era and the late-Ming mansion of Minister Huang. Walking the lanes off Taiping Road, where several of them stand, gives a good picture of the old town's courtyard houses."},{"id":"xiangqiao-jilue-huang-ancestral-hall","name":"Jilüe Huang Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"己略黄公祠","pinyin":"Jǐlüè Huáng Gōng Cí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6681,"lon":116.6439,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangqiao-jilue-huang-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private ancestral hall completed in 1887 for Huang Jilüe in Tiexiang Lane, old Chaozhou, known for its Chaozhou gilded woodcarving and stone carving. Instead of the usual auspicious motifs, the gold-lacquered carvings on its beams show historical tales and legends such as the Three Visits to the Thatched Cottage and the Goddess of the Luo River. It is laid out in two sections, with four halls facing one another around the courtyard."},{"id":"xiangqiao-kaiyuan-temple","name":"Kaiyuan Temple, Chaozhou","name_zh":"开元寺","pinyin":"Kāiyuán Sì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6658,"lon":116.644,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangqiao-kaiyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 738 under the Tang emperor Xuanzong and known since the Ming as Kaiyuan Zhenguo Chan Temple, this is the main Buddhist monastery of Chaozhou's old town and a nationally designated key temple. Along its central axis stand the gate hall, the Hall of Heavenly Kings, the Mahavira Hall and the sutra library, many of them keeping their early form, while side halls include a Dabei Hall of 2005 lined with statues of Guanyin and a Thai-style hall with a bronze Buddha."},{"id":"xiangqiao-xu-fuma-mansion","name":"Xu Fuma Mansion","name_zh":"许驸马府","pinyin":"Xǔ Fùmǎ Fǔ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Chaozhou","lat":23.6735,"lon":116.6427,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangqiao-xu-fuma-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The residence of Xu Jue, a Northern Song official married to a great-granddaughter of Emperor Taizong, hence the popular title fuma ('imperial son-in-law'); it was first built in the 1060s at Dongfucheng in the north of old Chaozhou. Repaired many times since, it keeps its original plan of three halls five bays wide with side quarters, and one of its four wells still holds clear water; it opened to visitors in 2009."},{"id":"dongguan-exhibition-hall","name":"Dongguan Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"东莞展览馆","pinyin":"Dōngguǎn Zhǎnlǎnguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0192,"lon":113.7435,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongguan-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city exhibition hall in Nancheng that tells the story of Dongguan's growth into a manufacturing city. The permanent display, renewed in 2023, shows products made by Dongguan firms and models of the city-centre plan and of the China Spallation Neutron Source, a large physics facility in the city, with films and multimedia screens throughout."},{"id":"dongguan-science-and-technology-museum","name":"Dongguan Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"东莞市科学技术博物馆","pinyin":"Dōngguǎn Shì Kēxué Jìshù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0123,"lon":113.7413,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongguan-science-and-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dongguan's municipal science museum, opened in December 2005 in Nancheng district, with hands-on galleries built around two main themes: manufacturing technology and information technology. Exhibits are interactive, and the building also has a dome cinema. It suits families with children and anyone curious about the industries that turned Dongguan into a manufacturing city."},{"id":"dalingshan-east-river-column-memorial","name":"East River Column Memorial Hall and Dalingshan Base Sites","name_zh":"东江纵队纪念馆","pinyin":"Dōngjiāng Zòngduì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.8865,"lon":113.8069,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dalingshan-east-river-column-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum in Dalingshan town on the East River Column, the Communist-led guerrilla force that fought the Japanese in the Dongguan, Huiyang, Bao'an and Hong Kong area during the Second World War. Around it are nine preserved sites of the force's Dalingshan base of 1940–1943, including its headquarters, a meeting room, a newspaper office, a clinic and a former academy."},{"id":"humen-jiang-guangnai-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Jiang Guangnai","name_zh":"蒋光鼐故居","pinyin":"Jiǎng Guāngnài Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.7875,"lon":113.6825,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=humen-jiang-guangnai-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family house in Nanzha village, Humen, where Jiang Guangnai was born in 1888; he commanded the 19th Route Army when it fought the Japanese landing at Shanghai in 1932, and later held posts in the government of the People's Republic. Known as Liyin Yuan, it was built by his grandfather in the Daoguang reign of the Qing, and the house is now a small museum."},{"id":"zhangmutou-guanyin-mountain-forest-park","name":"Guanyin Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"观音山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Guānyīn Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.9049,"lon":114.0923,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangmutou-guanyin-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill park in Zhangmutou town, south-east Dongguan, with a Buddhist temple and a large Guanyin square near the summit. A road of about 7 km climbs from the gate to the top, with sightseeing buses for part of the way, and footpaths lead through secondary forest to a lake and viewpoints."},{"id":"dongguan-haogang-midden-site-museum","name":"Haogang Midden Site Museum","name_zh":"蚝岗遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Háogǎng Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0298,"lon":113.7344,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongguan-haogang-midden-site-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic shell-midden site in Nancheng, where an early settlement left heaps of oyster shells along with pottery and stone tools. The site museum, opened in 2007, shows part of the excavated site with two human skeletons more than 5,000 years old, finds from the dig and painted pottery from the West, North and East river basins, with models of prehistoric life by the estuary such as canoe building and oyster gathering."},{"id":"mayong-huayang-lake-wetland-park","name":"Huayang Lake Wetland Park","name_zh":"华阳湖湿地公园","pinyin":"Huáyáng Hú Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0674,"lon":113.5669,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mayong-huayang-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park around Huayang Lake and the creeks of Mayong town, on the Pearl River delta in north-west Dongguan. The waterways were badly polluted until a clean-up begun in 2013 closed electroplating, dyeing and paper works, and the area was approved as a national wetland park in 2015. Paths, cycle tracks and boat trips now run through the restored wetland."},{"id":"dongguan-keyuan","name":"Keyuan","name_zh":"可园","pinyin":"Kě Yuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0453,"lon":113.7381,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongguan-keyuan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A compact Lingnan-style garden in Guancheng, built in the 1850s by the retired Qing official Zhang Jingxiu and counted among the four celebrated gardens of Guangdong. Halls, verandas, pools and rockeries are packed into a small plot, overlooked by the four-storey Ke Tower, the garden's tallest building. The painters Ju Chao and Ju Lian lived here for some ten years, and their work is seen as a forerunner of the Lingnan school of painting."},{"id":"fenggang-longfeng-villa-film-resort","name":"Longfeng Villa Film and TV Resort","name_zh":"龙凤山庄影视度假村","pinyin":"Lóngfèng Shānzhuāng Yǐngshì Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.7201,"lon":114.1893,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenggang-longfeng-villa-film-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A themed park in Fenggang town, opened in 2005 with Hong Kong investment and built around wedding photography, with mock European castles, a fairy-tale town and street sets that also serve as film backdrops. It has since added rides, family attractions and evening shows."},{"id":"dongguan-nanshe-tangwei-ancient-villages","name":"Nanshe and Tangwei Ancient Villages","name_zh":"南社村和塘尾村","pinyin":"Nánshè Cūn hé Tángwěi Cūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0694,"lon":113.8996,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongguan-nanshe-tangwei-ancient-villages/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two walled Ming and Qing clan villages in eastern Dongguan, listed together as a national heritage site in 2006. Nanshe, in Chashan town, is a Xie clan village laid out along a chain of four ponds, with a late-Ming wall and 16 ancestral halls lining the water. Tangwei, about 3 km away in Shipai town, keeps more than 260 Ming and Qing houses with 21 ancestral halls, study halls and watchtowers built of red sandstone and grey brick."},{"id":"humen-opium-war-museum","name":"Opium War Museum and Humen Forts","name_zh":"鸦片战争博物馆","pinyin":"Yāpiàn Zhànzhēng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.8281,"lon":113.6546,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/humen-opium-war-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The museum in Humen town stands where the imperial commissioner Lin Zexu publicly destroyed confiscated opium in 1839, the event that led to the First Opium War, and its grounds keep the two destruction pools, rebuilt in 1957. Its Sea Battle Museum branch, opened in 1999 near the Weiyuan forts on Nanshan hill, holds the main exhibition on the Opium Wars, and the museum also looks after the Shajiao forts to the south. The Humen forts were begun in 1717, wrecked in both Opium Wars and rebuilt each time."},{"id":"dongguan-quejin-pavilion-stele","name":"Quejin Pavilion Stele","name_zh":"却金亭碑","pinyin":"Quèjīn Tíng Bēi","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0517,"lon":113.7444,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dongguan-quejin-pavilion-stele/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming stone stele of 1542 in the old centre of Dongguan, recording how the Panyu magistrate Li Kai, sent to regulate foreign trade, refused a gift of money from Siamese merchants. The merchants used the money for a memorial arch, pavilion and this stele instead; the pavilion was lost by the 1960s and rebuilt in 1997 around the surviving stone."},{"id":"shilong-kowloon-canton-railway-south-bridge","name":"Shilong South Bridge of the Kowloon–Canton Railway","name_zh":"广九铁路石龙南桥","pinyin":"Guǎngjiǔ Tiělù Shílóng Nán Qiáo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.1036,"lon":113.8422,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shilong-kowloon-canton-railway-south-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A single-track railway bridge of 1907–1911 that carried the old Kowloon–Canton Railway over the southern branch of the East River at Shilong, and is regarded as the oldest surviving railway bridge in Guangdong. Built of steel, stone, timber and concrete, it was retired in 2007 when a new bridge opened a short way downstream, and it can be seen from the riverbanks of Shilong town."},{"id":"dongguan-songshan-lake","name":"Songshan Lake","name_zh":"松山湖","pinyin":"Sōngshān Hú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.9012,"lon":113.8872,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongguan-songshan-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir lake at the heart of Dongguan's Songshan Lake high-tech park, with lakeside parkland laid out from 2002. Roads, footpaths and cycle tracks follow the wooded shore, and it is mainly visited for cycling and lakeside walks."},{"id":"liaobu-xiangshi-zoo","name":"Xiangshi Zoo","name_zh":"香市动物园","pinyin":"Xiāngshì Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.9991,"lon":113.8463,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liaobu-xiangshi-zoo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately run zoo in Liaobu town with more than 100 species, among them giant pandas, Asian elephants and Siberian tigers, many kept in open enclosures rather than cages. Staged shows, including a marine-animal show, are put on in its show halls, and it suits a family day out."},{"id":"dongguan-yinping-mountain-forest-park","name":"Yinping Mountain Forest Park","name_zh":"银瓶山森林公园","pinyin":"Yínpíng Shān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.9088,"lon":114.2196,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongguan-yinping-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park across the hills of Xiegang, Qingxi and Zhangmutou towns in south-east Dongguan, the largest in the city, rising to Yinpingzui (898 m), Dongguan's highest peak. Waymarked trails with rest pavilions climb through hill forest towards the summit, and it is mainly a hiking destination."},{"id":"changping-yinxian-villa","name":"Yinxian Villa Resort","name_zh":"隐贤山庄","pinyin":"Yǐnxián Shānzhuāng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":22.9767,"lon":114.0194,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changping-yinxian-villa","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure resort on a wooded hillside in Changping town, with landscaped grounds, hotels and family attractions such as a small zoo, amusement rides, a water park and a glass bridge. It suits a family day out rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"hengli-yiyi-art-house-museum","name":"Yiyi Art House Museum","name_zh":"逸颐艺舍博物馆","pinyin":"Yìyí Yìshè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Dongguan","lat":23.0141,"lon":113.9657,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengli-yiyi-art-house-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private museum in Hengli town built on a local family's collection of Chinese art, gathered since the 1970s. Galleries set around courtyards in white-walled, dark-tiled buildings show paintings and calligraphy, ceramics, bronzes, carvings and Ming and Qing furniture."},{"id":"nanhai-cctv-film-studio","name":"CCTV Nanhai Studio","name_zh":"南海影视城","pinyin":"Nánhǎi Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.1889,"lon":113.1016,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanhai-cctv-film-studio/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film and television base of China Media Group (CCTV) in Shishan, Nanhai, begun in 1996 with street sets of old Hong Kong and Macau built for dramas about the two cities. Its largest set, built in 1997–98 for a series on the Taiping Rebellion, recreates the Taiping court palaces of Nanjing behind a gate tower 300 m wide, beside a moated quarter of Jiangnan-style streets, mansions and teahouses. Visitors walk through the replica sets, which are still used for filming and broadcasts."},{"id":"shunde-changlu-leisure-park","name":"Changlu Tourism and Leisure Park","name_zh":"长鹿旅游休博园","pinyin":"Chánglù Lǚyóu Xiūbóyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.8815,"lon":113.2848,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunde-changlu-leisure-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately built leisure park of about 600 mu (40 hectares) in Lunjiao, Shunde, which grew out of the Changlu farm resort opened in the early 2000s and was rated a 5A scenic area in 2014. It is divided into ten themed areas, among them an amusement-ride park, a fairy-tale animal kingdom, a mine-tunnel aquarium, a snow world, a science hall, a Jurassic zone, a farm-restaurant area and a military-themed area, with a staged show at its Global Village theatre. Themed hotels and dozens of restaurants make it a full-day outing for families."},{"id":"shunde-chencun-flower-world","name":"Chencun Flower World","name_zh":"陈村花卉世界","pinyin":"Chéncūn Huāhuì Shìjiè","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.9761,"lon":113.1558,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunde-chencun-flower-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The heart of the flower and ornamental-plant trade in Chencun, a Shunde town promoted as 'China's first flower town', where nurseries, plant markets and display gardens spread across the area. It became a 4A scenic area in 2012, and visitors come to wander among greenhouses and market halls of potted plants and flowers."},{"id":"foshan-donghuali-lane","name":"Donghuali Historic Lane","name_zh":"东华里","pinyin":"Dōnghuá Lǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.0331,"lon":113.1133,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/foshan-donghuali-lane/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A historic residential lane in central Foshan, first called Yangwu Street after the Yang and Wu families who lived here in the early Qing and renamed Donghuali in the Qianlong period. Later owners, the Luo family in the early 19th century and the Zhao family in the late Qing, rebuilt and extended the houses, which now line a main lane about 112 m long across some 6,700 m². It is described as the most completely preserved group of Pearl River Delta-style houses in Guangdong."},{"id":"foshan-ancestral-temple","name":"Foshan Ancestral Temple","name_zh":"佛山祖庙","pinyin":"Fóshān Zǔmiào","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.0318,"lon":113.1085,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/foshan-ancestral-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Daoist temple to the Northern Emperor (Beidi), the water god revered as Foshan's protector, founded in the Northern Song (1078–1085), rebuilt in 1372 and restored throughout in 1899. Its Ming and Qing buildings include the Wanfu Stage of 1658, regarded as the largest old opera stage in the Lingnan region, the Lingying archway and the main hall with bronze and cast-iron ritual objects, all richly decorated with carving and ceramic ridge figures. The complex is now a national first-grade museum that also takes in a Confucian temple and halls devoted to the martial artists Wong Fei-hung and Ip Man."},{"id":"nanhai-kang-youwei-former-residence","name":"Kang Youwei's Former Residence","name_zh":"康有为故居","pinyin":"Kāng Yǒuwéi Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.0235,"lon":112.8994,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanhai-kang-youwei-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace and childhood home of Kang Youwei (1858–1927), the leading figure of the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform, in Su village, Danzao town, known locally as the Yanxiang Old House. The 81 m² Pearl River Delta-style house dates from the mid-Qing, was partly destroyed during the war against Japan and restored in 1983, and a memorial hall was built beside it in 1987."},{"id":"lecong-furniture-exhibition-centre","name":"Lecong International Furniture Exhibition Centre","name_zh":"乐从国际家居汇展中心","pinyin":"Lècóng Guójì Jiājū Huìzhǎn Zhōngxīn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.9543,"lon":113.0818,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lecong-furniture-exhibition-centre","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A furniture trade complex of two showroom towers at the head of the furniture strip on Lecong Avenue, in a Shunde town that its government describes as home to the world's largest furniture market. Listed as a 4A scenic area since 2014, it is essentially a furniture mall that suits visitors who want to browse showrooms rather than sightsee."},{"id":"lecong-louvre-furniture-expo-centre","name":"Louvre International Furniture Expo Centre","name_zh":"罗浮宫国际家具艺术博览中心","pinyin":"Luófúgōng Guójì Jiājù Yìshù Bólǎn Zhōngxīn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.9475,"lon":113.0839,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lecong-louvre-furniture-expo-centre","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large furniture showroom complex in Lecong, Shunde, run by the Louvre (Luofugong) home-furnishings group, whose Chinese name is that of the Paris museum. Lecong's government describes the town as having the world's largest furniture market, and this centre, a 4A scenic area since 2012, is essentially a vast furniture mall that suits buyers and design-minded browsers rather than sightseers."},{"id":"nanhai-lishui-menglishuixiang","name":"Menglishuixiang Scenic Area, Lishui","name_zh":"梦里水乡","pinyin":"Mènglǐ Shuǐxiāng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.2298,"lon":113.1687,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanhai-lishui-menglishuixiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area of flower parks and waterside villages in Lishui town, northern Nanhai, rated a 4A scenic area in 2018. Its centrepiece is the Menglishuixiang Flower Garden, opened in 2017, with flower fields, waterways and a large glasshouse, plus small trains and duck boats for children. Nearby stops on the town's 'water-town garden' route include the cycle path around Xianlu Island and the old village of Chishan."},{"id":"nanhai-xiqiao-mountain","name":"Mount Xiqiao","name_zh":"西樵山","pinyin":"Xīqiáo Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.9272,"lon":112.9728,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanhai-xiqiao-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An extinct volcano of 72 peaks rising from the Pearl River Delta plain in Nanhai District, covering 14 km² and topped by the 346 m Dacheng Peak, with waterfalls, springs and wooded paths. It was a major Neolithic stone-tool workshop and later a centre of Daoism and Ming–Qing Confucian scholarship; today its sights include a 61.9 m seated Guanyin statue on Daxian Peak, Baiyun Cave and a lion-dance and martial-arts hall named after Wong Fei-hung. At Shiyanyan on the mountain, a nationally protected quarry worked from the Song to the Qing dynasty has left huge man-made caverns, some flooded, with stone pillars and tool marks."},{"id":"shiwan-nanfeng-kiln","name":"Nanfeng Kiln","name_zh":"南风古灶","pinyin":"Nánfēng Gǔzào","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.0072,"lon":113.0722,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shiwan-nanfeng-kiln/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty dragon kiln in Shiwan, built on a slope in 1506–1521 and fired continuously for about 500 years, a record recognised by Guinness World Records. The sloping brick kiln is 37.8 m long with 34 rows of stoking holes, and it forms the centre of a ceramics quarter with the Gaozao kiln, the Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Museum, a street of ceramic-figure shops and workshops where visitors can try making pottery."},{"id":"xiqiao-nanhai-bay-forest-eco-park","name":"Nanhai Bay Forest Eco-park","name_zh":"南海湾森林生态园","pinyin":"Nánhǎiwān Sēnlín Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.86,"lon":112.8755,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiqiao-nanhai-bay-forest-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill park on the western side of Xiqiao in Nanhai district, laid out along the Yinxi stream with an easy streamside trail and shallow spots where children paddle. A longer path follows the stream uphill to Qingyun Dong, a Taoist temple complex on the hillside for which the area was long known. It is a gentle family day out from Foshan or Guangzhou rather than a serious hike."},{"id":"nanhai-pingzhou-jade-street","name":"Pingzhou Jade Street","name_zh":"平洲玉器街","pinyin":"Píngzhōu Yùqì Jiē","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.0275,"lon":113.2022,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanhai-pingzhou-jade-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A district of jade workshops, trading halls and shops in Pingzhou, Guicheng subdistrict of Nanhai, which grew into one of China's main markets for jadeite (feicui), much of it rough stone from Myanmar, and a centre of bangle making. Listed as a 4A scenic area since 2014, it suits visitors interested in jade carving and jewellery rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"shunde-qinghui-garden","name":"Qinghui Garden","name_zh":"清晖园","pinyin":"Qīnghuī Yuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.8379,"lon":113.2501,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shunde-qinghui-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the four great classical gardens of Guangdong, created in Daliang by five generations of the Long family on the site of a Ming-dynasty garden and given its name in 1806. Its compact 0.34-hectare plot is divided into a southern water garden around a square pond, a central area of pavilions, a boat hall and studies, and a northern residential quarter of bamboo courts. The airy layout, open at the front and denser at the back, suits the hot southern climate, and the buildings are rich in fretwork wood carving and brick carving."},{"id":"sanshui-forest-park","name":"Sanshui Forest Park","name_zh":"三水森林公园","pinyin":"Sānshuǐ Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.1936,"lon":112.8616,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanshui-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large forest park on the northern outskirts of Xinan in Sanshui District, covering more than 120,000 mu (about 80 km²) of wooded hills, reservoirs and lakes. Besides walks in the forest, its sights include a large gilded reclining Buddha, a hall of Han and Tibetan Buddhist art, the Kongsheng Garden Confucian temple, Wuqing Valley and Yuanyang Lake, and there are outdoor sports for groups."},{"id":"sanshui-lotus-world","name":"Sanshui Lotus World","name_zh":"三水荷花世界","pinyin":"Sānshuǐ Héhuā Shìjiè","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.198,"lon":112.8994,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanshui-lotus-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lotus park of nearly 1,000 mu (about 65 hectares) in Sanshui District, opened in 2000 and rated a 4A scenic area in 2005, with about 200 mu of lotus ponds among its gardens and an amusement-ride area. It is best visited in the summer flowering season."},{"id":"shunde-sugar-factory","name":"Shunde Sugar Factory Early Buildings","name_zh":"顺德糖厂","pinyin":"Shùndé Tángchǎng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.7894,"lon":113.2628,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shunde-sugar-factory","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The surviving early buildings of a sugar refinery founded in 1934 on the north bank of the Desheng River under Chen Jitang's Guangdong administration, built by the Czech firm Škoda and in production from November 1935. It was long regarded as China's largest sugar mill by output and closed in 1993, leaving four early buildings, the boiling and pressing halls and two sugar warehouses, together with crystallisers and molasses tanks."},{"id":"gaoming-yingxiang-eco-park","name":"Yingxiang Eco-Park","name_zh":"盈香生态园","pinyin":"Yíngxiāng Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.9406,"lon":112.7617,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoming-yingxiang-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large rural tourism park in Hecheng, Gaoming, organised around the seasons: flower fields in spring, water play in summer, hill walks in autumn and farm food in winter. It mixes farm sightseeing with displays of growing methods such as heated greenhouses, hydroponics and the traditional mulberry-dyke fish ponds, and visitors can try making Gaoming lai fen rice noodles, a listed intangible-heritage craft; it suits families."},{"id":"gaoming-zaomu-mountain","name":"Zaomu Mountain","name_zh":"皂幕山","pinyin":"Zàomù Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":22.7206,"lon":112.7765,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoming-zaomu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The highest mountain in Foshan, in the south of Gaoming District, named 'black curtain' for the dense dark forest that covers its slopes. The first 4A scenic area in Gaoming keeps much of its natural forest, with 781 native plant species recorded, and walkers climb to the summit for wide views; 'Zaomu above the clouds' is one of the Ten Sights of Foshan."},{"id":"chancheng-zinan-village","name":"Zinan Village","name_zh":"紫南村","pinyin":"Zǐnán Cūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Foshan","lat":23.0156,"lon":112.9951,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chancheng-zinan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in Nanzhuang town, Chancheng District, that has made its Lingnan water-village setting into a cultural tourism area and is listed as a national key village for rural tourism and a national study-tour base. Visitors can take the 'Zinan boat' trip along its waterways, watch a staged water, light and dance show titled 'This is Zinan', and visit an art garden and a hall on Cantonese family precepts."},{"id":"zengcheng-baishuizhai","name":"Baishuizhai Scenic Area","name_zh":"白水寨","pinyin":"Báishuǐzhài","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.5975,"lon":113.753,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zengcheng-baishuizhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baishuizhai is a mountain scenic area in Paitan, northern Zengcheng, crossed by the Tropic of Cancer and best known for the Baishui Fairy Waterfall, which drops from a reservoir high on the slope. A long stone stairway climbs past several waterfall viewing platforms, with a boardwalk along the lower stream, to the reservoir and the hills above."},{"id":"guangzhou-baiyun-mountain","name":"Baiyun Mountain","name_zh":"白云山","pinyin":"Báiyún Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.16,"lon":113.29,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-baiyun-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baiyun Mountain is a forested range of many peaks on the northern edge of central Guangzhou, a scenic area since ancient times and a popular place for walks, climbs and views over the city. Paths and roads lead to Moxing Ling, the highest peak, the Mingzhu Tower area, Nengren Temple, a stele forest and the Yuntai Garden near the main south gate, and a cable car rises from the visitor centre to the summit area."},{"id":"panyu-baomo-garden","name":"Baomo Garden","name_zh":"宝墨园","pinyin":"Bǎomò Yuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":22.8959,"lon":113.2944,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panyu-baomo-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baomo Garden in Zini village, Shawan, began as a Qing shrine to the Song official Bao Zheng, was destroyed in the 1950s and has been rebuilt since 1995 into a large garden in Lingnan style. Its ponds, bridges and halls are decorated with carved brick, stone and wood, and it holds a long porcelain relief copying the scroll 'Along the River during the Qingming Festival' and the collection hall of the donor Zhao Tailai. The neighbouring Nanyue Yuan is a sister garden."},{"id":"guangzhou-beijing-road","name":"Beijing Road Pedestrian Street","name_zh":"北京路","pinyin":"Běijīng Lù","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1257,"lon":113.2637,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-beijing-road/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beijing Road has been a main street of central Guangzhou for centuries: the city's double gate tower stood here from 1244, and in the Qing the street was known for bookshops, antiques and its flower market. Fully pedestrianised since 2002, it is lined with department stores, bookshops and long-established Cantonese restaurants. The scenic area also counts the Nanyue Palace site museum, and the City God Temple and Dafo Temple are close by."},{"id":"conghua-bishuiwan-hot-spring-resort","name":"Bishuiwan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"碧水湾温泉度假村","pinyin":"Bìshuǐwān Wēnquán Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.7007,"lon":113.7092,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=conghua-bishuiwan-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring hotel resort on the banks of the Liuxi River in Conghua's hot-spring area, opened in 2002 by the civil aviation air traffic bureau for central and southern China. It combines hot-spring bathing pools with rooms, restaurants and meeting facilities, and suits a relaxing overnight stay."},{"id":"guangzhou-chen-clan-ancestral-hall","name":"Chen Clan Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"陈家祠","pinyin":"Chénjiā Cí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1298,"lon":113.2401,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-chen-clan-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1888–94 with funds from Chen clans across Guangdong's 72 counties, this combined ancestral hall and academy gave lodging to clan members sitting the imperial examinations in Guangzhou. Its symmetrical complex of halls and courtyards is famous for the density of its decoration, with carvings in wood, stone and brick, ceramic roof ridges, plaster mouldings and cast ironwork. It now houses the Guangdong Folk Art Museum."},{"id":"huadu-hong-xiuquan-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Hong Xiuquan","name_zh":"洪秀全故居","pinyin":"Hóng Xiùquán Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.4196,"lon":113.1679,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huadu-hong-xiuquan-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Rebellion, grew up in the Hakka village of Guanlubu in Huadu, where his mud-brick family home, the village school where he studied and taught, and the Hong ancestral hall stand side by side. Qing troops burnt them in 1854; the house was rebuilt on its old foundations in 1959 and the school was also reconstructed. A memorial hall beside the village square, opened in 2014, tells the story of Hong and the Taiping movement."},{"id":"guangzhou-all-china-federation-of-trade-unions-site","name":"Former Site of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions","name_zh":"中华全国总工会旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Quánguó Zǒnggōnghuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1219,"lon":113.2725,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-all-china-federation-of-trade-unions-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in the late Qing or early Republican years as the Huizhou Guild Hall, this building housed the All-China Federation of Trade Unions from 1925 to 1927, when union leaders including Liu Shaoqi, Deng Zhongxia and Su Zhaozheng worked here. The Kuomintang leader Liao Zhongkai was assassinated here in August 1925, and a memorial stele stands in front. Restored as a memorial museum and reopened in 1985, it is a branch of the Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History."},{"id":"guangzhou-cpc-guangdong-district-committee-site","name":"Former Site of the CPC Guangdong District Committee","name_zh":"中共广东区委旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Guǎngdōng Qūwěi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1253,"lon":113.2697,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangzhou-cpc-guangdong-district-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This three-storey arcaded (qilou) building at 194–200 Wenming Road housed the Guangdong District Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, which directed the party's work in Guangdong, Guangxi and neighbouring regions in the 1920s. It is now a memorial with exhibitions on the committee's history, renewed in 2021."},{"id":"guangzhou-guangdong-peasants-association-site","name":"Former Site of the Guangdong Provincial Peasants' Association","name_zh":"广东省农民协会旧址","pinyin":"Guǎngdōng Shěng Nóngmín Xiéhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1311,"lon":113.2753,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangzhou-guangdong-peasants-association-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This brick villa, built for a deputy leader of the Canton Merchants' Corps and confiscated after the corps' revolt of 1924, housed the third to fifth sessions of the Peasant Movement Training Institute and, from 1925, the Guangdong Provincial Peasants' Association. Mao Zedong lived and worked in a small upstairs room in 1925 while teaching here, and the building, which keeps most of its original form, is now used as an exhibition hall."},{"id":"tianhe-grandview-mall","name":"Grandview Mall","name_zh":"正佳广场","pinyin":"Zhèngjiā Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1346,"lon":113.3218,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianhe-grandview-mall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 2005 at the junction of Tianhe Road and Tiyu East Road, Grandview is one of the largest shopping centres in southern China and in 2011 became one of the few malls in the country rated as a 4A scenic area. Alongside its shops and restaurants it houses the Grandview Polar Ocean World aquarium, a natural-science museum and an indoor rainforest garden, so it suits families on a rainy day."},{"id":"nansha-wetland-park","name":"Greater Bay Area Central Wetland Park (Nansha Wetland)","name_zh":"大湾区中央湿地公园","pinyin":"Dàwānqū Zhōngyāng Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":22.6123,"lon":113.6348,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nansha-wetland-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Created on reclaimed mudflats at the mouth of the Pearl River in Wanqingsha, this wetland was planted with mangroves from the 1990s and opened to visitors in 2008, and it is the largest coastal wetland in Guangzhou. It draws large numbers of migratory birds and its ponds fill with lotus in summer, explored on boardwalks and by boat. Long known as Nansha Wetland Park, it was renamed the Greater Bay Area Central Wetland Park in November 2025."},{"id":"liwan-guangdong-customs-house","name":"Guangdong Customs House","name_zh":"粤海关大楼","pinyin":"Yuèhǎiguān Dàlóu","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.11,"lon":113.2459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liwan-guangdong-customs-house/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Finished in 1916 for the Chinese Maritime Customs, this granite-faced Neoclassical building on the riverfront was designed by British architects of the customs service and is known locally as the Big Clock Tower for the English mechanical clock of 1915 in its tower. After the Guangzhou customs moved out in 2006 it was restored as a museum on the history of the Guangdong customs."},{"id":"panyu-guangdong-science-center","name":"Guangdong Science Center","name_zh":"广东科学中心","pinyin":"Guǎngdōng Kēxué Zhōngxīn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0367,"lon":113.3625,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panyu-guangdong-science-center/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 2008 at the western tip of Xiaoguwei Island, the Guangdong Science Center is a large hands-on science museum whose ship-shaped building was certified by Guinness World Records in 2018 as the largest science centre by indoor floor area. Its permanent galleries cover physics experiments, transport, materials, digital technology, flight and space, and green living, with a children's area, several special-format cinemas including an IMAX and a dome theatre, and an outdoor science park beside a lake."},{"id":"guangzhou-guangxiao-temple","name":"Guangxiao Temple","name_zh":"光孝寺","pinyin":"Guāngxiào Sì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1319,"lon":113.2512,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-guangxiao-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangxiao Temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Guangzhou, traditionally founded on the estate of the scholar Yu Fan after his death in 233, and is now the seat of the Guangdong Buddhist Association. Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism, was tonsured here under a bodhi tree in 676, and a small brick pagoda said to hold his hair still stands. The grounds also keep two iron pagodas cast for the Southern Han court in the 960s, of which the eastern one survives intact."},{"id":"conghua-guangyu-ancestral-hall","name":"Guangyu Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"广裕祠","pinyin":"Guǎngyù Cí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.433,"lon":113.5398,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/conghua-guangyu-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Lu clan of Qiangang village was built in 1406 by descendants of Lu Xiufu, the last chancellor of the Southern Song, and its three halls combine northern and Lingnan building methods in a way unusual in the region. Dated records of each major repair since 1553 have made it a reference for Ming and Qing architecture, and its restoration received the top Award of Excellence in UNESCO's Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards in 2003. A long carved eave board found in 2000 shows a panorama of the Guangzhou waterfront in the Qing."},{"id":"panyu-chimelong-tourist-resort","name":"Guangzhou Chimelong Tourist Resort","name_zh":"长隆旅游度假区","pinyin":"Chánglóng Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0026,"lon":113.3257,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panyu-chimelong-tourist-resort/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chimelong is a large privately run resort in Panyu that grew from a safari park opened in 1997 and now combines the Chimelong Paradise amusement park, Chimelong Safari Park, a water park, a bird park and the indoor Chimelong International Circus with several hotels. The safari park is toured partly by open-sided train or car and partly on foot, and keeps giant pandas, including triplets born there in 2014, while Chimelong Paradise has more than 60 attractions, including several large roller coasters. It suits families, and seeing the main parks takes two days or more."},{"id":"guangzhou-martyrs-memorial-garden","name":"Guangzhou Martyrs' Memorial Garden","name_zh":"广州起义烈士陵园","pinyin":"Guǎngzhōu Qǐyì Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.132,"lon":113.2788,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-martyrs-memorial-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Laid out in 1954–57 as a memorial park for those killed in the Communist-led Guangzhou Uprising of December 1927, the garden holds the communal tomb of the uprising dead, pavilions commemorating Chinese–Korean and Chinese–Soviet solidarity, and the Tomb of the Four Martyrs of Honghuagang from the 1911 revolution. Within its grounds stands the former Guangdong Provincial Assembly building of the late Qing, where Guangdong declared independence from the Qing in November 1911 and Sun Yat-sen was sworn in as Extraordinary President in 1921. That building now houses the Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History, also called the Guangzhou Museum of Modern History."},{"id":"huadu-guangzhou-sunac-land","name":"Guangzhou Sunac Land","name_zh":"广州融创文旅城","pinyin":"Guǎngzhōu Róngchuàng Wénlǚchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.4304,"lon":113.23,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huadu-guangzhou-sunac-land","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 2019 in northern Huadu, Sunac Land is a large leisure complex begun by Wanda and completed by Sunac, combining a theme park, an indoor snow park, an indoor water park, a sports centre and a shopping mall. The theme park has six zones themed on Lingnan history and legend, a flight-simulation ride over Guangdong's landmarks and a large show on Lingnan culture, while the snow park, now branded Hot Snow Miracle, has indoor ski slopes."},{"id":"guangzhou-uprising-memorial-museum","name":"Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Museum (Guangzhou Commune Site)","name_zh":"广州起义纪念馆","pinyin":"Guǎngzhōu Qǐyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1271,"lon":113.2591,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-uprising-memorial-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Guangdong provincial capital police headquarters on Qiyi Road was stormed on 11 December 1927 in the Communist-led Guangzhou Uprising, and the next day the Guangzhou Soviet, or Guangzhou Commune, was proclaimed here before being suppressed within three days. The city police handed the gatehouse and office blocks over to the heritage authorities between 1987 and 2005, and after restoration they reopened in 2007 as a memorial museum, part of the Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History."},{"id":"baiyun-guangzhou-urban-planning-exhibition-center","name":"Guangzhou Urban Planning Exhibition Center","name_zh":"广州市城市规划展览中心","pinyin":"Guǎngzhōu Shì Chéngshì Guīhuà Zhǎnlǎn Zhōngxīn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1938,"lon":113.2723,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baiyun-guangzhou-urban-planning-exhibition-center/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Designed by the architect He Jingtang and set at the western foot of Baiyun Mountain in the new Baiyun district, this exhibition centre tells the story of Guangzhou's history and planning. Displays include a large scale model of the whole city, galleries on urban history, transport and future master plans, and short films in a 4D cinema, and the building also houses the city's local gazetteer library."},{"id":"guangzhou-zoo","name":"Guangzhou Zoo","name_zh":"广州动物园","pinyin":"Guǎngzhōu Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1447,"lon":113.2998,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-zoo/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened on its present site in 1958, Guangzhou Zoo is counted with those of Beijing and Shanghai among China's three major city zoos, with animals grouped into areas for insects, reptiles and amphibians, birds, primates, big cats and herbivores. Residents include giant pandas, golden snub-nosed monkeys, South China tigers and Père David's deer as well as giraffes, elephants, hippos and rhinos, and the grounds also hold an aquarium opened in 1998."},{"id":"haizhu-national-wetland-park","name":"Haizhu National Wetland Park","name_zh":"海珠湿地","pinyin":"Hǎizhū Shīdì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0802,"lon":113.3336,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haizhu-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Haizhu Wetland is a semi-natural wetland of orchards, canals and lakes in south-eastern Haizhu District, long known locally as the 'ten-thousand-mu orchard' and now a national wetland park surrounded by the city. Paths and bridges wind through fruit groves and waterways, making it a green escape close to the Pazhou exhibition area."},{"id":"guangzhou-huaisheng-mosque","name":"Huaisheng Mosque and Guangta Minaret","name_zh":"怀圣寺光塔","pinyin":"Huáishèng Sì Guāngtǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1255,"lon":113.2535,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-huaisheng-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Traditionally said to have been founded in 627 by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, a companion of the Prophet, the Huaisheng Mosque is the main mosque of Guangzhou and one of the oldest in China, although historians place its origins later in the Tang or Song period. Its plain round brick minaret, the Guangta or 'light tower', is said to have carried a lamp to guide ships when the river ran close by, and the present prayer hall and courtyards follow a rebuilding of 1695."},{"id":"guangzhou-huanghuagang-72-martyrs-mausoleum","name":"Huanghuagang Mausoleum of the 72 Martyrs","name_zh":"黄花岗七十二烈士墓","pinyin":"Huánghuāgǎng Qīshí'èr Lièshì Mù","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1433,"lon":113.2892,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-huanghuagang-72-martyrs-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This memorial park holds the tomb of the revolutionaries killed in the failed Huanghuagang uprising of April 1911 against the Qing, organised by Sun Yat-sen's Tongmenghui, whose remains were gathered and buried here by Pan Dawei. The cemetery was laid out from 1918 with funds from overseas Chinese, with a tomb pavilion and the Jigong Fang monument topped by a figure of Liberty, which was smashed in 1966 and re-created in the early 1980s. Tombs of other revolutionaries and of the aviation pioneer Feng Ru stand among the trees."},{"id":"huadu-jiulong-lake-resort","name":"Jiulong Lake Resort","name_zh":"九龙湖","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Hú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.4532,"lon":113.4172,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huadu-jiulong-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jiulong Lake is a resort area in the hills of Huadong, Huadu, set around a large lake and wooded hills, whose golf club hosted the golf events of the 2010 Asian Games. Since 2021 it has been redeveloped by China Travel Service with the resort brand Aranya into a holiday community with hotels, restaurants, lakeside walks and arts events. It suits a weekend break or a lakeside stroll rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"panyu-lingnan-impression-park","name":"Lingnan Impression Park","name_zh":"岭南印象园","pinyin":"Lǐngnán Yìnxiàng Yuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0382,"lon":113.4003,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panyu-lingnan-impression-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"When Lianxi village was cleared in 2003 to build the Higher Education Mega Center, several of its old buildings, including ancestral halls and oyster-shell walls, were kept and restored, and some houses were moved here from elsewhere on the island, alongside new buildings in traditional Lingnan style. Opened as a folk-culture village in 2008 and reopened in 2021 after renovation, it has themed halls on Cantonese opera and music, puppetry, wedding customs, crafts and martial arts along a canal-side main street."},{"id":"panyu-lotus-hill","name":"Lotus Hill (Lianhuashan)","name_zh":"莲花山","pinyin":"Liánhuā Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":22.9861,"lon":113.5022,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panyu-lotus-hill/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lotus Hill is a low hill on the Shiziyang channel of the Pearl River that was quarried for stone from the Western Han to the mid-19th century, leaving sheer cliffs, stone pillars, caves and pools now protected as an ancient quarry site. Paths lead up to the Lotus Pagoda, a nine-storey brick tower of 1612 that once guided ships into the river, and to a large gilded bronze statue of Guanyin erected in 1994 facing the water."},{"id":"baiyun-maofeng-mountain-forest-park","name":"Maofeng Mountain Forest Park","name_zh":"帽峰山森林公园","pinyin":"Màofēng Shān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.2942,"lon":113.4589,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baiyun-maofeng-mountain-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Maofeng Mountain is a forested range in Taihe, northern Baiyun District, whose main peak is the highest in Guangzhou's old urban districts. A hiking route climbs past the old Maofeng Temple, said to date back to around the 10th century, a maple garden that turns red in November and Tianhu Lake to the summit, while Jiulongjian on the northern slope is a lake fed by mountain springs."},{"id":"haizhu-generalissimo-mansion-memorial-museum","name":"Memorial Museum of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen's Mansion","name_zh":"孙中山大元帅府纪念馆","pinyin":"Sūn Zhōngshān Dàyuánshuàifǔ Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1124,"lon":113.2739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haizhu-generalissimo-mansion-memorial-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"These two three-storey buildings with arched verandas were built in 1907–09 as the offices of the Guangdong cement works, and Sun Yat-sen twice made them his seat of government, for the military government of 1917–18 and for the Generalissimo's headquarters set up in 1923. Restored after residents were moved out from 1998, they opened as a memorial museum in 2006, with Sun's office, bedroom and staff rooms recreated in the south block and exhibitions on his three governments in Guangzhou in the north block. The granite gateway of the cement works, dated 1907, still stands."},{"id":"huangpu-nanhai-god-temple","name":"Nanhai God Temple (Temple of the South Sea God)","name_zh":"南海神庙","pinyin":"Nánhǎi Shén Miào","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0846,"lon":113.4928,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangpu-nanhai-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 594 under the Sui dynasty, this is the only one of China's four imperial temples to the gods of the seas to survive, and officials came here to sacrifice for safe voyages, making it a landmark of Guangzhou's maritime trade. Its five courtyards hold many inscribed steles, including one with a text by Han Yu of 820 and imperial steles of the Ming founder and the Kangxi emperor, though the main hall was rebuilt in 1989 after being destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. On a hillock beside it stands the Yuri Pavilion, a classic spot for watching the sunrise over the river."},{"id":"nansha-tianhou-temple","name":"Nansha Tianhou Temple","name_zh":"南沙天后宫","pinyin":"Nánshā Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":22.761,"lon":113.6138,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nansha-tianhou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rebuilt in 1996 with funds from the Hong Kong businessman Henry Fok on the site of a Ming-dynasty shrine, this large temple to Mazu, the sea goddess Tianhou, climbs the south-east slope of Dajiao Hill above the Pearl River estuary. A granite statue of the goddess faces the sea from the front square, and Qing-style halls rise in tiers to the eight-storey Nanling Pagoda at the top."},{"id":"guangzhou-nanyue-king-museum","name":"Nanyue King Museum (Mausoleum of the Nanyue King)","name_zh":"南越王博物院","pinyin":"Nányuè Wáng Bówùyuàn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1403,"lon":113.2556,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-nanyue-king-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The museum is built over the stone tomb of Zhao Mo, second king of Nanyue, who ruled from Guangzhou in the second century BC; it was found in 1983 when a hill was cut down for building work, and visitors can go down into the burial chambers. Its galleries show the finds, among them the king's jade burial suit sewn with silk thread and his gold seal, together with bronzes, jades and a large donated collection of ceramic pillows from the Tang to the Yuan. A second exhibition area, the Nanyue Palace site on Zhongshan 4th Road, displays the excavated palace garden with its stone pool and winding stone watercourse, along with remains of later palaces and government offices."},{"id":"guangzhou-peasant-movement-training-institute","name":"Peasant Movement Training Institute","name_zh":"广州农民运动讲习所旧址","pinyin":"Guǎngzhōu Nóngmín Yùndòng Jiǎngxísuǒ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1303,"lon":113.2713,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-peasant-movement-training-institute/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The institute occupies the former Panyu Confucian school, founded in 1370 and given its present layout in 1747, whose Lingxing Gate, semicircular pond with arched bridge, Dacheng Hall and side corridors survive. From May to September 1926 it housed the sixth and largest session of the Peasant Movement Training Institute, a school of the first Kuomintang–Communist alliance for training rural organisers, directed by Mao Zedong. Since 1953 it has been a memorial museum on the institute and the peasant movement."},{"id":"guangzhou-sacred-heart-cathedral","name":"Sacred Heart Cathedral","name_zh":"石室圣心大教堂","pinyin":"Shíshì Shèngxīn Dàjiàotáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1173,"lon":113.2548,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-sacred-heart-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built between 1863 and 1888 by the Paris Foreign Missions Society on the site of the former Liangguang viceroy's office, the cathedral is a Gothic Revival church made entirely of granite, which is why locals call it the 'Stone House'. Its twin-spired façade was modelled on the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris, and the stone was quarried in Kowloon and shipped up the Pearl River. It is the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Guangzhou and holds regular Masses."},{"id":"guangzhou-sanyuanli-anti-british-memorial","name":"Sanyuanli Anti-British Struggle Memorial Hall","name_zh":"三元里平英团遗址","pinyin":"Sānyuánlǐ Píngyīngtuán Yízhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1634,"lon":113.2547,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-sanyuanli-anti-british-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This small brick-and-timber temple to the god Beidi, built in the early Qing dynasty, was where the villagers of Sanyuanli gathered in 1841, during the First Opium War, to form a militia against British troops. Since 1961 it has been the Sanyuanli People's Anti-British Struggle Memorial Hall, displaying swords, spears, the militia's three-star banner, a British army uniform and four old cannon."},{"id":"liwan-shamian-island","name":"Shamian Island","name_zh":"沙面","pinyin":"Shāmiàn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.11,"lon":113.2424,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liwan-shamian-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shamian is a small sandbank island on the Pearl River in Liwan District that Britain and France held as concessions from 1859 until the 1940s, cut off from the city by a canal dug in 1859. Its quiet tree-lined avenues are lined with banks, consulates, churches and houses in a range of European styles, now used as hotels, restaurants, shops and offices."},{"id":"panyu-shawan-ancient-town","name":"Shawan Ancient Town","name_zh":"沙湾古镇","pinyin":"Shāwān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":22.9073,"lon":113.3283,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panyu-shawan-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shawan is a Pearl River Delta town founded in the Song dynasty, whose old lanes and ancestral halls form a historic quarter known as a birthplace of Guangdong music and of ginger milk curd, a local dessert. Its centrepiece is Liugeng Hall, the ancestral hall of the He clan, founded in 1335 and rebuilt on a grand scale from 1698, with five courtyards of fine Lingnan stone, wood and brick carving."},{"id":"baiyun-shennong-caotang-museum","name":"Shennong Caotang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine","name_zh":"神农草堂中医药博物馆","pinyin":"Shénnóng Cǎotáng Zhōngyīyào Bówùguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.2015,"lon":113.3317,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baiyun-shennong-caotang-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 2006 by the Baiyunshan Hutchison Whampoa traditional-medicine company beside its works in Baiyun District, this museum of traditional Chinese medicine is laid out as a garden, with exhibition halls set among beds of growing medicinal herbs. Its two themed areas cover Chinese and Lingnan (southern Chinese) medicine, with displays on health traditions, herbal tea and artemisinin, the antimalarial drug derived from sweet wormwood."},{"id":"conghua-shimen-national-forest-park","name":"Shimen National Forest Park","name_zh":"石门国家森林公园","pinyin":"Shímén Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.6326,"lon":113.7742,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=conghua-shimen-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shimen is a national forest park in the hills of north-eastern Conghua, based on the Daling Mountain forest farm and covered with some of the best-preserved subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest in the region. Its north-western corner takes in Tiantang Ding, the highest peak in Guangzhou, and other sights include the rock gateway (shimen) that gives the park its name, mountain pools, and stands of wild Mucuna vines and red-flowered Rhodoleia trees."},{"id":"huadu-shitouji-mineral-park","name":"Shitouji Mineral Park","name_zh":"石头记矿物园","pinyin":"Shítoujì Kuàngwù Yuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.4031,"lon":113.1555,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huadu-shitouji-mineral-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 2009 by the Shitouji jewellery company in Huadu's jewellery town, this mineral park has an outdoor garden of rocks and petrified tree trunks above an underground exhibition of crystals, meteorites, gemstones and ornamental stones. It also has a shop selling the company's jewellery and a restaurant, and suits visitors interested in rocks and gems."},{"id":"guangzhou-first-kuomintang-congress-site","name":"Site of the First National Congress of the Kuomintang","name_zh":"国民党一大旧址","pinyin":"Guómíndǎng Yīdà Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1267,"lon":113.2717,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-first-kuomintang-congress-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Clock Tower on Wenming Road, built in 1904 for a teachers' college on the site of the Qing provincial examination hall, hosted the First National Congress of the Kuomintang from 20 to 30 January 1924. The auditorium has been restored to its 1924 appearance, with delegates' names on the seats, and the building later served as the main office of Sun Yat-sen University. It also houses the Guangzhou Lu Xun Memorial, recreating the rooms the writer lived in while teaching here in 1927."},{"id":"guangzhou-third-cpc-national-congress-site","name":"Site of the Third National Congress of the Communist Party of China","name_zh":"中共三大会址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Sāndà Huìzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1214,"lon":113.2908,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-third-cpc-national-congress-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Chinese Communist Party held its Third National Congress here in Dongshan from 12 to 20 June 1923, in a rented two-storey house that was destroyed by Japanese bombing in 1938. Its exact position was confirmed by excavation in 2006, when the brick floor was found; the foundations are marked by a small square beside a history exhibition hall opened the same year. The memorial also takes in Chunyuan, a villa next door that housed the party's central offices at the time."},{"id":"guangzhou-south-china-botanical-garden","name":"South China National Botanical Garden","name_zh":"华南国家植物园","pinyin":"Huánán Guójiā Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1868,"lon":113.364,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-south-china-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1929 as a botanical institute of Sun Yat-sen University and run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1954, the garden was designated the South China National Botanical Garden in 2022. Its Guangzhou section, open to the public since 1959, has dozens of themed collections such as the magnolia, palm and ginger gardens, a cluster of display glasshouses by a lake, and the Longdong Qilin lakeside landscape, chosen as one of the city's 'Eight Sights' in 1986."},{"id":"panyu-southern-han-mausoleums-museum","name":"Southern Han Mausoleums Museum","name_zh":"南汉二陵","pinyin":"Nánhàn Èr Líng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0507,"lon":113.3779,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panyu-southern-han-mausoleums-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tombs of two rulers of the Southern Han, a tenth-century kingdom based in Guangzhou, were found in 2003 while the Higher Education Mega Center was being built on Xiaoguwei Island: the Kangling of Liu Yan, buried in 942, and the Deling attributed to Liu Yin. A site museum opened beside them in 2019, with permanent galleries on Guangzhou's archaeology and on Southern Han history and culture. Finds include the complete text of an imperial funerary eulogy carved in stone, the earliest of its kind yet excavated, and large groups of tenth-century ceramics."},{"id":"guangzhou-sun-yat-sen-memorial-hall","name":"Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall","name_zh":"中山纪念堂","pinyin":"Zhōngshān Jìniàntáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1361,"lon":113.2594,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-sun-yat-sen-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1929–31 with funds raised from local and overseas Chinese in memory of Sun Yat-sen, this octagonal hall by the architect Lü Yanzhi stands at the foot of Yuexiu Hill on the old city's north–south axis. Its blue-tiled roof covers a 71-metre auditorium without internal pillars, still used for concerts and meetings, and the Japanese surrender in Guangdong was signed here in 1945. A bronze statue of Sun stands in front, and the gardens include a kapok tree about 300 years old."},{"id":"guangzhou-temple-of-the-five-immortals","name":"Temple of the Five Immortals","name_zh":"五仙观","pinyin":"Wǔxiān Guàn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1231,"lon":113.2545,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-temple-of-the-five-immortals/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This former Taoist temple honours the five immortals who, in the legend behind Guangzhou's nickname 'City of Rams', rode in on rams bearing ears of rice; it has stood on this site since 1377. Survivors include the Ming rear hall, one of the few intact Ming buildings in the city, and the Lingnan First Tower, a gate tower of red sandstone and timber housing a great bronze bell cast in 1378. A hollow in the rock by the gate is known as the immortals' footprint, and the Nanyue Ancestral Worthies Hall next door, opened in 2017, presents historical figures of Guangdong."},{"id":"guangzhou-temple-of-the-six-banyan-trees","name":"Temple of the Six Banyan Trees","name_zh":"六榕寺","pinyin":"Liùróng Sì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1309,"lon":113.2548,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-temple-of-the-six-banyan-trees/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 537 to house Buddhist relics brought from Cambodia, the temple takes its name from the characters 'Six Banyans' that Su Dongpo wrote for it in 1100, still hung over the gate. Its landmark is the octagonal Flower Pagoda, first raised in 1097 and rebuilt in 1373, crowned by a Yuan-dynasty bronze spire pillar cast with more than a thousand small Buddha figures. It remains an active temple, one of the four great Buddhist monasteries of old Guangzhou."},{"id":"conghua-tianren-shanshui","name":"Tianren Shanshui Land Art Park","name_zh":"天人山水","pinyin":"Tiānrén Shānshuǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.4485,"lon":113.5889,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=conghua-tianren-shanshui","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tianren Shanshui is a landscaped resort of about 10 square kilometres in the hills of Taiping, Conghua, laid out from 2013 around the Shaxi Reservoir. Its gardens, such as Jingjie Garden and Xinyuan Ju, are themed on the poems of Tao Yuanming and modelled on a Song-dynasty painting of the poet's retreat by Li Gonglin, and the resort adds lodging, campsites, outdoor sports and nature-education activities. It suits a day out or a weekend stay in the countryside."},{"id":"guangzhou-wanmu-caotang","name":"Wanmu Caotang (Kang Youwei's School)","name_zh":"万木草堂","pinyin":"Wànmù Cǎotáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1281,"lon":113.2664,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-wanmu-caotang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This grey-brick hall of three courtyards, built in 1804 as the Qiu clan's lodging for examination candidates, is where the reformer Kang Youwei opened his private school in 1891. Among his students were Liang Qichao and others who later led the Hundred Days' Reform of 1898, after which the school, by then at another site, was closed and its books destroyed. Restored after the residents living in it were moved out from 2004, it is now open to visitors as a small museum."},{"id":"huangpu-whampoa-military-academy-site","name":"Whampoa Military Academy Site","name_zh":"黄埔军校旧址","pinyin":"Huángpǔ Jūnxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0893,"lon":113.4203,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangpu-whampoa-military-academy-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Sun Yat-sen founded the Army Officer Academy, known as the Whampoa Military Academy, here on Changzhou Island in 1924, in the buildings of a Qing army school, to train officers during the first Kuomintang–Communist alliance. The main school building, bombed in 1938 and rebuilt to its original form in 1996, holds exhibitions on the academy's history and recreated offices, classrooms and dormitories. The site also includes the house where Sun stayed on visits, the academy club hall of 1926 and a memorial to Sun on a nearby hill."},{"id":"guangzhou-xianxian-mosque-tomb","name":"Xianxian Mosque and Tomb of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas","name_zh":"清真先贤古墓","pinyin":"Qīngzhēn Xiānxián Gǔmù","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1482,"lon":113.2555,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-xianxian-mosque-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chinese Muslim tradition holds that this walled cemetery contains the tomb of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, a companion of the Prophet said to have come to China to spread Islam in the seventh century, and it has long been a place of pilgrimage. His domed tomb chamber, known for its echo, stands among the graves of missionaries and foreign pilgrims, among them a Korean of the 14th century and a Turk of the 18th, with old steles, arches and pavilions around them. A large prayer hall added on the west side in 2010 has made it Guangzhou's largest mosque."},{"id":"liwan-yongqingfang","name":"Yongqingfang","name_zh":"永庆坊","pinyin":"Yǒngqìngfāng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.118,"lon":113.2326,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liwan-yongqingfang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yongqingfang is a block of old Xiguan lanes off Enning Road that was renovated by the district government and Vanke and opened in 2016 as a pedestrian quarter of shops, cafés and studios among old houses. The area was a centre of Cantonese opera in the 1920s and 1930s, and it includes the ancestral house of Bruce Lee's family and the Cantonese Opera Art Museum, a new garden complex in traditional style with a stage for regular performances."},{"id":"guangzhou-yuexiu-park-zhenhai-tower","name":"Yuexiu Park and Zhenhai Tower","name_zh":"越秀公园","pinyin":"Yuèxiù Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.1406,"lon":113.2602,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangzhou-yuexiu-park-zhenhai-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yuexiu Park covers Yuexiu Hill, the low hill that formed the northern end of the walled city, and was made a public park on Sun Yat-sen's orders in the 1920s. Its landmark is Zhenhai Tower, a five-storey tower with red sandstone lower walls built in 1380 on the Ming city wall, a stretch of which survives along the hill; it holds the Guangzhou Museum's display on the city's history, with old cannon and steles outside. Around the park's lakes and hills are the Five Rams statue and the Sun Yat-sen memorial obelisk."},{"id":"panyu-yuyin-shanfang","name":"Yuyin Shanfang (Yuyin Garden)","name_zh":"余荫山房","pinyin":"Yúyìn Shānfáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Guangzhou","lat":23.0137,"lon":113.3901,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panyu-yuyin-shanfang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yuyin Shanfang is a private garden built in 1867–71 for the Qing scholar-official Wu Bin in Nancun, Panyu, and is counted among the four famous gardens of Guangdong. Within a small walled plot it fits a rectangular lotus pond, an octagonal waterside pavilion, an arched bridge and halls with carved wooden screens and coloured 'Manchu' windows. The adjoining Yu Garden, added by a descendant in 1922, has a boat-shaped hall and a glass-walled upper room looking over the garden."},{"id":"heyuan-bavaria-manor","name":"Bavaria Manor, Heyuan","name_zh":"巴伐利亚庄园","pinyin":"Bāfálìyà Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":23.6322,"lon":114.6154,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heyuan-bavaria-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large resort estate on the southern edge of Heyuan city, laid out in German Bavarian style, with hotels, holiday housing, a hot-spring spa, a water park and the Black Forest amusement park. Heyuan's government lists it as the city's only national-level tourist resort, and it is aimed mainly at families on short breaks."},{"id":"longchuan-laolong-fujian-guild-hall","name":"Former Hong Kong Cultural Figures Rescue Headquarters (Fujian Guild Hall)","name_zh":"香港文化名人大营救指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Wénhuà Míngrén Dàyíngjiù Zhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":24.1017,"lon":115.2477,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longchuan-laolong-fujian-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty guild hall built by merchants from Fujian in Laolong, which in early 1942 served as a command post for the Communist-organised operation that brought cultural figures and democrats out of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong. Hundreds passed through Laolong on their way inland, among them He Xiangning, Mao Dun, Zou Taofen and Liu Yazi, and the restored three-courtyard hall now holds an exhibition on the rescue."},{"id":"heping-relong-hot-spring","name":"Heping Hot Spring Capital (Relong Hot Spring)","name_zh":"和平温泉之都","pinyin":"Hépíng Wēnquán Zhī Dū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":24.4158,"lon":114.8225,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heping-relong-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort area in Reshui town, Heping County, in the hills of northern Heyuan, centred on the Relong Hot Spring resort and rated a 4A scenic area in 2010. Resort hotels with thermal pools lie in the valley, and the Reshui river-rafting run is close by."},{"id":"heyuan-dinosaur-park-guifeng-pagoda","name":"Heyuan Dinosaur Culture Park and Guifeng Pagoda","name_zh":"河源恐龙文博园","pinyin":"Héyuán Kǒnglóng Wénbóyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":23.7285,"lon":114.6959,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heyuan-dinosaur-park-guifeng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park below Guifeng Hill in Heyuan that groups the Heyuan Dinosaur Museum, the city museum and the Song-dynasty Guifeng Pagoda. The dinosaur museum holds more than 20,000 fossil dinosaur eggs, a collection recognised by Guinness World Records as the largest. On the hilltop, the 42.6 m six-sided brick pagoda, begun in 1132, is the only early Southern Song pagoda in Guangdong with an exactly dated inscription, and its seven outer storeys hide fourteen floors inside."},{"id":"dongyuan-huanglongyan","name":"Huanglongyan She Ethnic Scenic Area","name_zh":"黄龙岩","pinyin":"Huánglóng Yán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":24.0616,"lon":114.9218,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyuan-huanglongyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area of wooded hills and landscaped grounds in Zhangxi She Ethnic Township, northern Dongyuan County, themed on the customs of the She people, an ethnic minority of the uplands of south-eastern China. It became a 4A scenic area in 2024, and its grounds include ponds and an open-air performance stage."},{"id":"longchuan-huoshan","name":"Huoshan Mountain, Longchuan","name_zh":"霍山","pinyin":"Huò Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":24.2326,"lon":115.5086,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longchuan-huoshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain of red Danxia rock cliffs and crags in Tianxin town, northern Longchuan County, counted among the seven famous mountains of Guangdong and protected as a provincial forest park. Poets from Su Dongpo to Qu Dajun wrote about it, and it became a 4A scenic area in 2021."},{"id":"dongyuan-sujiawei","name":"Sujiawei Hakka Village","name_zh":"苏家围","pinyin":"Sūjiāwéi","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":23.8447,"lon":114.8826,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongyuan-sujiawei","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Hakka village in Yihe town, Dongyuan County, whose families trace their descent from the Song poet Su Dongpo, made up of 18 mansion-style houses, the oldest dating from the 15th century. It stands by the Dong River, and the scenic area also takes in the riverside scenery promoted as the Dongjiang Gallery."},{"id":"longchuan-tuocheng","name":"Tuocheng Ancient Town","name_zh":"佗城","pinyin":"Tuóchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":24.0595,"lon":115.1829,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longchuan-tuocheng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old seat of Longchuan County, founded in 214 BC by Zhao Tuo, Longchuan's first magistrate under the Qin and later ruler of the Nanyue kingdom, and the county's centre until 1949. The town keeps a cluster of historic sites, among them the Longchuan Confucian school with its Dacheng Hall, the Zhengxiang Pagoda, the Yuewang Well and a temple to the King of Nanyue."},{"id":"heyuan-wanlu-lake","name":"Wanlü Lake","name_zh":"万绿湖","pinyin":"Wànlǜ Hú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":23.779,"lon":114.6269,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heyuan-wanlu-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangdong's largest man-made lake, a reservoir of about 370 km² formed by damming the Xinfeng River just north-west of Heyuan, scattered with more than 360 green islands and known for its very clear water. Boat tours run from the visitor area to developed zones such as Longfeng Island, Shuiyue Bay and Jinghuayuan, and the Wanlü Valley resort lies on the southern shore. It became a 5A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"zijin-yulinmen-hot-spring","name":"Yulinmen Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"御临门温泉","pinyin":"Yùlínmén Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Heyuan","lat":23.4503,"lon":115.0986,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zijin-yulinmen-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort with villa accommodation near Reshui village in Zijin County, which Heyuan's tourism plan names as the county's leading attraction and one of the city's 4A scenic areas. Its thermal pools and villas suit an overnight stay."},{"id":"dayawan-mangrove-wetland-park","name":"Daya Bay Mangrove City Wetland Park","name_zh":"大亚湾红树林城市湿地公园","pinyin":"Dàyàwān Hóngshùlín Chéngshì Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":22.7381,"lon":114.5312,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dayawan-mangrove-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban wetland park at the mouth of the Dan'ao River on Daya Bay, protecting a dense stand of mangroves beside the district's new town, with boardwalks through the trees; egrets nest here in spring. It was rated a 4A scenic area in 2018 and suits an hour or two of walking by the water."},{"id":"longmen-hehu-walled-village","name":"Hehu Walled Village","name_zh":"鹤湖围","pinyin":"Hèhú Wéi","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":23.5645,"lon":113.9504,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longmen-hehu-walled-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Hakka fortified house in Hehu village, Yonghan town, completed in 1863 by the Wang clan, measuring 79 by 77 m with 108 rooms off its galleries. Three halls and the ancestral temple line the central axis, enclosed by two-storey outer ranges with four three-storey corner towers and a five-storey lookout tower. A pond and moats guard the front, with an old stone bridge before the gate."},{"id":"huizhou-west-lake","name":"Huizhou West Lake","name_zh":"惠州西湖","pinyin":"Huìzhōu Xīhú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":23.0944,"lon":114.3972,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huizhou-west-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A chain of five shallow lakes on the west side of old Huizhou, linked by causeways and bridges, which Su Dongpo named West Lake during his exile here in 1094–1097. He helped pay for the Su Causeway and the Xixin Bridge, and Gushan islet holds the tomb of his companion Wang Chaoyun and a Dongpo memorial hall; other sights include the Sizhou Pagoda, first built in the Tang, and the old Fenghu Academy. The 5A scenic area also takes in Honghua Lake in the hills to the south-west, and the West Lake shore paths make an easy walk from the city centre."},{"id":"longmen-iron-spring","name":"Longmen Iron Spring","name_zh":"龙门铁泉","pinyin":"Lóngmén Tiěquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":23.8014,"lon":114.2531,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longmen-iron-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Longtian town, Longmen County, covering about 50 hectares with mountains on three sides, whose iron-rich water emerges at up to 78°C. It has spring-fed pools set in landscaped grounds and villa accommodation, some with private pools."},{"id":"boluo-mount-luofu","name":"Mount Luofu","name_zh":"罗浮山","pinyin":"Luófú Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":23.2668,"lon":114.0585,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/boluo-mount-luofu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A sacred Daoist mountain in north-western Boluo County, revered as the seventh grotto-heaven and 34th blessed land of Daoism, with 432 peaks rising to 1,296 m at Feiyun Peak and hundreds of waterfalls, springs and caves. Its best-known temple, Chongxu Guan, grew from a hermitage of the Eastern Jin alchemist Ge Hong and keeps halls rebuilt in the Tongzhi reign (1862–1874), with his alchemy furnace and herb-washing pool beside it; Huanglong Temple and a Ge Hong museum are among the other sights. Su Dongpo's verses on the lychees he ate below the mountain made it famous from Song times."},{"id":"longmen-nankun-mountain","name":"Nankun Mountain","name_zh":"南昆山","pinyin":"Nánkūn Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":23.6371,"lon":113.8808,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longmen-nankun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area on the Tropic of Cancer in south-western Longmen County, a provincial nature reserve since 1984 and a national forest park since 1993, whose highest peak, Tiantangding, reaches 1,228 m. Streams, waterfalls such as Chuanlong Falls, old trees and bamboo groves make it a summer retreat from the Pearl River Delta, and the small resort centre is full of guesthouses."},{"id":"longmen-nankunshan-yunding-resort","name":"Nankunshan Yunding Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"南昆山云顶","pinyin":"Nánkūnshān Yúndǐng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":23.5771,"lon":113.9987,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longmen-nankunshan-yunding-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring hotel resort near the foot of the Nankun Mountains in southern Longmen County, rated a 4A scenic area in 2018. Its thermal pools suit an overnight stay combined with a visit to the Nankunshan forest area, in a county known for its hot springs."},{"id":"huidong-xunliao-bay","name":"Xunliao Bay","name_zh":"巽寮湾","pinyin":"Xùnliáo Wān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":22.6966,"lon":114.7587,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huidong-xunliao-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A beach resort district on the west coast of the Renping Peninsula, facing Daya Bay in Huidong County, with about 27 km of coastline, eight small bays and dozens of islets. Its white-sand beaches shelve gently, staying under 2 m deep for about 100 m from shore, and the shore is lined with hotels and holiday flats."},{"id":"huiyang-ye-ting-former-residence","name":"Ye Ting's Former Residence","name_zh":"叶挺故居","pinyin":"Yè Tǐng Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Huizhou","lat":22.8594,"lon":114.4171,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huiyang-ye-ting-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house in Zhoutian village, Qiuchang, where Ye Ting (1896–1946) was born, the general who was front-line commander of the 1927 Nanchang Uprising and commanded the Communist-led New Fourth Army from 1937 to 1941. The house, listed provincially in 1989 and nationally in 2006, is the core of the General Ye Ting Memorial Park, rated a 4A scenic area in 2013, whose memorial hall has an exhibition on his life."},{"id":"xinhui-birds-paradise-liang-qichao","name":"Birds' Paradise and Liang Qichao's Former Residence","name_zh":"启超故里·小鸟天堂","pinyin":"Qǐchāo Gùlǐ · Xiǎoniǎo Tiāntáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.4623,"lon":113.0455,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinhui-birds-paradise-liang-qichao/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Birds' Paradise is a river islet in Tianma village covered by a banyan grove that has grown from a single tree over more than 380 years, home to colonies of egrets and night herons that fly out and return at dawn and dusk; boats circle the island, and Ba Jin's 1933 essay about it made it famous across China. About 2 km to the east in Chakeng village is the family home of the late-Qing reformer and writer Liang Qichao, a brick-and-timber house with his study and a covered walkway, with a memorial hall on his life beside it."},{"id":"heshan-dayan-mountain","name":"Dayan Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"大雁山","pinyin":"Dàyàn Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.7781,"lon":113.0256,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heshan-dayan-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill just north of Shaping, the centre of Heshan, named for its supposed likeness to a wild goose; it was opened as a scenic area in 1989, a park in 1991 and a forest park in 2006. Paths climb past viewing pavilions and the Jiyuan Pagoda to Guiren Peak, and the hill is visited in spring for its 'bird-flower' (Mucuna) vines."},{"id":"kaiping-situ-meitang-residence","name":"Former Residence of Situ Meitang","name_zh":"司徒美堂故居","pinyin":"Sītú Měitáng Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.3407,"lon":112.6166,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaiping-situ-meitang-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Situ Meitang (1868–1955), a leader of the Hongmen (Chee Kung Tong) society among Chinese in the United States who organised overseas fundraising during the war against Japan, founded the China Hongmen Zhigong Party and in 1949 joined the Central People's Government Council, was born in this late-Qing village house in Chikan. The small brick house of a hall, two rooms and side corridors now holds a photo exhibition on his life, with a bust in the square in front."},{"id":"xinhui-gudou-hot-spring","name":"Gudou Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"古兜温泉","pinyin":"Gǔdōu Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.1496,"lon":113.0196,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhui-gudou-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large hot-spring resort at the foot of Gudou Mountain in Yamen town, southern Xinhui, between the hills and the sea, with both saline and fresh spring pools, a water park, villas and hotels. It is a weekend leisure complex rather than a sightseeing destination."},{"id":"xinhui-guifeng-mountain","name":"Guifeng Mountain","name_zh":"圭峰山","pinyin":"Guīfēng Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.558,"lon":113.0092,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhui-guifeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested range of hills on the north-western edge of Xinhui's Huicheng, protected as Guifeng Mountain National Forest Park, with a hill lake, waterfalls and views over the delta plain. Historic sites on its slopes include Yutai Temple and the Zhenshan Pagoda, and it is a favourite local spot for evening walks, Mid-Autumn moon-viewing and Double Ninth hill-climbing."},{"id":"heshan-gulao-water-village","name":"Gulao Water Village","name_zh":"古劳水乡","pinyin":"Gǔláo Shuǐxiāng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.8253,"lon":112.9461,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heshan-gulao-water-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscape of villages, fish ponds and waterways inside the Gulao dyke on the Xijiang River, first built in 1394 against floods, developed since 2019 by the OCT Group into a tourism area. Visitors take boats through the channels and walk the waterfront market street and lotus ponds, and the site has added children's play areas and, in 2025, an indoor snow park."},{"id":"enping-jinjiang-hot-spring","name":"Jinjiang Hot Spring Resort, Enping","name_zh":"锦江温泉","pinyin":"Jǐnjiāng Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.3231,"lon":112.2256,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enping-jinjiang-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large hot-spring resort in Datian town, Enping, built around an activity theme, with a hot-spring surf pool, a circular rafting channel and about 50 themed spring pools. It was among the Jiangmen resorts certified in 2018 as using genuine natural hot-spring water."},{"id":"taishan-kangqiao-hot-spring","name":"Kangqiao Hot Spring, Taishan","name_zh":"康桥温泉","pinyin":"Kāngqiáo Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.1551,"lon":112.6109,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taishan-kangqiao-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large hot-spring resort in Southeast Asian style in Baisha town, Taishan, with more than a hundred spring pools in activity, leisure, wellness and couples' zones, a water park popular with families and a resort hotel. It was among the Jiangmen resorts certified in 2018 as using genuine natural hot-spring water."},{"id":"taishan-naqin-peninsula-geopark","name":"Naqin Peninsula Geological and Marine Park","name_zh":"那琴半岛地质海洋公园","pinyin":"Nàqín Bàndǎo Dìzhì Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":21.7179,"lon":112.3469,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taishan-naqin-peninsula-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A coastal park on a granite peninsula at Beidou town, at the south-western tip of Taishan, where wind- and sea-worn granite boulders crowd the headlands and small bays above the South China Sea. A boardwalk of about 3 km runs round the shore, and the beaches suit families."},{"id":"enping-quanlin-golden-town","name":"Quanlin Golden Town","name_zh":"泉林黄金小镇","pinyin":"Quánlín Huángjīn Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.1685,"lon":112.3756,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enping-quanlin-golden-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern resort town in Dongcheng, east of central Enping, built around a hot-spring park with hotels and holiday housing. Its other attractions are an aviation-themed exhibition hall, a water park and the Dahema go-kart circuit. It suits a weekend of soaking and family activities rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"taishan-shangchuan-xiachuan-islands","name":"Shangchuan and Xiachuan Islands","name_zh":"川岛","pinyin":"Chuāndǎo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":21.7065,"lon":112.8002,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/taishan-shangchuan-xiachuan-islands/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Chuandao resort covers Shangchuan and Xiachuan, the two main islands of the Chuanshan archipelago off Taishan, with granite hills and long sandy beaches such as Feisha Beach on Shangchuan's east coast and Wangfuzhou on Xiachuan. Shangchuan was an early Portuguese trading base in the 16th century, and a memorial chapel and tomb garden mark where the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier died in 1552; the Taishan Maritime Silk Road Museum opened on the island in 2019."},{"id":"enping-shanquanwan-hot-spring","name":"Shanquanwan Hot Spring, Enping","name_zh":"山泉湾温泉","pinyin":"Shānquánwān Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jiangmen","lat":22.3313,"lon":112.226,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=enping-shanquanwan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring hotel resort in the hills of Datian town, Enping, with themed spring-fed pools, water slides, a children's splash area and a large swimming pool. Enping promotes itself as a hot-spring town, and this is one of several resorts clustered around Datian."},{"id":"jieyang-ding-richang-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Ding Richang","name_zh":"丁氏光禄公祠","pinyin":"Dīngshì Guānglùgōng Cí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jieyang","lat":23.5407,"lon":116.3472,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jieyang-ding-richang-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mansion and ancestral hall built in 1878 by Ding Richang, a late-Qing official and early advocate of the Self-Strengthening reforms, who died here in 1882. Laid out in the shape of the character 興 with 99 rooms, it combines Chaoshan wood carving with Western motifs in its painted beams and plasterwork, and now serves as the Ding Richang Memorial Hall."},{"id":"jieyang-gurong-martial-temple","name":"Gurong Martial Temple","name_zh":"古榕武庙","pinyin":"Gǔróng Wǔmiào","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jieyang","lat":23.5421,"lon":116.3543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jieyang-gurong-martial-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the war god Guan Yu on Tianfu Road in Rongcheng, founded in 1558 and known for its fine wood carving. A stage, gate hall and main hall survive around its compact courtyard."},{"id":"jiexi-huangmanzhai-waterfalls","name":"Huangmanzhai Waterfalls","name_zh":"黄满寨瀑布","pinyin":"Huángmǎnzhài Pùbù","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jieyang","lat":23.582,"lon":115.9855,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiexi-huangmanzhai-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested gorge in the hills of northern Jiexi County with a chain of waterfalls, linked by footpaths and steps up the valley. It is one of Jiexi's main scenic areas and is often visited together with the Jingming hot-spring resort."},{"id":"jieyang-city-god-temple","name":"Jieyang City God Temple","name_zh":"揭阳城隍庙","pinyin":"Jiēyáng Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jieyang","lat":23.5369,"lon":116.3503,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jieyang-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A City God temple in the old centre of Jieyang, founded in 1140 and rebuilt in 1369, with a main hall to the city god and a separate hall to his wife. Boards over the side gates warn wrongdoers with 'So you have come' and 'Your day has come', and the deities are carried through the streets each year on the 23rd day of the first lunar month. A Thunder God temple of 1663 and a Buddhist hall stand next door."},{"id":"jieyang-confucian-temple","name":"Jieyang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"揭阳学宫","pinyin":"Jiēyáng Xuégōng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jieyang","lat":23.5385,"lon":116.3514,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jieyang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The county school and Confucian temple of Jieyang, founded in 1140 and given its present layout in a rebuilding of 1876–1881. Regarded as one of the largest Confucian temples in southern China, it has three parallel ranges: the temple with its Lingxing gate, crescent pool and Dacheng Hall in the centre, and school buildings on either side."},{"id":"jieyang-yangmei-jade-village","name":"Yangmei Jade Village","name_zh":"阳美玉都","pinyin":"Yángměi Yùdū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Jieyang","lat":23.5203,"lon":116.3975,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jieyang-yangmei-jade-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yangmei village in Pandong, on the eastern edge of Jieyang city, is where the region's jadeite trade began and is still the core of a large carving and trading district, although no jade is mined locally. Its workshops, showrooms and markets deal in carved jadeite, and Yangmei jadeite carving has been a national intangible heritage item since 2008."},{"id":"gaozhou-baoguang-pagoda","name":"Baoguang Pagoda","name_zh":"宝光塔","pinyin":"Bǎoguāng Tǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.915,"lon":110.8403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaozhou-baoguang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal nine-storey brick pagoda on the west bank of the Jian River in Gaozhou, built in 1576 under the Ming to guard the city's waterway, and one of the city's landmarks. Granite reliefs around its base show auspicious scenes and even local bananas; visitors can no longer climb inside, and the tower is lit at night."},{"id":"dianbai-china-first-beach","name":"China's First Beach","name_zh":"中国第一滩","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Dìyī Tān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.4576,"lon":111.0479,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dianbai-china-first-beach","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 12 km sweep of sand about 300 m wide on the Dianbai coast, opened as Maoming's seaside resort in 1993 and named by local officials. It has bathing beaches, water sports, a resort zone and a central plaza, behind a long belt of coastal shelter forest, and it has hosted national and international beach volleyball events. The coast on either side forms the open-access Maoming Seaside Park."},{"id":"gaozhou-datang-lychee-country","name":"Datang Lychee Country, Genzi","name_zh":"大唐荔乡","pinyin":"Dàtáng Lìxiāng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.7771,"lon":111.002,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaozhou-datang-lychee-country","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lychee-culture park of about 500 mu at Baiqiao in Genzi town, now officially named Baiqiao Lychee Park, in an area where lychees have been grown for more than 2,000 years. Its heart is the Genzi Tribute Garden, an old orchard said to date from the Sui and Tang with 95 trees over a century old, nine of them more than a thousand years old; the park also takes in the China Lychee Museum, with seven halls on the fruit's history, and a national lychee germplasm nursery."},{"id":"xinyi-douzhou-ancient-town","name":"Douzhou Ancient Town","name_zh":"窦州古城","pinyin":"Dòuzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":22.206,"lon":110.8749,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyi-douzhou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old walled seat of Xinyi county at Zhenlong, founded in 621 and the county town until 1952, which also served as the seat of Douzhou prefecture from 634 to 1071. The walls were pulled down in 1939, but the red Wenming Gate survives along with the old county school, which rebels of the short-lived Dahong kingdom used as a palace, and a dense quarter of Qing and Republican clan academies, ancestral halls and merchants' houses. It is one of the better-preserved old towns of western Guangdong, worth a slow walk."},{"id":"dianbai-fangji-island","name":"Fangji Island (Chicken Island)","name_zh":"放鸡岛","pinyin":"Fàngjī Dǎo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.3896,"lon":111.1848,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dianbai-fangji-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An island of about 1.9 km² off the Dianbai coast, Maoming's largest, with a sandy beach on its north side, cliffs on the east and a hilltop lighthouse. Long without permanent residents, it was leased to a private developer in 2004 and is now run as a resort island with hotels and villas, a Tianhou temple, snorkelling and diving. Its name, 'release-the-chicken island', comes from sailors who stopped here to pray for safe passage and set a chicken free on the hill."},{"id":"huazhou-guangken-tropical-agriculture-park","name":"Guangken National Tropical Agriculture Park","name_zh":"广垦国家热带农业公园","pinyin":"Guǎngkěn Guójiā Rèdài Nóngyè Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.6394,"lon":110.5001,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huazhou-guangken-tropical-agriculture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large agricultural theme park of about 5,000 mu on the edge of Huazhou, built by the state-owned Guangdong agricultural reclamation group and approved by the Ministry of Agriculture. Eight themed gardens show tropical crops and fruit growing, with science and hands-on areas and a hotel, and it suits families and school groups."},{"id":"dianbai-lady-xian-hometown","name":"Lady Xian's Hometown and Tomb","name_zh":"冼太夫人故里","pinyin":"Xiǎn Tàifūrén Gùlǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.5598,"lon":111.2934,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dianbai-lady-xian-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The home district of Lady Xian, the sixth-century chieftain of the Li people of Gaoliang who served the Liang, Chen and Sui courts and is honoured as the 'Saintly Mother of Lingnan'. At Shandou village are her tomb, a walled burial ground first built under the Sui and repaired under the Song, Ming and Qing, with half of a Sui stone tortoise stele base and a stele re-erected in 1819, next to her temple and the site of her family home. Newer additions include a giant statue and a memorial square, and the local cult of Lady Xian is a national intangible heritage item."},{"id":"xinyi-lotus-lake-manor","name":"Lotus Lake Manor, Xinyi","name_zh":"莲花湖庄园","pinyin":"Liánhuā Hú Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":22.4182,"lon":110.9538,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyi-lotus-lake-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lakeside resort of about 600 mu in Chidong town north of Xinyi, near the Guangdong–Guangxi border, built around Lotus Lake. It combines a lakeside greenway and culture corridors, a glass bridge, a Ferris wheel and a small amusement area with a food street themed on the ancient Baiyue peoples and a Wyndham hotel."},{"id":"maoming-forest-park","name":"Maoming Forest Park","name_zh":"茂名森林公园","pinyin":"Màomíng Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.6292,"lon":110.8192,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maoming-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A provincial forest park of about 4,500 mu on the south-western edge of Maoming city, opened in 2002 on the site of an old state forestry farm. Besides wooded hills and walking paths it has botanical gardens, a zoo with an animal-show arena, a water park, an adventure course, a plant maze and a science museum, which make it a family outing."},{"id":"dianbai-romantic-coast","name":"Romantic Coast Resort","name_zh":"浪漫海岸","pinyin":"Làngmàn Hǎi'àn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.4666,"lon":111.1369,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dianbai-romantic-coast","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seaside resort on 5.3 km of natural coastline in Maoming's Binhai New Area, built in South-East Asian style around a 'love and romance' theme. Coconut groves, lawns, rocky islets and a fishing harbour frame the beach, and the resort has hotels, restaurants, shops and conference facilities."},{"id":"gaozhou-xianrendong","name":"Xianrendong Scenic Area, Gaozhou","name_zh":"高州仙人洞","pinyin":"Gāozhōu Xiānrén Dòng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":22.2611,"lon":111.2233,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaozhou-xianrendong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area around Xianrendong village on the southern slopes of Datianding, the high range in north-east Gaozhou, known locally as an 'air-conditioned village' for its cool summers. Besides forest walks and a series of waterfalls, it has wild Mucuna vines whose bird-shaped flowers bloom in spring, a glass suspension bridge, a bamboo slide and guesthouses, and it is promoted as a summer retreat from the lowland heat."},{"id":"dianbai-yushui-ancient-hot-spring","name":"Yushui Ancient Hot Spring","name_zh":"御水古温泉","pinyin":"Yùshuǐ Gǔ Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Maoming","lat":21.5906,"lon":111.1744,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dianbai-yushui-ancient-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort of about 500 mu at the foot of Reshui (Hot Water) Mountain in Magang town, Dianbai, on what was once an old post road. Hot-spring pools and gardens spread through a valley of rocks and lychee orchards, old poem steles and cliff inscriptions survive in the grounds, and a large resort hotel stands on site."},{"id":"dabu-baihou-historic-town","name":"Baihou Historic Town","name_zh":"百侯名镇","pinyin":"Bǎihóu Míngzhèn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.3023,"lon":116.7662,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabu-baihou-historic-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old Hakka town in Dabu County whose villages of Hounan and Houbei keep more than 120 houses from the Ming and Qing dynasties, many built in the grand 'official-hall' style of scholar-official families. The town also has Zhaoqing Tang, a hall completed in 1917 and listed as a national heritage site in 2019. The old quarter is divided into five themed areas covering scholar-farmer family life, the old alleys and the former market, and Hounan is a listed Chinese Traditional Village."},{"id":"jiaoling-changtan","name":"Changtan Scenic Area","name_zh":"长潭","pinyin":"Chángtán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.7104,"lon":116.1261,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaoling-changtan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir on the Shiku River in the hills of Changtan town, northern Jiaoling County, set among wooded slopes in an area protected as a provincial nature reserve. Boat trips on the broad, calm lake have been its main draw, and the area is also promoted for the Hakka village life along its banks."},{"id":"dabu-fuzi-jinshi-archway","name":"Father-and-Son Jinshi Archway, Chayang","name_zh":"父子进士牌坊","pinyin":"Fùzǐ Jìnshì Páifāng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.5163,"lon":116.676,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabu-fuzi-jinshi-archway","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite memorial archway built in 1610 in Chayang town to honour Rao Xiang and his son Rao Yuling, who both passed the highest imperial examination and became jinshi. It has four main columns, three bays and three tiers of eaves, and is carved with dragons, lions and the inscriptions 'Father and Son Jinshi' and 'Silun Shimei'; two more stone archways stand beside it to the west."},{"id":"meijiang-huang-zunxian-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Huang Zunxian","name_zh":"黄遵宪故居","pinyin":"Huáng Zūnxiàn Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.3136,"lon":116.125,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meijiang-huang-zunxian-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The home of Huang Zunxian (1848–1905), the late-Qing poet and diplomat whose Treatise on Japan argued for reform, beside the Zhouxi stream on the eastern side of Meizhou city. It comprises Renjinglu, his study of the 1880s with Western-influenced details, and Ronglu Di, a traditional Hakka family house; with the Enyuan Di between them they now form the Huang Zunxian Memorial Museum, with an exhibition on his life."},{"id":"jiaoling-qiu-fengjia-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Qiu Fengjia","name_zh":"丘逢甲故居","pinyin":"Qiū Féngjiǎ Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.7406,"lon":116.1616,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaoling-qiu-fengjia-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house that Qiu Fengjia (1864–1912), the Taiwan-born scholar who led local resistance to the Japanese takeover of Taiwan in 1895, built in 1896–97 in his ancestral district after leaving the island; it is also called Peiyuan Tang. Laid out in the Hakka style with two halls and four side wings inside a semicircular rear enclosure, it holds an exhibition of his manuscripts, documents and belongings covering his years in Taiwan, his teaching in Meizhou, Chaozhou and Shantou and his part in early Republican politics. A memorial garden added in front in 2014 has a bronze statue of Qiu shaking hands with Sun Yat-sen."},{"id":"jiaoling-xie-jinyuan-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Xie Jinyuan","name_zh":"谢晋元故居","pinyin":"Xiè Jìnyuán Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.5616,"lon":116.1102,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaoling-xie-jinyuan-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Xie Jinyuan (1905–1941), the Nationalist army officer who commanded the defence of the Sihang Warehouse in Shanghai in 1937, a Qing-dynasty Hakka house built by his great-grandfather in Jiankeng village, Xinpu town. Its two gateways, inscribed Rulin Di and Jingshu Ju, open onto pebble-paved courtyards, one laid out in a bagua pattern. A three-storey memorial hall beside it presents his life, and both reopened after restoration in 2015 with a statue of Xie in front."},{"id":"dabu-zhang-bishi-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhang Bishi (Guanglu Di)","name_zh":"张弼士故居","pinyin":"Zhāng Bìshì Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.4635,"lon":116.7267,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabu-zhang-bishi-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home that Zhang Bishi (Cheong Fatt Tze, c. 1840–1916) built in 1908 in his native village of Chelong; he left Dabu at 16, made his fortune in the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, served as the Qing vice-consul in Penang and founded the Changyu winery in Yantai. Known as Guanglu Di, it is a large Hakka enclosed house laid out with three halls and four side wings inside a rear enclosure, and it was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"meijiang-hakka-world","name":"Hakka World (Ketianxia)","name_zh":"客天下","pinyin":"Kè Tiānxià","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.2659,"lon":116.1481,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meijiang-hakka-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Hakka-themed tourism and residential development in Sanjiao town on the southern edge of Meizhou, built up since the mid-2000s and planned to cover some 637 hectares. Its visitor areas include a Hakka-style town, a main plaza, the hillside Shengren Zhai ('Sage's Village'), a wedding hall and large flower gardens, with sculptures, murals and folk performances on Hakka customs, while housing estates and hotels share the site. It is a modern creation rather than a historic village, and suits visitors wanting an easy introduction to Hakka culture close to the city."},{"id":"fengshun-hanshan","name":"Hanshan Historical and Cultural Scenic Area","name_zh":"韩山","pinyin":"Hán Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":23.895,"lon":116.1437,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengshun-hanshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-growing upland on Hanshan in Fengliang town, northern Fengshun County, developed as a scenic area around the Hanshan tea plantation and rated 4A in 2023. Visitors walk among the tea terraces and the azalea slopes, try tea picking and see the Hanshan Tea Museum, and it makes a half-day outing from Fengshun or Meizhou."},{"id":"dabu-huae-lou","name":"Hua'e Lou","name_zh":"花萼楼","pinyin":"Huā'è Lóu","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.2629,"lon":116.9186,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabu-huae-lou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A circular earthen fortress house of the Lin family in Lianfeng village, Dadong town, begun in 1608 and regarded as one of the best-preserved round houses (tulou) in Guangdong. Its rammed-earth outer wall, with no windows on the ground floor and gun slits above, encloses three concentric rings of rooms around a pebble-paved courtyard with an old well. The name, 'calyx', comes from a line in the Book of Songs about harmony between brothers."},{"id":"wuhua-lee-wai-tong-hometown","name":"Lee Wai Tong's Hometown Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"球王故里","pinyin":"Qiúwáng Gùlǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":23.9146,"lon":115.7662,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhua-lee-wai-tong-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A football-themed tourism area in Wuhua County honouring Lee Wai Tong (Li Huitang, 1905–1979), the Hong Kong-born footballer of Wuhua descent who captained China at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and later became a vice-president of FIFA. It links his family home, Lianqing Lou, a Hakka house in Laolou village, Hengpi town, with the Huitang Stadium, a statue and square in his honour and the Wuhua Football Science and Technology Museum in the county town of Shuizhai."},{"id":"meixian-lingguang-temple","name":"Lingguang Temple, Meizhou","name_zh":"灵光寺","pinyin":"Língguāng Sì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.4026,"lon":116.3982,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/meixian-lingguang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chan Buddhist monastery on Yinna Mountain, founded in the Xiantong era of the Tang dynasty (860–874) by the monk Pan Liaoquan as Shengshou Temple and renamed Lingguang Temple in 1385. Two ancient cypresses before the gate, one living and one long dead, are known as the 'trees of life and death', and the bell tower keeps a bronze bell cast in 1485. The forested mountain around it makes a cool walk in summer."},{"id":"dabu-sanheba-battle-memorial-park","name":"Sanheba Battle Memorial Park","name_zh":"三河坝战役纪念园","pinyin":"Sānhébà Zhànyì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.4021,"lon":116.5755,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabu-sanheba-battle-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park on Bizhiwei Hill at Sanhe, the town where the Ting, Mei and Meitan rivers join to form the Han River, marking the battle fought here in early October 1927 between part of the Nanchang Uprising army under Zhu De and the Nationalist 32nd Army. A granite monument with an inscription by Zhu De was raised on the battlefield in 1963 and a martyrs' cemetery added in 1974; a memorial museum on the site presents the battle."},{"id":"xingning-shenguang-mountain","name":"Shenguang Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"神光山","pinyin":"Shénguāng Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.1032,"lon":115.7123,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingning-shenguang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill park in Fuxing subdistrict on the edge of Xingning, a national forest park since 2005, named after the legend that the Song scholar Luo Mengjiao studied here by a divine light before passing the imperial examinations. Temples on and around the hill include the Zushi Hall, Mochi Temple and the shrine of the folk deities Shigu Dawang, and a modern tower, Qichang Lou, designed after a Hakka enclosed house, stands on the summit square."},{"id":"dabu-sanhe-sun-yat-sen-memorial-hall","name":"Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Sanhe","name_zh":"三河中山纪念堂","pinyin":"Sānhé Zhōngshān Jìniàntáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.4006,"lon":116.5649,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabu-sanhe-sun-yat-sen-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial hall to Sun Yat-sen completed in 1929 in Zhongshan Park at the foot of Fengxiang Hill, Huicheng village, in Sanhe, the old river-junction town that Sun had visited in 1918 to thank the troops stationed there. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2019, and the Sanheba Battle Memorial Park lies about 1 km away."},{"id":"dabu-tai-an-lou","name":"Tai'an Lou","name_zh":"泰安楼","pinyin":"Tài'ān Lóu","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.3525,"lon":116.6784,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabu-tai-an-lou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A square fortified house of the Lan family on Tai'an Road in Huliao, Dabu's county town, built in 1763. Its outer walls combine earth, stone and brick around ranges of rooms, and it was listed as a national heritage site in 2019; the area around it has been developed as a Hakka culture tourism park."},{"id":"pingyuan-wuzhishi","name":"Wuzhishi Scenic Area","name_zh":"五指石","pinyin":"Wǔzhǐ Shí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.902,"lon":115.9468,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingyuan-wuzhishi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Danxia landscape of reddish sandstone cliffs in Chagan town, close to where Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi meet, named after five sheer peaks that stand side by side like the fingers of a hand. Trails pass narrow rock clefts, a spring, the rebuilt Shilin Temple (first founded in the Ming dynasty) and the ruins of a pagoda, and a cliffside walkway about 2.9 km long, with glass sections, runs high along the rock faces."},{"id":"xingning-xihewan-hakka-culture-park","name":"Xihewan Hakka Culture Park","name_zh":"熙和湾","pinyin":"Xīhé Wān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.1427,"lon":115.8092,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingning-xihewan-hakka-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern theme park at Lanpai village, Yonghe town, on the edge of Xingning, built around Hakka culture, the area's lantern-making tradition and Chinese family names. Its landmark is a 36-metre tower in the shape of a lantern, recognised by Guinness World Records in 2017 as the largest lantern-shaped building, and the park also has a glass suspension bridge, an elevated rafting ride, a water park and sculpture galleries of Hakka folk life."},{"id":"meixian-yannanfei-tea-field","name":"Yannanfei Tea Field","name_zh":"雁南飞茶田","pinyin":"Yànnánfēi Chátián","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.3903,"lon":116.3592,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meixian-yannanfei-tea-field","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea estate and resort in the hills of Changjiao village, Yanyang town, whose terraced tea gardens produce the local Yannanfei tea; it was rated a 5A scenic area in 2011. Paths and walkways run through the tea fields, and the estate hotel is built in the form of a Hakka weilongwu, an enclosed house with a rounded rear range. Visitors can try tea picking and tea making, eat Hakka food and watch Hakka song-and-dance performances."},{"id":"meixian-yanshan-lake-resort","name":"Yanshan Lake International Garden Resort","name_zh":"雁山湖","pinyin":"Yànshān Hú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.4328,"lon":116.3761,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meixian-yanshan-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower-themed holiday resort at Nanfu village in Yanyang town, combining seasonal flower gardens with a lake of about 800 mu (some 53 hectares) and the wooded hills of a national forest park. It has children's play areas, Hakka restaurants and pod-style 'Earth capsule' cabins among its lodgings, and suits families on a weekend break."},{"id":"meixian-ye-jianying-memorial-park","name":"Ye Jianying Memorial Park","name_zh":"叶剑英纪念园","pinyin":"Yè Jiànyīng Jìniànyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Meizhou","lat":24.4183,"lon":116.3329,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meixian-ye-jianying-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park in Yanyang town built around the birthplace of Ye Jianying (1897–1986), one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army, who was born here into a Hakka merchant family. His family house was listed as a national heritage site in 2001, and the neighbouring memorial hall presents his life and career with multimedia and interactive displays. The park also takes in a forest area and visitor facilities."},{"id":"yingde-baojing-palace-cave","name":"Baojing Palace Cave","name_zh":"宝晶宫","pinyin":"Bǎojīng Gōng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.1263,"lon":113.364,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingde-baojing-palace-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave in the Yanziyan hills south-west of Yingde, found in 1981 by a provincial hydrogeology team searching for water. Lit walkways lead through several levels of chambers hung with stalactites, stalagmites, columns and curtains of flowstone. In 1996 archaeologists found chipped stone tools in an old river channel inside the cave, provisionally dated to the Palaeolithic."},{"id":"yingde-dongtian-xianjing","name":"Dongtian Xianjing (Yingxi Tiankeng)","name_zh":"洞天仙境","pinyin":"Dòngtiān Xiānjìng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.1548,"lon":112.8952,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingde-dongtian-xianjing","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst scenic area in the Yingxi Peak Forest Corridor of western Yingde, billed as South China's first tiankeng: a large collapsed sinkhole among the limestone peaks. It was developed by the same company as the Jiulong farm resort nearby, and the official Yingxi rural tourism route links the two."},{"id":"yangshan-guangdong-first-peak","name":"Guangdong First Peak (Shikengkong)","name_zh":"广东第一峰","pinyin":"Guǎngdōng Dìyī Fēng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.9278,"lon":112.9908,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangshan-guangdong-first-peak","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The scenic area around Shikengkong, at 1,902 m the highest point in Guangdong, on the Nanling range where Yangshan meets Ruyuan County and Hunan. Covering about 138 km² in Chengjia Yao Township, it takes in old-growth forest, high gorges, waterfalls, karst and hot springs, and is a core area of the Yangshan National Geopark. Hikers climb to the summit for sunrise over the clouds, often camping overnight, and winter frost and ice draw visitors on the coldest days."},{"id":"liannan-guangdong-yao-museum","name":"Guangdong Yao Museum","name_zh":"广东瑶族博物馆","pinyin":"Guǎngdōng Yáozú Bówùguǎn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.7187,"lon":112.2939,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liannan-guangdong-yao-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum in Liannan's county town devoted to the Yao people, covering the history and culture of the Yao branches across China and abroad. Displays include costume, Yao embroidery and the story of Yao migrations, and the province's Liannan ethnic-culture route pairs it with the Yao villages in the hills to the south."},{"id":"qingxin-gulong-gorge","name":"Gulong Gorge","name_zh":"古龙峡","pinyin":"Gǔlóng Xiá","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.7787,"lon":112.9561,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxin-gulong-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested canyon in Qingxin District developed for adventure tourism, best known for white-water rafting on a 6.1 km course that drops 378 m through tight bends and chutes. Above the gorge are a glass sky-walk and viewing platform, aerial adventure rides and a chain of waterfalls with nine tiers. The rafting course was laid out to racing standards and has hosted international events and Guangdong's provincial rafting competition."},{"id":"qingxin-hezhong-hot-spring","name":"Hezhong Hot Spring (Qingxin Hot Spring)","name_zh":"河中温泉","pinyin":"Hézhōng Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.6171,"lon":112.7878,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxin-hezhong-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Sankeng town, Qingxin District, with open-air pools beside a tree-lined river embankment; the name means 'hot spring in the river'. Until 2024 the scenic area was officially called the Qingxin Warm Mineral Spring resort, and it has its own hotel and guesthouse rooms for an overnight soak."},{"id":"lianzhou-huangchuan-three-gorges","name":"Huangchuan Three Gorges & Longtan","name_zh":"湟川三峡·龙潭","pinyin":"Huángchuān Sānxiá · Lóngtán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.7055,"lon":112.4421,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianzhou-huangchuan-three-gorges","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A river scenic area south of Lianzhou where the Huangchuan, a headwater of the North River, winds through three steep gorges of cliffs and dripping limestone, praised by the 17th-century writer Qu Dajun. The Qingtian glass bridge spans the top of a group of waterfalls on the cliffs, and the Longtan area adds folk performances by local ethnic minorities. The river is also a national water-conservancy scenic area."},{"id":"qingcheng-huangteng-gorge","name":"Huangteng Gorge","name_zh":"黄腾峡","pinyin":"Huángténg Xiá","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.7694,"lon":113.1017,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingcheng-huangteng-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested gorge in the hills just north of Qingyuan city, nicknamed 'little Jiuzhaigou', where a long, narrow mountain stream has been turned into a white-water rafting run. The course drops past steep canyon walls and waterfalls, and rafting is the main reason to come."},{"id":"lianzhou-huiguang-pagoda","name":"Huiguang Pagoda","name_zh":"慧光塔","pinyin":"Huìguāng Tǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.7772,"lon":112.3813,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianzhou-huiguang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A six-sided, nine-storey brick pagoda in pavilion style in Lianzhou, first built in 468 under the Liu Song dynasty and rebuilt in the Song. The tower leans noticeably, by about a metre, which has earned it the nickname 'Leaning Tower of the East'."},{"id":"lianshan-jinzi-mountain","name":"Jinzi Mountain","name_zh":"金子山","pinyin":"Jīnzi Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.7201,"lon":112.0573,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianshan-jinzi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the uplands of Lianshan Zhuang and Yao Autonomous County, promoted as a place to see snow in southern China, with rare rime ice on the trees in winter. Trails lead past the rock formation known as Yin-Yang Mountain and Queen Peak, with spring flowers, summer sunrises over a sea of cloud and, in autumn, views over three provinces."},{"id":"yingde-jiqingli-xianhu","name":"Jiqingli Xianhu (Jiqingli Black Tea Valley)","name_zh":"积庆里仙湖","pinyin":"Jīqìnglǐ Xiānhú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.3479,"lon":113.2711,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingde-jiqingli-xianhu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea and hot-spring resort area north-west of Yingde, the city known as China's home of black tea, built around the hillside plantations of the Jiqingli Black Tea Valley. It combines tea gardens among karst hills and forest lakes with a hot-spring town and a resort community, and the tea valley has been named one of Guangdong's ten most beautiful tea gardens."},{"id":"yingde-fenglin-xiaozhen","name":"Jiulong Peak Forest Town (Fenglin Xiaozhen)","name_zh":"峰林晓镇","pinyin":"Fēnglín Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.123,"lon":112.9195,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingde-fenglin-xiaozhen","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large farm park and rural resort in Jiulong town, set among the limestone pinnacles of the Yingxi Peak Forest, Guangdong's densest belt of karst peaks. It mixes farmland, flower and lotus fields, village guesthouses and hotels, with a small sightseeing train through the lotus ponds and, in the evening, a water-screen light show and night market. A lotus festival is held each summer."},{"id":"fogang-julongwan-hot-spring","name":"Julongwan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"聚龙湾温泉","pinyin":"Jùlóngwān Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.7495,"lon":113.4775,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fogang-julongwan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Tangtang, the hot-spring town of Fogang County, with bathing pools and hotel accommodation, built by a Hong Kong-invested company. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2008, the first in Fogang County, and is one of several spa resorts around Tangtang."},{"id":"lianzhou-underground-river","name":"Lianzhou Underground River","name_zh":"连州地下河","pinyin":"Liánzhōu Dìxià Hé","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":25.0039,"lon":112.3189,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lianzhou-underground-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-level limestone cave in the hills north of Lianzhou, where two dry upper levels lead down to an underground river that visitors travel by boat. The chambers are full of stalactites, stalagmites, columns and flowstone, and the air stays at about 18 °C all year. The writer Qin Mu described it in a 1988 travel essay, and it is one of the best-known sights of north-west Guangdong."},{"id":"liannan-nangang-yao-village","name":"Nangang Ancient Yao Village","name_zh":"南岗千年瑶寨","pinyin":"Nángǎng Qiānnián Yáozhài","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.5844,"lon":112.295,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liannan-nangang-yao-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside village of the Pai Yao, a Yao group whose homeland is Liannan, with houses rising in tiers up a steep mountain slope above Sanpai town. It is listed as a China Historical and Cultural Village, and visitors climb its stepped lanes past the village gate, old defensive walls, the Yao king's house, a hilltop temple and the square used for song and dance gatherings. Provincial tourism routes suggest staying a night in the village."},{"id":"qingcheng-new-yinzhan-hot-spring","name":"New Yinzhan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"新银盏温泉","pinyin":"Xīn Yínzhǎn Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.555,"lon":113.1245,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingcheng-new-yinzhan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort at Yinzhan in southern Qingcheng District, built around large open-air thermal pools. Besides the pools it has a hotel, private hot-spring villas, sports grounds and a team-building centre, and it has been named one of Guangdong's ten best hot springs."},{"id":"fogang-senbola-forest-resort","name":"Senbola Holiday Forest","name_zh":"森波拉度假森林","pinyin":"Sēnbōlā Dùjià Sēnlín","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.8651,"lon":113.5777,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fogang-senbola-forest-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme resort in the forested hills of Yangjiao Mountain in Fogang County, opened in 2007 by a Hong Kong developer. It has three main parts: a 'volcano' hot-spring park with a staged eruption show, a glacier-themed water park, and Senbola Wonder World, a forest theme park built around an invented tribal culture. It suits families on a resort break from Guangzhou or Shenzhen."},{"id":"liannan-wanshan-chaowang","name":"Wanshan Chaowang Stony Desert Park","name_zh":"万山朝王","pinyin":"Wànshān Cháowáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":24.6518,"lon":112.2898,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liannan-wanshan-chaowang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A viewpoint and national stony-desertification park in the karst hills south of Liannan's county town, named 'ten thousand hills paying homage to the king' after the ranks of rocky peaks facing it across the valley. Its viewing platforms are popular with photographers, and the park also has a ginkgo grove of about 1,000 mu and Guangdong's first exhibition hall on rocky desertification and its control."},{"id":"fogang-xilegu-hot-spring","name":"Xilegu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"熹乐谷温泉","pinyin":"Xīlègǔ Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.7728,"lon":113.4851,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fogang-xilegu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large hot-spring resort complex in Tangtang, the hot-spring town of Fogang County, set in the hills around Huanghua Lake. Alongside the Phoenix hot-spring pools it has several hotels and guesthouses, a water park, a playground, a campsite, go-karts, a folk-culture village and staged cultural performances. It is aimed at families on short breaks from the Pearl River Delta, in summer for the water park and in winter for the springs."},{"id":"qingxin-xuanzhen-rafting","name":"Xuanzhen Rafting","name_zh":"玄真漂流","pinyin":"Xuánzhēn Piāoliú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Qingyuan","lat":23.7478,"lon":113.011,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingxin-xuanzhen-rafting","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort area on the northern edge of Taihe, Qingxin District's main town, centred on rafting down a mountain stream through a wooded gorge. Around the Xuanzhen Ancient Cave it also has hill scenery and rock formations, a hotel and restaurants."},{"id":"chaoyang-dadian-stupa-lingshan-temple","name":"Dadian Stupa, Lingshan Temple","name_zh":"大颠祖师塔","pinyin":"Dàdiān Zǔshī Tǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3245,"lon":116.4372,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaoyang-dadian-stupa-lingshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite stupa of 824 behind Lingshan Temple in Tongyu town, the tomb of the Chan monk Dadian, who founded the temple in 791 and befriended the exiled Tang writer Han Yu. The bowl-shaped stone tomb rests on an octagonal base carved with dragons, beasts and flowers, and the temple around it is still an active monastery."},{"id":"shantou-fantawild-adventure","name":"Fantawild Adventure Shantou (Blue Water Planet)","name_zh":"方特欢乐世界·蓝水星","pinyin":"Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè Lánshuǐxīng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3494,"lon":116.7562,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shantou-fantawild-adventure","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A science-fiction themed amusement park in Longhu district near the Shantou Bay Bridge, built with ride and show systems from the Fantawild group; official tourism lists now call it Blue Water Planet (Lanshuixing). It has themed indoor and outdoor rides and a children's area, and suits a family day out."},{"id":"shantou-chao-customs-house","name":"Former Chaozhou Customs House","name_zh":"潮海关旧址","pinyin":"Cháo Hǎiguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3527,"lon":116.6703,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shantou-chao-customs-house","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The two-storey customs house of 1919–1921 on Waima Road, wrapped in verandas and topped by a clock, which served the Chaozhou Maritime Customs and its successor until 1988. Restored as the Shantou Customs History Museum, opened in 2008, it tells the story of the treaty port from the customs' founding on Mayu Island in 1860."},{"id":"shantou-eastern-expedition-headquarters","name":"Former Headquarters of the Eastern Expedition","name_zh":"东征军总指挥部、政治部旧址","pinyin":"Dōngzhēngjūn Zǒngzhǐhuībù Zhèngzhìbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3584,"lon":116.686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shantou-eastern-expedition-headquarters","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two matching two-storey buildings of 1924 on Waima Road, first a British-run hotel, which served as the command post and political department of the National Revolutionary Army after it entered Shantou in November 1925 during its Eastern Expedition against the warlord Chen Jiongming. Chiang Kai-shek and the Soviet adviser Galen (Blyukher) worked in the west building and Zhou Enlai, head of the political department, in the east one, which now holds a museum on the two expeditions of 1925."},{"id":"chaoyang-lianhua-peak","name":"Lianhua Peak, Chaoyang","name_zh":"莲花峰","pinyin":"Liánhuā Fēng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.1837,"lon":116.6094,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaoyang-lianhua-peak","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite headland in Haimen town, Chaoyang, named for boulders split like lotus petals and tied by legend to the Song loyalist Wen Tianxiang, who is said to have watched here in vain for the fleeing Song emperor's ships in 1278. Lianfeng Academy, built in 1594 in his memory, stands below the peak, and the area also has cliff inscriptions, odd rock formations and a beach."},{"id":"chenghai-lianhua-rural-tourism-area","name":"Lianhua Rural Tourism Area","name_zh":"莲华乡村旅游区","pinyin":"Liánhuá Xiāngcūn Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.5945,"lon":116.8186,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chenghai-lianhua-rural-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism area in Lianhua town, north-east Chenghai, centred on Lianhua Mountain. Paths lead up the mountain, and orchid nurseries, leisure farms and a hot-spring resort lie around its foot; it suits a country day out rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"haojiang-longhutan-beach-resort","name":"Longhutan Beach Resort","name_zh":"中海龙虎滩","pinyin":"Zhōnghǎi Lónghǔtān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.2195,"lon":116.6779,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haojiang-longhutan-beach-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A sandy beach on Longhutan (Dragon and Tiger Beach) in Haojiang district, south of central Shantou; the scenic area, known until 2023 as the CITIC Golf Seaside Resort, now covers only the beachfront. The beach is used for swimming and water sports, including a national surfing contest in 2025, and a resort hotel and the Zhonghai water park are nearby."},{"id":"shantou-mayu-island","name":"Mayu Island","name_zh":"妈屿岛","pinyin":"Māyǔ Dǎo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3381,"lon":116.748,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shantou-mayu-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small island at the mouth of Shantou harbour, known in the treaty-port era as Double Island, where the American and British consulates and the port's first foreign-run customs house opened in 1860 before moving across the harbour during the 1860s. Visitors come for its two Mazu (Tianhou) temples, one founded in the Yuan dynasty, a Qing Dragon King temple and a small swimming beach beneath the Shantou Bay Bridge."},{"id":"nanao-island","name":"Nan'ao Island","name_zh":"南澳岛","pinyin":"Nán'ào Dǎo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.4352,"lon":117.0586,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanao-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shantou's largest island and the seat of Nan'ao County, crossed by the Tropic of Cancer and linked to the mainland by the Nan'ao Bridge since 2015. It draws visitors to sandy bays such as Qing'ao Bay at its east end and to coastal-defence history, including the Zongbing Fu at Shen'ao, headquarters of the Ming and Qing regional commanders, begun in 1576."},{"id":"chenghai-qianmei-village-chen-cihong-residence","name":"Qianmei Village and Chen Cihong's Former Residence","name_zh":"前美古村·陈慈黉故居","pinyin":"Qiánměi Gǔcūn Chén Cíhóng Gùjū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.5697,"lon":116.7414,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chenghai-qianmei-village-chen-cihong-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village of overseas Chinese families in Longdu town, Chenghai, best known for the mansion compound the Chen family of overseas merchants built between 1910 and 1939. Chen Cihong's former residence has 506 rooms in four linked compounds that join the traditional Chaoshan courtyard plan with Western-style villas, decorated with wood and stone carving, plasterwork and imported tiles and glass."},{"id":"shantou-qilu-fort","name":"Qilu Fort","name_zh":"崎碌炮台","pinyin":"Qílù Pàotái","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3549,"lon":116.6947,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shantou-qilu-fort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A circular Qing coastal fort of 1874–1879 on the Shantou waterfront, its thick walls built of granite and a mortar of shell lime, sand and glutinous rice, and ringed by a moat. It is the centrepiece of Shipaotai (Stone Fort) Park on Haibin Road."},{"id":"shantou-queshi-scenic-area","name":"Queshi Scenic Area","name_zh":"礐石风景名胜区","pinyin":"Quèshí Fēngjǐng Míngshèngqū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3346,"lon":116.6742,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shantou-queshi-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of granite hills on the south shore of Shantou harbour, facing the old city across the water, with weathered boulders, caves, cliff inscriptions and harbour views from peaks such as Tashan and Yanfeng. Treaty-port buildings survive among the trees, among them the former British consulate of 1862 and Queshi Church, which mixes Chinese and Western styles."},{"id":"shantou-central-red-traffic-line-station","name":"Shantou Station of the Central Red Traffic Line","name_zh":"中央红色交通线汕头交通站旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Hóngsè Jiāotōngxiàn Shàntóu Jiāotōngzhàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.3551,"lon":116.6632,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shantou-central-red-traffic-line-station","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-storey arcaded shophouse on Haiping Road in Shantou's old town, which in the early 1930s housed the Huafu electrical shop, a front for a station on the Communist Party's secret courier line between its leadership and the Soviet areas. It now holds a small exhibition on the line, whose other listed stations are in western Fujian."},{"id":"chaoyang-wenguang-pagoda","name":"Wenguang Pagoda","name_zh":"文光塔","pinyin":"Wénguāng Tǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shantou","lat":23.2623,"lon":116.598,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaoyang-wenguang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in the old centre of Chaoyang, first built in 1131 under the Southern Song and rebuilt several times, most fully in 1635 and 1815. Spiral stone stairs run up inside, stone balustrades ring the middle floors, and it remains the landmark of the old town."},{"id":"shanwei-honghai-bay-zhelang","name":"Honghai Bay (Zhelang)","name_zh":"红海湾","pinyin":"Hónghǎi Wān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shanwei","lat":22.6644,"lon":115.565,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanwei-honghai-bay-zhelang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A coastal scenic area on the Zhelang peninsula at the eastern end of Honghai Bay, south-east of Shanwei city, where sandy beaches alternate with rocky headlands and a lighthouse stands on the offshore Zhelang Rock. Its steady winds and swell have made it a venue for sailing, windsurfing and surfing since the 1990s, and the scenic area offers sailing, jet-ski and parasailing trips."},{"id":"luhe-luodong-plum-garden","name":"Luodong Plum Garden","name_zh":"螺洞世外梅园","pinyin":"Luódòng Shìwài Méiyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shanwei","lat":23.2766,"lon":115.7697,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luhe-luodong-plum-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside plum orchard around Luodong village in Shuichun town, Luhe, a Hakka county known for its green plums, rated a 4A scenic area in 2023. Around the Minor and Major Cold solar terms in January, the blossom on more than 10,000 mu (about 670 hectares) of trees covers the slopes white, and boardwalks, a streamside park, old woodland and named rocks can be visited all year."},{"id":"haifeng-red-palace-red-square","name":"Red Palace and Red Square, Haifeng","name_zh":"海丰红宫红场","pinyin":"Hǎifēng Hónggōng Hóngchǎng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shanwei","lat":22.97,"lon":115.3306,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haifeng-red-palace-red-square/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Haifeng's former Confucian school, with its Lingxing gate, crescent pond and Dacheng Hall, where Peng Pai convened the county congress of workers, peasants and soldiers on 18–21 November 1927 that proclaimed the Haifeng Soviet government; the buildings were painted red and renamed the Red Palace. The open ground to the east, where a mass rally was held on 1 December 1927, became the Red Square. The scenic area also takes in the nearby former residence of Peng Pai (1896–1929), the Dequ study hall and the former Chishanyue farmers' association."},{"id":"shenshan-shuidishan-resort","name":"Shuidishan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"水底山","pinyin":"Shuǐdǐ Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shanwei","lat":22.9003,"lon":114.9995,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenshan-shuidishan-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort of about 85 hectares in forested hills at the heart of the Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone, where a river valley forms a chain of pools and waterfalls. Its spring water emerges at about 73°C, and the resort has bathing pools, a long infinity pool and a hotel; a paragliding base operates on the slopes of Shuidi Mountain nearby."},{"id":"haifeng-xinshan-red-village","name":"Xinshan Red Tourism Village","name_zh":"新山村","pinyin":"Xīnshān Cūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shanwei","lat":22.9316,"lon":115.3559,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haifeng-xinshan-red-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in Fucheng town on the edge of Haifeng that was an early base of the peasant movement led by Peng Pai: its farmers' association was founded in 1923 in the village hall Yipingshe, and its peasant guards drilled on an open ground known as Laohuiding. The village has restored these sites and the former homes of local revolutionaries, and built a red-culture museum, square and street. It is one stop on a national rural-tourism route linking Haifeng's revolutionary sites."},{"id":"lufeng-xuanwu-mountain-yuanshan-temple","name":"Xuanwu Mountain and Yuanshan Temple","name_zh":"玄武山","pinyin":"Xuánwǔ Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shanwei","lat":22.82,"lon":115.83,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lufeng-xuanwu-mountain-yuanshan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill in the coastal town of Jieshi, Lufeng, crowned by Yuanshan Temple, dedicated to the Daoist god Xuantian Shangdi and founded in 1127. Enlarged into its present layout in 1577 and renamed in the Kangxi reign to avoid the emperor's personal name, the south-facing temple has a gate hall, middle and main halls and side halls, with plaques inscribed by Lin Zexu and Liu Yongfu."},{"id":"qujiang-caoxi-hot-spring-resort","name":"Caoxi Hot Spring Holiday Resort","name_zh":"曹溪温泉假日度假村","pinyin":"Cáoxī Wēnquán Jiàrì Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.6632,"lon":113.6169,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qujiang-caoxi-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Mabao town, Qujiang district, about 2 km from Nanhua Temple, the monastery of the Chan patriarch Huineng, so the two are easily combined. It has outdoor hot-spring pools, a summer water-play pool with slides, sweat-bath and salt-bath rooms, and hotel accommodation. It is a place for an overnight soak rather than a sight in itself."},{"id":"shixing-changwei-village-enclosure","name":"Changwei Village Hakka Enclosure","name_zh":"长围村围屋","pinyin":"Chángwéi Cūn Wéiwū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.8772,"lon":114.2108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shixing-changwei-village-enclosure","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A four-storey Hakka fortified house in Changwei village, Luoba town, built in 1855, combining an enclosing tower block, an ancestral hall and family dwellings on a rectangular, south-facing plan. It was named one of the hundred major new finds of China's Third National Cultural Heritage Survey in 2011 and listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"wengyuan-donghua-mountain","name":"Donghua Mountain and Donghua Temple","name_zh":"东华山","pinyin":"Dōnghuá Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.3438,"lon":114.168,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wengyuan-donghua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill scenic area on the eastern edge of Wengyuan town, centred on Donghua Temple, a Chan Buddhist monastery whose main hall houses a large gilded Buddha. Paths climb from the temple to a hilltop viewing platform over the surrounding hills, and cherry trees around the temple flower in early spring."},{"id":"ruyuan-guangdong-grand-canyon","name":"Guangdong Grand Canyon","name_zh":"广东大峡谷","pinyin":"Guǎngdōng Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.5129,"lon":113.1273,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruyuan-guangdong-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A deep, forested gorge in Dabu town in the far south-west of Ruyuan county, cut through quartz sandstone by the Dabu River, which drops from the rim to the valley floor in a large waterfall. A stone stairway of more than 1,300 steps descends into the canyon past rock pillars and falls such as Tenglong Falls and Huanglong Pool, and the scenic area stages high-wire acrobatic shows across the gorge."},{"id":"lechang-gufo-dongtian-cave","name":"Gufo Dongtian Cave","name_zh":"古佛洞天","pinyin":"Gǔfó Dòngtiān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":25.0841,"lon":113.3358,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lechang-gufo-dongtian-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave on the south-western outskirts of Lechang, also called Gufo Yan ('Ancient Buddha Rock') because Buddha images were once placed inside and a temple was built at its mouth. A lit walkway leads through stacked chambers of stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone, which stay cool all year at under 20 °C."},{"id":"qujiang-jinglvlun-culture-town","name":"Jinglülun Culture Tourism Town","name_zh":"经律论文化旅游小镇","pinyin":"Jīnglǜlùn Wénhuà Lǚyóu Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.6835,"lon":113.8174,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qujiang-jinglvlun-culture-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chan (Zen) Buddhist-themed hot-spring resort inside Xiaokeng National Forest Park in Qujiang district, opened in 2014, with a forest hot-spring area, a hotel, a suspension bridge across a wooded valley and a jade statue of Guanyin. It is a modern leisure resort, best for an overnight soak combined with a visit to Nanhua Temple."},{"id":"qujiang-maba-man-shixia-site","name":"Maba Man and Shixia Site","name_zh":"马坝人—石峡遗址","pinyin":"Mǎbàrén Shíxiá Yízhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.6759,"lon":113.5799,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qujiang-maba-man-shixia-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shizi Yan, a pair of limestone hills near Maba, is where in 1958 farmers found in a cave the skull of 'Maba Man', an archaic human intermediate between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, and where a Neolithic settlement and cemetery, the type site of the Shixia culture, was excavated from 1973. A site park with the Maba Man Museum now surrounds the hills."},{"id":"shixing-mantang-wei","name":"Mantang Wei Hakka Enclosure","name_zh":"满堂围","pinyin":"Mǎntáng Wéi","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.6109,"lon":113.975,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shixing-mantang-wei","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Begun in 1833 by the Guan family, Mantang Wei in Aizi town is a fortified Hakka communal house made up of three linked enclosures, the upper, middle and lower wei. Listed as a national heritage site in 1996, it is open to visitors as the Mantang Hakka Enclosure scenic area."},{"id":"nanxiong-mei-pass-zhuji-lane","name":"Mei Pass and Zhuji Lane","name_zh":"梅关古道·珠玑巷","pinyin":"Méiguān Gǔdào · Zhūjī Xiàng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":25.3373,"lon":114.3405,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanxiong-mei-pass-zhuji-lane/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On the Meiling ridge at the Guangdong–Jiangxi border, Zhang Jiuling, later a Tang chancellor, cut a paved road through the pass in 716, opening the main overland route between the Yangtze valley and Guangzhou; the stone road and a gate tower, first built in the Song and inscribed in the Ming 'Nanyue Xiongguan' and 'First Pass of Lingnan', survive. About 15 km south, the old village street of Zhuji Lane was the staging post where many Cantonese clans of the Pearl River Delta place their ancestors before the migration south, and it is lined with rebuilt clan halls and an old stone pagoda."},{"id":"qujiang-nanhua-temple","name":"Nanhua Temple","name_zh":"南华寺","pinyin":"Nánhuá Sì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.6491,"lon":113.6316,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qujiang-nanhua-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in the early 6th century as Baolin Temple, Nanhua Temple on the Caoxi stream is where Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, taught from 677, making it the ancestral seat of Southern Chan. Its halls were largely rebuilt from 1934 under the monk Xuyun, and the Sixth Patriarch Hall enshrines a seated figure of Huineng made over his body; the temple also keeps Song-dynasty wooden arhat carvings."},{"id":"nanxiong-sanying-pagoda","name":"Sanying Pagoda","name_zh":"三影塔","pinyin":"Sānyǐng Tǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":25.1195,"lon":114.3087,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanxiong-sanying-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Completed in 1009 under the Northern Song, this hexagonal brick pagoda in central Nanxiong rises nine storeys outside, with hidden levels between them inside, and is crowned by an iron finial. Its name, 'Three Shadows', comes from a legend that it cast three shadows, two of them upside down; it is also called Yanxiang Temple Pagoda after the vanished temple beside it."},{"id":"renhua-shuangfeng-fort","name":"Shuangfeng Fort","name_zh":"双峰寨","pinyin":"Shuāngfēng Zhài","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":25.0808,"lon":113.5753,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/renhua-shuangfeng-fort/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large rectangular fortified compound in Shitang village, built from 1899 over twelve years by the local gentleman Li Zisheng to shelter villagers from bandits, with a main tower and four gun towers joined by high brick walls and surrounded by a moat. After 1927 the Communist-led Shitang peasant association held out inside it for nine months against Kuomintang forces; the fort had partly collapsed before 1949 and was later restored."},{"id":"ruyuan-xijing-ancient-road","name":"Xijing Ancient Road, Ruyuan","name_zh":"西京古道","pinyin":"Xījīng Gǔdào","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.9861,"lon":113.1415,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruyuan-xijing-ancient-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Xijing Ancient Road was an overland route across the mountains of northern Guangdong towards the Central Plains, first opened in the Eastern Han and kept in use until the Qing. Its best-preserved stone-paved stretches climb through the hills of Daqiao town in Ruyuan county and can be followed on foot."},{"id":"renhua-yunlong-temple-pagoda","name":"Yunlong Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"云龙寺塔","pinyin":"Yúnlóng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":25.0997,"lon":113.6047,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renhua-yunlong-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A square, five-storey solid brick pagoda with a platform at each level, built in the late Tang dynasty between 894 and 901 and repaired in the Ming. It stands in Angang village, Dongtang town, at the site of Xishan Temple, renamed Yunlong Temple in the Qing."},{"id":"ruyuan-yunmen-temple","name":"Yunmen Temple","name_zh":"云门寺","pinyin":"Yúnmén Sì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":24.8121,"lon":113.3089,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruyuan-yunmen-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 923 by the Chan master Wenyan, Yunmen Temple is the birthplace of the Yunmen school, one of the five houses of Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Most of its present halls were rebuilt under the monk Xuyun between 1943 and 1951 in traditional Qing style, and the temple keeps a Southern Han stele of the 10th century honouring its founder. Around it, the Yunmen Mountain eco-cultural tourism area adds a water park, go-karts and a Guoshan Yao village."},{"id":"xinfeng-yuntianhai-hot-spring-resort","name":"Yuntianhai Forest Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"云天海原始森林度假村","pinyin":"Yúntiānhǎi Yuánshǐ Sēnlín Dùjiàcūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shaoguan","lat":23.9732,"lon":114.1192,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinfeng-yuntianhai-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in forested hills beside the G105 road in Xinfeng county, with spring-fed outdoor pools, a mountain-water play park and hotel accommodation. It is a leisure resort for a weekend soak rather than a sightseeing destination."},{"id":"yantian-chung-ying-street-boundary-stones","name":"Chung Ying Street Boundary Stones","name_zh":"中英街界碑","pinyin":"Zhōngyīng Jiē Jièbēi","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.5445,"lon":114.2264,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yantian-chung-ying-street-boundary-stones","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chung Ying Street in Shatoujiao is a short street whose centre line forms the land boundary between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, marked by stone boundary markers of 1905 carved in Chinese on the side facing Shenzhen and in English on the side facing Hong Kong. The listed stones are those under Shenzhen's care, and the nearby Chung Ying Street History Museum tells the story of the border and the shopping street that grew up along it."},{"id":"dapeng-fortress","name":"Dapeng Fortress","name_zh":"大鹏所城","pinyin":"Dàpéng Suǒchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.597,"lon":114.5089,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dapeng-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built in 1394 as a Ming garrison town against coastal pirates, Dapeng Fortress withstood a siege of more than forty days by Japanese pirates in 1571 and in the Qing was the base of the Dapeng naval command during the Opium War years. Its walls and gates enclose lanes of old houses, temples and the mansions of Qing commanders such as Lai Enjue, and a museum has run the site since 1996."},{"id":"nanshan-evergreen-resort","name":"Evergreen Resort (Qingqing World)","name_zh":"青青世界","pinyin":"Qīngqīng Shìjiè","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.5045,"lon":113.8964,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanshan-evergreen-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eco-tourism farm park opened in 1995 at the foot of Dananshan hill, with a simulated rainforest of artificial mist and rain, a butterfly garden and a petting area with small animals. It now suits young families more than sightseers."},{"id":"luohu-fairy-lake-botanical-garden","name":"Fairy Lake Botanical Garden","name_zh":"仙湖植物园","pinyin":"Xiānhú Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.5711,"lon":114.1642,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luohu-fairy-lake-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large botanical garden at the foot of Wutong Mountain beside Shenzhen Reservoir, founded in 1983, open since 1988 and now linked with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Lakes and pavilions frame themed collections including a national cycad conservation centre, desert-plant and shade-plant areas and a fossil forest, and the grounds also hold Hongfa Temple, which draws huge crowds at Chinese New Year."},{"id":"dapeng-tuyang-east-river-column-hq","name":"Former East River Column Headquarters, Tuyang","name_zh":"土洋村东江纵队司令部旧址","pinyin":"Tǔyáng Cūn Dōngjiāng Zòngduì Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.617,"lon":114.4042,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dapeng-tuyang-east-river-column-hq","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former Italian Catholic mission in Tuyang village, built in 1912 in a mixed Chinese and Western style, with a two-storey main house, a chapel and a former stable. From December 1943 to May 1945 it was the headquarters of the Communist-led East River Column guerrilla force and of the Guangdong provincial party committee, which held the Tuyang Conference here in August 1944; it has been open as an exhibition hall on the column's history since 1998."},{"id":"guangming-farm-grand-view-garden","name":"Guangming Farm Grand View Garden","name_zh":"光明农场大观园","pinyin":"Guāngmíng Nóngchǎng Dàguānyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.7634,"lon":113.9563,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangming-farm-grand-view-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A family farm park on land of the old Guangming state farm, founded in the late 1950s and long known for its dairy, with fields, flower beds, animal enclosures and hands-on farming activities such as crop picking. Seasonal festivals add staged shows and evening lantern displays."},{"id":"longhua-guanlan-shanshui-tianyuan","name":"Guanlan Shanshui Tianyuan Farm Resort","name_zh":"观澜山水田园","pinyin":"Guānlán Shānshuǐ Tiányuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.717,"lon":114.1019,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhua-guanlan-shanshui-tianyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farm-style leisure park of about 27 hectares in Guanlan, laid out in Lingnan and Hakka water-village style, with a resort hotel, village hot springs, a water park with a wave pool and a children's amusement area. Its country restaurant serves Hakka food, and the park is aimed at families from the city."},{"id":"longhua-mission-hills","name":"Mission Hills Shenzhen","name_zh":"观澜湖","pinyin":"Guānlán Hú","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.7419,"lon":114.0704,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhua-mission-hills","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1992 in Guanlan, Mission Hills Golf Club was recognised by Guinness World Records in 2004 as the world's largest golf facility, with twelve 18-hole courses designed by players such as Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo, Ernie Els and Annika Sörenstam. The surrounding 5A leisure area also has a resort hotel, and is mainly of interest to golfers and resort guests."},{"id":"yantian-oct-east","name":"OCT East","name_zh":"东部华侨城","pinyin":"Dōngbù Huáqiáochéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.63,"lon":114.285,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yantian-oct-east/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort and theme-park complex opened in 2007 by the OCT Group in the Sanzhoutian hills above Dameisha beach. Knight Valley is an adventure park with rides and a man-made waterfall, while Tea Stream Valley has tea terraces, wetland gardens, a Chinese-style tea town and a copy of the Swiss resort of Interlaken; a forest train links the areas, and the complex also has hotels, a golf course and Huaxing Temple."},{"id":"baoan-oh-bay","name":"OH Bay and Bay Glory Ferris Wheel","name_zh":"欢乐港湾","pinyin":"Huānlè Gǎngwān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.5463,"lon":113.881,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoan-oh-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A waterfront leisure and shopping district on Qianhai Bay in Bao'an's new city centre, developed by the OCT Group, with seaside promenades, shops and restaurants. Its centrepiece is Bay Glory, a 128 m cantilevered Ferris wheel opened in April 2021, whose cabins look out over Qianhai Bay and the Pearl River estuary."},{"id":"nanshan-overseas-chinese-town","name":"Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Theme Parks","name_zh":"华侨城","pinyin":"Huáqiáochéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.5375,"lon":113.9686,"category":"city","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanshan-overseas-chinese-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanshan's Overseas Chinese Town groups Shenzhen's best-known theme parks: Splendid China Folk Village, founded in 1988, with small-scale models of Chinese landmarks and full-size replica villages of China's ethnic groups where staged shows are held; Window of the World, opened in 1994, with miniature copies of world landmarks; and Happy Valley, an amusement park with roller coasters opened in 1998. The district around them also has the OCT Contemporary Art Terminal and the OCT Harbour waterfront."},{"id":"nanshan-shenzhen-safari-park","name":"Shenzhen Safari Park","name_zh":"深圳野生动物园","pinyin":"Shēnzhèn Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.5998,"lon":113.9683,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanshan-shenzhen-safari-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in 1993 beside Xili Lake, this safari-style zoo is described by Shenzhen's tourism bureau as the first in China to keep its animals uncaged. Sightseeing vehicles tour the large-mammal areas, and the walking zones include giant pandas and South China tigers."},{"id":"baoan-haishang-tianyuan","name":"Waterlands Resort (Haishang Tianyuan)","name_zh":"海上田园","pinyin":"Hǎishàng Tiányuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Shenzhen","lat":22.728,"lon":113.7671,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoan-haishang-tianyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eco-park opened in 2001 in the coastal wetlands at Shajing, beside the Pearl River estuary, with lakes, streams, woods and lawns, birdlife and seasonal flowers. It combines sightseeing with family entertainment and nature education."},{"id":"yangchun-chunwan-scenic-area","name":"Chunwan Scenic Area","name_zh":"春湾风景区","pinyin":"Chūnwān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yangjiang","lat":22.4461,"lon":111.9463,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangchun-chunwan-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst area beside Chunwan town in northern Yangchun, ringed by craggy limestone peaks that have been used as a film location. Its sights include the Longgong Yan ('Dragon Palace') cave, a stone forest of limestone pinnacles, the Tongzhen and Ciyun caves, a tall rock pillar called the 'Sky Candle' and the old Nawu bridge."},{"id":"yangdong-daao-fishing-village","name":"Da'ao Fishing Village","name_zh":"大澳渔村","pinyin":"Dà'ào Yúcūn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yangjiang","lat":21.7115,"lon":112.2445,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangdong-daao-fishing-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old fishing village in the south-east of Dongping town on the Yangdong coast, once a port of call on the Maritime Silk Road, that keeps the look of a Ming and Qing fishing settlement beside its harbour. Its old street faces the moored boats, the village's folk-customs hall now serves as the Yangdong District Museum with displays on the Tanka boat people, and when the fishing season reopens in mid-August the harbour fills with visitors buying fresh seafood."},{"id":"hailing-island-dajiao-bay","name":"Dajiao Bay, Hailing Island","name_zh":"海陵岛大角湾","pinyin":"Hǎilíng Dǎo Dàjiǎo Wān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yangjiang","lat":21.5737,"lon":111.8473,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hailing-island-dajiao-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A curving, horn-shaped sandy bay at Zhapo on the south coast of Hailing Island, the island's earliest-developed and best-known beach, which with its surroundings was rated a 5A scenic area in 2015 as the Dajiao Bay Maritime Silk Road Tourist Area. Over the hill to the west lies the long beach of Shili Yintan, beside which the Maritime Silk Road Museum of Guangdong (opened 2009) displays the hull and cargo of the Southern Song shipwreck Nanhai I."},{"id":"yangchun-lingxiao-cave","name":"Lingxiao Cave","name_zh":"凌霄岩","pinyin":"Língxiāo Yán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yangjiang","lat":22.595,"lon":111.8271,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangchun-lingxiao-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large karst cave at Helang town in north-western Yangchun, part of a national geopark, whose chambers rise in three levels above an underground river. Visitors take a boat along about 400 m of the river past lit rock formations, then climb into the halls, where tall stalactite pillars and cliff inscriptions from the Ming and Qing dynasties can be seen."},{"id":"luoding-changgangpo-aqueduct","name":"Changgangpo Aqueduct","name_zh":"长岗坡渡槽","pinyin":"Chánggǎngpō Dùcáo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yunfu","lat":22.6507,"lon":111.5459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoding-changgangpo-aqueduct","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An irrigation aqueduct striding across the farmland of the Luoping basin, built from 1976 to 1981 by more than 10,000 volunteer labourers from across Luoding county to end the frequent droughts around the county town. A memorial hall in nearby Shuanglian village uses film and interactive displays to tell the story of its construction."},{"id":"yunan-dawan-historic-buildings","name":"Dawan Historic Buildings","name_zh":"大湾古建筑群","pinyin":"Dàwān Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yunfu","lat":22.8208,"lon":111.6439,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yunan-dawan-historic-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of late-Qing and early-Republican clan halls, family schools and large courtyard houses of the Li lineage spread through the villages of Dawan town, fourteen of which were listed together as a national heritage site in 2013. They include the Li Clan Ancestral Hall of 1856 and the Qichangzhan mansion of 1920, built in the Lingnan manner with three-bay fronts and successive halls and courtyards."},{"id":"xinxing-guoen-temple","name":"Guo'en Temple, the Sixth Patriarch's Hometown","name_zh":"国恩寺","pinyin":"Guó'ēn Sì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yunfu","lat":22.5918,"lon":112.2235,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xinxing-guoen-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 683 on Longshan hill in Liuzu town, Guo'en Temple is where Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, died in 713; it is counted with Guangxiao and Nanhua temples as one of his three ancestral seats, and the Platform Sutra is said to have been compiled here. The present halls date from the Ming to the Republican era, and the surrounding Sixth Patriarch's Hometown resort area also takes in his former home, a lychee tree said to have been planted by him and the Longshan hot spring."},{"id":"xinxing-jinshuitai-hot-spring-town","name":"Jinshuitai Hot Spring Town","name_zh":"金水台温泉小镇","pinyin":"Jīnshuǐtái Wēnquán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yunfu","lat":22.6106,"lon":112.4683,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxing-jinshuitai-hot-spring-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern hot-spring resort town in Shuitai, Xinxing county, run by the Xiangshun group and known for having three different types of natural hot spring in one area, with outdoor bathing pools, hotels and conference facilities. Xinxing county is known for its hot springs, and Guo'en Temple at Liuzu town is about 25 km to the west."},{"id":"luoding-longkan-cave-inscriptions","name":"Longkan Cave Inscriptions","name_zh":"龙龛岩摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Lóngkān Yán Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yunfu","lat":22.7184,"lon":111.7237,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoding-longkan-cave-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone cave beneath an isolated karst hill near Tanli village, where a text recording the religious retreat founded here in 621 by the Yongning county magistrate Chen Puguang was carved on the wall in 699. Regarded as the oldest surviving cliff inscription in Guangdong, it uses several of the new characters created under Empress Wu Zetian, which makes it valuable for the history of Chinese writing."},{"id":"xinxing-tianlu-mountain-resort","name":"Tianlu Mountain Resort","name_zh":"天露山","pinyin":"Tiānlù Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Yunfu","lat":22.4888,"lon":112.2264,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinxing-tianlu-mountain-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain resort in Lidong town on the slopes of Tianlu Mountain, which at about 1,250 m is the highest peak in south-central Guangdong. It offers a 3.8 km rafting run down the Chanlong Gorge, a forest boardwalk through Wuyou Valley, a small mountain train and amusement rides, with a lake-view hotel, hot-spring cabins and hillside villas. It is mainly a weekend outdoor-activity destination for visitors from the Pearl River Delta."},{"id":"wuchuan-dinglong-bay","name":"Dinglong Bay Marine Tourism Area","name_zh":"鼎龙湾","pinyin":"Dǐnglóng Wān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":21.4027,"lon":110.9004,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuchuan-dinglong-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large beach resort on the coast of Qinba town, Wuchuan, opened in 2017, with hotels and holiday flats along a long sandy beach and a water park. At holidays it stages lion dances, folk parades, light shows and fireworks, and it is built for beach holidays and family breaks."},{"id":"zhanjiang-guangzhouwan-french-legation","name":"Former French Legation and Army Headquarters, Guangzhouwan","name_zh":"广州湾法国公使署旧址","pinyin":"Guǎngzhōuwān Fǎguó Gōngshǐshǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":21.1986,"lon":110.4116,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhanjiang-guangzhouwan-french-legation/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two colonial buildings facing each other across Yan'an Road in Xiashan, the administrative centre of Guangzhouwan, the territory France occupied in 1898 and held under a lease from 1899 until 1945: the legation of 1903 and the army headquarters of 1905, known locally as the Green Building. After the Japanese occupation and the territory's return in 1945 they housed the new Zhanjiang city government and police, and the legation is now one of Zhanjiang Museum's three sites, with a permanent exhibition."},{"id":"zhanjiang-haibin-volcanic-hot-spring","name":"Haibin Volcanic Hot Spring (Blue Moon Bay)","name_zh":"蓝月湾温泉","pinyin":"Lányuèwān Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":21.2219,"lon":110.4151,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhanjiang-haibin-volcanic-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort at the Haibin Hotel in Xiashan district, central Zhanjiang, now listed as Blue Moon Bay; its earlier name, Haibin Volcanic Hot Spring, comes from the geothermal water drawn from volcanic rock. Its outdoor pools make a relaxing spa stop in town rather than a sight."},{"id":"zhanjiang-huguangyan-maar-lake","name":"Huguangyan Maar Lake","name_zh":"湖光岩","pinyin":"Húguāng Yán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":21.1469,"lon":110.2803,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhanjiang-huguangyan-maar-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A volcanic crater lake (maar) in Mazhang district, formed by steam explosions some 140,000 to 200,000 years ago and now the core of the Huguangyan area of the Leiqiong Global Geopark. Footpaths circle the steep, wooded crater above the clear lake, with viewpoints along the rim."},{"id":"zhanjiang-jinsha-bay-seafront","name":"Jinsha Bay Seafront","name_zh":"金沙湾","pinyin":"Jīnshā Wān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":21.2666,"lon":110.3901,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhanjiang-jinsha-bay-seafront","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban seafront in Chikan district, north of central Zhanjiang, with a sandy bathing beach, a seaside promenade park and open squares backed by the towers of the Jinsha Bay new town. It is a place for a stroll and a swim by the bay rather than a destination in itself."},{"id":"leizhou-leizu-temple","name":"Leizu Temple","name_zh":"雷祖祠","pinyin":"Léizǔ Cí","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":20.8963,"lon":110.0637,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leizhou-leizu-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shrine on Yingbang Hill west of Leizhou to Chen Wenyu, the first Tang prefect of Leizhou, worshipped locally as the Thunder Ancestor. Founded in 642, it keeps Ming and Qing halls in three courtyards, four stone figures from the Five Dynasties and more than 40 inscribed steles from the Song to the Qing."},{"id":"leizhou-maodegong-drum-city","name":"Maodegong Drum City","name_zh":"茂德公鼓城","pinyin":"Màodégōng Gǔchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":20.9328,"lon":110.0563,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leizhou-maodegong-drum-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort and culture park in Leizhou opened in 2015, themed on drums and built in the style of the region's Ming and Qing architecture. Its food street, named a provincial Cantonese food street in 2022, and its squares host lion dances, Lei opera and other folk performances, with staged shows built around the Leizhou drum."},{"id":"naozhou-lighthouse","name":"Naozhou Lighthouse","name_zh":"硇洲灯塔","pinyin":"Náozhōu Dēngtǎ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":20.9017,"lon":110.6067,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=naozhou-lighthouse","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone lighthouse on Ma'an Hill, the highest point of Naozhou Island, built from 1899 by the French administration of the leased territory of Guangzhouwan and lit in 1904. The tower of local volcanic stone still turns its original optic of crystal prisms and has been unmanned since 2004, with a small exhibition on navigation marks beside it."},{"id":"zhanjiang-sanlingshan-forest-park","name":"Sanlingshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"三岭山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Sānlǐng Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":21.1745,"lon":110.3347,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhanjiang-sanlingshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of about 22,700 mu on the south-western edge of Zhanjiang, known locally as the city's lungs, with low wooded hills around the Chixi Reservoir. A greenway about 17 km long loops through the park, and grey herons and other waterbirds feed in the wetlands by the reservoir."},{"id":"suixi-confucius-culture-city","name":"Suixi Confucius Culture City","name_zh":"遂溪孔子文化城","pinyin":"Suìxī Kǒngzǐ Wénhuàchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhanjiang","lat":21.363,"lon":110.2349,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suixi-confucius-culture-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Confucian-themed park on Bangtang Ridge in Suixi county town, opened in 2016; its new Confucius temple, completed in 2017, replaces the county's old one, demolished in 1978. The temple is modelled on the one at Qufu, with a seven-bay Dacheng Hall, and is joined by a Wenchang pavilion, a shopping street built in Spring and Autumn style, lotus lakes and natural basalt columns left by ancient eruptions."},{"id":"deqing-confucian-temple","name":"Deqing Confucian Temple","name_zh":"德庆学宫","pinyin":"Déqìng Xuégōng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.1423,"lon":111.7631,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/deqing-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Deqing's school-temple of Confucius, founded in 1011 and moved to this site in 1081; after a flood its main Dacheng Hall was rebuilt in 1297 and still stands. The hall is known for its unusual timber frame, which leaves out four interior columns and carries very long bracket arms, and the Lingxing Gate, semicircular pond, Dacheng Gate and side halls survive around it. Ceremonies for Confucius and children's first-writing rites are held here twice a year."},{"id":"fengkai-hejiang-river-gallery","name":"He River Greenway Gallery","name_zh":"贺江碧道画廊","pinyin":"Hè Jiāng Bìdào Huàláng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.5143,"lon":111.5486,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengkai-hejiang-river-gallery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside greenway along the He River in Fengkai County, running from Jiangkou, the county town, upstream to Dazhou town near the Guangxi border, on the old Xiaohe road between Guangdong and Guangxi. Cycle paths, a 121 km 'Hejiang 100 li' cycling route and riverside parks follow the bamboo-lined banks, and sightseeing boats run between Guangxin pier and Longhuang Island with its old-pier park. Villages, guesthouses and a forest wellness base along the way make it a slow, scenic day out."},{"id":"deqing-yuecheng-longmu-temple","name":"Longmu Ancestral Temple, Yuecheng","name_zh":"悦城龙母祖庙","pinyin":"Yuèchéng Lóngmǔ Zǔmiào","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.0919,"lon":112.1282,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/deqing-yuecheng-longmu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The principal temple of the Dragon Mother (Longmu), a river goddess worshipped all along the West River, standing where the Yuecheng River joins the West River in Yuecheng town. The present stone archway, gate, incense pavilion, main hall and side halls date mostly from the late Qing Guangxu reign and are finely worked in brick, wood and stone, and the compound also holds the Dragon Mother's tomb. Her birthday fair in the fifth lunar month is a national intangible heritage item."},{"id":"fengkai-longshan-karst","name":"Longshan Scenic Area, Fengkai Geopark","name_zh":"封开龙山","pinyin":"Fēngkāi Lóng Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.5194,"lon":111.799,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengkai-longshan-karst","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst scenic area in Heerkou town, part of the Fengkai National Geopark, where limestone hills rise from the valley floor in a landscape locals compare to Guilin. Paths lead around the hills and into caves, one of which has been fitted out as a themed show cave."},{"id":"gaoyao-maozhua-valley","name":"Maozhua Valley (Cat's Paw Valley)","name_zh":"猫爪谷","pinyin":"Māozhuǎ Gǔ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":22.9942,"lon":112.6981,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaoyao-maozhua-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cat-themed leisure park of about 600 mu in Huilong town, Gaoyao District, built for family day trips. It mixes cat-themed art and interactive attractions with animal and plant displays, fruit and vegetable picking, flower fields, water play and 'starry-sky' tents for overnight stays."},{"id":"zhaoqing-meian-temple","name":"Mei'an Temple","name_zh":"梅庵","pinyin":"Méi'ān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.0531,"lon":112.4422,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoqing-meian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small Buddhist temple on Mei'an hill in western Zhaoqing, founded in 996 by the monk Zhiyuan where, by tradition, the Chan patriarch Huineng had planted a plum tree. Its main hall keeps the beam and bracket structure of the Song period, and the gate and patriarch hall stand on the same axis. The temple is now part of Zhaoqing Museum and holds an exhibition on Huineng's life."},{"id":"deqing-panlong-gorge","name":"Panlong Gorge","name_zh":"盘龙峡","pinyin":"Pánlóng Xiá","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.3646,"lon":111.8249,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=deqing-panlong-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded mountain valley in northern Deqing County known for its chain of waterfalls. Visitors climb paths beside the stream past the falls, and the gorge has been used for rafting in the warm season."},{"id":"sihui-qishi-river","name":"Qishi River Scenic Area","name_zh":"奇石河","pinyin":"Qíshí Hé","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.6834,"lon":112.7177,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sihui-qishi-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested river valley in Weizheng town in the hills of northern Sihui, where Sihui meets Guangning and Qingyuan. As its name, 'strange-rock river', suggests, it is visited for a boulder-strewn mountain stream crossed by a broad curtain-like waterfall, with natural pools for swimming in summer."},{"id":"zhaoqing-seven-star-crags-dinghu-mountain","name":"Seven Star Crags & Dinghu Mountain (Star Lake)","name_zh":"七星岩·鼎湖山","pinyin":"Qīxīng Yán · Dǐnghú Shān","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.0756,"lon":112.4714,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoqing-seven-star-crags-dinghu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhaoqing's 5A Star Lake scenic area has two parts: the Seven Star Crags, seven limestone peaks rising from the lakes beside the city centre, and Dinghu Mountain, a forested range about 15 km to the north-east. Paths and boats link the crags, their caves and lakeside walks, and the cliffs carry 531 inscriptions from the Tang dynasty onwards, most of them in Stone Chamber Cave, including Li Yong's record of 727. Dinghu Mountain became China's first nature reserve in 1956 and has subtropical forest, waterfalls, mountain streams and the Buddhist Qingyun Temple."},{"id":"guangning-suijiang-bamboo-sea","name":"Suijiang Bamboo Sea","name_zh":"绥江竹海","pinyin":"Suí Jiāng Zhúhǎi","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.5974,"lon":112.389,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangning-suijiang-bamboo-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eco-tourism area of bamboo-covered hills along the Sui River on the edge of Guangning, a county known as the home of bamboo. Covering about 8 km², it links an old river pier, a Taoist shrine, a bamboo ecology art museum, plank walkways through the bamboo and a campsite, and is used for walks, camping and stays in bamboo-country guesthouses."},{"id":"zhaoqing-yuejiang-tower","name":"Yuejiang Tower (Former HQ of Ye Ting's Independent Regiment)","name_zh":"阅江楼","pinyin":"Yuèjiāng Lóu","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.0474,"lon":112.4667,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoqing-yuejiang-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A quadrangle of two-storey halls around a Lingnan courtyard on a low hill above the West River in Zhaoqing, given its name in 1641 when it was rebuilt on the model of Tengwang Pavilion and rebuilt several times since. In November 1925 it became the headquarters of the newly formed 34th Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army's 4th Army, the 'Independent Regiment' commanded by Ye Ting, which went on to fight in the Northern Expedition. Since 1959 it has housed a memorial hall to the regiment, whose exhibition was renewed for the regiment's centenary in 2025."},{"id":"zhaoqing-song-city-wall","name":"Zhaoqing City Wall","name_zh":"肇庆古城墙","pinyin":"Zhàoqìng Gǔ Chéngqiáng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhaoqing","lat":23.0517,"lon":112.4539,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaoqing-song-city-wall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The brick city wall of the old town of Zhaoqing, built in 1113 when the earth ramparts of the newly promoted prefecture were enlarged and faced with brick, and repaired many times under the Ming and Qing. Most of the circuit survives, although the gate towers were pulled down and much of the wall lowered in the 1920s; the north-west stretch has been restored with battlements and a paved walk on top, crowned by the rebuilt Piyun Tower."},{"id":"zhongshan-chadong-chen-ancestral-halls","name":"Chadong Chen Ancestral Halls","name_zh":"茶东陈氏宗祠群","pinyin":"Chádōng Chénshì Zōngcí Qún","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhongshan","lat":22.5156,"lon":113.5286,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongshan-chadong-chen-ancestral-halls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of four Qing-dynasty ancestral halls of the Chen clan in Chadong village, Langbian, one of the larger and better-preserved ancestral-hall groups in the Pearl River Delta. The four are the Chen Ancestral Hall, the Liren Ancestral Temple and the Gongsan and Jingxi memorial halls, listed together as a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"zhongshan-dachong-redwood-culture-city","name":"China (Dachong) Redwood Culture Expo City","name_zh":"大涌红木文化博览城","pinyin":"Dàchōng Hóngmù Wénhuà Bólǎnchéng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhongshan","lat":22.4782,"lon":113.3048,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongshan-dachong-redwood-culture-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large complex of new buildings in mixed old styles in Dachong, a town whose hardwood ('redwood' or mahogany) furniture industry dates from the late 1970s, combining Lingnan, Jiangnan, Huizhou and imperial palace architecture. It was built as a culture, commerce and tourism complex for the furniture trade, and its old-style halls and streets are as much a shopping centre as a sight."},{"id":"zhongshan-guzhen-huayi-plaza","name":"Huayi Plaza, Guzhen","name_zh":"华艺广场","pinyin":"Huáyì Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhongshan","lat":22.605,"lon":113.1839,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongshan-guzhen-huayi-plaza","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lighting-industry showcase run by the Huayi lighting group in Guzhen, a town built on the lighting industry. Visitors tour themed, hands-on displays on lighting design and manufacture, and it is mainly aimed at study tours and anyone curious about the town's trade."},{"id":"zhongshan-sun-yat-sen-hometown","name":"Sun Yat-sen's Hometown, Cuiheng","name_zh":"孙中山故里","pinyin":"Sūn Zhōngshān Gùlǐ","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhongshan","lat":22.4453,"lon":113.523,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhongshan-sun-yat-sen-hometown/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village of Cuiheng, where Sun Yat-sen was born and grew up, centred on the two-storey house that his elder brother Sun Mei paid for and Sun himself oversaw building in 1892, with a Western-style front and a traditional Chinese interior. Beside it the memorial museum, rebuilt in 1999, covers his life and family, and restored village houses and fields show the world of his childhood. The 5A area also takes in the rest of Cuiheng village, the Zhongshan Film and TV City, a Xinhai Revolution memorial park and Litoujian hill with the Sun family graves."},{"id":"zhongshan-zhan-garden","name":"Zhan Garden","name_zh":"詹园","pinyin":"Zhān Yuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhongshan","lat":22.4369,"lon":113.3263,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongshan-zhan-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private classical garden built from 1998 over five years by the Macau businessman Huang Yuanxin for his mother and named after her family name, Zhan. Laid out by craftsmen brought from Suzhou on a hillside with water through the middle, it blends Suzhou and Lingnan garden styles with some Western touches, and it opened to visitors after his mother moved out."},{"id":"jinwan-by-health-transparent-factory","name":"By-Health Transparent Factory","name_zh":"汤臣倍健透明工厂","pinyin":"Tāngchén Bèijiàn Tòumíng Gōngchǎng","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.0429,"lon":113.3234,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinwan-by-health-transparent-factory","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A working factory of the dietary-supplement maker By-Health in Sanzao, Jinwan District, opened to visitors in 2012 so that the public can follow its raw-material stores, production lines and testing laboratories. A nutrition exploration hall added in 2019 offers interactive health displays and simple health checks, and a highly automated fourth-phase plant has been running since 2021; by mid-2026 the site had received more than two million visitors."},{"id":"xiangzhou-chen-fang-residence","name":"Chen Fang Family Residence","name_zh":"陈芳家宅","pinyin":"Chén Fāng Jiāzhái","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.2883,"lon":113.5106,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangzhou-chen-fang-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The home-village complex of Chen Fang (Chun Afong, c. 1825–1906), the Chinese merchant who made a fortune in Hawaii, at Meixi in Xiangzhou District, built from 1891 after his return. It includes his mansion, which mixes Lingnan and Western features, the Chen ancestral hall, the Meixi temple, a watchtower, family tombs and three granite archways granted by the Guangxu Emperor to honour his charity, now the centre of the Meixi Archways park."},{"id":"zhuhai-dongao-island","name":"Dong'ao Island","name_zh":"东澳岛","pinyin":"Dōng'ào Dǎo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.0218,"lon":113.7014,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuhai-dongao-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small, mostly forested island in the middle of the Wanshan archipelago, south-east of Zhuhai, with one main settlement, Dong'ao village. Its sights include the Dong'ao gun fort, built in 1729 to guard the sea approaches, the ruins of a customs station set up in 1898 and rock formations along the shore."},{"id":"zhuhai-guishan-island","name":"Guishan Island","name_zh":"桂山岛","pinyin":"Guìshān Dǎo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.1378,"lon":113.8159,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhuhai-guishan-island/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An island in the Pearl River estuary between Zhuhai and Lantau, seat of Guishan town in the Wanshan archipelago, renamed in 1954 after the warship Guishan, whose crew made a beach landing here in the Wanshan Islands campaign of 1950. Round-island routes lead to the Guishan warship memorial park, a square and poem wall dedicated to Wen Tianxiang, a Mazu temple, rock inscriptions and lighthouses, and the surrounding waters are a base for sea fishing."},{"id":"doumen-imperial-hot-spring","name":"Imperial Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"御温泉","pinyin":"Yù Wēnquán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.2504,"lon":113.1898,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=doumen-imperial-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort opened in 1999 on former paddy fields at Nanmen village, Doumen, in western Zhuhai, where hot water had long welled up from the ground. Built in a Tang-dynasty style, it has outdoor and indoor hot-spring pools, spa treatments, restaurants and a hotel."},{"id":"zhuhai-new-yuanming-palace","name":"New Yuanming Palace","name_zh":"圆明新园","pinyin":"Yuánmíng Xīnyuán","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.245,"lon":113.5334,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuhai-new-yuanming-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park at the foot of Shijing Mountain in Xiangzhou, Zhuhai, opened in 1997 with full-size reconstructions of scenes from Beijing's Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan), which was burnt in 1860. Chinese palace halls and Jiangnan-style garden buildings line a central axis and the shores of a lake modelled on the Fuhai, while the western part recreates the European-style palaces, including the Haiyan Tang and the great fountain."},{"id":"tangjiawan-rossini-watch-industrial-park","name":"Rossini Watch Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"罗西尼工业旅游区","pinyin":"Luóxīní Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.3953,"lon":113.5468,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangjiawan-rossini-watch-industrial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The factory park of the Zhuhai watchmaker Rossini at Tangjiawan, where a company-funded museum of clocks and watches opened in 2012. Its halls trace timekeeping from ancient instruments to modern wristwatches, with hands-on displays, and a viewing area looks onto the watch production lines."},{"id":"jinwan-sanzao-island-war-crimes-sites","name":"Sites of Japanese Wartime Atrocities on Sanzao Island","name_zh":"三灶岛侵华日军罪行遗迹","pinyin":"Sānzào Dǎo Qīnhuá Rìjūn Zuìxíng Yíjì","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.0486,"lon":113.3594,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinwan-sanzao-island-war-crimes-sites/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of sites on Sanzao Island recording the Japanese occupation that began in 1938, when Japanese forces built an airbase here and massacred islanders. They include the Wanren Fen ('Ten Thousand Graves') memorial to the massacre victims, first built in 1948 with funds from overseas Chinese and people in Hong Kong and Macau and moved to a hillside at Shengtang village in 1979, the Qianren Fen mass grave at Yunong, a former 'comfort station', a Japanese cliff inscription, bunkers and an ammunition store."},{"id":"zhuhai-wailingding-island","name":"Wailingding Island","name_zh":"外伶仃岛","pinyin":"Wàilíngdīng Dǎo","region_id":"440000","region":"Guangdong","city":"Zhuhai","lat":22.1011,"lon":114.0365,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuhai-wailingding-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilly island at the north-eastern edge of the Wanshan archipelago, only a short distance south of Hong Kong's outlying islands but administered by Zhuhai as the seat of Dangan town. Most residents live along the west coast around the town and Miaowan, and the clear waters around the island support coral communities."},{"id":"baise-happy-town","name":"Baise Happy Town","name_zh":"百色欢乐小镇","pinyin":"Bǎisè Huānlè Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.7866,"lon":106.7297,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baise-happy-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure complex south-east of Baise built around the Xinghe water park, with other family attractions and a street of restaurants and shops. It is a place for families after water rides and amusements rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"baise-uprising-memorial-park","name":"Baise Uprising Memorial Park","name_zh":"百色起义纪念园","pinyin":"Bǎisè Qǐyì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.905,"lon":106.6372,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baise-uprising-memorial-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park on Yinglong, Panlong and Houlong hills on the east side of Baise, set up in 2008 around the sites of the Baise Uprising of 11 December 1929, in which Communist forces led by Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Yunyi and Wei Baqun founded the Seventh Red Army. Its main sights are the Baise Uprising Memorial Hall, with exhibitions on the uprising and the You River base area, the uprising monument and the Youjiang ethnic history museum. In the old town by the river, the Cantonese guild hall of 1720 that housed the Seventh Red Army's headquarters and the three-storey Qingfeng Building of 1911, its political department, are also part of the park."},{"id":"xilin-cen-family-gongbao-mansion","name":"Cen Family Buildings (Gongbao Mansion), Xilin","name_zh":"宫保府","pinyin":"Gōngbǎo Fǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":24.3473,"lon":105.4464,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xilin-cen-family-gongbao-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hillside compound of the Cen family above the Tuoniang River at Nalao, home of the Qing official Cen Yuying, Viceroy of Yunnan and Guizhou, and his son Cen Chunxuan. Its centrepiece, the Gongbao Mansion begun in 1876, is a three-courtyard brick-and-timber residence with painted beams and carved wood; around it stand the family's Nanyang Academy, the Rongludi house, a three-storey octagonal pavilion, an ancestral hall and a Ming-dynasty general's temple. The buildings blend Han official architecture with the building traditions of the Zhuang region of western Guangxi."},{"id":"leye-dashiwei-tiankeng","name":"Dashiwei Tiankeng (Leye Sinkholes)","name_zh":"大石围天坑群","pinyin":"Dàshíwéi Tiānkēngqún","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":24.8083,"lon":106.4443,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leye-dashiwei-tiankeng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The largest of about 30 collapse sinkholes around Leye: Dashiwei is about 613 m deep, 600 m long and 420 m wide, with an underground river and a primeval forest of about 9.6 hectares growing on its floor. The scenic area at Shuaba village also takes in neighbouring sinkholes such as Baidong and Shenmu, and lies within the Leye–Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark, listed in 2010."},{"id":"baise-dawangling-forest","name":"Dawangling Scenic Area","name_zh":"大王岭","pinyin":"Dàwáng Lǐng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.7345,"lon":106.3988,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baise-dawangling-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest scenic area in the heart of the Dawangling nature reserve, known for its well-preserved old-growth forest, groves of tree ferns and river rafting. The rafting run is 5 km long with a drop of 126 m, on a boulder-strewn stream shaded by the forest canopy."},{"id":"debao-pony-kingdom","name":"Debao Pony Kingdom","name_zh":"德保矮马王国","pinyin":"Débǎo Ǎimǎ Wángguó","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.2399,"lon":106.636,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=debao-pony-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A family theme park built around the Debao pony, the county's small local horse breed, opened in 2020 at the exit of Jixingyan Cave. Visitors can ride and watch the ponies, and the park has a pony arena and a theatre for staged shows, a petting area, a play park and wooden-cabin and tent hotels. It suits families with young children."},{"id":"jingxi-equan-spring","name":"Equan Spring","name_zh":"鹅泉","pinyin":"É Quán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.1024,"lon":106.3851,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxi-equan-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large karst spring 6 km south of Jingxi city, welling up from an underground river into a clear pool among rice fields and limestone peaks; its waters flow on towards Detian Waterfall. A 15-arch Qing-dynasty stone bridge crosses the outflow, bamboo rafts pass beneath it, and a stele carved with a huge character for 'goose' recalls the legend behind the spring's name."},{"id":"debao-fangshan-cultural-park","name":"Fangshan Cultural Park, Debao","name_zh":"芳山文化园","pinyin":"Fāngshān Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.3283,"lon":106.625,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=debao-fangshan-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park of about 17 hectares in the centre of Debao town, joining Fangshan hill and the former Jiuqu Bridge park along the Jian River. The Debao Ethnic Culture Centre, completed in 2016, has a 1,200-seat theatre and an exhibition of the county's intangible heritage, such as the Zhuang horse-bone fiddle and wheat-straw flower baskets, and the park hosts Zhuang song gatherings at festivals."},{"id":"tiandong-youjiang-government-site","name":"Former Site of the Youjiang Workers' and Peasants' Democratic Government","name_zh":"右江工农民主政府旧址","pinyin":"Yòujiāng Gōngnóng Mínzhǔ Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.6019,"lon":107.1151,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiandong-youjiang-government-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Jingzheng Academy, a Qing-dynasty school founded by local gentry in Pingma, Tiandong's county town, which became the seat of the Youjiang Workers' and Peasants' Democratic Government set up after the Baise Uprising of 1929. Its brick halls, among the best-preserved old buildings in the town, hold exhibitions on the Youjiang revolutionary base area, and the site is the hub of Tiandong's red-tourism circuit."},{"id":"tianyang-ganzhuang-mountain","name":"Ganzhuang Mountain (Buluotuo Site)","name_zh":"敢壮山","pinyin":"Gǎnzhuàng Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.7417,"lon":107.0097,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianyang-ganzhuang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill near Baiyu revered by the Zhuang as the home of Baeuqloxdoh (Buluotuo), the creator god and first ancestor in Zhuang mythology. Paths lead to a worship hall, an ancestral shrine, Zhuang totem sculptures, a spring and several caves. From the 7th to the 9th of the third lunar month, Zhuang people from across the region gather here for a large song fair, rites honouring Buluotuo and folk sports."},{"id":"jingxi-gulongshan-canyon","name":"Gulongshan Grand Canyon","name_zh":"古龙山大峡谷","pinyin":"Gǔlóngshān Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.0104,"lon":106.6565,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxi-gulongshan-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 7.8 km chain of four gorges joined by three underground-river caves in Huru town near the Vietnamese border, best known for a rafting run that passes through gorges and caves in turn. The forested gorges hold a dozen waterfalls, among them the 128 m Gulong Falls and a 68 m curtain fall."},{"id":"lingyun-haokun-lake","name":"Haokun Lake","name_zh":"浩坤湖","pinyin":"Hàokūn Hú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":24.1838,"lon":106.6058,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingyun-haokun-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clear green lake in the karst hills of southern Lingyun County, ringed by limestone peaks, with small islands and lone peaks rising from the water. Zhuang and Yao villages line the shore, and the area has been developed for lakeside leisure and village stays."},{"id":"jingxi-jinxiu-old-town","name":"Jinxiu Ancient Town, Jingxi","name_zh":"锦绣古镇","pinyin":"Jǐnxiù Gǔzhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.1251,"lon":106.4247,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxi-jinxiu-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shopping and dining district on the east side of Jingxi city, built in old-town style around Zhuang and border-culture themes, with a commercial street, a night-market food street, themed inns and waterside restaurants. It is a modern development rather than a historic town, and is busiest in the evening when the streets are lit up."},{"id":"jingxi-jiuzhou","name":"Jiuzhou Old Town, Jingxi","name_zh":"旧州","pinyin":"Jiùzhōu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.0603,"lon":106.4147,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingxi-jiuzhou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Zhuang town south of Jingxi, once home to the local chieftain family, known for its hand-made embroidered balls (xiuqiu), which hang along the main street; visitors can learn to cut and stitch one in the workshops. Waterside houses, an old bridge and the Jiuzhou Zhuang Ecomuseum, opened in 2005, make it a pleasant stroll, and at Spring Festival the town stages dragon dances and a re-enacted chieftain's wedding parade."},{"id":"debao-jixingyan-cave","name":"Jixingyan Cave","name_zh":"吉星岩","pinyin":"Jíxīng Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.2485,"lon":106.6379,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=debao-jixingyan-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A four-level limestone cave 13 km south of Debao town, of which the second level is open on a route of about 2 km through five halls. Its highlight is a field of rimstone pools covering more than 6,000 m², stepped like rice terraces, with a dark stalagmite known as the 'bell' rising among the white flowstone. A large old Chinese horse chestnut and a mulberry tree stand at the entrance."},{"id":"leye-longyunshan-tea-town","name":"Longyunshan Tea Town, Leye","name_zh":"龙云山故事小镇","pinyin":"Lóngyúnshān Gùshi Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":24.6492,"lon":106.4965,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leye-longyunshan-tea-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain resort built around a 3,000-mu (about 200-hectare) organic tea plantation in Gantian township, about 20 km from Leye town. A 5.6 km trail climbs through the tea fields past three tower pavilions and viewpoints, and the hotel complex has a tea-ceremony hall, a tea-culture exhibition and a workshop where visitors can pick and process their own tea. It suits a quiet stop with tea tasting on the way to or from Leye's sinkholes."},{"id":"debao-red-leaf-forest-park","name":"Red Leaf Forest Park, Debao","name_zh":"红叶森林公园","pinyin":"Hóngyè Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.3813,"lon":106.6466,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=debao-red-leaf-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park just north-east of Debao town, planned to cover about 1,000 hectares, whose sweetgum trees turn red, crimson and yellow in autumn around Hongfeng Lake, the Red Leaf Valley and two reservoirs. It is at its best in the autumn leaf season; the rest of the year it is a quiet place for walks among hills and water."},{"id":"tianlin-xilin-incident-site","name":"Site of the Xilin Incident","name_zh":"西林教案发生地","pinyin":"Xīlín Jiào'àn Fāshēngdì","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":24.3161,"lon":105.6683,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianlin-xilin-incident-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A restored old building and stone-paved courtyard on Dongxin Street in Ding'an, which was the seat of Xilin County in the 1850s. Here, in February 1856, the county magistrate had the French Catholic missionary Auguste Chapdelaine tried and executed, together with two Chinese Catholics, on charges that included preaching outside the treaty ports; France cited his death when it joined Britain in the Second Opium War."},{"id":"tiandong-wetland-park","name":"Tiandong Wetland Park","name_zh":"田东湿地公园","pinyin":"Tiándōng Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.61,"lon":107.1039,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiandong-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A town park on the western side of Pingma, Tiandong's county seat, laid out around lakes beside the Baigu River. It makes an easy stroll for travellers stopping in Tiandong, for example after visiting the Youjiang government site nearby."},{"id":"tianyang-tianzhou-old-town","name":"Tianzhou Old Town","name_zh":"田州古城","pinyin":"Tiánzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.7449,"lon":106.9158,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianyang-tianzhou-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Zhuang-themed town built in traditional style in Tianyang and opened in 2014, covering about 100 hectares with canals, a Buluotuo square, an ancestral pagoda, watchtowers, a Zhuang history museum and streets of shops, restaurants, inns and bars. It is a modern development rather than a historic town, and stages Zhuang song contests, lion-and-dragon parades and Buluotuo processions at festivals."},{"id":"jingxi-tongling-canyon","name":"Tongling Grand Canyon","name_zh":"通灵大峡谷","pinyin":"Tōnglíng Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.023,"lon":106.6498,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingxi-tongling-canyon/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A deep, forest-filled gorge in Huru town near the Vietnamese border, entered by a path that drops through old trees into a cave about 100 m high and on to Tongling Falls, a single 188.6 m drop into a pool fed by an underground river. More than 2,300 plant species, including tree ferns, grow in the gorge, and an underground-river tunnel leads on to the farmed Nianba Gorge. The loop walk takes about 3–4 hours."},{"id":"pingguo-tongtian-river-cave","name":"Tongtian River Cave","name_zh":"通天河","pinyin":"Tōngtiān Hé","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.8076,"lon":107.5248,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingguo-tongtian-river-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A show cave with an underground river in Liming township, formerly called Ganmo Cave: a 1.68 km walk through large chambers with more than twenty columns over 20 m tall is followed by a 1.6 km boat ride on the underground river, about 1.5 hours in all. It is also known as the Red Army Cave, because a Seventh Red Army unit under Wei Baqun held out here under siege for 36 days in 1931, a story told in a small exhibition hall at the site."},{"id":"napo-zhenan-park-gantuoyan","name":"Zhen'an Park and Gantuo Cave Site, Napo","name_zh":"镇安公园·感驮岩","pinyin":"Zhèn'ān Gōngyuán · Gǎntuó Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Baise","lat":23.4153,"lon":105.8403,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=napo-zhenan-park-gantuoyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A town park at the foot of Houlong Hill on the north side of Napo, around Gantuo Cave, where excavations in 1997–2000 found burials and more than a thousand pottery, stone, bone, shell and iron objects from the late Neolithic to the Iron Age, including a ritual zhang blade, the first found in Guangxi. A spring still flows from the cave, whose walls bear inscriptions from different periods, and remains of the Qing-era Zhen'an chieftain's office lie by its southern mouth."},{"id":"beihai-garden-expo-park","name":"Beihai Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"北海园博园","pinyin":"Běihǎi Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4411,"lon":109.1776,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large landscaped park built as the venue of the fourth Guangxi Garden and Horticulture Expo, with themed display gardens laid out across the grounds. It makes a pleasant walk on the way between the city and Silver Beach."},{"id":"beihai-ocean-window","name":"Beihai Ocean Window","name_zh":"北海海洋之窗","pinyin":"Běihǎi Hǎiyáng Zhī Chuāng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4471,"lon":109.118,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-ocean-window","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern marine-themed exhibition centre in the south of Beihai city, with aquarium tanks, themed halls on ocean life and interactive science displays. It is aimed mainly at families with children and suits a rainy day."},{"id":"beihai-old-town-zhuhai-road","name":"Beihai Old Town (Zhuhai Road Old Street)","name_zh":"北海老城","pinyin":"Běihǎi Lǎochéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4852,"lon":109.1087,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-old-town-zhuhai-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beihai's old commercial quarter near the northern shore, where Zhuhai Road, Shaji Street and Zhongshan Road form a nationally listed historic block of shophouses with Western-style facades from the treaty-port years. Zhuhai Road is now a pedestrian street lined with shops and cafés."},{"id":"beihai-silver-beach","name":"Beihai Silver Beach","name_zh":"北海银滩","pinyin":"Běihǎi Yíntān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4044,"lon":109.1499,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beihai-silver-beach/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beihai's main beach, a strand of fine white quartz sand running about 24 km along the south shore of the peninsula from Qiaogang to Daguansha, with a very gentle slope into the sea. It was developed as a resort from 1990, became one of China's first national tourism resorts in 1992, and its large 'Tide' sculpture is the city's landmark."},{"id":"beihai-underwater-world","name":"Beihai Underwater World","name_zh":"北海海底世界","pinyin":"Běihǎi Hǎidǐ Shìjiè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4891,"lon":109.1228,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-underwater-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An aquarium on Chating Road in central Beihai, with tanks of marine fish, sharks and other sea life. It is an easy indoor visit for families, especially on a rainy day."},{"id":"hepu-caoxiecun-site-park","name":"Caoxiecun Site Park","name_zh":"草鞋村遗址","pinyin":"Cǎoxiécūn Yízhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.6674,"lon":109.1781,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hepu-caoxiecun-site-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The excavated remains of a Han-dynasty town beside the Ximen River on the western edge of Lianzhou, which researchers working on Hepu's Maritime Silk Road heritage bid believe was the seat of the Hepu commandery. Since 2019 the remains have been covered with protective shelters and given a reconstructed wharf and walkways, and the site has been opened as a site park."},{"id":"hepu-dashi-pavilion","name":"Dashi Pavilion","name_zh":"大士阁","pinyin":"Dàshì Gé","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.5541,"lon":109.6792,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hepu-dashi-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty timber pavilion at the centre of Yong'an, once one of the Ming coastal garrison posts, named after the bodhisattva Guanyin (Dashi) who is worshipped inside. Two double-eaved hip-and-gable pavilions are joined into one building about 16 m deep, with ridges decorated with dragons, phoenixes and other figures and with painted eaves and brackets."},{"id":"beihai-gaode-old-town","name":"Gaode Old Town","name_zh":"高德古镇","pinyin":"Gāodé Gǔzhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.5101,"lon":109.1553,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-gaode-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of Gaode, an old market town on the north-eastern edge of Beihai city that belonged to Hepu county until 1951, whose three old streets are protected by Guangxi as the Gaode Three Streets historic block. The city promotes it as one of Beihai's sights alongside the better-known Old Street on Zhuhai Road."},{"id":"hepu-han-tombs-and-museum","name":"Hepu Han Tombs Park & Han Dynasty Culture Museum","name_zh":"合浦汉墓群·汉代文化博物馆","pinyin":"Hépǔ Hànmù Qún · Hàndài Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.6451,"lon":109.1876,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hepu-han-tombs-and-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hepu was a Han-dynasty starting port of the Maritime Silk Road, and in this heritage park on the edge of Lianzhou the grassy mounds across the lawns are barrows over 476 tombs of the Han to Wei–Jin period, with a visitor centre and an archaeology display area completed in 2021. Across the road, the Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum, founded in 1978, holds more than 5,200 objects from the Hepu tombs, many of them brought from South-East Asia, South Asia, West Asia and the Mediterranean; its best-known piece is a green-glazed Persian jar of the late Eastern Han, and the tombs also yielded a Roman glass bowl. Next to the museum is the Hanlü Culture Park, a Han-themed park."},{"id":"hepu-mooncake-town","name":"Hepu Mooncake Town","name_zh":"月饼小镇","pinyin":"Yuèbǐng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.6047,"lon":109.1885,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hepu-mooncake-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mooncake-themed visitor complex at a baking factory in Lianzhou, built on Hepu's claim to the origin of filled cakes through a poem Su Dongpo wrote when he passed through the town. A culture hall traces the history of mooncakes and moon-worship customs with a large collection of cake moulds, visitors can watch the factory's production lines, and there is an area for trying baking."},{"id":"hepu-huiai-bridge","name":"Hui'ai Bridge","name_zh":"惠爱桥","pinyin":"Huì'ài Qiáo","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.6755,"lon":109.1889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hepu-huiai-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty bridge just outside the former west gate of Lianzhou, the old walled seat of Hepu, listed by Guangxi in 1994 and as a national heritage site in 2013. It is a short stop that combines well with the Caoxiecun site park and the arcaded shophouses of Fumin Road in the county town."},{"id":"beihai-impression-1876-historic-quarter","name":"Impression 1876 Historic Quarter (Beihai Treaty-Port Buildings)","name_zh":"印象·1876","pinyin":"Yìnxiàng 1876","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4811,"lon":109.1145,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-impression-1876-historic-quarter","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Central Beihai's group of Western-style buildings from the treaty-port era that followed the 1876 Chefoo Convention, spread over about 1 km around Beijing Road, Jiefang Road and Zhongshan East Road, among them the British consulate of 1885, the customs building of 1883 and the Qing post office of 1897. Some hold small exhibitions on the treaty-port years, such as the display on foreign trading firms in the 1891 building of the German Sengbao firm on Jiefang Road. The national heritage listing covers these 15 city buildings and two 19th-century churches on Weizhou Island."},{"id":"beihai-jinhaiwan-mangroves","name":"Jinhaiwan Mangrove Forest","name_zh":"金海湾红树林","pinyin":"Jīnhǎiwān Hóngshùlín","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4186,"lon":109.2072,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-jinhaiwan-mangroves","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tract of coastal mangrove forest and tidal flats at Daguansha, east of Silver Beach, visited for its birds and the sea creatures of the mudflats. Sightseeing carts run through the area."},{"id":"hepu-maritime-silk-road-first-port","name":"Maritime Silk Road First Port (Haisi Shougang)","name_zh":"海丝首港","pinyin":"Hǎisī Shǒugǎng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.5796,"lon":109.1506,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day (evening)","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hepu-maritime-silk-road-first-port","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A newly built Han-style harbour town at Yanlou village south-west of Lianzhou, themed on Hepu's role as a starting port of the Han-dynasty Maritime Silk Road. Its main draw is an open-air evening show in which more than 200 performers re-enact merchant ships arriving and departing, with shops and restaurants in Han-style buildings around it."},{"id":"beihai-qiaogang-town","name":"Qiaogang Town","name_zh":"侨港小镇","pinyin":"Qiáogǎng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.4249,"lon":109.1187,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-qiaogang-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small seaside town at the southern tip of Beihai, founded in 1979 as an overseas-Chinese fishing commune to resettle more than 7,700 ethnic Chinese who had left Vietnam. Its residents keep their own Cantonese dialects, and the harbour, market and streets of this returnee community are visited as one of Beihai's distinctive neighbourhoods."},{"id":"weizhou-shengtang-catholic-church","name":"Shengtang Catholic Church, Weizhou Island","name_zh":"涠洲岛圣堂","pinyin":"Wéizhōu Dǎo Shèngtáng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.0534,"lon":109.1322,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weizhou-shengtang-catholic-church/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Gothic-style Catholic church in Shengtang village in the middle of Weizhou Island, built by missionaries of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and completed around 1880. It is described as the largest Catholic church on the Guangxi coast, and together with the smaller Chengzai church elsewhere on the island it is part of the national heritage listing of Beihai's modern buildings."},{"id":"beihai-weizhou-island-crocodile-hill","name":"Weizhou Island (Nanwan & Crocodile Hill)","name_zh":"涠洲岛南湾鳄鱼山","pinyin":"Wéizhōu Dǎo Nánwān Èyú Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.0129,"lon":109.0972,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beihai-weizhou-island-crocodile-hill","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A volcanic island of about 25 km² in the Beibu Gulf, with lava coasts, sea cliffs and fringing coral, described as China's largest and geologically youngest volcanic island and protected as a national geopark since 2004. The 5A area takes in Nanwan (South Bay), a harbour formed in an ancient crater, and Crocodile Hill on its western side, where a coastal walkway passes a volcanic vent, sea caves, a sea arch, craters and fossil trees. Elsewhere on the island are beaches such as Shiluokou, Hakka fishing villages and two 19th-century Catholic churches."},{"id":"hepu-xingdao-lake","name":"Xingdao Lake (Hongchaojiang Reservoir)","name_zh":"星岛湖","pinyin":"Xīngdǎo Hú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Beihai","lat":21.796,"lon":109.1509,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hepu-xingdao-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir in the hills of northern Hepu, built between 1959 and 1964 on the Hongchao River and named Xingdao ('star islands') Lake for the more than 1,000 islets scattered across its water. It served as an outdoor location for CCTV's 1990s television series of the Water Margin, and besides irrigation and water supply it is now used for tourism."},{"id":"fusui-leyang-city","name":"China (Nanning) Leyang City","name_zh":"中国（南宁）乐养城","pinyin":"Zhōngguó (Nánníng) Lèyǎng Chéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.5609,"lon":107.8865,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fusui-leyang-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wellness and retirement-living resort town in Fusui County, planned from 2010 and opened in stages from 2022, laid out around a lake with landscaped grounds. Visitors can go boating, pick fruit, camp or use its therapy and sports facilities, and it runs a seniors' university and holds folk festivals. It is aimed mainly at older long-stay guests and at families."},{"id":"pingxiang-daliancheng-fortress","name":"Daliancheng Fortress","name_zh":"大连城","pinyin":"Dàliánchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.1268,"lon":106.7615,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingxiang-daliancheng-fortress","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"After 1885 the Guangxi military commander Su Yuanchun made this ring of hills just north of Pingxiang his frontier headquarters, linking the peaks with walls, blockhouses and eight hilltop gun batteries and closing the passes with four gates over nearly two decades of building. Inside are the Wusheng Palace, a three-hall temple to Guan Yu used by the garrison, the three-level Baiyu limestone cave that Su used as a retreat and command post, and four old wells. It is a component of the national heritage unit of the Liancheng fortress sites and Friendship Pass."},{"id":"longzhou-discover-nonggang","name":"Discover Nonggang Scenic Area","name_zh":"发现弄岗","pinyin":"Fāxiàn Nònggǎng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.435,"lon":107.0325,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longzhou-discover-nonggang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ecotourism area developed from 2018 at Siqing village, Xiangshui township, beside the Nonggang National Nature Reserve, whose karst hills carry seasonal rainforest and are home to rare langurs and birds. It offers walks through forested limestone country with views over green peaks, and a campsite for cars."},{"id":"daxin-dongna-yuwan","name":"Dongna Yuwan (Anping Xianhe)","name_zh":"峒那屿湾","pinyin":"Dòngnà Yǔwān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.7199,"lon":107.0462,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daxin-dongna-yuwan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stretch of karst river scenery on the Heishui River at Anping village, Leiping, formerly marketed as Anping Xianhe and also a national wetland park. Its named sights include Swallow Cave, river islands and shoals, and a cliffside path named after the Ming traveller Xu Xiake, who described the local Anping native chieftaincy in 1637. The site of the chieftain's seat and Anping's old street survive, and Zhuang customs such as eight-tone music and dragon dances are staged for visitors."},{"id":"longzhou-former-french-consulate","name":"Former French Consulate, Longzhou","name_zh":"法国驻龙州领事馆旧址","pinyin":"Fǎguó Zhù Lóngzhōu Lǐngshìguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.3383,"lon":106.858,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longzhou-former-french-consulate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two matching two-storey French-style buildings in Longzhou, ringed by verandas behind 20 tall arches, with stone floors and spiral stairs of ironwood. Built as the station for a railway that was never completed, they housed the French consulate from 1898 until 1949, apart from a break after 1930. The buildings are open with an exhibition on Longzhou's links with France."},{"id":"pingxiang-friendship-pass","name":"Friendship Pass","name_zh":"友谊关","pinyin":"Yǒuyì Guān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":21.9764,"lon":106.7121,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingxiang-friendship-pass/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Friendship Pass is the historic gateway on the China–Vietnam border south-west of Pingxiang, known as Zhennan Pass until 1953 and given its present name in 1965. The four-storey, 22 m gate tower holds exhibitions on the pass's history, Ming-dynasty walls climb the hills on either side, which carry old gun batteries such as the group on Jinji Shan, and a colonnaded French-style building of 1896, remodelled in 1914, once housed the border affairs office. The pass saw the 1885 Battle of Zhennan Pass in the Sino-French War."},{"id":"longzhou-ho-chi-minh-exhibition-hall","name":"Ho Chi Minh Exhibition Hall, Longzhou","name_zh":"胡志明展馆","pinyin":"Hú Zhìmíng Zhǎnguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.3426,"lon":106.85,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longzhou-ho-chi-minh-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing house at 99 South Street in Longzhou that served as the secret office of the Communist Party of Vietnam, at a time when the town was a main base abroad for Ho Chi Minh and other Vietnamese revolutionaries. It now houses the Ho Chi Minh Exhibition Hall, with photographs and displays on their activities in Longzhou and on China–Vietnam ties, and is used for youth exchange visits between the two countries. It became a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"tiandeng-lichuan-forest-park","name":"Lichuan Cultural Forest Park","name_zh":"丽川文化森林公园","pinyin":"Lìchuān Wénhuà Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":23.0789,"lon":107.1485,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiandeng-lichuan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park on the edge of Tiandeng county town, registered as a regional-level forest park and upgraded to a 4A scenic area in 2019. A walking path follows the Lichuan River through its wooded, landscaped grounds, which residents use for exercise and leisure. It suits a short stroll for travellers passing through Tiandeng."},{"id":"tiandeng-litun-tianmeng","name":"Litun Tianmeng Scenic Area","name_zh":"立屯天梦","pinyin":"Lìtún Tiānmèng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":23.151,"lon":107.1886,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiandeng-litun-tianmeng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial and study-tour site at Litun, a hamlet in the karst hills of Tuokan township whose villagers spent 24 years cutting a tunnel through the mountain to the outside world. A memorial hall tells the story, the tunnel itself is presented as a museum, and visitors can walk the old mountain path the villagers once used. Its first phase had opened by early 2021, aimed mainly at study tours and political-education visits."},{"id":"daxin-longgong-cave","name":"Longgong Cave (Longgong Xianjing)","name_zh":"龙宫仙境","pinyin":"Lónggōng Xiānjìng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.8373,"lon":107.0435,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daxin-longgong-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large natural limestone cave at Naling, near Daxin, with lofty chambers of stalactites, stalagmite columns and pools, lit with coloured lights along the visitor route. Part of the cave system has been fitted out as a refrigerated ice-and-snow attraction kept near freezing, and the scenic area also runs a long cliffside rail ride and rafting on the Na River. It suits families and anyone wanting a cool stop on the Detian circuit."},{"id":"fusui-longguwan-dinosaur-park","name":"Longguwan Dinosaur Park","name_zh":"龙谷湾恐龙公园","pinyin":"Lónggǔwān Kǒnglóng Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.549,"lon":107.8878,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fusui-longguwan-dinosaur-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A dinosaur-themed amusement park near Fusui that opened in 2017, themed on the 'nest of three dinosaurs' fossil find in Fusui County, with recreated dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, rides and play areas. It closed at the end of 2021 for a rebuild and has since reopened as part of the Longguwan resort, where a wildlife park was being added in 2025. It suits families with children."},{"id":"longzhou-red-army-trail","name":"Longzhou Red Army Trail and Tianqin Zhuang Village","name_zh":"龙州红军古道","pinyin":"Lóngzhōu Hóngjūn Gǔdào","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.4451,"lon":106.8481,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longzhou-red-army-trail","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old horse-caravan path of about 2 km over the hills between Shuilong and Fucha hamlets, once the main route from Longzhou towards Jingxi and Baise, which, according to the local account, Deng Xiaoping travelled several times in 1929 while organising the Baise and Longzhou uprisings. It is presented as a red-tourism site with a history hall and visitor centre at Fucha. The adjoining Tianqin Zhuang Village is a modern leisure area with a large pool, restaurants, a water market and replica Zhuang wooden houses."},{"id":"longzhou-uprising-memorial-park","name":"Longzhou Uprising Memorial Park","name_zh":"龙州起义纪念园","pinyin":"Lóngzhōu Qǐyì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.3434,"lon":106.8705,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longzhou-uprising-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The memorial park centres on the Longzhou Uprising Memorial Hall, opened in 2004 as the new exhibition building of the Eighth Red Army memorial museum, which covers the uprising of February 1930 in which Communist-led troops under Yu Zuoyu, Li Mingrui and Deng Xiaoping formed the Eighth Red Army and a short-lived soviet along the Zuo River. In the old town nearby, the former Eighth Red Army headquarters, where Deng worked and lived in 1929, keeps the two cypress trees he planted at its gate."},{"id":"daxin-mingshi-pastoral-scenery","name":"Mingshi Pastoral Scenery","name_zh":"明仕田园","pinyin":"Míngshì Tiányuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.7057,"lon":106.9247,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daxin-mingshi-pastoral-scenery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The valley of the Mingshi River in Kanxu township, where the river winds between rice fields and steep karst peaks dotted with Zhuang villages. Often filmed for television, including the fantasy drama Hua Qian Gu, it is promoted as part of the 'China–Vietnam border landscape gallery', and Mingshi village was named a national key rural-tourism village in 2019. Several resort hotels have been built in the valley."},{"id":"ningming-paiyangshan-forest-park","name":"Paiyangshan Forest Park","name_zh":"派阳山森林公园","pinyin":"Pàiyángshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.0466,"lon":107.1598,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningming-paiyangshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park of about 1,340 hectares on a state forest farm in Ningming County, covered in Tongmian pine and star-anise plantations with clear streams running through the valleys. Wildlife includes the Guangxi warty newt, pangolins and Burmese pythons, and tree ferns grow in the forest. Its dark skies have drawn a Guangxi stargazing gathering, and it is popular for summer walks and stream play."},{"id":"pingxiang-rosewood-culture-expo-city","name":"Pingxiang Rosewood Culture Expo City","name_zh":"红木文博城","pinyin":"Hóngmù Wénbó Chéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.0703,"lon":106.733,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingxiang-rosewood-culture-expo-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large trade and exhibition complex in southern Pingxiang devoted to hongmu (rosewood) furniture, with showroom halls where hundreds of furniture firms display their work, a shopping street and buildings in traditional Chinese style. Its former expo centre was turned into a rosewood culture museum in 2020, showing Ming and Qing furniture, carvings, timber samples and woodworking tools. It suits visitors interested in Chinese furniture and craft, or in shopping."},{"id":"chongzuo-shijinglin-garden-expo-park","name":"Shijinglin Stone Forest and Chongzuo Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"石景林·园博园","pinyin":"Shíjǐnglín Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.3744,"lon":107.3374,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongzuo-shijinglin-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two adjoining parks in Chongzuo's southern new district: Shijinglin, a karst 'stone forest' of about 100 hectares opened in 1991, with weathered limestone pinnacles, small caves and pools named after the shapes they suggest, and the landscaped grounds built for the 7th Guangxi Garden and Horticulture Expo. Shijinglin is part of the Huashan national scenic area and hosts a Zhuang song fair each year on the 10th day of the fourth lunar month. Both make an easy outing from the city centre."},{"id":"chongzuo-taiping-ancient-town","name":"Taiping Ancient Town","name_zh":"太平古城","pinyin":"Tàipíng Gǔchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.4188,"lon":107.3514,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongzuo-taiping-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure and shopping district in central Chongzuo built around the site of Taiping prefecture's city wall, first raised in 1372 under the Ming and now partly repaired, with a restored inner waterway. Streets of new buildings in old style hold food stalls, shops, guesthouses and stages for folk performances, and the area is busiest in the evening. Taiping has been an administrative seat since the Song, and the old wall is a regional heritage site."},{"id":"chongzuo-white-headed-langur-ecotourism-area","name":"White-headed Langur Ecotourism Area","name_zh":"白头叶猴生态旅游区","pinyin":"Báitóu Yèhóu Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.269,"lon":107.5196,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongzuo-white-headed-langur-ecotourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A visitor area on the edge of the Banli section of the Chongzuo White-headed Langur National Nature Reserve, which protects the critically endangered white-headed langur, a blackish monkey with a white crown, cheeks and neck found only in the karst hills of south-west Guangxi. It has a visitor centre, paths into the limestone hill forest, a white-headed langur museum and a study-tour base next to a long-running primate research station. The reserve also shelters François' langurs, cycads and golden camellias."},{"id":"longzhou-xiaoliancheng-fortress","name":"Xiaoliancheng Fortress (Jiangshan Forts)","name_zh":"小连城","pinyin":"Xiǎoliánchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.3526,"lon":106.8149,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longzhou-xiaoliancheng-fortress","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill fortress near Longzhou, also called the Jiangshan forts, built from 1886 by the Guangxi military commander Su Yuanchun as the command centre of the frontier defences facing French-ruled Vietnam. Fifteen gun batteries, once armed with German Krupp cannon, line the ridges and guard the routes inland from the Zhennan, Shuikou and Ping'er passes. It is a component of the national heritage unit of the Liancheng fortress sites and Friendship Pass."},{"id":"chongzuo-yuhuashi-scenic-area","name":"Yuhuashi Scenic Area","name_zh":"雨花石景区","pinyin":"Yǔhuāshí Jǐngqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.4993,"lon":107.4112,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongzuo-yuhuashi-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An area of about 3 km² on a bend of the Zuo River where countless coloured pebbles are cemented into rounded, many-hued conglomerate outcrops and cliffs, an unusual rock landscape for the region. A cave called Tianyan (Sky Eye) and several groups of ancient Zuojiang cliff paintings lie within the scenic area, and boat trips run on the river. It sits about 10 km downstream of the Zuojiang Leaning Tower, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"chongzuo-zuojiang-leaning-tower","name":"Zuojiang Leaning Tower","name_zh":"左江斜塔","pinyin":"Zuǒjiāng Xiétǎ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Chongzuo","lat":22.4388,"lon":107.3651,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongzuo-zuojiang-leaning-tower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-storey octagonal brick pagoda, also called Guilong Pagoda, standing on a rocky islet in the Zuo River just outside central Chongzuo. Begun in 1621 with three storeys and raised to five in the Qing, it is about 17.6 m tall and was built leaning some 1.4 m towards the oncoming current, which the builders are said to have done on purpose. Inside, a brick stair climbs through the hollow core."},{"id":"fangchenggang-bailang-beach","name":"Bailang Beach","name_zh":"白浪滩","pinyin":"Báilàng Tān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Fangchenggang","lat":21.5422,"lon":108.2879,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangchenggang-bailang-beach","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long sandy beach on the Jiangshan Peninsula south of Fangchenggang, whose name means 'white waves', developed since the 1990s from a fishing village's shore into a beach resort with clean sea and fine sand. The peninsula's 76 km coastline now holds more than 20 scenic areas, making it a good base for a seaside stay."},{"id":"dongxing-beilun-estuary-zhushan","name":"Beilun Estuary & Zhushan (Dongxing Border River Scenic Area)","name_zh":"东兴中越界河","pinyin":"Dōngxīng Zhōng-Yuè Jièhé","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Fangchenggang","lat":21.5447,"lon":108.0514,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongxing-beilun-estuary-zhushan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mouth of the Beilun River at Zhushan, where the border river between China and Vietnam meets the sea, marked by the Qing boundary stone No. 1 of 1890 and the zero-kilometre monument of the Guangxi border highway. Nearby are the old street of Zhushan, once a trading port, the Sansheng (Mazu) temple of 1876, a grove of ancient banyans and mangroves in the core of the Beilun Estuary national nature reserve."},{"id":"dongxing-border-gate","name":"Dongxing Border Gate (Guomen)","name_zh":"东兴国门","pinyin":"Dōngxīng Guómén","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Fangchenggang","lat":21.5388,"lon":107.9672,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongxing-border-gate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The riverside area around the Dongxing port, a first-class national land crossing to Mong Cai in Vietnam over the Beilun River, where the frontier inspection building at the end of the Beilun River Bridge is known locally as the 'national gate'. Around it are the Qing boundary stone No. 5, the China–Vietnam Friendship Park, temples to Guanyin and Guandi, a museum of qiaopi (overseas remittance letters) and the riverside Hedi Road, lined with shops selling Vietnamese goods."},{"id":"dongxing-jing-islands-golden-beach","name":"Jing Islands & Golden Beach","name_zh":"京岛","pinyin":"Jīng Dǎo","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Fangchenggang","lat":21.5342,"lon":108.1534,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongxing-jing-islands-golden-beach","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 'three Jing islands' of Wanwei, Wutou and Shanxin, now joined to the mainland by land reclamation, are home to most of China's Gin (Jing) people, whose ancestors came from the Hai Phong area of Vietnam about 500 years ago and who speak the Gin language alongside Cantonese. Their village ha pavilions host the Ha song festival, a national intangible heritage item held on Wanwei and Wutou from the 10th day of the sixth lunar month, with singing to the single-string zither and dances. On Wanwei's south shore is Golden Beach, a 13 km strand of golden sand facing the Beibu Gulf."},{"id":"shangsi-shiwandashan-bird-park","name":"Shiwandashan Bird Park","name_zh":"百鸟乐园","pinyin":"Bǎiniǎo Lèyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Fangchenggang","lat":21.9131,"lon":107.9105,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangsi-shiwandashan-bird-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A bird park inside the Shiwandashan National Forest Park on the Hongqi forest farm, with aviaries holding many species of birds in a setting of subtropical broadleaf forest. The surrounding forest park, the core of the Shiwandashan national nature reserve, has forest walks, an old stone-stepped trail towards the Fulong pass and Yao villages."},{"id":"shangsi-butou-hot-springs","name":"Shiwandashan Butou Hot Springs","name_zh":"十万大山布透温泉","pinyin":"Shíwàn Dàshān Bùtòu Wēnquán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Fangchenggang","lat":22.1921,"lon":107.9491,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangsi-butou-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in a valley about 5 km from Shangsi town at the foot of the Shiwandashan, built around a low-temperature carbonate spring that the old county gazetteer records as used locally since the Ming. It has a large outdoor pool, a children's pool, an indoor swimming pool, smaller feature pools and a terraced cascade of warm pools, with villas for overnight stays."},{"id":"fangchenggang-west-bay","name":"West Bay (Xiwan) Waterfront","name_zh":"西湾","pinyin":"Xī Wān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Fangchenggang","lat":21.6553,"lon":108.353,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fangchenggang-west-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The waterfront of West Bay in the centre of Fangchenggang, where a walkway of almost 50 km links a tourist wharf, a city beach and about 15 parks around the bay. Its sandy bathing beach is popular with residents and visitors in summer, and the 1.57 km West Bay sea bridge, opened in 2003, crosses the water."},{"id":"guigang-anlan-riverside-park","name":"Anlan Riverside Park","name_zh":"安澜公园","pinyin":"Ānlán Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.0765,"lon":109.633,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guigang-anlan-riverside-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park running about 10 km along the south bank of the Yu River in central Guigang, from the Yujiang No. 2 Bridge downstream to the Anlan Pagoda. A greenway with cycle paths passes flower beds, lotus ponds, old wharf remains and a square of Qin-style replica buildings and terracotta-warrior statues, with views of the river bridges and old factory chimneys. It is a favourite place for locals' evening walks."},{"id":"pingnan-beidishan","name":"Beidi Mountain","name_zh":"北帝山","pinyin":"Běidì Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.8383,"lon":110.1537,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingnan-beidishan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area on the southern flank of the Dayao Mountains in Dapeng township, Pingnan, rising to Beidi peak at about 1,300 m and covering some 22 km² of woods, gorges and waterfalls. Developed from the late 2010s, it has canyon rafting, a glass walkway, cliff-hung boardwalks and hiking paths, and temples built around the cult of Beidi, the Taoist Northern Emperor. It suits a day of walking and rafting in summer."},{"id":"qintang-bushan-gujun","name":"Bushan Gujun Culture Town","name_zh":"布山古郡","pinyin":"Bùshān Gǔjùn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.1275,"lon":109.4472,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qintang-bushan-gujun","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A culture and leisure quarter of about 0.67 km² opposite the Qintang district government, built in old style around springs at the foot of Longtou Hill. It takes its name from Bushan, the ancient county that served as a commandery seat from Qin to Sui times and is generally placed in today's Guigang. Evening markets and festivals are held in its streets."},{"id":"pingnan-dongmei-eco-park","name":"Dongmei Eco Park","name_zh":"垌美生态乐园","pinyin":"Dòngměi Shēngtài Lèyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.6988,"lon":110.2711,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingnan-dongmei-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure park in the hills of Siwang township, set among rice fields, bamboo groves, streams and two old villages with temples and stone paths. It has barbecue areas in the bamboo, fruit-picking orchards, a windmill and children's activities, and was named a Guigang centre for traditional-medicine health tourism in 2024. It suits families on a country day out."},{"id":"pingnan-foziling-resort","name":"Foziling Wellness Resort","name_zh":"佛子岭康养度假区","pinyin":"Fózǐlǐng Kāngyǎng Dùjiàqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.6229,"lon":110.4564,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingnan-foziling-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside leisure and wellness resort in wooded country north-east of Pingnan, best known locally for its summer water park fed by mountain spring water, with large pools, slides and a children's splash area. It suits families looking for a summer day out."},{"id":"pingnan-gongzhou-park","name":"Gongzhou Park","name_zh":"龚州公园","pinyin":"Gōngzhōu Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.5528,"lon":110.4034,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingnan-gongzhou-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Pingnan's main town park, named after Gongzhou, the prefecture that had its seat here from the Tang to the Song. It takes in a martyrs' monument, two lakes, one of them planted with lotus, a Zhuangyuan (top-scholar) Pavilion and the Buddhist Zhengjue Temple, and a hillside of peach trees draws crowds when it blossoms around the Spring Festival. It is a pleasant stroll for anyone stopping in Pingnan."},{"id":"guigang-garden-expo-park","name":"Guigang Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"贵港市园博园","pinyin":"Guìgǎng Shì Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.0726,"lon":109.5579,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guigang-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large landscaped garden-expo park in western Guigang, laid out around waterside wetlands and fields on the theme of Guigang as the 'lotus city'. Its zones include a Guigang garden, a lotus square, wetland walks and a set of display gardens from around Guangxi. It suits a relaxed walk, especially in the lotus season."},{"id":"guiping-xishan","name":"Guiping Xishan (West Hill)","name_zh":"桂平西山","pinyin":"Guìpíng Xīshān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.4022,"lon":110.0507,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiping-xishan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded Buddhist hill, also called Siling Shan, rising just west of Guiping at the meeting of the Qian and Yu rivers, protected as a national scenic area and national geopark of about 13 km². Paths climb past springs, rock outcrops and tea gardens to temples including the Xishi'an nunnery, founded in 1646 and now one of China's national key Buddhist temples, and the Longhua Temple behind it. Its tea and the Ruquan spring water are local specialities."},{"id":"qintang-hemei-lotus-park","name":"Hemei Qintang Lotus Park","name_zh":"荷美覃塘","pinyin":"Héměi Qíntáng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.1691,"lon":109.4003,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qintang-hemei-lotus-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lotus-growing park north of Qintang built from 2014 around the district's lotus-root farming, which has a history of more than a thousand years. About 200 hectares of lotus ponds hold over 350 varieties, crossed by boardwalks and cycle paths, with a wind-and-rain bridge, a lotus science exhibition and farm-stay inns. Qintang holds a lotus festival here each summer, the best time to visit."},{"id":"guiping-jintian-uprising-site","name":"Jintian Uprising Site","name_zh":"金田起义地址","pinyin":"Jīntián Qǐyì Dìzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.5907,"lon":110.0773,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guiping-jintian-uprising-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village of Jintian where Hong Xiuquan's God Worshippers declared their revolt on 11 January 1851, the start of the Taiping Rebellion. On Xiniu Ridge the ramparts of their rectangular camp, about 65 by 35 m, survive around the stone where the flag was raised, with the old drill ground and Xiniu Pool nearby, and outlying sites include the site of Wei Changhui's home and the Sanjie Temple front-line post. A modern museum beside the camp tells the story of the movement through themed halls and a 3D cinema."},{"id":"guiping-longtan-national-forest-park","name":"Longtan National Forest Park","name_zh":"龙潭国家森林公园","pinyin":"Lóngtán Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.5379,"lon":109.9985,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiping-longtan-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the hills north-west of Guiping, within the Dapingshan nature reserve and the Jintian state forest farm. It protects a well-preserved tract of subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaf forest, rare in south-eastern Guangxi and rich in relict plants, with streams and the Longtan waterfall. It suits a day of forest walking."},{"id":"guigang-nanshan-park","name":"Nanshan Park and Temple, Guigang","name_zh":"南山公园","pinyin":"Nánshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.056,"lon":109.6156,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guigang-nanshan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park on a craggy karst hill on the south side of Guigang, known for its caves and for Nanshan Temple, founded in 989 when a monk set up a shrine in a cave of Lion Head Hill. Song emperors sent it calligraphy and a name plaque, and its relics include an old stone Buddha, Song and Ming iron bells, a stele carved in 1329 from a Yuan emperor's inscription, and centuries of cliff inscriptions. The park also has Lotus Hill and Qilin Lake among some 30 named spots."},{"id":"pingnan-xiongsen-animal-world","name":"Pingnan Xiongsen Animal World","name_zh":"雄森动物大世界","pinyin":"Xióngsēn Dòngwù Dà Shìjiè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.4935,"lon":110.3826,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingnan-xiongsen-animal-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large private zoo and breeding centre of about 87 hectares on the edge of Pingnan, best known for its big numbers of tigers, African lions and black bears, with petting areas and other animals. Its programme has included staged circus and animal-act shows. It suits families with children."},{"id":"guigang-pingtianshan-forest-park","name":"Pingtianshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"平天山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Píngtiānshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.1819,"lon":109.499,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guigang-pingtianshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of about 1,676 hectares in the hills north-west of Guigang, with dense forest, canyons, waterfalls, tree ferns and hillside tea gardens. Its summit, Dapingtian (1,157.8 m), is the highest point in Guigang and is topped by a broad grassy meadow with views over the Yu River plain, popular for sunrise. Trails, a campsite and forest-stay facilities make it a weekend escape for the city."},{"id":"guigang-shanbian-village","name":"Shanbian Village","name_zh":"山边村","pinyin":"Shānbiān Cūn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.0521,"lon":109.6087,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guigang-shanbian-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism village in Xintang township on the southern edge of Guigang, named one of China's 'beautiful leisure villages'. Old red-brick houses along its lanes have been turned into workshops for embroidery, oil painting, tea and pottery, and in spring the fields around it turn yellow with rapeseed flowers. A retired fighter jet and tank are also on display."},{"id":"guigang-first-guangxi-party-congress-site","name":"Site of the First CCP Guangxi Provincial Congress","name_zh":"中共广西省第一次代表大会旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Guǎngxī Shěng Dì-yī Cì Dàibiǎo Dàhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.0912,"lon":109.6097,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guigang-first-guangxi-party-congress-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old house on Rongxing Street in central Guigang, once the home of Communist Party member Zhang Guocai and a secret liaison post, where the first congress of the Party's Guangxi provincial organisation was held in secret on 16 June 1928. It now holds an exhibition on the congress with documents, photographs and objects."},{"id":"guiping-xishanquan-campsite","name":"Xishanquan RV Campsite","name_zh":"西山泉房车露营基地","pinyin":"Xīshānquán Fángchē Lùyíng Jīdì","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guigang","lat":23.4485,"lon":110.0275,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiping-xishanquan-campsite","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large car and RV campsite resort in the hills of Xishan town outside Guiping, rated a five-star campsite in Guangxi. Accommodation ranges from motorhomes and motel rooms to valley cabins and glamping tents, and there are rope courses, archery tag, mock combat games, a playground, a cycle track and climbing walls. It suits families and groups looking for outdoor activities."},{"id":"yongfu-baishouyan-inscriptions","name":"Baishouyan Stone Inscriptions","name_zh":"百寿岩石刻","pinyin":"Bǎishòuyán Shíkè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.1667,"lon":109.778,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongfu-baishouyan-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Inscriptions carved into Baishouyan, a limestone hill with a cave on the edge of Baishou town, added from the Song dynasty to the Republican era. They lie a few hundred metres from the Ming walls of Yongning, so the two national heritage sites are easily seen together."},{"id":"ziyuan-bajiaozhai","name":"Bajiaozhai","name_zh":"八角寨","pinyin":"Bājiǎo Zhài","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":26.275,"lon":110.7318,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ziyuan-bajiaozhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A massif of Danxia red-sandstone peaks in Meixi town on the Guangxi–Hunan border, named after the eight upturned corners of its 818 m main peak; its Hunan side belongs to the Langshan scenic area. Trails and viewpoints look over clustered peaks, rock pillars and deep gorges, often wrapped in cloud."},{"id":"yangshuo-butterfly-spring","name":"Butterfly Spring","name_zh":"蝴蝶泉","pinyin":"Húdié Quán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.7425,"lon":110.4928,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangshuo-butterfly-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park built around two steep karst hills beside National Road 321 south of Yangshuo town, on the stretch of countryside known as the Ten-Mile Gallery. A cave runs through one hill, named after a butterfly-shaped formation, and a suspension bridge crosses to the second hill, with butterfly-themed gardens below."},{"id":"quanzhou-dabitou-resort","name":"Dabitou International Tourist Resort","name_zh":"大碧头国际旅游度假区","pinyin":"Dàbìtóu Guójì Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":26.1358,"lon":111.2495,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-dabitou-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A countryside resort at Dabitou, a traditional village of the Bin clan in Miaotou town, north-eastern Quanzhou County, set among karst hills near the Xiang River. It has a hot spring with bathing pools and spa lodges, farmland landscapes, homestays in village houses and activities such as off-road buggy rides, aimed at weekend and wellness breaks."},{"id":"lingchuan-daxu-ancient-town","name":"Daxu Ancient Town","name_zh":"大圩古镇","pinyin":"Dàxū Gǔzhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.1855,"lon":110.4216,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-daxu-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A historic market town on the Li River south-east of Guilin, with more than a thousand years of history, whose 2 km main street, paved with bluestone, is lined with old shop-houses. Along it are temples, guild halls and the Wanshou (Longevity) Bridge, and bamboo rafts leave from the waterfront."},{"id":"lingchuan-dongli-ancient-village","name":"Dongli Ancient Village","name_zh":"东漓古村","pinyin":"Dōnglí Gǔcūn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.1868,"lon":110.457,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-dongli-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village resort on the Chaotian River near Daxu, set among houses in the traditional northern-Guangxi style, with craft and intangible-heritage workshops, farmland and guesthouses. It is pitched as a rural escape from Guilin and often combined with the Gudong Waterfall and Daxu old town."},{"id":"lipu-fengyu-cave","name":"Fengyu Cave","name_zh":"丰鱼岩","pinyin":"Fēngyú Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.4013,"lon":110.3435,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lipu-fengyu-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A show cave about 16 km south-west of Lipu town that runs for 5.3 km through nine hills, named after the fish that live in its underground river. Visitors walk a 2.2 km dry section of stalactites, stalagmites and large halls, then take a boat along part of the underground river."},{"id":"guilin-guangxi-provincial-art-hall","name":"Former Guangxi Provincial Art Hall","name_zh":"广西省立艺术馆旧址","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Shěnglì Yìshùguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2819,"lon":110.2871,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guilin-guangxi-provincial-art-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theatre and arts hall on Jiefang West Road designed during the war against Japan by the playwright Ouyang Yuqian, which opened in February 1944 with the first Southwest Drama Exhibition. Burned when Guilin fell later that year, it was rebuilt to the original plan in 1946 as a red-walled, grey-tiled hall about 40 m long, and is still in use as the Guilin Art Hall."},{"id":"lingui-li-zongren-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Li Zongren","name_zh":"李宗仁故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Zōngrén Gùjū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.1712,"lon":109.9966,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingui-li-zongren-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family compound of Li Zongren (1890–1969), the Guangxi-born Kuomintang general who became Vice-President and then Acting President of the Republic of China, in his home village near Liangjiang. Behind high walls, a gatehouse and blockhouses are dozens of mostly two-storey timber halls, wing rooms and granaries, with ponds and a garden. The protected site also covers his official residence of 1948–49 on the south shore of Shanhu Lake in central Guilin, now a museum on his life."},{"id":"gongcheng-temples-and-guild-halls","name":"Gongcheng Temples and Guild Halls","name_zh":"恭城古建筑群","pinyin":"Gōngchéng Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.8344,"lon":110.8225,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gongcheng-temples-and-guild-halls/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Ming and Qing buildings in Gongcheng town. The Confucian Temple, founded in 1410 and rebuilt in 1842, climbs the hillside in terraces from its Lingxing gate and Pan pond to the double-eaved Dacheng Hall, and the Guandi (Wu) Temple of 1603, rebuilt in 1862, stands beside it with its own opera stage. Nearby are the Zhou Wei Shrine to a Song-dynasty official born in Gongcheng and the Qing-era Hunan Guild Hall, promoted together with the temples as the 'three temples and two guild halls'."},{"id":"yanshan-guanyan-cave","name":"Guanyan Cave","name_zh":"冠岩","pinyin":"Guān Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.0529,"lon":110.452,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshan-guanyan-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cave system with an underground river, about 12 km long, that emerges on the east bank of the Li River at Caoping and is named after the crown-like shape of the hill above. Visitors descend by lift and travel through the open section on foot, by small train and by boat, and can leave by boat towards the Li River. The explorer Xu Xiake described the cave in 1637, and it opened to tourists in 1995."},{"id":"lingchuan-gudong-waterfall","name":"Gudong Waterfall","name_zh":"古东瀑布","pinyin":"Gǔdōng Pùbù","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.111,"lon":110.4504,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-gudong-waterfall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A spring-fed waterfall in a wooded valley near Daxu on the east side of the Li River. Visitors wade into the stream and climb up the falls through the water, which makes it a popular place to cool off in summer."},{"id":"guilin-guihai-qinglan","name":"Guihai Qinglan Park","name_zh":"桂海晴岚","pinyin":"Guìhǎi Qínglán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2722,"lon":110.3575,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-guihai-qinglan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped park on the eastern edge of Guilin laid out on a former golf course, with wide lawns, lakes and pine woods ringed by karst peaks. It is a relaxed place for walks, picnics and camping, with family activities such as pedal boats."},{"id":"xingan-guilin-merryland","name":"Guilin Merryland Resort","name_zh":"乐满地度假世界","pinyin":"Lèmǎndì Dùjià Shìjiè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.5862,"lon":110.6711,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingan-guilin-merryland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large resort on the southern edge of Xing'an town, opened in December 2000 and covering about 4 km², with a theme park of family rides, a 27-hole golf course and a resort hotel beside a lake. It was among the first sites in China rated 5A; the regional list now rates it 4A."},{"id":"guilin-eighth-route-army-office","name":"Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army","name_zh":"八路军桂林办事处旧址","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Guìlín Bànshìchù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2897,"lon":110.2949,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guilin-eighth-route-army-office/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The building on Zhongshan North Road that housed the Eighth Route Army's liaison office in Guilin from November 1938 until 1941, during the wartime cooperation between the Communists and the Kuomintang against Japan. The two-storey brick-and-timber shop house was destroyed when Guilin fell in 1944 and rebuilt to its original design in 1967. It opened as a memorial museum in 1977, and a new exhibition hall was added in 2013."},{"id":"yanshan-guilin-tourism-university-campus","name":"Guilin Tourism University Campus","name_zh":"桂林旅苑","pinyin":"Guìlín Lǚyuàn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.1266,"lon":110.2962,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshan-guilin-tourism-university-campus","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main campus of Guilin Tourism University in Yanshan District, a college founded in 1985 to train staff for the tourism industry, whose landscaped grounds, crossed by the Xiangsi River, are run as a scenic area. Visitors can walk the riverside grounds among the teaching buildings."},{"id":"lingui-hongxi-canyon","name":"Hongxi Canyon","name_zh":"红溪大峡谷","pinyin":"Hóngxī Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.4761,"lon":110.105,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingui-hongxi-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested canyon in the hills of northern Lingui, named after the reddish rocks of its stream bed, with a waterfall as its main sight. Walkways follow the stream through the forest, and the site also offers outdoor activities."},{"id":"gongcheng-hongyan-village","name":"Hongyan Village","name_zh":"红岩村","pinyin":"Hóngyán Cūn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.7318,"lon":110.856,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongcheng-hongyan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village in Lianhua town in southern Gongcheng County, rebuilt by its villagers to a single plan as a model new village and now run as a rural scenic area among persimmon orchards. Visitors walk the orchards, at their most colourful in autumn when the fruit ripens, and stay or eat in the villagers' guesthouses and restaurants."},{"id":"lingchuan-jiangtou-changgangling-villages","name":"Jiangtou and Changgangling Villages","name_zh":"江头村与长岗岭村","pinyin":"Jiāngtóu Cūn yǔ Chánggǎnglǐng Cūn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.5342,"lon":110.2674,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingchuan-jiangtou-changgangling-villages/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two old villages in Lingchuan County protected together as one national heritage site. Jiangtou, on the Gantang River north of Guilin, was settled by descendants of the Song philosopher Zhou Dunyi and keeps more than 180 houses and ancestral halls, mostly Ming and Qing; it is known for the many officials it produced. Changgangling, in the hills near Lingtian east of Guilin, prospered as a stop on the overland trade route between Hunan and Guangxi after the Lingqu Canal declined."},{"id":"guilin-jingjiang-princes-palace","name":"Jingjiang Princes' Palace & Solitary Beauty Peak","name_zh":"靖江王城·独秀峰","pinyin":"Jìngjiāng Wángchéng · Dúxiù Fēng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2843,"lon":110.2945,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guilin-jingjiang-princes-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The walled seat of the Ming-dynasty Princes of Jingjiang, begun in 1372 in the heart of Guilin; its stone walls, gates and hall terraces survive, and the grounds now hold a campus of Guangxi Normal University and an exhibition on the imperial examinations once held here. Inside the walls rises Solitary Beauty Peak, climbed by 306 steps for a view over the city, its cliffs carved with inscriptions including the earliest record of the saying that Guilin's scenery is the finest under heaven. The protected site also takes in the princes' tombs, more than 300 burials at the foot of Yao Mountain east of the city, one of them restored as a museum."},{"id":"yongfu-jinzhongshan-resort","name":"Jinzhongshan Resort","name_zh":"金钟山度假区","pinyin":"Jīnzhōngshān Dùjiàqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.9705,"lon":110.1428,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongfu-jinzhongshan-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort area in the karst hills of Luojin town, eastern Yongfu County, built around Yongfu Cave, a show cave with golden-coloured formations, and a large karst sinkhole that can be entered on foot from the bottom, where it meets an underground river. A hot spring and river rafting make it a weekend retreat from Guilin."},{"id":"xingan-maoer-mountain","name":"Kitten Mountain (Mao'er Shan)","name_zh":"猫儿山","pinyin":"Māo'ér Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.8664,"lon":110.4127,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingan-maoer-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At 2,141.5 m, Kitten Mountain is the highest peak in Guangxi and is often called the highest in South China; it rises on the border of Xing'an and Ziyuan counties. A national nature reserve of about 17,000 hectares, reaching into Longsheng County, protects its subtropical evergreen and mixed broadleaf forest and the headwaters of the Li River. In 1996 local herb gatherers found here the wreck of a US B-24 bomber that crashed on the mountain in 1944."},{"id":"xingan-laoshanjie-longtanjiang","name":"Laoshanjie Longtanjiang Canyon","name_zh":"老山界龙潭江","pinyin":"Lǎoshānjiè Lóngtán Jiāng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.8129,"lon":110.4303,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingan-laoshanjie-longtanjiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested river canyon in the Yuecheng range, known locally as Laoshanjie, in Huajiang Yao township, opened as a scenic area in 2021; it joins the Longtanjiang gorge with sites linked to the Red Army's crossing of Laoshanjie during the Long March in 1934. Visitors can walk a section of the Long March trail, and a Red Army culture park with a restored stretch of the old path and a memorial square is being added."},{"id":"gongcheng-lewan-village","name":"Lewan Village Old Buildings","name_zh":"乐湾村古建筑群","pinyin":"Lèwān Cūn Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.8096,"lon":110.8035,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongcheng-lewan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of village houses and ancestral halls from the Qing dynasty to the Republican era in Lewan, a village in the farmland south-west of Gongcheng's county town, listed as a national heritage site in 2019. The listing covers the Lewan Great House, three ancestral halls of the Chen clan and two groups of courtyard houses belonging to Chen and Jiang families."},{"id":"lipu-lijiang-national-wetland-park","name":"Lijiang (Lipu River) National Wetland Park","name_zh":"荔江国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Lìjiāng Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.4786,"lon":110.3597,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lipu-lijiang-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park along the Lipu River and its tributaries, spread over several townships around Lipu town. Its ecology and science centre near the town introduces the river's wetlands."},{"id":"lipu-lijiang-bay","name":"Lijiang Bay","name_zh":"荔江湾","pinyin":"Lìjiāng Wān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.4446,"lon":110.3279,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lipu-lijiang-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area on the Lipu River in Qingshan town, south-west of Lipu, where visitors take boat trips along the river among karst peaks and walk through Tiangong Cave, a show cave. It lies on the road from Yangshuo to Fengyu Cave and is easily combined with it."},{"id":"yanshan-sunac-lijiang-houhai","name":"Lijiang Houhai, Guilin Sunac Resort","name_zh":"融创漓江后海","pinyin":"Róngchuàng Líjiāng Hòuhǎi","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.0545,"lon":110.3096,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshan-sunac-lijiang-houhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The shopping and leisure quarter of the Guilin Sunac International Tourism Resort, a large resort in Yanshan District that opened in June 2021. Around it are the resort's theme park, Sea World ocean park and Water World, and a performing-arts centre, making it a full day out for families."},{"id":"xingan-lingqu-canal","name":"Lingqu Canal","name_zh":"灵渠","pinyin":"Líng Qú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.6061,"lon":110.6807,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingan-lingqu-canal/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canal dug on the First Emperor's orders between 219 and 214 BC to move troops and supplies south, linking the Xiang River, which flows to the Yangtze, with the Li River and the Pearl River system across a low watershed. Its works survive in and around Xing'an town: the Huazui, a ploughshare-shaped stone spur that splits the Xiang, the angled spillway dams called the Big and Small Tianping, the Qin embankment and old lock gates along the 36.4 km of the South and North channels. It was named a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2018."},{"id":"guilin-liu-sanjie-garden","name":"Liu Sanjie Grand View Garden","name_zh":"刘三姐大观园","pinyin":"Liú Sānjiě Dàguānyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2834,"lon":110.265,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-liu-sanjie-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme park on the Taohua River at the foot of West Hill, named after Liu Sanjie, the singing heroine of Zhuang folk legend. Visitors can trade folk songs with costumed performers at its singing stage, watch scenes from the classic film about her in the performance hall and see staged ethnic song-and-dance shows among reconstructed buildings."},{"id":"guilin-nanxi-hill-park","name":"Nanxi Hill Park","name_zh":"南溪山公园","pinyin":"Nánxīshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2521,"lon":110.2825,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-nanxi-hill-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park around Nanxi Hill in southern Guilin, a twin-peaked limestone hill rising about 140 m above the Nanxi stream, which winds along its northern foot to the Li River. Three linked cave systems inside the hill, among them White Dragon Cave, can be walked for about 500 m, and nearly 200 inscriptions from the Tang onwards are carved around the caves. The White Dragon Spring at its foot once sent its water to the court as tribute."},{"id":"guilin-osmanthus-commune","name":"Osmanthus Commune","name_zh":"桂花公社","pinyin":"Guìhuā Gōngshè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2825,"lon":110.26,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-osmanthus-commune","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An osmanthus-themed attraction among the fields of the Taohua River valley on the western edge of Guilin, a city whose name means 'forest of sweet osmanthus'. It has an osmanthus culture exhibition hall, a themed garden, a hotel and a study centre for school groups, with activities such as making osmanthus cakes."},{"id":"guanyang-qianjiadong-resort","name":"Qianjiadong Cultural Tourism Resort","name_zh":"千家洞文旅度假区","pinyin":"Qiānjiādòng Wénlǚ Dùjiàqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.5478,"lon":111.1166,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanyang-qianjiadong-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort opened in June 2023 in the traditional villages of Xiaolong and Sudong between Guanyang and Xinxu towns, built around the Yao tradition that Qianjiadong is the ancestral homeland of the Yao people, a place many Yao visit to trace their roots. Set in the landscape of the Qianjiadong National Nature Reserve, it combines Yao-style buildings, displays of Yao dress and history and a water show with farmland and mountain scenery."},{"id":"guilin-reed-flute-cave","name":"Reed Flute Cave","name_zh":"芦笛岩","pinyin":"Lúdí Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.3119,"lon":110.2671,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guilin-reed-flute-cave/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A show cave in Guangming Hill on the north-western edge of Guilin, named after the reeds at its mouth that were used to make flutes, with a path of about 500 m through chambers of stalactites, stalagmites and columns lit in bright colours. More than 70 ink inscriptions left by visitors since the year 792 survive on its walls, and the cave was opened to tourists in 1962."},{"id":"yangshuo-sanqianli-resort","name":"Sanqianli Resort, Xingping","name_zh":"三千漓","pinyin":"Sānqiān Lí","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.9257,"lon":110.5363,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangshuo-sanqianli-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern resort and leisure district built on the north-eastern edge of Xingping, with a street of shops and restaurants, holiday housing and hotels set among fields and karst peaks along the Dayuan River. It runs evening boat trips and lantern events on the water and makes a base for the Xingping stretch of the Li River, a short ride from Xingping old town and the view printed on the 20-yuan note."},{"id":"guilin-seven-star-park","name":"Seven Star Park","name_zh":"七星公园","pinyin":"Qīxīng Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2745,"lon":110.3084,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guilin-seven-star-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guilin's largest park, about 137 hectares on the east bank of the Li River, named after its seven hills; paths lead past the Flower Bridge to Seven Star Cave, a large show cave with lit formations. At the south-west foot of Crescent Hill the Guihai Forest of Steles museum encloses Longyin Cave and Longyin Rock, whose walls carry 213 inscriptions from the Tang to the Republican era. They are the densest group of the Guilin Stone Inscriptions, a national heritage site of more than 2,000 carvings spread over some twenty hills across the city."},{"id":"yangshuo-shiwaitaoyuan","name":"Shiwaitaoyuan (Land of Idyllic Beauty)","name_zh":"世外桃源","pinyin":"Shìwài Táoyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.8662,"lon":110.3839,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangshuo-shiwaitaoyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped theme park beside the Guilin–Yangshuo road near Baisha, laid out to evoke Tao Yuanming's fable of the Peach Blossom Spring. Boats pass a large water wheel and slip through a narrow channel into a lake, where staged folk dances are performed on the shore among Zhuang-style buildings, a wind-and-rain bridge and totem poles. It was among the first national 4A scenic areas, named in 2001."},{"id":"lipu-silver-cave","name":"Silver Cave","name_zh":"银子岩","pinyin":"Yínzi Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.6446,"lon":110.4341,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lipu-silver-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A show cave in Maling town, Lipu, that runs through twelve hills on three levels. Its glittering calcite formations, which give the cave its name, include the halls known as Snow Mountain with Waterfall, the Music Stone Screen and the Jade Pool."},{"id":"xingan-jieshou-xiang-river-battle-sites","name":"Sites of the Battle of the Xiang River (Jieshou)","name_zh":"湘江战役旧址","pinyin":"Xiāngjiāng Zhànyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.7238,"lon":110.7669,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingan-jieshou-xiang-river-battle-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national heritage site of fourteen places in Xing'an, Quanzhou and Guanyang counties linked to the Battle of the Xiang River, fought from 25 November to 2 December 1934 as the Central Red Army forced its way across the river during the Long March at heavy cost. Its focus is Jieshou town on the Xiang, where the Red Army Hall (Sanguantang), a two-courtyard building used as the crossing headquarters of the central leadership, stands near the ferry crossing. Other parts include battlefields, river crossings, command posts, buildings with Red Army slogans and martyrs' graves."},{"id":"guilin-jingjiang-city-wall-dongzhen-gate","name":"Song City Wall of Guilin (Dongzhen Gate)","name_zh":"桂林静江府城墙","pinyin":"Guìlín Jìngjiāngfǔ Chéngqiáng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2961,"lon":110.2975,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-jingjiang-city-wall-dongzhen-gate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The surviving fragments of Guilin's old city wall, much of it from 1258–1272, when the walls of Jingjiang Prefecture were pushed north and west and faced with stone along the river against the advancing Mongol armies. The best-preserved piece is Dongzhen Gate on the Li River below Diecai Hill, a vaulted stone gateway 6.4 m high with a passage 16 m deep and wall sections still running towards Diecai and Tiefeng hills. A Song inscription on the south face of Yingwu Hill records the work and includes a carved plan of the walled city."},{"id":"guilin-two-rivers-four-lakes-elephant-trunk-hill","name":"Two Rivers and Four Lakes & Elephant Trunk Hill","name_zh":"两江四湖·象山","pinyin":"Liǎng Jiāng Sì Hú · Xiàng Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2697,"lon":110.2916,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guilin-two-rivers-four-lakes-elephant-trunk-hill/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Central Guilin's ring of waterways, which links the Li and Taohua rivers with Ronghu, Shanhu, Guihu and Mulong lakes and was dredged and joined into one loop around 2001, with lakeside parks, bridges and the Sun and Moon Pagodas on Shanhu Lake. At its southern end Elephant Trunk Hill, the city's emblem, stands where the Taohua River meets the Li, its arch, Water-Moon Cave, making the hill look like an elephant drinking from the river. Boat tours circle the waterways, and the floodlit lakes are a popular evening sight."},{"id":"guilin-west-hill-park","name":"West Hill Park","name_zh":"西山公园","pinyin":"Xīshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.286,"lon":110.2719,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-west-hill-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guilin's second-largest park, made up of the West Hill peaks, Yin Hill with its caves, and West Lake. West Hill was a Buddhist centre in the Tang dynasty, and more than 200 Buddha figures in some 90 niches survive on Guanyin Peak and the neighbouring crags, one of them dated 679. Stone steps climb the peaks for views over the western side of the city."},{"id":"quanzhou-xiang-river-battle-memorial-park","name":"Xiang River Battle Memorial Park (Quanzhou)","name_zh":"红军长征湘江战役纪念园","pinyin":"Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Xiāngjiāng Zhànyì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.9141,"lon":110.9446,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-xiang-river-battle-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park completed in September 2019 beside the Jiaoshanpu battlefield in Caiwan town, commemorating the Battle of the Xiang River of late 1934, when the Central Red Army fought its way across the river between Xing'an and Quanzhou during the Long March at heavy cost. It consists of the memorial park and a memorial hall with exhibitions on the campaign."},{"id":"xingan-xiang-river-martyrs-monument-park","name":"Xiang River Breakthrough Martyrs Monument Park","name_zh":"红军长征突破湘江烈士纪念碑园","pinyin":"Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Tūpò Xiāngjiāng Lièshì Jìniànbēi Yuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.6087,"lon":110.652,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingan-xiang-river-martyrs-monument-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park in Xing'an town, built in 1995 in memory of the Red Army soldiers killed in the Battle of the Xiang River in late 1934, during the Long March. A memorial hall on the battle opened in the park in November 2014, and the park is now also called the Xiang River Battle Memorial Park."},{"id":"quanzhou-xiangshan-temple-pagodas","name":"Xiangshan Temple Pagodas and Inscriptions","name_zh":"湘山寺塔群与石刻","pinyin":"Xiāngshān Sì Tǎqún yǔ Shíkè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.939,"lon":111.0566,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-xiangshan-temple-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of Xiangshan Temple on Xiang Hill at the western edge of Quanzhou town, a Buddhist monastery founded in 756 by the monk Quanzhen and burned in 1945. What survives is a group of pagodas, among them the Miaoming Pagoda, and stone inscriptions carved on the hill between the Song and Qing dynasties."},{"id":"lingchuan-xiaoyao-lake","name":"Xiaoyao Lake","name_zh":"逍遥湖","pinyin":"Xiāoyáo Hú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.1289,"lon":110.4532,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingchuan-xiaoyao-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake park in Daxu town on the east side of the Li River, where paths follow the shore against a backdrop of karst hills. It is usually combined with the nearby Gudong Waterfall and Daxu old town on a day out from Guilin."},{"id":"guanyang-xinxu-memorial-park","name":"Xinxu Battle Memorial Park (Jiuhaijing)","name_zh":"新圩阻击战酒海井红军纪念园","pinyin":"Xīnxū Zǔjīzhàn Jiǔhǎijǐng Hóngjūn Jìniànyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.6348,"lon":111.1118,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanyang-xinxu-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park completed in 2016 in Xinxu town, Guanyang County, where Red Army units fought a blocking action at Xinxu during the Battle of the Xiang River in late 1934, part of the Long March. It has a memorial and an exhibition hall on the Xinxu fighting, and close by in Hemu village are the Jiuhaijing memorial tower and the battle's field aid station in a Qing ancestral hall, both part of the national heritage site of the battle."},{"id":"quanzhou-yanwo-lou","name":"Yanwo Lou","name_zh":"燕窝楼","pinyin":"Yànwō Lóu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":26.0366,"lon":111.1492,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quanzhou-yanwo-lou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Jiang clan in Shigang village, north-east of Quanzhou town, known as Yanwo Lou, the 'swallow's-nest tower'. Its timber memorial gateway with four pillars and three tiers of roofs dates from the Ming dynasty and leads to a mid-Qing gatehouse, side galleries, a middle hall and a rear hall."},{"id":"guilin-yao-mountain","name":"Yao Mountain","name_zh":"尧山","pinyin":"Yáo Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2953,"lon":110.3721,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-yao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At 909 m, Yao Mountain on the north-eastern edge of Guilin is the highest peak in the city area and, unlike the limestone towers around it, a soil-covered mountain. A chairlift and footpaths climb to the summit for wide views over the karst peaks, a toboggan run comes down part of the slope, and azaleas cover the mountainside in late spring. The Ming princes' tombs of the Jingjiang line lie at its south-western foot."},{"id":"yongfu-yongning-city-wall","name":"Yongning Prefecture City Wall","name_zh":"永宁州城","pinyin":"Yǒngníng Zhōuchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.1676,"lon":109.7744,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongfu-yongning-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty walled town at Baishou, first built of earth in 1477 and rebuilt in dressed stone in 1482, which became the seat of Yongning Prefecture in 1571. The rectangular circuit, about 1.2 km round and up to 3.7 m high with four gates, is described as the most complete Ming city wall surviving in Guangxi."},{"id":"yanshan-yuzi-paradise","name":"Yuzi Paradise","name_zh":"愚自乐园","pinyin":"Yúzì Lèyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.0503,"lon":110.3334,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanshan-yuzi-paradise","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscape sculpture park among karst hills south of Guilin, founded in the late 1990s by the Taiwanese entrepreneur Cao Rizhang. More than 200 artists from around the world have left large contemporary works across its lawns, lakeshores and pine woods, many of them made at the international sculpture symposiums held here, and a Club Med resort opened at the park in 2013."},{"id":"guilin-zengpiyan","name":"Zengpiyan National Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"甑皮岩遗址","pinyin":"Zèngpíyán Yízhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":25.2159,"lon":110.279,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guilin-zengpiyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic cave site at the foot of Dushan hill in southern Guilin, lived in roughly 12,000 to 7,000 years ago, whose excavations in 1973 and 2001 yielded very early pottery, stone, bone and shell tools, and crouched burials. The cave can be visited, and a 9.5-hectare archaeological park around it includes a site museum displaying the finds."},{"id":"yongfu-zhuangyuan-nahehai","name":"Zhuangyuan Nahehai Street District","name_zh":"状元哪嗬嗨","pinyin":"Zhuàngyuán Nǎhēhāi","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":24.9836,"lon":109.9804,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongfu-zhuangyuan-nahehai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A redeveloped street district in the centre of Yongfu town, on the former site of the home of Wang Shize, the first person from Guangxi to take first place (zhuangyuan) in the imperial examinations. It combines dining, shopping and entertainment, with zhuangyuan-themed souvenirs and photo spots in scholar's robes, and hosts festival events such as those at the Dragon Boat Festival."},{"id":"ziyuan-zijiang-tianmen-mountain","name":"Zijiang River & Tianmen Mountain","name_zh":"资江·天门山","pinyin":"Zī Jiāng · Tiānmén Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Guilin","lat":26.1394,"lon":110.6808,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ziyuan-zijiang-tianmen-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area on the upper Zi River north of Ziyuan town, where boat and raft trips run past red-sandstone (Danxia) cliffs to a landing below Tianmen Mountain. Paths on the mountain lead through narrow rock clefts to a glass viewing platform."},{"id":"fengshan-bala-monkey-mountain","name":"Bala Monkey Mountain","name_zh":"巴腊猴山","pinyin":"Bālà Hóushān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.6509,"lon":107.0871,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengshan-bala-monkey-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested karst valley at Bala hamlet in Qiaoyin township, where villagers have protected a troop of more than 600 macaques since reforestation began in the 1990s, and the monkeys come to feeding areas and let visitors approach closely. The site also has a children's playground, a petting area with deer, horses and peacocks, and farm restaurants, and is aimed mainly at families; it was rated 4A in 2024."},{"id":"bama-crystal-palace-cave","name":"Bama Crystal Palace Cave","name_zh":"水晶宫","pinyin":"Shuǐjīng Gōng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.306,"lon":107.0069,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bama-crystal-palace-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A show cave on a hillside at Daluo village, Nashe township, known for dense clusters of snow-white helictites, needle-like crystals and flower-shaped formations. The corridor-shaped cave is over 600 m long and 8–40 m wide with a fairly level path, and it was one of Bama's first 4A sites, in 2009."},{"id":"bama-longevity-island","name":"Bama Longevity Island","name_zh":"长寿岛","pinyin":"Chángshòu Dǎo","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.145,"lon":107.3309,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bama-longevity-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An island of about 3 hectares in the Pogui section of Cifu Lake, the reservoir on the Panyang River 8 km from Bama town, ringed by karst hills. By day it is a culture park on Bama's longevity customs; in the evening there are bonfire parties, long-table dinners and the outdoor show 'Dream of Bama', which stages a Yao wedding and bronze-drum dances."},{"id":"nandan-baping-wetland","name":"Baping Wetland and Forest Area","name_zh":"巴平湿地森林康养","pinyin":"Bāpíng Shīdì Sēnlín Kāngyǎng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.2032,"lon":107.4681,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-baping-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland and forest area at Baping in Mangchang town, developed since 2020 within the Laxi National Wetland Park, a highland wetland of about 560 hectares where 168 bird species have been recorded. Boardwalks lead past lakes and lotus ponds, and the nearby Baping terraces and flower fields offer farm stays, home cooking and fruit picking."},{"id":"donglan-changle-palace-cave","name":"Changle Palace Cave","name_zh":"长乐宫","pinyin":"Chánglè Gōng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.5231,"lon":107.4806,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donglan-changle-palace-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A show cave on Leishan hill in Bandeng village whose entrance is so low that adults must crouch to get in, opening into tall halls divided by columns of stalactites. Two main sections hold more than 20 smaller chambers, and about 1.5 km of passages with 14 named viewpoints are open to visitors; it was rated a national 4A site in 2022."},{"id":"duan-chengjiang-wetland-park","name":"Chengjiang National Wetland Park","name_zh":"澄江国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Chéngjiāng Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.0041,"lon":108.0736,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duan-chengjiang-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park on the clear blue-green Chengjiang River, which rises at the Jiudun skylights in Daxing town and flows 42 km south through farmland to the Hongshui River. The 4A area of about 3.1 km² at Yili, north of Du'an town, is part of the Chengjiang national water-conservancy scenic area, and snorkelling in the river has become popular in summer."},{"id":"luocheng-chenglong-lake","name":"Chenglong Lake","name_zh":"成龙湖","pinyin":"Chénglóng Hú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.7786,"lon":108.8736,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luocheng-chenglong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake park ringed by hills on the edge of Luocheng town, named after Yu Chenglong, the Qing official famed as an incorruptible magistrate, who served in Luocheng and is said to have written poems beside it. It was rated 3A in 2015 and has since been raised to 4A."},{"id":"huanjiang-colourful-maonan","name":"Colourful Maonan","name_zh":"多彩毛南","pinyin":"Duōcǎi Máonán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.8263,"lon":108.2514,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanjiang-colourful-maonan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural area in Sien, the county town of Huanjiang, the only autonomous county of the Maonan people, built around the Maonan Museum. Opened in 2012, the museum holds more than 1,200 objects and has galleries on the feitao thanksgiving ritual, the Fenlong festival, flower-bamboo hat weaving and bronze-drum casting, plus a revolutionary history gallery added in 2019. Beside it stand the seven-storey Sien Pagoda, climbed for views over the town, and squares themed on Nuo masks and bronze drums."},{"id":"luocheng-cotton-tiankeng","name":"Cotton Tiankeng Resort","name_zh":"棉花天坑","pinyin":"Miánhuā Tiānkēng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.7896,"lon":108.7884,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luocheng-cotton-tiankeng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort around a karst tiankeng (giant sinkhole) at Shendong hamlet in Mianhua village, which also takes in Changsheng Cave, a show cave of stalactites, and the Mulao village of Shendong. Cliff-edge attractions include a hotel, a bookshop lit up at night, a pool, glass and cliff walkways, a via ferrata, a zip line and a small cliff train, alongside a Mulao intangible-heritage hall."},{"id":"nandan-danlu-mountain","name":"Danlu Mountain","name_zh":"丹炉山","pinyin":"Dānlú Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.8222,"lon":107.4577,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-danlu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill scenic area at Danlu hamlet in Wuai town, built around the remains of a Ming-dynasty alchemy site that the county describes as one of the most complete found in China, with karst caves and local Taoist, lantern-dance and tusi (chieftain) traditions. Since opening in 2018 it has added a glass walkway, a glass slide and a glass suspension bridge, a staged show and long-table banquets."},{"id":"nandan-danquan-liquor-cave","name":"Danquan Liquor Cave","name_zh":"丹泉洞天酒海","pinyin":"Dānquán Dòngtiān Jiǔhǎi","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.0031,"lon":107.5601,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-danquan-liquor-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A visitor site at the Danquan distillery in Nandan town, founded in 1956 and now Guangxi's largest liquor producer, where visitors can follow baijiu production from grain to blending. Its highlight is Dongtian Jiuhai, a natural karst cave with a constant temperature of about 15 °C and room for some 50,000 tonnes of base liquor, certified by Guinness World Records as the largest liquor-storage cave."},{"id":"donglan-red-tourism-area","name":"Donglan Red Tourism Area","name_zh":"东兰红色旅游区","pinyin":"Dōnglán Hóngsè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.5136,"lon":107.37,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donglan-red-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of revolutionary sites linked to Wei Baqun, a Zhuang leader of the 1920s peasant movement, rated 4A together in 2011. In the county town, the Donglan Martyrs' Cemetery, founded in 1956, holds Wei Baqun's tomb, a memorial tower and a hall of about 600 documents, photographs and relics, next to the Wei Baqun Memorial Hall. Some 30 km south-west near Wuzhuan are Lenin Cave, the vast natural cave where Wei ran Guangxi's first peasant movement institute in 1925, the 1906 Kuixing Tower used by the Seventh Red Army's front committee under Deng Xiaoping in 1930, and Wei's rebuilt mountainside home."},{"id":"duan-underground-river-geopark","name":"Du'an Underground River Geopark","name_zh":"都安地下河国家地质公园","pinyin":"Dū'ān Dìxià Hé Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.0036,"lon":107.9841,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duan-underground-river-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national geopark of about 210 km² along the Disu underground river system, which with its 12 tributaries runs for some 241 km beneath the karst before joining the Hongshui River. More than 300 skylights, collapse windows down to the river, pock the landscape, and the Tunbang and Jiuling skylights in Dongmiao township are the main visitor spots; peach-blossom freshwater jellyfish appear in some pools between April and October."},{"id":"fengshan-geopark-sanmenhai","name":"Fengshan Geopark and Sanmenhai","name_zh":"凤山国家地质公园·三门海","pinyin":"Fèngshān Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán · Sānménhǎi","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.5527,"lon":107.0416,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengshan-geopark-sanmenhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Fengshan's half of the Leye–Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2010, a karst landscape of peak clusters, caves, sinkholes and natural bridges. Its best-known sight is Sanmenhai in Poxin village, seven collapsed sinkholes joined by an underground river, three of which visitors enter by boat through cave mouths open to the sky. The geopark museum is at Chuanlong Cave on the edge of Fengshan town."},{"id":"donglan-hongshui-river-first-bend","name":"First Bend of the Hongshui River","name_zh":"红水河第一湾","pinyin":"Hóngshuǐ Hé Dìyī Wān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.3077,"lon":107.5144,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donglan-hongshui-river-first-bend","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A viewpoint above a sweeping U-shaped bend where the Hongshui River loops through a gorge at Banwen village in Sanshi town. A glass viewing platform shaped like a bronze drum, a nod to Donglan's bronze-drum tradition, looks down over the meander."},{"id":"nandan-geyasigu","name":"Geyasigu Baiku Yao Folk Park","name_zh":"歌娅思谷","pinyin":"Gēyàsī Gǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.0656,"lon":107.6222,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-geyasigu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Baiku Yao (White Trousers Yao) culture resort of about 9.6 km² at Ganhe hamlet in Lihu Yao township, where a river winds past fields into a cave among karst hills. Alongside courtyard hotel buildings and a mud-and-timber hotel in Baiku Yao style, it has restaurants, a cave theatre, farm-experience fields and a workshop showing how Baiku Yao clothing is made, with staged song-and-dance evenings and long-table feasts."},{"id":"dahua-hongshui-river-gallery","name":"Hongshui River Hundred-Li Gallery","name_zh":"红水河百里风情画廊","pinyin":"Hóngshuǐ Hé Bǎilǐ Fēngqíng Huàláng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":23.7174,"lon":107.9655,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dahua-hongshui-river-gallery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 27.7 km² stretch of the Hongshui River running upstream from Dahua town towards Guhe township, within the Hongshui River–Qibainong scenic area, where tour boats cruise between karst hills and riverside villages. Rated 4A in 2019, it forms the backbone of Dahua's river tourism, linking the county town with the reservoir and peak-cluster scenery upstream."},{"id":"yizhou-huixian-mountain","name":"Huixian Mountain","name_zh":"会仙山","pinyin":"Huìxiān Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.5044,"lon":108.6616,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yizhou-huixian-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A craggy hill in Bailongshan Park on the northern edge of Yizhou, a sightseeing spot since the Tang dynasty, climbed for views over the town. Its cliffs and caves carry inscriptions from the Song dynasty to the Republican era, protected nationally since 2013, together with carved figures in White Dragon Cave and a Ming inscription on the bird-shaped Qiyun rock at the summit."},{"id":"yizhou-liu-sanjie-hometown","name":"Liu Sanjie's Hometown","name_zh":"刘三姐故里","pinyin":"Liú Sānjiě Gùlǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.5053,"lon":108.7087,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yizhou-liu-sanjie-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A river scenic area where the Xiajian River meets the Longjiang east of Yizhou, presented as the home of Liu Sanjie (Third Sister Liu), the legendary folk singer whose song tradition, nominated by Yizhou, is on the national intangible heritage list. Boats run up the clear Xiajian past karst peaks, bamboo groves and a 'water stone forest' of rocks in the river, with stops at a house shown as Liu Sanjie's home, folk-song performances and farm restaurants."},{"id":"nandan-longxianggai-maple-ginkgo-park","name":"Longxianggai Maple and Ginkgo Park","name_zh":"笼箱盖枫杏","pinyin":"Lóngxiānggài Fēngxìng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.8703,"lon":107.6196,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-longxianggai-maple-ginkgo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former mining area at Lamo village near Chehe town, between about 700 and 1,200 m, that has been regraded and replanted with 18 introduced maple varieties, ginkgo, peach, azalea and peony, and was rated 4A in 2023. It is best known for autumn colour, when the maples, ginkgo and pink muhly grass turn, and has forest trails, viewing platforms, a rainbow slide, a campsite, guesthouses and displays on the area's mining past."},{"id":"duan-miluotuo-cultural-park","name":"Miluotuo Cultural Park","name_zh":"密洛陀文化公园","pinyin":"Mìluòtuó Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":23.9404,"lon":108.1051,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duan-miluotuo-cultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park of about 30 hectares in Du'an's Hedong district, opened in 2015 for the county's 60th anniversary and themed on the Bunu Yao, whose creation epic of the goddess Miluotuo became national intangible heritage in 2011. It has wind-and-rain bridges, waterfalls and lakes, a riverside promenade, a culture street, a hotel and the museum of the Du'an Underground River Geopark."},{"id":"huanjiang-mulun-karst","name":"Mulun Karst Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"木论喀斯特","pinyin":"Mùlùn Kāsītè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.1491,"lon":108.0546,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanjiang-mulun-karst","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourism area on the south-eastern edge of the Mulun National Nature Reserve, part of the Huanjiang Karst component of the South China Karst World Heritage Site since 2014, which protects karst forest continuous with Maolan in Guizhou. Visitors come for the Gubin River, with a walk through its butterfly gorge, rafting and riverside camping, and there is a hotel and visitor centre at Xiazhai hamlet."},{"id":"nandan-mineral-hot-spring","name":"Nandan Mineral Hot Spring","name_zh":"南丹矿物温泉","pinyin":"Nándān Kuàngwù Wēnquán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.9337,"lon":107.6015,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-mineral-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort at Tanghan village in Chehe town, fed by water that reaches the surface at about 62 °C. It has a dozen public pools, nine private courtyard pools, a hot-spring swimming pool, a children's water park, a hotel and villas, set among wooded hills."},{"id":"huanjiang-niujiaozhai-waterfalls","name":"Niujiaozhai Waterfalls","name_zh":"牛角寨瀑布群","pinyin":"Niújiǎozhài Pùbùqún","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.0741,"lon":108.3876,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanjiang-niujiaozhai-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested karst gorge of about 10 km² at Bamian village, Minglun town, where a 3 km trail passes more than ten tiers of falls in quick succession, nine of them large. The best known, Seven Fairies Falls, is about 60 m wide and over 50 m high and drops in seven strands; the area borders the core of the Mulun karst World Heritage area."},{"id":"bama-panyang-river","name":"Panyang River Scenic Area","name_zh":"盘阳河","pinyin":"Pányáng Hé","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.1996,"lon":107.1494,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bama-panyang-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Panyang River valley around Jiazhuan town, rated 4A in 2009 as Bama's main river area: the river re-emerges from underground at Poyue village and flows past Zhuang and Yao villages known for their long-lived residents. Along its course are the large caves of Baimo and Bainiao, the latter entered by boat beneath a skylight, and bamboo rafts drift on the clear green water."},{"id":"dahua-qibainong-geopark","name":"Qibainong National Geopark","name_zh":"七百弄国家地质公园","pinyin":"Qībǎinòng Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.0715,"lon":107.6427,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dahua-qibainong-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national geopark of about 323 km² in northern Dahua, declared in 2009, covering what is regarded as one of the world's densest clusters of karst peaks and enclosed hollows: some 9,000 peaks with summits above 800 m crowd around more than 2,500 depressions. Roads wind through the Bunu Yao villages of Qibainong township past high lakes, the Banlan canyon and viewpoints, and a geopark museum stands at the entrance."},{"id":"dahua-qimei-water-town","name":"Qimei Water Town","name_zh":"奇美水城","pinyin":"Qíměi Shuǐchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":23.7339,"lon":107.9821,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dahua-qimei-water-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside cultural quarter in Dahua's Gujiang community on the Hongshui River, developed by the county around its ornamental-stone culture, local food and Zhuang and Yao customs, with a stone museum, a food hall, an ethnic museum and Mituo Temple. It was rated 4A in 2019 and hosts folk events such as rice-cake pounding at festivals."},{"id":"hechi-red-army-slogans-building","name":"Red Army Slogans Building, Hechi","name_zh":"红军标语楼","pinyin":"Hóngjūn Biāoyǔ Lóu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.6974,"lon":107.8431,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hechi-red-army-slogans-building","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A building in Hechi town, the county seat until 1953, whose original walls still carry 55 slogans and six drawings left by the Red Army around 1930, when the Seventh Red Army under Deng Xiaoping and Zhang Yunyi stayed in Hechi three times and reorganised there. The sites where the Seventh and Eighth Red Armies were stationed were restored between January 2010 and December 2011, when a memorial hall on the armies' reorganisation at Hechi also opened in the town."},{"id":"duan-sandaowan-resort","name":"Sandaowan Resort","name_zh":"三岛湾","pinyin":"Sāndǎo Wān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":23.802,"lon":108.0669,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duan-sandaowan-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort area of about 830 hectares on the Hongshui River near Xingli village in Disu town, set among karst hills, Bunu Yao villages and farmland. It offers riverside stays and aerial views over the valley, and runs a model-aircraft science camp and study programmes for school groups."},{"id":"tiane-tianlong-grand-canyon","name":"Tianlong Grand Canyon","name_zh":"天龙大峡谷","pinyin":"Tiānlóng Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.9501,"lon":107.1742,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiane-tianlong-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested karst gorge about 15 km long and 800–1,000 m deep just outside Tian'e town, formerly promoted as Longtan Grand Canyon National Forest Park and rated 4A in 2014. With forest cover of about 96 per cent it shelters rare plants such as slipper orchids and golden camellia, and trails lead to a viewpoint over the town, primeval forest, an orchid garden and Lion Cave."},{"id":"tiane-tianshang-hegu","name":"Tianshang Hegu (Tian'e Riverside)","name_zh":"天上河谷","pinyin":"Tiānshàng Hégǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.0003,"lon":107.1691,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tiane-tianshang-hegu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tian'e's riverside town scenic area on the Hongshui River, joining Tianfu Hill park with the town's embankment walks, a food street, a fountain square and an elevated skywalk. Visitors climb Tianfu Hill to the Fuwang Pavilion and the Dong Xi Literary Museum, devoted to the Tian'e-born novelist Dong Xi, winner of the Mao Dun and Lu Xun literary prizes, or take a boat on the river within sight of the Longtan dam; paddleboarding has become popular in summer."},{"id":"dahua-yantan-scenic-area","name":"Yantan Scenic Area","name_zh":"岩滩","pinyin":"Yántān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.033,"lon":107.5032,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dahua-yantan-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The reservoir area of the Yantan hydropower station on the Hongshui River, whose 110 m dam was built between 1985 and 1995, now developed for lakeside stays. Its landmark is Meinü (Beauty) Peak, a karst ridge said to resemble a sleeping woman, where a campsite opened in 2023 with space-capsule pods, forest cabins, RV pitches, tent lodges, a hotel, hiking paths and viewing platforms over the lake."},{"id":"nandan-yaowang-tianxia","name":"Yaowang Tianxia","name_zh":"瑶望天下","pinyin":"Yáowàng Tiānxià","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.0882,"lon":107.6487,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-yaowang-tianxia","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Baiku Yao cultural tourism complex at Wangshang hamlet in Lihu Yao township, rated 4A in 2023, laid out in areas for intangible-heritage displays on Baiku Yao food, weddings, funerals, bronze drums and top-spinning, with shops, restaurants, hotels and guesthouses and a family park. At major festivals Baiku Yao people gather at its Yaowang village square to play bronze drums, blow ox horns, sing and dance. The complex also takes in Dongtian Shengjing, an underground canyon with waterfalls inside a cave."},{"id":"fengshan-yuanyang-cave","name":"Yuanyang Cave","name_zh":"鸳鸯洞","pinyin":"Yuānyāng Dòng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.5425,"lon":107.0626,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengshan-yuanyang-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A two-level karst cave at over 700 m on Phoenix Hill just east of Fengshan town, about 480 m long, up to 320 m wide and 52 m high at its tallest hall. Dense clusters of stalagmites, one of them 36.4 m tall, form what looks like a stone forest underground, and the visitor route through the first level winds for about 1.2 km. Below it, at the foot of the hill, the twin pools of Yuanyang Spring have long been counted the first of Fengshan's eight views."},{"id":"nandan-yunguantian","name":"Yunguantian","name_zh":"云观天","pinyin":"Yúnguāntiān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":25.1383,"lon":107.5289,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nandan-yunguantian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An upland pasture and camping area in Mangchang town at around 1,000 m, rated 4A in 2022, with mountain meadows, woodland, karst peaks and farmland. Facilities include a viewing platform above the clouds, a campsite, a coffee house and walking trails, and it draws visitors on the rare winter days when snow falls."},{"id":"jinchengjiang-zhenzhuyan","name":"Zhenzhuyan (Pearl Cave) Scenic Area","name_zh":"珍珠岩","pinyin":"Zhēnzhū Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.7126,"lon":107.9358,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinchengjiang-zhenzhuyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst scenic area of about 5 km² at Dandong village in Liujia town, built around a stalactite cave lit with coloured lights and marketed since 2022 as the Luming Sengu resort. Outside are natural swimming pools in the river, plank walks and pavilions, and a forest campsite with tents, a forest pasture and family activities."},{"id":"donglan-zhuangxiang-generals-memorial-park","name":"Zhuangxiang Generals Memorial Park","name_zh":"壮乡将军纪念园","pinyin":"Zhuàngxiāng Jiāngjūn Jìniànyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hechi","lat":24.3851,"lon":107.3622,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=donglan-zhuangxiang-generals-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-tourism memorial park in Nongying, the home village of General Wei Guoqing (1913–1989), created for his centenary with a restored version of his former home. Its memorial hall, opened in September 2013, has seven galleries: the ground floor covers Wei Guoqing's life, and the upper floor 19 generals who rose through the Seventh and Eighth Red Armies, among them Zhang Yunyi, Li Tianyou and Wei Jie."},{"id":"hezhou-daguishan-forest-park","name":"Daguishan National Forest Park","name_zh":"大桂山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Dàguìshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.1597,"lon":111.7105,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-daguishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the Dagui Mountains at Butou town, south of Hezhou city, one of the first national forest parks approved in China, with forest covering about 93% of its area. Its 4A scenic area of about 3.5 km² is mainly a place for forest walks."},{"id":"fuchuan-eco-agriculture-park","name":"Fuchuan Eco-Agriculture Science Park","name_zh":"富川生态高值农业科技示范园","pinyin":"Fùchuān Shēngtài Gāozhí Nóngyè Kējì Shìfànyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.8772,"lon":111.3207,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuchuan-eco-agriculture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An agricultural demonstration park of about 58 ha near Fuli town, centred on a 9,600 m² greenhouse that shows soilless and hydroponic vegetable growing and giant vegetable-shaped displays. Around it are fruit orchards for seasonal picking, a farming-culture exhibit, a bamboo grove, flower fields, family allotments and a wetland area planted with lotus and other water crops. It suits families and school groups more than general sightseers."},{"id":"fuchuan-old-ming-city","name":"Fuchuan Ming City","name_zh":"富川古明城","pinyin":"Fùchuān Gǔ Míngchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.8261,"lon":111.2671,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuchuan-old-ming-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old walled county town of Fuchuan, begun in 1396 under the Ming, through which the Xiaohe Ancient Road, the old road linking the Xiao River in Hunan with the He River, entered by the north gate and left by the south. Much of the wall and part of the moat survive, enclosing a Confucian temple, a martial temple, pebble-paved lanes, old opera stages, a lantern tower, wells and old houses; the county town also keeps the Republican-era arcade street of Xinyong Jie."},{"id":"fuchuan-yao-wind-and-rain-bridges","name":"Fuchuan Yao Wind-and-Rain Bridges","name_zh":"富川瑶族风雨桥群","pinyin":"Fùchuān Yáozú Fēngyǔqiáo Qún","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":25.0861,"lon":111.257,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuchuan-yao-wind-and-rain-bridges","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Twenty-seven covered bridges built between the late Ming and the late Qing over streams and fields near old villages along the Xiaohe Ancient Road in Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, home to Yao and Han communities; they come in stone-arch, stone-beam and timber-beam forms, topped by tiled galleries and pavilions that mix the Chinese covered-bridge tradition with Yao building features. The best known are a pair at Youmu village called the 'yin-yang bridges': the Huilan Bridge of 1602, a three-arch stone bridge with a gallery, pavilion and painted tower and twelve steles on its history, and the 35 m Qinglong Bridge of 1624 with its three-storey tower. Others stand in villages around Chengbei, Mailing and Chaodong towns."},{"id":"zhaoping-gui-river","name":"Gui River Scenic Area, Zhaoping","name_zh":"昭平桂江","pinyin":"Zhāopíng Guì Jiāng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.2463,"lon":110.7886,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaoping-gui-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 25 km stretch of the Gui River, the lower course of the Li River, centred on Zhaoping town, from Songlin Gorge upstream to Matan Gorge downstream. Boat trips run between green hills and bamboo-lined banks, combining Li River-style scenery with narrow gorges."},{"id":"hezhou-gupo-mountain","name":"Gupo Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"姑婆山","pinyin":"Gūpó Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.6176,"lon":111.5591,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-gupo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain park about 26 km north of central Hezhou, near the Hunan and Guangdong borders, with 25 peaks over 1,000 m and a highest summit of 1,844 m, the tallest in eastern Guangxi; its many cliffs give waterfalls in almost every ravine. Paths lead past streams and falls in the lower valleys, and the surrounding resort area also takes in the Jade Stone Forest, Shibashui, hot springs and a riverside park."},{"id":"hezhou-huangyao-ancient-town","name":"Huangyao Ancient Town","name_zh":"黄姚古镇","pinyin":"Huángyáo Gǔzhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.251,"lon":111.2009,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hezhou-huangyao-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A market town ringed by karst hills in Zhaoping County, founded in the Song dynasty, built up in the late Ming and at its most prosperous under the Qing Qianlong emperor, and named after its two main clans, the Huangs and the Yaos. More than 300 Ming and Qing houses of grey brick and dark tile line its flagstone lanes, with ancestral halls, temples, an old opera stage, wells, small bridges with pavilions over the stream, and old banyan trees, and the town has served as a set for many films and TV dramas. In 1945 the Communist Party's Guangxi provincial working committee moved its offices here, and the buildings around Baozhu Temple are now a memorial museum."},{"id":"hezhou-jade-stone-forest","name":"Jade Stone Forest, Hezhou","name_zh":"玉石林","pinyin":"Yù Shílín","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.5262,"lon":111.6108,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-jade-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rare stone forest of white marble, the stone known in Chinese as 'Han white jade', in Huangtian town north of Hezhou. The site, about 25 ha, was long an open-cast quarry; after the stone ran out it was restored and opened as a scenic area, with paths winding among white pinnacles and spires."},{"id":"hezhou-jiang-hakka-walled-house","name":"Jiang Family Hakka Walled House, Hezhou","name_zh":"江氏客家围屋","pinyin":"Jiāngshì Kèjiā Wéiwū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.4297,"lon":111.6532,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-jiang-hakka-walled-house","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Qing-dynasty walled compound of the Hakka Jiang clan in Renchong village, Liantang town: square and symmetrical, enclosed by a wall about 3 m high, with halls, corridors, rooms and light wells interlocking inside, and fine carving of qilin, dragons, phoenixes, birds and flowers on its eaves, windows, screens, beams and pillars. The Jiangs, who came from Wuhua in Guangdong, built eight walled houses around Liantang; the northern Renchong house is open as part of the Hezhou Hakka Ecomuseum, with displays of Hakka dress, daily life and farm tools, and a few Jiang families still live in it."},{"id":"hezhou-linhe-old-city","name":"Linhe Old City (Hejie)","name_zh":"临贺故城","pinyin":"Línhè Gùchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.33,"lon":111.6587,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-linhe-old-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old town of Hejie, on both banks of the Lin River where it joins the He, was the seat of Linhe county and later of Hezhou for some 2,000 years, from the founding of Linhe County in 111 BC until the county offices moved to Babu in 1952. The west-bank city keeps about 1.1 km of earthen walls up to 6 m high, the 27 m Kuixing Tower of 1740 rising from the wall, flagstone streets, old wells and about twenty clan ancestral halls, mostly of the Ming and Qing. Across the river the Hedong quarter has arcaded shops and the Qing-dynasty Yuedong Guild Hall built by merchants from Guangdong."},{"id":"fuchuan-ma-yin-temple","name":"Ma Yin Temple (Hundred-Pillar Temple), Fuxi","name_zh":"马殷庙","pinyin":"Mǎ Yīn Miào","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":25.0731,"lon":111.2183,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuchuan-ma-yin-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two temples in Fuxi village honouring Ma Yin, the 10th-century King of Chu in the Five Dynasties period: the Ma Chu Great King Temple, founded in 1396 and moved here in 1848, and a temple founded in 1413 whose hall, the Hundred-Pillar Temple, stands on 120 timber columns raised on stone bases, with an opera stage in front. The stream between them is crossed by a wind-and-rain bridge, the Zhongling Bridge, and Fuxi itself is a listed traditional village with a long flagstone street, gate towers with carved plaques, and clan halls."},{"id":"zhaoping-nanshan-tea-plantation","name":"Nanshan Tea Plantation, Zhaoping","name_zh":"南山茶海","pinyin":"Nánshān Cháhǎi","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.1455,"lon":110.8425,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaoping-nanshan-tea-plantation","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tea gardens covering the hills just south of Zhaoping town, ringed by mountains and often wrapped in mist, known for the county's early spring tea. Spring, from March to June, is the best time to visit, while the new leaves are being picked."},{"id":"fuchuan-shenxian-lake-shenjian-stone-forest","name":"Shenxian Lake & Shenjian Stone Forest","name_zh":"神仙湖·神剑石林","pinyin":"Shénxiān Hú · Shénjiàn Shílín","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.8892,"lon":111.3509,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuchuan-shenxian-lake-shenjian-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two adjoining scenic spots in Fuli town in the farm country east of Fuchuan: Shenxian Lake, a lake with rural scenery beside the old village of Babailing, and the Shenjian Stone Forest, a small cluster of sword-like limestone pinnacles. Both lie in a farming district of vegetable fields, navel-orange orchards and the Hengtang Reservoir, and make an easy outing from Fuchuan town."},{"id":"hezhou-shibashui","name":"Shibashui (Eighteen Waters) Scenic Area","name_zh":"十八水","pinyin":"Shíbā Shuǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.5797,"lon":111.5487,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-shibashui","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley on the northern outskirts of Hezhou, below Gupo Mountain, where a stream drops through a long chain of waterfalls and pools, a type of stepped cascade uncommon in southern China. Paths climb beside the falls through the woods."},{"id":"hezhou-xixi-forest-hot-spring","name":"Xixi Forest Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"西溪森林温泉","pinyin":"Xīxī Sēnlín Wēnquán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.3572,"lon":111.9676,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-xixi-forest-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in forested hills at Nanxiang town in eastern Hezhou, where the spring water comes out at up to 86.5°C. More than a hundred outdoor pools are spread through the woods, from plain spring-water pools to a children's water park and a hilltop infinity pool, with hotel rooms, villas and inns on site. Most guests come from neighbouring Guangdong, and it suits an overnight soak rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"zhongshan-yingjia-village","name":"Yingjia Village & CPC Guangxi Provincial Committee Memorial Park","name_zh":"英家·中共广西省工委纪念园","pinyin":"Yīngjiā · Zhōnggòng Guǎngxī Shěng Gōngwěi Jìniànyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.4432,"lon":111.0864,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongshan-yingjia-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yingjia, in Qingtang town in south-western Zhongshan County, is an old market village near the Xiaohe Ancient Road that prospered from the late Ming onward. From 1942 to 1945 it was a base of the Communist Party's Guangxi provincial working committee, and in June 1947 it was the scene of the Yingjia uprising; a museum on the committee's history opened in 2016. The village also keeps the Yuedong Guild Hall, built in 1777 by merchants from Guangdong, a brick, timber and stone hall known for its carving."},{"id":"hezhou-ziyun-cave","name":"Ziyun Cave (Ziyun Wonderland)","name_zh":"紫云洞","pinyin":"Zǐyún Dòng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Hezhou","lat":24.3724,"lon":111.5121,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhou-ziyun-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone cave in a karst hill at Limu village, Etang town, on the south-western edge of Hezhou city, lit with coloured lights. In 2023 its operator, the Guangxi Tourism Development Group, added a 17-scene show in the cave that combines projections, sound and mixed-reality headsets with the formations and with Yao legends."},{"id":"wuxuan-baiya-grand-canyon","name":"Baiya Grand Canyon","name_zh":"百崖大峡谷","pinyin":"Bǎiyá Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.7003,"lon":109.8856,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxuan-baiya-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 10 km red-rock (Danxia-type) canyon in the hills of north-eastern Wuxuan, 5–40 m wide, with 37 bends, ten waterfalls and hundreds of steep side gorges that give it the name 'hundred cliffs'. Paths lead through forest with tree ferns and other protected plants past pools and cascades, among them the Tiannü Sanhua fall with a single drop of 86 m; the site reopened in 2022 after new walkways and a visitor centre were built."},{"id":"wuxuan-baxian-tianchi","name":"Baxian Tianchi (Eight Immortals Lake)","name_zh":"八仙天池","pinyin":"Bāxiān Tiānchí","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.5418,"lon":109.6527,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxuan-baxian-tianchi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake about 150 m long and 100 m wide lying more than 100 m up a hillside south of Wuxuan, ringed by eight small peaks that gave it the name 'Eight Immortals'. The county gazetteer notes that its level hardly changes in flood or drought; it was listed as a Guangxi scenic area in 1988 and opened to visitors in 2018."},{"id":"jinxiu-panwangjie-lianhua-mountain","name":"Dayaoshan Panwangjie (Lianhua Mountain)","name_zh":"大瑶山盘王界","pinyin":"Dàyáoshān Pánwáng Jiè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":24.1395,"lon":110.1245,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiu-panwangjie-lianhua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Formerly the Lianhua (Lotus) Mountain scenic area, a 23 km² area of quartz-sandstone peaks north-west of Jinxiu whose main summit rises to 1,350 m and whose cluster of pinnacles resembles a lotus bud. Trails climb through old forest past stone pinnacles, cliffs and deep ravines to viewpoints over seas of cloud, and there is a temple to Panhu, the legendary ancestor of the Yao."},{"id":"wuxuan-guo-songnian-manor","name":"Guo Songnian Manor","name_zh":"武宣郭氏庄园","pinyin":"Wǔxuān Guō Shì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.4828,"lon":109.6517,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxuan-guo-songnian-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A manor house begun in 1920 by Guo Songnian, a late-Qing scholar-graduate, in Yagang village in southern Wuxuan, covering about 2,800 m² and combining Chinese and Western architectural styles. It became a national heritage site in 2019 and is one of more than 20 early-20th-century manors in the county."},{"id":"jinxiu-gushagou","name":"Gushagou","name_zh":"古沙沟","pinyin":"Gǔshā Gōu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":24.2048,"lon":110.3534,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiu-gushagou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain area in north-eastern Jinxiu, largely inside the Dayao Mountains national nature reserve, combining rafting on the Changliu River gorge, the Lingzu canyon with its clear stream and coloured pebbles, the old village of Lingzu, red maple woods on Niulingding and the high Yao village of Bale. A glass walkway along the cliffs at Bale's Shimen pass looks out over the ridges, and the uplands are used for paragliding and hiking."},{"id":"xiangzhou-guxiang-hot-springs","name":"Guxiang Hot Springs (Xiangzhou Hot Springs)","name_zh":"古象温泉","pinyin":"Gǔxiàng Wēnquán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.9784,"lon":109.7518,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangzhou-guxiang-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort at Reshui ('hot water') village east of Xiangzhou town, built around the Xiangzhou hot springs, with bathing pools set among green hills, fields and village houses. It makes a relaxing stop on the way between Laibin or Liuzhou and the Dayao Mountains."},{"id":"heshan-national-mine-park","name":"Heshan National Mine Park","name_zh":"合山国家矿山公园","pinyin":"Héshān Guójiā Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.884,"lon":108.9147,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heshan-national-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial heritage park on about 27 hectares of the former east mine of the Heshan Mining Bureau, Guangxi's first coal-mining enterprise, beside national road 322. It has a mine-park museum, an underground coal-mining experience, a steam locomotive, a train restaurant, the ruins of the coal-preparation building and a hall of mining machinery, plus karting and other rides."},{"id":"xincheng-mo-chieftain-office","name":"Mo Chieftain's Office (Mo Tusi Yamen)","name_zh":"莫土司衙署","pinyin":"Mò Tǔsī Yáshǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":24.0651,"lon":108.6695,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xincheng-mo-chieftain-office","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The administrative seat and residence of the Mo family, hereditary local chieftains (tusi) who governed Xincheng under the Ming and Qing, begun in 1582 and used until the chieftain system was abolished in 1906. Laid out on a north-facing axis at the foot of Cuiping Hill over more than 4 hectares, it has a gate, three halls, a rear garden and ancestral halls, surrounded by officials' mansions, a pavilion, a cave and a drill ground that now houses a chieftain-culture exhibition. It is described as the largest and most complete chieftain's office surviving in south-west China."},{"id":"jinxiu-shanshui-yaocheng","name":"Shanshui Yaocheng (Jinxiu Town)","name_zh":"山水瑶城","pinyin":"Shānshuǐ Yáochéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":24.1387,"lon":110.1838,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiu-shanshui-yaocheng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jinxiu county town, at about 775 m in the Jinxiu River valley in the heart of the Dayao Mountains, is described by the county as the highest county town in Guangxi; it has been rebuilt in Yao style and made a 4A scenic area as a whole. Its sights include the Yao Museum, the Gongde and Santing bridges, the Panwang Valley, Yaodu Square and streets of Yao crafts and food. It is the base for exploring the Dayao Mountains, home to five distinct Yao groups."},{"id":"jinxiu-shengtang-lake","name":"Shengtang Lake","name_zh":"圣堂湖","pinyin":"Shèngtáng Hú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":24.0541,"lon":110.1114,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiu-shengtang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir and river gorge at the foot of Shengtang Mountain in south-eastern Jinxiu, where the river winds between peaks and cliffs of red sandstone. Visitors come for boat trips on the reservoir, rafting on the river and swimming in spring-fed pools, and the scenic area also presents Yao village customs."},{"id":"jinxiu-shengtang-mountain","name":"Shengtang Mountain","name_zh":"圣堂山","pinyin":"Shèngtáng Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.9735,"lon":110.1128,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiu-shengtang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main peak of the Dayao Mountains and, at 1,979 m, the highest summit in central Guangxi, revered by the Yao as a holy mountain. Its often cloud-wrapped ridges of purple-red sandstone carry pines, rhododendrons that flower in May, stone rivers left by ancient glaciation and a Ming-dynasty stone wall."},{"id":"laibin-penglaizhou-time-island","name":"Time Island Resort, Penglaizhou","name_zh":"蓬莱洲时光岛","pinyin":"Pénglái Zhōu Shíguāng Dǎo","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.698,"lon":109.3181,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to overnight","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laibin-penglaizhou-time-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort on Penglaizhou, an island of about 27 hectares in the Hongshui River east of Laibin, with steep karst banks, rocky outcrops and thick vegetation. Guests stay at the island hotel, take boat trips around the island, barbecue and join local food activities such as making oil tea and glutinous rice cakes. The island also holds the site of the Song-dynasty seat of Xiangzhou, a protected archaeological site."},{"id":"laibin-wenhui-pagoda","name":"Wenhui Pagoda","name_zh":"来宾文辉塔","pinyin":"Láibīn Wénhuī Tǎ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.6507,"lon":108.9913,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laibin-wenhui-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty pagoda in Fuji village near Qianjiang in western Laibin, built in the Wanli reign by the garrison commander Huang Wenhui, after whom it is named. It was listed by Guangxi in 2009 and became a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"wuxuan-xialiantang-village","name":"Xialiantang Village","name_zh":"下莲塘","pinyin":"Xià Liántáng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":23.6279,"lon":109.8644,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxuan-xialiantang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Liu family in eastern Wuxuan, set among ponds and old longan groves, with two notable buildings: the General's Mansion, a walled Qing courtyard compound begun in 1801 with 175 rooms where about a hundred people still live, and the Liu Bingyu Manor of 1908. The manor, built by an army general of the Republican era, combines a traditional courtyard plan with Western-style architecture and became a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"xincheng-lavender-manor","name":"Xincheng Lavender Manor","name_zh":"忻城薰衣草庄园","pinyin":"Xīnchéng Xūnyīcǎo Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":24.0266,"lon":108.6444,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xincheng-lavender-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower farm on the southern edge of Xincheng town, billed as the largest lavender estate in Guangxi, with fields of lavender, verbena and other flowering plants laid out for strolling and photography. Visit in the flowering season, as by late autumn few plants are in bloom."},{"id":"jinxiu-yinshan-forest-park","name":"Yinshan (Cathaya) Forest Park","name_zh":"银杉森林公园","pinyin":"Yínshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Laibin","lat":24.1689,"lon":110.2439,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinxiu-yinshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the Dayao Mountains national nature reserve north-east of Jinxiu town, named after the Cathaya (yinshan), a rare conifer found only in China, which grows here with southern yew and Bretschneidera. It is the part of the reserve richest in rare species, including macaques and the golden Kaiser-i-Hind butterfly, and also has the site of a 'sent-down youth' camp and the Dayaoshan ecology museum."},{"id":"liujiang-bagongtang-wetland-park","name":"Bagongtang Wetland Park","name_zh":"岜公塘湿地公园","pinyin":"Bāgōngtáng Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.226,"lon":109.3325,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liujiang-bagongtang-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park of about 107 hectares in the new town of Liujiang District, created from a large pond and opened in October 2019. Paths and bridges circle the lake, with a bird island where egrets gather, flower meadows and the Bagong pagoda set against a karst hill, and the park is lit up at night."},{"id":"liuzhou-bailiandong-cave-museum","name":"Bailiandong Cave Science Museum","name_zh":"白莲洞洞穴科学博物馆","pinyin":"Báiliándòng Dòngxué Kēxué Bówùguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.2137,"lon":109.4271,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liuzhou-bailiandong-cave-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum at Bailian Cave, a limestone cave about 1,870 m long south of Liuzhou where digs since 1956 have yielded stone tools, human teeth, animal fossils and traces of fire spanning roughly 37,000 to 7,000 years ago. The site museum and a newer exhibition hall display the finds, including river-snail shells that show how long people here have eaten snails."},{"id":"liujiang-baipeng-lotus-garden","name":"Baipeng Lotus Garden","name_zh":"百朋荷苑","pinyin":"Bǎipéng Héyuàn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.185,"lon":109.2644,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liujiang-baipeng-lotus-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lotus-growing area at Baipeng, the centre of Liujiang's double-crop lotus-root farming, with about 45 hectares of lotus fields in a scenic area of about 79 hectares. Boardwalks cross the ponds, a small sightseeing train runs between them, farm restaurants serve lotus-root dishes, and a lotus festival is held each summer."},{"id":"sanjiang-batuan-bridge","name":"Batuan Bridge","name_zh":"岜团桥","pinyin":"Bātuán Qiáo","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.9381,"lon":109.475,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-batuan-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dong wind-and-rain bridge over the Mengjiang River at Batuan village in Dudong, built between 1896 and 1910. It is about 50 m long on a single stone pier, with three pavilions over the pier and the two ends, and has separate lanes for people and for livestock."},{"id":"sanjiang-buyang-xianren-mountain","name":"Buyang Xianren Mountain Tea Hills","name_zh":"布央仙人山","pinyin":"Bùyāng Xiānrén Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.8555,"lon":109.5131,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-buyang-xianren-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tea gardens covering the hillsides of Buyang, a Dong village in Bajiang township, at about 600 to 1,000 m, where tea is the main crop and the early-spring harvest is the local speciality. Paths lead from the entrance through a maple grove and terraced tea gardens to a Dong hamlet, an old tea garden and a stretch of old trading path, and there are campsites and wooden cabins on the hill."},{"id":"sanjiang-danzhou-old-town","name":"Danzhou Old Town","name_zh":"丹洲古城","pinyin":"Dānzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.3716,"lon":109.4411,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-danzhou-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled old town on an island in the Rong River that served as the seat of Huaiyuan county (renamed Sanjiang in 1914) through the Ming, Qing and Republican periods. Its surviving sights include the Danzhou Academy, the Fujian-Guangdong guild hall, the east and north gate towers and stretches of the old wall, among about 33 hectares of pomelo orchards. Many villagers now run guesthouses and small restaurants."},{"id":"sanjiang-dong-tiangong","name":"Dong Tiangong Cultural Area","name_zh":"侗天宫","pinyin":"Dòng Tiāngōng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.7859,"lon":109.6002,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-dong-tiangong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A complex of new Dong-style timber buildings, including drum towers and covered corridors, around a cultural square in Guyi, Sanjiang's county town, opened in 2021 among 15 old sweetgum trees aged 100 to 200 years. Dong music shows with lusheng reed pipes, leaf-blown songs and pipa ballads are staged for visitors, and evening opening began in 2024 with a music festival."},{"id":"liuzhou-dule-scenic-area","name":"Dule Rock Scenic Area","name_zh":"都乐岩","pinyin":"Dūlè Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.2291,"lon":109.4124,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-dule-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst landscape park about 12 km south of central Liuzhou made up of twelve limestone peaks, a clear stream and two man-made lakes. Lit paths link three show caves, Panlong, Tongtian and Shuiyun, about 680 m long in total, and a forest of inscribed steles includes calligraphy by the film actor Zhao Dan."},{"id":"liunan-fenghuanghe-resort","name":"Fenghuang River Eco-Tourism Resort","name_zh":"凤凰河生态旅游度假区","pinyin":"Fènghuánghé Shēngtài Lǚyóu Dùjiàqū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.4093,"lon":109.2935,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liunan-fenghuanghe-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the upper Liu River at Luoman, west of Liuzhou, developed as part of the Liu River tourism belt and rated 4A in 2015. It draws geothermal water from a deep well for public and private hot-spring pools, alongside a resort hotel, villas and outdoor activity areas."},{"id":"liubei-guangxi-eco-science-garden","name":"Guangxi Ecological Science Garden","name_zh":"广西生态科普苑","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Shēngtài Kēpǔyuàn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.4696,"lon":109.3781,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liubei-guangxi-eco-science-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A science-education scenic area on the campus of the Guangxi Eco-Engineering Vocational and Technical College in Shatang, north of Liuzhou, rated 4A in 2023. Visitors walk through its east and west gardens, groves of old and notable trees, the historic buildings of the former forestry school and the woodland around Junwu Lake, and it is used mainly for study tours."},{"id":"liujiang-gulinglong-liquor-park","name":"Gulinglong Infused-Liquor Factory Park","name_zh":"古岭龙","pinyin":"Gǔlǐnglóng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.033,"lon":109.3959,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liujiang-gulinglong-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial-tourism site at the Guangxi Gulinglong group's garden-style factory in Chuanshan town, which makes infused liquors, spirits steeped with herbs and, in some cases, snakes and other animals. Visitors see the brewing and bottling halls, a museum of infused liquor with jars of snakes and other creatures, a tasting hall, a collection of about 600 kinds of Chinese and foreign liquors, and a rooftop rice field."},{"id":"sanjiang-heli-three-kings-temple","name":"Heli Three Kings Temple","name_zh":"和里三王宫","pinyin":"Hélǐ Sānwáng Gōng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.7402,"lon":109.4803,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-heli-three-kings-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple complex in the Dong village of Heli, Liangkou township, built in a mix of Han Chinese and Dong styles and dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Four neighbouring villages held a joint rite to the Three Kings here each year on the second day of the second lunar month, and a stele set up in 1794 confirmed the temple as their shared ritual centre. Visitors see it together with the Renhe wind-and-rain bridge in the same village."},{"id":"liuzhou-ho-chi-minh-former-residence","name":"Ho Chi Minh's Former Residence, Liuzhou","name_zh":"胡志明旧居","pinyin":"Hú Zhìmíng Jiùjū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3018,"lon":109.4035,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-ho-chi-minh-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of sites linked with the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, who was detained in and later lived in Liuzhou between 1942 and 1944 while working with the Vietnamese Revolutionary League. The main site is the former Nanyang Inn on Liushi Road, built in 1930, where he lived from 1943 to 1944 and which now holds an exhibition on his time in Liuzhou. The listing also covers the nearby Lequn Society building, a cave on Panlong Hill where he was held, and the Red Building at the Liuzhou Hotel, where he met Zhou Enlai in July 1954."},{"id":"liudong-keliwan-happy-world","name":"Keliwan Happy World","name_zh":"克里湾欢乐世界","pinyin":"Kèlǐwān Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3865,"lon":109.5407,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liudong-keliwan-happy-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park in the Liudong New Area, opened in 2017 as Kale Planet and rated 4A in 2018, now operating under the Keliwan Happy World name beside the Liuzhou Garden Expo Park. It has outdoor rides and play areas aimed at families with children and teenagers."},{"id":"liudong-keliwan-water-park","name":"Keliwan Water Park","name_zh":"克里湾水乐园","pinyin":"Kèlǐwān Shuǐlèyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3855,"lon":109.5361,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liudong-keliwan-water-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An outdoor water park in the Liudong New Area with water rides and pools, mainly a summer outing for families and young people. It shares the Keliwan name with the neighbouring amusement park."},{"id":"rongshui-laojun-cave","name":"Laojun Cave","name_zh":"老君洞","pinyin":"Lǎojūn Dòng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.048,"lon":109.2391,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongshui-laojun-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst cave on the south-western edge of Rongshui town, also called Zhenxian Cave, through which the Lingshou stream flows for about 300 m past stalactites and cliff inscriptions. More than 30 inscriptions and 17 Song-dynasty steles survive, among them a passage from the Book of Changes in the hand of Sima Guang, and the Ming traveller Xu Xiake stayed here for 13 days. Two Song stone bridges cross the stream at the mouth, and during the war against Japan the cave housed an arsenal."},{"id":"liuzhou-liu-river-scenic-area","name":"Liu River Scenic Area (Baili Liujiang)","name_zh":"百里柳江","pinyin":"Bǎilǐ Liǔjiāng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3494,"lon":109.4188,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-liu-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The scenic stretch of the Liu River as it loops through central Liuzhou, lined with landscaped promenades on both banks. Sightseeing boats leave from the East Embankment pier, and after dark the banks are floodlit and a large musical fountain plays on the river by the north bank."},{"id":"liunan-liugong-industrial-tour","name":"LiuGong Industrial Tourism Site","name_zh":"柳工","pinyin":"Liǔgōng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3204,"lon":109.3598,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liunan-liugong-industrial-tour","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main works of LiuGong, the construction-machinery maker founded in Liuzhou in 1958 that built mainland China's first wheel loader in 1966, rated a 4A industrial-tourism site in 2018. The works receive study groups and visiting delegations and suit travellers interested in heavy industry."},{"id":"liuzhou-liuhou-park","name":"Liuhou Park and Liu Zongyuan Shrine","name_zh":"柳侯公园","pinyin":"Liǔhóu Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3204,"lon":109.4115,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liuzhou-liuhou-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city-centre park laid out from 1906 around the shrine to Liu Zongyuan, the Tang poet and essayist who governed Liuzhou and died here in 819. The shrine, founded in 822 and rebuilt in 1987 to a Qing plan, keeps about fifty steles from the Song dynasty onwards, among them the Lizi Stele of 1217 with a poem by Han Yu in Su Shi's calligraphy. Behind it is a memorial tomb holding Liu's robes and cap, and the park is a popular gathering place for local musicians and dancers."},{"id":"liuzhou-confucian-temple","name":"Liuzhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"柳州文庙","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3114,"lon":109.418,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern reconstruction of Liuzhou's Confucian temple, first founded in the early Tang dynasty, standing on the east bank of the Liu River below Dengtai Hill. The complex, mainly in Song style with southern Chinese details, comprises the Dacheng Gate, Dacheng Hall, Chongsheng Shrine and Minglun Hall, and hosts traditional-culture events on festivals."},{"id":"liudong-garden-expo-park","name":"Liuzhou Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"柳州园博园","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3858,"lon":109.5479,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liudong-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large landscaped park in the Liudong New Area, built for the first Guangxi Garden and Horticulture Expo and opened in October 2011. Its themed show gardens, lakeside promenades, fountain and flower squares and a greenhouse spread over about 42 hectares of planting and 12 hectares of water, with more than 380 plant species."},{"id":"liuzhou-industrial-museum","name":"Liuzhou Industrial Museum","name_zh":"柳州工业博物馆","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Gōngyè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3226,"lon":109.4248,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-industrial-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city industrial museum opened in 2012 in the sawtooth-roofed workshops of the former No. 3 Cotton Mill, on a site of about 11 hectares. Its main hall shows more than 6,000 machines and products made or used in Liuzhou since 1902, with steam and diesel locomotives outside, and further halls cover the city's companies and its recovery from acid-rain pollution."},{"id":"liunan-liuzhou-military-museum-park","name":"Liuzhou Military Museum Park (Old Liuzhou Airfield)","name_zh":"柳州军事博物园","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Jūnshì Bówùyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.2672,"lon":109.3928,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liunan-liuzhou-military-museum-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum park on the old Liuzhou airfield, built by the Guangxi provincial authorities in 1929 and used during the war against Japan by the Chinese air force, Soviet volunteer airmen and the American Flying Tigers; it was bombed many times and occupied by Japanese forces in 1944. Eighteen barrack buildings, a control tower and pillboxes survive, and the barracks house an exhibition on Liuzhou during the war. Aircraft, tanks, armoured vehicles, a patrol boat and artillery are displayed outdoors."},{"id":"liuzhou-museum","name":"Liuzhou Museum","name_zh":"柳州博物馆","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3217,"lon":109.4079,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city's main museum, founded in the late 1950s and housed since 2003 in a granite building in the style of a city gate on the east side of People's Square. Its permanent galleries cover fossils and prehistoric remains, Liuzhou's history, ethnic costume and silverwork, ancient bronzes, painted fans and calligraphy, carved inkstones and stone steles."},{"id":"liuzhou-urban-planning-exhibition-hall","name":"Liuzhou Urban Planning Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"柳州城市规划展览馆","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Chéngshì Guīhuà Zhǎnlǎnguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3286,"lon":109.4253,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-urban-planning-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A two-floor exhibition on the east bank of the Liu River about the city's history and planning. The ground floor centres on a 1:750 model of the whole city and a virtual tour along the river, and the upper floor covers bridges and other engineering works, ethnic culture and tourism in Liuzhou and its counties."},{"id":"liunan-liuzhou-zoo","name":"Liuzhou Zoo","name_zh":"柳州市动物园","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Shì Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.2655,"lon":109.4001,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liunan-liuzhou-zoo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city zoo on the southern edge of Liuzhou, which moved here from Liuhou Park in 2005 and keeps more than a hundred species. It has a big-cat area, an aviary, a small-animal area where children can feed animals and a herbivore enclosure crossed by boardwalks among sika deer and ostriches, and an ice-and-snow play area opened in 2024."},{"id":"rongshui-longnu-gully","name":"Longnü Gully","name_zh":"龙女沟","pinyin":"Lóngnǚ Gōu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.3127,"lon":109.1232,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongshui-longnu-gully","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A valley in Sirong township on the south-western slopes of Yuanbao Mountain, with clear pools, waterfalls and forest beside Miao and Dong villages of wooden houses and drum towers. Sights include the Longnü Pool and waterfall, terraced fields and the Red Army Bridge, first built by the Red Seventh Army when it passed through in 1930 and later rebuilt as a Dong wind-and-rain bridge."},{"id":"liuzhou-longtan-park","name":"Longtan Park","name_zh":"龙潭公园","pinyin":"Lóngtán Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.2804,"lon":109.4065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-longtan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large karst park in southern Liuzhou, with 24 limestone peaks around two spring-fed pools, Longtan and Leitan, that steam on winter mornings, and a lake crossed by a covered bridge. Near the pools are Ming-dynasty cliff inscriptions on Lei Hill, a stele pavilion recalling Liu Zongyuan's prayer for rain here, reconstructed Zhuang, Yao, Miao and Dong houses and a nine-tier drum tower. At the foot of Longtan Hill a display hall covers the Liyuzui shell-midden site, where human remains about 12,000 to 7,000 years old and Neolithic layers were excavated in 1980."},{"id":"liunan-luosifen-town","name":"Luosifen Town","name_zh":"螺蛳粉小镇","pinyin":"Luósīfěn Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3644,"lon":109.2817,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liunan-luosifen-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A themed town at Taiyangcun, west of Liuzhou, developed since 2018 around luosifen, the city's river-snail rice-noodle soup, and recognised as a national modern agricultural industrial park. It brings together raw-material farms, noodle factories and study-tour facilities, and its hilltop launch site is a paragliding base that hosted the Guangxi championships in 2024."},{"id":"liuzhou-luowei-luosifen-industrial-park","name":"Luowei Luosifen Industrial Park","name_zh":"洛维螺蛳粉产业园","pinyin":"Luòwéi Luósīfěn Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.2382,"lon":109.4441,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-luowei-luosifen-industrial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial park in the Luowei area of southern Liuzhou where packaged luosifen, the city's river-snail rice-noodle soup, is made, rated a 4A industrial-tourism site in 2018. Visitors watch the automated packing lines from viewing corridors and tour a luosifen culture exhibition hall, and it suits food-minded travellers and school groups."},{"id":"liuzhou-malushan-stone-park","name":"Malu Hill Stone Park and Liuzhou Stone Museum","name_zh":"马鹿山奇石博览园","pinyin":"Mǎlùshān Qíshí Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.34,"lon":109.4393,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-malushan-stone-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside park in eastern Liuzhou built around ornamental stones, a long-standing local passion. Its centrepiece is the Liuzhou Stone Museum, a stone-shaped building whose three floors show stones from the Hongshui River, from elsewhere in China and abroad, and minerals and fossils, and a large stone market lies across the road."},{"id":"sanjiang-mapang-drum-tower","name":"Mapang Drum Tower","name_zh":"马胖鼓楼","pinyin":"Mǎpàng Gǔlóu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.9439,"lon":109.585,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-mapang-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The drum tower of Mapang, a Dong village in Bajiang township, first built in the Qing dynasty and rebuilt in 1943. Square in plan with 11.5 m sides and 13 m tall, it rises in nine tiers of eaves on a timber frame with four main pillars, and is counted among the largest historic Dong drum towers."},{"id":"rongshui-mengwu-miao-village","name":"Mengwu Miao Village Folk Culture Park","name_zh":"梦呜苗寨","pinyin":"Mèngwū Miáozhài","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.1074,"lon":109.2358,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongshui-mengwu-miao-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Miao culture park inside the Shuanglong Gully resort, set up around 2018 by dismantling stilt houses in remote mountain villages and rebuilding them here, with some of their Miao owners resettled to work in the park. It has reconstructed stilt houses and covered bridges, staged Miao song-and-dance shows, and craft halls where visitors watch lusheng-making, Miao embroidery and silversmithing."},{"id":"liuzhou-oriental-dream-works-liukong","name":"Oriental Dream Works – Liukong Creative Park","name_zh":"东方梦工场·柳空文创园","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Mènggōngchǎng · Liǔkōng Wénchuàngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3824,"lon":109.3966,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-oriental-dream-works-liukong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A creative park in the former Liuzhou Air Compressor Works, a state factory founded in 1958 and listed as national industrial heritage in 2021. Its red-brick workshops now hold a cinema, an industrial experience hall, an art gallery, a theatre and studios, and the park was rated 4A in 2020."},{"id":"liubei-queershan-park","name":"Que'er Hill Park","name_zh":"雀儿山公园","pinyin":"Què'érshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3707,"lon":109.4002,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liubei-queershan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park on a peninsula-shaped hill in Liubei District, surrounded by lakes on three sides, whose summit, about 180 m above sea level, looks out over the northern industrial district. Lakeside paths, flower gardens and a children's amusement area make it a weekend spot for local families."},{"id":"liudong-baojun-base-industrial-tour","name":"SAIC-GM-Wuling Baojun Base","name_zh":"上汽通用五菱宝骏基地","pinyin":"Shàngqì Tōngyòng Wǔlíng Bǎojùn Jīdì","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.396,"lon":109.5704,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liudong-baojun-base-industrial-tour","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Baojun car plant of SAIC-GM-Wuling in the Liudong New Area, rated 4A in 2018 and opened for industrial tours in June 2019. Guided routes lead past production lines, a new-energy vehicle laboratory, a company history hall and an exhibition on electric, connected and self-driving cars, and there is a test-drive area."},{"id":"sanjiang-county-town-dong-scenic-area","name":"Sanjiang Great Dong Village (County Town)","name_zh":"三江大侗寨","pinyin":"Sānjiāng Dà Dòngzhài","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.7853,"lon":109.6081,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-county-town-dong-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The scenic area covering the modern Dong-style landmarks of Guyi, Sanjiang's county town, rated 4A in 2012. Its centrepiece is the Sanjiang Drum Tower, 42.6 m tall with 27 tiers of eaves, built in 2002 under the master carpenter Yang Siyu, with viewing decks inside, and the area also takes in the Sanjiang wind-and-rain bridge, the 'Dong Bird's Nest' bullfighting arena, a stele corridor on Dong history and Moon Street, a street of shops in Dong style."},{"id":"sanjiang-sanjiangkou-eco-tourism-area","name":"Sanjiangkou Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"三江口生态旅游区","pinyin":"Sānjiāngkǒu Shēngtài Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.6641,"lon":109.463,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-sanjiangkou-eco-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside area at Laobao, where the Duliu (Rongjiang) and Xun rivers meet and become the Rong River, rated a 4A scenic area in 2023. It combines boat trips along the rivers, an old banyan grove at Chankou village, visits to Dong villages, and farming, camping and leisure activities on Yongxing islet."},{"id":"rongan-shimen-xianhu","name":"Shimen Fairy Lake","name_zh":"石门仙湖","pinyin":"Shímén Xiānhú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.8706,"lon":109.3744,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongan-shimen-xianhu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst scenic area of about 470 hectares around the Shimen reservoir in Daliang town, named after a huge natural stone gateway near its entrance. A glass walkway runs along the cliff, boardwalks lead through upper, middle and lower caves linked by an underground river, and boats continue from the lower cave onto the lake. Old cliff inscriptions and the ruins of an academy add some history."},{"id":"rongshui-shuanglong-gully","name":"Shuanglong Gully Forest Resort","name_zh":"双龙沟","pinyin":"Shuānglóng Gōu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.1108,"lon":109.23,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongshui-shuanglong-gully","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley north-west of Rongshui town with about 420 hectares of old-growth public-welfare forest, two streams, waterfalls and a small reservoir. Trails lead through the forest, and the resort adds a glass suspension bridge, zip lines and other adventure activities; the Mengwu Miao culture park lies within it."},{"id":"rongan-xiancaotang-reishi-factory","name":"Xiancaotang Reishi Mushroom Factory","name_zh":"仙草堂生态灵芝透明工厂","pinyin":"Xiāncǎotáng Shēngtài Língzhī Tòumíng Gōngchǎng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.2022,"lon":109.3897,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongan-xiancaotang-reishi-factory","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A see-through factory of the Guangxi Xiancaotang pharmaceutical company in Rong'an's county town, where visitors follow the growing and processing of lingzhi (reishi) mushrooms. It has smart greenhouses that imitate mountain-forest conditions, production halls open to view, a lingzhi science hall and a restaurant serving lingzhi dishes."},{"id":"luzhai-xianghe-xiangyun-lotus-fields","name":"Xianghe Xiangyun Lotus Fields","name_zh":"祥荷乡韵","pinyin":"Xiánghé Xiāngyùn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.6952,"lon":109.6864,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luzhai-xianghe-xiangyun-lotus-fields","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A farming and leisure area around Shixiang hamlet near Zhongdu, centred on about 67 hectares of lotus ponds among karst peaks, rated 4A in 2018. The lotus flowers in summer, when boardwalks lead across the ponds past waterwheels, and a cycling route links the fields with Zhongdu Old Town, the Xiangshui waterfall and the Xiangqiao karst geopark."},{"id":"luzhai-xiangqiao-karst-geopark","name":"Xiangqiao Karst National Geopark","name_zh":"香桥岩","pinyin":"Xiāngqiáo Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.7481,"lon":109.6571,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luzhai-xiangqiao-karst-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national geopark of karst scenery in Zhongdu town, with caves, underground rivers, a natural stone bridge and sinkholes among wooded limestone hills. The Jiulong (Nine Dragons) Cave lies at the end of a cycling route from Zhongdu Old Town past the Xiangshui waterfall and a stone forest."},{"id":"sanjiang-yueye-dong-village","name":"Yueye Dong Village","name_zh":"月也侗寨","pinyin":"Yuèyě Dòngzhài","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":25.7821,"lon":109.6116,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanjiang-yueye-dong-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A purpose-built Dong-style leisure quarter of about 4.8 hectares in the centre of Sanjiang's county town, built and run by the state-owned Guangxi Tourism Development Group and rated 4A in 2020. Its main draw is Zuomei Sanjiang, an evening staged song-and-dance show about Dong courtship customs, alongside a night market, long-table banquets and buffalo fights held on holidays."},{"id":"liuzhou-yufeng-hill","name":"Yufeng Hill (Liyufeng Scenic Area)","name_zh":"立鱼峰","pinyin":"Lìyúfēng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.3034,"lon":109.4051,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhou-yufeng-hill","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two limestone hills rising from the city on the south bank of the Liu River: Yufeng Hill, about 156 m above sea level, and the taller Ma'an Hill. Yufeng Park is themed on the folk singer Liu Sanjie, who in legend sang here and rode a carp into the sky from the pool below, and a cave halfway up holds painted figures telling her story. From Ma'an Hill's summit there are views over the loop of the river and the whole city."},{"id":"liucheng-zhiqing-town","name":"Zhiqing Town (Educated Youth Town)","name_zh":"知青城","pinyin":"Zhīqīng Chéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.6697,"lon":109.1731,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liucheng-zhiqing-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A theme village at Luoya on the Rong River, where more than 400 urban 'educated youth' were sent to live and farm during the Down to the Countryside Movement. The lane from the jetty to the village square is lined with houses painted with period slogans and murals and hung with old photographs, and the village has a museum on the movement."},{"id":"luzhai-zhongdu-old-town","name":"Zhongdu Old Town","name_zh":"中渡古镇","pinyin":"Zhōngdù Gǔzhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Liuzhou","lat":24.6774,"lon":109.6961,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luzhai-zhongdu-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A market town in north-western Luzhai county with nearly 2,000 years of history, listed as a national historic and cultural town. Its old quarter keeps Ming- and Qing-era houses, the Yuedong (Cantonese) guild hall, a Guandi temple whose restoration was completed in 2023, and a banyan-shaded river wharf. A cycling route leads on past lotus fields, the Xiangshui waterfall and a stone forest to the Xiangqiao karst geopark."},{"id":"nanning-bagui-tianyuan","name":"Bagui Tianyuan Agricultural Park","name_zh":"八桂田园","pinyin":"Bāguì Tiányuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8554,"lon":108.24,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-bagui-tianyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern agriculture showcase set up in 1999 by the Guangxi Department of Agriculture on the training farm of the provincial agricultural school and now run under Guangxi Agricultural Vocational University. Greenhouses and demonstration plots show fruit, vegetables and flowers grown with modern methods, and it suits families and school groups interested in farming."},{"id":"nanning-baiyi-shanghe-city","name":"Baiyi Shanghe City","name_zh":"百益·上河城","pinyin":"Bǎiyì Shànghéchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7899,"lon":108.3016,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-baiyi-shanghe-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A creative and leisure district in the red-brick workshops of the former Nanning silk-spinning mill, built in 1966, south of the Yong River in Jiangnan District, converted and opened in 2018. The old factory buildings now hold an industrial-history gallery, exhibition and performance spaces, craft shops of intangible-heritage makers, cafés, bars and restaurants, and the district is liveliest in the evening."},{"id":"hengzhou-china-jasmine-garden","name":"China Jasmine Garden, Hengzhou","name_zh":"中华茉莉园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Mòlì Yuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.785,"lon":109.2527,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengzhou-china-jasmine-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A jasmine park of variety gardens, a wetland lake and wide flower fields around Shijing village in Xiaoyi town, at the centre of Hengzhou's jasmine industry, which produces more than 80 per cent of China's jasmine flowers and jasmine tea. In the summer picking season visitors can walk the fields, watch growers picking the buds and try picking themselves, and the Shijing jasmine market nearby trades the day's flowers."},{"id":"shanglin-dalong-lake","name":"Dalong Lake","name_zh":"大龙湖","pinyin":"Dàlóng Hú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.5781,"lon":108.5799,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanglin-dalong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake in the karst hills of Xiyan town in northern Shanglin County, formed in 1958 by damming underground water, which now covers about 560 hectares with 14 small islands and 16 caves. Boat trips on the lake pass limestone peaks nicknamed Lotus, Penguin and Peacock hills, and visitors can also go into Dalong Cave on the shore."},{"id":"shanglin-damiaojiang","name":"Damiaojiang Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"大庙江","pinyin":"Dàmiào Jiāng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.2438,"lon":108.6493,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanglin-damiaojiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An outdoor recreation area of about 630 hectares at the foot of the Daming Mountains nature reserve in Shanglin County, built around a forest rafting run on the Damiao River. Besides the rafting it has stream walks to waterfalls, a wetland park, a wisteria walk lined with windmills and a children's play area, and it suits families looking for a summer day in the hills."},{"id":"wuming-daming-mountain","name":"Daming Mountain","name_zh":"大明山","pinyin":"Dàmíng Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.517,"lon":108.3839,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuming-daming-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain range in central Guangxi, about 68 km long and spanning Wuming, Shanglin, Mashan and Binyang, whose main peak, Longtou Shan, reaches 1,760 m, the highest in central-southern Guangxi, and which the Tropic of Cancer crosses. Most of it is a national nature reserve of about 17,000 hectares with almost complete forest cover, and the scenic area, entered from Liangjiang town on the Wuming side, lies at an average altitude of about 1,200 m."},{"id":"yongning-dingsishan-site","name":"Dingsishan Neolithic Site","name_zh":"顶蛳山遗址","pinyin":"Dǐngsīshān Yízhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7209,"lon":108.4695,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongning-dingsishan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A freshwater shell-midden site on a terrace where the Bachi River meets a stream, lived on from about 10,000 to 6,000 years ago and excavated between 1997 and 2000, when 331 burials, many of them tightly flexed, were found; it gave its name to the Dingsishan culture, the first Neolithic culture defined in Guangxi. A site park and a shell-shaped museum with about 1,300 m² of galleries and more than 200 artefacts opened with the neighbouring Garden Expo Park in 2018, inside a 4A countryside area of farmland, fruit picking and campsites."},{"id":"wuming-dream-town","name":"Dream Town (Mengxiangcheng)","name_zh":"梦想城","pinyin":"Mèngxiǎng Chéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.0472,"lon":108.2821,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuming-dream-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern resort area built in imitation of the Austrian lakeside village of Hallstatt, set by a lake among karst peaks near Yiling Cave in Shuangqiao town. Its European-style streets and lakeside buildings serve mainly as a large wedding and wedding-photography base, so it suits photographers and couples rather than visitors looking for history."},{"id":"nanning-fengling-childrens-park","name":"Fengling Children's Park","name_zh":"凤岭儿童公园","pinyin":"Fènglǐng Értóng Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8234,"lon":108.3937,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-fengling-childrens-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A children's park of about 56 hectares laid out over hilly ground in the Fengling district of eastern Nanning, opened on 1 June 2012. It has an amusement park of themed zones with rides, including roller coasters and a Ferris wheel, a summer water park and grassy slopes for play, and suits families with children."},{"id":"wuming-flower-world","name":"Flower World of Nanning","name_zh":"花花大世界","pinyin":"Huāhuā Dà Shìjiè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.011,"lon":108.2736,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuming-flower-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower-themed leisure park of about 113 hectares in Shuangqiao town, Wuming, with seasonal flower fields, bougainvillea gardens, a large lawn, lotus ponds crossed by a Zhuang-style covered bridge and a hilltop walkway with a glass section. A European-style chapel on a patch of artificial white sand is used for weddings and photo shoots, and festival events such as Spring Festival fireworks and lion dances are staged for families."},{"id":"nanning-former-yucai-school","name":"Former Nanning Yucai School","name_zh":"南宁育才学校旧址","pinyin":"Nánníng Yùcái Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8704,"lon":108.2573,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-former-yucai-school","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Nanning Yucai School was set up in October 1951 at Ho Chi Minh's request to train Vietnamese cadres, teachers and young people under the Vietnamese name Khu Học Xá Trung Ương; Vietnamese staff ran it and taught mostly in Vietnamese, with Chinese support, and about 7,000 students passed through it in seven years. The listed building is a Qing-dynasty clan ancestral hall in Hede village, Xinxu, where the school began. In 1954 the school moved to a new campus, now Guangxi University's west campus, where a statue of Ho Chi Minh with children and a photo exhibition on the school stand."},{"id":"hengzhou-fubo-temple","name":"Fubo Temple, Hengzhou","name_zh":"伏波庙","pinyin":"Fúbō Miào","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7966,"lon":109.4418,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengzhou-fubo-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to Ma Yuan, the Eastern Han general titled the Fubo ('Wave-Subduing') General, on the north bank of the Yu River at the Wuman Rapids, which tradition says his troops cleared for boats during his southern campaign. Founded before the Song dynasty and rebuilt many times, it is the largest temple to Ma Yuan in southern Guangxi, laid out around three courtyards with bell and drum towers, an archway, a covered gallery and front, middle and rear halls. Parts were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and the restoration was completed in 2008."},{"id":"nanning-golden-camellia-park","name":"Golden Camellia Park","name_zh":"金花茶公园","pinyin":"Jīnhuāchá Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8208,"lon":108.3512,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-golden-camellia-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city park on the west side of Nanhu Lake devoted to golden camellias, rare yellow-flowered camellias under national protection, with a gene bank that collects and studies many kinds of them alongside other camellias and tea plants. The bushes flower from November to April, at their best in January and February, and a small science hall explains the plants."},{"id":"nanning-guangxi-medicinal-botanical-garden","name":"Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants","name_zh":"广西药用植物园","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Yàoyòng Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8575,"lon":108.3741,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-guangxi-medicinal-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A research botanical garden founded in 1959 on 202 hectares of low hills on the north-eastern edge of Nanning, which conserves more than 10,000 species of medicinal plants and was certified by Guinness World Records in 2011 as the largest medicinal botanical garden. Themed areas cover Guangxi's own medicinal plants, trees, climbers, shade plants, the ginger family, tropical plants and medicinal animals, and it serves as a teaching base for traditional Chinese medicine."},{"id":"nanning-gaofeng-forest-park","name":"Guangxi Gaofeng Forest Park","name_zh":"广西高峰森林公园","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Gāofēng Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.9517,"lon":108.3575,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-gaofeng-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park run by the state-owned Gaofeng Forest Farm in the hills on Nanning's northern edge, with a core area of about 1,200 hectares and around 90 per cent forest cover. Its attractions include a glass bridge, forest go-karts, a viewing platform over the city, a water slide and children's play areas, as well as a China–Vietnam Friendship Forest grown from Manglietia seeds that Ho Chi Minh gave to Zhou Enlai in the 1960s."},{"id":"nanning-guangxi-museum-of-nationalities","name":"Guangxi Museum of Nationalities","name_zh":"广西民族博物馆","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Mínzú Bówùguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7772,"lon":108.3978,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanning-guangxi-museum-of-nationalities/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum of the cultures of Guangxi's 12 long-established ethnic groups beside the Yong River within the Qingxiu Mountain scenic area, completed in December 2008 and opened to the public in May 2009, in a main building whose shape is taken from a bronze drum. Its four permanent exhibitions cover bronze drums, the ethnic cultures of Guangxi, Zhuang culture and everyday objects of the past century, and an open-air park shows traditional houses of different groups."},{"id":"nanning-guangxi-planning-exhibition-hall","name":"Guangxi Planning Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"广西规划馆","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Guīhuàguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7575,"lon":108.3703,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-guangxi-planning-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large exhibition hall in the Wuxiang New Area, opened on 8 November 2011, presenting Guangxi's development and its urban and regional planning in about 46,000 m² of floor space. Its three floors of galleries include a digital display centre, halls on Guangxi's landscapes and on cooperation with ASEAN, and a gallery of gifts of friendship, and it suits visitors curious about modern Guangxi."},{"id":"nanning-guangxi-science-technology-museum","name":"Guangxi Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"广西科技馆","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Kējìguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.815,"lon":108.3261,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-guangxi-science-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangxi's main science museum, founded in 1983 and moved into a new building near Minzu Square in December 2008, with about 9,000 m² of permanent exhibitions on engineering, information technology and bioengineering. There are also temporary exhibitions, a youth science studio and special-format cinemas, and the building's design draws on Elephant Trunk Hill, Yangshuo's Moon Hill, oyster shells and bronze drums."},{"id":"nanning-guangxi-museum","name":"Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum","name_zh":"广西壮族自治区博物馆","pinyin":"Guǎngxī Zhuàngzú Zìzhìqū Bówùguǎn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8151,"lon":108.3311,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanning-guangxi-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangxi's main history museum, founded in 1934 and a national first-grade museum, which reopened on Minzu Square in November 2022 after more than four years of rebuilding that doubled its floor space and enlarged its galleries to about 10,000 m². Its largest gallery traces Guangxi's history from Palaeolithic hand axes 800,000 years old to the Ming and Qing dynasties, with bronze drums such as the Western Han drum with flying egrets from Luobowan, and other halls show porcelain and a dragon carriage given by the Sultan of Brunei."},{"id":"binyang-gula-daohuaxiangli","name":"Gula Daohuaxiangli (Cai Family Mansion)","name_zh":"古辣稻花香里","pinyin":"Gǔlà Dàohuā Xiānglǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.1051,"lon":108.9891,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binyang-gula-daohuaxiangli","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area of about 72 hectares in Cai village near Gula town, built around the Cai family's old residential compound of more than 180 rooms, whose halls, courtyards and corner watchtowers date from rebuilding after 1859 in the late Qing dynasty. The village is surrounded by water on three sides and by rice fields, and since it opened as a scenic area in October 2019 it has combined the old houses with farmland views and farm-stay restaurants."},{"id":"shanglin-gumingzhai-village","name":"Gumingzhai Zhuang Village","name_zh":"鼓鸣寨","pinyin":"Gǔmíng Zhài","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.2067,"lon":108.6664,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanglin-gumingzhai-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guminzhuang, a Zhuang village developed as the Gumingzhai scenic area, lies beside a lake with small islands in a valley ringed by hills and has 158 rammed-earth houses, most of them built in the Qing and Republican periods. The houses have rough-stone bases, yellow-earth walls and grey-tiled roofs, many arranged as a central ancestral hall between two wings around a small courtyard, and the county describes the village as the largest and best-preserved of its kind in Guangxi. It suits a quiet walk among old houses with the lake and hills around them."},{"id":"nanning-jiangnan-park","name":"Jiangnan Park, Nanning","name_zh":"江南公园","pinyin":"Jiāngnán Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7837,"lon":108.2677,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-jiangnan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large city park south of the Yong River in Jiangnan District, opened in June 2018 and laid out around linked lakes with Wenfeng Hill as a backdrop. Lawns, flowering trees, covered walkways and pavilions in old Chinese style surround the water, and a square at the west gate has a sculpture decorated with Zhuang motifs such as bronze drums and brocade."},{"id":"hengzhou-jiulong-waterfalls","name":"Jiulong Waterfalls National Forest Park","name_zh":"九龙瀑布群","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Pùbùqún","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.0495,"lon":109.1532,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengzhou-jiulong-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the state-owned Zhenlong forest farm in the hills of northern Hengzhou, where streams drop through a cluster of waterfalls in tall forest below Jiulong Mountain. Within about 2.5 km² there are more than ten falls, many around 30 m high, spaced 100–300 m apart along forest paths."},{"id":"nanning-jiuquwan-hot-spring","name":"Jiuquwan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"九曲湾温泉","pinyin":"Jiǔqūwān Wēnquán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8869,"lon":108.4146,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-jiuquwan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Santang town on the north-eastern edge of Nanning, open since November 2005, with indoor and outdoor thermal pools and décor drawing on Zhuang and other ethnic cultures. It also has a water park with nearly 6,000 m² of pools under a large shade roof, plus a hotel and restaurants, and suits a relaxing half-day out of the city."},{"id":"nanning-kunlun-pass","name":"Kunlun Pass","name_zh":"昆仑关","pinyin":"Kūnlún Guān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.0937,"lon":108.6814,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-kunlun-pass","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain pass on the old road between Nanning and Liuzhou, first walled with stone in 816 and best known as the site of the Battle of Kunlun Pass in December 1939, when Chinese troops of the Fifth Army retook the pass from the Japanese army after about two weeks of fighting with heavy casualties on both sides. From the memorial archway 331 steps climb to a 14.74 m memorial tower and the cemetery of the fallen, beside a pavilion carrying an inscribed account of the battle. A museum on the site displays weapons, helmets, photographs and film about the battle."},{"id":"nanning-liangfengjiang-national-forest-park","name":"Liangfengjiang National Forest Park","name_zh":"良凤江国家森林公园","pinyin":"Liángfèngjiāng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7247,"lon":108.2857,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-liangfengjiang-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the earliest national forest parks approved by China's former Ministry of Forestry, on the south-western outskirts of Nanning along the Liangfeng River. It has a large plant garden with a wide collection of trees, a cultural garden containing Tianning Temple of the Guangxi Buddhist Association, and a small amusement area."},{"id":"longan-longhu-mountain","name":"Longhu Mountain","name_zh":"龙虎山","pinyin":"Lónghǔ Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.9621,"lon":107.6288,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longan-longhu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nature reserve of forested limestone hills in Pingshan township, Long'an County, known as one of China's 'four great monkey mountains' for its more than 3,000 wild rhesus macaques. Besides watching the monkeys, visitors can walk in forest that shelters more than 1,200 plant species and over 200 kinds of wild animals, and take part in water activities."},{"id":"nanning-longmen-shuidu","name":"Longmen Shuidu","name_zh":"龙门水都","pinyin":"Lóngmén Shuǐdū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.9017,"lon":108.2495,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-longmen-shuidu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure resort in forested hills around Longmen Reservoir on the north-western edge of Nanning, about 15 km from the city centre. It combines hot-spring and herbal-bath pools, a summer water park and a long glass suspension bridge with walking paths and themed gardens, and suits families on a day out from the city."},{"id":"nanning-minge-lake","name":"Minge Lake","name_zh":"民歌湖","pinyin":"Míngē Hú","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8122,"lon":108.3713,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-minge-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped lake park beside the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Qingxiu District, with lakeside promenades, bars and restaurants, evening lights and sightseeing boats. It makes an easy evening stroll from the convention centre."},{"id":"binyang-mingshan","name":"Mingshan Eco-Tourism Area","name_zh":"名山","pinyin":"Míng Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.0479,"lon":108.7477,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binyang-mingshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill area in Chenping town in southern Binyang County, made up of three peaks whose highest, Mingshan Top, rises to 876 m, the second-highest point in the county, above plum orchards and villages. Promoted as a 'Lingnan plum village', it has a visitor centre and viewing platforms, and visitors come to climb the peak and walk among the plum trees, especially in the blossom season."},{"id":"wuming-nanguo-countryside","name":"Nanguo Countryside","name_zh":"南国乡村","pinyin":"Nánguó Xiāngcūn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.0043,"lon":108.347,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuming-nanguo-countryside","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism area in Nagong hamlet, Sugong village, Shuangqiao town, built around a museum of rural house building that presents the village architecture of different ethnic groups alongside new building methods. Around it are an expo garden of model new farmhouses, a farm and homestays, and it suits a countryside half-day with children or a group."},{"id":"nanning-culture-tourism-art-park","name":"Nanning Culture, Tourism and Art Park","name_zh":"南宁文化旅游艺术园","pinyin":"Nánníng Wénhuà Lǚyóu Yìshù Yuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7803,"lon":108.3658,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-culture-tourism-art-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 4A area created in 2023 by grouping four sites run by the Guangxi Tourism Group in the Wuxiang area south of the Yong River: the 'Guanglü Nanning Night' evening leisure district, the Guangxi Art Museum, Central Park and the 'Yunduoduo' young artists' camp. Together they combine night-time strolling and entertainment with art exhibitions and park space, and suit an evening out more than a sightseeing visit."},{"id":"nanning-garden-expo-park","name":"Nanning Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"南宁园博园","pinyin":"Nánníng Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7253,"lon":108.4769,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 263-hectare site of the 12th China International Garden Expo, opened in December 2018 beside the Bachi River in Yongning District on the south-eastern edge of Nanning. Gardens built by Chinese cities and ASEAN countries spread around its lakes, among them the China–ASEAN Friendship Pavilion linking ten national pavilions and an ASEAN Garden with Cambodian, Lao and Philippine sections, and seasonal flower and grass fields draw crowds in autumn."},{"id":"nanning-international-convention-centre","name":"Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Centre","name_zh":"南宁国际会展中心","pinyin":"Nánníng Guójì Huìzhǎn Zhōngxīn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8109,"lon":108.3758,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-international-convention-centre","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hillside convention centre on Minzu Avenue that is the permanent venue of the annual China–ASEAN Expo and one of Nanning's landmark buildings, whose 41-hectare grounds were rated a 4A scenic area in 2021. Displays and landscaping themed on the expo's history and on the cultures of China and the ten ASEAN countries make it a sightseeing stop between trade fairs, and it looks across to Minge Lake."},{"id":"nanning-polar-ocean-world","name":"Nanning Polar Ocean World","name_zh":"南宁极地海洋世界","pinyin":"Nánníng Jídì Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7904,"lon":108.249,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-polar-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large indoor aquarium in the Rongsheng Tianhe Haiyue City shopping complex in Jiangnan District, laid out in themed halls on ocean legends, the polar regions and marine life, with an animal-petting area for children. Its animals include sea lions, seals, penguins and many kinds of fish, and staged shows such as a sea-lion show and an underwater show are part of the programme, so it is mainly a family outing."},{"id":"nanning-wanda-mall","name":"Nanning Wanda Mall","name_zh":"南宁万达茂","pinyin":"Nánníng Wàndá Mào","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7699,"lon":108.4282,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-wanda-mall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large indoor shopping and entertainment complex opened in June 2017 in the Wuxiang New Area south of the Yong River, rated 4A in 2018 for its indoor attractions. Its former indoor theme park has been converted into an indoor ski centre, opened in July 2026, which is kept at −5 °C all year and has three ski runs, a snow-play area and a training centre, alongside the mall's shops and restaurants."},{"id":"nanning-zoo","name":"Nanning Zoo","name_zh":"南宁动物园","pinyin":"Nánníng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8377,"lon":108.2647,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-zoo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanning's city zoo, opened in April 1975 among about 37 hectares of subtropical gardens on University East Road in the north-west of the city. Around 30 exhibit areas house animals such as Asian elephants, gibbons, golden snub-nosed monkeys, tigers and lions, and staged animal shows, including a sea-lion show, are part of the programme, alongside two funfair areas with rides."},{"id":"mashan-nongla","name":"Nongla Scenic Area","name_zh":"弄拉","pinyin":"Nònglā","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.6575,"lon":108.3217,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mashan-nongla","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hamlet in the karst peak-cluster hills of Guling town, Mashan County, whose villagers replanted the limestone hills around it after they were stripped of trees in the 1950s, and which is often cited as a model for reversing rocky desertification. The surrounding Nongla nature reserve protects limestone forest, and the scenic area has an exhibition hall on desertification control, a Buddhist temple and paths past oddly shaped peaks and rocks."},{"id":"nanning-peoples-park","name":"People's Park, Nanning","name_zh":"人民公园","pinyin":"Rénmín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8313,"lon":108.3263,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanning-peoples-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A city park in central Nanning, also called White Dragon Park after its 7-hectare White Dragon Lake, which has a small island reached by two bridges. Stone steps climb Wangxian Hill, the highest point in downtown Nanning, to the Zhenning Fort, built in 1917 by the Guangxi warlord Lu Rongting on the site of an old temple and still holding its German Krupp gun. The park also has a shady botanical garden with an old banyan and a 25 m Monument to Revolutionary Martyrs."},{"id":"yongning-pujin-park","name":"Pujin Park","name_zh":"蒲津公园","pinyin":"Pújīn Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.754,"lon":108.4879,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongning-pujin-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open park laid out over three limestone hills, Jinzhen, Yinzhen and Gong'e, in the middle of Pumiao, the seat of Yongning District. It serves mainly as a place for residents' walks and exercise, and suits a short stroll for visitors passing through Pumiao."},{"id":"nanning-qingxiu-mountain","name":"Qingxiu Mountain","name_zh":"青秀山","pinyin":"Qīngxiù Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7916,"lon":108.3852,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanning-qingxiu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilly park of 18 low ridges on the north bank of the Yong River in south-eastern Nanning, developed from a former forest farm since 1984, whose highest point rises to 289 m. Its themed gardens include a cycad garden with about a hundred plants more than 1,000 years old, a large orchid garden, a rainforest garden and the China–ASEAN Friendship Garden, linked by a covered Friendship Corridor in the style of Dong wind-and-rain bridges. Paths also lead to the Guanyin Chan Temple, founded in the Northern Song, and the Ming-style Longxiang Pagoda, built in 1986 on the summit."},{"id":"nanning-scenic-yong-river","name":"Scenic Yong River and Ancient Yongzhou","name_zh":"秀美邕江·邕州古韵","pinyin":"Xiùměi Yōngjiāng · Yōngzhōu Gǔyùn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8146,"lon":108.3085,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-scenic-yong-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside scenic area of about 1.5 km² along the Yong River in central Nanning, from Yangguan Wharf to Lingtie Bridge, rated 4A in 2020, with sculptures on the city's history and legends, the Changyou Pavilion, arcades and remains of old city walls along the bank. Its core is the 'Ancient Yongzhou' evening cruise from Minsheng Wharf past the floodlit bridges and banks, with stories of Nanning's history told on board."},{"id":"nanning-shouchuang-childrens-park","name":"Shouchuang Children's Park","name_zh":"首创儿童乐园","pinyin":"Shǒuchuàng Értóng Lèyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8746,"lon":108.4088,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-shouchuang-childrens-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A children's play park attached to the Shouchuang (Capital) Outlets mall on Kunlun Avenue in north-eastern Nanning, rated 4A in November 2023. Its main draw is a large playground of non-motorised play equipment, with other play, sports and learning activities for children, so it suits families with young children rather than adult travellers."},{"id":"mashan-shuijin-shunzhuang","name":"Shuijin Shunzhuang Scenic Area","name_zh":"水锦·顺庄","pinyin":"Shuǐjǐn Shùnzhuāng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.5849,"lon":108.3189,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mashan-shuijin-shunzhuang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canyon resort area in Leping village, Guling town, ringed by the Daming Mountains, where the Shuijin stream runs through a natural gorge about 10 km long with waterfalls, spring pools and cascades. Walkways lead through the gorge to attractions such as a glass bridge and slides, and the area also has a farming display zone and a themed resort hotel."},{"id":"nanning-wuxiang-lake-park","name":"Wuxiang Lake Park","name_zh":"五象湖公园","pinyin":"Wǔxiàng Hú Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.7453,"lon":108.3725,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-wuxiang-lake-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 122-hectare park around five linked lakes in the Wuxiang New Area south of the Yong River, opened in August 2013 as the site of the third Guangxi Garden and Horticulture Expo. Paths lead past themed gardens on Guangxi's regions and Zhuang culture, and the park borders the Guangxi Planning Exhibition Hall and the Guangxi Art Museum."},{"id":"nanning-xiangxieli-hot-spring-valley","name":"Xiangxieli Nanguo Hot Spring Valley","name_zh":"香榭里南国温泉谷","pinyin":"Xiāngxièlǐ Nánguó Wēnquángǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.9048,"lon":108.4498,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-xiangxieli-hot-spring-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in the Jiahe City development on Kunlun Avenue in north-eastern Nanning, next to a golf course, also known as the Jiahe City Hot Spring Valley. Its main draw is a large complex of outdoor thermal pools, several themed on bathing traditions of different countries, together with a water park and on-site accommodation, and during the annual China–ASEAN Expo it has served as a reception venue for visiting delegations."},{"id":"mashan-xiaodubai","name":"Xiaodubai Village","name_zh":"小都百","pinyin":"Xiǎodūbǎi","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.6719,"lon":108.2481,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mashan-xiaodubai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism village in Qiaolao village, Guling town, beside the Mashan–Shanglin road, rebuilt with white-walled, grey-tiled houses in local Zhuang style and known as the 'home of waterwheels' for the wheels along its streams. Visitors come for farm-stay meals and lodging, seasonal fruit and vegetable picking, flower fields, cycling and the waterwheel landscape, and it makes a stop on the way to Nongla."},{"id":"wuming-yiling-cave","name":"Yiling Cave","name_zh":"伊岭岩","pinyin":"Yīlǐng Yán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.0417,"lon":108.2931,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuming-yiling-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst cave in Yiling village, Shuangqiao town, about 25 km north of central Nanning, whose Zhuang name means 'a cave as beautiful as a palace', with a 1,100 m route through 24,000 m² of chambers full of stalactites, stalagmites, columns and flowstone. Outside, a Zhuang culture garden displays old farm tools, stone implements and handwoven Zhuang clothing, alongside poem tablets by visitors such as Guo Moruo and a children's play area."},{"id":"nanning-yongzhou-old-town","name":"Yongzhou Old Town (Sanjie Liangxiang)","name_zh":"邕州古城","pinyin":"Yōngzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":22.8169,"lon":108.3159,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanning-yongzhou-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old commercial heart of Nanning near the Yong River, centred on the Sanjie Liangxiang historic district of three old streets (Xingning, Minsheng and Jiefang roads) and two Ming–Qing lanes (Jinshi and Yinshi), whose history goes back to the Song dynasty. Restored and reopened as a pedestrian district in 2018, it has more than 20 protected buildings and sites, including the City God Temple, the Deng Yingchao Memorial Hall, the Xinhui and Lianghu guild halls and Republican-era arcaded shophouses, now filled with cafés, bookshops and snack stalls. Since 2025 it has been promoted together with the neighbouring Zhongshan Road food street and Shuijie as Yongzhou Old Town, and it is busiest in the evening."},{"id":"shanglin-zhicheng-tang-city-site","name":"Zhicheng Tang City Site","name_zh":"智城城址","pinyin":"Zhìchéng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Nanning","lat":23.4541,"lon":108.7587,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanglin-zhicheng-tang-city-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of Zhicheng, a fortified seat of local chiefs under the Tang dynasty, in a narrow valley in Shanglin County where steep hillsides serve as ramparts and stretches of wall close the valley mouth and divide it into an inner and an outer town. On a cliff in the outer town is the Zhicheng Stele of 697, and in a cave about 4.5 km away is the Liuhe Jiangu Dazhai Song inscription of 682, both composed by the local chief Wei Jingban and among the earliest surviving inscriptions to use Sawndip, the old Zhuang characters."},{"id":"qinzhou-bazhaigou","name":"Bazhaigou","name_zh":"八寨沟","pinyin":"Bāzhài Gōu","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":22.1069,"lon":108.2538,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-bazhaigou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley on the northern flank of the Shiwan Mountains in Guitai town, where a spring-fed gorge of about 16 km runs through subtropical forest with streams, pools and waterfalls. Hiking and wading along the streams are the main draw."},{"id":"qinzhou-beibu-gulf-flower-park","name":"Beibu Gulf Flower Park","name_zh":"北部湾花卉公园","pinyin":"Běibù Wān Huāhuì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":21.9502,"lon":108.7399,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-beibu-gulf-flower-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park in Shabu town east of Qinzhou, with fields of cockscomb in autumn and spring plantings such as snapdragons, cosmos and strawflowers. It also hosts nature-study visits and floral-art activities."},{"id":"lingshan-dalu-village","name":"Dalu Village","name_zh":"大芦村","pinyin":"Dàlú Cūn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":22.455,"lon":109.3374,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshan-dalu-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of Ming and Qing mansions in Fozi town, nine building groups put up by the Lao family between 1546 and 1826 among ponds and old trees. It is known for its 'three olds' of old houses, old trees and old couplets, with Qing-era name boards and couplets still hanging in the halls, and villagers stage caicha tea-picking opera and tiaolingtou dances in the slack farming season."},{"id":"qinzhou-liu-yongfu-feng-zicai-residences","name":"Former Residences of Liu Yongfu and Feng Zicai","name_zh":"刘永福、冯子材旧居","pinyin":"Liú Yǒngfú, Féng Zǐcái Jiùjū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":21.9479,"lon":108.6179,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-liu-yongfu-feng-zicai-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mansions of two Qing generals from the old Qinzhou region who fought the French in the Sino-French War, protected nationally since 2001 and rated 4A together in 2006. Liu Yongfu's Sanxuan Tang of 1891, in the old town, has 119 rooms behind 4 m walls, halls with gilded murals and woodcarving, and exhibitions on the war and his Black Flag Army. Feng Zicai's Gongbao Di of 1875, about 4 km north at Baishuitang, is a three-row, nine-building compound from which he set out for the 1885 victory at Zhennan Pass."},{"id":"qinzhou-linhu-forest-park","name":"Linhu Forest Park","name_zh":"林湖森林公园","pinyin":"Línhú Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":22.0392,"lon":108.6251,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-linhu-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A provincial-level forest park on the southern edge of Qinbei district, about 3 km from central Qinzhou, laid out for walking among wooded hills and lakes. It is a popular suburban green space with nature-education and outdoor-activity areas, and was rated 4A in 2017."},{"id":"lingshan-liufeng-mountain","name":"Liufeng Mountain","name_zh":"六峰山","pinyin":"Liùfēng Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":22.4218,"lon":109.2833,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshan-liufeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill rising 182 m above the Mingke River in the centre of Lingshan town, named after its six peaks and admired as a beauty spot since the Song dynasty; it was rated 4A in 2017 and was a filming location for the TV series The Bad Kids. Paths climb past temples and Taoist halls such as the Beidi Temple, Guanyin Pavilion and Sanqing Palace, and Sanhai Cave on the west side holds more than 150 inscriptions carved over the centuries."},{"id":"qinzhou-nawu-mountain-forest-park","name":"Nawu Mountain Forest Park","name_zh":"那雾山森林公园","pinyin":"Nàwù Shān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":21.8839,"lon":108.9233,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-nawu-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park of about 230 hectares on Nawu Mountain in Nali town, rated 4A in 2019, within a regional geopark. From the glass walkway and glass bridge near the summit visitors look out over seas of cloud, wind turbines and, on clear days, the Beibu Gulf."},{"id":"qinzhou-garden-expo-park","name":"Qinzhou Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"钦州园博园","pinyin":"Qīnzhōu Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":21.9355,"lon":108.6794,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park of about 80 hectares in Qinzhou's eastern new town, built for the 9th Guangxi Garden Expo, which opened here on 2 December 2016 on the theme of coastal scenery and Nixing pottery. Fourteen gardens named after Guangxi's cities are spread among hills and water, with the Qinzhou garden at the centre, an ASEAN garden and a Nixing pottery museum, next to the Nixing pottery creative-industry park."},{"id":"qinzhou-old-street","name":"Qinzhou Old Street","name_zh":"钦州老街","pinyin":"Qīnzhōu Lǎojiē","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":21.9425,"lon":108.6178,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qinzhou's historic district of qilou arcade buildings along Zhongshan Road and the neighbouring streets of the old town, a short walk from Liu Yongfu's former residence. Visitors come for snack stalls serving local dishes such as pig's-trotter rice noodles, the Qinzhou Bookstore and street performances of caicha opera, and in September 2026 the three-storey 33 Canal Bookstore opened in an arcade building on Renmin South Road."},{"id":"qinzhou-sanniang-bay","name":"Sanniang Bay","name_zh":"三娘湾","pinyin":"Sānniáng Wān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":21.6314,"lon":108.7828,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinzhou-sanniang-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A curving bay of beaches, rocks, fishing villages and coastal woodland in Xiniujiao town, known as the home of the Chinese white dolphin (Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin), seen offshore in numbers since 2003. Boats take visitors out to look for the dolphins, and the bay also has a bathing beach, a dolphin science museum, seafood restaurants and shores where visitors dig for sandworms and gather shellfish at low tide."},{"id":"pubei-shenfu-liquor-estate","name":"Shenfu Liquor Estate","name_zh":"神蜉酒庄园","pinyin":"Shénfú Jiǔzhuāngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":22.293,"lon":109.5527,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pubei-shenfu-liquor-estate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial-tourism site of about 11 hectares at the Shenfu liquor works on the northern edge of Pubei town, home of Shenfu jiu, a liquor made with ants that was already well known in the 1980s and whose making is listed as Qinzhou city-level intangible heritage. Opened in 2020 and rated 4A in 2021, it combines a liquor museum and old brick workshops with a water park, a Ferris wheel, an 'Ant Kingdom' play area and a greenway."},{"id":"pubei-wuhuang-mountain","name":"Wuhuang Mountain","name_zh":"五皇山","pinyin":"Wǔhuáng Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Qinzhou","lat":22.1651,"lon":109.3568,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pubei-wuhuang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite upland of about 40 km² around Longmen town, with nine main peaks averaging some 700 m and topped by Qingshanding at 778.8 m, known for fields of egg-shaped boulders, high meadows, tea gardens, terraces, streams and waterfalls. It is divided into the Rentoushi, Meizhuizhai and Shizhuling areas, and visitors come for sunrise, seas of cloud and the wind turbines on the ridges."},{"id":"wuzhou-canghai-lake","name":"Canghai Lake & Wuzhou Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"苍海湖·梧州园博园","pinyin":"Cānghǎi Hú · Wúzhōu Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.4077,"lon":111.2472,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhou-canghai-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large landscaped lake in the new Canghai district on the south bank of the Xi River, built to hold back floodwater and now the centre of Canghai National Wetland Park, with gardens, paths and footbridges around the shore over about 215 ha. Within it the Wuzhou Garden Expo Park shows gardens in the styles of cities across Guangxi. It is a pleasant place for a walk, especially early in the morning or at sunset."},{"id":"mengshan-changping-yao-village","name":"Changping Yao Village","name_zh":"长坪水韵瑶寨","pinyin":"Chángpíng Shuǐyùn Yáozhài","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":24.3379,"lon":110.5143,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengshan-changping-yao-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Changping village in the Changping Yao Ethnic Township, in forested mountains in the north-east of Mengshan County, where a spring-fed stream runs through a Yao village surrounded by woodland. It has been developed for rural tourism, with a wind-and-rain bridge, a heart-shaped peach-blossom island, wooden cabins and farm restaurants serving Yao dishes, and was named one of Guangxi's key rural-tourism villages in 2022. It suits a quiet countryside stay rather than a heritage visit."},{"id":"cenxi-dongshan-culture-park","name":"Dongshan Culture Park, Cenxi","name_zh":"东山文化公园","pinyin":"Dōngshān Wénhuà Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":22.9273,"lon":111.0082,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cenxi-dongshan-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside park on the edge of Cenxi city, laid out over a whole hill for exercise and recreation, with stone stairways, pavilions, a rock garden, a Confucius temple, a tea house and Dongshan Pavilion at the top. It is divided into themed sections on old customs, honest government, filial piety and Confucian learning. It is mainly a local park, worth a stroll if you are passing through Cenxi."},{"id":"wuzhou-li-jishen-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Li Jishen","name_zh":"李济深故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Jìshēn Gùjū","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.315,"lon":111.2747,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhou-li-jishen-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The fortified family house in Liaoshen village where Li Jishen (1885–1959) was born: a Kuomintang general who later chaired the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang and was a vice-chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic from 1949. The present house, built in 1925, is a brick-and-timber courtyard compound with 53 rooms and gun towers at its four corners, linked by a walkway along the roof. Upstairs, his bedroom, reception room and telegraph room keep their period furnishings, and an old ironwood grove stands behind the house."},{"id":"wuzhou-early-cpc-sites","name":"Former Sites of the CPC Wuzhou and Guangxi Committees","name_zh":"中共梧州地委·广西特委旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Wúzhōu Dìwěi · Guǎngxī Tèwěi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.4793,"lon":111.3113,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhou-early-cpc-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two small brick-and-timber houses in Wuzhou's arcade quarter linked to the Communist Party's early years in Guangxi. A three-storey house on Xingren Lane off Jianshe Road held the party's Wuzhou committee, set up in 1925 as its first regional organisation in Guangxi, and a four-storey house of 1925 in Weixinli off Minzhu Road was used by the Guangxi Special Committee after it moved back to Wuzhou in 1928. An exhibition hall beside the first house covers the party's activity in Guangxi in the 1920s."},{"id":"mengshan-liang-yusheng-park","name":"Liang Yusheng Park","name_zh":"梁羽生公园","pinyin":"Liáng Yǔshēng Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":24.2003,"lon":110.5236,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengshan-liang-yusheng-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop park in the south-east of Mengshan town, formerly Aoshan Park, turned in 2005 into a park named after Liang Yusheng (Chen Wentong, 1924–2009), born in Mengshan County and, with Jin Yong and Gu Long, one of the best-known wuxia (martial-arts) novelists of the 20th century; Jin Yong wrote the name over the gate. Its landmark is the five-storey hexagonal Aoshan Pagoda, first built in 1762 and rebuilt in 1985, whose door couplet Liang wrote on a visit home in 1987. The small Yong'an Temple stands at the foot of the hill, and the view at sunset from the pagoda is one of Mengshan's traditional eight scenes."},{"id":"wuzhou-lingnan-culture-park","name":"Lingnan Culture Park, Wuzhou","name_zh":"岭南文化园","pinyin":"Lǐngnán Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.4829,"lon":111.3116,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhou-lingnan-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large complex of new Ming-style buildings beside the Dragon Mother Temple, covering about 6 ha and rated 4A in 2024, themed on the office of the Viceroy of Liangguang, which the Ming court set up in Wuzhou in 1469 to govern Guangdong and Guangxi; the philosopher Wang Yangming later served here as viceroy. Inside are exhibition spaces on the culture of the Lingnan region, with bronze drums among the artefacts on show, and stages for folk performances. It is a modern reconstruction rather than a surviving building, and it is easily combined with a walk through the arcade quarter."},{"id":"cangwu-liubao-tea-town","name":"Liubao Tea Town","name_zh":"六堡镇","pinyin":"Liùbǎo Zhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.8144,"lon":111.3729,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangwu-liubao-tea-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain town in Cangwu County that gives its name to Liubao tea, a dark (post-fermented) tea known for its betel-nut aroma, ranked among China's famous teas in the Qing dynasty; its making is a national intangible-heritage item. The scenic area covers the town's memorial arch, tea industrial park, tea gardens and tea street, and the old Hekou wharf with its great camphor tree, start of the 'tea-boat route' by which Liubao tea was shipped downriver and overseas. Visitors can walk the gardens, buy tea at source and, at times, watch or try tea-making."},{"id":"wuzhou-rose-lake-park","name":"Rose Lake Park, Wuzhou","name_zh":"玫瑰湖公园","pinyin":"Méiguī Hú Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.4821,"lon":111.2437,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhou-rose-lake-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lakeside park in Longxin village on the western side of Wuzhou, facing Changzhou Island across the river, built around a lake that was created in 1976 when a levee turned low-lying fields into a fish farm. From 1992 the lake and Changzhou Island were developed together as a countryside recreation area, and it is now a city park crossed by Sanlong Avenue. It is mainly of interest to local walkers and families."},{"id":"teng-shibiao-mountain","name":"Shibiao Mountain","name_zh":"石表山","pinyin":"Shíbiǎo Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.1399,"lon":110.674,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=teng-shibiao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-sandstone (danxia) landscape in Xiangqi town in the south of Teng County, about 16 km² of red cliffs and peaks above a river with sandbanks, bamboo groves and the old village of Daojia. The scenic area includes rafting on the Siluo River, the Shibiao mountain stockade, the Shilong Canyon, Daojia village and a beach park."},{"id":"wuzhou-sun-yat-sen-memorial-hall","name":"Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall & Zhongshan Park, Wuzhou","name_zh":"中山公园·中山纪念堂","pinyin":"Zhōngshān Gōngyuán · Zhōngshān Jìniàntáng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.4796,"lon":111.3139,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuzhou-sun-yat-sen-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wuzhou's oldest park, laid out on a hill above the old town in 1924 when the city wall was pulled down, and renamed Zhongshan Park in October 1930 when its memorial hall to Sun Yat-sen was completed. Sun stayed in Wuzhou three times in 1921–22 while preparing the Northern Expedition, and the white hall, which combines a Chinese palace-style front with a domed tower and a 1,000-seat auditorium, displays photographs and objects on his life and his visits to the city. The park also has gardens, a bamboo grove on the back slope and a memorial hall to the revolutionary Wei Baqun."},{"id":"cenxi-tianlongding-mountain-park","name":"Tianlongding Mountain Park","name_zh":"天龙顶山地公园","pinyin":"Tiānlóngdǐng Shāndì Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":22.7232,"lon":110.8707,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cenxi-tianlongding-mountain-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain park in Nandu town in the south of Cenxi, around Tianlongding, at 1,211 m the highest peak in Wuzhou prefecture, known for its grassy summit meadows and for seas of cloud that form at a relatively low altitude. Trails lead past a mountain lake, streams and waterfalls, and the park caters for hiking, camping and mountain biking, with farm restaurants nearby."},{"id":"mengshan-tianshu-xiagu","name":"Tianshu Xiagu (Heavenly Book Gorge)","name_zh":"天书侠谷","pinyin":"Tiānshū Xiágǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":24.2175,"lon":110.5547,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengshan-tianshu-xiagu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded gorge about 5 km east of Mengshan town, also called Yumengchong, winding for more than 10 km past clear pools and oddly shaped rocks. It takes its name from a huge character for 'heaven' at the mouth of the valley and a rock in a pool said to look like a book of heavenly scripts. Spots along the trail are themed on Liang Yusheng's martial-arts novels, such as Fairy Pool, Sword-Washing Pool and a 'Golden Sabre' stockade."},{"id":"wuzhou-baiyun-mountain","name":"White Cloud Mountain (Baiyun Shan), Wuzhou","name_zh":"白云山","pinyin":"Báiyún Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.4896,"lon":111.3268,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhou-baiyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill park on the north-east edge of Wuzhou's old town, opened in 1981, covering about 355 ha over two summits and rising to 367 m, the highest point in urban Wuzhou. A 3.7 km road climbs from the Bingquan soy-milk house at the foot to the Yunfeng Pavilion on the top, with views over the city and the meeting of its rivers, passing Si'en Temple halfway up. On the eastern slope the Longquan valley has rocks, a waterfall and shaded paths."},{"id":"wuzhou-arcade-town-dragon-mother-temple","name":"Wuzhou Arcade Town & Dragon Mother Temple","name_zh":"骑楼城·龙母庙","pinyin":"Qílóuchéng · Lóngmǔ Miào","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":23.4744,"lon":111.3122,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhou-arcade-town-dragon-mother-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wuzhou's old riverside trading quarter: 22 streets, about 7 km in all, lined with some 560 arcaded shophouses (qilou), most built after the city wall was demolished in the 1920s, mixing Chinese carved brick and lattice windows with Western balconies, columns and arched windows, with iron rings on the pillars and upper-floor 'water doors' for mooring boats when the rivers flood. Among them stand the protected treaty-port buildings of the late Qing and Republican years, after Wuzhou was opened to foreign trade in 1897, including the old customs house, the Standard Oil office, the Xinxi Hotel, the post office, the Catholic church and the former British consulate on Zhushan hill. At the quarter's north end, on the east bank of the Gui River, the Dragon Mother Temple, founded in the early Northern Song and rebuilt in the Ming and Qing, honours the river goddess Longmu and draws pilgrims from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau on her festival days."},{"id":"mengshan-yongan-taiping-sites","name":"Yong'an Royal City (Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Sites), Mengshan","name_zh":"永安王城","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Wángchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Wuzhou","lat":24.2043,"lon":110.5172,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengshan-yongan-taiping-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mengshan, then called Yong'an, was captured by the Taiping rebels in the autumn of 1851, and it was here that their leader Hong Xiuquan issued edicts, named his kings and set up the rebel state's first institutions. The protected sites in the town centre are the Wu Temple to Guan Yu, since rebuilt, a stretch of the old town wall and the spot where the edicts were issued, beside a magnolia tree more than 500 years old, with a corridor of edict steles. The scenic area wraps these into a riverside park, an old-banyan park and themed shopping streets along the Meijiang River."},{"id":"beiliu-darongshan-forest-park","name":"Darongshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"大容山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Dàróngshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.8554,"lon":110.2788,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beiliu-darongshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 4,825-hectare national forest park on Darong Mountain north of Beiliu, whose 1,275 m summit is the highest point in Yulin prefecture. Trails and stream-trekking routes run through subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest to the Nine Waterfalls Valley and a mountain lake, Tianhu."},{"id":"rong-duqiao-mountain","name":"Duqiao Mountain","name_zh":"都峤山","pinyin":"Dūqiáo Shān","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.8186,"lon":110.6439,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rong-duqiao-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-sandstone (Danxia) mountain south-east of Rong County town, a Taoist retreat since the Han dynasty and counted as the 20th Taoist grotto-heaven. A cableway climbs to the North Grotto-Heaven and Suopo Rock, where calligraphy by Su Dongpo survives and a statue of him stands, and trails link temples, cliff caves and viewpoints; the Ming traveller Xu Xiake spent several days here and wrote a long account of it."},{"id":"beiliu-goulou-cave","name":"Goulou Cave","name_zh":"勾漏洞","pinyin":"Gōulòu Dòng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.7418,"lon":110.3882,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beiliu-goulou-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four linked limestone caves, Baogui, Yuque, Baisha and Taoyuan, about 1 km long in all, at the foot of Goulou Hill 3 km north-east of Beiliu; old Taoist texts list the site as the 22nd of the 36 grotto-heavens. The lit caves hold stalactites, columns and flowstone, the rock walls inside and out carry more than 120 inscriptions from the Tang dynasty on, and tradition says the Jin-dynasty alchemist Ge Hong sought the post of Goulou magistrate to practise here."},{"id":"luchuan-guiling-valley","name":"Guiling Valley","name_zh":"龟岭谷","pinyin":"Guīlǐng Gǔ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.3137,"lon":110.3474,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luchuan-guiling-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside eco-park in Shapo town whose main sight is a wall climbing the crest of Bazi Ridge, promoted as the 'little Great Wall of the south'. A 500 m elevated steel walkway with a bell platform links to the wall and looks over the Xiexian range, and there are zip lines, go-karts and a children's play area."},{"id":"yulin-kelawan-water-park","name":"Kelawan Water Park","name_zh":"克拉湾水上乐园","pinyin":"Kèlāwān Shuǐshàng Lèyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.6252,"lon":110.1968,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yulin-kelawan-water-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An outdoor water park on the riverside Jiangbin East Road in Yulin, with a large wave pool, a water fortress and a lazy river. It is aimed at local families on hot summer days."},{"id":"yulin-liuwan-mountains-forest-park","name":"Liuwan Mountains Forest Park","name_zh":"六万大山森林公园","pinyin":"Liùwàn Dàshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.568,"lon":109.8616,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yulin-liuwan-mountains-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the Liuwan Mountains, a range about 70 km long on the borders of Yulin, Bobai and Pubei whose main peak, Kuishanding, reaches 1,118 m. Facilities include a lookout platform on Lianhua Peak, a forest music square and a campsite."},{"id":"rong-county-republican-villas","name":"Republican-era Villas of Rong County","name_zh":"容县近代建筑","pinyin":"Róng Xiàn Jìndài Jiànzhù","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.8652,"lon":110.5533,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rong-county-republican-villas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Eleven buildings from the late Qing and Republican periods spread across Rong County, mostly villas and family homes of Republican-era generals and officials from the county, such as Huang Shaohong and Huang Xuchu, together with the old library and old teaching building of Rong County Middle School. Several stand in the county town, including Huang Shaohong's three-storey villa of 1927 on South Street and Huang Xuchu's two-storey villa of 1933; others are in villages and townships, two of them inside township government compounds."},{"id":"beiliu-sanhuan-ceramics-town","name":"Sanhuan Ceramics Town, Beiliu","name_zh":"三环陶瓷小镇","pinyin":"Sānhuán Táocí Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.7422,"lon":110.4032,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beiliu-sanhuan-ceramics-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial and visitor complex built by Guangxi Sanhuan, one of China's leading makers of everyday porcelain, in Beiliu, a pottery centre since the Song dynasty. Its ceramics museum traces Chinese and local ceramics from early dynasties to the present, and the company's showroom displays the tableware it exports to more than 80 countries. It suits travellers with an interest in ceramics."},{"id":"xingye-anti-japanese-uprising-sites","name":"South-east Guangxi Anti-Japanese Uprising Sites, Xingye","name_zh":"桂东南抗日武装起义旧址","pinyin":"Guìdōngnán Kàngrì Wǔzhuāng Qǐyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.6137,"lon":109.752,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingye-anti-japanese-uprising-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of village sites in Chenghuang town linked to the armed uprising against Japanese forces launched here in March 1945. The centrepiece is the Zhensheng Building, a brick-and-timber house in mixed Chinese and Western style built in 1912–14, which served as headquarters of the county's anti-Japanese self-defence army; on nearby Gongyan Ridge some 2,000 fighters and villagers held a rally on 3 March 1945 to launch the uprising."},{"id":"beiliu-tongshiling","name":"Tongshiling Resort","name_zh":"铜石岭","pinyin":"Tóngshí Lǐng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.7395,"lon":110.4443,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beiliu-tongshiling","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill resort on Tongshiling, east of Beiliu, where karst limestone and red Danxia sandstone cliffs occur side by side and where copper was smelted and bronze drums cast in the Han dynasty. A statue group of Zhao Tuo, the ancient king of Nanyue, stands before the gate tower, and a 10 km route of walkways, a glass skywalk and summit rides such as slides, grass and dry-snow sledging and go-karts climbs the hill. It suits families and active travellers more than heritage seekers."},{"id":"yulin-wucai-tianyuan","name":"Wucai Tianyuan Agricultural Park","name_zh":"五彩田园","pinyin":"Wǔcǎi Tiányuán","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.6393,"lon":110.2838,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yulin-wucai-tianyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern farming demonstration zone on the eastern edge of Yulin, laid out as a rural park with seasonal flower fields, lotus ponds and a cherry garden. Rapeseed blooms in early spring and lotus from mid-May into August draw local visitors for walks, photos and cycling."},{"id":"luchuan-xielu-villa","name":"Xielu Villa","name_zh":"谢鲁山庄","pinyin":"Xièlǔ Shānzhuāng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.1544,"lon":110.1803,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luchuan-xielu-villa","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A private garden estate laid out on a hillside at Xielu village from about 1920, often called one of China's four great private manors. Its pavilions, halls, ponds and paths spread over about 26 hectares, following the model of Suzhou and Hangzhou gardens while mixing Hakka and Western architectural details."},{"id":"yulin-yuntian-cultural-city","name":"Yuntian Cultural City","name_zh":"云天文化城","pinyin":"Yúntiān Wénhuàchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.6261,"lon":110.1604,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yulin-yuntian-cultural-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large palace-style building complex on Jiangbin Road in Yulin, opened as a cultural attraction with halls of sculpture, a folk-culture museum and displays of collected treasures. Many visitors come mainly for the imposing exterior, and the forecourt hosts lion dances and martial-arts shows at festivals such as New Year."},{"id":"rong-zhenwu-pavilion-rongzhou-old-town","name":"Zhenwu Pavilion & Rongzhou Old Town","name_zh":"真武阁·容州古城","pinyin":"Zhēnwǔ Gé · Róngzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"450000","region":"Guangxi","city":"Yulin","lat":22.8583,"lon":110.5563,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/rong-zhenwu-pavilion-rongzhou-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The three-storey timber Zhenwu Pavilion was built in 1573 on the Jinglüe Terrace by the Xiu River, a platform said to date from the Tang dynasty, when the poet-official Yuan Jie drilled troops here. Its lever-like bracketing joins nearly 3,000 timber pieces without nails, and four inner columns on the second floor hang about 2 cm clear of the floor. Around it the former People's Park was rebuilt in 2014–16 as Rongzhou Old Town, a 25-hectare scenic area with a reconstructed prefectural hall, a museum, Kaiyuan Temple, an old-style shopping street and boat landings on Xiujiang Lake."},{"id":"baoting-binglanggu-li-miao-cultural-tourism-zone","name":"Binglanggu Li and Miao Cultural Tourism Zone","name_zh":"槟榔谷黎苗文化旅游区","pinyin":"Bīnlánggǔ Lí-Miáo Wénhuà Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Baoting","lat":18.4044,"lon":109.6594,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoting-binglanggu-li-miao-cultural-tourism-zone","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cultural park in Sandao town, set in an areca-palm valley, that presents Li and Miao traditions through demonstrations of Li brocade weaving, nose-flute and bamboo-instrument music, a staged Li wedding and a hands-on area where visitors learn the Li firewood dance. It also has century-old boat-shaped Li houses and stages the open-air show Binglang Guyun. The park displays several items on China's national intangible-heritage list, including Li textile techniques."},{"id":"baoting-qixianling-hot-spring-forest-park","name":"Qixianling Hot Spring National Forest Park","name_zh":"七仙岭温泉国家森林公园","pinyin":"Qīxiānlǐng Wēnquán Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Baoting","lat":18.7005,"lon":109.6675,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoting-qixianling-hot-spring-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A national forest park beneath the seven jagged peaks of Qixianling, with a forest zone and a hot-spring zone. A rainforest walk passes trees that flower on their trunks, epiphyte 'sky gardens' and strangler figs on the way to a viewing platform over Baoting, and hot springs rise naturally in the park's streams. Around the Qixi festival, usually in August, Baoting holds the Qixian Hot Spring Water Festival, a water-splashing celebration with Li and Miao song and dance that has run since 2000."},{"id":"baoting-shenyu-island","name":"Shenyu Island Cultural Tourism Zone","name_zh":"神玉岛文化旅游区","pinyin":"Shényùdǎo Wénhuà Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Baoting","lat":18.6536,"lon":109.5729,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoting-shenyu-island","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A lakeside leisure area on the Maozhen Reservoir in the hills of Xiangshui town, built around a jade-culture theme and named after an island in the lake. Visitors can take a boat on the lake and see a jade art gallery and a rainforest-ecology exhibition hall, and the lakeside hotel runs forest-wellness sessions for its guests. It suits a short leisure visit."},{"id":"baoting-yanoda-rainforest","name":"Yanoda Rainforest Cultural Tourism Zone","name_zh":"呀诺达雨林文化旅游区","pinyin":"Yānuòdá Yǔlín Wénhuà Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Baoting","lat":18.4534,"lon":109.664,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoting-yanoda-rainforest/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A rainforest tourism zone in the hills of Sandao town, best known for stream trekking: visitors wade up forest streams in helmets and water shoes, climb the Lian'en waterfall, work through a ten-stage waterfall-wading course and ride a zip-slide above the canopy. A '123 Adventure Park' with canyon stream descents on fixed cables and rafting opened in July 2026. It was rated a 5A area in 2012 and suits active travellers and families."},{"id":"chengmai-shique-feng-ancestral-hall","name":"Feng Clan Ancestral Hall, Shique Village","name_zh":"石𱵄村冯氏祠堂","pinyin":"Shíquè Cūn Féngshì Cítáng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Chengmai","lat":19.9529,"lon":110.0369,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengmai-shique-feng-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of Feng clan halls in Shique village, the first Hainan home of the Feng family, who trace their line to Feng Bao and Lady Xian, the sixth-century leader who asked the Liang court to set up Yazhou prefecture on the island. The group consists of the main ancestral hall, whose first courtyard is the General's Mansion, a temple to the Marquis of Xiayang and the Wenlin Feng Gong hall; the main hall was last restored in 1884 and keeps stone carvings and painted murals. Around them stand more than 230 old houses of volcanic stone along 15 lanes in a comb layout, and most villagers still carry the Feng surname."},{"id":"chengmai-fushan-coffee-culture-town","name":"Fushan Coffee Culture Town","name_zh":"福山咖啡文化风情镇","pinyin":"Fúshān Kāfēi Wénhuà Fēngqíng Zhèn","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Chengmai","lat":19.8706,"lon":109.9156,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengmai-fushan-coffee-culture-town","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A tourist town built around the coffee of Fushan, where coffee has been grown since the 1930s and whose beans hold national geographical-indication status. Its first phase has a large coffee square and some 19 local and international coffee brands, among them houses presenting the coffees of Vietnam, Turkey and Ethiopia, along with the town's own coffee academy, a lawn market and a snack street. It holds coffee festivals and stage performances through the year and became a 4A scenic area in 2025."},{"id":"chengmai-meilang-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas of Meilang","name_zh":"美榔双塔","pinyin":"Měiláng Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Chengmai","lat":19.8009,"lon":110.1562,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengmai-meilang-twin-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two Buddhist pagodas of volcanic stone that once stood in front of the vanished Jirui Nunnery, dated to the Song or Yuan dynasty. The six-sided larger tower and the four-sided smaller one, known as the elder and younger sister, stand about 20 m apart, each in its own pond, with a small stone bridge over the channel that links the ponds; the larger tower carries carved officials and warriors, and the smaller one Buddhist figures and four coiled-dragon pillars. Two nearby tombs, of Lingzhao and of Chen Daoxu and his wife, were added to the listing in 2006."},{"id":"danzhou-ancient-city","name":"Ancient City of Danzhou","name_zh":"儋州故城","pinyin":"Dānzhōu Gùchéng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Danzhou","lat":19.7453,"lon":109.3452,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danzhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The old walled seat of Danzhou prefecture, founded in the early Tang dynasty and used through the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, which now forms the core of Zhonghe town. The wall once ran about 1.6 km around an irregular square with four gates; about 200 m of it still stands complete, 450 m survives in ruins and another 950 m survives as foundations. Inside the old town are the Kuixing tower, the Ningji and Guandi temples, the old West Gate lane and a well, among ordinary houses."},{"id":"danzhou-dongpo-academy","name":"Dongpo Academy","name_zh":"东坡书院","pinyin":"Dōngpō Shūyuàn","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Danzhou","lat":19.7423,"lon":109.3536,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/danzhou-dongpo-academy/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The site where the poet and official Su Dongpo (Su Shi), exiled to Hainan in the late 1090s, lived and taught in Danzhou; the academy that grew up around his Zaijiu Hall was rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties, destroyed in the Cultural Revolution and restored in 1982. The Zaijiu Pavilion and Hall, side rooms and corridors now serve as an exhibition hall, and the grounds also have Dongpo Lake, a bridge, a statue, a memorial hall for the Guanglang Hermitage and Dongpo's well. Guides use augmented-reality devices, and a live 'Dongpo micro-theatre' show is staged on site."},{"id":"danzhou-shihua-water-cave-geopark","name":"Shihua Water Cave Geopark","name_zh":"石花水洞地质公园","pinyin":"Shíhuā Shuǐdòng Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Danzhou","lat":19.4439,"lon":109.2953,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danzhou-shihua-water-cave-geopark","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A karst geopark at Yaxing in western Danzhou, built around a limestone cave that visitors tour partly on foot and partly by small boat, with a stone forest above ground. The cave holds stalactites and other limestone formations, and the park also runs study programmes for school groups."},{"id":"danzhou-yangpu-ancient-salt-field","name":"Yangpu Ancient Salt Field","name_zh":"洋浦盐田","pinyin":"Yángpǔ Yántián","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Danzhou","lat":19.7406,"lon":109.214,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/danzhou-yangpu-ancient-salt-field/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A salt field of more than a thousand flat-topped volcanic-rock slabs, each cut with a shallow trough and a thin rim, laid out on the shore at Yantian village on the Yangpu peninsula. Seawater fills the stones at high tide and evaporates at low tide, leaving salt to be gathered by hand, a method in use here since at least the Song dynasty that a few villagers still follow. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 and as a national industrial heritage site in 2024."},{"id":"dingan-old-city","name":"Ding'an Old City","name_zh":"定安古城","pinyin":"Dìng'ān Gǔchéng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Ding'an","lat":19.7039,"lon":110.3149,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingan-old-city","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The old county town of Ding'an, whose walls were begun in 1466 and finished in 1519; the west gate, the north gate and more than a kilometre of wall survive, along with several of the main streets inside. The restored old county office and a later arcaded old street are part of the site. It is a quiet place for a walk along the wall and through the old quarter."},{"id":"dingan-murui-mountain-base","name":"Murui Mountain Revolutionary Base","name_zh":"母瑞山革命根据地","pinyin":"Mǔruì Shān Gémìng Gēnjùdì","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Ding'an","lat":19.2472,"lon":110.2991,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingan-murui-mountain-base","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mountain base area of the Communist-led Qiongya forces, which held out on Murui Mountain in 1928 and again in 1932. The memorial park, completed on 1 August 1996 and named a national patriotic education base in 2001, displays historical material and objects from the Hainan revolutionary struggle. About ten sites of the period have been rebuilt, including a Red Army cooperative, a sewing group and a transport office."},{"id":"dingan-wenbifeng-pangu-park","name":"Wenbifeng Pangu Culture Park","name_zh":"文笔峰","pinyin":"Wénbǐfēng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Ding'an","lat":19.5554,"lon":110.363,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dingan-wenbifeng-pangu-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Taoist and Pangu-legend complex of about 1,200 mu at the foot of Wenbi Peak near Nanli Lake, built in Southern Song style around the Yuchan Palace, a group of Taoist halls and shrines. In local legend the peak is Pangu's nose, and paths lead past lotus ponds and a bell and drum tower to a rock known as the dragon head and tortoise back and to a Pangu cave. The park also serves vegetarian meals and has a wellness-retreat centre."},{"id":"dongfang-basuo-labourers-memorial","name":"Basuo Labourers' Memorial Site","name_zh":"侵华日军侵琼八所死难劳工纪念地","pinyin":"Qīnhuá Rìjūn Qīn Qióng Bāsuǒ Sǐnàn Láogōng Jìniàndì","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Dongfang","lat":19.0938,"lon":108.6226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongfang-basuo-labourers-memorial","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A site on the shore at Basuo that records the forced labour used by the Japanese army to build Basuo port, a railway and military works between 1939 and 1942, when workers brought from Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Hainan, together with more than a thousand Allied prisoners of war, were put to work. An incomplete count puts the deaths at more than 10,000, and the dead were buried in a pit on the beach known as the ten-thousand-person pit. A memorial monument stands at the site, and two labour-prison buildings of the period were moved 500 metres to its eastern part in 2013."},{"id":"dongfang-exian-ridge","name":"E'xian Ridge","name_zh":"娥仙岭","pinyin":"É'xiān Lǐng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Dongfang","lat":19.0113,"lon":109.004,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongfang-exian-ridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forested limestone massif in Donghe town on the shore of the Daguangba reservoir, whose main peak, E'niang Jiufeng, rises above 1,200 metres and is covered in rainforest on karst. Boats run on the reservoir among karst hills, and a climb of about an hour leads to E'niang Cave, where roughly 800 metres of route among stalactites and stalagmites are open. The area also includes a Li and Miao village, and it was rated 4A in 2024."},{"id":"dongfang-huali-valley","name":"Huali Valley (Rosewood Valley)","name_zh":"花梨谷","pinyin":"Huālí Gǔ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Dongfang","lat":18.7343,"lon":108.7364,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongfang-huali-valley","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A leisure park themed on Hainan's huanghuali rosewood, with a plantation of more than a million trees, flower fields, a picking garden, a visitor centre, a rosewood museum, caravan and star-gazing cabins, and a hot-spring resort. It combines forestry and tourism and focuses on forest wellbeing and hot-spring holidays. It became Dongfang's first 4A scenic area in November 2022."},{"id":"haikou-dongzhai-harbor-mangroves","name":"Dongzhai Harbor Mangrove Tourist Area","name_zh":"东寨港红树林","pinyin":"Dōngzhàigǎng Hóngshùlín","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.9523,"lon":110.5766,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haikou-dongzhai-harbor-mangroves/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A visitor area on the Dongzhai Harbor mangroves, part of a national nature reserve on Haikou's north-east coast that protects about 26,000 mu of mangrove wetland with 36 mangrove species. A boardwalk of about 1,700 m runs out over the water in three sections, a 33.5 m tower gives a view over the forest, and electric boats go through the channels. At low tide the trunks and roots stand exposed."},{"id":"haikou-former-qionghai-customs-house","name":"Former Qionghai Customs House","name_zh":"琼海关旧址","pinyin":"Qiónghǎiguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0451,"lon":110.3364,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-former-qionghai-customs-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former customs house of Haikou, completed in 1937 on Deshengsha Road at the edge of the Qilou district. Qiongzhou Customs had been set up at Haikou in 1876; the customs service used the building until 1991 and its anti-smuggling bureau until 2017. The facade was restored in 2020, and an overseas-Chinese museum is planned for the interior, which had not opened by autumn 2026."},{"id":"haikou-qilou-old-street","name":"Haikou Qilou Old Street","name_zh":"海口骑楼老街","pinyin":"Hǎikǒu Qílóu Lǎojiē","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0447,"lon":110.3376,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-qilou-old-street","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A historic district of more than 600 arcaded shophouses (qilou), largely built between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries by Hainanese who had traded in South-East Asia, combining Chinese plasterwork and murals with European and Asian columns and arches. The core streets (Zhongshan, Bo'ai, Xinhua North, Deshengsha and Jiefang roads) were restored from 2007 and now hold shops, guesthouses, heritage exhibition halls and a Tianhou temple. The old street runs for about 3.9 km in all and was named one of China's first ten historic and cultural streets in 2009."},{"id":"haikou-volcano-park","name":"Haikou Volcanic Cluster Global Geopark","name_zh":"海口火山口公园","pinyin":"Hǎikǒu Huǒshānkǒu Gōngyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.9292,"lon":110.2165,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haikou-volcano-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Haikou section of the Leiqiong Global Geopark, a lava plateau south of Haikou with more than 40 Quaternary volcanoes, the youngest of which erupted in the Holocene. The visitor area centres on the Maanling group of four neighbouring cones, where the main cone, Fenglu Ling, can be climbed for views over Haikou and the Qiongzhou Strait. Visitors also see ropy and wood-grained lava surfaces and lava tubes."},{"id":"haikou-changying-fantasy-park","name":"Hainan Changying Fantasy Park","name_zh":"海南长影奇幻乐园","pinyin":"Hǎinán Chángyǐng Qíhuàn Lèyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.9836,"lon":110.1904,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-changying-fantasy-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A film-themed amusement park developed by the Changying film group, which opened as Changying Global 100 Fantasy Park and has since been renamed. Landmarks include the Loulan Tower and a Zheng He treasure-ship building, set around Bayin Lake, and the park stages parades and light-and-water shows on the lake. It suits families with children."},{"id":"haikou-hainan-museum","name":"Hainan Museum","name_zh":"海南省博物馆","pinyin":"Hǎinán Shěng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0174,"lon":110.3746,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haikou-hainan-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The provincial museum, in the Hainan Cultural Park on Guoxing Avenue, has occupied its present building since 2008 and was rated a national first-class museum in 2012. Its permanent exhibitions cover the history of Hainan, the island's minority peoples, intangible cultural heritage and a selection of relics, alongside changing exhibitions. It stands beside the Hainan Library and the Hainan Centre for the Performing Arts."},{"id":"haikou-tropical-wildlife-park","name":"Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden","name_zh":"海南热带野生动植物园","pinyin":"Hǎinán Rèdài Yěshēng Dòngzhíwùyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.7719,"lon":110.2422,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-tropical-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A zoo set in about 1,500 mu of planted tropical forest in the hills south of Haikou, opened in 1996, with a drive-through area and a walking area. Animals on show have included giant pandas, an Asian elephant, brown bears and takin. It was badly damaged by Typhoon Yagi in September 2024 and reopened within a month."},{"id":"haikou-holiday-beach","name":"Holiday Beach","name_zh":"假日海滩","pinyin":"Jiàrì Hǎitān","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0386,"lon":110.2338,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-holiday-beach","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A long city beach on Haikou's north-western coast, facing the Qiongzhou Strait and running alongside Binhai Avenue, set up as a visitor beach in 1995. Behind the sand are landscaped paths and areas for dining and water sports, and the sea is used for swimming, sailing and windsurfing."},{"id":"haikou-hou-family-compound","name":"Hou Family Compound, Qiongshan","name_zh":"琼山侯家大院","pinyin":"Qióngshān Hóujiā Dàyuàn","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.7116,"lon":110.4275,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-hou-family-compound","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Qing-dynasty merchant family's compound in Baodao village, built around 1800 by the Hou family, who had moved from Guangdong and prospered as pawnbrokers. Five parallel courtyard ranges of timber-framed halls open off three gateways on the south side, with carved woodwork, plaster ridge decoration and local basalt stonework; the main hall of the third range, locally known as the seventeen-tile-row hall, is tall and richly decorated. The Hou family still use it for ancestral rites and festivals."},{"id":"haikou-mission-hills-resort","name":"Mission Hills Haikou","name_zh":"海口观澜湖","pinyin":"Hǎikǒu Guānlánhú","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.9183,"lon":110.3288,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haikou-mission-hills-resort/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large resort complex on a black lava plateau south of Haikou, developed since the late 2000s around ten 18-hole golf courses. Besides hotels it has a volcanic hot-spring valley with 168 hot and cold pools, a water park, the Feng Xiaogang Movie Commune (a film-set town recreating streets of twentieth-century China, with stage shows) and a duty-free mall, outlet shops and restaurants. It suits golfers, families and shoppers more than sightseers."},{"id":"haikou-yunlong-red-army-reorganisation-site","name":"Qiongya Red Army Reorganisation Site, Yunlong","name_zh":"琼崖工农红军云龙改编旧址","pinyin":"Qióngyá Gōngnóng Hóngjūn Yúnlóng Gǎibiān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.8759,"lon":110.4691,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-yunlong-red-army-reorganisation-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"On 5 December 1938, at the market town of Yunlong, the Communist-led Qiongya Red Army was reorganised as an anti-Japanese independent unit under an agreement with the Nationalist authorities on the island. The memorial park has a bronze soldier, a statue of the Communist and Nationalist commanders shaking hands, corridors carved with inscriptions and battle summaries, and a hall whose photographs and texts trace the Qiongya Red Army from its founding through the Anti-Japanese War and the civil war. The memorial was first built in 1952 on the site of the market-town temple where the ceremony was held, and has since been extended several times."},{"id":"haikou-qiu-jun-residence-and-tomb","name":"Qiu Jun's Former Residence and Tomb","name_zh":"丘浚故居及墓","pinyin":"Qiū Jùn Gùjū Jí Mù","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0025,"lon":110.3441,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-qiu-jun-residence-and-tomb","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Qiu Jun (1421–95) was a Ming scholar-statesman from Qiongshan who rose to Grand Secretary. His boyhood home in Jinhua village is a low timber house whose main hall, Kejitang, keeps Song and Yuan-style roof framing and is among the oldest surviving timber dwellings on Hainan. His tomb lies about 6 km away in Qiu Jun Cultural Park, where an exhibition hall of more than 3,000 square metres presents his life and Ming and Qing relics."},{"id":"haikou-first-qiongya-congress-site","name":"Site of the First Qiongya Congress of the Communist Party","name_zh":"中共琼崖第一次代表大会旧址","pinyin":"Zhōnggòng Qióngyá Dìyī Cì Dàibiǎo Dàhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0423,"lon":110.3349,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-first-qiongya-congress-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-range courtyard house of brick and timber, built around 1920 by the Qiu family, where 11 delegates representing some 240 party members met in secret in June 1926 and elected the Qiongya regional committee of the Communist Party. The first hall holds relics from the meeting, portraits of the delegates hang in the side rooms, and the rear hall and side wings carry a photograph exhibition on the history of the party organisation on Hainan. The small garden courtyard lies in Zhulinli (Bamboo Grove Lane), in the middle of the city."},{"id":"haikou-temple-of-five-lords","name":"Temple of the Five Lords","name_zh":"五公祠","pinyin":"Wǔgōng Cí","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0101,"lon":110.3553,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haikou-temple-of-five-lords/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial complex in Haikou's old Fucheng quarter honouring five Tang and Song officials who were banished to Hainan, among them the chancellors Li Deyu and Li Gang. The central two-storey timber hall was built in 1889 and stands among shrines to Su Dongpo and to two Han-dynasty Fubo generals, with the Fusu spring, garden pavilions and an exhibition hall of Hainan relics. The complex shows how Hainan served as a place of exile in imperial times."},{"id":"haikou-tomb-of-hai-rui","name":"Tomb of Hai Rui","name_zh":"海瑞墓","pinyin":"Hǎi Ruì Mù","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.008,"lon":110.2915,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haikou-tomb-of-hai-rui/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The tomb of Hai Rui (1514–87), the Ming official remembered for his incorruptibility, was completed in 1589 as a granite mound reached along a spirit way of stone archways and carved animals and officials. It was badly damaged during the Cultural Revolution and restored in 1982. The surrounding Hai Rui Cultural Park, expanded from the heritage site, adds an exhibition hall on his life and on integrity in office, an academy hall and a connecting gallery."},{"id":"haikou-xiuying-fort","name":"Xiuying Fort","name_zh":"秀英炮台","pinyin":"Xiùyīng Pàotái","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":20.0235,"lon":110.303,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haikou-xiuying-fort/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Qing coastal fort on a low rise above Haikou's north-western shore, built in the early 1890s on the orders of the viceroy Zhang Zhidong to guard the Qiongzhou Strait against a French threat. Five emplacements for German-made Krupp guns stand in a line facing the sea, with barracks, a magazine and a parade ground behind, and displays of historical photographs. It is counted with the Humen, Wusong and Dagu forts as one of China's four great old coastal forts, and is now hemmed in by apartment blocks."},{"id":"haikou-zhuyaling-city-site","name":"Zhuyaling City Site","name_zh":"珠崖岭城址","pinyin":"Zhūyálǐng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Haikou","lat":19.9181,"lon":110.4226,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haikou-zhuyaling-city-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The earthen walls of a small walled town survive on a rise beside the Nandu River, enclosing about 2.9 hectares, with a gap in the south wall that marks the gate. The national list dates the site from the Han to the Tang period; excavations in 2022 uncovered building platforms, roof tiles, bricks and pottery that archaeologists associate with a Tang-era county or prefectural seat. What a visitor sees is the line of the walls, the stepped slope at the gate and the village around it."},{"id":"lingao-liberation-park-lighthouse","name":"Hainan Liberation Park and Lingao Cape Lighthouse","name_zh":"海南解放公园","pinyin":"Hǎinán Jiěfàng Gōngyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Lingao","lat":20.0108,"lon":109.711,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingao-liberation-park-lighthouse","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial park on Lingao Cape, the headland on Hainan's north-west coast where troops of the People's Liberation Army's 40th Army landed in the early hours of 17 April 1950, in the crossing of the Qiongzhou Strait that brought Hainan Island under PRC control. The 86-mu park, opened in 2006 and renamed Hainan Liberation Park at the end of 2020, has a large sculpture group, a memorial to the dead of the 40th and 43rd Armies and a museum on the crossing. Inside the park stands the Lingao Cape lighthouse, a 22 m cast-iron tower built by the French in 1893 and listed nationally in 2013."},{"id":"lingshui-fenjiezhou-island","name":"Boundary Island (Fenjiezhou)","name_zh":"分界洲岛","pinyin":"Fēnjièzhōu Dǎo","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Lingshui","lat":18.5783,"lon":110.1965,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingshui-fenjiezhou-island/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small uninhabited island in Riyue Bay off Guangpo town, whose name, 'dividing-line island', refers to the climatic divide between northern and southern Hainan. The scenic area offers beaches, snorkelling and diving among corals and a wreck, ray and turtle encounters in the shallows, a sightseeing submarine and an ocean theatre, along with jet skis and other water sports. It has been rated 5A since 2013."},{"id":"lingshui-soviet-government-site","name":"Former Lingshui County Soviet Government","name_zh":"陵水县苏维埃政府旧址","pinyin":"Língshuǐ Xiàn Sūwéi'āi Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Lingshui","lat":18.5072,"lon":110.0379,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshui-soviet-government-site","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A white-walled, tiled building in Yelin, built in 1921 as the Qiongshan Guild Hall. On 16 December 1927 a congress of workers, peasants and soldiers held there proclaimed the Lingshui county Soviet government, the first county-level Soviet government in the Qiongya area, which broke up in June 1928. The building now holds an exhibition on the Soviet's history, using scenes, panels, objects and audiovisual displays."},{"id":"lingshui-ocean-paradise","name":"Hainan Ocean Paradise","name_zh":"海南海洋欢乐世界","pinyin":"Hǎinán Hǎiyáng Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Lingshui","lat":18.4464,"lon":110.0464,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshui-ocean-paradise","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A marine-life theme park resort at Li'an, opened in December 2021 as R&F Ocean Paradise, covering about 2,000 mu (roughly 130 hectares) in five themed zones. It combines dozens of rides with animal halls and aquariums of South China Sea species, sea-lion and mermaid-themed shows, a polar animal hall with polar bears, belugas and penguins (opened in July 2024) and a separate water park (opened in April 2025). It suits families with children."},{"id":"lingshui-nanwan-monkey-island","name":"Nanwan Monkey Island","name_zh":"南湾猴岛","pinyin":"Nánwān Hóudǎo","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Lingshui","lat":18.3981,"lon":109.9809,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshui-nanwan-monkey-island","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A macaque reserve on the Nanwan peninsula beside Xincun harbour, established in 1965, where more than a thousand macaques live in the forest. A cable car over the water links Xincun harbour with the reserve, and paths lead to the monkeys. The tourist area has added a dome-screen theatre show, sea sports and horse riding."},{"id":"lingshui-clear-water-bay","name":"Qingshui Bay (Clear Water Bay)","name_zh":"清水湾","pinyin":"Qīngshuǐ Wān","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Lingshui","lat":18.4028,"lon":109.872,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingshui-clear-water-bay","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A beach-resort district on Lingshui's coast with about 12 km of shoreline, fine sand and clear water. Its sights include the Freedom Lighthouse, a red-and-white landmark tower used as a film location, a sea-viewing platform and a stretch of beach known for its 'singing sand', and it has several resort hotels. It was named a provincial tourist resort in 2021."},{"id":"qionghai-baishiling","name":"Baishiling","name_zh":"白石岭","pinyin":"Báishí Lǐng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Qionghai","lat":19.1688,"lon":110.3887,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qionghai-baishiling","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hilly area beside the Wanquan River covering 16.24 square kilometres, made up of four linked ridges with peaks, valleys, lakes and forest of about 90 per cent cover, the highest point reaching 328 metres. An aerial cableway opened in 1995, and glass walkways, a via ferrata and a camping area have been added since."},{"id":"qionghai-boao-forum-venue","name":"Boao Forum for Asia Permanent Venue","name_zh":"博鳌亚洲论坛永久会址","pinyin":"Bó'áo Yàzhōu Lùntán Yǒngjiǔ Huìzhǐ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Qionghai","lat":19.1467,"lon":110.5728,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qionghai-boao-forum-venue","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The permanent conference site of the Boao Forum for Asia, on Dongyu Island where the Wanquan River meets the sea. The grounds hold the forum's conference halls and hotels beside the water, with a globe sculpture in front of the main venue and a waterfront promenade. The forum's annual meeting takes place here each spring."},{"id":"qionghai-cai-family-house","name":"Cai Family House, Boao","name_zh":"蔡家宅","pinyin":"Càijiāzhái","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Qionghai","lat":19.134,"lon":110.5309,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qionghai-cai-family-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Four brick-and-concrete courtyard houses built between 1924 and 1934 in Liuke village by four Cai brothers, Chinese merchants in Indonesia, covering about 2,645 square metres in a regular rectangle facing west. A well, a lotus pond, an orchard and service buildings lie around them. Traditional Chinese decoration is mixed with South-East Asian and Western details, and the compound is nicknamed Hainan's first overseas-Chinese house."},{"id":"qionghai-south-china-sea-museum","name":"China (Hainan) Museum of the South China Sea","name_zh":"中国（海南）南海博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó (Hǎinán) Nánhǎi Bówùguǎn","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Qionghai","lat":19.2305,"lon":110.603,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qionghai-south-china-sea-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large museum beside the fishing harbour at Tanmen, opened in April 2018, with about 70,000 square metres of floor space. Its exhibitions cover the maritime history of the South China Sea, navigation technology, marine life, the ancient Maritime Silk Road and the history of fishing in these waters, and they include finds from underwater archaeology such as cargo recovered from shipwrecks. Tanmen is a long-established fishing port."},{"id":"qionghai-world-tropical-fruit-window","name":"World Tropical Fruit Window","name_zh":"世界热带水果之窗","pinyin":"Shìjiè Rèdài Shuǐguǒ Zhī Chuāng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Qionghai","lat":19.3498,"lon":110.4492,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qionghai-world-tropical-fruit-window","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A tropical-fruit park in Dalu town that grows and displays some 680 fruit varieties introduced from Latin America, Australia and South-East Asia, with science-education displays alongside the orchards. Visitors can also see seasonal shows and themed photo sets, and the park was rated 4A in 2024. It suits families with children."},{"id":"qiongzhong-baihualing-rainforest","name":"Baihualing Rainforest Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"百花岭","pinyin":"Bǎihuālǐng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Qiongzhong","lat":19.0065,"lon":109.8113,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qiongzhong-baihualing-rainforest","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forested hill area in Hainan's central highlands, opened to visitors in 2019, with a tree-top boardwalk, tree houses, a swinging bridge over water, a glass slide and a 2 km rainforest slide, along with Baihua Waterfall, which drops more than 300 m in all. It lies next to the northern gate of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, and Li and Miao folk song and dance are among the activities it offers."},{"id":"sanya-atlantis","name":"Atlantis Sanya","name_zh":"三亚亚特兰蒂斯","pinyin":"Sānyà Yàtèlándìsī","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.3577,"lon":109.7388,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"A full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-atlantis","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"An ocean-themed resort complex on Haitang Bay that opened in April 2018, covering about 31 hectares with a 1,314-room hotel, restaurants and a shopping arcade. Day visitors use the Aquaventure water park, the Lost Chambers aquarium, a theatre show and the dolphin and sea-lion encounters. It suits families and groups planning a water-park day."},{"id":"sanya-da-xiao-dongtian","name":"Da Xiao Dongtian","name_zh":"大小洞天","pinyin":"Dà Xiǎo Dòngtiān","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.305,"lon":109.1517,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-da-xiao-dongtian","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A coastal scenic area at the foot of Nanshan hill in Yazhou district, named Da Xiao Dongtian, or 'Great and Little Cave-Heavens' (a Daoist term for sacred grottoes), in the Song dynasty. The Xiaodongtian rock inscriptions, dating from the Song dynasty to modern times, are protected at provincial level, and the grounds also hold the Sanya Natural History Museum."},{"id":"sanya-luhuitou-park","name":"Luhuitou Park","name_zh":"鹿回头公园","pinyin":"Lùhuítóu Gōngyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.2271,"lon":109.4984,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-luhuitou-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hill park on the peninsula just south of central Sanya, covered in evergreen tropical monsoon forest. On the summit a large stone sculpture shows the Li legend of a hunter and a deer that turns into a girl, the story behind Sanya's nickname 'Deer City'. Viewpoints look north over the city and east to Dadonghai bay."},{"id":"sanya-luobi-cave","name":"Luobi Cave","name_zh":"落笔洞遗址","pinyin":"Luòbǐdòng Yízhǐ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.3306,"lon":109.5481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-luobi-cave","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A limestone cave under Luobi Peak, the southernmost prehistoric cave site found in China so far. Excavations in 1992–93 recovered human teeth, stone and bone tools and the bones of 45 mammal species from about 10,000 years ago. A new round of excavation begun in 2025 has uncovered a burial 13,000 to 12,000 years old, the oldest found on the island, and the site is on the national list of archaeological site parks under creation, with a site museum planned."},{"id":"sanya-nanshan-cultural-tourism-zone","name":"Nanshan Cultural Tourism Zone","name_zh":"南山文化旅游区","pinyin":"Nánshān Wénhuà Lǚyóu Qū","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.3007,"lon":109.2049,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sanya-nanshan-cultural-tourism-zone/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large modern Buddhist-themed park on the coast west of Sanya, built around Nanshan Temple, founded in 1998, and the Guanyin of Nanshan, a 108 m statue (including its base) on an artificial islet that was consecrated in 2005. The statue has three faces, one looking inland and two out to sea, and the grounds also hold gardens, further statues and a longevity theme taken from the saying 'long life like the Southern Mountain'. A longevity festival has been held here since 1999."},{"id":"sanya-international-duty-free-shopping-complex","name":"Sanya International Duty Free Shopping Complex","name_zh":"三亚国际免税城","pinyin":"Sānyà Guójì Miǎnshuì Chéng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.3737,"lon":109.7465,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-international-duty-free-shopping-complex","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large duty-free shopping mall run by China Duty Free Group on Haitang Bay, which moved here in 2014 from a smaller shop in Dadonghai that opened in 2009. Its halls sell perfume, cosmetics, jewellery, watches, leather goods and fashion brands, and a third phase was topped out in January 2026."},{"id":"sanya-red-detachment-of-women-performing-arts-park","name":"Sanya Red Detachment of Women Performing Arts Park","name_zh":"三亚红色娘子军演艺公园","pinyin":"Sānyà Hóngsè Niángzǐjūn Yǎnyì Gōngyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.3389,"lon":109.4825,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-red-detachment-of-women-performing-arts-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A show-centred theme park in Tianya district, laid out in three zones named Red Memory, Red Sanya and Sea of Stars. Its main production is the open-air show Red Detachment of Women, which uses dance, martial arts and Li and Miao elements to retell the 1930s story of the women's company of the Communist-led Red Army on Hainan. The park also has a musical-fountain plaza, a Silk Road crafts centre and a children's playground."},{"id":"sanya-tianya-haijiao","name":"Tianya Haijiao","name_zh":"天涯海角","pinyin":"Tiānyá Hǎijiǎo","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.294,"lon":109.3447,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sanya-tianya-haijiao/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A beach west of Sanya scattered with large boulders, several carved with the characters that made the place famous: Tianya (edge of the sky), cut in 1733 by the Yazhou prefect; Nantian Yizhu (pillar of the southern sky), added in 1909; and Haijiao (corner of the sea), added in 1939. The inscribed rocks are a provincial heritage site, and because Chinese poetry uses the name for the farthest reaches of the world, couples often come here. On clear days islets can be seen offshore."},{"id":"sanya-west-island","name":"West Island","name_zh":"西岛","pinyin":"Xī Dǎo","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.2385,"lon":109.3712,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-west-island","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small island off Sanya's western coast, the offshore island nearest to the city, with a working fishing village of old coral-stone houses whose history goes back more than 400 years. Visitors can walk the lanes, where nets are hung out to dry, and stay overnight in homestays once the day-trippers have left."},{"id":"sanya-wuzhizhou-island","name":"Wuzhizhou Island","name_zh":"蜈支洲岛","pinyin":"Wúzhīzhōu Dǎo","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.3114,"lon":109.7618,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"A full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-wuzhizhou-island","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small island of about 1.5 square kilometres in Haitang Bay, with sandy beaches, rocky shores and tropical forest, and water sports on offer around its coast. Visitors cross by boat and tour the island by electric buggy, which is required to see the hillside and sea views in parts of the back of the island."},{"id":"sanya-yacheng-academy","name":"Yacheng Academy","name_zh":"崖城学宫","pinyin":"Yáchéng Xuégōng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.373,"lon":109.1618,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-yacheng-academy","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former Confucian school of Yazhou prefecture, founded in 1044 in the Northern Song dynasty, moved to this site in 1823 and repaired in 1872. It is laid out in three courtyards, from a gate wall and Lingxing Gate through a crescent pool and the Dacheng Gate to the Dacheng Hall and a rear shrine; the Dacheng Hall, gate, side halls, two shrines and the pool are Qing buildings and the rest has been rebuilt. It opened to the public in 2007 and stands in Yazhou ancient town."},{"id":"sanya-yalong-bay-tropical-paradise-forest-park","name":"Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park","name_zh":"亚龙湾热带天堂森林公园","pinyin":"Yàlóngwān Rèdài Tiāntáng Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Sanya","lat":18.2543,"lon":109.6393,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanya-yalong-bay-tropical-paradise-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A forest park on the hills behind Yalong Bay, set in dense tropical forest. Its best-known feature is the Guojianglong suspension bridge, 168 m long and hung nearly 40 m above the valley, which appeared in the film If You Are the One 2 and in later television dramas. It suits visitors who want a forest walk close to the Yalong Bay beach resorts."},{"id":"tunchang-menghuan-xiangshan-fragrance-park","name":"Menghuan Xiangshan Fragrance Park","name_zh":"梦幻香山","pinyin":"Mènghuàn Xiāngshān","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Tunchang","lat":19.324,"lon":110.0434,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tunchang-menghuan-xiangshan-fragrance-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A fragrance-themed garden park of more than 600 mu (about 40 hectares) in the hills beside the central expressway, with over a hundred kinds of scented flowers and herbs, about 400 mu of lemon orchard and some 10,000 agarwood trees, more than half of them nearly 30 years old. It also has a fragrance museum and a hotel, and runs seasonal flower displays and sachet-making and fruit-picking activities. It suits families and photographers."},{"id":"wanning-xinglong-tropical-botanical-garden","name":"Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden","name_zh":"兴隆热带植物园","pinyin":"Xīnglóng Rèdài Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wanning","lat":18.7348,"lon":110.1921,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanning-xinglong-tropical-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A botanical garden founded in 1957 and open to visitors since 1997, run by the Spice and Beverage Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. It holds more than 3,200 tropical and subtropical plant species, with collections of coffee, pepper, vanilla and cocoa, and rainforest features such as buttress roots and flowers borne directly on trunks. It sits in Xinglong, an overseas-Chinese settlement known for its coffee."},{"id":"wenchang-coconut-grand-view-garden","name":"Coconut Grand View Garden","name_zh":"椰子大观园","pinyin":"Yēzi Dàguānyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":19.5501,"lon":110.7927,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchang-coconut-grand-view-garden","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A coconut-themed park of 443 mu (about 30 hectares) that grew out of a palm germplasm collection of the Coconut Research Institute and has been open to visitors since 1980. It grows 217 palm species and 130 rare tree species among coconut groves, and has a coconut science museum, a coconut-grove maze, a petting area and an adventure camp. It suits families with children and school groups."},{"id":"wenchang-doubing-pagoda","name":"Doubing Pagoda","name_zh":"斗柄塔","pinyin":"Dǒubǐng Tǎ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":20.0901,"lon":110.5971,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchang-doubing-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"An eight-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda about 20 metres high on the main peak of Qixing Ridge above Puqian, built in the Ming dynasty as a feng shui tower that also served as a navigation mark. A stone plaque over the doorway dates its construction to 1625, and a spiral staircase of 104 steps climbs inside to the top. Damaged eaves and walls were repaired, with the work finished in July 2023."},{"id":"wenchang-fu-family-house","name":"Fu Family House, Wenchang","name_zh":"文昌符家宅","pinyin":"Wénchāng Fújiāzhái","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":19.656,"lon":110.7902,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchang-fu-family-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A compound of three two-storey blocks in a village in Wencheng town, built in the 1910s by brothers who had made their money in Singapore, using local fired brick and imported Thai hardwood. The layout, side wings and painted decoration along the wall tops follow the village houses of northern Hainan, while the gate, the upper-floor cooling pavilion, the verandas and the plaster relief borrow the arcaded Nanyang style of South-East Asia. It has served as a guerrilla base and as a primary school, and parts of its roof and walls had collapsed by 2013."},{"id":"wenchang-han-family-house","name":"Han Family House, Wenchang","name_zh":"韩家宅","pinyin":"Hánjiāzhái","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":19.7496,"lon":110.7745,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchang-han-family-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A four-courtyard family house built in 1936–38 in Fuzhai village by Han Qinzhun, a Wenchang merchant based in Thailand. The compound covers about 1,335 square metres on a single axis, with 16 side rooms, high surrounding walls and two square pavilions on the roof of the east wing, and it mixes Hainan, South-East Asian and Western styles. Murals inside and outside the walls show the family's sawmill in Thailand and scenes of the village."},{"id":"wenchang-song-ancestral-home","name":"Song Family Ancestral Home","name_zh":"宋氏祖居","pinyin":"Sòngshì Zǔjū","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":19.7409,"lon":110.8665,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wenchang-song-ancestral-home/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A courtyard house in Changsa town linked to the family of Charlie Soong (Song Jiashu), the father of Song Qingling and Song Meiling, who married Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek. The original dwelling no longer stands, and the present courtyard house is a rebuild of the 1980s. An exhibition hall beside it displays photographs and objects connected with the Song family."},{"id":"wenchang-tonggu-ridge","name":"Tonggu Ridge","name_zh":"铜鼓岭","pinyin":"Tónggǔ Lǐng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":19.67,"lon":111.0186,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchang-tonggu-ridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A coastal ridge at the north-eastern tip of Hainan, surrounded by sea on three sides, with 18 linked peaks and a main summit of 338 metres. Its slopes carry a coastal tropical evergreen monsoon forest with 1,019 recorded plant species, 12 of them rare or endangered, as well as boulders, beaches, a river and a lake within the area. A path climbs to the summit, which is a popular place to watch the sunrise."},{"id":"wenchang-confucian-temple","name":"Wenchang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"文昌学宫","pinyin":"Wénchāng Xuégōng","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":19.6191,"lon":110.7489,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former county Confucian temple and school of Wenchang, founded in the Northern Song dynasty and moved to its present site in 1375, early in the Ming. The main compound faces east and has about 3,300 square metres of floor space, with a crescent pool and bridge, the double-eaved Dacheng Hall and side halls, most of them built in the Ming and Qing, while the grounds also hold the Wenchang Palace, Minglun Hall and the Weiwen Academy."},{"id":"wenchang-xibei-academy","name":"Xibei Academy","name_zh":"溪北书院","pinyin":"Xīběi Shūyuàn","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wenchang","lat":20.0318,"lon":110.5785,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchang-xibei-academy","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Qing-dynasty academy begun in 1893 in Puqian town on the initiative of the calligrapher and scholar Pan Cun, with funding from the governor-general Zhang Zhidong, though Pan died just before it was finished. A crescent-shaped pond lies in front of the gate, whose plaque was written by the calligrapher Yang Shoujing. The buildings have more than 3,000 square metres of floor space and stand in the grounds of Wenbei Middle School."},{"id":"wuzhishan-red-canyon","name":"Wuzhishan Red Canyon","name_zh":"五指山红峡谷","pinyin":"Wǔzhǐshān Hóng Xiágǔ","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wuzhishan","lat":18.7596,"lon":109.6415,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhishan-red-canyon","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A rainforest gorge in Nansheng town developed for visitors from 2015, with a 3.8 km rafting run through the canyon and a 3.8 km boardwalk along its banks. Other attractions include a double suspension bridge (one deck glass, one timber) about 40 m above the water, a glass slide and a Li and Miao restaurant."},{"id":"wuzhishan-revolutionary-base-memorial-park","name":"Wuzhishan Revolutionary Base Memorial Park","name_zh":"五指山革命根据地纪念园","pinyin":"Wǔzhǐshān Gémìng Gēnjùdì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"460000","region":"Hainan","city":"Wuzhishan","lat":18.9302,"lon":109.4693,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhishan-revolutionary-base-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial park built from 2001 on the site of the Qiongya Column's headquarters in Maogui village, the last base of the Communist-led armed struggle on Hainan before 1950. A 23 m monument stands above the plaza, with a martyrs' cemetery nearby, and a history hall of 2,558 square metres covers 1939–50 in seven sections: the Baisha uprising, the creation of the Wuzhishan central base, the three offensives of 1948–49 and the changes in the Li and Miao autonomous areas after 1950."},{"id":"fuling-816-nuclear-plant","name":"816 Nuclear Military Plant","name_zh":"816工程","pinyin":"Bāyāoliù Gōngchéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5567,"lon":107.5074,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuling-816-nuclear-plant/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An unfinished underground nuclear plant dug into a mountain beside the Wu River from 1966 as part of the Third Front programme, meant to produce plutonium for weapons and to survive a nuclear attack. Work was halted in 1984 with about 85 per cent of the construction done; the tunnels run for more than 20 km and the largest chamber, built for the reactor, is 79.6 m high. Declassified in 2002, it opened to tourists in 2010."},{"id":"tongliang-anju-ancient-town","name":"Anju Ancient Town","name_zh":"安居古城","pinyin":"Ānjū Gǔchéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.9896,"lon":106.0233,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongliang-anju-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anju sits where the Qiong River joins the Fu River, 17 km north of Tongliang, and was once an important distribution centre for goods on the upper Yangtze. Its hillside old town of stone-flagged lanes is run as a scenic area with a recently rebuilt Confucian temple and county yamen, and in 2022 it was named a national intangible-cultural-heritage tourism area; dragon-boat races are held on the river."},{"id":"rongchang-antao-pottery-town","name":"Antao Pottery Town","name_zh":"安陶小镇","pinyin":"Āntáo Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.3611,"lon":105.4719,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongchang-antao-pottery-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pottery-themed tourist area in Anfu Subdistrict built around Rongchang pottery, a craft listed as national intangible cultural heritage, linking the Rongchang Pottery Museum, the old Taobao post road and craft-experience sites. Holiday events have included markets, street performances and hands-on crafts such as sugar-figure making and opera-mask painting."},{"id":"pengshui-ayi-river","name":"Ayi River Scenic Area","name_zh":"阿依河","pinyin":"Āyī Hé","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.1555,"lon":108.1136,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengshui-ayi-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The valley of the Ayi River, a tributary that rises in Guizhou and flows through Pengshui into the Wu River, home to protected animals such as François' langur. The scenic area follows the river south of Pengshui town, and rafting on it is the best-known summer activity."},{"id":"zhongxian-baigong-temple","name":"Baigong Temple & the Han Que Pillar-Gates","name_zh":"白公祠","pinyin":"Báigōng Cí","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.2865,"lon":108.018,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongxian-baigong-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial temple to the Tang poet Bai Juyi, who served as prefect of Zhongzhou, first built in 1630 and rebuilt in 1986, now a museum park in the Zhong County town. Since 2003 its grounds have held two Eastern Han stone pillar-gates (que), the Dingfang Que and the Uninscribed Que, moved from sites flooded by the Three Gorges reservoir; the taller tower of the Dingfang pair stands 6.26 m high. Holograms and multimedia displays present the county's relics in the halls."},{"id":"fuling-baiheliang-underwater-museum","name":"Baiheliang Underwater Museum","name_zh":"白鹤梁水下博物馆","pinyin":"Báihèliáng Shuǐxià Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.7147,"lon":107.3876,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fuling-baiheliang-underwater-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum built around White Crane Ridge, a rock ledge in the Yangtze off Fuling that showed above water only in the dry season and bears some 170 inscriptions and carved fish recording the river's low levels in 72 years since 764. When the Three Gorges reservoir submerged the ridge, it was enclosed in a shell of filtered water about 40 m down; visitors ride a 91 m escalator to a gallery and look at the carvings through 23 portholes. The museum opened in 2009, with exhibition halls on the riverbank explaining the inscriptions."},{"id":"liangping-baili-bamboo-sea","name":"Baili Bamboo Sea (Guanyin Cave area)","name_zh":"百里竹海观音洞","pinyin":"Bǎilǐ Zhúhǎi Guānyīn Dòng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.6874,"lon":107.5639,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangping-baili-bamboo-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Part of the Baili Bamboo Sea, about 230 km² of continuous bamboo forest in the valleys between a dozen peaks over 1,000 m on Mingyue Mountain, on Liangping's border with Sichuan. The rated area is the Guanyin Cave section at Zhengzhi village in Zhushan town, and nearby villages such as Lieshen have turned former gypsum-mining land into guesthouses for summer stays."},{"id":"jiulongpo-beidi-yiyuan-hot-spring","name":"Beidi Yiyuan Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"贝迪颐园温泉度假区","pinyin":"Bèidí Yíyuán Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4522,"lon":106.3602,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiulongpo-beidi-yiyuan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort with bathing pools in landscaped grounds at Baishiyi, in Chongqing's western suburbs. It is a place for a relaxing soak rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"changshou-lake","name":"Changshou Lake","name_zh":"长寿湖","pinyin":"Chángshòu Hú","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.9679,"lon":107.2,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshou-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir formed by the Shizitan dam on the Longxi River, completed in 1956 for hydropower, with about 65 km² of water dotted with more than 200 islands. The scenic area around it includes island and lakeshore viewpoints, the Donglin Temple, founded in the Song dynasty, and stepped waterfalls on the Longxi River below the dam."},{"id":"yongchuan-chashan-zhuhai","name":"Chashan Zhuhai (Tea Hills and Bamboo Sea)","name_zh":"茶山竹海","pinyin":"Cháshān Zhúhǎi","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4319,"lon":105.9386,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchuan-chashan-zhuhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park on the hills just north of Yongchuan town, where tea plantations give way to large stands of bamboo crossed by walking trails. Baodaoling ridge, the highest point in western Chongqing, is the place for sunrise and seas of cloud, Baoji Temple stands in the forest, and an activity area offers a summer toboggan and slides, with a campsite added in 2024."},{"id":"jiangjin-chen-duxiu-former-residence","name":"Chen Duxiu's Former Residence","name_zh":"陈独秀旧居","pinyin":"Chén Dúxiù Jiùjū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.2098,"lon":106.2546,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangjin-chen-duxiu-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shiqiangyuan, a walled Qing-dynasty courtyard house on Heshanping where Chen Duxiu, a founder and the first general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, lived from 1939 until his death in 1942. The east-wing rooms he shared with his wife Pan Lanzhen, a bedroom, parlour and study, are shown as they were, beside an exhibition in seven parts that follows his life from the New Culture and May Fourth movements to his last years in Jiangjin. The museum took its present form in 2012, and the house is a Chongqing municipal heritage site."},{"id":"tongnan-chen-tuan-hometown","name":"Chen Tuan's Hometown (Chongkan Rapeseed Fields)","name_zh":"陈抟故里","pinyin":"Chén Tuán Gùlǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.1578,"lon":105.6039,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongnan-chen-tuan-hometown","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Farmland around Chongkan town, one of the places claimed as the birthplace of the 10th-century Daoist sage Chen Tuan, where the rapeseed fields along the Qiong River turn yellow every March and a taiji (yin-yang) pattern about 236 m across has been planted in the core area. Visitors tour the flowers on foot, by boat, by small sightseeing train and by sightseeing cable car, and a Taiji town built in traditional style has a statue of Chen Tuan, an exhibition hall and temple buildings."},{"id":"pengshui-chiyou-jiuli-city","name":"Chiyou Jiuli City","name_zh":"蚩尤九黎城","pinyin":"Chīyóu Jiǔlí Chéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.3199,"lon":108.1232,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengshui-chiyou-jiuli-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large hillside complex of Miao-style buildings on the edge of Pengshui town, rated 4A in 2016, with stilt houses, the Jiuli Palace and a ceremonial square, built around the Miao legends of Chiyou and the ancient Jiuli people. By day visitors climb through the complex for the views, and in the evenings it opens for night visits with light shows on Miao themes."},{"id":"liangjiang-bonded-goods-zone","name":"Chongqing Bonded Goods Experience Zone","name_zh":"重庆保税体验旅游景区","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Bǎoshuì Tǐyàn Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6287,"lon":106.5815,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangjiang-bonded-goods-zone","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shopping and exhibition zone inside the Lianglu–Cuntan bonded port area of Liangjiang New Area, run by the port's operating company, where imported goods are displayed and sold at a bonded commodity trading centre. It is of interest mainly to shoppers looking for imported products."},{"id":"chongqing-city-walls-tongyuanmen-dongshuimen","name":"Chongqing City Walls (Tongyuanmen and Dongshuimen)","name_zh":"重庆古城墙","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Gǔ Chéngqiáng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.558,"lon":106.5632,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-city-walls-tongyuanmen-dongshuimen/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Surviving stretches of the walls of old Chongqing, rebuilt in 1373 under the Ming on earlier foundations and set along the cliffs above the Yangtze and Jialing rivers; of the 17 gates only three open gates and one closed gate remain, as much of the circuit was pulled down from the 1920s. The protected sections are at Tongyuanmen, where a city-wall park with rebuilt towers opened in 2005, and at Dongshuimen above the Yangtze beside the Huguang Guild Hall. A 15 km walking route around the Yuzhong peninsula follows the old wall line."},{"id":"chongqing-garden-expo-park","name":"Chongqing Garden Expo Park","name_zh":"重庆园博园","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Yuánbóyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6826,"lon":106.5474,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-garden-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped park of about 220 ha around Longjing Lake in Chongqing's northern suburbs, opened in November 2011, with 127 show gardens in the styles of Chinese regions and cities and of several foreign partner cities, set among hills, arched bridges and wetland. Electric carts and boats link the gardens across the site."},{"id":"dadukou-chongqing-industrial-museum","name":"Chongqing Industrial Culture Park (Chongqing Industrial Museum)","name_zh":"重庆工业文化博览园","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Gōngyè Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4705,"lon":106.4924,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dadukou-chongqing-industrial-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial heritage park on the old Chongqing Iron and Steel works at Dadukou, opened in 2019 after the steelworks moved out to Changshou. Its museum tells the story of Chongqing industry from the opening of the port in 1891 to the present, centred on a British-built 8,000-horsepower twin-cylinder steam engine of 1905, with locally made machinery, vehicles and motorcycles. Old chimneys and other relics of the plant are kept in the grounds as landscape features."},{"id":"chongqing-jianchuan-museum","name":"Chongqing Jianchuan Museum","name_zh":"重庆建川博物馆","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Jiànchuān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5226,"lon":106.519,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-jianchuan-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of themed museums opened in 2018 by the collector Fan Jianchuan in the wartime air-raid tunnels of the former Hanyang Arsenal, which moved here from Hanyang in Wuhan and became the Nationalist Ordnance Department's First Arsenal. Some 51 tunnels survive in the hillside by the Egongyan Bridge: three linked ones form the arsenal site museum with recreated wartime production, and others hold museums of weapons history, wartime relics, ration coupons, traditional Chinese medicine, wedding customs and Chongqing life."},{"id":"yubei-jihua-park","name":"Chongqing Jihua Park","name_zh":"重庆际华园","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Jìhuáyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6887,"lon":106.8279,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yubei-jihua-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large sports and leisure complex in Longxing, announced in 2016 as an extreme-sports centre, whose facilities include an indoor ski slope. It runs family activities on public holidays and lies next to the Liangjiang film set, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"chongqing-natural-history-museum","name":"Chongqing Natural History Museum","name_zh":"重庆自然博物馆","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Zìrán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8213,"lon":106.4037,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-natural-history-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chongqing's natural history museum, open in its present building at the foot of Jinyun Mountain in Beibei since 2015, with a design based on the spreading roots of the huangge fig, the city tree. Its collection of more than 110,000 objects covers fossils, minerals, animals and plants, and the dinosaur galleries show Sichuan Basin skeletons such as Omeisaurus and Tuojiangosaurus. The museum grew out of the Western China Academy of Sciences, founded in 1930, and the wartime Western China Museum, and it still runs the academy's old campus in central Beibei as a second site."},{"id":"chongqing-negotiations-sites-yiyuan","name":"Chongqing Negotiations Sites (Yiyuan)","name_zh":"重庆谈判旧址群","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Tánpàn Jiùzhǐqún","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5619,"lon":106.5396,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-negotiations-sites-yiyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Five wartime residences and offices linked with the 1945 Chongqing negotiations between the Nationalists and the Communists: Chiang Kai-shek's residence, two buildings of his aides' office, the residence of the Nationalist politician Song Ziwen (T. V. Soong), known as Yiyuan, and the residence of Wu Tiecheng. Yiyuan, a Gothic-style villa of 1937 on Sixin Road where the US envoy George Marshall stayed from December 1945 and where the first Nationalist–Communist ceasefire agreement was signed in January 1946, opened as an exhibition hall in 2018; the 1940 Wu Tiecheng residence stands on Jialing New Road beside the Stilwell Museum. The other three buildings are inside the compound of the municipal Communist Party committee."},{"id":"chongqing-peoples-auditorium","name":"Chongqing People's Auditorium & People's Square","name_zh":"重庆人民大礼堂","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Rénmín Dàlǐtáng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5645,"lon":106.5503,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-peoples-auditorium/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A vast assembly hall built in 1951–54 for the Southwest regional government, with a domed central hall modelled on Beijing's Temple of Heaven, colonnaded wings, blue-green glazed roofs and red columns. The round auditorium under its 46 m steel-framed dome seats about 4,200 people and is still used for the city's major meetings. It faces the Three Gorges Museum across People's Square, a popular gathering place in the evenings."},{"id":"nanan-chongqing-planning-exhibition-hall","name":"Chongqing Planning Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"重庆市规划展览馆","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Shì Guīhuà Zhǎnlǎnguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5786,"lon":106.5852,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-chongqing-planning-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chongqing's urban-planning museum moved in 2022 from Chaotianmen to a new building on the Nanbin Road riverfront at Danzishi, looking across the Yangtze to the Yuzhong peninsula. Its exhibitions trace how the mountain city has grown and how it is planned to develop."},{"id":"jiangbei-chongqing-science-and-technology-museum","name":"Chongqing Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"重庆科技馆","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Kējìguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5715,"lon":106.5788,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangbei-chongqing-science-and-technology-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chongqing's main science museum opened in 2009 in the Jiangbeizui business district beside the Grand Theatre, close to where the Jialing River joins the Yangtze. Its themed halls cover everyday science, transport, defence technology, disaster prevention with simulated hazards, basic science and space flight, and there is a children's science playground and giant-screen and 4D cinemas."},{"id":"wanzhou-three-gorges-immigration-memorial","name":"Chongqing Three Gorges Immigration Memorial (Wanzhou Museum)","name_zh":"重庆三峡移民纪念馆","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Sānxiá Yímín Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.8112,"lon":108.3972,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wanzhou-three-gorges-immigration-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wanzhou's main museum, designed by the architect Cui Kai and opened in 2018, which also serves as the Wanzhou District Museum. Its lower gallery traces Wanzhou's history from its earliest settlements some 7,000 years ago to its days as a Yangtze trading port, and the two levels above document the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the resettlement of about 1.3 million people from the reservoir area."},{"id":"chongqing-zoo","name":"Chongqing Zoo","name_zh":"重庆动物园","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.503,"lon":106.506,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-zoo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chongqing's main zoo, opened in 1955 on 45 hectares of hillside at Yangjiaping, about 8 km south-west of the city centre. It keeps one of the largest groups of giant pandas in any Chinese zoo and breeds pandas and South China tigers, alongside red pandas, white tigers and African elephants."},{"id":"chongqing-ciqikou-ancient-town","name":"Ciqikou Ancient Town","name_zh":"磁器口古镇","pinyin":"Cíqìkǒu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5812,"lon":106.4497,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-ciqikou-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A former river port on the Jialing River whose name, 'porcelain mouth', recalls the pottery trade of the Ming and Qing dynasties, now a busy pedestrian quarter of 12 flagstone lanes lined with old-style shops and snack stalls. Among its timber houses are Baolun Temple, a Wenchang Palace and several listed Qing-era homes, and near the old wharf stands the 'Little Chongqing' stone inscribed by Lin Sen, the wartime head of the Nationalist government."},{"id":"chongqing-da-eling-eling-park","name":"Da Eling Scenic Area (Eling Park)","name_zh":"大鹅岭","pinyin":"Dà Élǐng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5525,"lon":106.532,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-da-eling-eling-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop scenic area on the narrow ridge of the Yuzhong peninsula, rated 4A in 2022 and centred on Eling Park, laid out in 1909 as the villa garden of the merchant Li Yaoting at the highest point of the peninsula. The Liangjiang Pavilion looks over both the Yangtze and the Jialing, and the park also has a Japanese-style garden presented by the twin city of Hiroshima. Since November 2025 a 460 m walkway built against the cliff has linked it with Fotuguan Park to the west."},{"id":"shizhu-dafengbao","name":"Dafengbao Forest, Huangshui","name_zh":"大风堡","pinyin":"Dàfēngbǎo","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.1661,"lon":108.3992,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shizhu-dafengbao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The core forest area of Huangshui National Forest Park, which reaches 1,934 m, with dense old woodland and more than 20 marked sights along its trails. Summer temperatures far below those of Chongqing make it a popular hiking and summer-escape spot, often combined with Sun Lake next door."},{"id":"fuling-damu-flower-valley","name":"Damu Flower Valley","name_zh":"大木花谷","pinyin":"Dàmù Huāgǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6353,"lon":107.6726,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuling-damu-flower-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park on the slopes above Damu, a mountain town at about 1,000 m in south-eastern Fuling that fills with visitors escaping the summer heat. Seasonal flowers are planted on terraces, around a lake and along forest paths, and in summer 2026 the park held its first lantern festival with large light displays among the flower beds."},{"id":"wuxi-ningchang-daning-saltworks","name":"Daning Saltworks Site, Ningchang","name_zh":"大宁盐场遗址","pinyin":"Dàníng Yánchǎng Yízhǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.464,"lon":109.6097,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-ningchang-daning-saltworks","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Ningchang, a narrow valley town north of Wuxi county town, was a major salt-producing centre of south-west China, and this national heritage site at the foot of Baoyuan Mountain covers the remains of its saltworks from the Song dynasty to the Republican era. Along the old town are the Qianlong-era salt commissioner's office, the saltworks administration office, production and workers' buildings, and old salt roads leading into the mountains. Ningchang is a listed Chinese Historical and Cultural Town, and the first phase of conservation work on the saltworks has been completed."},{"id":"nanan-danzishi-cliff-buddha","name":"Danzishi Cliff Buddha","name_zh":"弹子石摩崖造像","pinyin":"Dànzǐshí Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6067,"lon":106.586,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-danzishi-cliff-buddha","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large seated Buddha carved into the Yangtze riverbank cliff below the former Dafo Temple, completed in 1365 for Ming Yuzhen, who founded the short-lived Xia state with its capital at Chongqing at the end of the Yuan dynasty. Five more Buddhas were cut into the rock behind it in 1421 and are sheltered by the Five Buddha Hall, rebuilt in 1844; most of the rest of the temple was lost from the Cultural Revolution onwards."},{"id":"nanan-danzishi-old-street","name":"Danzishi Old Street","name_zh":"弹子石老街","pinyin":"Dànzǐshí Lǎojiē","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5826,"lon":106.5843,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-danzishi-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Danzishi grew from the early 19th century around one of the ferry landings on the Yangtze's south bank, opposite the Chaotianmen confluence, and keeps older buildings such as the French Naval Barracks of 1902 and the Wang family compound. The hillside has since been redeveloped as a stepped quarter of shops, bars and restaurants in old-street style that looks across the river to the Yuzhong peninsula. The restored barracks belong to a national heritage group of former Allied diplomatic and military premises from Chongqing's years as wartime capital."},{"id":"hechuan-diaoyu-fortress","name":"Diaoyu Fortress","name_zh":"钓鱼城","pinyin":"Diàoyú Chéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.0056,"lon":106.3104,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hechuan-diaoyu-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Southern Song mountain fortress on Diaoyu Hill, a peninsula where the Jialing, Qu and Fu rivers meet east of Hechuan, which held out against Mongol armies for 36 years from 1243. The Mongol Great Khan Möngke died during his siege of it in 1259; its stone walls and gates, naval wharf and other remains form one of the best-preserved Song battlefield sites in China and a national archaeological park."},{"id":"youyang-dieshi-flower-valley","name":"Dieshi Flower Valley","name_zh":"叠石花谷","pinyin":"Diéshí Huāgǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.7181,"lon":108.7951,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-dieshi-flower-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped valley south of Youyang county town beside the G65 expressway, where the scenic area doubles as an open motorway service area. It is built around outcrops of stromatolite, layered rock dating from the Cambrian period about half a billion years ago, with named rock features themed on local Nuo masked-ritual culture, such as a circle of pillars for the twelve month-gods. Seasonal flower fields, including pink muhly grass in autumn, and a zip line complete the visit."},{"id":"banan-dongwenquan","name":"Dongwenquan (East Hot Springs)","name_zh":"东温泉","pinyin":"Dōng Wēnquán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4626,"lon":106.8615,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banan-dongwenquan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring area along the Wubu River in eastern Ba'nan, where springs supply a string of bathing resorts and hotels and a warm, steamy cave, Redong, is used as a natural sauna. Around the springs, karst peaks have cliff walkways and small caves, and the area also has Baisha Temple with its ancient trees and the tomb of Yang Cangbai, secretary-general of Sun Yat-sen's government in Guangzhou."},{"id":"chongqing-university-early-buildings","name":"Early Buildings of Chongqing University","name_zh":"重庆大学早期建筑","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Dàxué Zǎoqī Jiànzhù","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5689,"lon":106.463,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-university-early-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of early buildings on Campus A of Chongqing University in Shapingba: the Science Building, Engineering Building and Wenzi Hall, built in the early 1930s as the university settled here, the Yinchu Pavilion named after the economist Ma Yinchu, and the 'July 7th' wartime auditorium of National Central University, built after that university moved to Chongqing in 1937. The buildings combine Western forms with Chinese-style details such as dormer windows, and the stone-walled Engineering Building was damaged by Japanese bombing during the war."},{"id":"fengdu-ghost-city","name":"Fengdu Ghost City","name_zh":"丰都鬼城","pinyin":"Fēngdū Guǐchéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8893,"lon":107.7214,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengdu-ghost-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill of temples and shrines on Ming Mountain above the Yangtze at Fengdu, linked since the Song dynasty with the underworld court of Chinese folk religion and Taoism. Halls, bridges and gates named after the stages of the afterlife, such as Naihe Bridge, Ghost Gate Pass and the Tianzi Hall, the oldest building at about 300 years, are filled with statues of demons and judges, and some of the tests of the dead are re-enacted for visitors. It is a regular stop for Yangtze cruise ships."},{"id":"xiushan-fenghuang-mountain","name":"Fenghuang Mountain Lantern Folk Culture Area, Xiushan","name_zh":"秀山凤凰山","pinyin":"Xiùshān Fènghuáng Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.4411,"lon":109.0189,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushan-fenghuang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill park at about 600 m on the eastern edge of the Xiushan county town, developed as a showcase for the Xiushan flower-lantern song and dance, a national intangible-heritage tradition. It joins the Fenghuang Mountain forest park and its old temples, a Lingguan hall built in the early Yuan and Chuandeng Temple of 1575, with a lantern gallery, a lantern food street and evening light shows."},{"id":"banan-fengsheng-ancient-town","name":"Fengsheng Ancient Town","name_zh":"丰盛古镇","pinyin":"Fēngshèng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5314,"lon":106.9304,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banan-fengsheng-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Fengsheng, in the hills of eastern Ba'nan, grew as an overland trading post, is nicknamed the 'first dry port on the Yangtze' and is listed among China's historic and cultural towns. Its old quarter keeps fortified watchtowers in the local Sichuan–Chongqing style, streets laid out in a nested-square plan and Ziyun 'ringing stones' that chime when struck, and the town is being developed as a showcase of old commercial culture."},{"id":"chongqing-legislative-yuan-site","name":"Former Legislative Yuan, Judicial Yuan and Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission","name_zh":"国民政府立法院、司法院及蒙藏委员会旧址","pinyin":"Guómín Zhèngfǔ Lìfǎyuàn, Sīfǎyuàn jí Méng-Zàng Wěiyuánhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5589,"lon":106.5555,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-legislative-yuan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A building at Guanyinyan put up in 1935 as the private Yilin Hospital and taken over from 1937 by the wartime Legislative Yuan, Judicial Yuan, Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission and other government offices. It went back to the hospital after the war and is now the outpatient building of Chongqing Zhongshan Hospital, so it is seen from Zhongshan 1st Road."},{"id":"chongqing-nationalist-foreign-ministry-site","name":"Former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government","name_zh":"国民政府外交部旧址","pinyin":"Guómín Zhèngfǔ Wàijiāobù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5576,"lon":106.5778,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-nationalist-foreign-ministry-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A two-storey brick-and-timber building mixing Chinese and Western styles, with an upper veranda, inside People's Park in central Yuzhong. Built as the left wing of the Ba County council, it housed Chongqing High School from 1929 and the Foreign Ministry's offices during the war; it was taken down and rebuilt in 1996 and is used by the district's heritage office, and the Yuzhong District Museum lists its main site at the same address."},{"id":"tongnan-yang-angong-former-residences","name":"Former Residences of Yang Angong and Yang Shangkun","name_zh":"杨闇公故里","pinyin":"Yáng Àngōng Gùlǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.2143,"lon":105.7385,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongnan-yang-angong-former-residences/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family houses in Shuangjiang of Yang Angong (1898–1927), an early Communist Party organiser in Sichuan who was executed in 1927, and of his younger brother Yang Shangkun, President of China from 1988 to 1993. Yang Angong's Qing courtyard house on the main street has exhibitions on his life and on the family, and Yang Shangkun's birthplace, the Changtanzi compound of 1862 at Jinlong village on the edge of town, holds an exhibition of photographs, objects and documents on his career. The scenic area also takes in the Tianba compound, a large Yang family courtyard house of 1878, and the brothers' cemeteries, Yang Angong's being in Tongnan town about 10 km away."},{"id":"chongqing-roosevelt-library","name":"Former Roosevelt Library","name_zh":"罗斯福图书馆旧址","pinyin":"Luósīfú Túshūguǎn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5541,"lon":106.5427,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-roosevelt-library","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A library built of local stone and timber in 1938–41 for the wartime Chongqing branch of the National Central Library, which became the National Roosevelt Library in 1947 in memory of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the only library in China named after a foreign president. Later part of the Chongqing Library and then the city's children's library, it was restored and opened to the public in May 2026 with an exhibition on its history from 1945 to 1949 and reading rooms for United Nations and Stilwell documents."},{"id":"chongqing-national-political-council-site","name":"Former Site of the National Political Council","name_zh":"国民参政会旧址","pinyin":"Guómín Cānzhènghuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.56,"lon":106.5713,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-national-political-council-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-storey brick-and-timber building in mixed Chinese and Western style on Zhonghua Road in the Jiefangbei shopping district, listed as the wartime site of the National Political Council (1938–1946), the advisory assembly in which the Nationalists, the Communists, smaller parties and independents sat together during the war against Japan. The council was set up in Wuhan in July 1938 and moved to Chongqing that November."},{"id":"beibei-western-china-academy-of-sciences-site","name":"Former Western China Academy of Sciences","name_zh":"中国西部科学院旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Xībù Kēxuéyuàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8354,"lon":106.4322,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beibei-western-china-academy-of-sciences-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 1930s campus of the Western China Academy of Sciences, a private research institute founded in Beibei in 1930 by the shipping entrepreneur Lu Zuofu, which during the war with Japan gave a home to scientific bodies moved from eastern China. Its main building, the grey-walled, two-storey Huiyu Building of 1934, holds an exhibition on the academy's history that includes a relief map of China's terrain made in 1944; the geology building, Lu Zuofu's former residence and a geomagnetic survey marker stand nearby. The campus is now the historic site of the Chongqing Natural History Museum, with displays on early science in western China and the wartime move of research bodies inland."},{"id":"wulong-furong-river","name":"Furong River Scenic Area","name_zh":"芙蓉江","pinyin":"Fúróng Jiāng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.2408,"lon":107.8764,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulong-furong-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The lower gorge of the Furong River, the largest tributary of the Wu River, a national scenic area since 2002 that runs for 35 km from Haokou to Jiangkou through a V-shaped karst canyon with largely untouched forest on both sides. Part of the river is a buffer zone of the Wulong Karst World Heritage site, and Furong Cave opens on its bank near Jiangkou."},{"id":"chongqing-geleshan-martyrs-cemetery","name":"Geleshan Martyrs' Cemetery (Baigongguan and Zhazidong)","name_zh":"歌乐山烈士陵园","pinyin":"Gēlèshān Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5739,"lon":106.4361,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-geleshan-martyrs-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park at the foot of Gele Mountain on ground that in the 1940s held a base of the Nationalist intelligence service (Juntong), where the wartime Sino-American Special Technical Cooperative Organization (SACO) was also set up, and its two prisons for political detainees: Baigongguan, a former villa, and Zhazidong, a former coal pit. Days before the People's Liberation Army took Chongqing at the end of November 1949, most of the prisoners, many of them underground Communist Party members, were executed, an event known in China as the '27 November massacre'. The site has the restored prisons, an exhibition hall, a cemetery and monuments; the Chinese official name of the heritage unit is the 'SACO concentration camp site'."},{"id":"chongqing-geleshan-national-forest-park","name":"Geleshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"歌乐山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Gēlèshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5844,"lon":106.4263,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-geleshan-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded ridge on the western edge of central Chongqing, made a national forest park in 2004, whose highest point, 693 m, is at Yunding Temple. Six marked hiking trails climb through the forest, the rocks around Yunding Temple carry inscriptions by the calligrapher Ke Huang and his friends, and a cable car also runs up the hill."},{"id":"youyang-gongtan-ancient-town","name":"Gongtan Ancient Town","name_zh":"龚滩古镇","pinyin":"Gōngtān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.9299,"lon":108.3516,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-gongtan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Gongtan stands where the Apeng River flows into the Wu River, facing Guizhou across the water, and was known for its long flagstone street and timber stilt houses propped on the rocky bank. When the Pengshui hydropower dam flooded the original town, its buildings were dismantled and rebuilt about 1 km downstream between 2007 and 2009, so what visitors see today is a relocated reconstruction."},{"id":"jiangbei-guanyinqiao","name":"Guanyinqiao Shopping District","name_zh":"观音桥商圈","pinyin":"Guānyīnqiáo Shāngquān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5766,"lon":106.5288,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangbei-guanyinqiao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of central Chongqing's main shopping districts, centred on a pedestrian street and plaza in Jiangbei north of the Jialing River. Department stores, malls and restaurants surround it, making it one of the city's busiest places for shopping and eating out."},{"id":"bishan-guanyintang-wetland-park","name":"Guanyintang Wetland Park","name_zh":"观音塘湿地公园","pinyin":"Guānyīntáng Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5577,"lon":106.2211,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bishan-guanyintang-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban wetland park in central Bishan, built in the 2010s as one of the district's main city parks during a programme of river clean-up and new green spaces. Its waterside paths make it a quiet place for a stroll."},{"id":"chongqing-guiyuan","name":"Guiyuan","name_zh":"桂园","pinyin":"Guì Yuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5658,"lon":106.5433,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-guiyuan/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house of the Nationalist general Zhang Zhizhong on Zhongshan 4th Road, lent to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai as their working base during the Chongqing negotiations of August–October 1945; the 'Double Tenth Agreement' between the Communists and the Nationalist government was signed here on 10 October 1945. The two-storey brick-and-timber villa, named after the two osmanthus trees in its courtyard, has been open as an exhibition since 1977 and is run by the Hongyan Revolutionary Memorial Hall."},{"id":"wulong-guiyuan-town-jingzhu-village","name":"Guiyuan Town (Jingzhu Village), Fairy Mountain","name_zh":"归原小镇","pinyin":"Guīyuán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.3764,"lon":107.7324,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulong-guiyuan-town-jingzhu-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism project in Jingzhu village on the Fairy Mountain plateau, where old farmhouses have been restored and joined by new buildings of rammed earth, glass and steel, among them a village library with a café and a cluster of boutique guesthouses. The village, at 800–1,300 m among karst hills, was named one of UN Tourism's Best Tourism Villages in 2022 and also has fruit-picking farms."},{"id":"qijiang-gujian-mountain","name":"Gujian Mountain","name_zh":"古剑山","pinyin":"Gǔjiàn Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.9715,"lon":106.609,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qijiang-gujian-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain near Qijiang town, counted among the 'New Twelve Views of Bayu', where visitors climb for sunrise and seas of cloud from the summit. Jingyin Temple, a working Buddhist temple, stands near the top, and campsites and holiday lodgings at the foot make it a weekend retreat."},{"id":"chongqing-guo-moruo-former-residences","name":"Guo Moruo's Former Residences (Third Department and Cultural Work Committee Sites)","name_zh":"郭沫若旧居","pinyin":"Guō Mòruò Jiùjū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5993,"lon":106.381,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-guo-moruo-former-residences","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The two wartime offices of the Third Department of the Military Affairs Commission's Political Department, which ran anti-Japanese propaganda under the writer and historian Guo Moruo from 1938, and of the Cultural Work Committee he led from 1940 until it was disbanded in 1945. The country office, Quanjia Yuanzi, a late-Qing courtyard house in Xiyong where Guo wrote historical plays such as Qu Yuan, has been the Guo Moruo Memorial Hall since 2005. The city office at 8 Tianguanfu in Yuzhong, a 1930s house later used as homes, was restored and opened with an exhibition in 2021."},{"id":"nanan-caribbean-water-world","name":"Haichang Caribbean Water World","name_zh":"加勒比海水世界","pinyin":"Jiālèbǐhǎi Shuǐshìjiè","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5594,"lon":106.6103,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-caribbean-water-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An outdoor water park on Nanshan, the ridge above the south bank of the Yangtze, run by the Haichang group, with water slides, a children's splash area and a wave pool. It opens only in the summer season, usually from mid-May, and suits families looking for a break from Chongqing's summer heat."},{"id":"jiulongpo-hailan-yuntian-hot-spring","name":"Hailan Yuntian Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"海兰云天温泉度假区","pinyin":"Hǎilán Yúntiān Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4983,"lon":106.2824,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiulongpo-hailan-yuntian-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort around Hailan Lake in Chongqing's western suburbs, combining outdoor and indoor spring pools with a lakeside hotel, boating and hillside walks over roughly 100 hectares. It is a family weekend retreat rather than a sightseeing destination."},{"id":"kaizhou-hanfeng-lake","name":"Hanfeng Lake","name_zh":"汉丰湖","pinyin":"Hànfēng Hú","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.1661,"lon":108.3978,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaizhou-hanfeng-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake created in the heart of Kaizhou by a regulating dam that since 2017 has held the water at 170–175 m, so that the falling Three Gorges reservoir no longer leaves bare mudflats around the town. It covers about 15 km² with more than 30 bays and 41 islands; lakeside parks and wetlands, a covered bridge, the Juziyuan garden with the Wenfeng Pagoda and the newly built Kaizhou Old Town line its shores. Boat trips and water sports such as kayaking and paddleboarding run from the lakeside."},{"id":"banan-hanhai-ocean-park","name":"Hanhai Ocean Park","name_zh":"汉海海洋公园","pinyin":"Hànhǎi Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.3998,"lon":106.5477,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banan-hanhai-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large aquarium and marine park at Longzhouwan in Ba'nan, with a 360-degree coral-reef tank, a shark hall, an underwater tunnel, a penguin house and the Aegean Theatre for staged shows. It suits families, and a Hanhai-branded whale-and-dolphin water park lies nearby."},{"id":"chongqing-happy-valley","name":"Happy Valley Chongqing","name_zh":"重庆欢乐谷","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Huānlègǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6719,"lon":106.514,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-happy-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large theme park opened in July 2017 as the seventh in the Happy Valley chain of the Overseas Chinese Town group, with roller coasters including a wooden coaster and a wing coaster, family rides and stage shows. In summer its Maya Beach water park adds a wave pool and water slides, and it suits families and thrill-ride fans looking for a full day out."},{"id":"wansheng-heishan-valley","name":"Heishan Valley and Wansheng Stone Forest","name_zh":"黑山谷","pinyin":"Hēishān Gǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.8884,"lon":106.9993,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wansheng-heishan-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 13 km gorge walk through dense forest in Heishan town near the Guizhou border, past waterfalls, pools, floating walkways and a great rift canyon, in a valley where François' langurs and dove trees are among the rare species recorded. The 5A listing also covers the Wansheng Stone Forest, or 'Dragon-Scale Stone Sea', a national geopark of karst pinnacles and caves whose rock surfaces are covered in scale-like ridges."},{"id":"xiushan-hongan-ancient-town","name":"Hong'an Ancient Town (Biancheng)","name_zh":"洪安边城","pinyin":"Hóng'ān Biānchéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.501,"lon":109.2664,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushan-hongan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old river town where Chongqing, Guizhou and Hunan meet, about 47 km south-east of the Xiushan county town, said to be the model for the setting of Shen Congwen's novella Border Town (Biancheng). Its sights include a pavilion where 'a cock's crow is heard in three provinces' and a monument to the Second Field Army's 1949 advance into the south-west, and a long-running immersive show, Meeting Biancheng, stages Tujia wedding customs around the town; a newer resort quarter nearby adds evening shows."},{"id":"jiangbei-hongensi-park","name":"Hongensi Forest Park","name_zh":"鸿恩寺公园","pinyin":"Hóng'ēnsì Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5719,"lon":106.5064,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangbei-hongensi-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban forest park opened in 2009 on Longji Ridge in Jiangbei, north of the Jialing River, planted with many varieties of osmanthus along themed walks. On the summit stands Hong'en Pavilion, a seven-storey tower in Ming–Qing style whose viewing deck looks over the Yuzhong peninsula, Liangjiang New Area and Shapingba."},{"id":"zhongxian-huanghuacheng","name":"Huanghuacheng Island City","name_zh":"皇华城","pinyin":"Huánghuá Chéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.338,"lon":108.0899,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongxian-huanghuacheng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An island in the Yangtze that held a walled city of the late Southern Song, the seat of Xianchun Prefecture, and one of the best-preserved Song and Yuan town sites in the reservoir area. Excavations since 2016 have traced its gates, walls, government offices, an academy and workshops, now shown on site and in a display centre opened in May 2026, while the rest of the island is a national wetland park."},{"id":"nanan-huangshan-wartime-sites","name":"Huangshan Wartime Capital Sites","name_zh":"重庆黄山抗战旧址群","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Huángshān Kàngzhàn Jiùzhǐqún","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5691,"lon":106.6139,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanan-huangshan-wartime-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From 1938 to 1946, when Chongqing was China's wartime capital, Chiang Kai-shek and the Military Affairs Commission used a group of villas hidden in the pine woods of Huangshan, a hill in the Nanshan range, as residences and offices. The 15 listed sites include Yunxiu Lou, Chiang's three-storey residence, Songting, the aides' and guards' quarters, a small school and the air-raid shelter below the house, and the complex is now run as the Chongqing Anti-Japanese War Sites Museum."},{"id":"liangping-huashi-ancient-fort","name":"Huashi Ancient Fort","name_zh":"滑石古寨","pinyin":"Huáshí Gǔzhài","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.59,"lon":107.7249,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangping-huashi-ancient-fort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fortified hamlet on top of a steep, isolated peak in Huashi village, near Shuanggui Temple, used as a military stronghold in the Ming and Qing periods, which keeps old watchtowers, gateways and a stone hall. It is now run as a scenic area with viewing terraces and a gallery of local crafts, alongside added attractions such as a long two-stage dry slide and a glass bridge."},{"id":"youyang-huatian-terraces","name":"Huatian Rice Terraces","name_zh":"花田梯田","pinyin":"Huātián Tītián","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.9401,"lon":108.673,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-huatian-terraces","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rice terraces step down the hillsides around Hejiayan village in Huatian township, at an average altitude of about 800 m, and have been farmed for more than 400 years. Restored from 2012, the roughly 8,000 mu (about 530 ha) of terraces now grow organic 'Huatian tribute rice' and turn gold before the autumn harvest."},{"id":"jiulongpo-huayan-temple","name":"Huayan Temple","name_zh":"华岩寺","pinyin":"Huáyán Sì","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4922,"lon":106.4422,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiulongpo-huayan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large working Buddhist monastery beside Huayan Lake on the south-western edge of central Chongqing, whose older buildings are protected as a Chongqing municipal heritage site. The temple has been much extended since the early 2000s and houses the Chongqing Buddhist College, and the surrounding scenic area adds lakeside gardens, a cave, a large outdoor Buddha statue and the Huayan Buddhist Museum."},{"id":"chongqing-huguang-guild-hall","name":"Huguang Guild Hall","name_zh":"湖广会馆","pinyin":"Húguǎng Huìguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5608,"lon":106.5835,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-huguang-guild-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A complex of Qing-dynasty guild halls on the Yangtze at Dongshuimen, built by merchants and settlers from Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong who came with the early-Qing migration known as 'Huguang fills Sichuan'. Its Yuwang Temple, Qi'an Hall and Guangdong Hall, largely rebuilt in 1846, have courtyards, halls and opera stages, and together with newer buildings in the same style they house a museum of that migration."},{"id":"jiangjin-huilong-manor","name":"Huilong Manor","name_zh":"会龙庄","pinyin":"Huìlóng Zhuāng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.739,"lon":106.3985,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangjin-huilong-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large fortified manor at Shuangfeng village on the northern edge of the Simian Mountain area, regarded as one of the finest historic estates in south-west China. Its stone-and-timber courtyard buildings cover more than 2 ha and stand on 328 stone pillars beside a 38 m watchtower; who built it and when has not been established. It is usually combined with a visit to Simian Mountain or Zhongshan Ancient Town."},{"id":"beibei-rural-reconstruction-sites","name":"Jialing River Rural Reconstruction Sites (Lu Zuofu Memorial Hall)","name_zh":"嘉陵江三峡乡村建设旧址群","pinyin":"Jiālíng Jiāng Sānxiá Xiāngcūn Jiànshè Jiùzhǐqún","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8362,"lon":106.4349,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beibei-rural-reconstruction-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Ten buildings across Beibei left by the rural reconstruction movement that Lu Zuofu led from 1927 as head of the local defence bureau, when he set out to turn the Jialing gorges area into a planned, modern district. The former bureau office, an old Wenchang temple at Wenxingwan, is now the Lu Zuofu Memorial Hall; other parts include the Red House, now the Beibei art gallery, and Qingliang Pavilion in Beibei Park, a group of villas in North Hot Spring Park, and the former Rural Reconstruction College at Xiema, now a memorial hall to the educator James Yen."},{"id":"chongqing-jiefangbei-liberation-monument","name":"Jiefangbei (People's Liberation Monument)","name_zh":"解放碑","pinyin":"Jiěfàng Bēi","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5602,"lon":106.5734,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-jiefangbei-liberation-monument/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The clock tower at the heart of Chongqing's main shopping district, built in 1946–47 as the Monument to the Victory in the War of Resistance on the site of a wartime wooden 'Spiritual Fortress', and renamed the People's Liberation Monument in 1950. The octagonal tower, with clock faces and relief panels near the top, stands where Minzu, Minquan and Zourong roads meet, in a pedestrian square ringed by malls and office towers. It is the usual starting point for exploring central Yuzhong, with Hongyadong a short walk to the north."},{"id":"dadukou-jinao-rural-park","name":"Jin'ao Rural Park (Jin'ao Mountain)","name_zh":"金鳌田园","pinyin":"Jīn'áo Tiányuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.3995,"lon":106.4524,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dadukou-jinao-rural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure area on Jin'ao Mountain in Tiaodeng town, at the southern tip of Dadukou facing the Yangtze, among the nearest countryside to central Chongqing. Coloured terraced fields, farm restaurants and guesthouses spread over the hill, which rises to 495 m, and the area was rated 4A in 2024."},{"id":"beibei-jindao-gorge","name":"Jindao Gorge","name_zh":"金刀峡","pinyin":"Jīndāo Xiá","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.0364,"lon":106.6204,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beibei-jindao-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone gorge about 10 km long on the south-western slopes of the Huaying Mountains in north-eastern Beibei, where a stream has cut along a fault into a deep, narrow canyon of potholes and clear pools. Sights along the route include waterfalls, caves and a slot section called the 'thread of sky', and the steep fall of the stream has made the gorge a place for canyoning."},{"id":"wuxi-jingzhuba-cliff-coffins","name":"Jingzhuba Cliff Coffins","name_zh":"荆竹坝岩棺群","pinyin":"Jīngzhúbà Yánguānqún","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.5517,"lon":109.6399,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-jingzhuba-cliff-coffins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Coffins placed in natural recesses high in a cliff at Jingzhuba, in the valley north of Wuxi county town, dated to the Han dynasty or earlier. Wuxi promotes them as the earliest and most complete group of Western Han cliff coffins in the Three Gorges region."},{"id":"beibei-jinyun-mountain","name":"Jinyun Mountain","name_zh":"缙云山","pinyin":"Jìnyún Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8386,"lon":106.3912,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beibei-jinyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested ridge above the Jialing River on the north-western edge of Beibei, protected as a national nature reserve and long a centre of Buddhism in the Chongqing area. Its main temple, Jinyun Temple, was founded in 423 and rebuilt in 1683; in 1932 the monk Taixu set up the Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Institute here, and the temple, its Ming-dynasty gateway and stone carvings are protected as the national heritage site of that institute. Paths lead through the woods from the temple to viewpoints on the peaks."},{"id":"fengdu-jiuchongtian","name":"Jiuchongtian Scenic Area","name_zh":"九重天","pinyin":"Jiǔchóngtiān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.7885,"lon":107.8089,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengdu-jiuchongtian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clifftop attraction at over 1,000 m in Lianhuadong village in the hills of Shuanglu, built from 2015 and opened in 2017. Its main features are a glass-floored bridge about 280 m long over a sheer drop, a glass cliff walkway of about 3.5 km and thrill rides such as cliff swings, and it draws summer visitors to the cool mountain air."},{"id":"dianjiang-kaizhifeng-peony-park","name":"Kaizhifeng Peony Scenic Area","name_zh":"恺之峰","pinyin":"Kǎizhī Fēng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.2703,"lon":107.2741,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dianjiang-kaizhifeng-peony-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside peony park at Mudan village in Taiping town, on the Mingyue Mountains, the centre of Dianjiang's long tradition of peony growing, where many varieties bloom in April and May. It is named after the 4th-century painter Gu Kaizhi, who according to local legend saw Dianjiang's peonies, and has a petal-shaped glass viewing platform."},{"id":"kaizhou-museum","name":"Kaizhou Museum","name_zh":"开州博物馆","pinyin":"Kāizhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.1688,"lon":108.385,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaizhou-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The district museum of Kaizhou, opened in 2013 on the Civic Square beside Hanfeng Lake, with seven galleries and more than 10,000 objects on the history and culture of the old Kai County. It stands on the lakeside promenade, so it combines easily with a walk around Hanfeng Lake."},{"id":"fengjie-kuizhou-museum","name":"Kuizhou Museum","name_zh":"夔州博物馆","pinyin":"Kuízhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0441,"lon":109.5443,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengjie-kuizhou-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The museum of Fengjie County, long known as Kuizhou, opened in 2017 on the eastern edge of the county town and holds more than 20,000 objects, from carvings the museum attributes to 'Fengjie Man' some 130,000 years ago to a large Chu-style bronze ding, an Eastern Han pottery horse and Song-dynasty porcelain. Its grounds take in the Yaokui Pagoda on its original site, the rebuilt Yidou and Kaiji city gates with a stretch of the old prefectural wall, and the Dacheng Hall of the former Confucian temple."},{"id":"hechuan-laitan-ancient-town","name":"Laitan Ancient Town & Erfo Temple","name_zh":"涞滩古镇","pinyin":"Láitān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.1768,"lon":106.4905,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hechuan-laitan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled old town on a hill above the Qu River, dating from the Song dynasty, with Ming- and Qing-era houses, flagstone lanes and a Qing barbican gate, and one of the first ten towns named a Chinese Historic Town in 2003. Beside it, Erfo Temple shelters Song-dynasty cliff carvings, among them a large seated Buddha and rare groups of figures from the Chan (Zen) school."},{"id":"wuxi-lanying-grand-canyon","name":"Lanying Grand Canyon","name_zh":"兰英大峡谷","pinyin":"Lányīng Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.4026,"lon":109.791,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuxi-lanying-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A deep canyon near Lanying township in eastern Wuxi, promoted locally as one of the deepest gorges in Asia. Its best-known sight is the Lanying 'sky road', a narrow road cut into the cliffs high above the gorge, which has become a popular drive and photo stop."},{"id":"yongchuan-lehe-ledu","name":"Lehe Ledu Theme Park","name_zh":"乐和乐都","pinyin":"Lèhé Lèdū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.294,"lon":105.9049,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchuan-lehe-ledu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An animal-themed park on the edge of Yongchuan with a large zoo where giant and red pandas, chimpanzees, elephants, giraffes, lions and tigers can be seen. It adds a children's play area, evening events and staged animal shows, is aimed at families and gets very busy on public holidays."},{"id":"wushan-lesser-three-gorges","name":"Lesser Three Gorges & Mini Three Gorges","name_zh":"小三峡·小小三峡","pinyin":"Xiǎo Sānxiá · Xiǎoxiǎo Sānxiá","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0986,"lon":109.8949,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushan-lesser-three-gorges","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Boat trips from Wushan town up the Daning River, which joins the Yangtze there, pass through its three gorges, Longmen, Bawu and Dicui, about 50 km in all, before visitors change at the Madu River to smaller boats for the narrower Mini Three Gorges. Macaques live on the cliffs, especially in Bawu Gorge, and in late autumn the slopes are among Wushan's main red-leaf areas. A combined boat-and-road loop goes on to Dachang, a small walled town that was a seat of local government from the Jin dynasty and was taken down and rebuilt on a new site downstream for the reservoir, keeping three of its gates."},{"id":"yubei-liangjiang-film-city","name":"Liangjiang International Film City","name_zh":"两江国际影视城","pinyin":"Liǎngjiāng Guójì Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6875,"lon":106.8196,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yubei-liangjiang-film-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film and television set built from 2012, first for the film Back to 1942, that recreates wartime Chongqing of the 1930s and 1940s, when the city was China's provisional capital. Its 'Republic of China Street' has more than 200 replica buildings, among them the Victory Monument, the Nationalist government building, banks, a theatre and the Xinhua Daily office, and it was enlarged between 2015 and 2017."},{"id":"kaizhou-liu-bocheng-memorial-hall","name":"Liu Bocheng Memorial Hall","name_zh":"刘伯承同志纪念馆","pinyin":"Liú Bóchéng Tóngzhì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.1917,"lon":108.409,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaizhou-liu-bocheng-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum to Marshal Liu Bocheng in Shengshan Park in central Kaizhou, opened in December 1992 for the centenary of his birth, with its name written by Deng Xiaoping. Six halls hold an exhibition on his life and military career drawn from a collection of more than 4,500 items, and it is one of China's officially listed 'red tourism' classic sites."},{"id":"kaizhou-liu-bocheng-former-residence","name":"Liu Bocheng's Former Residence","name_zh":"刘伯承故居","pinyin":"Liú Bóchéng Gùjū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0772,"lon":108.4211,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaizhou-liu-bocheng-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home in Zhoudu village, south of the Kaizhou town, where Liu Bocheng, the one-eyed marshal of the People's Liberation Army, was born in 1892. The house is protected as a national heritage site and has displays on his early life, and the surrounding village is run as the 'Marshal Liu's Hometown, Red Zhoudu' scenic area."},{"id":"jiangbei-liujia-wharf","name":"Liujia Wharf","name_zh":"鎏嘉码头","pinyin":"Liújiā Mǎtou","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5736,"lon":106.5598,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangbei-liujia-wharf","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside leisure complex on the Beibin Road waterfront in Jiangbei, with restaurants, bars and riverside entertainment by the Jialing River. Jiangbei District promoted it in 2021 as its second municipal-level night-market street after the Jiujie bar district, and it is mainly a place for dinner and drinks by the river."},{"id":"yunyang-longgang","name":"Longgang National Geopark","name_zh":"龙缸","pinyin":"Lónggāng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.6798,"lon":109.0088,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-longgang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst area of about 17 km² in Qingshui Tujia Township whose centrepiece, Longgang, is a sheer-walled tiankeng (giant sinkhole), with the caves of Da'an Cave and the canyon of the Shisun River nearby. The Cloud Corridor, a glass walkway cantilevered out from the cliff top, is the best-known viewpoint."},{"id":"fengjie-longqiao-river","name":"Longqiao River","name_zh":"龙桥河","pinyin":"Lóngqiáo Hé","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.5408,"lon":109.3665,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengjie-longqiao-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst river valley in Longqiao Tujia Township where a stream fed by an underground river system about 50 km long flows for some 3.7 km at the surface, passing beneath a large natural rock bridge that spans the canyon. The valley lies at about 1,500 m among densely forested mountains."},{"id":"wulong-longshuixia-fissure","name":"Longshuixia Fissure Gorge","name_zh":"龙水峡地缝","pinyin":"Lóngshuǐxiá Dìfèng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4011,"lon":107.7883,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wulong-longshuixia-fissure","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A deep, narrow slot canyon cut into the limestone south of the Three Natural Bridges, inside the same Wulong Karst World Heritage area. A lift takes visitors down into the fissure."},{"id":"youyang-longtan-ancient-town","name":"Longtan Ancient Town","name_zh":"龙潭古镇","pinyin":"Lóngtán Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.7616,"lon":108.9633,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-longtan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longtan, the main town of eastern Youyang, is a listed Chinese Historical and Cultural Town whose old streets are run as a scenic area. Its best-known building is the childhood home of Zhao Shiyan (1901–1927), an early Chinese Communist leader who co-founded the Chinese Youth Communist Party in France with Zhou Enlai and was executed in Shanghai in 1927; the house is a national heritage site kept as a memorial."},{"id":"kaizhou-longtouzui-forest-park","name":"Longtouzui Forest Park","name_zh":"龙头嘴森林公园","pinyin":"Lóngtóuzuǐ Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.4669,"lon":108.3658,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaizhou-longtouzui-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the hills of Zishui township in northern Kaizhou, promoted by the district as a forest sports park, with woodland walks and open lawns. It is mainly a cool summer retreat for people from the Kaizhou area."},{"id":"jiangjin-nie-rongzhen-exhibition-hall","name":"Marshal Nie Rongzhen Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"聂荣臻元帅陈列馆","pinyin":"Niè Róngzhēn Yuánshuài Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.2776,"lon":106.2579,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangjin-nie-rongzhen-exhibition-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum to Nie Rongzhen, the Jiangjin-born marshal who directed China's nuclear-weapons and satellite programmes, opened in 1999 at the foot of Aiping Mountain on the edge of Jiangjin's urban area. Its main building centres on a 36 m tower shaped like a rocket carrying a satellite, and the exhibition follows his life in five sections, from work-study in France and the Jin-Cha-Ji base area of the war against Japan to the 'Two Bombs, One Satellite' programme. In front, a bronze statue stands above a square displaying a retired fighter aircraft, artillery and missiles."},{"id":"fuling-meixin-wine-town","name":"Meixin Red Wine Town","name_zh":"美心红酒小镇","pinyin":"Měixīn Hóngjiǔ Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6658,"lon":107.1813,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuling-meixin-wine-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure town beside the Yangtze at Linshi, with Chinese- and European-style buildings, an amusement park, a ferris wheel, riverside guesthouses and the 'Foreigners' Street' that moved here from central Chongqing. Since 2022 a network of cable-car lines has linked it to vineyards, a winery and a second, larger ferris wheel on the hills above, and it is mainly a weekend outing for families."},{"id":"nanchuan-jinfo-mountain","name":"Mount Jinfo","name_zh":"金佛山","pinyin":"Jīnfó Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.0516,"lon":107.1233,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchuan-jinfo-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flat-topped limestone massif in the Dalou Mountains, ringed by cliffs up to 300 m high and rising to over 2,200 m at Fengchuiling, which joined the South China Karst World Heritage Site in 2014. The plateau has forests, caves and karst landforms and an exceptional range of plants, with more than 4,700 seed-plant species, and it is a refuge for the rare François' langur. Cable cars from the north and west slopes reach the top, where there are ski slopes in winter."},{"id":"changshou-puti-mountain","name":"Mount Puti","name_zh":"菩提山","pinyin":"Pútí Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8732,"lon":107.0599,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changshou-puti-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 598 m hill above Changshou's Puti Ancient Town, named after Bodhidharma according to the county annals, with the Buddhist Puti Temple on its summit. The temple, first built in the Northern Song dynasty and destroyed several times, was rebuilt in 2014 as a large timber complex of gate, bell and drum towers and halls, reached by a long stone stairway decorated with the character shou, 'longevity'."},{"id":"pengshui-mowei-mountain","name":"Mowei Mountain","name_zh":"摩围山","pinyin":"Mówéi Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.2739,"lon":108.0801,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengshui-mowei-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain near Pengshui town, at around 1,400 m above sea level, with forest cover of about 91 per cent, listed as one of China's 'forest oxygen bars'. In 2021 it became one of the first national youth nature-education camps, and the county is developing it as a mountain holiday resort."},{"id":"youyang-nanmuwan","name":"Nanmuwan Golden Nanmu Grove","name_zh":"楠木湾","pinyin":"Nánmùwān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.9272,"lon":108.4253,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-nanmuwan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanmuwan, in Jinsinan ('golden-thread nanmu') village of Liangzeng township in western Youyang, is known for a large grove of golden-thread nanmu (Phoebe zhennan), a prized hardwood, including several trees more than 1,000 years old. Stone-flagged paths run between the trees and the village's traditional houses."},{"id":"dazu-nanshan-rock-carvings","name":"Nanshan Rock Carvings, Dazu","name_zh":"南山石刻","pinyin":"Nánshān Shíkè","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6867,"lon":105.7168,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dazu-nanshan-rock-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small group of Daoist carvings at the Yuhuang Temple on the hilltop about 2 km south of Dazu town, cut mainly in the Southern Song (1131–1162) and one of the five Dazu groups on the World Heritage list. The Sanqing Cave has a square central pillar and rows of small standing deities around its walls, and a dragon carved as the main figure of its own cave is rare in Chinese cave art; Song and Qing steles stand alongside. The site opened formally to visitors in July 2024."},{"id":"fengdu-nantian-lake","name":"Nantian Lake","name_zh":"南天湖","pinyin":"Nántiān Hú","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5737,"lon":107.8208,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengdu-nantian-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain resort area at 1,400–2,000 m about 45 km south of the Fengdu county town, built around a lake in forest that covers nearly nine-tenths of the land. It is a summer retreat from the Chongqing heat and in winter runs a ski area, with lakeside walks, camping and hotels, and it was named a national tourist resort in 2020."},{"id":"banan-nanwenquan","name":"Nanwenquan (South Hot Springs)","name_zh":"南温泉","pinyin":"Nán Wēnquán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4246,"lon":106.5746,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banan-nanwenquan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Developed as a park from 1927 around hot springs known since the Ming dynasty, Nanwenquan in Ba'nan combines spring baths, boat trips on the Huaxi River, a cliff waterfall and gardens. During the war years Lin Sen, Kong Xiangxi and Chiang Kai-shek built retreats beside the springs, and their villas, with the former research department of the Central Political Institute, form the Nanquan wartime sites, a national heritage group."},{"id":"youyang-nanyaojie-red-army-sites","name":"Nanyaojie Red Army Base Sites","name_zh":"南腰界红三军司令部旧址","pinyin":"Nányāojiè Hóng Sān Jūn Sīlìngbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.399,"lon":108.6463,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-nanyaojie-red-army-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In 1934 the Red Third Army, led by He Long and Guan Xiangying, made the small town of Nanyaojie, in the hills of southern Youyang, the centre of its Sichuan–Guizhou revolutionary base area, with headquarters in a Qing-dynasty courtyard house, the Yu family compound. The scenic area takes in the preserved headquarters, with the rooms He Long and Guan Xiangying used, and some 34 other relics of that period, among them the meeting ground where the Second and Sixth Red Army Groups joined forces, the Daba ancestral hall, the army's political department and Red Army graves."},{"id":"jiangjin-nie-rongzhen-former-residence","name":"Nie Rongzhen's Former Residence","name_zh":"聂荣臻故居","pinyin":"Niè Róngzhēn Gùjū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.2387,"lon":106.0711,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangjin-nie-rongzhen-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The family home at Langjia village near Wutan where Nie Rongzhen, later a marshal of the People's Liberation Army who led China's nuclear-weapons and satellite programmes, was born in 1899. Known locally as Shiyuanzi, it is a Qing-dynasty timber compound of three halls; most of it burnt down in 1923 and it was rebuilt on the old plan in 1988. Rooms show furniture and objects from his childhood and schooling in Jiangjin, and the surrounding village is run as the Marshal Nie's Hometown scenic area."},{"id":"beibei-north-hot-spring-park","name":"North Hot Spring Park (Beiwenquan)","name_zh":"北温泉","pinyin":"Běi Wēnquán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8603,"lon":106.4114,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beibei-north-hot-spring-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park at the foot of Jinyun Mountain, on the south bank of the Jialing River's Wentang Gorge, laid out around Wenquan Temple, founded in 423 and rebuilt in 1432. In 1927 Lu Zuofu turned the temple grounds into the Jialing River Hot Spring Park, adding swimming pools, baths and a restaurant, and the springs, which stay above 40°C all year, are still used for bathing. Several 1930s villas in the park belong to the national heritage group of Beibei's rural reconstruction sites."},{"id":"yunyang-peng-ancestral-hall","name":"Peng Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"彭氏宗祠","pinyin":"Péngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.8587,"lon":108.8004,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-peng-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fortress-like clan hall of the Peng family in Liming Village, completed in 1864 after some 20 years of building, whose nine-storey tower rises above the surrounding woods. The walled compound of about 3,500 m² holds a theatre stage, schoolrooms, side halls and watch and gun towers, with carved beams, lattice windows and stepped gable walls. The restored hall and the Peng family houses around it form a listed traditional village that receives study groups and day visitors."},{"id":"changshou-puti-ancient-town","name":"Puti Ancient Town (Changshou Ancient Town)","name_zh":"菩提古镇","pinyin":"Pútí Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8573,"lon":107.0619,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshou-puti-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A new town built in traditional Ba-Yu style at the foot of Puti Mountain on the edge of Changshou's urban area, rated 4A in 2014, with canals, a main street and old-style buildings including a yamen, an opera stage, a City God temple, a Confucian temple and gate towers. Its theme is longevity, a play on the district's name, and it holds festivals such as a hotpot festival."},{"id":"qianjiang-city-grand-canyon","name":"Qianjiang City Grand Canyon (Balahu)","name_zh":"黔江城市大峡谷","pinyin":"Qiánjiāng Chéngshì Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5131,"lon":108.8085,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianjiang-city-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge about 10 km long and some 200 m deep that runs through the middle of Qianjiang city, separating the old town from the new district, developed as a scenic area under the Tujia name Balahu, meaning 'gorge'. Its cliffs, woods and caves hold temples, pavilions and rock carvings, including a 123 m figure of Guanyin carved into the cliff face. It is the easiest of Qianjiang's sights to reach from the city centre."},{"id":"shizhu-qianye-grassland","name":"Qianye Grassland","name_zh":"千野草场","pinyin":"Qiānyě Cǎochǎng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.2087,"lon":108.1913,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shizhu-qianye-grassland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An upland grassland in Yuchi town in northern Shizhu, high enough to stay cool in summer, with open pasture, woods and rocks grazed by cattle and sheep. Visitors come to camp and watch the stars in summer and to see the red firethorn berries that cover the slopes in autumn, and a zip line and cliff swing have been added."},{"id":"tongliang-qicai-dream-garden","name":"Qicai Dream Garden","name_zh":"黄桷门奇彩梦园","pinyin":"Huángjuémén Qícǎi Mèngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.7963,"lon":106.0413,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongliang-qicai-dream-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure park in Huangjuemen village on the south side of Tongliang, next to Xuantian Lake, with flower fields planted for each season, fruit and vegetable picking, a woodland area and a small Bayu-style village street with shops and guesthouses. Families come for the water play area, children's rides, mini-train and grass sledding, and Tongliang's fire-dragon dance is staged here at festivals."},{"id":"chongqing-hongyan-village","name":"Red Rock Village (Hongyan) Revolutionary Memorial","name_zh":"红岩村","pinyin":"Hóngyán Cūn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5566,"lon":106.4953,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-hongyan-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hillside compound by the Jialing River where the Chinese Communist Party's Southern Bureau and the Eighth Route Army's Chongqing liaison office worked from 1939 until early 1947, during the wartime alliance with the Nationalist government. Zhou Enlai lived and worked here, and Mao Zedong stayed for 41 days during the 1945 Chongqing negotiations; the office building, which looks two-storeyed from outside but has three floors, keeps their offices, bedrooms and the secret radio room. A memorial hall completed beside it in 2000 covers the bureau's history, and the protected site also includes the Zengjiayan 50 residence and the former Xinhua Daily sales office in central Yuzhong."},{"id":"rongchang-xiabu-town","name":"Rongchang Xiabu Town","name_zh":"夏布小镇","pinyin":"Xiàbù Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4219,"lon":105.5937,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongchang-xiabu-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shopping and leisure quarter of 24 courtyard buildings in Ming and Qing style, completed in 2015 and named after xiabu, the ramie cloth whose weaving is one of Rongchang's national intangible heritage crafts. Besides xiabu shops it has restaurants, bars and night markets, and it hosts many of the district's festivals and evening events."},{"id":"shapingba-ronghui-hot-spring-town","name":"Ronghui Hot Spring Town","name_zh":"融汇温泉小镇","pinyin":"Rónghuì Wēnquán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5435,"lon":106.437,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shapingba-ronghui-hot-spring-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort complex at Lishuwan in urban Shapingba, with outdoor and indoor spa pools, a water-play area and hotels. Its small restaurant-and-shop street, Quanli Xiaozhen, has hosted summer evening markets, and the resort suits a relaxing half-day rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"dianjiang-sanhe-lake-wetland-park","name":"Sanhe Lake Wetland Park","name_zh":"三合湖湿地公园","pinyin":"Sānhé Hú Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.3228,"lon":107.3702,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dianjiang-sanhe-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban wetland park of about 140 hectares around the Sanhe Lake reservoir in the eastern new district of Dianjiang town, opened in July 2022 with a ring path linking eight zones, wetland planting and an island. Billed as Dianjiang's first 'smart park', it has digital guides and a running track whose roadside screens show runners their distance and laps; it is mainly a local recreation space, best combined with Dianjiang's spring peony season."},{"id":"fengjie-sanxia-yuanxiang","name":"Sanxia Yuanxiang (Three Gorges Homeland)","name_zh":"三峡原乡","pinyin":"Sānxiá Yuánxiāng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.7796,"lon":109.5102,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengjie-sanxia-yuanxiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area in the karst uplands of Xinglong Town, opened around 2020, built around a pair of cliffs that locals call Dry Kuimen for their likeness to the gate of Qutang Gorge, and a cave known as Shenxian Cave. Flower fields, winding flower terraces and a children's farm fill the valley, part of the Xinglong resort area that Fengjie promotes as a cool summer retreat."},{"id":"nanchuan-shenlong-gorge","name":"Shenlong Gorge","name_zh":"神龙峡","pinyin":"Shénlóng Xiá","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.0056,"lon":107.0505,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchuan-shenlong-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested gorge near Nanping on the western side of the Jinfo Mountain range, with a walking trail past waterfalls and pools and a rafting run down its stream in summer. It was rated 5A jointly with Mount Jinfo in 2013, lost that status in 2016 and has been a 4A in its own right since 2022."},{"id":"zhongxian-shibaozhai","name":"Shibaozhai","name_zh":"石宝寨","pinyin":"Shíbǎo Zhài","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.4217,"lon":108.1837,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhongxian-shibaozhai/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A sheer rock outcrop on the north bank of the Yangtze in Shibao Town, climbed by a red timber pavilion built against the cliff in the early 19th century and raised from nine to twelve storeys in 1956, with a Buddhist hall on the summit. Since the reservoir filled, the rock stands as an island protected by a large ring dyke, and many Yangtze cruise ships stop here."},{"id":"jiangjin-shimen-dafo-temple","name":"Shimen Great Buddha Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"石门大佛寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Shímén Dàfó Sì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.1014,"lon":106.0273,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangjin-shimen-dafo-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Song- to Yuan-dynasty Buddhist carvings in the cliff at Shimen, beside the Yangtze in western Jiangjin, listed as a national heritage site in 2013. The main figure is a standing Guanyin about 13.5 m tall with her feet on lotus flowers, sheltered by a seven-eaved timber hall built against the rock."},{"id":"dazu-shimenshan-rock-carvings","name":"Shimenshan Rock Carvings, Dazu","name_zh":"石门山石刻","pinyin":"Shíménshān Shíkè","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6516,"lon":105.8617,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dazu-shimenshan-rock-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 72 m cliff of Buddhist and Daoist carvings at Shimen village, about 20 km east of Dazu town, cut between 1094 and 1151 and one of the five Dazu groups on the World Heritage list. The Daoist figures stand out, among them the Jade Emperor flanked by the guardians Thousand-Li Eye and Wind-Following Ear, the Three Sovereigns cave and a tableau of the God of the Eastern Peak, while the cave of the Western Three Saints and Ten Guanyin holds ten tall, crowned bodhisattvas. The site opened formally to visitors in July 2024."},{"id":"jiangjin-shisun-mountain","name":"Shisun Mountain (Yunwuping)","name_zh":"石笋山","pinyin":"Shísǔn Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.1547,"lon":105.9593,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangjin-shisun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pair of forested hills on the border of Jiangjin and Yongchuan, known locally as the 'male' and 'female' Shisun peaks, with a small lake, several Buddhist and Taoist shrines and the old walls of the Yunwuping hill fort. It is a place for hill walks, cloud views and temple visits rather than major sights."},{"id":"liangping-shuanggui-lake-wetland-park","name":"Shuanggui Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"双桂湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Shuāngguì Hú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.6395,"lon":107.7481,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangping-shuanggui-lake-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake of about 120 hectares on the south-western side of the Liangping district town, a reservoir of 1951 that was cleaned up from around 2010 and turned into a wetland park of reed beds, channels and small wetlands crossed by boardwalks. More than 200 bird species have been recorded there, and it is the best-known wetland of Liangping, which has been named an International Wetland City."},{"id":"liangping-shuanggui-temple","name":"Shuanggui Temple","name_zh":"双桂堂","pinyin":"Shuāngguì Táng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.6085,"lon":107.7019,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangping-shuanggui-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chan Buddhist monastery founded in 1653 by the master Poshan Haiming and named after its two osmanthus trees, known as an ancestral seat of Chan in south-west China and listed among the country's key Buddhist temples since 1983. Seven buildings stand on its main axis, among them the Mahavira Hall on 72 stone columns, Poshan's stupa, the Hall of Great Compassion and the sutra library, which keeps a Buddhist canon presented by the Yongzheng Emperor; a hall of 500 arhats was added in 1998. The fields, lotus ponds and wetlands around the temple are being developed as the Shuanggui Tianyuan scenic area, which so far adds a vegetarian food centre and visitor centre."},{"id":"tongnan-shuangjiang-ancient-town","name":"Shuangjiang Ancient Town","name_zh":"双江古镇","pinyin":"Shuāngjiāng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.2171,"lon":105.7451,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongnan-shuangjiang-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A market town near the south bank of the Fu River, founded in the early Qing and named after the two streams that wind around it, which keeps more than 20 Qing-dynasty courtyard houses along flagstone lanes and small bridges. Among them are the Yuwang Palace, a Huguang guild hall with an opera stage, and the family houses of Yang Angong and Yang Shangkun, which are kept as memorial museums; it was named one of China's first historic and cultural towns in 2003."},{"id":"jiangjin-simian-mountain","name":"Simian Mountain","name_zh":"四面山","pinyin":"Sìmiàn Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.6535,"lon":106.405,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangjin-simian-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested upland on a spur of the Dalou Mountains in southern Jiangjin, where red sandstone cliffs, lakes and more than a hundred waterfalls are spread over a scenic area of about 213 km². The best-known sight is the Wangxiangtai Waterfall, about 150 m high, whose cliff outline is likened to a heart; other areas include Longtan Lake, the Honghai lake and Pearl Lake. It is a cool summer retreat for people from Chongqing and suits one or two days of walking between the falls and lakes."},{"id":"fengdu-snowy-jade-cave","name":"Snowy Jade Cave","name_zh":"雪玉洞","pinyin":"Xuěyù Dòng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.7827,"lon":107.7981,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengdu-snowy-jade-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave in Fengdu known for the unusually white, jade-like colour of its formations, which are still growing. It runs for 1,644 m on three levels, and its highlights include a stone 'flag' about 8 m long, a stone shield about 4 m high and dense clusters of coral-like growths and soda-straw stalactites."},{"id":"yongchuan-songgai-ancient-town","name":"Songgai Ancient Town","name_zh":"松溉古镇","pinyin":"Sōngjì Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.0584,"lon":105.8926,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchuan-songgai-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A river port on the north bank of the Yangtze in southern Yongchuan, listed among China's historic and cultural towns, whose flagstone streets lead past riverside teahouses with storytellers, the old county yamen and the site of a wartime cotton-spinning mill. Nearby are the Ming-dynasty Chen Gong weir and the tomb of the Southern Song classicist Chen Shaonan, and the town became a 4A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"chongqing-soong-ching-ling-residence","name":"Soong Ching-ling's Former Residence (China Defence League Headquarters)","name_zh":"宋庆龄旧居","pinyin":"Sòng Qìnglíng Jiùjū","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5569,"lon":106.5452,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-soong-ching-ling-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A German-style brick-and-timber house of 1937 at Lianglukou where Soong Ching-ling, widow of Sun Yat-sen, lived from 1942 to 1945 and ran the China Defence League, the organisation she founded to support China's resistance against Japan. Her office and bedroom and the league's office and meeting room are shown as an exhibition, now a branch of the Three Gorges Museum; it first opened in 1993 and reopened in 2013 after repairs."},{"id":"nanan-south-mountain-botanical-garden","name":"South Mountain Botanical Garden","name_zh":"南山植物园","pinyin":"Nánshān Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5587,"lon":106.625,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanan-south-mountain-botanical-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large botanical garden on the wooded crest of Nanshan above the south bank of the Yangtze, with themed gardens for roses, camellias, plum blossom and orchids and a garden of rare and endangered plants; its camellia collection is recognised as an International Camellia Garden of Excellence. Within the camellia garden stand villas that housed the French embassy, the Indian commissioner's office and part of the Soviet embassy when Chongqing was China's wartime capital. A giant golden eagle statue on the ridge is a local landmark."},{"id":"chongqing-stilwell-museum","name":"Stilwell Museum","name_zh":"史迪威博物馆","pinyin":"Shǐdíwēi Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5536,"lon":106.5292,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-stilwell-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 1930s house on Jialing New Road that was the home and headquarters of the US general Joseph Stilwell from 1942 to 1944, when he was Allied chief of staff in the China theatre and commanded US forces in China, Burma and India. His office, bedroom, adjutant's room, meeting rooms and air-raid basement are furnished as they were, with displays of his manuscripts, uniforms and belongings. The museum was refurbished and reopened in August 2023."},{"id":"shizhu-taiyang-lake","name":"Sun Lake (Taiyang Lake), Huangshui","name_zh":"太阳湖","pinyin":"Tàiyáng Hú","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.1904,"lon":108.4351,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shizhu-taiyang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake in the highlands of Huangshui, in the south-east of Huangshui National Forest Park next to the Dafengbao forest, used for angling and water sports and as the venue of an open-water swimming race and the Huangshui triathlon. Like the rest of the Huangshui area it stays cool in summer, when it fills with visitors escaping the heat of Chongqing."},{"id":"chongqing-teyuan-democratic-parties-museum","name":"Teyuan (Museum of the History of China's Democratic Parties)","name_zh":"特园","pinyin":"Tè Yuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5637,"lon":106.5421,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-teyuan-democratic-parties-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mansion of Xian Ying, a wartime supporter of the democratic movement, built in 1929–31 at Shangqingsi; the China Democratic League began here in 1941 as the League of Chinese Democratic Political Groups. Since 2008 its two three-storey villas have held a museum of China's non-Communist 'democratic parties', enlarged in 2011 and renamed the Museum of the History of China's Democratic Parties."},{"id":"yunyang-three-gorges-ladder-city","name":"Three Gorges Ladder City","name_zh":"三峡梯城","pinyin":"Sānxiá Tīchéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.9381,"lon":108.7082,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-three-gorges-ladder-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside park in the centre of Yunyang's new county town, which was built here from 1999 after the Three Gorges reservoir flooded the old town. It takes in the Three Gorges Cultural Relics Park and Panshi Fortress, a hilltop stronghold used from the Tang to the Qing dynasties, where stretches of stone wall and two gateways survive."},{"id":"wushan-three-gorges-light-night-cruise","name":"Three Gorges Light Night Cruise","name_zh":"三峡之光","pinyin":"Sānxiá Zhī Guāng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0829,"lon":109.8835,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1.5 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushan-three-gorges-light-night-cruise","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An evening show cruise launched at Wushan in 2021, on which visitors watch light projections across 152 buildings on both banks, the Goddess Temple and its hills and the Wushan Yangtze bridge, followed by a staged night show in Longmen Gorge. The show draws on local themes such as the Goddess of Wushan, the red autumn leaves and the resettlement of the reservoir towns."},{"id":"chongqing-three-gorges-museum","name":"Three Gorges Museum","name_zh":"重庆中国三峡博物馆","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Zhōngguó Sānxiá Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5649,"lon":106.547,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-three-gorges-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chongqing's main history museum, opened in 2005 on People's Square opposite the People's Auditorium and one of China's national first-grade museums. Its four core galleries cover the Three Gorges, the ancient Ba people of the region, the growth of Chongqing as a city and its wartime years, and much of the collection comes from excavations in the area flooded by the Three Gorges Dam. Further galleries show paintings, ceramics, coins and Han-dynasty sculpture."},{"id":"fengjie-three-gorges-summit","name":"Three Gorges Summit (Sanxia Zhidian)","name_zh":"三峡之巅","pinyin":"Sānxiá Zhī Diān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.029,"lon":109.6199,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengjie-three-gorges-summit","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain-top scenic area opened in 2020 along more than 10 km of the ridge of Chijia Mountain above Kuimen, whose highest point, at 1,388 m, looks down on the Yangtze entering Qutang Gorge. Terraces and monuments along the ridge celebrate Kui, the legendary music master of ancient China, and a glass walkway runs along the cliff edge; a ridge-top hiking trail of about 10 km, the Taibai Bird Path, links the area with White Emperor City along the cliffs on the north side of the gorge."},{"id":"fengjie-tiankeng-difeng","name":"Tiankeng Difeng (Xiaozhai Tiankeng & Tianjing Gorge)","name_zh":"天坑地缝","pinyin":"Tiānkēng Dìfèng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.7508,"lon":109.4699,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengjie-tiankeng-difeng/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst area in Xinglong Town made up of Xiaozhai Tiankeng, a vertical-walled sinkhole more than 500 m deep whose name gave geologists the term tiankeng, and Tianjing Gorge, a narrow slot canyon some 37 km long. A long staircase descends into the sinkhole, beneath which an underground river runs, and the area lies at around 1,200 m with cool summers."},{"id":"wanzhou-tianshengcheng","name":"Tianshengcheng Fortress Ruins","name_zh":"天生城","pinyin":"Tiānshēng Chéng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.8292,"lon":108.3647,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wanzhou-tianshengcheng/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural rock mesa above Wanzhou with sheer cliffs on every side, fortified in the 13th century as one of the Southern Song mountain strongholds against the Mongols; the Song general Shangguan Kui held it through a siege of more than a month, and local tradition says Liu Bei of Shu Han once camped here. The ruins on the summit look out over the city."},{"id":"banan-tianxin-temple","name":"Tianxin Temple (Zhongtai Tianxin Buddhist Culture Area)","name_zh":"天心寺","pinyin":"Tiānxīn Sì","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4007,"lon":106.7672,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banan-tianxin-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple among old trees in the hills of Tianxingsi town in eastern Ba'nan, at the centre of a Buddhist culture area that the district promotes for tea drinking and meditation classes. Guesthouses, one of them in a restored old courtyard house, lie in the surrounding villages."},{"id":"liangjiang-tieshanping-forest-park","name":"Tieshanping Forest Park","name_zh":"铁山坪森林公园","pinyin":"Tiěshānpíng Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6051,"lon":106.6769,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangjiang-tieshanping-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested upland on the Tongluo Mountain ridge in the east of Liangjiang New Area, facing Nanshan across the Yangtze. Walking trails link its 'ten views', among them the old Sengguan Temple, the remains of an old battlefield and of works that once guarded the river, flower fields and lookouts over the Yangtze."},{"id":"beibei-zhang-zizhong-tomb","name":"Tomb of General Zhang Zizhong","name_zh":"张自忠将军墓","pinyin":"Zhāng Zìzhōng Jiāngjūn Mù","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8114,"lon":106.4062,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beibei-zhang-zizhong-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The grave of Zhang Zizhong, the Nationalist army-group commander killed in Hubei in May 1940 during the Zaoyang–Yichang campaign, the highest-ranking Chinese officer to die in the war with Japan. After a state funeral he was buried here on Meihua Hill in November 1940; the large carved characters of the hill's name and the inscription on the tomb are by General Feng Yuxiang. The cemetery rises in three levels, with the round tomb at the top, a garden in the middle and a memorial hall by the square below."},{"id":"beibei-tongjing-hot-spring","name":"Tongjing Hot Spring Scenic Area","name_zh":"统景温泉","pinyin":"Tǒngjǐng Wēnquán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.8604,"lon":106.8363,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beibei-tongjing-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring and gorge scenic area where the Wentang River leaves its gorge at Tongjing, in the far east of Beibei District (until 2025 part of Yubei). Springs here rise at up to 61°C and feed bathing pools, and the scenic area also takes in river gorges, caves and waterfalls."},{"id":"tongnan-great-buddha-temple","name":"Tongnan Great Buddha Temple","name_zh":"潼南大佛寺","pinyin":"Tóngnán Dàfó Sì","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.1897,"lon":105.8075,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongnan-great-buddha-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple at the foot of Dingming Hill on the Fu River just west of Tongnan town, built against a cliff carved from the Sui to the Republican era with about 126 niches and more than 900 Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian figures. Its centrepiece is a gilded seated Buddha 18.43 m high, begun in the Tang and finished in the Song, sheltered by the seven-eaved Great Buddha Pavilion; the temple also keeps Guanyin and Jade Emperor halls and an 1843 couplet by Zeng Guofan."},{"id":"chengkou-tucheng-old-street","name":"Tucheng Old Street (Red Army Street)","name_zh":"土城红军老街","pinyin":"Tǔchéng Hóngjūn Lǎojiē","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.9495,"lon":108.6596,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengkou-tucheng-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old street of flagstones, timber eaves and remains of the town wall in the Chengkou county town, laid out in the Jiaqing era of the Qing dynasty about 200 years ago. It carries the Red Army name because Chengkou was part of the Sichuan–Shaanxi revolutionary base area, which the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army entered in October 1933, and the county's Soviet government and Red Army memorial parks are also in town."},{"id":"qianjiang-tujia-shisanzhai","name":"Tujia Thirteen Villages (Tujia Shisanzhai)","name_zh":"土家十三寨","pinyin":"Tǔjiā Shísān Zhài","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6542,"lon":108.6818,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianjiang-tujia-shisanzhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of 13 Tujia hamlets of wooden stilt houses spread along the Banjia stream in the north of Xiaonanhai town, where around 200 households still live. Flagstone paths and covered bridges link the hamlets, and visitors can hear Tujia folk songs and see the baishou hand-waving dance, while embroidery, weaving and batik are still practised; Hejiazhai is the largest and best preserved of the villages."},{"id":"rongchang-wanling-ancient-town","name":"Wanling Ancient Town","name_zh":"万灵古镇","pinyin":"Wànlíng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4901,"lon":105.6457,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongchang-wanling-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A historic riverside market town in north-eastern Rongchang, called Lukong until 2013 and listed among China's historic and cultural towns. Its old quarter takes in the Darong Bridge and the Niushiba wharf, a Huguang guild hall, the Zhao clan shrine and a memorial hall to the Ming official Yu Maojian, and opera and folk performances are staged there on holidays."},{"id":"wansheng-old-street","name":"Wansheng Old Street","name_zh":"万盛老街","pinyin":"Wànshèng Lǎojiē","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.9667,"lon":106.9219,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wansheng-old-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This old street in central Wansheng recreates Wanshengchang, the market from which the town grew: first called Wanshouchang, it was renamed in the Tongzhi reign of the Qing, when sales of local coal and coke drew merchants and guild halls from Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Huguang. The stone Sanyuan Bridge over the river, paid for by a merchant in the Xianfeng reign, still stands, and the street is now a shopping and dining district."},{"id":"shizhu-wanshou-mountain","name":"Wanshou Mountain, Shizhu","name_zh":"万寿山","pinyin":"Wànshòu Shān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.0071,"lon":108.2488,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shizhu-wanshou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A craggy forested mountain at 1,200–1,500 m east of Shizhu county town, topped by the two rock pillars that, in local legend, gave the county its name ('stone pillars'). The scenic area, opened in 2019, is built around the old battlefield where Qin Liangyu, the Ming-dynasty woman general who commanded Shizhu's troops, built a stockade against attackers, and the nearby Wanshou Old Village shows Tujia stilt houses and customs."},{"id":"wanzhou-grand-falls","name":"Wanzhou Grand Falls (Qinglong Falls)","name_zh":"万州大瀑布","pinyin":"Wànzhōu Dà Pùbù","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.6636,"lon":108.2506,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanzhou-grand-falls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A broad curtain waterfall on the Qinglong River in Ganning Town, 64.5 m high and about 150 m wide, which Wanzhou promotes as the largest waterfall in Asia. It is billed as one of the few falls that can be seen from every side, and paths lead behind the curtain of water."},{"id":"wanzhou-pinghu-riverfront-xishan-clock-tower","name":"Wanzhou Riverfront (Three Gorges Pinghu) & Xishan Clock Tower","name_zh":"三峡平湖·西山钟楼","pinyin":"Sānxiá Pínghú · Xīshān Zhōnglóu","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.8062,"lon":108.3826,"category":"city","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wanzhou-pinghu-riverfront-xishan-clock-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wanzhou's riverside parks and promenades along the wide reservoir lake created by the Three Gorges Dam, with the old city wall, Cengong Cave, walks under huangge fig trees, a light show in Yinghuadu Park and evening boat trips on the lit-up river. Walks usually start at the Xishan Clock Tower in Xishan Park, a 50 m, 12-storey tower completed in 1932 that is counted with the customs-house clock towers of Shanghai and Wuhan among the three great clock towers of the Yangtze and still chimes the hour."},{"id":"chongqing-wartime-bank-buildings","name":"Wartime Bank Buildings of Chongqing","name_zh":"重庆抗战金融机构旧址群","pinyin":"Chóngqìng Kàngzhàn Jīnróng Jīgòu Jiùzhǐqún","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5627,"lon":106.5806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-wartime-bank-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Six former bank buildings in the old financial quarter around Datong Street, Xinhua Road and Jiefang East Road, left by the banks that operated here while Chongqing was China's wartime capital. They are the former Central Bank, Bank of China, Bank of Communications, Meifeng Bank, Chuankang Pingmin Commercial Bank and Juxingcheng Bank; most are seen from the street on a short walk between Jiefangbei and Xiaoshizi, and the Meifeng Bank building on Xinhua Road now houses the Chongqing Financial History Museum."},{"id":"wushan-wenfeng","name":"Wenfeng Scenic Area","name_zh":"文峰","pinyin":"Wénfēng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0681,"lon":109.9107,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushan-wenfeng","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain-top Taoist temple on the north bank at the western mouth of Wu Gorge, first built in the Ming dynasty as Lingyun Temple and rebuilt in 1786 for the Quanzhen Longmen school. The site looks over the river on one side and wooded ridges on the other, and the hillsides are one of Wushan's main red-leaf areas in late autumn."},{"id":"wansheng-western-mushroom-valley","name":"Western Mushroom Valley","name_zh":"西部菌谷","pinyin":"Xībù Jūngǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.013,"lon":106.9654,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wansheng-western-mushroom-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mushroom-themed family park in Lüshui village, Conglin town, north-east of Wansheng, combining fairy-tale play areas for children with a picking area where visitors can gather enoki, shiitake, straw mushrooms and lingzhi. It is one of Wansheng's farm-tourism projects and suits families with young children."},{"id":"fengjie-baidicheng-qutang-gorge","name":"White Emperor City (Baidicheng) & Qutang Gorge","name_zh":"白帝城·瞿塘峡","pinyin":"Báidìchéng · Qútáng Xiá","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0435,"lon":109.5705,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fengjie-baidicheng-qutang-gorge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop temple complex at the western mouth of Qutang Gorge, named after the warlord Gongsun Shu, who proclaimed himself the White Emperor in AD 25; since 1533 its halls have honoured Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms, and Tang poets including Li Bai and Du Fu wrote famous verses here. Since the Three Gorges reservoir filled, the hill has become an island joined to the north bank by a bridge, with Southern Song walls and the beacon tower of the Qutang Pass among its ruins and a direct view of Kuimen, the gate of the gorge pictured on the 10-yuan note. Boats run into the 8 km gorge, whose south-bank cliffs carry inscriptions from the Song dynasty to the Republican era, part of them now under water and part cut out and moved."},{"id":"wushan-wu-gorge-goddess-scenic-area","name":"Wu Gorge – Goddess Peak Scenic Area","name_zh":"巫峡·神女","pinyin":"Wūxiá · Shénnǚ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0483,"lon":109.9581,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wushan-wu-gorge-goddess-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The land side of Wu Gorge, about 15 km east of Wushan town. Its main sights are the Goddess Sky Road, a 12 km mountain road at around 1,200 m with five viewing platforms facing Goddess Peak and others of the Twelve Peaks across the river; Jingtan Peak; and Shennü Stream, a narrow side gorge on the south bank. Sightseeing buses, the Huangyan cableway, a 200 m cliff-side lift and boats link the viewpoints, and the slopes turn red with autumn leaves from November to January."},{"id":"pengshui-wu-river-gallery","name":"Wu River Gallery (Pengshui)","name_zh":"乌江画廊","pinyin":"Wūjiāng Huàláng","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.2136,"lon":108.2137,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengshui-wu-river-gallery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The steep-walled gorge of the Wu River south of Pengshui, part of the roughly 100 km stretch from Pengshui past Gongtan to Yanhe in Guizhou that is known as the 'hundred-li gallery' for its cliffs and dark green water. The 4A scenic area is based at Wanzu town, and sightseeing boats run through the gorge."},{"id":"fuling-wulingshan-great-rift-valley","name":"Wulingshan Great Rift Valley","name_zh":"武陵山大裂谷","pinyin":"Wǔlíngshān Dà Liègǔ","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4975,"lon":107.5675,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuling-wulingshan-great-rift-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst landscape of gorges, cliffs, caves and streams in the mountains of south-eastern Fuling, rated 5A in 2024 and covering about 30 km² with a height range of some 1,380 m. Its headline sights are the narrow Qingtian slot canyon, the deep Wanzhang vertical shaft, a waterfall where an underground river pours out of Laojun Cave, and the 'Copper and Iron Walls' of steeply folded rock strata."},{"id":"fuling-wulingshan-national-forest-park","name":"Wulingshan National Forest Park, Fuling","name_zh":"武陵山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Wǔlíngshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5428,"lon":107.5995,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuling-wulingshan-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park on the Wuling Mountains in south-eastern Fuling, centred on the old Damu state forest farm, with dense forest and upland grassland. Forest cover is about 95 per cent and July and August average under 20°C, so it is used mainly as a summer retreat for walking and forest stays."},{"id":"chongqing-wushan-museum","name":"Wushan Museum","name_zh":"巫山博物馆","pinyin":"Wūshān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.0754,"lon":109.8781,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-wushan-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The county museum of Wushan, which grew out of the county's cultural relics office, opened in December 2012 and holds more than 50,000 objects; it was rated a national second-grade museum in 2018. Its main exhibition follows the area from the Longgupo site, whose simple stone tools the museum dates to about two million years ago, through the Neolithic Daxi culture to the local Wu culture, and smaller galleries show highlights such as a Han gilt-bronze plaque with the Queen Mother of the West."},{"id":"dazu-xiangguo-park","name":"Xiangguo Park, Dazu","name_zh":"香国公园","pinyin":"Xiāngguó Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6975,"lon":105.7432,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dazu-xiangguo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dazu's largest city park, covering about 87 ha around two lakes, Miaoshan and Xiangquan, laid out on the theme of Dazu's old name, the 'land of begonia fragrance'. Covered bridges, pavilions, cascades, a public stage, children's play areas and an evening light-and-water show are spread through it, and the Song-style Changzhou Ancient Town street lies alongside. It makes an easy evening stroll after a day at the carvings."},{"id":"qianjiang-xiaonanhai-lake","name":"Xiaonanhai Lake","name_zh":"小南海","pinyin":"Xiǎo Nánhǎi","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.6436,"lon":108.7411,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianjiang-xiaonanhai-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain lake formed in 1856, when an earthquake brought down a hillside and dammed the Laojiao stream, leaving a natural rubble dam over 1 km long and a lake of about 2.9 km² with three small islands. It is one of the best-preserved historic earthquake sites in China and is now a national geopark; Chaoyang Temple island was the meeting place of an anti-Qing uprising society shortly before the 1911 revolution."},{"id":"wushan-xiazhuang-village","name":"Xiazhuang Village and its Cliff Road","name_zh":"下庄村","pinyin":"Xiàzhuāng Cūn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.2817,"lon":110.0232,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushan-xiazhuang-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village at the bottom of a deep, cliff-ringed basin in Zhuxian Township that was cut off from the outside until its residents, led by the village Party secretary Mao Xianglin, spent seven years carving an 8 km road along the cliffs. The road, the citrus orchards planted since and a small exhibition room on the village's story now draw visitors, and state media present Xiazhuang as a model of the national poverty-alleviation campaign."},{"id":"banan-ronghui-xiliutuo","name":"Xiliutuo Riverside Town","name_zh":"融汇西流沱","pinyin":"Rónghuì Xīliútuó","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4793,"lon":106.5081,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banan-ronghui-xiliutuo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern riverside leisure quarter on the Yangtze at Lijiatuo in Ba'nan, developed by the Ronghui property group around Xiliutuo Town, a newly built pedestrian district whose streets, courtyards and terraces are laid out on different levels with a Ba-culture theme. People come mainly for the local food and for walks or rides along the Babin riverside road."},{"id":"shizhu-xituo-ancient-town","name":"Xituo Ancient Town","name_zh":"西沱古镇","pinyin":"Xītuó Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.4089,"lon":108.2192,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shizhu-xituo-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yangtze river port facing the Shibaozhai pavilion across the water, which grew rich on the salt and river trade from the Qing dynasty and was named one of China's first historic and cultural towns in 2003. Its main street, the Yunti Jie or 'ladder to the clouds', climbs the hillside from the river in long flights of stone steps between tiers of Tujia stilt houses, past old halls such as the Yuwang Palace and the Ziyun Palace."},{"id":"bishan-xiuhu-park","name":"Xiuhu Park","name_zh":"璧山秀湖公园","pinyin":"Bìshān Xiùhú Gōngyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5854,"lon":106.2111,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bishan-xiuhu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large lake park in Bishan, created in the 2010s as one of more than 30 public parks the district built while cleaning up its rivers. Lakeside paths, lawns and gardens make it a pleasant place for a walk, and a car-camping park lies alongside."},{"id":"xiushan-west-street","name":"Xiushan West Street","name_zh":"秀山西街","pinyin":"Xiùshān Xījiē","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.442,"lon":108.982,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiushan-west-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old western quarter of the Xiushan county town on both banks of the Meijiang River, the heart of the town since it was founded in 1736, restored as a folk-culture area of about 1 km². Old streets and lanes lead to the Tianhou Temple, the Bagua Well, a stretch of the old town wall, courtyard houses, an old opera stage and covered bridges, and the streets are hung with flower lanterns at festivals."},{"id":"tongliang-xuantian-lake","name":"Xuantian Lake","name_zh":"玄天湖","pinyin":"Xuántiān Hú","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.7969,"lon":106.0582,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongliang-xuantian-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake of about 1,500 mu (100 ha) at the foot of Bayue Mountain on the southern edge of Tongliang, landscaped with lakeside running paths and designated, with the mountain, a municipal-level tourist resort in 2022. On its Dragon Dance Plaza an outdoor show, 'Chasing the Dream: Tongliang Dragon', staged on selected dates since 2022, presents the town's dragon and fire-dragon dances with lighting and stage effects."},{"id":"chongqing-yangtze-river-cableway","name":"Yangtze River Cableway","name_zh":"长江索道","pinyin":"Chángjiāng Suǒdào","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.5607,"lon":106.5798,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongqing-yangtze-river-cableway/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An aerial tramway that has carried passengers across the Yangtze since 1987, spanning 1,166 m between Xinhua Road in Yuzhong and Shangxin Street at Longmenhao on the south bank. The cabins hold about 80 people and take a few minutes to cross, giving a high view of the river, its bridges and the Yuzhong skyline; the line itself has been a listed municipal heritage site since 2009."},{"id":"youyang-youshui-river-hewan","name":"Youshui River Bend (Hewan Village)","name_zh":"酉水河湾","pinyin":"Yǒushuǐ Héwān","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.8655,"lon":109.1524,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-youshui-river-hewan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hewan is a Tujia village on the Youshui River in Youshuihe town, eastern Youyang, in the valley the county treats as the heartland of its Tujia culture. Its old hillside hamlet, Hewan Shanzhai, is rated one of the county's leading tourism resources, and village households run guesthouses under the county's 'Taoyuan Renjia' homestay scheme."},{"id":"youyang-taohuayuan","name":"Youyang Taohuayuan (Peach Blossom Spring)","name_zh":"酉阳桃花源","pinyin":"Yǒuyáng Táohuāyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.8607,"lon":108.7617,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youyang-taohuayuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 50 km² scenic area on the edge of Youyang's county town that presents itself as the real-world model for Tao Yuanming's fable of the Peach Blossom Spring, with a secluded karst valley of streams, fields and peach trees, Taigu Cave and the large Fuxi Cave with its wide variety of dripstone formations. Other sections include a national forest park, Youzhou Ancient Town (a 1.3 km street of Tujia-style stilt buildings) and the 2,800-seat Taoyuan Grand Stage for the live show 'Dreamlike Peach Blossom Spring'. On the central square visitors can join Tujia hand-waving dances or listen to wood-leaf songs."},{"id":"yunyang-lakeside-greenway","name":"Yunyang Lakeside Greenway","name_zh":"云阳环湖绿道","pinyin":"Yúnyáng Huánhú Lǜdào","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.9216,"lon":108.7271,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yunyang-lakeside-greenway","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A greenway of riverside parks around the reservoir lake at Yunyang's county town, which was rebuilt here after the Three Gorges reservoir flooded the old town. Its eight themed parks, among them the Moonlight Lawn, were all open by 2022."},{"id":"yunyang-zhang-fei-temple","name":"Zhang Fei Temple","name_zh":"张飞庙","pinyin":"Zhāng Fēi Miào","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":30.9128,"lon":108.7007,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yunyang-zhang-fei-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to Zhang Fei, the Three Kingdoms general whose head, by tradition, was buried here; founded in the late Shu Han period, it stood for centuries on the south bank of the Yangtze opposite the old Yunyang town. Ahead of the Three Gorges reservoir it was dismantled and rebuilt, largely from its original materials, in a similar setting on the south bank facing the new county town, and reopened in July 2003. Its halls and pavilions honour Zhang Fei and the poet Du Fu, who stayed here for two years."},{"id":"chongqing-zhang-zhizhong-memorial","name":"Zhang Zhizhong Memorial Hall (Former Political Department of the Military Affairs Commission)","name_zh":"张治中纪念馆","pinyin":"Zhāng Zhìzhōng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.61,"lon":106.3694,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongqing-zhang-zhizhong-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural compound at Sanshenggong village in Tuzhu, western Shapingba, used from 1938 to 1945 by the Political Department of the Nationalist government's Military Affairs Commission. It is also known as the former residence of the Nationalist general Zhang Zhizhong, and it is now open as the Chongqing Zhang Zhizhong Memorial Hall."},{"id":"jiangjin-zhongshan-ancient-town","name":"Zhongshan Ancient Town","name_zh":"中山古镇","pinyin":"Zhōngshān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":28.8421,"lon":106.3247,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangjin-zhongshan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside market town on the Shunxi River in southern Jiangjin, on the northern approach to Simian Mountain, listed as a National Historic and Cultural Town. Its long, narrow old street grew from three market sections joined together and once held more than 300 workshops and shops; bamboo-craft and sauce shops, grocers, small restaurants and old tea houses still trade there. A fire in 2021 damaged over 200 m of the street, which was repaired and reopened in early 2023."},{"id":"jiulongpo-zhoujunji-hotpot-factory","name":"Zhoujunji Hotpot Seasoning Factory Tour","name_zh":"周君记火锅食品工业旅游体验园","pinyin":"Zhōujūnjì Huǒguō Shípǐn Gōngyè Lǚyóu Tǐyànyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.4869,"lon":106.4468,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiulongpo-zhoujunji-hotpot-factory","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hotpot-seasoning factory of the Zhoujunji company in Zhongliangshan, which has run factory tours since 2006. Visitors see the chillies, ginger and other raw materials, watch the production lines and the traditional frying of hotpot base, can fry a batch themselves and finish with a hotpot meal. A museum of Sichuan and Chongqing seasonings and hotpot culture opened beside the factory in 2025."},{"id":"qianjiang-zhuoshui-ancient-town","name":"Zhuoshui Ancient Town","name_zh":"濯水古镇","pinyin":"Zhuóshuǐ Gǔzhèn","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":29.3058,"lon":108.7691,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianjiang-zhuoshui-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old trading town on the Apeng River that grew up from the late Tang and flourished in the Ming and Qing, with about a kilometre of flagstone lanes lined by Tujia stilt houses and Hui-style buildings. A 658 m covered 'wind-and-rain' bridge spans the river, and the 5A scenic area also takes in the nearby Puhua underground river, with three natural bridges and a large sinkhole."},{"id":"kaizhou-zhuxi-eco-park","name":"Zhuxi Eco Park","name_zh":"竹溪生态乐园","pinyin":"Zhúxī Shēngtài Lèyuán","region_id":"500000","region":"Chongqing","city":"Chongqing","lat":31.1295,"lon":108.293,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaizhou-zhuxi-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure park in Zhuxi town, opened in 2021 with Kaizhou's Zhuxi rural-revitalisation zone and themed on the bamboo (zhu) and streams (xi) of its name. It offers countryside walks and farm landscapes and is mainly a weekend outing for families from the Kaizhou area."},{"id":"maoxian-ancient-qiang-city","name":"Ancient Qiang City and Pingtou Village, Maoxian","name_zh":"中国古羌城·坪头羌寨","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gǔqiāng Chéng Píngtóu Qiāngzhài","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.6742,"lon":103.8339,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maoxian-ancient-qiang-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large complex on the edge of Mao County town, built after the 2008 earthquake to present the culture of the Qiang people. It houses the China Qiang Museum, a reconstructed Qiang king's residence and halls for crafts and performances. Pingtou, a Qiang village on the slope just above, has become a summer retreat with many family guesthouses."},{"id":"zamtang-bangtuo-monastery","name":"Bangtuo Monastery","name_zh":"棒托寺","pinyin":"Bàngtuō Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.5205,"lon":101.0581,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zamtang-bangtuo-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Nyingma monastery in northern Zamtang County, founded in the Yuan period and known for its 39 stupas built between the Ming dynasty and the Republic. In the middle of the stupa group are stacked more than 100,000 stone slabs carved with Tibetan scriptures, most cut in 1438 and the rest, a Kangyur, between 1910 and 1920."},{"id":"bipenggou","name":"Bipenggou","name_zh":"毕棚沟","pinyin":"Bìpénggōu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.3064,"lon":102.9368,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bipenggou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A high valley in Li County, within the Miyaluo nature area, climbing from about 2,400 to 4,500 metres past forest, streams and waterfalls towards snow peaks. It is best known for its autumn colours, and sightseeing buses run up the valley from the visitor centre."},{"id":"lixian-choubian-tower","name":"Choubian Tower, Xuecheng","name_zh":"筹边楼","pinyin":"Chóubiān Lóu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.5541,"lon":103.3113,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-choubian-tower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty tower in the old street of Xuecheng, a small town on the Zagunao River in Li County. Its name means 'tower for planning frontier affairs', and it was listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"zamtang-cuoerji-monastery","name":"Cuo'erji (Chöje) Monastery and Rangbala","name_zh":"措尔机寺·壤巴拉","pinyin":"Cuò'ěrjī Sì Rǎngbālā","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.3497,"lon":101.1773,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zamtang-cuoerji-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zamtang is a leading centre of the Jonang school of Tibetan Buddhism, and Cuo'erji (Chöje) Monastery at Zhongrangtang, whose national listing dates its buildings from the Yuan to the Qing, is one of its historic monasteries. Nearby, the Rangbala heritage park gathers workshops where Jonang thangka painting and other local crafts are taught and shown."},{"id":"dagu-glacier","name":"Dagu Glacier","name_zh":"达古冰川","pinyin":"Dágǔ Bīngchuān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.2352,"lon":102.7671,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dagu-glacier","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of mountain glaciers in Heishui County, spread between about 3,800 and 5,100 metres within a protected scenic area of high peaks and forest. A cable car lifts visitors to viewpoints near the ice, which was only identified by scientists in 1992. Go in clear weather and allow for the altitude."},{"id":"zoige-dazha-monastery","name":"Dazha Monastery","name_zh":"达扎寺","pinyin":"Dázhā Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":33.5841,"lon":102.9664,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoige-dazha-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Gelug monastery founded in 1663 by the first Dazha Living Buddha, which gives its name to Dazhasi, the county town of Zoige. Its assembly halls are a short walk from the town centre and make an easy stop when crossing the Zoige grasslands."},{"id":"barkam-dhe-tsang-monastery","name":"Dhe-Tsang Monastery","name_zh":"大藏寺","pinyin":"Dàzàng Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.137,"lon":102.2273,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=barkam-dhe-tsang-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1414, Dhe-Tsang (Dazang) Monastery is the head monastery of the Gelug school in northern Sichuan, set in a remote valley of Dazang township north of Barkam. Its buildings were destroyed in the late 1950s and rebuilt in 1993–1997, and it was listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"diexi-songpinggou","name":"Diexi Lake and Songpinggou","name_zh":"叠溪·松坪沟","pinyin":"Diéxī Sōngpínggōu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.0461,"lon":103.6756,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=diexi-songpinggou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In 1933 an earthquake destroyed the old town of Diexi on the upper Min River and dammed the river, creating a lake that now covers the site of the old town. Viewpoints look out over Diexi Lake, and the side valley of Songpinggou to the west holds a chain of further lakes among forest."},{"id":"hongyuan-emutang-flower-meadows","name":"Emutang Flower Meadows, Hongyuan","name_zh":"俄木塘花海","pinyin":"Émùtáng Huāhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.2103,"lon":102.4936,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongyuan-emutang-flower-meadows","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Natural grassland in southern Hongyuan County where more than 30,000 mu (about 20 km²) of meadow turns into a sheet of wildflowers from early June to early August. Yellow, purple, white and blue flowers spread towards snow peaks, and in the hills above lie the sacred lake Cuoqiong and about 20 other mountain lakes reached on horseback or on foot. It is a summer stop on the G248 south of Hongyuan town."},{"id":"zoige-flower-lake","name":"Flower Lake, Zoige","name_zh":"若尔盖花湖","pinyin":"Ruò'ěrgài Huā Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":33.9216,"lon":102.825,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zoige-flower-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shallow lake in the Zoige marshes beside the G213, seen from wooden boardwalks that were rebuilt outside the reserve's buffer zone to protect the wetland. In summer it is ringed by flowering meadows and is a good place to watch waterbirds; the wider Zoige wetland is a breeding ground for black-necked cranes."},{"id":"jinchuan-guanyinqiao","name":"Guanyinqiao, Jinchuan","name_zh":"观音桥","pinyin":"Guānyīnqiáo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.8054,"lon":101.6474,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinchuan-guanyinqiao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanyinqiao, in north-western Jinchuan County, is a Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage centre built around its Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara) temple. The rated scenic area also takes in the river valley and high meadows around the town. It is a living religious site: dress modestly and walk clockwise around the shrines."},{"id":"wenchuan-jiangweicheng","name":"Jiangweicheng Site, Weizhou","name_zh":"姜维城遗址","pinyin":"Jiāngwéichéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.4766,"lon":103.5834,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wenchuan-jiangweicheng/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On a ridge above the Min River at Weizhou, Wenchuan's county town, are the remains of a walled hilltop fortress traditionally linked to the Three Kingdoms general Jiang Wei, though historians doubt he built it. More than 100 metres of wall survive, from Han rammed earth to Ming stonework, with an earthen mound said to be a generals' review platform, on a site settled since Neolithic times. The national listing also covers the Neolithic Yingpanshan site near Mao County town."},{"id":"jiuzhaigou-jiawuhai-panda-park","name":"Jiawuhai Lake and Panda Park","name_zh":"甲勿海·熊猫园","pinyin":"Jiǎwù Hǎi Xióngmāo Yuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":33.0247,"lon":104.2096,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuzhaigou-jiawuhai-panda-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain lake near Wujiao in Jiuzhaigou County, set among forest and snow peaks in an area of Baima Tibetan villages. A giant panda park beside the lake opened in November 2019 with pandas on loan from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, among them Xiao Liwu, who was born at San Diego Zoo in 2012."},{"id":"songgang-kepan-tianjie-zhibo","name":"Kepan Tianjie and Zhibo Watchtowers","name_zh":"柯盘天街·直波碉楼","pinyin":"Kēpán Tiānjiē Zhíbō Diāolóu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.9188,"lon":102.1008,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songgang-kepan-tianjie-zhibo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Kepan Tianjie ('sky street') is a ridge-top Jiarong Tibetan village above the Suomo River at Songgang, with the ruins of the Songgang chieftains' residence, two stone towers and some three dozen traditional houses, now restored with guesthouses and shops. Close by stand the Zhibo watchtowers, two stone towers of the Qianlong period, octagonal outside and round inside, 29 and 24.7 metres high."},{"id":"aba-lianbao-yeze","name":"Lianbao Yeze (Stone Mountain)","name_zh":"莲宝叶则","pinyin":"Liánbǎo Yèzé","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":33.1296,"lon":101.2476,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aba-lianbao-yeze","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A granite massif on the border between Aba County and Qinghai, a southern spur of the Bayan Har range whose highest peak reaches 5,369 metres. Jagged grey peaks rise above more than a hundred lakes, and the range forms the divide between the Yellow River and Yangtze systems. Valleys such as Longke, Zhumu and Zhagar are explored from the visitor centre."},{"id":"xiaojin-lianghekou-meeting-site","name":"Lianghekou Meeting Site","name_zh":"两河口会议会址","pinyin":"Liǎnghékǒu Huìyì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.4867,"lon":102.4904,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaojin-lianghekou-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At Lianghekou in Xiaojin County the Communist Party Politburo met on 26 June 1935, after the Red Army's First and Fourth Front Armies had joined forces at Dawei earlier that month. The meeting adopted the strategy of moving north to set up a base in the Sichuan–Shaanxi–Gansu region. The meeting site is protected as part of a national heritage listing of Long March sites in Aba."},{"id":"songpan-long-march-memorial","name":"Long March Memorial Monument, Songpan","name_zh":"红军长征纪念总碑","pinyin":"Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Jìniàn Zǒngbēi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.7744,"lon":103.6261,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songpan-long-march-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park on Yuanbao Hill above Chuanzhusi, completed in 1990 to commemorate the Red Army's Long March across the Songpan grasslands in 1935. The main monument, topped by a bronze statue of a Red Army soldier, is 41.3 metres high, and the park also has a granite sculpture group and a Long March museum."},{"id":"hongyuan-moon-bay","name":"Moon Bay, Hongyuan","name_zh":"月亮湾","pinyin":"Yuèliang Wān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.7878,"lon":102.5043,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongyuan-moon-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A crescent-shaped meander of a grassland river just outside Hongyuan town, part of the upper Yellow River wetlands. In summer the green pasture and the looping, shining river make a classic view of the Aba grasslands, best seen from the slopes above."},{"id":"hongyuan-riganqiao-marsh","name":"Riganqiao Marsh","name_zh":"日干乔","pinyin":"Rìgānqiáo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":33.1329,"lon":102.6202,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongyuan-riganqiao-marsh","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large highland marsh near Waqie on the Hongyuan grasslands, part of the wider Zoige wetlands, where streams and pools spread across the peatland of the upper Yellow River basin. It is greenest in summer, and the stupas and prayer flags of Waqie are close by."},{"id":"zamtang-risimanba-tower-house","name":"Risimanba Tower House","name_zh":"日斯满巴碉房","pinyin":"Rìsīmǎnbā Diāofáng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.7953,"lon":101.0848,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zamtang-risimanba-tower-house","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone tower house (diaofang) in Zongke township, southern Zamtang County, dated by its national heritage listing to the Yuan and Ming periods. Buildings of this kind combined a family home with a defensive tower."},{"id":"heishui-sanao-snow-mountain","name":"Sanao Snow Mountain","name_zh":"三奥雪山","pinyin":"Sān'ào Xuěshān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.9457,"lon":102.8505,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heishui-sanao-snow-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three snow peaks, Aotaiji, Aotaimei and Aotaina, rising above Luhua, the county town of Heishui. Their valleys, lakes and meadows attract trekkers, and the peaks have become popular with novice mountaineers; the nearby village of Deshiwo has trained more than 200 licensed mountain guides."},{"id":"aba-shenzuo-village","name":"Shenzuo Village","name_zh":"神座","pinyin":"Shénzuò","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":32.73,"lon":101.955,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aba-shenzuo-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tibetan village in Chali township in eastern Aba County, with high pastures behind it and old forest facing it across the river. Its stone houses, small prayer halls and the surrounding grassland and woods make it a quiet stop on the grassland routes."},{"id":"jinchuan-shiwai-liyuan-pear-orchards","name":"Shiwai Liyuan Pear Orchards, Jinchuan","name_zh":"世外梨园","pinyin":"Shìwài Líyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.5428,"lon":102.0719,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinchuan-shiwai-liyuan-pear-orchards","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 14.4 km² stretch of the Dajin River valley in Jinchuan County where Gyalrong Tibetan villages sit among snow-pear orchards; the county grows more than 40,000 mu (about 2,700 hectares) of the pears, and over a million trees line the valley. The orchards blossom white in March and April against snow peaks and turn red in autumn, and the scenic area spans Qingning, Ka'er and Sha'er townships. Come for the spring blossom or the autumn colour."},{"id":"wenchuan-yingxiu-earthquake-memorial","name":"Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Area, Yingxiu","name_zh":"汶川特别旅游区","pinyin":"Wènchuān Tèbié Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.0577,"lon":103.4869,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wenchuan-yingxiu-earthquake-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yingxiu, in Wenchuan County, lay at the epicentre of the magnitude-8.0 earthquake of 12 May 2008, and this 5A-rated zone brings together the places that commemorate it. The collapsed buildings of Xuankou Middle School have been left as they fell as a memorial, surrounded by the rebuilt town. The zone also takes in the rebuilt town of Shuimo nearby and the forested valleys of Sanjiang."},{"id":"xiaojin-wori-chieftain-residence","name":"Wori Chieftain's Residence","name_zh":"沃日土司官寨","pinyin":"Wòrì Tǔsī Guānzhài","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.026,"lon":102.5001,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiaojin-wori-chieftain-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built around 1750, after the family sided with the Qing court, this was the seat of the Wori chieftains, a Jiarong Tibetan line of 23 generations. The surviving south scripture hall, rebuilt in the mid-1940s, is a five-storey stone-and-timber tower with three tiers of eaves and a pyramidal roof, and beside it stands a square stone watchtower."},{"id":"wenchuan-da-yu-cultural-area","name":"Yu the Great Cultural Area, Wenchuan","name_zh":"汶川大禹文化旅游区","pinyin":"Wènchuān Dàyǔ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.3303,"lon":103.4798,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenchuan-da-yu-cultural-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mianchi, on the Min River south of Wenchuan county town, is traditionally held to be the birthplace of Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of China's floods. The cultural area links an altar to Yu with other places in the area tied to the legend, and local celebrations of Yu's birthday are traditionally held on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month."},{"id":"jinchuan-zengda-watchtower","name":"Zengda Watchtower","name_zh":"曾达关碉","pinyin":"Zēngdá Guāndiāo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.2047,"lon":102.006,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinchuan-zengda-watchtower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty stone watchtower at Zengda in southern Jinchuan County, guarding the Dajin River valley. Towers like this protected the passes of the Jiarong Tibetan chiefdoms, whose fortifications featured in the Qianlong Emperor's 18th-century Jinchuan campaigns."},{"id":"zhegu-mountain-nature-park","name":"Zhegu Mountain Nature Park","name_zh":"鹧鸪山自然公园","pinyin":"Zhègū Shān Zìrán Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.8318,"lon":102.6842,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhegu-mountain-nature-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nature park on Zhegu Mountain, the high pass on the G317 between Miyaluo and Barkam, with conifer forest, alpine meadows and wide mountain views. In winter part of the park runs as a ski area."},{"id":"zhuokeji-chieftain-residence","name":"Zhuokeji Chieftain's Residence","name_zh":"卓克基土司官寨","pinyin":"Zhuókèjī Tǔsī Guānzhài","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Aba","lat":31.8685,"lon":102.2918,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuokeji-chieftain-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The fortified residence of the Zhuokeji chieftains, rulers of one of the eighteen Jiarong Tibetan chiefdoms of western Sichuan until 1955, faces the old stone village of Xisuo across the Xisuo River. The present stone-and-timber building, of up to five storeys and rebuilt in 1938–1940 after a fire, blends Tibetan and Han Chinese styles and is open as a museum. Mao Zedong and other Red Army leaders stayed in the earlier building during the Long March in 1935, and exhibitions cover both Jiarong culture and that period."},{"id":"tongjiang-bairuxi-grottoes","name":"Bairuxi Grottoes","name_zh":"白乳溪石窟","pinyin":"Báirǔxī Shíkū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.7938,"lon":107.2348,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-bairuxi-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bairuxi is a group of Tang-dynasty Buddhist niches carved into the rock in southern Tongjiang county. It became a national heritage site in 2013 and is one of several Tang carving sites in the county."},{"id":"pingchang-baiyi-ancient-town","name":"Baiyi Ancient Town","name_zh":"白衣古镇","pinyin":"Báiyī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.4326,"lon":107.1308,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingchang-baiyi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baiyi is an old trading town on the Ba River in southern Pingchang county that grew along the Micang trade road between Sichuan and Shaanxi. Its historic quarter, a provincial heritage site, keeps temples, memorial arches, pavilions and old merchant mansions."},{"id":"bazhong-enyang-ancient-town","name":"Enyang Ancient Town","name_zh":"恩阳古镇","pinyin":"Ēnyáng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.7923,"lon":106.6338,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bazhong-enyang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Enyang is an old market and river town on the Enyang River, about 15 km south-west of central Bazhong. Its stone-paved lanes keep timber-fronted shops, courtyard houses and temples, and the riverside makes a pleasant stroll."},{"id":"nanjiang-guangwushan","name":"Guangwu Mountain","name_zh":"光雾山","pinyin":"Guāngwù Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":32.6807,"lon":106.7733,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjiang-guangwushan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangwushan covers more than 400 km² of the Micang range on the Sichuan–Shaanxi border, with limestone peaks, deep valleys, caves and large tracts of beech forest rising to 2,507 m. It is best known for its autumn colour, when the forests turn red and gold, and the Micangshan National Forest Park, around Daba, is part of the same area. With the Nuoshui River it forms the Guangwushan–Nuoshuihe UNESCO Global Geopark."},{"id":"bazhou-huahu-lake","name":"Huahu Lake, Bazhou","name_zh":"山水化湖","pinyin":"Shānshuǐ Huà Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.9183,"lon":106.9151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bazhou-huahu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake area around Huacheng Reservoir in Huacheng town, about 20 km north-east of central Bazhong, listed as a National Water Conservancy Scenic Area. The town around it is being developed as a lakeside eco-town with farm-based sightseeing and leisure. It is a quiet lakeside outing for those staying in Bazhong."},{"id":"pingchang-huangjia-mountain","name":"Huangjia Mountain, Pingchang","name_zh":"皇家山","pinyin":"Huángjiā Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.3681,"lon":107.0546,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingchang-huangjia-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-growing hill area of about 12.6 km² spanning Xixing and Tuya towns, where more than 400 hectares of tea bushes follow the slopes and low clouds often settle in the valleys. It is a home of the local folk dance Fanshan Jiaozi, listed as national intangible cultural heritage in 2008. It suits a rural outing in spring."},{"id":"bazhong-jiuzhaishan-park","name":"Jiuzhaishan Park, Bazhong","name_zh":"九寨山","pinyin":"Jiǔzhài Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.854,"lon":106.8665,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bazhong-jiuzhaishan-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped hill park on the eastern side of Bazhong, in the city's economic development zone near Bazhong East railway station. It is used mainly by local residents for walks and family outings rather than as a destination for visitors from afar."},{"id":"tongjiang-kongshan-basin","name":"Kongshan Basin","name_zh":"空山天盆","pinyin":"Kōngshān Tiānpén","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":32.4905,"lon":107.3571,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-kongshan-basin","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Kongshan is a high upland basin of meadows, farmland and forest ringed by mountains in northern Tongjiang county; 'Tianpen' means 'sky basin'. A memorial park recalls the Battle of Kongshanba, fought here by the Red Fourth Front Army in the 1930s, and the battlefield is a provincial heritage site."},{"id":"bazhong-nankan-grottoes","name":"Nankan Grottoes","name_zh":"南龛石窟","pinyin":"Nánkān Shíkū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.8469,"lon":106.7563,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/bazhong-nankan-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On Nankan Mountain, on the southern edge of central Bazhong, more than 170 niches holding about 2,700 painted Buddhist figures were cut into the cliffs, most of them in the Tang dynasty. It is the largest and best preserved of the Bazhong Grottoes, a protected group that also includes the smaller North Niches, West Niches and Shuining Temple carvings around the city."},{"id":"pingchang-nantianmen","name":"Nantianmen, Pingchang","name_zh":"南天门","pinyin":"Nántiānmén","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.7569,"lon":107.1457,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingchang-nantianmen","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested hill area of about 18.5 km² in Wumu town, once a stage on the Micang ancient road and a military strongpoint of the Sichuan–Shaanxi revolutionary base area. It has been developed for outdoor sport, with a forest sports park, a mountain-bike trail, a self-drive campsite and the Shuanghe eco-garden. It suits hikers, cyclists and campers more than sightseers."},{"id":"tongjiang-nuoshui-river","name":"Nuoshui River Scenic Area","name_zh":"诺水河","pinyin":"Nuòshuǐ Hé","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":32.3794,"lon":107.184,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-nuoshui-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Nuoshui (Xiaotong) River cuts through the limestone of the Micang range in northern Tongjiang county, and its scenic area is known for karst caves, gorges and forested valleys. Together with Guangwushan it makes up the Guangwushan–Nuoshuihe UNESCO Global Geopark."},{"id":"tongjiang-qianfoyan-grottoes","name":"Qianfoyan Grottoes, Tongjiang","name_zh":"通江千佛岩","pinyin":"Tōngjiāng Qiānfó Yán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.9264,"lon":107.2184,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-qianfoyan-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This cliff in Qianfo village, just west of Tongjiang town, holds 54 niches with more than 3,000 Buddhist figures, carved mainly in the Tang dynasty. It is a compact, easily reached example of the Buddhist rock carving found across the Bazhong area."},{"id":"tongjiang-red-fourth-front-army-hq","name":"Red Fourth Front Army Headquarters Site","name_zh":"红四方面军总指挥部旧址","pinyin":"Hóng Sì Fāngmiànjūn Zǒngzhǐhuībù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.9161,"lon":107.2405,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-red-fourth-front-army-hq","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From the winter of 1932 to the spring of 1935 the Red Fourth Front Army used Tongjiang's Confucian temple as its headquarters while it held the Sichuan–Shaanxi revolutionary base. The temple, first built in 1062 and rebuilt in the Ming, keeps a Qing main hall and side halls on terraces above a square with sculptures, and houses a memorial museum on the period."},{"id":"bazhou-shimen-temple-carvings","name":"Shimen Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"石门寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Shímén Sì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.8881,"lon":106.8403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bazhou-shimen-temple-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Tang-dynasty Buddhist niches cut into the rock at the Shimen Temple site in Bazhou District, east of central Bazhong, and listed as a national heritage site in 2019. Art historians count it among the better-preserved of the many Tang carving sites around Bazhong and date the start of work here to around 740, the same years in which niche-cutting at the city's Nankan Grottoes increased sharply."},{"id":"pingchang-sima-water-town","name":"Sima Water Town, Pingchang","name_zh":"驷马水乡","pinyin":"Sìmǎ Shuǐxiāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":31.7367,"lon":107.0215,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingchang-sima-water-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure area around Sima town, on the border of Pingchang County and Bazhou District, built around an artificial lake and wetlands. It includes the Sima National Wetland Park, a filial-piety culture garden, a water park and a modern agricultural demonstration park. It suits families and weekend visitors from Bazhong rather than travellers looking for historic sights."},{"id":"tongjiang-wangping-red-army-cemetery","name":"Wangping Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery","name_zh":"王坪红军烈士陵园","pinyin":"Wángpíng Hóngjūn Lièshì Língyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Bazhong","lat":32.1017,"lon":107.4145,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongjiang-wangping-red-army-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This hillside cemetery at Wangping in Tongjiang county was begun by the Red Fourth Front Army in 1934 and, after scattered graves from across the county were moved here in 2012, holds about 25,000 Red Army dead. The scenic area also includes Red Cloud Cliff, where the slogan 'Chihua Quanchuan' ('Turn all Sichuan Red') is carved in giant characters, one of the best known of the Red Army stone inscriptions that survive around Bazhong."},{"id":"anren-ancient-town","name":"Anren Ancient Town","name_zh":"安仁古镇","pinyin":"Ānrén Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5115,"lon":103.6172,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anren-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Anren is a market town on the western edge of the Chengdu Plain, listed among China's historic towns in 2005, with well-preserved streets of traditional western Sichuan architecture. Its main sights are the Liu Family Manor, a sprawling landlord estate built by the Liu Wencai family from the late Qing onwards and now a national heritage site, and the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, a large private group of museums on 20th-century Chinese history. Between them they easily fill a full day."},{"id":"xinjin-baihetan-wetland-park","name":"Baihetan National Wetland Park, Xinjin","name_zh":"白鹤滩国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Báihètān Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.3965,"lon":103.8551,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjin-baihetan-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park on the Min River at Xinjin, where river deposits have built up sandbars, gravel shoals and grassy meadows. It was approved as a national wetland park in 2013, and more than 180 bird species had been recorded there by 2022. Riverside paths make it a quiet spot for walking and birdwatching on the southern edge of Chengdu."},{"id":"bailu-annunciation-seminary","name":"Bailu Music Town & Annunciation Seminary","name_zh":"白鹿音乐小镇与领报修院","pinyin":"Báilù Yīnyuè Xiǎozhèn yǔ Lǐngbào Xiūyuàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":31.2306,"lon":103.9139,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bailu-annunciation-seminary","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bailu is a small mountain town in Pengzhou, marketed as a 'music town'. Its main historic sight is the Annunciation Seminary, regarded as one of the largest French-style church complexes in Sichuan, run by French missionaries from 1908 to 1949. Badly damaged in the 2008 earthquake, the seminary was restored in 2016 and is a national heritage site."},{"id":"xinjin-baodun-site","name":"Baodun Site","name_zh":"宝墩遗址","pinyin":"Bǎodūn Yízhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.4502,"lon":103.7508,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjin-baodun-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Earthen ramparts of a walled town of the Baodun culture, some 4,500 years old, the largest of six prehistoric walled towns on the Chengdu Plain protected under one listing. The culture is the earliest known on the plain and is linked to the first phase of Sanxingdui. An exhibition hall opposite the walls, opened in 2022, displays finds and explains how the town was built, and the site became a national archaeological park in 2025."},{"id":"baoguang-temple-gui-lake","name":"Baoguang Temple & Gui Lake","name_zh":"宝光寺与桂湖","pinyin":"Bǎoguāng Sì yǔ Guì Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.8337,"lon":104.1581,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoguang-temple-gui-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two neighbouring sights in Xindu, north of Chengdu. Baoguang Temple, a working Buddhist monastery founded in the Tang dynasty, has a 13-tiered Tang pagoda with a visible lean and a Hall of Arhats with more than 500 sculpted figures. About a kilometre to the south, Gui Lake is a classical western Sichuan garden beside the old town wall, associated with the Ming scholar Yang Shen and known for osmanthus in autumn and lotus in summer."},{"id":"baoshan-pengzhou","name":"Baoshan Scenic Area, Pengzhou","name_zh":"彭州宝山","pinyin":"Péngzhōu Bǎoshān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":31.2332,"lon":103.7799,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoshan-pengzhou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourist area around Baoshan village in the Longmen Mountains of Pengzhou, combining two forested valleys, Taiyangwan and Huilonggou, with a hot-spring resort and village tourism. Taiyangwan lies within a nature reserve and geopark and has walking routes rising from low to high mountain zones. Baoshan itself has a national reputation as a model mountain village."},{"id":"chengdu-intangible-heritage-park","name":"Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Park","name_zh":"成都国际非遗博览园","pinyin":"Chéngdū Guójì Fēiyí Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.67,"lon":103.927,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengdu-intangible-heritage-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large event park of about 1,780 mu (119 hectares) in western Chengdu, built as the permanent home of the Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, whose ninth edition opened here in May 2025. Between festivals it hosts music festivals, markets, sports events, film shoots and a few exhibition and immersive-experience venues, so what is on varies widely. It is worth a visit mainly when the festival or another event is running."},{"id":"chengdu-haichang-polar-ocean-world","name":"Chengdu Polar Ocean Park","name_zh":"成都极地海洋公园","pinyin":"Chéngdū Jídì Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.4969,"lon":104.071,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengdu-haichang-polar-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A marine park of about 7 hectares in Huayang, Tianfu New Area, on the southern side of Chengdu, opened in 2010 as Haichang Polar Ocean World and since renamed. It keeps polar bears, beluga whales, walruses and sea lions among other marine animals, and stages dolphin and sea-lion shows. It is a family attraction, and most visitors spend around four hours."},{"id":"pujiang-chengjia-tea-country","name":"Chengjia Tea Country, Pujiang","name_zh":"成佳茶乡","pinyin":"Chéngjiā Cháxiāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.1788,"lon":103.3765,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pujiang-chengjia-tea-country","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rolling tea country around Chengjia town in Pujiang county, south-west of Chengdu, with some 22,000 mu (about 1,500 hectares) of tea gardens, more than half of them organic. Visitors walk among the plantations, try picking and processing tea and stay in tea-garden guesthouses. It is at its best in spring, when the Chengdu tea-picking festival is held in Pujiang."},{"id":"dayi-xinchang-chuanwang-palace","name":"Chuanwang Palace, Xinchang","name_zh":"新场川王宫","pinyin":"Xīnchǎng Chuānwáng Gōng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5571,"lon":103.3667,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dayi-xinchang-chuanwang-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the 'King of Sichuan', Li Bing, the engineer of the Dujiangyan irrigation system, beside the Hutiao River at Xinchang in western Dayi. First founded in the Ming, its present wooden buildings date from 1926. They use the local chuandou timber-frame technique and are a valuable example of early twentieth-century temple building in western Sichuan."},{"id":"danjing-mountain","name":"Danjing Mountain","name_zh":"丹景山","pinyin":"Dānjǐng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":31.0907,"lon":103.8419,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danjing-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded mountain in Pengzhou known for tree peonies since at least the Song dynasty, when the poet Lu You wrote that Tianpeng (Pengzhou) peonies were the finest in Sichuan. A peony festival, held since 1985, fills its hillside gardens each spring, usually from late March. Paths also lead to a shrine to Lu You, Jinhua Temple and old cliff carvings."},{"id":"longquan-mountains-danjingtai","name":"Danjingtai, Longquan Mountain Urban Forest Park","name_zh":"丹景台","pinyin":"Dānjǐng Tái","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.3537,"lon":104.2528,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquan-mountains-danjingtai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop viewing park on the ridge of the Longquan Mountains, opened on New Year's Day 2020 as the first showcase project of the Longquan Mountain Urban Forest Park. From 702 metres above sea level it looks over the island-studded Sancha Lake and the new Eastern New Area, and on clear days to distant snow peaks; the main building has an exhibition on the forest park and an ecology display. It suits a half-day drive for the views."},{"id":"chongzhou-daoming-bamboo-village","name":"Daoming Bamboo Village","name_zh":"道明竹艺村","pinyin":"Dàomíng Zhúyì Cūn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6564,"lon":103.5832,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongzhou-daoming-bamboo-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural hamlet in Daoming, Chongzhou, known for Daoming bamboo weaving, a local craft added to China's national intangible cultural heritage list in 2014. Its landmark is Zhuli, a contemporary building whose roofline forms an infinity sign when seen from above and whose name comes from a poem by Lu You. Workshops and shops around the village show woven bamboo work being made and sold."},{"id":"chengdu-dongjiao-memory","name":"Dongjiao Memory","name_zh":"东郊记忆","pinyin":"Dōngjiāo Jìyì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6711,"lon":104.1206,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengdu-dongjiao-memory/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural and creative district in Chenghua, east Chengdu, converted from the Hongguang Electron Tube Factory, a state electronics plant founded in 1958. Its old workshops, chimneys and pipework now house live-music venues, galleries, studios, cafés and shops; it opened in 2011 as the Eastern Suburb Music Park and took its present name in 2012. It suits an afternoon or evening for anyone interested in industrial heritage or Chengdu's music scene."},{"id":"chengdu-sichuan-university-early-buildings","name":"Early Buildings of Sichuan University (Huaxiba)","name_zh":"四川大学早期建筑","pinyin":"Sìchuān Dàxué Zǎoqī Jiànzhù","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6348,"lon":104.0761,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengdu-sichuan-university-early-buildings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Campus buildings from 1913 to 1954, mainly the old West China Union University campus at Huaxiba plus the administration building on the main Wangjiang campus. The Huaxiba group, including the clock tower and the old library, combines Western brick construction with Chinese-style tiled roofs, a blend chosen by the missionary societies that founded the university."},{"id":"pujiang-feixiange-cliff-carvings","name":"Feixiange Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"飞仙阁摩崖造像","pinyin":"Fēixiān Gé Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.1637,"lon":103.4375,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pujiang-feixiange-cliff-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the two protected groups of the Pujiang Grottoes, near Chaoyang Lake, with Buddhist and Taoist niches carved from the Tang to the Qing, the earliest dated 689. Surveys count 64 Tang niches with 491 figures, plus Five Dynasties and Qing work. The largest figure is a 6-metre seated Tang Maitreya, and one Wu Zhou-period niche shows the Three Sages of the Western Paradise."},{"id":"qingbaijiang-fenghuang-lake","name":"Fenghuang Lake, Qingbaijiang","name_zh":"凤凰湖","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.8944,"lon":104.3003,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingbaijiang-fenghuang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park around a lake in Qingbaijiang district, north-east of Chengdu, rated a 4A scenic area in 2022. It is best known for its cherry blossom, with more than 16,000 trees of dozens of varieties that flower in March and April, when a cherry-blossom festival is held, and has footpaths and boardwalks around the water. Visit in spring for the blossom."},{"id":"guanxian-old-town","name":"Guanxian Old Town, Dujiangyan","name_zh":"灌县古城","pinyin":"Guànxiàn Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":31.0005,"lon":103.615,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guanxian-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of Dujiangyan, a city known as Guan County until 1988, lying beside the ancient irrigation scheme. Much of it was rebuilt after the 2008 earthquake, but its lanes include West Street, the starting point of the old road into the mountains towards Songpan, a restored stretch of the old city wall, the Confucian temple and the City God Temple, a nationally protected group of halls climbing the slope of Yulei Mountain. It is easily combined with a visit to the Dujiangyan Irrigation System."},{"id":"xinjin-guanyin-temple","name":"Guanyin Temple, Xinjin","name_zh":"观音寺","pinyin":"Guānyīn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.3601,"lon":103.7728,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjin-guanyin-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple in Yongshang, south of Xinjin, founded in 1181 and rebuilt many times; two Ming halls survive alongside a Qing gate and halls. The Vairocana Hall, built in 1462, holds seven finely drawn, richly coloured murals painted in 1468. The Guanyin Hall has sculpted groups of the bodhisattva and arhats."},{"id":"wenjiang-guose-tianxiang-park","name":"Guose Tianxiang Amusement Park","name_zh":"国色天乡乐园","pinyin":"Guósè Tiānxiāng Lèyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.7252,"lon":103.8266,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenjiang-guose-tianxiang-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large theme-park and resort development in Wanchun, Wenjiang, on Chengdu's western edge, built in a foreign-themed style beside a big housing estate. It has three parks: the Fairy-Tale World; a land park with roller coasters, drop towers and other rides; and a water park open in the warmer months. It is aimed at families with children."},{"id":"shuangliu-haibin-city","name":"Haibin City, Shuangliu","name_zh":"海滨城","pinyin":"Hǎibīn Chéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6066,"lon":103.9077,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangliu-haibin-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large indoor shopping and entertainment complex in the Jiaolonggang area of Shuangliu, south-west Chengdu, listed as a scenic area for its leisure attractions. Alongside shops and food halls it contains an aquarium with fish displays and mermaid shows, an ice rink and flight-simulator experiences. It is a rainy-day option for families rather than a sightseeing destination."},{"id":"chengdu-happy-valley","name":"Happy Valley Chengdu","name_zh":"成都欢乐谷","pinyin":"Chéngdū Huānlè Gǔ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.7235,"lon":104.0328,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengdu-happy-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park in Jinniu district, north-west Chengdu, opened in January 2009 as the third park in the Happy Valley chain. Its rides include several roller coasters, among them a Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster added in 2017. It suits families and ride enthusiasts looking for a day off from sightseeing."},{"id":"hongkou-dujiangyan","name":"Hongkou Scenic Area","name_zh":"虹口","pinyin":"Hóngkǒu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":31.1144,"lon":103.6537,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongkou-dujiangyan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley along the Baisha River in the mountains north of Dujiangyan, bordering the Longxi–Hongkou National Nature Reserve, a habitat of giant pandas and golden monkeys. In summer it is popular for white-water rafting and for cooling off beside the river, and side gorges such as Shenxigou lead further into the hills."},{"id":"huanglongxi-ancient-town","name":"Huanglongxi","name_zh":"黄龙溪古镇","pinyin":"Huánglóngxī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.3176,"lon":103.969,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huanglongxi-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A historic river town where the Luxi River joins the Jin River south of Chengdu, a stop on the river trade since the Han dynasty and one of China's listed historic towns. Cobbled lanes of mostly Qing-era timber houses lead to old wharves and temples such as Zhenjiang Temple and Gulong Temple, and the town is often used as a set for period films. Many houses are now souvenir shops, and it is very busy at weekends and holidays."},{"id":"dayi-huashuiwan-hot-springs","name":"Huashuiwan Hot Spring Town","name_zh":"花水湾温泉","pinyin":"Huāshuǐwān Wēnquán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.562,"lon":103.255,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dayi-huashuiwan-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort town in the mountains of Dayi county, on the road up to Xiling Snow Mountain, with a river running through it between the hills. Its hotels and bathhouses use a spring marketed as 'ancient seawater', and since 2024 the town and Xiling Snow Mountain have together formed a national-level tourist resort. It suits a soak and an overnight stop before or after the mountain."},{"id":"xinjin-huawu-renjian","name":"Huawu Renjian Flower Park, Xinjin","name_zh":"花舞人间","pinyin":"Huāwǔ Rénjiān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.3883,"lon":103.8029,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinjin-huawu-renjian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park of more than 3,000 mu (about 200 hectares) in Xinjin district, on the southern fringe of Chengdu. It runs a sequence of flower festivals through the year, among them tulips, rhododendrons, lupins, sunflowers and lilies, with water-based amusements alongside. It is best in spring for a half-day stroll."},{"id":"chengdu-pinganqiao-cathedral","name":"Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Chengdu","name_zh":"平安桥天主教堂","pinyin":"Píng'ānqiáo Tiānzhǔ Jiàotáng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6664,"lon":104.0594,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengdu-pinganqiao-cathedral","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Chengdu, completed in 1904 on what was then Ping'anqiao Street in the city centre. The complex includes a large and a small chapel and the bishop's residence. It remains an active place of worship."},{"id":"jiezi-ancient-town","name":"Jiezi Ancient Town","name_zh":"街子古镇","pinyin":"Jiēzi Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.8172,"lon":103.5566,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiezi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town on the Weijiang River at the foot of Fengqi Mountain, on the back side of Mount Qingcheng. Lanes of timber houses run beside clear streams, and a Qing-dynasty paper-burning pagoda stands at the head of the old street. Guangyan Temple lies in the forest on the mountain above."},{"id":"xindu-jinmen-silk-quarter","name":"Jinmen Silk Quarter, Xindu","name_zh":"锦门","pinyin":"Jǐnmén","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.7822,"lon":104.1279,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xindu-jinmen-silk-quarter","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A recently developed cultural and commercial quarter in Sanhe, Xindu district, north of Chengdu, themed on Shu brocade and promoted as the starting point of the Southern Silk Road. It houses the Sichuan Silk Museum, which traces silk-making from sericulture to drawloom weaving, and has brought in more than 100 intangible-heritage crafts such as Shu brocade, Shu embroidery and lacquerware, alongside shops and restaurants. It suits visitors interested in textiles and traditional crafts."},{"id":"jinsha-site-museum","name":"Jinsha Site Museum","name_zh":"金沙遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Jīnshā Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6856,"lon":104.012,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinsha-site-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The museum stands on the Jinsha site in western Chengdu, a centre of the ancient Shu culture discovered in 2001 and dated to roughly 1250–650 BC. A large hall covers part of the excavations, and the exhibition halls show gold, jade, bronze and stone finds, among them the Golden Sun Bird gold foil, now the emblem of China's cultural heritage, and kneeling stone figures. It continues the story told at Sanxingdui, whose culture Jinsha succeeded."},{"id":"dujiangyan-kuiguang-pagoda","name":"Kuiguang Pagoda","name_zh":"奎光塔","pinyin":"Kuíguāng Tǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.9895,"lon":103.6167,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dujiangyan-kuiguang-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hexagonal brick pagoda in Dujiangyan city, rebuilt in 1831 on a Ming predecessor by a county magistrate to promote local scholarship. At 52.67 metres with 17 tiers of eaves, it is described as the old pagoda with the most storeys surviving in China. Spiral stone stairs run through the lower five storeys, and a small shrine to the magistrate stands beside it."},{"id":"dujiangyan-lingyan-temple","name":"Lingyan Temple and Thousand Buddha Pagoda","name_zh":"灵岩寺","pinyin":"Língyán Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":31.0284,"lon":103.6133,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dujiangyan-lingyan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple on the southern slope of Lingyan Mountain just north of Dujiangyan city, rebuilt in the Ming and Qing; only its Qing main hall and bell tower survive. Beside it stands the Thousand Buddha Pagoda, a 3-metre solid stone stupa from the Tang Kaiyuan era (713–741) whose thirteen tiers are covered with seated Buddhas. It pairs well with a visit to the Dujiangyan irrigation works."},{"id":"tianfu-luxelake-water-city","name":"Luxelake Water City","name_zh":"麓湖水城","pinyin":"Lùhú Shuǐchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.4583,"lon":104.0643,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianfu-luxelake-water-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A planned lakeside district in Tianfu New Area, south of central Chengdu, built from 2010 around an artificial lake of about 2,100 mu (140 hectares) fed with water from the Dujiangyan irrigation system. Its 1.92 km² visitor area mixes waterfront paths, islands and parks with housing, cafés and shops. It suits an afternoon walk and an interest in new urban development."},{"id":"chengdu-ming-shu-princes-tombs","name":"Ming Tombs of the Princes of Shu","name_zh":"明蜀王陵","pinyin":"Míng Shǔwáng Líng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6464,"lon":104.1867,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengdu-ming-shu-princes-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of more than ten tombs of Ming-dynasty Princes of Shu and their consorts, spread over the low hills of Shiling in eastern Chengdu. The tomb of Prince Xi lies at the centre of the group, and a museum there lets visitors walk into the stone burial chambers. The group was listed as a national heritage site in 1996."},{"id":"pidu-nongke-village","name":"Nongke Village, Pidu","name_zh":"农科村","pinyin":"Nóngkē Cūn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.8192,"lon":103.7967,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pidu-nongke-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower- and bonsai-growing village in Youai town, Pidu, north-west of Chengdu, promoted as the birthplace of nongjiale, the farmhouse restaurants and guesthouses now found across rural China. Visitors walk among some 300 mu (20 hectares) of nursery gardens and potted landscapes and eat in farmhouse courtyards. The village also presents itself as the home area of the Han-dynasty scholar Yang Xiong."},{"id":"longquanyi-northern-zhou-stele","name":"Northern Zhou Stele of King Wen","name_zh":"北周文王碑","pinyin":"Běi Zhōu Wénwáng Bēi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5341,"lon":104.3243,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longquanyi-northern-zhou-stele/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stele carved in 557 on a great boulder in the Longquan Mountains, recording the deeds of Yuwen Tai, honoured as King Wen of Northern Zhou, and dedicating a Buddhist and a Taoist image. Sheltered by a roofed gallery, its 40 lines and more than 1,400 characters remain clear. Carved niches from the Northern Zhou to the Qing share the same rock, behind Dafo Temple beside the old Chengdu–Chongqing post road."},{"id":"longquanyi-taohua-guli","name":"Peach Blossom Homeland, Longquanyi","name_zh":"桃花故里","pinyin":"Táohuā Gùlǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5438,"lon":104.3145,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquanyi-taohua-guli","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside orchard area at Shanquan in the Longquan Mountains, on Chengdu's eastern edge, centred on the peach groves for which Longquanyi is known. It has more than 30 viewpoints linked by themed footpaths, including a long stepped trail, and a small museum of peach culture. Come in March for the blossom, when the district's peach-blossom festival (held since 1987) takes place, or in summer for the fruit."},{"id":"pingle-ancient-town","name":"Pingle Ancient Town","name_zh":"平乐古镇","pinyin":"Pínglè Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.348,"lon":103.3372,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingle-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A market town on the Baimo River at the foot of the Qionglai Mountains, a settlement since the Western Han and traditionally counted as a stop on the Southern Silk Road. Old banyan trees line the riverbanks, two-storey timber shophouses face stone-paved lanes, and the Leshan Bridge, a multi-arched Qing-dynasty stone bridge, crosses the river. It is one of China's listed historic towns."},{"id":"pidu-qinggangshu-village","name":"Qinggangshu Village, Pidu","name_zh":"青杠树村","pinyin":"Qīnggāngshù Cūn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.84,"lon":103.9629,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pidu-qinggangshu-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A model village in Sandaoyan town, Pidu, on the north-western edge of Chengdu, where streams and irrigation channels run among western-Sichuan farmhouses and tree-shaded linpan homesteads. It is popular for spring rapeseed blossom, cycling and farmhouse meals, and has hosted outdoor music festivals. It combines easily with Sandaoyan's rebuilt riverside quarter a few kilometres away."},{"id":"qionglai-qiong-kiln-site","name":"Qiong Kiln Site, Shifangtang","name_zh":"邛窑遗址","pinyin":"Qióngyáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.4005,"lon":103.4445,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qionglai-qiong-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of a large folk pottery works at Shifangtang that fired ceramics from the Sui to the Song dynasties, the biggest known site of the Qiong ware tradition. More than a dozen kiln mounds survive, among them long sloping 'dragon' kilns, and excavations recovered more than 10,000 objects. Now a national archaeological park, it shows excavated kiln remains under cover, with an exhibition hall and a pottery-making area."},{"id":"qionglai-cliff-carvings","name":"Qionglai Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"邛崃石窟","pinyin":"Qiónglái Shíkū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.4412,"lon":103.4126,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qionglai-cliff-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three groups of Tang-to-Song Buddhist cliff carvings around Qionglai are protected together: Pantuo Temple, Shisun Mountain and Huazhi Temple. At Pantuo Temple, on the outskirts of the city, carving began in 820 and four niches hold 1,099 figures, including the Three Sages of the West, a thousand-Buddha niche and a Pure Land scene. The Shisun Mountain group lies further north-west in the hills."},{"id":"jintang-huaikou-ruiguang-pagoda","name":"Ruiguang Pagoda, Huaikou","name_zh":"淮口瑞光塔","pinyin":"Huáikǒu Ruìguāng Tǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.7125,"lon":104.5563,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jintang-huaikou-ruiguang-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 33-metre square brick pagoda of 13 storeys in the grounds of Ruiguang Temple, on the east bank of the Tuo River at Huaikou; its recorded founding date is 1148, in the Southern Song. Backed by Snake Hill and facing the river, it has an inner stairway of 133 steps reaching the tenth storey and an iron finial. Locals call it the White Pagoda."},{"id":"pidu-sandaoyan-water-town","name":"Sandaoyan Water Town, Pidu","name_zh":"三道堰","pinyin":"Sāndàoyàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.8695,"lon":103.9133,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pidu-sandaoyan-water-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside town in northern Pidu, named after a legend that an early Shu ruler built three weirs of bamboo baskets here to divert water for the fields, and once a busy river port and trading post. Its waterfront has been rebuilt as Huili Street, a lane of restaurants, snack stalls, teahouses and shops recreating the look of the late Qing and early Republic, beside canals and small bridges. Small museums in the town cover birdcages, Sichuan cuisine, jade and Han pottery."},{"id":"jinjiang-sansheng-flower-villages","name":"Sansheng Flower Villages","name_zh":"三圣花乡","pinyin":"Sānshèng Huāxiāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5782,"lon":104.1422,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinjiang-sansheng-flower-villages","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A belt of flower-growing villages in Sansheng subdistrict on Chengdu's south-eastern edge, developed as five themed areas known as the 'Five Golden Flowers': Flower Village Farmhouses, Happy Plum Grove, Jiang Family Vegetable Plots, East Hedge Chrysanthemum Garden and Lotus Pond Moonlight. Among the gardens stands the Xu Liaoyuan Museum of Modern Design Art, which holds art and design exhibitions. It is an easy half-day escape from the city centre."},{"id":"jianyang-shengde-temple-pagoda","name":"Shengde Temple White Pagoda","name_zh":"圣德寺白塔","pinyin":"Shèngdé Sì Báitǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.3843,"lon":104.5514,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianyang-shengde-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A multi-storey Song-dynasty pagoda in the south of Jianyang, known locally as the White Pagoda and listed as a national heritage site in 2006. It is a short stop for travellers passing through Jianyang, east of Chengdu."},{"id":"pujiang-shixiang-lake","name":"Shixiang Lake, Pujiang","name_zh":"石象湖","pinyin":"Shíxiàng Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.1968,"lon":103.4194,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pujiang-shixiang-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake park in Pujiang county, south-west of Chengdu, combining about 800 mu (53 hectares) of water with a large area of secondary forest, planted lawns and extensive flower fields. It is best known for its tulip festival in spring and lily displays in autumn, with more than 20 viewpoints around the grounds. It makes a day trip for flower lovers in March–May or September–November."},{"id":"chengdu-shuijingfang-distillery-site","name":"Shuijingfang Distillery Site","name_zh":"水井街酒坊遗址","pinyin":"Shuǐjǐng Jiē Jiǔfāng Yízhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6474,"lon":104.0835,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengdu-shuijingfang-distillery-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of a baijiu distillery worked from the Ming and Qing dynasties, found in 1998 when a Chengdu liquor plant was rebuilding, with drying floors from three periods, eight fermentation pits and stoves. It was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 1999 and is on the country's World Heritage tentative list with other old baijiu workshops. The site is shown in the Shuijingfang Museum, which is still a working distilling workshop."},{"id":"qionglai-stone-pagoda-temple","name":"Stone Pagoda Temple","name_zh":"石塔寺","pinyin":"Shítǎ Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.3115,"lon":103.1221,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qionglai-stone-pagoda-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple in Gaohe, western Qionglai, centred on a 17.8-metre square pagoda of red sandstone carved between 1169 and 1172, with a double plinth, a colonnade and twelve tiers of close-set eaves. The main hall is a Ming rebuilding. In 1935 the temple housed a local Red Army soviet government, and a Long March memorial hall now stands on the site."},{"id":"wuhou-tianfu-furong-garden","name":"Tianfu Hibiscus Garden","name_zh":"天府芙蓉园","pinyin":"Tiānfǔ Fúróng Yuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5947,"lon":103.9825,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhou-tianfu-furong-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A themed park in the Jiang'an River green belt of Wuhou district, south-west Chengdu, opened in 2018 and developed with Joy City Holdings around the hibiscus, Chengdu's city flower. It mixes flower meadows, a eucalyptus grove and seasonal flower islands with a bookshop, restaurants and art spaces, and runs festivals, lantern shows and camping events. It suits a relaxed half-day rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"chongzhou-tianfu-slow-city","name":"Tianfu International Slow City, Chongzhou","name_zh":"天府国际慢城","pinyin":"Tiānfǔ Guójì Mànchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6113,"lon":103.6286,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongzhou-tianfu-slow-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural leisure area around Baitou town, west of Chongzhou on the Chengdu Plain, made up of the Qimu River wetland park, the Wuxing village folk-culture area and open rice and rapeseed fields. Visitors cycle or walk along the river past white-walled western-Sichuan houses, linpan homesteads and farm restaurants, and the rapeseed fields flower yellow from late February into March. It suits a slow day of cycling in spring."},{"id":"tiantai-mountain-qionglai","name":"Tiantai Mountain (Qionglai)","name_zh":"天台山","pinyin":"Tiāntái Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.306,"lon":103.1708,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tiantai-mountain-qionglai/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area in western Qionglai, protected as a national scenic area and forest park and included in the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries World Heritage Site. Trails follow the Jinlong River past shoals, cascades and waterfalls towards Yuxiao Peak, the main summit at 1,812 m. On warm evenings between late spring and autumn the valleys are known for large displays of fireflies."},{"id":"wuhou-tianyi-nongyuan-art-park","name":"Tianyi Nongyuan Art Park","name_zh":"天艺浓园","pinyin":"Tiānyì Nóngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5881,"lon":103.9872,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuhou-tianyi-nongyuan-art-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An art park in Wuhou district, south-west Chengdu, founded in 2005 and now grouped into three sections that combine artists' studios, galleries and teaching spaces. Old-style courtyards and modern outdoor sculpture surround galleries such as the Yue Art Museum, and the park hosts exhibitions and craft markets. It suits visitors interested in contemporary Chinese art."},{"id":"chengdu-yongling-wang-jian-tomb","name":"Tomb of Wang Jian","name_zh":"王建墓（永陵）","pinyin":"Wáng Jiàn Mù","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6767,"lon":104.0444,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengdu-yongling-wang-jian-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The burial mound of Wang Jian (847–918), founding emperor of the Former Shu kingdom, excavated in the 1940s and now the Yongling Museum. Unusually, its three chambers lie at ground level inside the mound rather than underground. The middle chamber holds the coffin platform carved with a band of female musicians, and the rear chamber a seated stone figure taken to be the emperor."},{"id":"wangcong-temple","name":"Wangcong Temple","name_zh":"望丛祠","pinyin":"Wàngcóng Cí","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.8124,"lon":103.8728,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wangcong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial temple in Pidu to Wangdi (Du Yu) and Congdi (Bieling), two legendary kings of ancient Shu, traditionally credited with teaching farming and taming floods. Their burial mounds stand within the grounds, and it is described as the only shrine in south-west China honouring two kings together at their tombs. The surviving halls date mainly from the Qing dynasty, and the site is protected at provincial level."},{"id":"chengdu-wangjianglou-park","name":"Wangjianglou Park","name_zh":"望江楼","pinyin":"Wàngjiāng Lóu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6328,"lon":104.0911,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chengdu-wangjianglou-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park on the Jin River honouring the Tang poet Xue Tao, who is said to have drawn water from a well here to make her coloured letter paper. Buildings added in the Ming and Qing include the tall Chongli Pavilion, a Chengdu landmark, along with smaller halls and the Xue Tao Well. The park grows more than 100 kinds of bamboo, a plant she loved."},{"id":"longquanyi-weiran-flower-sea","name":"Weiran Flower Sea, Longquanyi","name_zh":"蔚然花海","pinyin":"Wèirán Huāhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6374,"lon":104.3016,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longquanyi-weiran-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large commercial flower park in Tong'an, Longquanyi, on the eastern edge of Chengdu, planted mainly with seasonal flowers such as tulips, poppies, zinnias and coneflowers, including some grown from space-bred seed. Beyond the flower beds it runs a sightseeing train, children's rides, camping and evening shows, and it has hosted the Cactus music festival. It is a family day out, best in spring."},{"id":"wufengxi-ancient-town","name":"Wufengxi Ancient Town","name_zh":"五凤溪古镇","pinyin":"Wǔfèngxī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6095,"lon":104.4799,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wufengxi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside town on the Tuo River in the Longquan Mountains of Jintang County, which prospered as a busy river port in the Qing dynasty. Its old lanes of timber houses lead to halls built by migrant merchant communities, notably the Guansheng Palace and the Nanhua Palace, the Guangdong guild hall."},{"id":"xiling-snow-mountain","name":"Xiling Snow Mountain","name_zh":"西岭雪山","pinyin":"Xīlǐng Xuěshān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.7003,"lon":103.1868,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiling-snow-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Qionglai range in Dayi County, crowned by Daxuetang, at 5,364 m the highest peak in Chengdu municipality. Visitors come for forest and high-mountain views in summer and for the ski area in winter. The snow peak is often identified with the western ridge whose snows Du Fu described framed in his window in Chengdu."},{"id":"xinchang-ancient-town-dayi","name":"Xinchang Ancient Town","name_zh":"新场古镇","pinyin":"Xīnchǎng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.5332,"lon":103.4229,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinchang-ancient-town-dayi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long-established foothill market town in western Dayi County, laid out on a grid of old streets and lanes. A large number of Qing and Republican-era buildings in the western Sichuan vernacular style survive. It is quieter than nearby Anren and the two can be combined in a day."},{"id":"wenjiang-xingfu-tianyuan","name":"Xingfu Tianyuan Rural Park, Wenjiang","name_zh":"幸福田园","pinyin":"Xìngfú Tiányuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.7649,"lon":103.7898,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenjiang-xingfu-tianyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A showcase rural area of about 1,400 mu (93 hectares) at Xingfu village in Wanchun, Wenjiang, on the western edge of Chengdu, presenting farm life on the Chengdu Plain. A greenway through the fields links western-Sichuan courtyard houses, flower nurseries, a wetland park, a crape-myrtle garden and a small farming-culture museum. It suits an easy half-day out of the city and can be combined with the Guose Tianxiang amusement park, also in Wanchun."},{"id":"chongzhou-yanhua-pond","name":"Yanhua Pond","name_zh":"罨画池","pinyin":"Yǎnhuà Chí","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.6307,"lon":103.6721,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chongzhou-yanhua-pond/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A garden in the centre of Chongzhou that began as a Tang-dynasty official's garden and took its form in the Song, when the magistrate Zhao Bian dug the pond and the poet Lu You, who held office here, wrote about it. The buildings are mostly Qing rebuildings. The 3.5-hectare site combines the pond garden, a shrine to Lu You and the town's former Confucian temple."},{"id":"yuantong-ancient-town","name":"Yuantong Ancient Town","name_zh":"元通古镇","pinyin":"Yuántōng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.7356,"lon":103.6221,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuantong-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old river-port town on the Wenjing River in Chongzhou, once one of the busier wharves of the western Chengdu Plain. Grey-tiled houses from the late Qing and early Republican years line the river, alongside the Huang family ancestral hall, a Guangdong guild hall and a late-Qing Catholic church."},{"id":"pidu-zhanqi-village","name":"Zhanqi Village, Pidu","name_zh":"战旗村","pinyin":"Zhànqí Cūn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":30.9415,"lon":103.7923,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pidu-zhanqi-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A model village in Tangchang, Pidu, noted for its collective land reforms and visited by Xi Jinping in February 2018; an exhibition hall presents the village's development and that visit. The Eighteen Village Workshops, opened in 2018, show crafts such as Tangchang cloth-shoe making, soy-sauce brewing and grain-liquor distilling, and there is also a farming-culture museum and an old-style street. It suits visitors curious about rural development in China and traditional crafts."},{"id":"pengzhou-song-pagodas","name":"Zhenguo Temple White Pagoda and Pengzhou Pagodas","name_zh":"彭州佛塔","pinyin":"Péngzhōu Fótǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Chengdu","lat":31.0728,"lon":103.8459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengzhou-song-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three Northern Song brick pagodas around Pengzhou are protected together: the Zhenguo Temple White Pagoda at Danjingshan, the Yunju Yuan pagoda and the Zhengjue Temple pagoda. The White Pagoda, built between 1054 and 1060, is a square 13-tier tower with close-set eaves, 28 metres high, with reliefs of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and peacocks under its eaves. All three were damaged in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and have since been repaired."},{"id":"xuanhan-bashan-grand-canyon","name":"Bashan Grand Canyon","name_zh":"巴山大峡谷","pinyin":"Bāshān Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.6667,"lon":108.2818,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanhan-bashan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Bashan Grand Canyon scenic area covers river gorges, cliffs and forested mountains in the Daba range of north-eastern Xuanhan county, around the Tujia ethnic township of Dukou. Viewpoints and routes along the gorges are the main draw, and Tujia villages set it apart culturally from the rest of Dazhou."},{"id":"wanyuan-batai-mountain","name":"Batai Mountain","name_zh":"八台山","pinyin":"Bātái Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.9222,"lon":108.2392,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanyuan-batai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Batai Mountain, south-east of Wanyuan city in the Daba range, is a national geopark of isolated peaks and sheer cliffs, known for sunrise views, seas of cloud and 'Buddha's light' halos. Glass walkways and a glass bridge, camping and winter snow sports are part of a visit, and the slopes turn red in autumn."},{"id":"qu-county-congren-valley","name":"Congren Valley","name_zh":"賨人谷","pinyin":"Cóngrén Gǔ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":30.8612,"lon":107.0779,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qu-county-congren-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Congren Valley is a 41 km² karst landscape of gorges, caves, springs, waterfalls and forest in the hills east of Qu County town, protected as a national forest park and provincial geopark. It is named after the Cong, a branch of the ancient Ba people, and a cave-dwelling site and small exhibition hall on their history sit alongside natural sights such as the Longqiu Waterfall."},{"id":"qu-county-han-que","name":"Han Que of Qu County","name_zh":"渠县汉阙","pinyin":"Qúxiàn Hàn Què","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.0241,"lon":107.0388,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qu-county-han-que","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qu County has six sites with seven stone que, the pillar-gates that stood before tombs of the Eastern Han to Western Jin, carved in stone to imitate timber buildings; they amount to about a quarter of all surviving Han que in China. Most stand in the fields around Tuxi town under glass shelters added in 2019, and the China Han Que Culture Museum, opened in 2015, explains them."},{"id":"kaijiang-jinshan","name":"Jinshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"金山","pinyin":"Jīn Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.1084,"lon":107.7822,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaijiang-jinshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jinshan is a wooded hill in Pu'an town, a few kilometres west of Kaijiang county town, centred on Jinshan Temple, a Buddhist monastery. It is a local destination for temple visits and walks in the surrounding woods."},{"id":"kaijiang-memorial-arches","name":"Kaijiang Memorial Arches","name_zh":"开江牌坊","pinyin":"Kāijiāng Páifāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":30.9037,"lon":107.7804,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaijiang-memorial-arches","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Qing-dynasty stone memorial arches in Kaijiang county honour widows for chastity and filial devotion: the Tao Arch at the entrance to Renshi town, raised for the wife and concubine of the official Zhang Jiufeng, and the Hu Family Arch near Gantang town. They were listed together as a national heritage site in 2006."},{"id":"dachuan-lenin-street-arches","name":"Lenin Street Stone Arches and Red Army Slogans","name_zh":"列宁街石牌坊","pinyin":"Lièníng Jiē Shípáifāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.2955,"lon":107.108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dachuan-lenin-street-arches/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Four Qing-dynasty memorial arches, built between 1817 and 1901 to honour virtuous widows, stand along the old street of Shiqiao town in Dachuan District; their tiers of eaves are carved with dragons and phoenixes, scenes such as the Eight Immortals and the Peach Garden Oath, and some 480 human figures. In 1933 the political department of the Red Army's 30th Army carved slogans onto the arches and nearby rock faces, and the street is now known as Lenin Street."},{"id":"qu-county-confucian-temple","name":"Qu County Confucian Temple","name_zh":"渠县文庙","pinyin":"Qúxiàn Wénmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":30.8407,"lon":106.9669,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qu-county-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qu County's Confucian temple is a Qing-dynasty complex of three courtyards on a hillside above the Qu River, built in stages between 1663 and 1821 and fronted by a carved stone Lingxing Gate of 1794. It now houses the Qu County History Museum and became a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"dazhou-shenjianyuan-zhang-aiping","name":"Shenjianyuan (Zhang Aiping Former Residence)","name_zh":"神剑园","pinyin":"Shénjiàn Yuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.3068,"lon":107.5292,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dazhou-shenjianyuan-zhang-aiping","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shenjianyuan, in Luojiang town north-east of Dazhou city, is built around the childhood home of Zhang Aiping (1910–2003), a Red Army veteran who later directed China's early nuclear tests and served as defence minister. Exhibition halls on Zhang, on other Dazhou-born commanders and on the Red Army in the region hold about 1,200 items."},{"id":"wanyuan-red-army-park","name":"Wanyuan Red Army Park","name_zh":"万源红军公园","pinyin":"Wànyuán Hóngjūn Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":32.0721,"lon":108.0424,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanyuan-red-army-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On Tuoshan hill above Wanyuan city, this memorial park commemorates the 1934 Defence of Wanyuan, when the Red Fourth Front Army held the area against Sichuan warlord forces. At its centre, the Defence of Wanyuan war-history exhibition hall presents the campaign."},{"id":"quxian-wenfeng-mountain","name":"Wenfeng Mountain, Qu County","name_zh":"文峰山","pinyin":"Wénfēng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":30.8297,"lon":106.9786,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quxian-wenfeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open hillside park in Qu County town themed on local history and Confucian scholarship. Its landmark is a modern octagonal nine-storey Wenfeng Pagoda, 68.7 m tall, on the site of a pagoda that fell and was rebuilt several times in the Qing dynasty, together with the 56.5 m Wenfeng Pavilion recalling a Song-era lookout and a garden of sculptures and relief walls on the county's imperial-exam graduates. It is a short visit if you are in Qu County for the Han-dynasty stone towers."},{"id":"dazhu-wufeng-mountain","name":"Wufeng Mountain","name_zh":"五峰山","pinyin":"Wǔfēng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":30.7762,"lon":107.343,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dazhu-wufeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wufeng Mountain in eastern Dazhu county is a national forest park; its ridges, between 600 and 1,080 m, are covered by a bamboo forest of many species that stretches for tens of kilometres. Paths lead through the bamboo past streams, small lakes, karst caves and pavilions."},{"id":"dachuan-wumei-mountain","name":"Wumei Mountain, Dachuan","name_zh":"乌梅山","pinyin":"Wūméi Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.0244,"lon":107.4493,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dachuan-wumei-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 17.75 km² rural area around Baijie, south of Dazhou, centred on orchards of mume trees grown for wumei, the smoked dried fruit, which blossom in January–February and ripen in May–June. Besides orchards and flower fields it takes in Baijie old street, founded in 1614, with a fig tree over 200 years old, the character 'Kui' carved into a cliff in 1835, the Wumei Lake reservoir and the walls of the hilltop Pingding fort. Most visitors come for the winter blossom and local plum products."},{"id":"xuanhan-yanglie-water-village","name":"Yanglie Water Village, Xuanhan","name_zh":"洋烈水乡","pinyin":"Yángliè Shuǐxiāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.3032,"lon":107.6344,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanhan-yanglie-water-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open rural leisure area of about 6.8 km² along the Zhou River near Xuanhan, developed since 2013. It strings together the Yanglie village centre with displays of Ba culture, a riverside promenade, the Yuzixi wetland park, a cycle path, flower fields used as a wedding-photo base and a play area called Ba People's Happy Valley. It is a suburban outing spot, best in spring and autumn."},{"id":"dachuan-zhenfo-mountain","name":"Zhenfo Mountain Temples","name_zh":"真佛山","pinyin":"Zhēnfó Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Dazhou","lat":31.0419,"lon":107.5924,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dachuan-zhenfo-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhenfo Mountain, in Fushan town about 35 km from Dazhou city, is topped by a Qing-dynasty complex of temples, among them Dehua Temple and the Jade Emperor and Tianzi halls, where Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist worship share one hillside. The wider scenic area adds forested ridges, karst caves and Yanzhi Lake."},{"id":"deyang-confucian-temple","name":"Deyang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"德阳文庙","pinyin":"Déyáng Wénmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.1318,"lon":104.3889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=deyang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Deyang's Confucian temple, one of the largest in Sichuan, covers about 28,000 m² in the city centre. First built in the Southern Song, it moved here in 1368 and was rebuilt between 1848 and 1855; along its axis stand a great screen wall, the Lingxing Gate, a semicircular pool, the Dacheng Gate and the double-eaved, seven-bay Dacheng Hall."},{"id":"mianzhu-golden-qingping","name":"Golden Qingping, Mianzhu","name_zh":"金色清平","pinyin":"Jīnsè Qīngpíng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.5456,"lon":104.1137,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianzhu-golden-qingping","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain leisure area around Qingping, a small town in the Longmen Mountains north-west of Mianzhu, where a former mining district has been turned into a tourist area. Old mine tracks now carry a vintage-style steam sightseeing train, and the town promotes forest walks, a pleasant mountain climate and a mix of Qiang and Han folk culture. It suits a day or an overnight stay in the mountains rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"shifang-huijian-temple","name":"Huijian Temple","name_zh":"慧剑寺","pinyin":"Huìjiàn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.1224,"lon":104.2192,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shifang-huijian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple at Huijian village in Huilan, just east of Shifang city, traditionally said to date back to the Tang. Its present halls, among them the Great Buddha Hall, the Juehuang Hall and a sutra library, are of the Ming and Qing periods and keep early painted decoration on their beams, ceilings and brackets; it was listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"mianzhu-jiannanchun-distillery-site","name":"Jiannanchun Distillery Site (Tianyi Laohao)","name_zh":"剑南春酒坊遗址","pinyin":"Jiànnánchūn Jiǔfāng Yízhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.3434,"lon":104.1929,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianzhu-jiannanchun-distillery-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Tianyi Laohao workshops in central Mianzhu are the Qing-dynasty distillery of the Jiannanchun baijiu company, with old fermentation pits still in use. Also listed as national industrial heritage, the site lies on Jiannan Old Street, where visitors can watch traditional distilling, and the Jiannanchun liquor history museum is nearby."},{"id":"mianzhu-jiulong-lutang-mountains","name":"Jiulong Mountain–Lutang Mountain Tourist Area, Mianzhu","name_zh":"九龙山—麓棠山","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Shān–Lùtáng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.2931,"lon":104.0986,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianzhu-jiulong-lutang-mountains","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural tourism belt along the foot of the Longmen Mountains west of Mianzhu, spread over several townships. It combines the Jiulong village tourism area with farm restaurants and hill walks, the China Rose Valley, a large Damask rose plantation, and the Lutang hot-spring resort, fed by a natural thermal spring. It suits a relaxed day of countryside, flowers and bathing rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"guanghan-longju-temple","name":"Longju Temple","name_zh":"龙居寺","pinyin":"Lóngjū Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":30.9227,"lon":104.2543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanghan-longju-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in the Tang and rebuilt under the Ming and Qing, Longju Temple keeps a Middle Hall built in 1447. Its ten mural panels, about 86 m² painted in 1466 with the Twelve Bodhisattvas of Perfect Enlightenment, are regarded as among the finest Ming temple murals in Sichuan; the gate and sutra library were rebuilt after 1986."},{"id":"guanghan-luocheng-ruins","name":"Luocheng Ruins and Fanghu Park","name_zh":"雒城遗址（房湖公园）","pinyin":"Luòchéng Yízhǐ (Fánghú Gōngyuán)","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":30.976,"lon":104.28,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanghan-luocheng-ruins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanghan stands on the site of Luo, the Han-dynasty county town that Liu Bei besieged in 214, the campaign in which his adviser Pang Tong was killed. The protected ruins of the old city lie within Fanghu Park, a lakeside public park in the centre of Guanghan."},{"id":"mianzhu-nianhua-village","name":"Mianzhu New Year Print Village","name_zh":"绵竹年画村","pinyin":"Miánzhú Niánhuà Cūn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.2794,"lon":104.2202,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mianzhu-nianhua-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mianzhu woodblock New Year prints, printed from carved blocks and then coloured by hand, are one of China's four great New Year print traditions and have been national intangible cultural heritage since 2006. This village area in Xiaode, south of Mianzhu, is one of the city's three centres of print-making, where door gods and auspicious scenes are produced and displayed."},{"id":"luojiang-pang-tong-shrine","name":"Pang Tong Shrine and Tomb","name_zh":"庞统祠墓","pinyin":"Páng Tǒng Címù","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.2911,"lon":104.4655,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luojiang-pang-tong-shrine/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The shrine and tomb of Pang Tong (179–214), the adviser to Liu Bei who was killed by an arrow during the campaign for Sichuan, an episode retold in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The shrine, restored in 1691, has a gate, main and side halls with statues of Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang, and the tomb beside it under old cypresses. It lies at Baima Pass, on the old road north from Chengdu."},{"id":"deyang-xiaoquan-old-town","name":"Xiaoquan Old Town","name_zh":"孝泉古镇","pinyin":"Xiàoquán Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.2534,"lon":104.2809,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=deyang-xiaoquan-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town on the Chengdu Plain known as the home of Jiang Shi, a model of filial devotion in the classic Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars, who is honoured at the Jiang Xiao Shrine. Its sights include old streets and the Yanzuo Temple, whose Longhu Sarira Pagoda is listed as a Yuan-dynasty structure."},{"id":"guanghan-yijiaheba-rural-tourism-area","name":"Yijiaheba Rural Tourism Area, Guanghan","name_zh":"易家河坝","pinyin":"Yìjiā Hébà","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":30.9469,"lon":104.3804,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanghan-yijiaheba-rural-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village-run leisure area at Youyi village in Sanshui town, where the Yazi, Shiting and Mianyuan rivers meet east of Guanghan, built up around fish ponds, orchards and farmland. Weekend visitors come for angling, fruit picking, farm meals and a water park, and the village is a national leisure-fishery demonstration base. It is a local family outing rather than a sight in its own right."},{"id":"zhongjiang-north-pagoda","name":"Zhongjiang North Pagoda","name_zh":"中江北塔","pinyin":"Zhōngjiāng Běi Tǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Deyang","lat":31.0567,"lon":104.6773,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongjiang-north-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A slender, square brick pagoda with many tiers of eaves, dating from the Song dynasty and standing on a hilltop on the north side of Zhongjiang's county town. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"ganzi-18th-army-caves","name":"18th Army Cave Dwellings, Ganzi","name_zh":"十八军窑洞群遗址","pinyin":"Shíbā Jūn Yáodòng Qún Yízhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.6094,"lon":100.024,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzi-18th-army-caves","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In 1951, soldiers of the People's Liberation Army's 18th Army dug cave dwellings into a hillside about 4 km from Ganzi town while building Ganzi airfield, in support of the army's march into Tibet. More than a thousand caves survive across the slope, and a small cave museum at the site explains how they were built."},{"id":"shiqu-bage-mani-wall","name":"Bage Mani Wall","name_zh":"巴格嘛呢墙","pinyin":"Bāgé Mání Qiáng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":33.2505,"lon":97.9622,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiqu-bage-mani-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Bage Mani Wall is a long wall built entirely of stones carved with Buddhist mantras and images, running across the grassland of Shiqu County. Together with the Songge (Gsumge) Mani Stone Castle it is protected as a national heritage site dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and local Tibetans still add carved stones and walk around it as an act of devotion."},{"id":"ganzi-beri-monastery","name":"Beri Monastery","name_zh":"白利寺","pinyin":"Báilì Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.6374,"lon":99.8727,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ganzi-beri-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beri Monastery stands on a hillside above the north bank of the Yalong River about 10 km west of Ganzi town, and its present buildings date from the Qing dynasty. In 1936 its lama, the 5th Gedar Rinpoche, assisted the Red Army as it passed through Ganzi on the Long March, and the national heritage listing commemorates the monastery's role from then until his death in 1950."},{"id":"xinlong-bori-bridge","name":"Bori Bridge","name_zh":"波日桥","pinyin":"Bōrì Qiáo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.1911,"lon":100.2979,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinlong-bori-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bori Bridge is a wooden cantilever bridge across the Yalong River in Xinlong County, 125 metres long with a 60-metre span, the longest-spanning bridge of its kind surviving in the Tibetan areas. A bridge was first built here at the end of the Yuan or start of the Ming dynasty, and the present structure dates from the Qing."},{"id":"xiangcheng-chachenggou-hot-springs","name":"Chachenggou Hot Springs, Xiangcheng","name_zh":"查呈沟天浴温泉","pinyin":"Cháchéng Gōu Tiānyù Wēnquán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":28.7163,"lon":99.8938,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangcheng-chachenggou-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A valley at Kemai village in Ranwu township, Xiangcheng County, where the county counts 108 hot springs between 17°C and 85°C within half a square kilometre. Bathing outdoors in the springs is an old local custom, which gives them the name Tianyu ('sky bath'), and the 4A area, rated in 2022, also takes in canyon pastures, alpine lakes and traces of the old tea-horse road. It lies on the Greater Shangri-La loop road between Daocheng and Shangri-La."},{"id":"luding-dadu-river-suspension-bridge","name":"Dadu River Suspension Bridge, Luding","name_zh":"大渡河悬索桥","pinyin":"Dàdù Hé Xuánsuǒ Qiáo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":29.9215,"lon":102.2281,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luding-dadu-river-suspension-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A steel suspension bridge 132 metres long across the Dadu River, about 900 metres upstream of the old Luding chain bridge, built between November 1950 and the end of May 1951 by highway engineers, army engineering troops and local labourers to carry the new Sichuan–Tibet Highway over the river. Its gate-shaped towers carry the name 'Dadu River Bridge' in Liu Bocheng's calligraphy and a couplet by Zhu De, and screen walls at the west end bear an account of the construction and Mao Zedong's poem 'The Long March'. It has been closed to traffic since around 1970, when a new arch bridge was built upstream, and its fenced-off span is best seen in full from the opposite bank."},{"id":"shiqu-dengma-wetland","name":"Dengma Wetland Park","name_zh":"邓玛湿地公园","pinyin":"Dèngmǎ Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":32.5144,"lon":97.8324,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiqu-dengma-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dengma Wetland Park takes in riverside wetland around Zhengke and Luoxu in the Jinsha River valley of southern Shiqu County, on the border with Tibet. At about 3,300 metres the Luoxu area lies well below the rest of Shiqu, a county whose plateau averages more than 4,000 metres and which is among the most remote parts of Sichuan."},{"id":"derge-parkhang","name":"Derge Parkhang","name_zh":"德格印经院","pinyin":"Dégé Yìnjīngyuàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.8066,"lon":98.5805,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/derge-parkhang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Derge Parkhang is a working Tibetan printing house founded in 1729 by Tenpa Tsering, king of Derge, and attached to the Sakya-school Gonchen Monastery. It holds what is described as the world's largest collection of carved Tibetan woodblocks, from which scriptures, commentaries and works on history and medicine are still printed by hand, with printers working in pairs to ink the blocks and roll the paper."},{"id":"kangding-duoraogamu-park","name":"Duoraogamu Cultural Park, Tagong","name_zh":"多饶嘎目","pinyin":"Duōráogāmù","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.2688,"lon":101.648,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangding-duoraogamu-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural park below Mount Zhara (Yala) near Tagong, rated 4A in February 2025 and built around the Minyak Tibetan culture of the area. It has a Minyak culture and arts centre, a tea-horse road trading hall and areas for Tibetan medicine, folk customs, nomad life, handicrafts and farming, while hot-spring and guesthouse facilities are being developed. It works as an introduction to local culture on the road between Kangding and Tagong."},{"id":"serthar-fudi-cultural-area","name":"Fudi Serthar Cultural Area (former Waxu Tribe area), Luoruo","name_zh":"福地色达","pinyin":"Fúdì Sèdá","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":32.1361,"lon":100.4541,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=serthar-fudi-cultural-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 4A cultural area listed at Luoruo, the township in the Larung valley of Serthar County, which until recently went by the name Waxu Tribe Cultural Tourism Area. Xinhua describes it as a living showcase of Tibetan culture, where local communities are still organised along traditional clan lines and customs from the Gesar epic era survive. Luoruo is also home to the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, founded in 1980 and one of the largest Tibetan Buddhist academies, whose students' small red-painted dwellings cover the valley slopes."},{"id":"ganzi-gesar-king-city","name":"Gesar King City, Garzê","name_zh":"格萨尔王城","pinyin":"Gésà'ěr Wángchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.6064,"lon":100.0101,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzi-gesar-king-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A newly built cultural complex on the south-eastern edge of Garzê county town, begun in 2017, opened in 2019 and themed on King Gesar, hero of the Tibetan epic, with zones for Gesar culture, the epic, grassland and wetland. It forms one scenic area with the Yalong Bay wetland park along the Yalong River, which also offers farming and herding experiences. It suits travellers on the G317 interested in the Gesar epic tradition."},{"id":"shiqu-songge-mani-city","name":"Gsumge Mani Stone Castle","name_zh":"松格嘛呢石经城","pinyin":"Sōnggé Mání Shíjīng Chéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":33.1526,"lon":98.5054,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiqu-songge-mani-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Gsumge (Songge) Mani Stone Castle is a rectangular mass of stacked mani stones, carved with mantras and Buddhist images, about 73 by 47 metres and 9 metres high, rising to 15 metres, on the Zachuka grassland of Shiqu County. Built without any frame or mortar, it hides a maze of narrow corridors around a central shrine to King Gesar and his generals. Local tradition links it to the Gesar epic, and carved stones from the 11th–12th centuries have been found within it."},{"id":"daofu-huiyuan-temple","name":"Huiyuan Temple (Gata)","name_zh":"惠远寺","pinyin":"Huìyuǎn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.5643,"lon":101.4931,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daofu-huiyuan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huiyuan Temple was founded in 1728 on the orders of the Qing Yongzheng Emperor in the Gata valley north of Bamei, and the 7th Dalai Lama lived here for seven years before returning to Tibet; the 11th Dalai Lama was born in a nearby village in 1838. Red walls set with 108 white stupas enclose a large courtyard and a multi-storey main hall with three bronze Buddha statues."},{"id":"yajiang-kangba-hanzi-village","name":"Kangba Hanzi Village, Yajiang","name_zh":"康巴汉子村","pinyin":"Kāngbā Hànzi Cūn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.023,"lon":100.7192,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yajiang-kangba-hanzi-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tibetan village on the G318 at Xi'eluo, formerly called Jiezhu, which registered the name 'Kangba Hanzi' (men of Kham) as a trademark in 2005 and turned to tourism; it became a 4A area in 2022. Solid timber Tibetan houses line the valley, many now run as family guesthouses, alongside a Kham-style shopping street, with old ruins on Guogang summit and small lakes in the surrounding hills. It suits travellers on the Sichuan–Tibet road looking for a village overnight stop."},{"id":"dege-kangba-wendu","name":"Kangba Wendu Cultural Park","name_zh":"康巴文都","pinyin":"Kāngbā Wéndū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.77,"lon":98.5562,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dege-kangba-wendu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Kangba Wendu is a large, newly built culture park beside Dêgê town presenting the crafts and traditions for which Dêgê is known across Kham. Its many exhibition halls cover Kham culture, the Gesar epic, the southern school of Tibetan medicine and the region's traditional crafts."},{"id":"luhuo-kasa-lake","name":"Kasa Lake (Liangquhe Scenic Area)","name_zh":"卡萨湖","pinyin":"Kǎsà Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.6582,"lon":100.2564,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luhuo-kasa-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Kasa Lake is a freshwater plateau lake at roughly 3,510 metres, set among grassland and hills just off the G317, the northern Sichuan–Tibet highway, in western Luhuo County. It is the centre of the Liangquhe Scenic Area and a haunt of waterbirds, and makes an easy stop on the drive between Luhuo and Ganzi towns. Chonggu, the township around the lake, also has a site of the ancient stone-cist tombs for which Luhuo is known."},{"id":"baiyu-kathok-monastery","name":"Kathok Monastery","name_zh":"嘎托寺","pinyin":"Gātuō Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.3125,"lon":98.9416,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baiyu-kathok-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Kathok, founded in 1159, is one of the six great 'mother monasteries' of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, perched at about 4,000 metres some 700 metres above the valley floor in Baiyu County. It was rebuilt in 1656 and again after its destruction in the 1960s, and a new temple and assembly hall were completed in 2016."},{"id":"baiyu-lalong-tso","name":"Lalong Tso Wetland","name_zh":"拉龙措","pinyin":"Lālóngcuò","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.1115,"lon":99.7538,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baiyu-lalong-tso","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lalong Tso is a national wetland park high on the plateau of eastern Baiyu County, where moraine-dammed lakes lie among glacier-polished rocks and boulders left by ancient glaciers. Its marshes and lakes are said to be a breeding ground for black-necked cranes."},{"id":"xinlong-lharima-village","name":"Lharima Stone-Slab Village","name_zh":"拉日马石板藏寨","pinyin":"Lārìmǎ Shíbǎn Zàngzhài","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.8287,"lon":100.6854,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinlong-lharima-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lharima, in Zhazong village in southern Xinlong County, is a Tibetan settlement of some 370 households whose two- and three-storey houses are roofed with stone slabs and linked by lanes paved with blue-grey stone. The village forms one ensemble with Zhazong Monastery, a painted stone scripture stupa and a group of chortens, and its houses keep the traditional layout of livestock on the ground floor and living quarters above."},{"id":"litang-monastery","name":"Litang Monastery","name_zh":"理塘寺","pinyin":"Lǐtáng Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.0056,"lon":100.2744,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=litang-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Litang Monastery, begun in 1581 in the time of the Third Dalai Lama, is regarded as the largest Gelug monastery in Kham. Its halls climb the slope on the northern edge of Litang town at about 4,000 metres, and much of the complex has been rebuilt since the 1980s."},{"id":"litang-old-town","name":"Litang Old Town","name_zh":"勒通古镇","pinyin":"Lètōng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":29.9969,"lon":100.2661,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=litang-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Litang's old quarter, on the north side of this high-plateau town at about 4,000 metres, covers roughly 1.5 square kilometres: some 4,000 Tibetan houses in 13 old villages, many still lived in by local families. At its heart is Renkang Street, where a traditional house is honoured as the birthplace of the 7th Dalai Lama, Kelsang Gyatso, and Litang Monastery stands on the hillside just above."},{"id":"luding-bridge","name":"Luding Bridge","name_zh":"泸定桥","pinyin":"Lúdìng Qiáo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":29.9145,"lon":102.2302,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luding-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Luding Bridge is an iron-chain suspension bridge spanning about 100 metres across the Dadu River in Luding town, built in 1705–1706 on the orders of the Kangxi Emperor as a key crossing on the road between Sichuan and Tibet. In May 1935, during the Long March, Red Army troops captured the bridge, an episode known in China as the 'Seizing of Luding Bridge'. Visitors can walk across its swaying plank deck, and a memorial hall nearby presents the history of the crossing."},{"id":"kangding-muya-shengdi","name":"Minyak Holy Land, Kangding","name_zh":"木雅圣地","pinyin":"Mùyǎ Shèngdì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.0047,"lon":101.7693,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangding-muya-shengdi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourist area west of Zheduo Pass in Kangding, presented as the first themed area devoted to the culture of the Minyak (Muya) Tibetans, in an area that was once a checkpoint on the tea-horse road. It takes in grassland and flower meadows, traditional herding pastures, viewpoints such as the 'Princess's Dressing Table' lake, and Ranti Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery said to be more than 600 years old. It is an easy stop on the Sichuan–Tibet road between Kangding and Xinduqiao."},{"id":"bamei-moshi-park","name":"Moshi Park","name_zh":"墨石公园","pinyin":"Mòshí Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.4463,"lon":101.5413,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bamei-moshi-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Moshi ('ink stone') Park is a forest of dark grey rock pinnacles near Bamei in Daofu County, standing out against the surrounding grassland. The stones are described as mylonite, rock crushed and sheared along the Xianshui River fault, which runs past Bamei, and then weathered into spires."},{"id":"kangding-mugecuo","name":"Mugecuo Lake","name_zh":"木格措","pinyin":"Mùgécuò","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.1524,"lon":101.8541,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kangding-mugecuo/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mugecuo is an alpine lake at about 3,780 metres in the mountains north-west of Kangding, nearly 3 km long and fringed by forest, grassland and snow peaks. The scenic area also takes in smaller alpine lakes and hot springs nearby, and is part of the Mount Gongga national scenic area. Its official name, 'Kangding Love Song', borrows the town's famous folk tune."},{"id":"serxu-muri-mani-wall","name":"Muri Mani Wall","name_zh":"穆日玛尼石经墙","pinyin":"Mùrì Mǎní Shíjīng Qiáng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":33.1819,"lon":98.148,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=serxu-muri-mani-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Muri Mani Wall is a long wall of stones carved with Buddhist mantras and images on the grasslands of Sêrxü (Shiqu) county in north-western Sichuan, built up by pilgrims over many centuries. The national listing dates it from the Tang to the Qing dynasties, and pilgrims still walk circuits around it."},{"id":"dege-palpung-monastery","name":"Palpung Monastery","name_zh":"八邦寺","pinyin":"Bābāng Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.6487,"lon":98.7958,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dege-palpung-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Palpung, at Babang in Dêgê County, is the historic seat of the Tai Situ lamas and the mother monastery of the Karma Kagyu school in Kham; the present monastery was founded in 1727 by the 8th Tai Situ with the support of the king of Derge. It is known for its large library and thangka collection and its link with the Karma Gadri painting style, and has been restored since the 1980s."},{"id":"xiangcheng-qingde-villages","name":"Qingde White Tibetan Villages","name_zh":"青德藏乡田园","pinyin":"Qīngdé Zàngxiāng Tiányuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":28.8472,"lon":99.8326,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangcheng-qingde-villages","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Around Qingde, just south of Xiangcheng town, villages of whitewashed rammed-earth Tibetan houses stand among terraced barley fields in the valley. These white houses are a signature of the Xiangcheng area, on the road between Shangri-La and Daocheng."},{"id":"xiangcheng-sampeling-monastery","name":"Sampeling Monastery","name_zh":"桑披寺","pinyin":"Sāngpī Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":28.9402,"lon":99.7931,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangcheng-sampeling-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Sampeling, in full Ganden Sampel Norbu Ling, is the main Gelug monastery of Xiangcheng, first built in 1669. It was destroyed in 1906, rebuilt in 1919 and destroyed again during the Cultural Revolution, and the present complex on the hill above the town dates from its rebuilding in 1995."},{"id":"daocheng-sangdui-red-grass","name":"Sangdui Red Grass Wetland","name_zh":"桑堆红草湿地","pinyin":"Sāngduī Hóngcǎo Shīdì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":29.1939,"lon":100.1074,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daocheng-sangdui-red-grass","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In the river valley at Sangdui, north of Daocheng, shallow pools are filled with an aquatic grass that turns deep red in autumn. It is a popular photo stop beside the highway between Litang and Daocheng."},{"id":"batang-tsopu-valley","name":"Tsopu Valley","name_zh":"措普沟","pinyin":"Cuòpǔ Gōu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.4949,"lon":99.5494,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=batang-tsopu-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tsopu is a high valley in northern Batang County whose sacred lake, Tsopu Lake, lies backed by snow peaks and forest. Smaller lakes and the small Tsopu Monastery lie nearby."},{"id":"jiulong-wuxu-lake","name":"Wuxu Lake","name_zh":"伍须海","pinyin":"Wǔxū Hǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":29.1553,"lon":101.4037,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiulong-wuxu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wuxu Lake is a clear green barrier lake set among mountains about 25 km from Jiulong town, within the Mount Gongga national scenic area. It lies higher than the county town, itself at about 2,900 metres, so the air is thin and nights are cold even in summer."},{"id":"xiangcheng-rammed-earth-towers","name":"Xiangcheng Rammed-Earth Towers","name_zh":"乡城夯土碉楼","pinyin":"Xiāngchéng Hāngtǔ Diāolóu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":28.951,"lon":99.8058,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiangcheng-rammed-earth-towers","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xiangcheng's rammed-earth watchtowers are tall defensive towers of packed earth, dated to the Ming dynasty, standing near the county town. They share the valley with Xiangcheng's whitewashed earthen houses and are under 2 km from Sampeling Monastery, so the two make an easy combined visit."},{"id":"xinlong-red-mountains","name":"Xinlong Red Mountains","name_zh":"新龙红山","pinyin":"Xīnlóng Hóngshān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.4059,"lon":99.8687,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinlong-red-mountains","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Red Mountains lie in Yinduo township in the north-west of Xinlong County. They are a high-altitude Danxia landscape of red rock ridges and cliffs strung out along a valley."},{"id":"dege-xinluhai","name":"Xinluhai (Yilhun Lha Tso)","name_zh":"新路海","pinyin":"Xīnlù Hǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":31.8492,"lon":99.1129,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dege-xinluhai/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xinluhai, Yilhun Lha Tso in Tibetan and officially Yulong Latso, is a glacial lake at about 4,020 metres at the foot of Chola Mountain, about 3 km long and dammed by glacial moraine; it is described as the largest lake of its kind in China. It lies just off the G317 highway about 10 km west of Manigange, an easy stop on the road between Ganzi and Dêgê."},{"id":"daofu-yala-snow-mountain","name":"Yala Snow Mountain, Daofu","name_zh":"亚拉雪山","pinyin":"Yàlā Xuěshān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":30.5292,"lon":101.6191,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daofu-yala-snow-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yala (Zhara Lhatse), the 5,820-metre sacred peak that dominates the Tagong grassland, also rises above Daofu County to the north, and this scenic area covers that northern side. It takes in forest, meadows and alpine lakes beneath the snowfields."},{"id":"litang-zangbala-flower-fields","name":"Zangbala Flower Fields, Litang","name_zh":"藏巴拉花海","pinyin":"Zàngbālā Huāhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ganzi","lat":29.6742,"lon":100.3617,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=litang-zangbala-flower-fields","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower-field and farm area at Hange village in Zhuosang township, south of Litang, beside the G227 road and next to the Haizishan nature reserve. Summer flower fields, starry night skies and farm sightseeing are the draw, with camping, horse riding, archery and fruit and vegetable picking, and guesthouses and restaurants are being added. It suits a stop on the drive south from Litang rather than a special trip."},{"id":"wusheng-baozhen-fortress","name":"Baozhen Fortress","name_zh":"宝箴塞","pinyin":"Bǎozhēn Sài","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guang'an","lat":30.3521,"lon":106.0675,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wusheng-baozhen-fortress","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baozhen Fortress is a walled clan stronghold that the Duan family began building in 1910 on a ridge in rural Wusheng county, enclosing courtyards, halls and storerooms behind stone walls about 2 km long and on average 6.5 m high, with a continuous gallery of gun ports. The old Duan family compound stands just outside, and the fortress survived later decades because it was used as a grain store."},{"id":"guangan-chongxiang-temple-carvings","name":"Chongxiang Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"冲相寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Chōngxiàng Sì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guang'an","lat":30.7079,"lon":106.9093,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangan-chongxiang-temple-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At Chongxiang Temple, in the hills north-east of Guang'an city, Buddhist figures and inscriptions were carved into the cliff over more than a thousand years, from the Sui dynasty to the Qing. The carvings became a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"guangan-deng-xiaoping-former-residence","name":"Former residence of Deng Xiaoping","name_zh":"邓小平故居","pinyin":"Dèng Xiǎopíng Gùjū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guang'an","lat":30.5193,"lon":106.6317,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangan-deng-xiaoping-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The late-Qing farmhouse in Paifang village where Deng Xiaoping was born in 1904 now stands in a large landscaped memorial park about 6 km north of central Guang'an. Visitors see the family's rooms, the neighbouring Hanlin and silkworm-house courtyards, a statue of Deng and an exhibition hall of relics from his life. His old primary-school buildings in the city belong to the same protected site."},{"id":"huaying-mountain","name":"Huaying Mountain","name_zh":"华蓥山","pinyin":"Huáyíng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guang'an","lat":30.3121,"lon":106.8129,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaying-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huaying Mountain is a long ridge on the eastern side of the Sichuan Basin, dividing the central Sichuan hills from the parallel ridges further east, and the scenic area above Huaying city is promoted for its stone forest, caves and forest walks. Baoding peak (1,586 m) on the same range has been a Buddhist pilgrimage site since the Tang dynasty. In the late 1940s the mountains sheltered the eastern Sichuan Communist guerrillas whose uprising lies behind characters in the novel Red Crag."},{"id":"guangan-shenlongshan-ba-stone-city","name":"Shenlong Mountain Ba Stone City","name_zh":"神龙山巴人石头城","pinyin":"Shénlóng Shān Bārén Shítou Chéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guang'an","lat":30.4465,"lon":106.6361,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangan-shenlongshan-ba-stone-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill park on the southern edge of Guang'an's new town, rising about 81 metres above the city as its highest point. Its centrepiece is a fortress-like complex built from tens of thousands of massive dressed stone blocks, presented as a stronghold of the ancient Ba people on the old route between the Ba, Shu and Qin lands. The summit gives wide views over the city."},{"id":"guangan-white-pagoda","name":"White Pagoda, Guang'an","name_zh":"广安白塔","pinyin":"Guǎng'ān Báitǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guang'an","lat":30.4704,"lon":106.6553,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangan-white-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guang'an's White Pagoda is a multi-storey Song-dynasty masonry pagoda on the edge of the city. A national heritage site since 2013, it is an easy stop to combine with Deng Xiaoping's former residence north of town."},{"id":"zhaohua-bailin-ancient-town","name":"Bailin Ancient Town","name_zh":"柏林古镇","pinyin":"Bǎilín Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.0882,"lon":105.8782,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaohua-bailin-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small town in the south of Zhaohua District that grew up around the Bailin post station on the southern branch of the old Shu Road. A stretch of flagstone street survives, lined with timber-framed houses in the northern Sichuan vernacular style; local accounts also mention a Kuixing Pavilion, Guangshan Temple and Bailin Lake beside the town."},{"id":"qingchuan-donghekou-earthquake-site","name":"Donghekou Earthquake Relics Park","name_zh":"东河口地震遗址公园","pinyin":"Dōnghékǒu Dìzhèn Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.4156,"lon":105.1196,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingchuan-donghekou-earthquake-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park where the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 brought down whole mountainsides around the village of Donghekou in Qingchuan County, burying more than 780 people. The collapsed slopes, rubble fields and lakes dammed by landslides have been preserved across an area of about 50 km², and geologists study it for the variety of landslide forms it shows."},{"id":"jiange-heming-mountain-carvings","name":"Heming Mountain Taoist Carvings, Jiange","name_zh":"鹤鸣山道教造像","pinyin":"Hèmíng Shān Dàojiào Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.0339,"lon":105.4732,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiange-heming-mountain-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill about 1 km east of Pu'an, the old county town of Jiange, with 21 niches and 88 carved figures, mainly Taoist, made between the Northern Wei and the Republican era. Its best-known pieces are a figure of the deity Changsheng Baoming Tianzun, described as unique among Taoist carvings in China, a stele reproducing Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy of the 'Hymn to the Restoration of the Tang', and an inscription with a text by the Tang poet Li Shangyin."},{"id":"huangze-temple","name":"Huangze Temple","name_zh":"皇泽寺","pinyin":"Huángzé Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.4414,"lon":105.8108,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangze-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huangze Temple, at the foot of Wulong Mountain on the west bank of the Jialing River, is described as the only temple in China dedicated to Wu Zetian, the Tang empress who by tradition was born in Guangyuan. Its cliff holds about 1,200 Buddhist sculptures in six caves and dozens of niches, begun in the sixth century and mostly carved in the Tang, while the halls display a stone figure traditionally said to show the empress herself. The temple now also serves as a museum."},{"id":"jiange-jueyuan-temple","name":"Jueyuan Temple","name_zh":"觉苑寺","pinyin":"Juéyuàn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":31.8872,"lon":105.2729,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiange-jueyuan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the west side of Wulian, a town on the old Shu Road in southern Jiange County, founded in the Tang and rebuilt in 1457 under the Ming. Its main hall, a single-eaved building with a hip-and-gable roof, keeps about 140 m² of Ming wall paintings on its walls and more behind the altar."},{"id":"chaotian-longmen-pavilion","name":"Longmen Pavilion Scenic Area","name_zh":"龙门阁","pinyin":"Lóngmén Gé","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.6544,"lon":105.9204,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaotian-longmen-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longmen Pavilion is one of the best-known cliff-side plank-road sections of the ancient Jinniu Road near Chaotian, where the route between Qin and Shu was carried along the cliffs. The scenic area also takes in the Longmen stone forest and a group of caves."},{"id":"wangcang-micang-grand-canyon","name":"Micang Mountain Grand Canyon","name_zh":"米仓山大峡谷","pinyin":"Mǐcāng Shān Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.5935,"lon":106.3031,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangcang-micang-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A canyon landscape in the Micang Mountains of northern Wangcang County, on the Sichuan–Shaanxi border, part of the natural divide between northern and southern China and rich in plant and animal life. Its forests are known for their autumn colour, with ridge trails, viewing platforms and lookout towers."},{"id":"guangyuan-mingyue-gorge","name":"Mingyue Gorge","name_zh":"明月峡","pinyin":"Míngyuè Xiá","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.6279,"lon":105.8643,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangyuan-mingyue-gorge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A narrow gorge of the Jialing River near Chaotian where six generations of routes squeeze through side by side: an ancient plank road, the Jinniu post road, a boat-haulers' towpath, the river itself, the Sichuan–Shaanxi highway and the Baoji–Chengdu railway. About 2 km of plank walkway has been rebuilt on the original beam holes cut into the cliff, among the best preserved in China, so visitors can walk the cliff face above the river. The gorge forms part of the Jianmen Shu Road heritage site."},{"id":"wangcang-mumen-conference-site","name":"Mumen Conference Site","name_zh":"木门会议会址","pinyin":"Mùmén Huìyì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.1056,"lon":106.525,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangcang-mumen-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mumen Temple, built in the Kangxi reign of the Qing on a hillside above Mumen town in south-eastern Wangcang County, hosted a six-day conference of the Red Fourth Front Army's leaders in late June 1933, after which the army expanded rapidly in the Sichuan–Shaanxi base area. The temple now displays relics from the Red Army period."},{"id":"zhaohua-pingle-scenic-area","name":"Pingle Scenic Area","name_zh":"平乐旅游区","pinyin":"Pínglè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.3078,"lon":105.9752,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaohua-pingle-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area at Yuanba, south-east of Guangyuan city, built around Pingle Temple and said to take in the wooded Qifeng Gorge and Ziyun Lake. It is mainly a local weekend escape for walks in the gorge, with the temple adding some interest."},{"id":"qingchuan-qingxi-ancient-town","name":"Qingxi Ancient Town","name_zh":"青溪古城","pinyin":"Qīngxī Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.4607,"lon":104.8353,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingchuan-qingxi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small walled town on the upper Qingzhu River at the foot of Motian Ridge, close to where Guangyuan, Mianyang and Gansu meet, with surviving stretches of Ming city wall and lanes of timber houses in the northern Sichuan style. It is the base for the Tangjiahe reserve and for walks on the Yinping Road, the mountain route by which the Wei general Deng Ai's army entered Shu in 263."},{"id":"wangcang-red-army-city","name":"Red Army City, Wangcang","name_zh":"红军城","pinyin":"Hóngjūn Chéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.2299,"lon":106.2879,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangcang-red-army-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old streets of Donghe, the Wangcang county town, which from November 1934 housed the Red Fourth Front Army's headquarters and more than 40 party, government and military bodies, making it the centre of the Sichuan–Shaanxi base in its final phase and the army's assembly point for the Long March. Three main streets and two lanes of Qing-era timber houses survive, and small memorial halls occupy former headquarters buildings."},{"id":"qingchuan-tangjiahe","name":"Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve","name_zh":"唐家河","pinyin":"Tángjiā Hé","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.5793,"lon":104.7547,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingchuan-tangjiahe/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain reserve of about 400 km² in the far west of Qingchuan County, established in 1978 and now part of the Giant Panda National Park, ranging from about 1,100 m to almost 3,900 m. Its forests shelter giant pandas, Sichuan takin and golden snub-nosed monkeys, and visitors explore by road and trail along the Tangjia River valley. Qingxi ancient town, just to the south, is the gateway."},{"id":"guangyuan-thousand-buddha-cliff","name":"Thousand-Buddha Cliff (Guangyuan)","name_zh":"千佛崖","pinyin":"Qiānfó Yá","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.4714,"lon":105.8439,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guangyuan-thousand-buddha-cliff/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cliff on the east bank of the Jialing River north of Guangyuan, honeycombed with Buddhist niches carved from the late Northern Wei to the Ming, most of them in the Tang. Some 848 niches with more than 7,000 figures survive along a face about 400 m long and over 40 m high, although more than half of the original carvings were destroyed when the Sichuan–Shaanxi highway was cut along its foot in 1935–1936. The main caves include the Great Buddha Cave and the Lotus Cave."},{"id":"guangyuan-zengjiashan","name":"Zengjiashan","name_zh":"曾家山","pinyin":"Zēngjiā Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.6017,"lon":106.0848,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangyuan-zengjiashan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst upland in Chaotian District, mostly 1,300–1,400 m above sea level, where stone forests, sinkholes, gorges and caves are scattered among farmland and forest. Its cool summers have made it one of northern Sichuan's main summer retreats, with a great many guesthouses and farm stays, and it often sees snow in winter."},{"id":"zhaohua-ancient-town","name":"Zhaohua Ancient Town","name_zh":"昭化古城","pinyin":"Zhāohuà Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.3354,"lon":105.7136,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaohua-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small walled town where the Bailong River meets the Jialing, known in antiquity as Jiameng; after the Qin conquered Shu and Ba in 316 BC they set up a county here, and the town calls itself the first county seat in Sichuan. Inside the gates are flagstone lanes of old houses and the Longmen Academy, and nearby is the tomb of Fei Yi, one of the leading ministers of the Three Kingdoms state of Shu Han. The town lies on the old Jinniu Road and is an easy stop between Guangyuan and Jianmen Pass."},{"id":"chaotian-zhongzipu-microlith-museum","name":"Zhongzipu Microlith Archaeology Museum","name_zh":"中子铺细石器考古博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngzǐpù Xìshíqì Kǎogǔ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Guangyuan","lat":32.6936,"lon":106.0311,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chaotian-zhongzipu-microlith-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum opened in October 2024 in Zhongzi town for the Zhongzipu site, where excavations in 1990 and 1991 recovered about 20,000 finds, among them microliths (tiny flaked stone tools) from a layer dated to roughly 7,000 to 6,000 years ago. Archaeologists count the site among the earliest Neolithic remains in the Sichuan Basin. Its 3,000 square metres of galleries show more than 1,000 finds, including microblade cores, scrapers and polished stone tools, with reconstructions of how they were made and used."},{"id":"leshan-china-nuclear-fusion-museum","name":"China Nuclear Fusion Museum","name_zh":"中国核聚变博物馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Héjùbiàn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5653,"lon":103.7306,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leshan-china-nuclear-fusion-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former experiment hall of the Southwestern Institute of Physics, a Third Front nuclear research institute, where the HL-1 tokamak (China Circulator One) was completed in 1984; it is listed nationally as the site of China's first controlled nuclear fusion experimental device. Since 2012 the hall has housed the China Nuclear Fusion Museum, with the HL-1 device itself as the centrepiece of displays on the history of the country's fusion research."},{"id":"emeishan-dafo-chan-monastery","name":"Dafo Chan Monastery, Emeishan","name_zh":"大佛禅院","pinyin":"Dàfó Chányuàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5916,"lon":103.491,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=emeishan-dafo-chan-monastery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An active Buddhist monastery in Emeishan city, about 5 km east of Baoguo Temple at the foot of Mount Emei, run as a Buddhist cultural tourism area. Its halls and courtyards can be visited on the way to or from the mountain without entering the Mount Emei scenic area."},{"id":"emeishan-feilai-hall","name":"Feilai Hall, Emeishan","name_zh":"大庙飞来殿","pinyin":"Dàmiào Fēilái Diàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.6235,"lon":103.4745,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/emeishan-feilai-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple complex about 2 km north of Emeishan city whose main Feilai Hall, rebuilt in 1279 and repaired in 1298, is the largest surviving Yuan-dynasty timber building in Sichuan. Originally a Song temple to the god of Mount Tai, it gradually became a Buddhist temple from the late Ming, and its halls climb the hillside along a single axis. It is a worthwhile stop for anyone interested in early Chinese timber architecture on the way to or from Mount Emei."},{"id":"ebian-heizhugou","name":"Heizhugou National Forest Park","name_zh":"黑竹沟","pinyin":"Hēizhú Gōu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.0225,"lon":103.0842,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ebian-heizhugou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the Xiaoliangshan mountains of Ebian Yi Autonomous County, whose scenic area covers about 575 square kilometres at altitudes from roughly 1,500 to 4,288 metres. Its old-growth forest, gorges and streams are rich in wildlife and plants. Unconfirmed stories of people and animals going missing here in the 20th century led the media to call it the 'Bermuda Triangle of the East', and its original Yi name, Sihuo, is said to mean 'valley of death'."},{"id":"jiajiang-thousand-buddha-cliff","name":"Jiajiang Thousand Buddha Cliff & Dongfeng Weir","name_zh":"千佛岩","pinyin":"Qiānfó Yán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.7538,"lon":103.5402,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiajiang-thousand-buddha-cliff","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A sandstone cliff on the bank of the Qingyi River just outside Jiajiang town, carved with some 270 Buddhist niches; most date from the Tang dynasty, with later additions into the Qing. Alongside runs the Dongfeng Weir, a working irrigation canal that was among the first World Heritage Irrigation Structures named in 2014."},{"id":"jinkouhe-dadu-river-grand-canyon","name":"Jinkou Grand Canyon of the Dadu River","name_zh":"大渡河金口大峡谷","pinyin":"Dàdù Hé Jīnkǒu Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.2804,"lon":103.0323,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinkouhe-dadu-river-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A deep gorge of the Dadu River in mountainous Jinkouhe District, listed both as a 4A scenic area and as a National Water Conservancy Scenic Area. The Chengdu–Kunming railway threads along the canyon through tunnels, and Guancunba station, built in 1966 in the canyon, sits partly inside a tunnel. Jinkouhe District is almost entirely mountain, with nearly 2,800 m between its lowest and highest points."},{"id":"jingyan-lei-family-residence","name":"Lei Family Residence, Jingyan","name_zh":"雷氏民居","pinyin":"Léishì Mínjū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5961,"lon":104.059,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyan-lei-family-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Qing manor built in 1773 for the family of Lei Chang, a Qianlong-era court official, on the edge of Qianfo town in Jingyan County. Inside a stone enclosure wall about 4 metres high, four successive courtyards along the main axis and their side wings hold 121 rooms around 12 light wells, with carved timber and stone details. Some rooms now hold displays on the Lei family, old workshops and farming life."},{"id":"leshan-wumu-museum","name":"Leshan Wumu Culture Museum","name_zh":"乌木文化博览苑","pinyin":"Wūmù Wénhuà Bólǎnyuàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5905,"lon":103.6658,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leshan-wumu-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large museum in Suji town devoted to wumu, the dark timber formed when ancient trees were buried in old riverbeds by earthquakes, floods or landslides. Its halls show raw buried trunks alongside wumu carvings, and one hall lets you watch carvers at work. Suji lies on the road between Leshan and Mount Emei, so the museum is an easy stop between the two."},{"id":"qianwei-luocheng-ancient-town","name":"Luocheng Ancient Town","name_zh":"罗城古镇","pinyin":"Luóchéng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.3858,"lon":104.0299,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianwei-luocheng-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A market town in Qianwei county whose main street is wide in the middle and narrows at each end, giving it the outline of a boat; the street is traditionally dated to the late Ming dynasty. Broad eaves resting on rows of wooden columns form covered arcades along both sides, shading the shopfronts from sun and rain. Luocheng was named a Sichuan provincial historic town in 1992."},{"id":"leshan-mahao-cliff-tombs","name":"Mahao Cliff Tombs","name_zh":"麻浩崖墓","pinyin":"Máhào Yámù","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5417,"lon":103.7717,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/leshan-mahao-cliff-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cemetery of rock-cut tombs dug into the sandstone of Lingyun Hill beside the Leshan Giant Buddha; a 1985 survey counted 330 tombs along more than 300 metres of cliff, most from the Eastern Han dynasty. Above one tomb entrance is a small seated Buddha in Gandharan style, considered one of the earliest Buddhist images in China. A site museum displays the tombs and their carvings."},{"id":"muchuan-bamboo-sea","name":"Muchuan Bamboo Sea","name_zh":"沐川竹海","pinyin":"Mùchuān Zhúhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":28.8767,"lon":103.9571,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=muchuan-bamboo-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Muchuan county in the hills of southern Leshan is thickly covered in bamboo, and this scenic area beside National Road 213 near Yongfu town showcases it. Roads and paths lead through bamboo-covered ridges, valleys and streams."},{"id":"emeishan-nongfu-spring-factory-tour","name":"Nongfu Spring Emeishan Factory Tour","name_zh":"农夫山泉峨眉山工业旅游区","pinyin":"Nóngfū Shānquán Éméishān Gōngyè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.4936,"lon":103.3752,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=emeishan-nongfu-spring-factory-tour","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A working bottled-water plant of the Nongfu Spring company in Gaoqiao town, at the foot of Mount Emei, opened to visitors as an industrial tourism site. Tours show the production line for natural drinking water and spring-water testing, along with displays on the company and its water source, and the site is used for school study trips. It suits families and anyone curious about modern manufacturing more than scenery seekers."},{"id":"leshan-oriental-buddha-park","name":"Oriental Buddha Park","name_zh":"东方佛都","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Fódū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5407,"lon":103.777,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leshan-oriental-buddha-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately run theme park beside the Leshan Giant Buddha, filled with reproductions of Buddhist statues and carvings in stone and other materials. It holds around 3,000 statues, including a reclining Buddha about 170 m long. It is a modern park, run separately from the Giant Buddha site, for visitors who want more Buddhist imagery after the main sight."},{"id":"qianwei-confucius-temple","name":"Qianwei Confucius Temple","name_zh":"犍为文庙","pinyin":"Qiánwéi Wénmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.2076,"lon":103.95,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qianwei-confucius-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Confucian temple in Yujin, the county town of Qianwei, founded in the Northern Song and rebuilt several times, with buildings mainly of the Ming and Qing; it is one of the largest Confucian temples in Sichuan. Its gates, halls and courtyards follow the formal axis typical of temples to Confucius, and it is noted for its wood and stone carving."},{"id":"jingyan-sanjiang-white-pagoda","name":"Sanjiang White Pagoda","name_zh":"三江白塔","pinyin":"Sānjiāng Báitǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5385,"lon":104.0405,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyan-sanjiang-white-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty pagoda in Sanjiang town, Jingyan county, built of brick and timber on a square plan. Its 13 storeys rise to about 28 metres in the dense-eave style, each marked by a closely spaced projecting roof."},{"id":"emeishan-sichuan-tourism-expo-park","name":"Sichuan Tourism Expo Park, Emeishan","name_zh":"四川旅博天地","pinyin":"Sìchuān Lǚbó Tiāndì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.5976,"lon":103.5182,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=emeishan-sichuan-tourism-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern complex of about 87 hectares in the eastern new district of Emeishan city that combines exhibition, culture and tourism venues with city shopping. It is of most use to travellers already staying in Emeishan, rather than a destination in its own right."},{"id":"qianwei-world-jasmine-expo-park","name":"World Jasmine Expo Park, Qianwei","name_zh":"世界茉莉博览园","pinyin":"Shìjiè Mòlì Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.1771,"lon":103.8997,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianwei-world-jasmine-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A jasmine-themed agricultural park in Qingxi town that opened in 2020, with a core area of about 87 hectares planted with more than 120 jasmine varieties. Qianwei is a major jasmine-growing county, with about 5,700 hectares of jasmine supplying the scented-tea trade. It is a rural flower park rather than a historic site, best for those interested in tea and gardens."},{"id":"leshan-wuyou-temple","name":"Wuyou Temple & Lidui","name_zh":"乌尤寺","pinyin":"Wūyóu Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.54,"lon":103.771,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/leshan-wuyou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist monastery more than a thousand years old on the summit of Wuyou Hill, next to the Leshan Giant Buddha; it is the oldest temple in the area and one of China's officially designated key Buddhist temples. The hill itself, known as Lidui ('the detached mound') because a channel separates it from neighbouring Lingyun Hill, is protected as a national heritage site."},{"id":"jiajiang-yanggong-que","name":"Yanggong Que, Jiajiang","name_zh":"杨公阙","pinyin":"Yánggōng Què","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Leshan","lat":29.694,"lon":103.6148,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiajiang-yanggong-que","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pair of carved stone pillar-gates (que) in the countryside south-east of Jiajiang town, dated by the heritage authorities to between the Han and Song dynasties. Que of this kind marked the approach to tombs and shrines, and Sichuan holds a large share of those that survive in China."},{"id":"zhaojue-boshiwahei-carvings","name":"Boshiwahei Rock Carvings","name_zh":"博什瓦黑岩画","pinyin":"Bóshíwǎhēi Yánhuà","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":27.8079,"lon":102.4896,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaojue-boshiwahei-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Boshiwahei is a group of large boulders in the hills of Wanchang township, Zhaojue County, incised with Buddhist figures and dated to the Tang and Song periods, when this region lay within the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms. It is a rare early Buddhist site in the Yi heartland of Liangshan and is protected as a national heritage site."},{"id":"huili-ancient-town","name":"Huili Ancient Town","name_zh":"会理古城","pinyin":"Huìlǐ Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":26.664,"lon":102.244,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huili-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huili, in the far south of Liangshan near the Yunnan border, has been a county seat since the Western Han dynasty and was named a national historic and cultural city in 2011. Its old quarter keeps lanes of traditional shopfronts and courtyard houses, entered through the north gate tower, Gongji Lou."},{"id":"huili-conference-site","name":"Huili Conference Site","name_zh":"会理会议纪念地","pinyin":"Huìlǐ Huìyì Jìniàndì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":26.7028,"lon":102.2807,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huili-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In May 1935, after crossing the Jinsha River on the Long March, the Red Army spent about two weeks around Huili, and the Communist Party's Politburo held an enlarged meeting at Tiechang on the outskirts of the town. The meeting site is now a memorial area presenting this stage of the Long March."},{"id":"xichang-jianchang-old-town","name":"Jianchang Old Town, Xichang","name_zh":"建昌古城","pinyin":"Jiànchāng Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":27.8948,"lon":102.2696,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xichang-jianchang-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jianchang is the old name of Xichang, and its old town on the north side of the modern city keeps stretches of the former city wall and the Datong Gate, with lanes of older houses, teahouses and snack stalls inside. It makes an easy evening stroll after a day at Qionghai Lake."},{"id":"ningnan-kaidilila-hot-springs","name":"Kaidilila Hot Springs, Ningnan","name_zh":"凯地里拉温泉","pinyin":"Kǎidìlǐlā Wēnquán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":27.07,"lon":102.7192,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningnan-kaidilila-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Pisha town, Ningnan County, in southern Liangshan. The Liangshan government describes a naturally flowing spring of about 70°C rich in fluoride and other minerals, feeding dozens of linked outdoor pools, and the resort also has private spring courtyards and a self-drive camp. It draws visitors from Yunnan and Panzhihua and suits a rest stop on a road trip through the region."},{"id":"mianning-lingshan-temple","name":"Lingshan Temple, Mianning","name_zh":"灵山寺","pinyin":"Língshān Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":28.5502,"lon":102.2843,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianning-lingshan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lingshan ('Spirit Mountain') is a forested mountain scenic area about 17 km east of Mianning town, centred on Lingshan Temple, a Buddhist temple whose halls are built up the hillside. The temple is an active place of worship, and local tradition dates its founding to the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty."},{"id":"luoji-mountain","name":"Luoji Mountain","name_zh":"螺髻山","pinyin":"Luójì Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":27.5791,"lon":102.3899,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoji-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Luoji Mountain is a range running south from Qionghai Lake near Xichang, with summits above 4,300 metres. Its upper slopes keep well-preserved landforms carved by Ice Age glaciers, while primeval forest with rhododendrons and rare trees covers the lower ground. A cable car from the Puge side lifts visitors into the high country."},{"id":"leibo-mahu-lake","name":"Mahu Lake","name_zh":"马湖","pinyin":"Mǎ Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":28.4081,"lon":103.7794,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leibo-mahu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mahu is a deep mountain lake in Leibo County, in the far east of Liangshan, formed where glaciers dammed an old river valley and measured in 1982 at 134 metres at its deepest point. Forest covers the surrounding hills, and the Menghuo Hall by the lake is a provincial heritage site. It is a quiet stop well away from the main tourist routes."},{"id":"mianning-yihai","name":"Yihai Lake (Yihai Alliance Site)","name_zh":"彝海","pinyin":"Yíhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Liangshan","lat":28.8861,"lon":102.3021,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianning-yihai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yihai is a small mountain lake in northern Mianning County where, on 22 May 1935, during the Long March, the Red Army commander Liu Bocheng and Xiaoyedan, a leader of the local Yi Guoji clan, swore brotherhood in a blood oath, allowing the army to pass through Yi territory. The meeting place on the grassy slope above the lake is a protected heritage site, and the episode is known in China as the Yihai Alliance."},{"id":"luzhou-baoen-pagoda","name":"Bao'en Pagoda, Luzhou","name_zh":"泸州报恩塔","pinyin":"Lúzhōu Bào'ēn Tǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.8941,"lon":105.4484,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luzhou-baoen-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey brick pagoda of the Southern Song dynasty in the old centre of Luzhou, known locally as the White Pagoda. It has been repaired several times since the Ming but keeps its Song outline, and it is a short walk from the Laojiao old cellars."},{"id":"xuyong-chunqiu-temple","name":"Chunqiu Temple, Xuyong","name_zh":"春秋祠","pinyin":"Chūnqiū Cí","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.1721,"lon":105.4374,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuyong-chunqiu-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty temple to Guan Yu on Shaanxi Street in Xuyong county town, enlarged around 1900. Its name refers to the Spring and Autumn Annals, the classic Guan Yu is traditionally shown reading, and it is known for late-Qing woodcarving on its windows, lintels and other fittings, depicting historical scenes and legends."},{"id":"luzhou-dongwo-hydropower-station","name":"Dongwo Hydropower Station","name_zh":"洞窝水电站","pinyin":"Dòngwō Shuǐdiànzhàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.9043,"lon":105.5224,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luzhou-dongwo-hydropower-station/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small hydropower station on the Longxi River that Shui Xiheng, a Luzhou engineer who had studied in Germany, began building in 1921 to use a 44-metre natural drop in the Dongwo gorge; it was completed in 1925 as the Jihe power plant with a 140-kilowatt Siemens generator and is still generating today. In 2018 the Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society recognised it as the first hydropower station in China designed and built by Chinese engineers, and it is also listed as national industrial heritage. A statue of Shui stands at the entrance, two old turbine generators still run in the machine hall, and the gorge around it is laid out as Dongwo Park, popular with local families and school study groups."},{"id":"jiangyang-dongyunba-umbrella-village","name":"Dongyunba Umbrella Village, Jiangyang","name_zh":"董允坝·伞乡","pinyin":"Dǒngyǔnbà Sǎnxiāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.823,"lon":105.5866,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyang-dongyunba-umbrella-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural scenic area at Fenshuiling town, Jiangyang district, combining the Dongyunba national modern-agriculture demonstration park with Sanli ('umbrella village'), a new rural-community street of about 1.1 km built in old-street style and hung with oil-paper umbrellas. Fenshui oil-paper umbrella making, a craft with some 400 years of history, is on China's national intangible heritage list, and the street has an umbrella museum, umbrella-making experiences and hanfu costume shops. It suits craft enthusiasts and photographers."},{"id":"naxi-fenghuang-lake","name":"Fenghuang Lake, Naxi","name_zh":"凤凰湖","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.6858,"lon":105.3058,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=naxi-fenghuang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A winding reservoir lake with more than ten islands in Naxi district, south-west of Luzhou, set within some 30 km² of forested hills. The surrounding area takes in gorges, rock formations, waterfalls and caves among forest and bamboo, along with waterside villages and a liquor-making estate. It suits a quiet day in the countryside from Luzhou."},{"id":"hejiang-fubao-ancient-town","name":"Fubao Ancient Town","name_zh":"福宝古镇","pinyin":"Fúbǎo Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.768,"lon":106.0767,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejiang-fubao-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town in south-eastern Hejiang County, built on a ridge where streams meet, whose Ming and Qing buildings make up a nationally protected group and one of China's listed historic towns. Its main street, Huilong Street, climbs up and down the crest past timber houses with small grey-tiled roofs, stilted rooms and overhanging galleries above the water, and among them stand temples and guild halls built by settlers from Hubei and Hunan, Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi who moved in from the early Qing, such as the Wanshou and Tianhou palaces. Fobao National Forest Park lies in the hills to the south-east."},{"id":"hejiang-han-stone-coffin-museum","name":"Hejiang Han Stone Coffin Museum","name_zh":"合江汉代画像石棺博物馆","pinyin":"Héjiāng Hàndài Huàxiàng Shíguān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.8049,"lon":105.8347,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hejiang-han-stone-coffin-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A county museum devoted to the relief-carved stone coffins of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE) found in cliff tombs around Hejiang, where the Chishui River joins the Yangtze. Such coffins are the most common find from the nationally listed Hejiang cliff tombs, whose 13 groups are cut into riverside cliffs scattered across the county, so the museum is the practical place to see their carving."},{"id":"huangjing-laolin","name":"Huangjing Laolin Forest","name_zh":"黄荆老林","pinyin":"Huángjīng Lǎolín","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.2471,"lon":105.7355,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangjing-laolin","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large forested upland in northern Gulin county, protected as a national forest park and a provincial nature reserve, with extensive subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest. Its best-known sight is Bajiedong, a chain of eight waterfalls and rapids along a gorge, and trails lead past streams, deep pools and old trees."},{"id":"longnao-bridge","name":"Longnao Bridge","name_zh":"龙脑桥","pinyin":"Lóngnǎo Qiáo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":29.1889,"lon":105.375,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longnao-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone beam bridge built in the late 14th century, early in the Ming dynasty, that crosses the Jiuqu River on 12 piers; the middle eight are carved into large dragons, qilin, lions and elephants, heads facing upstream. It is the best known of Luxian's carved 'dragon bridges', a wider group of Ming and Qing bridges across the county that is also nationally listed, and it now stands within the Longqiao Culture Eco-park."},{"id":"luxian-song-stone-carving-museum","name":"Luxian Song Stone Carving Museum","name_zh":"泸县宋代石刻博物馆","pinyin":"Lúxiàn Sòngdài Shíkè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":29.1525,"lon":105.3899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luxian-song-stone-carving-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum in Luxian county town that displays carved stone panels from the Song-dynasty tombs found across the county, of which more than a hundred are known. The reliefs of guardian warriors, musicians, servants, the four directional animals, furniture and household objects give a detailed picture of daily life in 12th- and 13th-century Sichuan. The tombs themselves, including the nationally listed Puqiao, Changlinggeng and Luopanzui groups, lie on hillsides in the countryside, so the museum is the place to see their carvings."},{"id":"luzhou-laojiao-old-cellars","name":"Luzhou Laojiao Old Cellars","name_zh":"泸州大曲老窖池","pinyin":"Lúzhōu Dàqū Lǎo Jiàochí","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.8873,"lon":105.45,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luzhou-laojiao-old-cellars/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of the Luzhou Laojiao distillery, one of the best-known makers of strong-aroma baijiu, where earthen fermentation pits dating from the Ming dynasty are still in use. The old cellar groups and workshops were listed as a national heritage site in 1996, and the visitor area around Guojiao Square lets you see the working pits and learn how the liquor is made."},{"id":"luxian-qifeng-aqueduct","name":"Qifeng Aqueduct","name_zh":"奇峰渡槽","pinyin":"Qífēng Dùcáo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":29.1078,"lon":105.558,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luxian-qifeng-aqueduct/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two stone arched aqueducts built between 1973 and 1978 to carry irrigation water across the valleys around Qifeng town as part of the Sanxikou reservoir scheme. The larger Huafeng Aqueduct runs for 1,122 metres on 47 main arches and stands up to 43 metres high, while the 1-km Shengli Aqueduct carries a footway beneath its water channel. Both are still used for irrigation and by people crossing on foot."},{"id":"xuyong-qingliang-cave-carvings","name":"Qingliang Cave Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"清凉洞摩崖造像","pinyin":"Qīngliáng Dòng Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.3494,"lon":105.3137,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuyong-qingliang-cave-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Ming-dynasty Buddhist cliff carvings at Qingliang Cave in Maling town, in the hills of Xuyong County. The site was listed as a national heritage site in 2013, but little has been published about it, so check access locally before making the trip."},{"id":"qu-family-manor","name":"Qu Family Manor","name_zh":"屈氏庄园","pinyin":"Qūshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":29.2747,"lon":105.4515,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qu-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large rural estate built by the Qu family during the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns of the Qing dynasty (roughly 1796–1850) and used into the Republican era. Its more than 80 rooms are arranged around 48 courtyards and guarded by four watchtowers, making it a nationally listed example of a fortified family compound in southern Sichuan."},{"id":"xuyong-shixiangzi-long-march-site","name":"Red Army Long March Site, Shixiangzi","name_zh":"红军长征过石厢子旧址","pinyin":"Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Guò Shíxiāngzi Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":27.7919,"lon":105.4223,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuyong-shixiangzi-long-march-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shixiangzi, a small Yi township in the hills where Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou meet, is where the Central Red Army camped in early February 1935 after its first crossing of the Chishui River, spending the Spring Festival there during the Long March. Sichuan historians place here the 'Jiming Sansheng' meeting ('a rooster crows in three provinces') at which Zhang Wentian replaced Bo Gu at the head of the Communist Party, although sites in Yunnan and Guizhou are also claimed for it. Preserved sites in the township include the meeting site, a Red Army mint and an exchange office of the Chinese Soviet Republic's bank, and a Red Army Long March memorial park holds an exhibition hall on the meeting."},{"id":"shenbicheng-fortress","name":"Shenbicheng Fortress","name_zh":"神臂城","pinyin":"Shénbì Chéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.8783,"lon":105.631,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenbicheng-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ruins of a Southern Song mountain fortress on a cliff-bound promontory above the Yangtze, built in 1243 when Luzhou's government moved here to resist the Mongols. It held out until 1277, changing hands five times along the way. The east and west gates and much of the wall survive, along with traces of the drill ground, beacon tower and offices and several rock inscriptions recalling the siege."},{"id":"gulin-taiping-ancient-town","name":"Taiping Ancient Town","name_zh":"太平古镇","pinyin":"Tàipíng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.1311,"lon":106.0418,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gulin-taiping-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside market town on the Chishui River, on the Guizhou border, where the Red Army crossed during the Long March in 1935: the second and fourth of the 'Four Crossings of the Chishui' were made at Taiping Ferry. Its lanes of old houses include the former quarters of the Red Army headquarters, hospital and bank, and a memorial hall up the town's stone steps sets out the history of the campaign."},{"id":"tianxiandong","name":"Tianxiandong Scenic Area","name_zh":"天仙硐","pinyin":"Tiānxiān Dòng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.6927,"lon":105.391,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianxiandong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A densely forested danxia landscape of red sandstone cliffs, valleys, streams and stepped waterfalls in Naxi district, south of Luzhou. Local legend says the goddess Jiutian Xuannü once lived here, giving the area its name, and the scenic area also takes in the small old town of Ledao on the Yongning River, with streets of Ming and Qing houses."},{"id":"hejiang-xianshi-soy-sauce-workshops","name":"Xianshi Soy Sauce Workshops","name_zh":"先市酱油酿造作坊群","pinyin":"Xiānshì Jiàngyóu Niàngzào Zuōfángqún","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.7093,"lon":105.7169,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejiang-xianshi-soy-sauce-workshops","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A working soy-sauce brewery beside the Chishui river whose old timber workshop courtyard, sloping drying ground and small Sanguan temple go back to a sauce house of the late Qing. Hundreds of glazed earthenware vats stand in rows on the drying ground, where the sauce ferments for three years or more in sun by day and river dew by night, a method listed as national intangible heritage. The old workshop and drying ground have been fully open to visitors since 2025, with hands-on sessions and products such as soy-sauce ice cream."},{"id":"yaoba-ancient-town","name":"Yaoba Ancient Town","name_zh":"尧坝古镇","pinyin":"Yáobà Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.7436,"lon":105.642,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yaoba-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A well-preserved market town on the old road from Luzhou to Chishui in Guizhou, said to have begun as a post station in the Northern Song and to have flourished in the Ming and Qing. Its old streets of Ming and Qing shops, houses and halls are protected together as a national heritage site, and the town has often been used as a film location."},{"id":"luxian-yuantong-temple","name":"Yuantong Temple, Luxian","name_zh":"圆通寺","pinyin":"Yuántōng Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":29.2355,"lon":105.3917,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luxian-yuantong-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple at Leiba village in Yusi town, in the countryside of northern Luxian, also known as Yuantong Chanlin; it was founded in 1506 and rebuilt in 1608 under the Ming dynasty. Behind an archway gate inscribed with the temple's name stand a front hall and a middle hall, both with double-eaved hip-and-gable roofs, the middle hall resting on four stone columns over 6 metres tall; the Luzhou government describes it as the county's only surviving Ming temple building. It was listed as a provincial heritage site in 2002 and as a national one in 2019, and can be paired with the Ming-dynasty Longnao Bridge, about 5 km to the south."},{"id":"yuchan-mountain-cliff-carvings","name":"Yuchan Mountain Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"玉蟾山摩崖造像","pinyin":"Yùchán Shān Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":29.1397,"lon":105.3837,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuchan-mountain-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill beside Luxian county town holding more than 400 Ming-dynasty cliff carvings, begun in the Yongle reign. The best-known niche is a Thousand-Armed Guanyin more than 5 metres tall above a small relief of nine dragons bathing the infant Buddha, and another shows the Eighteen Arhats crossing the sea."},{"id":"luzhou-zhangba-longan-grove","name":"Zhangba Longan Grove","name_zh":"张坝桂圆林","pinyin":"Zhāngbà Guìyuán Lín","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Luzhou","lat":28.8836,"lon":105.4758,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luzhou-zhangba-longan-grove","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large grove of old longan trees in the Qiancao area of Jiangyang district, Luzhou, planted in the Qing dynasty and listed as a Sichuan provincial protected cultural relic in 2007. Now a 4A scenic area on the edge of the city, it hosts an annual longan festival and makes an easy stroll from the centre."},{"id":"meishan-baoen-temple","name":"Bao'en Temple, Meishan","name_zh":"报恩寺","pinyin":"Bào'ēn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.9175,"lon":103.8536,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meishan-baoen-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village temple south of Meishan founded in the Tang, of which only the main hall survives, built in 1327 under the Yuan and extensively repaired in 1761. Its beam-frame timber structure and single-eaved hip-and-gable roof preserve Song-style building methods, making it a rare survivor for architecture enthusiasts."},{"id":"meishan-china-pickle-city","name":"China Pickle City, Meishan","name_zh":"中国泡菜城","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Pàocài Chéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.0295,"lon":103.8516,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meishan-china-pickle-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An industrial zone in Chongli, Dongpo District, where about a hundred companies in the Sichuan pickle (paocai) industry are clustered, run as a 4A industrial-tourism area. Visitors can see the China Paocai Museum, opened in 2012, upgraded in 2018 and described as the country's only museum devoted to pickles, walk a pickle-themed shopping street and view some factory production lines. It suits food-minded travellers already visiting Meishan."},{"id":"danling-white-pagoda","name":"Danling White Pagoda","name_zh":"丹棱白塔","pinyin":"Dānléng Báitǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.0169,"lon":103.5005,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danling-white-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty pagoda in Danling town, known locally as the White Pagoda and protected as a national heritage site since 2013. It is a quick stop when visiting the Tang cliff carvings at Zhengshan and Liuzui to the west of town."},{"id":"renshou-ganquan-temple","name":"Ganquan Temple, Renshou","name_zh":"甘泉寺","pinyin":"Gānquán Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.829,"lon":104.4053,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renshou-ganquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty temple in the countryside of south-eastern Renshou County, protected as a national heritage site since 2013. It lies only a few kilometres from the Shuangbao memorial arches, and the two can be visited together."},{"id":"renshou-heilongtan-reservoir","name":"Heilongtan Reservoir","name_zh":"黑龙滩","pinyin":"Hēilóngtān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.0353,"lon":104.0492,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renshou-heilongtan-reservoir","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir in the hills of Renshou County, completed in 1972 and fed by the Dongfeng Canal, which carries water from the Dujiangyan irrigation system. The lake and its hilly shoreline were made a provincial scenic area in 1986 and make an easy rural outing from Chengdu."},{"id":"pengshan-jiangkou-cliff-tombs","name":"Jiangkou Cliff Tombs","name_zh":"江口崖墓","pinyin":"Jiāngkǒu Yámù","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.2189,"lon":103.9035,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengshan-jiangkou-cliff-tombs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"More than 4,500 Han-dynasty tombs cut into the cliffs and hillsides around Jiangkou, spread over some 30 km² beside the Min River. The site museum, the Jiangkou Han Cliff Tomb Museum, presents the tombs and what was found in them, a good introduction to Han burial customs in Sichuan."},{"id":"hongya-liujiang-ancient-town","name":"Liujiang Ancient Town","name_zh":"柳江古镇","pinyin":"Liǔjiāng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.717,"lon":103.2326,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hongya-liujiang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town in the hills of western Hongya County, with timber stilt houses along its river and lanes of older shops and homes. Its best-known building is Zengjiayuan, a family mansion completed in 1937 and now a national heritage site. The town lies on the way to Mount Wawu and is often combined with it."},{"id":"renshou-maoshui-carvings","name":"Maoshui Village Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"冒水村摩崖造像","pinyin":"Màoshuǐ Cūn Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.9809,"lon":104.0419,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renshou-maoshui-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Six niches with 22 figures carved between the Song and Qing dynasties in a gully called Dafogou near Yucheng, Renshou County. Most are Buddhist, but Confucian figures and Li Bing, the builder of Dujiangyan revered as a local deity, also appear. The best-known niche shows the Buddha preaching and is nicknamed the 'flower-holding Buddha'."},{"id":"mount-wawu","name":"Mount Wawu","name_zh":"瓦屋山","pinyin":"Wǎwū Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.6417,"lon":102.9417,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mount-wawu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flat-topped mountain in south-western Hongya County whose long, roof-like summit plateau gives it its name, 'Tiled House Mountain'. Its slopes are protected as a national forest park and rise to 2,830 m above sea level, making it a cool, forested escape from the Sichuan Basin in summer."},{"id":"renshou-nengren-temple-carvings","name":"Nengren Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"能仁寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Néngrén Sì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.9464,"lon":104.3955,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renshou-nengren-temple-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Buddhist cliff carvings from the Tang and Song dynasties at Nengren Temple in eastern Renshou County, protected as a national heritage site since 2013. They belong to the network of rock-carved shrines found across this part of central Sichuan."},{"id":"pengshan-pengzu-mountain","name":"Pengzu Mountain","name_zh":"彭祖山","pinyin":"Péngzǔ Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.2238,"lon":103.9336,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengshan-pengzu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill in Pengshan District linked to Pengzu, a figure of Chinese legend said to have lived for about 800 years and revered as a symbol of long life. The scenic area includes a tomb and shrine attributed to him, a grove and the neighbouring Xiannü (Fairy) Mountain."},{"id":"renshou-city-wetland-park","name":"Renshou City Wetland Park","name_zh":"仁寿城市湿地公园","pinyin":"Rénshòu Chéngshì Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.0019,"lon":104.1728,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renshou-city-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A public wetland park in Renshou county town, one link in a chain of waterways and parks the county has laid out through the town. It has open water and wetland planting with shaded footpaths, and a musical fountain plays on weekend and holiday evenings. It is a local leisure park, worth a stroll if you are staying in Renshou."},{"id":"renshou-giant-buddha","name":"Renshou Giant Buddha","name_zh":"仁寿大佛","pinyin":"Rénshòu Dàfó","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.2562,"lon":104.1711,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renshou-giant-buddha","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Tang-dynasty Buddha carved into the hillside at Niujiaozhai in northern Renshou County, surrounded by more than a hundred smaller niches. The carvings are spread over two areas, Niujiaozhai and Tanshenyan, and include Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian figures. It sees far fewer visitors than the Leshan Giant Buddha."},{"id":"meishan-sansu-shrine","name":"Sansu Shrine","name_zh":"三苏祠","pinyin":"Sānsū Cí","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.0432,"lon":103.8297,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/meishan-sansu-shrine/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former family home of the Song-dynasty writers Su Xun and his sons Su Shi (Su Dongpo) and Su Zhe, turned into a memorial shrine in the early Yuan and now run as a museum. Red walls enclose ponds, bamboo and old trees, with halls holding statues of the Su family, an old well, an inkstone-washing pond and a collection of calligraphy and paintings. It was badly damaged in the 2013 Lushan earthquake and reopened after repairs in 2016."},{"id":"renshou-shuangbao-arches","name":"Shuangbao Memorial Arches","name_zh":"双堡牌坊","pinyin":"Shuāngbǎo Páifāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.8434,"lon":104.4282,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renshou-shuangbao-arches","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two stone memorial arches standing 44.5 m apart in the countryside of south-eastern Renshou County, erected in 1881 to honour two widowed women of the local Xu family for their chastity and filial devotion. Their faces are carved with 339 niches showing opera scenes, folk tales, animals, birds and flowers, a fine example of late-Qing stone carving."},{"id":"danling-zhengshan-liuzui-carvings","name":"Zhengshan and Liuzui Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"郑山、刘嘴摩崖造像","pinyin":"Zhèngshān Liúzuǐ Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":30.0353,"lon":103.4151,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danling-zhengshan-liuzui-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tang-dynasty Buddhist niches carved into large boulders at two neighbouring spots, Zhengshan and Liuzui, in the hills west of Danling town. Locals call them the 'big boulder' carvings, and the two groups are close enough to see in one visit."},{"id":"qingshen-zhongyan-carvings","name":"Zhongyan Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"中岩寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Zhōngyán Sì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Meishan","lat":29.7647,"lon":103.8378,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingshen-zhongyan-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Buddhist cliff carvings dating from the Tang to the Qing, some 48 niches spread among the upper, middle and lower temples of Zhongyan, a wooded hill on the east bank of the Min River south of Qingshen town. Zhongyan is associated with Su Dongpo, who studied here as a young man, and rock inscriptions attributed to him and to Huang Tingjian survive on the site."},{"id":"anzhou-baishui-lake","name":"Baishui Lake, Anzhou","name_zh":"白水湖","pinyin":"Báishuǐ Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.5254,"lon":104.2602,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anzhou-baishui-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill reservoir at Jushui in western Anzhou District, where 23 islands break up some 3,000 mu (about 2 km²) of water into inlets and channels. Several episodes of the sequel to the television series Journey to the West were filmed here in 1999. It is a national water-conservancy scenic area and 4A site, usually visited together with nearby Mount Luofu."},{"id":"pingwu-baoen-temple","name":"Bao'en Temple, Pingwu","name_zh":"报恩寺","pinyin":"Bào'ēn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":32.4111,"lon":104.529,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingwu-baoen-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Built between 1440 and 1446 by the local chieftain Wang Xi, this Buddhist monastery in Pingwu town is a remarkably well-preserved Ming complex whose timber frames are all of nanmu wood. Highlights are a nine-metre wooden statue of the thousand-armed Guanyin and a great octagonal revolving sutra cabinet that still turns, along with Ming murals and sculpture."},{"id":"beichuan-qiang-city","name":"Beichuan Qiang City and Earthquake Ruins","name_zh":"北川羌城","pinyin":"Běichuān Qiāngchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.5953,"lon":104.4598,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beichuan-qiang-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beichuan, China's only Qiang autonomous county, was devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and this area links the rebuilt county town at Yongchang with the memorial sites of the disaster. The new town has the Qiang Folk Museum, devoted to the culture of the Qiang people, while about 25 km to the north the ruins of the old county town are preserved as a memorial beside the 5·12 Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial museum."},{"id":"mianyang-bishui-temple-carvings","name":"Bishui Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"碧水寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Bìshuǐ Sì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.4736,"lon":104.7521,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianyang-bishui-temple-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"About 25 Tang-dynasty Buddhist niches carved into the rock at Bishui Temple, on the east bank of the Fu River in central Mianyang. A 2007 survey found that some show the early-Tang style of the capital Chang'an, and one depicts Amitabha with fifty-two bodhisattvas."},{"id":"jiangyou-foye-cave","name":"Foye Cave","name_zh":"佛爷洞","pinyin":"Fóyé Dòng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.8339,"lon":104.6997,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyou-foye-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst cave in Dakang town, north-west of Jiangyou, with chambers of stalactites, stalagmites and rimstone pools and an underground river toured by boat. Its name refers to a Buddha-like stalagmite said to have been found in the underground river in the Republican era, and it is promoted as a filming location for the 1986 television series Journey to the West."},{"id":"yanting-hualin-temple","name":"Hualin Temple, Yanting","name_zh":"花林寺","pinyin":"Huālín Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.369,"lon":105.5348,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanting-hualin-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main hall of a former temple in Huoxing village, Fuyi town, in north-eastern Yanting County, originally called Doushuai Temple; ink inscriptions on its beams, read with infrared photography in 2015, date it to 1311 under the Yuan dynasty. Despite Ming and Qing repairs it keeps its Yuan timber frame, rare in Sichuan, in which a single beam more than 11 metres long spans the whole front. The hall stands on a raised platform under a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof and is the only old building left of the temple."},{"id":"anzhou-kaixi-temple","name":"Kaixi Temple","name_zh":"开禧寺","pinyin":"Kāixǐ Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.444,"lon":104.4425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anzhou-kaixi-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Tashui, in Anzhou district west of Mianyang, whose surviving buildings date mainly from the Ming dynasty. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 and suits travellers with a special interest in old temple architecture."},{"id":"jiangyou-li-bai-memorial-hall","name":"Li Bai Memorial Hall","name_zh":"李白纪念馆","pinyin":"Lǐ Bái Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.7816,"lon":104.7365,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyou-li-bai-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum and Tang-style garden beside the Changming River in Jiangyou, dedicated to the Tang poet Li Bai, who grew up nearby. Halls and pavilions around a lotus pool present his life and work, and the main Taibai Hall holds a statue of the poet; Taibai Park adjoins the site."},{"id":"jiangyou-li-bai-former-residence","name":"Li Bai's Former Residence, Qinglian","name_zh":"李白故居","pinyin":"Lǐ Bái Gùjū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.674,"lon":104.6905,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangyou-li-bai-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qinglian is traditionally held to be the boyhood home of Li Bai, whose family is said to have settled here around 705, when he was about five. The site groups the Longxi Yuan, where he is said to have studied as a child, with the Taibai Shrine, the Fenzhu Lou and other places tied to his family. The Longxi Yuan was founded in the Northern Song, rebuilt under the Qing and badly damaged in the 2008 earthquake."},{"id":"zitong-li-ye-que","name":"Li Ye Que","name_zh":"李业阙","pinyin":"Lǐ Yè Què","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.6242,"lon":105.1535,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zitong-li-ye-que/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The single surviving pillar of the funerary que of Li Ye, an official who lived at the turn of the Western and Eastern Han, is thought to date from the start of the Eastern Han and is regarded as the earliest of China's surviving Han que. Only the base and the 2.45-metre shaft remain, inscribed in clerical script, and it stands under a protective pavilion in the Li Jieshi Shrine, where it was moved in 1845, at the foot of Changqing Mountain."},{"id":"youxian-maan-temple","name":"Ma'an Temple","name_zh":"马鞍寺","pinyin":"Mǎ'ān Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.4733,"lon":105.0332,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/youxian-maan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty temple in Liujia town, in rural eastern Youxian district, Mianyang, whose buildings line up along a single axis: a two-storey opera tower of 1867, the Hall of the Heavenly Kings of 1702, the main hall of 1750, and Guanyin and Jade Emperor halls behind. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 and lies a few kilometres from Yuquan Temple."},{"id":"mianyang-science-museum","name":"Mianyang Science and Technology Museum","name_zh":"绵阳科技馆","pinyin":"Miányáng Kējìguǎn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.4822,"lon":104.7698,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianyang-science-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mianyang's science museum reflects the city's role as China's 'Science City', home to the national nuclear weapons research academy, and is themed on the 'Two Bombs, One Satellite' programme. Its three floors cover missiles, aviation and spaceflight, satellites, nuclear weapons and nuclear technology, and science in Mianyang, and there is a digital dome cinema."},{"id":"jiangyou-douchuan-mountain","name":"Mount Douchuan and Yunyan Temple","name_zh":"窦圌山","pinyin":"Dòuchuán Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.9101,"lon":104.807,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangyou-douchuan-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mount Douchuan rises above the east bank of the Fu River north of Jiangyou, its bare rock summit peaks linked by suspended iron chains. Yunyan Temple, where Buddhist and Taoist worship have long been combined, spreads over the slopes; its Feitian Zang hall, described as the only surviving Song-dynasty building in south-west China, houses a revolving Taoist sutra cabinet built in 1181."},{"id":"beichuan-jiuhuang-mountain","name":"Mount Jiuhuang","name_zh":"九皇山","pinyin":"Jiǔhuáng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.9278,"lon":104.6795,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beichuan-jiuhuang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone mountain area in eastern Beichuan County known for the Ape King Cave and other karst caves. A cable car serves the slopes, and the scenic area adds walkways and Qiang-style buildings."},{"id":"anzhou-luofu-mountain","name":"Mount Luofu, Anzhou","name_zh":"罗浮山","pinyin":"Luófú Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.5904,"lon":104.3385,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anzhou-luofu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An isolated, steep and wooded hill in western Anzhou District, raised from an ancient seabed by tectonic movement, which in mist seems to float in the clouds. Close by are the Luofushan hot-spring resort and the Feiming Chan Monastery, a Buddhist site founded in the Tang dynasty. It is mainly a hot-spring and walking weekend destination for people from Mianyang."},{"id":"beichuan-xunlong-mountain","name":"Mount Xunlong","name_zh":"寻龙山","pinyin":"Xúnlóng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.6267,"lon":104.4279,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beichuan-xunlong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small scenic area of eroded conglomerate rock beside the new Beichuan county town, with rock forests, a waterfall and a cave explored by boat. It also has Longyin Town, a film-set street built in the style of a Republican-era Sichuan town."},{"id":"mianyang-pingyang-que","name":"Pingyang Fujun Que","name_zh":"平阳府君阙","pinyin":"Píngyáng Fǔjūn Què","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.482,"lon":104.7691,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mianyang-pingyang-que","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rare surviving pair of Eastern Han stone que, ceremonial pillar-gates, standing about 27 m apart beside the Furong Stream in front of the new Mianyang Museum. Each que has a main and a subsidiary tower carved to imitate timber architecture, and the pair was among the first sites placed under national protection in 1961."},{"id":"santai-qijiang-cliff-tombs","name":"Qijiang Cliff Tombs","name_zh":"郪江崖墓群","pinyin":"Qījiāng Yámù Qún","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":30.7657,"lon":105.0883,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/santai-qijiang-cliff-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hills around Qijiang, an old town in southern Santai County on the site of the ancient state of Qi, hold a large group of Han-dynasty tombs cut into the cliffs, with more than 1,600 recorded. Part of the Jinzhongshan group, on the hillside at the western end of the old town, is open to visitors, and the town's old streets are worth a stroll."},{"id":"jiangyou-qinglinkou-old-town","name":"Qinglinkou Old Town","name_zh":"青林口古镇","pinyin":"Qīnglínkǒu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":32.0195,"lon":105.1286,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiangyou-qinglinkou-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small Qing-dynasty market town in the hills north-east of Jiangyou, on the Qingyun Creek near the Tong River. Its centrepiece is the Heyi or Red Army Bridge, a three-arched stone bridge topped by a timber gallery; the town also keeps a Wenchang temple, a Guangdong–Fujian guild hall, an old opera stage and slogans carved by the Red Army's Fourth Front Army in 1935."},{"id":"zitong-qiqushan-temple","name":"Qiqushan Temple","name_zh":"七曲山大庙","pinyin":"Qīqū Shān Dàmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.6974,"lon":105.1938,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zitong-qiqushan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple complex on Qiqu Mountain just north of Zitong, founded as a shrine to the local deity Zhang Yazi and rebuilt as a Wenchang Palace after he was honoured as Wenchang, god of literature, in the early Yuan dynasty. Its 23 halls and pavilions date mainly from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and climb the hillside in an informal layout, surrounded by more than 20,000 ancient cypresses."},{"id":"santai-tongchuan-city-wall","name":"Tongchuan City Wall","name_zh":"潼川古城墙","pinyin":"Tóngchuān Gǔ Chéngqiáng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.0848,"lon":105.0866,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=santai-tongchuan-city-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Santai was the seat of Tongchuan prefecture, and more than 2 km of its city wall survive. First built in the Ming Jiajing era and rebuilt from 1767 under the Qianlong emperor, the wall is about 6 m high and 9.8 m thick and had gates on all four sides."},{"id":"zitong-two-bombs-city","name":"Two Bombs City","name_zh":"两弹城","pinyin":"Liǎngdàn Chéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.6289,"lon":105.1358,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zitong-two-bombs-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From 1969 to 1992 this compound at the foot of Changqing Mountain was the headquarters of the Ninth Academy, now the China Academy of Engineering Physics, the institute that developed China's nuclear weapons. Its preserved buildings include the auditorium, the headquarters offices, the archive and the house where the physicist Deng Jiaxian lived, and the Sichuan Two Bombs City Museum, opened to the public in 2024, presents the history of the nuclear weapons programme."},{"id":"beichuan-weiste-agricultural-park","name":"Weiste Agricultural Park, Beichuan","name_zh":"维斯特农业观光园","pinyin":"Wéisītè Nóngyè Guānguāng Yuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.6133,"lon":104.449,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=beichuan-weiste-agricultural-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern-farming showcase on the edge of Yongchang, the new Beichuan county town built after the 2008 earthquake. Smart greenhouses form a miniature eco-farm displaying mountain crops and farming technology, and hot-spring and hotel facilities are attached. It suits families and school groups more than general sightseers."},{"id":"yanting-wenxing-temple","name":"Wenxing Temple, Yanting","name_zh":"文星庙","pinyin":"Wénxīng Miào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.4133,"lon":105.2806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanting-wenxing-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty temple in Exi village, in what is now Exi town in rural Yanting County, whose main hall carries beam inscriptions dated to the first year of the Longqing reign (1567). The single-eaved hip-and-gable hall, about 12 metres square, keeps its bracket sets in their original form, with the tips of the slanting cantilever arms curled up like elephant trunks, and inside is a wall painting dated 1726. It is one of several early timber halls in Yanting County, along with the Yuan-dynasty main hall of Hualin Temple."},{"id":"zitong-wolongshan-thousand-buddha-cliff","name":"Wolongshan Thousand Buddha Cliff","name_zh":"卧龙山千佛岩","pinyin":"Wòlóng Shān Qiānfó Yán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.6535,"lon":105.054,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zitong-wolongshan-thousand-buddha-cliff","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A single boulder of white quartz sandstone carved on all four sides with Buddhist niches: rows of small 'thousand Buddha' niches on the south face and Buddha triads on the east and west faces. An inscription beside the west niche is dated 634, early in the Tang dynasty, so the site serves as a yardstick for dating Tang carving in Sichuan, and it was among the first sites chosen for Sichuan's rural grotto culture parks."},{"id":"mianyang-xianhai-lake","name":"Xianhai Lake, Mianyang","name_zh":"仙海","pinyin":"Xiānhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.5481,"lon":104.8536,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mianyang-xianhai-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake about 15 km east of central Mianyang, formed by the Chenkang Reservoir of the Wudu irrigation scheme and run as a national water-conservancy scenic area and 4A resort. The lake covers about 7 km² within a 75 km² scenic zone, with a lakeside boardwalk, cycle paths, water-sports facilities and lakeside hotels, and its water is kept clean enough to meet China's Grade II standard. It is a weekend retreat for Mianyang residents and an easy half-day out from the city."},{"id":"beichuan-yaowang-valley","name":"Yaowang Valley, Beichuan","name_zh":"药王谷","pinyin":"Yàowáng Gǔ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.8991,"lon":104.6763,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/beichuan-yaowang-valley/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain valley in Beichuan run as a 4A wellness area themed on traditional Chinese medicine. It covers about 15 km² at an average altitude of around 1,400 m, with more than 160 kinds of medicinal herbs grown on its slopes and about 1,800 century-old magnolia (xinyi) trees that flower white to purple each April. It suits a cool-weather walk or a spring blossom trip from Mianyang."},{"id":"mianyang-yuewang-tower","name":"Yuewang Tower","name_zh":"越王楼","pinyin":"Yuèwáng Lóu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.4721,"lon":104.7533,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mianyang-yuewang-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The first Yuewang Tower was built on Gui Hill in 656 by Li Zhen, Prince of Yue and a son of Emperor Taizong, and was praised by poets including Du Fu before being destroyed and rebuilt several times. The present 99-metre tower, completed in 2010, is a modern reconstruction in Tang style and a landmark above the Fu River; the riverside parks of the Three Rivers Peninsula belong to the same scenic area."},{"id":"santai-yuntai-temple","name":"Yuntai Taoist Temple","name_zh":"云台观","pinyin":"Yúntái Guàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":30.7889,"lon":105.083,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/santai-yuntai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Taoist temple complex on Yuntai Mountain in southern Santai County, founded by a Taoist hermit early in the 13th century under the Southern Song. Its Ming and Qing buildings, including the Xuantian Palace (Zhenwu Hall), a sutra library and bell and drum towers, stretch for about a kilometre from the gate to the main hall. It combines well with the Qijiang cliff tombs and old town nearby."},{"id":"youxian-yuquan-temple","name":"Yuquan Temple","name_zh":"鱼泉寺","pinyin":"Yúquán Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.4865,"lon":105.0074,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=youxian-yuquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural temple in Dongxuan, in eastern Youxian district, Mianyang, whose main hall dates from the Ming dynasty and whose gate and other buildings, with carved timber bracket sets, are Qing. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 and lies a few kilometres from Ma'an Temple."},{"id":"santai-zunsheng-temple","name":"Zunsheng Temple","name_zh":"尊胜寺","pinyin":"Zūnshèng Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Mianyang","lat":31.1923,"lon":105.0108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=santai-zunsheng-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple north-west of Santai town whose surviving buildings, centred on a timber main hall, date from the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"langzhong-baba-mosque","name":"Baba Mosque","name_zh":"巴巴寺","pinyin":"Bābā Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.59,"lon":105.9745,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/langzhong-baba-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mosque and Sufi shrine of the Qadiriyya order on Panlong Mountain, just north of Langzhong old town. It grew from the tomb pavilion that disciples built for the Sufi teacher Khoja Abd Allah, who came to preach in Langzhong in 1684 and died in 1689; the present buildings are Qing, and it was listed as a national monument in 2013."},{"id":"langzhong-daxiangshan-buddha","name":"Daxiangshan Giant Buddha, Langzhong","name_zh":"大像山摩崖造像","pinyin":"Dàxiàng Shān Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.5785,"lon":105.9917,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/langzhong-daxiangshan-buddha/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddha almost 10 m tall, carved in the Tang dynasty into Daxiang ('Great Image') Mountain across the Jialing River from Langzhong old town, at the site of the Dafo Si (Great Buddha Temple). The cliffs around it carry further carvings dating from the Tang to the Qing, and below the summit is the cave where, by tradition, the three Chen brothers of the Northern Song, two of whom became top examination graduates, studied as boys."},{"id":"zhu-de-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Zhu De","name_zh":"朱德故居","pinyin":"Zhū Dé Gùjū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.4722,"lon":106.6067,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhu-de-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace and childhood home of Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Red Army and later one of the ten marshals of the People's Republic, in Linlang village, Ma'an town, Yilong County. The scenic area takes in the site where he was born in 1886, the farmhouse where the family later lived, a memorial hall on his life opened in 1982, and the Ding family manor, a large landlord's estate in the same village built between about 1906 and 1925."},{"id":"nanbu-guanyin-temple-hall","name":"Guanyin Temple Main Hall, Nanbu","name_zh":"观音庵大殿","pinyin":"Guānyīn Ān Dàdiàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.2392,"lon":106.0461,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanbu-guanyin-temple-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The listed main hall of Guanyin'an, a Buddhist temple in the countryside south of Nanbu county town, is a timber building of the Ming dynasty. It is valued for its bracket sets, more elaborate than those of other Sichuan halls of the same period and carved with floral decoration under the front eaves, and for building methods that follow those of the area's Yuan-period halls."},{"id":"nanbu-lifeng-temple","name":"Lifeng Taoist Temple","name_zh":"醴峰观","pinyin":"Lǐfēng Guàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.4323,"lon":105.5629,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanbu-lifeng-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple on Datongluo Mountain in Daping town, western Nanbu County, whose main hall was built in 1307 under the Yuan dynasty and is the oldest building in Sichuan with a dated inscription. The complex also keeps its gate, east and west ranges, a worship hall and the Huangniang (Empress) Hall, with later buildings dating up to the Republican era."},{"id":"jialing-qibao-temple","name":"Qibao Temple","name_zh":"七宝寺","pinyin":"Qībǎo Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":30.8788,"lon":105.7981,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jialing-qibao-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop complex above the Xixi river in western Jialing district, rebuilt as a Buddhist temple in 1518 and turned into the Nanchi Academy in 1742 by a local scholar. Its courtyards climb a south–north axis through a stone gateway and temple halls to the Wenchang and Kuixing towers and the academy buildings at the back, which housed a school from 1912 until a new one was built elsewhere. The district heritage office describes it as the largest old academy complex in north-east Sichuan."},{"id":"nanbu-shengzhong-lake","name":"Shengzhong Lake","name_zh":"升钟湖","pinyin":"Shēngzhōng Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.5689,"lon":105.6527,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanbu-shengzhong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir among the hills of Nanbu County, created by a dam begun in the 1970s, with a long, branching shoreline of wooded peninsulas and islands. It is best known in China for angling and hosts an annual international fishing competition. Boat trips on the lake suit those who do not fish."},{"id":"langzhong-tiangong-yuan","name":"Tiangong Yuan","name_zh":"天宫院","pinyin":"Tiāngōng Yuàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.4625,"lon":105.8622,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=langzhong-tiangong-yuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple in the countryside south-west of Langzhong dedicated to Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, two Tang-dynasty astrologers revered as masters of feng shui, who according to local legend chose their burial places here. The present buildings date from a Ming rebuilding of 1459, and Li Chunfeng's tomb lies on Wulongtai hill to the south. The scenic area adds a feng shui compass plaza and an old street."},{"id":"langzhong-wulong-temple-wenchang-pavilion","name":"Wenchang Pavilion of Wulong Temple","name_zh":"五龙庙文昌阁","pinyin":"Wǔlóng Miào Wénchāng Gé","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.6654,"lon":105.7282,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/langzhong-wulong-temple-wenchang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Wenchang Pavilion of the Wulong (Five Dragons) Temple stands at the foot of Wulong Mountain in Helou township, in the countryside north-west of Langzhong; the temple was founded in the Tang and rebuilt under the Yuan. Despite repairs in the Ming and Qing, the timber pavilion keeps its Yuan structural frame and is one of the few Yuan wooden buildings left in Sichuan."},{"id":"nanchong-wuliang-pagoda","name":"Wuliang Pagoda","name_zh":"无量宝塔","pinyin":"Wúliàng Bǎotǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":30.7876,"lon":106.097,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nanchong-wuliang-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Nanchong's White Pagoda, a brick pagoda modelled on timber construction, stands on Heming Mountain in Gaoping District, looking across the Jialing River to the city centre. Its date is disputed, with proposals ranging from the late Tang to the Southern Song, but it is regarded as the earliest of Sichuan's Song-era pagodas and a record of the shift from Tang to Song design. The hill around it is laid out as the Heming Mountain park, with walks and river views."},{"id":"xichong-confucian-temple","name":"Xichong Confucian Temple","name_zh":"西充文庙","pinyin":"Xīchōng Wénmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":30.9885,"lon":105.89,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xichong-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former county Confucian temple of Xichong, built for the official cult of Confucius and the local state school, in the county town north-west of Nanchong. Its surviving buildings date from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it was listed as a national monument in 2013."},{"id":"nanchong-xishan","name":"Xishan Scenic Area, Nanchong","name_zh":"西山风景区","pinyin":"Xīshān Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":30.7791,"lon":106.0656,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanchong-xishan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A chain of wooded hills on the western edge of Nanchong's Shunqing district, laid out as a large park with paths, temples and views over the city. Its best-known building is the Wanjuan Lou, a library tower honouring Chen Shou, the Nanchong-born historian who wrote the Records of the Three Kingdoms; other sights include Qile Temple, a cluster of Eastern Han cliff tombs and the former headquarters of the Shunlu Uprising of the 1920s."},{"id":"nanbu-yongan-temple-hall","name":"Yong'an Temple Main Hall, Nanbu","name_zh":"永安庙大殿","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Miào Dàdiàn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.5058,"lon":105.4761,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanbu-yongan-temple-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small timber hall standing in fields in north-western Nanbu County, the one old building left of a temple founded in the Tang that later became the ancestral temple of the local Du family. The hip-and-gable hall, three bays wide, is dated to the Yuan or the very start of the Ming and is one of the few buildings of that age surviving in Sichuan, notable for its massive timbers and elaborate bracket sets. The gate and side rooms around it are modern."},{"id":"langzhong-yongan-temple","name":"Yong'an Temple, Langzhong","name_zh":"永安寺","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.4929,"lon":106.2133,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/langzhong-yongan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural temple in the hills east of Langzhong, founded in the Tang, whose main hall was built in 1333 under the Yuan and is one of Sichuan's rare Yuan-era timber buildings. Interior columns were omitted to open up the hall, whose Yuan mural of the Eight Classes of Divine Beings was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution and later recreated from surviving photographs; the gate, Guanyin tower and side halls are Qing."},{"id":"nanbu-yujishan-buddha","name":"Yujishan Giant Buddha","name_zh":"禹迹山大佛","pinyin":"Yǔjì Shān Dàfó","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.4211,"lon":106.1766,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanbu-yujishan-buddha","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tang-dynasty standing Buddha about 17.5 m tall, carved almost entirely in the round from the rock of Yuji Mountain at Beiyuan, in eastern Nanbu County, and described as the largest round-carved standing stone Buddha in China. It is also known as the Beiyuan Buddha, after the town below the mountain."},{"id":"langzhong-yutai-stone-pagoda","name":"Yutai Mountain Stone Pagoda","name_zh":"玉台山石塔","pinyin":"Yùtái Shān Shítǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.6112,"lon":105.9609,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/langzhong-yutai-stone-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tang-dynasty stone pagoda on Yutai Mountain just north of Langzhong, also known as the Tengwang Pavilion pagoda after the pavilion built on the hill by the Tang prince Li Yuanying, Prince of Teng. The hilltop is laid out as the Tengwang Pavilion park, looking south over the old town and the Jialing, and Du Fu wrote poems about the prince's pavilion during his stay in Langzhong."},{"id":"pengan-zhouzi-ancient-town","name":"Zhouzi Ancient Town, Peng'an","name_zh":"周子古镇","pinyin":"Zhōuzǐ Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Nanchong","lat":31.0379,"lon":106.3984,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengan-zhouzi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside town on the Jialing in Peng'an County, named in honour of the Song Neo-Confucian thinker Zhou Dunyi, who is said to have taught here; a shrine to him, a former Jiangxi guild hall and an old wharf survive among its lanes. The wider scenic area covers the river's wetland islands, where in the warmer months hundreds of water buffalo swim out to graze each morning, a sight promoted as the 'hundred oxen crossing the river'."},{"id":"zizhong-chonglong-mountain","name":"Chonglong Mountain, Zizhong","name_zh":"重龙山","pinyin":"Chónglóng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.7814,"lon":104.8528,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zizhong-chonglong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill on the north-eastern edge of Zizhong's old town whose cliffs, known as the North Cliff, carry 172 niches with more than 1,700 Buddhist figures carved from 783 through the late Tang, the Five Dynasties and the Song. Guardian kings, Guanyin and Pure Land scenes are common, and the rock faces also bear centuries of inscriptions, including calligraphy credited to Huang Tingjian and Su Dongpo's characters for the Huanyu Pool, re-carved here in 1928 from his original at Qingshen. Since an upgrade finished in 2025 the carvings can be seen without railings and two pavilions on the hill hold exhibitions; the scenic area also takes in Yongqing Temple near the summit and the Confucian and Guandi temples on Zhuangyuan Street below."},{"id":"longchang-guyu-lake","name":"Guyu Lake, Longchang","name_zh":"古宇湖","pinyin":"Gǔyǔ Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.3332,"lon":105.2321,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longchang-guyu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large reservoir west of Longchang, officially Guyumiao Reservoir, listed as a National Water Conservancy Scenic Area. Its open water draws migratory birds in autumn and winter, including the rare Baer's pochard and black-headed gulls, and visitors can cycle around the lake. It makes an easy add-on to Longchang's stone memorial archways."},{"id":"neijiang-lexian-peninsula","name":"Lexian Peninsula, Neijiang","name_zh":"乐贤半岛","pinyin":"Lèxián Bàndǎo","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.5537,"lon":105.0657,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neijiang-lexian-peninsula","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A peninsula in a loop of the Tuo River on the edge of Neijiang city, laid out as a riverside leisure area. Its Tashan Park has greenway paths with the river on two sides, and the Sanyuan Pagoda on its hill was first built in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt in the Jiaqing reign of the Qing. It suits an easy walk for anyone staying in Neijiang."},{"id":"longchang-stone-arches","name":"Longchang Stone Arches","name_zh":"隆昌石牌坊","pinyin":"Lóngchāng Shí Páifāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.3343,"lon":105.2884,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longchang-stone-arches/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longchang is known for its stone memorial arches (paifang): 17 survive, built between 1496 and the late 19th century to honour upright officials, chaste widows, filial sons and long-lived elders. Most are four-pillar, three-gate bluestone gateways carved in imitation of timber, about 11 metres high, and the main groups stand along the old roads at the town's South and North Gates."},{"id":"luoquan-ancient-town","name":"Luoquan Ancient Town","name_zh":"罗泉古镇","pinyin":"Luóquán Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.8328,"lon":104.5072,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoquan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old salt-making town strung along one long street in the gorge of the Zhuxi River, a tributary of the Tuo, where brine wells were worked for centuries. Its nationally listed Yanshen (Salt God) Temple, a Qing building, honours Guan Zhong as patron of the salt trade alongside Guan Yu and the god of fire, and in August 1911 the town hosted the secret Luoquan meeting that pushed Sichuan's Railway Protection Movement towards armed revolt."},{"id":"neijiang-shengshui-temple","name":"Shengshui Temple, Neijiang","name_zh":"圣水寺","pinyin":"Shèngshuǐ Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.5951,"lon":105.0378,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=neijiang-shengshui-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An active Buddhist monastery on the western side of Neijiang, founded in the 860s–870s under the Tang and named after the spring that flows from the cliff behind it. Its courtyard halls were rebuilt in the Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns of the Qing, and the grounds also hold Han cliff tombs, two Ming memorial arches and about 80 niches of Tang and Song rock carvings with more than 500 figures."},{"id":"weiyuan-shibanhe","name":"Shibanhe Stone River","name_zh":"石板河","pinyin":"Shíbǎn Hé","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.7196,"lon":104.5127,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weiyuan-shibanhe","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shallow river that runs for around 7 km over a bed of solid rock, in the hills of the Weiyuan dome north-west of Weiyuan county. The water is mostly well below knee height, so the open stretch, with rapids and small waterfalls, is popular for wading and stream walks in summer; adventure activities have also been added."},{"id":"weiyuan-world-fig-expo-park","name":"World Fig Expo Park, Weiyuan","name_zh":"世界无花果博览园","pinyin":"Shìjiè Wúhuāguǒ Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.426,"lon":104.698,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weiyuan-world-fig-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An agricultural park in Sifang village, Xiangyi town, built around fig growing, one of Weiyuan County's farm industries. It is described as China's first expo park themed on the fig industry, with dozens of fig varieties planted and a visitor centre, and the village has a small exhibition room on local history and fig growing. It suits families and those interested in farming rather than travellers looking for scenery."},{"id":"xianglongshan-cliff-carvings","name":"Xianglongshan Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"翔龙山摩崖造像","pinyin":"Xiánglóng Shān Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.5822,"lon":105.0551,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianglongshan-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cliff of Buddhist carvings on a small hill in central Neijiang, begun in the Tang dynasty and added to as late as the Republican era. Some 131 niches with 815 figures and 24 inscriptions survive, led by a Tang Thousand-Armed Guanyin over 7 metres tall and a seated Amitabha in a niche 4.5 metres high."},{"id":"zhang-daqian-park","name":"Zhang Daqian Park","name_zh":"大千园","pinyin":"Dàqiān Yuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.5975,"lon":105.0585,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhang-daqian-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop park in Neijiang, the home town of the painter Zhang Daqian (Chang Dai-chien, 1899–1983), one of the best-known Chinese artists of the 20th century. It brings together a memorial hall to his life and the Zhang Daqian Museum, designed by the Barcelona architects EMBT and opened in 2019, beside the old Xilin Temple on the same hill."},{"id":"zizhong-confucian-and-guandi-temples","name":"Zizhong Confucian and Guandi Temples","name_zh":"资中文庙和武庙","pinyin":"Zīzhōng Wénmiào hé Wǔmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Neijiang","lat":29.7836,"lon":104.849,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zizhong-confucian-and-guandi-temples","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zizhong's Confucian temple and its temple to Guan Yu (Wumiao), both mainly Qing buildings, stand about 100 metres apart on Zhuangyuan Street in the old county town, an unusual pairing. The Confucian temple is entered past a screen wall and the Zhuangyuan Bridge to the Dacheng Hall, which keeps a large Ming spirit tablet to Confucius dated 1530, while the Wumiao's green-and-yellow glazed roofs contrast with the Confucian temple's red-brown tiles."},{"id":"panzhihua-ashuda-flower-sea","name":"Ashuda Four Seasons Flower Sea","name_zh":"阿署达四季花海","pinyin":"Āshǔdá Sìjì Huāhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Panzhihua","lat":26.5441,"lon":101.7593,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panzhihua-ashuda-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower park opened in January 2025 on the capped Majiatian tailings reservoir, where the Panzhihua steelworks piled ore waste for about 50 years until it was closed in 2022. More than 400 mu (about 27 hectares) of flower beds ring a central pool, laid out so that from above they form a kapok flower, the tree the city is named after, and there are also a small animal area, a garden restaurant, an open-air music plaza and a shopping street. It suits families and anyone curious to see how an old industrial site has been reused."},{"id":"ertan-national-forest-park","name":"Ertan National Forest Park","name_zh":"二滩国家森林公园","pinyin":"Èrtān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Panzhihua","lat":26.8231,"lon":101.7855,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ertan-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park of steep wooded hills around the reservoir of the Ertan hydropower station on the lower Yalong River. Its 240-metre double-curvature arch dam belongs to what was the largest power station China completed in the 20th century, and the lake shore, forests and viewpoints around it make an easy outing from Panzhihua."},{"id":"gesala","name":"Gesala","name_zh":"格萨拉","pinyin":"Gésàlā","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Panzhihua","lat":27.1678,"lon":101.2631,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gesala","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A high plateau of meadows, forest and limestone country in north-western Yanbian County, on the border with Yunnan, where karst sinkholes, a stone forest and caves are the main sights. It lies around Gesala Yi Ethnic Township, and the culture of the Yi communities who live here is part of the draw."},{"id":"miyi-lisu-terraces","name":"Lisu Terraced Fields, Xinshan","name_zh":"傈僳梯田","pinyin":"Lìsù Tītián","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Panzhihua","lat":26.8274,"lon":102.1171,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=miyi-lisu-terraces","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Terraced fields climbing the hillsides around Xinshan, a Lisu ethnic township in the hills of Miyi County, worked by the Lisu for generations. They are most photogenic in late spring and early summer, when the flooded terraces reflect the sky, and the township also promotes stargazing and Lisu customs."},{"id":"panzhihua-yishala-village","name":"Yishala Village","name_zh":"迤沙拉","pinyin":"Yǐshālā","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Panzhihua","lat":26.2199,"lon":101.8706,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/panzhihua-yishala-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yi village in the dry, hot valley of the Jinsha River near the Yunnan border, listed as a Historical and Cultural Village of China in 2005. Its red-walled, grey-tiled houses with carved eaves show the influence of settlers from Jiangsu and Anhui on the local Lipo Yi, and the village keeps up its own ritual music and sheepskin-drum dance. It was once a staging post on old trade routes into Yunnan."},{"id":"pengxi-baofan-temple","name":"Baofan Temple","name_zh":"宝梵寺","pinyin":"Bǎofàn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.7249,"lon":105.6467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengxi-baofan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small temple in Baofan village, Pengxi County, whose Ming and Qing buildings are a national heritage site. Its main hall holds wall paintings of arhats dated 1466, under the Ming, admired for their flowing brushwork and described as among the finest temple murals in Sichuan; they are the main reason to visit."},{"id":"daying-china-dead-sea","name":"China Dead Sea Resort, Daying","name_zh":"中国死海","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Sǐhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.6004,"lon":105.2456,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daying-china-dead-sea","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A salt-water resort in Daying County built over an ancient underground salt lake around 3,000 m below the surface, whose brine is pumped up to fill its pools. The water is over 22% salt, so bathers float easily as in the Dead Sea, and it comes out of the ground hot enough to be used for thermal pools. It is a family water park; the Zhuotong salt wells nearby show how brine here was once drilled by hand."},{"id":"pengxi-gaofeng-mountain","name":"Gaofeng Mountain","name_zh":"高峰山","pinyin":"Gāofēng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.9181,"lon":105.6462,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pengxi-gaofeng-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop Taoist complex 25 km north of Pengxi, first built in the Tang dynasty and by the late Ming and early Qing regarded as the largest Taoist centre in central, eastern and northern Sichuan, where Confucian and Buddhist worship were also practised. Its surviving temples date mostly from the late Qing and early Republican era, and on the mid-slope a group of buildings is laid out as an eight-trigram (bagua) maze with four gates. A fire in May 2017 destroyed the Sanqing Hall and damaged neighbouring halls, but the maze was not affected."},{"id":"suining-guangde-temple","name":"Guangde Temple, Suining","name_zh":"广德寺","pinyin":"Guǎngdé Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.4947,"lon":105.5651,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suining-guangde-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangde Temple is a working Buddhist monastery on Wolong Hill at the western edge of Suining, founded in the Tang dynasty and renamed several times by imperial order before receiving its present name in the Ming. Its protected buildings span the Song to Qing periods. Suining promotes itself as the legendary home of Guanyin, and the same scenic area includes Lingquan Temple on a hill across the Fu River."},{"id":"suining-guanyin-lake-lotus-expo","name":"Guanyin Lake and World Lotus Expo Garden, Suining","name_zh":"观音湖·世界荷花博览园","pinyin":"Guānyīn Hú · Shìjiè Héhuā Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.5176,"lon":105.5833,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suining-guanyin-lake-lotus-expo","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanyin Lake is the stretch of the Fu River held back by the Guojundu dam in Suining, now a national wetland park of about 600 ha with three islands. On Shenglian Island, the park's core, the World Lotus Expo Garden grows more than 800 varieties of lotus and water lily from 23 countries and regions, which flower in summer. Visitors walk the island's boardwalks and the lakeshore, mostly in June–August for the lotus."},{"id":"pengxi-huiyan-temple","name":"Huiyan Temple Main Hall","name_zh":"慧严寺","pinyin":"Huìyán Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.4513,"lon":105.6595,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengxi-huiyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Ming-dynasty main hall of Huiyan Temple, a rural temple in the southern part of Pengxi County south-east of Suining, protected as a national heritage site since 2013. It is mainly of interest to those following Sichuan's surviving Ming timber architecture."},{"id":"shehong-jinhua-mountain","name":"Jinhua Mountain & Chen Zi'ang Reading Terrace","name_zh":"金华山陈子昂读书台","pinyin":"Jīnhuá Shān Chén Zǐ'áng Dúshūtái","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.9969,"lon":105.2782,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shehong-jinhua-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jinhua Mountain rises above the Fu River north of Shehong, with a Taoist temple first built in the Southern Liang dynasty and the reading terrace of Chen Zi'ang, an early Tang poet who studied here as a young man. The present terrace buildings were moved to the rear of the hill in the Qing dynasty, and a memorial hall to the poet stands nearby. It makes a quiet visit of temple halls and river views."},{"id":"pengxi-jinxian-temple","name":"Jinxian Temple, Pengxi","name_zh":"金仙寺","pinyin":"Jīnxiān Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.8194,"lon":105.6953,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengxi-jinxian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village temple at Zhoujiadian, just north of Pengxi county town, whose main hall is dated by inscriptions on its beams to 1327, under the Yuan dynasty. The three-bay, single-eaved hip-and-gable hall, about 9 by 16 metres with eight bracket sets under its eaves, keeps its original form and an unusually full set of dated inscriptions, making it a valuable example of Yuan timber building. It can be combined with Pengxi's Baofan Temple, known for its Ming murals, about 11 km to the south-west."},{"id":"suining-longfeng-town","name":"Longfeng Ancient Town, Suining","name_zh":"龙凤古镇","pinyin":"Lóngfèng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.4428,"lon":105.6347,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suining-longfeng-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourist town of about 148 ha beside the Fu River south of central Suining, rated 4A in 2012. Its streets of traditional-style buildings hold shops, workshops and small venues, including a storytelling hall, an archery range, an apothecary, a wine shop and a square dedicated to the Guanyin legend, presenting themes from Guanyin worship to old market-town life. It is best for an evening stroll and snacks."},{"id":"pengxi-kui-pagoda","name":"Pengxi Kui Pagoda","name_zh":"蓬溪奎塔","pinyin":"Péngxī Kuítǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.7766,"lon":105.7066,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengxi-kui-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty pagoda in Pengxi's county town, named after Kui, the star traditionally linked with literary and examination success. It stands a few hundred metres from the Song-dynasty White Pagoda of Jiufeng Temple, so the two are easily seen together."},{"id":"pengxi-white-pagoda","name":"Pengxi White Pagoda","name_zh":"蓬溪白塔","pinyin":"Péngxī Báitǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.7769,"lon":105.704,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pengxi-white-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty pagoda that once belonged to Jiufeng Temple, standing in Chicheng, the county town of Pengxi, where it is known as the White Pagoda. The Qing-dynasty Kui Pagoda stands only a few hundred metres away, so the two are easily seen together."},{"id":"anju-qicai-mingzhu","name":"Qicai Mingzhu Rural Park, Anju","name_zh":"七彩明珠","pinyin":"Qīcǎi Míngzhū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.3705,"lon":105.5206,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anju-qicai-mingzhu","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large rural leisure area of about 9,400 mu (some 630 ha) in Yufeng town, Anju District, strung along the G318 road. It is divided into seven clusters, among them flower fields, peach and fruit orchards, farm villages, an egret island and a 'Huang E ancient town' themed on the Ming poet couple Huang E and Yang Shen, and it has a large outdoor training camp. It is a weekend spot for Suining families, with fruit picking in season."},{"id":"shehong-raoyi-temple","name":"Raoyi Temple","name_zh":"饶益寺","pinyin":"Ráoyì Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.7267,"lon":105.3978,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shehong-raoyi-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming and Qing temple in Tuopai, the Shehong town best known for its liquor distillery, protected as a national heritage site since 2013. Its old halls make a short detour for travellers in the Shehong area."},{"id":"shehong-shede-distillery","name":"Shede Liquor Culture Area (Tuopai Distillery), Shehong","name_zh":"舍得酒文化旅游区","pinyin":"Shědé Jiǔ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.737,"lon":105.4111,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shehong-shede-distillery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The distillery of Shede Spirits at Tuopai town in Shehong, maker of the Tuopai and Shede brands of baijiu, opened to visitors as a 4A liquor-culture area. The company traces its roots to the Tai'an workshop of the late Qing dynasty and a distillery founded in 1940, and visitor routes take in brewing and starter-making workshops and the jar cellars where the liquor is aged. It suits travellers curious about how Chinese liquor is made."},{"id":"shehong-petrified-wood-geopark","name":"Shehong Petrified Wood Geopark","name_zh":"射洪硅化木国家地质公园","pinyin":"Shèhóng Guīhuàmù Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.6654,"lon":105.3647,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shehong-petrified-wood-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national geopark in the hills south of Shehong where fossilised tree trunks from the Jurassic period are exposed and protected where they lie. Footpaths lead past the fossil beds, and an on-site museum explains the geology; the scenic area is promoted under a Jurassic theme."},{"id":"daying-songjing-taoyuan","name":"Songjing Taoyuan (Song Well Peach Garden), Daying","name_zh":"宋井桃源","pinyin":"Sòngjǐng Táoyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.4966,"lon":105.1931,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daying-songjing-taoyuan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 4A area (2025) in Zhuotong Well town that pairs the Zhuotong salt-well site, where narrow-bore percussion drilling was developed in the Northern Song (1041–48), with a new Song-dynasty-themed village among peach orchards. The village has inns, craft and food stalls, campsites and well derricks set up in the fields to show the old technique, hosts a peach-blossom food festival and Song-style art events, and a small tourist train links the parts. It suits a half-day combined with the well site itself."},{"id":"daying-zhuotong-wells","name":"Zhuotong Salt Wells","name_zh":"卓筒井","pinyin":"Zhuótǒng Jǐng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Suining","lat":30.5019,"lon":105.1895,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/daying-zhuotong-wells/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Daying is where the zhuotong well, a small-bore salt well drilled by percussion with an iron bit on a wooden frame and lined with large bamboo tubes, was developed in the Qingli era of the Northern Song dynasty (1041–1048). It is often described as the forerunner of modern deep drilling for brine, oil and gas. An exhibition hall in Zhuotongjing town shows the tools used to drill the wells and make salt."},{"id":"shimian-anshunchang","name":"Anshunchang Red Army Crossing Site","name_zh":"安顺场","pinyin":"Ānshùnchǎng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.2736,"lon":102.2833,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shimian-anshunchang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A ferry crossing on the Dadu River where, in May 1935, a small Red Army vanguard crossed by boat under fire during the Long March, opening the way for the advance on Luding Bridge. A memorial hall presents the crossing, and a riverside monument completed in 1983 marks the landing. In 1863 the Taiping general Shi Dakai's army was trapped and destroyed at the same place."},{"id":"yaan-bifengxia","name":"Bifengxia Gorge & Panda Base","name_zh":"碧峰峡","pinyin":"Bìfēng Xiá","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.0743,"lon":102.9937,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaan-bifengxia","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded valley in the hills north of Ya'an that pairs a gorge walk with the Bifengxia base of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Walkways lead through two V-shaped gorges past dozens of waterfalls, while the panda base has received several pandas born in zoos abroad. The scenic area also includes a wildlife park."},{"id":"baoxing-dengchigou","name":"Dengchigou Church & Panda Discovery Site","name_zh":"邓池沟","pinyin":"Dèngchí Gōu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.5352,"lon":102.9411,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoxing-dengchigou/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The valley where the French missionary-naturalist Armand David was based in 1869, when he obtained a giant panda; the specimen he sent to the natural history museum in Paris was the first scientific specimen of the animal. The church he worked from, begun in 1839, survives, its Sichuan-style timber exterior enclosing a Gothic-style interior. It lies in Fengtongzhai township, whose nature reserve is part of the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries World Heritage Site."},{"id":"lushan-fan-min-que","name":"Fan Min Que","name_zh":"樊敏阙","pinyin":"Fán Mǐn Què","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.1283,"lon":102.9311,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lushan-fan-min-que/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone pillar-gate (que) from the tomb of Fan Min, dated to 205 AD in the Eastern Han dynasty, standing about 3 km south of Lushan county town with his memorial stele and other carvings. The que was broken up in the late Qing and reassembled in 1957, partly from original Han stones, using Gao Yi Que as its model. The stele beside it stands on a carved stone tortoise and records Fan Min's career in clerical script."},{"id":"lushan-feixianguan","name":"Feixianguan Pass","name_zh":"飞仙关","pinyin":"Fēixiān Guān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.0262,"lon":102.8935,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-feixianguan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside pass in the mountains west of Ya'an that was a gateway on the Tea Horse Road, the old trade route that carried tea from Sichuan to Tibet. The pass and its Nanjie archway are protected as part of the national Tea Horse Road heritage listing, and the old Feixianguan bridge over the river is a provincial heritage site."},{"id":"yaan-mingde-school-xikang-museum","name":"Former Mingde Middle School (Xikang Museum)","name_zh":"明德中学旧址","pinyin":"Míngdé Zhōngxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.977,"lon":103.0029,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yaan-mingde-school-xikang-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A three-storey brick and stone building in a mix of Chinese and Western Republican-era styles on Zhangjiashan hill in Ya'an, built for the Mingde junior middle school, a mission school funded by the American Baptists and founded by the missionary Frederick N. Smith; the facade still bears the school's name. Since 2017 it has housed the Xikang Museum, which reopened in July 2025 after renovation: the ground-floor galleries follow the former Xikang province, whose capital moved to Ya'an in 1950, and the upper floor covers the history of Yucheng district, including a recreated Republican-era classroom."},{"id":"yaan-gao-yi-que","name":"Gao Yi Que","name_zh":"高颐阙","pinyin":"Gāo Yí Què","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.0233,"lon":103.0528,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yaan-gao-yi-que/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pair of carved stone pillar-gates (que) built in the Jian'an era (196–220) of the Eastern Han dynasty at the tomb of Gao Yi, a governor of Yizhou. The right-hand que survives largely intact, covered in relief carvings and inscriptions, with a pair of winged stone beasts (bixie) in front and the tomb mound behind. The site, now in a small heritage park, was badly damaged in the 2013 Lushan earthquake, after which a conservation plan was approved."},{"id":"hanyuan-huahai-guoxiang","name":"Huahai Guoxiang Orchards, Hanyuan","name_zh":"花海果乡","pinyin":"Huāhǎi Guǒxiāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.4996,"lon":102.6221,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanyuan-huahai-guoxiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An orchard district around Jiuxiang in Hanyuan County, where pear, peach, cherry and apricot trees flower each spring. It takes in the pear-blossom slopes around Jiuxiang, the peach orchards of Shuangxi and Shengou and the Confucian temple at Qingxi. It is mainly a spring blossom destination and can be combined with the Jiuxiang stone archway."},{"id":"yaan-jinfeng-mountain","name":"Jinfeng Mountain & Jinfeng Temple","name_zh":"金凤山","pinyin":"Jīnfèng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.0181,"lon":103.0306,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaan-jinfeng-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill park on the edge of Ya'an city whose slopes hold Jinfeng Temple, a Buddhist temple protected as a Sichuan provincial heritage site. It is an easy short outing from the city centre for a walk among the trees and a look at the temple halls."},{"id":"hanyuan-jiuxiang-stone-archway","name":"Jiuxiang Stone Archway","name_zh":"九襄石牌坊","pinyin":"Jiǔxiāng Shí Páifāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.4911,"lon":102.6217,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanyuan-jiuxiang-stone-archway","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty stone memorial archway (paifang) in Jiuxiang town, Hanyuan county, protected as a national heritage site since 2013. Archways of this kind were raised to honour individuals or families recognised by the state, and their stone frames were often richly carved."},{"id":"yingjing-kaishan-temple","name":"Kaishan Temple, Yingjing","name_zh":"开善寺","pinyin":"Kāishàn Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.7939,"lon":102.8433,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yingjing-kaishan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Yingjing county town, now home to the county museum, whose main hall, built in the Chenghua reign of the Ming in the late 15th century, is one of the few Ming timber buildings left in Sichuan. Some of the hall's bracket timbers are carved as elephants and dragons, and traces of Ming painted decoration survive on its beams. It can be combined with the Yandao ancient city site on the western edge of town."},{"id":"tianquan-labahe-erlang-mountain","name":"Labahe & Mount Erlang","name_zh":"二郎山·喇叭河","pinyin":"Èrláng Shān Lǎba Hé","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.1622,"lon":102.4463,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianquan-labahe-erlang-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested river valley on the eastern side of Mount Erlang in Tianquan county, with trails and a cable car into the higher forest; the Labahe nature reserve here is part of the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries World Heritage Site. Mount Erlang (3,437 m) is the divide between the Qingyi and Dadu rivers; the Sichuan–Tibet highway (G318) crosses it, today through a tunnel."},{"id":"baoxing-lingguan-stone-city","name":"Lingguan Stone City, Baoxing","name_zh":"灵关石城","pinyin":"Língguān Shíchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.246,"lon":102.8306,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoxing-lingguan-stone-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tourism district around Lingguan town in Baoxing County built on the local white-marble industry. It combines a stone-carving park where visitors can watch marble being worked, a stone-products street at a village rebuilt after the 2013 Lushan earthquake, a re-created Qingyi street and museum on the ancient Qingyi Qiang state, a wetland park laid out in the shape of a panda's head and the Lingjiu gorge with a natural Buddha-head rock and a seven-storey pagoda. It is a stop on the road to Baoxing and the panda country beyond."},{"id":"yingjing-longcanggou","name":"Longcanggou Forest Park","name_zh":"龙苍沟","pinyin":"Lóngcāng Gōu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.6275,"lon":102.8871,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingjing-longcanggou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in Yingjing county, about 196 km from Chengdu, valued for the diversity of its forest plants and its streams and waterfalls. The Diecuixi trail follows a creek through dense, often misty forest past cascades and viewing platforms, and the park is a popular summer escape from the heat."},{"id":"lushan-longmen-qinglong-temple","name":"Longmen Ancient Town & Qinglong Temple","name_zh":"龙门古镇","pinyin":"Lóngmén Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.2553,"lon":103.0166,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-longmen-qinglong-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longmen, in a valley north-east of Lushan county town, was the epicentre of the magnitude 6.6 earthquake of 20 April 2013, and the rebuilt township is now run as a scenic area, Longmen Ancient Town. Its historic centrepiece is the main hall of Qinglong Temple, a timber hall dated by its beam inscription to 1323, in the Yuan dynasty, and protected as a national heritage site."},{"id":"mingshan-confucian-temple","name":"Mingshan Confucian Temple","name_zh":"名山文庙","pinyin":"Míngshān Wénmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.09,"lon":103.1072,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mingshan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty Confucian temple on top of Yuehua Hill in the town of Mingshan, moved to this site in 1841 and protected as a national heritage site since 2013. Its Lingxing Gate, semicircular pool, Dacheng Gate, side ranges, Dacheng Hall and Chongsheng Shrine follow the formal layout of a county Confucian temple. It stands within the grounds of Mingshan Middle School, so access may be limited."},{"id":"mingshan-moon-lake","name":"Moon Lake, Mingshan","name_zh":"月亮湖","pinyin":"Yuèliang Hú","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.1483,"lon":103.2444,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mingshan-moon-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small lake and tea-garden leisure area at Jiefang village, Baizhang town, on Mingshan's tea-garden greenway. It has a wetland, fishing platforms, viewing decks, a crescent-moon landmark, walking paths, a square themed on the 'educated youth' sent to the countryside and a wedding-photo base. It is a local leisure stop, pleasant if you are travelling the tea greenway."},{"id":"baoxing-panda-ancient-town","name":"Panda Ancient Town, Baoxing","name_zh":"熊猫古城","pinyin":"Xióngmāo Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.3736,"lon":102.8122,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoxing-panda-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A quarter of Muping, Baoxing's county town, developed from 2012 in traditional western Sichuan style and themed on the giant panda, which was first described to Western science from Baoxing in 1869. It contains a memorial hall to the Red Army's crossing of Jiajin Mountain on the Long March and a riverside walk with displays on panda evolution. It makes a convenient base for Dengchigou and the road north over Jiajin Mountain."},{"id":"lushan-pingxiang-tower-hanjiang","name":"Pingxiang Tower & Hanjiang Old Town","name_zh":"汉姜古城","pinyin":"Hànjiāng Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.1522,"lon":102.9224,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lushan-pingxiang-tower-hanjiang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rebuilt old quarter of Lushan county town, laid out after the 2013 Lushan earthquake and themed on Jiang Wei, the Three Kingdoms general who held the title Marquis of Pingxiang. Its centrepiece is Pingxiang Tower, a Yuan-dynasty building dedicated to him and protected as a national heritage site, and the quarter also has a memorial hall to the earthquake."},{"id":"baoxing-qiaoqi-tibetan-village","name":"Qiaoqi Tibetan Village & Shenmulei","name_zh":"硗碛藏寨","pinyin":"Qiāoqì Zàngzhài","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.6901,"lon":102.715,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoxing-qiaoqi-tibetan-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qiaoqi, Baoxing county's only ethnic township, lies in a high valley above 2,000 metres at the head of the eastern branch of the Qingyi River, and most of its people are Tibetan. The scenic area pairs the village and its reservoir with Shenmulei, an area of ancient trees and forest trails higher up. The road continues north over Jiajin Mountain, crossed by the Red Army on the Long March in 1935."},{"id":"yaan-shangli-ancient-town","name":"Shangli Ancient Town","name_zh":"上里古镇","pinyin":"Shànglǐ Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":30.1833,"lon":103.074,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yaan-shangli-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A historic market town in the hills north of Ya'an, with lanes of old timber-framed houses beside its streams, now run as a tourist village. Its sights include carved stone memorial archways and the Han family mansion, built in 1824 and protected as a Sichuan provincial heritage site, and Wujia village within the town was among the first places named Chinese Traditional Villages in 2012."},{"id":"shimian-wanggangping","name":"Wanggangping","name_zh":"王岗坪","pinyin":"Wánggǎngpíng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.48,"lon":102.287,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shimian-wanggangping","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain area east of the Dadu River in Shimian county, climbed by a cable car about 3.5 km long. Its upper viewpoints face Gongga Shan, about 30 km away in a straight line, and are visited for sunrise on the snow peaks, seas of cloud and old rhododendron forest; there is also a small ski area."},{"id":"yingjing-yandao-ancient-city","name":"Yandao Ancient City, Yingjing","name_zh":"严道古城","pinyin":"Yándào Gǔchéng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.793,"lon":102.8176,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingjing-yandao-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of Yandao, a county seat founded by the Qin state in 312 BC and later a staging post on the Southern Silk Road, in Gucheng village on the western edge of Yingjing town. Stretches of the old city walls remain, and the national listing also covers the He Jun inscription, a Han-dynasty rock carving recording road-building. The village is known for its black sand pottery, still made in workshops where visitors can watch and try."},{"id":"yingjing-yunfeng-temple","name":"Yunfeng Mountain & Yunfeng Temple","name_zh":"云峰山","pinyin":"Yúnfēng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.7687,"lon":102.8721,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yingjing-yunfeng-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountainside about 4 km from Yingjing county town, spanning roughly 1,000 to 2,600 metres and centred on Yunfeng Temple, also known as Taihu Temple. Founded in the Tang dynasty, burned in the early Yuan and rebuilt from the mid-Ming onwards, the temple has mostly Qing-style halls. Its grounds are known for ancient Phoebe zhennan (nanmu) trees, including one promoted as about 1,700 years old."},{"id":"yaan-zhougong-mountain","name":"Zhougong Mountain","name_zh":"周公山","pinyin":"Zhōugōng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ya'an","lat":29.9687,"lon":103.0073,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaan-zhougong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested outlier of the Qionglai range just south of Ya'an city, rising to about 1,743 metres and encircled by the Zhougong and Qingyi rivers. Much of it is a provincial forest park, and hot springs at its foot are a popular local retreat."},{"id":"aikou-stone-archway","name":"Aikou Stone Archway","name_zh":"隘口石牌坊","pinyin":"Àikǒu Shípáifāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.1998,"lon":104.8054,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aikou-stone-archway","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 17-metre carved stone archway (paifang) in Aikou village, Yuhe, in the hills of southern Gong County, raised in 1848 by a local scholar in honour of his widowed mother and listed as a national heritage site in 2006. Its three tiers of eaves and its crossbeams are carved with scenes from the Twenty-Four Exemplars of Filial Piety and from operas. It is a single monument rather than a full attraction, best seen on the way to the hanging coffins further south."},{"id":"bowang-mountain","name":"Bowang Mountain","name_zh":"僰王山","pinyin":"Bówáng Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.3202,"lon":105.062,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bowang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested mountain area in Xingwen County named after the ancient Bo people, whose stone gateway and wall remains survive on the mountain; it is a provincial scenic area and part of the Xingwen UNESCO Global Geopark. Paths lead through large groves of moso bamboo, gorges and waterfalls to Feiwu Cave, two deep shafts linked by an underground stream, with a waterfall inside."},{"id":"cuiping-zhenwu-mountains","name":"Cuiping and Zhenwu Mountains","name_zh":"翠屏山与真武山","pinyin":"Cuìpíng Shān yǔ Zhēnwǔ Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.7753,"lon":104.6117,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cuiping-zhenwu-mountains/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two linked wooded hills on the west side of central Yibin, south of the Min River, laid out as a large city forest park. On Zhenwu Mountain stands a complex of Taoist temples begun in 1574 and much extended in the Qing, centred on the Ming-dynasty Xuanzu Hall, with Buddhist and Confucian halls alongside; Cuiping Mountain has the Nezha Temple, the Zhao Yiman Memorial Hall in the former Cuiping Academy, and the Qianfo Rock carvings."},{"id":"yibin-daguan-tower","name":"Daguan Tower, Yibin","name_zh":"大观楼","pinyin":"Dàguān Lóu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.7678,"lon":104.6205,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yibin-daguan-tower/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gate tower in the centre of Yibin's old town, first built in the Jiajing reign of the Ming as the city's drum tower. Destroyed at the end of the Ming, it was rebuilt under Kangxi, burned again in 1764 and rebuilt the following year, when it took the name Daguan Lou; it remains a landmark at the Xijiekou junction."},{"id":"changning-folai-mountain","name":"Folai Mountain, Changning","name_zh":"佛来山","pinyin":"Fólái Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.6232,"lon":104.9654,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changning-folai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pear-growing hill area near Changning town, centred on Foli village, part of a belt of some 12,000 mu of pear orchards. The trees flower white in March, and pears can be picked in summer, roughly from July to September. It makes a half-day outing from Changning or the nearby Shunan Bamboo Sea."},{"id":"gongxian-hanging-coffins","name":"Hanging Coffins of the Bo, Gong County","name_zh":"珙县僰人悬棺","pinyin":"Gǒngxiàn Bórén Xuánguān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.0337,"lon":104.821,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongxian-hanging-coffins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wooden coffins lodged in niches and on wooden stakes driven into sheer limestone cliffs at Matangba, near Luobiao, and Sumawan, near Caoying, in southern Gong County, placed there over several centuries from around the Song dynasty. Tradition attributes them to the Bo people, against whom the Ming launched a major campaign in 1573, although historians debate who made them."},{"id":"hengjiang-ancient-town","name":"Hengjiang Ancient Town","name_zh":"横江古镇","pinyin":"Héngjiāng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.556,"lon":104.3553,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengjiang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old river town at the southern tip of Yibin's Xuzhou District, on the Hengjiang River near the Yunnan border, long known as a gateway between Sichuan and Yunnan. Its old quarter, which took shape in the Ming, keeps some 30 Ming and Qing courtyard houses, among them the provincially protected Zhu family residence, and the Shicheng Mountain forest park lies just south of the town."},{"id":"jiuzhou-pagoda","name":"Jiuzhou Pagoda","name_zh":"旧州塔","pinyin":"Jiùzhōu Tǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.793,"lon":104.5907,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuzhou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty pagoda, repaired in the Ming, standing on the Jiuzhou flats on the north-western side of Yibin near the Wuliangye distillery grounds. It has been protected since 1956 and was listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"pingshan-lengyan-temple","name":"Lengyan Temple, Pingshan","name_zh":"楞严寺","pinyin":"Léngyán Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.772,"lon":103.851,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-lengyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple at Zhongdu, in the mountains of western Pingshan County, with buildings dating from the Ming dynasty. It was listed as a provincial heritage site in 2007 and a national one in 2013, and lies well off the usual tourist routes."},{"id":"liubeichi-park","name":"Liubeichi Park","name_zh":"流杯池公园","pinyin":"Liúbēichí Gōngyuán","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.7842,"lon":104.6164,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liubeichi-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small park on the north bank of the Min River in Yibin, built around the rock channel where the Song poet and calligrapher Huang Tingjian, exiled here from 1098 to 1100, is said to have floated wine cups during poetry gatherings. The cliffs around the 'flowing cup pool' are covered with inscriptions carved from the Song to the Republican era, protected as a national heritage site since 2019."},{"id":"lizhuang-ancient-town","name":"Lizhuang Ancient Town","name_zh":"李庄古镇","pinyin":"Lǐzhuāng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.8084,"lon":104.7989,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lizhuang-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside town on the south bank of the Yangtze east of Yibin, with stone-paved lanes, Qing-dynasty guild halls and temples, and the Zhang family ancestral hall with its windows carved with a hundred cranes. From 1940, during the war against Japan, it sheltered Tongji University, institutes of Academia Sinica and the Society for the Study of Chinese Architecture, whose former premises, where Liang Sicheng finished his history of Chinese architecture, are now a protected site. On the edge of town stands the Ming-dynasty Xuanluo Hall, which Liang counted among Lizhuang's 'four wonders'."},{"id":"pingshan-long-family-manor","name":"Long Family Manor, Pingshan","name_zh":"龙氏山庄","pinyin":"Lóngshì Shānzhuāng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.7894,"lon":104.2589,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingshan-long-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late-Qing manor of six courtyards stepped up a tea hill at Yanmen village, begun in the early 19th century for an official family named Long, rebuilt in the 1850s and enlarged in 1870. A tall gateway, stepped firewalls in the Huizhou style and a surviving watchtower give it the look of a small fortress. Inside are carved doors and windows and two stone reliefs of the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars set into the walls of the front courtyard."},{"id":"longhua-baxian-mountain","name":"Longhua Old Town and Baxian Mountain","name_zh":"龙华古镇与八仙山","pinyin":"Lónghuá Gǔzhèn yǔ Bāxiān Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.7864,"lon":104.0308,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longhua-baxian-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Longhua is an old town in Pingshan County with stone-paved lanes and the Liang Bridge over the clear Xiaolong stream, shaded by old huangjue fig trees. Above it rises Baxian Mountain, a scenic area with hiking paths, a tea garden and a large modern standing Buddha that overlooks the town."},{"id":"nanguang-river-cliff-tombs","name":"Nanguang River Cliff Tombs, Kejiu","name_zh":"南广河流域崖墓群","pinyin":"Nánguǎnghé Liúyù Yámùqún","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.3715,"lon":104.4402,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanguang-river-cliff-tombs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Rows of rock-cut tomb chambers in the red cliffs of Hongyan Mountain near Kejiu in Gao County, part of a group of cliff tombs and carvings along the Nanguang River that is listed as a national heritage site. A path climbs past more than 40 tombs, including one incised inside with a pair of fish holding a pearl, to the cliff-hugging Banbian ('half-sided') Temple and its Qing rock carvings."},{"id":"nanxi-old-town","name":"Nanxi Old Town and City Wall","name_zh":"南溪古街","pinyin":"Nánxī Gǔjiē","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.8383,"lon":104.9788,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanxi-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The riverside heart of Nanxi, a former county town on the Yangtze downstream of Yibin, where more than a kilometre of city wall survives with three gates, among them the Wenming Gate facing the river. The wall was rebuilt in stone in the Ming dynasty and repaired many times since, and the gate towers date from the Qing; the streets behind it are largely rebuilt in traditional style."},{"id":"qidonggou","name":"Qidonggou Gorge","name_zh":"七洞沟","pinyin":"Qīdònggōu","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.676,"lon":105.0123,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qidonggou","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded gorge of the Mianxi River in Changning County, hemmed in by red sandstone cliffs with waterfalls and springs, and popular in summer for its 3 km rafting run. Within the scenic area are the Qigedong ('Seven Caves') Eastern Han cliff tombs, a national heritage site, and a glass footbridge."},{"id":"wuliangye-old-cellars","name":"Wuliangye Distillery and Old Cellars","name_zh":"五粮液","pinyin":"Wǔliángyè","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.7715,"lon":104.6274,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuliangye-old-cellars/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yibin is the home of Wuliangye, one of China's best-known baijiu spirits, and the company's tourism area presents the history and making of the liquor through its Liquor Culture Museum and distillery grounds. In the old town, the Changfasheng and Lichuanyong workshops keep fermentation pits and brick-and-timber buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties, protected as a national heritage site."},{"id":"xijiashan-manor","name":"Xijiashan Manor","name_zh":"夕佳山民居","pinyin":"Xījiāshān Mínjū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.6027,"lon":105.1107,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xijiashan-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large country manor in Jiang'an County, begun in 1612 under the Ming and extended and repaired over the following centuries. Its 123 rooms of timber-framed buildings are set around three successive courtyards with a garden alongside, a well-preserved example of a southern Sichuan gentry residence."},{"id":"xingwen-stone-sea","name":"Xingwen Stone Sea","name_zh":"兴文石海","pinyin":"Xīngwén Shíhǎi","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Yibin","lat":28.1833,"lon":105.15,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingwen-stone-sea/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst landscape on the southern rim of the Sichuan Basin, where fields of limestone pinnacles (the 'stone sea'), large caves such as Tianquan Cave and giant collapsed sinkholes, or tiankeng, form the core of the Xingwen UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2005. It was one of the first places in China where tiankeng were studied, and the surrounding county is home to Miao communities and traces of the ancient Bo people."},{"id":"wu-yuzhang-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Wu Yuzhang","name_zh":"吴玉章故居","pinyin":"Wú Yùzhāng Gùjū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.3772,"lon":104.5238,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wu-yuzhang-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The birthplace of Wu Yuzhang (1878–1966), who in 1911 helped lead Rong County's declaration of independence from Qing rule, later joined the Communist Party and became president of Renmin University of China. The rural site in Shuangshi keeps his family's old house and the grave he shares with his wife, beside which a rebuilt residence and an exhibition hall on his life opened in 1988."},{"id":"rongxian-military-government-site","name":"Former Rong County Military Government","name_zh":"荣县军政府旧址","pinyin":"Róngxiàn Jūnzhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.4593,"lon":104.4208,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/rongxian-military-government-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On 25 September 1911, in the old county yamen of Rong County, Wu Yuzhang, Wang Tianjie and other members of the Tongmenghui declared the county independent of Qing rule and set up a military government, 15 days before the Wuchang Uprising. The surviving late-Qing courtyard of the yamen, with its main and rear halls, gate and side wings, has been open as an exhibition since 1988, and its ten galleries cover the Tongmenghui's revolutionary activity in Rong County. A monument to the uprising, unveiled for its centenary in 2011, stands in Shouyi Square in front."},{"id":"fushun-confucian-temple","name":"Fushun Confucian Temple","name_zh":"富顺文庙","pinyin":"Fùshùn Wénmiào","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.1819,"lon":105.0005,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushun-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Confucian temple in the centre of Fushun, founded in the Northern Song and rebuilt under later dynasties, laid out along a 160-metre axis from the semicircular pool and Lingxing Gate to the Dacheng Hall. The double-eaved main hall, 25 metres tall, was first built in 1291, and the scenic area also takes in the town's West Lake nearby."},{"id":"zigong-huanhou-palace","name":"Huanhou Palace, Zigong","name_zh":"桓侯宫","pinyin":"Huánhóu Gōng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.3521,"lon":104.7657,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zigong-huanhou-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty guild hall built by Zigong's butchers and meat traders and dedicated to Zhang Fei, the Three Kingdoms general whose posthumous title gives it its name. It has an opera stage, a main hall and bell and drum towers, richly decorated with plaster relief, wood and stone carving. After a restoration completed in 2023 it has reopened to visitors."},{"id":"zigong-jianshan","name":"Jianshan Scenic Area, Zigong","name_zh":"尖山","pinyin":"Jiān Shān","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.2657,"lon":104.6495,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zigong-jianshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rural hill area of 2.86 km² in Rongbian town outside Zigong, more than 70% wooded, best known for its peach orchards and the peach-blossom fair that opens each March. A 2020 revamp added lakes, flower beds for every season, a fishing ground, a poetry gallery, a suspended boardwalk, zip lines and other outdoor activities, alongside farmhouse restaurants. It is a local day-out spot that suits families more than sightseers."},{"id":"rongxian-giant-buddha","name":"Rongxian Giant Buddha","name_zh":"荣县大佛","pinyin":"Róngxiàn Dàfó","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.4556,"lon":104.4289,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/rongxian-giant-buddha/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 36.7-metre seated Buddha carved from a sandstone hill on the edge of Rong County town in the Tang dynasty, usually ranked second in size among China's ancient stone Buddhas after Leshan. It sits within the Dafo Temple, rebuilt in the Qing, whose halls climb the hillside around it alongside Tang and Song cliff carvings and a garden of inscribed steles."},{"id":"xianshi-ancient-town","name":"Xianshi Ancient Town","name_zh":"仙市古镇","pinyin":"Xiānshì Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.3367,"lon":104.8783,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianshi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A salt-trade town on the Fuxi River south-east of central Zigong, founded in the Sui dynasty and for centuries a wharf and staging post on the route that carried Zigong's salt downriver. Its lanes keep late-Qing and early Republican houses, temples and guild halls, and it is listed as one of China's historical and cultural towns."},{"id":"zigong-yuchuan-ancestral-hall","name":"Yuchuan Ancestral Hall, Zigong","name_zh":"玉川公祠","pinyin":"Yùchuān Gōngcí","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.3351,"lon":104.7975,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zigong-yuchuan-ancestral-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall of the Wang Sanweitang, one of Zigong's great salt-merchant families, built in 1873 by the family head, Wang Langyun, in what is now Bancang subdistrict. Two linked courtyard compounds, the Yuchuan Hall and the Chengde Hall, are enclosed by high fire walls and decorated with carved stone column bases and woodcarving on the brackets and beams; the hall later housed Zigong's first new-style school. Restoration began in 2024, with plans to make it a museum of Zigong's salt merchants."},{"id":"fushun-zhaohua-ancient-town","name":"Zhaohua Ancient Town","name_zh":"赵化古镇","pinyin":"Zhàohuà Gǔzhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.0274,"lon":105.1159,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fushun-zhaohua-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside old town on the Tuo River in Fushun County, south-east of Zigong. It was the birthplace of Liu Guangdi, one of the 'Six Gentlemen' executed in 1898 after the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform."},{"id":"zhennan-pagoda-rongxian","name":"Zhennan Pagoda","name_zh":"镇南塔","pinyin":"Zhènnán Tǎ","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Zigong","lat":29.4534,"lon":104.4238,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhennan-pagoda-rongxian","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda in Rong County town, known locally as the White Pagoda: square in plan, with eleven storeys in the pavilion style above a plain base. It stands less than a kilometre west of the Rongxian Giant Buddha, from whose hillside it can be seen, and is easily combined with a visit there."},{"id":"banyueshan-giant-buddha","name":"Banyueshan Giant Buddha","name_zh":"半月山大佛","pinyin":"Bànyuè Shān Dàfó","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ziyang","lat":29.9821,"lon":104.5797,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/banyueshan-giant-buddha/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Maitreya Buddha about 20 metres tall carved into the hillside of Banyue Mountain south of Ziyang, the largest of six niches at the site. An inscription of 793 survives in the niche, though when carving began is debated, and the figure was finished only in 1131, under the Southern Song. The temple that once stood in front was pulled down during the Cultural Revolution, when the statue was also damaged."},{"id":"anyue-baosen-lemon-town","name":"Baosen Lemon Town, Anyue","name_zh":"宝森柠檬小镇","pinyin":"Bǎosēn Níngméng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ziyang","lat":30.0072,"lon":105.2779,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyue-baosen-lemon-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lemon-themed farm park in Yanqiao village, Wenhua town, in Anyue, the county named China's home of lemons, rated 4A in 2023. Across about 3.2 km² it combines lemon orchards and a lemon exhibition hall with leisure facilities and accommodation, and it is promoted for spring outings and family breaks. It can be paired with the Anyue rock carvings, the main reason most visitors come to the county."},{"id":"chen-yi-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Chen Yi","name_zh":"陈毅故居","pinyin":"Chén Yì Gùjū","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ziyang","lat":30.3797,"lon":104.9518,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chen-yi-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The rural family home in Laodong town where Chen Yi (1901–1972) was born and grew up. He became a Communist military commander, one of the ten marshals of the People's Republic, mayor of Shanghai from 1949 and foreign minister from 1958 until his death; the house is preserved as a memorial site and forms the core of a scenic area named after him."},{"id":"lezhi-kunfo-temple-carvings","name":"Kunfo Temple Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"睏佛寺摩崖造像","pinyin":"Kùnfó Sì Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ziyang","lat":30.1505,"lon":105.1699,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lezhi-kunfo-temple-carvings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Buddhist cliff carvings at Kunfo ('Sleeping Buddha') Temple in the countryside of Lezhi County, begun in the Sui dynasty and added to up to the Song. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013 and lies well off the usual tourist routes."},{"id":"anyue-mumen-temple","name":"Mumen Temple","name_zh":"木门寺","pinyin":"Mùmén Sì","region_id":"510000","region":"Sichuan","city":"Ziyang","lat":30.2414,"lon":105.3344,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anyue-mumen-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small Ming temple in the hills north of Anyue, built around the stupa of the Chan master Wuji (1380–1446). Its centrepiece is the stone pavilion that the Zhengtong emperor ordered to shelter his stupa, carved to look like a timber building down to its brackets, rafters and roof tiles; only its two doors were made of wood, which gave the 'Wooden Door Temple' its name. The main hall and patriarch hall also survive."},{"id":"anshun-confucius-temple","name":"Anshun Confucius Temple","name_zh":"安顺文庙","pinyin":"Ānshùn Wénmiào","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2527,"lon":105.9322,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anshun-confucius-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Confucian temple in the old centre of Anshun, founded in 1394 as the prefectural school temple and rebuilt many times since; only the stone carvings survive from the Ming, with most of the rest Qing or later. Five successive courtyards lead from an entrance screen wall through a ceremonial pool and a gateway to the Dacheng Hall, whose front columns are carved with openwork coiled dragons. Listed nationally in 2001, it is a short walk from other old-town sights such as the Wumiao and Wang Ruofei's former home."},{"id":"anshun-wumiao-guan-yu-temple","name":"Anshun Wumiao (Temple of Guan Yu and Yue Fei)","name_zh":"安顺武庙","pinyin":"Ānshùn Wǔmiào","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2495,"lon":105.9298,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anshun-wumiao-guan-yu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Founded in 1382 as a shrine to the Three Kingdoms general Guan Yu, this temple in central Anshun was rebuilt in 1666 as a martial temple and since 1919 has honoured Guan Yu together with the Song-dynasty general Yue Fei. The main hall has 36 monolithic stone pillars, the tallest 14 m, and the compound includes the three-storey timber Guanyin Pavilion added in 1792. It was added to the national heritage list in 2013."},{"id":"anshun-baojiatun-irrigation-system","name":"Baojiatun Irrigation System","name_zh":"鲍家屯水利工程","pinyin":"Bàojiātún Shuǐlì Gōngchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.3267,"lon":106.1183,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshun-baojiatun-irrigation-system","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baojiatun is a garrison-farming village founded in the Ming dynasty, and its irrigation works, begun in the Hongwu reign (1368–98) and still in use, are a national heritage unit. A fish-mouth diversion splits the upstream river in two, and weirs, main channels, two mill-houses and stone bridges, including a seven-arch bridge, carry the water to the fields around the village. The weirs and channels run through the village's farmland, and the village, a China Historic and Cultural Village, also has old mansions and a fortified tower."},{"id":"anshun-duocai-wanxiang","name":"Duocai Wanxiang Tourism Complex","name_zh":"多彩万象","pinyin":"Duōcǎi Wànxiàng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2197,"lon":105.8666,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"A few hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshun-duocai-wanxiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern resort-style leisure complex on Xihang Avenue in Anshun's economic development zone, combining entertainment, holiday accommodation, business conferencing and wellness-themed attractions. It is a purpose-built leisure development rather than a historic or natural site."},{"id":"pingba-third-front-aero-engine-factory","name":"Former Guizhou Aero Engine Factory (Third Front)","name_zh":"三线贵州航空发动机厂旧址","pinyin":"Sānxiàn Guìzhōu Hángkōng Fādòngjī Chǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.373,"lon":106.2511,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingba-third-front-aero-engine-factory","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Third Front industrial site in Pingba district: from 1964 the Third Front programme moved defence industry into the mountains of south-west China, and an aero-engine works here, now AECC Guizhou Liyang Aviation Power, built the WP-7 and WP-13 turbojet series. A workshop set inside a natural cave, with old machine tools, can be seen, and an exhibition hall has sections on aviation science, Third Front construction and the factory's later development."},{"id":"anshun-wang-ruofei-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Wang Ruofei","name_zh":"王若飞故居","pinyin":"Wáng Ruòfēi Gùjū","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2524,"lon":105.9269,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anshun-wang-ruofei-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The house in central Anshun where Wang Ruofei (1896–1946), an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, was born and grew up. A timber courtyard house of Qing date, built by his great-grandfather, it opened to visitors in 1982 and displays furniture, material on his activities while studying in Japan and France, and clothing he wore at the 1945 Chongqing negotiations. It was added to the national heritage list in 2013."},{"id":"zhenning-gaodang-buyei-village","name":"Gaodang Buyei Ancient Village","name_zh":"高荡布依古寨","pinyin":"Gāodàng Bùyī Gǔzhài","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.0748,"lon":105.6926,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenning-gaodang-buyei-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buyei village near the Huangguoshu waterfalls where more than 120 houses are built of stone, with flagstone lanes and stone-slab roofs; experts date the settlement to the Ming dynasty. It has a Buyei folk museum with over 3,000 everyday objects, a central square used for festivals such as the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, and some restored houses run as homestays. Its historic buildings are protected at provincial level."},{"id":"ziyun-getu-river","name":"Getu River Scenic Area","name_zh":"格凸河","pinyin":"Gétū Hé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":25.681,"lon":106.2616,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ziyun-getu-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst river-and-cave scenic area in Ziyun county, with limestone hills, large cave arches and a river running through. It is divided into the Dachuandong (Big Through-cave), Xiaochuandong (Small Through-cave), Dahe (river) and Yaoyan sections plus several separate sights, with Miao villages along the river. It is also a well-known rock-climbing area."},{"id":"guanling-fossil-park","name":"Guanling Fossil Park","name_zh":"关岭古生物化石群","pinyin":"Guānlíng Gǔshēngwù Huàshíqún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":25.8871,"lon":105.425,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanling-fossil-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fossil park in Guanling county that protects the Guanling biota, a Late Triassic marine fauna more than 200 million years old, with ichthyosaurs, placodonts, turtles, sea lilies and ammonites among its fossils. Its main visitor area is under 1 sq km, within a much larger planned park area. The park is used for school study trips."},{"id":"anshun-hongshan-lake","name":"Hongshan Reservoir","name_zh":"虹山湖","pinyin":"Hóngshān Hú","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2612,"lon":105.9381,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshun-hongshan-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small reservoir on the north-east side of central Anshun, begun in 1958 and filled in 1959, now ringed by a landscaped park. A 2017 makeover added art installations, boardwalks, walking paths, pedestrian bridges and picnic areas, and it became a 4A scenic area that year. It suits an easy walk by the water close to the old town."},{"id":"guanling-jiuxian-cave-scenic-area","name":"Jiuxian Scenic Area, Guanling","name_zh":"关岭九仙","pinyin":"Guānlíng Jiǔxiān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":25.9142,"lon":105.5365,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanling-jiuxian-cave-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cave-themed leisure area in Yongning town, Guanling county, with a show-cave route and a separate water-recreation zone. It is a modern leisure attraction rather than a heritage site."},{"id":"anshun-jiuzhou-ancient-town","name":"Jiuzhou Ancient Town","name_zh":"旧州古镇","pinyin":"Jiùzhōu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2554,"lon":106.1372,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshun-jiuzhou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A historic town in Xixiu district that was once the seat of the old Anshun prefecture and is a China Historic and Cultural Town, home to tunbao people descended from Ming-era soldiers. Its four main streets keep many Ming and Qing courtyard houses of stone walls, timber frames and stone-slab roofs, restored in recent years in the original style, and local women wear Fengyang-style Han costume. Festivals such as the tunbao New Year, dixi processions and the City God procession are held through the year, and the old streets now hold more than 400 shops and other businesses."},{"id":"anshun-longgong-dragon-palace","name":"Longgong (Dragon Palace) Scenic Area","name_zh":"龙宫","pinyin":"Lónggōng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.1245,"lon":105.8927,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshun-longgong-dragon-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst scenic area south of Anshun built around the Dragon Palace, a cave with an underground river that visitors tour by boat, with the Longmen waterfall at the cave entrance. Around it are gorges, waterfalls, peak forest, cliffs and a stone forest, and routes combine the cave boat ride with the Qunfang Valley and a second boat trip at Xuantang. It neighbours the Huangguoshu scenic area and is often visited with it."},{"id":"puding-qianshan-xiushui","name":"Qianshan Xiushui Scenic Area, Puding","name_zh":"黔山秀水","pinyin":"Qiánshān Xiùshuǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2988,"lon":105.6804,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puding-qianshan-xiushui","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A countryside leisure park near Puding county town, built around a lake, with a camping base at the 'Twenty-four Pools', go-karts, a coloured slide and river drifting. Holiday events have included 'tieshui chonglong', a molten-iron dragon display listed as provincial intangible heritage. It is a suburban leisure base for family outings."},{"id":"pingba-tangyue-village","name":"Tangyue Village","name_zh":"塘约村","pinyin":"Tángyuē Cūn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.4443,"lon":106.1626,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingba-tangyue-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tangyue is a village in Leping town, Pingba district, promoted since about 2017 as a model of rural reform and poverty reduction. After a flood it registered land, forest, housing and water-works rights and pooled its farmland in a village cooperative, an approach known as the \"Tangyue road\". A visitor area opened in October 2017, and the village was named in the first list of national key villages for rural tourism in 2019."},{"id":"pingba-tianlong-tunbao","name":"Tianlong Tunbao","name_zh":"天龙屯堡","pinyin":"Tiānlóng Túnbǎo","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.3532,"lon":106.1555,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingba-tianlong-tunbao","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stone-built town in Pingba district, on the old route west to Yunnan, settled by Ming-era garrison soldiers from the lower Yangtze region; their descendants are known as Tunbao people. Its stone lanes and shops are open to visitors, local women wear the traditional Fengyang-style Han dress, and a performance ground stages dixi, a masked 'ground opera' of martial episodes from the Three Kingdoms and other heroic romances. Tiantaishan Wulong Temple stands on the hill about 2 km to the east."},{"id":"pingba-tiantaishan-wulong-temple","name":"Tiantaishan Wulong Temple","name_zh":"天台山伍龙寺","pinyin":"Tiāntáishān Wǔlóng Sì","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.3552,"lon":106.1755,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingba-tiantaishan-wulong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple-fortress on top of the 70 m Tiantai hill, begun in 1590 and combining a Buddhist temple, a Daoist hall and a military stronghold; its outer walls are built hard against the cliff, which drops away on three sides. The halls include the Great Buddha Hall, with relief carvings of the 24 filial exemplars, the Jade Emperor Pavilion and a Guansheng Hall, and a sword, robe and plaque attributed to the general Wu Sangui are kept here alongside a display of local dixi opera costumes. Listed nationally in 2001, it stands on the hill beside the Tianlong Tunbao old town."},{"id":"pingba-xiaohewan-village","name":"Xiaohewan Village","name_zh":"小河湾","pinyin":"Xiǎohéwān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.417,"lon":106.3296,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingba-xiaohewan-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A waterside village in Xiayun town, Pingba district, billed by the provincial culture and tourism department as one of the prettiest villages in central Guizhou, with rapeseed and pear blossom in spring. It is run as a countryside leisure area with farmhouse restaurants, homestays and room for visitors to park RVs."},{"id":"zhenning-yelang-cave","name":"Yelang Cave","name_zh":"夜郎洞","pinyin":"Yèláng Dòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.092,"lon":105.6235,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenning-yelang-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst scenic area in Biandanshan town, Zhenning county, upstream of the Huangguoshu waterfalls. It combines caves, a sinkhole, a canyon, a waterfall and primary forest with Buyei village culture, and festivals are held here each year on the third day of the third lunar month and the sixth day of the sixth."},{"id":"anshun-yunfeng-tunbao","name":"Yunfeng Tunbao (Yunshantun)","name_zh":"云峰屯堡","pinyin":"Yúnfēng Túnbǎo","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.2923,"lon":106.084,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anshun-yunfeng-tunbao","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yunshantun and the neighbouring Benzhai are the core of Yunfeng Tunbao, a group of eight fortified villages in Xixiu district settled in the early Ming dynasty by soldiers posted to Guizhou. Yunshantun is enclosed by stone walls and has a main street of roughly 600 m with houses from the Ming, Qing and Republican periods, while Benzhai is a maze of lanes, loopholed walls and stone watchtowers. Both are on the national heritage list, Yunshantun is also a China Historic and Cultural Village, and the scenic area adds a culture exhibition centre and craft workshops."},{"id":"hezhang-axilixi-grassland","name":"Axilixi Grassland (Ertaipo)","name_zh":"阿西里西大草原","pinyin":"Āxīlǐxī Dàcǎoyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.0157,"lon":104.8615,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhang-axilixi-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Axilixi Grassland, also called Ertaipo, is a plateau of pasture in southern Hezhang at an average height of about 2,300 m, where cattle and horses graze beneath wide views and, in fair weather, seas of cloud. It opened to visitors in September 2019 and is best known for the 'Wave Road', a road that undulates over the hills and has made the area a self-drive destination; a small sightseeing train and campsites are among the other features. It is promoted together with Jiucaiping, about 15 km away, and the two are usually visited together."},{"id":"baili-dujuan","name":"Baili Dujuan Rhododendron Forest","name_zh":"百里杜鹃","pinyin":"Bǎilǐ Dùjuān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.2387,"lon":105.8551,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baili-dujuan/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baili Dujuan is a mountain forest of wild rhododendrons on the Bijie plateau, with more than 60 species recorded and, according to the Bijie government, a thousand-year-old azalea 'king' among the trees. The 5A scenic area, about 126 sq km in all, has two main parts, Pudi and Jinpo, linked by shuttle buses in the flowering season, which runs from about March to late April, and summer temperatures average about 19 degrees Celsius. Yi, Miao, Bai and other peoples live around the area, and the cool summers make it a retreat from the heat as well."},{"id":"hezhang-dajiucaiping","name":"Dajiucaiping (Hezhang side)","name_zh":"大韭菜坪","pinyin":"Dà Jiǔcàipíng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":26.9969,"lon":104.7548,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezhang-dajiucaiping","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dajiucaiping ('big chive plateau') is a high plateau in south-western Hezhang between about 2,300 and 2,777 m, covered in wild chive plants whose purple flowers open from July and peak in August and September. Wind turbines, seas of cloud and karst rock walls add to the views, and the cool summers have made it a popular escape from the heat; the scenic area covers about 80 sq km. A second, higher summit, Xiaojiucaiping (2,900.6 m, the highest point in Guizhou), lies nearby on the Liupanshui side and has its own entrance."},{"id":"bijie-datun-tusi-manor","name":"Datun Tusi Manor","name_zh":"大屯土司庄园","pinyin":"Dàtún Tǔsī Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.6653,"lon":105.7517,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bijie-datun-tusi-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Datun Tusi Manor is a walled hillside residence and administrative seat of a Yi tusi family, a hereditary local chieftain under imperial rule, built up from the Qing dynasty to the early Republic. Three parallel ranges of halls and gardens climb the slope along the main axis, with a pond garden crossed by a covered bridge, and four of the six blockhouses that once ringed the walls survive. It became a national heritage unit in 1988, and Bijie's culture bureau describes it as the best-preserved Yi tusi manor in north-west Guizhou."},{"id":"baili-dujuan-fangjiaping","name":"Fangjiaping Scenic Area","name_zh":"方家坪","pinyin":"Fāngjiāpíng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.2663,"lon":105.8776,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baili-dujuan-fangjiaping","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Fangjiaping is a mountain park in the Baili Dujuan district built around outdoor activities rather than flowers. The district's 2024 announcement lists more than 20 activities, including night-time programmes, RV camping, a rail-guided slide car and a cliff swing. It suits families and active visitors more than those looking for rhododendron blooms."},{"id":"bijie-gonglongping-forest-park","name":"Gonglongping National Forest Park","name_zh":"拱拢坪国家森林公园","pinyin":"Gǒnglǒngpíng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.2347,"lon":104.987,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bijie-gonglongping-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gonglongping is a forest park of more than 1,700 hectares in the hills near Bijie, with forest cover that Bijie's government puts at 95 per cent. Its main sights are Tuntianjing, a deep karst sinkhole, and a round stone 'echo platform' about 10 metres across. There is also a forest campsite among the trees, and the cool summer air is part of the draw."},{"id":"qianxi-guanyindong-site","name":"Guanyindong Palaeolithic Site","name_zh":"黔西观音洞遗址","pinyin":"Qiánxī Guānyīndòng Yízhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":26.8569,"lon":105.9678,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianxi-guanyindong-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guanyindong is a cave in Guanyindong village, Qianxi, where excavations from the 1960s uncovered more than 3,000 stone tools and the bones of 23 mammal species, among them giant panda and rhinoceros. Bijie's culture bureau dates it to about 240,000 years ago and calls it the largest early Palaeolithic cave site south of the Yangtze. It is a protected excavation site and visitor facilities there are thinly documented, so check locally before travelling."},{"id":"bijie-jimingsansheng","name":"Jiming Sansheng","name_zh":"鸡鸣三省","pinyin":"Jīmíng Sānshěng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.7059,"lon":105.3064,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bijie-jimingsansheng","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jiming Sansheng ('cockcrow in three provinces') is a border village where Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan meet, named for the saying that a cock's crow here is heard in all three. It is linked to a meeting of the Communist Party's leaders held in February 1935 during the Long March, and the scenic area pairs that history with views over a deep gorge. The Sichuan and Yunnan villages along the border use the same name and each presents its own claim to the meeting, so travellers should check which side they are heading for."},{"id":"bijie-jinhai-lake","name":"Jinhai Lake","name_zh":"金海湖","pinyin":"Jīnhǎihú","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.2149,"lon":105.4486,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bijie-jinhai-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jinhai Lake is a lakeside and wetland park on the edge of the Jinhaihu New Area, between Bijie's Qixingguan District and Dafang, with more than 1,200 mu (about 80 hectares) of water. It has lakeshore paths, boats and camping lawns, and a gorge section with an old plank road and caves. It is a city-edge place for a short break rather than a long excursion."},{"id":"dafang-jiudongtian","name":"Jiudongtian","name_zh":"九洞天","pinyin":"Jiǔdòngtiān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":26.9594,"lon":105.3372,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafang-jiudongtian","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jiudongtian is a stretch of the upper Wu River system, known here as the Zongxi River, that runs through a chain of karst caves open to the sky through collapsed roofs, on the boundary of Dafang and Nayong counties. Boats run between several of the caves and under natural stone bridges. It was approved as a national scenic area in 2004 and is called a 'karst encyclopaedia' locally."},{"id":"dafang-muoge-ancient-city","name":"Mu'ege Ancient City and Shexiang Tomb","name_zh":"慕俄格古城","pinyin":"Mù'égé Gǔchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.1666,"lon":105.6056,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafang-muoge-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Mu'ege is a Yi name meaning the place where a ruler lives, and it was the seat of the Yi rulers of the Shuixi region, now Dafang; the 'ancient city' here is a reconstruction begun in 2008 on the old site. Its centrepiece is a rebuilt Guizhou Xuanweifu, the Ming-era Guizhou pacification commissioner's office, completed in 2011, beside the Shexiang Museum and other buildings. Less than a kilometre away is the tomb of Shexiang (1358–1396), the Yi woman who acted as Guizhou's pacification commissioner in the early Ming; the tomb was restored in the 1980s and sits in a landscaped park with a bronze statue, a pond and a stele gallery."},{"id":"zhijin-old-buildings","name":"Old Buildings of Zhijin","name_zh":"织金古建筑群","pinyin":"Zhījīn Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":26.6678,"lon":105.7683,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhijin-old-buildings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhijin's old town, founded in 1666 and named among Guizhou's four early historic cities, holds a group of 25 listed heritage points, among them the Caishen and Heishen temples and seven old bridges, dating from the Yuan to the Qing dynasty. The best known is the Caishen (God of Wealth) Temple, a wooden hall of stacked eaves that rises like a pagoda and was rebuilt in 1783. The lanes beside the Guancheng River can be walked in a couple of hours, and the site pairs easily with Zhijin Cave about 23 km away."},{"id":"dafang-shexiang-ancient-town","name":"Shexiang Ancient Town","name_zh":"奢香古镇","pinyin":"Shēxiāng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.1907,"lon":105.6022,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafang-shexiang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shexiang Ancient Town is a newly built district in the north of Dafang, developed mainly as a poverty-relocation project for about 12,000 residents. Its tourist streets are built in Ming and Qing style with elements of local Yi manor houses, and include three themed shopping quarters, eight squares, ten art towers and a terraced flower garden. It is a place for an evening stroll, shops, food and performances rather than a historic old town."},{"id":"bijie-chuan-dian-qian-revolutionary-committee-site","name":"Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou Revolutionary Committee Site","name_zh":"川滇黔省革命委员会旧址","pinyin":"Chuāndiānqián Shěng Gémìng Wěiyuánhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.3059,"lon":105.2786,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bijie-chuan-dian-qian-revolutionary-committee-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This former church compound in central Bijie served as the office of the Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou Provincial Revolutionary Committee, set up by the Red Army's 2nd and 6th Army Groups in February 1936. The committee was formed in Dafang on 8 February and moved to Bijie on 17 February, and Bijie's government records that commanders including He Long, Xiao Ke, Ren Bishi and Wang Zhen worked there. The compound is now a museum holding several hundred items and is part of a national heritage listing that also covers related sites in Dafang County."},{"id":"baili-dujuan-yishan-flower-valley","name":"Yishan Flower Valley","name_zh":"彝山花谷","pinyin":"Yíshān Huāgǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.2169,"lon":105.7974,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baili-dujuan-yishan-flower-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yishan Flower Valley is a planted flower garden beside Pengcheng, the main town of the Baili Dujuan district, made to give visitors something to see after the rhododendron season ends. Bijie's 2026 visitor itineraries list a boardwalk through the flower beds, a small sightseeing train, a pet park and a bookshop among its attractions. It is a compact, family-oriented stop that works best combined with the main Baili Dujuan rhododendron areas."},{"id":"dafang-youshanhe","name":"Youshanhe","name_zh":"油杉河","pinyin":"Yóushānhé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.4246,"lon":105.9367,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dafang-youshanhe","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Youshanhe is a karst gorge and forest scenic area of about 67 sq km in north-eastern Dafang, one mountain range away from Baili Dujuan. Its best-known sight is Xianyu Peak, a rock tower rising from the river valley with water on three sides and an old temple on top; a glass walkway runs along the gorge, and the high meadow of Cuisuba, at about 1,700 metres, has a campsite and grassland walks. It is described as part of a national forest park and is promoted for cool summers and hiking."},{"id":"zhijin-cave","name":"Zhijin Cave","name_zh":"织金洞","pinyin":"Zhījīn Dòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":26.7677,"lon":105.893,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhijin-cave/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhijin Cave is a large karst show cave in the hills north-east of Zhijin town, known locally as Daji Cave until a county tourism survey team explored it in 1980. Formations along the visitor route are named for what they resemble, among them the 'Upside-down Pipa', the 'Overlord's Helmet', the 'Silver Rain Tree' and 'Lingzhi Mountain'. It is a 5A scenic area and is easily combined with the old town of Zhijin."},{"id":"qianxi-zhongguohe-rafting","name":"Zhongguohe Rafting Resort","name_zh":"中果河","pinyin":"Zhōngguǒhé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Bijie","lat":27.2792,"lon":106.2878,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qianxi-zhongguohe-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhongguohe is a rafting resort on the Zhongguohe river in Zhongjian township, Qianxi, whose rafting course and themed viewpoints follow the 1990s film A Chinese Odyssey (Dahua Xiyou), with spots named after scenes in it such as the Moonlight Box and Dinosaur Valley. It was developed by a private company and, after being upgraded from 3A, became Qianxi's first 4A scenic area in 2021. Rafting is the main summer activity, and the township has guesthouses and hotels for an overnight stay."},{"id":"kaiyang-baimayu-hot-spring","name":"Baimayu Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"白马峪温泉","pinyin":"Báimǎyù Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.9937,"lon":106.7739,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaiyang-baimayu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring and wellness resort in a mountain valley at about 1,340 m in Kaiyang county, where the climate is cool and often misty. Its courtyard-style buildings hold about 70 guest rooms, and the spring water runs at around 40 °C; the Guiyang government says it adds traditional Miao, Dong and Yao healing methods and Chinese-medicine health checks. It suits a quiet overnight stay away from the city."},{"id":"guiyang-changpoling-tea-horse-road","name":"Changpoling Ancient Road (Tea Horse Road)","name_zh":"长坡岭古道","pinyin":"Chángpōlǐng Gǔdào","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6571,"lon":106.6665,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiyang-changpoling-tea-horse-road","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One listed section of the Tea Horse Road, the network of old caravan routes across south-west China, whose Guizhou part has 35 listed points spread across Qianxinan, Anshun, Guiyang, Liupanshui and Bijie. This stretch lies inside Changpoling National Forest Park: about 3 km of blue-grey stone paving roughly 1.5 m wide, begun in the Yuan period and rebuilt in the Ming, running through pine woods to a large forest lawn. The city forestry bureau calls it the only well-preserved old post road around Guiyang, and the park also has a cherry-blossom lake."},{"id":"shuanglong-colourful-guizhou-city","name":"Colourful Guizhou City","name_zh":"多彩贵州城","pinyin":"Duōcǎi Guìzhōu Chéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.5326,"lon":106.7855,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuanglong-colourful-guizhou-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern shopping, dining and entertainment district near Longdongbao airport, begun in 2011 and opened in 2014. It brings together a multi-ethnic culture display centre, a city air terminal, a creative park, an aquarium and many food and souvenir outlets, and the Guiyang government pitches it as the first or last stop on a trip to Guizhou. It suits a short visit before or after a flight."},{"id":"shuanglong-colourful-guizhou-fengjingyan-park","name":"Colourful Guizhou Fengjingyan Cultural Park","name_zh":"多彩贵州风景眼文创园","pinyin":"Duōcǎi Guìzhōu Fēngjǐngyǎn Wénchuàng Yuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.536,"lon":106.7724,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuanglong-colourful-guizhou-fengjingyan-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cultural park beside Guiyang's Longdongbao airport that showcases Guizhou's intangible cultural heritage, open since July 2015. It combines exhibition spaces, shops, restaurants, a theatre and study programmes, and sits next to the Shuanglong ecological wetland park; the Guiyang government nicknames it the airport's park and a playground for intangible heritage. It suits a short stop before or after a flight."},{"id":"guiyang-dade-school-site","name":"Former Dade School","name_zh":"达德学校旧址","pinyin":"Dádé Xuéxiào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.5794,"lon":106.7092,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiyang-dade-school-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple compound in old Guiyang that became a school: it began as a Yuan-period temple to Nan Jiyun, was rebuilt in the Ming and Qing as the Zhonglie Palace, and in 1901 became the site of a school that took the name Dade in 1912. The courtyard buildings now hold a museum on the school's history and on the development of modern education in Guiyang and Guizhou. It became a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"guanshanhu-guizhou-geological-museum","name":"Geological Museum of Guizhou","name_zh":"贵州省地质博物馆","pinyin":"Guìzhōu Shěng Dìzhì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6266,"lon":106.6034,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanshanhu-guizhou-geological-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A natural-science museum in Guanshanhu district, opened in August 2021. Its four permanent exhibitions cover Guizhou's fossils, including ichthyosaurs, the Guizhou dragon and sea lilies, its karst landscapes, its mineral resources and the history of geological work in the province. It was rated a national first-class museum in 2024."},{"id":"xiuwen-guiyang-forest-wildlife-park","name":"Guiyang Forest Wildlife Park","name_zh":"贵阳森林野生动物园","pinyin":"Guìyáng Sēnlín Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.8642,"lon":106.6902,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuwen-guiyang-forest-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest wildlife park of about 5,000 mu (some 330 hectares) at the Zhazuo forest farm in Xiuwen county, home to more than 200 species and some 2,000 animals according to the Guiyang government. It is built around viewing and breeding wild animals, with a conventional funfair and a glass-sided water slide as extras. It suits family outings."},{"id":"wudang-guiyu-hot-spring","name":"Guiyu Hot Spring","name_zh":"贵御温泉","pinyin":"Guìyù Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6193,"lon":106.7669,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudang-guiyu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A garden-style hot-spring resort in Wudang district that the Guiyang government presents as Guizhou's first open-air garden hot spring. Its pools include a children's area, herbal pools, a whirlpool, fish-therapy pools and a standard-size swimming pool, with water drawn from about 1,900 m underground at around 53 °C. It suits an easy soak close to Guiyang."},{"id":"guiyang-jiaxiu-tower-wenchang-pavilion","name":"Jiaxiu Tower and Wenchang Pavilion","name_zh":"甲秀楼和文昌阁","pinyin":"Jiǎxiù Lóu Hé Wénchāng Gé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.5749,"lon":106.7159,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiyang-jiaxiu-tower-wenchang-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two Ming-founded towers from old Guiyang that share one national listing. Jiaxiu Tower, first built in 1598 and last rebuilt in 1909, stands on a rock in the Nanming River and is treated as the city's emblem; a famous long couplet hangs inside. About 800 m to the north, Wenchang Pavilion (1596) is a three-storey pavilion on the barbican of the old east gate, whose upper two storeys have a nine-sided plan that is rare in China."},{"id":"huaxi-kongxuetang","name":"Kongxuetang (Guiyang Confucius Academy)","name_zh":"孔学堂","pinyin":"Kǒngxuétáng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.4722,"lon":106.672,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaxi-kongxuetang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Confucian academy and cultural complex in Han–Tang style, opened to the public in 2013 in the middle of the Huaxi National Urban Wetland Park. A ritual axis runs from a statue of Confucius up to the Dacheng Hall and the Apricot Altar, and halls include an underground Confucius exhibition and a hall on Wang Yangming's years in Guizhou. The 4A area also takes in the Huaxi National Urban Wetland Park, a karst river-valley park of about 941 hectares."},{"id":"wudang-lewan-international-hot-spring","name":"Lewan International Hot Spring","name_zh":"乐湾国际温泉","pinyin":"Lèwān Guójì Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6354,"lon":106.8234,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudang-lewan-international-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in the Lewan International development in eastern Wudang district. The Guiyang government describes its water as a silicic-acid spring drawn from nearly 3,000 m underground, with indoor pools that include herbal, rose, milk and sulphur baths, and a Chinese-medicine wellness hall. It is aimed at family outings and short wellness breaks."},{"id":"kaiyang-matouzhai","name":"Matouzhai Old Village","name_zh":"马头寨","pinyin":"Mǎtóuzhài","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.9373,"lon":106.9108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaiyang-matouzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside village in the Diwo basin of Hefeng township that grew up around the Yuan-dynasty seat of a regional governor, set up in 1283, and later a Ming-period headquarters of the Song family, the hereditary local chiefs of the Shuidong area. About 90 Ming and Qing courtyard houses survive, blending Han timber-frame construction with Buyei details such as carved lattice windows and side gates, along with the foundations of the governor's office and Red Army slogans written in 1935. It lies on the Ten-Mile Gallery countryside route and was named a National Historic and Cultural Village in 2008."},{"id":"kaiyang-nanjiang-grand-canyon","name":"Nanjiang Grand Canyon","name_zh":"南江大峡谷","pinyin":"Nánjiāng Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.9453,"lon":106.9674,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaiyang-nanjiang-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river canyon in Kaiyang county noted for karst cliffs, cascades and tufa formations, with some 40 waterfalls along its length. Provincial tourism authorities have counted more than 80 natural sights, and the canyon has long been promoted as a rafting destination with cliff-side walkways. It sits beside the Ten-Mile Gallery countryside, so it can be combined with Matouzhai village."},{"id":"xifeng-nanshan-tianmu-hot-spring","name":"Nanshan Tianmu Hot Spring","name_zh":"南山天沐温泉","pinyin":"Nánshān Tiānmù Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":27.005,"lon":106.7061,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xifeng-nanshan-tianmu-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in traditional Chinese architectural style on a wooded hillside beside the Nanshan state forest farm in Yongjing town, Xifeng county, with pools laid out in cascading terraces. The Guiyang government counts 79 indoor and outdoor pools, 245 guest rooms and an indoor children's play area; the spring water, at about 48 °C, comes from around 2,500 m underground. In 2025 it was one of three Guiyang hot springs rated 'golden grade' under the provincial standard."},{"id":"baiyun-penglai-xianjie","name":"Penglai Xianjie Mushroom Town","name_zh":"蓬莱仙界","pinyin":"Pénglái Xiānjiè","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.7498,"lon":106.7275,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baiyun-penglai-xianjie","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism site in Niuchang township, Baiyun district, built around the district's edible-mushroom industry. The mushroom-themed 'Moli Town' project adds recreation, restaurants, shopping, folk-culture experiences and accommodation, and the site is designated a city-level study base for school pupils. It suits family and school outings."},{"id":"wudang-poly-international-hot-spring","name":"Poly International Hot Spring","name_zh":"保利国际温泉","pinyin":"Bǎolì Guójì Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6124,"lon":106.7556,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudang-poly-international-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort on the wooded edge of Wudang district, beside a five-star hotel and a small lake where visitors can feed black swans. The Guiyang government lists more than 40 indoor and outdoor pools, among them herbal, red-wine and vinegar pools, a starlit hydrotherapy hall, fish-therapy pools and water slides for children, fed by water at about 67 °C. It suits a family soak or half-day break near the city."},{"id":"xiuwen-qiangui-liuguang-hot-spring","name":"Qiangui Liuguang Hot Spring","name_zh":"黔贵六广温泉","pinyin":"Qiánguì Liùguǎng Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":27.0054,"lon":106.4354,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuwen-qiangui-liuguang-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside hot-spring resort at Yangming Wharf on the Liuguang River canyon in Xiuwen county, built in terraces up the slope above the water. It combines hot-spring bathing with a hotel, restaurants, canyon boat trips and outdoor activities, and opened on a trial basis in January 2015. The Guiyang government says the spring water comes from about 1,800 m underground at 56–60 °C."},{"id":"guiyang-qianling-mountain-park","name":"Qianling Mountain Park","name_zh":"黔灵山公园","pinyin":"Qiánlíng Shān Gōngyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6016,"lon":106.6904,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guiyang-qianling-mountain-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested hill park with a lake and woodland paths in the north-west of Guiyang's urban area, built from 1957. Its best-known sights are Hongfu Temple, reached by a winding path, the Qilin Cave where Zhang Xueliang was held, and the troop of wild macaques that live in the park; the macaques can bite, and visitors are asked not to feed them. It is one of Guiyang's main sights and a popular place for a half-day walk."},{"id":"huaxi-qingyan-ancient-town","name":"Qingyan Ancient Town","name_zh":"青岩古镇","pinyin":"Qīngyán Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.3339,"lon":106.6833,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huaxi-qingyan-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled stone town founded in 1378 as a Ming military post and later a market town, with walls, gates, lanes and houses built of the local blue-grey stone that earned it the name 'stone city'. Its sights include temples, a Catholic church, memorial archways and the former residence of Zhao Yijiong, Guizhou's first civil-service top scholar, and part of its old streets is also a listed section of the Tea Horse Road. Local snacks include fried tofu balls and braised pig's trotters."},{"id":"baiyun-quanhu-park","name":"Quanhu Park","name_zh":"泉湖公园","pinyin":"Quánhú Gōngyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6757,"lon":106.6153,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baiyun-quanhu-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake park of about 1,080 mu (72 hectares) in the south of Baiyun district, with some 205 mu of water and about 750 mu of planting. Its named sights include the Quanhu Secret Realm, the Jade Water Long Bridge and Cloud Tower, and the park serves as a green corridor between Baiyun and Guanshanhu districts. It suits an easy walk in the city."},{"id":"qingzhen-shiguang-guizhou","name":"Shiguang Guizhou Themed Town","name_zh":"时光贵州","pinyin":"Shíguāng Guìzhōu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.5816,"lon":106.4628,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingzhen-shiguang-guizhou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern themed town of about 140,000 square metres in Qingzhen, between Red Maple Lake and Baihua Lake, built in the style of 1940s Shanghai and old Guiyang architecture, with shops, restaurants and entertainment. The Guiyang government says four lanes (military, merchants, officials and townspeople) tell Guizhou's story, from the Triassic fossils shown on the town walls to the Ming-era Tunpu garrison-settler culture. It is a purpose-built attraction rather than a historic town."},{"id":"qingzhen-siji-guizhou","name":"Siji Guizhou Resort","name_zh":"四季贵州","pinyin":"Sìjì Guìzhōu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.5772,"lon":106.483,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingzhen-siji-guizhou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A holiday resort complex in Qingzhen built around a water park and hot springs under a four-seasons theme. The Guiyang government describes a summer water park and winter bathing in natural hot springs, aimed at leisure and wellness stays."},{"id":"xiuwen-taoyuan-river-gorge","name":"Taoyuan River Gorge","name_zh":"桃源河","pinyin":"Táoyuán Hé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.904,"lon":106.8318,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuwen-taoyuan-river-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river gorge resort of about 15.7 sq km in Liutun town, Xiuwen county, with lakes, caves, springs, waterfalls and canyon scenery along the Taoyuan River. The Guiyang government calls it one of Guizhou's best-known rafting spots, and it also offers water play, forest walks, a hot-spring hotel and study programmes for school groups. It suits an active day trip from Guiyang."},{"id":"huaxi-tianhetan","name":"Tianhetan Scenic Area","name_zh":"天河潭","pinyin":"Tiānhétán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.4407,"lon":106.5738,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huaxi-tianhetan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst scenic area in Shiban town, Huaxi district, named for a natural stone bridge that spans a pool where a river runs through its caves. Features include a dry cave and a water cave, the Beauty Pool waterfall and the Shibang cascade. It is a nature outing south-west of the city."},{"id":"wudang-wanxiang-hot-spring","name":"Wanxiang Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"万象温泉","pinyin":"Wànxiàng Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.6538,"lon":106.779,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–4 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudang-wanxiang-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort and hotel in Wudang district, north-east of central Guiyang. Indoor baths and a garden of nearly 50 outdoor pools are fed by spring water drawn from about 2,200 m underground at around 57 °C, according to the Guiyang government. It also has a spa centre, a children's water-play area and a hotel, so it works as a soak close to the city."},{"id":"qingzhen-xiangchou-guizhou","name":"Xiangchou Guizhou Rural Culture Park","name_zh":"乡愁贵州","pinyin":"Xiāngchóu Guìzhōu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.5834,"lon":106.4038,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingzhen-xiangchou-guizhou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed park on the Xiangchou campus of Qingzhen's vocational education city, in Zhanjie town, built around rural life and traditional farming culture. The Guiyang government says it draws on three strands: agrarian civilisation, the philosophy of Wang Yangming and the local reading-and-farming tradition. It is a purpose-built culture park rather than a historic village."},{"id":"xifeng-concentration-camp-site","name":"Xifeng Concentration Camp Site","name_zh":"息烽集中营旧址","pinyin":"Xīfēng Jízhōngyíng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":27.0436,"lon":106.7375,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xifeng-concentration-camp-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of a prison that the Kuomintang's military intelligence bureau ran near Xifeng from 1938 to 1946; the memorial hall counts more than 1,200 prisoners, among them communists, patriots and democrats, and Yang Hucheng, a leader of the Xi'an Incident. Nine prison blocks with 52 rooms survive in the compound, now the Xifeng Concentration Camp Revolutionary History Memorial Hall, opened in 1997, with an exhibition on the camp and its prisoners. The Xuantian Cave, a second place of confinement, forms part of the protected site."},{"id":"wudang-yangchang-flower-painting-town","name":"Yangchang Flower-Painting Town","name_zh":"羊昌·花画小镇","pinyin":"Yángchāng Huāhuà Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.8342,"lon":106.8892,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudang-yangchang-flower-painting-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower-themed leisure park of about 789 mu (some 53 hectares) in Yangchang town, Wudang district. Its 20-odd attractions include a flower-art walking street, a flower hill, a lawn, an RV camp, a culture square about the Shuidong region and a garden recalling the 'educated youth' era. It also serves as a city-level labour-education base for school pupils, and suits family and school visits."},{"id":"xiuwen-yangming-cave","name":"Yangming Cave and Yangming Cultural Park","name_zh":"阳明洞","pinyin":"Yángmíng Dòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Guiyang","lat":26.851,"lon":106.6075,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiuwen-yangming-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The cave on Qixia Hill where the Ming philosopher Wang Yangming lived for about three years from 1508, after being exiled to the Longchang post station, and where tradition places the 'Longchang enlightenment' that shaped his later teaching, including 'unity of knowing and acting'. The cave carries inscriptions from the Ming, Qing and Republican periods, and the cultural park around it adds a memorial hall, a plaza and the Longgang Academy where he taught. The national listing also covers the Yangming Shrine in Guiyang city, a separate site."},{"id":"guian-yunmanhu-lake-park","name":"Yunmanhu Eco-Resort Park","name_zh":"云漫湖","pinyin":"Yúnmànhú","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Anshun","lat":26.3741,"lon":106.435,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guian-yunmanhu-lake-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A family-oriented leisure park built around an artificial lake in the Gui'an New Area, formed by linking two reservoirs and opened in 2016. The main section, an eco-resort park of about 2,200 mu (some 150 hectares), is laid out in Swiss-style buildings with themed zones such as Wonder Island, Rainbow Garden, Adventure Forest, Valley of Wind and Roaming Hills, and by 2024 had added an artificial pink-sand beach and summer-evening events. It suits families wanting a lakeside day out from Guiyang."},{"id":"shuicheng-baichehe","name":"Baichehe Hot Spring Resort Area","name_zh":"百车河","pinyin":"Bǎichēhé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.4406,"lon":105.0779,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuicheng-baichehe","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baichehe is a river-valley resort area in Panlong town, Shuicheng, built around hot springs and promoted as a summer retreat. It has hot-spring baths, more than 90 homestays with about 1,500 rooms, a wetland park, riverside paths and family attractions such as slides and children's boats. It suits long stays and families rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"panzhou-dadong-site","name":"Dadong Site","name_zh":"大洞遗址","pinyin":"Dàdòng Yízhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":25.6261,"lon":104.7495,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panzhou-dadong-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dadong is a karst cave in Panzhou where excavations in 1992 and 1993 found Palaeolithic stone tools and large numbers of animal fossils; the city tourism page counts more than 2,000 stone artefacts and nearly 10,000 fossils to date, and published age estimates range from about 100,000 to 300,000 years. It lies inside the Dadong Bamboo Sea scenic area in Zhuhai town, which also has bamboo-forest walks and a zip line. The site is protected as a national heritage unit."},{"id":"panzhou-dala-xiangu","name":"Dala Xiangu","name_zh":"哒啦仙谷","pinyin":"Dālā Xiāngǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":25.8645,"lon":104.5941,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panzhou-dala-xiangu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dala Xiangu is a leisure-farming and rural-tourism area in Panzhou with a wetland park, a lake, about 300 mu (20 hectares) of coloured flower fields laid out in circular patterns, a cartoon-themed play area and a lakeside hotel. The name 'Dala' is given as a Buyei word meaning mutual help, and the agronomist Yuan Longping, known as the father of hybrid rice, visited and inscribed the name. It is a family leisure stop rather than a wild landscape."},{"id":"liupanshui-third-front-museum","name":"Guizhou Third Front Construction Museum","name_zh":"贵州三线建设博物馆","pinyin":"Guìzhōu Sānxiàn Jiànshè Bówùguǎn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.5781,"lon":104.8757,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liupanshui-third-front-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This museum in Liupanshui's Shuicheng old town is about the 'Third Front', the programme from the mid-1960s to relocate defence and heavy industry to the interior, in which Liupanshui became a coal and steel centre. The main building has seven exhibition halls, a separate hall uses sound and light to recreate factory floors, a workers' canteen and a supply cooperative, and large objects such as a steam locomotive stand outdoors. It opened in 2013 and holds more than 20,000 items."},{"id":"liuzhi-huilongxi-spa-resort","name":"Huilongxi Spa Resort","name_zh":"回龙溪康养休闲度假旅游景区","pinyin":"Huílóngxī Kāngyǎng Xiūxián Dùjià Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.3468,"lon":105.383,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhi-huilongxi-spa-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Huilongxi is a spa and leisure resort beside Yanjiao old town, with hot-spring baths, a rafting course, a hotel and conference facilities, and ethnic-culture and entertainment attractions. The spring water is piped from the Mugong springs, a village known locally for longevity, and the area has a provincially protected group of late-Qing and Republican-era trading buildings."},{"id":"liuzhi-luobie-longjing-hot-spring","name":"Luobie Longjing Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"落别龙井温泉度假区","pinyin":"Luòbié Lóngjǐng Wēnquán Dùjiàqū","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.1215,"lon":105.5686,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhi-luobie-longjing-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Luobie Longjing is a hot-spring resort in the Luobie Buyei-Yi ethnic township, south-east of Liuzhi, with more than 60 soaking pools of different kinds, an indoor and outdoor water park, restaurants, rooms and meeting facilities. It is built for relaxing stays and family outings rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"liupanshui-meihuashan","name":"Meihuashan Scenic Area and Ski Resort","name_zh":"梅花山","pinyin":"Méihuāshān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.5767,"lon":104.8136,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liupanshui-meihuashan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Meihuashan is a mountain scenic area of about 40 sq km on the edge of Liupanshui, rising to about 2,499 m, with a resort park laid out in the shape of a plum blossom, a ski area first built in 2015 and a mountain cable car of nearly 10 km. Viewpoints look over karst peaks, cloud seas and forest, and the city promotes it for flowers in spring, cool summers, autumn colour and winter skiing. It is a short ride from the city centre."},{"id":"panzhou-shengjing-hot-spring","name":"Shengjing Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"胜境温泉","pinyin":"Shèngjìng Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":25.8185,"lon":104.6852,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panzhou-shengjing-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shengjing Hot Spring is a hot-spring resort of about 6.3 sq km in Liuguan subdistrict, Panzhou, combining indoor and outdoor pools with a waterfall, a wave pool, a cave-style soaking pool and a children's water park. The grounds also hold a lakeside park, a forest park, a sports park, a wetland park and a hotel with conference rooms. It suits families and groups wanting a spa stop."},{"id":"panzhou-tuole-ginkgo","name":"Tuole Ancient Ginkgo Village","name_zh":"妥乐古银杏","pinyin":"Tuǒlè Gǔyínxìng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":25.6146,"lon":104.5491,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panzhou-tuole-ginkgo","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tuole is a village of about 1,400 old ginkgo trees in Shiqiao town, Panzhou, where wooden walkways, viewing platforms and a path through the old village have been built among the trees. The leaves turn gold in autumn, which is the busiest season, and stalls sell roasted ginkgo nuts and dried chestnut-rose fruit. It is a short, scenic stop that is easy to combine with Wumeng Grassland."},{"id":"panzhou-wumeng-grassland","name":"Wumeng Grassland","name_zh":"乌蒙大草原","pinyin":"Wūméng Dàcǎoyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.1575,"lon":104.6114,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panzhou-wumeng-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wumeng Grassland is a plateau of pasture and dwarf rhododendron at about 2,000 to 2,857 m in Panzhou, with a high lake called Tianchi, a natural-bridge canyon on the Qingshui river and a ski area. It is promoted for rhododendron bloom in spring, cool summers, 'Buddha's light' halos in autumn and winter snow, and was one of Guizhou's first provincial-level tourist resorts. Horse riding, camping and a coloured slide track at the ski area are among the activities."},{"id":"panzhou-xiaochong-tombs","name":"Xiaochong Tombs, Panzhou","name_zh":"小冲墓群","pinyin":"Xiǎochōng Mùqún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":25.711,"lon":104.5005,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=panzhou-xiaochong-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xiaochong is a hillside burial ground of the Zhang and Deng families behind Huatun in Hanlin Subdistrict, Panzhou, with more than 130 graves dating from the Qing dynasty onwards. Most are built as carved stone arches, among them a three-tier hexagonal pavilion-style gravestone 5.1 metres high, and pairs of stone flagpoles that the city government says could be raised only once a family member had earned an examination degree. It covers more than two hectares and was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013; it suits visitors interested in local stone carving and Qing funerary customs."},{"id":"liupanshui-xiaojiucaiping","name":"Xiaojiucaiping (Zhongshan side)","name_zh":"小韭菜坪","pinyin":"Xiǎo Jiǔcàipíng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.8475,"lon":104.6928,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liupanshui-xiaojiucaiping","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xiaojiucaiping ('small chive plateau') is the Liupanshui-side approach to the Jiucaiping range and its summit, at 2,900.6 m the highest point in Guizhou, on the border with Hezhang County. Wild chives cover the ridges, and the area has karst stone-forest rocks, caves and sinkholes, rhododendrons in spring and a well-known camping ground; the city also describes it as a provincial-level tourist resort. Hezhang's Dajiucaiping, with its own entrance, covers the neighbouring plateau."},{"id":"shuicheng-yushe-forest-park","name":"Yushe Forest Park and Snow Mountain","name_zh":"玉舍森林公园","pinyin":"Yùshè Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.4543,"lon":104.8003,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuicheng-yushe-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yushe National Forest Park, in the hills of Shuicheng District south of central Liupanshui, is best known for Yushe Snow Mountain, which the city describes as Guizhou's first alpine ski resort. It has beginner, intermediate and advanced slopes, a snow-play area, snowmobile and cable-car rides, and has hosted youth alpine ski races; frost on the trees and frozen lakes are noted in winter. Outside the snow season the forest park is a cool place for walks."},{"id":"liuzhi-zangke-river","name":"Zangke River Scenic Area","name_zh":"牂牁江","pinyin":"Zāngkējiāng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Liupanshui","lat":26.0537,"lon":105.2332,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuzhi-zangke-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zangke River is a broad stretch of river water in southern Liuzhi, about 51 sq km of water surface at around 724 m above sea level, with an outdoor-sports base at Laowang Mountain. The scenic area has a hotel and a Yelang culture exhibition centre, and has hosted international paragliding and kayaking events since 2012. The city also lists it as a provincial-level tourist resort."},{"id":"congjiang-basha-miao-village","name":"Basha Miao Village","name_zh":"岜沙苗寨","pinyin":"Bāshā Miáozhài","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":25.7226,"lon":108.865,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=congjiang-basha-miao-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Basha is a Miao village a few kilometres from Congjiang county town, home to nearly 2,800 people, whose residents have kept customs such as haircuts with sickles, tree worship and carrying muskets with special permission from the police. The scenic area has a visitor service centre, and visitors can watch staged performances including musket firing, sickle haircutting, dances and wedding customs. It was rated 4A in 2018."},{"id":"huangping-chongan-river-watermills","name":"Chong'an River Watermills","name_zh":"重安江水碾群","pinyin":"Chóng'ān Jiāng Shuǐniǎn Qún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.7685,"lon":107.8886,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangping-chongan-river-watermills","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A row of traditional water-powered grain mills stands on a sandbar in the Chong'an River just south-east of Chong'an town in Huangping County, built from the Ming dynasty by local people influenced by the garrison settlers who brought new production methods from central China. At their late-Ming peak there were more than 40 mills; 19 mill houses survive in a line along the 343 m sandbar, and a 2015 heritage survey recorded 13 still in use, grinding tung seeds for oil, bamboo for paper and incense powder. The sandbar splits the river into two channels about 1.1 m apart in height, which drives the hidden water wheels, and the mills have been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"rongjiang-dali-dong-village","name":"Dali Dong Village, Rongjiang","name_zh":"大利侗寨","pinyin":"Dàlì Dòngzhài","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.0415,"lon":108.6394,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rongjiang-dali-dong-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dali is a Dong village of about 300 households in Zaima township, Rongjiang County, whose old timber houses, five wind-and-rain bridges, stone-paved lanes, wells and drum tower are protected together as a national heritage group. Two- and three-storey timber houses sit on either side of a stream, with granaries and drying racks at the village edge, and a paved path laid in 1793 still leads out of the village; the drum tower was rebuilt in 2005 on its old site. Dali was added to China's World Heritage tentative list in 2006 and became a national protected site in 2013."},{"id":"danzhai-wanda-village","name":"Danzhai Wanda Village","name_zh":"丹寨万达小镇","pinyin":"Dānzhài Wàndá Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.2056,"lon":107.8031,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danzhai-wanda-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Danzhai Wanda Village is a purpose-built tourism town beside Donghu lake in the middle of Danzhai county, built by the Wanda Group under a 2014 poverty-alleviation agreement with the county and opened in July 2017. It is a modern development in Miao architectural style, with themed streets and squares, craft shops (a large share devoted to heritage crafts such as batik and traditional papermaking), lake boating, a glass bridge and hot-spring hotels. It suits visitors who want an easy introduction to local crafts rather than a historic village."},{"id":"liping-diping-wind-rain-bridge","name":"Diping Wind and Rain Bridge","name_zh":"地坪风雨桥","pinyin":"Dìpíng Fēngyǔ Qiáo","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":25.7652,"lon":109.2377,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liping-diping-wind-rain-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Diping Bridge crosses the Nanjiang River between the upper and lower Dong hamlets of Diping in the far south-east of Liping County, and was first built in 1882. Close to 60 m long, it has a stone pier mid-stream that divides it into two cantilevered timber spans, with a five-tier tower on the pier and a three-tier tower at each end, and its interior walls are painted with scenes of Dong life such as weaving and singing. Floods swept the bridge away in 2004 and it was rebuilt to its original design in 2006; it has been a national protected site since 2001."},{"id":"jinping-feishan-temple","name":"Feishan Temple, Jinping","name_zh":"飞山庙","pinyin":"Fēishān Miào","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.6863,"lon":109.2006,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinping-feishan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Feishan Temple is a temple complex on the north bank of the Qingshui River in the old part of Jinping county town, built in 1769 in memory of Yang Zaisi, a local chief of the late Tang and Five Dynasties period. It has two parts: Feishan Palace, a walled courtyard with a gate, main hall and opera stage, and Feishan Pavilion, a four-storey timber tower about 25 m high. The buildings were repaired or rebuilt in 1813, 1872, 1881 and 1893, and the complex has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"huangping-feiyunya","name":"Feiyunya Ancient Buildings, Huangping","name_zh":"飞云崖","pinyin":"Fēiyúnyá","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.9522,"lon":107.9851,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangping-feiyunya","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Feiyunya is a temple-and-garden complex on a wooded hillside north-east of Huangping, centred on Yuetan Temple, which was founded in 1443 under the Ming. It is entered through a five-bay memorial-arch gate and includes a covered gallery, a pavilion built against the cliff beside a natural cave, and Yangyun Pavilion, whose arched roof heritage records call unique among Guizhou's old buildings; most of what stands today dates from the Guangxu reign (1875–1908), and the main hall is a Confucian temple hall moved from Jiuzhou town in 1986. Ming and Qing stone tablets and some twenty cliff inscriptions survive, and the complex has been a national protected site since 2006."},{"id":"zhenyuan-heping-village-former-camp","name":"Former Heping Village, Zhenyuan","name_zh":"和平村旧址","pinyin":"Hépíngcūn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.0501,"lon":108.4152,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenyuan-heping-village-former-camp/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former Heping Village is a walled compound on Heping Street in Zhenyuan's old town, once a Qing garrison office and then a prison, that served as a camp for Japanese prisoners of war held by the Nationalist government from 1938 to 1944. Chinese records say 600 to 700 prisoners passed through and that some formed an anti-war league there, the name Heping (peace) coming from the Japanese writer Kaji Wataru, who worked with them. Parts of the compound were rebuilt in the 1980s and 2000s and now hold an exhibition; it is a national protected site (2006) and is described in official records as the only well-preserved Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in China."},{"id":"zhenyuan-gaoguo-river-rafting","name":"Gaoguo River, Zhenyuan","name_zh":"高过河","pinyin":"Gāoguò Hé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.2692,"lon":108.2977,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenyuan-gaoguo-river-rafting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gaoguo River is a forested gorge river in Yangchang town, north-west of Zhenyuan, best known for summer rafting: a course of about 5 km that drops some 200 m past rapids, pools and waterfalls and takes three to four hours. The rafting ends near Sanzhai village, a cluster of Dong, Miao and Tujia hamlets with a Dong drum tower, a wind-and-rain bridge and stilt houses, where evening cultural shows are staged. The river area has been a provincial scenic area since 2000."},{"id":"congjiang-gaoqian-drum-tower","name":"Gaoqian Drum Tower","name_zh":"高阡鼓楼","pinyin":"Gāoqiān Gǔlóu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":25.8543,"lon":108.7566,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=congjiang-gaoqian-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gaoqian Drum Tower stands in the Zaiyang hamlet of Gaoqian village, Xiajiang town, Congjiang County, and was built in the Yongzheng reign (1723–35), with repairs between the Jiaqing and Guangxu reigns and again in 1983. A timber tower of fifteen tiers of eaves on a hexagonal plan, about 23 m high, it has a double-roofed crown, painted eave boards, a fire pit and ox-hide drums on its second and top floors. Chinese heritage records call it the tallest surviving old drum tower of the Dong, and it has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"sansui-guidong-scenic-area","name":"Guidong Scenic Area, Sansui","name_zh":"贵洞","pinyin":"Guìdòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.0201,"lon":108.7124,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sansui-guidong-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guidong is a rural scenic area in Jieping village, Bagong town, centred on a karst cave that local sources describe as about 4 km long, with stalactites, grooves and an underground stream. Only a first phase of the cave has been opened to visitors, lit in colour; around it are bamboo forest, a workshop showing traditional bamboo-pulp papermaking, farmland, a glass maze and an evening light show. The area was rated 3A in 2017 and upgraded to 4A in 2023."},{"id":"congjiang-jiabang-terraces","name":"Jiabang Terraces","name_zh":"加榜梯田","pinyin":"Jiābǎng Tītián","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":25.6011,"lon":108.5919,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=congjiang-jiabang-terraces","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Jiabang terraces climb the steep slopes of Jiabang township in southern Congjiang, covering more than 10,000 mu (about 667 ha) along some 25 km, with Miao villages scattered among the fields. Plots are small, many holding only a row or two of rice, so the paddies follow the contours closely; rice is planted in spring and the terraces turn gold in early autumn. Each spring a Kaiyang festival, held on 19 April in 2026, marks the start of planting with a ritual led by village elders, farming demonstrations and a field-climbing race."},{"id":"jianhe-hot-spring-resort","name":"Jianhe Hot Spring Resort","name_zh":"剑河温泉","pinyin":"Jiànhé Wēnquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.77,"lon":108.4911,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianhe-hot-spring-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort in Wenquan village, Cengsong town, north-east of Jianhe county town, fed by six springs; the water comes out at about 38–53 °C and is a radon-and-sulphur type. It has more than 80 indoor and outdoor pools, a seasonal water park, a theatre with Miao-themed water shows, hotels and a shopping street in Miao and Dong style. It is a developed leisure resort aimed at holiday-makers rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"congjiang-jingou-wind-rain-bridge","name":"Jingou Wind and Rain Bridge","name_zh":"金勾风雨桥","pinyin":"Jīngōu Fēngyǔ Qiáo","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":25.9572,"lon":108.6635,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=congjiang-jingou-wind-rain-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jingou Wind and Rain Bridge is a covered timber bridge over a small stream at Jingou hamlet, Zengying village, in Wangdong town, Congjiang County. First built in 1884, it collapsed, was rebuilt in 1992 and repaired in 2007; it is about 34 m long with ten bays, a five-tier pavilion roof over its middle and timber cantilevers carrying the bridge house across a single stone-and-concrete pier. Chinese heritage records name it as the representative pavilion-style wind-and-rain bridge, and it has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"huangping-jiuzhou-ancient-town","name":"Jiuzhou Ancient Town, Huangping","name_zh":"旧州古城","pinyin":"Jiùzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.9983,"lon":107.7777,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangping-jiuzhou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jiuzhou is an old market town on the upper Wuyang River in Huangping county, long a trading and grain centre of eastern Guizhou. Its Ming and Qing buildings, a national heritage unit, include old houses on West Upper Street, the Renshou Palace, a Jiangxi guildhall built in 1786 with an opera stage, a Tianhou (Mazu) temple and a Catholic church. The Fuzhong Bridge, first built under the Ming, is a stone arch bridge of about 68 m and the largest ancient stone arch bridge in the county."},{"id":"majiang-lanmenggu-blueberry-valley","name":"Lanmenggu Blueberry Valley","name_zh":"蓝梦谷","pinyin":"Lánmènggǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.4234,"lon":107.7327,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=majiang-lanmenggu-blueberry-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lanmenggu is a blueberry-growing park in Longshan town, Majiang, one of two blueberry parks (with the nearby Wukaping park) in the county's blueberry tourism area. Majiang began planting blueberries in 1999 and is now one of China's largest blueberry-growing counties. Visitors walk among the plantations and, in the picking season from about June to August, can pick berries; the park also offers jam-making and wine-making."},{"id":"cengong-longao-river","name":"Long'ao River Scenic Area","name_zh":"龙鳌河","pinyin":"Lóng'áo Hé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.4446,"lon":108.9493,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cengong-longao-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Long'ao River is a river valley in the north-west of Cengong county whose tourist stretch runs about 16.5 km, with gorges, waterfalls, caves and farmland. Boat trips run along the gorge from Aimenguan, a Ming-dynasty stone mountain gateway. Nearby are Majiazhai, a village of courtyard houses with carved stone flag-bases and old lanes, where people still live and farm, and the former command post of a Red Army corps."},{"id":"jinping-longli-ancient-town","name":"Longli Ancient Town","name_zh":"隆里古城","pinyin":"Lónglǐ Gǔchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.4211,"lon":109.0992,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinping-longli-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Longli is a walled garrison town founded under the Ming in the late 14th century, when soldiers and their families from Jiangnan and Jiangxi were settled here. It keeps its city gates, sections of wall, cobbled lanes and dozens of old houses and clan halls, and many residents are descended from the garrison and still perform customs such as the painted-face dragon dance and Han opera at the New Year. Its Ming and Qing buildings are a national protected group, and the village is a National Famous Historic and Cultural Village."},{"id":"zhenyuan-lower-wuyang-river","name":"Lower Wuyang River, Zhenyuan","name_zh":"下舞阳河","pinyin":"Xià Wǔyáng Hé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.053,"lon":108.3098,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenyuan-lower-wuyang-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The lower Wuyang River runs from Gaobei Lake near Shibing down to Zhenyuan, within the Wuyang River national scenic area. This section is known for its gorges, notably Zhuge Gorge and Longwang Gorge and the Peacock Screen rock."},{"id":"liping-qiaojie-old-street","name":"Qiaojie Old Street, Liping","name_zh":"翘街","pinyin":"Qiàojiē","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.235,"lon":109.135,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liping-qiaojie-old-street","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qiaojie, literally 'upturned street', is an old street about 1 km long in the centre of Liping, named because its middle dips and both ends rise like a carrying pole. It is lined with Ming and Qing brick houses with fire-break walls and old guildhalls, and today holds craft and snack shops. The Liping Conference site, a Qing-dynasty merchant's courtyard house where the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party met in December 1934 during the Long March, stands in the street area beside a memorial hall; on 18 December the meeting decided to change the planned route towards the interior of Guizhou."},{"id":"zhenyuan-qinglongdong","name":"Qinglongdong Ancient Architectural Complex","name_zh":"青龙洞","pinyin":"Qīnglóngdòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.053,"lon":108.4286,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenyuan-qinglongdong/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qinglongdong (Qinglong Cave) is a group of Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian buildings built into a cliff of Zhonghe Mountain above the Wuyang River at the eastern end of Zhenyuan's old town, begun in 1388 and taking its present form by the early Qing. Its roughly 40 buildings include the cave temple itself, the former Ziyang academy, the Zhongyuan Buddhist hall high on the cliff, Wanshou Palace, a three-courtyard hall with an opera stage, and the seven-arch Zhusheng Bridge, topped by a three-storey pavilion, which carries the old post road across the river. Heritage records describe it as a blend of south-western minority and central Chinese Han building traditions, and it has been a national protected site since 1988."},{"id":"tianzhu-sanmentang-village","name":"Sanmentang Village","name_zh":"三门塘","pinyin":"Sānméntáng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.7822,"lon":109.3295,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianzhu-sanmentang-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sanmentang is a Dong village on the Qingshui River, close to the Hunan border, that was long a timber-trading port. Its protected buildings, listed as Qing to Republican in date, include two ancestral halls, the Wang clan's Taiyuan Hall (rebuilt in 1908) and the Liu clan hall, with courtyard houses, wells, stone bridges, stone tablets and old trees around them. The group has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"shibing-shanmu-river","name":"Shanmu River, Shibing","name_zh":"杉木河","pinyin":"Shānmù Hé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.1154,"lon":108.0594,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shibing-shanmu-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shanmu River is a clear mountain river in the Shibing karst World Heritage area, inside the Wuyang River national scenic area, and one of the three main scenic areas of Shibing Karst. It is best known for rafting: a course of about 9 km through a forested gorge with a mix of rapids and calm stretches, plus a section of about 2 km lit for evening drifts in summer. The water is described as meeting mineral-water standards."},{"id":"taijiang-shidong-miao-town","name":"Shidong Miao Town","name_zh":"施洞","pinyin":"Shīdòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.8501,"lon":108.3306,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taijiang-shidong-miao-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shidong is a Miao market town on the middle Qingshui River, long a meeting place for the villages around it and a main venue for two festivals on China's national intangible-heritage list. The Sisters' Festival, on the 15th day of the third lunar month, centres on young women in silver headdresses and embroidered costume; the dragon-canoe festival, on the 24th to 27th of the fifth lunar month, features races between canoes made of three joined fir trunks with paddlers standing. The dates follow the lunar calendar, so check them before going."},{"id":"liping-shudong-drum-tower","name":"Shudong Single-Pillar Drum Tower","name_zh":"述洞独柱鼓楼","pinyin":"Shùdòng Dúzhù Gǔlóu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.1062,"lon":108.9224,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liping-shudong-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Shudong drum tower stands in the middle of the lower hamlet of Shudong village, Yandong town, Liping County, and is known as the single-pillar drum tower (it is also called the fir-tree tower) because its frame is built around one pillar running the full height of the tower. The present square, seven-tier tower, about 15.6 m high, was rebuilt in 1922 on an older design, local tradition dating the original to 1636, and heritage records say it is the only Dong drum tower built with this central-pillar structure. Records also praise it as the ancestor of drum towers, and it has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"leishan-langde-shangzhai","name":"Upper Langde Miao Village","name_zh":"郎德上寨","pinyin":"Lángdé Shàngzhài","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.4745,"lon":108.0575,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=leishan-langde-shangzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Upper Langde (Langde Shangzhai) is a Miao village of more than 100 households in Langde town, Leishan, set against a hillside and facing a stream, with the first houses dating from the late Yuan or early Ming. Its two- and three-storey timber stilt houses stand around a bronze-drum plaza used for gatherings and dances, and a 40 m wind-and-rain bridge crosses the stream in front. The buildings are a national protected group (2001); a village museum was set up here in 1986, and it was among the first Miao villages opened to visitors."},{"id":"kaili-xiasi-ancient-town","name":"Xiasi Ancient Town","name_zh":"下司古镇","pinyin":"Xiàsī Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.5209,"lon":107.8008,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaili-xiasi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xiasi is an old river town on the Qingshui River in Kaili, once a post station on a Tea-Horse trade route, and it still has a waterfront of old landing stages. The streets are lined with whitewashed walls and grey-tiled houses, and visitors can try craft workshops such as batik, tie-dye, lacquered fans and sachet-making."},{"id":"huangping-yanmen-chieftain-town","name":"Yanmen Zhangguansi Walled Town","name_zh":"岩门长官司城","pinyin":"Yánmén Zhǎngguānsī Chéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":26.7838,"lon":108.1293,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangping-yanmen-chieftain-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yanmen is a small walled stone town on the north bank of the Qingshui River in Gulong town, Huangping County, built as the seat of a hereditary native chieftain (zhangguansi) under the Ming and Qing. The office was set up in 1470 and raised to zhangguansi rank in 1658, held by the He family, and the stone wall, completed in 1741, ran about 1.6 km round and 3.3 m high, with gates on three sides, three gun platforms on the hill side and two river gates. The timber buildings inside have long since collapsed, the south gate is gone and 107 m of wall was taken down for stone in 1972, but most of the circuit survives, and it has been a national protected site since 2013."},{"id":"shibing-yuntai-mountain","name":"Yuntai Mountain, Shibing","name_zh":"云台山","pinyin":"Yúntái Shān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.1166,"lon":108.1071,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shibing-yuntai-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yuntai Mountain, about 13 km north of Shibing, is the best-known part of Shibing Karst, inscribed in 2014 as part of the South China Karst World Heritage property. The landscape is dolomite karst of peaks and gorges, often wrapped in cloud, with walking routes between a number of viewpoints. The mountain was a Buddhist site some 600 years ago, and old temple buildings and cliff inscriptions survive."},{"id":"congjiang-zaie-drum-tower","name":"Zai'e Drum Tower","name_zh":"宰俄鼓楼","pinyin":"Zǎi'é Gǔlóu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":25.8555,"lon":108.7606,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=congjiang-zaie-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zai'e Drum Tower stands in the Dong hamlet of Zai'e, part of Gaoqian village in Xiajiang town, Congjiang County. Its origins are uncertain and local tradition places it in the Yongzheng reign (1723–35); the present octagonal tower of thirteen tiers of eaves was rebuilt in 1986 and repaired in 2004, and has a stone-paved floor, a fire pit and a wooden oil press kept inside. It is a national protected site (seventh batch, 2013) and lies a few hundred metres from Gaoqian Drum Tower."},{"id":"congjiang-zengchong-drum-tower","name":"Zengchong Drum Tower","name_zh":"增冲鼓楼","pinyin":"Zēngchōng Gǔlóu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":25.9161,"lon":108.7004,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=congjiang-zengchong-drum-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zengchong Drum Tower stands at the centre of the Dong village of Zengchong in Wangdong town, Congjiang County, and dates from the early Qing dynasty, with stone tablets beside it, the earliest dated 1672. It is a timber tower of thirteen tiers of eaves under an octagonal pyramid roof, about 21 m high including its finial, with a fire pit in the middle of the ground floor and a long hide drum hung on the fifth floor. A 2008 article on China's intangible-heritage website describes it as the earliest and largest of Guizhou's more than 400 Dong drum towers, and it has been a national protected site since 1988."},{"id":"zhenyuan-ancient-town","name":"Zhenyuan Ancient Town","name_zh":"镇远古城","pinyin":"Zhènyuǎn Gǔchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiandongnan","lat":27.0507,"lon":108.4279,"category":"culture","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenyuan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhenyuan sits on an S-shaped bend of the Wuyang River, which divides the old prefectural city on the north bank from the old garrison city on the south bank, both built under the Ming. Once a major staging post on the route from central China to Yunnan and Guizhou, the town keeps Ming and Qing houses, guildhalls, temples, stone-paved lanes and riverside docks, sections of the Ming city walls and the Tianhou (Mazu) Palace, a Qing temple rebuilt in the 1870s with funds from Fujian merchants; boats run on the river, including in the evening. The best-known sight is the Qinglong Cave complex, a group of Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian buildings begun in 1388 and built against a cliff above the river."},{"id":"wengan-caotang-houchang-conference-site","name":"Caotang Old Town and Houchang Conference Site","name_zh":"草塘千年古邑（猴场会议旧址）","pinyin":"Cǎotáng Qiānnián Gǔyì (Hóuchǎng Huìyì Jiùzhǐ)","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":27.1848,"lon":107.5559,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wengan-caotang-houchang-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Houchang, also called Caotang, is an old town in Weng'an developed as a tourism area; the prefecture lists some thirty sights there, including an opera tower, the former Qishan Academy and a jinshi (scholar) tower. It is best known for the Houchang Conference, a Communist Party Politburo meeting held here on 31 December 1934 and 1 January 1935 during the Long March. The courtyard where it met is preserved, with a memorial hall beside it, and the site has been a national protected site since 2019."},{"id":"duyun-tea-culture-film-town","name":"Duyun Tea Culture and Film Town","name_zh":"都匀茶文化影视小镇","pinyin":"Dūyún Chá Wénhuà Yǐngshì Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.2371,"lon":107.606,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duyun-tea-culture-film-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tea-themed and film-set area in Duyun's eastern development zone which the city's tourism list describes as made up of the Qin-Han Film City, the China Tea Culture Expo Park and a Republic-era themed town. The Expo Park's gate hall, pagodas and pavilions are modelled on the Chinese pavilion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition and house tea trading, a tea culture centre and a display of objects. The film sets are modern constructions, not historic buildings, and have hosted many television productions."},{"id":"fuquan-ancient-city","name":"Fuquan Ancient City and City Wall","name_zh":"福泉古城","pinyin":"Fúquán Gǔchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.7021,"lon":107.5041,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuquan-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old walled town of Fuquan, whose Ming-dynasty city wall, begun in 1391 as an earth wall and rebuilt in stone about ten years later, ran for roughly 4.8 km with four gates. Where the wall crossed a river it was built as a stone arch bridge with an iron sluice, so the town could keep its water supply under siege. The scenic area, planned at 3.88 sq km, also lists the Confucian temple, the Xiongzhen gate tower, a wetland park and a Zhang Sanfeng-themed museum."},{"id":"fuquan-gejing-bridge","name":"Gejing Bridge, Fuquan","name_zh":"葛镜桥","pinyin":"Gějìng Qiáo","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.685,"lon":107.5258,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuquan-gejing-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A three-arch stone bridge across the Maha river, begun in 1618 and finished after about thirty years, paid for with donations raised by a local man, Ge Jing. It is 52.7 m long and 23 m high, with pointed arches, and a Qing-dynasty pavilion, the Sanyuan Pavilion of 1670, stands at the north end."},{"id":"huishui-haohuahong-village","name":"Haohuahong Village, Huishui","name_zh":"好花红","pinyin":"Hǎohuāhóng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.0186,"lon":106.5851,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huishui-haohuahong-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tourism area of about 5 sq km beside the Lianjiang river in Huishui, where Buyei people make up about 96% of residents. The prefecture presents it as a showcase for rural tourism combining Buyei culture, farming experiences and agricultural sightseeing, and the county's 2026 holiday report describes a flower garden, a sand-beach area and water-play attractions. Haohuahong is also the name of a Buyei mountain-song style popular around Huishui."},{"id":"luodian-hongshui-river-scenic-area","name":"Hongshui River Scenic Area, Luodian","name_zh":"罗甸红水河景区","pinyin":"Luódiàn Hóngshuǐhé Jǐngqū","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":25.1756,"lon":106.6237,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"About 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luodian-hongshui-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A purpose-built riverside leisure area on a reservoir of the Hongshui River at Hongshuihe town, on Guizhou's southern border with Guangxi, with a floating walkway of about 5 km as its centrepiece. Around it are a floating swimming pool and water park, tropical and palm plant gardens, a night-lit flower park on a peninsula and a seven-storey viewing tower; the prefecture's page puts a full visit at about two hours. It is aimed at families and water-sports visitors and promoted as a place for a warm-winter break."},{"id":"guiding-jinhai-xueshan","name":"Jinhai Xueshan, Guiding","name_zh":"金海雪山","pinyin":"Jīnhǎi Xuěshān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.4648,"lon":107.1593,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guiding-jinhai-xueshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tourism area of about 19 sq km in Panjiang town, made up of 14 villages where about 95% of residents are Buyei. Its name, 'golden sea, snow mountain', describes the spring sight of white plum blossom on the hillsides against yellow rapeseed fields beside the Wengcheng river. Attractions include a flower valley and, according to the county's 2026 reports, an early-cherry garden and a family area with a rice-field mini train and a Ferris wheel."},{"id":"longli-oil-painting-grassland","name":"Oil-Painting Grassland, Longli","name_zh":"龙里油画大草原","pinyin":"Lónglǐ Yóuhuà Dàcǎoyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.4219,"lon":106.9095,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longli-oil-painting-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure park on a high mountain plateau in Longli, with grassland of around a thousand mu (about 67 hectares) and, in season, flower fields that include white azaleas. A cable car links the foot of the hill with the plateau, where attractions include a glass bridge, a zip line, grass-skiing, a camping area and a run of nearly 4 km on non-powered scooters back down; the lower area has a commercial street in Miao and Buyei architectural styles. It suits families on a day out from Guiyang."},{"id":"pingtang-sky-bridge","name":"Pingtang Sky Bridge","name_zh":"平塘天空之桥","pinyin":"Píngtáng Tiānkōng Zhī Qiáo","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":25.7808,"lon":107.0676,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingtang-sky-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A highway service area turned destination beside Pingtang Bridge, a three-pylon cable-stayed bridge 2,135 m long whose tallest pylon is 332 m high, opened on 30 December 2019 across the Caodu river gorge. The service area, open to visitors since October 2020, has viewing platforms for the bridge and gorge, a bridge museum, an astronomy area, a cliff-top hotel and a campsite."},{"id":"duyun-shanmu-lake","name":"Shanmu Lake Park, Duyun","name_zh":"杉木湖","pinyin":"Shānmùhú","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.2255,"lon":107.5887,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=duyun-shanmu-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The central park at Shanmu Lake, a municipal park of about 80 hectares in Duyun's eastern new town, in the core of the Duyun Economic Development Zone. The prefecture describes it as a general public park combining green space, culture, recreation and fitness facilities. It is a local recreation space, so it suits a short walk rather than a full visit."},{"id":"changshun-shenquan-valley","name":"Shenquan Valley, Changshun","name_zh":"神泉谷","pinyin":"Shénquán Gǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.0376,"lon":106.501,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changshun-shenquan-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shenquan Valley is a riverside leisure area of about 8.8 km along the Wuma river in Changshun, running from the Weiyuan tidal spring to the Qinglong pool. Its signature sight is the 'tidal well' (chaojing), a spring whose water surges out and falls back irregularly, from two or three to seven or eight times a day according to the prefecture, each surge lasting five to ten minutes. The county reports that a hotel, campsites, off-road go-karts and children's attractions have been added in recent years."},{"id":"dushan-tiandong-cave-park","name":"Tiandong Scenic Area, Dushan","name_zh":"独山天洞","pinyin":"Dúshān Tiāndòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":25.7229,"lon":107.5834,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dushan-tiandong-cave-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A themed leisure park in Jichang town, Dushan, built around Tiandong, a limestone cave where coloured lights pick out the stalactites, and Duxiu peak, which visitors can climb for views over the surrounding area. The grounds also hold gardens, lakes and a Buyei-style village under a 'heavenly court' theme, and the park has hosted music festivals. It suits a short family stop rather than a long visit."},{"id":"longli-wushan-gorge","name":"Wushan Gorge, Shuanglong Town","name_zh":"双龙镇巫山峡谷","pinyin":"Shuānglóngzhèn Wūshān Xiágǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":26.4974,"lon":106.8521,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longli-wushan-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A gorge leisure area at Shuanglong in Longli, between two reservoirs, with rock paintings on its cliffs and a newly built courtyard-style town beside it. Attractions listed by the county include a cliff-side glass walkway, a suspension bridge, a via ferrata route and a water park. It is aimed at families and active day-trippers from Guiyang."},{"id":"libo-yaoshan-ancient-village","name":"Yaoshan Ancient Village, Libo","name_zh":"瑶山古寨","pinyin":"Yáoshān Gǔzhài","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qiannan","lat":25.2328,"lon":107.7665,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=libo-yaoshan-ancient-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village area of about 3.6 sq km in Yaoshan Yao township, described by the prefecture as a main settlement of the Baiku ('white-trousers') Yao, a name from the knee-length white trousers men traditionally wear. Many houses are mud-walled with thatched roofs, a cluster of granaries stands among them, and visitors can see a village-history museum and craft workshops and watch staged performances in the evenings. The Libo Yao monkey-drum dance, a funeral and ancestral-rite dance of the Baiku Yao, has been on China's national intangible-heritage list since 2008 and is also performed for visitors."},{"id":"qinglong-24-zig-road","name":"24-Switchback Road","name_zh":"二十四道拐","pinyin":"Èrshísì Dàoguǎi","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.8218,"lon":105.2022,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qinglong-24-zig-road/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A winding mountain road built in 1936 on the old Guizhou–Yunnan highway, climbing about 250 m in 24 hairpin bends over four kilometres. It became a symbol of US support for China in the Second World War after American army engineers reworked it in 1943, is part of what is called the Stilwell Road, and is a national-level protected monument; English-language sources also call it the 24-zig or the 24-bend road. The scenic area around it also has a viewing platform and exhibition hall, built in 2016 and run separately from the road itself."},{"id":"qinglong-amei-qituo-town","name":"Amei Qituo Town","name_zh":"阿妹戚托小镇","pinyin":"Āmèi Qītuō Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.8343,"lon":105.2406,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinglong-amei-qituo-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside town built to rehouse the whole of Sanbao Yi township on the edge of Qinglong county town, named after Amei Qituo, a Yi bridal dance on China's national intangible cultural heritage list that is often called the Eastern tap dance. It has a dance culture hall, a craft street with embroidery and batik shops, Miao and Yi culture squares, a pagoda and guesthouses in Yi-style buildings, and in the evening visitors are invited to join the dancing on Jinmen Square. It is a modern resettlement town rather than a historic village, and Yi and Miao culture is presented there for visitors."},{"id":"zhenfeng-beipan-river-canyon","name":"Beipan River Canyon, Zhenfeng","name_zh":"北盘江大峡谷","pinyin":"Běipánjiāng Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.5371,"lon":105.7442,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenfeng-beipan-river-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A U-shaped canyon of the Beipan River in Zhenfeng, about 94 km long within the county, with karst peaks, caves and waterfalls along a reservoir created by the Dongqing dam; the area is part of the Beipan River National Wetland Park. The main way to see it is a boat trip upstream from the dam area, about two hours there and back to the Xiaohuajiang iron-chain bridge, and the county also points to rock paintings, cliff inscriptions and old Tea-Horse Road paths along the gorge. It is billed locally as Guizhou's little Three Gorges."},{"id":"xingren-fangmaping-grassland","name":"Fangmaping Grassland","name_zh":"放马坪","pinyin":"Fàngmǎpíng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.5705,"lon":105.1727,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingren-fangmaping-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A highland grassland of about 21,000 mu at an average height of 1,630 m on the northern edge of Xingren, nicknamed Gaoyuan Saiwai, the plateau frontier. Besides the open pasture there are karst sinkholes, cliffs and a plateau lake, with flower fields in season and activities such as grass-sliding, kite flying, camping and horse riding. It suits families and outdoor-minded visitors, and hosts camping and kite-flying events."},{"id":"xingyi-guizhou-chun-leisure-park","name":"Guizhou Chun Leisure Park","name_zh":"贵州醇景区","pinyin":"Guìzhōu Chún Jǐngqū","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.0679,"lon":104.8724,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyi-guizhou-chun-leisure-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure park of about 2,400 mu in the urban area of Xingyi, named after the Guizhou Chun baijiu brand and described in provincial tourism promotion as one of 14 liquor-and-tourism scenic areas in Guizhou. It has cherry and plum woods, flower fields, a covered wind-and-rain bridge beside a waterfall, a children's amusement area, an adventure playground, ziplines, boating, a mushroom-themed lodge hotel and an open-air beer garden. It is aimed at families and short visits, and a riverside path of about 21 km, with electric shuttles, now links it to Wanfenglin."},{"id":"xingyi-liu-family-manor","name":"Liu Family Manor, Xingyi","name_zh":"兴义刘氏庄园","pinyin":"Xīngyì Liúshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.067,"lon":104.8934,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyi-liu-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled family compound of about 13 courtyard houses on roughly 70 mu at Xiawutun, added to over four generations of the Liu family in a mix of Chinese and Western styles. It was the home of Liu Xianshi, a leading figure in Guizhou politics and military governor in the early Republic, and of his brother Liu Xianqian. The surviving buildings include a loyalty shrine, a flower hall, a study, a family temple and a parade ground, together with part of the wall, a blockhouse and a French-style building."},{"id":"xingyi-lutun-old-town-archways","name":"Lutun Archways and Old Town","name_zh":"鲁屯牌坊群","pinyin":"Lǔtún Páifāng Qún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.1626,"lon":105.1336,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyi-lutun-old-town-archways","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lutun is a Ming-era military settlement in the Yilong New Area east of Xingyi, where three Qing stone memorial archways dated 1839 to 1846 still stand in the old streets, two honouring people who reached 100 and one a woman praised for chastity and filial devotion; the group is a national-level protected monument. The old town lies inside the Yilong Mountain Tourism, Sport and Leisure Expo Park, the 4A scenic area of about 1,000 mu that also has a convention centre and a baseball and softball park. It is a short stop, mainly for those curious about the fortified-settlement towns of Guizhou."},{"id":"xingyi-maling-river-canyon","name":"Maling River Canyon","name_zh":"马岭河峡谷","pinyin":"Mǎlǐng Hé Xiágǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.1353,"lon":104.955,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyi-maling-river-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fissure gorge cut by the Maling River just north-east of Xingyi, more than 70 km long and up to a few hundred metres deep, with waterfalls pouring from its walls and lime-rich deposits hanging from the cliffs. The core section, the Tianxing Gallery, is the part most visitors see, and UNESCO notes more than 100 cascades after heavy rain. It is a national-level scenic area and part of the Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2024."},{"id":"puan-tea-culture-scenic-area","name":"Pu'an Tea Culture Scenic Area","name_zh":"普安茶文化生态旅游景区","pinyin":"Pǔ'ān Chá Wénhuà Shēngtài Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.7487,"lon":105.0746,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puan-tea-culture-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tea-tourism area at Chayuan, east of Pu'an town, built around local claims that the region is an origin of tea: the county dates a fossilised tea seed found nearby in 1980 to more than two million years ago, and says more than 20,000 ancient wild tea trees survive in Pu'an. The Buyei Tea Source Town at its centre has a tea-culture park, a Shennong shrine, a pavilion for Funiang, whom local tradition names as the Buyei tea ancestor, and a tea-bowl-shaped exhibition hall, while the surrounding hills have tea plantations, a mountain-bike course and guesthouses. It suits visitors who want to see tea country and try picking or brewing."},{"id":"zhenfeng-sanchahe-lake","name":"Sanchahe Lake, Zhenfeng","name_zh":"三岔河","pinyin":"Sānchàhé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.5152,"lon":105.6274,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenfeng-sanchahe-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir lake in Zhexiang town, north of Zhenfeng, named for the three rivers that meet here and developed as a lakeside leisure area of roughly 2,100 mu. It has a camping ground and RV park, lakeside hotels, a bridge, cliff inscriptions of the character for tiger, a former manor house and the Buyei village of Nakong. It suits families and camping weekends."},{"id":"zhenfeng-shuangyufeng","name":"Shuangyufeng Twin Peaks","name_zh":"双玉峰","pinyin":"Shuāngyùfēng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.4507,"lon":105.6293,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenfeng-shuangyufeng","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two rounded karst peaks rising about 260 m above their surroundings, which the local Buyei call the Holy Mother Peaks, on the road from Zhenfeng towards Guiyang; many local pages still use the older name Shuangrufeng. The scenic area adds a small stone forest, a lake, a Buyei village and a heritage showcase for local costume, blacksmithing and traditional pottery. It is a short visit for the views and the crafts, close to Sanchahe Lake."},{"id":"anlong-eighteen-scholars-tomb","name":"Tomb of the Eighteen Scholars, Anlong","name_zh":"明十八先生墓","pinyin":"Míng Shíbā Xiānsheng Mù","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.1106,"lon":105.4617,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anlong-eighteen-scholars-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tombs and memorial shrine of eighteen Southern Ming court officials killed in 1654, after they objected to the domination of the court at Anlong by Sun Kewang, leader of the Daxi army. The Yongli Emperor, the last Ming claimant, had based his court at Anlong from 1652. The site lies at the foot of Tianbang Hill and has many cliff inscriptions left by later visitors; nearby, a rebuilt Southern Ming palace houses a museum on the period."},{"id":"xingyi-wanfeng-lake","name":"Wanfeng Lake","name_zh":"万峰湖","pinyin":"Wànfēng Hú","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":24.9479,"lon":105.0313,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyi-wanfeng-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large reservoir on the Nanpan River where Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi meet, formed by the Tianshengqiao-I dam and named for the many karst peaks around it. The prefecture describes a surface of about 176 square kilometres with dozens of islands, peninsulas and bays, and visitors come for boat trips, lakeside fishing and views. The 4A scenic area covers nine lakeside spots on the Xingyi shore, with a visitor centre, a fishing service centre and boat services."},{"id":"xingyi-wanfenglin","name":"Wanfenglin Peak Forest","name_zh":"万峰林","pinyin":"Wànfēnglín","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.0075,"lon":104.921,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingyi-wanfenglin/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wanfenglin is a plain of cone-shaped karst peaks south of Xingyi; UNESCO's geopark profile counts more than 20,000 of them. Roads and footpaths wind between the peaks past farmland and Buyei villages, and the area has one of Guizhou's larger clusters of homestays. It lies within the Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2024, and was rated a 5A scenic area in December 2024."},{"id":"xingyi-geopark-museum","name":"Xingyi Geopark Museum","name_zh":"兴义国家地质公园博物馆","pinyin":"Xīngyì Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.14,"lon":104.7914,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingyi-geopark-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A geopark museum in Wusha, west of Xingyi, devoted to the Middle Triassic marine reptiles and fishes of the Xingyi fauna, above all the small reptile Keichousaurus, known as the Guizhou dragon. It has two buildings, the museum itself with six exhibition halls and a hall that preserves fossil beds in place, and offers hands-on activities such as fossil preparation, aimed at school-age visitors. UNESCO dates the fauna to roughly 242 to 237 million years ago, and it is one of the features of the Xingyi UNESCO Global Geopark, designated in 2024."},{"id":"anlong-zhaoti-lotus-embankment","name":"Zhaoti Embankment and Lotus Wetland","name_zh":"招堤","pinyin":"Zhāodī","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.1165,"lon":105.4771,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anlong-zhaoti-lotus-embankment","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lotus-filled wetland on the north-eastern edge of the old town of Anlong, built around a stone embankment, a provincial-level protected monument, that a local garrison officer raised in 1694 to hold back floodwater. More than 5,000 mu of lotus are grown here, and in midsummer the flowers, a curving viewing bridge and pavilions draw visitors to what the prefecture describes as the largest lotus-viewing spot on the Guizhou plateau. Egrets, herons and moorhens are among the waterbirds recorded in the wetland."},{"id":"zhenfeng-ancient-town","name":"Zhenfeng Ancient Town","name_zh":"贞丰古城","pinyin":"Zhēnfēng Gǔchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Qianxinan","lat":25.3868,"lon":105.653,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenfeng-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A restored old quarter at the foot of Feng Hill on the east side of Zhenfeng, once the Buyei market settlement of Mingu, with Ming and Qing streets, courtyard houses, the Wenchang Palace and the former guild halls of merchants from Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and Guangxi. The county says repair and opening to visitors began in 2015, while the scenic area as a whole was built from 2017 and opened in 2018, so part of what visitors see is new construction in old style. It is best for an evening stroll when the streets are lit."},{"id":"tongren-daming-border-city","name":"Daming Border City","name_zh":"大明边城","pinyin":"Dàmíng Biānchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.7149,"lon":109.207,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongren-daming-border-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside attraction on the Jinjiang river in Tongren, built in the style of a Ming-dynasty frontier town and themed on the Ming court bringing the local Sizhou and Sinan chiefdoms under its rule. It is a modern, artificial landscape rather than a historic site, and a scenic-area upgrade project was listed among Tongren investment projects in 2023."},{"id":"yanhe-qiandong-special-district-site","name":"East Guizhou Special District Revolutionary Committee Site","name_zh":"黔东特区革命委员会旧址","pinyin":"Qiándōng Tèqū Gémìng Wěiyuánhuì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":28.3286,"lon":108.5019,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanhe-qiandong-special-district-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick-and-timber meeting hall of about 400 square metres at Tudiwan in Qiaojia town, Yanhe county, where delegates from Yanhe, Yinjiang and Dejiang counties and Red Army representatives founded the East Guizhou Special District Revolutionary Committee on 21–22 July 1934. It was listed as a national heritage unit in 2006, together with related sites in Dejiang and Yinjiang counties. The building faces east and carries a name plaque written by Liao Hansheng, who served as political commissar of the Ninth Division of the Red Army's Third Army."},{"id":"wanshan-jiufeng-agricultural-expo-park","name":"Jiufeng Agricultural Expo Park","name_zh":"九丰农业博览园","pinyin":"Jiǔfēng Nóngyè Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.4752,"lon":109.1623,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanshan-jiufeng-agricultural-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farm-tourism park in Wanshan district that opened in 2015, built around large greenhouses where more than a hundred kinds of unusual fruit and vegetables are grown and visitors can pick seasonal produce. It also has flower and marine-science exhibition halls, holiday villas and a hotel, and it takes school study groups. It suits families and anyone curious about modern farming."},{"id":"yanhe-lizhi-gorge","name":"Lizhi Gorge","name_zh":"黎芝峡","pinyin":"Lízhī Xiá","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":28.5702,"lon":108.4969,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanhe-lizhi-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lizhi Gorge is part of the Wujiang Gorge scenic area in Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County, where the Wujiang river runs between steep cliffs. Visitors see it from a boat, passing cliff formations that have been given names such as Beauty Peak, Tianmen Stone and Straw Hat Rock."},{"id":"shiqian-loushang-village","name":"Loushang Village Ancient Buildings","name_zh":"楼上村古建筑群","pinyin":"Lóushàng Cūn Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.4497,"lon":108.1406,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiqian-loushang-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside village in Guorong township, beside the Fodingshan nature reserve, whose buildings include the Zitong Palace temple, an opera stage, the Tianfu well and lanes of courtyard houses, most of them late Qing. Building began in the Wanli reign of the Ming; the temple's main hall was rebuilt in 1867 and its rear hall in 1882 after damage in 1861, and the opera stage dates from 1916 and the well from 1938."},{"id":"songtao-miaowangcheng","name":"Miaowangcheng (Miao King's City)","name_zh":"苗王城","pinyin":"Miáowángchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.964,"lon":109.2414,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songtao-miaowangcheng","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Miao fortified village in Songtao Miao Autonomous County, said to date from the early Ming dynasty, when it was the seat of a local Miao chiefdom. Stone-walled lanes with eleven gateways, stilted timber houses and a stream run through a steep-sided valley, and local authorities put its history at more than 600 years."},{"id":"shiqian-confucian-temple","name":"Shiqian Prefectural Confucian Temple","name_zh":"石阡府文庙","pinyin":"Shíqiān Fǔ Wénmiào","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.5209,"lon":108.229,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiqian-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shiqian's prefectural Confucian temple was founded in 1413, the year Guizhou was made a province and Shiqian a prefecture, and was repaired in the 18th and 19th centuries. The compound rises in three courtyards from the gate and pond to the Dacheng Hall, whose column bases and terrace are carved with dragons and carp-leaping-the-dragon-gate reliefs. In January 1936 the Red Army ran a school here after taking the town."},{"id":"sinan-stone-forest","name":"Sinan Stone Forest","name_zh":"思南石林","pinyin":"Sīnán Shílín","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.714,"lon":107.9482,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sinan-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A field of karst limestone pinnacles beside the Silin reservoir on the Wujiang river in Changba town, covering roughly 5 square kilometres. The rock forms range from needles and swords to towers, pillars and castle-like masses, and some are named after animals, such as the twelve zodiac stones. It has been a national geopark since 2009, with a geology museum and walking trails, and the 4A listing also covers a hot-spring site in Sinan town."},{"id":"sinan-sitang-ancient-buildings","name":"Sitang Ancient Buildings, Sinan","name_zh":"思唐古建筑群","pinyin":"Sītáng Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.9452,"lon":108.2502,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sinan-sitang-ancient-buildings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of Ming and Qing buildings along Anhua Street in Sinan county town, listed as a national heritage unit in 2006. It includes the prefectural Confucian temple (first built in 1486), Wanshou Palace with its opera stage, Chuanzhu Palace, the Wangye temple and a Qing salt merchant's house with its salt store, alongside old houses and lanes."},{"id":"shiqian-wanshou-palace","name":"Wanshou Palace, Shiqian","name_zh":"石阡万寿宫","pinyin":"Shíqiān Wànshòugōng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.5262,"lon":108.2281,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiqian-wanshou-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple compound in Shiqian old town whose core, Wanshou Palace, was built in 1588 under the Ming and repeatedly repaired in the Qing; four neighbouring temples (Yu the Great, Zhonglie, the Jade Emperor and Heishen) complete the five groups. Its brick-built memorial-arch gateway, bell and drum towers and opera stage are decorated with brick carvings and patterned tiles."},{"id":"dejiang-wucaiyangshanhe-gorge","name":"Wucai Yangshanhe Gorge","name_zh":"五彩洋山河","pinyin":"Wǔcǎi Yángshānhé","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":28.4366,"lon":108.1293,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dejiang-wucaiyangshanhe-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A karst gorge about 2.5 km long and 100–400 m deep in Dejiang county, opened to visitors in 2020, with a sinkhole, natural bridge, caves, stone forest and underground river. Its centrepiece is Nuoxian Cave, where the underground stream shows several colours and a fried-egg-shaped mineral formation is the best-known curiosity. A glass suspension bridge, a viewing platform and an inclined cable car take visitors across and down into the gorge."},{"id":"jiangkou-yamugou","name":"Yamugou Valley","name_zh":"亚木沟","pinyin":"Yàmùgōu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.7865,"lon":108.7351,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangkou-yamugou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested stream valley fed from Fanjingshan in Zhaibao village, Taiping town, with small waterfalls and clear rock pools. Xinhua reports forest cover above 97 per cent and an average temperature of about 17°C. It is a low-key add-on for visitors staying near the Jiangkou entrance to Fanjingshan."},{"id":"shiqian-yelang-hot-springs","name":"Yelang Ancient Spring Hot Springs","name_zh":"夜郎古泉","pinyin":"Yèláng Gǔquán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.5104,"lon":108.2192,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiqian-yelang-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hot-spring resort at the edge of Shiqian county town, in a county known as a hot-spring homeland: about twenty spring sites with 36 outlets have been surveyed there. The springs have been used for more than 400 years, and the resort has more than 130 bathing pools of different kinds as well as a water park with a wave pool. A cable car links it with the cliff-top Xianren Street attractions, so a visit can combine a mountain outing with a soak."},{"id":"jiangkou-yunshe-village","name":"Yunshe Village","name_zh":"云舍村","pinyin":"Yúnshè Cūn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.7428,"lon":108.8202,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangkou-yunshe-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tujia village at the foot of Fanjingshan on the Taiping River, with stone-paved lanes and old timber houses, most of them dating from the Ming and Qing periods. Visitors can see hand-papermaking and Tujia weaving demonstrations, a small museum on Tujia wedding customs and the clear Shenlong Pool. It makes an easy stop before or after climbing Fanjingshan."},{"id":"yuping-dong-village-park","name":"Yuping Dong Folk Village Park","name_zh":"玉屏侗乡风情园","pinyin":"Yùpíng Dòngxiāng Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.4523,"lon":109.115,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuping-dong-village-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A purpose-built tourist complex in Tianping town that presents Dong culture in newly built timber architecture, including a drum tower and some thirty Dong-style houses. Inside are small museums of Dong embroidery and bamboo flutes, a mock 1960s-70s village market street, a lotus-pond wetland park, and an outlet shopping street across the road. It was built from the late 2010s, so the buildings are modern, but it gives an easy introduction to Dong music, crafts and food."},{"id":"songtao-zhaiying-ancient-town","name":"Zhaiying Ancient Town, Songtao","name_zh":"寨英古镇","pinyin":"Zhàiyīng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.9432,"lon":108.9089,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=songtao-zhaiying-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhaiying was a busy river-trading town in the Ming and Qing periods, nicknamed 'Little Nanjing', and its old core survives as a national heritage group of houses, shops, guildhalls, town walls and a wharf. Partition walls, hidden passages and loopholes show that the buildings were also designed for defence, and the architecture mixes Han and Miao features, with ox-horn door lintels and fish-bone pebble patterns on guildhall walls."},{"id":"tongren-zhongnanmen-old-town","name":"Zhongnanmen Old Town, Tongren","name_zh":"中南门古城","pinyin":"Zhōngnánmén Gǔchéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.7172,"lon":109.1841,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongren-zhongnanmen-old-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tongren's old quarter lies on a peninsula with the Jinjiang river on three sides, and its restored courtyard houses, lanes and wharf from the Ming to Republican periods now host evening events such as street concerts and open-air films. Several monuments in and around the old city make up the national heritage unit known as the Dongshan ancient buildings, including Dongshan Temple on its hill (first built in 1516), Chuanzhu Palace (founded in 1375, with an opera stage) and the courtyard home of Zhou Yiqun, an early Communist Party figure. The lanes are most lively in the evening."},{"id":"wanshan-zhusha-ancient-town","name":"Zhusha Ancient Town (Wanshan Mercury Mine)","name_zh":"朱砂古镇","pinyin":"Zhūshā Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Tongren","lat":27.5313,"lon":109.2156,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wanshan-zhusha-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wanshan was China's largest cinnabar and mercury producer, mined for more than 2,000 years until the mines closed in 2001, and the remains are a national heritage unit and a national mine park. Zhusha Ancient Town is the converted mining settlement, with restored workers' streets, shops and canteen from the mining days, old tunnels where cinnabar can still be seen in the rock, and a glass walkway along a gorge. It suits anyone interested in industrial heritage and how it is reused."},{"id":"chishui-bingan-ancient-town","name":"Bing'an Ancient Town","name_zh":"丙安古镇","pinyin":"Bǐng'ān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.473,"lon":105.8203,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chishui-bingan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Bing'an is an old river-trading town on the Chishui River, once a staging post for the boats that carried Sichuan salt into Guizhou, with timber stilt houses built along the steep riverbank, a stone town gate, a Qing-era towpath and an old bridge. In January 1935 units of the Red Army's First Army Corps camped here during the Long March, ahead of the first crossing of the Chishui, and the town has a First Army Corps exhibition hall and a memorial hall for General Geng Biao. It was named a Chinese Traditional Village in 2012 and suits visitors who enjoy historic riverside architecture."},{"id":"xishui-china-danxia-valley","name":"China Danxia Valley, Xishui","name_zh":"中国丹霞谷","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Dānxiá Gǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.5021,"lon":106.4038,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xishui-china-danxia-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested river valley with red Danxia sandstone walls in Sancha River town, Xishui County. Its best-known sight is the Wangxiantai grotto, a rock-cut complex carved into the cliff for the Qing-dynasty businessman Yuan Jindao and described in local media as Guizhou's finest grotto. Streams and forest against the red rock make up the rest of the scenery."},{"id":"renhuai-china-liquor-culture-city","name":"China Liquor Culture City, Maotai","name_zh":"中国酒文化城","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Jiǔ Wénhuà Chéng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.855,"lon":106.3687,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renhuai-china-liquor-culture-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The visitor complex of the Moutai distillery in Maotai town, the home of Moutai baijiu on the Chishui River. It includes a museum of famous Chinese liquors and displays introducing Moutai's history and culture."},{"id":"chishui-danxia-scenic-area","name":"Chishui Danxia","name_zh":"赤水丹霞","pinyin":"Chìshuǐ Dānxiá","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.3597,"lon":105.7409,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chishui-danxia-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chishui is one of the six components of the \"China Danxia\" World Heritage site (inscribed 2010), a landscape of red sandstone cliffs, forested gorges and waterfalls around Chishui city. The main stop is the Great Waterfall (Shizhangdong), about 76 m high and 80 m wide and described as the largest waterfall on danxia terrain in China; the area is also known for dense bamboo forest and for tree ferns, a plant group that survives from the Jurassic. Plan about a day for the main sights, with the bamboo forest and the Sidonggou falls nearby."},{"id":"yuqing-feilongzhai","name":"Feilongzhai, Yuqing","name_zh":"飞龙寨","pinyin":"Fēilóngzhài","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.3811,"lon":107.4421,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuqing-feilongzhai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area on the shore of Feilong Lake, a reservoir on the Wujiang River in Yuqing County, presented as a Miao village with local folk culture. Its best-known feature is the Feilong Corridor, a 999 m promenade whose dragon motifs give the place its name. Nearby Langshuiwan, another part of the Feilong Lake area, offers boat trips and water sports."},{"id":"meitan-zhejiang-university-wartime-site","name":"Former Site of Zhejiang University in Meitan","name_zh":"湄潭浙江大学旧址","pinyin":"Méitán Zhèjiāng Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.7688,"lon":107.484,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meitan-zhejiang-university-wartime-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"In 1940 Zhejiang University, evacuated during the war with Japan, moved to Meitan under its president Zhu Kezhen, with more than 700 staff and students, and taught here until 1946. Nine sites used by the university survive in Meitan town and nearby Yongxing town, including the former Confucian temple that served as its office and library, a Catholic church where professors lived, and a guild hall used as the graduate school. The temple, in the town centre, is close to the Giant Teapot park."},{"id":"tongzi-tianmenhe-hydropower-plant","name":"Former Tianmenhe Hydropower Plant","name_zh":"天门河水电厂旧址","pinyin":"Tiānménhé Shuǐdiànchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.1459,"lon":106.8481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongzi-tianmenhe-hydropower-plant","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wartime hydropower station in Tongzi county, begun in 1941 and generating from April 1945, built to power the Nationalist-run 41st Arsenal, which had moved here from several provinces during the war with Japan. Its generator hall, control room and tailrace tunnel were cut into karst caves for concealment, two American-made generators from the 1940s remain in the hall, and a 1944 stone memorial tower to its builders and a set of inscribed tablets survive. It lies about 1 km from the dam that formed Xiaoxihu, the small lake where Zhang Xueliang was held, and suits visitors interested in industrial or wartime history."},{"id":"xishui-four-crossings-memorial-hall","name":"Four Crossings of the Chishui River Memorial Hall","name_zh":"四渡赤水纪念馆","pinyin":"Sìdù Chìshuǐ Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.2799,"lon":105.9953,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xishui-four-crossings-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial museum opened in 2007 in Tucheng town, telling the story of the Red Army's four crossings of the Chishui River between January and March 1935 during the Long March. Several of the crossings were made in what is now Xishui County, and the Red Army fought a heavy battle at Tucheng on 28 January 1935 before the first crossing. The hall is the main venue of a group of smaller museums in the old town, covering topics such as the women soldiers of the Red Army, the Red Army hospital and shipping on the Chishui River."},{"id":"bozhou-gouba-conference-site","name":"Gouba Conference Site","name_zh":"苟坝会议旧址","pinyin":"Gǒubà Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.6524,"lon":106.5649,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bozhou-gouba-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gouba is a village in Fengxiang town where the Red Army's headquarters stopped in March 1935 during the Long March. At a farm compound called Xinfangzi, Politburo meetings on 10-12 March debated whether to attack the town of Daguxinchang, and a three-man military command group of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang was set up. The meeting site is preserved, with an exhibition hall on the conference, and it suits visitors tracing the Long March around Zunyi."},{"id":"zunyi-hailongtun","name":"Hailongtun","name_zh":"海龙屯","pinyin":"Hǎilóngtún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.8126,"lon":106.8172,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zunyi-hailongtun/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a mountain stronghold of the Yang family, the hereditary tusi (chiefs) of Bozhou, begun in 1257 under the Southern Song and destroyed when Ming forces took it in 1600. Cliffs guard it on every side, and stone gates such as the Feihu and Feilong passes and several kilometres of walls survive on Longyan mountain, enclosing about 1.6 sq km. It is one of the three Tusi Sites inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015."},{"id":"fenggang-heart-of-the-tea-sea","name":"Heart of the Tea Sea, Fenggang","name_zh":"茶海之心","pinyin":"Cháhǎi Zhī Xīn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.0818,"lon":107.57,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenggang-heart-of-the-tea-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large tea-growing landscape in Tianba village, Yong'an town, Fenggang County, at about 1,000 m, where tea bushes grow in bands among pine and other trees. A cableway of about 780 m and a glass walkway give views over the plantations, which are the core of Fenggang's zinc- and selenium-rich tea. Spring tea-picking, farmstays and camping among the tea gardens are the other draws."},{"id":"suiyang-hongguoshu","name":"Hongguoshu Scenic Area","name_zh":"红果树","pinyin":"Hóngguǒshù","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.0101,"lon":107.2896,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suiyang-hongguoshu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hongguoshu is a scenic area in Dalucao township, Suiyang county, that combines caves, a waterfall about 35 m high, forest and limestone rock formations, and is nicknamed the \"geological museum of Guizhou\" locally. Visitors can walk to the caves and falls, cross a glass suspension bridge and eat cave-style hot pot in a cave restaurant. It is one of ten A-level scenic areas in Suiyang county."},{"id":"chishui-fuxing-jiangxi-guild-hall","name":"Jiangxi Guild Hall, Fuxing","name_zh":"复兴江西会馆","pinyin":"Fùxīng Jiāngxī Huìguǎn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.5215,"lon":105.7363,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chishui-fuxing-jiangxi-guild-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in 1831 by Jiangxi salt merchants in the old river port of Fuxing, this guild hall (also called Wanshou Palace) has a front hall, main hall, rear hall and side wings, and local authorities describe it as one of the largest and best-preserved guild halls in south-west China. It now houses the Chishui Danxia Stone Carving Art Museum, with danxia stone carvings, Han-dynasty stone coffins and sculptures, and Song-dynasty carvings and reliefs. Fuxing was a landing point on the trade that carried Sichuan salt into Guizhou, and the hall stands on the town's old street."},{"id":"tongzi-little-west-lake","name":"Little West Lake, Tongzi","name_zh":"小西湖","pinyin":"Xiǎo Xīhú","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.1484,"lon":106.8549,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongzi-little-west-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reservoir lake beside Tongzi town, formed in the 1940s together with the Tianmenhe hydropower station, with wooded hills around it. General Zhang Xueliang, held under house arrest after the 1936 Xi'an Incident, was confined at Tianmen Cave by the lake from December 1944 until his transfer to Chongqing in 1946. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in December 2024."},{"id":"zunyi-loushan-pass","name":"Loushan Pass","name_zh":"娄山关","pinyin":"Lóushān Guān","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.0261,"lon":106.8527,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zunyi-loushan-pass","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A steep gateway pass through the Daloushan range between Zunyi and Tongzi, long a strategic crossing between Guizhou and Sichuan. Red Army forces fought a battle here in late February 1935 on the way to retaking Zunyi, and Mao Zedong's poem 'Loushan Pass', written the same month, made the name widely known. The site has the pass gateway, battle remains on the surrounding peaks, a monument and a memorial exhibition hall."},{"id":"fenggang-manaoshan-fortress","name":"Manaoshan Fortified Camp","name_zh":"玛瑙山营盘遗址","pinyin":"Mǎnǎoshān Yíngpán Yízhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.1191,"lon":107.7661,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fenggang-manaoshan-fortress","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Manaoshan is a hill stronghold in Fenggang county, built between 1857 and 1860 by a local militia leader, Qian Qingyun, as a refuge for his community during the uprisings and unrest that swept northern Guizhou in the mid-19th century. Stone walls more than 5 m high wrap around seven hilltops, with 48 stone gates, gun platforms and loopholes, and a network of caves runs beneath them; the walls total more than 10 km. It is a surviving example of the region's defensive mountain camps and suits visitors interested in vernacular military architecture."},{"id":"renhuai-maotai-liquor-town","name":"Maotai Liquor Town","name_zh":"茅台酒镇","pinyin":"Máotái Jiǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.8556,"lon":106.3704,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/renhuai-maotai-liquor-town/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Maotai is the town on the Chishui River where Moutai baijiu is made: distilleries there date back to the early 19th century, and it became a river port in 1745 when Qing officials opened the Chishui to shipping. The tourist district is the renovated riverside old town, where visitors can walk the streets, taste local baijiu and see the town lit up at night. A memorial tower on the riverbank recalls the Red Army's crossing of the Chishui at Maotai in 1935."},{"id":"meitan-giant-teapot-tea-park","name":"Meitan Giant Teapot Tea Culture Park","name_zh":"天下第一壶茶文化博览园","pinyin":"Tiānxià Dìyī Hú Chá Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.764,"lon":107.4838,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meitan-giant-teapot-tea-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tea-culture park in Meitan whose centrepiece is a teapot-shaped building 73.8 m high, certified in 2006 by a Shanghai record-keeping body as the world's largest teapot-shaped structure. Inside, the China Tea Ceremony Hall has galleries on tea in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, on minority tea customs, and on Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese tea traditions. It suits visitors interested in tea culture, and lies close to Meitan's wartime Zhejiang University site."},{"id":"meitan-tea-sea-eco-park","name":"Meitan Tea Sea Eco-Park","name_zh":"湄潭茶海生态园","pinyin":"Méitán Cháhǎi Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.7648,"lon":107.56,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meitan-tea-sea-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tea-tourism area around Hetaoba village, about 10 km from Meitan county town, where tea plantations surround a village of Qianbei-style houses whose carved window lattices bear small teapot motifs, echoing the Giant Teapot in the county town. The county government describes a leisure area combining village houses, tea-culture experiences, local restaurants and water recreation. It is a different place from the large 'China Tea Sea' viewing area at Yongxing town, further north-east."},{"id":"zhengan-peach-blossom-spring","name":"Peach Blossom Spring Scenic Area, Zheng'an","name_zh":"桃花源记","pinyin":"Táohuāyuán Jì","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.2376,"lon":107.5993,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengan-peach-blossom-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area in Shiping township, Zheng'an County, themed on Tao Yuanming's classical essay about a hidden peach-blossom valley. Visitors pass through a natural karst cave into an open valley of fields and streams, billed as 'one mountain, two worlds', with boat trips on the water."},{"id":"suiyang-qingxi-gorge","name":"Qingxi Gorge","name_zh":"清溪峡","pinyin":"Qīngxīxiá","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.3399,"lon":107.1356,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suiyang-qingxi-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qingxi Gorge is a river gorge in Suiyang county, nicknamed a \"jade belt\" for the green of its water, and is sold as part of the Shierbeihou (\"Twelve Behind\") tourism area alongside Shuanghedong cave. Boats run on the water, where a 120-seat vessel was built in 2023, and a camping base has been added. It suits travellers who want a day on the water, combined with the cave in the same county."},{"id":"tongzi-shanping","name":"Shanping, Tongzi","name_zh":"杉坪","pinyin":"Shānpíng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.0816,"lon":106.8254,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongzi-shanping","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural tourism area in Shanping village, Loushanguan subdistrict, south of Tongzi county town, developed as a farming-and-tourism demonstration project during China's poverty-alleviation campaign. Its flower fields were reported in 2016 as a sea of purple blooms, and the county lists Shanping among its main tourism sites."},{"id":"suiyang-shuanghedong-cave","name":"Shuanghedong Cave Network","name_zh":"双河洞","pinyin":"Shuānghédòng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.2434,"lon":107.275,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/suiyang-shuanghedong-cave/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shuanghedong is a cave system in the dolomite hills of Suiyang county, explored to about 440 km, which Chinese sources describe as the longest cave in Asia and the third longest in the world. Part of it is open to visitors, with underground rivers and waterfalls, curled stone and gypsum flowers among its features and activities such as a cave via ferrata and cave concerts; the remains of more than 40 giant pandas have been found in the cave. It was added to China's World Heritage tentative list in 2025."},{"id":"suiyang-shuangmen-gorge","name":"Shuangmen Gorge","name_zh":"双门峡","pinyin":"Shuāngménxiá","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.0222,"lon":107.113,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suiyang-shuangmen-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shuangmen Gorge is a river-gorge scenic area in Fenghua town, Suiyang county, promoted as \"China's Poetry Valley\" and officially recognised as a national water-conservancy scenic area. Its theme is poetry culture, tied to Suiyang's long-standing image as a \"poetry town\". It suits travellers who want to combine it with other Suiyang sights such as Shuanghedong cave."},{"id":"tongzi-shuiyin-river-canyon","name":"Shuiyin River Grand Canyon","name_zh":"水银河大峡谷","pinyin":"Shuǐyínhé Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.6338,"lon":106.9826,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongzi-shuiyin-river-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A river canyon in Mugua town in northern Tongzi County, where the Shuiyin River runs through a gorge with more than ten large waterfalls and dozens of smaller ones. Rafting down about 4 km of the river is the main activity and runs in the warmer months."},{"id":"chishui-sidonggou-waterfalls","name":"Sidonggou Waterfalls","name_zh":"四洞沟","pinyin":"Sìdònggōu","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.4632,"lon":105.6461,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chishui-sidonggou-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sidonggou is a valley of stepped waterfalls in the red-sandstone hills near Chishui, with four main falls strung along a route of about 5 km. The falls are known as Water Curtain Cave, Moon Pool, Flying Frog Cliff and White Dragon Pool, each with a different shape. It suits walkers who want a waterfall day trip from Chishui city."},{"id":"zunyi-taiyangping-azalea-hills","name":"Taiyangping Azalea Hills, Hongguan","name_zh":"洪关太阳坪","pinyin":"Hóngguān Tàiyángpíng","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.5975,"lon":106.3291,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zunyi-taiyangping-azalea-hills","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hilltop scenic area at about 1,500 m in Hongguan Miao ethnic township, in the west of Bozhou district, known for slopes of wild azaleas that bloom in spring; the township holds an azalea festival in May. A glass viewing platform looks out over Bozhou, Jinsha and Renhuai, and the area also has bungee and aerial-swing rides and guesthouses."},{"id":"zunyi-deng-ping-tomb","name":"Tomb of Deng Ping","name_zh":"邓萍墓","pinyin":"Dèng Píng Mù","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.7004,"lon":106.9158,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zunyi-deng-ping-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Deng Ping, chief of staff of the Red Army's Third Army Corps, was killed in February 1935 during the second capture of Zunyi; his tomb, built in 1958–59 and moved in 1984, stands in the Red Army martyrs' cemetery on Red Army Hill. The cemetery also has a 30 m martyrs' monument, a wall of names of more than 3,000 soldiers who died in the Sichuan–Guizhou–Yunnan border area, and a small exhibition on those killed in the Zunyi fighting. It suits visitors combining the Zunyi Conference site with other Long March memorials in the city."},{"id":"xishui-tucheng-old-town","name":"Tucheng Old Town","name_zh":"土城古镇","pinyin":"Tǔchéng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.2758,"lon":105.9961,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xishui-tucheng-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former trading port on the Chishui River, where the Red Army fought a heavy battle in January 1935 and made its first crossing of the river. Its old streets and ferry crossing hold a series of Long March sites, including former residences of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng, a Red Army salt store and several small museums, among them those of the women soldiers of the Red Army and of Chishui River shipping. The national heritage listing, the battle sites of the Four Crossings of the Chishui, also covers the Erlangtan and Maotai ferries and Loushan Pass; twelve of its sites are at Tucheng."},{"id":"zunyi-yang-tusi-tombs","name":"Yang Family Tusi Tombs (Yang Can Tomb)","name_zh":"杨氏土司墓群","pinyin":"Yángshì Tǔsī Mùqún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.6283,"lon":106.9481,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zunyi-yang-tusi-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tombs of the Yang family, the hereditary tusi (local chiefs) who ruled the Bozhou region around Zunyi for centuries. The best known is the tomb of Yang Can, a Southern Song official: a two-chambered stone tomb of the mid-13th century built from 496 sandstone slabs and carved with about 190 reliefs, said to be the richest in carving of the Song tombs known in south-west China. The national listing, widened in 2019, also covers the tomb of Yang Hui, a Ming-dynasty chief, which lies elsewhere in the Zunyi area."},{"id":"renhuai-yelang-liquor-valley","name":"Yelang Liquor Valley","name_zh":"夜郎酒谷","pinyin":"Yèláng Jiǔgǔ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.0364,"lon":106.366,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=renhuai-yelang-liquor-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yelang Liquor Valley is a baijiu-themed tourist area in Renhuai's famous-liquor industrial park, in the Maotai area of Zunyi. The Renhuai government describes hills and water around the site, village houses several hundred years old, and a blend of Yelang-culture themes with visitor experiences of traditional sauce-aroma baijiu making. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in December 2024."},{"id":"xinpu-yunmentun","name":"Yunmentun (Water Gate to Heaven), Sandu","name_zh":"云门囤","pinyin":"Yúnméntún","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.664,"lon":107.3216,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinpu-yunmentun","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside scenic area at Sandu town in Zunyi's Xinpu New Area, covering about 8 sq km at the meeting point of three rivers. Its best-known sight is the Water Gate to Heaven, a natural karst gateway over the river described as about 80 m wide and 100 m high; visitors also tour the river gallery by boat and can see a rock fissure about 200 m long, the Great Rift."},{"id":"zhengan-guitar-culture-park","name":"Zheng'an Guitar Culture Park","name_zh":"正安吉他文化产业园","pinyin":"Zhèng'ān Jítā Wénhuà Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":28.5636,"lon":107.4394,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengan-guitar-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A guitar-making and visitor park in Zheng'an County, where local figures cited in People's Daily say about one in seven of the world's guitars is made. In the south area, a guitar plaza hosts band performances and there is a guitar-themed street and a guitar museum; in the north, visitors can watch guitars being made in the factories. The county also runs a summer music season and guitar festivals."},{"id":"zunyi-conference-site","name":"Zunyi Conference Site","name_zh":"遵义会议会址","pinyin":"Zūnyì Huìyì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"520000","region":"Guizhou","city":"Zunyi","lat":27.6915,"lon":106.9161,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zunyi-conference-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former residence of a Guizhou army commander, a two-storey house of the early 1930s, where the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo held an enlarged meeting on 15–17 January 1935 during the Long March. The meeting reviewed the failure of the fifth encirclement campaign and is regarded in party history as the point at which Mao Zedong's leadership was established. It forms the core of the Zunyi Conference Memorial Museum, whose protected buildings also include the nearby house where Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian and Wang Jiaxiang stayed and the former Red Army political department at the Yangliu Street Catholic church."},{"id":"tengchong-beihai-wetland","name":"Beihai Wetland","name_zh":"北海湿地","pinyin":"Běihǎi Shīdì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.1238,"lon":98.5575,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-beihai-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Beihai is a protected wetland in a volcanic basin north of Tengchong. Much of its water is covered by floating mats of matted grass and roots, said to be up to about 2 m thick, which grew on volcanic ash and organic matter. Boardwalks lead across the marsh, and visitors can step out onto the springy grass rafts."},{"id":"tengchong-dongshan-grassland","name":"Dongshan Grassland","name_zh":"东山草原","pinyin":"Dōngshān Cǎoyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.9974,"lon":98.569,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-dongshan-grassland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dongshan is an upland meadow on the hills east of Tengchong, a state pasture from 1983 that was badly overgrazed and has been restored since 2012. Its open grassy slopes give wide views west over the Tengchong basin."},{"id":"longyang-gaoligong-coffee-culture-park","name":"Gaoligong International Coffee Culture Park","name_zh":"高黎贡国际精品咖啡文化园","pinyin":"Gāolígòng Guójì Jīngpǐn Kāfēi Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.0038,"lon":98.8528,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longyang-gaoligong-coffee-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A coffee-themed park in the Lujiang valley, Baoshan's main coffee-growing area below the eastern flank of the Gaoligong range, rated 4A in 2022. It combines coffee plantings with a coffee-culture exhibition centre, a visitor processing workshop where you can follow coffee from bean to cup, a café, guesthouses, tents and an RV campsite."},{"id":"tengchong-gaoligong-tea-expo-park","name":"Gaoligong Mountain Tea Expo Park","name_zh":"高黎贡山茶博园","pinyin":"Gāolígòngshān Chábóyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.9453,"lon":98.475,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-gaoligong-tea-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-themed park in Qingshui township next to Tengchong airport, operating since 2013, with tea gardens holding a collection of more than 500 Chinese tea varieties and a tea-culture museum by the entrance. Visitors can pick, process and taste tea, and there is a tea-themed restaurant, a hotel and an RV camp."},{"id":"baoshan-guangzun-temple","name":"Guangzun Temple","name_zh":"光尊寺","pinyin":"Guāngzūn Sì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.1789,"lon":99.2357,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoshan-guangzun-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guangzun Temple, north-east of Baoshan, is a temple complex where Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian worship share one site. Its surviving halls, among them a Jade Emperor Pavilion and a Holy Mother Hall, date from the Qing dynasty and the Republican era. Local tradition holds that the temple began as the family temple of a Nanzhao king."},{"id":"tengchong-guoshang-cemetery","name":"Guoshang Cemetery","name_zh":"国殇墓园","pinyin":"Guóshāng Mùyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.0295,"lon":98.4812,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tengchong-guoshang-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guoshang Cemetery was completed in 1945 for soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force's 20th Army Group who were killed retaking Tengchong from Japanese forces in 1944. On the small hill of Xiaotuanpo, 3,346 small headstones fan out around a memorial tower in sectors for each division, below a memorial shrine whose walls carry 9,618 names and a monument to Allied servicemen. The adjoining Western Yunnan Anti-Japanese War Museum, in a new building opened in 2013, covers the wider war in western Yunnan."},{"id":"baoshan-hanzhuang-city-site","name":"Hanzhuang City Site","name_zh":"汉庄城址","pinyin":"Hànzhuāng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.0848,"lon":99.1621,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoshan-hanzhuang-city-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"These are the rammed-earth walls of a town of the Eastern Han dynasty, linked to Yongchang commandery, which the Han set up in this area in AD 69. The rectangular enclosure measures about 370 by 315 m, with walls up to about 5 m high, and it is regarded as the best-preserved Han-era town site found in Yunnan. Once known as Zhugeying ('Zhuge's camp'), it lies beside Zhugeying village and is of most interest to those keen on early frontier history."},{"id":"longling-huitong-bridge","name":"Huitong Bridge","name_zh":"惠通桥","pinyin":"Huìtōng Qiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.7346,"lon":98.967,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longling-huitong-bridge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huitong Bridge is a steel-cable suspension bridge over the Nu (Salween) River, finished in 1935 with funds raised by the overseas Chinese businessman Liang Jinshan and Chinese communities in Burma, and later the Burma Road's only crossing of the river. Chinese troops blew it up on 5 May 1942 to stop the Japanese advance, and it was repaired in August 1944 during the counter-offensive. Replaced in 1974 by a newer bridge 400 m downstream, it was restored to its original form in 2015."},{"id":"baoshan-jade-emperor-pavilion","name":"Jade Emperor Pavilion, Baoshan","name_zh":"玉皇阁","pinyin":"Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.1198,"lon":99.1543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoshan-jade-emperor-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Yuhuang Ge is a Ming-dynasty pavilion dedicated to the Jade Emperor, the supreme deity of Chinese folk religion and Taoism. It stands on Baoxiu Road on the western side of central Baoshan, close to the foot of Taibao Mountain, whose forest park makes a natural pairing."},{"id":"tengchong-jiangdong-ginkgo-village","name":"Jiangdong Ginkgo Village","name_zh":"江东银杏村","pinyin":"Jiāngdōng Yínxìng Cūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.3008,"lon":98.5125,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-jiangdong-ginkgo-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jiangdong, in Gudong town north of Tengchong, is a cluster of four farming hamlets set among tens of thousands of ginkgo trees growing on fertile volcanic soil, more than a thousand of them over a century old. From mid-November to early December the leaves turn gold. The village was listed as a Chinese traditional village in 2013."},{"id":"tengchong-qihualing-flower-park","name":"Qihualing Flower Park","name_zh":"原乡栖花岭","pinyin":"Yuánxiāng Qīhuālǐng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.2222,"lon":98.586,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-qihualing-flower-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower and family leisure park at the foot of the Gaoligong range in Qushi township, developed by a property company as part of a holiday-housing project and rated 4A in 2020. Flower fields and a rose garden set around a chain of small lakes are mixed with rides such as a long slide, a zip line and swing bridges, a water play area and a small farm."},{"id":"baoshan-qinghua-lake-wetland","name":"Qinghua Lake Wetland Park","name_zh":"青华海","pinyin":"Qīnghuá Hǎi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.1173,"lon":99.2086,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoshan-qinghua-lake-wetland/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qinghua Lake National Wetland Park spreads across the floor of the Baoshan basin on the east side of the city, taking in an East Lake and a West Lake, the Beimiao reservoir and the banks of the East River. The lakes are described as the last remnant of an ancient lake that once filled the basin, and the park makes an easy walk on the edge of the new town."},{"id":"tengchong-rhododendron-king-ancient-wood-park","name":"Rhododendron King Ancient Wood Park","name_zh":"杜鹃王古木博览园","pinyin":"Dùjuānwáng Gǔmù Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":25.025,"lon":98.4344,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-rhododendron-king-ancient-wood-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An exhibition park of about 5 ha in Tengchong's economic development zone that displays more than 300 pieces of ancient timber and tree roots, including yew, left uncarved and unpainted to show their natural colour, grain and shape. A second hall shows wooden furniture, tea tables and smaller crafts, with a workshop where visitors can try woodworking, and there is a wood-themed restaurant."},{"id":"shidian-shanzhou-forest-farm","name":"Shanzhou Forest Farm","name_zh":"善洲林场","pinyin":"Shànzhōu Línchǎng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.4997,"lon":99.1871,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shidian-shanzhou-forest-farm","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This forest farm on Daliangshan in Shidian county was planted from 1988 by Yang Shanzhou, a former Communist Party secretary of Baoshan prefecture, who after retiring led local people in reforesting the mountain. By the time he handed the farm to the state free of charge in 2009 it covered about 3,700 hectares. Visitors see the original shed headquarters, an exhibition room on his life, a stele garden and a memorial cemetery, set among the plantations he started."},{"id":"tengchong-simola-wa-village","name":"Simola Wa Village","name_zh":"司莫拉佤族村","pinyin":"Sīmòlā Wǎzú Cūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.9287,"lon":98.4688,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-simola-wa-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Simola is the middle hamlet of Sanjia village in Qingshui township, a Wa settlement with a history of more than 500 years. Visitors walk through the village to its folk-culture square and a small museum of Wa culture, and in recent years villagers have opened farmhouse restaurants."},{"id":"longling-songshan-battlefield","name":"Songshan Battlefield","name_zh":"松山战役旧址","pinyin":"Sōngshān Zhànyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.741,"lon":98.9056,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/longling-songshan-battlefield/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Songshan, a mountain above the Nu (Salween) River, was held and heavily fortified by Japanese forces from 1942, cutting the Burma Road, until the Chinese Expeditionary Force took it in September 1944 after months of fighting. The battlefield park preserves bunkers, trenches, shell craters and the tunnel dug to blow up the main Japanese strongpoint, plus a cemetery for Chinese soldiers of the 103rd Division. The listed site also takes in Japanese wartime sites in Longling town, such as the former headquarters and the Dongjiagou 'comfort station', some now exhibition halls."},{"id":"tengchong-qiluo-wenchang-palace","name":"Wenchang Palace, Qiluo","name_zh":"绮罗文昌宫","pinyin":"Qǐluó Wénchāng Gōng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.9907,"lon":98.4884,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tengchong-qiluo-wenchang-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This temple complex in Xia Qiluo village honours Wenchang, the god of literature and examinations, and blends the layout of a Confucian temple with a Taoist shrine. Its main axis runs from the gate past a semicircular pool and the Lingxing gate to the Wenchang Hall, with further halls on parallel axes. First founded in the Ming Wanli reign, it lies a few kilometres south-east of Heshun and makes an easy addition to a visit there."},{"id":"changning-youdian-river-park","name":"Youdian River Park","name_zh":"右甸河公园","pinyin":"Yòudiànhé Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Baoshan","lat":24.8418,"lon":99.6151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changning-youdian-river-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside park along the Youdian River through the centre of Changning county town, built as a river clean-up and wetland-restoration scheme and opened in 2017. It links a tea-themed park with a tea museum and teahouse, farmland and farming-experience plots, and restored wetlands around a lake, and is used for walking and cycling."},{"id":"chuxiong-confucian-temple","name":"Chuxiong Confucian Temple","name_zh":"楚雄文庙","pinyin":"Chǔxióng Wénmiào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.0368,"lon":101.5469,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chuxiong-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chuxiong's Confucian temple was founded in the Ming dynasty, and in the Qing the county and prefecture temples were combined on one site. The main Dacheng Hall, built in 1469, is a five-bay hall with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof whose beam frame still follows Ming practice. The Dacheng Gate, the Pan pool with its Sanyuan Bridge and the Zunjing library pavilion also survive."},{"id":"chuxiong-prefecture-museum","name":"Chuxiong Prefecture Museum","name_zh":"楚雄彝族自治州博物馆","pinyin":"Chǔxióng Yízú Zìzhìzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.027,"lon":101.5462,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chuxiong-prefecture-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Opened in July 1995, the prefecture museum in Chuxiong covers the archaeology, history and Yi culture of central Yunnan in eight main galleries, with fossils, bronzes and Yi costume among its strongest collections. Its best-known exhibits are the bronze drums excavated in 1975 from the Wanjiaba tombs on the edge of the city, some still blackened with soot from use as cooking vessels."},{"id":"dayao-white-pagoda","name":"Dayao White Pagoda","name_zh":"大姚白塔","pinyin":"Dàyáo Báitǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.727,"lon":101.3148,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dayao-white-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This solid brick pagoda on top of Baofa Hill, above Dayao county town, was first built in the Nanzhao period and has an unusual outline: a large oval crown swells above a narrow waist and an octagonal base, like the hammer used to strike a stone chime, which gives it its other name, Qingchui Pagoda. It stands 15.45 metres tall, and its bricks are moulded with incantations in Chinese and Sanskrit."},{"id":"yaoan-defeng-temple","name":"Defeng Temple, Yao'an","name_zh":"德丰寺","pinyin":"Défēng Sì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.5066,"lon":101.2384,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaoan-defeng-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Defeng Temple, beside Meige Square in Yao'an county town, is a Buddhist temple whose Ming-dynasty buildings are protected as a national monument. It is easily combined with a visit to Longhua Temple at nearby Guanglu."},{"id":"yaoan-guanglu-old-town","name":"Guanglu Old Town and Longhua Temple","name_zh":"光禄古镇","pinyin":"Guānglù Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.5901,"lon":101.1947,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yaoan-guanglu-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This scenic area covers the old centre of Guanglu, a small town north-west of Yao'an county seat, and Longhua Temple at the town's western edge. First a hermitage housing a reclining Buddha and enlarged in the Yuan dynasty, the temple was destroyed and rebuilt several times; the present buildings date from 1907. Its five-bay main hall contains a large Buddhist shrine canopy, one of the bigger surviving examples."},{"id":"lufeng-heijing-old-town","name":"Heijing Old Town","name_zh":"黑井古镇","pinyin":"Hēijǐng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.3759,"lon":101.7445,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lufeng-heijing-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Heijing, on the Longchuan River, grew rich on its salt wells and was at its most prosperous in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The town keeps much of its Ming–Qing layout, with the Dalong Shrine, a Confucian temple, an old opera stage, the Wu family mansion, the Wuma Bridge across the river and a salt-mining museum. It is listed as a national historic and cultural town."},{"id":"lufeng-jinshan-old-town","name":"Jinshan Ancient Town","name_zh":"金山古镇","pinyin":"Jīnshān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.1505,"lon":102.0766,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lufeng-jinshan-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming–Qing-style commercial and residential quarter in Lufeng city, built from 2017 as part of a shantytown-redevelopment scheme and opened in 2019. Its stream, bridges, opera stage, courtyard inns, shops and restaurants are all new. The genuine stone Xingxiu Bridge, completed in 1832 and a nationally protected monument, stands next to it."},{"id":"wuding-lion-mountain","name":"Lion Mountain, Wuding","name_zh":"武定狮子山","pinyin":"Wǔdìng Shīzi Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.5366,"lon":102.3744,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuding-lion-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lion Mountain, just west of Wuding town, has long been called the 'first mountain of the south-west'. Its Zhengxu Temple, founded in the Yuan dynasty, is linked by legend to the Ming Jianwen Emperor, who is said to have hidden here as a monk after losing his throne. A large peony garden, with over 120 varieties, has been planted in the scenic area."},{"id":"lufeng-world-dinosaur-valley","name":"Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley","name_zh":"禄丰世界恐龙谷","pinyin":"Lùfēng Shìjiè Kǒnglóng Gǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":24.9753,"lon":102.0728,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lufeng-world-dinosaur-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lufeng has been known for Jurassic dinosaur fossils since 1938, when the first skeletons, including Lufengosaurus, were dug up in the area. In the Chuanjie basin south of the city, World Dinosaur Valley has a large fossil site hall displaying finds from the surrounding beds, among them the skull of Lishulong, an early Jurassic sauropodomorph described in 2024. The rest of the valley is given over to a dinosaur theme park and a hot-spring hotel."},{"id":"dayao-shiyang-old-town","name":"Shiyang Old Town","name_zh":"石羊古镇","pinyin":"Shíyáng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.8612,"lon":101.0981,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dayao-shiyang-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shiyang, north-west of Dayao, is an old salt town, once the seat of the Baiyanjing salt administration, and has a salt-culture museum. Its Confucian temple, founded in 1368, moved to its present site in 1609 and rebuilt in 1879, keeps its Dacheng Gate, main hall and side halls, while most other buildings, including the Lingxing Gate, are modern reconstructions. The main hall holds a 2.3-metre bronze statue of Confucius cast in 1708, described as one of only two large bronze Confucius statues known to survive."},{"id":"lufeng-xingxiu-bridge","name":"Xingxiu and Fengyu Bridges","name_zh":"星宿桥和丰裕桥","pinyin":"Xīngxiù Qiáo hé Fēngyù Qiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.152,"lon":102.0742,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lufeng-xingxiu-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xingxiu Bridge, in Xingxiu Park on the old course of the Xingxiu River in Lufeng city, is a seven-arch stone bridge 118.8 metres long, completed in 1832 after earlier bridges on the site had been washed away several times. Built of red sandstone bonded with lime and sticky-rice mortar, it carried the main caravan road to western Yunnan and has a memorial archway at its east end and a ten-pillar stone gateway at its west end. Fengyu Bridge, listed with it, stands about 1 km to the north."},{"id":"chuxiong-yi-ancient-town","name":"Yi People's Ancient Town","name_zh":"彝人古镇","pinyin":"Yírén Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.0605,"lon":101.518,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chuxiong-yi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yi-style 'ancient town' newly built in Chuxiong city as a commercial, hotel and residential district, with an opera stage, squares, shops and restaurants. In the evenings locals and visitors join bonfire dancing in the squares; there is no old fabric, but it is a lively place to eat and see Yi music and dance."},{"id":"chuxiong-yi-solar-calendar-park","name":"Yi Ten-Month Solar Calendar Park","name_zh":"十月太阳历文化园","pinyin":"Shíyuè Tàiyánglì Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.0573,"lon":101.5262,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chuxiong-yi-solar-calendar-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern cultural park in Chuxiong's high-tech zone that presents the Yi people's traditional ten-month solar calendar. Its centrepiece is a three-tiered circular platform, used as an altar and observation terrace, topped by ten totem pillars and faced with about 40 relief panels of Yi myths and folk tales, and an exhibition hall explains the calendar."},{"id":"yuanmou-man-site","name":"Yuanmou Man Site","name_zh":"元谋猿人遗址","pinyin":"Yuánmóu Yuánrén Yízhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.6769,"lon":101.9103,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yuanmou-man-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two fossil human incisors found here on 1 May 1965 belong to Yuanmou Man, an early Homo erectus usually dated to about 1.7 million years ago, though the dating has been disputed. The find spot, on a hillside near Danawu village south-east of Yuanmou town, opened as an archaeological site park in May 2025, with a monument at the discovery site, the protected core of the excavations and renewed exhibition facilities. The Yuanmou Man Museum in town covers the finds in more detail."},{"id":"yuanmou-man-world-park","name":"Yuanmou Man World Park","name_zh":"元谋人世界公园","pinyin":"Yuánmóurén Shìjiè Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.7101,"lon":101.8282,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuanmou-man-world-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure park on Fenghuang hill in Yuanma town, themed on the 'Yuanmou Man' hominin fossils found in the county, combining cultural displays with water-park rides and a hot-spring pool complex. It is a commercial leisure site; the fossil site and the Yuanmou Man Museum are separate."},{"id":"lufeng-lianxiangguan-railway-bridges","name":"Yunnan–Burma Railway Bridges and Tunnels at Lianxiangguan","name_zh":"滇缅铁路炼象关桥隧群","pinyin":"Diānmiǎn Tiělù Liànxiàngguān Qiáosuìqún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.0429,"lon":102.1538,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lufeng-lianxiangguan-railway-bridges","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This 6.3 km stretch of abandoned line near the old Lianxiangguan pass, south-east of Lufeng, keeps a roadbed, five bridges and four tunnels of the Yunnan–Burma Railway, begun in 1938 to bring in foreign aid during the war against Japan. Work stopped in 1942 when Japanese forces invaded Burma; from 1958 the eastern section was completed on the old roadbed as the Kunming–Yipinglang railway, which was dismantled after the Chengdu–Kunming Railway opened in 1970."},{"id":"chuxiong-zixi-mountain","name":"Zixi Mountain","name_zh":"紫溪山","pinyin":"Zǐxī Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Chuxiong","lat":25.0051,"lon":101.4199,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chuxiong-zixi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zixi Mountain, west of Chuxiong city, was one of Yunnan's Buddhist holy mountains in the Ming and Qing dynasties and is now a forest park and summer retreat. Ziding Temple stands on the mountain, and a camellia species garden, forest roads and walking trails spread across its slopes."},{"id":"yunlong-bi-river-bridges","name":"Ancient Bridges of the Bi River","name_zh":"沘江古桥梁群","pinyin":"Bǐ Jiāng Gǔ Qiáoliáng Qún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.0933,"lon":99.4357,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yunlong-bi-river-bridges/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of 37 historic bridges over the Bi River and its tributaries in Yunlong County, mostly built between the Ming dynasty and the early Republic and listed together as a national monument in 2013. They cover the four basic types of traditional Chinese bridge, beam, floating, arch and suspension, which has earned the county the nickname of a 'museum of bridges'. They are scattered along the valleys rather than in one place, so a car is needed to see more than one or two."},{"id":"dali-butterfly-spring","name":"Butterfly Spring","name_zh":"蝴蝶泉","pinyin":"Húdié Quán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.9093,"lon":100.0946,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dali-butterfly-spring/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A clear, square spring pool edged with marble at the foot of the Cangshan range, about 27 km north of Dali Old Town. It is famous for accounts of butterflies gathering over the water in spring, recorded by the Ming traveller Xu Xiake, although such swarms are now rarely seen. The spring is the centrepiece of a landscaped park and a common stop on trips around Erhai Lake."},{"id":"xiaguan-dali-prefecture-museum","name":"Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Museum","name_zh":"大理白族自治州博物馆","pinyin":"Dàlǐ Báizú Zìzhìzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6005,"lon":100.2305,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiaguan-dali-prefecture-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The prefecture's main museum, opened in 1986 beside the Xi'er River in Xiaguan, in a building that blends Tang-style architecture with Bai house forms. Its displays focus on the history of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms and on Bai culture, with further galleries on bronze-age cultures, ceramics, Buddhist art, Dali marble, local historical figures and painting and calligraphy, drawn from a collection of about 16,800 items."},{"id":"eryuan-dali-geothermal-kingdom","name":"Dali Geothermal Kingdom","name_zh":"大理地热国","pinyin":"Dàlǐ Dìrèguó","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.1283,"lon":99.958,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=eryuan-dali-geothermal-kingdom","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring resort beside Cibi Lake on the edge of Eryuan town, where mainly sulphurous springs at about 70–90 °C feed more than 30 open-air pools of different styles. Guest rooms are set in Bai-style courtyards, and it is a convenient stop on the road between Dali and Shaxi or Jianchuan."},{"id":"dali-ocean-world","name":"Dali Ocean World","name_zh":"大理海洋世界","pinyin":"Dàlǐ Hǎiyáng Shìjiè","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6846,"lon":100.3153,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dali-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An aquarium and marine theme park in the new hillside district of Haidong on the east side of Erhai Lake, with twelve themed halls including an underwater tunnel, a jellyfish hall, a polar section and displays of fish native to south-west China. A dolphin show, a 5D cinema and an indoor snow play area are aimed at families with children."},{"id":"eryuan-deyuan-city-ruins","name":"Deyuan City Ruins","name_zh":"德源古城遗址","pinyin":"Déyuán Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.0023,"lon":100.0889,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/eryuan-deyuan-city-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hilltop fortress above Dengchuan, at the northern end of the Erhai plain, that was the seat of Dengdan, one of the six chiefdoms the Nanzhao kingdom absorbed in 738, and then guarded Nanzhao's northern approaches. Rammed-earth walls about 900 m round, best preserved on the west side and still up to 3.8 m high, enclose four terraces, and the site is described as the best-preserved Nanzhao-era walled town known. On the top terrace a temple rebuilt in 1988 honours Lady Baijie, the chief's widow of local legend."},{"id":"dali-fotu-pagoda","name":"Fotu Pagoda (Snake Bone Pagoda)","name_zh":"佛图寺塔","pinyin":"Fótú Sì Tǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6165,"lon":100.2037,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dali-fotu-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 13-tier square brick pagoda about 30 m tall, built under the Nanzhao kingdom and close in date and form to Qianxun Pagoda, the tallest of Dali's Three Pagodas. It stands on the lower slopes of the Cangshan range north of Xiaguan, in front of Fotu Temple, which was rebuilt in 1998 after the original temple was lost. Its popular name, Snake Bone Pagoda, comes from the legend of Duan Chicheng, a local hero who killed a giant serpent, although the pagoda built for his remains was a different one nearby that had collapsed by the late Ming."},{"id":"dali-hongsheng-pagoda","name":"Hongsheng Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"弘圣寺塔","pinyin":"Hóngshèng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6882,"lon":100.1554,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dali-hongsheng-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 16-tier square brick pagoda about 44 m tall at the south-western corner of Dali Old Town, built during the Dali kingdom; because it stands alone, its temple is known locally as the 'One Pagoda Temple'. Like the main pagoda of the Three Pagodas it has the hollow, multi-eaved form typical of the Tang era, and repairs in 1982 recovered more than 500 relics stored inside. A group of Qing-dynasty halls dedicated to Laozi stands in front of it."},{"id":"jianchuan-old-town","name":"Jianchuan Old Town","name_zh":"剑川古城","pinyin":"Jiànchuān Gǔchéng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.5329,"lon":99.9021,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianchuan-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The old quarter of Jianchuan, a Bai county town between Dali and Lijiang renowned for woodcarving, a craft listed as national intangible heritage in 2011. Ximen Street keeps a run of Ming courtyard houses and a memorial shrine built between 1392 and 1641, and a short walk west, at the foot of Jinhua Mountain, the Jingfeng Pavilion complex groups an octagonal triple-eaved pavilion, a pagoda, a Confucian hall and other mostly Qing buildings decorated with local carving and painting."},{"id":"jianchuan-woodcarving-art-town","name":"Jianchuan Woodcarving Art Town","name_zh":"剑川木雕艺术小镇","pinyin":"Jiànchuān Mùdiāo Yìshù Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.4658,"lon":99.9448,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianchuan-woodcarving-art-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A woodcarving-themed town at Shihe village beside Jianhu Lake, built from 2017 and devoted to Jianchuan woodcarving, a Bai craft on China's national intangible cultural heritage list. It has a woodcarving square, master carvers' workshops and showrooms where you can watch artisans at work, alongside the older Bai houses of Shihe village. Most of the complex is new, so pair it with Jianchuan Old Town for historic architecture."},{"id":"dali-kublai-khan-stele","name":"Kublai Khan Stele, Dali","name_zh":"元世祖平云南碑","pinyin":"Yuán Shìzǔ Píng Yúnnán Bēi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6944,"lon":100.1487,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dali-kublai-khan-stele","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone stele erected in 1304 at the Sanyuejie fairground just west of Dali Old Town, recording Kublai Khan's campaign that brought the Dali kingdom under Mongol rule. Its text, composed by the Hanlin scholar Cheng Wenhai, originally ran to some 1,300 characters, of which more than 1,000 survive."},{"id":"binchuan-mount-jizu","name":"Mount Jizu","name_zh":"鸡足山","pinyin":"Jīzú Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.9614,"lon":100.3907,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/binchuan-mount-jizu/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist holy mountain north-east of Erhai Lake, venerated as the place where the Buddha's disciple Mahakashyapa waits for the coming of the future Buddha, and a meeting point of Chinese, Tibetan and Theravada Buddhist traditions. Under the Ming dynasty it held hundreds of temples; many were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and only some have been rebuilt, chief among them Zhusheng Temple in the heart of the mountain and Jinding Temple on the 3,248 m Tianzhu Peak, topped by the 42 m Lengyan Pagoda completed in 1934. The Ming traveller Xu Xiake climbed it twice and compiled the mountain's gazetteer."},{"id":"midu-nanzhao-iron-pillar","name":"Nanzhao Iron Pillar","name_zh":"南诏铁柱","pinyin":"Nánzhào Tiězhù","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.3447,"lon":100.4359,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=midu-nanzhao-iron-pillar","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cast-iron column 3.3 m tall and weighing about two tonnes, erected in 872 under the Nanzhao kingdom according to the 22-character inscription on its west face. It stands inside the main hall of Tiezhu (Iron Pillar) Temple, whose gate and courtyards were rebuilt in the Qing dynasty."},{"id":"yunlong-nuodeng-village","name":"Nuodeng Village","name_zh":"诺邓古村","pinyin":"Nuòdèng Gǔcūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.9182,"lon":99.3775,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yunlong-nuodeng-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Bai village built up a steep hillside above an old salt well near Yunlong, said to have kept its name since the Nanzhao period and long made prosperous by salt. More than a hundred courtyard houses climb the slope among Ming and Qing temples, including a Confucian temple, a martial temple and the three-storey Yuhuang Pavilion, first built in the Ming, whose ceiling is painted with the 28 lunar mansions. Brine still rises from the old well, and some villagers still make salt by traditional methods."},{"id":"jianchuan-qianshi-mountain","name":"Qianshi Mountain (Thousand Lions Mountain)","name_zh":"千狮山","pinyin":"Qiānshī Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.5387,"lon":99.8781,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianchuan-qianshi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill at Manxianlin on the western edge of Jianchuan, where local stonemasons have carved more than 3,000 lion figures into the rocks and boulders along its trails since the late 1990s. Seeing them means walking narrow paths through the forest."},{"id":"jianchuan-shibaoshan-grottoes","name":"Shibaoshan Grottoes","name_zh":"石宝山石窟","pinyin":"Shíbǎo Shān Shíkū","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.3597,"lon":99.8363,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianchuan-shibaoshan-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Buddhist cave carvings on forested Shibao Mountain above the Shaxi valley, cut during the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms. Seventeen grottoes in three groups, at Shizhong Temple, Shiziguan and Shadengqing, hold 233 figures: Buddhas, bodhisattvas, guardian kings and monks, but also, unusually, Nanzhao kings with their courtiers and families. The carving shows Tang and Song influence, similar to cave art in Sichuan, combined with a strongly local style."},{"id":"yangbi-shimen-pass","name":"Shimen Pass Gorge","name_zh":"苍山石门关","pinyin":"Cāngshān Shímén Guān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6409,"lon":100.0317,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangbi-shimen-pass","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge on the western flank of the Cangshan range, where a stream from the Cangshan peaks drops through a chain of pools and waterfalls between sheer cliffs, with walkways following the water. A cliffside skywalk with a glass-floored section has also been built along the gorge wall."},{"id":"xiangyun-shuimu-mountain","name":"Shuimu Mountain","name_zh":"水目山","pinyin":"Shuǐmù Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.3703,"lon":100.6198,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyun-shuimu-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded mountain near Yunnanyi with the Shuimu Temple complex, one of the earliest Buddhist sites in Yunnan, a centre of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in the west of the province and a royal temple under the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms. In the temple's front courtyard stands a 15-tier square brick pagoda about 18 m tall, first built in the Dali kingdom and restored in 1605, and about a kilometre to the north lies a forest of 72 monks' tomb stupas, said to be the largest such group in south-west China. Xu Xiake, the Ming travel writer, was among its visitors."},{"id":"dali-taihe-city-dehua-stele","name":"Taihe City Ruins and Nanzhao Dehua Stele","name_zh":"太和城遗址与南诏德化碑","pinyin":"Tàihé Chéng Yízhǐ yǔ Nánzhào Déhuà Bēi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6349,"lon":100.1977,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dali-taihe-city-dehua-stele/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of Taihe, capital of the Nanzhao kingdom from 739 to 779, on the slope between the Cangshan range and Erhai Lake. Little survives above ground except stretches of its rammed-earth north and south walls, but the Nanzhao Dehua Stele, erected in 766, still stands in Taihe village: its text of some 3,800 characters on Nanzhao's relations with Tang China and Tibet is now mostly worn away, yet it remains a key source for the kingdom's history."},{"id":"xiangyun-tianfeng-mountain","name":"Tianfeng Mountain Taoist Temples","name_zh":"天峰山","pinyin":"Tiānfēng Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.2901,"lon":100.9073,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyun-tianfeng-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large group of Taoist halls on the summit of Tianfeng Mountain in Pupeng, eastern Xiangyun County, and an important centre of the Zhengyi school of Taoism in western Yunnan. First built in the late Ming and rebuilt and extended many times since, the halls step up the mountainside and are decorated with stone and wood carving and painting in a distinctive local Yi style."},{"id":"dali-tianlong-babu-film-city","name":"Tianlong Babu Film City","name_zh":"天龙八部影视城","pinyin":"Tiānlóng Bābù Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.6829,"lon":100.1481,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dali-tianlong-babu-film-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film set built in 2002 below the Cangshan mountains for a CCTV television adaptation of Jin Yong's martial-arts novel Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, and used since for other productions. Its streets, palaces and gate towers recreate the Song-era Dali kingdom alongside the Liao and Western Xia courts, and since 2023 a martial-arts-themed street has staged performances for visitors."},{"id":"midu-tianshengqiao","name":"Tianshengqiao Natural Bridge, Midu","name_zh":"弥渡天生桥","pinyin":"Mídù Tiānshēngqiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.3573,"lon":100.5258,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=midu-tianshengqiao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst scenic area a few kilometres east of Midu town, centred on Tianshengqiao, a natural rock bridge, with walking trails through a wooded valley. It is marketed under the name of 'Xiaohe Tangshui' ('The Flowing Stream'), a love song adapted in the 1940s from a folk tune of Midu County."},{"id":"eryuan-west-lake","name":"West Lake (Eryuan)","name_zh":"洱源西湖","pinyin":"Ěryuán Xī Hú","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.0167,"lon":100.05,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/eryuan-west-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small highland lake at the northern foot of the Cangshan range, about 2 km² at 1,968 m, whose water drains south into Erhai Lake. Six villages and seven islets are scattered across it, and the lake and its reed beds are protected as a national wetland park, home to birds such as the purple swamphen. The Ming traveller Xu Xiake rated its scenery above that of Hangzhou's West Lake."},{"id":"nanjian-wuliangshan-cherry-blossom-valley","name":"Wuliang Mountain Cherry Blossom Valley","name_zh":"无量山樱花谷","pinyin":"Wúliàngshān Yīnghuāgǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":24.7688,"lon":100.5242,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanjian-wuliangshan-cherry-blossom-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea plantation on the slopes of Wuliang Mountain in Nanjian county where winter-flowering cherry trees were planted among the tea terraces. For a few weeks around December the pink blossom against the green tea rows draws crowds of photographers, with paths and viewpoints across the hillside. Outside the flowering season it is simply a working tea plantation."},{"id":"midu-wutai-temple","name":"Wutai Temple, Midu","name_zh":"五台大寺","pinyin":"Wǔtái Dàsì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.1944,"lon":100.6447,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/midu-wutai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple complex in Dasi village, Juli, in south-eastern Midu County, founded in the Ming dynasty and repaired and extended under the Qing and in the early Republic. Its 'three pavilions and five halls', among them a Guanyin pavilion, a Buddha hall, a hall for Laozi and a Confucius hall, show Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism worshipped side by side, and most of the main buildings keep their original structure. Each year on the 15th day of the second lunar month it hosts the Wutaishan antiphonal singing fair."},{"id":"heqing-xinhua-silver-village","name":"Xinhua Village, Heqing","name_zh":"鹤庆新华村","pinyin":"Hèqìng Xīnhuá Cūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":26.619,"lon":100.1778,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/heqing-xinhua-silver-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Bai village on the edge of the Heqing plain whose families have long made silverware by hand, a craft that the county gazetteer traces back more than 500 years and that is on China's national intangible cultural heritage list. Its lanes are lined with family workshops where smiths hammer and engrave bowls, jewellery and teapots. It is a busy commercial centre for the trade, so compare prices before buying."},{"id":"xiangyun-yunnanyi","name":"Yunnanyi","name_zh":"云南驿","pinyin":"Yúnnán Yì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.4248,"lon":100.6905,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xiangyun-yunnanyi/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village on the old caravan road south-east of Xiangyun, named after the Han-dynasty Yunnan County seated here and the post station ('yi') kept on the route from the Yuan to the Qing dynasties. About 1.7 km of the old stone road survives, lined with shopfronts, caravan inns, family compounds, ancestral halls and temples mostly of the mid-to-late Qing, and the Qian family's former caravan inn now houses the Yunnan Horse Caravan Culture Museum. Both the village buildings and its stretch of the Tea Horse Road are national heritage sites."},{"id":"binchuan-zhoucheng-temples","name":"Zhoucheng Confucian and Martial Temples","name_zh":"州城文庙和武庙","pinyin":"Zhōuchéng Wénmiào hé Wǔmiào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dali","lat":25.7411,"lon":100.5815,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/binchuan-zhoucheng-temples/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Confucian temple of the old Binchuan prefectural school, founded in 1494 in Zhoucheng, Binchuan's former seat, with the town's Martial Temple beside it. Laid out in four courtyards facing west, it keeps its screen wall, Lingxing Gate, Dacheng Gate, side galleries, the main Dacheng Hall and the double-eaved Chongsheng Shrine, most of them dating from the mid-to-late Qing dynasty."},{"id":"mangshi-dai-ancient-town","name":"Mangshi Dai Ancient Town","name_zh":"芒市傣族古镇","pinyin":"Mángshì Dǎizú Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.4392,"lon":98.6029,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mangshi-dai-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dai-style quarter built from 2019 on a hillside on the east side of central Mangshi and opened in 2020, with the Menghuan Palace, a hall styled on Dai Buddhist temple architecture, and lanes of restaurants, craft and costume shops and a hotel. It is busiest in the evening, when the night-market street fills with food stalls and street performers. It is a modern development rather than a historic town."},{"id":"mangshi-mengbanaxi-garden","name":"Mengbanaxi Rare Plant Garden","name_zh":"勐巴娜西珍奇园","pinyin":"Měngbānàxī Zhēnqíyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.4294,"lon":98.5877,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mangshi-mengbanaxi-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A garden park on the south-east side of central Mangshi, formerly the Mangshi Nationalities Cultural Palace, whose Dai name means 'a beautiful place'. It is planted with hundreds of century-old trees and displays petrified wood, rare stones and large root carvings, and peacocks roam the grounds."},{"id":"mangshi-menghuan-pagodas","name":"Menghuan Silver & Golden Pagodas","name_zh":"勐焕银塔","pinyin":"Měnghuàn Yíntǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.4207,"lon":98.5947,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mangshi-menghuan-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A white Theravada Buddhist pagoda on Leiyarang hill above Peacock Lake in Mangshi, built as a counterpart to the Menghuan Golden Pagoda a few hundred metres away. The golden pagoda, completed in 2007 to replace one destroyed during the Second World War, is more than 70 metres tall and is described as the tallest Theravada pagoda in China."},{"id":"ruili-moli-rainforest","name":"Moli Tropical Rainforest","name_zh":"莫里热带雨林","pinyin":"Mòlǐ Rèdài Yǔlín","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.1148,"lon":97.9847,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruili-moli-rainforest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley north-east of Ruili whose Dai name is said to mean 'beautiful waterfall'. The scenic area covers about 7 square kilometres of dense forest with streams and a waterfall of about 60 metres. Local legend holds that the Buddha preached here and left a footprint in the rock, and a gilded stupa has been built beside it."},{"id":"lianghe-nandian-tusi-yamen","name":"Nandian Chieftain's Yamen","name_zh":"南甸宣抚司署","pinyin":"Nándiàn Xuānfǔsī Shǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.81,"lon":98.2972,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lianghe-nandian-tusi-yamen/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The headquarters of the Gong family, hereditary chieftains (tusi) of Nandian who ruled the area for about five centuries, in Zhedao, the county town of Lianghe. Begun in 1851 and enlarged until 1935, it is laid out like a Han Chinese government office, with 47 buildings around four main and ten side courtyards, and is often called the 'Dai Forbidden City'. It houses the Western Yunnan Tusi Culture Museum, opened in 2015."},{"id":"ruili-one-village-two-countries","name":"One Village, Two Countries","name_zh":"一寨两国","pinyin":"Yī Zhài Liǎng Guó","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":23.9556,"lon":97.7984,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ruili-one-village-two-countries","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dai village south-west of Ruili where the China–Myanmar boundary runs through the settlement, so that the Chinese part is called Yinjing and the Myanmar part Mangxiu. Boundary marker No. 71 stands beside the village, villagers from both sides share a well, and a swing hangs across the line."},{"id":"mangshi-peacock-valley","name":"Peacock Valley, Mangshi","name_zh":"孔雀谷","pinyin":"Kǒngquè Gǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.5393,"lon":98.6372,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mangshi-peacock-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the hills north-east of Mangshi where peacocks are bred and roam the grounds in large numbers, and flocks are released from the hillside in staged flights down into the valley. A glass viewing tower, flower fields, tea gardens, ethnic song-and-dance shows and rides such as a dragon-shaped slide fill out a family day out."},{"id":"ruili-wanding-bridge","name":"Wanding Bridge","name_zh":"畹町桥","pinyin":"Wǎndīng Qiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.0803,"lon":98.0724,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruili-wanding-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A short bridge over the Wanding River on the China–Myanmar border, first built in 1938 for the Burma Road; the present steel truss span was put up by Chinese and American forces in January 1945 after Japanese troops blew up its predecessor. During the Second World War Allied supplies entered China here and Chinese Expeditionary Force troops crossed into Burma. A new road bridge replaced it in 1993, and the old span is now kept as a monument; the heritage listing also covers the former hall of the 1956 China–Burma border people's rally."},{"id":"yingjiang-yunyan-pagoda","name":"Yunyan Pagoda","name_zh":"允燕塔","pinyin":"Yǔnyàn Tǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Dehong","lat":24.6964,"lon":97.9483,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yingjiang-yunyan-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dai Buddhist stupa complex on Yunyan hill at the edge of Yingjiang county town, commissioned in 1946 by the local chieftain Si Hongsheng and finished only in 1955–56 after delays caused by epidemic and war. A white, gold-tipped central stupa about 20 metres tall rises from a five-tiered square base about 19 metres wide, ringed by 44 smaller stupas."},{"id":"shangri-la-balagezong","name":"Balagezong (Shangri-La Grand Canyon)","name_zh":"巴拉格宗","pinyin":"Bālā Gézōng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Diqing","lat":28.3349,"lon":99.4637,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangri-la-balagezong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A deep canyon area in the north-west of Shangri-La, near the borders with Sichuan and Tibet, within the Hongshan section of the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site. The land drops from Gezong Snow Mountain, at 5,545 metres the highest peak in Shangri-La, to about 2,000 metres in the valley; plank walkways and viewpoints line the canyon, and the Tibetan village of Bala sits on a mountainside at about 2,900 metres."},{"id":"deqin-cizhong-church","name":"Cizhong Catholic Church","name_zh":"茨中教堂","pinyin":"Cízhōng Jiàotáng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Diqing","lat":28.0331,"lon":98.906,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/deqin-cizhong-church/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Catholic church in the village of Cizhong in southern Deqin County, rebuilt here by French missionaries of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1909–1911 after their earlier church, about 15 km to the south, was burnt in 1905. Its design mixes a Romanesque Revival plan with Tibetan, Han and Bai building traditions. Used as a primary school during the Cultural Revolution, it survived largely intact, and the church, side buildings, gate, cellar and vineyard are all preserved."},{"id":"shangri-la-potatso-national-park","name":"Potatso National Park","name_zh":"普达措国家公园","pinyin":"Pǔdácuò Guójiā Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Diqing","lat":27.805,"lon":99.9073,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shangri-la-potatso-national-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A protected area of lakes, wetlands, forest and alpine meadow east of Shangri-La, inaugurated in 2007 as the first reserve in mainland China to be named a national park, within the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage area. Park buses carry visitors from the entrance to forest-ringed Shudu Lake, which is circled by boardwalks. Bita Lake and the Militang meadow were closed to visitors after a central environmental inspection in 2017, and a park notice for 2026 still keeps the main part of Bita Lake and its lakeside boardwalk closed for conservation."},{"id":"shangri-la-shika-snow-mountain","name":"Shika Snow Mountain","name_zh":"石卡雪山","pinyin":"Shíkǎ Xuěshān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Diqing","lat":27.7974,"lon":99.6283,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangri-la-shika-snow-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain rising to around 4,500 metres just south-west of Shangri-La town; its Tibetan name is said to refer to a place where red deer roam. A cableway of about 4.2 km climbs from a meadow at about 3,270 metres to viewing points above 4,000 metres that look out over the surrounding ranges on clear days."},{"id":"kangpu-shouguo-temple","name":"Shouguo Temple, Kangpu","name_zh":"寿国寺","pinyin":"Shòuguó Sì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Diqing","lat":27.6403,"lon":99.0142,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangpu-shouguo-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Qing dynasty in Kangpu township, in the Lancang (upper Mekong) valley of north-western Yunnan, usually described as belonging to the Karma Kagyu school. Its main hall is the core of the protected site and is known for its wall paintings."},{"id":"yezhi-tongle-lisu-village","name":"Tongle Lisu Village","name_zh":"同乐村","pinyin":"Tónglè Cūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Diqing","lat":27.6595,"lon":99.0614,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yezhi-tongle-lisu-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Lisu village of about 130 households on a slope above the east bank of the Lancang (upper Mekong) at about 2,200 metres, founded more than 200 years ago. Its 137 houses are mostly log cabins of crossed round timbers with wooden-shingle roofs weighted with stones, living quarters upstairs and space for livestock below, and field huts, fire houses and water mills stand on the opposite slope and in the valley below."},{"id":"yezhi-tusi-residence","name":"Yezhi Tusi Residence","name_zh":"叶枝土司衙署","pinyin":"Yèzhī Tǔsī Yáshǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Diqing","lat":27.7022,"lon":99.0467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yezhi-tusi-residence/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The seat of the Wang family, hereditary Naxi chieftains (tusi) of the Yezhi area, begun under the Kangxi emperor and enlarged until it reached its present size in the Guangxu era. Built round connected courtyards in the local 'three wings and a screen wall' plan, it mixes Han, Tibetan, Naxi and Bai styles and includes the chieftain's quarters, guard rooms, stables, watchtowers and a Black God Hall."},{"id":"luxi-alu-ancient-cave","name":"Alu Ancient Cave","name_zh":"阿庐古洞","pinyin":"Ālú Gǔdòng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":24.5617,"lon":103.7503,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luxi-alu-ancient-cave/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of karst caves in Luxi County, billed as the 'First Cave of Yunnan', made up of the Luyuan, Yuzhu and Biyu caves and the underground Yusun River, together more than 3 km long. The Ming geographer Xu Xiake explored the caves and described them in his travel diaries. The name comes from the Yi language, and the caves are part of the Luxi Alu national geopark."},{"id":"gejiu-baofenglong-trading-house","name":"Baofenglong Trading House","name_zh":"宝丰隆商号","pinyin":"Bǎofēnglóng Shānghào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3544,"lon":103.1553,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gejiu-baofenglong-trading-house/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tin-smelting works and residence built between 1916 and 1926 for a leading Gejiu tin merchant surnamed Li, described as the city's only surviving tin-smelting site of the Republican era. Its Chinese-Western buildings include an east gate tower with an opera stage, a four-storey French-style main block, a three-storey embroidery tower, a corner blockhouse and the remains of the smelting furnaces."},{"id":"mengzi-bisezhai-station","name":"Bisezhai Railway Station","name_zh":"碧色寨","pinyin":"Bìsèzhài","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.4653,"lon":103.4109,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengzi-bisezhai-station/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A station on the French-built Yunnan–Vietnam railway, opened in 1909, where goods were transferred to the narrow-gauge Gejiu–Bisezhai–Shiping line, turning a small village into a busy trading post nicknamed 'Little Paris of the East'. Passenger trains stopped in 1992, and the yellow-walled, red-tiled French station buildings, the Greek-run Gelusi hotel, merchants' warehouses and a branch customs house are now a railway heritage park. Feng Xiaogang filmed scenes of his 2017 film Youth here."},{"id":"pingbian-dishui-miao-town","name":"Dishui Miao Town","name_zh":"滴水苗城","pinyin":"Dīshuǐ Miáochéng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.0073,"lon":103.6462,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingbian-dishui-miao-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A newly built Miao-style district and tourist hub on the Muyang River at the north-western edge of Pingbian county town, with stilt-style houses, covered bridges and a waterfall on the river. A Miao culture centre and the Yunnan Miao Medicine Museum present local history and Miao herbal medicine."},{"id":"mile-dongfengyun-art-town","name":"Dongfengyun Art Town","name_zh":"东风韵","pinyin":"Dōngfēngyùn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":24.3165,"lon":103.3783,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mile-dongfengyun-art-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An art and leisure town begun in 2014 on the former Dongfeng state farm south of Mile, a grape-growing area since the farm was founded in 1958. Its landmark is a cluster of domed, flame-like buildings in local red brick designed by the artist Luo Xu, with halls for exhibitions and events. Vineyards, hot-spring resorts and hotels surround the core."},{"id":"pingbian-faux-namti-bridge","name":"Faux Namti Bridge","name_zh":"五家寨铁路桥","pinyin":"Wǔjiāzhài Tiělù Qiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.2194,"lon":103.7554,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingbian-faux-namti-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A steel arch railway bridge built in 1907–08 by the French Batignolles company to carry the Yunnan–Vietnam railway across the Sicha River gorge, 102 m above the riverbed, between tunnels cut into sheer cliffs. Its parts were made in France and carried into the gorge by mules and porters, and it was the only bridge between Hekou and Bisezhai not blown up in 1940. The shape of its supports gives it the Chinese nickname Renzi Qiao, after the character 人."},{"id":"kaiyuan-fenghuang-eco-park","name":"Fenghuang Eco-Park","name_zh":"凤凰生态公园","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Shēngtài Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.6921,"lon":103.2674,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaiyuan-fenghuang-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large city park in Kaiyuan's southern new district, opened in 2017, made up of Phoenix Hill, Phoenix Lake with a small beach and lakeside walks, and a wetland along the Nandong River. The clock-tower-style Phoenix Tower on the hill houses an exhibition on Kaiyuan's history, and 1909 Square beside the Yunnan–Vietnam railway displays old locomotives and track of three gauges. It is a local leisure park, convenient if you are breaking a journey through Kaiyuan."},{"id":"mengzi-former-customs-house","name":"Former Mengzi Customs House and Southwest Associated University Memorial","name_zh":"蒙自海关旧址","pinyin":"Méngzì Hǎiguān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3667,"lon":103.4062,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengzi-former-customs-house/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mengzi was opened as a treaty port after the Sino-French War, and its customs house, set up in 1889, was the first in Yunnan. Around South Lake survive the customs office, the French consulate of 1888, a French prison, the 'French Garden' and the French-style building of the Gelusi trading house, a firm set up by a Greek merchant in 1906. In 1938 the arts and law faculties of the wartime National Southwest Associated University taught here for several months, recalled by a memorial hall."},{"id":"mile-huquan-eco-park","name":"Huquan Eco-Park","name_zh":"湖泉生态园","pinyin":"Húquán Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":24.4061,"lon":103.4083,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mile-huquan-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large lakeside park on the western side of Mile city, set around a broad lake with a sand beach, islands, lakeside paths and birds such as egrets and black swans. A hotel, restaurants and hot-spring pools stand within the grounds, and the park doubles as a public park for local residents."},{"id":"mile-jinping-mountain-maitreya","name":"Jinping Mountain and Mile Maitreya Buddha","name_zh":"锦屏山","pinyin":"Jǐnpíng Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":24.4793,"lon":103.4308,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mile-jinping-mountain-maitreya","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside temple park north of Mile whose centrepiece is a seated, laughing Maitreya Buddha 19.99 m tall, installed in 1999 at the top of a flight of 1,999 steps. Below it, Mile Temple, said to have been founded in the Song and rebuilt in the Ming, was restored in the Qianlong era and enlarged in 1999. The city shares its Chinese name with Maitreya (Mílè), which makes the statue a local emblem."},{"id":"kaiyuan-changhong-bridge","name":"Kaiyuan Changhong Bridge","name_zh":"开远长虹桥","pinyin":"Kāiyuǎn Chánghóng Qiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.8156,"lon":103.2762,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kaiyuan-changhong-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open-spandrel stone arch bridge over the Nanpan River, completed in 1961, with a main span of 113 m, a total length of 171 m and a height of 30 m. The arch centring collapsed in a storm during construction in 1960, killing 18 people, and slogans of the period are carved on the parapet posts. Since a new bridge opened in 1996 it has carried only a county road."},{"id":"mile-keyi-village","name":"Keyi Village","name_zh":"可邑小镇","pinyin":"Kěyì Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":24.5156,"lon":103.367,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mile-keyi-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of the Axi, a branch of the Yi people, north of Mile, regarded as one of the birthplaces of the Axi tiaoyue, a moonlight dance to the three-stringed guitar listed as national intangible heritage in 2008. Now run as a tourist 'ethnic town' with a Yi museum, it is still home to some 700 villagers, whose earth-yellow house walls are painted with figures of the dance. Visitors come for the village itself and its song and dance performances."},{"id":"shiping-laihe-pavilion","name":"Laihe Pavilion","name_zh":"来鹤亭","pinyin":"Láihè Tíng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.7012,"lon":102.5159,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiping-laihe-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small hillside complex at the top of Xiaoruicheng village on the shore of Yilong Lake, made up of a pavilion with upswept eaves and the Wenchang and Kuixing halls behind it. First built in the late Ming as the Haishan Pavilion, it was renamed after a legend of the immortal Lü Dongbin flying away on a crane, shown in a painted statue inside. The terrace looks out across the lake."},{"id":"gejiu-laoyin-mountain","name":"Laoyin Mountain","name_zh":"老阴山","pinyin":"Lǎoyīn Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3657,"lon":103.1681,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gejiu-laoyin-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The forested mountain that rises steeply above the east side of Gejiu, the old tin-mining city, to a summit of about 2,160 m. The Baohua cable car, running since 1997, climbs some 400 m up the slope, and a glass walkway about 350 m long, opened in 2019, wraps around the mountainside high above the city and Jinhu Lake."},{"id":"honghe-county-mabang-ancient-town","name":"Mabang Ancient Town (Yisa), Honghe County","name_zh":"马帮古城","pinyin":"Mǎbāng Gǔchéng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3695,"lon":102.4201,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=honghe-county-mabang-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yisa, the county town of Honghe County, is built along a narrow ridge south of the Red River; it grew rich on mule-caravan trade and is known as a home town of overseas Chinese. Its East Gate tower and 18 houses on East Gate Street, built from the late Qing to the Republican era, blend Chinese courtyard plans with Western-style features. Among them are the mansions of the Yao and Qian families."},{"id":"jianshui-nalou-chieftain-office","name":"Nalou Chieftain's Office","name_zh":"纳楼长官司署","pinyin":"Nàlóu Zhǎngguānsī Shǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3091,"lon":102.8003,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianshui-nalou-chieftain-office","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The headquarters of a Yi hereditary chieftain (tusi) of the Nalou line, built in 1907 high on a mountainside above the north bank of the Red River, nearly 1,000 m above the water. Three courtyards with more than 70 rooms climb the slope, with offices at the front and living quarters behind, inside walls with defensive corner towers."},{"id":"kaiyuan-nandong-cave","name":"Nandong Cave, Kaiyuan","name_zh":"开远南洞","pinyin":"Kāiyuǎn Nándòng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.6526,"lon":103.2881,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kaiyuan-nandong-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area on the southern outskirts of Kaiyuan where underground streams emerge from the limestone hills to form the Nandong River; long counted first among the area's traditional eight views, it opened to visitors in 1988. It takes in eight karst caves, among them Taoyuan Cave with a dry section and a water section, and the century-old metre-gauge Yunnan–Vietnam railway runs through it. The Phoenix Valley section adds a glass skywalk and a glass slide."},{"id":"honghe-county-samaba-rice-terraces","name":"Samaba Rice Terraces","name_zh":"撒玛坝梯田","pinyin":"Sāmǎbà Tītián","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.2855,"lon":102.3652,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=honghe-county-samaba-rice-terraces","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Samaba is a sweep of Hani rice terraces on a single mountainside in Baohua town, Honghe County, which the prefecture's publicity department puts at more than 14,000 mu (over 9 sq km) in over 4,300 levels. A viewing platform looks across the whole terraced slope at once, and a walkway leads down among the paddies. It lies in a different county from the World Heritage terraces of Yuanyang, about 45 km to the south-east."},{"id":"shiping-confucian-temple","name":"Shiping Confucian Temple","name_zh":"石屏文庙","pinyin":"Shípíng Wénmiào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.7168,"lon":102.4917,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shiping-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shiping's Confucian temple, founded in the Yuan dynasty and rebuilt in 1389, stands in the old town of a county long known for its scholars, among them Yuan Jiagu, the only Yunnanese to come first in an imperial examination (1903). Its axis runs from the Lingxing Gate past the Pan pond and the Dacheng Gate, with side halls, to the main Hall of the Former Teacher and the Zunjing library pavilion."},{"id":"jianshui-shuanglong-bridge","name":"Shuanglong Bridge","name_zh":"双龙桥","pinyin":"Shuānglóng Qiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.6083,"lon":102.7928,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianshui-shuanglong-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 17-arch stone bridge about 148 m long where the Lu and Tachong rivers meet west of Jianshui, described as the largest and finest old stone bridge in Yunnan. It began as a three-arch bridge in the Qianlong era and was lengthened from 1839 after floods widened the river. A three-storey pavilion with yellow glazed tiles stands at its centre and a smaller octagonal pavilion at its southern end."},{"id":"jianshui-swallow-cave","name":"Swallow Cave (Yanzidong), Jianshui","name_zh":"建水燕子洞","pinyin":"Jiànshuǐ Yànzi Dòng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.6371,"lon":103.0536,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jianshui-swallow-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large karst cave in the hills east of Jianshui, divided into a dry cave and a water cave through which an underground river flows. It is named after the swifts that nest under its roof in great numbers, arriving in spring and leaving in summer. Together with Jianshui's old town it forms part of the Jianshui national scenic area."},{"id":"mile-taiping-lake-forest-resort","name":"Taiping Lake Forest Resort","name_zh":"太平湖森林小镇","pinyin":"Tàipíng Hú Sēnlín Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":24.4044,"lon":103.5169,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mile-taiping-lake-forest-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest and lake resort on the outskirts of Mile city, built on once-barren karst hills that have been replanted, with forest cabins to stay in, flower fields and a lakeside wetland. It is set up for family days out and short breaks, with resort hotels in the wider development."},{"id":"jianshui-tuanshan-village","name":"Tuanshan Village","name_zh":"团山村","pinyin":"Tuánshān Cūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.6458,"lon":102.7386,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jianshui-tuanshan-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village of courtyard mansions about 13 km west of Jianshui, settled by the Zhang clan from Jiangxi in the early Ming and rebuilt on a grand scale in the late Qing with fortunes made in the Gejiu tin mines. Twenty-one historic gates, temples and ancestral halls and 38 old houses survive, laid out around the Zhang ancestral hall. The listed buildings include the Zhang Family Garden, several mansions, the Dacheng Temple and three of the old village gates."},{"id":"mengzi-xinansuo-old-buildings","name":"Xin'ansuo Old Buildings","name_zh":"新安所古建筑群","pinyin":"Xīn'ānsuǒ Gǔ Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3228,"lon":103.4347,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengzi-xinansuo-old-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xin'ansuo, south-east of Mengzi, was a Ming military garrison town, walled in 1517, and is now a national historic town, although its walls were pulled down in 1951. Its listed temples are Zhutian Temple, the City God Temple, Guanyin Temple, the Wenchang Palace (Zhongshan Hall), a Guandi temple and a Yuhuang Pavilion. The surrounding area is Mengzi's main pomegranate-growing district."},{"id":"shiping-yilong-lake","name":"Yilong Lake","name_zh":"异龙湖","pinyin":"Yìlóng Hú","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.67,"lon":102.57,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiping-yilong-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A shallow plateau lake beginning just east of Shiping town, known for the lotus flowers that cover parts of its surface. Its area has shrunk considerably since the 1980s, and a wetland park now lines part of the shore. Laihe Pavilion on its north-western shore gives a view across the water."},{"id":"mengzi-yuhuang-pavilion","name":"Yuhuang Pavilion, Mengzi","name_zh":"蒙自玉皇阁","pinyin":"Méngzì Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3708,"lon":103.401,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengzi-yuhuang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple group in central Mengzi whose main building, the triple-eaved Tongming Pavilion founded in 1578, stands about 20 m tall between matching east and west pavilions added in 1734. Behind it are the carved hall of the Jianyang guild, built by Jianshui merchants in 1770, and a Kangxi-era hall of the old county yamen. Run as a Buddhist temple since 2000, it still keeps the Jade Emperor on its top floor."},{"id":"shiping-zhengying-village","name":"Zhengying Village","name_zh":"郑营村","pinyin":"Zhèngyíng Cūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.7468,"lon":102.4017,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiping-zhengying-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old village in Baoxiu, west of Shiping, with lanes of traditional courtyard houses; it was named a Chinese historic and cultural village in 2008. Its two nationally listed buildings are the Chen ancestral hall, founded in 1925 by the late-Qing scholar-official Chen Hetang (Chen Jun) behind an archway-style gate, and the Zheng ancestral hall of the 1880s, noted for its wood, stone and brick carving."},{"id":"mengzi-zhou-family-mansion","name":"Zhou Family Mansion (Wangyun Museum)","name_zh":"周家宅院","pinyin":"Zhōujiā Zháiyuàn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Honghe","lat":23.3694,"lon":103.4002,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengzi-zhou-family-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chinese-Western merchant's mansion of four courtyards and about 90 rooms, built from 1916 by Zhou Ziyin, a banker and railway promoter, reportedly with money the Guangdong governor Long Jiguang had given him to build a residence for Long. In 1938 one of its buildings was the women's dormitory of the National Southwest Associated University, and since 2014 the house has held the Wangyun Museum."},{"id":"anning-confucian-temple","name":"Anning Confucian Temple","name_zh":"安宁文庙","pinyin":"Ānníng Wénmiào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.9264,"lon":102.4854,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anning-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Also called the Lianran Confucian Temple, it was founded in 1302 under the Yuan dynasty in what is now the old centre of Anning, and after Ming and Qing rebuilding it grew to 22 buildings arranged in seven successive sections. Only the main Dacheng Hall and the Chongsheng Shrine survive from the old complex, and the Anning City Museum has been built around them."},{"id":"kunming-victory-memorial-hall","name":"Anti-Japanese War Victory Memorial Hall, Kunming","name_zh":"抗战胜利纪念堂","pinyin":"Kàngzhàn Shènglì Jìniàntáng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.044,"lon":102.706,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-victory-memorial-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A palace-style hall blending Chinese and Western elements, completed in January 1946 on the site of the Qing Yunnan–Guizhou governor's office to mark victory in the war against Japan; from 1950 it was called the People's Victory Hall. Its central hall is planned in the shape of a warplane, and with the curved buildings around it the layout evokes a raised cup, a reference to the wartime 'Hump' airlift. A 27-metre monument to the people's heroes, completed in 1995, stands at the south end, with a memorial exhibition room in the space beneath its base."},{"id":"anning-caoxi-temple","name":"Caoxi Temple, Anning","name_zh":"曹溪寺","pinyin":"Cáoxī Sì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.9515,"lon":102.4467,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anning-caoxi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Chan Buddhist temple at the foot of Cong Hill, 1.5 km south of Anning's hot-spring town of Wenquan, probably founded in the Dali Kingdom period by monks devoted to the patriarch Huineng. Its main hall, the double-eaved Baohua Pavilion, was restored in 1694 and houses a wooden Buddhist trinity that scholars have dated variously from the Southern Song to the early Ming. Local legend holds that once every 60 years the Mid-Autumn moon shines through a small round window onto the face of the main Buddha."},{"id":"kunming-daguan-lou","name":"Daguan Lou and Daguan Park","name_zh":"大观楼","pinyin":"Dàguān Lóu","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0273,"lon":102.6725,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-daguan-lou/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lakeside park in south-western Kunming whose focal point is Daguan Lou, a three-storey Qing-dynasty pavilion facing south over Dian Lake towards the Western Hills. The pavilion is known for the long couplet by the Qing scholar Sun Ran on its gateposts, reputed to be the longest in China, and the willow-lined park around it is a local favourite for tea, kite-flying and boating."},{"id":"kunming-dizang-temple-sutra-pillar","name":"Dizang Temple Sutra Pillar","name_zh":"地藏寺经幢","pinyin":"Dìzàng Sì Jīngchuáng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0354,"lon":102.7269,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-dizang-temple-sutra-pillar/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-tier octagonal pillar of red sandstone, about 6.5 metres tall, carved in the Dali Kingdom period with Esoteric Buddhist imagery: Heavenly Kings, Buddhas and bodhisattvas fill tiers of niches, with texts in Chinese and Sanskrit. Rediscovered in 1919 on the site of the old Dizang Temple, it now stands under a glass roof in the central hall of the Kunming Museum, whose collections also include bronzes, Ming blue-and-white porcelain and relics of the wartime Flying Tigers."},{"id":"kunming-east-west-pagodas","name":"Eastern and Western Pagodas","name_zh":"东西寺塔","pinyin":"Dōngxī Sì Tǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.032,"lon":102.7086,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-east-west-pagodas/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two 13-storey brick pagodas in the dense-eave style, about 400 metres apart in central Kunming, first built under the Nanzhao kingdom in the 9th century. The Western Pagoda, about 35 metres tall, was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1499, and the taller Eastern Pagoda, about 40 metres, was rebuilt on a new site in the 1880s after an earthquake brought it down in 1833; each is crowned with four bronze 'golden cockerels'. A pedestrian street laid out in 2002 links the two."},{"id":"xundian-fenglongwan-resort","name":"Fenglongwan Resort","name_zh":"凤龙湾","pinyin":"Fènglóngwān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.4851,"lon":103.3254,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xundian-fenglongwan-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort built around the Fenglongwan Reservoir, dammed on the Malong River in 1956, at Tangzi in Xundian county. Its centrepiece is a newly built fairy-tale town on an Aladdin theme beside the water, with a sightseeing train and boat trips around the lake; it is aimed at families and photographers."},{"id":"kunming-southwest-associated-university-site","name":"Former Site of National Southwest Associated University","name_zh":"国立西南联合大学旧址","pinyin":"Guólì Xīnán Liánhé Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0591,"lon":102.6955,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunming-southwest-associated-university-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From 1938 to 1946 Peking, Tsinghua and Nankai universities shared a wartime campus in Kunming as National Southwest Associated University, and what remained after they returned north grew into today's Yunnan Normal University. On its campus survive an original tin-roofed classroom, the university's memorial stele engraved with the names of 834 students who joined the armed forces, and the tomb of four people killed in the December 1st Movement protests of 1945. The Southwest Associated University Museum on the site, first set up in 2011, reopened with new displays in 2018, the 80th anniversary of the university's arrival in Kunming."},{"id":"kunming-fulintang-pharmacy","name":"Fulintang Pharmacy","name_zh":"福林堂","pinyin":"Fúlín Táng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0425,"lon":102.7074,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-fulintang-pharmacy/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A traditional Chinese medicine shop at 31 Guanghua Street, founded in 1857 and regarded as the oldest surviving pharmacy in Yunnan. The protected building is a three-storey timber and earth corner house at the junction with Wenming Street, with finely carved eaves, and the shop's name comes from a phrase wishing good fortune on the 'apricot grove', a classical term for the medical profession."},{"id":"kunming-golden-temple-taihe-palace","name":"Golden Temple (Taihe Palace)","name_zh":"太和宫金殿","pinyin":"Tàihé Gōng Jīndiàn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0903,"lon":102.7693,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-golden-temple-taihe-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple complex on Mingfeng Hill whose centrepiece is a hall cast entirely of copper, 6.7 metres high, rebuilt here in 1671 by the general Wu Sangui with more than 250 tonnes of copper after the original of 1602–1604 had been moved to Jizu Mountain. It is regarded as the largest and best-preserved all-copper hall in China. Walled courtyards with other Taoist halls surround it, and the wooded park holds a camellia garden of more than 1,200 varieties with an annual camellia show."},{"id":"kunming-guandu-ancient-town","name":"Guandu Ancient Town","name_zh":"官渡古镇","pinyin":"Guāndù Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.9579,"lon":102.7533,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-guandu-ancient-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old ferry settlement near the northern shore of Dian Lake, about 10 km south-east of central Kunming, whose temples, pavilions and lanes were restored and partly rebuilt in 2001–2003. Its finest monument is the stone Diamond Pagoda in front of Miaozhan Temple, completed in 1458: a 16-metre central tower and four smaller corner towers on a square base pierced by arched passages. Several other temples survive in the town, among them Fading Temple and the Tuzhu Temple."},{"id":"kunming-haikou-chuanzi-sluice","name":"Haikou Chuanzi Sluice","name_zh":"海口川字闸","pinyin":"Hǎikǒu Chuānzì Zhá","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.7827,"lon":102.6013,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-haikou-chuanzi-sluice/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A combined sluice and multi-arched stone bridge built in 1836 at the outlet of Dian Lake, at Zhongtan village in Haikou. Its northern, central and southern sections span three parallel channels, a layout that recalls the three strokes of the Chinese character chuan and gives the sluice its name; it once served to hold back water, release floods, irrigate fields and carry traffic."},{"id":"kunming-fenghuang-hill-observatory","name":"Historic Buildings of Yunnan Observatory, Fenghuang Hill","name_zh":"凤凰山天文台近代建筑","pinyin":"Fènghuáng Shān Tiānwéntái Jìndài Jiànzhù","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0272,"lon":102.7917,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-fenghuang-hill-observatory/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three historic buildings on Fenghuang Hill in eastern Kunming, within what is now the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Two blue-brick blocks, with a variable-star dome and a solar spectrograph darkroom, date from 1939, when the astronomy institute of the Academia Sinica moved west during the war and set up an observing station here; a red-brick sunspot observatory with a metal dome followed in 1957. The observatory is still a working research centre."},{"id":"kunming-huize-hall-yunnan-university","name":"Huize Hall, Yunnan University","name_zh":"会泽院","pinyin":"Huìzé Yuàn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0558,"lon":102.7021,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-huize-hall-yunnan-university/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The landmark building of Yunnan University, built in 1923–1924 to a design by the engineer Zhang Banghan as the main building of the university's predecessor, Donglu University, on the site of the old Yunnan provincial examination hall. The Western-style building has Baroque touches and some Chinese detailing, and since 2020 its ground floor has housed the Yunnan University History Museum."},{"id":"kunming-jiaozi-snow-mountain","name":"Jiaozi Snow Mountain","name_zh":"轿子雪山","pinyin":"Jiàozi Xuěshān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":26.021,"lon":102.8363,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunming-jiaozi-snow-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A high massif on the border of Luquan County and Dongchuan District in northern Kunming, rising to more than 4,000 metres as the highest point of the eastern Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau. It has been a national nature reserve since 2011, and in winter it is the main place near Kunming to see snow, with a cableway serving the upper slopes."},{"id":"yiliang-jiuxiang-scenic-area","name":"Jiuxiang Scenic Region","name_zh":"九乡风景区","pinyin":"Jiǔxiāng Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0687,"lon":103.3814,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yiliang-jiuxiang-scenic-area/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A karst area in Yiliang County where more than 20 caves have formed in layers along the Maitian River, a tributary of the Nanpan; where cave roofs have collapsed, the river runs through gorges and under natural bridges. Parts of the cave system opened to visitors in 1989, and the area became a national geopark in 2009. The visitor route links the shady Yincui gorge with caverns such as the White Elephant and Bat caves and the rock formations known as the Fairy Fields."},{"id":"xundian-kedu-long-march-memorial","name":"Kedu Red Army Long March Memorial","name_zh":"柯渡红军长征纪念馆","pinyin":"Kēdù Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.5615,"lon":102.8614,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xundian-kedu-long-march-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial museum, opened in 1977, in Dangui, a Hui village in Kedu town, Xundian County, set around two courtyard houses where the headquarters of the Central Red Army stayed on 30 April 1935 during the Long March. That night the Central Military Commission met here to plan the crossing of the Jinsha River; Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng lodged in one house and Mao Zedong, Wang Jiaxiang and Zhang Wentian in the other. The national listing also covers Jiaoping Ferry in Luquan County, where the army crossed the Jinsha into Sichuan on 3–9 May 1935 and where a museum now marks the crossing."},{"id":"kunming-botanical-garden","name":"Kunming Botanical Garden","name_zh":"昆明植物园","pinyin":"Kūnmíng Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.1435,"lon":102.7413,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunming-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A research garden in the northern suburbs of Kunming, founded in 1938 and run by the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It holds about 5,000 species of vascular plants, with collections of camellias, magnolias, begonias, ferns, medicinal herbs and rare and endangered species."},{"id":"kunming-sunac-ocean-world","name":"Kunming Sunac Ocean World","name_zh":"昆明融创海世界","pinyin":"Kūnmíng Róngchuàng Hǎishìjiè","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0195,"lon":102.6512,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunming-sunac-ocean-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An indoor aquarium in the Sunac cultural-tourism complex by the Caohai part of Dian Lake in Xishan district, which also holds an indoor ski and snow park. Themed zones of tanks show marine life from many seas, with jellyfish displays and mermaid performances, and it is aimed squarely at families with children."},{"id":"chenggong-laoyuhe-wetland-park","name":"Laoyuhe Wetland Park","name_zh":"捞鱼河湿地公园","pinyin":"Lāoyúhé Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.8242,"lon":102.7674,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chenggong-laoyuhe-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An urban wetland park on the eastern shore of Dian Lake in Chenggong district, laid out where the Laoyu River enters the lake. Paths run through planted wetland and lakeside woodland, and it is mainly a local spot for walking and cycling rather than a destination in itself."},{"id":"kunming-lu-han-mansion","name":"Lu Han's Mansion","name_zh":"卢汉公馆","pinyin":"Lú Hàn Gōngguǎn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0517,"lon":102.7055,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-lu-han-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The 1930s residence of Lu Han, chairman of Yunnan province, opposite the east gate of Green Lake Park: a two-storey house with red tiles, carved stone door and window surrounds and steep, Gothic-influenced roofs. On 9 December 1949 Lu Han detained several senior Nationalist figures here and declared the Kunming uprising, by which Yunnan changed sides peacefully in the civil war. After restoration it opened as a public museum in 2020, with displays on the uprising."},{"id":"anning-qinglong-gorge","name":"Qinglong Gorge, Anning","name_zh":"青龙峡","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Xiá","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0656,"lon":102.3695,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anning-qinglong-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested gorge of about 19 square kilometres in Qinglong subdistrict, north-west of central Anning, with streams, waterfalls and old climbing vines along its trails. It is run as a family day out, and the walks are combined with add-on activities such as rafting."},{"id":"kunming-qiongzhu-temple","name":"Qiongzhu Temple","name_zh":"筇竹寺","pinyin":"Qióngzhú Sì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0689,"lon":102.6229,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-qiongzhu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on Yu'an Mountain north-west of Kunming, known as the first Chan (Zen) temple in Yunnan: tradition dates it to the Tang, and it rose to prominence when the monk Xiongbian taught here in the early Yuan dynasty. Most of the present buildings date from late Qing rebuilding. It is famous for its 500 painted clay arhats, each about a metre tall, made between 1883 and 1890 by the Sichuan sculptor Li Guangxiu and his students, which line the main hall and two side pavilions."},{"id":"kunming-shilongba-hydropower-station","name":"Shilongba Hydropower Station","name_zh":"石龙坝水电站","pinyin":"Shílóngbà Shuǐdiànzhàn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.8578,"lon":102.5233,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-shilongba-hydropower-station/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Mainland China's first hydropower station, built in 1910–1912 on the Tanglang River, the only outlet of Dian Lake, with German Siemens generators and Austrian Voith turbines; it is still generating today. The old powerhouse keeps a 240-kilowatt Voith unit that still works, and the China Hydropower Museum, set up on the site in 2008, tells its history. A pond in the grounds fills a crater left by a Japanese air raid in 1940."},{"id":"jinning-shizhaishan-archaeological-park","name":"Shizhaishan Archaeological Site Park","name_zh":"石寨山考古遗址公园","pinyin":"Shízhàishān Kǎogǔ Yízhǐ Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.7181,"lon":102.6948,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinning-shizhaishan-archaeological-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shizhaishan, a low hill near the south-eastern shore of Dian Lake, was the burial ground of the rulers of the ancient Dian kingdom; excavations from the 1950s onwards yielded the 'Seal of the King of Dian' and bronze cowrie containers topped with scenes of sacrifice and oath-taking. The nearby Hebosuo site, thought to have been the kingdom's main settlement and later the seat of the Han commandery of Yizhou, has yielded more than 2,000 Han-dynasty official seal impressions and tens of thousands of bamboo and wooden slips. An archaeological park covering both began trial opening in May 2026, centred on an exhibition hall of finds at the Shizhaishan excavation station."},{"id":"kunming-sayyid-ajjal-tomb","name":"Tomb of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din","name_zh":"赛典赤·赡思丁墓","pinyin":"Sàidiǎnchì Shànsīdīng Mù","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.1576,"lon":102.7767,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-sayyid-ajjal-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar (1211–1279), a Muslim official from Bukhara whom Kublai Khan sent to Yunnan in 1274 as the Yuan dynasty's first provincial governor; he founded a new city on the site of modern Kunming, where he had a Confucian temple, a Buddhist temple and mosques built, and the admiral Zheng He was descended from him. The rectangular stone tomb, restored and walled in 1985, lies on Ma'er Hill in the northern outskirts, while a stone cenotaph inscribed in Chinese and Mongolian stands in the city's Wujing area."},{"id":"anning-wang-renqiu-stele","name":"Wang Renqiu Stele","name_zh":"王仁求碑","pinyin":"Wáng Rénqiú Bēi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.7516,"lon":102.4082,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anning-wang-renqiu-stele/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-sandstone memorial stele raised in 698, under Empress Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, by the son of Wang Renqiu, a local official who helped the Tang put down a revolt; it is the only Tang stele surviving in the Kunming area. About 4 metres high on a tortoise base, it is topped with two dragons and a Buddhist niche, and its inscription of more than 1,600 characters includes over 150 of the new characters introduced under Empress Wu. Since 1991 it has stood in a pavilion within a small stele garden in the hills south-west of Anning."},{"id":"anning-wenquan-cliff-inscriptions","name":"Wenquan Cliff Inscriptions, Anning","name_zh":"温泉摩崖石刻群","pinyin":"Wēnquán Móyá Shíkè Qún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.9599,"lon":102.4501,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/anning-wenquan-cliff-inscriptions/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 200-metre stretch of cliff above the Tanglang River at Anning's hot-spring town of Wenquan, carved with more than 160 inscriptions, mostly poems and descriptions of the springs by Ming and Qing visitors. The earliest, 'Listening to the Spring', was written by He Mengchun, who became the Ming governor of Yunnan in 1521. The carvings run in three groups from the 'Nine-Bend Dragon's Nest' to the spring called the 'Finest Hot Spring under Heaven'."},{"id":"kunming-world-horti-expo-garden","name":"World Horti-Expo Garden","name_zh":"昆明世博园","pinyin":"Kūnmíng Shìbóyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0716,"lon":102.7594,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-world-horti-expo-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The grounds of the 1999 Kunming International Horticultural Exposition cover about 220 hectares of wooded slopes in the north-eastern suburbs, next to the Golden Temple. The site keeps its exhibition halls, including a large greenhouse, along with themed gardens for tea, bamboo, bonsai, medicinal herbs, trees and vegetables, and dozens of gardens laid out by Chinese provinces and by other countries."},{"id":"shilin-xinglin-grand-view-garden","name":"Xinglin Grand View Garden","name_zh":"杏林大观园","pinyin":"Xìnglín Dàguānyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.8801,"lon":103.3714,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shilin-xinglin-grand-view-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A park themed on traditional Chinese medicine in the Taiwan farmers' enterprise park of Shilin county, combining medicinal-plant gardens and displays on Chinese medicine with wellness activities and a hot-spring spa. It is a commercial wellness and agri-tourism development rather than a heritage site, and is sometimes added to a Stone Forest trip."},{"id":"anning-yulong-bay","name":"Yulong Bay","name_zh":"玉龙湾","pinyin":"Yùlóngwān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.9076,"lon":102.5569,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=anning-yulong-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A leisure park near Taiping in Anning, set among lakes and forested hills about 24 km from central Kunming and listed as a 4A site in 2022. It has an 'old Kunming' street area, lakeside and forest walks and family activities, alongside a golf course, a riding club and lakeside hotels."},{"id":"kunming-yunnan-ethnic-village","name":"Yunnan Ethnic Village","name_zh":"云南民族村","pinyin":"Yúnnán Mínzú Cūn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.9717,"lon":102.6626,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-yunnan-ethnic-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An ethnographic theme park of about 89 hectares on the shore of Dian Lake, where replica villages show the houses, crafts and customs of Yunnan's ethnic groups, including the Bai, Dai, Yi, Wa, Naxi and Tibetans. Staff in ethnic dress explain local customs, and staged versions of festivals such as the Dai Water-Splashing and Yi Torch festivals are held for visitors."},{"id":"kunming-yunnan-military-academy","name":"Yunnan Military Academy","name_zh":"云南陆军讲武堂","pinyin":"Yúnnán Lùjūn Jiǎngwǔtáng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0509,"lon":102.6992,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-yunnan-military-academy/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former campus of a military academy founded in Kunming in 1909, in the last years of the Qing dynasty, which trained more than 9,000 officers before it closed in 1935; its graduates included Zhu De and Ye Jianying as well as cadets from Korea and Vietnam. The surviving main building is a two-storey block built round a large courtyard, each side about 120 metres long. It houses the Yunnan Military Academy History Museum, opened in 2009, with exhibitions on the academy and on the Chinese Expeditionary Force of the Second World War."},{"id":"kunming-yunnan-wildlife-park","name":"Yunnan Wildlife Park","name_zh":"云南野生动物园","pinyin":"Yúnnán Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0997,"lon":102.7863,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunming-yunnan-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large zoo opened in 2004 on the forested slopes of Jindian (Golden Temple) National Forest Park in north-east Kunming. More than 200 species are kept in hillside enclosures, including big cats in a lion-and-tiger area, and sightseeing buses link the stops on the long circuit."},{"id":"jinning-zheng-he-park-ma-haji-stele","name":"Zheng He Park and Ma Haji Tomb Stele","name_zh":"马哈只墓碑","pinyin":"Mǎ Hāzhī Mùbēi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":24.6708,"lon":102.5899,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinning-zheng-he-park-ma-haji-stele/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb stele of Ma Haji, father of the Ming admiral Zheng He, stands on the western slope of Yueshan hill in Zheng He Park in Kunyang. Its inscription, composed in Nanjing by the Minister of Rites Li Zhigang before Zheng He's first voyage, records the family's history, and a note on the back records that Zheng He returned to sweep the tomb in 1411. Two steles about Zheng He, put up in 1935, flank it, and the park also has a Zheng He memorial hall."},{"id":"kunming-zhenqing-taoist-temple","name":"Zhenqing Taoist Temple","name_zh":"真庆观","pinyin":"Zhēnqìng Guàn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Kunming","lat":25.0379,"lon":102.7248,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kunming-zhenqing-taoist-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as the largest group of historic buildings in central Kunming, it covers about 2 hectares at the junction of Tuodong Road and Baita Road and dates from the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is made up of three parts, the Zhenqing Temple itself, the Duleifu hall and the Yanlong Shrine, and is still a working Taoist temple and the seat of the Kunming Taoist Association."},{"id":"lijiang-baisha-murals","name":"Baisha Murals and Dabaoji Palace","name_zh":"白沙壁画","pinyin":"Báishā Bìhuà","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.9584,"lon":100.2155,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lijiang-baisha-murals/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baisha village, north of Lijiang and part of the Old Town of Lijiang World Heritage Site, was an early political centre of the Naxi, and its Ming-dynasty halls hold the best-known group of the Baisha murals. The Dabaoji Palace and the neighbouring Liuli Hall, protected together as a national monument, have wall paintings that mix Chinese Buddhist, Daoist and Tibetan Buddhist imagery, reflecting the Naxi rulers' support for several religions."},{"id":"yulong-baoshan-stone-town","name":"Baoshan Stone Town","name_zh":"宝山石头城","pinyin":"Bǎoshān Shítouchéng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":27.475,"lon":100.4302,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yulong-baoshan-stone-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Baoshan Stone Town is a Naxi village built on top of a huge rock outcrop above the right bank of the Jinsha River, in the north-east of Yulong county. Founded in the early Yuan dynasty (1264–1294), it served as the seat of Baoshan prefecture, and it is still inhabited, listed among China's traditional villages."},{"id":"lijiang-black-dragon-pool","name":"Black Dragon Pool","name_zh":"黑龙潭","pinyin":"Hēilóngtán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.8876,"lon":100.2333,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lijiang-black-dragon-pool/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Black Dragon Pool lies in Jade Spring Park at the foot of Elephant Hill, just north of Lijiang Old Town, and its springs feed the streams that run through the old town. The park was laid out in 1737 and is known for the view of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain across the pool and its white marble bridge. Its Ming and Qing pavilions and halls, including the Moon-Embracing Pavilion (rebuilt in 1963 after a fire), are protected as a national monument."},{"id":"lijiang-guanyin-gorge","name":"Guanyin Gorge","name_zh":"观音峡","pinyin":"Guānyīn Xiá","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.7706,"lon":100.2681,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lijiang-guanyin-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanyin Gorge, at Qihe south of Lijiang, is a scenic area described as the southern gateway to the Lijiang basin, where the old Tea Horse Road passed through the Yulong Pass. It combines the wooded gorge with Tea Horse Road and Naxi folk-culture attractions."},{"id":"yongsheng-guanyin-pavilion","name":"Guanyin Pavilion, Yongsheng","name_zh":"观音阁","pinyin":"Guānyīn Gé","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.6925,"lon":100.7705,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongsheng-guanyin-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Guanyin Pavilion, also called Lingyuan Guanyin Temple, sits beneath a cliff above the Lingyuan stream on the eastern edge of Yongsheng county town. Its hall, rebuilt in 1876 with marble balustrades and carved wooden screens, encloses a 1.78-metre image of Guanyin carved into the rock face. The carving is inscribed as after the Tang painter Wu Daozi, a design said to have reached Yongsheng in the Dali Kingdom period with Buddhist scriptures brought back from the Chinese interior."},{"id":"lijiang-jinlong-bridge","name":"Jinlong Bridge","name_zh":"金龙桥","pinyin":"Jīnlóng Qiáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.7844,"lon":100.3887,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lijiang-jinlong-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Jinlong Bridge is an iron-chain suspension bridge across the Jinsha River between Qihe in Lijiang and Zili in Yongsheng, built in 1876–1880 and long an important crossing on the Tea Horse Road between Lijiang, Yongsheng and Sichuan. Sixteen iron chains of about 500 links each carry its 138-metre plank deck, with two more as handrails, between stone abutments topped by gate pavilions. Because the site lies in a hydropower reservoir's flood zone, the bridge was rebuilt in place about 6 metres higher, a project completed in 2016."},{"id":"lijiang-lashi-lake","name":"Lashi Lake","name_zh":"拉市海","pinyin":"Lāshì Hǎi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.8647,"lon":100.1381,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lijiang-lashi-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Lashi Lake lies at about 2,440 metres in a basin on the south-eastern slopes of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, 8 km west of Lijiang, and is the core of a provincial wetland nature reserve set up in 1998. Some 20,000 to 30,000 migratory waterbirds winter here, among them black-necked cranes and bar-headed geese, and 57 bird species have been recorded in the wetland. A dam built since the 1980s keeps the once-seasonal lake at a steady level."},{"id":"laojun-mountain-liming","name":"Liming Danxia, Laojun Mountain","name_zh":"老君山黎明","pinyin":"Lǎojūn Shān Límíng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":27.0336,"lon":99.6854,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=laojun-mountain-liming","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Liming, a Lisu township in western Yulong county, has about 240 square kilometres of red Danxia sandstone landforms within the Laojun Mountain area, part of the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site. Its best-known sight is Qiangui ('Thousand Turtles') Mountain, a red sandstone dome whose cracked, weathered surface looks like rows of crawling turtles."},{"id":"yongsheng-maojiawan","name":"Maojiawan, Yongsheng","name_zh":"毛家湾","pinyin":"Máojiāwān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.4267,"lon":100.6407,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongsheng-maojiawan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Maojiawan, a village in Chenghai town at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain south-west of Chenghai Lake, is promoted locally as the ancestral home of Mao Zedong's forebears. The Shaoshan Mao clan genealogy traces the family to Mao Taihua, a Jiangxi man who served at the Lancang garrison in what is now Yongsheng before moving on to Hunan in the early Ming, and local tradition holds that some of his descendants stayed here, though sources differ on the dates. The village has a Mao clan ancestral hall."},{"id":"lijiang-puji-temple","name":"Puji Temple, Lijiang","name_zh":"普济寺","pinyin":"Pǔjì Sì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.9005,"lon":100.1805,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lijiang-puji-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Puji Temple stands at the foot of Puji Hill, about 6 km west of Lijiang Old Town, and is counted among the five main monasteries of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism in the Lijiang area. Founded in 1771, it keeps Qing and Republican-era buildings that are protected as a national monument."},{"id":"yongsheng-qina-old-buildings","name":"Qina Old Buildings","name_zh":"期纳古建筑群","pinyin":"Qīnà Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.3994,"lon":100.6517,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongsheng-qina-old-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In the Ming dynasty a post station, Qingshui, was set up on the official road through what is now Qina town, and garrison officers and wealthy families built houses, ancestral halls, temples and schools along it. The listed group comprises nine buildings, including Ruiguang Temple, the Dongyue Temple and several family halls and courtyards, with dated Ming timber structures preserved by the dry valley climate. Apart from the two temples, which are collectively owned, the buildings are privately owned."},{"id":"lijiang-shuhe-old-town","name":"Shuhe Old Town","name_zh":"束河古镇","pinyin":"Shùhé Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.9229,"lon":100.2036,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lijiang-shuhe-old-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shuhe, about 4 km north-west of Dayan, is one of the earliest Naxi settlements around Lijiang and grew into a market town on the Tea Horse Road, known from the Ming dynasty for its leatherworkers. Part of the Old Town of Lijiang World Heritage Site, it has a market square, the Qinglong Bridge, the spring-fed Jiuding Dragon Pool and the Qing-dynasty Sansheng Palace, while the Ming murals of its Dajue Palace are protected as a national monument. Like Baisha, it is usually quieter than Dayan."},{"id":"yongsheng-yingpan-tombs","name":"Yingpan Village Tombs","name_zh":"营盘村墓群","pinyin":"Yíngpáncūn Mùqún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":26.6042,"lon":100.8567,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongsheng-yingpan-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On a hillside above Yingpan village in Liude township, the Taliu, a Yi subgroup living around Taliu Mountain, built some 7,000 stone-faced tombs between the late Ming and the Republican era, most of them in the late 17th and 18th centuries. About 2,500 survive largely intact, many with archway-style headstones up to 2 metres high, carved in relief with auspicious animals and flowers."},{"id":"lijiang-yushuizhai","name":"Yushuizhai","name_zh":"玉水寨","pinyin":"Yùshuǐ Zhài","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lijiang","lat":27.0026,"lon":100.1998,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lijiang-yushuizhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yushuizhai, at the southern foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain on the northern edge of Baisha, is a Naxi Dongba cultural site built around a sacred spring that drops down the hillside in a three-tier cascade. It has a temple to Dongba Shiluo, regarded as the founder of the Dongba religion, and a gallery of murals in the Dongba painting style."},{"id":"cangyuan-banhong","name":"Banhong Hulu Wang Di (Banhong Incident Site)","name_zh":"班洪葫芦王地","pinyin":"Bānhóng Húlu Wáng Dì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.2864,"lon":99.1182,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cangyuan-banhong","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area around Banhong, a Wa village on the Myanmar border in Cangyuan county, where local Wa people clashed with British forces in 1934 as a silver-mining company moved in from Burma. The Banhong Incident led to renewed Sino-British boundary talks, and the village now has a memorial stele at the incident site and a memorial hall, with tea gardens on the surrounding hills."},{"id":"cangyuan-rock-paintings","name":"Cangyuan Rock Paintings & Sigangli Valley","name_zh":"沧源崖画","pinyin":"Cāngyuán Yáhuà","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.2716,"lon":99.3152,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cangyuan-rock-paintings/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Red rock paintings at 17 sites on limestone cliffs at 1,200–2,000 metres in Cangyuan county, made with haematite pigment, apparently by finger, and dated by uranium-series tests to about 3,800–2,700 years ago. The Sigangli Rock Painting Valley scenic area combines the main painting site with a sinkhole, caves including Sigangli, the cave of the Wa creation legend, and Bange village, where a new visitor centre opened in 2026."},{"id":"cangyuan-guangyun-temple","name":"Guangyun Temple","name_zh":"广允缅寺","pinyin":"Guǎngyǔn Miǎnsì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.1548,"lon":99.2497,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cangyuan-guangyun-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Theravada Buddhist temple in Mengdong, the county town of Cangyuan, also known as Xuetang ('school') Temple. Its Qing-dynasty main hall combines an entrance pavilion, whose extra false eaves make it appear five-tiered, with a long hall under a triple-eaved roof and carved, painted beams. Ten murals inside show Jataka tales of the Buddha's previous lives and processions of the local chieftain."},{"id":"cangyuan-hulu-town","name":"Hulu (Gourd) Town, Cangyuan","name_zh":"葫芦小镇","pinyin":"Húlu Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.1375,"lon":99.2302,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cangyuan-hulu-town/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Wa-themed leisure quarter built on the edge of Cangyuan county town around Gourd Lake, with red-walled Wa-style buildings, totem carvings and large gourd sculptures recalling the Wa creation myth. Evening song-and-dance and craft workshops such as weaving and wood carving are put on for visitors. It is a modern development with no old buildings; for a traditional Wa village, go to Wengding."},{"id":"fengqing-liulanghe-water-mills","name":"Liulang River Water Mills","name_zh":"流浪河磨房群","pinyin":"Liúlàng Hé Mòfáng Qún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":24.9084,"lon":99.9027,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengqing-liulanghe-water-mills","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of Qing-dynasty water mills along the middle reach of the Liulang River at Gumo village in Shili township, northern Fengqing county. Of the 27 mills, 21 are still in working order."},{"id":"linxiang-mengwang-pagodas","name":"Mengwang and Northwest Pagodas","name_zh":"勐旺塔及西北塔","pinyin":"Měngwàng Tǎ jí Xīběi Tǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.9414,"lon":100.0357,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxiang-mengwang-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Ming-dynasty pagodas north-west of central Lincang, listed together as a national heritage unit. The Northwest Pagoda stands on the north-western edge of the city, and Mengwang Pagoda about 6 km further north-west in Zhangtuo township."},{"id":"gengma-mengxiang-wetland-park","name":"Mengxiang Wetland Park","name_zh":"勐相湿地公园","pinyin":"Měngxiāng Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.5244,"lon":99.3999,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gengma-mengxiang-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland park on the edge of Gengma county town, laid out around a lake with reed beds, groves of trees and boardwalks. Its square hosts local festivals such as the Dai Water-Splashing Festival, and it makes a pleasant evening stroll if you are staying in Gengma."},{"id":"shuangjiang-rongkangda-oolong-tea-estate","name":"Rongkangda Oolong Tea Estate","name_zh":"荣康达乌龙茶庄园","pinyin":"Róngkāngdá Wūlóngchá Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.5376,"lon":99.7832,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuangjiang-rongkangda-oolong-tea-estate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A company-run oolong tea estate and eco-cultural park in Shahe township just outside Shuangjiang county town, with tea gardens spread over the surrounding hills. Paths lead through the plantation to viewpoints over the valley, and the estate hotel offers tea-related activities."},{"id":"linxiang-wanyao-pottery-village","name":"Wanyao Pottery Village, Boshang","name_zh":"博尚碗窑","pinyin":"Bóshàng Wǎnyáo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.7583,"lon":100.0309,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxiang-wanyao-pottery-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pottery village in Boshang town south of Lincang city, founded according to the county gazetteer in 1738 by three potters from Hunan who built dragon kilns to use the local clay. Its earthenware making is on Yunnan's provincial intangible heritage list, and around 60 households still work as potters, alongside pottery cafés, guesthouses and study programmes added in recent years."},{"id":"cangyuan-wengding-village","name":"Wengding Wa Village","name_zh":"翁丁","pinyin":"Wēngdīng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Lincang","lat":23.2817,"lon":99.1648,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cangyuan-wengding-village/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Wa village in Cangyuan county long described as the most completely preserved traditional Wa settlement, with thatched stilt houses (people lived above, livestock below) and ritual posts once used in sacrifices. Fire destroyed almost all of its 105 houses in February 2021; the old village was rebuilt on the same site and reopened at the end of 2022, while most villagers now live in a new village nearby."},{"id":"gongshan-dulong-valley","name":"Dulong River Valley","name_zh":"独龙江","pinyin":"Dúlóng Jiāng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Nujiang","lat":27.8777,"lon":98.3353,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongshan-dulong-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remote valley of the Dulong River, a headwater of the Irrawaddy, in the far north-western corner of Yunnan, west of the Gaoligong range and bordering Tibet and Myanmar. It is the only area where the Derung (Dulong) people live together as a community, and almost all of the township's roughly 4,650 residents are Derung."},{"id":"fugong-laomudeng-zhiziluo","name":"Laomudeng and Zhiziluo","name_zh":"老姆登与知子罗","pinyin":"Lǎomǔdēng yǔ Zhīzǐluó","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Nujiang","lat":26.558,"lon":98.9145,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fugong-laomudeng-zhiziluo/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two neighbouring places high on the eastern slopes of the Nu River canyon in Pihe Nu Township. Laomudeng is a Nu village with a plain Christian church, while Zhiziluo, about 2 km away along a footpath, was the seat of Nujiang Prefecture from 1954 to 1974 and of Bijiang County until 1986, and its largely empty buildings from that era now draw visitors as a 'city of memory'."},{"id":"puer-tea-expo-garden","name":"China Pu'er Tea Expo Garden","name_zh":"中华普洱茶博览苑","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Pǔ'ěrchá Bólǎnyuàn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.6524,"lon":101.0971,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puer-tea-expo-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-themed park on Yingpan Mountain south-east of Pu'er city, set in the middle of some 1,500 hectares of tea gardens. Its core area holds a Pu'er tea museum covering the tea's origins, cultivation, processing and trade, along with tea-making workshops, a hall to the tea ancestor and tasting houses. Visitors can try picking and processing tea and look out over the tea hills from the higher viewpoints."},{"id":"jinggu-dai-buddhist-temples","name":"Dai Buddhist Temples of Jinggu","name_zh":"景谷傣族佛寺建筑群","pinyin":"Jǐnggǔ Dǎizú Fósì Jiànzhùqún","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":23.4933,"lon":100.6996,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinggu-dai-buddhist-temples","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national heritage listing that groups three Dai Theravada Buddhist sites of Ming and Qing date in Jinggu county: the twin stupas of Mengwo Temple and the Qiannuo and Mangdao temples. The most accessible are the Mengwo twin stupas in the county town. Qiannuo Temple stands in a village some way to the south-west."},{"id":"jingdong-confucian-temple","name":"Jingdong Confucian Temple","name_zh":"景东文庙","pinyin":"Jǐngdōng Wénmiào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":24.4509,"lon":100.8301,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingdong-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Confucian temple of Jingdong, founded in 1442 under the Ming and moved and rebuilt several times since. The east-facing complex keeps its screen wall, semicircular pond, bell and drum towers, Lingxing Gate, side halls and a five-bay Dacheng Hall with a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof, with the former school laid out beside the temple. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2013."},{"id":"lancang-laodabao-lahu-village","name":"Laodabao Lahu Village","name_zh":"老达保","pinyin":"Lǎodábǎo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.3515,"lon":99.983,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lancang-laodabao-lahu-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Lahu village in Jiujing township, Lancang county, known as the home of the song 'Happy Lahu' and for villagers who sing Lahu folk songs to the guitar. In 2013 the villagers set up a performance company in which they hold shares, and it stages song-and-dance shows for visitors. The village is a base for two nationally listed intangible heritage traditions, the Lahu creation epic Mupa Mipa and the lusheng dance."},{"id":"menglian-xuanfu-chieftain-palace","name":"Menglian Chieftain's Palace","name_zh":"孟连宣抚司署","pinyin":"Mènglián Xuānfǔsī Shǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.3333,"lon":99.5776,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/menglian-xuanfu-chieftain-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The seat of the Dao family, hereditary Dai chieftains of Menglian, whose post the Qing raised to a pacification commission (xuanfusi) in 1709; in Dai it is called the 'golden palace'. The present compound, rebuilt from the late 19th century into the early 20th, combines Chinese-style gate towers and courtyards with raised Dai halls and houses the county's ethnic history museum, with the chieftains' robes, seals and documents on show. It stands at the top of Nayun, the old town of Menglian, whose upper, middle and lower quarters are still lived in."},{"id":"ximeng-mengsuo-dragon-lake","name":"Mengsuo Dragon Lake","name_zh":"勐梭龙潭","pinyin":"Měngsuō Lóngtán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.6458,"lon":99.5969,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ximeng-mengsuo-dragon-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural freshwater lake at about 1,150 m beside Ximeng, a Wa autonomous county in western Pu'er, ringed by forest and regarded by the Wa as a sacred lake. In the woods behind it lies Longmoye, a Wa sacred site where buffalo skulls from sacrifices are kept among the trees and rites are held during the Wa wooden-drum festival each April."},{"id":"ninger-mohei-ancient-town","name":"Mohei Ancient Town","name_zh":"磨黑古镇","pinyin":"Mòhēi Gǔzhèn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":23.1566,"lon":101.162,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ninger-mohei-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old salt-producing town in north-eastern Ning'er county, whose name comes from Dai words meaning 'salt well'. Local accounts trace salt working here to the Han dynasty, and production expanded under the Qing, making Mohei one of Yunnan's main salt districts and a busy stop on the Tea Horse Road. Caravan inns, shops, old houses, bridges and stretches of the old road survive in the town."},{"id":"mojiang-confucian-temple","name":"Mojiang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"墨江文庙","pinyin":"Mòjiāng Wénmiào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":23.4363,"lon":101.6937,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mojiang-confucian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former Confucian temple of Talang sub-prefecture, begun in 1821 in Lianzhu, now the county town of Mojiang. Surviving buildings include the Lingxing Gate, the Lingxiao and Kuixing pavilions, side halls, the Chongsheng Hall and a five-bay Dacheng Hall with a double-eaved hip-and-gable roof, while the pond and one gate have been rebuilt. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"mojiang-tropic-of-cancer-park","name":"Mojiang Tropic of Cancer Park","name_zh":"墨江北回归线标志园","pinyin":"Mòjiāng Běihuíguīxiàn Biāozhìyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":23.4346,"lon":101.6827,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mojiang-tropic-of-cancer-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside park on the western edge of Mojiang county town, built where the Tropic of Cancer passes through, with marker towers, a sundial square and sculptures on the theme of the sun along a path up the hill. It combines astronomy displays and a planetarium with features on Mojiang's 'twins' theme, and is the main venue of the town's International Twins Festival in early May."},{"id":"ninger-national-unity-oath-monument","name":"Monument to the National Unity Oath","name_zh":"民族团结誓词碑","pinyin":"Mínzú Tuánjié Shìcí Bēi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":23.0684,"lon":101.0434,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ninger-national-unity-oath-monument/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A stone stele erected at the start of 1951 after a traditional Wa oath-taking ceremony held to promote unity among the area's ethnic groups under the new government. Abandoned for a time and later recovered, it has stood since 2000 in the National Unity Garden on the north side of Ning'er county town, where a small exhibition hall explains its history. It is presented in China as the first monument to ethnic unity of the People's Republic."},{"id":"ninger-nakeli-tea-horse-post","name":"Nakeli Tea Horse Road Post Station","name_zh":"那柯里","pinyin":"Nàkēlǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.9128,"lon":101.0381,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ninger-nakeli-tea-horse-post/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small village in Ning'er county that grew up as a staging post on the Tea Horse Road, where mule caravans rested and traded. Its sights are the Rongfa caravan inn, a covered wind-and-rain bridge more than a century old, and a stretch of the old road paved with dressed stone and cobbles, part of which has been cleared for walking. It makes a pleasant stop for a stroll and a caravan-style meal."},{"id":"lancang-nuofu-church","name":"Nuofu Church","name_zh":"糯福教堂","pinyin":"Nuòfú Jiàotáng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.2212,"lon":99.6975,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lancang-nuofu-church","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A church built in 1921 by American Baptist missionaries in Nuofu, a Lahu area in southern Lancang county near the Myanmar border. It takes the form of a Lahu raised timber building wrapped in a veranda, while the interior was fitted out in the manner of a Western church. Services stopped in 1949 but have since resumed, and local Lahu Christians again worship here in their own language."},{"id":"puer-tea-horse-road-heritage-park","name":"Pu'er Tea Horse Road Heritage Park","name_zh":"普洱茶马古道","pinyin":"Pǔ'ěr Chámǎ Gǔdào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.8293,"lon":100.9896,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=puer-tea-horse-road-heritage-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A heritage park on the edge of Pu'er city built around a section of the Tea Horse Road, the caravan route along which tea from southern Yunnan was carried north; Pu'er was a gathering point for tribute tea bound for the imperial capital. A walking route of about 5 km follows the old road through the hills on the Banjiupo section, which is protected as part of the national Tea Horse Road listing, and a museum covers the history of the mule caravans. The park lies behind the Chama Ancient Town leisure quarter and stages a caravan-themed water show."},{"id":"simao-taiyanghe-forest-park","name":"Taiyanghe Forest Park","name_zh":"太阳河森林公园","pinyin":"Tàiyánghé Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Pu'er","lat":22.6048,"lon":101.0963,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=simao-taiyanghe-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park of about 216 km² in the hills south-east of Pu'er city, protecting a large, little-disturbed tract of southern subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaf forest. Raised wooden walkways wind among the trees, and electric carts serve the core area, which is closed to private vehicles. More than 2,100 species of higher plants have been recorded here, and the park runs a rescue and breeding centre for rare animals such as white-cheeked gibbons and binturongs."},{"id":"luliang-coloured-sand-forest","name":"Coloured Sand Forest, Luliang","name_zh":"彩色沙林","pinyin":"Cǎisè Shālín","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":24.9008,"lon":103.7232,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luliang-coloured-sand-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At the foot of Wufeng Mountain south of Luliang town, the Coloured Sand Forest is about 6 square kilometres of weathered sandstone eroded into ridges, pinnacles and gullies in shades of red, yellow, white and grey. Sand sculptures have been carved among the natural formations, though rain erosion has worn many of them down and some of the named features have collapsed."},{"id":"qujing-cuan-baozi-stele","name":"Cuan Baozi Stele","name_zh":"爨宝子碑","pinyin":"Cuàn Bǎozǐ Bēi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":25.4924,"lon":103.7988,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qujing-cuan-baozi-stele/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Carved in AD 405, the Cuan Baozi Stele is the 1.83 m tombstone of Cuan Baozi, a local governor of the powerful Cuan clan, and its 403 characters are a celebrated example of calligraphy caught between clerical and regular script. Unearthed in 1778, it has stood in a stele pavilion here since 1937. Beside it is the Duan alliance stele, erected in 971 after the Duan rulers of the Dali kingdom swore an alliance with 37 tribes of eastern Yunnan."},{"id":"luliang-cuan-longyan-stele","name":"Cuan Longyan Stele","name_zh":"爨龙颜碑","pinyin":"Cuàn Lóngyán Bēi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":24.925,"lon":103.6864,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/luliang-cuan-longyan-stele/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Erected in 458, the Cuan Longyan Stele is the 3.38 m memorial stone of Cuan Longyan, a regional governor from the Cuan clan that dominated eastern Yunnan for centuries. Its 904-character inscription traces the family's origins and offices in regular script with clerical touches, and the rounded head is carved with a dragon, a tiger, the Vermilion Bird and sun and moon symbols. Together with the smaller Cuan Baozi Stele in Qujing it is one of the 'Two Cuan' steles prized by Chinese calligraphers."},{"id":"huize-dahai-grassland","name":"Dahai Grassland Mountain","name_zh":"大海草山","pinyin":"Dàhǎi Cǎoshān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":26.2073,"lon":103.2803,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huize-dahai-grassland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dahai Caoshan ('Dahai grass mountain') is an expanse of high, open grassland in the Wumeng Mountains, in Dahai township south of Huize, ranging from about 2,570 m to 4,017 m. Since 2022 it has also had a ski area at an average altitude of about 3,500 m, open from mid-November to April."},{"id":"luliang-dajue-temple","name":"Dajue Temple, Luliang","name_zh":"大觉寺","pinyin":"Dàjué Sì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":25.0243,"lon":103.666,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luliang-dajue-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Dajue Temple in the old centre of Luliang is a Buddhist temple whose listed buildings date from the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Its halls include a Hall of Heavenly Kings, and in its grounds stands a brick pagoda known as the Thousand Buddha Pagoda."},{"id":"luoping-duoyi-river","name":"Duoyi River","name_zh":"多依河","pinyin":"Duōyī Hé","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":24.7575,"lon":104.496,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luoping-duoyi-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Duoyi River flows through Lubuge township in south-eastern Luoping near the Guizhou border, dropping over dozens of small waterfalls between banks lined with old trees and bamboo. Bouyei villages sit beside it, and its banks are a gathering place for the Bouyei Sanyuesan festival on the third day of the third lunar month."},{"id":"huize-guild-halls","name":"Huize Guild Halls","name_zh":"会泽会馆","pinyin":"Huìzé Huìguǎn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":26.4179,"lon":103.2944,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huize-guild-halls/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Huize's old town keeps a group of Qing-dynasty guild halls, the 'eight great halls' built by merchant and migrant communities, mostly from other provinces, among them those of Jiangxi, Huguang, Guizhou, Fujian, Shaanxi and Sichuan. The Jiangxi Guild Hall, also called Wanshou Palace, and the Huguang Guild Hall, or Shoufo Temple, stand among the old streets, and walking between the halls is a good way to explore the town."},{"id":"xuanwei-kedu-pass-post-road","name":"Kedu Pass Post Road","name_zh":"可渡关驿道","pinyin":"Kědùguān Yìdào","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":26.6175,"lon":104.2703,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanwei-kedu-pass-post-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At Kedu Pass, where the Kedu River marks the border between Yunnan and Guizhou, an old post road about 5 km long and 2 m wide survives beside Kedu village. It is described as the longest and most complete old post road left in Yunnan and is still used by villagers, and its heritage listing dates the route from the Qin to the Qing dynasty."},{"id":"xuanwei-nizhu-river-canyon","name":"Nizhu River Grand Canyon","name_zh":"尼珠河大峡谷","pinyin":"Nízhū Hé Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":26.3818,"lon":104.6677,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xuanwei-nizhu-river-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Nizhu River, the lower course of the Kedu River and a tributary of the Beipan, has cut a deep gorge along the Yunnan–Guizhou border in Puli township, Xuanwei. The G56 expressway crosses it on the Duge (Beipanjiang) Bridge, whose deck sits about 565 m above the floor of the gorge and which was the world's highest bridge from its opening in 2016 until 2025."},{"id":"zhanyi-pearl-river-source","name":"Source of the Pearl River","name_zh":"珠江源","pinyin":"Zhūjiāng Yuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":25.9057,"lon":103.9308,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhanyi-pearl-river-source","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Pearl River is held to rise on Maxiong Mountain in Zhanyi, whose eastern slopes became a national forest park of about 12.5 square kilometres in 1993. More than 95 per cent of the park is forested, and it holds around 2,000 plant species, including rarities such as the ghost plant Monotropa uniflora and the giant tree rhododendron."},{"id":"huize-yulu-earth-crack","name":"Yulu Earth Crack","name_zh":"雨碌大地缝","pinyin":"Yǔlù Dàdìfèng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Qujing","lat":26.356,"lon":103.5915,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huize-yulu-earth-crack","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Yulu 'Earth Crack' is a narrow karst slot gorge in Yulu township, south-east of Huize. Visitors explore it on a walking trail that follows the gorge."},{"id":"guangnan-bamei","name":"Bamei Village","name_zh":"坝美","pinyin":"Bàměi","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Wenshan","lat":24.3158,"lon":105.0389,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangnan-bamei","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bamei is a Zhuang village in the north of Guangnan county, hidden in a small basin ringed by karst hills with no road in. Visitors arrive by boat through dark limestone river caves about 1 km long, and the village's secluded fields and traditional way of life have earned it the name of a real-life 'Peach Blossom Land'."},{"id":"malipo-dawangyan-rock-paintings","name":"Dawangyan Rock Paintings","name_zh":"大王岩岩画","pinyin":"Dàwángyán Yánhuà","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Wenshan","lat":23.1266,"lon":104.707,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=malipo-dawangyan-rock-paintings","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On a cliff in Dawangyan Park above Malipo town, ancient rock paintings are known as the 'Great King' site after the two large human figures at the centre of the main panel. The national heritage list dates them to between the Neolithic and the Zhou dynasty, and they are often said to be over 4,000 years old."},{"id":"malipo-laoshan","name":"Laoshan Battlefield Memorial Site","name_zh":"英雄老山圣地","pinyin":"Yīngxióng Lǎoshān Shèngdì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Wenshan","lat":23.0115,"lon":104.7732,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=malipo-laoshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Laoshan is a small range of peaks on the China–Vietnam border south of Malipo, where Chinese and Vietnamese forces fought a major battle in 1984 during the border conflict that followed their 1979 war. The scenic area covers the former battlefield, with the main peak, gun positions, memorials and an exhibition hall on local support for the front. The Laoshan Battle Memorial Museum and a martyrs' cemetery are near Malipo town."},{"id":"guangnan-xiyang-river-canyon","name":"Xiyang River Grand Canyon","name_zh":"西洋江大峡谷","pinyin":"Xīyáng Jiāng Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Wenshan","lat":23.9236,"lon":105.0973,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guangnan-xiyang-river-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This scenic area, also promoted as Nongren Valley, follows a deep, steep-sided stretch of the Xiyang River gorge at Mulu village in Dongbao township, Guangnan county. A riverside boardwalk of about 2 km runs through the gorge, with a glass walkway and glass slide added more recently, and the township holds Zhuang folk festivals and performances here."},{"id":"ganlanba-dai-ethnic-park","name":"Dai Ethnic Park","name_zh":"西双版纳傣族园","pinyin":"Xīshuāngbǎnnà Dǎizúyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.8514,"lon":100.9447,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganlanba-dai-ethnic-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A ticketed area at Ganlanba (Menghan), south-east of Jinghong, that takes in five lived-in Dai villages. Among them is Manchunman, whose Theravada Buddhist temple dates from the Qing dynasty and is protected as a national heritage site. Water-splashing performances are staged every day, so this is where to see the custom outside the April festival."},{"id":"menghai-dayi-tea-estate","name":"Dayi Tea Estate","name_zh":"大益庄园","pinyin":"Dàyì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.9943,"lon":100.4238,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=menghai-dayi-tea-estate","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea estate of about 100 hectares at Menghai, formerly the Tea Horse Road scenic area, renamed in 2016 when the Dayi tea company, a provincial tourism group and the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences' Tea Research Institute joined forces to run it. Visitors walk through the tea gardens and a reconstructed Tea Horse Road street with a caravan inn displaying artefacts from the old route, and can try pressing pu'er tea cakes by hand."},{"id":"menghai-jingzhen-octagonal-pavilion","name":"Jingzhen Octagonal Pavilion","name_zh":"景真八角亭","pinyin":"Jǐngzhēn Bājiǎotíng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.9575,"lon":100.3038,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/menghai-jingzhen-octagonal-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ordination hall of Jingzhen Temple in Mengzhe, built in 1701 and the only original structure left after the temple was destroyed in 1853; the rest of the temple has since been rebuilt. Standing 15.42 m high on a brick base with an indented cross-shaped plan, it is crowned by a cone of eight-sided roofs in eleven tiers and a finial clad in silver floral ornament. It was among the national heritage sites listed in 1988."},{"id":"menghai-manduan-temple","name":"Manduan Temple","name_zh":"曼短佛寺","pinyin":"Mànduǎn Fósì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.9436,"lon":100.3545,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/menghai-manduan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Theravada Buddhist temple in Man'en village, Mengzhe, whose main hall, built in the late Ming or early Qing, is the oldest surviving timber building in Xishuangbanna. The hall stands on a 1.3 m base under a stepped roof made up of 22 curved planes, with dragon-shaped brackets under the eaves, painted outer walls and gilded stencil decoration inside. The gate, ordination hall, monks' quarters and drum house are modern rebuilds."},{"id":"menglong-manfeilong-pagoda","name":"Manfeilong Pagoda","name_zh":"曼飞龙塔","pinyin":"Mànfēilóng Tǎ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.6008,"lon":100.6865,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/menglong-manfeilong-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of nine white brick stupas at Manfeilong village in Menglong, with a central stupa ringed by eight smaller ones on a plan shaped like an eight-petalled lotus. Dai records date the first building to 1204, but the present group probably dates from a rebuilding in the Qianlong reign of the Qing. Each small stupa has a niche holding a Buddha image; the plinth and niches carry relief carving, and the niche walls gilded stencil painting."},{"id":"menghai-mengbala-resort","name":"Mengbala Resort","name_zh":"勐巴拉","pinyin":"Měngbālā","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.9779,"lon":100.4621,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=menghai-mengbala-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A resort development beside the Mengbala golf club on the G214 just outside Menghai town, combining hotels, a hot-spring resort, holiday housing and leisure facilities set in tropical gardens. It is a place to stay and relax rather than a sight in itself."},{"id":"daluo-mengjinglai-dai-village","name":"Mengjinglai Dai Village","name_zh":"勐景来","pinyin":"Měngjǐnglái","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.6996,"lon":100.0846,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daluo-mengjinglai-dai-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Dai village of stilt houses in Daluo town, Menghai county, run as a scenic area by the villagers together with a tourism company; it was listed as a Chinese Traditional Village in 2013. The Daluo River loops past the village and forms the border with Myanmar, with boundary marker 229 on its bank. Visitors see a grove of carved stupas and demonstrations of more than ten traditional crafts, among them brocade weaving, papermaking, slow-wheel pottery, sugar-making and brewing, alongside peacock and elephant-foot-drum dances."},{"id":"jinghong-mengle-great-temple","name":"Mengle Great Buddhist Temple","name_zh":"勐泐大佛寺","pinyin":"Měnglè Dàfósì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.9632,"lon":100.8068,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinghong-mengle-great-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Theravada Buddhist temple complex on the southern edge of Jinghong, built from 2005 on the site of Jingpiao Temple, a royal temple of the old Dai kingdom destroyed in war in the 19th century; when it was consecrated in 2007 it was billed as the largest Theravada temple in China. Its halls climb a hillside, and since 2020 they have been in the care of the local Buddhist association. It is a modern reconstruction rather than a historic monument."},{"id":"mengla-mengyuan-fairyland","name":"Mengyuan Fairyland","name_zh":"勐远仙境","pinyin":"Měngyuǎn Xiānjìng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.7146,"lon":101.3823,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mengla-mengyuan-fairyland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone area of seasonal tropical rainforest at Mengyuan village in Mengla county, with karst peaks, stalactite caves and an underground river. The main show cave, Baojiaoniu Cave, stays at about 21°C, and a cave route of about 1.6 km is divided into themed sections. The area also takes in Dai and Yao villages and forest trails."},{"id":"daluo-single-tree-forest","name":"Single-Tree Forest, Daluo","name_zh":"独树成林","pinyin":"Dúshù Chénglín","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.6779,"lon":100.0378,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daluo-single-tree-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A huge old banyan in Daluo town whose aerial roots have grown down from the branches and taken root as separate trunks, so that one tree looks like a small grove. Yunnan's forestry authority counts 36 such roots and estimates the tree at more than 1,000 years old, and locally it is called 'Meilongka', Dai for 'one tree makes a forest'. It stands in a small scenic area less than 1 km from the Daluo border crossing and is easily combined with Mengjinglai, about 5 km to the east."},{"id":"mengla-wangtianshu-rainforest","name":"Wangtianshu Rainforest Scenic Area","name_zh":"望天树","pinyin":"Wàngtiānshù","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":21.6244,"lon":101.5871,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mengla-wangtianshu-rainforest/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A rainforest area near Bubeng, north of Mengla and within the Xishuangbanna nature reserve, named after the wangtianshu (Parashorea chinensis), a dipterocarp that grows 40 m tall or more and is under first-class national protection in China. Its best-known feature is a canopy walkway of cable and rope slung between the trunks about 36 m above the ground, and boat trips run on the Nanla River."},{"id":"jinghong-wild-elephant-valley","name":"Wild Elephant Valley","name_zh":"野象谷","pinyin":"Yěxiàng Gǔ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":22.1698,"lon":100.864,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinghong-wild-elephant-valley/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A visitor area in the Mengyang section of the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve, about 36 km north of Jinghong, where wild Asian elephants sometimes come out of the rainforest to feed and drink. A 2.3 km elevated walkway and a cableway cross the forest canopy to observation points, but sightings are a matter of luck. Captive elephants appear at an elephant 'science park', where since 2023 tricks and rides have given way to displays of natural behaviour such as bathing and feeding; the site also has an elephant museum, a feeding area and a butterfly garden."},{"id":"jinghong-primeval-forest-park","name":"Xishuangbanna Primeval Forest Park","name_zh":"西双版纳原始森林公园","pinyin":"Xīshuāngbǎnnà Yuánshǐ Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":22.0286,"lon":100.8808,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinghong-primeval-forest-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park created on about 25,000 mu (some 1,700 hectares) of tropical valley rainforest in the Caiyanghe area east of Jinghong, described as the closest primeval forest to the city. Paths lead through the forest, but the park is developed for tour groups, with a staged show in which hundreds of peacocks are released to fly over a lake, an Aini (Hani) village and song-and-dance performances."},{"id":"jinghong-southern-medicine-garden","name":"Xishuangbanna Southern Medicine Garden","name_zh":"西双版纳南药园","pinyin":"Xīshuāngbǎnnà Nányàoyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":22.0047,"lon":100.7889,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jinghong-southern-medicine-garden/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 20-hectare garden of medicinal plants on Xuanwei Avenue in central Jinghong, set up in 1959 by what is now the Yunnan branch of the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development. It grows more than 1,500 species used in Chinese, Dai and other traditional medicine under tall tropical trees, and labelled paths make it a shady hour or two in town that pairs easily with the nearby Tropical Flower Garden."},{"id":"jinghong-sunac-theme-park","name":"Xishuangbanna Sunac Theme Park","name_zh":"西双版纳融创乐园","pinyin":"Xīshuāngbǎnnà Róngchuàng Lèyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":22.0306,"lon":100.7408,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinghong-sunac-theme-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park in the Sunac resort district on the western side of Jinghong, part of a large complex of hotels and holiday housing. It has rides and family attractions and suits travellers with children."},{"id":"jinghong-tropical-flower-garden","name":"Xishuangbanna Tropical Flower Garden","name_zh":"西双版纳热带花卉园","pinyin":"Xīshuāngbǎnnà Rèdài Huāhuìyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Xishuangbanna","lat":22.0143,"lon":100.7852,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinghong-tropical-flower-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tropical garden run by the Yunnan Institute of Tropical Crops on Xuanwei Avenue in central Jinghong, with palms, fruit trees, crop plants and more than a thousand kinds of plants along shady paths. It is an easy few hours in town; the much larger Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden at Menglun suits serious plant lovers better."},{"id":"yuxi-wenxingxiang-trading-house","name":"Former Wenxingxiang Trading House","name_zh":"文兴祥商号旧址","pinyin":"Wénxīngxiáng Shānghào Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Yuxi","lat":24.3554,"lon":102.5435,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxi-wenxingxiang-trading-house","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former premises of the Wenxingxiang trading firm, built in 1934 in the old centre of Yuxi. It is listed as a national heritage site in the category of important modern historic sites and buildings."},{"id":"jiangchuan-lijiashan-bronze-museum","name":"Lijiashan Bronze Museum","name_zh":"李家山青铜器博物馆","pinyin":"Lǐjiāshān Qīngtóngqì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Yuxi","lat":24.2943,"lon":102.7452,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiangchuan-lijiashan-bronze-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The museum for the Lijiashan tombs, a Warring States to Han cemetery of the ancient Yunnan bronze culture at the north-western corner of Xingyun Lake, named one of China's ten major archaeological discoveries of 1992. Excavations in 1972 and 1991 opened 85 tombs and recovered more than 3,000 objects, including weapons, tools, cowrie containers, gold, jade and the celebrated ox-and-tiger bronze table now in the Yunnan Provincial Museum. The museum, founded in 1993, stands in the district town about 13 km south of the cemetery."},{"id":"yimen-longquan-forest-park","name":"Longquan Forest Park, Yimen","name_zh":"龙泉公园","pinyin":"Lóngquán Gōngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Yuxi","lat":24.6689,"lon":102.1397,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yimen-longquan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park on the western edge of Yimen county town, built around Dalongkou, a karst spring where an underground river emerges from the hillside. Lakes, waterside paths and old trees surround the springs, and Longquan Temple and the smaller Longyin Temple stand in the woods."},{"id":"xinping-longxi-manor","name":"Longxi Clan Manor, Gasa","name_zh":"陇西世族庄园","pinyin":"Lǒngxī Shìzú Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Yuxi","lat":24.0169,"lon":101.5423,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinping-longxi-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fortified manor built in 1938 on a hillside above Gasa for Li Runzhi, a local leader whose private armed force controlled much of the surrounding Ailao Mountains area under the Republic. High rammed-earth walls enclose dozens of rooms whose fittings mix Chinese and Western elements. It is promoted locally as the Ailao Mountain Tusi Mansion."},{"id":"tonghai-xiushan-temples","name":"Xiushan Hill Temples, Tonghai","name_zh":"通海秀山","pinyin":"Tōnghǎi Xiù Shān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Yuxi","lat":24.1064,"lon":102.7542,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tonghai-xiushan-temples/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill on the southern edge of Tonghai, laid out as Xiushan Park, where temples have stood since the Dali Kingdom and were enlarged and rebuilt under the Yuan, Ming and Qing. Paths climb past a string of buildings listed together as a national heritage site, among them Yongjin Temple, the Qingliang Terrace, the Jade Emperor Pavilion, Puguang Temple, Wanshou Palace and Tonghai's Confucian temple."},{"id":"yuxi-yingyuetan-hot-springs","name":"Yingyuetan Hot Springs","name_zh":"映月潭","pinyin":"Yìngyuètán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Yuxi","lat":24.3427,"lon":102.4926,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxi-yingyuetan-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring leisure complex at Dayingjie on the western side of Yuxi's Hongta district, with many pools of different temperatures and themes set in gardens around a large pond. The Yuquan Temple stands within the same grounds."},{"id":"yuxi-kiln-site","name":"Yuxi Kiln Site","name_zh":"玉溪窑址","pinyin":"Yùxī Yáozhǐ","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Yuxi","lat":24.3373,"lon":102.5547,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuxi-kiln-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of kilns in Yuxi's Hongta district that made porcelain from the Yuan to the Ming dynasty, including blue-and-white and celadon wares. The site is entered through a memorial archway and gate, and has excavated kiln remains, maps of the area's old kiln sites and displays of ceramics from Yuxi and other kilns in the region."},{"id":"zhenxiong-daguli-amusement-park","name":"Daguli Amusement Park","name_zh":"大古里欢乐城","pinyin":"Dàgǔlǐ Huānlèchéng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.3847,"lon":104.859,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenxiong-daguli-amusement-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park and leisure complex on the edge of Zhenxiong county town in north-eastern Yunnan. It has a roller coaster, a large Ferris wheel with views over the town, a water park and a hot-spring hotel, and mainly serves local families."},{"id":"zhaotong-dashanbao-crane-reserve","name":"Dashanbao Black-necked Crane National Nature Reserve","name_zh":"大山包","pinyin":"Dàshānbāo","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.4108,"lon":103.3097,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaotong-dashanbao-crane-reserve/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national nature reserve protecting about 19,200 hectares of high plateau marshland and grassland at 2,200–3,300 metres, west of Zhaotong city. It is one of the largest and densest known wintering grounds of the black-necked crane, a bird of the high plateaus, and has been a Ramsar wetland since 2004. The scenic area follows a loop road past the reserve's lakes and the Tiaodunhe reservoir."},{"id":"daguan-huanglianhe-waterfalls","name":"Huanglianhe Waterfalls","name_zh":"黄连河","pinyin":"Huánglián Hé","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.7253,"lon":103.9194,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=daguan-huanglianhe-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A river valley in the Wumeng Mountains just outside Daguan county town, which the county promotes as a 'home of waterfalls'. Waterfalls of different sizes line the Huanglian River, set among forest that includes rare dove trees."},{"id":"suijiang-jinsha-water-park","name":"Jinsha Water Park, Suijiang","name_zh":"绥江金沙水上乐园","pinyin":"Suíjiāng Jīnshā Shuǐshàng Lèyuán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":28.6045,"lon":103.9718,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suijiang-jinsha-water-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A water park on the Jinsha River reservoir at Suijiang county town, laid out on floating platforms on the river, with swimming areas and inflatable play courses. Jet skis and flyboarding are on offer, and the park hosts events such as dragon-boat and music festivals."},{"id":"zhaotong-long-family-ancestral-hall","name":"Long Family Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"龙氏家祠","pinyin":"Lóngshì Jiācí","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.281,"lon":103.6646,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaotong-long-family-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ancestral hall built from the early 1930s by Long Yun, the ethnic Yi chairman of Yunnan's provincial government in the Republican era, about 7 km south of Zhaotong city. Enclosed by a wall and a lotus-planted moat, it pairs a shrine of three courtyards with a residential compound guarded by watchtowers, mixing Chinese temple layout, garden design, European details and features of Yi fortified manors. Its fine wood and stone carving includes a five-dragon stone relief in front of the entrance hall."},{"id":"shuifu-shaonuping-lakeside-resort","name":"Shaonuping Lakeside Resort","name_zh":"邵女坪","pinyin":"Shàonǚpíng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":28.6272,"lon":104.2939,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuifu-shaonuping-lakeside-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lakeside resort town on the Xiangjiaba reservoir of the Jinsha River, redeveloped for tourism from 2023 on the site where 318 households displaced by the reservoir were resettled. It has a sand beach, a hot-spring centre with dozens of pools and an infinity pool, sightseeing boats and water sports, barbecue and camping spots and a lakeside walkway. Many of its guesthouses are run by or for the resettled families."},{"id":"weixin-washi-hanging-coffins","name":"Washi Hanging Coffins","name_zh":"瓦石悬棺","pinyin":"Wǎshí Xuánguān","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.8271,"lon":104.7801,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weixin-washi-hanging-coffins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wooden coffins placed in a cliff face at Washi village in Weixin county, one of several hanging-coffin sites in north-eastern Yunnan. The national heritage list dates the burials to the Tang dynasty, and how the coffins were raised onto the cliff is not recorded."},{"id":"shuifu-western-grand-canyon-hot-springs","name":"Western Grand Canyon Hot Springs","name_zh":"西部大峡谷温泉","pinyin":"Xībù Dàxiágǔ Wēnquán","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":28.6404,"lon":104.3682,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shuifu-western-grand-canyon-hot-springs","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hot-spring and water-park resort on Wenquan Avenue on the western side of Shuifu, above the Jinsha River just upstream of the Xiangjiaba dam at Yunnan's northern border with Sichuan. It has themed outdoor hot-spring pools, water slides and an on-site hotel. The original resort on the canyon floor was lost to the dam's reservoir, and this hillside site, which draws the hot water up from the valley, replaced it."},{"id":"yiliang-xiaocaoba","name":"Xiaocaoba","name_zh":"小草坝","pinyin":"Xiǎocǎobà","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.7723,"lon":104.2581,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiliang-xiaocaoba","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested upland around Xiaocaoba town, north-east of Yiliang county town, in the Chaotianma section of the Wumengshan National Nature Reserve, which protects large tracts of subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest. Xiaocaoba is promoted as the original home of tianma (Gastrodia elata), the wild orchid tuber used in Chinese medicine and cooking, and the forest also shelters dove trees (Davidia) and other rare plants."},{"id":"yanjin-doushaguan-yuan-zi-inscription","name":"Yuan Zi Inscription at Doushaguan","name_zh":"袁滋题记摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Yuán Zī Tíjì Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":28.0403,"lon":104.1134,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanjin-doushaguan-yuan-zi-inscription","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small cliff inscription of 794 at Doushaguan pass in Yanjin county, recording how the Tang envoy Yuan Zi passed this way on his mission to invest Yimouxun as king of Nanzhao. Its eight lines of 122 characters, now sheltered by a pavilion, sit beside the pass on the ancient Five-Foot Road from Sichuan into Yunnan, where a stretch of stone paving with worn hoof prints survives. Wooden hanging coffins wedged into the cliffs of the Guan River gorge can be seen from the road nearby."},{"id":"zhaotong-old-town","name":"Zhaotong Old Town","name_zh":"昭通古城","pinyin":"Zhāotōng Gǔchéng","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.3393,"lon":103.7156,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaotong-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of Zhaotong, a Qing town founded in 1732 whose wealth from silver mining in the Zhuti area drew merchants from other provinces; their guild halls, among them the Shaanxi and Guangdong halls, still stand. The protected old town covers about 2.3 square kilometres, and in recent years its lanes, guild halls and other heritage buildings have been extensively restored. The Fengchi Academy on Wenyuan Street, where the Han-dynasty Meng Xiaoju Stele (found near Zhaotong in 1901) has long been kept, reopened to visitors in August 2026."},{"id":"weixin-zhaxi-meeting-site","name":"Zhaxi Meeting Memorial Site","name_zh":"扎西会议纪念地","pinyin":"Zhāxī Huìyì Jìniàndì","region_id":"530000","region":"Yunnan","city":"Zhaotong","lat":27.8508,"lon":105.0488,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weixin-zhaxi-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Memorial sites in Zhaxi, the county town of Weixin, where the Chinese Communist Party Politburo held a series of meetings in early February 1935 during the Long March, completing the leadership changes begun at the Zunyi Conference. The Jiangxi Guild Hall on Zhaxi's old street, one of the meeting venues, survives, and a memorial hall displays several thousand artefacts and photographs from the Red Army's passage, including weapons, a radio set and an X-ray machine."},{"id":"gonjo-dalu-palace","name":"Dalü Palace, Gonjo","name_zh":"达律王府","pinyin":"Dálǜ Wángfǔ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":30.8623,"lon":98.2771,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gonjo-dalu-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old residence of the Dalü family, once rulers of Gonjo, known locally as the Dalü Gyalpo Lhakhang ('palace of King Dalü'), stands in Zongka hamlet about 1 km from the centre of Gonjo county town, and the family's descendants still live there. Its three-storey stone-and-timber building has a chapel that tradition says was built for the Sakya lama Phagpa when he stayed in 1255, with murals in Yuan-period style and a ceiling painted with dragons, tigers, leopards and elephants."},{"id":"chamdo-liberation-committee-office","name":"Former Office of the Chamdo People's Liberation Committee","name_zh":"昌都地区人民解放委员会办公旧址","pinyin":"Chāngdū Dìqū Rénmín Jiěfàng Wěiyuánhuì Bàngōng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":31.1437,"lon":97.1688,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chamdo-liberation-committee-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Chamdo People's Liberation Committee, a provisional local administration, was formed at a congress held in Chamdo from 27 December 1950 to 1 January 1951, after the Battle of Chamdo that October. Its Soviet-style office building of 1955–59 was moved about 30 metres for city planning and now stands within the Chamdo Revolutionary History Museum, opened in 2016, whose exhibition traces the area's history through the 1950s with photographs and objects."},{"id":"chamdo-galden-jampaling","name":"Galden Jampaling Monastery","name_zh":"强巴林寺","pinyin":"Qiángbālín Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":31.1436,"lon":97.1772,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chamdo-galden-jampaling/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Galden Jampaling, regarded as Kham's largest Gelug monastery, stands on a terrace above the river confluence in the heart of Chamdo and was founded in the 1430s or 1440s by Jangsem Sherab Zangpo, a disciple of Tsongkhapa, as the first Gelug monastery in Kham. It is the seat of the Phagpa Lha incarnations. Its festivals include a butter-sculpture display on the 15th day of the first Tibetan month and masked dances at the end of the Tibetan year."},{"id":"jomda-gangtuo-village","name":"Gangtuo Village","name_zh":"岗托村","pinyin":"Gǎngtuō Cūn","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":31.6315,"lon":98.5854,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jomda-gangtuo-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gangtuo, on the west bank of the Jinsha River where National Road 317 crosses from Sichuan into Tibet, is where units of the People's Liberation Army's 18th Army crossed the river in October 1950 and raised the first PRC national flag in Tibet, which gave the village the title 'First Village of Tibet's Liberation'. The village keeps the river-crossing site, the ruins of a blockhouse, an old army supply-station granary and the former 18th Army barracks, now a small museum, alongside Tibetan-style houses, some of which take guests."},{"id":"chamdo-karuo-site","name":"Karuo Neolithic Site","name_zh":"卡若遗址","pinyin":"Kǎruò Yízhǐ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":31.0601,"lon":97.2092,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chamdo-karuo-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Karuo, on a ridge where the Karuo river meets the Lancang (Mekong), is the type site of the Karuo culture, a farming village of some 4,000–5,000 years ago first excavated in 1978–79. Digs uncovered house foundations, stone and bone tools, incised pottery and foxtail millet, among the earliest evidence of farming on the Tibetan Plateau. In the site park, boardwalks lead past excavated house foundations and reconstructed scenes, and in 2026 it was named one of Tibet's first regional-level archaeological site parks."},{"id":"markam-nangba-langze-sculptures","name":"Nangba Langze Stone Sculptures","name_zh":"囊巴朗则石雕","pinyin":"Nángbā Lǎngzé Shídiāo","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":29.4106,"lon":98.8062,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=markam-nangba-langze-sculptures","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Inside a small temple hall at Randui village, Bangda township, sit nine stone figures carved in the late 8th or early 9th century: Vairocana in the centre with the Eight Great Bodhisattvas, four on each side. Some faces and crowns were later restored in painted clay, but the bodies and bases are original. An Old Tibetan inscription at the site was added to the national list of famous ancient inscriptions in 2023."},{"id":"chagyab-renda-cliff-carvings","name":"Renda Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"仁达摩崖造像","pinyin":"Réndá Móyá Zàoxiàng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":30.7439,"lon":97.9909,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chagyab-renda-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist relief cut into the cliff at Renda in 804 by monks of the Tibetan Empire to honour the king. The central Vairocana is flanked by bodhisattvas, disciples and two flying apsaras, with inscriptions in Old Tibetan and Chinese below. It belongs to a group of imperial-era carvings across the eastern Tibetan Plateau linked to the monk Yeshe Yang, whose team included Tibetan and Han craftsmen."},{"id":"riwoche-monastery","name":"Riwoche Monastery","name_zh":"类乌齐寺","pinyin":"Lèiwūqí Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":31.3712,"lon":96.5027,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=riwoche-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taklung Kagyu monastery founded in the 1270s by Sangye Ön, which became the seat of the school's 'lower' branch in Kham and one of the largest monasteries of eastern Tibet. Its great assembly hall, the Tragyelma, finished in the early 14th century, gives the monastery its Tibetan name and is the listed national monument. It is also known for the philosophy and logic studied by its monks."},{"id":"banbar-sanse-lakes","name":"Sanse Lakes (Three-Coloured Lakes)","name_zh":"三色湖","pinyin":"Sānsè Hú","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":30.7292,"lon":94.7739,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banbar-sanse-lakes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Three small lakes lie close together in Puyu village, Banbar town, each a different colour, and are known as the black, white and yellow lakes. Listed among Tibet's first regional-level scenic areas in 2011, they have a viewing platform, and Puyu also leads to the Xianggela glacier and an ice cave, where villagers run off-road motorbike trips."},{"id":"markam-yanjing-salt-terraces","name":"Yanjing Ancient Salt Terraces","name_zh":"盐井古盐田","pinyin":"Yánjǐng Gǔ Yántián","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":29.0469,"lon":98.5946,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=markam-yanjing-salt-terraces","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"On the steep banks of the Lancang (Mekong) at Yanjing, families still make salt the traditional way: brine is carried up from wells by the river, poured onto flat terraces built on timber posts and left to dry in the sun and wind. Salt has been made here since the Tibetan imperial period; the terraces on the east bank give a pale salt and those on the west bank at Jiada a reddish one. The terraces lie in the Naxi and Quzika townships of southern Markam County."},{"id":"dengqen-zizhu-monastery","name":"Zizhu Monastery","name_zh":"孜珠寺","pinyin":"Zīzhū Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Chamdo","lat":31.2418,"lon":95.859,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dengqen-zizhu-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zizhu Monastery, regarded as one of the oldest and most important monasteries of the Bön religion, is spread across the six limestone peaks of Zizhu mountain, one of Bön's four sacred mountains, at about 4,800 metres. Revived in the 14th century and rebuilt from 1982, it runs colleges of philosophy, debate and meditation, and pilgrims visit the meditation caves of past masters on the mountain. Every twelve years, in the Tibetan Year of the Rooster, it stages a multi-day masked dance known as 'Heaven and Hell'."},{"id":"lhasa-drak-lhalupuk-cave-temple","name":"Drak Lhalupuk Cave Temple","name_zh":"查拉鲁普石窟","pinyin":"Chálā Lǔpǔ Shíkū","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6535,"lon":91.1128,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhasa-drak-lhalupuk-cave-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Regarded as Lhasa's only cave temple, it is set into the eastern foot of Chakpori hill opposite the Potala Palace and is traditionally counted among the shrines founded by King Songtsen Gampo in the 7th century. Two small buildings, one yellow and one white, front the caves; inside the white one a passage runs round a central rock pillar, and the rock walls carry dozens of relief images of buddhas and bodhisattvas carved between the Tibetan empire and the Qing period. It is a working Gelug shrine visited by pilgrims."},{"id":"drepung-monastery","name":"Drepung Monastery","name_zh":"哲蚌寺","pinyin":"Zhébàng Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6767,"lon":91.047,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/drepung-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the three great Gelug monasteries of Lhasa, founded in 1416 by Jamyang Chöje Tashi Palden, a disciple of Tsongkhapa, on the slopes of Mount Gephel west of the city. A visitor in 1936–37 reported some 7,700 monks here, which made it the largest monastery in Tibet at the time, and its Ganden Phodrang palace, built in 1518, was the residence of the Dalai Lamas before the Potala Palace was built. Visitors walk up through the hillside complex to its assembly halls and chapels."},{"id":"ganden-monastery","name":"Ganden Monastery","name_zh":"甘丹寺","pinyin":"Gāndān Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.7585,"lon":91.4763,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ganden-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The first of the three great Gelug monasteries, founded in 1409 by Tsongkhapa himself on the top of Wangbur Mountain above the Lhasa River valley in Dagzê District. It was largely destroyed after 1959 and has been extensively rebuilt since the 1980s; the main sights are the Serdung with the rebuilt tomb of Tsongkhapa, the Tsokchen assembly hall and the chapel where he taught. A kora path around the hilltop gives wide views over the valleys."},{"id":"lhasa-nanshan-park","name":"Lhasa Nanshan Park","name_zh":"南山公园","pinyin":"Nánshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6389,"lon":91.116,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhasa-nanshan-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside park on the mountains south of the Lhasa River, directly across the river from the Potala Palace, created by planting trees on bare slopes since 2012. It covers about 2.3 km² and climbs to about 4,000 m, with walking trails and viewpoints looking back over the river to the Potala and the city. It has become one of Lhasa's most popular green spaces, though the climb is hard work at this altitude."},{"id":"norbulingka","name":"Norbulingka","name_zh":"罗布林卡","pinyin":"Luóbù Línkǎ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6523,"lon":91.0953,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/norbulingka/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The summer palace and park of the Dalai Lamas, begun in 1755 by the 7th Dalai Lama on the western edge of Lhasa and used as their summer residence from the 1780s until 1959. Within the walled gardens are several palaces, among them the Takten Migyur Phodrang completed in 1956, and the site was added to the Potala Palace World Heritage Site in 2001. In summer the park is a favourite place for picnics, and it is a traditional venue for Tibetan opera during the Shoton festival."},{"id":"qushui-nyethang-drolma-temple","name":"Nyethang Drolma Temple","name_zh":"聂塘卓玛拉康","pinyin":"Niètáng Zhuómǎ Lākāng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.5323,"lon":90.9478,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qushui-nyethang-drolma-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple dedicated to Tara at Nyêtang, south-west of Lhasa, associated with the Indian teacher Atiśa, who taught in the area and died there in 1054; it is now a Gelug temple. Its main hall holds statues of the 21 Taras, and the side chapels contain a large stupa and relics linked to Atiśa and his disciple Dromtön. The present buildings reflect a 1930s restoration, and the temple came through the Cultural Revolution relatively undamaged."},{"id":"lhasa-princess-wencheng-culture-park","name":"Princess Wencheng Tibetan Culture Park","name_zh":"文成公主藏文化风情园","pinyin":"Wénchéng Gōngzhǔ Zàng Wénhuà Fēngqíngyuán","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6245,"lon":91.146,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"An evening","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhasa-princess-wencheng-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A culture park in the Cijueling cultural and creative zone on the south bank of the Lhasa River, built around the open-air theatre of 'Princess Wencheng', a large stage show about the 7th-century marriage of the Tang princess to the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo. Staged against a hillside facing the Potala Palace across the river by a company of several hundred, the show has run in seasons since 2013 and passed 2,000 performances. The park also stages a second production, 'Princess Jincheng'."},{"id":"lhasa-sichuan-qinghai-tibet-highway-monument","name":"Qinghai-Tibet-Sichuan-Tibet Highway Monument","name_zh":"川藏、青藏公路纪念碑","pinyin":"Chuān-Zàng Qīng-Zàng Gōnglù Jìniànbēi","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6483,"lon":91.0956,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lhasa-sichuan-qinghai-tibet-highway-monument/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A monument on the bank of the Lhasa River, unveiled on 25 December 1984 to mark 30 years since the Sichuan–Tibet and Qinghai–Tibet highways opened to traffic. The three-sided column carries inscriptions in Tibetan and Chinese honouring the soldiers and the people of Tibet, Sichuan and Qinghai who built the two roads and those who died building them, and its title was written by Hu Yaobang. It was listed as a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"ramoche-temple","name":"Ramoche Temple","name_zh":"小昭寺","pinyin":"Xiǎozhāo Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6586,"lon":91.1306,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ramoche-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 7th-century temple in Lhasa's old town, traditionally said to have been founded by Princess Wencheng and regarded as the city's most important temple after the Jokhang. It houses the Jowo Mikyo Dorje, a statue of the Buddha associated with the Nepalese queen Bhrikuti. Fire destroyed the original building; the present three-storey temple goes back to a rebuilding of 1474 and was restored from 1986 after being gutted in 1959."},{"id":"sera-monastery","name":"Sera Monastery","name_zh":"色拉寺","pinyin":"Sèlā Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6968,"lon":91.1328,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sera-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the three great Gelug monasteries of Lhasa, founded in 1419 by Jamchen Chöje Shakya Yeshe, a disciple of Tsongkhapa, at the foot of the hills on the northern edge of the city. Besides its great assembly hall and colleges, it is known for the monks' debates, held on a set schedule in the debating courtyard and punctuated by loud claps and vigorous gestures, which many visitors come to watch. The monastery also looks after some 19 hermitages in the hills behind it."},{"id":"lhasa-tibet-museum","name":"Tibet Museum","name_zh":"西藏博物馆","pinyin":"Xīzàng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6515,"lon":91.0976,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lhasa-tibet-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The regional museum of Tibet beside the Norbulingka, first opened in 1999 and reopened in July 2022 after being rebuilt and enlarged on the same site; it holds some 520,000 objects, more than 40,000 of them graded as precious. The history and culture galleries run from Neolithic finds of the Karuo culture and replica rock art from Ngari to early Tibetan medical texts, thangkas, statues and imperial documents such as a golden book granted to the 11th Dalai Lama in 1841. A second permanent exhibition covers folk culture, with costumes, tea sets, a yak-hair tent and a yak-skin boat."},{"id":"lhasa-tibet-museum-of-natural-science","name":"Tibet Museum of Natural Science","name_zh":"西藏自然科学博物馆","pinyin":"Xīzàng Zìrán Kēxué Bówùguǎn","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6494,"lon":91.1805,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhasa-tibet-museum-of-natural-science","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large science museum in eastern Lhasa, opened on a trial basis in 2015 and formally in 2016, that combines a natural-history museum, a science centre and an exhibition hall in one 33,000 m² building. The natural-history halls cover the uplift of the plateau, Tibet's landscapes and wildlife and scientific expeditions, the science halls are hands-on, and a third section introduces Tibetan writing, religion, arts and customs. There is also a 4D cinema and a dome theatre."},{"id":"lhasa-tibet-planet-astronomy-hall","name":"Tibet Planet Astronomy Experience Hall","name_zh":"藏域星球天文体验馆","pinyin":"Zàngyù Xīngqiú Tiānwén Tǐyànguǎn","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6235,"lon":91.0128,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhasa-tibet-planet-astronomy-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An indoor astronomy science centre in the Lhasa Economic and Technological Development Zone, opened in December 2019 as the first astronomy-themed science museum in Tibet. Its galleries start with traditional Tibetan astronomy and the Tibetan calendar, including their links with Tibetan medicine, and move on to the Earth, the solar system and the wider universe through more than 50 interactive exhibits using projections, motion capture and VR, plus a 3D theatre. It suits families, or a gentle indoor visit while acclimatising in Lhasa."},{"id":"qushui-tibet-wildlife-protection-park","name":"Tibet Wildlife Protection Park (Qushui Zoo)","name_zh":"西藏野生动物保护园","pinyin":"Xīzàng Yěshēng Dòngwù Bǎohùyuán","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.3707,"lon":90.7773,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qushui-tibet-wildlife-protection-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A zoo and wildlife rescue centre beside the G318 at Chabalang village in Qüxü town, south-west of Lhasa, laid out in the late 2010s on woodland planted by local villagers and known locally as Qushui Zoo. In 2024 it kept about 377 animals of 46 species, among them elephants, lions, tigers, lynx, camels, alpacas and sika deer, in areas for plateau plants, rare species, big cats and wild animals, with a children's play area and picnic (linka) grounds. It also takes in injured wild animals such as brown bears and blue sheep, and releases those that recover."},{"id":"lhasa-tibet-yak-museum","name":"Tibet Yak Museum","name_zh":"西藏牦牛博物馆","pinyin":"Xīzàng Máoniú Bówùguǎn","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.623,"lon":91.087,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhasa-tibet-yak-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum devoted to the yak and its place in Tibetan life, opened in May 2014 in Lhasa's Liuwu New District as a Beijing-funded aid project. Its galleries look at the yak in nature, history and art, drawing on a collection of some 7,900 objects, and one wall is hung with rows of yak skulls. It also holds temporary exhibitions and summer activities for children."},{"id":"lhasa-tromzikhang","name":"Tromzikhang (Qing Ambans' Office Museum)","name_zh":"冲赛康","pinyin":"Chōngsàikāng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.6538,"lon":91.1331,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lhasa-tromzikhang/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Barkhor courtyard building just north of the Jokhang that from 1728 served as the first office and residence of the ambans, the Qing court's resident commissioners in Tibet. Two ambans were killed here in the unrest of 1750 led by Gyurme Namgyal, and a memorial shrine was then built on the site. After restoration in 2012–13 it opened in July 2013 as an exhibition hall in seven sections, with recreated offices, multimedia displays and wax figures."},{"id":"lhasa-xiangxiong-meiduo-culture-town","name":"Xiangxiong Meiduo Cultural Tourism Town","name_zh":"象雄美朵","pinyin":"Xiàngxióng Měiduǒ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.7073,"lon":90.8649,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhasa-xiangxiong-meiduo-culture-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern cultural tourism park in the Tolung (Duilong) river valley in Doilungdêqên District, west of Lhasa, named after Zhangzhung (Xiangxiong), the ancient culture of western Tibet, and open since 2020. Its grounds take in an equestrian arena used for horse shows and races, large flower fields, linka (picnic) parkland and an amusement area, and it has hosted evening light shows in summer and on holidays. It suits a relaxed outing from the city rather than a heritage visit."},{"id":"qushui-xiuse-caina-flower-park","name":"Xiuse Caina Flower Park","name_zh":"秀色才纳","pinyin":"Xiùsè Cáinà","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Lhasa","lat":29.4399,"lon":90.9479,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qushui-xiuse-caina-flower-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower and farm park beside the airport expressway at Caina in Qüxü County, part of the township's plateau agriculture projects. Its flower valley, opened in 2024, has nearly 1,000 mu (about 65 ha) of flower fields planted with tulips, roses, sunflowers and many other varieties, with walking paths, a petting area with alpacas and ponies, a children's playground, food stalls and linka (picnic) tents. It makes a short stop on the road between Lhasa and Gonggar airport when the flowers are out."},{"id":"sog-bangna-monastery","name":"Bangna Monastery","name_zh":"邦纳寺","pinyin":"Bāngnà Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nagqu","lat":31.4395,"lon":94.5993,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sog-bangna-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-period monastery west of Baxiu village in Xichang township. Its surviving main hall, with an assembly hall, chapel, porch and a later prayer-wheel room, is a traditional fortress-style Tibetan building with Han Chinese decorative touches, similar to buildings in Aba in Sichuan, and it has never been heavily rebuilt."},{"id":"biru-sapu-glaciers","name":"Sapu Glaciers (Sepu Kangri)","name_zh":"萨普","pinyin":"Sàpǔ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nagqu","lat":30.9507,"lon":93.7958,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=biru-sapu-glaciers","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sapu lies below the peak of Sepu Kangri, on the boundary between Biru and Banbar counties, in an area of snow mountains, large maritime glaciers and glacial lakes; in Tibetan 'sa' means snow leopard and 'pu' the head of a valley. A paved road now reaches a glacial lake, and nearby villages offer guesthouses and tents for visitors."},{"id":"tangra-yumco","name":"Tangra Yumco","name_zh":"当惹雍错","pinyin":"Dāngrě Yōngcuò","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nagqu","lat":31.3425,"lon":86.7556,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tangra-yumco","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tangra Yumco, a holy lake for followers of the Bön religion, is a large salt lake in a basin on the north side of the Gangdise (Transhimalaya) range in Nyima County. Wenbu village at its northern end is the base for visiting the lake and the nearby Targo snow mountain, and the Bön monastery of Yuben stands on the eastern shore. Much of the shore can be driven, which makes it a goal for long overland trips."},{"id":"burang-khorzhak-monastery","name":"Khorzhak Monastery","name_zh":"科迦寺","pinyin":"Kējiā Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Ngari","lat":30.1957,"lon":81.2685,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=burang-khorzhak-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Sakya monastery in Khorzhak village on the Karnali (Peacock) River south-east of Burang town, founded in 996 and traditionally linked with the translator Rinchen Zangpo. Its main buildings are the Jokhang (Shakyamuni Hall) and the Hundred-Pillar Hall, and a red wall facing the river bears a large inscription of the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum. Masked dances are held at its anniversary festival in the first Tibetan month, and old thangkas are displayed once a year in the sixth."},{"id":"burang-kailash-manasarovar","name":"Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar","name_zh":"冈仁波齐—玛旁雍错","pinyin":"Gāngrénbōqí–Mǎpángyōngcuò","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Ngari","lat":30.9779,"lon":81.2857,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"3–4 days","days":4,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/burang-kailash-manasarovar/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Mount Kailash (Kang Rinpoche, 6,638 m) and Lake Manasarovar (Mapham Yumtso in Tibetan) form a sacred landscape for Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and followers of Bön, and pilgrims come to walk around the mountain and bathe in the lake. The 53 km kora around Kailash starts and ends at Darchen (4,670 m) and crosses the Drölma La at about 5,650 m, usually over three days. The freshwater lake, about 320 km² at some 4,600 m, lies a short drive south of the mountain."},{"id":"rutog-pangong-lake-scenic-area","name":"Pangong Lake Scenic Area (Rutog)","name_zh":"班公湖","pinyin":"Bāngōng Hú","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Ngari","lat":33.4477,"lon":79.813,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=rutog-pangong-lake-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside scenic area on the Rutog shore of Pangong Lake (Bangong Co), a long, narrow lake at about 4,240 m on the plateau of far western Tibet. Viewpoints and a lakeside resort look over the clear water and the bare mountains around it, and the lake is frozen for about six months of the year. The area was rated 4A in 2025."},{"id":"zanda-piyang-dungkar-caves","name":"Piyang and Dungkar Cave Temples","name_zh":"皮央·东嘎遗址","pinyin":"Píyāng Dōnggā Yízhǐ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Ngari","lat":31.6723,"lon":79.8312,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zanda-piyang-dungkar-caves","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The largest Buddhist cave site found so far in Tibet, spread across the cliffs above the villages of Piyang and Dungkar north of Zanda, with nearly a thousand caves once used for worship, meditation, living and storage. Some shrine caves keep murals of buddhas, bodhisattvas, flying apsaras and mandalas painted in mineral pigments, and the site also includes ruined temples and stupas from the Guge period. Archaeologists recorded it only in 1992, and it lies in the same eroded earth-forest country as Tsaparang."},{"id":"zanda-tholing-monastery","name":"Tholing Monastery","name_zh":"托林寺","pinyin":"Tuōlín Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Ngari","lat":31.4828,"lon":79.7976,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zanda-tholing-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The oldest monastery in Ngari, founded at the end of the 10th century by the Guge king Yeshe-Ö in what is now Zanda town, and a starting point of the later spread of Buddhism in Tibet. The translator Rinchen Zangpo worked here after studying in Kashmir and India, and the surviving halls, including the Gyatsa (Yeshe-Ö) temple, the White Temple and the assembly hall, keep important murals. Many of its stupas and chapels were damaged in the 20th century, and it is now a Gelug monastery."},{"id":"zanda-guge-kingdom-ruins","name":"Tsaparang (Guge Kingdom Ruins)","name_zh":"古格王国遗址","pinyin":"Gǔgé Wángguó Yízhǐ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Ngari","lat":31.4662,"lon":79.6706,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zanda-guge-kingdom-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruined capital of the Guge kingdom, which ruled this part of western Tibet from the 10th century until it fell in the 1630s, built up an earth hill above the Langqên Zangbo (Sutlej) valley. More than 300 rooms, over 300 caves, stupas, tunnels and the remains of palaces climb about 175 m from base to summit, and the White Temple, Red Temple and three other halls keep murals and sculpture that the Dunhuang Academy restored in 2012–13. The eroded earth-forest landscape around it is as striking as the ruins."},{"id":"gongbogyamda-basum-tso","name":"Basum Tso","name_zh":"巴松措","pinyin":"Bāsōng Cuò","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":30.0142,"lon":93.9503,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gongbogyamda-basum-tso/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Basum Tso (Draksum Tso in Tibetan) is a long glacier-dammed lake in a deep valley of the upper Ba River in Gongbo'gyamda County, ringed by snow peaks and forest, and was Tibet's first natural-landscape 5A scenic area. On Tashi island near the south-western shore stands Tsozong Monastery, a Nyingma temple whose present buildings date largely from a 14th-century rebuilding. Boat trips run on the lake, and the lakeside village of Jieba is a traditional Kongpo farming village."},{"id":"nyingchi-cuomujiri-lake","name":"Cuomujiri Lake","name_zh":"措木及日","pinyin":"Cuòmùjírì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.6803,"lon":94.3747,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nyingchi-cuomujiri-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Cuomujiri, whose Tibetan name is usually translated as 'fairy's tears', is an old moraine-dammed lake in a forested valley just north of Bayi, with snow peaks behind it. The valley is best known for its autumn colours, when the forest along the winding road up to the lake turns red and gold."},{"id":"nyingchi-cypress-king-garden","name":"Cypress King Garden","name_zh":"世界柏树王园林","pinyin":"Shìjiè Bǎishù Wáng Yuánlín","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.6228,"lon":94.4024,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nyingchi-cypress-king-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This park protects a grove of giant Tibetan cypresses (Cupressus gigantea) at Baji village beside the G318, just south-east of Bayi. Close to a thousand trees grow here, and the largest, the 'King of Cypresses', is estimated to be more than 3,200 years old."},{"id":"bome-galang-lake","name":"Galang Lake","name_zh":"嘎朗湖","pinyin":"Gālǎng Hú","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.9236,"lon":95.6247,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bome-galang-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Galang Lake, about 2 km² in area, lies in the Galang National Wetland Park beside Galang village, at the mouth of the Bodui peach-blossom valley in Bomê County. Snow peaks and forest surround the lake, and across the road are hillside ruins associated with the old Galang kingdom; in spring the village orchards turn pink with peach blossom."},{"id":"medog-guoguotang","name":"Guoguotang Great Bend","name_zh":"果果塘","pinyin":"Guǒguǒtáng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.3295,"lon":95.272,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=medog-guoguotang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"At Guoguotang, about 12 km from Medog town, the Yarlung Tsangpo swings through a tight horseshoe bend around a forested spur, seen from viewing platforms above the river. Tea gardens cover the slopes nearby, and the low altitude and humid climate make the scene unusually green for Tibet."},{"id":"nyingchi-kading-valley","name":"Kading Valley","name_zh":"卡定沟","pinyin":"Kǎdìng Gōu","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.7622,"lon":94.1719,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nyingchi-kading-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kading Valley is a steep, forested side gorge off the Nyang River valley north-west of Bayi, known for the Tianfo ('Heavenly Buddha') waterfall that drops down its cliffs. It makes a short stop on the G318 between Lhasa and Nyingchi."},{"id":"gongbogyamda-linze","name":"Linze Scenic Area","name_zh":"林则","pinyin":"Línzé","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.8833,"lon":93.4843,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongbogyamda-linze","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Linze village in Gongbo'gyamda County is home to several thousand wild Tibetan macaques that live in the surrounding forest and come down to meet visitors, who may feed them under staff guidance. The scenic area also includes the grey-stone manor of the aristocratic Ngapoi family, whose best-known member was the politician Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, and a hill sacred to a local wealth deity, with murals."},{"id":"nyingchi-lulang","name":"Lulang","name_zh":"鲁朗","pinyin":"Lǔlǎng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.7337,"lon":94.7264,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nyingchi-lulang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lulang is a high valley of meadows, streams and spruce forest at about 3,300 m on the G318 east of the Sejila pass, often wrapped in cloud. The scenic area takes in the forest viewpoints along the road, the Lulang International Tourism Town of hotels and guesthouses, built with aid from Guangdong province, and villages such as Tashigang where families run homestays."},{"id":"bome-midui-glacier","name":"Midui Glacier","name_zh":"米堆冰川","pinyin":"Mǐduī Bīngchuān","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.4544,"lon":96.5074,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bome-midui-glacier","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Midui Glacier flows down from the mountains above Midui village in Bomê County, where two great icefalls merge with a strip of forest between them, at the meeting of the Nyenchen Tanglha and Boshula ranges. The glacier tongue reaches down almost to the village fields, and villagers offer horse rides to the viewing area."},{"id":"bome-red-building","name":"Red Building of the Zamu Central County Committee","name_zh":"波密红楼","pinyin":"Bōmì Hónglóu","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.8628,"lon":95.7679,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bome-red-building","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Known locally as the Bomê Red Building, this two-storey Soviet-style building of stone and timber in the Bomê county government compound was built in 1953 as an office of the Kham–Tibet Highway administration and from 1955 housed the Zamu Central County Committee of the Communist Party. In January 1959 armed Tibetan forces besieged it for about ten days, and the 60 or so officials and soldiers inside held it until reinforcements arrived. It now holds an exhibition of photographs and stories of the soldiers and officials who worked in the area in the 1950s."},{"id":"mainling-yarlung-tsangpo-grand-canyon","name":"Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon","name_zh":"雅鲁藏布大峡谷","pinyin":"Yǎlǔzàngbù Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Nyingchi","lat":29.5152,"lon":94.8817,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mainling-yarlung-tsangpo-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The 5A scenic area at Pai, in Mainling, covers the upper entrance of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, where the river turns into the deep gorge that wraps around the peak of Namcha Barwa. From the visitor centre, roads and walkways lead to viewpoints and villages such as Suosong, with views of the mountain when the clouds clear and peach blossom in spring. Visitors must keep to the marked trails and viewing platforms; the undeveloped parts of the canyon, which lies in a national nature reserve, are closed to hiking and camping."},{"id":"nedong-dajielin-monastery","name":"Dajielin Monastery (Chödegong)","name_zh":"达杰林寺","pinyin":"Dájiélín Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":28.9299,"lon":91.9046,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nedong-dajielin-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug monastery in Chödegong village in the Yartö valley, which began as the 11th-century residence of the translator Ra Lotsawa and reached its present size under the 13th Dalai Lama. Its four-storey main building holds an assembly hall, chapels with statues of Tsongkhapa and his disciples, and walls covered in murals with Tibetan captions. A giant thangka is shown each year on the 25th day of the fifth Tibetan month."},{"id":"dranang-dratang-monastery","name":"Dratang Monastery","name_zh":"扎塘寺","pinyin":"Zhātáng Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.243,"lon":91.3316,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dranang-dratang-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A monastery founded in 1081 by the scholar and physician Drapa Ngönshé and finished in 1093, built as a mandala with three rings of walls; it passed to the Sakya school in the 13th century. Only the ground floor of the main hall and parts of the outer wall survive, but its central chapel keeps early murals that have been conserved since the 1990s."},{"id":"gongkar-cho-monastery","name":"Gongkar Chö Monastery","name_zh":"贡嘎曲德寺","pinyin":"Gònggá Qūdé Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.2679,"lon":90.8131,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongkar-cho-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Sakya monastery founded in 1464 by Dorje Denpa Kunga Namgyal as the seat of the Dzongpa (Gongkar) branch of the Sakya school. Its assembly hall has murals from the 16th century in the Khyenri style associated with the painter Jamyang Khyentse Wangchuk. It makes an easy stop on the way to or from Lhasa's airport."},{"id":"lhozhag-jiedunzhu-dzong","name":"Jiedunzhu Dzong Ruins","name_zh":"杰顿珠宗遗址","pinyin":"Jiédùnzhū Zōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":28.169,"lon":91.1978,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhozhag-jiedunzhu-dzong","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a Yuan–Ming period dzong, or fortress, stand on a cliff at about 3,300 metres south-west of Jiemai village in Painba township. Painba, known as the 'land of a thousand towers', has many more old stone towers on its cliffs, in its valleys and among its barley fields."},{"id":"nedong-keru-lhakhang","name":"Keru Lhakhang","name_zh":"吉如拉康","pinyin":"Jírú Lākāng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.379,"lon":91.8297,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nedong-keru-lhakhang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small temple in Keru village, Gyêrba township, founded under King Tride Tsugtsen; its main Shakyamuni chapel dates from the first half of the 8th century. The chapel keeps painted clay statues of the Buddha with his eight bodhisattva disciples and early carved brackets of dragons, tigers and lions. Old scriptures found here, many dating from around 800, were sorted and bound in 2002."},{"id":"qusum-lhagyari-palace","name":"Lhagyari Palace Ruins","name_zh":"拉加里王宫遗址","pinyin":"Lājiālǐ Wánggōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.0654,"lon":92.1938,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qusum-lhagyari-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The palace of the Lhagyari kings, a line descended from the Tibetan imperial family who kept their title through the Sakya and Phagmodrupa periods, stands on the south side of Qusum town. It has three phases: walls and gates of the 13th-century Tashi Chödzong, the 15th-century Ganden Lhatse palace with remains of murals, and an 18th-century summer palace that survives largely complete. Its buildings blend in Han Chinese features, which is rare among Tibetan palaces."},{"id":"lhozhag-lhalung-monastery","name":"Lhalung Monastery, Lhozhag","name_zh":"拉隆寺","pinyin":"Lālóng Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":28.3796,"lon":90.7091,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lhozhag-lhalung-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A monastery on a terrace above the north bank of the Lhozhag Nub Chu, founded as a Karma Kagyu seat in 1155 by Düsum Khyenpa and laid out as a mandala in the 16th century by Pawo Tsuglag Trengwa; the 5th Dalai Lama later made it Gelug. Tradition links it with Lhalung Palgyi Dorje, the monk said to have killed King Langdarma in the 9th century, and its black-hat dance recalls the story. The main hall has painted and carved brackets and murals, including a panorama of the monastery close in style to Chinese blue-and-green landscape painting."},{"id":"mindrolling-monastery","name":"Mindrolling Monastery","name_zh":"敏珠林寺","pinyin":"Mǐnzhūlín Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.1838,"lon":91.4055,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mindrolling-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the principal monasteries of the Nyingma school, founded in its present form in 1676 by Terdak Lingpa on the site of an earlier temple, and rebuilt after damage by Dzungar troops in 1718. The three-storey main hall has an assembly hall with murals of fierce protector deities and a chapel painted with the great Nyingma lamas. Mindrolling was long known for Tibetan calendar studies, calligraphy, medicine and incense making."},{"id":"dranang-namseling-manor","name":"Namseling Manor","name_zh":"朗色林庄园","pinyin":"Lǎngsèlín Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.2318,"lon":91.5328,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dranang-namseling-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The seven-storey earth-and-stone tower house of the Namseling family, aristocrats who held land in Dranang, built in the Ming period on the south bank of the Yarlung Tsangpo opposite Samye. With Pala Manor near Gyantse it is among the oldest tall manor houses in Tibet. The main tower survives inside a broken inner wall, with steep stairs, old chapels and traces of wall paintings on the upper floors."},{"id":"lhozhag-quxi-watchtowers","name":"Quxi Watchtowers, Lhozhag","name_zh":"曲西碉楼群","pinyin":"Qūxī Diāolóu Qún","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":28.2443,"lon":90.9193,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhozhag-quxi-watchtowers","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of stone watchtowers and walls on the hillside at Quxi village in Se township, built between the Northern Song and Ming periods. Old towers like these stand in villages, valleys and hilltops across Lhozhag; at Quxi their walls have rows of small rectangular openings, and some tops and walls have crumbled."},{"id":"samye-monastery","name":"Samye Monastery","name_zh":"桑耶寺","pinyin":"Sāngyē Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.3266,"lon":91.5024,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/samye-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tibet's first Buddhist monastery, built in the 8th century under King Trisong Detsen with the Indian masters Shantarakshita and Padmasambhava, and the place where the first Tibetan monks were ordained. It is laid out as a three-dimensional mandala of the Buddhist universe: the central Utse hall, mixing Tibetan, Han Chinese and Indian styles, is ringed by four coloured stupas and a circular wall. About 500 metres to the south-west stands Khamsum Sangkhar Ling, a temple founded in the late 8th century whose four-storey main hall is second in size only to the Utse."},{"id":"lhozhag-sekhar-guthok","name":"Sekhar Guthok Monastery","name_zh":"色喀古托寺","pinyin":"Sèkāgǔtuō Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":28.1852,"lon":90.8215,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lhozhag-sekhar-guthok/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tradition says the nine-storey stone tower at the heart of this monastery was built in the 11th century by the yogi Milarepa as a trial set by his teacher Marpa; the top two floors were rebuilt in 1985. Beside it, the assembly hall added in the 16th century by the Kagyu scholar Pawo Tsuglag Trengwa has murals said to be by his own hand. Long a Kagyu house, the monastery has followed the Gelug school since 1944."},{"id":"samye-songkar-stupas","name":"Songkar Stone Stupas","name_zh":"松卡石塔","pinyin":"Sōngkǎ Shítǎ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.3001,"lon":91.4472,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=samye-songkar-stupas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Five stone stupas of different sizes, each carved from a single block, stand at the foot of a rocky hill beside the Yarlung Tsangpo west of Samye. They date from the same period as Samye, and tradition credits their design to Padmasambhava. Rock carvings nearby, mostly of Amitayus, belong to several later periods."},{"id":"tradruk-temple","name":"Tradruk Temple","name_zh":"昌珠寺","pinyin":"Chāngzhū Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.1937,"lon":91.7722,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tradruk-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the earliest Buddhist temples in Tibet, founded in the 7th century under King Songtsen Gampo in the Yarlung valley and enlarged in the 14th century; its main assembly hall is laid out like that of the Jokhang in Lhasa. Legend says the king had a falcon defeat a dragon to drain the lake here, which gave the temple its name, and Princess Wencheng is said to have stayed. Its treasures include a thangka of Avalokiteshvara worked in pearls, made in the Phagmodrupa period."},{"id":"chonggye-valley-of-the-kings","name":"Valley of the Kings, Chonggye","name_zh":"藏王墓","pinyin":"Zàngwáng Mù","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.0164,"lon":91.684,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chonggye-valley-of-the-kings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The burial ground of the kings of the Tibetan Empire from the 7th to 9th centuries, a group of large flat-topped mounds of rammed earth and stone on and below Mura Hill at Chonggye. The mound identified as Songtsen Gampo's tomb has a rebuilt temple on top with statues of the king, his queens Wencheng and Bhrikuti and his ministers. The tomb of King Tride Songtsen keeps a tall inscribed stone stele on a carved tortoise base."},{"id":"lhunze-yumai","name":"Yumai, Lhünzê","name_zh":"玉麦","pinyin":"Yùmài","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":28.6332,"lon":93.0731,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhunze-yumai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yumai is a small township in a deep valley of Lhünzê County, among fir forest and snow peaks, where rain and snow fall for much of the year. For decades it was known as the 'three-person township', when the herder Sangjie Quba and his daughters Zhuoga and Yangzong were its only residents; a paved road opened in 2019, and it now has two villages, Yumai and Niulintang, with about 250 people. Visitors see the family's old house, walk a forest trail with rhododendrons and waterfalls, and stay in village guesthouses."},{"id":"yumbulagang-palace","name":"Yumbulagang","name_zh":"雍布拉康","pinyin":"Yōngbù Lākāng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":29.1426,"lon":91.8027,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yumbulagang-palace/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yumbulagang, a tower-like palace on a ridge above the Yarlung valley, is held by tradition to be the first building in Tibet, the palace of the legendary first king Nyatri Tsenpo. The 5th Dalai Lama turned it into a temple and added the golden roof; the present building, restored from 1982, has statues of Songtsen Gampo and Princess Wencheng and murals telling of the first king, the first building and the first field."},{"id":"lhunze-zhongga-qude-monastery","name":"Zhongga Qude Monastery","name_zh":"仲嘎曲德寺","pinyin":"Zhònggá Qūdé Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shannan","lat":28.5116,"lon":92.3348,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhunze-zhongga-qude-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug monastery in Ritang town that began as a Bön temple in the imperial period, became a Kadam house in the 11th–13th centuries and turned Gelug after the 15th century. Its surviving two-storey main hall has an assembly hall painted with protector deities, Tsongkhapa and the life of the Buddha, and an early mural of the Buddha leaving his palace in the Maitreya chapel."},{"id":"kangmar-aiwang-temple","name":"Aiwang (Iwang) Temple","name_zh":"艾旺寺","pinyin":"Àiwàng Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.4592,"lon":89.6149,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangmar-aiwang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Aiwang Temple, in Samada township south of Kangmar, was founded in the 11th century, early in the revival of Buddhism in Tibet, and later passed to the Gelug school. Its small red-walled chapels keep clay sculptures from the 11th and 12th centuries: the figures in the main hall recall Chinese cave-temple sculpture of the Northern Wei to Tang periods, while those in the east chapel resemble Central Asian work. Many statues were damaged in 1966, but eleven bodhisattvas and two guardian figures survive in the east chapel."},{"id":"kangmar-chongba-yumtso","name":"Chongba Yumtso","name_zh":"崇巴雍错","pinyin":"Chóngbā Yōngcuò","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.2306,"lon":89.6417,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangmar-chongba-yumtso","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chongba Yumtso is a glacial lake at about 4,570 m on the north side of the Himalaya in southern Kangmar County, and the source of the Nyang River that flows down past Gyantse to Shigatse. Snow peaks ring the water, and in mid to late June rhododendrons flower pink and white along the shore; the scenic area also has dome-shaped 'bubble' rooms for stargazing."},{"id":"gyirong-zongga-temples-tang-inscription","name":"Chöde Temple, Drolma Lhakhang and Tang Envoy Inscription","name_zh":"曲德寺、卓玛拉康、大唐天竺使出铭","pinyin":"Qūdé Sì, Zhuómǎ Lākāng, Dà Táng Tiānzhú Shǐ Chū Míng","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.8519,"lon":85.2962,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gyirong-zongga-temples-tang-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Three listed relics stand in and near Zongga, the county town of Gyirong: Chöde Temple, a Gelug monastery destroyed in the 1960s with a small chapel rebuilt on its ruins, and next to it Drolma Lhakhang, a Nyingma hall with finely carved wooden pillars and lion brackets that probably belonged to the royal city of the Gungthang kings. About 4.5 km north of town, a Chinese inscription carved on a cliff in 658 records the passage of the Tang envoy Wang Xuance on his mission to India; it is the only Tang-dynasty inscription so far found in Tibet. A pavilion now shelters the inscription, and a small exhibition hall about it opened in 2025."},{"id":"gyantse-dzong","name":"Gyantse Dzong","name_zh":"江孜宗山","pinyin":"Jiāngzī Zōngshān","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.918,"lon":89.5996,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gyantse-dzong/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gyantse Dzong is a fortress on a steep rock above Gyantse that was the seat of one of Tibet's major districts; the castle dates mainly from the late 14th century. In July 1904 British troops of the Younghusband expedition stormed it after months of fighting with Tibetan defenders around the town, and the site is now presented as a memorial to that resistance, with old gun positions, a monument and a museum. On the way up are restored rooms of the old district government, and the top looks over the old town and Palcho Monastery."},{"id":"gyirong-valley","name":"Gyirong Valley","name_zh":"吉隆沟","pinyin":"Jílóng Gōu","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.3961,"lon":85.3276,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gyirong-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Gyirong Valley cuts deep into the central Himalaya, falling to about 2,800 m around Gyirong town, where dense forest and farming villages lie beneath snow peaks. For centuries it was one of the main routes between Tibet and Nepal. Besides walks in the valley, visitors see the town's Phagpa Temple and nearby villages such as Nai."},{"id":"kangmar-langdong-manor","name":"Langdong Manor and Langba Village","name_zh":"朗东庄园","pinyin":"Lǎngdōng Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.7306,"lon":89.6625,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangmar-langdong-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Langba, a listed traditional village on the upper Nyang River in Kangmar County, was renovated and opened as a scenic area in 2023 around Langdong Manor, an aristocratic estate house more than 500 years old. Visitors can tour the manor, stay in village homestays and watch villagers perform the local folk song-and-dance."},{"id":"ngamring-linen-cliff-carvings","name":"Lin'en Cliff Carvings","name_zh":"林恩摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Lín'ēn Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":29.4121,"lon":87.7192,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ngamring-linen-cliff-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"On a cliff at Sangga village in Ngamring County, 15th-century carvers cut Buddhist images and Tibetan inscriptions into the rock, among them the six-syllable mantra and a eulogy of a Shakyamuni image. Both inscriptions were added to the national list of famous ancient inscriptions in 2023, and a conservation project for the site was being prepared in 2026."},{"id":"kangmar-nenying-monastery","name":"Nenying Monastery","name_zh":"乃宁曲德寺","pinyin":"Nǎiníng Qūdé Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.8241,"lon":89.6474,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangmar-nenying-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Nenying Monastery, in the upper Nyang valley south of Gyantse, traces its founding to the Tibetan Empire and became a Gelug monastery in the 15th century; it is traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the Tibetan opera Nangsa Öbum. In 1904 it was the scene of fighting between Tibetan defenders and the British expedition advancing on Gyantse. Rebuilt afterwards and again after damage in the 1960s, it has been restored since 2010; an old door still shows bullet holes, and a memorial stone outside commemorates the defenders."},{"id":"gyantse-pala-manor","name":"Pala Manor","name_zh":"帕拉庄园","pinyin":"Pàlā Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.9036,"lon":89.5736,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gyantse-pala-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Pala Manor, the seat of the Pala family, who held high office in the old Tibetan government, is regarded as the only Tibetan aristocratic manor to survive largely intact. It was rebuilt here after the family's earlier house near Gyantse was burned in 1904, and its three-storey main building keeps the chapel, reception rooms and furnishings, including the family's imported goods. Facing it, the cramped quarters of the estate's household servants (nangzan) are preserved and used as an exhibit."},{"id":"gyantse-palcho-monastery","name":"Palcho Monastery","name_zh":"白居寺","pinyin":"Báijū Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.9247,"lon":89.5949,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gyantse-palcho-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Palcho (Pelkor Chöde) Monastery, below the hills on the north-western edge of Gyantse, was built from 1418 by the local ruler Rabten Kunzang Phag with the scholar Khedrup Je, and is unusual in housing Gelug, Sakya and Shalu communities side by side. Beside its assembly hall rises the Gyantse Kumbum, a many-tiered stupa whose dozens of small chapels are lined with 15th-century murals and statues in the local Gyantse style. Together with the fortress it is the main sight of Gyantse."},{"id":"gyirong-phagpa-temple","name":"Phagpa Temple, Gyirong","name_zh":"帕巴寺","pinyin":"Pàbā Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.3966,"lon":85.3276,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gyirong-phagpa-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Phagpa Temple in the centre of Gyirong town is a four-storey tower temple of stone and timber with tiered eaves, flame-shaped copper corner fittings and a copper roof, built in a style that shows strong Nepalese influence. Tradition dates its founding to the reign of Songtsen Gampo; the building has been repaired many times, was restored in the 1980s and belongs to the Gelug school. In 1789, during the wars between Tibet and the Gorkha kingdom, Qing and Gorkha representatives held peace talks near the temple."},{"id":"lhatse-phuntsokling-monastery","name":"Phuntsokling Monastery","name_zh":"平措林寺","pinyin":"Píngcuòlín Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":29.3682,"lon":88.0022,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lhatse-phuntsokling-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Phuntsokling Monastery, near the Yarlung Tsangpo in Lhatse County, was founded in 1614 by the scholar Tāranātha as a centre of the Jonang school, with the support of the Tsang rulers. In the mid-17th century it was converted to the Gelug school under the Fifth Dalai Lama and renamed Ganden Phuntsokling. Its buildings are laid out like a mandala around a large assembly hall, with smaller chapels, many of them ruined and partly restored, the ruins of the printing house and the old district fort, and further halls up the hillside."},{"id":"dinggye-qilin-gorge","name":"Qilin Gorge Earth Forest","name_zh":"奇林峡","pinyin":"Qílín Xiá","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.0842,"lon":88.1278,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dinggye-qilin-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qilin Gorge, also known as the Mu Village earth forest, is a valley in Qiongzi township on the north side of the Himalaya where meltwater has eroded the soft sediments into crowded ranks of earth pillars and fins. Viewpoints look over the formations towards snow peaks on the horizon, and villagers of Mu run the site through a tourism cooperative."},{"id":"sakya-monastery","name":"Sakya Monastery","name_zh":"萨迦寺","pinyin":"Sàjiā Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":28.9054,"lon":88.0179,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sakya-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sakya Monastery, founded in 1073 by Khön Könchok Gyalpo, is the seat of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, whose leaders governed Tibet under Yuan-dynasty overlordship in the 13th and 14th centuries. Its walls are painted in the school's dark grey with red and white bands; the massive walled South Monastery, founded in 1268, holds a great assembly hall lined with a wall of scriptures, while the older North Monastery on the hillside across the river was largely destroyed in the 1960s and is partly rebuilt. The old town around the monastery is a separate scenic area, Sakya Old Town."},{"id":"shigatse-shalu-monastery","name":"Shalu Monastery","name_zh":"夏鲁寺","pinyin":"Xiàlǔ Sì","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":29.1274,"lon":88.9923,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shigatse-shalu-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shalu Monastery, founded in the 11th century in a side valley south-east of Shigatse, is the mother monastery of the small Shalu (or Butön) school, founded by its 14th-century abbot Butön Rinchen Drub, the scholar who edited the Tibetan Buddhist canon. After an earthquake in 1329 it was rebuilt with craftsmen sent from the Yuan court, so its main hall has Tibetan walls under green glazed-tile roofs in Chinese style. Most of its murals and sculptures date from that rebuilding, and the old wall paintings in its chapels and corridors are the main reason to visit."},{"id":"yadong-customs-house-site","name":"Site of the Yadong Customs House","name_zh":"亚东海关遗址","pinyin":"Yàdōng Hǎiguān Yízhǐ","region_id":"540000","region":"Tibet","city":"Shigatse","lat":27.4249,"lon":88.9065,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yadong-customs-house-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Qing government opened a customs house here in 1894, at the meeting of two mountain streams south of present-day Yadong, after treaties with Britain made Yadong a trade mart on the route between Tibet and British India. Customs duties were never actually levied, and the Tibetan government closed the post in 1913. Only sections of its walls survive."},{"id":"zhenping-feidu-gorge-huanganba","name":"Feidu Gorge and Huang'anba","name_zh":"飞渡峡·黄安坝","pinyin":"Fēidù Xiá · Huáng'ānbà","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":31.8377,"lon":109.2343,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenping-feidu-gorge-huanganba","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area on the northern slopes of the Daba Mountains in Shuping town, at the southern tip of Ankang where Shaanxi borders Chongqing, combining the Feidu River gorge with the Huang'anba upland pastures. The gorge is known for its unusual trees, oddly shaped rocks, waterfalls and deep pools, with red leaves in autumn, while Huang'anba is open grassland and meadow."},{"id":"hanyin-fengyan-terraces","name":"Fengyan Ancient Terraces","name_zh":"凤堰古梯田","pinyin":"Fèngyàn Gǔ Tītián","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.7816,"lon":108.438,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanyin-fengyan-terraces","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hillside rice terraces in Xuanwo town, Hanyin County, made up of the Fengjiang and Yanping terrace systems and described as the largest and best-preserved Qing-dynasty terraces found in the Qinling–Daba region. They were begun in the Qianlong era by the Wu clan, migrants from Changsha prefecture in Hunan, built up on a large scale in the mid-19th century and are still farmed; Ming–Qing farmhouses such as the Wu family's 'flowered house' stand among some 12,000 mu (about 800 ha) of fields, golden with rice in autumn. The terraces became a national heritage site in 2019."},{"id":"shiquan-guiguling","name":"Guiguling (Yunwu Mountain)","name_zh":"鬼谷岭","pinyin":"Guǐgǔ Lǐng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":33.1995,"lon":108.3282,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiquan-guiguling","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The highest mountain in Shiquan County, also called Yunwu Mountain and protected as a national forest park, where the Warring States strategist Guiguzi is said to have taught his disciples. Its main peak is ringed by five ridges, and visitors come for old-growth forest, oddly shaped peaks, rocks and trees, caves, and seas of cloud in autumn; it is also regarded as a Daoist mountain."},{"id":"langao-nangong-mountain","name":"Nangong Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"南宫山","pinyin":"Nángōng Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.244,"lon":109.0728,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=langao-nangong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of 7,648 ha in eastern Langao County, described by the provincial government as the first in Shaanxi, whose three-peaked summit, Jinding, reaches 2,267 m. It is known for stone forests left by ancient volcanic eruptions, well-preserved Quaternary glacial landforms on its southern slope, dove trees and other rare plants, and temples that began as a Daoist temple in 1126 and later became Buddhist; a glass skywalk looks out over the sea of clouds."},{"id":"langao-qianceng-river","name":"Qianceng River Scenic Area","name_zh":"千层河","pinyin":"Qiāncéng Hé","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.0917,"lon":108.7852,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=langao-qianceng-river","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested river valley in Hengxi town in the far south of Langao County, in the Daba Mountains. A path follows the clear stream upstream past a string of green pools through dense woodland, and the valley is often combined with Nangong Mountain and the Bashan grassland on trips through southern Ankang."},{"id":"ankang-qinba-culture-eco-park","name":"Qinba Culture and Ecology Park, Ankang High-tech Zone","name_zh":"秦巴文化生态旅游区","pinyin":"Qínbā Wénhuà Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.7043,"lon":108.9611,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ankang-qinba-culture-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A belt of public parks of about 67 ha in the core of Ankang's High-tech Zone, west of the city centre, made up of a sports park, Beichen Park and a culture park. It has a large musical fountain, cycle tracks and outdoor courts, a landscaped water channel modelled on the Yue River with gold-panning motifs, and features that recreate landmarks from Ankang's counties such as Nangong Mountain and Houliu old town."},{"id":"ziyang-tea-horse-road-guild-halls","name":"Shaanxi–Gansu Tea-Horse Road and Wafangdian Guild Halls","name_zh":"陕甘茶马古道","pinyin":"Shǎngān Chámǎ Gǔdào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.5084,"lon":108.4528,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ziyang-tea-horse-road-guild-halls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area at Wafangdian in Xiangyang town, where the Zhu and Ren rivers meet west of Ziyang town, built around the Qing guild halls of the merchants of the old tea trade, together with a tea-hill trail and a small tea garden. Its centrepiece, the Beiwusheng Guild Hall ('Hall of the Five Northern Provinces'), was begun at the end of the Qianlong era and finished in the Tongzhi era; its two halls, once dedicated to Guan Yu, carry about 100 m² of murals of the Twenty-four Exemplars of Filial Piety and the Three Kingdoms. The murals, hidden behind panelling when the hall became a granary in 1952 and rediscovered in 2006, were conserved in a Sino-German project, and performances are now staged in the guild halls."},{"id":"shiquan-old-town","name":"Shiquan Old Town","name_zh":"石泉古城","pinyin":"Shíquán Gǔchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":33.0385,"lon":108.2462,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiquan-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of Shiquan town on the Han River, with the Yuwang Palace, a temple to Yu the Great first built in the Tang, and a cluster of Ming and Qing buildings including the old county yamen, the Jiangxi guild hall and the east and west gates. In the evening its old streets turn into a night market of food stalls serving local dishes."},{"id":"hanyin-shuanghekou-ancient-town","name":"Shuanghekou Ancient Town","name_zh":"双河口古镇","pinyin":"Shuānghékǒu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":33.077,"lon":108.5719,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanyin-shuanghekou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small market town in the hills of northern Hanyin County, founded in the early Ming about 600 years ago where the Loufang and Lishu rivers meet, and long the trading and transport centre of the area. Its old street keeps old shopfronts and a guild hall, and it is often visited together with the Fengyan terraces and the memorial hall of Hanyin's scholarly Shen brothers."},{"id":"hanbin-shuanglong-scenic-area","name":"Shuanglong Scenic Area","name_zh":"双龙景区","pinyin":"Shuānglóng Jǐngqū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.4413,"lon":108.934,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanbin-shuanglong-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A dragon-themed scenic area in Shuanglong town, southern Hanbin District, where a 5.6 km loop links Longtan Gorge, Xianglong Valley, the Youlong waterfall, the Qinglong stockade and the Yulong Palace. Built around the theme of the origins of the Chinese dragon, it combines gorge walking, limestone caves and a hilltop stockade with dragon legends and staged performances."},{"id":"xunyang-shuhe-ancient-town","name":"Shuhe Ancient Town","name_zh":"蜀河古镇","pinyin":"Shǔhé Gǔzhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.9356,"lon":109.7005,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunyang-shuhe-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old Han River port 53 km east of Xunyang town, where the Shu River joins the Han, nicknamed 'Little Hankou' for its river trade. It keeps stone-paved lanes, Ming and Qing guild halls and old wooden houses with plank fronts, lattice windows and fine carving, and is listed as a national historic and cultural town."},{"id":"pingli-taohuaxi","name":"Taohuaxi (Peach Blossom Creek)","name_zh":"桃花溪","pinyin":"Táohuā Xī","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.308,"lon":109.3248,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingli-taohuaxi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded creek valley in Tielu village, Guangfo town, about 15 km from Pingli town. The stream drops through a series of clear pools and stepped cascades, which the local tourism bureau likens to a small Jiuzhaigou."},{"id":"baihe-tianbao-terraced-farm","name":"Tianbao Terraced Farm Park","name_zh":"天宝梯彩农园","pinyin":"Tiānbǎo Tīcǎi Nóngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.8301,"lon":109.7025,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baihe-tianbao-terraced-farm","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An agri-tourism park in Tianbao village, Cangshang town, in western Baihe County, built around hillsides of stone-walled terraced fields presented as 'land art'. It combines working farm and livestock areas with sightseeing, melons and fruit grow on the terraces in season, and it lies about 12 km south of Shuhe Ancient Town, with which it is often paired."},{"id":"pingli-tianshu-gorge","name":"Tianshu Gorge","name_zh":"天书峡","pinyin":"Tiānshū Xiá","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.0154,"lon":109.3052,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingli-tianshu-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge in Baxian town at the southern end of Pingli County, on the Chongqing border and within the Qianjiaping national forest park, with old forest, waterfalls and mid-mountain meadows. Its name, 'Heavenly Books Gorge', comes from the layered, vertically jointed slabs of slate strewn along the stream, which local legend says are books left behind by the Eight Immortals."},{"id":"ningshan-tongchewan","name":"Tongchewan Leisure Scenic Area","name_zh":"筒车湾","pinyin":"Tǒngchē Wān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":33.3944,"lon":108.2167,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningshan-tongchewan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 12 km² river-and-forest leisure area on the Wenshui River in Tongchewan town, on the southern slopes of the Qinling in Ningshan County, with streams, falls, springs and pools under more than 90% forest cover. It bundles five attractions: a 5.6 km rafting run on the Wenshui that passes through a 200 m tunnel, a riverside water park, the Canglong Gorge forest park with plank walkways past its pools, the Huangliang Gully wellness garden, and an unusually designed City God temple."},{"id":"shiquan-yanshan-waterfalls","name":"Yanshan Waterfalls","name_zh":"雁山瀑布","pinyin":"Yànshān Pùbù","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.8842,"lon":108.23,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiquan-yanshan-waterfalls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded valley in Xihe town, southern Shiquan County, where a stream drops more than 300 m in 13 steps, forming 47 waterfalls and 36 pools. Footpaths climb beside the falls, cliffs and flower plantings, and the valley stays mild in winter and cool in summer."},{"id":"shiquan-yanxiang-cave","name":"Yanxiang Cave","name_zh":"燕翔洞","pinyin":"Yànxiáng Dòng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.7972,"lon":108.1495,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiquan-yanxiang-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural limestone cave system in Yundou town on the Han River in southern Shiquan County, of which about 1.6 km has been opened to visitors. Inside are stalactites, flowstone 'waterfalls', stone curtains, rimstone dams, stalagmites and many other formations, and the cave keeps a mild, even temperature all year."},{"id":"ankang-yinghu-lake","name":"Yinghu Lake","name_zh":"瀛湖","pinyin":"Yíng Hú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.5948,"lon":108.847,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ankang-yinghu-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The reservoir behind the Ankang Dam on the Han River, about 15 km south-west of central Ankang, with some 77 km² of water and nearly a hundred islands and peninsulas; it is an important source area for the central route of the South–North Water Diversion. Boat trips visit islands such as Jinluo and Yuxing, and the shores have temples, villages and lakeside guesthouses."},{"id":"shiquan-zhongba-canyon","name":"Zhongba Grand Canyon","name_zh":"中坝大峡谷","pinyin":"Zhōngbà Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Ankang","lat":32.9142,"lon":108.1273,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shiquan-zhongba-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 21 km² canyon scenic area in Houliu town, Shiquan County, of cliffs, stacked boulders, mountain springs and thick bamboo and woodland. Plank walkways fixed to the cliffs pass high waterfalls and clear pools, and the trip is often combined with the riverside old town of Houliu and the Zhongba craft village nearby."},{"id":"baoji-beishouling-site","name":"Beishouling Neolithic Site","name_zh":"北首岭遗址","pinyin":"Běishǒulǐng Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.3857,"lon":107.1541,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoji-beishouling-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Neolithic village site of about 6 ha on a terrace on the west bank of the Jinling River in northern Baoji, occupied from about 5100 to 3790 BC. Excavated between 1958 and 1978, it has a lower layer of the late Dadiwan culture and upper layers of the Yangshao (Banpo type) culture and yielded painted pottery such as a boat-shaped jar and a pot showing a waterbird pecking a fish; a museum now protects and displays part of the site."},{"id":"baoji-changleyuan-industrial-site","name":"Changleyuan Wartime Industrial Site (Shenxin Cotton Mill)","name_zh":"长乐塬抗战工业遗址","pinyin":"Chánglèyuán Kàngzhàn Gōngyè Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.3719,"lon":107.2063,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoji-changleyuan-industrial-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of the Shenxin cotton mill that the Rong family's textile firm moved from Hankou to Baoji in 1938, during the war against Japan. Workers dug 24 linked cave workshops into the Changle loess terrace, about 1.75 km long in all, which went into production in April 1941, and the site also keeps the mill's office building and a thin-shell concrete workshop."},{"id":"linyou-cishan-temple-grottoes","name":"Cishan Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"慈善寺石窟","pinyin":"Císhàn Sì Shíkū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.6778,"lon":107.8347,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linyou-cishan-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist cave temple about 5 km east of Linyou town, begun in the Renshou era of the Sui (early 600s), when the court summered at the nearby palace, and extended under the Tang. Twelve caves, six niches and 47 statues are cut into a 28 m cliff, and the main Buddha of Cave 1, said to have been paid for by the Sui imperial house, is 5.5 m tall."},{"id":"fengxiang-east-lake","name":"East Lake, Fengxiang","name_zh":"凤翔东湖","pinyin":"Fèngxiáng Dōng Hú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.5175,"lon":107.4032,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxiang-east-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake garden on the south-east edge of Fengxiang town that grew from an old pond called Yinfeng Chi ('Phoenix Drinking Pool'). In 1062 the poet Su Shi, then an assistant judge of Fengxiang prefecture, had it dredged and enlarged, fed with spring water and planted with lotus and willows, and named it East Lake; pavilions, bridges and halls in classical garden style surround the water."},{"id":"fengxian-revolutionary-memorial-hall","name":"Feng County Revolutionary Memorial Hall","name_zh":"凤县革命纪念馆","pinyin":"Fèng Xiàn Gémìng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":33.9507,"lon":106.6171,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-revolutionary-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial hall in Fengzhou opened in 2016 on the county's twentieth-century political history. Its exhibitions cover the Communist organising in the local garrison that led to the Liangdang Mutiny of April 1932, which Xi Zhongxun helped to organise, the Red Army's passage through the county, the wartime Industrial Cooperatives (Gung Ho) movement and the end of Nationalist rule in the county."},{"id":"fufeng-city-god-temple","name":"Fufeng City God Temple (Fufeng County Museum)","name_zh":"扶风城隍庙","pinyin":"Fúfēng Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.3598,"lon":107.8761,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fufeng-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A City God temple in the centre of Fufeng town, founded in 1370 and enlarged and restored through the Ming and Qing, which now houses the Fufeng County Museum. More than ten buildings climb a rammed-earth terrace that rises 13 m from south to north, from the opera stage, gate, wooden archway and bell and drum towers to the offering hall, the five-bay main hall and the rear halls."},{"id":"meixian-fumei-campaign-memorial","name":"Fumei Campaign Memorial Hall","name_zh":"扶眉战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Fúméi Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.2776,"lon":107.8329,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meixian-fumei-campaign-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial hall and martyrs' cemetery at Changxing in Mei County for the Fumei Campaign of 10–14 July 1949, in which the People's Liberation Army defeated Hu Zongnan's Nationalist forces in the Wei valley between Fufeng and Mei County. Begun in the 1950s, when the remains of fallen soldiers were gathered here, and opened to the public in 1972, it has a 19.49 m monument and exhibitions on the campaign with relics and a sand-table model."},{"id":"longxian-guanshan-grassland","name":"Guanshan Grassland","name_zh":"关山草原","pinyin":"Guānshān Cǎoyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.7244,"lon":106.5914,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longxian-guanshan-grassland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An upland of alpine meadow and forest in the Guanshan mountains on the Shaanxi–Gansu border, at Guanshan village in Tiancheng town, south-west Long County. The grassland, a provincial scenic area and tourist resort, is at its best in summer, when it is a popular cool-weather retreat."},{"id":"baoji-jintai-temple","name":"Jintai Taoist Temple","name_zh":"金台观","pinyin":"Jīntái Guàn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.38,"lon":107.1478,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baoji-jintai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple complex founded in the late Yuan or early Ming dynasty on the loess terrace above central Baoji, known through the tradition that Zhang Sanfeng, legendary founder of the Wudang school and of taijiquan, practised here. Its buildings rise up the slope along a central axis, among them the two-storey Jade Emperor Pavilion, an octagonal pavilion and Sanfeng Cave, and the temple is the core of the Taiji Source Cultural Area."},{"id":"chencang-jiulong-mountain","name":"Jiulong Mountain, Chencang","name_zh":"九龙山","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.433,"lon":106.8318,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chencang-jiulong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in western Chencang District whose nine converging peaks are said to resemble nine dragons, with red-sandstone Danxia cliffs rising to 1,910 m and forest. A hot-spring hotel named after the mountain has been built for visitors."},{"id":"longxian-longmen-cave","name":"Longmen Cave (Longmendong)","name_zh":"龙门洞","pinyin":"Lóngmén Dòng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":35.0387,"lon":106.6717,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longxian-longmen-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist mountain sanctuary in Xinjichuan town north-west of Long County, where the Quanzhen master Qiu Chuji spent seven years in retreat in the late 12th century; the Longmen (Dragon Gate) school of Taoism, which honours him as its patriarch, takes its name from the place. Temple halls are built against cliffs and in caves above a gorge, within a forest park."},{"id":"linyou-jiucheng-palace","name":"Palace of Nine Perfections (Jiucheng Palace)","name_zh":"九成宫","pinyin":"Jiǔchéng Gōng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.6792,"lon":107.7856,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/linyou-jiucheng-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of a Sui and Tang summer palace in Linyou town: Emperor Wen of Sui built the Renshou Palace here in 593–595, Tang Taizong rebuilt it as the Jiucheng (Nine Perfections) Palace in 631, and a flood destroyed it in 836. Excavations from the late 1980s traced a precinct about 1 km long, including a Sui hall that filled a gap in the record of Chinese palace architecture. The original Liquan Spring stele of 632, composed by Wei Zheng and written by Ouyang Xun and long admired as a model of standard-script calligraphy, is kept in the Linyou County Museum."},{"id":"taibai-qingfeng-gorge","name":"Qingfeng Gorge National Forest Park","name_zh":"青峰峡","pinyin":"Qīngfēng Xiá","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.0439,"lon":107.4456,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=taibai-qingfeng-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in a Qinling gorge near Taochuan in Taibai County, with dense forest, streams and the Qingfeng Waterfall. The area keeps traces of Quaternary glaciation."},{"id":"meixian-red-river-valley","name":"Red River Valley Forest Park","name_zh":"红河谷森林公园","pinyin":"Hónghégǔ Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.0478,"lon":107.7776,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=meixian-red-river-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in Yingtou town, Mei County, on the north slopes of the Qinling below the main peak of Mount Taibai. Paths lead up a wooded valley past streams, small temples and waterfalls, among them the Doumu Falls."},{"id":"qishan-shuicheng-three-kingdoms-town","name":"Shuicheng Three Kingdoms Town","name_zh":"水城·三国小镇","pinyin":"Shuǐchéng Sānguó Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.3069,"lon":107.644,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qishan-shuicheng-three-kingdoms-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern tourist town at Caijiapo in southern Qishan County, built in old style around canals and ponds on a Three Kingdoms theme. Its period-style streets hold shops and food stalls, so it suits a relaxed stroll rather than heritage sightseeing."},{"id":"qishan-taiping-pagoda","name":"Taiping Temple Pagoda, Qishan","name_zh":"太平寺塔","pinyin":"Tàipíng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.4451,"lon":107.6192,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qishan-taiping-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda built in 1088 under the Northern Song, about 28 m tall, the sole survivor of Taiping Temple in Qishan town. It stands at the centre of the Taiping Pagoda street block, a leisure street of local crafts and food such as Qishan saozi noodles and shadow-puppet carving."},{"id":"qishan-zhougong-temple","name":"Temple of the Duke of Zhou (Zhou Culture Scenic Area)","name_zh":"周公庙","pinyin":"Zhōugōng Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.494,"lon":107.5994,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qishan-zhougong-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to the Duke of Zhou, the royal regent who helped consolidate the early Zhou kingdom, at the foot of Fenghuang Hill north-west of Qishan town; its present halls date from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The hill's southern slope is the Zhougong Temple archaeological site, where excavations in the 2000s found large Western Zhou tombs thought to belong to the Duke of Zhou's family and more than 11,000 fragments of oracle bones. The temple is now part of the Zhou Culture Scenic Area, marketed as China·Zhouyuan, which adds a modern Zhou-themed town where staged shows recreate Zhou rites and scenes from the Investiture of the Gods legend."},{"id":"baoji-li-maozhen-tomb","name":"Tomb of Li Maozhen, Prince of Qin","name_zh":"大唐秦王陵","pinyin":"Dà Táng Qínwáng Líng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.3958,"lon":107.1247,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baoji-li-maozhen-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tombs of Li Maozhen (856–924), a late-Tang warlord who ruled the state of Qi from Fengxiang and was made Prince of Qin in the year he died, and of his wife Lady Liu: two separate tombs in one precinct, excavated in 1999 and 2001. A spirit way lined with stone figures leads to the mounds, and both burial chambers can be entered; the wife's tomb ends in a gateway of carved brick imitating timber architecture. A small exhibition covers Li's life."},{"id":"fengxian-tongtianhe-forest-park","name":"Tongtianhe National Forest Park","name_zh":"通天河国家森林公园","pinyin":"Tōngtiānhé Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.2009,"lon":106.5954,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-tongtianhe-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of wooded mountains and streams in the Qinling range of northern Feng County, in Tangzang town. It is promoted for a high-mountain 'stone forest' of rock pillars."},{"id":"fengxian-xiaozai-temple","name":"Xiaozai Temple","name_zh":"消灾寺","pinyin":"Xiāozāi Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":33.9574,"lon":106.6199,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxian-xiaozai-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple complex on Douji Hill at Fengzhou, facing the old town of Fengzhou across the river. Its name, 'temple of dispelling disaster', comes from a local tradition that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang prayed here while fleeing the An Lushan rebellion."},{"id":"fengxiang-yongcheng-qin-capital","name":"Yongcheng Site and Tomb of Duke Jing of Qin","name_zh":"秦雍城遗址","pinyin":"Qín Yōngchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.4673,"lon":107.3579,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fengxiang-yongcheng-qin-capital","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yongcheng, in present-day Fengxiang, was the capital of the state of Qin for more than two centuries from 677 BC; its walled city, palace and temple sites and the cemetery of the Qin dukes lie mostly beneath farmland. The visitable part is the Baoji Museum of Pre-Qin Mausoleums at Nanzhihui, built over Tomb 1, the tomb of Duke Jing of Qin (died 537 BC). Excavated between 1977 and 1986, the tomb is a pit about 300 m long and 24 m deep, described as the largest pre-Qin tomb yet excavated, and contained 186 human sacrifices."},{"id":"fufeng-zhouyuan-site","name":"Zhouyuan Site and Baoji Zhouyuan Museum","name_zh":"周原遗址","pinyin":"Zhōuyuán Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Baoji","lat":34.4829,"lon":107.8663,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fufeng-zhouyuan-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Zhouyuan plain at the foot of Mount Qi was the homeland and early capital of the Zhou people and remained a political and ritual centre through the Western Zhou; the site covers about 30 km² across Fufeng and Qishan counties. Excavations since the 1970s have uncovered palace foundations at Fengchu and Zhaochen, hoards of inscribed bronzes, oracle bones and, in 2024, three rings of Western Zhou city walls. The Baoji Zhouyuan Museum in the core area at Zhaochen village displays bronzes, jades, pottery and building materials from the site."},{"id":"yangxian-changqing-huayang","name":"Changqing Huayang Scenic Area","name_zh":"长青华阳","pinyin":"Chángqīng Huáyáng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.5911,"lon":107.5381,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxian-changqing-huayang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area around Huayang, an old post town on the Tangluo road across the Qinling that keeps Ming- and Qing-era buildings, beside the Changqing National Nature Reserve at an average altitude of about 1,700 m. The crested ibis, giant panda, golden snub-nosed monkey and takin all live wild in these mountains, and the Qinling Four Treasures Park and its exhibition hall introduce them. The town also has the former headquarters of the Red Army's 25th Army."},{"id":"yangxian-crested-ibis-pear-garden","name":"Crested Ibis Pear Garden","name_zh":"朱鹮梨园","pinyin":"Zhūhuán Líyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.25,"lon":107.5654,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxian-crested-ibis-pear-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area on the edge of Yang County town that combines pear orchards with the Crested Ibis Ecological Park, a rescue and breeding centre for the endangered crested ibis. Visitors can watch the birds in a rewilding aviary of nearly 10,000 m²; it was in this county that the last seven known wild crested ibises were found in 1981."},{"id":"foping-panda-valley","name":"Foping Panda Valley","name_zh":"佛坪熊猫谷","pinyin":"Fópíng Xióngmāo Gǔ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.6699,"lon":107.9688,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=foping-panda-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wildlife park in a forested valley north of Foping town, on a corridor used by the Qinling giant panda population and close to the Foping National Nature Reserve. It contains a training base where more than ten giant pandas, among them the brown panda Qizai, have been prepared for life in the wild, a canyon where troops of golden snub-nosed monkeys roam, and an enclosure of golden pheasants and other pheasants."},{"id":"chenggu-northwest-associated-university","name":"Former Site of National Northwest Associated University","name_zh":"国立西北联合大学旧址","pinyin":"Guólì Xīběi Liánhé Dàxué Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.1639,"lon":107.3227,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chenggu-northwest-associated-university","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Three wartime sites of the National Northwest Associated University, which was formed in 1938 from universities that had moved west from Beiping and Tianjin and whose colleges taught in Chenggu County until 1946. They are the law and commerce college's two-storey brick building in Chenggu No. 1 Middle School, the Confucian Temple hall, now inside a school, and two courtyards of the former Catholic cathedral at Guluba, where the engineering college was housed. The Chenggu County Museum opened an exhibition hall on the university in 2019, with the Guluba church bell."},{"id":"ningqiang-hanjiang-source","name":"Hanjiang Source Scenic Area","name_zh":"汉江源","pinyin":"Hànjiāng Yuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":32.7528,"lon":106.1892,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningqiang-hanjiang-source","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley in Ningqiang County where the Yudai River, regarded as the source of the Han River, rises among wooded hills and streams, with mist and ice in winter. Ningqiang keeps a strong Qiang cultural tradition, and Qiang song-and-dance and nuo troupes regularly perform here, including ritual feats such as climbing a ladder of blades."},{"id":"hanzhong-museum-gu-hantai","name":"Hanzhong Museum (Gu Hantai)","name_zh":"汉中市博物馆","pinyin":"Hànzhōng Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.0711,"lon":107.029,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanzhong-museum-gu-hantai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Hanzhong's city museum occupies Gu Hantai, the raised terrace where Liu Bang is said to have lived as King of Han before founding the Han dynasty, crowned by the Wangjiang Tower. Its prize exhibit is the Shimen Thirteen Inscriptions, Han and Northern Wei carvings such as the Ode to Shimen that were cut from the cliffs in and around the Baoxie road's Stone Gate tunnel before a reservoir flooded it in the early 1970s, and are treasured as masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy. Other galleries cover the plank roads across the Qinling, Han-era Hanzhong and finds from Song tombs."},{"id":"yangxian-liangma-temple-juehuang-hall","name":"Juehuang Hall, Liangma Temple","name_zh":"良马寺觉皇殿","pinyin":"Liángmǎ Sì Juéhuáng Diàn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.164,"lon":107.3882,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxian-liangma-temple-juehuang-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Juehuang Hall of Liangma Temple, a five-bay brick-and-timber hall with a hip-and-gable roof and double tiers of bracket sets, built in 1261 under the Yuan dynasty. It is the only Yuan-era building surviving in Hanzhong's counties and is of interest mainly to lovers of early Chinese timber architecture."},{"id":"yangxian-kaiming-temple-pagoda","name":"Kaiming Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"开明寺塔","pinyin":"Kāimíng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.2196,"lon":107.5418,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yangxian-kaiming-temple-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 13-storey brick pagoda about 27 m tall in Yang County town, built in the Tang dynasty in the early 8th century and repaired under the Southern Song, and regarded as the oldest brick pagoda in southern Shaanxi. Each face of every storey has a Buddha niche flanked by two small carved pagodas, 52 niches and 104 pagodas in all, and bells hang from the corners."},{"id":"lueyang-lingyan-temple","name":"Lingyan Temple, Lueyang","name_zh":"灵岩寺","pinyin":"Língyán Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.3021,"lon":106.1412,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lueyang-lingyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple of Tang origin on Yuwen Hill above the east bank of the Jialing River just south of Lueyang town, with halls built into two natural caves, now a museum of more than 140 inscribed steles and cliff carvings. Its treasure is the Fuge Song, a cliff inscription of 172 AD in Han clerical script celebrating the rebuilding of a plank road and one of the 'three Han odes', which was cut from its original site on the west bank of the Jialing and moved here in 1979. A 1.5 km cliff walkway with glass sections opened behind the temple in 2024."},{"id":"nanzheng-liping-forest-park","name":"Liping National Forest Park","name_zh":"黎坪国家森林公园","pinyin":"Lípíng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":32.8434,"lon":106.6017,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanzheng-liping-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the Daba and Micang mountains near the Sichuan border south of Hanzhong, with primeval forest, gorges and waterfalls along the Yudai and Xiliu rivers and extensive stands of Bashan pine. Its best-known sight is Longlin ('Dragon Scale') Mountain, a reddish ridge whose rock is packed with fossil nautiloids (Sinoceras) more than 400 million years old."},{"id":"nanzheng-longtou-mountain","name":"Longtou Mountain","name_zh":"龙头山","pinyin":"Lóngtóu Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":32.7379,"lon":106.966,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nanzheng-longtou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain resort in the Micang range on the Sichuan border south of Hanzhong, on limestone riddled with caves and sinkholes, with viewpoints and sights such as Hanwang Terrace, Fairy Cave and the Longtou waterfall. A cableway climbs to the ridge, where there are cliff walkways and a glass skywalk, and there is a ski area in winter."},{"id":"xixiang-luojiaba-old-town","name":"Luojiaba Old Town","name_zh":"骆家坝古镇","pinyin":"Luòjiābà Gǔzhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":32.8145,"lon":107.4261,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixiang-luojiaba-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small market town at the head of the Muma River, at the northern foot of the Micang Mountains, whose old riverside street has been rebuilt in traditional style. The scenic area also takes in the Huilong Gorge and the restored venue of the Zhongjiagou meeting, a site from the revolutionary period, and the town stages folk performances and food fairs on holidays."},{"id":"hantai-shimen-plank-road","name":"Shimen Plank Road Scenic Area","name_zh":"石门栈道","pinyin":"Shímén Zhàndào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.2209,"lon":106.9605,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hantai-shimen-plank-road","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area at the mouth of the Bao valley, where the Baoxie road, the oldest of the plank roads across the Qinling to Sichuan, came out onto the Hanzhong plain and where the Eastern Han cut the Shimen ('Stone Gate') tunnel through the cliff. The original tunnel was flooded by the Shimen reservoir in the early 1970s and its famous inscriptions moved to the Hanzhong Museum, so visitors see a reconstructed cliff-side plank road, a replica tunnel, the dam and the reservoir, which can be toured by boat."},{"id":"yangxian-cai-lun-tomb","name":"Tomb and Temple of Cai Lun","name_zh":"蔡伦墓祠","pinyin":"Cài Lún Mùcí","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.206,"lon":107.652,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxian-cai-lun-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The burial place of Cai Lun, the Eastern Han court official who presented an improved method of papermaking to the emperor in 105 and was later made Marquis of Longting, the town where his tomb lies. A memorial temple stands in front of the mound, and a paper culture museum beside it shows papermaking by traditional methods."},{"id":"chenggu-zhang-qian-tomb","name":"Tomb of Zhang Qian","name_zh":"张骞墓","pinyin":"Zhāng Qiān Mù","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.158,"lon":107.2906,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chenggu-zhang-qian-tomb","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Zhang Qian, the Han envoy whose journeys to Central Asia in the 2nd century BC opened the routes later called the Silk Road, and since 2014 part of the UNESCO World Heritage site 'Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor'. A Han-style memorial hall with exhibitions on his missions leads to the cypress-shaded mound, fronted by a stele put up by the Qing governor Bi Yuan in 1776 and a pair of stone beasts, smashed in 1967 and later pieced together. Scholars of the wartime Northwest Associated University excavated it in 1938 and confirmed it as his tomb."},{"id":"mianxian-tomb-of-zhuge-liang","name":"Tomb of Zhuge Liang","name_zh":"武侯墓","pinyin":"Wǔhóu Mù","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.1255,"lon":106.6479,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mianxian-tomb-of-zhuge-liang/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Zhuge Liang, chancellor of the Shu Han kingdom in the Three Kingdoms period, who asked to be buried below Mount Dingjun after he died on campaign in 234. A walled precinct of Ming and Qing halls, with an opera stage, Ming-dynasty statues of Zhuge Liang flanked by Guan Xing and Zhang Bao, and dozens of inscribed boards and steles, leads to the mound, which is ringed by a white marble balustrade carved with 35 scenes from his life. Ancient cypresses surround it, and a temple fair is held at the Qingming festival."},{"id":"mianxian-wuhou-temple","name":"Wuhou Temple, Mian County","name_zh":"勉县武侯祠","pinyin":"Miǎnxiàn Wǔhóu Cí","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.1517,"lon":106.6311,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mianxian-wuhou-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The oldest of China's many temples to Zhuge Liang, founded in 263 on the order of the last Shu Han emperor, Liu Shan, near the strategist's burial place below Mount Dingjun. Its Ming and Qing buildings line a long axis from an old opera stage and bell and drum towers to the worship and main halls, where a statue of Zhuge Liang sits among steles carved with poems by writers such as Li Shangyin and Lu You. A centuries-old magnolia in a side courtyard draws visitors when it flowers in March."},{"id":"lueyang-wulongdong-forest-park","name":"Wulongdong National Forest Park","name_zh":"五龙洞国家森林公园","pinyin":"Wǔlóngdòng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.6016,"lon":106.2943,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lueyang-wulongdong-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of forested mountains and valleys in Wulongdong town, northern Lueyang County, made up of the Wulong Valley, the Qinglong and Bailong gullies, the Sanfo Temple area and a Di-Qiang folk village. The village has houses built in the style of the Di and Qiang peoples who once lived here, and Qiang dances, bonfire evenings, embroidery and paper-cutting are offered to visitors in the town."},{"id":"chenggu-wumen-weir","name":"Wumen Weir","name_zh":"五门堰","pinyin":"Wǔmén Yàn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.2477,"lon":107.2485,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chenggu-wumen-weir","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A working irrigation weir on the Xu River north of Chenggu, said to date back to the Han and named after the five gated intakes at its head; its rock-cut channel through Doushan hill was made under the Yuan and widened under the Ming by heating the stone with fire and cracking it with water. The low weir, 374 m long, still feeds an 8.9 km canal that waters about 7,300 mu (490 ha) of fields, and it is listed, with other historic Hanzhong weirs, as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure."},{"id":"xixiang-wuzi-mountain","name":"Wuzi Mountain","name_zh":"午子山","pinyin":"Wǔzǐ Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":32.9525,"lon":107.842,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixiang-wuzi-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded hill a little over 10 km south-east of Xixiang town, covered by some 200 hectares of lacebark pine, a rare tree with mottled pale bark. Cliff inscriptions and carved images are scattered over the mountain, among them the characters 'Feifeng Shan' that local legend attributes to the Three Kingdoms general Zhang Fei, and the summit looks out over Xixiang and its valley."},{"id":"hanzhong-xinghan-shengjing","name":"Xinghan Shengjing","name_zh":"兴汉胜境","pinyin":"Xīnghàn Shèngjìng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.111,"lon":107.028,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hanzhong-xinghan-shengjing","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern culture park built in Han-dynasty style around Hanyuan Lake in Hanzhong's Xinghan New Area, with a large Han Culture Museum, the Han Yuefu hall of Han-style music and banquets, a city planning exhibition hall and two streets of shops and restaurants. In the evening a water show, Tian Han Chuanqi, is staged on the lake, and holiday events include Hanfu costume parades."},{"id":"liuba-zhandao-water-world","name":"Zhandao Water World","name_zh":"栈道水世界","pinyin":"Zhàndào Shuǐ Shìjiè","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.5563,"lon":106.9909,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuba-zhandao-water-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside water park at Daoshuiwan in Wuguanyi town, in the Qinling valleys of Liuba County, with a wave pool, large water slides, a lazy river and children's water play areas, themed on the ancient plank roads of the area. A river-rafting run starts from the same site, and it is a summer outing for families rather than a historic site."},{"id":"liuba-zhang-liang-temple","name":"Zhang Liang Temple and Zibai Mountain","name_zh":"张良庙·紫柏山","pinyin":"Zhāng Liáng Miào · Zǐbǎi Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.6797,"lon":106.8327,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liuba-zhang-liang-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Ming and Qing temple complex at the south-eastern foot of Zibai Mountain in the Qinling, dedicated to Zhang Liang, the strategist who helped Liu Bang found the Han dynasty and who, by tradition, retired here as a recluse. Its twelve parts climb from a memorial archway and bridge through gate halls, a Hall of the Three Pure Ones and garden courtyards to a pavilion reached by a steep stairway, and it is one of the largest and best-preserved temples to Zhang Liang in China. The scenic area also takes in Zibai Mountain behind it, a national forest park whose karst summit, reached by cableway, has grassy sinkhole meadows at up to about 2,600 m."},{"id":"yangxian-zhiguo-temple","name":"Zhiguo Temple","name_zh":"智果寺","pinyin":"Zhìguǒ Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Hanzhong","lat":33.1736,"lon":107.4237,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangxian-zhiguo-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple west of Yang County town whose surviving building is a two-storey Ming sutra library roofed in yellow and green glazed tiles. It was built after a local monk, Zhiguo, cured the eye disease of the Wanli emperor's mother in 1584, in return for which the emperor sent a Buddhist canon of 6,780 scrolls and funds for a library to house it."},{"id":"danfeng-danjiang-rafting","name":"Danjiang River Rafting","name_zh":"丹江漂流","pinyin":"Dānjiāng Piāoliú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.6883,"lon":110.3207,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danfeng-danjiang-rafting","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A commercial rafting trip on the Dan River (Danjiang) at Danfeng, in which visitors drift in rafts down a stretch of the river valley between the Qinling hills. It is a warm-season activity that suits families and groups wanting a few hours on the water, and it can be combined with Dihua Ancient Town upstream."},{"id":"danfeng-dihua-ancient-town","name":"Dihua Ancient Town","name_zh":"棣花古镇","pinyin":"Dìhuā Gǔzhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.7358,"lon":110.1879,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danfeng-dihua-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area opened in 2014 at Dihua, an old post station on the Shangyu road about 15 km west of Danfeng and the home village of the novelist Jia Pingwa. Its two streets are Song–Jin Street, whose paving marks the 12th-century border between the Song and Jin, and Qingfeng Street, the old village street restyled after his novel The Shaanxi Opera; the restored Erlang Temple is described as Shaanxi's only surviving Jin-dynasty building. There is also a museum of Jia's work near his old family home, and wide lotus ponds that are lit up for night visits."},{"id":"shangnan-jinsi-gorge","name":"Jinsi Gorge (Jinsixia)","name_zh":"金丝峡","pinyin":"Jīnsī Xiá","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.3691,"lon":110.5601,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangnan-jinsi-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A system of narrow, steep-walled limestone gorges on the southern side of the Qinling in Shangnan County, made up of the White Dragon, Black Dragon and Green Dragon gorges, Shiyan Stockade and the Danjiang source area, with a combined gorge length of 20.5 km. Streams run through dense forest between the cliffs, and the area is rich in plants and wildlife. It was rated a national 5A scenic area in 2015 and is also a national geopark, national forest park and national water park."},{"id":"shanyang-manchuan-ancient-town","name":"Manchuan Ancient Town (Manchuanguan)","name_zh":"漫川古镇","pinyin":"Mànchuān Gǔzhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.2345,"lon":110.0568,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanyang-manchuan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old trading town at the south-eastern tip of Shaanxi on the border with Hubei, which grew from the Eastern Jin onwards as a river-and-road transfer point between the Qin lands to the north and Chu to the south. Its core is a row of three Qing guild halls begun in 1881 – the Mule Caravan Guild Hall, the Northern Guild Hall and the Wuchang Guild Hall – covering more than 12,000 m², and the mule guild's paired opera stages are finely built and carved; the Mule Caravan Guild Hall is a national heritage site."},{"id":"shanyang-moon-cave","name":"Moon Cave (Yueliang Dong)","name_zh":"月亮洞","pinyin":"Yuèliang Dòng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.3233,"lon":109.7523,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanyang-moon-cave","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A limestone show cave halfway up a hillside above the Jinqian River in Yangdi town, south-western Shanyang County, at the heart of a scenic area that also takes in the Jiashi Gorge. Local legend gives the cave nine levels, of which four, with more than 1.5 km of passages, have been opened, winding like a maze past stalactites and other formations; the Tianpeng Shanzhai scenic area lies about 15 km to the west."},{"id":"zhenan-muwang-forest-park","name":"Muwang National Forest Park","name_zh":"木王国家森林公园","pinyin":"Mùwáng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.4437,"lon":108.6526,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenan-muwang-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of 3,616 ha in the far west of Zhen'an County, designated in 2003, with old-growth forest, high-mountain wetland, rhododendron groves, peaks and rock formations. It has four areas – Sihaiping with gorges, waterfalls and alpine meadow, Shuangtouma with a long bare-rock 'stone waterfall' and rhododendrons, Cigou with its rhododendron belt, and Yingzuifeng (Eagle-Beak Peak) – and is home to protected animals such as takin, golden eagle, black bear and giant salamander; the rhododendrons flower in spring."},{"id":"zhashui-niubeiliang-forest-park","name":"Niubeiliang National Forest Park","name_zh":"牛背梁国家森林公园","pinyin":"Niúbèiliáng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.8263,"lon":108.9921,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhashui-niubeiliang-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park on the main ridge of the Qinling in Zhashui County, named after its ox-back-shaped summit and rising from about 1,000 m to 2,802 m. Its zones run from Lingniu (Takin) Valley, with streams, pools and waterfalls, up through Qinling fir and rhododendron belts to alpine meadow and Quaternary glacial landforms; the rhododendrons flower in May and the woods turn red in autumn. The park lies within the Niubeiliang UNESCO biosphere reserve and was rated 4A in 2013."},{"id":"shangzhou-qinling-jiangshan","name":"Qinling Jiangshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"秦岭江山","pinyin":"Qínlǐng Jiāngshān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":34.1032,"lon":109.8855,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangzhou-qinling-jiangshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest scenic area of about 2,400 ha in Yaoshi town in the north of Shangzhou District, near the source of the Dan River, with more than 90% forest cover. Its sights include a glass suspension bridge, the Doucao waterfall, a patch of karst 'stone teeth' rare in the Qinling, and the reputed retreat of the Four Hoary Recluses of Mount Shang from the early Han."},{"id":"danfeng-zhulinguan-taohua-valley","name":"Taohua Valley, Zhulinguan","name_zh":"桃花谷","pinyin":"Táohuā Gǔ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.4647,"lon":110.4415,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=danfeng-zhulinguan-taohua-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A valley at Zhulinguan near where Shaanxi, Henan and Hubei meet, developed around soil-and-water-conservation works and described by the city government as Shangluo's largest peach-blossom viewing area. It is a national soil-and-water-conservation demonstration park and national water park, and was rated 4A in early 2026; spring, when the peach trees flower, is the time to go."},{"id":"zhenan-tayun-mountain","name":"Tayun Mountain","name_zh":"塔云山","pinyin":"Tǎyún Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.3101,"lon":109.0473,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenan-tayun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A pagoda-shaped peak in Chaiping town, south-west of Zhen'an town, crowned by a group of Daoist temple buildings more than 500 years old. The Guanyin hall on the Golden Summit stands on a rock pinnacle with sheer drops on three sides; a cableway, a glass bridge and swings have been added, and the peak is a noted spot for seas of cloud."},{"id":"shanyang-tianpeng-shanzhai","name":"Tianpeng Mountain Stronghold (Tianpeng Shanzhai)","name_zh":"天蓬山寨","pinyin":"Tiānpéng Shānzhài","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.3411,"lon":109.5862,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanyang-tianpeng-shanzhai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A mountain scenic area in south-western Shanyang County, named after a 6 km gorge between the Yintai and Dingjia ridges and a stone stronghold (shanzhai) about 300 m long, from the Ming–Qing period, on the Yintai ridge above it. Paths follow the gorge past pools, waterfalls and features such as a water-curtain cave and a narrow 'one-line sky' cleft, and climb to the old stronghold walls; the area has been developed for tourism since the early 2010s."},{"id":"shanyang-tianzhu-mountain","name":"Tianzhu Mountain (Shanyang)","name_zh":"天竺山","pinyin":"Tiānzhú Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.3948,"lon":110.0209,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanyang-tianzhu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of steep crags and pinnacles about 30 km south-east of Shanyang town, rising to 2,074 m; its best-known sights are the free-standing rock pillar called Tianzhu Moxiao, the knife-edge Daobeiliang ridge and seas of cloud after rain. The mountain has long been a centre of Daoism, and of the dozen or so temples built over the centuries the Shuangfeng Daoist temple and Yungai Temple survive in good condition."},{"id":"shangnan-yangchengyi","name":"Yangchengyi Scenic Area","name_zh":"阳城驿","pinyin":"Yángchéngyì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.5169,"lon":110.9454,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shangnan-yangchengyi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A themed scenic area in Fushui town, just east of Shangnan town, built around Yangcheng post station on the old Shangyu road and the late-Ming rebel leader Li Zicheng, who is said to have camped in the nearby hills. It has three parts: a post-station complex rebuilt on the old site; the Chuangwang Zhai hilltop stronghold themed on Li Zicheng, where a staged horseback battle show is performed; and a large tea-garden park where visitors can try picking tea."},{"id":"zhenan-yungaisi-ancient-town","name":"Yungaisi Ancient Town","name_zh":"云盖寺古镇","pinyin":"Yúngàisì Gǔzhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.4918,"lon":109.0109,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhenan-yungaisi-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old market town on the river 18 km west of Zhen'an town, named after Yungai Temple, a once-large monastery rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its front, back and 'half' streets run for more than 1.2 km between some 40 courtyard houses in a mix of Huizhou and Sichuan styles, mostly from the Ming–Qing period or later and restored since 2013. The temple, the old streets and a set of carved cliff inscriptions on the hill nearby are provincial protected sites."},{"id":"zhashui-karst-caves","name":"Zhashui Karst Caves","name_zh":"柞水溶洞","pinyin":"Zhàshuǐ Róngdòng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Shangluo","lat":33.5673,"lon":109.1615,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhashui-karst-caves","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cluster of more than a hundred limestone caves in Xialiang town, Zhashui County, set among gorges and waterfalls. The main show caves are Foye Cave, whose Zhuanjinglou section is crowded with stalactites, stalagmites and formations likened to figures and animals, and the corridor-shaped Tiandong (Heaven Cave) next to it, where the formations are within arm's reach."},{"id":"yintai-chenlu-old-town","name":"Chenlu Ancient Town","name_zh":"陈炉古镇","pinyin":"Chénlú Gǔzhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.0255,"lon":109.1557,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yintai-chenlu-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside pottery town south-east of central Tongchuan, the one Yaozhou-ware kiln centre that kept making ceramics after the Song and Yuan dynasties, where by local tradition the kiln fires have never gone out. Houses and cave dwellings are stacked in tiers up the slopes, with walls built of old pottery jars and lanes paved with potsherds, and workshops let visitors try making pots."},{"id":"yintai-chongxing-temple-pagoda","name":"Chongxing Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"重兴寺塔","pinyin":"Chóngxīng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.1144,"lon":109.0927,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yintai-chongxing-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda about 16 m high, built in the Northern Song and the only surviving part of Chongxing Temple, known locally as the Tongchuan Pagoda. It stands in the grounds of the Yintai District cultural centre at the foot of Yintai hill in the old centre of Tongchuan."},{"id":"yijun-huaxi-valley","name":"Huaxi Valley, Yijun","name_zh":"动漫花溪谷","pinyin":"Dòngmàn Huāxī Gǔ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.3966,"lon":109.1242,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yijun-huaxi-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A flower-garden park on the edge of Yijun town, planted with herbaceous peonies, a medicinal-herb valley and bamboo, with windmills, a play castle and other attractions for children, a 100 m slide and a toboggan run of about 1 km. It holds peony-season and beer and food festivals, and suits families."},{"id":"yintai-jinsuoguan-stone-forest","name":"Jinsuoguan Stone Forest","name_zh":"金锁关石林","pinyin":"Jīnsuǒguān Shílín","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.2431,"lon":108.9979,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yintai-jinsuoguan-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A sandstone landscape in the hills of Jinsuoguan, north of central Tongchuan, where rockfalls and weathering have left a maze of pillars, cliffs and boulders, unusual on the plateau north of the Wei River. Paths wind through the rocks, and a cableway, a glass suspension bridge, a cliff swing and a zip line add thrill rides."},{"id":"yaozhou-shende-temple-pagoda","name":"Shende Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"神德寺塔","pinyin":"Shéndé Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":34.9232,"lon":108.9756,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaozhou-shende-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 35 m tall below the Bushou plateau on the northern edge of Yaozhou town, built in the Song dynasty and repaired under the Ming and Qing. It is the main survivor of a site that held a Northern Wei monastery, the Tang Shende Temple and later a Ming academy, and its eaves rest on brick imitations of timber bracket sets."},{"id":"yaozhou-xishan-shengjing","name":"Xishan Shengjing","name_zh":"溪山胜境","pinyin":"Xīshān Shèngjìng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.0981,"lon":108.6428,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaozhou-xishan-shengjing","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wooded valley of red Danxia sandstone cliffs at Zhaojin, said to be the landscape behind Travellers among Mountains and Streams, the famous painting by the Northern Song artist Fan Kuan. A former coal-mining area that has been replanted, it has mountain paths, a cableway to a viewing platform named after the painter, a campsite and a hotel, and is known for red autumn leaves and frozen waterfalls in winter."},{"id":"yaozhou-yanchang-temple-pagoda","name":"Yanchang Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"延昌寺塔","pinyin":"Yánchāng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":34.8624,"lon":108.9184,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaozhou-yanchang-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hexagonal Song-dynasty brick pagoda with close-set eaves, the only building left standing at Yanchang Temple, which by legend was founded by a Northern Wei princess who modelled ten thousand Buddha figures here, hence its other name, Wanfo (Ten Thousand Buddhas) Temple. The temple halls were pulled down by troops in 1940, and its Northern Wei stone pagoda and two carved steles were moved to Yaowang Mountain. It is mainly for those already visiting Yaozhou's other pagodas and temples."},{"id":"yaozhou-yaowang-mountain","name":"Yaowang Mountain","name_zh":"药王山","pinyin":"Yàowáng Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":34.9076,"lon":109.0027,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaozhou-yaowang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple-covered hill just east of Yaozhou town where the Tang physician Sun Simiao, revered as the 'King of Medicine', is said to have lived in retreat, with Jin- and Yuan-era halls, Yuan murals and a memorial hall on his life and on Chinese medicine. Its stone carvings are regarded as China's largest collection of Buddhist statue steles from the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang, with more than 100 steles and about 45 cliff-carved figures, beside steles of Sun Simiao's prescriptions carved in 1572. A temple fair listed as national intangible heritage runs for about ten days around the second day of the second lunar month."},{"id":"yaozhou-confucian-temple","name":"Yaozhou Confucian Temple","name_zh":"耀州文庙","pinyin":"Yàozhōu Wénmiào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":34.9143,"lon":108.9738,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaozhou-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yaozhou's Confucian temple, founded in the Northern Song and rebuilt and repaired under the Yuan, Ming and Qing, keeps its Lingxing Gate, Ji Gate, side halls and a seven-bay Dacheng Hall whose roof frame preserves Jin and Yuan building features. It houses the Yaozhou District Museum, with excavated finds from the district shown in the side halls, and stands beside Wenmiao Street, a shopping and food street rebuilt in Tang–Song style."},{"id":"wangyi-yaozhou-kiln-museum","name":"Yaozhou Kiln Museum","name_zh":"耀州窑博物馆","pinyin":"Yàozhōu Yáo Bówùguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":34.9923,"lon":109.0078,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wangyi-yaozhou-kiln-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site museum of the Yaozhou kilns at Huangbao, which from the Tang to the Yuan made what is generally regarded as the finest northern celadon, prized in the Northern Song for its olive-green glaze over carved and later moulded decoration. Besides galleries of excavated ceramics, two halls shelter excavated kiln and workshop remains, including a Tang site where sancai three-colour wares were made, and there are demonstrations of traditional pottery-making."},{"id":"yijun-grottoes","name":"Yijun Grottoes","name_zh":"宜君石窟群","pinyin":"Yíjūn Shíkū Qún","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.4585,"lon":109.0679,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yijun-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of small Buddhist cave temples and cliff carvings from the Northern Dynasties to the Tang scattered across Yijun County, among them Huashiya, whose earliest caves were cut in the early 6th century, and the Fudi Grotto. Fudi, cut in 535 under the Western Wei in a cliff on an island in Fudi Lake east of Yijun town, is known for carvings that place Buddhist and Taoist figures in the same niche."},{"id":"yintai-yuhua-palace","name":"Yuhua Palace","name_zh":"玉华宫","pinyin":"Yùhuá Gōng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.3368,"lon":108.9015,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yintai-yuhua-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forested valley in the north of Tongchuan where Emperor Taizong of Tang completed the Yuhua summer palace in 647; it was turned into a monastery in 651, and the pilgrim-monk Xuanzang spent his last years here translating Buddhist scriptures. Little of the palace survives above ground, but the scenic area, also a national forest park, has the site of the Sucheng Court, a Xuanzang memorial hall, lakes and woodland walks, and a ski slope in winter."},{"id":"yaozhou-zhaojin-xiangshan","name":"Zhaojin and Xiangshan","name_zh":"照金·香山","pinyin":"Zhàojīn · Xiāng Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Tongchuan","lat":35.0581,"lon":108.6356,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yaozhou-zhaojin-xiangshan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhaojin, in the red Danxia sandstone hills west of Tongchuan, was the centre of the Shaanxi–Gansu Border revolutionary base set up in the early 1930s by Communist leaders including Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang; its sites include the cliff caves of Xuejiazhai, used as Red Army strongholds, a memorial hall on the base's history first opened in 2004 and rebuilt in 2013, and an immersive light show on the Xuejiazhai battle. The scenic area also takes in Daxiangshan, a Buddhist mountain about 12 km to the north-east with a temple said to date from the 4th century and linked by legend to Princess Miaoshan, who became the bodhisattva Guanyin."},{"id":"pucheng-chongshou-temple-pagoda","name":"Chongshou Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"崇寿寺塔","pinyin":"Chóngshòu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.9579,"lon":109.5826,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pucheng-chongshou-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 13-storey square brick pagoda with close-set eaves, 45 m tall, built in 1096 and known in Pucheng as the North Pagoda. Chongshou Temple itself has long gone, and the pagoda stands on its own in the middle of the county town."},{"id":"heyang-daxiang-temple-pagoda","name":"Daxiang Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"大象寺塔","pinyin":"Dàxiàng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.1966,"lon":110.1945,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heyang-daxiang-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A solid Song-dynasty brick pagoda with 13 close-set eaves, 28 m tall, at Yangjiawa village south-east of Heyang town; locals also call it the Longwang Temple Pagoda. The temple was destroyed during the war against Japan, and the square tower now leans more than 5 degrees to the north-east."},{"id":"hancheng-fawang-temple","name":"Fawang Temple, Hancheng","name_zh":"法王庙","pinyin":"Fǎwáng Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.546,"lon":110.4598,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-fawang-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple in Xizhuang town founded in 1022 for Fang Yin, a local healer who by legend used acupuncture to bring about the birth of the future emperor Renzong, treated Emperor Zhenzong and was given the title Fawang. Three Yuan-period halls line its axis, ending in the raised rear hall with glazed ridge beasts, and a small hexagonal brick pagoda in front of the first hall is said to be Fang's tomb. Temple fairs are held at Qingming and twice more in the lunar year."},{"id":"dali-fengtu-granary","name":"Fengtu Charity Granary","name_zh":"丰图义仓","pinyin":"Fēngtú Yìcāng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.7856,"lon":110.1143,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dali-fengtu-granary","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled charity granary at Chaoyi, begun in 1882 at the urging of the Qing minister Yan Jingming, a native of the town, after the Guanzhong famine of 1877, and still used to store state grain. Built as a fort within a fort, it has an outer rammed-earth wall and an inner rectangle of about 133 by 83 m whose 58 vaulted storage chambers form the inner wall; Empress Dowager Cixi is said to have called it the 'first granary under heaven'. Twelve small exhibition halls cover grain storage and local history."},{"id":"pucheng-yang-hucheng-former-residence","name":"Former Residence of Yang Hucheng","name_zh":"杨虎城旧居","pinyin":"Yáng Hǔchéng Jiùjū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.9547,"lon":109.5795,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pucheng-yang-hucheng-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The house that General Yang Hucheng, commander of the Northwestern Army, built in his home county in 1934, two years before he and Zhang Xueliang detained Chiang Kai-shek in the Xi'an Incident. The traditional south-facing courtyard house has a main east courtyard and a garden in the west courtyard, and it has been open as a memorial hall since 1983."},{"id":"fuping-ceramic-art-village","name":"Fuping Ceramic Art Village (FLICAM)","name_zh":"富平陶艺村","pinyin":"Fùpíng Táoyì Cūn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.7721,"lon":109.1742,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuping-ceramic-art-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A ceramics-themed village on the northern edge of Fuping town, built around the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums (FLICAM). Each pavilion is devoted to ceramic artists from one country or region and shows work they made during residencies here: the French and Scandinavian pavilions opened first in 2005, followed by Australasia, North America and, in 2016, Ukraine."},{"id":"huayin-wei-great-wall","name":"Great Wall of Wei (Huayin section)","name_zh":"魏长城","pinyin":"Wèi Chángchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.5574,"lon":110.0729,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huayin-wei-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of the rammed-earth wall that the Warring States kingdom of Wei built from the 350s BC along its western border with Qin, running from the foot of Mount Hua north through Dali, Chengcheng and Heyang to the Yellow River in Hancheng. More than 50 stretches survive, and in Huayin the best preserved, east of Chengnan village, is about 365 m long and still about 7 m high, with traces of a fort and a beacon tower."},{"id":"hancheng-liuzhi-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple, Liuzhi","name_zh":"柳枝关帝庙","pinyin":"Liǔzhī Guāndì Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.5418,"lon":110.449,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-liuzhi-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple to Guan Yu, the deified Three Kingdoms general, in Liuzhi village, founded in 1535 and rebuilt in 1619, 1699 and 1787. An offering hall with glazed ridge ornaments and elaborate bracket sets stands before the main hall, flanked by small halls to the goddess Niangniang and the physician Hua Tuo. The village school used the temple after 1949, and it was repaired in 2015 and 2018."},{"id":"heyang-confucian-temple","name":"Heyang Confucian Temple","name_zh":"合阳文庙","pinyin":"Héyáng Wénmiào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.2368,"lon":110.1435,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heyang-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Confucian temple of Heyang county town, of which three main buildings survive: the five-bay Dacheng Hall, rebuilt in 1369, the Minglun Hall and the Zunjing Pavilion of 1610. The pavilion, a three-storey Ming timber building under double hip-and-gable eaves, reopened in 2026 after a year-long restoration, and the temple grounds house the Heyang County Museum."},{"id":"hancheng-mazhuang-huayan-temple","name":"Huayan Temple, Mazhuang","name_zh":"马庄华严寺","pinyin":"Mǎzhuāng Huáyán Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.5959,"lon":110.5099,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-mazhuang-huayan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small Buddhist temple in Mazhuang village, Longmen town, rebuilt in the Ming and Qing and later used as a primary school. An offering hall and a main hall, both under overhanging gable roofs with elaborate bracket sets, stand between east and west side halls, and a conservation project for the buildings was approved in 2019."},{"id":"chengcheng-jingjin-temple-pagoda","name":"Jingjin Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"精进寺塔","pinyin":"Jīngjìn Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.1896,"lon":109.9325,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengcheng-jingjin-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-storey square brick pagoda, 33 m tall, in the courtyard of the county cultural centre on East Street in Chengcheng town. It was built with Jingjin Temple under the Tang emperor Suzong in the mid-8th century and repaired in 1047. The temple was destroyed during the war against Japan, leaving the hollow pagoda with its imitation-timber brick brackets and arched openings on every storey."},{"id":"hancheng-liangdai-rui-state-museum","name":"Liangdai Village Rui State Site Museum","name_zh":"梁带村芮国遗址博物馆","pinyin":"Liángdàicūn Ruìguó Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.513,"lon":110.4912,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-liangdai-rui-state-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site museum of the cemetery of Rui, a small Zhou-dynasty state on the Yellow River conquered by Qin in the 7th century BC, where excavations from 2004 found more than 1,300 tombs and 64 chariot-and-horse pits. Opened in 2018, its four galleries show about 800 bronzes, gold ornaments and jades from the 26,000 objects recovered, arranged to follow the order of excavation."},{"id":"baishui-lingao-lake","name":"Lingao Lake","name_zh":"林皋湖","pinyin":"Língāo Hú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.1724,"lon":109.409,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baishui-lingao-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A reservoir lake of about 2,200 mu (150 ha) in the loess uplands of northern Weinan, designated a national wetland park and promoted by Baishui county as the 'Lingao Lake International Slow City'. A road and lakeside paths ring the water, with viewing platforms and a sandy beach, and the scenic area extends to the planted forests of Fangshan."},{"id":"hancheng-longmen-steelworks","name":"Longmen Iron and Steel Works","name_zh":"龙门钢铁景区","pinyin":"Lóngmén Gāngtiě Jǐngqū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.6185,"lon":110.5777,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-longmen-steelworks","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The working plant of Shaanxi Longmen Iron and Steel at Longmen, opened to visitors as an industrial tourism site on the theme of how steel is made. Guided visits in hard hats take in the company exhibition hall, the ore yard, the ironworks, the converter steel plant, the rolling mill where red-hot billets are drawn out into strip, and the production control centre, and they suit older children and anyone curious about heavy industry."},{"id":"heyang-luoshan-temple-pagoda","name":"Luoshan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"罗山寺塔","pinyin":"Luóshān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.1367,"lon":110.1314,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heyang-luoshan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A square brick pagoda on the eastern peak of Ruluo Hill above Dongma village, which its style places in the Tang dynasty. Seven and a half of its original nine storeys survive, about 30 m high, while only traces of the temple around it remain. The wooden stairs inside were destroyed in the 1860s."},{"id":"pucheng-examination-hall","name":"Pucheng Examination Hall","name_zh":"蒲城考院","pinyin":"Púchéng Kǎoyuàn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.9549,"lon":109.5802,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pucheng-examination-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Qing-dynasty examination hall in the Huaiyuanli old-lanes district of Pucheng, where candidates from the county sat the imperial civil-service examinations. It is now the Pucheng Qing Dynasty Examination Hall Museum, on the same lane as the former residence of General Yang Hucheng."},{"id":"hancheng-puzhao-temple","name":"Puzhao Temple, Hancheng","name_zh":"普照寺","pinyin":"Pǔzhào Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.5442,"lon":110.4946,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-puzhao-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village Buddhist temple at the south corner of the old Wucun fort, founded in 1316 under the Yuan and restored in 1823. Its main hall is an original Yuan building, five bays wide under a single hip-and-gable roof of glazed tiles, surrounded by smaller shrines, a Guanyin cave and old steles. Since the late 1990s endangered Yuan buildings from elsewhere in Hancheng have been moved into its grounds for safekeeping, among them the Sanqing Hall of Ziyun Temple."},{"id":"heyang-qiachuan-wetland","name":"Qiachuan Scenic Area","name_zh":"洽川","pinyin":"Qiàchuān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.1441,"lon":110.3452,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heyang-qiachuan-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national scenic area of reed beds, lotus ponds and warm springs on the Yellow River floodplain east of Heyang. Black storks, swans and dozens of other bird species use the wetland, and among its seven warm springs the Chunü ('Maiden') Spring is known for the sand that boils up from its bed beneath floating bathers. The area is linked to 'Guanju', a poem in the Book of Songs that is said to have been set here."},{"id":"pucheng-qiaoling-mausoleum","name":"Qiaoling Mausoleum","name_zh":"桥陵","pinyin":"Qiáolíng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.9815,"lon":109.4683,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pucheng-qiaoling-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mausoleum of the Tang emperor Ruizong (Li Dan), whose burial chamber was cut into Feng Mountain north-west of Pucheng, with a walled precinct built around the hill. Its long spirit way is lined with sculpture regarded, with that of Qianling, as among the finest of any Tang tomb: carved pillars, a pair of winged xiezhi beasts, ostriches in relief, horses, officials and, at the south gate, a pair of lions."},{"id":"huazhou-qiaoshangqiao","name":"Qiaoshangqiao (Bridge on a Bridge)","name_zh":"桥上桥","pinyin":"Qiáo Shàng Qiáo","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.5056,"lon":109.6358,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huazhou-qiaoshangqiao","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A two-tier stone arch bridge over the Chishui River at Chishui town. The lower bridge was built in 1667, and when silt had raised the riverbed a second bridge was laid on top of it in 1832; the lower one stayed buried until sand dredging in the 1980s exposed it again. The bridge is 70 m long with nine arches, and four arches of the lower bridge are now visible."},{"id":"linwei-qingan-temple-pagoda","name":"Qing'an Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"庆安寺塔","pinyin":"Qìng'ān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.6874,"lon":109.7277,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linwei-qingan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-storey square brick pagoda, 30 m tall, in Jiaoxie town north-east of Weinan, also called the Laihua Pagoda. First built under the Tang and repaired in the Northern Song, it was brought down by the great Jiajing earthquake of the 1550s and rebuilt to the old design in 1558. Brick brackets imitating timber survive under the eaves of the lowest two storeys."},{"id":"hancheng-ziyun-temple-sanqing-hall","name":"Sanqing Hall of Ziyun Temple","name_zh":"紫云观三清殿","pinyin":"Zǐyún Guàn Sānqīng Diàn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.545,"lon":110.4948,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-ziyun-temple-sanqing-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The main hall of Ziyun Temple, a Taoist temple founded in 1270, which was moved in 2001–03 from a middle-school campus in Hancheng into the compound of Puzhao Temple in the old fortified village of Wucun. The three-bay hall stands on a raised brick base with a terrace in front and a hip-and-gable roof with glazed ridges. Of the temple's surviving halls it is the only one that keeps its Yuan-dynasty form."},{"id":"huazhou-shaohua-mountain-forest-park","name":"Shaohua Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"少华山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Shàohuà Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.4642,"lon":109.8479,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huazhou-shaohua-mountain-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park on the northern slopes of the Qinling Mountains south-east of Huazhou, named Shaohua ('Lesser Hua') as the smaller neighbour of Mount Hua further east. Paths climb wooded gorges such as Shimen Gorge to the hillside Qianlong Temple, near which a glass-floored walkway runs along a cliff."},{"id":"chengcheng-city-god-temple-theatre-tower","name":"Shenlou of Chengcheng City God Temple","name_zh":"澄城城隍庙神楼","pinyin":"Chéngchéng Chénghuángmiào Shénlóu","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.1903,"lon":109.9259,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengcheng-city-god-temple-theatre-tower","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The only surviving building of Chengcheng's City God Temple: a Ming tower, also called the music tower, rebuilt in 1582 on a high terrace. A three-bay central tower under triple eaves is flanked by two smaller one-bay towers with cross-shaped hip-and-gable roofs."},{"id":"huazhou-weihua-uprising-sites","name":"Sites of the Weihua Uprising","name_zh":"渭华起义旧址","pinyin":"Wèihuà Qǐyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.3993,"lon":109.6619,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huazhou-weihua-uprising-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Sites of the Weihua Uprising, an armed rising led by the Chinese Communist Party in Weinan and Hua counties in 1928 and put down by Nationalist forces that June. The main site is the former primary school at Gaotang, once a Taoist temple and academy, where the rebels' military committee and headquarters were based; a memorial hall opened there in 1988, with a martyrs' cemetery to its south. The listing also covers a Qing-era temple at Dongyang used by the party's East Shaanxi committee and a village shrine where Liu Zhidan's guerrillas were active."},{"id":"pucheng-tailing-mausoleum","name":"Tailing Mausoleum","name_zh":"唐泰陵","pinyin":"Táng Tàilíng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.0378,"lon":109.6681,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pucheng-tailing-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mausoleum of the Tang emperor Xuanzong (Li Longji), who chose the site himself and was buried here in 763 with Empress Yuanxian, its burial chamber cut into Jinsu Mountain north-east of Pucheng. More than 30 of the stone officials, envoys, horses, ostriches and pillars that once lined its spirit way survive, beside a Qing stele that calls him 'Yuanzong' to avoid the Kangxi Emperor's personal name. The tomb of the court eunuch Gao Lishi, its only satellite burial, lies nearby."},{"id":"baishui-cangjie-temple","name":"Temple and Tomb of Cangjie","name_zh":"仓颉庙","pinyin":"Cāngjié Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.3719,"lon":109.6924,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baishui-cangjie-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple and tomb honouring Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, laid out with the temple in front and his walled tomb mound behind. Along the axis stand a screen wall, gate, offering hall, main hall and a Yuan-style rear hall, flanked by an opera stage and bell and drum towers among dozens of ancient cypresses, and a stele carved with 28 'bird-track' characters attributed to Cangjie stands inside. A ceremony for Cangjie is held here every year at the Guyu solar term in April."},{"id":"hancheng-sima-qian-temple","name":"Temple and Tomb of Sima Qian","name_zh":"司马迁祠","pinyin":"Sīmǎ Qiān Cí","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.3711,"lon":110.4086,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hancheng-sima-qian-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The shrine and tomb of Sima Qian, the Western Han historian who wrote the Records of the Grand Historian, on a ridge above the old Xiayang ferry on the west bank of the Yellow River at Zhichuan. A stone path climbs to an offering hall and a rear hall rebuilt in 1126 under the Northern Song, behind which stands his round brick tomb, crowned by an old cypress and fronted by a stele of 1776 by the Shaanxi governor Bi Yuan."},{"id":"hancheng-dayu-temple","name":"Temple of Yu the Great, Hancheng","name_zh":"韩城大禹庙","pinyin":"Hánchéng Dàyǔ Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.4833,"lon":110.4781,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hancheng-dayu-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small village temple to Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of floods, at Zhouyuan on the eastern edge of Hancheng, founded in 1301 according to an inscription on its offering-hall pillars and rebuilt in 1579. Two halls survive, an offering hall and a three-bay main hall, which keeps Qing murals, wooden plaques and painted clay statues of Yu and the Tang general Guo Ziyi."},{"id":"tongguan-pass","name":"Tong Pass","name_zh":"潼关古城","pinyin":"Tóngguān Gǔchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.6039,"lon":110.2911,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongguan-pass/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Tongguan, the fortified pass first built in 196 AD where the Wei River flows into the Yellow River, guarded the eastern approach to the Guanzhong plain and its capitals. Its walled town was demolished for the Sanmenxia Dam reservoir around 1960, but remains of the Han and Ming walled towns, the Ming Lower South Gate and the old Shuipo Lane survive. Since 2011 a tourism development on the hill to the east has added squares, old-style shopping streets and a rebuilt Shanhe Yilan gate tower, which since 2018 has housed the Tongguan County Museum."},{"id":"weinan-grape-industrial-park","name":"Weinan Grape Industrial Park","name_zh":"渭南葡萄产业园","pinyin":"Wèinán Pútáo Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.7259,"lon":109.5182,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weinan-grape-industrial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large table-grape estate at Xiagui in northern Linwei district, run as a farm park with a 10,000 m vine-covered arcade, rain-shelter vineyards, big greenhouses, a winery and a European-style garden. It is busiest in summer, when the arcade is in leaf and visitors come to pick grapes, and it holds a grape music season each July."},{"id":"weinan-museum","name":"Weinan Museum","name_zh":"渭南市博物馆","pinyin":"Wèinán Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.5155,"lon":109.464,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weinan-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The city museum of Weinan, rated a national second-grade museum, on Letian Street in the west of the city. Its permanent exhibition, 'Yu Hua Xiang Yi: the Story of Weinan', follows the eastern Guanzhong region from prehistory to modern times through finds from across the prefecture."},{"id":"weinan-taohuayuan-folk-culture-park","name":"Weinan Taohuayuan Folk Culture Park","name_zh":"渭南桃花源","pinyin":"Wèinán Táohuāyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.4227,"lon":109.4553,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weinan-taohuayuan-folk-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A folk-culture park built in the Linghe river valley south of Weinan, laid out in Ming–Qing Guanzhong style with timber courtyard houses, a gate tower, pavilions, a pagoda and a group of temples. It has a food street, traditional craft workshops and guesthouses, and suits a half-day outing from the city."},{"id":"huayin-xiyue-temple","name":"Xiyue Temple","name_zh":"西岳庙","pinyin":"Xīyuè Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.5805,"lon":110.1022,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huayin-xiyue-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The temple where emperors sacrificed to the god of Mount Hua, the Western Sacred Peak, founded under the Western Han in 134 BC near the mountain and moved to this site in the Eastern Han. Its Ming and Qing buildings stand in a walled compound almost 500 m long with corner towers, where a series of gates and courtyards with a stone archway and stele pavilions lead to the nine-bay Haoling Hall, and it is often called the 'Forbidden City of Shaanxi'."},{"id":"chengcheng-yaotou-kilns","name":"Yaotou Kilns","name_zh":"尧头窑","pinyin":"Yáotóu Yáo","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.1549,"lon":109.8371,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengcheng-yaotou-kilns","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An old pottery village in Yaotou town whose folk kilns, traced by the Ming county gazetteer to the Tang dynasty and at their height under the Ming and Qing, made everyday black-glazed stoneware such as bowls, jars and basins, a craft potters still practise here. The site of about 4 km² keeps 129 kilns from the Ming, Qing and Republican periods, 78 workshops and 75 old houses, and the local firing technique has been national intangible cultural heritage since 2006."},{"id":"hancheng-yuhuang-houtu-temple","name":"Yuhuang Houtu Temple, Hancheng","name_zh":"玉皇后土庙","pinyin":"Yùhuáng Hòutǔ Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":35.5825,"lon":110.496,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hancheng-yuhuang-houtu-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village temple at Xiyuan in Longmen town dedicated to the Jade Emperor and the earth goddess Houtu, founded in the Yuan dynasty and rebuilt in 1463 and 1820. Laid out on three parallel axes, it has an opera stage facing the central offering and main halls, with halls to the god Xuanwu and to the three sworn brothers of the Three Kingdoms on either side. The open-sided offering hall keeps clear Yuan-period features."},{"id":"fuping-zhonghuajun","name":"Zhonghuajun Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"中华郡","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Jùn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Weinan","lat":34.7007,"lon":109.1936,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuping-zhonghuajun","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A culture-themed leisure park on the Jingshan plateau on the Fuping–Yanliang border, built around the legend that the Yellow Emperor cast his bronze tripods at Jingshan. It has a food street, a 'guochao' quarter of cafés and craft-experience shops, a hanfu shop, an inn, night markets and a recreated village of an ancient tribe, with iron-flower fire displays, Han–Tang dance shows and themed holiday programmes, and it suits families and evening visits."},{"id":"baqiao-bailucang","name":"Bailucang","name_zh":"白鹿仓","pinyin":"Báilù Cāng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2196,"lon":109.1097,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baqiao-bailucang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A themed leisure town on the White Deer Plain (Bailuyuan) south-east of Xi'an, opened in April 2017 and built around the life and folk customs of the plain in the early Republican era of the 1910s. It is a modern development rather than a historic village, with Republican-style streets, a waterside lane and some 300 snack and food stalls, and suits an easy half-day close to the city."},{"id":"xian-banpo-museum","name":"Banpo Museum","name_zh":"半坡博物馆","pinyin":"Bànpō Bówùguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.274,"lon":109.048,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-banpo-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The excavated site of a Neolithic village of the Yangshao culture, lived in roughly 6,800 to 5,300 years ago, on the east bank of the Chan River in eastern Xi'an. Discovered in 1953 and excavated in five seasons from 1954 to 1957, it is covered by China's first museum built on a Neolithic site, opened in 1958, where a large hall shelters the foundations of round and square houses, storage pits, kilns and the village's defensive ditch, and galleries show painted pottery and stone tools."},{"id":"zhouzhi-bayun-pagoda","name":"Bayun Pagoda","name_zh":"八云塔","pinyin":"Bāyún Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1617,"lon":108.2069,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouzhi-bayun-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Bayun Pagoda, also called Ruiguang Pagoda, was begun in 708 under the Tang and stands in the south-west of Zhouzhi county town. It is a square brick pagoda of close-set eaves that once had 13 storeys, of which 11 survive. It makes a short stop on the way to Louguantai or the Heihe valley."},{"id":"huyi-caotang-temple","name":"Caotang Temple","name_zh":"草堂寺","pinyin":"Cǎotáng Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0144,"lon":108.7394,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huyi-caotang-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Caotang Temple, at the north foot of Guifeng Peak, grew from the garden where the Later Qin ruler housed the Kuchean monk Kumārajīva from 401, and where he led the translation of Buddhist scriptures that laid the foundations of East Asian Madhyamaka thought. His relics rest in a small Tang-dynasty stupa, carved in imitation of a timber pavilion from marble and stone of eight colours and known as the Eight-Treasure Jade Stupa. Restored from 1952 and an active monastery again since 1984, the temple is laid out in five courtyards with a memorial hall to Kumārajīva."},{"id":"xian-chanba-national-wetland-park","name":"Chanba National Wetland Park","name_zh":"浐灞国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Chǎnbà Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.4216,"lon":108.9983,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xian-chanba-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park on the floodplain of the Wei River at the northern edge of Xi'an, close to Weiyang Lake. It offers an easy walk among lakes and wetland planting rather than a sight in its own right."},{"id":"huyi-chongyang-palace","name":"Chongyang Palace","name_zh":"重阳宫","pinyin":"Chóngyáng Gōng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1096,"lon":108.4896,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huyi-chongyang-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Chongyang Palace in Zu'an town is one of the three ancestral temples of the Quanzhen school of Taoism, on the spot where its 12th-century founder Wang Chongyang practised and was buried. The vast medieval complex was almost entirely lost and today's halls were largely rebuilt from the 1980s, but the Zu'an stele forest preserves dozens of inscribed steles, most of them large Yuan-dynasty tablets on the school's patriarchs and imperial edicts carved in Chinese and the Phags-pa script. Among them are inscriptions in the hand of the calligrapher Zhao Mengfu and portrait steles of Wang Chongyang and his seven disciples."},{"id":"changan-cuihua-mountain","name":"Cuihua Mountain","name_zh":"翠华山","pinyin":"Cuìhuá Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":33.9816,"lon":109.0112,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changan-cuihua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national geopark in the Zhongnan range of the Qinling Mountains, south of Xi'an, known for the huge rock blocks and boulder fields left by ancient landslides. Its centrepiece is Tianchi, a lake about 600 m long formed where fallen rock dammed the Taiyi valley, and paths climb from the lake through the landslide debris towards the higher peaks."},{"id":"zhouzhi-daqin-pagoda","name":"Daqin Pagoda","name_zh":"大秦寺塔","pinyin":"Dàqín Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0589,"lon":108.3078,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhouzhi-daqin-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in the Qinling foothills was first recorded in 1065, when the poet Su Dongpo visited it and wrote a poem about the Daqin temple. Daqin was an old Chinese name for the Roman world, and since 2001 some writers have claimed the site as a Tang-dynasty church of the Church of the East, a claim for which there is still no conclusive archaeological evidence. An earthquake in 1556 badly damaged the pagoda and the temple was abandoned; its exterior was repaired in 1999."},{"id":"xian-duling-mausoleum","name":"Duling, Tomb of Emperor Xuan of Han","name_zh":"杜陵","pinyin":"Dù Líng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1811,"lon":109.0227,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-duling-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The mausoleum of the Western Han emperor Xuan, begun in 65 BC on the plateau south-east of Xi'an and used for his burial in 48 BC: a flat-topped pyramid of rammed earth about 29 m high, with the smaller mound of Empress Wang some 575 m to the south-east. The mounds stand in a planted forest park, the Shanglinyuan (Duling) eco-scenic area, where a tree-lined avenue leads to stelae, including the national heritage marker, in a railed enclosure at the foot of the emperor's mound."},{"id":"xian-eighth-route-army-office","name":"Eighth Route Army Xi'an Office Memorial Hall","name_zh":"八路军西安办事处纪念馆","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Xī'ān Bànshìchù Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2746,"lon":108.9506,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-eighth-route-army-office/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This row of brick courtyard houses at Qixianzhuang on Beixin Street served the Chinese Communist Party as a covert liaison post from 1936, first in a rented dental clinic, and from 1937 to 1946 as the Eighth Route Army's open office in Xi'an during the wartime united front with the Nationalists. Its staff sent young volunteers on to Yan'an and bought and shipped supplies to the Communist base area; Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Deng Xiaoping were among those who worked or stayed here, as did the Canadian doctor Norman Bethune and the American journalist Agnes Smedley. A memorial hall since 1959, it shows the restored offices, radio and cipher rooms and living quarters across four courtyards."},{"id":"xian-epang-palace-site","name":"Epang Palace","name_zh":"阿房宫遗址","pinyin":"Ēpáng Gōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2633,"lon":108.8089,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-epang-palace-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of the palace that Qin Shi Huang began in 212 BC and never finished: what survives is the rammed-earth platform of its front hall, more than 1 km long, about 400 m deep and 7–9 m high. Excavations since 2002 have found no trace of the fire said to have destroyed it, and a 2025 dig showed that it was raised over the bed of a former lake. The tree-covered terrace stands in an archaeological site park with lawns, paths and display boards, but there is no museum; the replica palace theme park built beside it in 2000 was demolished in 2013."},{"id":"changan-erlong-pagoda","name":"Erlong Pagoda","name_zh":"二龙塔","pinyin":"Èrlóng Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.018,"lon":109.0309,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changan-erlong-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"On a ridge east of Taiyi town at the foot of the Zhongnan Mountains stands the lower part of an early Tang brick pagoda, square in plan, of which seven storeys of close-set eaves survive. No temple is recorded for it, so villagers call it the Erlong or fengshui pagoda; its top storeys were pulled down for their bricks in the 1960s until the authorities stopped the work, and the remains were strengthened in 2006. Its carved stone finial is kept in Wujiagou village to the north."},{"id":"changan-fenghao-chariot-pits","name":"Fenghao Site and Western Zhou Chariot Pits","name_zh":"丰镐遗址","pinyin":"Fēnghào Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2049,"lon":108.7136,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changan-fenghao-chariot-pits","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of Feng and Hao, the twin capitals of the Western Zhou dynasty on either bank of the Feng River until 771 BC, which now lie under farmland and villages south-west of Xi'an. The part visitors can see is the Fenghao Site Chariot Pit Exhibition Hall at Zhangjiapo in Mawang, on the west bank, where an excavated burial pit holds two wooden chariots with the skeletons of their six horses and of a driver."},{"id":"huyi-gongshu-hall","name":"Gongshu Hall","name_zh":"公输堂","pinyin":"Gōngshū Táng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2042,"lon":108.5825,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huyi-gongshu-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From outside, Gongshu Hall in Qi village looks like an ordinary Ming–Qing farmhouse hall, but inside is a rare survival of fine carpentry said to date from the Yongle era (1403–1424). Miniature multi-storey pavilions and towers, made at about one-thirtieth of real size, sit above coffered ceilings while carved shrine cabinets line the walls, and the hall is considered the only surviving built example of the 'heavenly palace pavilions' described in the Song building manual Yingzao Fashi. Only the main hall, of about 100 m², remains; a small woodwork museum was set up here in 2014, and a Chinese–French team has studied and conserved the painted woodwork since 2017."},{"id":"xian-guangren-temple","name":"Guangren Temple","name_zh":"广仁寺","pinyin":"Guǎngrén Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2764,"lon":108.9211,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-guangren-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The only Tibetan Buddhist temple in Shaanxi, built on the Kangxi Emperor's orders in 1703–1705 just inside the north-west corner of Xi'an's city wall to lodge lamas travelling to and from the Qing court. It is an active Gelug monastery, largely rebuilt and enlarged since the 1950s, whose halls line one axis behind a gate bearing a plaque in the Kangxi Emperor's calligraphy, with a Thousand-Armed Guanyin among its images."},{"id":"changan-guanzhong-folk-art-museum","name":"Guanzhong Folk Art Museum","name_zh":"关中民俗艺术博物院","pinyin":"Guānzhōng Mínsú Yìshù Bówùyuàn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0276,"lon":108.9701,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changan-guanzhong-folk-art-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A privately funded museum at the foot of South Wutai Mountain, built by the collector Wang Yongchao, to which some 40 Ming and Qing courtyard houses from across the Guanzhong plain were moved and re-erected. Besides the houses it shows stone, wood and brick carving, folk crafts and customs, and more than 8,600 carved stone hitching posts set out in rows."},{"id":"xian-han-changan-weiyang-palace","name":"Han Chang'an City and Weiyang Palace Site","name_zh":"汉长安城未央宫遗址","pinyin":"Hàn Cháng'ān Chéng Wèiyāng Gōng Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.3028,"lon":108.8573,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-han-changan-weiyang-palace/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of Chang'an, capital of the Western Han dynasty, whose walled city of about 36 km² lies on the north-western edge of modern Xi'an. Its main palace, Weiyang Palace, first built in 200 BC, is now an open archaeological park where visitors walk over the great rammed-earth platform of the Front Hall and see the foundations of the empress's hall, archives and offices marked out on the ground. The palace site was inscribed in 2014 as part of the Silk Roads World Heritage site."},{"id":"xian-hancheng-lake","name":"Hancheng Lake Park","name_zh":"汉城湖","pinyin":"Hànchéng Hú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2999,"lon":108.9155,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xian-hancheng-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A long lakeside park in north-western Xi'an, created from 2006 out of the Tuanjie Reservoir, which had been dug in the 1950s along the old moat of the Han-dynasty capital. Paths run past Han-themed sculpture, a 21.5 m statue of Emperor Wu and the 64 m Dafeng Pavilion, which has small exhibitions inside and views over the lake from the top, and the remains of the Han city's south-east corner are marked in the park."},{"id":"zhouzhi-heihe-national-forest-park","name":"Heihe National Forest Park","name_zh":"黑河国家森林公园","pinyin":"Hēihé Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":33.8958,"lon":107.8654,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouzhi-heihe-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park at the headwaters of the Heihe River on the northern slopes of the Qinling in Zhouzhi County, opened in 2000 and made a national forest park in 2006, covering 7,462 hectares with forest over more than 90 per cent of it. Trails follow clear streams past pools, waterfalls and stretches of old pine, oak and birch forest in an area that forms a corridor for giant pandas, and holes cut for the ancient Tangluo plank road survive on the cliffs."},{"id":"changan-huayan-temple-pagodas","name":"Huayan Temple Pagodas","name_zh":"华严寺塔","pinyin":"Huáyán Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1372,"lon":108.9668,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changan-huayan-temple-pagodas/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two brick pagodas stand on the edge of the Shaoling plateau above the Fanchuan valley, all that survived when Huayan Temple, birthplace of the Huayan school of Buddhism, was destroyed by a landslide in the 18th century. The larger, a seven-storey square pagoda of 642, is the tomb pagoda of the school's founder Dushun; the smaller, hexagonal one honours the fourth patriarch Chengguan, was recorded as rebuilt in 1272 and was moved a short distance in 1986 after another landslide. During that move relics, early Qing sutras and Buddhist images were found inside it."},{"id":"huyi-jingde-pagoda","name":"Jingde Pagoda (Baolin Temple Pagoda)","name_zh":"敬德塔","pinyin":"Jìngdé Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":33.9702,"lon":108.7297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huyi-jingde-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This solid, square brick pagoda of seven storeys is all that remains of Baolin Temple, founded in the early Tang in the Zige valley of the Qinling foothills and destroyed in 1862. An inscribed stone found on its fifth storey in 1988 dates the present pagoda to 1092, in the Northern Song. It suits walkers exploring the valleys south of Huyi."},{"id":"huyi-jinlong-gorge","name":"Jinlong Gorge","name_zh":"金龙峡","pinyin":"Jīnlóng Xiá","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":33.9976,"lon":108.6296,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huyi-jinlong-gorge","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge scenic area on the northern edge of the Qinling Mountains in Huyi District, west of General Mountain (Jiangjun Shan). A walking route follows the wooded valley upstream past a chain of waterfalls and pools."},{"id":"xixian-kunming-pool-qixi-park","name":"Kunming Pool Qixi Park","name_zh":"昆明池·七夕公园","pinyin":"Kūnmíng Chí Qīxī Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2064,"lon":108.7712,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-kunming-pool-qixi-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large lakeside park opened in 2017 on part of the Kunming Pool, the artificial lake that Emperor Wu of Han had dug in his Shanglin hunting park to train a navy, now refilled as part of a water project in Fengdong New City. The park is named after the Qixi festival and its legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and has lakeside promenades, wetland planting and children's play areas."},{"id":"lantian-man-site-museum","name":"Lantian Man Site, Gongwangling","name_zh":"蓝田猿人遗址","pinyin":"Lántián Yuánrén Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1852,"lon":109.4886,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lantian-man-site-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"At Gongwangling in Lantian County a partial skull of Homo erectus was recovered from the loess in 1964; known as Lantian Man, it was dated in 2015 to about 1.6 million years ago, which would make it the oldest firmly dated Homo erectus fossil in East Asia. Animal bones from the same beds include giant panda, tapir and the elephant-like Stegodon, species now typical of southern China. A small state-run site museum stands at the find spot."},{"id":"xian-qinglong-temple","name":"Qinglong Temple","name_zh":"青龙寺","pinyin":"Qīnglóng Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.234,"lon":108.9846,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-qinglong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In Tang Chang'an, Qinglong Temple was where the master Huiguo taught esoteric Buddhism to the Japanese monk Kūkai, who took the teaching back to Japan in 806, so the temple is revered as a cradle of both Chinese and Japanese esoteric Buddhism. The temple was destroyed in 1086 and forgotten until archaeologists located its site in 1963; halls in Tang style were rebuilt from the 1980s, with memorial halls to Huiguo and Kūkai and a Kūkai monument raised in 1982 together with the four prefectures of Shikoku. Cherry trees brought from Japan in 1986 draw crowds when they flower in spring."},{"id":"zhouzhi-qinling-national-botanical-garden","name":"Qinling National Botanical Garden","name_zh":"秦岭国家植物园","pinyin":"Qínlǐng Guójiā Zhíwùyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0587,"lon":108.3511,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouzhi-qinling-national-botanical-garden","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A botanical garden opened in 2017 on the northern slopes of the Qinling Mountains in Zhouzhi County, with a planning area of 639 km² that rises more than 2,000 m from the plain into the mountains. The visitor area holds themed gardens for peonies, ginkgos, orchids and water plants, a large greenhouse and a palaeobotany hall, while the mountain zones protect native forest."},{"id":"changan-qinling-wildlife-park","name":"Qinling Wildlife Park","name_zh":"秦岭野生动物园","pinyin":"Qínlǐng Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0489,"lon":108.8606,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changan-qinling-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large zoo at the foot of the Qinling Mountains in Chang'an District, with more than 300 animal species. Visitors walk round one section to see animals such as golden monkeys, flamingos, hippos and Asian elephants, and ride through drive-through enclosures of African and Asian herbivores and of big cats; giant pandas are also kept. It suits families and makes an easy day out from the city."},{"id":"xian-qujiang-polar-ocean-park","name":"Qujiang Polar Ocean Park","name_zh":"曲江海洋极地公园","pinyin":"Qūjiāng Hǎiyáng Jídì Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2169,"lon":108.9758,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xian-qujiang-polar-ocean-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An aquarium complex in the Qujiang district of southern Xi'an, made up of the Qujiang Ocean World aquarium, opened in 2005, and a polar hall added in 2013, on a site of about 4.7 hectares. The aquarium has an underwater tunnel and a tropical rainforest hall, and the polar hall keeps animals such as polar bears, Magellanic penguins, Arctic wolves and seals. It suits families with children."},{"id":"lantian-gepai-red-25th-army-hq","name":"Red 25th Army Headquarters Site, Gepai","name_zh":"葛牌镇红25军军部旧址","pinyin":"Gěpái Zhèn Hóng Èrshíwǔ Jūn Jūnbù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":33.9107,"lon":109.5013,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lantian-gepai-red-25th-army-hq","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In February 1935 the Red Army's 25th Army, then building a base area on the Hubei–Henan–Shaanxi borders, set up a township soviet government at Gepai in the Qinling Mountains, described as the first Communist-led local government in the Xi'an area; it ran until the army moved on in July 1935. The army's headquarters building and the site of an enlarged meeting of the party's provincial committee for the base area, held here in April 1935, still stand on the town's old street. A memorial hall in traditional courtyard style, built on the site of the soviet government, displays photographs and objects from the period."},{"id":"xian-revolution-park","name":"Revolution Park","name_zh":"革命公园","pinyin":"Gémìng Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2732,"lon":108.9536,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-revolution-park/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Laid out in 1927 in the north-east of the walled city, Revolution Park commemorates the soldiers and civilians who died during the siege of Xi'an in 1926, and a mass public funeral for them was held here in March 1927. Its Revolution Pavilion is the Mingyuan Tower moved from the Qing provincial examination hall, and the grounds keep a group of old memorial steles and statues of Yang Hucheng, Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang. Today it is also a neighbourhood park with a lotus pond and pavilions."},{"id":"xian-shaanxi-natural-history-museum","name":"Shaanxi Natural History Museum","name_zh":"陕西自然博物馆","pinyin":"Shǎnxī Zìrán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1978,"lon":108.9419,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xian-shaanxi-natural-history-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A natural history museum opened in January 2008 beside the Shaanxi TV Tower, with a crescent-shaped nature building and a glass-sphere science building. Its galleries cover geology, fossils and insects and recreate the habitats of Qinling wildlife such as the giant panda, golden snub-nosed monkey, takin and crested ibis, while a separate Kenneth Behring hall shows African and North American animal specimens donated in 2014. A dome cinema and an outdoor science area make it popular with families."},{"id":"changan-shengshou-temple-pagoda","name":"Shengshou Temple Pagoda, Nanwutai","name_zh":"圣寿寺塔","pinyin":"Shèngshòu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0076,"lon":108.9587,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changan-shengshou-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shengshou Temple stands on Nanwutai in the Zhongnan Mountains, and its square brick pagoda of seven storeys is said to date from the Sui and on stylistic grounds is no later than the early Tang. The temple was rebuilt in the Northern Song after being destroyed at the end of the Tang, and keeps its gate and halls along with the pagoda, whose iron finial is thought to be Song work. North of the pagoda is a small stone memorial stupa to the 20th-century Pure Land master Yinguang."},{"id":"xixian-shijingli-town","name":"Shijingli Town","name_zh":"诗经里","pinyin":"Shījīnglǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2298,"lon":108.7336,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-shijingli-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A new themed town on the Feng River in Fengdong New City, opened in September 2017 and themed on the Book of Songs (Shijing), the ancient poetry anthology, close to where the Western Zhou capitals of Feng and Hao once stood. It combines a landscaped riverside with shops, restaurants and creative businesses, and suits an easy stroll and a meal."},{"id":"lantian-shuiluan-temple","name":"Shuilu'an Temple","name_zh":"水陆庵","pinyin":"Shuǐlù Ān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1333,"lon":109.4115,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lantian-shuiluan-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Shuilu'an began as the Water and Land Hall of the old Wuzhen Temple, the only building to outlast it, and in the Ming dynasty a Prince of Qin made it his family's Buddhist chapel and enlarged it into a small temple. Its main hall is crowded with thousands of painted clay figures, many of them modelled in relief across the walls. The east-facing complex of gate, front, middle and main halls is run as a museum of wall sculpture."},{"id":"changan-nanwutai","name":"South Wutai Mountain","name_zh":"南五台","pinyin":"Nán Wǔtái","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0201,"lon":108.9669,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changan-nanwutai","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A peak of the Zhongnan range south of Xi'an, named for its five summit terraces and long a centre of Buddhist retreat. A forested path of about 12 km climbs from a bamboo valley past a small waterfall and oddly shaped rocks to a string of small temples near the 1,688 m summit, and Shengshou Temple, founded under the Sui dynasty, keeps an old brick pagoda in the valley below."},{"id":"huyi-taiping-national-forest-park","name":"Taiping National Forest Park","name_zh":"太平国家森林公园","pinyin":"Tàipíng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":33.9119,"lon":108.6485,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huyi-taiping-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the Taiping valley of the Qinling Mountains in Huyi District, named after a Sui-dynasty palace and rising from about 880 m to 3,000 m between steep cliffs, rapids and pools. Its best-known sight is a cluster of waterfalls, among them the Rainbow Waterfall, with larch and birch woods higher up and wild redbud flowering on the slopes in April."},{"id":"xian-tang-altar-of-heaven","name":"Tang Altar of Heaven (Tiantan Heritage Park)","name_zh":"唐天坛","pinyin":"Táng Tiāntán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2027,"lon":108.9454,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-tang-altar-of-heaven/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"This round earthen altar of four tiers, finished in white lime plaster and climbed by twelve evenly spaced stairways on each tier, is where the emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties made sacrifices to Heaven south of their capital, Chang'an. Excavated in 1999, it lay beside a university sports ground until a small heritage park was laid out around it and opened in 2018."},{"id":"xian-tang-west-market","name":"Tang West Market","name_zh":"大唐西市","pinyin":"Dà Táng Xīshì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2491,"lon":108.9034,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-tang-west-market/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tang-style shopping and cultural quarter built in the 2000s on the site of the West Market, the international market of Tang-dynasty Chang'an. Its Tang West Market Museum, opened in 2010, shows excavated remains of the market's crossroads, cart ruts, a stone bridge, shop foundations and drains where they were found, with galleries on Silk Road trade drawn from a collection of more than 20,000 objects."},{"id":"lantian-wangshun-mountain","name":"Wangshun Mountain","name_zh":"王顺山","pinyin":"Wángshùn Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1076,"lon":109.4887,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lantian-wangshun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in Lantian County, part of the Zhongnan range of the Qinling, covering about 36 km² and topped by Jade Emperor Peak at 2,239 m, with sheer rock faces that have earned it the nickname of Shaanxi's little Huangshan. It is named after Wang Shun, a son of local legend who carried earth up the mountain to bury his mother, and a temple to him, oddly shaped rocks, a narrow gorge and an old azalea tree line the climb."},{"id":"lantian-bailuyuan-film-city","name":"White Deer Plain Film and TV City","name_zh":"白鹿原影视城","pinyin":"Báilùyuán Yǐngshìchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.078,"lon":109.271,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lantian-bailuyuan-film-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film and television theme park built by the Shaanxi Tourism Group on the White Deer Plain, the loess tableland that gave its name to Chen Zhongshi's novel, and opened in July 2016. It mixes filming sets of old Guanzhong streets and villages with a long outdoor hillside stairway, parades of costumed film characters, daytime shows and an evening light show in the valley, and suits families on a half-day trip."},{"id":"xian-city-god-temple","name":"Xi'an City God Temple","name_zh":"西安都城隍庙","pinyin":"Xī'ān Dū Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2625,"lon":108.9326,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Founded in 1387 and moved to this site off West Street in 1433, this Taoist temple is the seat of the chief city god, held to rule over the city gods of the north-western provinces. Its main hall, with a single-eaved hipped roof, was rebuilt in 1723 with timber from the demolished palace of the Ming princes of Qin, and an opera stage of 1887 stands in front of it. For decades the courtyards were filled by a wholesale market, which was moved out in 2003 when the temple was returned to the Taoist association."},{"id":"xian-expo-park","name":"Xi'an Expo Park","name_zh":"西安世博园","pinyin":"Xī'ān Shìbó Yuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.3234,"lon":109.0551,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xian-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The grounds of the 2011 Xi'an International Horticultural Expo, laid out on the delta between the Chan and Ba rivers in north-eastern Xi'an and covering 418 hectares, of which 188 hectares are water. Kept as a public park after the expo, it has lakes, themed gardens and the Chang'an Tower, built as the expo's landmark."},{"id":"xian-incident-memorial-hall","name":"Xi'an Incident Memorial Hall","name_zh":"西安事变纪念馆","pinyin":"Xī'ān Shìbiàn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2588,"lon":108.9629,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xian-incident-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The memorial hall occupies the mansion of the Nationalist general Zhang Xueliang, where on the night of 11 December 1936 he briefed his commanders for the Xi'an Incident: the detention of Chiang Kai-shek the next morning to press for an end to the civil war and a united front against Japan. Its three three-storey houses of the mid-1930s, set in a row, hold period rooms and exhibitions on the incident, including the east building where the Communist delegation led by Zhou Enlai stayed during the negotiations that followed. The memorial hall also runs Yang Hucheng's Zhiyuan villa on Qingnian Road, while the Wujianting lodge and the pavilion marking where Chiang was caught are inside Huaqing Palace in Lintong."},{"id":"changan-xiangji-temple","name":"Xiangji Temple","name_zh":"香积寺","pinyin":"Xiāngjī Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1248,"lon":108.888,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changan-xiangji-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xiangji Temple is regarded as the cradle of Pure Land Buddhism, founded by a disciple of the Tang master Shandao in his memory after his death in 681. The Shandao Pagoda, a square Tang brick pagoda that has lost its upper storeys, stands at the north end of the temple's axis behind halls rebuilt many times after damage in the An Lushan rebellion and the persecution of Buddhism in the 840s. It is an active monastery, and Chinese and Japanese monks have held joint ceremonies here in Shandao's memory."},{"id":"zhouzhi-xianyou-temple-fawang-pagoda","name":"Xianyou Temple and Fawang Pagoda","name_zh":"仙游寺法王塔","pinyin":"Xiānyóu Sì Fǎwáng Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.0578,"lon":108.1974,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouzhi-xianyou-temple-fawang-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Fawang Pagoda was raised in 601, when Emperor Wen of Sui sent Buddhist relics to be enshrined at Xianyou Temple at the mouth of the Heihe valley, and it is regarded as China's only surviving Sui-dynasty brick pagoda. Square in plan with seven tiers of close-set eaves, it resembles the Small Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, though its finial is lost. To make way for the Heihe reservoir the pagoda and temple were dismantled and rebuilt on the ridge north of the water between 1999 and 2003, and a small temple museum stands beside them."},{"id":"changan-xingjiao-temple","name":"Xingjiao Temple","name_zh":"兴教寺","pinyin":"Xīngjiào Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.092,"lon":109.0341,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/changan-xingjiao-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the Shaoling plateau south of Xi'an, founded in 669 to house the remains of Xuanzang, the monk whose pilgrimage to India inspired Journey to the West. Its west courtyard holds his five-storey brick pagoda, about 21 m tall, flanked by the smaller pagodas of his disciples Kuiji and Yuance, and the three were inscribed in 2014 as part of the Silk Roads World Heritage site. The temple halls themselves were burnt in the 19th century and rebuilt during the Republican period, and it remains an active monastery."},{"id":"xian-yisushe-theatre","name":"Yisushe Theatre","name_zh":"易俗社剧场","pinyin":"Yìsúshè Jùchǎng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.2631,"lon":108.9443,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xian-yisushe-theatre/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yisushe, a company founded in 1912 to reform Shaanxi's Qinqiang opera, has performed since 1917 in this theatre, built in 1916 as the Yichunyuan and one of the earliest modern-style theatres surviving in China. The theatre is now the heart of the Yisushe Cultural Block just north-east of the Bell Tower, which also has a museum on the company's century of history and an open-air stage where Qinqiang excerpts have been performed regularly since spring 2023."},{"id":"gaoling-zhaohui-pagoda","name":"Zhaohui Pagoda","name_zh":"昭慧塔","pinyin":"Zhāohuì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.5251,"lon":109.0965,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaoling-zhaohui-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Also called Gaoling Pagoda, this octagonal brick pagoda of 13 storeys with close-set eaves stands in Zhaohui Square in Gaoling and takes its name from the vanished Tang monastery of Zhaohui. Its building date is not recorded, but the written sources and its structure point to the middle Tang. The pagoda is hollow, with a brick stair inside and arched openings in each storey."},{"id":"zhouzhi-water-street","name":"Zhouzhi Water Street","name_zh":"周至水街","pinyin":"Zhōuzhì Shuǐjiē","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":34.1408,"lon":108.2065,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouzhi-water-street","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A riverside leisure quarter laid out from 2012 along the Sha River, an old river that skirts Zhouzhi county town, with the Qinling Mountains as a backdrop. Its centre is Yanhuo Xiangzi, a lane district built in Han and Tang style and opened in 2022, where outdoor shows, small indoor theatres, open-air stages for folk performances and costumed characters accompany food stalls and inns. It is busiest in the evening and suits a night out from Xi'an or a stop on the way to Louguantai or the Qinling parks."},{"id":"huyi-zhuque-national-forest-park","name":"Zhuque National Forest Park","name_zh":"朱雀国家森林公园","pinyin":"Zhūquè Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xi'an","lat":33.8141,"lon":108.5927,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huyi-zhuque-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the Lao valley of the Qinling Mountains in Huyi District, set up in 1992 and made a national forest park in 1999, covering about 26 km² from around 500 m to over 3,000 m. Trails pass waterfalls, one of them more than 100 m high, rock formations and pine woods, and the highest section climbs to rocky peaks near the main Qinling ridge."},{"id":"jingyang-anwu-youth-training-class-site","name":"Anwu Wartime Youth Training Class Site","name_zh":"安吴青训班旧址","pinyin":"Ānwú Qīngxùnbān Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.6748,"lon":108.8297,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyang-anwu-youth-training-class-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Wu family manor at Anwu village where, from 1938 to 1940, the Communist Party ran its Wartime Youth Training Class, a school that prepared young people for work in the war against Japan. The surviving east courtyard of the manor held the class's offices, the two-storey Wangyue Tower housed its directors, the opera stage of the Yingxiang Palace was used for training and performances, and the cypress-shaded Wu family cemetery served as an open-air classroom. The site is now a memorial museum."},{"id":"wugong-baoben-temple-pagoda","name":"Baoben Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"报本寺塔","pinyin":"Bàoběn Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3336,"lon":108.1058,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugong-baoben-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda on the north side of Wugong town, on the site of the Baoben Temple that Emperor Taizong of Tang made out of a villa used by his mother, near the house where he was born. The temple has gone, and the pagoda, listed as Song-dynasty work, was taken down and rebuilt in 1994 because it was leaning badly."},{"id":"weicheng-beidu-iron-pagoda","name":"Beidu Iron Pagoda","name_zh":"北杜铁塔","pinyin":"Běidù Tiětǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.4623,"lon":108.7286,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weicheng-beidu-iron-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A nine-storey octagonal pagoda cast in iron between 1605 and 1610 on a brick base, the only survivor of Fuchang Temple at Beidu, first built under the Jin dynasty. A spiral brick stair runs inside, and an iron plaque over the south arch names it the Thousand Buddha Pagoda."},{"id":"xixian-changyu-reina-castle-winery","name":"Changyu Reina Castle Winery","name_zh":"张裕瑞那城堡酒庄","pinyin":"Zhāngyù Ruìnà Chéngbǎo Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.401,"lon":108.7847,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-changyu-reina-castle-winery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A winery of the Changyu wine group, opened in October 2013 in Qinhan New City between Xi'an and Xianyang and run with Italy's Reina winemaking family. Its castle-style building stands beside vineyards and a wine-themed garden, and visits take in the underground cellar of about 15,800 m², built to hold 15,000 oak barrels."},{"id":"jingyang-chongwen-pagoda","name":"Chongwen Pagoda","name_zh":"崇文塔","pinyin":"Chóngwén Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.4967,"lon":108.9375,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyang-chongwen-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A thirteen-storey octagonal brick pagoda built between 1591 and 1605 in Chongwen town, standing on a Sumeru-style base. Its temple, known as Tiefo Temple, was destroyed in 1862, leaving only the pagoda and the gate, which now stand in a small park."},{"id":"binzhou-dafo-temple-grottoes","name":"Dafo Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"大佛寺石窟","pinyin":"Dàfó Sì Shíkū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":35.073,"lon":107.992,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binzhou-dafo-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cave temple cut into the cliff on the south bank of the Jing River west of Binzhou, listed in 2014 as part of the Silk Roads: Chang'an–Tianshan Corridor World Heritage Site. Carving began in the late Northern dynasties, and its centrepiece, the Great Buddha Cave of 628, holds a huge seated Amitabha flanked by the bodhisattvas Avalokiteshvara and Mahasthamaprapta, counted as the largest Buddha figure in Shaanxi. Smaller caves of the Tang to Ming periods with hundreds of figures and inscriptions spread along the cliff on either side, and the Mingjing Terrace pavilion, rebuilt in the Ming, stands before the main cave."},{"id":"xixian-jinghe-fucha-town","name":"Fucha Town","name_zh":"茯茶镇","pinyin":"Fúchá Zhèn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.529,"lon":108.8928,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-jinghe-fucha-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A tea-themed tourist town in Jinghe New City north of Xi'an, opened in August 2015 on the site of the old village of Shuangzhao and devoted to fu tea, a fermented brick tea. It has a tea street of shops and tea brands, a folk-food street of Guanzhong snacks and the China Fu Tea Culture Museum, and is mainly a place for tea tasting, snacks and an evening stroll."},{"id":"binzhou-kaiyuan-temple-pagoda","name":"Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda, Binzhou","name_zh":"开元寺塔","pinyin":"Kāiyuán Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":35.0355,"lon":108.0739,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binzhou-kaiyuan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick-and-timber pagoda of 1053, from the Northern Song, in the centre of Binzhou, where it is known as the Bin County Pagoda. Its temple has gone, and the wooden stair inside was rebuilt during repairs in 1985."},{"id":"xixian-lewa-adventure","name":"Lewa Adventure","name_zh":"乐华欢乐世界","pinyin":"Lèhuá Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.4771,"lon":108.9158,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-lewa-adventure","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An amusement park in Jinghe New City north of Xi'an, opened as Lewa Hengye Happy World around a cluster of roller coasters and some 30 rides. After an upgrade it reopened on 1 May 2026 as Jinghuayuan · Darenguo, themed on the classic novel Flowers in the Mirror, adding lantern walks and costumed characters to the rides, with lantern displays and shows in the evening. It suits families and teenagers."},{"id":"xunyi-malan-revolutionary-site","name":"Malan Revolutionary Site","name_zh":"马栏革命旧址","pinyin":"Mǎlán Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":35.2604,"lon":108.6152,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunyi-malan-revolutionary-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Malan, in the hills of northern Xunyi County, was the seat of the Communist Party's Guanzhong sub-region of the Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Border Region in the 1940s, on an important route from Xi'an to Yan'an. The site keeps a hillside of 375 cave dwellings dug by soldiers and local people after the sub-region's offices moved here at the end of 1941, a memorial monument and the Malan Revolutionary Memorial Hall, which shows photographs and office objects of the period and has a digital exhibition. It was named one of China's 100 classic red-tourism sites in 2005."},{"id":"xingping-maoling","name":"Maoling","name_zh":"茂陵","pinyin":"Mào Líng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3406,"lon":108.5814,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xingping-maoling/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Maoling is the tomb of Emperor Wu of Han (157–87 BC), the largest of the Western Han imperial mausoleums, whose great flat-topped mound rises on the loess plateau between Xianyang and Xingping. The Maoling Museum lies about 1 km to its east in the grounds of the tomb of his general Huo Qubing, where galleries hold the Western Han stone sculptures from Huo's tomb, among them the 'Horse Trampling a Xiongnu', together with finds from the tombs around Maoling. A path climbs Huo Qubing's mound to a pavilion on its top."},{"id":"xingping-mawei-station-folk-park","name":"Mawei Station Folk Culture Park","name_zh":"马嵬驿","pinyin":"Mǎwéi Yì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3244,"lon":108.3756,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingping-mawei-station-folk-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A folk-culture park built from 2012 in a gully left empty when Lijiapo village was moved, named after the Mawei post station where Yang Guifei, consort of Emperor Xuanzong, was put to death during a mutiny of his guards in 756. Behind rammed-earth walls and a gate tower are new buildings in traditional style, restored loess cave dwellings with a collection of more than 23,000 old farm tools and household objects, and a snack street of Guanzhong dishes, with workshops pressing oil, making tofu and grinding chilli in stone mills. Yang Guifei's tomb is close by."},{"id":"yangling-nwafu-museums","name":"Northwest A&F University Museums","name_zh":"西北农林科技大学博览园","pinyin":"Xīběi Nónglín Kējì Dàxué Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.2689,"lon":108.0666,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangling-nwafu-museums","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of six museums on the campus of Northwest A&F University in Yangling, opened to the public in 2005 and described by the university as China's largest group of agriculture-themed museums. They cover insects, animals, soils, plants, the history of Chinese agriculture and water conservancy, drawing on collections that include more than 1.5 million insect specimens, and are set among a butterfly garden, an arboretum and herb and grain gardens. It suits families and anyone curious about natural history and farming."},{"id":"xunyi-qin-straight-road-shimenguan","name":"Qin Straight Road at Shimen Pass","name_zh":"秦直道","pinyin":"Qín Zhídào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":35.0552,"lon":108.5791,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunyi-qin-straight-road-shimenguan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Qin Straight Road was the military highway that the First Emperor ordered in 212 BC, running north from Yunyang near today's Chunhua along the Ziwu Mountains to Jiuyuan beyond the Yellow River. In Xunyi County it follows the main ridge of the Ziwu range, where long stretches of its broad roadbed survive under forest cover; at Shimen Pass a small museum presents the road, and remains of Qin–Han buildings and beacon towers lie along the route."},{"id":"xingping-qingfan-temple-pagoda","name":"Qingfan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"清梵寺塔","pinyin":"Qīngfàn Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3046,"lon":108.4822,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xingping-qingfan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Tang-dynasty brick pagoda, locally called the North Pagoda, on Beisi Lane in the old centre of Xingping. The temple, founded in 627 and renamed Baoning Temple in 978, has gone, leaving the hollow seven-storey octagonal tower."},{"id":"sanyuan-city-god-temple","name":"Sanyuan City God Temple","name_zh":"三原城隍庙","pinyin":"Sānyuán Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.6203,"lon":108.927,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sanyuan-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled temple complex in Sanyuan town founded in 1375, whose mostly Ming-dynasty buildings line one axis of gates, carved timber and stone memorial archways, a Qing opera stage of 1757, twin bell and drum towers and a main hall with a large City God statue. A rear palace of 1486 decorated with glazed-tile dragons and phoenixes, and a set of Ming–Qing paintings of the Ten Kings of Hell in the worship hall, are among the highlights. The temple also houses the Sanyuan County Museum, with halls of Tang finds and calligraphy by Yu Youren."},{"id":"qindu-shahe-ancient-bridge-site","name":"Shahe Ancient Bridge Site","name_zh":"沙河古桥遗址","pinyin":"Shāhé Gǔqiáo Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.2575,"lon":108.6806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qindu-shahe-ancient-bridge-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of ancient bridges of the Qin and Han periods across the Sha River in Fengxi New City, which carried one of the main routes linking the capital Chang'an with the outside world. The site is protected within a heritage park, and the nearby Silk Road Bridge Culture Theme Hall uses digital displays to tell the history of the Silk Road and of ancient Chinese bridges."},{"id":"binzhou-shilang-lake","name":"Shilang Lake","name_zh":"侍郎湖","pinyin":"Shìláng Hú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.8965,"lon":107.9282,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=binzhou-shilang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A lake among the loess hills south-west of Binzhou, developed as an eco-tourism area. A walkway runs around the shore past fishing platforms and a glass suspension bridge, with campsites, guesthouses and restaurants by the lake."},{"id":"weicheng-shunling","name":"Shunling Mausoleum","name_zh":"顺陵","pinyin":"Shùn Líng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.4623,"lon":108.7993,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weicheng-shunling","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The tomb of Lady Yang (died 670), mother of Wu Zetian, which Wu raised to an imperial mausoleum and named Shunling in 690 after she proclaimed herself emperor. The walled precinct has gone, but Tang stone figures of men, horses, rams, lions and unicorns still stand around the mound, now laid out as a heritage park on the plateau east of Xi'an Xianyang airport."},{"id":"xixian-silk-road-happy-world","name":"Silk Road Happy World","name_zh":"丝路欢乐世界","pinyin":"Sīlù Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.2654,"lon":108.6918,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xixian-silk-road-happy-world","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Silk Road-themed park in Fengxi New City on the western edge of Xi'an, opened in April 2023 by the Shaanxi Tourism Group, laid out as seven themed streets that recreate places along the old trade routes, such as Rome, Persia and India, as stage-set architecture. Street performances, costumed characters, shops and restaurants fill the streets, and it is aimed at families and evening visitors."},{"id":"weicheng-qin-xianyang-palace-site","name":"Site of Qin Xianyang","name_zh":"秦咸阳城遗址","pinyin":"Qín Xiányáng Chéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.4147,"lon":108.8553,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/weicheng-qin-xianyang-palace-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of the palace district of Xianyang, capital of the state of Qin from 350 BC and of the First Emperor's empire until it was burned in 206 BC, on the terrace north of the Wei River. A site museum beside the excavated foundations of Palace No. 1, opened in 1995 and since renovated, shows models of the palace and finds such as hollow bricks with dragon and phoenix designs, drainage pipes and coins. Since 2025 the area has been a national archaeological site park, which also takes in the Qin-Han Hall of the Shaanxi History Museum, opened in 2024."},{"id":"xunyi-tai-pagoda","name":"Tai Pagoda, Xunyi","name_zh":"泰塔","pinyin":"Tài Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":35.116,"lon":108.3334,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunyi-tai-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A brick pagoda built in 1059 under the Northern Song, imitating a timber pavilion-style tower in its octagonal plan and seven storeys. It stands in Taita Cultural Square in the centre of Xunyi town."},{"id":"wugong-city-god-temple","name":"Wugong City God Temple","name_zh":"武功城隍庙","pinyin":"Wǔgōng Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3315,"lon":108.1108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wugong-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Ming-dynasty City God temple on East Street in Wugong town, the former county seat, repaired in the Qing and in modern times. Along its axis stand the gate, side halls, an opera stage, an offering hall under a rolled-ridge roof, and main and rear halls under single-eaved hip-and-gable roofs."},{"id":"yongshou-wuling-temple-pagoda","name":"Wuling Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"武陵寺塔","pinyin":"Wǔlíng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.8072,"lon":108.0455,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongshou-wuling-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A five-storey octagonal brick pagoda on the site of the vanished Wuling Temple, founded under the Northern Wei, south-west of Yongping, the old county town of Yongshou. Long thought to be Tang, it was dated to the Northern Song after Xining-era coins and a brick inscribed with the year 1107 were found at its top during repairs in 1983; two stone Buddhas and a Qing stele also survive."},{"id":"xianyang-confucian-temple-museum","name":"Xianyang Confucian Temple (Xianyang Museum)","name_zh":"咸阳文庙","pinyin":"Xiányáng Wénmiào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3358,"lon":108.7201,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xianyang-confucian-temple-museum/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Xianyang's Confucian Temple, founded in 1371, has housed the city museum, now the Xianyang Museum, since 1962; its four courtyards combine the original Dacheng Hall and side galleries with Ming buildings moved here from other temples in 1963. The galleries focus on Qin and Han Xianyang, with finds from the Qin palace sites and a hall of the painted Western Han soldier and horse figurines excavated from a satellite tomb of the Changling mausoleum at Yangjiawan."},{"id":"xianyang-lake","name":"Xianyang Lake","name_zh":"咸阳湖","pinyin":"Xiányáng Hú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3298,"lon":108.7186,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xianyang-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An artificial lake by the Wei River in central Xianyang, lined with riverside parks and promenades. Weibin Park runs along its north bank and the Gudu Langqiao, a covered footbridge, crosses the water; it makes an easy evening walk after the Xianyang Museum in the Confucian Temple, a few hundred metres to the north."},{"id":"yangling-agriculture-innovation-park","name":"Yangling Modern Agriculture Innovation Park","name_zh":"杨凌现代农业创新园","pinyin":"Yánglíng Xiàndài Nóngyè Chuàngxīnyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.3042,"lon":108.0377,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yangling-agriculture-innovation-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A showcase of modern farming of about 87 hectares in the Yangling agricultural high-tech zone, and Shaanxi's first 4A-rated agricultural tourism site. Eight exhibition halls cover factory seedling production, soilless cultivation, flowers, bonsai, a 'super vegetable garden', southern fruit trees and crops of western China, set among seed nurseries and an artificial lake planted with aquatic plants. It suits families and visitors interested in how farming technology works."},{"id":"liquan-yuanjia-village","name":"Yuanjia Village","name_zh":"袁家村","pinyin":"Yuánjiā Cūn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.5907,"lon":108.5341,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liquan-yuanjia-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Guanzhong farming village near Liquan that turned to rural tourism in 2007 and is now lined with brick-and-timber houses in Ming–Qing style. Its snack streets serve Guanzhong dishes made on the spot from the village's cooperative oil, vinegar, tofu and chilli workshops, and an old street holds craft shops for weaving, shadow puppets and woodblock New Year prints, along with cafés, bars and guesthouses. It drew about 9.5 million visitors in 2024, so weekends and holidays are very crowded."},{"id":"yongshou-yunji-eco-park","name":"Yunji Eco-Park","name_zh":"云集生态园","pinyin":"Yúnjí Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.7588,"lon":108.0054,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongshou-yunji-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eco-park and rural resort among locust-tree woodland in the hills of Yongshou County, with guesthouse courtyards, woodland walks and farm-style restaurants. Yongshou is known for its locust-tree forests and locust-blossom honey, and the trees flower in late spring."},{"id":"liquan-zhaoling","name":"Zhao Mausoleum","name_zh":"昭陵","pinyin":"Zhāo Líng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.5756,"lon":108.5366,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/liquan-zhaoling/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhaoling, on Jiuzong Mountain in Liquan County, is the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of Tang (died 649) and the largest of the Tang imperial tombs; begun in 636, it was the first Tang imperial tomb cut into a mountain, and its many satellite tombs hold princes, princesses and ministers such as Wei Zheng and Li Jing. The Zhaoling Museum, set up at the satellite tomb of the general Li Ji, shows steles and epitaphs gathered from these tombs in its 'Zhaoling Forest of Steles' halls, together with Tang tomb murals and other finds. The Six Steeds reliefs that once stood at the mausoleum are now in Xi'an's Beilin Museum and in the United States."},{"id":"changwu-zhaoren-temple","name":"Zhaoren Temple","name_zh":"昭仁寺","pinyin":"Zhāorén Sì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":35.2049,"lon":107.7979,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changwu-zhaoren-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple in Changwu town founded on the order of Emperor Taizong of Tang in 629 for the soldiers killed at the battle of Qianshuiyuan, where his army had defeated the warlord Xue Rengao. Its surviving Main Hall is an all-timber building with a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof and no columns inside: beams laid across the corners of a nested-square ceiling frame carry the roof onto twelve posts hidden in the walls, which gives it the local name 'hall without pillars'."},{"id":"jingyang-zhengguo-canal-headworks","name":"Zhengguo Canal Headworks","name_zh":"郑国渠","pinyin":"Zhèngguó Qú","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Xianyang","lat":34.6225,"lon":108.5976,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyang-zhengguo-canal-headworks","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Where the Jing River leaves the Zhongshan hills north-west of Jingyang lie the headworks of the Zhengguo Canal, the irrigation canal begun by the state of Qin in 246 BC that turned the salty northern Guanzhong plain into farmland. As the river cut its bed deeper, later dynasties moved the intake upstream, so the site keeps remains of successive intakes from the Qin canal to the Jinghui Canal completed in 1932, with steles recording the works; the canal system was listed as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2016. The scenic area around the headworks also takes in a stretch of the Jing River gorge."},{"id":"fuxian-baishan-temple-pagoda","name":"Baishan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"柏山寺塔","pinyin":"Bǎishān Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.9608,"lon":108.991,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxian-baishan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An octagonal brick pagoda of the early Northern Song dynasty on Bai Shan at Zhiluo, locally called the Zhiluo Pagoda; it is all that remains of Baishan Temple. Its eleven closely stacked eaves rise to 43.3 m."},{"id":"zhidan-baoan-revolutionary-site","name":"Bao'an Revolutionary Site","name_zh":"保安革命旧址","pinyin":"Bǎo'ān Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.8245,"lon":108.7637,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhidan-baoan-revolutionary-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Zhidan's county town, then called Bao'an, was the seat of the Communist Party Central Committee from July 1936 to January 1937, between its stays at Wayaobao and Yan'an, and the American journalist Edgar Snow visited the leaders here in 1936 for his book Red Star Over China. The site keeps a row of five stone cave dwellings used by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai's residence and the cave used for Politburo meetings, and the Anti-Japanese Red Army University site stands on a hillside south of town."},{"id":"yanan-border-region-high-court-site","name":"Former Border Region High Court","name_zh":"陕甘宁边区高等法院旧址","pinyin":"Shǎn-Gān-Níng Biānqū Gāoděng Fǎyuàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.587,"lon":109.4877,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanan-border-region-high-court-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The hillside compound on Longwan Shan, just south of Pagoda Hill, that was the seat of the High Court of the Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Border Region, the Communist-led administration based in Yan'an, from 1941 until the court moved to Xi'an in 1949, apart from a year away during the fighting of 1947–48. Its offices, guard quarters and prison have been restored, 57 cave dwellings in all, and an exhibition hall on the Border Region's courts displays more than 1,000 documents and objects."},{"id":"fuxian-fuyan-temple-pagoda","name":"Fuyan Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"福严院塔","pinyin":"Fúyán Yuàn Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.9543,"lon":109.1515,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxian-fuyan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda at Dongcun village in Fu County, locally called the Dongcun Pagoda and the only survivor of Fuyan Temple. The hollow, octagonal tower has thirteen storeys and stands 30.2 m tall."},{"id":"ganquan-canyon","name":"Ganquan Canyon","name_zh":"甘泉大峡谷","pinyin":"Gānquán Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.5318,"lon":109.0322,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganquan-canyon","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A group of narrow Danxia slot canyons in Ganquan County, also called the Yucha Canyon, made up of side gorges such as Huashugou, Longbagou and Yueyagu where curving red rock walls close in overhead. The sculpted walls have earned it the nickname 'China's Antelope Canyon', and its landforms were the subject of a 2019 CCTV documentary."},{"id":"huangling-national-forest-park","name":"Huangling National Forest Park","name_zh":"黄陵国家森林公园","pinyin":"Huánglíng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.5789,"lon":108.9259,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangling-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park of about 44 km² in the Qiaoshan forest on the upper Ju River, south-west of Huangling town, opened to visitors in 2015. Its northern Xuanyuan Valley, which local legend makes the birthplace of the Yellow Emperor, has lakes, meadows and forest trails, and a ridge road leads south to Zi'e Temple with its cliffside shrines and walkways; it makes a green half-day outing for people visiting the Huangdi Mausoleum."},{"id":"huanglong-mountain-scenic-area","name":"Huanglong Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"黄龙山","pinyin":"Huánglóng Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.5485,"lon":109.7766,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanglong-mountain-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 13 km² forest scenic area in the wooded Huanglong Mountains on the south-western edge of Huanglong town, with its visitor centre at Dianzihe village. It takes in Wuliang Shan, whose hilltop Lianyun Temple grew from an earlier Taoist shrine and keeps steles going back to the Ming dynasty and centuries-old pines and cypresses, a 6.2 km forest trail to Muke Zhai hill, a stone-carving gallery on local culture and a lake with water activities."},{"id":"yichuan-hukou-waterfalls","name":"Hukou Waterfalls (Shaanxi side)","name_zh":"壶口瀑布","pinyin":"Húkǒu Pùbù","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.1465,"lon":110.4429,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yichuan-hukou-waterfalls/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The largest waterfall on the Yellow River, where the river is squeezed from a bed several hundred metres wide into a narrow rock trough and plunges into it in a roar of brown water and spray; the 'teapot spout' (hukou) shape gives the falls their name. This card covers the west-bank viewing area in Yichuan County, Shaanxi; the opposite bank belongs to Jixian in Shanxi, and the falls and their 5A rating are shared between the two provinces. The falls are widest in the summer flood season, and the Qilangwo Bridge below them links the two banks."},{"id":"fuxian-kaiyuan-temple-pagoda","name":"Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda, Fu County","name_zh":"开元寺塔","pinyin":"Kāiyuán Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.9938,"lon":109.3713,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxian-kaiyuan-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A square Tang-dynasty brick pagoda, built in 740–741, standing halfway up the west hill above Fu County town, where it is known as the Xishan Pagoda; the temple around it has long gone. The hollow pagoda has eleven storeys and still stands 41.8 m tall, although its top storey is broken."},{"id":"ganquan-laoshan-national-forest-park","name":"Laoshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"劳山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Láoshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.1709,"lon":109.1327,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganquan-laoshan-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the Lao Shan hills of south-western Ganquan County, south of Yan'an, where secondary forest covers the loess hills; the provincial forestry bureau puts its forest cover at 92%. It is a place for forest walks and picnics on a day trip from Yan'an."},{"id":"wuqi-long-march-victory-memorial-park","name":"Long March Victory Memorial Park, Wuqi","name_zh":"中央红军长征胜利纪念园","pinyin":"Zhōngyāng Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Shènglì Jìniànyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.9238,"lon":108.17,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuqi-long-march-victory-memorial-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial park on Shengli ('Victory') Hill above Wuqi town, approved in 2005, marking the end of the Central Red Army's Long March, which reached Wuqi on 19 October 1935. Steps lead up past bronze sculptures, including a bugler, to the Long March Victory Monument and the hilltop command post of the 21 October 'cut the tail' battle, in which the Red Army ambushed the cavalry pursuing it."},{"id":"luochuan-conference-site","name":"Luochuan Conference Site","name_zh":"洛川会议旧址","pinyin":"Luòchuān Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.8198,"lon":109.4913,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luochuan-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village school at Fengjia, about 10 km north of Luochuan town, where the Communist Party Politburo held an enlarged meeting from 22 to 25 August 1937. The meeting adopted the Ten-Point Programme for Resisting Japan and Saving the Nation, the Red Army was reorganised as the Eighth Route Army, and the site now has the Luochuan Conference Memorial Hall."},{"id":"baota-nanniwan","name":"Nanniwan","name_zh":"南泥湾","pinyin":"Nánníwān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.3225,"lon":109.6564,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baota-nanniwan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A valley about 45 km south-east of Yan'an where the Eighth Route Army's 359th Brigade was sent in 1941 to clear land and farm, as the Communist base area sought self-sufficiency under an economic blockade; the campaign is the subject of the 1943 song 'Nanniwan'. The scenic area has the Great Production Movement exhibition hall, rice paddies on the valley floor and restored sites such as the Yan'an artillery school and the brigade's former headquarters at Jinpenwan, about 10 km to the east."},{"id":"yanchuan-qiankun-bay","name":"Qiankun Bay","name_zh":"乾坤湾","pinyin":"Qiánkūn Wān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.7203,"lon":110.4099,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanchuan-qiankun-bay/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A great looping meander of the Yellow River in the Shanxi–Shaanxi canyon at Yanchuan, promoted as the 'first bend of the Yellow River' and part of the Yellow River Meanders national geopark. Viewpoints on the Shaanxi rim look down on the river curling around a spur of loess hills, with Shanxi on the far bank; the scenic area was raised to the national 5A rating in 2024."},{"id":"yanan-qingliang-mountain-grottoes","name":"Qingliang Mountain and Wanfo Caves","name_zh":"清凉山万佛洞","pinyin":"Qīngliáng Shān Wànfó Dòng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.6018,"lon":109.4834,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanan-qingliang-mountain-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qingliang Mountain, in central Yan'an across the Yan River from Fenghuang Hill and Pagoda Hill, holds the Wanfo Caves, four Buddhist grottoes with carvings from the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and a glazed-tile pagoda. The largest cave, about 17 m wide and 13 m deep, has stone screens covered in reliefs of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and arhats, though the statues on its central altar were remade in 1985. During the war years Xinhua News Agency, the Liberation Daily, the central printing works and Xinhua Bookstore were based on the hill, and the Yan'an News Memorial Hall there tells that story."},{"id":"yichuan-qiulin-war-memorial","name":"Qiulin Anti-Japanese War Memorial Site","name_zh":"秋林抗战纪念地","pinyin":"Qiūlín Kàngzhàn Jìniàndì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.0827,"lon":110.2608,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yichuan-qiulin-war-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Qiulin, a small town in Yichuan County, was the headquarters of the Nationalist army's Second War Zone under Yan Xishan after the Japanese advance drove it out of Shanxi in 1938. The memorial site presents the former headquarters and other wartime sites in and around the town, with an exhibition hall on the period."},{"id":"fuxian-shihong-temple-grottoes","name":"Shihong Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"石泓寺石窟","pinyin":"Shíhóng Sì Shíkū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.8975,"lon":108.8743,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuxian-shihong-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Buddhist cave temple on the north bank of the Chuanzi River at Han village in Zhiluo town, west of Fu County town, also called the Chuanzihe Grottoes. Its seven caves were begun in the Sui dynasty's Daye era (605–617), and carving went on through the Tang, Song and Yuan into the Ming."},{"id":"wuqi-tiebiancheng-ruins","name":"Tiebiancheng Ruins","name_zh":"铁边城遗址","pinyin":"Tiěbiānchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.9903,"lon":107.8531,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuqi-tiebiancheng-ruins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The remains of a walled frontier town of the Northern Song period at Tiebiancheng in the far west of Wuqi County, listed as a national heritage site in 2013. Stretches of the old wall and a watch platform survive and are presented as a small local scenic area."},{"id":"huangling-wanan-temple-grottoes","name":"Wan'an Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"万安禅院石窟","pinyin":"Wàn'ān Chányuàn Shíkū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.6681,"lon":108.9316,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangling-wanan-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Northern Song Buddhist cave temple on a hillside at Yu village in Shuanglong town, west of Huangling, carved between 1095 and 1115. Its carved Buddhas and other figures are presented as a small scenic area."},{"id":"luochuan-wanfeng-pagoda","name":"Wanfeng Pagoda","name_zh":"万凤塔","pinyin":"Wànfèng Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":35.6246,"lon":109.6531,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luochuan-wanfeng-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda, repaired in the Ming dynasty, standing on the site of the vanished Xingguo Temple at Fucheng village in Luochuan County. The hollow, octagonal tower has thirteen storeys and is more than 40 m tall."},{"id":"zichang-wayaobao-revolutionary-sites","name":"Wayaobao Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"瓦窑堡革命旧址","pinyin":"Wǎyáobǔ Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":37.1353,"lon":109.6652,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zichang-wayaobao-revolutionary-sites","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Wayaobao, now the centre of Zichang, was where the Communist Party Politburo held an enlarged meeting from 17 to 25 December 1935, chaired by Zhang Wentian, which set out the party's policy of an anti-Japanese national united front. The memorial covers the meeting site, a row of brick cave dwellings in the Tian family courtyard at Xiahetan, together with the sites of the Northwest Revolutionary Military Commission and the Anti-Japanese Red Army University and the former residences of Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian and Zhou Enlai."},{"id":"wuqi-revolutionary-site","name":"Wuqi Revolutionary Site","name_zh":"吴起革命旧址","pinyin":"Wúqǐ Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.9275,"lon":108.1723,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuqi-revolutionary-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The cave-dwelling compound in Wuqi town where the Communist Party leadership stayed after the Central Red Army arrived on 19 October 1935 at the end of the Long March; the Politburo met here on 22 October to set its next tasks. The north and south courtyards, linked by a stone passage, keep the former quarters of Mao Zedong and Zhang Wentian and now form the Wuqi Revolutionary Memorial Hall."},{"id":"yanan-revolutionary-sites","name":"Yan'an Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"延安革命纪念地","pinyin":"Yán'ān Gémìng Jìniàndì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.6096,"lon":109.472,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanan-revolutionary-sites/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The compounds where the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee lived and worked while it was based in Yan'an from January 1937 to March 1947 are spread across the city: the cave dwellings, offices and assembly halls of Yangjialing, where the party's Seventh National Congress met in 1945, Zaoyuan (Date Garden), Wangjiaping, Fenghuang Hill and the former Northwest Bureau. The Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall at Wangjiaping, founded in 1950 and reopened in a new building in 2009, displays documents, photographs and relics from those years. On Pagoda Hill (Baota Shan) above the city stands a nine-storey Ming-dynasty brick pagoda, about 44 m tall, which became a symbol of Yan'an and of the Communist revolution."},{"id":"yanchang-yanyi-oil-well","name":"Yanyi Oil Well","name_zh":"延一井","pinyin":"Yányī Jǐng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.5793,"lon":110.0002,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanchang-yanyi-oil-well","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The oil well completed in 1907 by the Yanchang Oil Factory, which the Qing government had authorised in 1905, known in China as the country's first onshore oil well; the factory also built China's first refinery here. The well-head is preserved in a small square in Yanchang town with a monument bearing a 1985 inscription naming it 'China's first onshore oil well', and the derrick and boiler beside it are replicas made in 2005."},{"id":"ansai-zhang-side-memorial","name":"Zhang Side Memorial Site","name_zh":"张思德牺牲纪念地","pinyin":"Zhāng Sīdé Xīshēng Jìniàndì","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":36.5407,"lon":109.1652,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ansai-zhang-side-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The place in Ansai where Zhang Side, a soldier of the Communist Party's central guard regiment, was killed on 5 September 1944 when a charcoal kiln he was digging collapsed. Mao Zedong's speech at his funeral, 'Serve the People', became widely known in China, and the memorial site has an exhibition hall on his life, the remains of the kiln and a memorial square."},{"id":"zichang-zhongshan-grottoes","name":"Zhongshan Grottoes","name_zh":"钟山石窟","pinyin":"Zhōngshān Shíkū","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yan'an","lat":37.1735,"lon":109.5233,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zichang-zhongshan-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Northern Song Buddhist cave temple at the foot of Zhong Shan west of Zichang, begun in 1067. Its main hall, Cave 4, holds 16 free-standing statues 2–3 m tall among carved pillars, and its walls and pillars are covered with more than 10,000 small relief Buddhas; four smaller caves are badly weathered."},{"id":"jiaxian-baiyun-mountain","name":"Baiyun Mountain Temples, Jiaxian","name_zh":"白云山","pinyin":"Báiyún Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.9989,"lon":110.5075,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaxian-baiyun-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large Taoist temple complex on Baiyun Mountain above the west bank of the Yellow River just south of Jia County town, founded in 1605 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1724. Fifty-six old buildings survive, among them the Zhenwu Hall, the Five Dragons Palace, the Jade Emperor Tower and the Hall of the Three Pure Ones, with more than 1,900 Ming and Qing murals and over 120 inscribed steles. Its temple fair early in the fourth lunar month draws worshippers from neighbouring parts of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia."},{"id":"shenmu-bilinwan-resort","name":"Bilinwan Resort","name_zh":"碧麟湾","pinyin":"Bìlín Wān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.7056,"lon":110.5225,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenmu-bilinwan-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern four-season resort south of Shenmu city, with a water park and amusement rides for the summer season. In winter it runs a ski area with eight runs, three of them built to FIS standard, which was chosen to host alpine skiing and snowboard events of Shaanxi's first Winter Games in February 2026."},{"id":"hengshan-boluo-fortress","name":"Boluo Fortress","name_zh":"波罗古堡","pinyin":"Bōluó Gǔbǎo","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.0591,"lon":109.4403,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengshan-boluo-fortress","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled hilltop garrison town on Huangyun Hill above the south bank of the Wuding River, one of the forts of the Ming-dynasty Great Wall frontier in the Yulin region, with stone walls and four gates around an old main street; it is protected as a provincial heritage site. In October 1946 the Nationalist garrison stationed here under Hu Jingduo went over to the Communist side, an event known as the Hengshan Uprising."},{"id":"yuyang-bulanghe-women-sand-control-company","name":"Bulanghe Women's Militia Sand-Control Company","name_zh":"补浪河女子民兵治沙连","pinyin":"Bǔlànghé Nǚzǐ Mínbīng Zhìshā Lián","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.3753,"lon":109.0738,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuyang-bulanghe-women-sand-control-company","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"In 1974, 54 young women with an average age of 18 formed a militia company at Bulanghe to plant trees and fix the dunes of the Mu Us sands near the Inner Mongolia border, and the unit became known across China. The site has an exhibition hall on nearly fifty years of local sand control, the company's barracks and military-themed activities including a live-firing range and clay-pigeon shooting."},{"id":"jiaxian-chiniuwa-village","name":"Chiniuwa Folk Culture Village","name_zh":"赤牛坬村","pinyin":"Chìniúwā Cūn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.8419,"lon":110.5732,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiaxian-chiniuwa-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hill village of old stone cave dwellings among jujube groves near the Yellow River, which its residents have turned into a folk-culture tourist village. Villagers perform their own open-air show, 'An Ox on the High Hill', recreating northern Shaanxi farm life, and the village has a northern Shaanxi folk-custom museum of old everyday objects in 68 exhibition rooms as well as cave dwellings converted into guest rooms. It suits visitors curious about rural life on the loess plateau."},{"id":"suide-dang-family-manor","name":"Dang Family Manor, Suide","name_zh":"党氏庄园","pinyin":"Dǎngshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.46,"lon":110.3878,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suide-dang-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside manor of cave-dwelling courtyards at Hejiashi village, begun in 1814 and enlarged by six generations of the Dang family until the Republican period, stepped up the slope and decorated with stone, brick and wood carving. The county describes it as the most completely preserved Qing-era complex in Suide, and restoration of five of its courtyards was signed off by the provincial heritage bureau in January 2026."},{"id":"shenmu-erlang-mountain","name":"Erlang Mountain, Shenmu","name_zh":"二郎山","pinyin":"Èrláng Shān","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.8117,"lon":110.4907,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenmu-erlang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple-covered ridge on the west bank of the Kuye River facing central Shenmu, also called Bijia ('brush-rest') Mountain because the Ming emperor Wuzong is said to have likened its outline to one in 1518. More than a hundred halls, pavilions and shrines of Ming, Qing and later date line about 1 km of the crest around the temple of the god Erlang, and together they form a provincial heritage site. Crowds climb it for the temple fair on the evening of the seventh day of the lunar new year."},{"id":"shenmu-erlintu-grassland","name":"Erlintu Grassland","name_zh":"尔林兔大草原","pinyin":"Ěrlíntù Dà Cǎoyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":39.02,"lon":109.8166,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenmu-erlintu-grassland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A grassland scenic area in Erlintu township on the sandy steppe at the edge of the Mu Us Desert, run as a farm-and-grassland leisure park with open pasture, flower fields and a children's play park. Visitors come in summer for camping, farm activities, a folk-food street and bonfire evenings, and it lies close to Hongjiannao Lake, so the two are easily combined."},{"id":"fugu-fuzhou-ancient-city","name":"Fuzhou Ancient City, Fugu","name_zh":"府州古城","pinyin":"Fǔzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":39.0313,"lon":111.0827,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fugu-fuzhou-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A walled hill town above the Yellow River at Fugu, the seat of Fuzhou prefecture from 911, whose stone walls date from the Five Dynasties and Song. The walls, about 2.3 km round and roughly boot-shaped, have four main and two small gates, with barbicans outside the south and small west gates, and enclose Ming and Qing buildings including a Confucian temple, a City God temple, the Wenchang pavilion, the Ronghe Academy and a Thousand Buddha cave."},{"id":"suide-haojiaqiao-village","name":"Haojiaqiao Village","name_zh":"郝家桥","pinyin":"Hǎojiāqiáo","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.4781,"lon":110.1792,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suide-haojiaqiao-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A loess-hill village south-west of Suide that the Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Border Region government named a 'model village' in 1944, when the labour hero Liu Yuhou led its farmers' labour-exchange teams in the wartime production drive. It now presents that history as one of Suide's red-history education sites, and has turned 26 empty cave dwellings into guesthouses alongside a northern Shaanxi-themed shopping street and a village cinema."},{"id":"yuyang-zhenchuan-heilongtan","name":"Heilongtan (Black Dragon Pool), Zhenchuan","name_zh":"黑龙潭","pinyin":"Hēilóng Tán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.8282,"lon":110.1418,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuyang-zhenchuan-heilongtan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside temple to the Black Dragon King above a group of spring-fed pools beside the Wuding River at Zhenchuan, founded in the Ming Zhengde period (1506–1521) and long visited by farmers praying for rain. Visitors pass a carved stone archway of 1931 and climb 48 steps to a courtyard with bell and drum towers and a main hall with painted murals, while nine springs run into small stone pools around the temple. The temple fair on the 13th day of the sixth lunar month draws tens of thousands of people."},{"id":"shenmu-hongjiannao-lake","name":"Hongjiannao Lake","name_zh":"红碱淖","pinyin":"Hóngjiǎnnào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":39.0936,"lon":109.8871,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenmu-hongjiannao-lake/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as China's largest desert freshwater lake, Hongjiannao now covers about 37 km² where the loess plateau meets the Mu Us Desert on the border with Inner Mongolia. It is a national nature reserve, described by the local government as the world's largest breeding ground of the relict gull, with 195 bird species recorded, and its shores mix sandy beaches, grassland and wetland. The scenic area offers kayaking and other boat trips, sand buggies, and camel and horse rides."},{"id":"hengshan-hongmen-temple-pagoda","name":"Hongmen Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"鸿门寺塔","pinyin":"Hóngmén Sì Tǎ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.7714,"lon":109.1801,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hengshan-hongmen-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eleven-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 27 m tall, built in the Taiding era of the Yuan dynasty (1324–1328) at the Hongmen Temple south-west of Tawan town; the temple itself has long gone. The hollow pagoda has closely spaced eaves and is known locally as the Bell Pagoda, after the wind bells that once hung from every corner of its eaves."},{"id":"mizhi-jiang-family-manor","name":"Jiang Family Manor","name_zh":"姜氏庄园","pinyin":"Jiāngshì Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.8096,"lon":110.3281,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mizhi-jiang-family-manor","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A fortified cave-dwelling manor built for the Jiang family in the late Qing, with lower, middle and upper courtyards climbing a hillside behind crenellated stockade walls and gun platforms. A stone-paved ramp with a right-angle turn leads up to the gate past stables and a deep well, and the courtyards show how a wealthy northern Shaanxi household lived."},{"id":"mizhi-li-zicheng-palace","name":"Li Zicheng's Palace, Mizhi","name_zh":"李自成行宫","pinyin":"Lǐ Zìchéng Xínggōng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.7611,"lon":110.1771,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mizhi-li-zicheng-palace","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A hillside group of Ming and Qing buildings on the southern slope of Panlong Mountain at the north end of Mizhi town, which local tradition links to Li Zicheng, the Mizhi rebel leader who overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644, as his palace, and which also served as a temple of the Taoist god Zhenwu. A path climbs from the opera stage past the Plum Blossom Pavilion, the Pengsheng Tower, a stone archway and the Jade Emperor Pavilion, with displays on Li's rebellion and his short-lived Shun dynasty."},{"id":"shenmu-linzhou-ancient-city","name":"Linzhou Ancient City (Yangjiacheng)","name_zh":"麟州故城","pinyin":"Línzhōu Gùchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.9491,"lon":110.4696,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shenmu-linzhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The earthen ruins of Linzhou, a frontier prefectural city of the Tang to Ming dynasties on Yangcheng Hill north of Shenmu, known locally as Yangjiacheng ('Yang family city') because the family of the Northern Song general Yang Ye held it. About 2.8 km of rammed-earth wall survives, up to 18 m high, around a site of about 1.1 km² made up of an east city, a barbican, an inner citadel and a western quarter. An exhibition hall, a military-culture park at the east gate and landscaped western ruins have been laid out for visitors, and the hill is known for apricot blossom in spring."},{"id":"yuyang-mahuangliang-loess-geopark","name":"Mahuangliang Loess Geopark","name_zh":"麻黄梁黄土地质公园","pinyin":"Máhuángliáng Huángtǔ Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.3809,"lon":110.0515,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuyang-mahuangliang-loess-geopark","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 37 km² geopark on the loess plateau east of Yulin, where deep gullies have cut the thick loess into a 'peak forest' of pillars and ridges and exposed sections of Quaternary sediment, with desert landforms and fossil finds nearby. A two-storey visitor building holds a loess geology museum and an art gallery of paintings and photographs made here, and the area is a favourite of painters and photographers, especially after snow."},{"id":"suide-mingzhou-old-town","name":"Mingzhou Old Town, Suide","name_zh":"名州古城","pinyin":"Míngzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.5043,"lon":110.2596,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=suide-mingzhou-old-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The historic core of Suide town, run as a cultural tourism district that links the Mingzhou historic street with the Suide Revolutionary Memorial Hall, a museum of Han-dynasty carved stone reliefs and the Fusu Culture Garden around the tomb on Shushu Hill traditionally attributed to Fusu, eldest son of the First Emperor of Qin. On the hill stands the Xundi Tower, first built in the early Ming and recently rebuilt in Ming style on its old site."},{"id":"qingjian-beiguo-fengguang","name":"Northern Scenery (Beiguo Fengguang) Scenic Area","name_zh":"北国风光","pinyin":"Běiguó Fēngguāng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.0968,"lon":110.475,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingjian-beiguo-fengguang","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A red-tourism scenic area on the Gaojiawa plateau above the Yellow River, named after the opening words of Mao Zedong's poem 'Snow' (Qinyuanchun · Xue). In February 1936, as the Red Army prepared to cross the river east into Shanxi, Mao came up to this plateau from his quarters in nearby Yuanjiagou village to survey the crossing in deep snow, and wrote the poem back in Yuanjiagou that night. The modern scenic area has the Cangxue Tower, a museum of Mao's poetry and a visitor centre."},{"id":"yulin-northern-shaanxi-folk-song-museum","name":"Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Museum","name_zh":"陕北民歌博物馆","pinyin":"Shǎnběi Míngē Bówùguǎn","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.3142,"lon":109.764,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yulin-northern-shaanxi-folk-song-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A museum devoted to the folk songs of northern Shaanxi, with about 5,700 m² of displays on traditional songs, the revolutionary songs of the Yan'an years such as 'The East Is Red', newer compositions and the region's folk music. The complex also has a 500-seat theatre, part of a youth activity centre, that doubles as a stage for folk-song performances."},{"id":"fugu-qixing-temple","name":"Qixing Temple, Fugu","name_zh":"七星庙","pinyin":"Qīxīng Miào","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":39.0856,"lon":110.9027,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fugu-qixing-temple","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A small Ming-dynasty temple, also called the Haotian Palace, on a hilltop about 1 km north of the old Gushan fort town in Fugu county. Built entirely of brick, it has a front hall and a beamless main hall roofed with a brick vault under a hip-and-gable roof, and local legend makes it the wedding place of the Song general Yang Ye and his wife She Saihua."},{"id":"yulin-shengdu-amusement-park","name":"Shengdu Amusement Park","name_zh":"圣都乐园","pinyin":"Shèngdū Lèyuán","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.2763,"lon":109.7404,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yulin-shengdu-amusement-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An open-plan amusement park inside the Yuxi riverside park in central Yulin, opened in October 2014. It opened with more than 20 large outdoor rides and over ten indoor ones, among them an 89 m Ferris wheel, a six-loop roller coaster and a water flume ride, and it suits families and thrill-ride fans."},{"id":"shenmu-shimao-site","name":"Shimao","name_zh":"石峁遗址","pinyin":"Shímǎo Yízhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":38.5451,"lon":110.2949,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shenmu-shimao-site/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The ruins of a stone-walled city built around 2300 BC and abandoned around 1800 BC, the largest known walled settlement of China's late Neolithic, with inner and outer stone walls enclosing more than 400 ha around a terraced palace platform called Huangchengtai. It is now a national archaeological site park and on China's tentative list for World Heritage. The Shimao Museum, opened in November 2023, shows 688 jades, stone carvings, pottery, bone objects and painted mural fragments from the site."},{"id":"jingbian-xiaohe-meeting-site","name":"Site of the Xiaohe Meeting","name_zh":"小河会议旧址","pinyin":"Xiǎohé Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.3499,"lon":109.0134,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingbian-xiaohe-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The village where the CPC Central Committee under Mao Zedong and the PLA headquarters stayed for 48 days in summer 1947 while moving around northern Shaanxi during the civil war, and where an enlarged Central Committee meeting on 21–23 July 1947, held under a shelter in a villager's courtyard, decided the PLA's shift from strategic defence to the offensive. The site preserves the meeting courtyard and the cave dwellings used by Mao, Zhou Enlai and other leaders, the Galagou meeting site and a memorial hall, and has been fully open to visitors since 2012."},{"id":"jingbian-wave-valley","name":"Wave Valley, Jingbian","name_zh":"波浪谷","pinyin":"Bōlàng Gǔ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.5203,"lon":109.001,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingbian-wave-valley","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Danxia landscape of eroded red sandstone in the gullies at Longzhou, south-east of Jingbian town, named for the wave-like layering of its rock. On holidays the scenic area stages local folk performances such as yangge and waist-drum dancing, the 'running donkey' dance and northern Shaanxi folk songs, and it drew 88,000 visitors over the 2026 National Day week."},{"id":"wubu-stone-city","name":"Wubu Stone City","name_zh":"吴堡石城","pinyin":"Wúbǔ Shíchéng","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.47,"lon":110.7447,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wubu-stone-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The former county town of Wubu, a stone-walled town on a hilltop above the west bank of the Yellow River, first built in the Northern Han period of the tenth century and still holding Ming and Qing buildings. Its walls, yamen and temples were badly damaged by fighting and dismantling between 1936 and the 1950s, and most residents moved down to the new town by the river, but the walled hilltop and its old courtyards can still be explored."},{"id":"mizhi-yangjiagou-revolutionary-site","name":"Yangjiagou Revolutionary Site","name_zh":"杨家沟革命旧址","pinyin":"Yángjiāgōu Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.7572,"lon":110.3256,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mizhi-yangjiagou-revolutionary-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"From November 1947 the CPC Central Committee's front committee under Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi, together with the PLA headquarters, spent 120 days in this loess-valley village during the civil war, and held an enlarged Central Committee meeting here on 25–28 December 1947, known as the December Meeting. The memorial site preserves the leaders' cave-dwelling residences and the meeting hall within the hillside manor of the local Ma family, with displays in a memorial hall."},{"id":"wubu-yellow-river-eastward-crossing","name":"Yellow River Eastward Crossing Site, Wubu","name_zh":"黄河东渡","pinyin":"Huáng Hé Dōngdù","region_id":"610000","region":"Shaanxi","city":"Yulin","lat":37.6463,"lon":110.7767,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wubu-yellow-river-eastward-crossing","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yellow River scenic area north of Wubu town that links three sites: the Erqi rapids, opposite Qikou in Shanxi, where the narrowed river pours over rock ledges; the old Guaishang ferry, with rafting on the river; and the memorial park at the Chuankou ferry, where Mao Zedong crossed into Shanxi on 23 March 1948, leaving northern Shaanxi after 13 years. The park has a monument, a memorial hall, sculptures and a landing stage."},{"id":"baiyin-daping-fengyuan-flower-park","name":"Daping Fengyuan Flower Park","name_zh":"大坪凤园花海","pinyin":"Dàpíng Fèngyuán Huāhǎi","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Baiyin","lat":36.3954,"lon":104.28,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baiyin-daping-fengyuan-flower-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower park in the Daping agricultural park at Shuichuan, south-east of Baiyin city, opened in 2018, where beds of verbena, Iceland poppies, petunias and other flowers are laid out in the shape of a phoenix. A coloured slide, high swings and a small tourist train run beside the flowers, and there are a fruit-picking garden and tents for overnight stays, so it is mainly a family outing from early summer to autumn."},{"id":"huining-red-army-reunion-site","name":"Huining Red Army Reunion Site","name_zh":"会宁红军会师旧址","pinyin":"Huìníng Hóngjūn Huìshī Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Baiyin","lat":35.6913,"lon":105.0487,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huining-red-army-reunion-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"In October 1936 the Red Army's First and Fourth Front Armies met at Huining during the closing stage of the Long March, and the protected site in the centre of the town preserves the Huishi gate tower, the venue of the joint celebration meeting and the former headquarters of several Red Army commands. Also on the site are the Reunion Tower, a forest of steles with commanders' inscriptions and the Long March Victory Memorial Hall, which presents the march and the meeting."},{"id":"jingyuan-shuian-sanhe","name":"Shuian Sanhe Scenic Area","name_zh":"水岸三合","pinyin":"Shuǐ'àn Sānhé","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Baiyin","lat":36.6231,"lon":104.7042,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyuan-shuian-sanhe","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside leisure park of about 47 ha on the Yellow River at Sanhe village, Dongwan, that combines farm and flower displays with a summer water-play area where water obstacle-course contests are held. It suits families looking for a summer day out from Jingyuan or Baiyin."},{"id":"baiyin-shuichuan-wetland-park","name":"Shuichuan Yellow River Wetland Park","name_zh":"水川湿地公园","pinyin":"Shuǐchuān Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Baiyin","lat":36.3644,"lon":104.2475,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baiyin-shuichuan-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland park of about 3,000 mu (roughly 200 ha) on the Yellow River at Shuichuan, south of Baiyin city, with lotus ponds that flower in summer, reedbeds, an artificial lake, zigzag bridges and a small tourist train. Waterbirds such as black swans and great crested grebes live here, and the park is often visited together with the nearby Daping flower park."},{"id":"jingtai-yellow-river-stone-forest","name":"Yellow River Stone Forest","name_zh":"黄河石林","pinyin":"Huánghé Shílín","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Baiyin","lat":36.8991,"lon":104.3445,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingtai-yellow-river-stone-forest/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national geopark on a bend of the Yellow River in Jingtai, where conglomerate beds about 2.1 million years old have been eroded into pillars and spires mostly 80–100 m tall, packed into some 10 km² of gullies. Visitors explore the Yinma Gorge and riverside viewpoints and can ride the river on traditional sheepskin rafts, and the cliffs have served as a backdrop for many Chinese films and TV dramas."},{"id":"jingtai-yongtai-fortress","name":"Yongtai Fortress","name_zh":"永泰龟城","pinyin":"Yǒngtài Guīchéng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Baiyin","lat":37.136,"lon":103.8466,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jingtai-yongtai-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming garrison town built in 1606–08 on the plain of western Jingtai, still enclosed by rammed-earth walls 8–12 m high and about 1.7 km round, whose outline earned it the nickname 'Turtle City'. Once home to 2,000 infantry and 500 cavalry, it is now a near-empty village of a few dozen households, and a flower farm beside it is visited together with the fortress."},{"id":"weiyuan-baling-bridge","name":"Baling Bridge, Weiyuan","name_zh":"灞陵桥","pinyin":"Bàlíng Qiáo","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.1348,"lon":104.2146,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weiyuan-baling-bridge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Baling Bridge spans the Qingyuan River in Weiyuan county town, close to the source of the Wei River: a covered timber cantilever-arch bridge 40 m long, with a gallery of 13 bays. A bridge is recorded here since the early Ming, but the present arch was first built in 1919–21 on the model of the Wo Bridge at Xinglong Mountain near Lanzhou and rebuilt in the early 1930s; plaques at its ends were written by Zuo Zongtang, Chiang Kai-shek, Yu Youren and other public figures."},{"id":"tongwei-bangluo-conference-site","name":"Bangluo Conference Site","name_zh":"榜罗镇会议旧址","pinyin":"Bǎngluó Zhèn Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.0333,"lon":104.9387,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongwei-bangluo-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"On 27 September 1935 the Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, then on the Long March, met in the principal's office of the Bangluo central school and decided to make the Shaan-Gan base area in northern Shaanxi the destination of the march; the next day Mao Zedong spoke to the Shaanxi–Gansu Detachment's company-level and higher officers at a threshing ground beside the school. The protected site includes the meeting room, 17 former quarters of Party and Red Army leaders and a memorial hall with exhibitions on the meeting and on the Red Army's passage through Tongwei, and it is on the national list of red-tourism classic scenic areas."},{"id":"tongwei-changjiahe-hawthorn-town","name":"Changjiahe Hawthorn Town","name_zh":"常家河山楂小镇","pinyin":"Chángjiāhé Shānzhā Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":34.9997,"lon":105.1296,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongwei-changjiahe-hawthorn-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farm-tourism area in Changjiahe town built around hawthorn orchards planted by a local cooperative from 2018, with blossom in spring and fruit in autumn. Around the orchards are a Daoist-style temple complex used as a study base, an old fortified village, the Longzhu viewing terrace, a small pet and bird park and traditional villages used as bases for sketching and photography, so it suits a countryside day out from Tongwei."},{"id":"minxian-langdutan-grassland","name":"Langdutan Grassland","name_zh":"狼渡滩","pinyin":"Lángdù Tān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":34.3792,"lon":104.6567,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minxian-langdutan-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Langdutan is a broad upland of wetland meadows and grassland at an average height of about 2,600 m around Lüjing town in eastern Min County, threaded by winding streams and grazed by yaks, cattle and sheep. The G316 runs through it, which makes it an easy summer stop for wildflowers and cool weather, and a summer horse-racing festival has been held on the grassland."},{"id":"longxi-lijia-longgong","name":"Lijia Longgong (Li Clan Ancestral Temple)","name_zh":"李家龙宫","pinyin":"Lǐjiā Lónggōng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.0137,"lon":104.644,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longxi-lijia-longgong","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Lijia Longgong is the ancestral temple of the Li clan in Longxi, the clan's ancestral seat, said to have been founded in the early Tang and named from an inscription by Emperor Taizong. The surviving buildings come from rebuildings of 1577, 1648 and later, with new buildings in the old style added in recent years, and people surnamed Li visit it to trace their roots. It is usually visited together with the Longxi Museum beside it, whose collection includes Neolithic pottery and Song–Yuan tomb brick carvings."},{"id":"minxian-minzhou-conference-site","name":"Minzhou Conference Site","name_zh":"岷州会议旧址","pinyin":"Mínzhōu Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":34.4507,"lon":103.8978,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minxian-minzhou-conference-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial at Sanshilipu outside Min County town to the Minzhou Conference of 16–18 September 1936, at which the Communist Party's Northwest Bureau, meeting while the Red Army's Second and Fourth Front Armies were in Min County, rejected Zhang Guotao's plan to take the Fourth Front Army west and decided that the forces should go north to join the First Front Army. The Red Army passed through Min County in 1935 and stayed in 1936, when a Gansu provincial Soviet government was set up here, and the memorial hall presents that history."},{"id":"lintao-nanping-mountain","name":"Nanping Mountain, Lintao","name_zh":"南屏山","pinyin":"Nánpíng Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.0836,"lon":103.7926,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lintao-nanping-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Nanping Mountain rises south of Lintao to an average height of about 2,800 m, and its snow-capped summit is the setting of 'Snow on the Southern Hills', one of the old Eight Views of Taoyang. The eco-tourism area in Nanping town has peony and herbaceous-peony fields, with Lintao's purple-spotted peonies flowering here in late spring, as well as farm-stay guesthouses, farming activities and, in winter, snow paths and sledging."},{"id":"weiyuan-shouyang-mountain","name":"Shouyang Mountain, Weiyuan","name_zh":"首阳山","pinyin":"Shǒuyáng Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":34.9908,"lon":104.2396,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weiyuan-shouyang-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shouyang Mountain in Lianfeng town south of Weiyuan is one of several places claimed as the mountain where the brothers Bo Yi and Shu Qi, refusing to eat the grain of the Zhou, starved to death; its nine lotus-like peaks have had Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian cave temples and halls since the Han and Wei. Nearby, the Yiqi tomb has a stele in the hand of Zuo Zongtang and the Qingsheng Shrine, first built in the Tang and last restored in 1874, with modern statues of the brothers by He E."},{"id":"weiyuan-weihe-source","name":"Weihe Source Scenic Area","name_zh":"渭河源","pinyin":"Wèihé Yuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.0037,"lon":104.0884,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weiyuan-weihe-source","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Wei River is traditionally said to rise here in the Niaoshu ('Bird and Rat') Mountains south-west of Weiyuan, where the Book of Documents records Yu the Great guiding its waters, and the springs that feed it emerge in the wooded headwater valley. The scenic area has a hall to Yu the Great, a temple to the Wei River Dragon King and an exhibition hall on the river's history, and it is the core of Weiyuan's tourism."},{"id":"longxi-weiyuan-tower","name":"Weiyuan Tower, Longxi","name_zh":"威远楼","pinyin":"Wēiyuǎn Lóu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.0044,"lon":104.6347,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=longxi-weiyuan-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Weiyuan Tower stands in the centre of Longxi: a three-storey timber drum tower 26 m tall on a brick base, first built under the Northern Song in the 11th century, moved to its present site in 1261 and rebuilt in 1368. A water clock was added in 1341, a drum in 1464, and a bell cast in 1102 was hung here in 1836, which is why it is also called the Bell and Drum Tower; its present form dates from an enlargement of 1716."},{"id":"weiyuan-yuangudui-village","name":"Yuangudui Village","name_zh":"元古堆","pinyin":"Yuángǔduī","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.0421,"lon":103.9551,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=weiyuan-yuangudui-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yuangudui is a hill village in Tianjiahe township, Weiyuan County, at about 2,440 m, which Xi Jinping visited in February 2013 and which has since developed rural tourism. Visitors see the rebuilt village with its farm stays, among them a deer-themed one, and fields of lilies and of medicinal herbs such as codonopsis and astragalus grown for sale."},{"id":"lintao-yuelu-mountain","name":"Yuelu Mountain, Lintao","name_zh":"岳麓山","pinyin":"Yuèlù Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.373,"lon":103.8732,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lintao-yuelu-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yuelu Mountain is the wooded hill on the eastern edge of Lintao town, long a Daoist site and a meeting place for scholars. Paths lead up past temple halls to the Chaoran Terrace and the Jiaoshan Academy, linked with the Ming official Yang Jisheng, who set up a school while exiled to Lintao, then called Didao; at the foot is the Yuquan spring by Longquan Temple, one of the old Eight Views of Taoyang, and in late spring the hill has displays of purple-spotted peonies."},{"id":"tongwei-yuexin-painting-village","name":"Yuexin International Calligraphy and Painting Village","name_zh":"悦心国际书画村","pinyin":"Yuèxīn Guójì Shūhuà Cūn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":35.2144,"lon":105.2134,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongwei-yuexin-painting-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cultural tourism complex in Tongwei county town, in a county known for its calligraphy and painting culture, made up of a long calligraphy and painting gallery with more than 100 commercial galleries, the Yuexin Art Museum, a hot-spring pool complex, a hotel and an organic fruit-picking farm outside the town. It suits visitors interested in Chinese brush art, and the spa pools use spring water piped from the Tangchi valley south-west of the town."},{"id":"zhangxian-zheyang-guiqing-mountains","name":"Zheyang and Guiqing Mountains","name_zh":"遮阳山、贵清山","pinyin":"Zhēyáng Shān, Guìqīng Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Dingxi","lat":34.7575,"lon":104.2344,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangxian-zheyang-guiqing-mountains","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two forested mountain areas in the south of Zhang County that together make up a national forest park. Zheyang Mountain, south-west of the county town, is a deep gorge of streams, pools and waterfalls between cliffs that serve as a training base for China's national rock-climbing team, with Song and Ming inscriptions along the path; Guiqing Mountain, further south, has steep peaks, old-growth woods, a bridge across a chasm and a temple first built in the Ming Longqing era."},{"id":"maqu-awancang-wetland","name":"Awancang Wetland","name_zh":"阿万仓湿地","pinyin":"Āwàncāng Shīdì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":33.7702,"lon":101.6818,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maqu-awancang-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A broad wetland grassland around Awancang town in Maqu county, inside the great loop of the upper Yellow River known as its First Bend, where the river's side channels meander through pasture, pools and marsh. It is grazing land for the Tibetan herders' yaks, sheep and Hequ horses, a breed famous across China, and the wide open views are the attraction."},{"id":"tewo-cirina-mao-residence","name":"Ciri'na and Mao Zedong's Former Residence","name_zh":"茨日那毛泽东旧居","pinyin":"Círìnà Máo Zédōng Jiùjū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":33.952,"lon":103.6082,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tewo-cirina-mao-residence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan village on the Bailong River in Wangzang town, Têwo county, where the Central Red Army stayed in September 1935 on the first stage of its Long March through Gansu; Mao Zedong lodged in a two-storey Tibetan house of rammed-earth walls and log beams. The house, looked after by the third generation of the family who hosted the soldiers, is kept as Mao Zedong's former residence, and the village is a stop on the Long March sites route through Têwo with the Ejie meeting site and Lazikou."},{"id":"hezuo-dangzhou-grassland","name":"Dangzhou Grassland","name_zh":"当周草原","pinyin":"Dāngzhōu Cǎoyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":34.954,"lon":102.8865,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezuo-dangzhou-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A grassland scenic area on the edge of Hezuo, the capital of Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, made up of the Dangzhou grassland park and the forested South Mountain, with natural pasture and summer wildflowers. It is the main venue of the prefecture's Shambhala tourism and arts festival and a gathering place for Tibetan and other local community festivals and celebrations."},{"id":"jone-dayu-valley","name":"Dayu Valley","name_zh":"大峪沟","pinyin":"Dàyù Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":34.4369,"lon":103.5796,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jone-dayu-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley system in the Dieshan range south of Jonê county town, inside the Tao River National Nature Reserve, where a tributary of the Tao River runs for about 70 km through forest, alpine meadow and wetland below Zhayikega, the 4,920 m main peak of the Dieshan. Its developed side valleys, such as Qibu and Ajiao, have rock features including One-Line Sky, Triangle Stone, Yangzhuo Lake and Moon Gate, and the valley also holds Tibetan villages and Qibu Monastery."},{"id":"tewo-ejie-meeting-site","name":"Ejie Meeting Site","name_zh":"俄界会议旧址","pinyin":"Éjiè Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":33.8749,"lon":103.3156,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tewo-ejie-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan village house in Gaoji village, Dala township, where the Politburo of the Communist Party of China held an enlarged meeting on 12 September 1935, the day after the Central Red Army's Long March column crossed into Gansu from Sichuan; 'Ejie' is a Chinese rendering of the Tibetan name Gaoji. The meeting adopted a decision on the errors of Zhang Guotao, confirmed the plan to continue north and renamed the northbound force the Shaanxi–Gansu Detachment; the village around the site is now a 4A scenic area with guesthouses run by its residents."},{"id":"xiahe-ganjia-grassland","name":"Ganjia Grassland and Bajiaocheng","name_zh":"甘加秘境","pinyin":"Gānjiā Mìjìng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":35.3961,"lon":102.5392,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiahe-ganjia-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high grassland basin in the north of Xiahe county with pastures, rivers and gorges below the long Baishiya cliff, at whose foot stand Baishiya Monastery and the Baishiya Karst Cave, a Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage cave where a Denisovan jawbone about 160,000 years old was found. The scenic area also includes Bajiaocheng, the 'eight-corner town', a walled town of the Tang to Ming periods laid out as a hollow cross, whose 2.2 km of walls still enclose a village."},{"id":"zhouqu-laga-mountain","name":"Laga Mountain","name_zh":"拉尕山","pinyin":"Lāgǎ Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":33.8886,"lon":104.0908,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhouqu-laga-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain area 33 km west of Zhouqu county town, between Jiuzhaigou and Lazikou, whose Tibetan name means 'a place the immortals love'. It combines Tibetan hill villages, grassy slopes, streams and forest, and it was named among the '100 wonders of north-west China' at a regional tourism fair in 2018."},{"id":"tewo-lazikou-pass","name":"Lazikou Pass","name_zh":"腊子口","pinyin":"Làzǐkǒu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":34.1113,"lon":103.8938,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tewo-lazikou-pass","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A narrow gorge in the Min Mountains of Têwo county where the Lazi River runs between sheer cliffs, for centuries the main way between northern Sichuan and southern Gansu. On 16–17 September 1935 Red Army troops under Yang Chengwu took the pass, held by Nationalist forces in blockhouses, by climbing the cliffs to attack from the flank, which opened the Long March route north; the site has a memorial monument, a memorial hall, reconstructed blockhouses and bullet marks on the rock."},{"id":"lintan-taozhou-garrison-town","name":"Taozhou Garrison Town","name_zh":"洮州卫城","pinyin":"Táozhōu Wèichéng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":34.6759,"lon":103.5883,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lintan-taozhou-garrison-town/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walls of a Ming garrison town, rebuilt from 1379 as the seat of the Taozhou Guard on the old Tang–Tibet road, which still enclose the small town of Xincheng in Lintan county; it is regarded as the largest surviving garrison town (weicheng) in China. The walls run 5.43 km and stand up to 9.9 m high, climbing from the riverside plain to a ridge almost 300 m above it, with beacon platforms on the western ridge; they were badly damaged in an earthquake in 2013."},{"id":"lintan-yeliguan","name":"Yeliguan Scenic Area","name_zh":"冶力关","pinyin":"Yělìguān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":35.0124,"lon":103.6329,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lintan-yeliguan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain and forest scenic area around Yeliguan town in Lintan county, on the north-eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, rated a national 5A area in 2024. It takes in the Yeliguan National Forest Park along the Yemu River, with pasture and the narrow, cliff-walled Lianzhu Gorge upstream and forested ravines downstream, and Tianchi Yehai, a mountain lake 7 km north of the town, known locally as Changye Pool after the Ming general Chang Yuchun, whose temple stands on its shore."},{"id":"luqu-zecha-stone-forest","name":"Zecha Stone Forest","name_zh":"则岔石林","pinyin":"Zéchà Shílín","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":34.3419,"lon":102.6842,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luqu-zecha-stone-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A gorge in Larenguan township, Luqu county, where sheer rock walls and pinnacles rise above grassland and dense forest, shaped over a long time by wind, rain and running water; fossils of ancient sea creatures are found on the peaks and in the caves. It lies inside the Gahai–Zecha National Nature Reserve, set up with State Council approval in 1998."},{"id":"tewo-zhagana","name":"Zhagana","name_zh":"扎尕那","pinyin":"Zhāgǎnà","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Gannan","lat":34.2379,"lon":103.1942,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tewo-zhagana","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cluster of Tibetan villages inside a natural 'stone city' of limestone peaks north of Têwo county town; the name is Tibetan for 'stone box'. Below the 3,970 m Guanggai Shan, wooden houses, barley-drying racks and terraced fields sit under cliffs and spruce forest, a scene the botanist Joseph Rock praised after visiting in 1925, and UN Tourism named Zhagana a Best Tourism Village in 2023."},{"id":"jiayuguan-east-lake","name":"East Lake Ecological Park, Jiayuguan","name_zh":"东湖","pinyin":"Dōng Hú","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiayuguan","lat":39.7693,"lon":98.3053,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayuguan-east-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large park in Jiayuguan's southern district, built from 2002 to 2006 as the centrepiece of the new part of the city, covering 165 ha with a 56 ha artificial lake, a 640 m ribbon stream, a central square, waterfall walks, pavilions, bridges and about 90 ha of planted woodland and lawns. Its landmark is the Western Pearl weather tower, and the lake hosts the Jiayuguan International Triathlon, whose 17th edition was held here in July 2026."},{"id":"jiayuguan-fantawild-adventure","name":"Fantawild Adventure Jiayuguan","name_zh":"嘉峪关方特欢乐世界","pinyin":"Jiāyùguān Fāngtè Huānlè Shìjiè","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiayuguan","lat":39.7544,"lon":98.3453,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayuguan-fantawild-adventure","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A theme park of the Chinese Fantawild chain, opened in 2015 on Fangte Avenue in Jiayuguan's southern district, with twenty-odd rides, dark rides and shows built around Chinese stories and 4D and interactive effects, among them a flying-theatre ride, a snow-mountain adventure, a magic-castle show, a log flume and Boonie Bears attractions. The same company's second park in the city, Fantawild Silk Road Myth, has rides and shows on Silk Road, legend and folk-culture themes; both suit families and groups of young people."},{"id":"jiayuguan-wei-jin-tombs","name":"Wei–Jin Tombs, Jiayuguan","name_zh":"嘉峪关魏晋墓","pinyin":"Jiāyùguān Wèijìn Mù","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiayuguan","lat":39.852,"lon":98.4342,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayuguan-wei-jin-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large cemetery of brick tombs from the Wei and Jin periods (3rd–5th centuries) in the Gobi between Jiayuguan and Jiuquan, known as the 'underground gallery' for its painted bricks. Each brick in the tomb walls carries a small, freely drawn scene of daily life in the Hexi Corridor, such as farming, herding, butchering and feasting, and an excavated tomb near Xincheng is open so visitors can see the paintings in place."},{"id":"jiayuguan-zixuan-winery","name":"Zixuan Winery Estate","name_zh":"紫轩葡萄酒庄园","pinyin":"Zǐxuān Pútáojiǔ Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiayuguan","lat":39.8267,"lon":98.3363,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiayuguan-zixuan-winery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The winery estate of Gansu Zixuan Wine, part of the JISCO (Jiuquan Iron and Steel) group, on the airport road north-east of Jiayuguan, covering about 65 ha. Visitors tour the winery and its 13,700 m² underground barrel cellar, which the city presents as the largest single wine cellar in Asia, taste the wines and pick grapes in season; wine and grape-seed products are sold on site."},{"id":"yongchang-beihaizi-pagoda","name":"Beihaizi Pagoda","name_zh":"北海子塔","pinyin":"Běihǎizi Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jinchang","lat":38.2602,"lon":101.9761,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchang-beihaizi-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming–Qing brick Buddhist pagoda in Beihaizi Park, also called North Lake, the old temple grounds on the northern edge of Yongchang that grew from the Tang-founded Jinchuan Temple into the town's leading Chan Buddhist complex by the Qing. The park keeps the pagoda, the Five Buddhas Temple, a lake pavilion and old trees, and hosts Yongchang's temple fair on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month."},{"id":"jinchang-jinshui-lake","name":"Jinshui Lake","name_zh":"金水湖","pinyin":"Jīnshuǐ Hú","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jinchang","lat":38.5122,"lon":102.2376,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinchang-jinshui-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A man-made lake park east of central Jinchang, built between 2005 and 2008 as a water-storage and landscape project in this water-short city: five lakes linked by ribbon wetlands, with islands, bridges and jetties, cover about 236 hectares, 60 of them water. It is an open suburban green space with themed scenic corners, exercise and older people's activity areas and an outdoor nature-education zone."},{"id":"jinchang-mars-base-1","name":"Mars Base 1","name_zh":"火星1号基地","pinyin":"Huǒxīng Yī Hào Jīdì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jinchang","lat":38.3903,"lon":102.19,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinchang-mars-base-1","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Mars-themed experience park on the red-rock Gobi south of Jinchang, built from 2022 because the terrain resembles the Martian surface, with simulated survival bases and science-fiction sets that have also served as film and television locations. Visitors can try more than 30 activities such as a weightlessness experience, live role-play games and 'Mars sleeping pods'; it is aimed at families and school study trips."},{"id":"yongchang-shengrong-temple-pagodas","name":"Shengrong Temple Pagodas","name_zh":"圣容寺塔","pinyin":"Shèngróng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jinchang","lat":38.322,"lon":101.9274,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongchang-shengrong-temple-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two square Tang brick pagodas face each other across the Yushan gorge north of Yongchang, regarded as the oldest surviving pagodas in Gansu: the larger, 16.2 m tall and shaped like Xi'an's Small Wild Goose Pagoda, has murals inside with inscriptions naming the temple, and the smaller solid one is 4.9 m. They belonged to Shengrong Temple, which local records date to 561 and which the Sui emperor Yang renamed Gantong Temple when he visited in 609; a Northern Wei stone Buddha, the temple's famous 'auspicious image', still stands against the cliff, and its legend is painted in several of the Mogao caves at Dunhuang."},{"id":"yongchang-bell-and-drum-tower","name":"Yongchang Bell and Drum Tower","name_zh":"永昌钟鼓楼","pinyin":"Yǒngchāng Zhōnggǔlóu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jinchang","lat":38.2469,"lon":101.9696,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongchang-bell-and-drum-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The landmark of Yongchang's town centre, completed in 1587: a square platform of rammed earth faced with brick, 7.2 m high and pierced by four arched passages, carries a two-storey timber tower with three tiers of eaves, 24.5 m tall in all, with a great iron bell on the platform and a large drum inside. Damaged in the 1927 Gulang earthquake, it was dismantled and rebuilt to its original form in 1984–86, and inscribed boards on every side carry phrases such as 'Embracing the Western Regions'."},{"id":"jinchang-zijin-flower-city","name":"Zijin Flower City","name_zh":"紫金花城","pinyin":"Zǐjīn Huāchéng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jinchang","lat":38.551,"lon":102.1846,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinchang-zijin-flower-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower park of about 38 hectares on the northern outskirts of Jinchang, planted with some 40 kinds of herbs and flowers, among them lavender, verbena and cosmos, that colour the fields purple in the flowering season. It is the core of a wider planned green belt on the city's northern side and is visited for walks and photographs among the flowers."},{"id":"aksay-boluozhuanjing-film-base","name":"Boluozhuanjing Film Base (Old Aksay Town)","name_zh":"博罗转井影视基地","pinyin":"Bóluózhuǎnjǐng Yǐngshì Jīdì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.4131,"lon":94.2606,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aksay-boluozhuanjing-film-base","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The abandoned former seat of Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County, on the northern slopes of the Altyn-Tagh, left empty when the county town moved down to the plain in 1998 and since used as a film set. Most of its buildings date from around 1980, and films shot among its empty streets since 2002 include Hero, Wind Blast and Dragon Blade."},{"id":"yumen-changma-grottoes","name":"Changma Grottoes","name_zh":"昌马石窟","pinyin":"Chāngmǎ Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.8935,"lon":96.7795,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yumen-changma-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Buddhist cave temples in the Changma basin south-west of Yumen, dated by their national listing (2019) to the Northern Wei through the Qing. The Jiuquan tourism bureau counts the caves, with the Luzigou and Qingshigou rock art nearby, among the sights of the Changma valley, an upland area of snow peaks, gorges, grassland and wetland."},{"id":"yumen-chijin-gorge","name":"Chijin Gorge Reservoir","name_zh":"赤金峡","pinyin":"Chìjīn Xiá","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.1173,"lon":97.3901,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yumen-chijin-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area built around the Chijin Gorge reservoir on the Shiyou River in Chijin town, between Yumen's old and new towns, run as a water-conservancy scenic area in the Gobi. The earth dam, built in 1968 and given a wave wall in 1978, holds a reservoir of up to about 11 km² that irrigates the surrounding oasis farmland, and the grounds hold a replica of the Han dynasty Yumen Pass, a Dragon King Pavilion and other newly built shrines, a Han beacon tower, a Qing stele and the remains of an old post station."},{"id":"guazhou-gobi-sculpture-corridor","name":"Guazhou Gobi Sculpture Corridor","name_zh":"瓜州戈壁雕塑艺术长廊","pinyin":"Guāzhōu Gēbì Diāosù Yìshù Chángláng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.3815,"lon":95.8382,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guazhou-gobi-sculpture-corridor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of large outdoor artworks in the Gobi on the road from Guazhou towards the Yulin Caves. The best known is Son of the Earth, a sleeping baby 15 m long carved in red sandstone by Tsinghua University sculptor Dong Shubing, and close by stands his Boundless, a 60 m-long, 21 m-high white steel frame of palace pavilions drawn from Dunhuang murals; other works include Han Wu Xiong Feng and Gobi Ark."},{"id":"jinta-jianshui-jinguan","name":"Jianshui Jinguan and Diwan Fort (Juyan Han Frontier Sites)","name_zh":"肩水金关遗址","pinyin":"Jiānshuǐ Jīnguān Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.5837,"lon":99.9296,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinta-jianshui-jinguan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Gansu part of the Juyan frontier sites: Han dynasty forts and a checkpoint on the east bank of the Ejin (Hei) River in northern Jinta county, part of the Han defences that run on into Inner Mongolia. Diwan fort, built of rammed earth around 121 BC as the seat of the Jianshui frontier command, stands 500 m south of the Jianshui Jinguan checkpoint and 9 km north of the Dawan forts, and thousands of Han wooden slips have been excavated here since 1930; the county has made the three sites into a military-history scenic area."},{"id":"jinta-desert-poplar-forest","name":"Jinta Desert Poplar Forest","name_zh":"金塔沙漠胡杨林","pinyin":"Jīntǎ Shāmò Húyáng Lín","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.0051,"lon":98.869,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinta-desert-poplar-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A planted forest of Euphrates poplars on the desert edge north-west of Jinta town, grown through volunteer tree-planting campaigns since the 1960s to stop the sand at what had been the county's worst wind gap; the poplar scenic area covers nearly 10,000 mu (about 6.7 km²). Local media call it the largest planted forest in the Hexi Corridor, and it is at its best in late September and October, when the leaves turn gold."},{"id":"jiuquan-drum-tower","name":"Jiuquan Drum Tower","name_zh":"酒泉鼓楼","pinyin":"Jiǔquán Gǔlóu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.7437,"lon":98.5098,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jiuquan-drum-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The landmark tower at the central crossroads of Jiuquan: its rammed-earth base was the east gate tower of the city rebuilt under the Former Liang in the 4th century, found itself at the centre of town when the walls were extended east in the Ming, and was faced with brick in 1725. The three-storey wooden tower on top dates from 1905, after a fire in 1865, and the four arched gateways carry inscriptions naming where each road leads: Mount Hua to the east, Yiwu (Hami) to the west, the Qilian Mountains to the south and the desert to the north."},{"id":"jiuquan-park-xihan-shengji","name":"Jiuquan Park (Western Han Jiuquan Scenic Spot)","name_zh":"西汉酒泉胜迹","pinyin":"Xīhàn Jiǔquán Shèngjì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.7466,"lon":98.5324,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuquan-park-xihan-shengji","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake park on the east side of central Jiuquan around the spring that gave the city its name: legend says the Han general Huo Qubing poured wine from the emperor into it to share with his troops. Soldiers and residents organised by the Qing general Zuo Zongtang are said to have dug out the lake and planted the trees, the Nationalist government named it Quanhu Park in 1942, and today, as the Western Han Jiuquan Scenic Spot, it has the old spring, pools, pavilions and willows more than 130 years old from Zuo's time."},{"id":"jiuquan-tianbao-stone-park","name":"Jiuquan Tianbao Ornamental Stone Exhibition","name_zh":"酒泉天宝","pinyin":"Jiǔquán Tiānbǎo","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.7303,"lon":98.5032,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuquan-tianbao-stone-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An indoor exhibition of ornamental stones in a shopping complex in Jiuquan's Suzhou district, presented by its operators as China's largest stone-appreciation attraction. Its halls show the 'four famous stones' of ancient China and modern collectors' stones, with large holdings of yardang stones, 'cartoon' stones and the locally named Jiuquan black eagle stone, and it runs study courses for school groups."},{"id":"jiuquan-qilian-reed-sea","name":"Qilian Reed Sea","name_zh":"祁连苇海","pinyin":"Qílián Wěihǎi","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.8784,"lon":98.5145,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiuquan-qilian-reed-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reed, cattail and marsh wetland in Yinda town on the northern edge of the Jiuquan oasis, at the edge of the Badain Jaran desert, with the Ming Great Wall along its south side. Reed beds turn golden under white plumes in autumn and water birds live among them; it suits a short outing from the city rather than a special trip."},{"id":"guazhou-suoyang-city","name":"Suoyang City","name_zh":"锁阳城遗址","pinyin":"Suǒyáng Chéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.2467,"lon":96.2026,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guazhou-suoyang-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a walled Silk Road city in the Gobi south-east of Guazhou, seat of Guazhou prefecture under the Tang and abandoned in the 16th century; the rammed-earth walls of the inner city still stand 9–12.5 m high. The archaeological park also takes in the Ta'er Temple ruins, ancient irrigation canals and more than 2,000 tombs, and the site is part of the Silk Roads World Heritage listing (2014)."},{"id":"dunhuang-xuanquan-post-station","name":"Xuanquan Post Station Site","name_zh":"悬泉置遗址","pinyin":"Xuánquánzhì Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.2566,"lon":95.2816,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dunhuang-xuanquan-post-station/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Han dynasty relay station on the Silk Road between Dunhuang and Guazhou, in use from about 111 BC until the Wei–Jin period to lodge envoys, officials and foreign guests. Excavations in the early 1990s recovered some 70,000 objects, including about 35,000 inscribed wooden and bamboo slips, after which the ruins were backfilled for protection, and the site is part of the Silk Roads World Heritage listing. A visitor area opened in 2025 beside the motorway with a full-size reconstruction of the station, and a display centre with 3D and interactive exhibits on the excavations was completed the same year."},{"id":"subei-xueyu-ziting","name":"Xueyu Ziting Eco-Cultural Park","name_zh":"雪域紫亭","pinyin":"Xuěyù Zǐtíng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.4871,"lon":94.8941,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=subei-xueyu-ziting","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An open park in Dangchengwan, the county town of Subei Mongol Autonomous County, made up of a flower field of about 1,000 mu, Ziting Lake and a fruit and vegetable picking garden. In late summer and early autumn the beds of cosmos, calendula, cleome and other annuals are in full flower, with boardwalks, pavilions and windmills among them; it is mainly a leisure spot for residents and passing travellers."},{"id":"dunhuang-yang-pass","name":"Yang Pass","name_zh":"阳关","pinyin":"Yáng Guān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.9357,"lon":94.052,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dunhuang-yang-pass/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of Yangguan, the southern of the two Han dynasty frontier passes west of Dunhuang, fortified around 120 BC to guard the southern Silk Road route to the Western Regions; the fort had fallen into ruin by about AD 900. The scenic area has the Yangguan Museum next to the site, and the pass is remembered through Wang Wei's Tang poem of parting, which made 'west of Yang Pass' a byword for leaving old friends behind."},{"id":"guazhou-yulin-caves","name":"Yulin Caves","name_zh":"榆林窟","pinyin":"Yúlín Kū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.0586,"lon":95.9338,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guazhou-yulin-caves/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Buddhist cave temples cut into both cliffs of the Yulin River gorge south of Guazhou, regarded as a sister site of the Mogao Caves and managed by the Dunhuang Academy. About 43 caves hold some 270 painted statues and more than 5,200 m² of wall paintings from the Tang to the Yuan, with secular scenes such as farming, wine-making, a smelting furnace and a wedding among the Buddhist subjects. The Eastern Thousand Buddha Caves, about 45 km to the east, belong to the same protected unit and have eight decorated caves of the Western Xia and Yuan."},{"id":"yumen-oilfield-old-no1-well","name":"Yumen Oilfield Old No. 1 Well","name_zh":"玉门油田老一井","pinyin":"Yùmén Yóutián Lǎo Yī Jǐng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":39.7911,"lon":97.5472,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yumen-oilfield-old-no1-well","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old oil town of Yumen, regarded as the cradle of China's oil industry, is where in 1939 geologist Sun Jianchu's team drilled the first well beside the small Laojunmiao temple; until the Daqing field was found, the Yumen field was the country's largest. The red-tourism area keeps the Old No. 1 Well with a pumping unit, the Qing-dynasty temple, a monument to Sun Jianchu, a statue and memorial hall for the oil worker Wang Jinxi and an oil-city park."},{"id":"dunhuang-yumen-pass","name":"Yumen Pass","name_zh":"玉门关","pinyin":"Yùmén Guān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.3536,"lon":93.8641,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/dunhuang-yumen-pass/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Jade Gate, the Han dynasty frontier pass at the western end of the Hexi defence line beyond Dunhuang, through which the northern Silk Road left for the Western Regions; it is traditionally said to be named after the jade brought in from the west. Visitors see the square rammed-earth fort known as Xiaofangpan, the larger Dafangpan ruins, a Han granary, and stretches of Han wall and beacon towers in the Gobi, and the site is part of the Silk Roads World Heritage listing (2014)."},{"id":"yumen-yuze-lake-park","name":"Yuze Lake Park","name_zh":"玉泽湖公园","pinyin":"Yùzé Hú Gōngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.2947,"lon":97.042,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yumen-yuze-lake-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A city park in Yumen's new town, begun in 2000 when the city government moved here from the old oil town, laid out around an inner lake, an outer lake and a newer extension. Paths link a cultural promenade, squares, a lake island, wetland and a children's play area, with landmarks such as the Yanyu Pavilion, a memorial archway, a zigzag bridge, an old-style water tower and a Ferris wheel."},{"id":"guazhou-caosheng-guli-park","name":"Zhang Zhi Calligraphy Culture Park (Caosheng Guli)","name_zh":"草圣故里文化产业园","pinyin":"Cǎoshèng Gùlǐ Wénhuà Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Jiuquan","lat":40.5185,"lon":95.8033,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guazhou-caosheng-guli-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A calligraphy-themed culture park in Guazhou county town honouring Zhang Zhi, the Eastern Han calligrapher from this region who is revered in China as the 'sage of cursive script'. Its 681 mu of grounds hold water features, pavilions, halls, sculpture and steles, including a memorial square with his statue and a memorial hall, and it suits visitors with a strong interest in Chinese calligraphy."},{"id":"lanzhou-wuquan-mountain","name":"Five Springs Park (Wuquan Mountain)","name_zh":"五泉山","pinyin":"Wǔquán Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.0347,"lon":103.8225,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanzhou-wuquan-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside park on the northern slopes of Gaolan Mountain in southern Lanzhou, named after five springs that legend says appeared when the Han general Huo Qubing struck the ground with his whip. Temples climb the slope in 25 building groups first built in the Yuan and extended through the Ming, Qing and Republican periods, among them Junyuan Temple, a Wenchang Palace, a Wuhou Shrine to Zhuge Liang and a Thousand Buddha Pavilion. It became a public park in 1955 and holds a temple fair on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month."},{"id":"lanzhou-eighth-route-army-office","name":"Former Lanzhou Office of the Eighth Route Army","name_zh":"八路军兰州办事处旧址","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Lánzhōu Bànshìchù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.0507,"lon":103.8241,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-eighth-route-army-office","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Eighth Route Army's office in Lanzhou from August 1937 to November 1943, during the wartime cooperation between the Communists and the Nationalists against Japan. Its two compounds, on Jiuquan Road and Gannan Road about 220 m apart, form a memorial museum that reopened after restoration in 2011, on the office's work and on its leaders and visitors, among them Xie Juezai, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi."},{"id":"yongdeng-hongcheng-ganen-temple","name":"Gan'en Temple, Hongcheng","name_zh":"红城感恩寺","pinyin":"Hóngchéng Gǎn'ēn Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.4532,"lon":103.3903,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongdeng-hongcheng-ganen-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist temple built in Chinese style in Hongcheng town, founded in 1492–1494 by the fifth Lu chieftain of Liancheng and named Gan'en ('Gratitude') by the Hongzhi Emperor in 1495. Its Ming buildings survive around a main Buddha hall; the statues and wall paintings inside today, including scenes from Journey to the West, are later work."},{"id":"xigu-hekou-ancient-town","name":"Hekou Ancient Town","name_zh":"河口古镇","pinyin":"Hékǒu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.1722,"lon":103.4386,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xigu-hekou-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former Yellow River ferry and trading town on the western edge of Lanzhou, where the Zhuanglang River joins the Yellow River, restored since 2014 as a historic district around Hekou village. Its 'four streets and seventeen lanes' radiate from a two-storey bell and drum tower, lined with 37 Ming and Qing courtyard houses, the site of Gansu's first customs house and shops selling local snacks. Local traditions such as the military Nuo dance and Hekou gauze lanterns are kept up here."},{"id":"lanzhou-jincheng-pass","name":"Jincheng Pass Cultural Park","name_zh":"金城关","pinyin":"Jīnchéng Guān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.0665,"lon":103.8067,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-jincheng-pass","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside cultural park on the north bank of the Yellow River at the foot of Baita Mountain, centred on a reconstruction of Jincheng Pass, the fortified gate that guarded the old river crossing. It houses small museums on Yellow River bridges, Qinqiang opera and painted pottery. The 4A scenic area, rated in December 2023, also takes in Zhongshan Bridge and Baita Mountain Park, which rises directly behind the pass."},{"id":"lanzhou-jintian-taoist-temple","name":"Jintian Taoist Temple","name_zh":"金天观","pinyin":"Jīntiān Guàn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.0599,"lon":103.8039,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-jintian-taoist-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple complex founded in 1400 outside the old west gate of Lanzhou, whose surviving halls, mostly of Qing date, stand on three parallel axes. Most of its grounds became the Lanzhou Workers' Cultural Palace, and its entrance was moved from the south to the north side when the Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway was built. Halls on the central axis are dedicated to Zhenwu, the Jade Emperor, the Three Pure Ones and Laozi, among others."},{"id":"lanzhou-city-god-temple","name":"Lanzhou Prefecture City God Temple","name_zh":"兰州府城隍庙","pinyin":"Lánzhōu Fǔ Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.0612,"lon":103.8201,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanzhou-city-god-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lanzhou's City God temple, dedicated like Tianshui's to the Han general Ji Xin, dates back at least to the Song and took its present layout after a rebuilding in 1837. Along its axis stand a memorial archway moved here in 1956 from a Ming princely garden, an opera stage rebuilt in 2003, an offering hall with gilded Qing boards and a double-eaved main hall; the compound is used as the city's No. 1 Workers' Club."},{"id":"lanzhou-shuimo-danxia","name":"Lanzhou Shuimo Danxia","name_zh":"水墨丹霞","pinyin":"Shuǐmò Dānxiá","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.2774,"lon":103.5414,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-shuimo-danxia","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A badlands landscape of banded red and grey hills in Shuping town in the north-west of Lanzhou municipality, opened on a trial basis in 2020 after the brickworks that once dug its red clay were closed. In the core visiting area, roads and walkways link a series of viewing platforms over the eroded ridges and gullies."},{"id":"lanzhou-waterwheel-expo-park","name":"Lanzhou Waterwheel Expo Park","name_zh":"兰州水车博览园","pinyin":"Lánzhōu Shuǐchē Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.0637,"lon":103.8409,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-waterwheel-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside culture park on the south bank of the Yellow River, opened in 2005 to recall the giant wooden waterwheels that once lined the river at Lanzhou, lifting water to irrigate the fields along its banks. Replica Yellow River waterwheels turn alongside other types of waterwheel from around the world, in a waterwheel garden, a waterwheel square and a culture square on the riverside promenade."},{"id":"yongdeng-lu-tusi-yamen","name":"Lu Tusi Yamen and Miaoyin Temple","name_zh":"鲁土司衙门","pinyin":"Lǔ Tǔsī Yámen","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.5895,"lon":102.8357,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongdeng-lu-tusi-yamen","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The seat of the Lu chieftains, descendants of a Mongol Yuan prince who submitted to the Ming and ruled Liancheng for nineteen generations until 1931, with a residence first built in 1378. Beside it stands Miaoyin Temple, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery founded in 1427 whose Wansui Hall and Duojiqiang Hall keep Ming and Qing ceiling paintings of mandalas, and the Xianjiao Temple hall across the street is also part of the site."},{"id":"yuzhong-qingcheng-ancient-town","name":"Qingcheng Ancient Town","name_zh":"青城古镇","pinyin":"Qīngchéng Gǔzhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.3265,"lon":104.1867,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuzhong-qingcheng-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An old river town on the Yellow River at the northern tip of Yuzhong County, listed as a national historic and cultural town, whose Ming-to-Republican courtyard houses are protected as a national heritage site. Its sights include the Gao family ancestral hall, the Luo family courtyard, the Qingcheng Academy and a City God temple."},{"id":"yuzhong-qiyun-pastoral-town","name":"Qiyun Pastoral Town, Yuzhong","name_zh":"栖云田园小镇","pinyin":"Qīyún Tiányuán Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":35.8644,"lon":104.0797,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuzhong-qiyun-pastoral-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural leisure complex built around Lijiazhuang village on the edge of Yuzhong county town, with flower fields, farm restaurants, guesthouses, play attractions for children and craft workshops. It was rated a national 4A scenic area in 2024."},{"id":"lanzhou-renshou-mountain","name":"Renshou Mountain, Anning","name_zh":"仁寿山","pinyin":"Rénshòu Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.1306,"lon":103.6817,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-renshou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill park on the north side of Anning District in western Lanzhou, set among peach orchards. It is the main venue of Lanzhou's annual Peach Blossom Festival, held when the trees flower in mid-April, with photography exhibitions, food markets and performances."},{"id":"gaolan-shichuan-pear-orchard","name":"Shichuan Ancient Pear Orchard","name_zh":"什川古梨园","pinyin":"Shíchuān Gǔ Líyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.1557,"lon":104.0022,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaolan-shichuan-pear-orchard","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An orchard of centuries-old pear trees on the Yellow River flats around Shichuan town in Gaolan County, where the Ming set up a garrison fort in 1495. The trees flower in mid-April, when the town holds blossom-season events, and in summer their broad canopies shade picnics and walks between the villages."},{"id":"lanzhou-shifogou-forest-park","name":"Shifogou National Forest Park","name_zh":"石佛沟","pinyin":"Shífó Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":35.9239,"lon":103.8777,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-shifogou-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in the wooded hills of Agan town on the southern edge of Lanzhou, the closest of the city's forest parks. Gentle trails and boardwalks follow the valleys, where summer temperatures stay several degrees below the city's, and farmhouse restaurants along the way serve local dishes such as jiangshui noodles."},{"id":"yongdeng-tulugou-forest-park","name":"Tulugou National Forest Park","name_zh":"吐鲁沟","pinyin":"Tǔlǔ Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.6883,"lon":102.7135,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongdeng-tulugou-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park in Liancheng town in the north-west of Yongdeng County, where gorges, streams, waterfalls and dense forest make it one of Lanzhou's main summer retreats. It can be combined with the Lu Tusi Yamen and Miaoyin Temple in Liancheng."},{"id":"lanzhou-western-dinosaur-water-park","name":"Western Dinosaur Water Park, Lanzhou New Area","name_zh":"西部恐龙水乐园","pinyin":"Xībù Kǒnglóng Shuǐlèyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.4598,"lon":103.6272,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lanzhou-western-dinosaur-water-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large water park in Lanzhou New Area, about 7 km south of Zhongchuan Airport, built in 2017 as part of a resort district developed with the company behind Changzhou's China Dinosaurs Park. An indoor water hall under a glass dome shaped like a dinosaur egg is paired with outdoor slides, pools and a lazy river, aimed at families."},{"id":"yuzhong-xinglong-mountain","name":"Xinglong Mountain","name_zh":"兴隆山","pinyin":"Xīnglóng Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":35.8003,"lon":104.0641,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuzhong-xinglong-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain range in Yuzhong County south-east of Lanzhou, protected as a national nature reserve since 1988, whose seven peaks rise to 3,021 m. The scenic area is divided into an eastern and a western mountain, with wooded trails and temples, and its summer temperatures average around 18°C, well below the city's."},{"id":"lanzhou-zhongshan-bridge","name":"Zhongshan Bridge","name_zh":"中山桥","pinyin":"Zhōngshān Qiáo","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Lanzhou","lat":36.0647,"lon":103.8145,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lanzhou-zhongshan-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lanzhou's best-known landmark, a steel truss bridge across the Yellow River completed in 1909 by a German firm as the first permanent bridge over the river at Lanzhou, replacing a pontoon bridge on the same crossing. Renamed in 1928 in honour of Sun Yat-sen, it gained its arched upper trusses when it was strengthened in 1954 and has been open only to pedestrians since 2004. From the deck there are views along the river and up to Baita Mountain on the north bank."},{"id":"linxia-bafang-shisan-xiang","name":"Bafang Thirteen Lanes","name_zh":"八坊十三巷","pinyin":"Bāfāng Shísān Xiàng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.5909,"lon":103.208,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxia-bafang-shisan-xiang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old Hui Muslim quarter of Linxia, the historic Hezhou, where eight mosque communities (fang) grew up around their mosques and thirteen lanes took shape from the early Qing; some 2,000 households still live here, more than 98 per cent of them Hui. Renovated without moving its residents out, it is now a culture and leisure district of grey-brick courtyard houses, mosques, craft workshops and food stalls, where Hui brick carving, wood carving and painted decoration can be seen and listed buildings include the dragon screen wall of the North Mosque and the courtyard at 80 Daga Lane."},{"id":"yongjing-bingling-temple","name":"Bingling Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"炳灵寺石窟","pinyin":"Bǐnglíng Sì Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.8104,"lon":103.0483,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yongjing-bingling-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Buddhist caves and niches carved over some 1,600 years into the red sandstone cliffs of the Dasi gully on the north bank of the Yellow River, in the Xiaojishi Mountains 35 km south-west of Yongjing county town; Cave 169, with an inscription of 420 under the Western Qin, is described by the site's conservation institute as the earliest dated cave in China. About 216 caves and niches survive with more than 800 statues and some 1,000 m² of murals in both Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist styles, the largest figure being a seated Tang Maitreya 27 m high, and the site is part of the Silk Roads World Heritage listing of 2014. The 5A tourism area also takes in the Liujiaxia Dam and reservoir and the Bingling Stone Forest of red sandstone pinnacles, part of the Linxia UNESCO Global Geopark since 2024."},{"id":"jishishan-dadun-gorge","name":"Dadun Gorge","name_zh":"大墩峡","pinyin":"Dàdūn Xiá","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.8048,"lon":102.7187,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jishishan-dadun-gorge","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A system of four gorges about 13 km long, forming a Y shape below Heida Mountain (3,300 m), 6 km west of Dahejia town in Jishishan, the autonomous county of the Bonan (Bao'an), Dongxiang and Salar peoples. Cliffs, five streams, more than twenty waterfalls and many springs fill the gorges, and the plant life is rich, with rhododendrons and lilac in flower in early summer and frozen waterfalls in winter; parking areas, restaurants and visitor facilities are at the entrance."},{"id":"linxia-east-mansion-butterfly-building","name":"East Mansion and Butterfly Building, Linxia","name_zh":"东公馆与蝴蝶楼","pinyin":"Dōng Gōngguǎn yǔ Húdié Lóu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.5916,"lon":103.2133,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linxia-east-mansion-butterfly-building","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two Republican-era mansions in Linxia city: the East Mansion (Donggongguan), completed in 1947 as the residence of Ma Buqing, a north-western warlord general, and the smaller Butterfly Building in the Bafang quarter about 1 km to the west-south-west. The East Mansion, now a museum and a 3A scenic area, is visited above all for the Linxia brick carving on its courtyard walls and screens."},{"id":"hezheng-fataishan-resort","name":"Fataishan Resort","name_zh":"法台山","pinyin":"Fǎtái Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.2652,"lon":103.4027,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezheng-fataishan-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A year-round resort in Songming town next to the Songmingyan scenic area, with the Songmingyan International Ski Resort for winter sport and, in summer, a glass walkway, mountain rafting, grass-sliding and children's play areas such as go-karts. It also hosts events such as hua'er folk-song contests and bonfire evenings, so it suits families and groups looking for an active day out rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"hezheng-paleozoological-museum","name":"Hezheng Paleozoological Museum","name_zh":"和政古动物化石博物馆","pinyin":"Hézhèng Gǔdòngwù Huàshí Bówùguǎn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.4409,"lon":103.3521,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezheng-paleozoological-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum of fossil animals in Hezheng county town, founded in 2003 and now a national first-grade museum, holding more than 40,000 fossils from the late Cenozoic beds of the Linxia Basin. Its collections include giant rhinoceroses, shovel-tusked elephants, the three-toed horse Hipparion, the giant horse Equus eisenmannae, the giant hyena and the Hezheng sheep, which the museum describes as unique to Hezheng, and it is a core site of the Linxia UNESCO Global Geopark."},{"id":"hezheng-hualin-fossil-valley","name":"Hualin Fossil Site (Wanshou Valley)","name_zh":"桦林万兽谷","pinyin":"Huàlín Wànshòu Gǔ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.3578,"lon":103.4175,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezheng-hualin-fossil-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fossil site in a farming valley at Hualin, south-east of Hezheng county town, whose in-situ fossil hall (opened 2013) shows about 3,200 m² of Hipparion-fauna bones, some 11 to 5 million years old, as they lay when buried. The valley's rocks record four successive mammal faunas of the Linxia Basin, from giant rhinoceroses of about 27 million years ago to Equus horses of about 2 million years ago, and the site also has a geological section and the geopark's main monument square."},{"id":"kangle-birch-forest","name":"Kangle Birch Forest","name_zh":"白桦林","pinyin":"Báihuà Lín","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.2766,"lon":103.4443,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangle-birch-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area of natural forest at Liewa village in Basong township, on the Taizi Mountains tourist highway in southern Kangle County, where some 3,000 mu (200 ha) of birch woods cover the hillsides and forest cover reaches about 95 per cent. It has a visitor centre, nature trails and a woodland play area, and draws visitors for summer shade, golden autumn leaves and winter ice-and-snow events."},{"id":"dongxiang-linjia-site","name":"Linjia Neolithic Site and Painted Pottery Centre","name_zh":"林家遗址","pinyin":"Línjiā Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.6583,"lon":103.2671,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dongxiang-linjia-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Neolithic settlement of the Majiayao culture on the loess tableland at Linjia village in Dongyuan township, excavated in 1978, where a small bronze knife of about 3000 BC, promoted locally as the earliest in China, came to light. Beside the site the Linjia Painted Pottery Heritage Base, a study centre, has a 400 m² hall showing about 300 craft reproductions of pottery from the Dadiwan, Yangshao, Majiayao and Qijia cultures, reconstructed burial and site scenes, and workshops where visitors can shape, paint and fire pots in the old way."},{"id":"yongjing-liujiaxia-dinosaur-geopark","name":"Liujiaxia Dinosaur National Geopark","name_zh":"刘家峡恐龙国家地质公园","pinyin":"Liújiāxiá Kǒnglóng Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":36.0548,"lon":103.2578,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongjing-liujiaxia-dinosaur-geopark","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A geopark in Yanguoxia town protecting Early Cretaceous dinosaur trackways found in 1999 in the rocks above the Yellow River, with footprints of sauropods, theropods, ornithopods and pterosaurs as well as resting traces, tail drags, ripple marks and plant fossils. Its core is the hall over the first trackway site, covering about 1,400 m² of rock with 276 prints in 23 trackways on five levels, including a sauropod hind print 1.5 m long billed as the largest known; at the entrance a wall of full-size casts shows the main kinds."},{"id":"yongjing-liujiaxia-paragliding-camp","name":"Liujiaxia International Paragliding Camp","name_zh":"刘家峡国际滑翔营地","pinyin":"Liújiāxiá Guójì Huáxiáng Yíngdì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.8449,"lon":103.1397,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongjing-liujiaxia-paragliding-camp","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A paragliding base on the north shore of the Liujiaxia Reservoir (Bingling Lake) in Yangta township, with its launch on Huangjia Mountain at about 2,300 m and a height difference of some 580 m to the landing ground. It hosts rounds of the national paragliding league and pilots' meets with powered and smoke-trail flying displays, and the county is promoting it for low-altitude tourism."},{"id":"guanghe-qijiaping-site","name":"Qijiaping Site (Qijia Culture)","name_zh":"齐家坪遗址","pinyin":"Qíjiāpíng Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.4948,"lon":103.833,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guanghe-qijiaping-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The type site of the Qijia culture (about 2300–1500 BC), one of China's earliest Bronze Age cultures, found in 1924 by the Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson on a terrace of the Tao River at Yuanziping village in Qijia town; it is described locally as the only site to have yielded all five kinds of early artefact, in stone, bone, pottery, jade and bronze. A Qijia Culture archaeological site park is being laid out here, its visitor centre completed in 2025, and the finds are shown at the Qijia Culture Museum in Guanghe county town, which holds more than 4,000 objects including a bronze mirror billed as China's earliest."},{"id":"hezheng-songmingyan","name":"Songmingyan","name_zh":"松鸣岩","pinyin":"Sōngmíng Yán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.2565,"lon":103.4109,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hezheng-songmingyan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park and provincial scenic area in the foothills of the Taizi Mountains in Songming town, named for the roar of the wind in its pines echoing off the cliffs. Temples first built in the Ming, among them the Yuhuang Pavilion, the Bodhisattva Hall, the Shengmu Palace and the Dugang Temple, cling to the cliffs among the forest, and from the 26th to the 29th day of the fourth lunar month it holds a large hua'er folk-song fair."},{"id":"kangle-yanzhi-lake","name":"Yanzhi Lake Park","name_zh":"胭脂湖","pinyin":"Yānzhi Hú","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.3786,"lon":103.7147,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangle-yanzhi-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A town park in Kangle county town at the meeting of the Yanzhi, Zhongdi and Suji rivers, laid out around Yanzhi Lake with three stone arch bridges and a three-storey pavilion standing in the middle of the lake. It also has a children's park, a fun park and a sports park, flower beds from spring to autumn and light displays at night."},{"id":"kangle-zhuzigou","name":"Zhuzigou Valley","name_zh":"竹子沟","pinyin":"Zhúzi Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Linxia","lat":35.2424,"lon":103.5085,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangle-zhuzigou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley inside the Taizishan nature reserve at Bazigou village, Minglu township, in southern Kangle County, with alpine meadows, forest and streams, which joined the 4A list in January 2026. Summer visitors come for the meadows and for folk-song and music events, and in winter the valley offers horse-drawn sleighs, a ski slope, a rime-coated \"ice cave\" and hotpot in heated tents; a small amusement park with a rainbow slide and fairground rides opened beside it in April 2026."},{"id":"wenxian-bikou-old-town","name":"Bikou Old Town","name_zh":"碧口古镇","pinyin":"Bìkǒu Gǔzhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":32.7491,"lon":105.2424,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxian-bikou-old-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Bikou is an old trading town on the Bailong River near the Sichuan border, long a landing where goods such as medicinal herbs were loaded for shipment downriver, and most of its merchants came from Sichuan, which gave it a Sichuan-flavoured dialect and a taste for Sichuan opera. Its old lanes and merchants' shopfronts recall that trade, tea gardens climb the hills around it and the Bikou Reservoir lies just upstream; it was named a provincial historic town in 2006."},{"id":"chengxian-chenyuan-eco-park","name":"Chenyuan Eco-Park","name_zh":"陈院生态园","pinyin":"Chényuàn Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.7574,"lon":105.688,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengxian-chenyuan-eco-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An 8.7 km² rural leisure park in Chenyuan town, just west of Chengxian, laid out with orchards, woods and flower-lined roads. It combines countryside sightseeing with farming-culture activities, children's cartoon-themed amusements and stalls selling local produce, and suits families on a day out."},{"id":"lixian-dabuzishan-qin-tombs","name":"Dabuzishan Qin Royal Cemetery","name_zh":"大堡子山遗址","pinyin":"Dàbǔzi Shān Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":34.2144,"lon":105.2723,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lixian-dabuzishan-qin-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"On the hills above the Western Han River east of Li County town lies the Dabuzishan cemetery of the early Qin lords at Xichui, the Qin people's first centre, with the earliest tombs of Qin rulers yet excavated. The tombs were heavily looted in the late 1980s and early 1990s and many objects went abroad; rescue excavations began in 1994, and the finds are shown in the Gansu Qin Culture Museum in Li County town. The site is on China's list of national archaeological park projects, and the county includes the Xichui cemetery in its visitor routes."},{"id":"chengxian-du-fu-thatched-cottage","name":"Du Fu Thatched Cottage, Chengxian","name_zh":"杜公祠","pinyin":"Dù Gōng Cí","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.7198,"lon":105.7566,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengxian-du-fu-thatched-cottage","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Du Gong Shrine at the mouth of Feilong Gorge, south-east of Chengxian, commemorates the poet Du Fu, who stayed briefly at Tonggu, as the town was then called, in 759 before moving on to Chengdu; it is promoted as the earliest of China's many Du Fu 'thatched cottages'. Its courtyard of old cypresses holds more than ten steles from the Song to the Republican era, and paths lead on into the gorge to the Phoenix Terrace, Wanzhang Pool and an old plank road."},{"id":"wudu-fujin-guangyan-temple","name":"Fujin Guangyan Temple","name_zh":"福津广严院","pinyin":"Fújīn Guǎngyán Yuàn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.2979,"lon":105.1381,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudu-fujin-guangyan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Fujin Guangyan Temple in Sanhe town, Wudu, is a Buddhist temple founded in the Song whose timber hall dates from the Southern Song, with Qing repairs. It was listed as a provincial heritage unit in 1993 and as a national one in 2019, and it is of interest mainly to those who follow early Chinese timber architecture."},{"id":"lixian-gansu-qin-culture-museum","name":"Gansu Qin Culture Museum","name_zh":"甘肃秦文化博物馆","pinyin":"Gānsù Qín Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":34.1892,"lon":105.1854,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-gansu-qin-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Gansu Qin Culture Museum on Qinren Square in Li County town has a collection of several thousand objects, many recovered from the early Qin cemetery at Dabuzishan and the Xichui area. Highlights include a small four-wheeled cart, ding and gui vessels of the Qin lords and a set of Qin bells, which together show the archaeology of the Qin homeland before the state moved east."},{"id":"tanchang-guanegou","name":"Guan'egou Scenic Area","name_zh":"官鹅沟","pinyin":"Guān'é Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":34.0105,"lon":104.3955,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tanchang-guanegou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Guan'egou is a set of forested gorges on the edge of Tanchang county town, where Guanzhu Gully, Eman Gully and Leigu Mountain are linked into one U-shaped circuit of about 66 km². Paths follow the streams past waterfalls, the valleys turn red and gold in autumn, and since May 2025 a 2.5 km cable car has linked Guanzhu Gully with the upper areas towards Leigu Mountain. It became a national geopark in 2014 and a 5A scenic area in 2022."},{"id":"tanchang-hadapu-long-march-sites","name":"Hadapu Long March Sites","name_zh":"哈达铺会议旧址","pinyin":"Hādápù Huìyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":34.2348,"lon":104.2211,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tanchang-hadapu-long-march-sites/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hadapu, a town on the old route between Sichuan and the north-west, is where Red Army columns on the Long March halted and reorganised in 1935, and where the Party leadership decided to head for the Communist base in northern Shaanxi. Its Red Army Street keeps buildings used at the time, including the Guandi Temple where a cadres' meeting was held and the old post office, and a Long March memorial hall tells the story. The town is a national historic town and one of China's red-tourism classic scenic areas."},{"id":"kangxian-huaqiao-village","name":"Huaqiao Village, Kang County","name_zh":"花桥村","pinyin":"Huāqiáo Cūn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.4375,"lon":105.4157,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangxian-huaqiao-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Huaqiao is a village in Changba town, in the hills of western Kang County, that has been developed as a rural tourism area with countryside walks, holiday and retirement stays, folk-culture experiences including traditional liquor-making, and a centre where local farm produce is processed and sold. It has been named a model rural-tourism village and serves as a rural tourism training base for Gansu, so it suits visitors curious about village life in the hills of southern Gansu."},{"id":"huixian-jialing-river-gorges","name":"Jialing River Gorges, Hui County","name_zh":"嘉陵江峡谷群","pinyin":"Jiālíng Jiāng Xiágǔ Qún","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.7153,"lon":106.2766,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-jialing-river-gorges","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large scenic area of 217.6 km² along the gorges of the upper Jialing River in south-eastern Hui County, with cliffs, forest, caves and waterfalls, among them the Meiya Falls, which drop more than 400 m. Visitors can hike Moon Gorge, see the formations of Swallow Cave, walk through the Ming–Qing houses of Daoping old village, raft a 13 km stretch of the river in summer and, in autumn, see the 153 ancient ginkgo trees of Tianhe village; remains of old plank roads on the Shu roads survive along the cliffs."},{"id":"huixian-jinhui-liquor-park","name":"Jinhui Liquor Culture Park","name_zh":"金徽酒业","pinyin":"Jīnhuī Jiǔyè","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.835,"lon":105.9627,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-jinhui-liquor-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The landscaped brewery park of Jinhui, a strong-aroma baijiu maker whose roots go back to a state distillery formed from local workshops in 1951, in Fujia town north-west of Hui County town. Visitors see the liquor-culture exhibition hall, the brewing workshops, the pottery-jar and stainless-steel storage halls and the bottling line, with gardens, a cherry-tree avenue and a spring-fed lake around them; it suits those curious about how Chinese liquor is made."},{"id":"huixian-jinhui-mining-tourism","name":"Jinhui Mining Industrial Tourism Area","name_zh":"金徽矿业","pinyin":"Jīnhuī Kuàngyè","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.9136,"lon":106.1406,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-jinhui-mining-tourism","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An industrial tourism site at Jinhui Mining's lead–zinc mine north of Hui County town, on the Xicheng lead–zinc belt. The company presents it as a green, digitised mine with its works underground and landscaped gardens on the surface, and it offers sightseeing and popular-science visits for those interested in modern mining."},{"id":"liangdang-mutiny-memorial-hall","name":"Liangdang Mutiny Memorial Hall","name_zh":"两当兵变纪念馆","pinyin":"Liǎngdāng Bīngbiàn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.923,"lon":106.3035,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangdang-mutiny-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This memorial hall in Liangdang county town commemorates the Liangdang Mutiny of 2 April 1932, when Xi Zhongxun and other Communist organisers led about 200 soldiers of a Nationalist battalion stationed in the area into revolt and reformed them as a Red Army guerrilla detachment, which was later broken up. The red-tourism scenic area links the hall with the battalion's former command post, the site of the mutiny, the camp at Yangdian and Taiyang Temple, where the detachment was reorganised, and it is used for patriotic and Party education."},{"id":"huixian-lichuan-brick-pagoda","name":"Lichuan Brick Pagoda","name_zh":"栗川砖塔","pinyin":"Lìchuān Zhuāntǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.7824,"lon":105.9113,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-lichuan-brick-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song brick pagoda, also called the Lichuan White Pagoda, in Xunzhuang village west of Hui County town, the surviving part of the White Pagoda Temple built in the Chunhua era (990–994). Repaired in the Daoguang era as an octagonal tower of twelve storeys, it lost its upper storeys in the earthquake of 1879 and now stands nine storeys high."},{"id":"huixian-baishui-road-inscription","name":"New Baishui Road Cliff Inscription","name_zh":"新修白水路记摩崖","pinyin":"Xīnxiū Báishuǐ Lù Jì Móyá","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.6127,"lon":106.0425,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huixian-baishui-road-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Northern Song cliff inscription at Wangjiahe village south of Hui County town, recording in 883 characters of regular script, set out in 26 columns, how the Baishui road through these mountains was built and later rerouted. The text was written out by the Song official Lei Jianfu, and the carving is listed among China's notable ancient steles and inscriptions."},{"id":"lixian-qishan-fort","name":"Qishan Fort and Wuhou Shrine","name_zh":"祁山堡","pinyin":"Qíshān Bǎo","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":34.2306,"lon":105.3941,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lixian-qishan-fort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Qishan scenic area east of Li County town is built around Qishan Fort and its Wuhou Shrine to Zhuge Liang, one of the earliest shrines to him, rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties, on the ground where Shu Han armies campaigned against Wei in the Three Kingdoms period. Around it are some ten sites linked by tradition to those campaigns, such as the terrace where Zhuge Liang is said to have reviewed his troops, a hollow where troops were hidden and an old cypress named after him."},{"id":"tanchang-shanwan-menggu","name":"Shanwan Menggu Valley","name_zh":"山湾梦谷","pinyin":"Shānwān Mènggǔ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.7712,"lon":104.5478,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tanchang-shanwan-menggu","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley resort of about 240 ha in Lianghekou town, Tanchang, built around the Qiang and Tibetan culture of the area, with flower fields and farmland on the valley floor and forest above. About 6.5 km up from the gate, a homestay village mixes surviving village houses with new buildings in Qiang–Tibetan style, and visitors come for local food, Qiang folk-culture activities and walks; it suits families and visitors wanting a quiet countryside stay."},{"id":"kangxian-wangba-rural-scenic-area","name":"Wangba Rural Scenic Area, Kang County","name_zh":"王坝","pinyin":"Wángbà","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.3387,"lon":105.6608,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangxian-wangba-rural-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural scenic area of villages and wooded valleys around Wangba town, 10 km from Kang county town, centred on Dashuigou village, with a village-life exhibition hall, log-cabin lodgings and the cliffs of Qinglin Gully. The township's folk arts, among them the bangbang whip performance, ballad singing and sheepskin-drum music, were listed as Longnan intangible heritage in 2006, and the area suits visitors looking for a short countryside stay."},{"id":"xihe-wanxia-lake","name":"Wanxia Lake","name_zh":"晚霞湖","pinyin":"Wǎnxiá Hú","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.999,"lon":105.2466,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xihe-wanxia-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wanxia Lake is a reservoir lake of about 120 ha just west of Xihe county town, with reed beds, water birds and boat trips on the water. Its Qiqiao culture garden has a statue of the Weaving Maid by the sculptor He E and a museum of Xihe's Qiqiao (Double Seventh) festival, which draws crowds to the lake at festival time."},{"id":"wudu-wanxiang-cave","name":"Wanxiang Cave","name_zh":"万象洞","pinyin":"Wànxiàng Dòng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.33,"lon":105.005,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wudu-wanxiang-cave","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large karst cave on the south side of the Bailong River east of Wudu, filled with stalactites and other formations along the visitor route, whose walls carry inscriptions and poems left by visitors since the Northern Zhou. Its name was written by Zhao Puchu, and a second, sister cave was found nearby in 2007. It is a provincial heritage unit, scenic area and geopark."},{"id":"wenxian-tianchi-lake","name":"Wenxian Tianchi Lake","name_zh":"文县天池","pinyin":"Wénxiàn Tiānchí","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.2525,"lon":104.7474,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenxian-tianchi-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wenxian Tianchi, also called Yangtang Tianchi, is a long, winding mountain lake formed where faulting dammed the Yangtang River in the mountains north of Wen County, its shoreline broken by headlands and ringed by forested peaks. Together with the smaller Penjing Pool, where trees grow out of the shallow water, the Yinma Pool and Huanglin Gully, it forms one scenic area that is at its best in autumn colour."},{"id":"chengxian-xixia-ode","name":"Xixia Ode and Ancient Plank Road","name_zh":"西狭颂","pinyin":"Xīxiá Sòng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.7002,"lon":105.6018,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chengxian-xixia-ode","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"In the Tianjing Mountain gorge west of Chengxian, the Xixia Ode was cut into the cliff in AD 171 to praise Li Xi, governor of Wudu, for building a plank road through the gorge; its 385 characters of clerical script under a seal-script heading, beside a carved panel of five auspicious omens, make it one of the 'Three Odes of Han' prized by calligraphers. A walkway leads through the steep, wooded gorge past traces of the old plank road, later inscriptions and pools such as Huanglong Pool."},{"id":"kangxian-yangba","name":"Yangba Scenic Area","name_zh":"阳坝","pinyin":"Yángbà","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.0384,"lon":105.7119,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangxian-yangba","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yangba, in the far south of Kang County, is a humid, forested valley area of bamboo groves, streams, tea gardens and palms, promoted as the 'Xishuangbanna of Gansu' for its almost subtropical feel. Its best-known parts are Meiyuan Gully, Hongdou Valley and the old-growth forest along the Qing River, where paths follow clear streams and pools."},{"id":"xihe-yunhua-mountain","name":"Yunhua Mountain","name_zh":"云华山","pinyin":"Yúnhuá Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":34.0797,"lon":105.3867,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xihe-yunhua-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yunhua Mountain, north-east of Xihe, is a steep danxia-type peak shaped like a jade tablet, which gave it the old name Guishan, with more than ten small Daoist temple halls, including one to the Xuanwu emperor, packed onto its narrow summit. It is known locally as a long-standing Daoist mountain and as the birthplace of Xihe's Qiqiao (Double Seventh) festival, and in autumn the summit often looks out over a sea of cloud."},{"id":"liangdang-yunping-three-gorges","name":"Yunping Three Gorges","name_zh":"云屏三峡","pinyin":"Yúnpíng Sānxiá","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.6518,"lon":106.4382,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangdang-yunping-three-gorges","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Yunping Three Gorges, Tudi, Guanyin and Xigou, cut through forested mountains south-east of Liangdang and form a provincial scenic area of cliffs, overhanging pines, waterfalls and caves with more than 60 named sights, among them a temple and two rock 'gates'. Lacebark pines and red leaves make autumn a good time for the walks, and the area lies over the ridge from the Santan scenic area in Hui County."},{"id":"liangdang-zhang-guolao-scenic-area","name":"Zhang Guolao Scenic Area, Liangdang","name_zh":"张果老养生文化景区","pinyin":"Zhāng Guǒlǎo Yǎngshēng Wénhuà Jǐngqū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.9423,"lon":106.3569,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=liangdang-zhang-guolao-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural scenic area of about 320 ha in the hills of Yangdian town, north-east of Liangdang, built around the Guolao Dengzhen Cave, which legend links with the Daoist immortal Zhang Guolao. Around it are a farm park, the traditional village of Chengou, an eco-sightseeing garden and pine woods with a large natural stand of lacebark pines, and three of Liangdang's traditional Eight Views lie within it. It suits walkers and visitors after a quiet countryside stay."},{"id":"kangxian-zhujiagou-old-village","name":"Zhujiagou Old Village, Anmenkou","name_zh":"朱家沟古村","pinyin":"Zhūjiāgōu Gǔcūn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Longnan","lat":33.2716,"lon":105.6331,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kangxian-zhujiagou-old-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhujiagou is an old village on the Yanzi River near Anmenkou town, listed as a Chinese traditional village in 2016, whose main sights are the Qing-style Zhu family compound, a covered 'wind-and-rain' bridge and an ancient Chinese wingnut tree said to be a thousand years old. The wider Anmenkou scenic area adds a valley of old ginkgo trees and an eco-farm, and the town has some fifteen homestays and twenty farm stays, so it is easy to stay overnight."},{"id":"lingtai-ancient-lingtai-jingshan","name":"Ancient Lingtai and Jingshan Forest Park","name_zh":"古灵台荆山森林公园","pinyin":"Gǔ Língtái Jīngshān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.0719,"lon":107.6141,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingtai-ancient-lingtai-jingshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded hill park on Zhongtai Hill in the middle of Lingtai town, around the 'Ancient Lingtai', the terrace that legend says King Wen of Zhou raised for offerings to Heaven after his campaign against the state of Mixu. Modern Han-style gateways, pavilions and a hall to three local worthies, among them the physician Huangfu Mi, line the paths to a hilltop viewpoint, and the park also holds the Lingtai County Museum, strong in Western Zhou bronzes, and a memorial hall on the county's revolutionary history."},{"id":"jingning-chengji-ancient-city","name":"Chengji Ancient City Site","name_zh":"成纪故城遗址","pinyin":"Chéngjì Gùchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.2405,"lon":105.6778,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingning-chengji-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Remains of Chengji, a county town founded under the Western Han on a terrace where the Nan and Lidian rivers meet; after an earthquake in 734 the county moved to present-day Qin'an, and a fort was rebuilt here in 1067. About 490 m of rammed-earth wall, mostly of Song date and 1.5–3 m high, survives in the fields, and tradition names Chengji as the birthplace of the mythical sage-king Fuxi."},{"id":"huating-guanshan-lianhuatai","name":"Guanshan Lianhuatai Scenic Area","name_zh":"关山莲花台","pinyin":"Guānshān Liánhuātái","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.1733,"lon":106.5054,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huating-guanshan-lianhuatai","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested mountain area in the Guanshan, the old Long Mountains on Huating's western border, rising to 2,748 m at Wutai Shan, with birch and pine forest over more than 90 per cent of the land, meadows, rock pinnacles, waterfalls and old Buddhist and Taoist temples. It is visited mainly for cool summer walking and autumn colour along its two main trails, Xuanfeng Shan and Lianhuatai."},{"id":"kongtong-haizhaigou","name":"Haizhaigou Scenic Area","name_zh":"海寨沟","pinyin":"Hǎizhài Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.3751,"lon":106.7809,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kongtong-haizhaigou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural valley at Dazhai, south-east of Pingliang, developed as an activity resort. In the warmer months it offers glass-slide rafting, a long glass-floored walkway across the valley, zip lines, high-ropes courses and a water park, and in winter there is a ski slope; it suits families looking for activities rather than scenery or history."},{"id":"lingtai-huangfu-mi-culture-park","name":"Huangfu Mi Culture Park","name_zh":"皇甫谧文化园","pinyin":"Huángfǔ Mì Wénhuà Yuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.119,"lon":107.6159,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingtai-huangfu-mi-culture-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A traditional-medicine themed scenic area at Zhang'aopo village, the home district of Huangfu Mi (c. 215–282), the scholar-physician who compiled the Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, one of the earliest systematic works on acupuncture. Around his tomb and memorial hall are a culture park, a herb garden, mugwort fields and an acupuncture centre offering moxibustion sessions, plus a small petting zoo, and an acupuncture forum is held here."},{"id":"jingning-jieshipu-long-march-memorial","name":"Jieshipu Long March Memorial and Mao Zedong's Former Residence","name_zh":"界石铺红军长征毛泽东旧居纪念馆","pinyin":"Jièshípù Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Máo Zédōng Jiùjū Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.6108,"lon":105.5397,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingning-jieshipu-long-march-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial in Jieshipu town marking the Red Army's passage on the Long March: in October 1935 Mao Zedong and other leaders camped here with the Shaanxi–Gansu column, and in October 1936 Red Army units again passed through while the three main forces gathered in the Huining–Jingning area. The house where Mao stayed is preserved with its furnishings, and exhibition halls display some 235 items from the period."},{"id":"jingning-confucian-temple","name":"Jingning Confucian Temple","name_zh":"静宁文庙","pinyin":"Jìngníng Wénmiào","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.521,"lon":105.7308,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingning-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty state Confucian temple, rebuilt on its present site in the Jiajing reign, whose Lingxing Gate, semicircular pool, Dacheng Gate and seven-bay Dacheng Hall stand on a north–south axis, with the Minglun Hall of the old school to the west. It lies within the grounds of Jingning No. 1 Middle School, which used the buildings as classrooms and offices until 2002; they have since been restored."},{"id":"pingliang-kongtong-mountains","name":"Kongtong Mountains","name_zh":"崆峒山","pinyin":"Kōngtóng Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.5498,"lon":106.5222,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pingliang-kongtong-mountains/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kongtong Shan, a forested spur of the Liupan range just west of Pingliang, is one of the sacred mountains of Taoism: legend says the Yellow Emperor came here to ask the immortal Guangchengzi about the Dao, and it is also known as the cradle of the Kongtong school of martial arts. Taoist, Buddhist and Confucian halls are scattered over its crags, among them the Huangcheng ('Imperial City') temple complex on the summit ridge and the cliff-edge halls of Leisheng Peak, both founded in the Northern Song, and the brick Lingkong Pagoda of 1029 at the Middle Terrace, with a pine growing from its top."},{"id":"chongxin-longquan-temple","name":"Longquan Temple, Chongxin","name_zh":"龙泉寺","pinyin":"Lóngquán Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.3165,"lon":107.0301,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongxin-longquan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded valley just north of Chongxin town, a provincial scenic area and geopark named after the temple at its heart, where the Guanzhu Spring feeds a waterfall and an ancient cypress coils along the cliff, a scene called the 'coiling dragon cypress'. The valley is a cool summer retreat with festival markets and fairs, and the Chongxin County Museum stands on the west side of the scenic area."},{"id":"huating-mijiagou","name":"Mijiagou Scenic Area","name_zh":"米家沟","pinyin":"Mǐjiā Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.2299,"lon":106.695,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huating-mijiagou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wooded valley and provincial forest park on the edge of Huating, run as a family leisure area with streams, peach and flower fields, a climbing wall, adventure courses, a children's playground and live-action combat games, plus cave-dwelling restaurants and yurts. Summer temperatures under the trees stay around 20 °C, and local families come for blossom in spring, shade in summer and colour in autumn."},{"id":"jingchuan-niujiaogou-site","name":"Niujiaogou Palaeolithic Site","name_zh":"牛角沟遗址","pinyin":"Niújiǎo Gōu Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.3674,"lon":107.6806,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingchuan-niujiaogou-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The gully at Baijia village in eastern Jingchuan where a human fossil about 50,000 years old, known as 'Jingchuan Man', was found in 1974, the first early human fossil from Gansu. A small site exhibition hall is part of the Baijia folk-culture village, a rural tourism spot with a farming museum, water features and orchards."},{"id":"huating-shigong-temple-grottoes","name":"Shigong Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"石拱寺石窟","pinyin":"Shígǒng Sì Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.0745,"lon":106.6587,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huating-shigong-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small group of Buddhist cave shrines cut into a hillside near Shangguan in southern Huating, begun under the Northern Wei and carved on into the Sui; 14 caves and niches survive, known for their finely carved flying apsaras. It is listed as one of the outlying parts of the Guanshan Lianhuatai scenic area."},{"id":"jingchuan-south-grotto-temple","name":"South Grotto Temple","name_zh":"南石窟寺","pinyin":"Nán Shíkū Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.3634,"lon":107.4486,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingchuan-south-grotto-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist cave temple on the north bank of the Jing River, begun in 510 by Xi Kangsheng, prefect of Jingzhou, and often paired in local accounts with the North Grotto Temple near Qingyang as the 'twin pearls' of eastern Gansu's cave art. Its main cave, 11 m high and 18 m wide, holds seven standing Buddhas about 7 m tall with paired bodhisattvas, under ceiling reliefs of the life of the Buddha."},{"id":"chongxin-wukang-wang-temple","name":"Temple of the Prince of Wukang","name_zh":"武康王庙","pinyin":"Wǔkāng Wáng Miào","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.3071,"lon":107.0352,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chongxin-wukang-wang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple on Chongxin's East Street to Li Yuanliang, the Tang general and Prince of Wukang who built Chongxin's walls and garrisoned them against Tibetan Empire raids; it existed before 797 and was moved to this site in 1370. Its five-bay sleeping hall under a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof keeps a timber frame of Song–Yuan character, one of the older wooden buildings in Gansu, and is fronted by a Qing worship hall."},{"id":"jingchuan-tianjiagou","name":"Tianjiagou Soil and Water Conservation Scenic Area","name_zh":"田家沟","pinyin":"Tiánjiā Gōu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.3618,"lon":107.3675,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingchuan-tianjiagou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A loess gully system just north of Jingchuan that decades of soil-conservation work have turned green, now a national water-conservancy scenic area and soil-conservation demonstration park. Paths lead past the 'thousand-year earth arrows', ranks of sheer loess pillars left by erosion, to a water play area, fishing ponds, pavilions and cave-dwelling style lodgings; it suits a half-day family outing."},{"id":"jingchuan-wangmu-palace-dayun-temple","name":"Wangmu Palace and Dayun Temple, Jingchuan","name_zh":"王母宫·大云寺","pinyin":"Wángmǔ Gōng · Dàyún Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.3365,"lon":107.3507,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingchuan-wangmu-palace-dayun-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jingchuan's Queen Mother of the West culture area joins two sites in the town. At the foot of Huizhong Hill, linked in legend with the Queen Mother of the West, the Wangmu Palace Grotto is a Northern Wei central-pillar cave about 11 m high with more than 200 carved figures in three tiers, among them a white elephant carrying a pagoda, behind a four-storey timber facade added in the late Qing. About a kilometre to the north, a museum stands on the site of Dayun Temple, where Buddhist relics in nested gold, silver, bronze and stone caskets were unearthed in 1964."},{"id":"pingliang-yanen-temple-pagoda","name":"Yan'en Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"延恩寺塔","pinyin":"Yán'ēn Sì Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.531,"lon":106.6999,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingliang-yanen-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda some 33 m tall on Baota Ridge in eastern Pingliang, built between 1535 and 1546 and long called the Daming Pagoda after the stone plaque reading 'Da Ming' over its arched south door. It was raised by Consort Wen of the Ming princely house of Han, which held Pingliang as its fief, to pray for her late husband; the rest of Yan'en Temple has gone, and the pagoda is now the centrepiece of Baota Park."},{"id":"zhuanglang-yunya-temple","name":"Yunya Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"云崖寺","pinyin":"Yúnyá Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Pingliang","lat":35.1628,"lon":106.3143,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhuanglang-yunya-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested gorge in the Guanshan mountains of Zhuanglang where red sandstone cliffs hold Buddhist caves begun in the late Northern Wei and restored up to the Qing: on the main cliff, about 300 m long and 80 m high, 19 caves in three tiers keep stone and clay statues and fragments of murals, with well-preserved Ming clay figures in Caves 6 and 7. The scenic area is also a national forest park, and the Chenjiadong caves in a nearby valley, part of the same heritage listing, add weathered rock-cut Buddhas and a small seven-storey Tang stone pagoda."},{"id":"huanxian-dong-laoye-shan","name":"Dong Laoye Shan (Xinglong Shan) Temples","name_zh":"东老爷山","pinyin":"Dōnglǎoyé Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.8238,"lon":107.4471,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanxian-dong-laoye-shan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Daoist mountain, 1,774 m high, in north-eastern Huan County near the meeting point of Gansu, Shaanxi and Ningxia, also called Xinglong Shan and known for the saying that a cock's crow here carries into three provinces. Temples stood on it by the mid-Ming dynasty and numbered 72 by the Qing; the surviving halls date from the Ming and Qing periods and stand among newer buildings. In mid-October 1935 part of the Red Army camped on the mountain during the Long March, and a memorial park laid out in 2007 has a statue of Mao Zedong and a forest of steles inscribed with his poem 'Snow'."},{"id":"huachi-donghuachi-pagoda","name":"Donghuachi Pagoda","name_zh":"东华池塔","pinyin":"Dōnghuáchí Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.2417,"lon":108.4536,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huachi-donghuachi-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An octagonal brick pagoda of seven storeys on Baota Hill above Donghuachi village in Linzhen township, built in 1099 under the Northern Song and repaired under the Jin and the Ming. It rises 26 m with no base, entered by an arched door on the north-east side, and its upper storeys have real and blind doors, brick brackets under the eaves and balconies with carved balustrades of clouds, phoenixes, deer and tigers on the lowest three levels; the floors and stairs inside have gone. The tower was fully restored in 2012–13."},{"id":"huanxian-helianwan-soviet-government-site","name":"Former Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Provincial Soviet Government, Helianwan","name_zh":"河连湾陕甘宁省苏维埃政府旧址","pinyin":"Héliánwān Shǎn-Gān-Níng Shěng Sūwéi'āi Zhèngfǔ Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.7261,"lon":107.1845,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanxian-helianwan-soviet-government-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Helianwan village in Hongde town was the seat of the Communist Party's Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Provincial Committee and Provincial Soviet Government from July 1936 to September 1937, after they moved here from Wuqi in northern Shaanxi, with Li Fuchun as party secretary and Ma Xiwu as chairman. On 18 November 1936 Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Xiao Jinguang and Chen Geng planned the Battle of Shanchengbao here, and local accounts add that the American journalist Edgar Snow visited the village in 1936 and described it in Red Star Over China."},{"id":"huanxian-huanzhou-old-town-pagoda","name":"Huanzhou Old Town and Huanxian Pagoda","name_zh":"环州故城","pinyin":"Huánzhōu Gùchéng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.5842,"lon":107.2881,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanxian-huanzhou-old-town-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area of 518 mu (about 35 ha) at the north gate of Huan county town, opened in September 2021 and laid out in Song style around the Huanxian Pagoda and the remains of the walled Song-era town of Huanzhou, a frontier post against the Western Xia in the time of Fan Zhongyan. The pagoda is an octagonal brick tower of five storeys, 22 m high, with bracketed eaves, balconies with carved balustrades and an iron finial recording a repair of 1264; a brick found at the top in 2014 bears a date of 1043. The new terraces around it, rising in five zones from the pagoda, hold old-style buildings, water cascades and courtyards."},{"id":"xifeng-longqi-valley","name":"Longqi Valley (Heilaoguo)","name_zh":"龙栖谷","pinyin":"Lóngqī Gǔ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.4521,"lon":107.6333,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xifeng-longqi-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A narrow rocky gorge more than 1 km long at Maosi village in the Pu River valley south of Xifeng, whose winding course is said to look from above like a coiled dragon; it is also called Heilaoguo, the \"black pot\", because the stream sinks underground and has scoured the dark rock into a pot shape. In winter ice pillars, icicles and frozen falls hang from the gorge walls, and in spring the valley floor is yellow with rapeseed; the scenic area also takes in the old village of Maosi and a camping ground at Yueliangwan."},{"id":"zhengning-luochuan-old-town","name":"Luochuan Old Town: Zhao Stone Archways and Confucian Temple Hall","name_zh":"罗川古城","pinyin":"Luóchuān Gǔchéng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.3209,"lon":108.2104,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengning-luochuan-old-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Luochuan, now a village on the Silang River in Yonghe town, was a county seat for many centuries, and three red-sandstone memorial archways of the late Ming stand on the axis of its main street, carved with scenes from the career of the official Zhao Bangqing, auspicious motifs and inscribed boards, one board a gift of the Wanli Emperor. The Qingguan and Tianguan archways (1614–15), each 8.4 m high, were raised by the prefecture and county in his honour, and the Enchong archway (1617), 9.7 m high, he built to honour his two mothers. Nearby, in the grounds of the former Zhengning No. 2 Middle School, stands the five-bay Dacheng Hall of the old county Confucian temple, first built in the Yuan, rebuilt in 1369 and repaired several times under the Qing."},{"id":"huachi-nanliang-revolutionary-sites","name":"Nanliang Revolutionary Sites","name_zh":"南梁革命旧址","pinyin":"Nánliáng Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.3951,"lon":108.3377,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huachi-nanliang-revolutionary-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"In 1934 Communist organisers led by Liu Zhidan, Xie Zichang and Xi Zhongxun made Nanliang, in the Ziwuling hills of eastern Huachi County, the base of a Soviet government for the Shaanxi–Gansu border area; it took the name Shaanxi–Gansu Border Region Soviet Government in November 1934 and moved to Xiasiwan in Shaanxi in April 1935. The red-tourism area around Liyuanbao has the Nanliang Revolutionary Memorial Hall, with a general exhibition and halls on Liu, Xie and Xi, the Lenin Primary School, now a nine-year school, and the former offices of the border region military committee and Soviet government at Zhaiziwan."},{"id":"ningxian-ningshou-temple-pagoda","name":"Ningshou Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"凝寿寺塔","pinyin":"Níngshòu Sì Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.2741,"lon":107.9417,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningxian-ningshou-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A square brick pagoda of five storeys in the pavilion style, 21.2 m high and 6 m wide at the base, built in the Five Dynasties to Northern Song period at Zhengping village on the north bank of the Jing River. It is the only survivor of the Ningshou Temple, swept away by floods in the Qing; local tradition credits Li Shimin, the future Tang emperor Taizong, with founding the temple to pray for his mother's long life, and the pagoda is also known as the Zhengping Tang Pagoda."},{"id":"xifeng-north-grotto-temple","name":"North Grotto Temple","name_zh":"北石窟寺","pinyin":"Běi Shíkū Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.6112,"lon":107.5321,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xifeng-north-grotto-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist cave temple cut into a sandstone cliff about 20 m high and 120 m long on the east bank of the Pu River where it meets the Ru, south-west of Xifeng, begun in 509 under the Northern Wei and extended under later dynasties into the Qing. Nearly 300 caves and niches with about 2,100 stone figures survive, many worn by weathering, with traces of painted murals; the centrepiece, Cave 165, is 14 m high, 21.7 m wide and 15.7 m deep and holds seven standing Buddhas. The Beishikuyi scenic area beside the grottoes adds parking and visitor facilities, and 1.5 km to the south-west a 323 m stretch of old road cut into the red rock at Shidaopo still shows deep cart ruts."},{"id":"zhengning-qin-straight-road","name":"Qin Straight Road (Qingyang Section)","name_zh":"秦直道","pinyin":"Qín Zhídào","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.3318,"lon":108.5735,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhengning-qin-straight-road","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A military road that the First Emperor of Qin ordered General Meng Tian to build from 212 BC; its Qingyang section, a national heritage unit of roughly 300 km, follows the forested Ziwuling ridge through Zhengning, Ning, Heshui and Huachi counties, and scholars still debate whether the Gansu line was the main road or a branch. The Qingyang tourism bureau directs visitors to the Diaolingguan Forest Park on the Shaanxi border in Zhengning County, where the old roadbed runs through the woods together with the Diaoling Pass, beacon-tower remains and a temple to Meng Tian."},{"id":"huanxian-shanchengbao-battle-site","name":"Shanchengbao Battle Site","name_zh":"山城堡战役旧址","pinyin":"Shānchéngbǎo Zhànyì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.9581,"lon":107.0324,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huanxian-shanchengbao-battle-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of the Battle of Shanchengbao in November 1936, the first major engagement fought by the Red Army after its three main forces had joined up at the end of the Long March, in which troops under Peng Dehuai defeated part of Hu Zongnan's Nationalist First Army around Shancheng. The Shanchengbao Battle Memorial Park, begun in 2009 and opened in 2014 on the north side of Shancheng beside National Road 211, has a memorial hall on the campaign, a monument and the battlefield sites."},{"id":"huachi-shuangta-sculpted-pagodas","name":"Shuangta Temple Sculpted Pagodas","name_zh":"双塔寺造像塔","pinyin":"Shuāngtǎ Sì Zàoxiàng Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.4589,"lon":107.9871,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huachi-shuangta-sculpted-pagodas","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two red-sandstone pagodas carved all over with Buddhist figures, the only standing remains of a temple founded in 1156–89 under the Jin in Linzhen township and destroyed by an earthquake in the Qianlong era. They were later moved from that valley site to a hillside on the east side of Huachi county town, now the Dongshan Shuangta forest park. The larger tower, 12.6 m high in thirteen tiers each set in a lotus bowl, carries about 3,500 figures of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, disciples, donors and celestial musicians, with scenes of the Buddha's nirvana and earlier lives; the second, badly damaged by thieves, keeps eleven tiers and 615 figures."},{"id":"heshui-taerwan-sculpted-pagoda","name":"Ta'erwan Sculpted Pagoda","name_zh":"塔儿湾造像塔","pinyin":"Tǎ'érwān Zàoxiàng Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.8337,"lon":108.0144,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heshui-taerwan-sculpted-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A slender octagonal stone pagoda of thirteen tiers of close-set eaves, 10.93 m high, carved from local red sandstone in 1102–06 under the Northern Song and moved from Ta'erwan village in Taibai to the courtyard of the Heshui County Museum, also called the Longdong Ancient Stone Carving Art Museum. Its ground storey is covered with more than 600 carved figures, and the hollow shaft narrows from 1.29 m across at the base to 59 cm at the top, which has earned it a place among China's fifty noted pagodas as the most slender. The museum around it shows Buddhist stone sculpture of the Northern Wei to Qing periods and has a hall devoted to a Yellow River stegodont fossil."},{"id":"ningxian-xiangle-brick-pagoda","name":"Xiangle Brick Pagoda","name_zh":"湘乐砖塔","pinyin":"Xiānglè Zhuān Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.5949,"lon":108.1406,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ningxian-xiangle-brick-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hexagonal brick pagoda in the pavilion style in Xiangle town, begun under the Song and described as seven storeys, now about 22 m high with its top collapsed. The tall ground storey opens on the south into a hexagonal chamber, the upper storeys alternate real and blind doors flanked by lattice windows, the second to fourth levels have balconies, and the eaves of every storey are carried on five imitation-timber brick brackets to a face."},{"id":"xifeng-xiaojin-pagoda","name":"Xiaojin Pagoda","name_zh":"肖金塔","pinyin":"Xiāojīn Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.5845,"lon":107.6475,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xifeng-xiaojin-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Song-dynasty brick pagoda, also called the Jincheng Temple Pagoda, on the south street of Xiaojin town; the temple around it has gone and only the tower survives, patched up in the Qing. It is octagonal and in the pavilion style, now seven storeys and about 20 m high with a broken top, with real or carved doors and lattice windows on its faces and bracketed eaves and balconies on every storey."},{"id":"qingcheng-yaowangdong-wellness-town","name":"Yaowangdong Wellness Town","name_zh":"药王洞养生小镇","pinyin":"Yàowángdòng Yǎngshēng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.9967,"lon":107.8935,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingcheng-yaowangdong-wellness-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern tourist town in old-street style on the east bank of the Rouyuan River at Qingcheng, about 3.2 km long and below the Zhouzu Mausoleum; it takes its name from a cave associated with the legendary physician Qibo. It has restaurants and snack streets, folk performances, traditional Chinese medicine and wellness services, courtyard guesthouses and leisure rides such as a glass bridge, slides and go-karts, and is lit up in the evenings. A hot-spring resort between the town and the mausoleum area opened at the end of 2025."},{"id":"qingcheng-zhoujiubang-wooden-archway","name":"Zhoujiubang Wooden Archway","name_zh":"周旧邦木坊","pinyin":"Zhōujiùbāng Mù Fāng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":35.9926,"lon":107.8891,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingcheng-zhoujiubang-wooden-archway","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty timber memorial archway, built in 1505 on South Street in Qingcheng, the old county town, by the Qingyang prefect to honour Buzhu, the ancestor of the Zhou royal house who tradition says brought his people to this valley. It has four columns and three bays under a hipped tiled roof about 12 m high, and hangs a board reading \"Zhou Jiu Bang\" (\"old land of Zhou\") in the calligraphy of the painter Qi Baishi. It is the only survivor of more than a hundred archways the town had before the 1970s, and it stands within the Qingzhou old-town tourist area."},{"id":"qingcheng-zhouzu-mausoleum","name":"Zhouzu Mausoleum","name_zh":"周祖陵","pinyin":"Zhōuzǔ Líng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.0084,"lon":107.8966,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qingcheng-zhouzu-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park on the East Hill above Qingcheng, named after the tomb traditionally held to be that of Buzhu, the Xia-period ancestor of the Zhou royal house, who is said to have brought his people here and taught them farming. Since the 1980s the county has rebuilt temples, halls, pavilions and steles on the hill: 822 stone steps lead up to the Zhaozhou Shengzu archway and the Zhouzu Hall with statues of Buzhu and his son and grandson, and another area honours Qibo, the legendary physician of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, with a large forest of inscribed steles. The Bagua Pavilion on the summit looks over the old town and the Rouyuan River."},{"id":"heshui-ziwu-huaxi-valley","name":"Ziwu Huaxi Valley","name_zh":"子午花溪谷","pinyin":"Zǐwǔ Huāxī Gǔ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Qingyang","lat":36.0724,"lon":108.5239,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=heshui-ziwu-huaxi-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower-valley leisure area at Lianjiabian in Taibai town, on the edge of the Ziwuling forest in eastern Heshui County, laid out around a visitor centre and car park. Its named areas include the Ziyunhai flower fields, a streamside path with a small waterfall and a stalactite cave, a garden of mixed flowers, a children's play area and a rose garden, and it also has a zip line, a glass bridge and wooden cabins among the flowers."},{"id":"qinan-dadiwan-site","name":"Dadiwan Site","name_zh":"大地湾遗址","pinyin":"Dàdìwān Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":35.0113,"lon":105.9101,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinan-dadiwan-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"One of the key Neolithic sites of the Yellow River basin, occupied from about 7,800 to 4,800 years ago, where excavations from 1978 uncovered more than 700 features, among them house foundations, hearths, kilns and graves, and nearly ten thousand artefacts. It is on China's list of national archaeological park projects and has a museum of the finds; its best-known feature is F901, the burnt-clay floor of a large building that archaeologists interpret as a communal meeting hall."},{"id":"gangu-daxiangshan","name":"Daxiangshan (Big Buddha Mountain)","name_zh":"大像山","pinyin":"Dàxiàng Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.733,"lon":105.3106,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gangu-daxiangshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hillside of temples and grottoes on Wenqi Mountain just west of Gangu town, named after the large Buddha carved into the cliff near its summit. Stepped paths about 1.5 km long lead past halls such as a Taihao Palace to Fuxi, a Wenchang Pavilion and a Guandi Hall up to the Big Buddha Hall, with wide views over the Wei River valley. Together with the Shuiliandong grottoes about 35 km to the west it forms one national heritage site."},{"id":"qinan-fengshan-temples","name":"Fengshan Hill, Qin'an","name_zh":"凤山","pinyin":"Fèng Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.8573,"lon":105.6728,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinan-fengshan-temples","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill on the eastern edge of Qin'an town covered by the Taishan Temple complex, 41 Ming and Qing halls, pavilions and cave shrines built on nine terraces, with Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist figures side by side. Its landmark is the Penglai Pavilion of 1749, and the slopes around the temples are planted as a forest park among old cypresses."},{"id":"tianshui-fuxi-temple","name":"Fuxi Temple, Tianshui","name_zh":"伏羲庙","pinyin":"Fúxī Miào","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.5803,"lon":105.7032,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianshui-fuxi-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming-dynasty temple to Fuxi, the legendary forefather of Chinese civilisation, laid out as a series of courtyards along one axis on Fuxi Road in the old part of Tianshui. An opera stage across the road, a memorial archway, a gate and a ceremonial gate lead to the double-eaved Xiantian Hall, which holds a painted statue of Fuxi, and the Taiji Hall behind it. A large public memorial ceremony for Fuxi is held here every year, and the historic Fuxi City streets lie just outside."},{"id":"gangu-gupo-grassland","name":"Gupo Grassland","name_zh":"古坡草原","pinyin":"Gǔpō Cǎoyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.5247,"lon":105.1786,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gangu-gupo-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Upland meadows, forest and rocky peaks around the headwaters of the Ji River in southern Gangu County, between about 1,760 and 2,700 m above sea level. Visitors come in summer for horse riding and walks across the grassland, and sights within the area include Shigu Mountain, mentioned in the 6th-century Commentary on the Water Classic, and Heitan Temple, first built in the Yuan dynasty."},{"id":"zhangjiachuan-heyu-cliff-inscription","name":"Heyu Cliff Inscription","name_zh":"河峪摩崖石刻","pinyin":"Héyù Móyá Shíkè","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.9874,"lon":106.3819,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiachuan-heyu-cliff-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An Eastern Han inscription carved into a rock face at Heyu in eastern Zhangjiachuan County, listed as a national heritage site in 2019. It is one of the surviving traces of the old Guanlong road, which crossed the Guan Mountains between Gansu and the Guanzhong plain of Shaanxi."},{"id":"tianshui-houjie-mosque","name":"Houjie Mosque","name_zh":"后街清真寺","pinyin":"Hòujiē Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.5839,"lon":105.7148,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianshui-houjie-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working mosque of Tianshui's Hui community in Qinzhou District, whose buildings date from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its prayer hall is a Chinese-style timber building with a grey tiled roof and a porch of carved lattice doors, entered through a grey-brick gate with an arched doorway on the street. Visitors should dress modestly and avoid prayer times."},{"id":"tianshui-hu-family-residences","name":"Hu Family Residences (Tianshui Folk Museum)","name_zh":"胡氏古民居","pinyin":"Húshì Gǔmínjū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.5817,"lon":105.7192,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianshui-hu-family-residences","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two Ming-dynasty courtyard mansions facing each other across a street in Tianshui's old city, built in the Jiajing era (1522–1566) by the scholar Hu Laijin and lived in by his descendants for generations. The South House is now the Tianshui Folk Museum, with timber halls, a hanging-flower gate and screen walls around its courtyards."},{"id":"tianshui-ji-xin-temple","name":"Ji Xin Temple, Tianshui","name_zh":"纪信祠","pinyin":"Jǐ Xìn Cí","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.5826,"lon":105.7219,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianshui-ji-xin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianshui's City God temple, dedicated to Ji Xin, a general of the founder of the Han dynasty who is worshipped as the city god in Tianshui and Lanzhou. A county office in the Yuan dynasty and converted into a City God temple in the early Ming, it keeps 21 halls along one axis, and its main hall holds a Ming mural of the city god's procession dated 1625."},{"id":"zhangjiachuan-majiayuan-chariot-museum","name":"Majiayuan Site and Chariot Museum","name_zh":"马家塬遗址","pinyin":"Mǎjiāyuán Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.9886,"lon":106.1968,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiachuan-majiayuan-chariot-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Majiayuan, in the hills north of Zhangjiachuan town, is a Warring States cemetery of Western Rong chieftains, a people drawn into the state of Qin, whose tombs held richly decorated chariots and gold and silver ornaments in a style linked to the steppe cultures further west. The finds are displayed at the Majiayuan Chariot Museum in Zhangjiachuan town, which opened in 2023 and shows more than 500 sets of objects alongside full-size and scaled reconstructions of the chariots."},{"id":"wushan-mutisi-grottoes","name":"Mutisi Grottoes","name_zh":"木梯寺石窟","pinyin":"Mùtī Sì Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.6945,"lon":104.6877,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushan-mutisi-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cave temple high on the slopes of Bailin Mountain in Mali town, west of Wushan, named, legend says, after a wooden ladder that was once the only way up the cliff to it. About 18 caves and niches and four halls hold more than 80 statues and wall paintings, the finest from the Song dynasty, and renovated paths climb through woods that turn red and gold in autumn."},{"id":"tianshui-nanguo-temple","name":"Nanguo Temple (Nanshan Scenic Area)","name_zh":"南郭寺","pinyin":"Nánguō Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.5657,"lon":105.7453,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianshui-nanguo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in a fold of the hills about 2 km south of central Tianshui, already a sizeable monastery in the Tang dynasty and visited by the poet Du Fu in 759, who wrote verses about it. Its courtyards hold ancient cypresses estimated at more than 2,000 years old, celebrated as one of the Eight Views of Qinzhou, old pagoda trees at the west gate and a shrine to Du Fu set up in 1904. From the hillside there are views over the whole city."},{"id":"zhangjiachuan-pingan-grassland","name":"Ping'an Grassland","name_zh":"平安草原","pinyin":"Píng'ān Cǎoyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":35.0275,"lon":106.3565,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangjiachuan-pingan-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An expanse of high mountain meadows, valleys and streams in the Guan Mountains of Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County, where the early Qin state is said to have pastured its horses. Boardwalks link viewpoints across the grassland, and in summer visitors come for horse riding, camping, star-view cabins and evening bonfires."},{"id":"qinan-confucian-temple","name":"Qin'an Confucian Temple","name_zh":"秦安文庙","pinyin":"Qín'ān Wénmiào","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.8588,"lon":105.6686,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinan-confucian-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qin'an's Confucian temple, founded before 1297, keeps a Ming-dynasty Dacheng Hall under a single-eaved hip-and-gable roof of glazed tiles, one of the better-preserved Ming timber buildings in Gansu. Glazed panels of coiled dragons flank its doorway, and the courtyard has nine old cypresses, one of them planted in the early Ming."},{"id":"tianshui-qingjuanshan-resort","name":"Qingjuanshan Resort","name_zh":"青鹃山","pinyin":"Qīngjuān Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.3752,"lon":105.7107,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianshui-qingjuanshan-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A countryside resort around Sunji village in Pingnan town, south of Tianshui, laid out around a lake lined with themed wooden cabins where visitors can fish, go boating and cook their catch in the cabins' kitchens. Outdoor activities include a rock-climbing wall and a treetop adventure course, and there are restaurants serving local dishes."},{"id":"wushan-shengshou-temple","name":"Shengshou Temple, Wushan","name_zh":"武山圣寿寺","pinyin":"Wǔshān Shèngshòu Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.7225,"lon":104.8861,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushan-shengshou-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple in Wushan County whose surviving buildings date from the Yuan dynasty to the Republican era, listed as a national heritage site in 2019. Wushan County includes it on a suggested sightseeing route with the county museum and the Mutisi Grottoes."},{"id":"wushan-shuiliandong-grottoes","name":"Shuiliandong Grottoes and Lashao Temple","name_zh":"水帘洞石窟","pinyin":"Shuǐliándòng Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.8327,"lon":104.9508,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushan-shuiliandong-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of cave temples in a narrow gorge north-east of Wushan town, named after a natural cave about 50 m high whose overhang turns into a curtain of water when it rains. Its best-known work is the giant Buddha carved in relief on the cliff at Lashao Temple, dating from the Northern Zhou, while the Thousand Buddha Cave and other shrines keep statues, murals and inscriptions added from the Later Qin to the Yuan. The area is now run as the Tianshui Cliff Grottoes Cultural Tourism Area."},{"id":"tianshui-suwan-folk-manor","name":"Suwan Folk Manor","name_zh":"苏湾民俗庄园","pinyin":"Sūwān Mínsú Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.3274,"lon":105.6741,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianshui-suwan-folk-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural folk-culture park in Sujiawan village, Pingnan town, in the hills south of Tianshui, which became a 4A scenic area in 2025. Visitors can explore displays of local folk customs and pick seasonal produce, and on public holidays there are performances such as molten-iron 'fireworks' and face-changing. It lies near the Qingjuanshan resort, and the two are promoted together."},{"id":"qinan-xingguo-temple","name":"Xingguo Temple, Qin'an","name_zh":"兴国寺","pinyin":"Xīngguó Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.8611,"lon":105.6677,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinan-xingguo-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Yuan-dynasty Buddhist temple in the centre of Qin'an town whose main building, the Prajna Hall, is dated by an inscribed board of the Zhishun era (1330–1333) found inside its wall in 1974. The west-facing temple keeps a gate, a Hall of the Heavenly Kings and bell and drum towers on its axis, and the Qin'an County Museum stands next to it."},{"id":"tianshui-yuquan-taoist-temple","name":"Yuquan Taoist Temple","name_zh":"玉泉观","pinyin":"Yùquán Guàn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Tianshui","lat":34.5855,"lon":105.708,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tianshui-yuquan-taoist-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Taoist temple complex climbing the foot of Tianjing Mountain on the north side of Tianshui's old city, founded in the Tang dynasty and rebuilt by Quanzhen Taoists from the Yuan onwards. Its Ming and Qing halls rise in terraces up the slope, among them a Ming Jade Emperor Hall, and it keeps more than fifty inscribed steles, including a four-sided Yuan stele. A temple fair, known locally as chaoguan, is held on the ninth day of the first lunar month."},{"id":"wuwei-baita-temple","name":"Baita Temple Site and Liangzhou Assembly Memorial Hall","name_zh":"凉州白塔寺","pinyin":"Liángzhōu Báitǎ Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.7656,"lon":102.7408,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuwei-baita-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The site of a Yuan-period Buddhist monastery at Wunan, south-east of Wuwei, where in 1247 Sakya Pandita, head of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism, met the Mongol prince Köden (Godan), a grandson of Genghis Khan who held Liangzhou as his appanage. Remains of the old stupas stand among a field of white stupas with gilded tops, and the Liangzhou Assembly Memorial Hall on the site displays finds and the history of the meeting."},{"id":"tianzhu-binggou-river","name":"Binggou River Scenic Area","name_zh":"冰沟河","pinyin":"Bīnggōu Hé","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.6928,"lon":102.3139,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianzhu-binggou-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain valley at the eastern end of the Qilian range in the Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, named after its glacier-fed river, with alpine meadows grazed by white yaks, conifer forest and wild iris grassland. Sightseeing buses run up the valley, and a long trail and boardwalk climb to Chaierlonghai, a clear tarn below snow peaks; going there and back is a strenuous high-altitude day walk of around 20 km."},{"id":"tianzhu-dongda-monastery","name":"Dongda Monastery, Tianzhu","name_zh":"东大寺","pinyin":"Dōngdà Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":36.6405,"lon":102.858,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tianzhu-dongda-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist monastery at Saishisi in southern Tianzhu, nearly 400 years old, whose Tibetan name means 'great monastery of the Datong'; its buildings blend Han Chinese and Tibetan styles and it was once a leading monastery of the Tibetan Huarui area. The side walls of its assembly hall carry a complete mural cycle of the novel Journey to the West, about 200 years old and believed to be the only one of its kind in Tibetan areas, showing the monk Tang Seng and his disciples Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy on their pilgrimage."},{"id":"gulang-battle-memorial","name":"Gulang Battle Memorial Hall","name_zh":"古浪战役纪念馆","pinyin":"Gǔlàng Zhànyì Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.4564,"lon":102.8856,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gulang-battle-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial park in the south-west of Gulang town on the battlefield of November 1936, when the Western Route Army of the Chinese Red Army fought the forces of the Ma clique around Gulang during its advance west along the Hexi Corridor. A three-storey exhibition hall follows the Western Route Army's campaign with 926 artefacts, documents and battle dioramas, and the grounds include a memorial square and a martyrs' cemetery."},{"id":"wuwei-haizang-temple","name":"Haizang Temple","name_zh":"海藏寺","pinyin":"Hǎizàng Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.9552,"lon":102.6188,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuwei-haizang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple on the north-western edge of Wuwei whose surviving halls and painted beams date from the Ming to the Republican era, set among pines and cypresses several centuries old, many of them protected trees. It stands inside Haizang Park beside the Haizang wetland, a quiet stop after the city's museums."},{"id":"wuwei-leitai-han-tomb","name":"Leitai Han Tomb","name_zh":"雷台汉墓","pinyin":"Léitái Hànmù","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.942,"lon":102.6373,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuwei-leitai-han-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A brick tomb of the late Eastern Han with front, middle and rear chambers, found in 1969 under Leitai, an earthen terrace topped by a Ming Taoist temple in northern Wuwei; it yielded more than 230 objects, among them a procession of bronze horses, chariots and figures and the Bronze Galloping Horse (Flying Horse of Gansu), later chosen as China's tourism emblem. The originals are in the Gansu Provincial Museum in Lanzhou; the site is now the Leitai Han Culture Museum, a 12.7-hectare park with the tomb, the temple and a large replica array of the bronze procession."},{"id":"minqin-ruianbao","name":"Ruian Fort","name_zh":"瑞安堡","pinyin":"Ruì'ān Bǎo","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":38.5911,"lon":103.0687,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/minqin-ruianbao/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A fortified manor begun in 1938 at Santao village south-west of Minqin, where a landowner's family compound sits inside high rammed-earth walls with honeycomb battlements; it is one of the best-preserved fortified farmsteads in north-west China, nicknamed the 'Palace Museum beyond the frontier'. Its courtyards follow a symmetrical 'front hall, rear chambers' plan with carved brick and timber detail, and the fort is managed together with the Minqin County Museum."},{"id":"minqin-shajing-folk-culture","name":"Shajing Culture Folk Museum and Village","name_zh":"沙井文化民俗旅游区","pinyin":"Shājǐng Wénhuà Mínsú Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":38.5926,"lon":103.0708,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minqin-shajing-folk-culture","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village folk-culture centre in a former school at Xintao, Sanlei, built around a museum set up by local villagers, said to be the largest privately run folk museum in Gansu, with thousands of objects of rural life and several hundred pottery, stone and bone finds of the Shajing culture, the early first-millennium BC culture named after a site in Minqin. It also offers farming-life activities and evening village shows, including a staged play of the Su Wu sheep-herding story."},{"id":"minqin-shengrong-temple","name":"Shengrong Temple, Minqin","name_zh":"圣容寺","pinyin":"Shèngróng Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":38.6217,"lon":103.0866,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minqin-shengrong-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple in Minqin whose surviving buildings date from the Ming dynasty to the Republican period, listed as a national heritage site in 2013. Minqin's tourism promotion calls it the 'Thousand Buddha Summit' temple and presents its old buildings and relics as a record of the oasis's history since the Ming."},{"id":"wuwei-shenzhou-desert-wildlife-park","name":"Shenzhou Desert Wildlife Park","name_zh":"神州荒漠野生动物园","pinyin":"Shénzhōu Huāngmò Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.8858,"lon":102.8811,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuwei-shenzhou-desert-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wildlife park on the desert edge east of Wuwei that specialises in desert animals of north-west China, notably Przewalski's horses, Tibetan wild asses and wild Bactrian camels, alongside zoo species such as golden snub-nosed monkeys, African lions, brown bears and Amur tigers. There is a hall of desert wildlife specimens and a petting area with marmots and alpacas, and it is mainly a family and school-trip destination."},{"id":"minqin-suwu-desert","name":"Suwu Desert Scenic Area","name_zh":"苏武沙漠","pinyin":"Sū Wǔ Shāmò","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":38.4263,"lon":103.3146,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minqin-suwu-desert","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A desert leisure area on the southern edge of the Tengger Desert near Minqin, named after Su Wu, the Han envoy of the famous sheep-herding exile story, whom local tradition links with Minqin. It groups the International Desert Sculpture Creation Base, with more than a hundred works by artists from around the world set among the dunes, a 'Star-Picking Town' with an astronomy hall and stargazing cabins, a Su Wu culture town, and dune buggies and off-road rides, with evening shows in the autumn season."},{"id":"wuwei-tiantishan-caves","name":"Tiantishan Caves","name_zh":"天梯山石窟","pinyin":"Tiāntīshān Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.5637,"lon":102.7428,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuwei-tiantishan-caves/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Among the earliest Buddhist cave temples in China, cut into cliffs above the Huangyang River in the Qilian foothills from the time of the Northern Liang ruler Juqu Mengxun in the early fifth century and reworked up to the Qing; 19 caves survive in three tiers. When a reservoir was built at the foot of the cliff in 1959–60, most sculptures and some murals were moved to the Gansu Provincial Museum, but the largest group, a monumental seated Buddha with attendants, stayed in place and has been shielded from the reservoir water by a cofferdam since 1992; a site exhibition hall tells the caves' story."},{"id":"wuwei-confucius-temple","name":"Wuwei Confucius Temple","name_zh":"武威文庙","pinyin":"Wǔwēi Wénmiào","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.9242,"lon":102.6422,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wuwei-confucius-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Built in 1437–1439 and enlarged up to the Republican era, this is one of the largest Confucian temples in north-west China, laid out in three courts side by side: the Wenchang Palace to the east, the temple proper with its semicircular pool, Lingxing Gate, Dacheng Hall and Zunjing Library in the middle, and the old Confucian school to the west, with more than 30 steles from the Tang to the Qing. The city's Western Xia Museum across the road displays the Western Xia Stele of 1094, the only known stele with matching texts in Tangut and Chinese, whose rediscovery in the early 19th century reopened the study of the Tangut script."},{"id":"wuwei-desert-park","name":"Wuwei Desert Park","name_zh":"武威沙漠公园","pinyin":"Wǔwēi Shāmò Gōngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Wuwei","lat":37.8499,"lon":102.8583,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuwei-desert-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A desert-themed park on the desert edge east of Wuwei, billed as the first in China built around desert scenery, that mixes sand dunes with planted woodland, grassland and landscaped gardens across more than 530 hectares. It holds a spring pear-blossom and kite festival and an autumn fun run."},{"id":"minle-biandukou","name":"Biandukou","name_zh":"扁都口","pinyin":"Biǎndūkǒu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.2207,"lon":100.9382,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minle-biandukou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Biandukou, called Dadoubagu in the Sui, is a pass of over 3,500 m on the old route across the Qilian Mountains between Minle and Qinghai, linked by Chinese sources with Huo Qubing's army, the monk Faxian and Emperor Yang of Sui. The scenic area on the northern approach, at about 2,800 m, is known for summer rapeseed fields and highland pasture, Buddhist rock carvings, and campsites, cabins and riding trails for self-drive visitors."},{"id":"sunan-binggou-danxia","name":"Binggou Danxia","name_zh":"冰沟丹霞","pinyin":"Bīnggōu Dānxiá","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9925,"lon":99.9024,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sunan-binggou-danxia","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The second major scenic area of the Zhangye Danxia geopark, opened in 2014 on the north bank of the Liyuan River in Sunan: in contrast to the striped hills of Qicai Danxia, it is a landscape of red sandstone cliffs, walls, pillars and spires. Its sandstone 'window-lattice' formations, weathered into rows of upright ribs like the windows of a palace, are the type locality for that landform."},{"id":"minle-binhe-jiuliangye-distillery","name":"Binhe Jiuliangye Distillery","name_zh":"滨河九粮液","pinyin":"Bīnhé Jiǔliángyè","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.6887,"lon":100.7201,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minle-binhe-jiuliangye-distillery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Binhe distillery in the Minle eco-industrial park, maker of Jiuliangye baijiu, is open to visitors as a liquor-culture scenic area covering its starter-making, distilling and bottling halls, blending cellars and a large storage cellar. Outside, the grounds on the edge of the Gobi have a lake, rose and marigold fields, organic sorghum and maize plots, viewing platforms and barbecue and self-drive campsites."},{"id":"zhangye-dafo-temple","name":"Dafo Temple, Zhangye","name_zh":"张掖大佛寺","pinyin":"Zhāngyè Dàfó Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9301,"lon":100.4547,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangye-dafo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The temple was founded in 1098 under the Western Xia, and its two-storey Great Buddha Hall shelters a painted clay reclining Buddha about 35 m long, often described as the largest indoor reclining Buddha in China, with his ten disciples standing behind him. The temple houses the Ganzhou District Museum, and the scenic area also takes in the earthen Mituo Qianfo stupa of the Ming (about 33 m tall) and the Shanxi Guild Hall next door, built by Shanxi merchants in 1730 with a gateway stage and a timber memorial arch."},{"id":"gaotai-dahuwan","name":"Dahuwan Scenic Area","name_zh":"大湖湾","pinyin":"Dàhúwān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.4132,"lon":99.7491,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaotai-dahuwan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake and wetland leisure area in the Heihe valley near Gaotai, centred on the Chongwen Tower, a 41.7 m five-storey timber tower in southern Ming–Qing style built in 2011–12, with a lakeside plaza, boardwalks and bridges. It hosts local festivals, concerts and dragon-boat races on the lake, and its visitor centre, car parks and paths were renovated in 2024."},{"id":"linze-danxiakou-town","name":"Danxiakou Tourist Town","name_zh":"丹霞口文旅小镇","pinyin":"Dānxiákǒu Wénlǚ Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9898,"lon":100.0925,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linze-danxiakou-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern tourist town built in old style near the north entrance of the Qicai Danxia scenic area, mixing grey-tiled Huizhou-style houses with the walls and gate towers of the north-west. Its lanes hold restaurants, guesthouses, craft workshops and small exhibition rooms, and staged entertainment includes a gate-opening welcome, a camel-caravan parade, costumed street actors and the stage show Huidao Zhangye."},{"id":"zhangye-ganquan-red-history-area","name":"Ganquan Red History and Culture Area","name_zh":"甘泉红色历史文化旅游区","pinyin":"Gānquán Hóngsè Lìshǐ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9411,"lon":100.45,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangye-ganquan-red-history-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 50 ha district in central Zhangye that joins red-history sites, including the Gao Jincheng Martyr Memorial Hall and an exhibition on the Western Route Army's 1936–37 campaign in the Hexi Corridor, with the Ganquan spring, rebuilt traditional gardens, the Sanyuan Museum and two lakes. There is also a children's playground, a water-screen film show and performances of local intangible heritage."},{"id":"shandan-xiakou-great-wall","name":"Han and Ming Great Wall at Xiakou, Shandan","name_zh":"山丹汉明长城","pinyin":"Shāndān Hàn Míng Chángchéng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.5068,"lon":101.4166,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shandan-xiakou-great-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"In Shandan county two Great Walls run side by side along the narrow 'waist' of the Hexi Corridor, often only 10–80 m apart: the Han wall to the north, mostly trenches and beacon towers, and the Ming wall of rammed earth to the south. At Xiakou, an old walled post on the Silk Road, the brick-arched gate and a gate tower over the main street survive below stretches of the walls, with patrol trails, signboards and a visitor centre added since 2022 as a demonstration section of the Great Wall National Cultural Park."},{"id":"zhangye-heishuiguo-ruins","name":"Heishuiguo Ruins","name_zh":"黑水国遗址","pinyin":"Hēishuǐguó Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.0151,"lon":100.3422,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangye-heishuiguo-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The 'Black Water Kingdom' is a 16 km² spread of ruins in the sands north-west of Zhangye, where the eroded rammed-earth walls of a southern and a northern town still stand among dunes, with Han bricks, Han–Jin tombs and prehistoric finds scattered around them. The standing walls are Ming, but local historians link the site with the Han seat of Zhangye commandery and later post stations, abandoned each time sand overran the oasis."},{"id":"linze-liushahe-park","name":"Liushahe Scenic Area, Linze","name_zh":"流沙河景区","pinyin":"Liúshāhé Jǐngqū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.1183,"lon":100.1727,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=linze-liushahe-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside park of about 230 ha on the south side of Linze town, with lakes including Swan Lake, a Danxia-style hill and square, a Journey to the West garden and a 'hundred stones' garden carved with poems. It serves as the town's main park, with walking and fitness trails, a visitor centre and an ice playground in winter, and black storks have been recorded along the river."},{"id":"gaotai-luotuocheng-ruins","name":"Luotuocheng Ruins","name_zh":"骆驼城遗址","pinyin":"Luòtuochéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.3463,"lon":99.5694,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaotai-luotuocheng-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of one of the largest Han–Tang town sites in the Hexi Corridor stand in farmland west of Gaotai: built here after an earthquake destroyed the earlier county town in AD 180, it became the seat of Jiankang commandery under the Former Liang and, in 397, the first capital of the Northern Liang. It was abandoned after Tibetan forces took the corridor in 766, and painted bricks and other finds from the surrounding cemeteries, which hold some 3,000 tombs, are displayed at the Gaotai County Museum."},{"id":"zhangye-lushuiwan","name":"Lushuiwan Scenic Area","name_zh":"芦水湾","pinyin":"Lúshuǐwān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9605,"lon":100.4145,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangye-lushuiwan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A chain of man-made lakes with lakeside parkland on the north-western edge of Zhangye, with bridges, promenades and the Shuitian Yise square, and sightseeing carts running between them. It suits an evening walk or bike ride, and its paved promenades host events such as roller-skating races."},{"id":"sunan-mati-temple-grottoes","name":"Mati Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"马蹄寺石窟群","pinyin":"Mǎtí Sì Shíkūqún","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.4842,"lon":100.4174,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sunan-mati-temple-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of Buddhist cave temples in the Qilian foothills of Sunan, begun in the Northern Liang in the early 5th century and used into the Qing, spread over seven sites including the Mati North and South temples, the Thousand Buddha Caves and Jinta Temple. The best-known is the 'Thirty-three Heavens', five tiers of chambers cut into the cliff of Mati North Temple and linked by internal passages, and the scenic area adds forested valleys and Yugur and Tibetan culture."},{"id":"minle-silk-road-pastoral-park","name":"Minle Silk Road Pastoral Park","name_zh":"民乐现代丝路田园综合体","pinyin":"Mínlè Xiàndài Sīlù Tiányuán Zōnghétǐ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.6505,"lon":100.7245,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minle-silk-road-pastoral-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism park in northern Minle built around fruit-picking orchards, flower fields, a folk-culture village and street and a farming-culture study area. Other features include cherry and pear orchards, peony and orchid gardens, food workshops, a children's playground and a hot-spring resort, and it suits families on a day out from Zhangye."},{"id":"ganzhou-pingshanhu-grand-canyon","name":"Pingshanhu Grand Canyon","name_zh":"平山湖大峡谷","pinyin":"Píngshānhú Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.089,"lon":100.715,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzhou-pingshanhu-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A canyon of red sandstone and conglomerate cut into the desert hills north-east of Zhangye, opened to visitors in 2014, where trails and viewpoints lead along the ridges and down into narrow gorges of a 95 km² scenic area. It lies in Pingshanhu Mongolian Township, and the scenic area adds Mongolian food, music and yurts to hiking and geology."},{"id":"sunan-qilian-deer-park","name":"Qilian Mountain Deer Park","name_zh":"祁连山鹿文化生态旅游区","pinyin":"Qíliánshān Lù Wénhuà Shēngtài Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9213,"lon":99.5489,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sunan-qilian-deer-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An alpine valley on the Jinchang River at 2,700–3,500 m in Sunan where more than 600 farmed Qilian red deer (white-rumped deer) graze on high grassland below snow peaks, and visitors can see them at close quarters. Hot-air balloon rides and grass-sledging are offered, and it makes a stop on National Road 213 between the Danxia areas and Sunan town."},{"id":"minle-tongzi-temple-grottoes","name":"Tongzi Temple Grottoes","name_zh":"童子寺石窟","pinyin":"Tóngzǐ Sì Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.435,"lon":100.9185,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minle-tongzi-temple-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small cave-temple site on two cliff faces east of Minle, first cut in the Northern Wei: the southern caves have murals of Journey to the West stories, and the northern ones Bodhisattvas and a thousand-armed Guanyin. Most surviving paintings are Ming and Qing and mix Buddhist, Taoist and folk deities, and the Tongzi Temple at the foot of the cliff is an active place of worship."},{"id":"sunan-wenshushan-grottoes","name":"Wenshushan Grottoes","name_zh":"文殊山石窟","pinyin":"Wénshūshān Shíkū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.6528,"lon":98.3511,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sunan-wenshushan-grottoes","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cave-temple complex in the Wenshu Mountains south-west of Jiuquan, spread over a front and a back hill, with over 130 caves recorded, including about 30 from the Wei and Jin to the Qing that keep more than 500 statues and some 1,200 m² of murals. The early central-pillar caves were cited by the archaeologist Su Bai as examples of the 'Liangzhou model' of early Hexi cave art, and the Wenshu Temple at the foot, a Gelug Tibetan Buddhist monastery, shares the valley with Chinese Buddhist and Taoist shrines."},{"id":"gaotai-western-route-army-memorial","name":"Western Route Army Memorial Hall, Gaotai","name_zh":"中国工农红军西路军纪念馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gōngnóng Hóngjūn Xīlùjūn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.371,"lon":99.8241,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaotai-western-route-army-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial to the Western Route Army, the Red Army force of about 21,800 that crossed the Yellow River in October 1936 and was defeated by Ma clique forces in the Hexi Corridor over the following months; its Fifth Army was destroyed at Gaotai in January 1937. Built on the 1957 martyrs' cemetery, where Fifth Army commander Dong Zhentang and more than 3,000 soldiers are buried, it has a monument, sculpture groups and a museum building modelled on a beacon tower, with eight galleries on the campaign."},{"id":"ganzhou-wulan-ancient-town","name":"Wulan Ancient Town","name_zh":"屋兰古镇","pinyin":"Wūlán Gǔzhèn","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.8806,"lon":100.6737,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ganzhou-wulan-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern tourist town built in old style at Gucheng village in Jiantan, east of Zhangye, whose centrepiece is the Jiuqu Huanghe lantern maze: a 2.4 km labyrinth laid out on the nine palaces and eight trigrams, with 365 lanterns, nine halls and more than 700 walls decorated with themes from traditional cosmology and Hexi history. A branch of the Zhangye gazetteer museum opened in the town in 2023."},{"id":"zhangye-xilai-temple","name":"Xilai Temple","name_zh":"西来寺","pinyin":"Xīlái Sì","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9292,"lon":100.449,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangye-xilai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working Chan (Zen) Buddhist temple in the lanes of Zhangye's old town, said to date back to the Tang and rebuilt under the Ming, which took the name Xilai Si after a Qing restoration in the Kangxi reign. Its gate, Guanyin Hall, scripture library and Ming-period Jingang Hall stand round a courtyard that is now the seat of the Ganzhou District Buddhist Association."},{"id":"gaotai-xusanwan-fort","name":"Xusanwan Ancient Fort and Tombs","name_zh":"许三湾古城","pinyin":"Xǔsānwān Gǔchéng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.3442,"lon":99.4932,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/gaotai-xusanwan-fort/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small rammed-earth fort standing alone on the gravel plain west of Gaotai, with corner towers and a square barbican outside its south gate; the area belonged to the Han county of Biaoshi, and the fort was reused as a Ming–Qing outpost before being abandoned. Thousands of tomb mounds of the Han to Five Liang periods are scattered over the plain around it."},{"id":"shandan-yanzhi-mountains","name":"Yanzhi Mountains","name_zh":"焉支山","pinyin":"Yānzhī Shān","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.4458,"lon":101.2189,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a full day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shandan-yanzhi-mountains/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested outlier of the Qilian range south of Shandan, rising to 3,978 m, which the Han general Huo Qubing won from the Xiongnu and where Emperor Yang of Sui is said to have received envoys from 27 states in 609. The forest park has dense forest, gorges lined with rock formations and the Zhongshan Temple on the heights, and is a cool summer retreat above the Hexi Corridor."},{"id":"minle-yuantong-temple-pagoda","name":"Yuantong Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"圆通寺塔","pinyin":"Yuántōng Sì Tǎ","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.6487,"lon":100.724,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minle-yuantong-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan-style stupa of brick and earth about 23 m tall at Liuba in Minle, said to have been founded in the Northern Song and restored several times under the Ming and Qing, when a Qianlong-era rebuilding raised it by more than 3 m. Its two-tier square base carries eight small corner stupas, twenty niches round the upper base hold Buddhist images, and the temple that once stood in front was destroyed in the mid-20th century."},{"id":"gaotai-yueya-lake-park","name":"Yueya Lake Park, Gaotai","name_zh":"月牙湖","pinyin":"Yuèyá Hú","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":39.376,"lon":99.7976,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gaotai-yueya-lake-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A town park on the western edge of Gaotai, built since 1992 around a natural reed-marsh lake that was long counted among the county's ten sights as 'the lake reflecting the crescent moon'. Its 37 ha hold four lakes, five islands, nine bridges and sixteen pavilions, an old-style courtyard, a folk-collection museum and a fishing park, making it a pleasant stop for a stroll."},{"id":"sunan-yugur-culture-corridor","name":"Yugur Culture Corridor","name_zh":"裕固风情走廊","pinyin":"Yùgù Fēngqíng Zǒuláng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9647,"lon":99.9175,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sunan-yugur-culture-corridor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 27 km scenic road through the Qilian foothills around Kangle in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, home of the Yugur, a people of about 15,000 who speak Turkic and Mongolic languages and mostly follow Tibetan Buddhism. Along the Yu–Kang road it links a yurt camp, the Wanfo gorge, a Western Route Army monument, Yugur heritage and song-and-dance venues and the Saihan Tala alpine grassland, combining Danxia scenery, meadows and Yugur culture."},{"id":"sunan-yugur-folk-resort","name":"Yugur Folk Culture Resort, Sunan","name_zh":"裕固族民俗度假区","pinyin":"Yùgùzú Mínsú Dùjiàqū","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.8371,"lon":99.6386,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sunan-yugur-folk-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sunan's county town, Hongwansi, and its surroundings form this scenic area, which includes the Yugur Fengqing Yuan cultural park, ethnic villages, a red-history theme park, the Xiliugou folk-culture street and the Solangge racecourse. Traditional horse races, song-and-dance shows and festivals present Yugur, Tibetan and Mongolian culture, and there are campsites and RV pitches for self-drive travellers."},{"id":"zhangye-drum-tower","name":"Zhangye Drum Tower","name_zh":"张掖鼓楼","pinyin":"Zhāngyè Gǔlóu","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9369,"lon":100.4556,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhangye-drum-tower/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhangye's Drum Tower, also called Zhenyuan Tower, rises 28 m at the crossroads in the middle of the old city: a brick-faced platform pierced by four arched passages carries a two-storey timber pavilion under a pyramidal tiled roof. It was first built in 1507, burned in 1648 and rebuilt in 1668, and a Tang-dynasty bronze bell hangs on its platform."},{"id":"zhangye-east-granary","name":"Zhangye East Granary","name_zh":"张掖东仓","pinyin":"Zhāngyè Dōngcāng","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9385,"lon":100.4629,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangye-east-granary","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Ming state granary founded in 1392 in Zhangye's old town, whose nine surviving storehouses, with ventilation and rat-proof holes at the foot of their walls, make it one of the more complete old granaries in China. After restoration it reopened in September 2025 with an exhibition on farming and grain storage and the Ganzhou intangible heritage centre, where local crafts such as paper-cutting, embroidery and clay modelling are shown and taught."},{"id":"zhangye-national-desert-sports-park","name":"Zhangye National Desert Sports Park","name_zh":"张掖国家沙漠体育公园","pinyin":"Zhāngyè Guójiā Shāmò Tǐyù Gōngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.797,"lon":100.4804,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangye-national-desert-sports-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An 18 km² park in the desert dunes 13 km south of Zhangye, laid out for outdoor sport, sightseeing and children's play, with a motorsport circuit that has staged a round of the China Rally Championship nine years running. In winter part of it becomes a snow playground, and it suits families and anyone wanting desert scenery close to the city."},{"id":"zhangye-national-wetland-park","name":"Zhangye National Wetland Park","name_zh":"张掖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Zhāngyè Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"620000","region":"Gansu","city":"Zhangye","lat":38.9629,"lon":100.4501,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhangye-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland park on the northern edge of Zhangye, where boardwalks wind through reedbeds, ponds and stands of tamarisk and oleaster, and lotus ponds bloom in midsummer. Protected birds such as the lesser kestrel and the Eurasian hobby have been recorded here, and it is popular with residents for summer lotus-viewing and autumn colour."},{"id":"dari-golog-peaceful-liberation-memorial","name":"Golog Peaceful Liberation Memorial, Dari","name_zh":"果洛和平解放纪念地","pinyin":"Guǒluò Hépíng Jiěfàng Jìniàndì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Golog","lat":33.7325,"lon":99.5139,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dari-golog-peaceful-liberation-memorial","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial site near Zhalang Temple in Dari County, marking the arrival in August 1952 of a Northwest Military and Political Commission work team, whose meeting with tribal and religious leaders at the temple on 24 August is described in official accounts as the peaceful liberation of Golog. The site has an 8.4 m monument with an inscription in Tibetan and Chinese, raised in 2008, and the unit was added to the national heritage list in 2019. It is a remote stop for visitors interested in the modern history of the Golog grasslands."},{"id":"maqen-rakya-monastery","name":"Rakya Monastery","name_zh":"拉加寺","pinyin":"Lājiā Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Golog","lat":34.6896,"lon":100.6546,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=maqen-rakya-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug monastery in Lajia town, Maqên (Maqin) County, built in the Qing period and also known in Chinese as Jiachan Temple. It stands in the Yellow River country of northern Golog, where the provincial tourism route lists Lajia town as the Yellow River Bend stop, and it has been a national heritage unit since 2013."},{"id":"banma-red-army-valley","name":"Red Army Valley, Banma","name_zh":"班玛红军沟","pinyin":"Bānmǎ Hóngjūn Gōu","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Golog","lat":32.7745,"lon":100.8265,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=banma-red-army-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested valley in Yartang township, Banma County, where Red Army units spent about three weeks in July 1936 on the Long March, and which local people renamed Red Army Valley. The national heritage unit is a slogan the soldiers wrote on a rock face at the valley mouth, now sheltered by a pavilion, and the scenic area adds a memorial hall opened in 2017 with Long March relics, plus a bridge, spring and stockade named for the Red Army."},{"id":"qilian-amidongsuo-niuxin-mountain","name":"Amidongsuo (Niuxin Mountain)","name_zh":"阿咪东索","pinyin":"Āmī Dōngsuǒ","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":38.1137,"lon":100.2324,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qilian-amidongsuo-niuxin-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Amidongsuo is the mountain also called Niuxin ('Ox Heart') Mountain, a peak that local Tibetans hold sacred, rising south of Qilian town in the middle Qilian Mountains. The scenic area covers about 120 km² and takes in a long east–west valley, grassland and shrub forest below slopes where the snow lies all year; spring brings wheat and rapeseed fields at the foot of the mountain and summer brings green pasture. It is the 5A area of Qilian County, and Zhuoer Mountain, across the Bayi River to the north, looks straight at it."},{"id":"haiyan-atomic-city-plant-221","name":"Atomic City (Plant 221 Site), Haiyan","name_zh":"原子城","pinyin":"Yuánzǐ Chéng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":36.9534,"lon":100.9044,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/haiyan-atomic-city-plant-221/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Atomic City is the former site of Plant 221, China's first nuclear weapons research and production base, set up from 1958 on the Jinyintan grassland north-east of Qinghai Lake, where state accounts say the country's first atomic and hydrogen bombs were developed. The plant was dissolved in 1987 and the site handed to the local government in 1995; preserved parts include the detonation test ground, an assembly plant, the Shangxing station where, in the Qinghai Daily's account, the first atomic bomb was loaded on a train for Lop Nur, and an underground command centre. The Atomic City memorial museum, opened in 2009 and reopened in June 2021 after refurbishment, presents the history with photographs, documents and objects, and Jinyintan is also summer grazing land for local Tibetan and Mongol herders."},{"id":"haiyan-dayu-folk-village","name":"Dayu Folk Village, Haiyan","name_zh":"达玉民俗村","pinyin":"Dáyù Mínsú Cūn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":36.9374,"lon":100.8853,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyan-dayu-folk-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dayu Folk Village is a privately run Tibetan folk-culture park at Jinyintan near Xihai town, named after the Dayu tribe of the Qinghai Lake area. Its grounds hold a folk museum, an experience area and a performance centre, and the village also serves as a campsite for recreational vehicles on the lake circuit."},{"id":"gangcha-tibetan-lakeside-town","name":"Gangcha Tibetan Lakeside Town","name_zh":"高原海滨藏城","pinyin":"Gāoyuán Hǎibīn Zàngchéng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":37.323,"lon":100.1336,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gangcha-tibetan-lakeside-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gangcha is the county town north of Qinghai Lake, rebuilt in Tibetan style and promoted as the 'Plateau Seaside Tibetan City'. The county government's description lists Tibetan-style building groups, an ethnic history museum called Tancheng (the mandala), a song-and-dance performance centre and the Shaliu River, up which the lake's naked carp (huangyu) migrate in summer. The county also lists an old site for offerings to the lake, Matou Lazetan."},{"id":"menyuan-gangshika-snow-peak","name":"Gangshika Peak","name_zh":"岗什卡雪峰","pinyin":"Gǎngshíkǎ Xuěfēng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":37.6441,"lon":101.4166,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/menyuan-gangshika-snow-peak/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gangshika is the highest peak of the eastern Qilian Mountains, a glaciated mountain of 5,254.5 m in Menyuan County that climbers often treat as a first snow mountain, because the approach is gradual and it lies under 160 km from Xining. The scenic area, a managed development that opened in 2024–25, has a visitor service centre at the foot of the mountain, horse rides and walks in summer, snow and ice activities in winter, a guided climbing route from a base camp at about 4,350 m, and a 47 km backpacking route along the Lenglongling range added in 2025. It was named a national ski-mountaineering training base in 2016, and the film The Climbers was partly shot here."},{"id":"menyuan-rapeseed-flower-sea","name":"Menyuan Rapeseed Flower Fields","name_zh":"门源百里油菜花海","pinyin":"Ményuán Bǎilǐ Yóucàihuā Hǎi","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":37.4771,"lon":101.4383,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=menyuan-rapeseed-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The valley floor at Menyuan is farmed with rapeseed, which turns it yellow against the surrounding mountains in July. The scenic area is built around the Yuanshan flower-viewing platform at Qingshizui, about 3,000 m above sea level and the county's first commercial tourist site (built in 2006), with a boardwalk, viewing decks and a second flower area, Fenfangyu, nearby. Peak bloom is usually from mid-July, so a visit is strongly seasonal."},{"id":"menyuan-qilian-mountain-eco-ranch","name":"Qilian Mountain Eco-Ranch, Menyuan","name_zh":"祁连山生态牧场","pinyin":"Qílián Shān Shēngtài Mùchǎng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":37.4715,"lon":101.5539,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=menyuan-qilian-mountain-eco-ranch","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Qilian Mountain Eco-Ranch is a commercial grassland park in the Menyuan valley, developed from 2016 by a private tourism company, with its first phase opened in June 2017. Its zones cover pasture sightseeing, livestock-product displays, folk-custom experiences, song and dance shows, walking areas and grassland lodging, and it lies next to the Menyuan rapeseed flower area."},{"id":"haiyan-wenjia-ranch","name":"Wenjia Ranch, Haiyan","name_zh":"文迦牧场","pinyin":"Wénjiā Mùchǎng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":36.845,"lon":100.8572,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours, or overnight","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyan-wenjia-ranch","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wenjia Ranch is a privately run grassland resort near the east shore of Qinghai Lake in Haiyan County, begun in 2017 by a team of university graduates with a few rented tents and set up as a company in 2019. It has a Tibetan-style 'starry sky' hotel and guesthouses, a restaurant, a craft centre, a bookshop, an incense-making workshop, a nomad-life experience area, a viewing platform and an evening bonfire with group dancing. It suits visitors who want a night near the lake with organised Tibetan-style activities rather than a historic or protected site."},{"id":"haiyan-xihai-commandery-city-site","name":"Xihai Commandery City Site, Haiyan","name_zh":"西海郡故城","pinyin":"Xīhǎi Jùn Gùchéng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":36.9067,"lon":100.9803,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyan-xihai-commandery-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"These are the remains of the commandery city that the regent Wang Mang set up in about 4 CE at the end of the Western Han, with trapezoid earth walls about 600 m across that still stand 4–12 m high. Finds here include a stone tiger-tally casket inscribed with the first year of the Xin dynasty (9 CE), and coins and coin moulds from the Western Han and Xin periods. The county has added replica walls, gates and tourist buildings around the site, and Haiyan's Xihai Commandery Museum displays finds."},{"id":"qilian-zhuoer-mountain","name":"Zhuoer Mountain, Qilian","name_zh":"卓尔山","pinyin":"Zhuó'ěr Shān","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haibei","lat":38.1702,"lon":100.2801,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qilian-zhuoer-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhuoer Mountain is a ridge of red sandstone and conglomerate (Danxia landform) on the north bank of the Bayi River, with a summit at about 2,930 m that serves as a viewing platform over the town, the river and Amidongsuo to the south. Its viewpoints include the Ethnic Unity pagoda, a Western Xia-era beacon tower, Lovers' Cliff and the 'Eye of Heaven' lookout, and in summer rapeseed flowers add yellow to the view. The Haibei government counts it as part of the county-wide 'Qilian Scenery' tourist area; its Tibetan name is given locally as Zongmu Mayouma."},{"id":"hualong-ahetan-mosque","name":"Ahetan Mosque","name_zh":"阿河滩清真寺","pinyin":"Āhétān Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.8843,"lon":102.3412,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hualong-ahetan-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Qing-period mosque in the Salar village of Ahetan in Ganduo town, Hualong, listed nationally in 2013 after provincial protection from 1988. The tourism ministry's rural routes pair it with the village's Salar folk-culture experiences, food and views of the Yellow River. It is an active place of worship, so visit quietly and ask before entering."},{"id":"huzhu-beishan-forest-park","name":"Beishan National Forest Park, Huzhu","name_zh":"互助北山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Hùzhù Běishān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.9276,"lon":102.3769,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhu-beishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large forest park in the mountains north-east of Huzhu, rising from about 2,100 m to over 4,300 m and also a national geopark. Its central zone, Langshidang, is the best developed, with red and white birch woods, waterfalls, two high-altitude lakes and a Tibetan stupa. It is a day trip for walking and mountain scenery rather than a single sight."},{"id":"huzhu-chuzang-monastery","name":"Chuzang Monastery","name_zh":"却藏寺","pinyin":"Quèzàng Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":37.0031,"lon":101.9043,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huzhu-chuzang-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug monastery in the hills north of Huzhu, founded in 1649 and one of four well-known monasteries of north-eastern Qinghai. Its buildings were damaged in the 1720s, rebuilt from 1732 and restored again after the Cultural Revolution; Qing records mention a Shakyamuni hall built in 1830 and a brick-carved nine-dragon screen approved for its front. It is a working monastery, set among steep hills beside the Nanmenxia reservoir."},{"id":"hualong-dandou-monastery","name":"Dandou Monastery","name_zh":"旦斗寺","pinyin":"Dàndǒu Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.9062,"lon":102.5208,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hualong-dandou-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Jinyuan Tibetan township, Hualong, regarded as one of the main cradles of the later diffusion of Buddhism on the Tibetan plateau. The complex has more than 200 rooms and halls, among them the Great Prayer Hall, a Maitreya hall, meditation halls and a stupa. It dates from the Ming and Qing periods and was listed nationally in 2013."},{"id":"huzhu-gonlung-monastery","name":"Gönlung Monastery (Youning Temple)","name_zh":"佑宁寺","pinyin":"Yòuníng Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.7592,"lon":102.1794,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhu-gonlung-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug monastery in the hills east of Huzhu, founded in 1604 and long called the mother of the monasteries north of the Huangshui river. It housed the first Gelug seminary in north-eastern Tibetan areas and was the seat of the Changkya and Thuken incarnation lineages. It was burned in the 1720s during the Qing suppression of a Mongol-led revolt and rebuilt from 1732 under the name Youning, meaning 'protecting Xining'."},{"id":"ledu-hehuang-culture-museum","name":"Hehuang Culture Museum","name_zh":"河湟文化博物馆","pinyin":"Héhuáng Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.4791,"lon":102.3634,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ledu-hehuang-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A regional museum in Ledu District that opened in July 2023 and is described in Chinese state media as the only comprehensive museum devoted to Hehuang culture, the cultures of the Huangshui valley in eastern Qinghai. It shows about 1,180 objects in 17 categories, from stone, jade and bone objects to pottery, porcelain, gold and textiles. The walls of its entrance hall display 374 painted pots from the Liuwan cemetery."},{"id":"pingan-hongshuiquan-mosque","name":"Hongshuiquan Mosque","name_zh":"洪水泉清真寺","pinyin":"Hóngshuǐquán Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.4786,"lon":101.9044,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingan-hongshuiquan-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque in Hongshuiquan village, Ping'an District, listed nationally in 2013 as a Ming-to-Qing building. The tourism ministry's rural routes highlight its fine brick and wood carving and an exhibition hall on ethnic unity. It is an active place of worship in a hill village, so visit quietly."},{"id":"xunhua-jiezi-gongbei","name":"Jiezi Gongbei","name_zh":"街子拱北","pinyin":"Jiēzi Gǒngběi","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.8628,"lon":102.4317,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunhua-jiezi-gongbei","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Muslim tomb shrine (gongbei) in Jiezi town, Xunhua, listed nationally in 2013 as a Qing-period tomb. It stands near Jiezi Mosque, regarded as the Salar people's ancestral mosque, and within walking distance of the Camel Spring, where Salar tradition places their ancestors' arrival. It is an active place of worship, so visits should be respectful and may be limited."},{"id":"minhe-lajia-site","name":"Lajia Archaeological Site","name_zh":"喇家遗址","pinyin":"Lǎjiā Yízhǐ","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.8594,"lon":102.8101,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/minhe-lajia-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lajia is a Qijia-culture settlement about 4,000 years old on a Yellow River terrace, where excavations found houses destroyed in a sudden disaster, with victims' remains still inside. The cause is still debated, with earthquakes and floods the main explanations. A bowl of noodles from the site, identified as millet in a 2005 paper in Nature, is described by its authors as the oldest noodles yet found; a site museum and archaeological park show the finds to visitors."},{"id":"ledu-liuwan-site","name":"Liuwan Cemetery and Painted Pottery Museum","name_zh":"柳湾遗址","pinyin":"Liǔwān Yízhǐ","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.4465,"lon":102.561,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ledu-liuwan-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Liuwan is a Neolithic to Bronze Age cemetery found in 1974, where about 1,700 graves of the Majiayao, Qijia and Xindian cultures, dating from roughly 4,600 to 3,600 years ago, were excavated. The Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery in the village, opened in 2004, holds almost 38,000 objects, including more than 17,000 pottery pieces, many painted with saw-tooth, frog and circle designs. It is the place to see the painted pottery of the Majiayao and Qijia cultures."},{"id":"pingan-yi-hehuang-folk-quarter","name":"Ping'an Yi (Hehuang Folk Culture Quarter)","name_zh":"平安驿","pinyin":"Píng'ān Yì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.5052,"lon":102.1071,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingan-yi-hehuang-folk-quarter","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A newly built cultural quarter in Ping'an District, laid out in the style of an old post-station village and themed on Hehuang, the Huangshui valley of eastern Qinghai, whose food, architecture and crafts reflect its many ethnic groups. Its lanes hold regional restaurants, a courtyard inn with hot-spring baths, cafés and craft shops, with staged folk performances. It is a place to eat, stay and browse in newly built old-street style, not a historic town."},{"id":"minhe-qili-flower-sea","name":"Qili Flower Sea","name_zh":"七里花海","pinyin":"Qīlǐ Huāhǎi","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.0788,"lon":102.714,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=minhe-qili-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rural-tourism park at the foot of Mount Kangeda in Shanzhuang village, Gushan town, Minhe County, developed from 2017 on stony wasteland. It covers about 60 hectares, of which roughly 20 hectares are flower beds that bloom from spring to autumn, with boardwalks and viewing pavilions. Besides the flowers it has slides, a glass water slide, a children's play area, village guesthouses and, in winter, a small ski and snow-tube slope, so it suits families and day trips more than hikers."},{"id":"ledu-qutan-temple","name":"Qutan Temple","name_zh":"瞿昙寺","pinyin":"Qútán Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.3548,"lon":102.2961,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ledu-qutan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug-school Tibetan Buddhist monastery in a side valley south of Ledu, begun in 1392 in the early Ming dynasty and laid out like a small palace with a gatehouse, three courtyards and a long axis of halls, and nicknamed the 'little Forbidden City' in tourism material. Its covered corridors carry about 400 square metres of Buddhist wall paintings, and two Ming imperial stele pavilions stand in the front court. It is described as the best-preserved large Ming temple complex in north-west China."},{"id":"xunhua-salar-homeland-folk-park","name":"Salar Homeland Folk Culture Park","name_zh":"撒拉尔故里民俗文化园","pinyin":"Sālā'ěr Gùlǐ Mínsú Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.8471,"lon":102.4272,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunhua-salar-homeland-folk-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A folk-culture park in Majia village, Jiezi town, set up to present the life of the Salar, a Muslim people whose ancestors, by tradition, migrated here from Central Asia and who live mainly in Xunhua. It has a visitor centre, a marriage-customs hall, a folk museum, a display of traditional Salar timber-and-wattle houses and an exhibition on Qinghai hand-pulled noodles, with Salar-style meals and guesthouses. It makes a good introduction to Salar culture alongside the nearby Camel Spring."},{"id":"xunhua-salar-historic-mosques","name":"Salar Mosques of Xunhua","name_zh":"撒拉族清真寺古建筑群","pinyin":"Sālāzú Qīngzhēnsì Gǔjiànzhùqún","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.8327,"lon":102.6397,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunhua-salar-historic-mosques","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national heritage group of five Qing-period mosques of the Salar community in Xunhua County, at Mengda, Qingshui (Hedong), Tashapo, Zhang'ga and Kewa, listed together in 2013. They are active places of worship, so go outside prayer times and ask before entering."},{"id":"huzhu-tianyoude-liquor-workshop","name":"Tianyoude Liquor Workshop","name_zh":"天佑德酒作坊","pinyin":"Tiānyòudé Jiǔ Zuōfang","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.8351,"lon":101.9455,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhu-tianyoude-liquor-workshop","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The historic workshop of the Tianyoude brand of highland-barley (qingke) liquor in Weiyuan, listed nationally in 2013 as a Qing-period industrial site. The company offers an industrial-tourism visit that the tourism ministry's route listing presents as the source of Chinese highland-barley liquor. Highland-barley liquor is Huzhu's signature drink and a protected geographical-indication product."},{"id":"huzhu-tu-native-land-park","name":"Tu Native Land Park, Huzhu","name_zh":"互助土族故土园","pinyin":"Hùzhù Tǔzú Gùtǔyuán","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.8336,"lon":101.9467,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huzhu-tu-native-land-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A folk-culture complex around Weiyuan, the county town of Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, presenting Tu (Monguor) culture through traditional-style courtyard houses, an old oil mill, liquor workshops and a chieftain's mansion, with live song, dance and wedding performances. Its linked sites include the Rainbow Tribe village, the Western Tu folk village and Naton Manor. It was rated a national 5A scenic area in 2017 and suits travellers who want an introduction to Tu life; the Tianyoude liquor workshop is a short distance away."},{"id":"xunhua-wendu-monastery","name":"Wendu Monastery and the 10th Panchen Lama's Birthplace","name_zh":"文都寺及班禅大师故居","pinyin":"Wéndū Sì jí Bānchán Dàshī Gùjū","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.7507,"lon":102.3458,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunhua-wendu-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug monastery, also written Bimdo or Biandu, in Wendu Tibetan township, Xunhua, together with the house where the 10th Panchen Lama was born in 1938. The house is a Tibetan-style courtyard building of three yards. The monastery and the house were listed together as a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"xunhua-western-route-red-army-sites","name":"Western Route Red Army Sites, Xunhua","name_zh":"循化西路红军革命旧址","pinyin":"Xúnhuà Xīlù Hóngjūn Gémìng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":35.8742,"lon":102.2412,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xunhua-western-route-red-army-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"According to official accounts, over 400 captured soldiers of the Red Army's Western Route Army were held in Hongguang village, then called Zanbuhu, by Ma Bufang's forces from 1939 to 1946 and set to forced labour clearing land and building houses, a school and a mosque. The mosque has red-star, sickle and other motifs worked into its roof brickwork, and Qinghai media describe it as the only mosque in China built by Red Army soldiers. The village also has a Western Route Red Army memorial hall and the soldiers' former houses, and was renamed Hongguang in 1987."},{"id":"hualong-xiaqiong-monastery","name":"Xiaqiong Monastery","name_zh":"夏琼寺","pinyin":"Xiàqióng Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haidong","lat":36.1483,"lon":101.8763,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hualong-xiaqiong-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug monastery in remote hills in Chapu Tibetan township, Hualong, named for the roc-shaped mountain it stands on ('Xiaqiong' means roc in Tibetan). Founded in 1349 by a teacher of the Gelug founder Tsongkhapa, it is one of the oldest monasteries in Qinghai. It is counted among four noted monasteries north of the Huangshui river, and Chinese sources record that a Qing emperor granted it a four-language plaque."},{"id":"gonghe-fusi-city-site","name":"Fusi City Site (Tuyuhun Capital)","name_zh":"伏俟城遗址","pinyin":"Fúsì Chéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":37.0258,"lon":99.5814,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gonghe-fusi-city-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Fusi (also written Fuqi) was the capital of the Tuyuhun kingdom, a Xianbei-founded realm that held the Qinghai Lake region and the Qaidam Basin until it fell to the Tibetan Empire in 663. The ruins lie on grassland on the south bank of the Buha River, with an inner walled enclosure and a much larger outer one; a 2018–2020 survey confirmed that the city dates from the Northern Dynasties to the early Tang and was reused in the Song. What remains are earthen walls and mounds in open pasture, so it mainly suits those interested in the history of the Qinghai Lake region."},{"id":"guide-confucian-temple-yuhuang-pavilion","name":"Guide Confucian Temple and Yuhuang Pavilion","name_zh":"贵德文庙及玉皇阁","pinyin":"Guìdé Wénmiào Jí Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":36.0485,"lon":101.4279,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guide-confucian-temple-yuhuang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This is a cluster of temples in Guide's old town, begun in 1592 under the Ming and mostly rebuilt in the late 19th century under the Qing, with a Confucian temple, a literary courtyard, the Yuhuang (Jade Emperor) Pavilion, a Guan–Yue (war god) temple and a City God temple side by side. Some Ming and Qing inscriptions and murals survive, and the Yuhuang Pavilion gives views over the town and the Yellow River. The county government describes it as one of Qinghai's best-known ancient building complexes."},{"id":"guide-national-geopark-danxia","name":"Guide National Geopark","name_zh":"贵德国家地质公园","pinyin":"Guìdé Guójiā Dìzhì Gōngyuán","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":36.1405,"lon":101.58,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guide-national-geopark-danxia","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The geopark is a Danxia landscape of red sandstone and conglomerate cliffs near Ashigong village in Garang township, where earth-pillar formations sit on the upper layers and seven differently coloured gorges cut through the lower ones. It was approved as a national geopark in 2009 and is laid out with viewing platforms and thirteen 'earth culture' plazas; the colour of the rock changes with the weather."},{"id":"gonghe-longyangxia-scenic-area","name":"Longyangxia Scenic Area","name_zh":"龙羊峡","pinyin":"Lóngyángxiá","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":36.1259,"lon":100.9078,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gonghe-longyangxia-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Longyangxia is a Yellow River gorge scenic area built around the reservoir behind the Longyangxia hydropower dam (completed in 1992). Visitors take boats on the reservoir and walk gorge-edge walkways where blue sheep and golden eagles can sometimes be seen, and the old dam-builders' town of Longyangxia keeps many 1970s and 1980s buildings. A Danxia 'earth forest' park with a wooden boardwalk of about 2 km lies nearby."},{"id":"guide-qingqing-yellow-river","name":"Qingqing Yellow River Scenic Area, Guide","name_zh":"清清黄河","pinyin":"Qīngqīng Huánghé","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":36.0409,"lon":101.4,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guide-qingqing-yellow-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Along its stretch at Guide the Yellow River runs unusually clear, which gave rise to the local saying that 'the Yellow River is clear at Guide'. The riverside scenic area on the south bank at Heyin town has a waterwheel plaza, walkways and boat trips on the river past red Danxia cliffs."},{"id":"xinghai-saizong-monastery","name":"Saizong Monastery","name_zh":"赛宗寺","pinyin":"Sàizōng Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":35.5024,"lon":99.7997,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinghai-saizong-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Saizong is a Gelug monastery of Tibetan Buddhism below Saizong ('Monkey Fortress') mountain, founded in 1923 by the third Aro Tsang lama of Rongwo Monastery. Its main building is a hundred-pillar prayer hall, and pilgrims walk a circuit of the mountain past caves, springs and rocks that local tradition links to Padmasambhava, Tsongkhapa and King Gesar. The county government calls it the largest Gelug monastery in Hainan Prefecture."},{"id":"tongde-shizang-monastery","name":"Shizang Monastery","name_zh":"石藏寺","pinyin":"Shízàng Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":34.733,"lon":100.9073,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongde-shizang-monastery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shizang is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Hebei township in the far south of Tongde County, near the Yellow River. The county government says it holds scriptures printed by the sixth Panchen Lama, robes of the fourth Panchen Lama, a large collection of Kangyur and Tengyur volumes and a hall of thousands of Buddha images, with painted murals; the national list dates its buildings to the Qing dynasty."},{"id":"guide-wenchang-temple","name":"Wenchang Temple, Guide","name_zh":"文昌庙","pinyin":"Wénchāng Miào","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":36.0329,"lon":101.3736,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guide-wenchang-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wenchang Temple is a Qing-dynasty temple of Wenchang, the god of literature and examinations, in Xiapai village, Hexi, on the Yellow River plain west of Guide town. It is one of four national heritage units in Guide County and a stop on the county's 'Ancient Charm of Guide' heritage route, with the Pearl Temple and the Confucian Temple."},{"id":"guide-zhenzhu-temple","name":"Zhenzhu (Pearl) Temple, Guide","name_zh":"珍珠寺","pinyin":"Zhēnzhū Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":36.0433,"lon":101.4551,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"About 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guide-zhenzhu-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zhenzhu ('Pearl') Temple is a Gelug monastery on the edge of Guide's old town; local tradition says a senior monk founded it in the 1240s with a donation of a load of pearls, hence the name. Its gate and side halls date from 1817, and the Qinghai Tibetan Buddhist institute stands opposite."},{"id":"tongde-zongri-site","name":"Zongri Site","name_zh":"宗日遗址","pinyin":"Zōngrì Yízhǐ","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Hainan","lat":35.332,"lon":100.2723,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongde-zongri-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Zongri is a Neolithic settlement and cemetery on a Yellow River terrace at Tuanjie village, which gave its name to the Zongri culture of about 5,000 years ago, known for painted pottery with dancing-figure and two-people-carrying designs. A site park, opened as a scenic area in May 2025, has an archaeological display area where some excavated tombs and the 'first hearth' are covered by glass so that visitors can look in, a painted-pottery experience hall and a Yellow River viewing platform, while the famous pots themselves are held in museums."},{"id":"ulan-chaka-yihao-salt-lake","name":"Chaka Yihao Salt Lake","name_zh":"茶卡壹号·盐湖","pinyin":"Chákǎ Yīhào Yánhú","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haixi","lat":36.7122,"lon":99.1699,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ulan-chaka-yihao-salt-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Chaka Yihao, formerly Tiankong Yihao ('Sky Number One') until its renaming in July 2022, is the second tourist area of Chaka Salt Lake, on the eastern part of the lake; it opened in July 2019 after nearly a year of trial operation. It was planned at about 14 km² with five zones, including salt culture, wetland sightseeing and creative-culture areas, and it runs separately from the main Chaka Salt Lake scenic area, which has its own entrance."},{"id":"dachaidan-emerald-lake","name":"Emerald Lake, Da Qaidam","name_zh":"翡翠湖","pinyin":"Fěicuì Hú","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haixi","lat":37.8674,"lon":95.2641,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dachaidan-emerald-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Emerald Lake is a group of former mining pools in the Da Qaidam salt lake, an industrial legacy of the area's mineral extraction, where brine of differing mineral content shows colours from pale blue to deep green. The local government gives the area as about 15 km², and the water is still tied to industrial salt extraction, so it is a working landscape as much as a scenic one. The scenic area has a visitor centre, viewing platforms and a car park."},{"id":"golmud-generals-building","name":"General's Building (Qinghai–Tibet Highway Headquarters), Golmud","name_zh":"将军楼","pinyin":"Jiāngjūn Lóu","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haixi","lat":36.4201,"lon":94.8834,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=golmud-generals-building","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The General's Building is a two-storey brick building from 1956 that served as the office and home of Mu Shengzhong, who commanded construction of the Qinghai–Tibet Highway (completed to Lhasa in December 1954); it was the first two-storey building in Golmud. It is now the centre of a 9.8-hectare memorial park, opened in 2009, with a Qinghai–Tibet Highway museum and the Heaven Road memorial tower, whose 39.16 m height echoes the roughly 3,916 km combined length of the highway and the railway. The displays cover how the highway was built and how Golmud grew around it."},{"id":"golmud-kunlun-mountain-tourist-area","name":"Kunlun Mountain Tourist Area, Golmud","name_zh":"格尔木昆仑旅游区","pinyin":"Gé'ěrmù Kūnlún Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haixi","lat":35.8743,"lon":94.5681,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=golmud-kunlun-mountain-tourist-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Kunlun tourist area is Golmud's name for a string of Kunlun Mountains sights south of the city along the Qinghai–Tibet road rather than a single gated park; Golmud's promotion lists Kunlun Spring and Wuji Longfeng Palace among them. Kunlun Spring does not freeze at about 3,540 m, and the Kunlun Mountains National Geopark (opened in 2008) along the same road takes in the glaciers around Yuzhu Peak (6,178 m) and the surface rupture left by the magnitude 8.1 earthquake of 2001 near Kunlun Pass. It is a high-altitude drive."},{"id":"golmud-qarhan-salt-lake","name":"Qarhan Salt Lake","name_zh":"察尔汗盐湖","pinyin":"Chá'ěrhǎn Yánhú","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haixi","lat":36.7703,"lon":95.2164,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/golmud-qarhan-salt-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qarhan is a vast salt flat in the southern Qaidam Basin, much of it worked for potash and other salts; the Golmud government gives its area as 5,856 km². The visitor area is built around a central wharf (really an industrial brine-pumping station), the 32 km 'Wanzhang Salt Bridge' where the Golmud–Dunhuang road and the Qinghai–Tibet railway run over the salt crust, and fields of 'thousand-island' salt flowers."},{"id":"dulan-reshui-tombs","name":"Reshui Tombs","name_zh":"热水墓群","pinyin":"Rèshuǐ Mùqún","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haixi","lat":36.1784,"lon":98.2985,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dulan-reshui-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Reshui is a large cemetery of the Tuyuhun kingdom under Tibetan Empire rule (7th–8th centuries) on both banks of the Chahanwusu River, with hundreds of earth-covered mounds on the grassland. The best known is the Xuewei Tomb (M1), a mound about 11 m high that locals nickname the 'Nine-Storey Demon Tower'. Finds such as silks, including one woven with Middle Persian script, and gold and silver ornaments with Central and West Asian designs show Silk Road trade through Qinghai; excavation is still under way and the finds are displayed in Dulan County Museum."},{"id":"dachaidan-wusute-water-yadan","name":"Wusute Water Yadan","name_zh":"乌素特水上雅丹","pinyin":"Wūsùtè Shuǐshàng Yǎdān","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Haixi","lat":37.6239,"lon":93.7729,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day on site, plus a very long drive","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dachaidan-wusute-water-yadan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wusute is a shallow saline lake in the Taijinar basin of the western Qaidam Basin, where eroded clay ridges (yardangs) rise out of the water among salt flats and desert. The Da Qaidam authorities say thousands of wild ducks gather on the lake, most visibly in autumn, which is why it is also called Duck Lake. The tourist park opened in 2018 at about 2,700 m, inside a yardang field that the local government puts at roughly 100 km²."},{"id":"tongren-baoan-fort-villages","name":"Bao'an Fort Villages","name_zh":"保安古屯田寨堡","pinyin":"Bǎo'ān Gǔ Túntián Zhàibǎo","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Huangnan","lat":35.6167,"lon":102.0719,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongren-baoan-fort-villages","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national heritage group of four Ming and Qing military-farming (tuntian) forts on the terraces of the middle Longwu river in Tongren: Bao'an old town and the fort villages of Nianduhu, Guomaru and Wutun. The forts date from the Ming dynasty, were enlarged in 1574 and served as a garrison base for the Ming and Qing governments in the Longwu valley. Bao'an's Chengnei village was among China's first listed traditional villages in 2012."},{"id":"zeku-heri-temple-stone-wall","name":"Heri Temple and Mani Stone Wall","name_zh":"和日寺石经墙","pinyin":"Hérì Sì Shíjīngqiáng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Huangnan","lat":35.2286,"lon":101.0027,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zeku-heri-temple-stone-wall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Nyingma temple in Heri town, Zêkog (Zeku) County, known for its stone-sutra wall of more than 100,000 engraved slabs, which the county government gives as over 200 m long. The slabs carry mainly the Kangyur and Tengyur, with images of Buddhas, Padmasambhava and stupas; by local tradition the carving began in the early 19th century and was completed in the 1950s, and Heri stone carving is listed as national intangible heritage. The county's Heri scenic area, about 2.5 sq km, centres on the temple and the wall."},{"id":"jainca-nangla-qianhu-manor","name":"Nangla Qianhu Manor","name_zh":"囊拉千户院","pinyin":"Nánglā Qiānhù Yuàn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Huangnan","lat":35.889,"lon":102.0395,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jainca-nangla-qianhu-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The manor of the seventh Nangla (Ang'la) qianhu, a hereditary Tibetan local chief of the Jainca area, built in the late 1940s in Jianbaang village. It is a wooden courtyard complex of two-storey halls around two courtyards, with a brick-carved screen wall and more than 200 rooms, and the provincial government press office calls it one of the best-preserved Tibetan aristocratic estates in Qinghai and the Amdo region. It was listed as a provincial heritage site in 1998 and nationally in 2019."},{"id":"tongren-rongwo-monastery","name":"Rongwo Monastery and Rebgong Old Town","name_zh":"隆务寺","pinyin":"Lóngwù Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Huangnan","lat":35.509,"lon":102.0088,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongren-rongwo-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Rongwo (Longwu) Monastery in Tongren, called Rebgong in Tibetan, is a large Gelug monastery of the Amdo region with origins in the 14th century, and the centre of a valley of Tibetan and Tu (Monguor) villages famed for thangka painting. The 4A-rated Rebgong historic area strings together the monastery, the old street, painting academies, Wutun's lower monastery and Guomaru, a mud-walled fort village a short drive from town. China News (2023) counts 23 halls and prayer halls and 27 lama residences at the monastery."},{"id":"datong-bianmagou-flower-sea","name":"Bianmagou Flower Sea","name_zh":"边麻沟花海","pinyin":"Biānmágōu Huāhǎi","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.9681,"lon":101.8169,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-bianmagou-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A flower garden of about 800 mu (roughly 53 hectares) in Bianmagou village, Shuobei Tibetan township, Datong County, at an average height of about 2,800 m. The village began planting it around 2015 with plateau flowers such as lupins, gaillardias and irises and with spruce and crab-apple trees, and has since added a glass water slide, farmhouse restaurants and guesthouses. Xinhua found the flowers in bloom in late July, and it suits a half-day trip from Xining."},{"id":"huangyuan-dangar-ancient-town","name":"Dan'gar Ancient Town","name_zh":"丹噶尔古城","pinyin":"Dāngá'ěr Gǔchéng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6874,"lon":101.2722,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangyuan-dangar-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old town of Huangyuan County, called Tongkor in Tibetan, founded in the Hongwu era of the early Ming (1368–98) and made the seat of a Qing sub-prefecture, the Dan'gar Ting, in 1829. It has two gates, the Gonghai Gate to the west and the Yingchun Gate to the east, and its lanes hold a City God temple, a Guandi temple, a Fire God pavilion, a Golden Buddha temple and other shrines. It makes an easy stop on the road from Xining to Riyue Mountain and Qinghai Lake."},{"id":"xining-dongguan-mosque","name":"Dongguan Mosque","name_zh":"东关清真大寺","pinyin":"Dōngguān Qīngzhēn Dàsì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6154,"lon":101.7955,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xining-dongguan-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque in the Dongguan quarter on the east side of Xining, a focus of the city's Hui Muslim community, founded in the Hongwu era of the early Ming (1368–98). The compound covers about 11,940 square metres, with a prayer hall of 1,102 square metres. It was listed as a provincial heritage site in 1986 and as a national one in 2013."},{"id":"huangyuan-city-god-temple","name":"Huangyuan City God Temple","name_zh":"湟源城隍庙","pinyin":"Huángyuán Chénghuáng Miào","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.689,"lon":101.2643,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangyuan-city-god-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A palace-style temple built into the hillside in the heart of Dan'gar old town, begun in 1776, rebuilt in 1801 and repaired in 1911 and 1926. It faces south and covers about 6,000 square metres, and is counted among the best-preserved palace-style buildings of the old town. It was listed as a national heritage unit in 2013."},{"id":"xining-kunlun-jade-culture-museum","name":"Kunlun Jade Culture Museum","name_zh":"昆仑玉文化博物馆","pinyin":"Kūnlún Yù Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6815,"lon":101.7432,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-kunlun-jade-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum in the Biological Science and Technology Park in Xining's Chengbei district, in the same museum cluster as the Tibetan Medicine Culture Museum and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Natural Museum. Its three floors are arranged in ten sections on the history of jade culture in China and on the culture of Qinghai's Kunlun jade. It was upgraded in 2017 and opened to visitors in March 2019."},{"id":"datong-laoye-mountain","name":"Laoye Mountain","name_zh":"老爷山","pinyin":"Lǎoyé Shān","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.9327,"lon":101.7042,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=datong-laoye-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 2,928 m mountain above Qiaotou town, the seat of Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County north of Xining, taking its name by tradition from a Guandi temple on its slopes, with other small temples along the ascent. It is the home of the Laoyeshan huaer gathering, a folk-song festival held each summer, traditionally around the sixth day of the sixth lunar month; huaer folk song is on China's list of intangible cultural heritage."},{"id":"xining-limeng-pedestrian-street","name":"Limeng Pedestrian Street","name_zh":"力盟步行街","pinyin":"Lìméng Bùxíngjiē","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.63,"lon":101.7568,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-limeng-pedestrian-street","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern shopping and dining quarter in central Xining, built in an old-street style of Qin-brick and Han-tile design and laid out as 'two streets, four gates and eight lanes'. It mixes local snack restaurants with national chains, cafes, bars and a cinema, and a 2019 state-media guide describes it as a gathering place for young locals. It is a modern commercial development, not historic Xining, and stands a few minutes' walk from the Qinghai Provincial Museum."},{"id":"xining-nanliang-hutai-site","name":"Nanliang Hutai Site","name_zh":"虎台遗址","pinyin":"Hǔtái Yízhǐ","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6323,"lon":101.7459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/xining-nanliang-hutai-site/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A rammed-earth mound of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, said to be what remains of a nine-tier reviewing platform built by Tufa Hutai, crown prince of Southern Liang, with room below for 100,000 troops according to the records. Only the mound survives, known locally as the commander's terrace, and it stands in a small heritage park in Xining's Chengxi district. It was listed as provincial heritage in 1957 and as a national site in 2013."},{"id":"xining-qinghai-provincial-museum","name":"Qinghai Provincial Museum","name_zh":"青海省博物馆","pinyin":"Qīnghǎi Shěng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6303,"lon":101.754,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-qinghai-provincial-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qinghai's provincial museum, open to the public since 1986 and housed since 2001 in a large building on West Gate Street in central Xining. Its collections, strongest in pottery and including paintings and calligraphy, coins, textiles, ethnic costume and religious objects, are shown mainly in a 'Qinghai Historical Relics' exhibition, with smaller displays on archaeology, intangible cultural heritage and revolutionary relics, arranged since an upgrade in 2021. It was ranked a national first-grade museum in 2017."},{"id":"huangzhong-qinghai-tibetan-culture-hall","name":"Qinghai Tibetan Culture Hall","name_zh":"青海藏文化馆","pinyin":"Qīnghǎi Zàng Wénhuà Guǎn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.4924,"lon":101.5865,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangzhong-qinghai-tibetan-culture-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A privately run museum of Tibetan history and culture in Lusar, Huangzhong District, opened in 2010 and housed in two exhibition halls. The first covers the history of the Tibetan people, Buddhist figures and deities, masks, thangka, script and epics, costume, song and dance, the 'three arts' of Kumbum and Tibetan opera, and the second presents Tibetan Buddhist views of the cosmos and of life and death. It makes a useful companion to a visit to Kumbum Monastery nearby."},{"id":"xining-tibetan-medicine-culture-museum","name":"Qinghai Tibetan Medicine Culture Museum","name_zh":"青海藏医药文化博物馆","pinyin":"Qīnghǎi Zàng Yīyào Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.689,"lon":101.7458,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-tibetan-medicine-culture-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national first-grade museum devoted to Tibetan medicine and plateau civilisation, in Xining's Biological Science and Technology Park, with nearly 60,000 objects including fossils, stone tools, pottery, gold and silver, silks, old manuscripts, medical instruments and thangka. It is best known for a thangka scroll 618 m long, 'Grand View of Tibetan Cultural Art', painted by artists from five provinces and regions; a second 410 m volume was installed in April 2025. Other highlights include a Tubo-period gold headdress inlaid with turquoise and a manuscript of the Four Medical Tantras (Subsequent Tantra)."},{"id":"xining-qinghai-tibet-plateau-natural-museum","name":"Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Natural Museum","name_zh":"青藏高原自然博物馆","pinyin":"Qīngzàng Gāoyuán Zìrán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6876,"lon":101.7486,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-qinghai-tibet-plateau-natural-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A natural-history museum in Xining's Biological Science and Technology Park, opened in 2011 and a few minutes' walk from the Tibetan Medicine Culture Museum. Its displays introduce the landscapes of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its animal and plant life."},{"id":"xining-qinghai-tibet-plateau-wildlife-park","name":"Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wildlife Park","name_zh":"青藏高原野生动物园","pinyin":"Qīngzàng Gāoyuán Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6295,"lon":101.7299,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-qinghai-tibet-plateau-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A zoo and wildlife rescue centre at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain on the western edge of Xining, opened in 2009 and best known for its snow leopards, most of them rescued from the wild; Xinhua reported in 2025 that it kept 12 of the roughly 20 snow leopards on public display in China. According to Xinhua, its small-cat house is the only place in China where visitors can see the Chinese mountain cat, also called the desert cat."},{"id":"huangyuan-riyue-mountain","name":"Riyue Mountain","name_zh":"日月山","pinyin":"Rìyuè Shān","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.4402,"lon":101.0893,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huangyuan-riyue-mountain/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A pass at 3,399 m on the road west from Xining to Qinghai Lake, dividing the Huangshui river basin and the farming zone to the east from the Qinghai Lake basin and the herding zone to the west. By tradition Princess Wencheng of the Tang passed this way in 641 on her journey to marry the Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo, and legend says she smashed a magic mirror here that showed only her own reflection, and that the Daotang River, which unusually flows west, rose from her tears. Two small modern temples on the pass carry murals of the royal couple and nomad life, and a folk-song gathering is held around the sixth day of the sixth lunar month."},{"id":"xining-west-route-army-memorial-hall","name":"Western Route Army Memorial Hall, Xining","name_zh":"中国工农红军西路军纪念馆","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Gōngnóng Hóngjūn Xīlùjūn Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.5945,"lon":101.7607,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-west-route-army-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial museum in Xining on the Red Army's Western Route Army, the force that crossed the Yellow River westwards in October 1936 and was defeated by Ma family armies in Gansu's Hexi Corridor by March 1937, when more than 9,000 of its soldiers were captured. Its permanent exhibition, 'The Power of Faith: Soldiers of the Western Route Army in Qinghai', has six units and seven reconstructed scenes and shows more than 130 relics, among them a worn pair of knitted trousers found with a soldier's remains in 1956. A multimedia online exhibition hall accompanies the galleries."},{"id":"huangzhong-xiangqu-kayang","name":"Xiangqu Kayang Outdoor Resort","name_zh":"乡趣卡阳","pinyin":"Xiāngqù Kǎyáng","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.7772,"lon":101.3971,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangzhong-xiangqu-kayang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An outdoor resort in the high forest and pasture hills of Lanlongkou town, Huangzhong District; an official 2020 case study calls it the nearest primeval forest to Xining, with 81.1% tree cover, and gives its Tibetan name Kayang as 'pure place'. Facilities listed there include an 18 km boardwalk trail, an 800 m water slide, mountain-bike and motorbike tracks, a caravan camp, a winter ski area and a climbing area. It suits families and groups who want a day of outdoor activity near Xining rather than sightseeing."},{"id":"huangzhong-xinhualian-tongmeng-park","name":"Xinhualian Tongmeng Park","name_zh":"新华联童梦乐园","pinyin":"Xīnhuálián Tóngmèng Lèyuán","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6478,"lon":101.564,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Most of a day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangzhong-xinhualian-tongmeng-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A children's theme park and resort complex at Duoba in Huangzhong District, built around a Silk Road theme and open since 2019 on a site of about 24 hectares. It combines a land amusement park with rides, an indoor water park, an aquarium, a 'Silk Road Town', an ethnic food street, an ocean-themed hotel and a large Ferris wheel. It suits families with young children."},{"id":"xining-sports-park","name":"Xining Sports Park","name_zh":"西宁市体育公园","pinyin":"Xīníng Shì Tǐyù Gōngyuán","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.6637,"lon":101.7409,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xining-sports-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A municipal sports-themed park on Haihu Avenue in Xining's Chengbei district, opened in 2016 as one of the main areas of the city's ring-road ecological park. Local reports describe walking paths, a lake, open woodland and grass, a tai chi plaza, a dance plaza, fitness equipment, ball courts, a children's play area and a self-drive and RV campsite. It is mainly a place for local exercise and leisure, and suits a short stop rather than a sightseeing visit."},{"id":"huangyuan-zongjiagou","name":"Zongjiagou Scenic Area","name_zh":"宗家沟","pinyin":"Zōngjiāgōu","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Xining","lat":36.5617,"lon":101.1711,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huangyuan-zongjiagou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A gorge scenic area in Riyue Tibetan township, Huangyuan County, with rock formations, natural caves and a hall to the Queen Mother of the West, a figure of Kunlun mythology. In winter a display of ice falls and icicles lit with coloured lights covering 40,000 square metres drew visitors in 2021, according to China News Service. It is a short outing on the road between Xining and Qinghai Lake rather than a major sight."},{"id":"nangqian-dana-temple","name":"Dana Temple and the Stupas of Gesar's Thirty Generals","name_zh":"达那寺","pinyin":"Dánà Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Yushu","lat":31.9543,"lon":95.758,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"A day, with the long drive","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/nangqian-dana-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Yelpa Kagyu monastery on the slopes of Dana (Horse-Ear) Mountain in the far north-west of Nangqian County, near the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region, said to be the only surviving monastery of its school and to have begun as a Bon temple. It is closely tied to the epic of King Gesar, and in two cliff caves above it stand 37 small stone-and-mud stupas known as the Thirty Generals of Gesar, whose relics were radiocarbon-dated to the Song dynasty, about 1115. The monastery reopened in 1981 and was listed with the stupas as a national heritage unit in 2006."},{"id":"yushu-wencheng-temple-lebagou","name":"Princess Wencheng Temple and Lebagou Rock Carvings","name_zh":"勒巴沟文成公主庙","pinyin":"Lèbāgōu Wénchéng Gōngzhǔ Miào","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Yushu","lat":32.8969,"lon":97.0759,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushu-wencheng-temple-lebagou","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Buddhist temple built against a cliff in the Beinagou valley near Gyêgu (Jiegu), Yushu's main town, where Vairocana and eight attendant bodhisattvas are carved in relief on the rock above the hall, with more carvings and Tibetan inscriptions elsewhere in the valley and in neighbouring Lebagou. Locals call it the Princess Wencheng Temple after the Tang princess who by tradition passed this way to Tibet, though an inscription naming the reign of Tride Songtsen and the dog year of 806 points to the Tibetan imperial period. The hall was renovated in 1938 and 1989, and a memorial hall to the princess stands beside it."},{"id":"yushu-xinzhai-jiana-mani-stone-pile","name":"Xinzhai Jiana Mani Stone Pile","name_zh":"新寨嘉那嘛呢","pinyin":"Xīnzhài Jiānà Máni","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Yushu","lat":33.0198,"lon":97.0588,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yushu-xinzhai-jiana-mani-stone-pile/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A huge pile of carved mani stones on a hillside at Xinzhai, on the edge of Gyêgu (Jiegu), Yushu's main town, begun, by tradition, in the late 18th century by the first Jiana lama of Jiegu Monastery and added to by pilgrims ever since. It now covers about 20,000 square metres, roughly 270 m long, 80 m wide and three to four metres high, carved with mantras, sutras and images of Buddhist figures, with prayer-wheel corridors and chapels added since the 1980s. It was damaged in the 2010 Yushu earthquake and repaired afterwards."},{"id":"yushu-zangniang-stupa-sangzhou-temple","name":"Zangniang Stupa and Sangzhou Temple","name_zh":"藏娘佛塔及桑周寺","pinyin":"Zàngniáng Fótǎ jí Sāngzhōu Sì","region_id":"630000","region":"Qinghai","city":"Yushu","lat":33.3203,"lon":96.8201,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yushu-zangniang-stupa-sangzhou-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large stupa dating from the Northern Song period (960–1127), standing beside Sangzhou monastery on the south bank of the Tongtian River in Yushu. The two were listed together as a national heritage unit in 2001, and the buildings were damaged in the 2010 Yushu earthquake, after which emergency repairs began in 2011."},{"id":"guyuan-daying-ancient-city","name":"Daying Ancient City","name_zh":"大营城址","pinyin":"Dàyíng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":36.0228,"lon":106.1915,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-daying-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of a frontier town built in the Song dynasty, when it was known as Yangmacheng ('horse-rearing town'), and used under the Ming from 1406 as a state horse-breeding station. The rectangular circuit, about 400 by 500 m with walls 5–12 m high, keeps half-moon barbicans at its south and north gates and bastions along its walls, and is counted among the best-preserved old towns around Guyuan."},{"id":"guyuan-ancient-city-walls","name":"Guyuan Ancient City Walls","name_zh":"固原古城遗址","pinyin":"Gùyuán Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":36.0157,"lon":106.276,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-ancient-city-walls","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Surviving sections of the walls of Guyuan, founded in 114 BC as the seat of Anding commandery and rebuilt many times as a frontier stronghold; under the Ming it was one of the Nine Border Garrisons and seat of the governor-general of the three Shaanxi frontiers, and its outer wall was faced with brick in 1575. The walls were badly damaged in the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake and mostly pulled down in 1971–72; the surviving earthen stretches, in the north-west of the old city between the Heping and Jingshuo gates, were consolidated in 2014–15."},{"id":"guyuan-museum","name":"Guyuan Museum","name_zh":"固原博物馆","pinyin":"Gùyuán Bówùguǎn","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":36.0056,"lon":106.2718,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national first-grade museum, opened in 1988, with about 20,000 objects and best known for Silk Road finds from the Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang tombs excavated around Guyuan. Highlights include a painted Northern Wei lacquer coffin and, from the tomb of the Northern Zhou general Li Xian, a gilt silver ewer and a glass bowl with raised bosses from Sasanian Persia, alongside northern-style bronzes of the Warring States period. The two permanent galleries cover Guyuan's history and the Silk Road in Guyuan."},{"id":"xiji-jiangtaibao-long-march-meeting-site","name":"Jiangtaibu Long March Meeting Site","name_zh":"将台堡红军长征会师纪念园","pinyin":"Jiàngtáibǔ Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Huìshī Jìniànyuán","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":35.8186,"lon":105.8357,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xiji-jiangtaibao-long-march-meeting-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The earthen fort where the Red Army's Second Front Army met the First Front Army on 22 October 1936, after the First and Fourth had met at Huining on 9 October; the meeting completed the union of the three main Red armies and is taken as the end of the Long March. A 1996 monument stands beside the fort, whose walls, about 70 by 68 m and some 10 m high, enclose a memorial hall to the meeting, an exhibition on the Long March route and a stele garden; the memorial park was enlarged in 2006 and 2016."},{"id":"guyuan-kaicheng-site","name":"Kaicheng Site (Palace of the Prince of Anxi)","name_zh":"开城遗址","pinyin":"Kāichéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":35.8524,"lon":106.25,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-kaicheng-site","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Remains of the palace of Manggala, Prince of Anxi and third son of Kublai Khan, built from 1272 at Kaicheng in the northern Liupan Mountains and used as a Yuan imperial summer retreat until an earthquake wrecked it in 1306. The rammed-earth walls of the palace city, standing 1–9 m high, and the platforms of its halls survive among other Yuan-period remains, though farming has damaged much of the site."},{"id":"guyuan-liupanshan-long-march-memorial","name":"Liupan Mountain Long March Memorial","name_zh":"六盘山红军长征纪念馆","pinyin":"Liùpán Shān Hóngjūn Chángzhēng Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":35.6689,"lon":106.2019,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=guyuan-liupanshan-long-march-memorial","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A memorial complex on the pass over the Liupan Mountains, the last high range the Red Army crossed on the Long March in October 1935, a crossing Mao Zedong marked in his poem 'Mount Liupan'. A memorial pavilion was put up on the summit in 1985 and a memorial hall with displays on the march opened in 2005, and a 2.5 km 'Red Army trail' built in 2013 has more than 200 sculptures in 18 scenes. Newer additions include an intangible-heritage hall and a themed post office, and the area was rated 5A at the end of 2024."},{"id":"jingyuan-liupanshan-national-forest-park","name":"Liupan Mountain National Forest Park","name_zh":"六盘山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Liùpán Shān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":35.3526,"lon":106.31,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jingyuan-liupanshan-national-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national forest park in the Liupan Mountains of southern Ningxia, whose main peak, Migang Shan, reaches 2,942 m; the damp slopes carry birch, poplar, oak and bamboo thickets that stand out from the dry Loess Plateau around them. Its main visitor areas are Xiaonanchuan, a wooded stream valley at one of the sources of the Jing River, and the 8 km Liangdian Gorge, along with an ecology museum and a botanical garden. It is separate from the Long March memorial on the Liupan pass further north."},{"id":"guyuan-xumishan-grottoes","name":"Xumishan Grottoes","name_zh":"须弥山石窟","pinyin":"Xūmí Shān Shíkū","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Guyuan","lat":36.2744,"lon":105.9853,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/guyuan-xumishan-grottoes/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"More than 130 Buddhist cave temples cut into the red sandstone hills of Mount Xumi from the late Northern Wei to the Tang dynasty, spread over about 1.5 km in groups such as Dafolou, Zisungong, Yuanguangsi, Xiangguosi and Taohuadong. The best-known figure is the seated Tang Maitreya Buddha of Cave 5, about 20.6 m high, while the Yuanguangsi group, mostly Northern Zhou, holds the richest carving. Many caves were damaged by the 1920 Haiyuan earthquake, erosion and the Cultural Revolution, and the scenic area has a museum on the Silk Road and Buddhist cave art."},{"id":"dawukou-huaxia-qishishan","name":"Huaxia Qishishan Park","name_zh":"华夏奇石山","pinyin":"Huáxià Qíshí Shān","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Shizuishan","lat":38.9953,"lon":106.3913,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dawukou-huaxia-qishishan","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A landscaped park of about 1.1 km² beside Xinghai Lake in Dawukou, created by grading, covering and planting a former power-station ash dump that stood 13 m above the surrounding land. It displays ornamental stones and stone carvings in themed areas, with a spring garden, a children's science play area and a winter snow park, and suits a short walk."},{"id":"shizuishan-sand-lake","name":"Sand Lake (Shahu)","name_zh":"沙湖","pinyin":"Shā Hú","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Shizuishan","lat":38.8249,"lon":106.3677,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shizuishan-sand-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A freshwater lake fringed with reed beds and backed by sand dunes, developed for tourism since 1990 from a fish lake on a state farm; the scenic area covers about 80 km², including some 45 km² of water and 22 km² of semi-mobile dunes. Migratory birds gather on a bird island in the eastern wetlands, and visitors can cross the lake by boat, ride camels and slide on the dunes, or visit the Ningxia Wetland Museum and an international sand-sculpture park."},{"id":"huinong-shengwei-ancient-city","name":"Shengwei Ancient City","name_zh":"省嵬城","pinyin":"Shěngwéi Chéng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Shizuishan","lat":39.0902,"lon":106.7494,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huinong-shengwei-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of a city founded in 1024 by the Tangut ruler Li Deming, a square of about 590 m a side that is described as the only Western Xia town site in Ningxia with a complete circuit of walls. The west, north and south walls still stand 2–6 m high with traces of a moat, while the east wall is largely lost under a village; earthquakes in 1627, 1739 and 1920 caused much of the damage."},{"id":"pingluo-tianzhou-pagoda","name":"Tianzhou Pagoda","name_zh":"田州塔","pinyin":"Tiánzhōu Tǎ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Shizuishan","lat":38.7499,"lon":106.4768,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingluo-tianzhou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda about 38 m tall in Yaofu town, Pingluo county, once part of a temple; its present structure dates from a Qing rebuilding after the 1739 earthquake. Every storey is lined with arched niches, and brick carvings of mock timber brackets, landscapes and figures decorate the eaves above the lowest level. The surrounding temple halls were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution, and the pagoda was restored from 2013."},{"id":"pingluo-yuhuang-pavilion","name":"Yuhuang Pavilion, Pingluo","name_zh":"平罗玉皇阁","pinyin":"Píngluó Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Shizuishan","lat":38.9111,"lon":106.5403,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pingluo-yuhuang-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist temple complex on North Street in Pingluo county town, on the site of a Ming White Dragon temple that was rebuilt as a Jade Emperor pavilion in the late 19th century and enlarged in 1939. Its halls climb in successive courtyards up an earthen platform as much as 10 m high to a three-storey tower about 27 m above the street, linked by galleries and sky bridges, with 16 halls housing Taoist deities. A newer Buddhist section with jade Buddha statues and a large Guanyin statue has been added alongside."},{"id":"wuzhong-dong-fu-mansion","name":"Dong Fuxiang's Mansion (Dong Fu)","name_zh":"董府","pinyin":"Dǒng Fǔ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":37.9228,"lon":106.0805,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhong-dong-fu-mansion","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The fortified residence of Dong Fuxiang, the late-Qing general whose Gansu troops took part in the 1900 siege of the Beijing legations, built in 1902–1905 after he was dismissed and sent home. Rammed-earth walls 8.5 m high with corner platforms enclose a compound of linked courtyards with more than 100 brick-and-timber rooms and much carved brickwork. The moat and outer enclosure have gone, but the walled core has been restored and is open as a scenic area."},{"id":"yanchi-habahu-lake","name":"Habahu Lake Ecotourism Area","name_zh":"哈巴湖","pinyin":"Hābā Hú","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":37.715,"lon":107.0578,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanchi-habahu-lake","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national nature reserve on the south-western edge of the Mu Us Desert, where small lakes and wetlands lie among sand dunes, dry steppe and planted belts of willow, peashrub and other trees. The tourism area has a museum about the reserve and a self-drive campground with wooden cabins and tent pitches."},{"id":"tongxin-kangji-temple-pagoda","name":"Kangji Temple Pagoda","name_zh":"康济寺塔","pinyin":"Kāngjì Sì Tǎ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":37.2807,"lon":106.4769,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tongxin-kangji-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 13-storey octagonal brick pagoda of the dense-eaves type in the old town of Weizhou, about 43 m tall since its 1985 restoration. It was first built with nine storeys, probably in the Western Xia period, raised to 13 under the Ming, and repaired in 1581 after an earthquake in 1561 wrecked the temple around it. Bronze, wooden and silver Buddhist statues and scriptures were found in niches on its top storey during the 1985 repairs."},{"id":"wuzhong-niujiafang-folk-village","name":"Niujiafang Folk Culture Village","name_zh":"牛家坊","pinyin":"Niújiāfāng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":37.9651,"lon":106.209,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wuzhong-niujiafang-folk-village","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A village on the southern edge of Wuzhong developed as a rural tourism area of about 130 ha, with grey-brick houses, rammed-earth courtyard walls and a village museum of Yellow River farming and folk life. It also has homestays, a food street, craft workshops, a children's play area and fruit picking, and suits a half-day visit for local food and village life."},{"id":"qingtongxia-yellow-river-grand-canyon","name":"Qingtongxia Yellow River Grand Canyon and 108 Stupas","name_zh":"青铜峡黄河大峡谷","pinyin":"Qīngtóngxiá Huáng Hé Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":37.8742,"lon":105.9785,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/qingtongxia-yellow-river-grand-canyon/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A scenic area of about 126 km² around the Qingtongxia gorge, officially described as the last gorge on the upper Yellow River, taking in the Qingtongxia dam (begun in 1958), a water-conservancy museum and the Dayu culture park at the heart of the Ningxia Yellow River irrigation system, a World Heritage Irrigation Structure. Its best-known sight is the One Hundred and Eight Stupas, Tibetan-style brick stupas in twelve rows that form a triangle on the hillside above the west bank. First built in the Western Xia period, they have been rebuilt several times and no longer keep their original form."},{"id":"tongxin-great-mosque","name":"Tongxin Great Mosque","name_zh":"同心清真大寺","pinyin":"Tóngxīn Qīngzhēn Dàsì","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":36.965,"lon":105.9111,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tongxin-great-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Regarded as Ningxia's oldest and largest mosque, it is built in Chinese style with Islamic decoration on a 7 m brick platform; it probably began as a Yuan-period Buddhist temple, became a mosque in the early Ming and was rebuilt several times, notably in 1791 and 1907. In October 1936 the Red Army's Western Expedition held the founding meeting of the Yuhai County Hui Autonomous Government here, and the mosque is counted as part of the Red Army Western Expedition Memorial Park. The park's memorial hall, opened in 2006, covers the expedition and the 1936 visit of Edgar Snow and George Hatem to the Red Army at Yuwangbao, in today's Tongxin county."},{"id":"yanchi-xingwuying-garrison-town","name":"Xingwuying Ming Garrison Town","name_zh":"兴武营城址","pinyin":"Xīngwǔyíng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":38.11,"lon":107.0303,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanchi-xingwuying-garrison-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The walls of a Ming garrison town founded in 1444 where two lines of the Ming Great Wall meet, a rough rectangle about 600 by 475 m with barbican gates on its south and west sides. Villagers stripped most of the brick facing in the 1970s, but the rammed-earth walls with their wall towers and the 7 m base of the central bell-and-drum tower still stand."},{"id":"yanchi-yanzhou-ancient-city","name":"Yanzhou Ancient City Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"盐州古城","pinyin":"Yánzhōu Gǔchéng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":37.7828,"lon":107.4021,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanchi-yanzhou-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A cultural tourism district on the north side of Yanchi county town, laid out along the Ming Great Wall that runs past the town and forming the core of Yanchi's part of the Great Wall National Cultural Park. It groups a Great Wall gateway (Changcheng Guan), the Ningxia Great Wall Museum, the Jiuqu folk-culture park, the old walled town of Huamachi and Yinma Lake, and is also an evening leisure and food area."},{"id":"yanchi-zhangjiachang-ancient-city","name":"Zhangjiachang Ancient City Site","name_zh":"张家场城址","pinyin":"Zhāngjiāchǎng Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Wuzhong","lat":37.9348,"lon":107.3659,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanchi-zhangjiachang-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The site of a walled town used from the late Qin to the early Eastern Han, which archaeologists believe was the seat of Xuyan county; its low rammed-earth walls are now mostly buried under drifting sand. Excavations have yielded tiles, pottery, bronze and iron tools, clay seals and more than a thousand coins, and a small site museum shows finds from the town."},{"id":"yinchuan-bairuiyuan-goji-museum","name":"Bairuiyuan Goji Museum","name_zh":"百瑞源枸杞博物馆","pinyin":"Bǎiruìyuán Gǒuqǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.5231,"lon":106.3103,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-bairuiyuan-goji-museum","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A company museum run by the goji (wolfberry) producer Bairuiyuan, tracing what it presents as 4,000 years of goji culture and the modern Ningxia goji industry. Visits can include a see-through processing plant and the company shop, and suit travellers curious about Ningxia's best-known crop."},{"id":"yinchuan-cofco-great-wall-tianfu-winery","name":"COFCO Great Wall Tianfu Winery","name_zh":"中粮长城天赋酒庄","pinyin":"Zhōngliáng Chángchéng Tiānfù Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.3785,"lon":105.9322,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-cofco-great-wall-tianfu-winery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A winery of COFCO's Great Wall Wine brand, completed in 2012 on reclaimed desert land at the foot of the Helan Mountains, just across the road from the Western Xia tombs. It has a 7,000 m² underground cellar and extensive vineyards, and offers winery tours, tastings and family activities."},{"id":"yinchuan-changyu-longyu-chateau","name":"Changyu Longyu Chateau (Moser XV)","name_zh":"张裕龙谕酒庄","pinyin":"Zhāngyù Lóngyù Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.4514,"lon":106.1021,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-changyu-longyu-chateau","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Changyu's Ningxia wine estate, opened in 2013 as Chateau Changyu Moser XV, a joint venture with the Austrian winemaker Lenz Moser, and rebranded Longyu in 2021. A European-style château with a moat stands among the estate's own vineyards, and its visitor centre has an exhibition on the history of Changyu, China's oldest wine company, founded in 1892."},{"id":"yinchuan-haibao-pagoda","name":"Haibao Pagoda","name_zh":"海宝塔","pinyin":"Hǎibǎo Tǎ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.4914,"lon":106.2761,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yinchuan-haibao-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yinchuan's 'North Pagoda', a square brick tower on a high platform, about 54 m tall in total, whose stepped projections give it a twelve-cornered plan; it stands in Haibao Temple, the seat of the Ningxia Buddhist Association. Excavation suggests the pagoda was first built between the Northern Dynasties and the Tang, but repeated earthquakes mean the present tower largely dates from Qing rebuilding in the 18th century."},{"id":"helan-suyukou-forest-park","name":"Helan Mountain National Forest Park (Suyukou)","name_zh":"贺兰山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Hèlánshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.738,"lon":105.9362,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=helan-suyukou-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A forest park in the Suyukou valley of the Helan Mountains, inside the Helan Mountains national nature reserve north-west of Yinchuan. Shuttle buses run up the valley from the Songtao Shanzhuang stop, and plank walkways and trails climb through wooded slopes to viewpoints over the range."},{"id":"lingwu-hengcheng-yellow-river-resort","name":"Hengcheng Yellow River Resort","name_zh":"黄河横城","pinyin":"Huánghé Héngchéng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.3646,"lon":106.4367,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lingwu-hengcheng-yellow-river-resort","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yellow River-themed resort on the east bank opposite Yinchuan, built around Hengcheng, a Ming-dynasty fort on the riverbank where the Great Wall east of the river began, beside an old ferry crossing used by the Kangxi Emperor in 1697. Besides the fort, it has newly built halls, an old-style street, a ferry pier, riverside restaurants and a self-drive campsite."},{"id":"helan-hongfo-pagoda","name":"Hongfo Pagoda","name_zh":"宏佛塔","pinyin":"Hóngfó Tǎ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.5722,"lon":106.4272,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=helan-hongfo-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A late Western Xia brick pagoda (about 1190–1227) standing alone in the countryside of Helan County, with an unusual two-part form: a three-storey octagonal tower topped by a Tibetan-style stupa. When it was restored in 1990, silk paintings, clay figures and a tablet inscribed in Tangut were found inside, and the rebuilt pagoda now stands 35 m high."},{"id":"yinchuan-huangsha-ancient-ferry","name":"Huangsha Ancient Ferry","name_zh":"黄沙古渡","pinyin":"Huángshā Gǔdù","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.56,"lon":106.5402,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-huangsha-ancient-ferry","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Yellow River leisure area on the east bank north-east of Yinchuan, named after an old ferry crossing and combining sand dunes, reed wetland and riverside farmland. The usual activities are camel rides on the dunes and boat or raft trips on the river, and it suits families and anyone wanting desert scenery close to the city."},{"id":"yinchuan-huaxia-hetu-art-town","name":"Huaxia Hetu Yinchuan Art Town","name_zh":"华夏河图银川艺术小镇","pinyin":"Huáxià Hétú Yínchuān Yìshù Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.365,"lon":106.3617,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-huaxia-hetu-art-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An arts district on the west bank of the Yellow River south-east of Yinchuan, developed around the Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan (MOCA Yinchuan). Besides the museum it has an artists' village, a sculpture park and wetland and canal-side parks, and suits visitors interested in contemporary art."},{"id":"yinchuan-manpu-town","name":"Seeing Helan Performance Town (Manpu Town)","name_zh":"看见贺兰演艺小镇","pinyin":"Kànjiàn Hèlán Yǎnyì Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.621,"lon":106.0657,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-manpu-town","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A modern leisure town opened in 2016 across National Road 110 from the Zhenbeibu film studio, first built around a Helan Mountains wine theme and later relaunched as the 'Seeing Helan' immersive performance town. Staged plays and street shows recreate a Tang-dynasty frontier town, with costumed actors mixing with visitors, and the town also has a hot-spring complex, a wine exhibition hall and food streets. It was named a national tourism and leisure district in 2025."},{"id":"yinchuan-mingcui-lake-wetland","name":"Mingcui Lake National Wetland Park","name_zh":"鸣翠湖国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Míngcuì Hú Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.3916,"lon":106.3706,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-mingcui-lake-wetland","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A national wetland park, approved in 2006 and covering 6.67 km², around a 2.88 km² freshwater lake that survives from an old chain of lakes east of Yinchuan and was restored from farmland from 2000 onwards. Its name refers to green reeds and birdsong, and the reed beds and waterbirds are the main attraction, about 3 km from the Yellow River."},{"id":"helan-ningxia-agritourism-park","name":"Ningxia Agri-Tourism Park","name_zh":"宁夏农旅产业园","pinyin":"Níngxià Nónglǚ Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.5823,"lon":106.3191,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=helan-ningxia-agritourism-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A 2,170-mu (about 145 ha) agricultural park started in 2009 by the state-owned Ningxia Nongken group just outside Helan county town. It combines modern horticulture with fruit picking, children's play areas, sports grounds and study programmes, and is aimed mainly at families."},{"id":"yinchuan-chengtian-temple-pagoda","name":"Pagoda of Chengtian Temple","name_zh":"承天寺塔","pinyin":"Chéngtiānsì Tǎ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.4631,"lon":106.2653,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-chengtian-temple-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Yinchuan's 'West Pagoda', an eleven-storey octagonal brick pagoda 64.5 m high, the tallest in Ningxia. It was first completed in 1050 under the Western Xia as a reliquary, but the present tower was built in 1820 after an earthquake in 1739 destroyed the original, and it stands in the grounds of the former Chengtian Temple in the old city."},{"id":"helankou-rock-art","name":"Rock Paintings of Helan Mountains (Helankou)","name_zh":"贺兰山岩画","pinyin":"Hèlánshān Yánhuà","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.7437,"lon":106.0217,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/helankou-rock-art/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The Helankou gorge is the best-known site of the Helan Mountains petroglyphs, with some 6,000 images carved on boulders and cliff faces along the valley and generally dated to between about 10,000 and 3,000 years ago. They show animals, herding and hunting scenes and, above all, stylised human faces, about two-thirds of the range's face images being found here, along with a few later Tangut (Western Xia) inscriptions. The Yinchuan World Rock Art Museum near the entrance explains the carvings."},{"id":"lingwu-shuidonggou","name":"Shuidonggou","name_zh":"水洞沟","pinyin":"Shuǐdònggōu","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.2988,"lon":106.5018,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lingwu-shuidonggou/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"One of the first Palaeolithic sites excavated in China: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Émile Licent dug here in 1923, and later excavations recovered stone tools, hearths and ostrich-eggshell beads left by late Palaeolithic people. The scenic area links the excavation localities and a site museum (opened 2011) with a section of the Ming Great Wall, the walled Hongshanbao fort and the Cangbingdong tunnel fortifications."},{"id":"yinchuan-tianshanhai-water-park","name":"Tianshanhai World (Yellow River Pearl)","name_zh":"天山海世界·黄河明珠","pinyin":"Tiānshānhǎi Shìjiè Huánghé Míngzhū","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.3986,"lon":106.4997,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-tianshanhai-water-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An indoor water park in Binhe New Area on the east bank of the Yellow River, with heated pools and water slides kept warm all year. It is a family leisure venue rather than a sightseeing stop."},{"id":"baisikou-twin-pagodas","name":"Twin Pagodas of Baisikou","name_zh":"拜寺口双塔","pinyin":"Bàisìkǒu Shuāngtǎ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.6811,"lon":105.9633,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baisikou-twin-pagodas/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"Two Western Xia-period brick pagodas standing 100 m apart on a terrace at the mouth of the Baisikou gorge in the Helan Mountains, where more than a hundred temples once stood. The octagonal towers, about 39 m and 36 m tall, are covered with tiers of painted stucco Buddhas, guardians and animal masks, many from Yuan and Ming repairs, and Tangut and Sanskrit inscriptions were found on their central pillars during restoration in 1986."},{"id":"yinchuan-xixia-culture-park","name":"Western Xia Culture Park","name_zh":"西夏风情园","pinyin":"Xīxià Fēngqíng Yuán","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.4783,"lon":106.0319,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-xixia-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Western Xia (Tangut) themed park at the foot of the Helan Mountains on Yinchuan's western edge, with new buildings in imitation Western Xia palace style set among lakes and gardens. Live-action shows on Western Xia themes are its main feature, alongside wine tasting and restaurants, and it pairs easily with a visit to the nearby Western Xia tombs."},{"id":"yinchuan-wofu-bairui-goji-hall","name":"Wofu Bairui Ningxia Goji Hall","name_zh":"沃福百瑞宁夏枸杞馆","pinyin":"Wòfú Bǎiruì Níngxià Gǒuqǐ Guǎn","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.4625,"lon":106.1452,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-wofu-bairui-goji-hall","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A goji (wolfberry) exhibition hall opened in 2022 by the Ningxia producer Wofu Bairui in Yinchuan's Xixia District. It combines displays on goji growing and health-food culture with a see-through factory corridor, a product tasting centre and a restaurant serving goji dishes."},{"id":"yinchuan-yellow-river-military-culture-park","name":"Yellow River Military Culture Park","name_zh":"黄河军事文化博览园","pinyin":"Huánghé Jūnshì Wénhuà Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.396,"lon":106.4851,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-yellow-river-military-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A defence-themed park in Binhe New Area on the east bank of the Yellow River, opened in 2013 around the decommissioned destroyer Yinchuan, one of China's first-generation guided-missile destroyers, which served from 1976 to 2012. The ship is the centrepiece of a park with a lake, a peace plaza and areas for defence-education activities aimed at school groups and families."},{"id":"yongning-najiahu-mosque","name":"Yongning Najiahu Mosque","name_zh":"纳家户清真寺","pinyin":"Nàjiāhù Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.2815,"lon":106.2359,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongning-najiahu-mosque","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Hui mosque in Najiahu village, Yongning County, founded in 1524 by members of the Na clan, who trace their descent from the Yuan-dynasty statesman Sayyid Ajall Shams al-Din. Its present buildings date mainly from the Qing dynasty, and it remains the place of worship of the village's Hui community."},{"id":"yinchuan-yuehai-bay","name":"Yuehai Bay","name_zh":"阅海湾","pinyin":"Yuèhǎi Wān","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.5111,"lon":106.2223,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-yuehai-bay","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A large lake and park area in Jinfeng District covering 1,739 ha, 922 ha of it water, made up of Yuehai National Wetland Park, a water park, Lanshan Park and the Flower Expo Garden. The wetland was made a national wetland park in 2006, and the big open-air amphitheatre in Lanshan Park is a popular place to watch the sun set behind the Helan Mountains."},{"id":"yinchuan-yuhuang-pavilion","name":"Yuhuang Pavilion, Yinchuan","name_zh":"银川玉皇阁","pinyin":"Yínchuān Yùhuáng Gé","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.4643,"lon":106.2797,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yinchuan-yuhuang-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A Taoist pavilion complex on an 8 m brick-faced platform in the old centre of Yinchuan, rebuilt as a Jade Emperor temple after the earthquake of 1739 on the site of a drum tower first built in the Yongle era of the Ming. A two-storey hall flanked by bell and drum towers crowns the platform, which is pierced by an arched gateway, and the halls reopened for exhibitions after refurbishment in 2015."},{"id":"yongning-yuquan-international-winery","name":"Yuquan International Winery","name_zh":"玉泉国际酒庄","pinyin":"Yùquán Guójì Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.2634,"lon":106.0403,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yongning-yuquan-international-winery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A winery of the state-owned Ningxia Nongken group in the Yuquan wine village of Yongning County, set among vineyards, with buildings in Song-dynasty style decorated with classical wine poetry; it bills itself as China's first poetry-themed winery. It is a second-growth estate in the Helan Mountains East classification, and visits take in the winery, a wine-poetry exhibition and tastings."},{"id":"zhenbeibu-west-film-studio","name":"Zhenbeibu China West Film Studio","name_zh":"镇北堡西部影城","pinyin":"Zhènběibǔ Xībù Yǐngchéng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.6155,"lon":106.0665,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhenbeibu-west-film-studio/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A film studio founded by the writer Zhang Xianliang in the ruins of two old frontier forts at Zhenbeibu, on the plain below the Helan Mountains. Films shot here include Red Sorghum, A Chinese Odyssey and New Dragon Gate Inn, and visitors walk through the Ming fort, the Qing fort and an 'Old Yinchuan' street laid out as film sets."},{"id":"yinchuan-zhihui-yuanshi-winery","name":"Zhihui Yuanshi Winery","name_zh":"志辉源石酒庄","pinyin":"Zhìhuī Yuánshí Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Yinchuan","lat":38.571,"lon":106.0336,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yinchuan-zhihui-yuanshi-winery","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A winery in the Helan Mountains foothills built on an abandoned gravel quarry, restored with vineyards, shelter woods and underground cellars dug into the old pits. Visitors follow the route from vineyard and fermentation hall to barrel cellar and tasting hall, and the estate received more than half a million visitors in 2025."},{"id":"zhongwei-damaidi-rock-art","name":"Damaidi Rock Art","name_zh":"大麦地岩画","pinyin":"Dàmàidì Yánhuà","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Zhongwei","lat":37.6855,"lon":105.2992,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongwei-damaidi-rock-art","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A dense field of rock carvings in the Weining Northern Mountains north of Zhongwei, where thousands of panels with roughly 8,000 individual figures have been recorded in a core area of about 6 km², showing hunting, herding, animals and sun and moon symbols. Some researchers see in their recurring signs a forerunner of Chinese writing, but the dating, spanning the Neolithic to the Western Xia according to the heritage listing, remains disputed."},{"id":"zhongwei-gao-temple","name":"Gao Temple, Zhongwei","name_zh":"中卫高庙","pinyin":"Zhōngwèi Gāo Miào","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Zhongwei","lat":37.518,"lon":105.1852,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhongwei-gao-temple/","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A temple complex in central Zhongwei that brings Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian halls together on terraces rising from the gate to a three-storey main tower 29 m high. Rebuilt several times after earthquakes and a fire in 1942, it reopened as a Buddhist site in 1982; the main tower has halls for the Jade Emperor, Confucius and other figures, and a tunnel linking two ponds is called the 'cave of hell and reincarnation'."},{"id":"haiyuan-liuzhou-city-ruins","name":"Liuzhou City Ruins (Tiandu Fort)","name_zh":"柳州城址","pinyin":"Liǔzhōu Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Zhongwei","lat":36.5396,"lon":105.6125,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyuan-liuzhou-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of Tiandu, a Northern Song frontier fort later taken by the Western Xia, who are thought to have based their Tiandu military command here; it was abandoned in 1749, when a new town was built a few kilometres to the east on the site of present-day Haiyuan. The rectangular enclosure, about 400 by 380 m, keeps walls 4–7 m high with barbican gates to the north and south and towers at the corners."},{"id":"zhongning-mingshazhou-pagoda","name":"Mingshazhou Pagoda","name_zh":"鸣沙洲塔","pinyin":"Míngshāzhōu Tǎ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Zhongwei","lat":37.5544,"lon":105.8626,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongning-mingshazhou-pagoda","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"An eleven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in Anqing Temple at Mingsha town, on the south bank of the Yellow River in Zhongning County. First built around the Western Xia period, it was rebuilt in 1569–1580 after the 1561 earthquake, lost its upper half in the 1709 earthquake and was restored to its present height of 42 m in 1985."},{"id":"haiyuan-qiying-beizui-city-ruins","name":"Qiying Beizui City Ruins","name_zh":"七营北嘴城址","pinyin":"Qīyíng Běizuǐ Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Zhongwei","lat":36.5356,"lon":106.1499,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=haiyuan-qiying-beizui-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of a frontier town founded in the Sui dynasty, made the seat of Xiaoguan county under the Tang and garrisoned until the late Ming, at Beizui village near Qiying. Inner and outer walls, now 1–5 m high, enclose an area of about 650 by 600 m, with a fortified enclosure and barbican at the north-east corner."},{"id":"zhongwei-sikouzi","name":"Sikouzi Scenic Area","name_zh":"寺口子","pinyin":"Sìkǒuzi","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Zhongwei","lat":37.2927,"lon":105.4485,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongwei-sikouzi","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A gorge scenic area of about 18 km² in the hills south of Xuanhe town, known in ancient times as Beihai. Its eastern part is a narrow karst gorge with odd rock formations, while the western part has red sandstone (danxia) cliffs, a natural cave and spots tied to local legends such as that of the Han envoy Su Wu herding sheep."},{"id":"zhongwei-jinsha-island","name":"Tengger Desert Wetland – Jinsha Island","name_zh":"腾格里沙漠湿地·金沙岛","pinyin":"Ténggélǐ Shāmò Shīdì Jīnshā Dǎo","region_id":"640000","region":"Ningxia","city":"Zhongwei","lat":37.5257,"lon":105.108,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhongwei-jinsha-island","verified":"2026-10-21","summary":"A wetland leisure area on the south-eastern edge of the Tengger Desert, where a chain of lakes and reed beds meets the dunes, with an island in the main lake. Visitors walk round the lakes, climb a dune of about 30 m and see seasonal flower fields and a 4 km stretch of earthen Ming Great Wall that runs through the area, and water birds gather on the lakes."},{"id":"aksu-museum","name":"Aksu Museum","name_zh":"阿克苏地区博物馆","pinyin":"Ākèsū Dìqū Bówùguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.1656,"lon":80.2517,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aksu-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The prefecture museum of Aksu, also called the Aksu Prefecture Museum and Heritage Institute, opened in its present colourful building in 2009 and holds about 2,000 objects on the history of the Aksu region and the Kucha kingdom. Digital galleries let visitors explore Kizil, Subashi, the Kizilgaha beacon and other sites in VR, and a gallery reproduces Kucha cave murals."},{"id":"aksu-national-wetland-park","name":"Aksu National Wetland Park","name_zh":"阿克苏国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Ākèsū Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.212,"lon":80.2205,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aksu-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland park beside Aksu city covering about 5,000 mu (330 ha), of which some 1,800 mu is water, laid out as 23 linked lakes with paths and five viewing platforms. It draws waterbirds such as ducks, coots and grebes, and protected species recorded here include the black stork and golden eagle."},{"id":"kuqa-ancient-kucha-city-ruins","name":"Ancient Kucha City Ruins","name_zh":"龟兹故城","pinyin":"Qiūcí Gùchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7214,"lon":82.9451,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-ancient-kucha-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"These are the remains of the walled capital of the ancient Kucha kingdom, identified as Yancheng of the Han dynasty and Yiluolu of the Tang, within today's Kuqa city. Stretches of the old city wall survive, excavations have yielded Han-dynasty coins, and the wall has been the subject of a recent protection and display project."},{"id":"awat-daolang-tribe","name":"Daolang Tribe Scenic Area, Awat","name_zh":"刀郎部落","pinyin":"Dāoláng Bùluò","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":40.7542,"lon":80.2477,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=awat-daolang-tribe","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A folk-culture scenic area in Awat County themed on Dolan (刀郎) culture, the tradition behind Dolan muqam music, set among old desert-poplar woodland by a river. It stages Dolan song and dance and folk sports such as horse racing at festivals, and about 100 residents live and run shops inside the scenic area."},{"id":"xinhe-desert-flower-sea","name":"Desert Flower Sea, Xinhe","name_zh":"沙漠花海","pinyin":"Shāmò Huāhǎi","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.5963,"lon":82.5918,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhe-desert-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A desert leisure park of about 3,000 mu (some 200 ha) opened at the end of 2016 on a patch of dunes surrounded by oasis farmland in Qiaolepaibage village, Xinhe County. Flowerbeds are planted among the dunes, and the park offers desert off-road rides and water-based amusements."},{"id":"aksu-duolang-river","name":"Duolang River Scenic Area, Aksu","name_zh":"多浪河","pinyin":"Duōlàng Hé","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.1564,"lon":80.2575,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aksu-duolang-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The landscaped banks of the Duolang River through Aksu city, a 4A scenic area since 2018, with promenades, pavilions such as the Gumo Pavilion and a small amusement area. Waterbirds gather on the river and locals come for evening walks, so it is an easy stroll rather than a destination in itself."},{"id":"xinhe-jiayi-village","name":"Jiayi Village","name_zh":"加依村","pinyin":"Jiāyī Cūn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.5813,"lon":82.6293,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhe-jiayi-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Jiayi is a village in Xinhe County known for making traditional Uyghur musical instruments, a craft it has practised for more than 300 years; nearly half of its roughly 290 households build instruments such as the dutar, ajek and rawap. Visitors can watch instruments being made in family workshops and at the village's instrument-making centre, and one master craftsman is a national-level intangible heritage bearer."},{"id":"baicheng-kangqi-wetland","name":"Kangqi Wetland, Baicheng","name_zh":"康其湿地","pinyin":"Kāngqí Shīdì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7464,"lon":82.0062,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baicheng-kangqi-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland in Arele village, Kangqi township, where the Karasu and Muzat rivers meet east of Baicheng county town, developed for rural tourism since 2018. Rapeseed and sunflower fields line a stretch called the 'ten-li gallery', visitors can go kayaking, and village families run restaurants along a food street."},{"id":"wensu-kekeya-memorial-hall","name":"Kekeya Memorial Hall","name_zh":"柯柯牙纪念馆","pinyin":"Kēkēyá Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.3164,"lon":80.2676,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wensu-kekeya-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial hall at the core of the Kekeya greening project, which since the 1980s has planted forest across the gravel desert that once sent dust storms into Aksu. Photographs, objects, reconstructions and VR displays tell the story of the tree planters, and the roof, modelled on Tomur Peak, has a viewing platform over the planted shelter belts."},{"id":"kalpin-kesiletage-temple-ruins","name":"Kesiletage Buddhist Temple Ruins","name_zh":"克斯勒塔格佛寺遗址","pinyin":"Kèsīlètǎgé Fósì Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":40.5543,"lon":78.9414,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kalpin-kesiletage-temple-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a Kucha-style Buddhist monastery of the Northern Dynasties to Tang period, built in terraces up a bare hill near Kalpin, with a main hall, monks' rooms and a stupa base. Walls and hall remains stand 5–7 m high and a passage keeps traces of murals, and the Qiudayitage fort stands on a nearby hill about 800 m to the north-east."},{"id":"baicheng-kizil-caves","name":"Kizil Caves","name_zh":"克孜尔千佛洞","pinyin":"Kèzī'ěr Qiānfódòng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7829,"lon":82.5026,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/baicheng-kizil-caves/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kizil is the largest Buddhist cave complex of the ancient Kucha kingdom and among the earliest in China, cut into cliffs above the Muzat River from about the 3rd century until the 8th–9th centuries. It has around 350 caves in four groups, more than 80 of them with murals in the distinctive Kucha style, and has been part of the Silk Roads World Heritage listing since 2014. Visitors see a selection of the caves with a guide."},{"id":"kuqa-kizilgaha-beacon-tower","name":"Kizilgaha Beacon Tower","name_zh":"克孜尔尕哈烽燧","pinyin":"Kèzī'ěrgǎhā Fēngsuì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7919,"lon":82.8988,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-kizilgaha-beacon-tower","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Han-dynasty beacon tower of rammed earth laid in layers with reeds and branches, still about 16 m high, standing on gravel desert north-west of Kuqa. Weathering has split its top so that it looks like a double tower, and remains of buildings lie to its north. Part of the Silk Roads World Heritage site since 2014, it is laid out as a heritage park with a visitor centre."},{"id":"kuqa-kizilgaha-caves","name":"Kizilgaha Caves","name_zh":"克孜尔尕哈石窟","pinyin":"Kèzī'ěrgǎhā Shíkū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7969,"lon":82.9011,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-kizilgaha-caves","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kizilgaha is a group of 54 Buddhist caves, 46 of them numbered, cut into gully cliffs north-west of Kuqa from the 5th century and one of the main cave sites of the ancient Kucha kingdom. Several caves keep murals, including donor figures in Tocharian dress, and the site lies about 600 m north of the Kizilgaha Beacon Tower."},{"id":"kuqa-kumtura-caves","name":"Kumtura Caves","name_zh":"库木吐喇千佛洞","pinyin":"Kùmùtǔlǎ Qiānfódòng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7117,"lon":82.6784,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kuqa-kumtura-caves/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kumtura is the second-largest cave group of ancient Kucha after Kizil: 112 caves cut between the 5th and 11th centuries along about 3 km of cliffs above the Weigan (Muzat) River. Its murals run from early Kuchean work through Tang Chinese to later Uyghur styles, some with inscriptions in Chinese and Old Uyghur, and the southern group holds a rare surviving clay Buddha."},{"id":"kuqa-grand-mosque","name":"Kuqa Grand Mosque","name_zh":"库车大寺","pinyin":"Kùchē Dàsì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7199,"lon":82.9246,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kuqa-grand-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kuqa's main mosque stands on a mound on the north-western side of the old town; tradition dates its founding to the 16th century, and the present prayer hall, gatehouse and court building come from a rebuilding completed in 1932 after a fire. The domed brick gatehouse rises more than 15 m, and the prayer hall, which holds about 3,000 worshippers, rests on 88 carved wooden columns under painted ceilings. Beside the gate are the rooms of a former religious court."},{"id":"kuqa-palace","name":"Kuqa Palace","name_zh":"库车王府","pinyin":"Kùchē Wángfǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7176,"lon":82.9183,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Kuqa Palace is a reconstruction, completed in 2004, of the residence of the Kuqa princes, a hereditary title first granted under the Qianlong Emperor in the 18th century and held by twelve generations. The compound mixes Chinese and Islamic architectural styles and houses exhibitions on the princely family, Kucha history and local folk life, next to a surviving stretch of Qing-dynasty city wall."},{"id":"baicheng-liu-pingguo-inscription","name":"Liu Pingguo Inscription","name_zh":"刘平国刻石","pinyin":"Liú Píngguó Kèshí","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":42.3245,"lon":82.5056,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=baicheng-liu-pingguo-inscription","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An Eastern Han cliff inscription of about 105 characters in clerical script, cut in 158, records how Liu Pingguo, a general of the Kucha kingdom, had men cut the rock and build a pass station at the mouth of the Boziklig gully. The valley leads over the Tian Shan towards Ili on the old route known as the Wusun Road. Found by Qing soldiers in 1879, the characters are now faint, and the spot is fenced, with a memorial stele and a flood wall."},{"id":"kuqa-molana-arshidin-mazar","name":"Molana Arshidin Mazar","name_zh":"默拉纳额什丁麻扎","pinyin":"Mòlānà Éshídīng Mázhā","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7185,"lon":82.9505,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-molana-arshidin-mazar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The shrine complex of Arshidin, the 14th-century Sufi teacher credited with bringing the Moghul khan Tughlugh Timur to Islam, lies between Kuqa's old and new towns. Most of the present buildings date from 19th-century rebuilding: a mosque with a tiled brick minaret, and a flat-roofed tomb hall about 16 m square with carved wooden lattices and painted floral panels, surrounded by family graves."},{"id":"kalpin-qilan-ancient-city","name":"Qilan Ancient City, Kalpin","name_zh":"齐兰古城","pinyin":"Qílán Gǔchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":40.5388,"lon":79.6316,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kalpin-qilan-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Qilan Ancient City is a Qing-dynasty ruin site in the desert about 7 km east of Qilan village in Kalpin County, listed nationally as the Konaqilan ruins. It was rated a 4A scenic area in 2023, and the county promotes it as one of its main heritage sights."},{"id":"wushi-sea-buckthorn-wetland-park","name":"Sea-Buckthorn Forest Wetland Park, Wushi","name_zh":"沙棘林","pinyin":"Shājí Lín","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.0975,"lon":78.9469,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushi-sea-buckthorn-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A wetland park in Wushi County built around a large stand of wild sea-buckthorn, with a boardwalk of about 5 km winding through the thickets beside streams and springs. Local people come here to walk and camp, and Aksu tourism routes usually pair it with Yanquanshan Park in the county town."},{"id":"kuqa-simsim-caves","name":"Simsim Caves","name_zh":"森木塞姆千佛洞","pinyin":"Sēnmùsàimǔ Qiānfódòng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.866,"lon":83.1629,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kuqa-simsim-caves/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Simsim is the easternmost of the Kucha cave groups: 52 caves spread over about 800 m at the mouth of a gorge in the Qoltag hills, cut from around the 4th century and abandoned by about the 9th. Its murals show Kuchean, Chinese and later Uyghur styles, and some square caves have a distinctive lotus-petal lantern ceiling, though many caves are badly damaged."},{"id":"kuqa-subashi-temple-ruins","name":"Subashi Temple Ruins","name_zh":"苏巴什佛寺遗址","pinyin":"Sūbāshí Fósì Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.8558,"lon":83.047,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kuqa-subashi-temple-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Subashi ('head of the water' in Uyghur), recorded in Chinese sources as the Zhaohuli monastery, was the largest Buddhist monastery of the Kucha kingdom in the Wei-Jin period, at the foot of the Qoltag hills north-east of Kuqa. Its east and west temple groups keep the earthen remains of stupas, halls and monks' quarters, and a 6th–7th-century reliquary painted with musicians and dancers found here is now in Tokyo. The site has been part of the Silk Roads World Heritage listing since 2014."},{"id":"xinhe-tang-anxi-culture-park","name":"Tang Anxi Protectorate Culture Park, Xinhe","name_zh":"唐安西都护府文化园","pinyin":"Táng Ānxī Dūhùfǔ Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.5384,"lon":82.6169,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhe-tang-anxi-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern culture park in Xinhe county town named after the Tang dynasty's Anxi Protectorate, rated 4A in 2023. It serves as an evening market and events venue, and was listed in 2022 among the region's first night-time culture and consumption districts."},{"id":"shaya-tarim-river-wetland","name":"Tarim River Wetland and Poplar Forest, Shaya","name_zh":"塔里木河湿地","pinyin":"Tǎlǐmù Hé Shīdì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":40.9361,"lon":82.8439,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaya-tarim-river-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A scenic area of wetland and natural desert-poplar (Populus euphratica) forest beside the Tarim River south of Shaya county town. Regional tourism routes promote it for the meeting of desert and river, and the poplars are at their best in autumn."},{"id":"kuqa-tianshan-mysterious-grand-canyon","name":"Tianshan Mysterious Grand Canyon","name_zh":"天山神秘大峡谷","pinyin":"Tiānshān Shénmì Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":42.1067,"lon":83.057,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-tianshan-mysterious-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A narrow canyon about 5.5 km long cut into red-brown sedimentary rock on the southern flank of the Tian Shan, part of a national geopark; locals call it Kizilya, 'red cliffs'. Visitors walk along the canyon floor between towering walls, and inside the canyon is the Ah-ai Grotto, a small 8th-century Buddhist cave with Tang-style murals found by a herdsman in 1999."},{"id":"wensu-tianshan-sacred-tree-garden","name":"Tianshan Sacred Tree Garden","name_zh":"天山神木园","pinyin":"Tiānshān Shénmù Yuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.5913,"lon":79.7013,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wensu-tianshan-sacred-tree-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A grove of ancient trees in a spring-fed oasis at about 1,700 m in the Tian Shan foothills of Wensu County, covering some 600 mu (40 ha). Its 289 old poplars, averaging about 145 years, grow in contorted shapes where groundwater rises along fault lines, earning it the nickname 'museum of old trees'. Fences protect the trunks and props hold up some of the heavier branches."},{"id":"wensu-tianshan-tomur","name":"Tianshan Tomur Scenic Area","name_zh":"天山托木尔","pinyin":"Tiānshān Tuōmù'ěr","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.5639,"lon":80.6605,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wensu-tianshan-tomur","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tianshan Tomur is a 752 km² mountain scenic area in Wensu County below Tomur Peak, at 7,443.8 m the highest summit of the Tian Shan, and in December 2024 it became Aksu Prefecture's first 5A area. Its three main parts are a red-rock canyon with salt-dome landforms, Ta Village with guesthouses and play areas, and the Kyrgyz township of Bozidun. The canyon lies in the Tomur section of the Xinjiang Tianshan World Natural Heritage site (inscribed 2013), and Kyrgyz traditions such as the Manas epic and Kyrgyz embroidery are part of local culture."},{"id":"xinhe-tonggusibashi-city-ruins","name":"Tonggusibashi City Ruins","name_zh":"通古斯巴西城址","pinyin":"Tōnggǔsībāxī Chéngzhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.2552,"lon":82.3705,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinhe-tonggusibashi-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The walls of a Tang-dynasty town, about 250 by 230 m and up to 7 m high with bastions and corner towers, stand on the alluvial plain of the Weigan River in southern Xinhe County. It was the centre of a Tang military-farming district under the Anxi Protectorate, surrounded by smaller forts, beacon towers and old canals, and documents of the Dali era (766–779) and Tang coins have been found here."},{"id":"shaya-weigan-river-scenic-area","name":"Weigan River Eco-Cultural Scenic Area, Shaya","name_zh":"渭干河生态文化旅游景区","pinyin":"Wèigān Hé Shēngtài Wénhuà Lǚyóu Jǐngqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.2016,"lon":82.7798,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaya-weigan-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park area on the Weigan River in Shaya, rated 4A in 2023, centred on Yanming Lake People's Park and its lakeside wetland. It has an evening market and outdoor stage, sports grounds used for the village basketball league, and a ski slope in winter, so it is a place to see local life rather than a sight in itself."},{"id":"kuqa-wushituer-xiahetuer-ruins","name":"Wushitu'er and Xiahetu'er Ruins","name_zh":"乌什吐尔和夏合吐尔遗址","pinyin":"Wūshítǔ'ěr hé Xiàhétǔ'ěr Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.6881,"lon":82.6967,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-wushituer-xiahetuer-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two ruined walled sites face each other across the mouth of the Weigan (Muzat) River just south of the Kumtura Caves, with remains mainly of the Wei-Jin to Tang periods. Wushitu'er on the east bank keeps walls 2–4 m high with bastions and a corner tower, while little more than wall fragments and a tower under 10 m tall survive at Xiahetu'er on the west bank. Scholars have identified the pair variously as Buddhist monasteries and as the Tang-dynasty Zhejue Pass, and excavations since 2019 have added finds from the Han period."},{"id":"shaya-yanqi-pastoral-complex","name":"Yanqi Pastoral Complex, Shaya","name_zh":"雁栖·田园综合体","pinyin":"Yànqī · Tiányuán Zōnghétǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.243,"lon":82.7979,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shaya-yanqi-pastoral-complex","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism complex built around a modern agricultural science park in Gulebage town, Shaya County, rated 4A in 2024. It offers themed farm sightseeing and leisure, and surrounding villages have opened homestays and pick-your-own orchards along newly upgraded rural roads."},{"id":"wushi-yanquanshan-park","name":"Yanquanshan Park, Wushi","name_zh":"燕泉山","pinyin":"Yànquán Shān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.2138,"lon":79.2106,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wushi-yanquanshan-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Yanquanshan is a landscaped scenic park at the western end of Wushi county town, used mainly by local residents for walks. Aksu tourism routes pair it with the Sea-Buckthorn Forest Wetland Park, and it was named a regional model scenic area for visitor conduct in 2024."},{"id":"kuqa-youyi-road-tombs","name":"Youyi Road Tombs, Kuqa","name_zh":"库车友谊路墓群","pinyin":"Kùchē Yǒuyì Lù Mùqún","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aksu","lat":41.7126,"lon":82.957,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuqa-youyi-road-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cemetery of the Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms period (3rd–5th centuries) found in 2007 during building work on Youyi Road in Kuqa, where Han-style brick-chambered tombs matching those of the central plains and the Hexi Corridor in form were found for the first time in Xinjiang. The tombs have sloping passages, vaulted chambers and carved-brick details, and the finds included more than 700 coins. The Wei-Jin Ancient Tombs Museum, built over the tombs 7–8 m underground, opened to the public in July 2024."},{"id":"burqin-agonggaiti-stone-figures","name":"Agonggaiti Grassland Stone Figures Park","name_zh":"阿贡盖提草原石人","pinyin":"Āgònggàití Cǎoyuán Shírén","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":48.3026,"lon":87.1051,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=burqin-agonggaiti-stone-figures","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Kazakh culture park on the Agonggaiti grassland beside the road from Burqin to Kanas, built around a group of ancient steppe stone figures and rock carvings left by early nomads. Visitors can walk among the carved standing stones and watch horsemanship shows, Dawaz tightrope walking and the 'girl chase' riding game, and try Kazakh customs and food. Surrounded by hills, pine woods and streams, it is often the first stop on the way into Kanas."},{"id":"altay-birch-park","name":"Altay Birch Park","name_zh":"桦林公园","pinyin":"Huàlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.8709,"lon":88.1176,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=altay-birch-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park of wooded river islands at the north-western corner of Altay city, where the Kelan River splits into six islands under birch and poplar. A boardwalk of about 5 km loops through the woods, with a woodland cafe, a small animal park and a sightseeing train. The birches turn gold from late September, and in winter hoar frost coats the trees."},{"id":"habahe-baisha-lake","name":"Baisha Lake","name_zh":"白沙湖","pinyin":"Báishā Hú","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":48.3518,"lon":85.75,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=habahe-baisha-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small freshwater lake ringed by pale sand dunes at the Bingtuan's 185th Regiment in the far north-west of Habahe County, about 2.5 km from the Kazakhstan border. Mixed woodland and dense reeds grow around the shore, lotus flowers open on the water in June, and the neighbouring Singing Sand Hill gives the dunes a rumbling sound. The 5A area also includes the regiment's 'Northwest First Company' site."},{"id":"altay-chemurchek-stone-figures","name":"Chemurchek Stone Figures and Stone-Cist Tombs","name_zh":"切木尔切克石人及石棺墓群","pinyin":"Qiēmù'ěrqiēkè Shírén jí Shíguān Mùqún","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.8223,"lon":87.8502,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/altay-chemurchek-stone-figures/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Bronze Age burial ground of the Chemurchek culture, of about 2700–1800 BC, spread over some 44 km² of steppe around Chemurchek town west of Altay city, with large stone-walled grave enclosures, cairns ringed with stones and stone cists. Carved stone figures stand on the east side of the graves facing the sunrise, and this pairing of stone figure and stone cist is the hallmark of the culture. A representative 113 cm figure from the Kaiyinar No. 2 cemetery was moved in 2002 to the Altay Prefecture Museum, where visitors can see it."},{"id":"fuyun-riverside-scenic-area","name":"Fuyun Riverside Scenic Area","name_zh":"富蕴滨河","pinyin":"Fùyùn Bīnhé","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":46.9872,"lon":89.5232,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyun-riverside-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped riverside promenade along the Irtysh in Fuyun county town, rated 3A in 2016 and 4A in 2019. It links the south-bank embankment walks, a pedestrian suspension bridge, a musical fountain square on Karatunk island, a weir and Nanshan Park, and residents use it daily for walks, dancing and games. It makes an easy stop on the way to Koktokay, and was listed as a regional tourism and leisure street in 2023."},{"id":"jeminay-grassland-stone-city","name":"Grassland Stone City and Tongtiandong Cave","name_zh":"草原石城","pinyin":"Cǎoyuán Shíchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.1794,"lon":86.1363,"category":"nature","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jeminay-grassland-stone-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 59 km² stretch of the Saur Mountain foothills south-east of Jeminay where weathering has shaped the granite into rounded boulders, stacks, basins, hollows and caves rising out of grassland, with more than 200 kinds of wild flowers in spring and early summer. Within it lies the Tongtiandong cave site, the first Palaeolithic cave site found in Xinjiang, where excavations since 2016 have traced human use back about 45,000 years and found carbonised wheat around 5,200 years old. Display boards at the cave explain the finds, and the area also has a spring in a rock cave and the old pastures of Ailin, a Kazakh prince of the late Qing and Republican era."},{"id":"habahe-birch-forest","name":"Habahe Birch Forest","name_zh":"哈巴河白桦林","pinyin":"Hābāhé Báihuàlín","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":48.075,"lon":86.3379,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=habahe-birch-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A belt of natural birch forest along the Habahe River valley just west of Habahe town, rated a national forest park in 2010 and linked to the town by the Akqi national wetland. Paths and wooden bridges lead through the white-trunked birches, and the park has a visitor centre built to look like a birch stump, a Kazakh folk-culture area with yurts and a Ferris wheel above the forest. The leaves turn gold in autumn."},{"id":"altay-kelan-riverside","name":"Kelan River Riverside Scenic Area","name_zh":"克兰河滨河","pinyin":"Kèlán Hé Bīnhé","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.8399,"lon":88.1321,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=altay-kelan-riverside","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An 11.6 km riverside scenic belt of about 720 hectares along the Kelan River through Altay city, from the Birch Park bridge in the north to the Red Stone area in the south. Walking and exercise areas, photo spots and cultural venues follow the river between the mountains that ring the city, and on summer evenings the banks fill with residents and visitors out for a stroll. In winter the long, heavy snow season turns it into a place for snow play close to the centre."},{"id":"koktokay-rare-metals-mine-park","name":"Koktokay Rare Metals National Mine Park","name_zh":"可可托海国家矿山公园","pinyin":"Kěkětuōhǎi Guójiā Kuàngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.2088,"lon":89.8049,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=koktokay-rare-metals-mine-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A former rare-metal mine in Koktokay town, built around the huge open pit of the Number 3 Vein, a deposit found in 1935 that is known as a natural geological museum for its 84 minerals, including lithium, beryllium, tantalum, niobium and caesium. Around it are the Ayiguozi mine tunnel, Soviet-style wooden bridges and buildings, an exhibition hall of ore specimens and company history, and the old ore-dressing plant and machine works. The park is run as a patriotic-education base on the mine's role in the 'Two Bombs, One Satellite' programme and received its plaque as a national industrial-tourism demonstration base in 2023."},{"id":"fuyun-koktokay-scenic-area","name":"Koktokay Scenic Area","name_zh":"可可托海","pinyin":"Kěkětuōhǎi","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.2157,"lon":89.8687,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuyun-koktokay-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 788 km² 5A scenic area around Koktokay in the Altai, centred on the Irtysh Grand Canyon, where the young Irtysh River runs through forest past waterfalls, striking rock formations and the peak known as Divine Bell Mountain. It also takes in Kekesuli, a reed-fringed lake used by migratory birds as a stopover and breeding ground, Yilemu Lake and the Kalaxianger earthquake fault zone. Rafting, off-road motorbikes and paragliding have been added in the canyon, and in autumn the birch and poplar woods turn yellow and gold."},{"id":"qinghe-sandaohaizi","name":"Sandaohaizi Stone Mounds and Deer Stones","name_zh":"三道海子","pinyin":"Sāndào Hǎizi","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":46.8029,"lon":90.8729,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qinghe-sandaohaizi","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high basin of three lakes, Bianhaizi, Zhonghaizi and Huahaizi, at about 2,700 m on the Altai watershed near the Mongolian border, where summer pastures hold a Bronze Age landscape of giant stone mounds, tombs and deer stones. The largest mound, about 15 m high and 76 m across, is laid out like a wheel, with four paved stone paths running out to an outer ring of sunken stone slabs, and around it lie further large and medium mounds, about a hundred smaller cairns, deer stones carved with animals and weapons, and rock art. Excavations by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 2013–16 studied the site, which is also a summer camping and wildflower area."},{"id":"burqin-sino-russian-old-wharf","name":"Sino-Russian Old Wharf Street","name_zh":"中俄老码头风情街","pinyin":"Zhōng'é Lǎomǎtou Fēngqíngjiē","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.6985,"lon":86.8566,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=burqin-sino-russian-old-wharf","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside leisure quarter of about 20 hectares on the Irtysh in Burqin town, built around the old wharf of the Sino-Soviet river shipping that once ran on the Irtysh. It brings together a night market on the river embankment, the Sino-Soviet Shipping Memorial Hall, the sites of the old wharf and pontoon bridge, a Russian-style shopping street and a theatre."},{"id":"fuhai-ulungur-golden-coast","name":"Ulungur Lake Golden Coast","name_zh":"乌伦古湖黄金海岸","pinyin":"Wūlúngǔ Hú Huángjīn Hǎi'àn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.2432,"lon":87.4078,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fuhai-ulungur-golden-coast","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A sandy beach resort on the north-eastern shore of Ulungur Lake, with clear water, a shallow stretch about 100 m wide and water of around 20–22°C in summer. Besides swimming and sunbathing there are jet skis, flyboarding, parasailing, cruises around the lake to watch birds and grilled cold-water fish from the lake, and a wetland science museum of eight halls belongs to the Ulungur Lake national wetland park. In winter the resort hosts an ice and snow festival with ice fishing, and an autumn cold-water swimming meet."},{"id":"burqin-wucaitan","name":"Wucaitan (Five-Colour Beach)","name_zh":"五彩滩","pinyin":"Wǔcǎitān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Altay","lat":47.8391,"lon":86.6717,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=burqin-wucaitan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stretch of the north bank of the Irtysh 24 km from Burqin, where water and wind have carved the ground into multicoloured ridges, gullies and pinnacles, facing the green riverine woods on the far bank. Boardwalks lead over the eroded formations to viewpoints, a suspension bridge crosses the river and a lighthouse-style tower gives views along it, and the colours are richest at sunset, the favourite time for photographers. It is a usual stop on the road between Burqin and Kanas."},{"id":"aral-sleeping-poplar-valley","name":"Sleeping Poplar Valley","name_zh":"睡胡杨谷","pinyin":"Shuì Húyáng Gǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aral","lat":40.584,"lon":81.8315,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aral-sleeping-poplar-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stand of dead desert poplars on the north-western edge of the Taklamakan in the 14th Regiment's land, where trunks covering more than 3,000 mu (about 2 km²) still stand upright or lie in twisted shapes; local sources link the die-off to the Keriya River ceasing to reach the area in the late Ming or early Qing period. The scenic area has a visitor centre, a sightseeing train, camel rides and buggies, and the bird-rich Swan Lake wetland, with boardwalks and a bird-watching tower, lies close by. October and November, when the living poplars turn gold, are the best months."},{"id":"aral-359-brigade-cultural-tourism-area","name":"Taklamakan – 359th Brigade Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"塔克拉玛干·三五九旅文化旅游区","pinyin":"Tǎkèlāmǎgān · Sānwǔjiǔ Lǚ Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aral","lat":40.5488,"lon":81.2779,"category":"culture","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aral-359-brigade-cultural-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tourism area in Aral, the Bingtuan city of the 1st Division, centred on the 359th Brigade Reclamation Memorial Hall, which presents the history of the army units that came to Xinjiang around 1950 and turned to farming and land reclamation on the northern edge of the Taklamakan. It also includes the 'Gate of the Desert' area of the 11th Regiment, with desert sports and farm sightseeing, and was rated 5A in 2021."},{"id":"aral-tarim-river-source","name":"Tarim River Source Scenic Area","name_zh":"塔河源","pinyin":"Tǎhé Yuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aral","lat":40.4825,"lon":80.958,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aral-tarim-river-source","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The scenic area at Xiaojiake, west of Aral, where the Aksu, Hotan and Yarkand rivers meet to form the Tarim, China's longest inland river. Paths lead through riverside desert-poplar forest towards the confluence, and the site, open since 2023, has a visitor centre, the 'Eye of the Tarim' observation tower overlooking the meeting of the rivers, small halls on the river and on the desert poplar, a campground and a children's play area."},{"id":"yuergun-military-reclamation-site","name":"Yuergun Military Reclamation Site","name_zh":"玉尔滚军垦旧址","pinyin":"Yù'ěrgǔn Jūnkěn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Aral","lat":41.3975,"lon":80.832,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuergun-military-reclamation-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of buildings put up in 1971–73 by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps at Yuergun, kept as a record of the Corps' land-reclamation settlements: a club with an auditorium and open-air cinema, and a clinic. The club walls carry moulded slogans and star motifs and its doors and windows have carving by Uyghur woodworkers, while the clinic is described as the only surviving reclamation-era medical building in southern Xinjiang."},{"id":"hejing-baluntai-yellow-temple","name":"Baluntai Yellow Temple","name_zh":"巴仑台黄庙","pinyin":"Bālúntái Huáng Miào","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":42.6687,"lon":86.3254,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejing-baluntai-yellow-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Gelug (Tibetan Buddhist) monastery founded in 1888 by the Torghut Mongol khans in a Tian Shan valley at Baluntai, given the name Yong'an Temple by the Guangxu emperor and long the chief religious centre of the Torghut and Khoshut Mongols. Its two-storey main hall, with apricot-yellow walls and upturned eaves, stands at the centre of a group of temple buildings and stupas beside the Baluntai river, and a large Maitreya festival is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month."},{"id":"hejing-bayanbulak-grassland","name":"Bayanbulak Grassland","name_zh":"巴音布鲁克","pinyin":"Bāyīnbùlǔkè","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":43.0319,"lon":84.1563,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1–2 days","days":1.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hejing-bayanbulak-grassland/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A high grassland basin in the central Tian Shan at about 2,000–2,500 m, home mainly to Mongol herders, where the Kaidu River meanders through marshes and oxbow lakes. Its Swan Lake wetlands form a national swan reserve and part of the Xinjiang Tianshan World Heritage Site, and the best-known view is the river's 'nine bends and eighteen turns' from the viewpoint above it."},{"id":"korla-bayingolin-museum","name":"Bayingolin Prefecture Museum","name_zh":"巴州博物馆","pinyin":"Bāzhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.7317,"lon":86.1742,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=korla-bayingolin-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The prefecture museum of Bayingolin in Korla, founded in 1990 and opened in 2008, and rated a national second-grade museum in 2018. Its collection covers more than ten kinds of objects, among them bronzes, pottery and porcelain, textiles, gold and silver, jade, murals and mummies."},{"id":"hejing-beishan-forest-park","name":"Beishan Forest Park, Hejing","name_zh":"北山森林公园","pinyin":"Běishān Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":42.3653,"lon":86.3371,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejing-beishan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park on formerly bare gobi hills at the north-western edge of Hejing town, where gravel quarries were moved out from 2013 and more than 50 kinds of trees and shrubs, among them desert poplar, oleaster, sea buckthorn and walnut, were planted on drip irrigation fed from the Huangshui gully. A path of about 3 km climbs from the entrance past flower gardens to a patriotic and national-defence education base on the hilltop, and the park also has a fruit-picking orchard, a small zoo and Butterfly Spring, where swans gather. Local families come here to walk, camp, fish and barbecue."},{"id":"yanqi-bogedaqin-ancient-city","name":"Bogedaqin Ancient City","name_zh":"博格达沁古城","pinyin":"Bógédáqìn Gǔchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.9611,"lon":86.5096,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanqi-bogedaqin-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The rammed-earth walls of the largest Han-to-Tang city site in Bayingolin, a rectangular enclosure with barbicans at its gates and traces of an outer moat. It is identified as Yuanqu, capital of the Yanqi kingdom in Han times, and it flourished under the Tang as the seat of the Yanqi Area Command, a city recorded in Xuanzang's Great Tang Records on the Western Regions. Finds include a Tang bronze turtle tally and coins, and the Yanqi County Museum shows a scale model of the city with objects from the site."},{"id":"bohu-bosten-lake","name":"Bosten Lake","name_zh":"博斯腾湖","pinyin":"Bósīténg Hú","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.9068,"lon":86.7346,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day to 1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/bohu-bosten-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Bosten is Xinjiang's largest lake, a freshwater lake of more than 1,000 km² lying at about 1,048 m in the Yanqi Basin on the south side of the Tian Shan. It is fed mainly by the Kaidu River and drained by the Kongque (Peacock) River, and its wetlands make it one of China's main reed-growing areas and Xinjiang's largest fishery. The 5A scenic area has two sections, Dahekou at the mouth of the Kaidu River and Lianhai World."},{"id":"hoxud-golden-sand-beach","name":"Golden Sand Beach, Bosten Lake","name_zh":"金沙滩","pinyin":"Jīnshā Tān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":42.0481,"lon":87.151,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hoxud-golden-sand-beach","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A sand-beach resort on the north-eastern shore of Bosten Lake in Hoxud County, upgraded in 2024–25 with a visitor centre, lakeside promenade, jetty, hotels and guesthouses. In summer visitors swim and paddle, go sailing or boating, and join evening events such as bonfire parties."},{"id":"hejing-gongnaisi-forest-park","name":"Gongnaisi Forest Park","name_zh":"巩乃斯森林公园","pinyin":"Gǒngnǎisī Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":43.2411,"lon":84.6531,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejing-gongnaisi-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park in the Gongnaisi (Künes) valleys of the Tian Shan in north-western Hejing County, at an average altitude of about 2,000 m, where the main valley runs for some 40 km. Pure stands of Tian Shan spruce cover the upper valley terraces, giving way to mixed spruce, birch, aspen and willow lower down, with mountain and forest meadows between them."},{"id":"hoxud-hongshan-nuclear-test-command-centre","name":"Hongshan Nuclear Test Command Centre Site","name_zh":"红山核武器试爆指挥中心旧址","pinyin":"Hóngshān Héwǔqì Shìbào Zhǐhuī Zhōngxīn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":42.3857,"lon":87.3091,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hoxud-hongshan-nuclear-test-command-centre","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former Hongshan headquarters area of Base 21, the Malan nuclear test base, which from 1966 housed the command centre and research institutes for China's nuclear tests at Lop Nur, and where scientists such as Deng Jiaxian lived and worked. After the base's facilities fell out of use in the 1980s, the former research and command centre was developed from 2012 into the Malan military history park, which is open to visitors."},{"id":"yanqi-horashan-silk-road-village","name":"Horashan Silk Road Village","name_zh":"霍拉山丝路古村","pinyin":"Huòlāshān Sīlù Gǔcūn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":42.1069,"lon":86.0458,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yanqi-horashan-silk-road-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A farming village on the southern slope of the Horashan range west of Yanqi, developed as a rural tourism area and rated 4A in 2018, with a horse-culture hall, a market street built in the style of ancient Yanqi, farm restaurants, guesthouses and a visitor centre. The surrounding valleys hold yardang rock formations, rock art, a rafting run and the ruins of a Tang-dynasty Buddhist temple, which is a national heritage site."},{"id":"bohu-kaidu-river-scenic-area","name":"Kaidu River Scenic Area, Bohu","name_zh":"开都河景区","pinyin":"Kāidū Hé Jǐngqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.979,"lon":86.6154,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bohu-kaidu-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Riverside parkland along the Kaidu River at Bohu town, rated 4A in 2022, with walks, Tianhuwan Square and the 182 m Qinbo Bridge, whose glass-floored deck is lit with coloured lights and music in the evening. The Bohu County Ecological Museum, opened inside the scenic area in May 2025, covers the nature, history, intangible heritage and herding life of the Bosten Lake area over four floors. It is mainly a place for an evening stroll on the way to or from Bosten Lake."},{"id":"yuli-loplik-village","name":"Loplik Village","name_zh":"罗布人村寨","pinyin":"Luóbùrén Cūnzhài","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.088,"lon":86.1098,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yuli-loplik-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tourist village on the banks of the Tarim River in Yuli County that presents the culture of the Lop people (Lopliks) of the lower Tarim, relaunched in 2025 after a major upgrade. Its old-village area shows traditional Loplik houses, palaz weaving, fishing and hunting, and music and dance, a Silk Road bazaar recreates the trade of the ancient Lop Nur region, and camel rides and other desert activities are offered on East Sand Hill."},{"id":"hejing-manhan-khans-palace","name":"Manhan Khan's Palace","name_zh":"满汗王府","pinyin":"Mǎnhán Wángfǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":42.3178,"lon":86.3975,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hejing-manhan-khans-palace","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The palace of Manchuk Jab (Manhan), khan of the Old Torghut Mongols, built in 1919 in the centre of Hejing to a design by his uncle, the fifth Shengqin lama. The grey-brick and timber palace has about 60 rooms arranged around a two-storey main hall flanked by east and west wings, and now houses the Hejing County Ethnic Museum."},{"id":"ruoqiang-miran-ruins","name":"Miran","name_zh":"米兰古城","pinyin":"Mǐlán Gǔchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":39.2342,"lon":88.9394,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ruoqiang-miran-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a Silk Road oasis town where the Lop desert meets the Altun Mountains, once part of the Shanshan (Loulan) kingdom, with a large rectangular fort built under Tibetan rule in the 8th–9th centuries, Buddhist temple and stupa ruins and traces of an ancient irrigation system. Aurel Stein excavated murals here in 1907, including winged figures in a Roman-influenced style signed by a painter named Tita, and Tibetan documents found in the fort are among the oldest known in that script."},{"id":"yanqi-shikshin-temple","name":"Shikshin Temple","name_zh":"七个星佛寺遗址","pinyin":"Qīgèxīng Fósì Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.9316,"lon":86.3453,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yanqi-shikshin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The largest Buddhist site of the ancient kingdom of Karasahr (Yanqi), founded in the Jin period and abandoned only when Islam reached the area around the 15th century. The mud-brick remains of 93 buildings, including temple halls up to about 25 m across, stupas and monks' cells, spread over a ridge beside 11 cave shrines with traces of painting, making it the only site in Xinjiang that keeps stupas, halls, caves and living quarters together. Sculptures and murals removed by early-20th-century expeditions are now in museums in Berlin, London, Paris, Tokyo and elsewhere, and a site museum stands by the ruins."},{"id":"korla-swan-river","name":"Swan River, Korla","name_zh":"天鹅河","pinyin":"Tiān'é Hé","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.7324,"lon":86.1594,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=korla-swan-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped river corridor in Korla's newer districts, near Minsheng Bridge, with riverside walks, summer lotus beds and boat rides. It is mainly a place for an evening stroll rather than a sight in itself."},{"id":"luntai-tarim-poplar-forest-park","name":"Tarim Desert Poplar Forest Park","name_zh":"塔里木胡杨林公园","pinyin":"Tǎlǐmù Húyánglín Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bayingolin","lat":41.2576,"lon":84.2081,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=luntai-tarim-poplar-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park of about 100 km² on the middle Tarim River in Luntai County, set in natural desert-poplar (Populus euphratica) forest on the northern edge of the Taklamakan. A sightseeing train runs along a 17 km route with stops at lakes and viewpoints, and the trees turn gold from mid-October to early November."},{"id":"wenquan-adunqiaolu-site","name":"Adunqiaolu Site","name_zh":"阿敦乔鲁遗址","pinyin":"Ādūnqiáolǔ Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":44.992,"lon":80.5639,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenquan-adunqiaolu-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national heritage site in the upper Bortala valley of Wenquan County, protected for its tombs set in stone enclosures and its groups of rock art, and named among China's top ten new archaeological discoveries. Part of the site is laid out as the Adunqiaolu 'Mother Stone' scenic area, and a site park is under development."},{"id":"alashankou-border-tourism-area","name":"Alashankou Border Tourism Area","name_zh":"阿拉山口边境旅游区","pinyin":"Ālā Shānkǒu Biānjìng Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":45.1967,"lon":82.5636,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=alashankou-border-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The border tourism area at Alashankou, the rail and road port on the Kazakhstan border in the Dzungarian Gate, a pass with gales of force 8 or more on more than 180 days a year. Visitors see the national gate facing Kazakhstan's Dostyk, where guides explain the history of the broad- and standard-gauge railways and the China–Europe freight trains, and an import-goods shopping centre stands beside the visitor centre. The border-defence post known as the 'first post in the wind gap' is open by appointment only."},{"id":"wenquan-arixiate-stone-figure-tombs","name":"Arixiate Stone-Figure Tombs","name_zh":"阿日夏特石人墓","pinyin":"Ārìxiàtè Shírén Mù","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":45.1559,"lon":81.5222,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenquan-arixiate-stone-figure-tombs","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tombs of the Sui and Tang period on the Arixiate grasslands of Wenquan County, north-west of Harbuhu town and marked by standing carved stone figures, listed as a national heritage site in 2006. A second national listing, the Arixiate stone circles and cairn tombs of the Spring and Autumn to Warring States period, lies in the same part of the county."},{"id":"bole-bortala-river-scenic-area","name":"Bortala River Scenic Area, Bole","name_zh":"博尔塔拉河旅游区","pinyin":"Bó'ěrtǎlā Hé Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":44.8708,"lon":82.0616,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bole-bortala-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The scenic area strings together three landscaped river belts in the middle of Bole, the Bohe, Kaiping and Qinghe belts, about 4.8 km long in all and linking the old town in the north with the new town in the south. The Bohe belt, centred on Jinshui Bridge, has lakeside parkland including a Swan Lake zone, the Kaiping belt has a lake park with an evening water show, and the Qinghe belt has an ice rink and the Beijing Road night market."},{"id":"bole-dalete-ancient-city","name":"Dalete Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"达勒特古城遗址","pinyin":"Dálètè Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":44.7639,"lon":82.3366,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bole-dalete-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a large walled town, probably the medieval city of Bolad (孛罗) on the Silk Road north of the Tian Shan, occupied from the Kara-Khanid period around the 9th century until it was abandoned in the 14th. Rammed-earth inner and outer walls survive, the south wall for about 550 m and up to 3 m high, and excavations since 2016 have uncovered houses, a brick bath-house, kilns and workshops for crystal, iron and coins. A digital exhibition hall in the nearby village of Chagansumu is open to visitors as part of a planned archaeological park."},{"id":"wenquan-tianquan-hot-spring","name":"Etuokesai'er Tianquan Hot Spring, Wenquan","name_zh":"鄂托克赛尔天泉","pinyin":"Ètuōkèsài'ěr Tiānquán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":44.7995,"lon":80.8568,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenquan-tianquan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Etuokesai'er Tianquan ('heavenly spring'), also known as Xiao Wenquan, is a hot spring high in the Etuokesai'er River valley at about 2,650 m, and one of Wenquan County's three noted hot springs. The scenic area also takes in the river valley, the Narensala waterfall about 12 km west of the spring and the Daban glacier, with meadows where herds of horses graze. A resort complex has been under development at the spring since the early 2020s."},{"id":"jinghe-mutetaer-desert","name":"Mutetaer Desert, Jinghe","name_zh":"木特塔尔沙漠","pinyin":"Mùtètǎ'ěr Shāmò","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":44.6823,"lon":83.5784,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jinghe-mutetaer-desert","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A desert scenic area of sand dunes in Tuotuo town, Jinghe County, which held its first desert culture festival in 2018. Activities include off-road vehicles and sand motorbikes, a big-tyre dune vehicle and a dune-climbing challenge."},{"id":"wenquan-shengquan-hot-spring","name":"Shengquan Hot Spring, Wenquan","name_zh":"圣泉","pinyin":"Shèngquán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":44.9832,"lon":81.0375,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenquan-shengquan-hot-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Shengquan ('holy spring') is Wenquan County's best-known hot spring, used for about a century and the site of a sanatorium from 1954, now a spa complex in the county town with public pools, an outdoor bath, saunas and a hotel. The water is about 48–50 °C in summer and 41–42 °C in winter, and the Wenquan wetland and birch woods lie opposite."},{"id":"wenquan-river-valley-forest","name":"Wenquan River Valley Forest","name_zh":"温泉河谷林","pinyin":"Wēnquán Hégǔ Lín","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Bortala","lat":44.988,"lon":80.9966,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wenquan-river-valley-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside forest scenic area built in 2019 on the Bortala River just north of Wenquan county town, laid out around a 36 km greenway through marsh, sea-buckthorn scrub and woods of poplar and willow. It has a visitor centre, a tree-house and photo spots, and the greenway has hosted half-marathons. A neighbouring village runs farm restaurants and guesthouses."},{"id":"changji-beacon-towers","name":"Beacon Towers of Changji","name_zh":"昌吉州境内烽燧群","pinyin":"Chāngjí Zhōu Jìngnèi Fēngsuì Qún","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.1757,"lon":86.7884,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour per tower","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changji-beacon-towers","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A protected group of Tang to Qing beacon towers, Qing post stations and a stretch of Tang road along the northern route of the Silk Road through seven counties and county-level cities of Changji, from Manas in the west to Mori in the east. Most towers are rammed-earth, flat-topped pyramids; among the best preserved is the Tang tower at Wugongtai in Hutubi County, about 7 m high, whose rammed layers and timber reinforcing holes are still clearly visible."},{"id":"jimsar-beiting-ancient-city","name":"Beiting Ancient City (Beshbalik)","name_zh":"北庭故城遗址","pinyin":"Běitíng Gùchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.0964,"lon":89.1915,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jimsar-beiting-ancient-city/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The earthen ruins of Beiting (Beshbalik), seat of the Tang Beiting Protectorate and later the summer capital of the Uyghur kingdom of Qocho, which was the leading city on the northern side of the Tianshan for some 700 years until its destruction in the 15th century. Its nested outer and inner walls survive and have been part of the Silk Roads World Heritage listing since 2014; west of the city stands the excavated Uyghur Buddhist temple known as Xidasi, a two-tier mud-brick building with niches, statues and murals. A site museum explains the city's history."},{"id":"hutubi-century-park","name":"Century Park, Hutubi","name_zh":"世纪园","pinyin":"Shìjì Yuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.1835,"lon":86.8867,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hutubi-century-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large landscaped public park in Hutubi county town, used by local people for walks and for festivals such as the Lantern Festival light displays. It suits a short stop on the way to the Kangjiashimenzi rock carvings in the county's southern hills."},{"id":"changji-dushi-resort","name":"Dushi Tourism Resort","name_zh":"杜氏旅游","pinyin":"Dùshì Lǚyóu","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.1151,"lon":87.4194,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changji-dushi-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure resort north-east of Changji city that grew from a farm guesthouse opened in 1997 into a large complex of orchards, amusement rides, a water park and restaurants. It is aimed at families and day-trippers from Ürümqi and Changji, with fruit picking in season."},{"id":"changji-huaxing-youyou-valley","name":"Huaxing Youyou Valley","name_zh":"华兴悠游谷","pinyin":"Huáxīng Yōuyóu Gǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.2286,"lon":87.2882,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changji-huaxing-youyou-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A leisure park in the Changji National Agricultural Science and Technology Park north of Changji city, combining a winery, a small animal park, flower nurseries and an outdoor activity camp. It holds seasonal events such as Dragon Boat Festival activities and suits families looking for a short outing from Ürümqi or Changji."},{"id":"qitai-jiangbulak","name":"Jiangbulak Scenic Area","name_zh":"江布拉克","pinyin":"Jiāngbùlākè","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":43.6576,"lon":89.7385,"category":"nature","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qitai-jiangbulak","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 48 km² mountain scenic area on the northern slopes of the Tianshan south of Qitai, known for the dry-farmed wheat fields that roll across the hills below forest and snow peaks. Sights include the 'Tianshan wheat sea' viewpoints, Magouliang village, the Jiangbulak gorge, a flower meadow and a 'gravity hill'. Within the area lies Shichengzi, a walled Eastern Han town that some scholars identify with Shule, where the Han officer Geng Gong's garrison held out under siege; excavations from 2014 to 2019 uncovered its walls, gates and corner towers."},{"id":"hutubi-kangjiashimenzi-rock-carvings","name":"Kangjiashimenzi Rock Carvings","name_zh":"康家石门子岩画","pinyin":"Kāngjiā Shíménzi Yánhuà","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":43.8503,"lon":86.3183,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hutubi-kangjiashimenzi-rock-carvings","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Bronze Age rock-carving panel under an overhang of a south-facing red cliff in the danxia hills of south-western Hutubi County, with hundreds of carved human and animal figures. The upper, earlier carvings show a row of dancing women in tall headdresses and pairs of horses, while the lower scenes include tigers and crowds of male figures with explicit fertility imagery. Scholars date most of the work to the second or first millennium BC."},{"id":"manas-ancient-city-ruins","name":"Manas Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"玛纳斯古城遗址","pinyin":"Mǎnàsī Gùchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.3107,"lon":86.2409,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=manas-ancient-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The earthen walls of a Tang-dynasty garrison town, locally called Pochengzi, on the plain north-east of Manas town; it is the westernmost Tang city site on the northern foot of the Tianshan and stayed in use until about the Western Liao or Yuan period. Rammed-earth walls survive on three sides of a large rectangle, with traces of gates, barbicans, corner towers and a moat, and a ruined beacon tower stands outside to the south-east. Scholars identify it with the Tang post of Wuzai or the garrison town of the Qinghai army."},{"id":"manas-national-wetland-park","name":"Manas National Wetland Park (Yanfeitai)","name_zh":"玛纳斯国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Mǎnàsī Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.4321,"lon":86.1395,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=manas-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national wetland park formed by the Manas and Taxi rivers and the reservoirs and canals between them, piloted from 2011 and formally designated in 2016. Large numbers of migrating birds stop here in spring and autumn on the West Asia–East Africa flyway, and Yanfeitai is one of five visitor zones with boardwalks, viewing platforms, bird hides and a wildlife exhibition hall."},{"id":"jimsar-qianfodong-temple","name":"Qianfodong Temple, Jimsar","name_zh":"吉木萨尔千佛洞","pinyin":"Jímùsà'ěr Qiānfó Dòng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":43.9749,"lon":89.1191,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jimsar-qianfodong-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Buddhist temple and cave shrine near Jimsar town, rebuilt in the Qing dynasty and restored since 1993, now set in a temple park with halls to Kshitigarbha and Guanyin and a main Buddha hall. It holds temple fairs on Buddhist festival days, with prayer ceremonies, local opera and food stalls."},{"id":"qitai-tangchaodun-ancient-city","name":"Tangchaodun Ancient City","name_zh":"唐朝墩古城遗址","pinyin":"Tángcháodūn Gùchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.0294,"lon":89.5884,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qitai-tangchaodun-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of Pulei, a county town founded under the Tang in 640 and used by the Uyghur kingdom of Qocho, the Western Liao and the Mongols until it was abandoned in the 15th century, now on the north-eastern edge of Qitai town. The north wall still stands with the large earthen mound that gives the site its name, and excavations since 2018 have uncovered a Roman-style bathhouse, a Church of the East monastery with wall paintings and a Buddhist temple."},{"id":"changji-tingzhou-green-valley","name":"Tingzhou Ecological Green Valley","name_zh":"庭州生态绿谷","pinyin":"Tíngzhōu Shēngtài Lǜgǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":43.9875,"lon":87.3222,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changji-tingzhou-green-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside park about 13 km long on the Toutun River at the boundary between Changji and Ürümqi, created by a five-year clean-up, completed in 2021, of a valley once scarred by gravel pits and workshops. On the west bank Changji's green valley links five themed parks, from nature-restoration ponds and sports grounds to an industrial-heritage park, while the east bank holds the Bingtuan 12th Division's Toutun valley forest park. Footpaths run along the water, where ruddy shelducks and other water birds can be seen."},{"id":"manas-xiaolizhuang-reclamation-site","name":"Xiaolizhuang Military Reclamation Site","name_zh":"小李庄军垦旧址","pinyin":"Xiǎolǐzhuāng Jūnkěn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.4262,"lon":86.1802,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=manas-xiaolizhuang-reclamation-site","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former headquarters of a Bingtuan farming division, built from 1953 by army land-reclamation units on the east bank of the Manas River as a complex of Soviet-style farm buildings, including offices and a large assembly hall. In the 1950s and 1960s it was the administrative, economic and school centre of the area east of the Manas River; it later became an army base and fell into disuse after 1989. Several buildings were stabilised from 2016, and the site has since been used as a film location."},{"id":"changji-xinjiang-agricultural-expo-park","name":"Xinjiang Agricultural Expo Park","name_zh":"新疆农业博览园","pinyin":"Xīnjiāng Nóngyè Bólǎnyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.0514,"lon":87.3712,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=changji-xinjiang-agricultural-expo-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large agricultural showground and garden at the core of the Changji National Agricultural Science and Technology Park, with exhibition areas, glasshouses of tropical plants and fruit, and fields for picking fruit and vegetables. It holds flower shows and seasonal festivals and suits families and anyone curious about farming in Xinjiang."},{"id":"manas-zhonghua-jade-park","name":"Zhonghua Biyu Yuan (Manas Jade Park)","name_zh":"中华碧玉园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Bìyù Yuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Changji","lat":44.2805,"lon":86.2181,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=manas-zhonghua-jade-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large commercial complex in Manas town built in the 2010s around the trade in Manas green jade (biyu), with a jade and stone market, shops, restaurants and a sports centre. It hosts the county's jade culture festival and mainly suits visitors interested in looking at or buying nephrite."},{"id":"hami-baiyanggou-buddhist-temple","name":"Baiyanggou Buddhist Temple Ruins","name_zh":"白杨沟佛寺遗址","pinyin":"Báiyánggōu Fósì Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.0154,"lon":92.9817,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hami-baiyanggou-buddhist-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"These are the ruins of a large Tang-dynasty Buddhist monastery strung for more than 10 km along both banks of the Baiyang River west of Hami. The main hall once held a clay seated Buddha more than 10 m high modelled onto the cliff, with central-pillar caves, monks' cells, a lecture platform and a stupa nearby."},{"id":"barkol-lake","name":"Barkol Lake","name_zh":"巴里坤湖","pinyin":"Bālǐkūn Hú","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.6619,"lon":92.7715,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/barkol-lake/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Barkol Lake, known in Han times as the Pulei Sea, is a salt lake at about 1,585 m in the western Barkol grassland, ringed by the Barkol and Moqin Ula mountains. Its northern part yields salt and its southern part mirabilite and brine shrimp, and in summer herders pitch felt tents and graze their flocks on the meadows along the shore."},{"id":"barkol-old-city","name":"Barkol Old City","name_zh":"巴里坤古城","pinyin":"Bālǐkūn Gǔchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.5982,"lon":93.0007,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=barkol-old-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Barkol was a Qing garrison town on the grassland north of the Tian Shan, one of the four great military cities of northern Xinjiang, with a Han city built in 1731 and a Manchu city in 1772. Its long rammed-earth walls survive, and the scenic area follows them to the gates, a granary, the Xiangu temple, an old academy, an exhibition hall and an old-town culture street. The Kazakh pastures of the Barkol basin surround the town."},{"id":"barkol-dahe-tang-city","name":"Dahe Tang City Ruins, Barkol","name_zh":"大河古城","pinyin":"Dàhé Gǔchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.662,"lon":93.1822,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=barkol-dahe-tang-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Dahe is a Tang-dynasty town site of two adjoining walled enclosures on the flat floor of the Barkol basin. The western enclosure's walls still stand with corner platforms and bastions, and finds include Tang lotus-pattern floor bricks and eave tiles; the site is thought to be the Tang garrison of Ganluchuan."},{"id":"hami-east-tianshan","name":"East Tianshan Scenic Area, Hami","name_zh":"哈密东天山","pinyin":"Hāmì Dōng Tiānshān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.3335,"lon":93.7363,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hami-east-tianshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"This mountain scenic area north of Hami links four spots in the eastern Tian Shan: Mingsha Shan, a singing sand dune; the alpine meadows of Baishitou, named after a lone white boulder; Songshutang, cool in summer and snowy in winter; and Tianshan Temple, a viewpoint whose temple is said to date back to the Tang. A scenic road climbs through belts of Tian Shan spruce and Siberian larch, so a single drive passes from desert to snowy peaks."},{"id":"barkol-gaojiahu-wetland","name":"Gaojiahu Wetland, Barkol","name_zh":"高家湖湿地","pinyin":"Gāojiāhú Shīdì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.6321,"lon":93.2176,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=barkol-gaojiahu-wetland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gaojiahu is a spring-fed wetland of ponds, marsh and winding streams on the Barkol grassland, listed among China's important wetlands and home to water birds, with the snowy Tian Shan as a backdrop. Boardwalks cross the meadows and visitors can boat and fish, and the area has a visitor centre, a waterside restaurant, a glass water slide, star-gazing cabins and about thirty farm stays."},{"id":"hami-dahaidao-yardang","name":"Hami Dahaidao Yardang Scenic Area","name_zh":"哈密雅丹大海道","pinyin":"Hāmì Yǎdān Dàhǎidào","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":42.8452,"lon":92.7718,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hami-dahaidao-yardang","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"South-west of Hami, wind has carved the Gobi into a vast field of yardangs, ridges and mesas of clay and sandstone in shapes given names such as the Starship and the Horse's Head, along the line of the Dahaidao, an ancient short cut between Turpan and Dunhuang. The area is also where the fossil pterosaur Hamipterus was found, and in September 2026 it was inaugurated as the Hami Pterosaur–Yardang National Geopark, with the new Hami Pterosaur Museum inside. The museum's six oval halls display pterosaur skeletons and fossil eggs and embryos."},{"id":"hami-kings-mausoleum","name":"Hami Kings' Mausoleum","name_zh":"哈密回王墓","pinyin":"Hāmì Huíwáng Mù","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":42.8116,"lon":93.488,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hami-kings-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"For more than two centuries Hami was ruled under the Qing by a line of nine local Uyghur princes, and their burial ground in the south of the city mixes Islamic, Chinese and Mongol architecture. The largest tomb, of the seventh prince, is a domed brick mausoleum faced with green and blue tiles, beside wooden pavilion-roofed tombs of later princes and the Aitika Mosque, described as Hami's largest, with a flat roof carried on about a hundred red pillars. Next door the princes' palace has been rebuilt, and the two together form the Hami King scenic area."},{"id":"hami-museum","name":"Hami Museum","name_zh":"哈密市博物馆","pinyin":"Hāmì Shì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":42.813,"lon":93.4878,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hami-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Hami Museum, a national first-grade museum, holds the main collection of the Hami region, with stone tools, bronzes, painted pottery, woodwork, woollen textiles and naturally preserved mummies from prehistory to the Ming and Qing. The permanent display on ancient Hami highlights finds from the Yanbulaq cemetery and the Dongheigou site, the mummies from the Wubao cemetery are among its highlights, and a second gallery covers the region's geology. The same complex, the Hami Cultural Heritage Institute, also has an exhibition on the region's music, dance, crafts, food and festivals."},{"id":"hami-huancaigou-inscriptions","name":"Huancaigou Stone Inscriptions","name_zh":"焕彩沟石刻","pinyin":"Huàncǎigōu Shíkè","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.1996,"lon":93.7109,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hami-huancaigou-inscriptions","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lone boulder at the mouth of Huancaigou gorge, beside the old road over the Tian Shan from Hami to Barkol, carries inscriptions from three dynasties. On one face an Eastern Han text dated AD 140 is partly legible; another face bears a Tang inscription of AD 640 linked to the general Jiang Xingben, overcut in 1750 with the large Qing characters naming the gorge."},{"id":"hami-lafuqueke-ruins","name":"Lafuqueke Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"拉甫却克古城遗址","pinyin":"Lāfǔquèkè Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":42.9377,"lon":92.9072,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hami-lafuqueke-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lafuqueke is a Tang-dynasty walled town on the east bank of the Baiyang River at Wubao, split into northern and southern halves by flood erosion. West of the walls lie the ruins of a large Buddhist temple with a hall, caves, monks' cells and a stupa, and a cemetery to the north yielded Tang coins."},{"id":"yiwu-desert-poplar-forest","name":"Yiwu Desert Poplar Forest","name_zh":"伊吾胡杨林","pinyin":"Yīwú Húyánglín","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hami","lat":43.6746,"lon":95.1608,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yiwu-desert-poplar-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large forest of desert poplar (Populus euphratica) on the edge of the Naomaohu basin in Yiwu County, run as a national desert park and scenic area since 2004. A route of about 23 km leads past gnarled old trees, an area of ancient root forms and viewpoints such as Bow Mountain. It is also promoted as a base for star-gazing and drone photography."},{"id":"yutian-aitika-mosque","name":"Aitika Mosque, Yutian","name_zh":"于田艾提卡清真寺","pinyin":"Yútián Àitíkǎ Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":36.8531,"lon":81.6719,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yutian-aitika-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mosque in Yutian (Keriya) town, also known as the Yutian Grand Mosque, whose origins are traced to the 13th century. It was enlarged in 1665 and rebuilt in 1947 with funds raised by the local community, and it is listed as a national heritage site among China's modern historic buildings."},{"id":"qira-damagou-buddhist-temples","name":"Damagou Buddhist Temple Ruins","name_zh":"达玛沟佛寺遗址","pinyin":"Dámǎgōu Fósì Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":36.9465,"lon":81.0979,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qira-damagou-buddhist-temples","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A group of Buddhist temples of the Khotan kingdom found in 2000 in the scrub desert of Toplukdong, Damagou township, now shown in a heritage park. Temple No. 1, of the 6th–7th century, is a tiny shrine with a seated Buddha in Gandharan and Gupta style and wall paintings, protected by a site museum opened in 2007; the larger temples No. 2 and 3, probably of the 8th century, show features of the Tibetan period. The temples were abandoned when the Karakhanids conquered Khotan around the year 1000."},{"id":"hotan-museum","name":"Hotan Museum","name_zh":"和田博物馆","pinyin":"Hétián Bówùguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":37.0922,"lon":79.9254,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hotan-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The prefecture's main museum, which opened in its present form in May 2020. Its seven halls trace the history of Hotan, an oasis on the southern Silk Road and the seat of the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan, using models, holograms and animation alongside excavated objects, and include a hall devoted to the Niya site. Finds from desert sites that are hard to visit can be seen here."},{"id":"yutian-kurban-tulum-memorial-hall","name":"Kurban Tulum Memorial Hall","name_zh":"库尔班·吐鲁木纪念馆","pinyin":"Kù'ěrbān Tǔlǔmù Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":36.851,"lon":81.4812,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yutian-kurban-tulum-memorial-hall","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A memorial hall in the home village of Kurban Tulum, the Uyghur farmer known as 'Uncle Kurban', built in 2003 and enlarged several times since. After receiving land in the early 1950s he set out to thank Mao Zedong in person, and in 1958 he met Mao in Beijing with a Xinjiang farmers' delegation, a story later retold in songs and a film. The hall is on the national list of classic red-tourism sites and tells his life through displays and sculpted scenes."},{"id":"moyu-lalikun-wetland-park","name":"Lalikun National Wetland Park","name_zh":"拉里昆国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Lālǐkūn Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":37.3149,"lon":79.4737,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=moyu-lalikun-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Lakes and reed beds about 20 km north-west of Moyu town, where the oasis farmland meets the desert, designated a national wetland park in 2012. Visitors take boat trips through the waterways and watch the water birds."},{"id":"yutian-longhu-lake","name":"Longhu Lake, Yutian","name_zh":"龙湖","pinyin":"Lóng Hú","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":36.9418,"lon":81.397,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yutian-longhu-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reed-fringed lake on the edge of the Taklamakan near Xiwule township, reached through a belt of desert poplar woodland west of Yutian town. Developed as a scenic area since 2016, it has a pier, viewing platforms, a small science museum and the former home of Kurban Tulum. Fish were released into the lake in 2024 and 2025 to keep the water clear, and more water birds now winter here."},{"id":"moyu-old-town","name":"Moyu Old Town (Karakax)","name_zh":"墨玉老城","pinyin":"Mòyù Lǎochéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":37.2711,"lon":79.7428,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=moyu-old-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old quarter of Moyu (Karakax) county town, rated a 4A scenic area in 2020. Its square and streets host festivals and craft displays, including a regional intangible-heritage exhibition in 2025, and an experience hall introduces traditional herbal medicine beside a large riverside mural of a healer."},{"id":"minfeng-niya-ruins","name":"Niya ruins","name_zh":"尼雅遗址","pinyin":"Níyǎ Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":38.0214,"lon":82.7376,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2–3 days","days":2,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/minfeng-niya-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of Jingjue (Cadota), an oasis kingdom on the southern Silk Road that flourished from the Western Han to the Western Jin, scattered along the dried lower course of the Niya River deep in the Taklamakan. Remains of timber-framed houses, orchards, a stupa, Buddhist shrines and cemeteries lie among the dunes; they were first excavated by Aurel Stein from 1901 and again by Chinese–Japanese teams from about 1990. Finds include many Kharoshthi documents and the Han brocade armguard inscribed 'Five stars rising in the east benefit China', now in the Xinjiang Museum in Ürümqi."},{"id":"lop-rawak-stupa","name":"Rawak Stupa","name_zh":"热瓦克佛寺遗址","pinyin":"Rèwǎkè Fósì Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":37.3491,"lon":80.1592,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lop-rawak-stupa/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a Buddhist temple of the ancient Khotan kingdom on the sandy edge of the Taklamakan north-east of Hotan, centred on a large domed stupa on a cross-shaped base inside a walled courtyard. The courtyard walls were once lined with colossal clay statues and reliefs; Aurel Stein uncovered 91 of the statues in 1901, and by his return in 1906 treasure-hunters had destroyed most of them. Scholars date the temple to roughly the 3rd to 7th centuries, and a boardwalk leads around the remains."},{"id":"hotan-tuancheng-old-quarter","name":"Tuancheng Old Quarter, Hotan","name_zh":"和田团城","pinyin":"Hétián Tuánchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":37.1118,"lon":79.9354,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hotan-tuancheng-old-quarter","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A renovated old quarter of Hotan city around Gezi Xiang (Pigeon Lane), where traditional Uyghur courtyard houses with aiwan halls have been kept and the lanes turned into a garden-like district of homes, workshops, cafés and restaurants. It was named a national tourism and leisure block in 2023 and is liveliest in the evening, when music restaurants, book cafés and street performers open up around its public square."},{"id":"hotan-wuluwati-reservoir","name":"Wuluwati Scenic Area","name_zh":"乌鲁瓦提","pinyin":"Wūlǔwǎtí","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":36.825,"lon":79.4505,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hotan-wuluwati-reservoir","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large mountain reservoir at the point where the Karakax River leaves the Kunlun Mountains, formed by the Wuluwati dam, which was built between 1993 and 2001 for irrigation, flood control and hydropower. The scenic area around the lake is visited mainly for boat trips on the water and for the Kunlun setting."},{"id":"xaidulla-outpost-ruins","name":"Xaidulla Outpost Ruins","name_zh":"赛图拉哨卡遗址","pinyin":"Sàitúlā Shàoqiǎ Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":36.4138,"lon":77.9873,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under 1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xaidulla-outpost-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a high-altitude garrison post at about 3,800 m, on a river terrace where the Karakax River meets a tributary beside the Xinjiang–Tibet highway. First built in 1877 under the Qing after the reconquest of southern Xinjiang, it remained a garrison post through the Republican period into the mid-20th century. A walled barracks compound of cobble and mud brick and a hexagonal mud-brick watchtower on a small hill still stand, though both are badly eroded."},{"id":"qira-kunlun-mountain-scenic-area","name":"Xinjiang Kunlun Mountain Scenic Area","name_zh":"新疆昆仑山景区","pinyin":"Xīnjiāng Kūnlún Shān Jǐngqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":36.124,"lon":80.8417,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qira-kunlun-mountain-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large mountain scenic area in the central Kunlun above Ulughsay township, south of Qira, covering more than 596 km² of high grassland, valleys and snow peaks; it grew out of the Banlange summer pasture and was rated 4A in 2021 as 'Kunlun Shengjing'. Herds graze the meadows below the snow line, shuttle buses run up to viewpoints such as Diru Peak, and Kunlun-culture displays add to the scenery. It was named a national adventure-tourism scenic area in 2023 and passed the landscape assessment for 5A status in 2024."},{"id":"hotan-yotkan-ancient-city","name":"Yotkan Ancient City","name_zh":"约特干故城","pinyin":"Yuētègān Gùchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":37.1435,"lon":79.8274,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hotan-yotkan-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A walled tourist town opened in 2022 at Bagqi, about 5 km from the buried site of Yotkan, which scholars regard as the probable capital of the ancient kingdom of Khotan. Its design is based on a 10th-century Dunhuang mural of the Khotan capital: red walls enclose white Uyghur-style aiwan houses, a Xuanzang square, food lanes, craft workshops, guesthouses and exhibition halls. The original Yotkan site lies under farmland with nothing to see above ground, and some of its finds are in the Hotan Museum."},{"id":"lop-yulongwan-desert-park","name":"Yulongwan Desert Park","name_zh":"玉龙湾沙漠乐园","pinyin":"Yùlóngwān Shāmò Lèyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Hotan","lat":37.0966,"lon":80.2925,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lop-yulongwan-desert-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A desert recreation area in Duolu township on the edge of the Taklamakan, where visitors slide down the dunes and try other sand activities, and school groups learn about the shelter belts planted to hold back the sand. It was rated 4A in 2024 and has been a stop on the Taklimakan Rally."},{"id":"tekes-aktas-girl-peak","name":"Aktas Girl Peak","name_zh":"阿克塔斯姑娘峰","pinyin":"Ākètǎsī Gūniang Fēng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.346,"lon":81.7259,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tekes-aktas-girl-peak","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Upland grassland on the Aktas pastures north-west of Tekes, a 'sky grassland' of flower meadows in early summer, with primulas and globeflowers, and forest edges below snow peaks. The scenic area has boardwalks, wooden cabins and viewing decks, riding and cycling routes, and in winter snowmobiles, horse-drawn sledges and traditional horseback games."},{"id":"yining-baitulla-mosque-minaret","name":"Baitulla Mosque Minaret","name_zh":"拜吐拉清真寺宣礼塔","pinyin":"Bàitǔlā Qīngzhēnsì Xuānlǐtǎ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.9116,"lon":81.3208,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-baitulla-mosque-minaret","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Qing-era minaret of Yining's Baitulla Mosque (now the Jiefang South Road Mosque), completed in 1773 with Qing court funds and built by craftsmen from inner China. Shaped like a Chinese drum tower, it rises about 18 m in three timber storeys with green-glazed roofs above a brick-faced earthen base pierced by an arched passage. The rest of the old mosque was replaced by new buildings in 1995, leaving the minaret as its only Qing structure."},{"id":"huocheng-daxigou-fushou-mountain","name":"Daxigou Fushou Mountain","name_zh":"中华福寿山","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Fúshòu Shān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.3826,"lon":80.7593,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huocheng-daxigou-fushou-mountain","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Hills of wild fruit forest in Daxigou township, Huocheng County, where some 60 kinds of wild fruit tree grow, mainly wild apple, wild cherry plum, apricot and hawthorn; the wild cherry plum here is its only natural population in China. The slopes are white and pink with blossom in April, when a mountain-flower festival is held, and turn red and gold in autumn."},{"id":"zhaosu-dengta-educated-youth-museum","name":"Dengta Educated Youth Museum","name_zh":"灯塔知青馆","pinyin":"Dēngtǎ Zhīqīng Guǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.1207,"lon":81.0568,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-dengta-educated-youth-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A museum opened in 2014 at the former Dengta pasture near Zhaosu, where more than 80 educated youths from Beijing and Shanghai were sent to live and work in the 1970s under the 'up to the mountains and down to the countryside' movement. Photographs, documents and everyday objects in and around the old camp buildings show their work and daily life. The camp is a regional protected heritage site and the museum was the first in Xinjiang on this theme."},{"id":"yining-three-districts-cultural-centre","name":"Former Political and Cultural Centre of the Three Districts Revolutionary Government","name_zh":"三区革命政府政治文化活动中心旧址","pinyin":"Sānqū Gémìng Zhèngfǔ Zhèngzhì Wénhuà Huódòng Zhōngxīn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.9172,"lon":81.3011,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-three-districts-cultural-centre","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A reviewing stand, open-air theatre and stage completed in 1949 as the main gathering place of the Three Districts (Ili, Tacheng and Altay) during the Three Districts Revolution of 1944–49, now in Yining's People's Park. The two-storey Soviet-style reviewing stand faces a sloping auditorium that once seated about a thousand people, with the stage at the far end, and the grounds were used for rallies, sport, films and performances. The stand later housed the Ili prefecture museum until 2004."},{"id":"zhaosu-gedeng-stele","name":"Gedeng Mountain Stele","name_zh":"格登碑","pinyin":"Gédēng Bēi","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":42.9517,"lon":80.4933,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/zhaosu-gedeng-stele/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A stone stele with an inscription composed by the Qianlong Emperor to mark the Qing army's victory over the Dzungar ruler Dawachi at Gedeng Mountain in 1755, set up on the hilltop in the early 1760s. About 3 m tall, it bears the text in Chinese and Manchu on one face and Mongolian and Tibetan on the other, and stands in a pavilion reached by a stone path. It is the only one of the four steles on the Dzungar campaigns that still stands where it was first erected."},{"id":"gongliu-wild-walnut-valley","name":"Gongliu Wild Walnut Valley","name_zh":"野核桃沟","pinyin":"Yěhétao Gōu","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.3674,"lon":82.2706,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongliu-wild-walnut-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A valley in the hills near Gongliu town that shelters a rare natural stand of wild walnut trees, a relict species from the Tertiary period, within a scenic area of about 12 km². More than 350 rare plant and animal species have been recorded, and an exhibition hall on the wild walnut forest serves school and family groups."},{"id":"qapqal-nadaqi-niru-guandi-temple","name":"Guandi Temple of Nadaqi Niru","name_zh":"纳达齐牛录关帝庙","pinyin":"Nàdáqí Niúlù Guāndì Miào","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.8316,"lon":81.1805,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qapqal-nadaqi-niru-guandi-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A temple to the warrior god Guan Yu built in 1907 by the Xibe garrison of the seventh banner company (niru), whose ancestors were moved from Manchuria to guard Ili in 1764; it is the largest and best-preserved Qing Guandi temple left in Qapqal County. The main hall's side walls carry 24 painted scenes of Guan Yu from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms captioned in the Xibe script, beside a hall to three goddesses and a memorial hall. An iron bell cast in the 1810s–20s, inscribed in Chinese and Manchu, was brought here from a neighbouring company's temple."},{"id":"huocheng-guozigou-valley","name":"Guozigou Valley","name_zh":"果子沟","pinyin":"Guǒzi Gōu","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.4708,"lon":81.1403,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huocheng-guozigou-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A winding gorge about 32 km long through the northern Tianshan, named for the wild fruit forests on its slopes and long the main route from Sayram Lake down into the Ili valley, once a branch of the northern Silk Road. The G30 expressway crosses it on the Guozigou Bridge, now a sight in its own right, and the snow peaks, spruce woods and roadside viewpoints make it a regular stop on the drive between Ürümqi and Yining."},{"id":"huocheng-huiyuan-ancient-city","name":"Huiyuan Ancient City","name_zh":"惠远古城","pinyin":"Huìyuǎn Gǔchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.9924,"lon":80.906,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huocheng-huiyuan-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Huiyuan was founded in 1763 as the seat of the Qing General of Ili, the highest military and civil official in Xinjiang, and remained the region's chief city until Xinjiang became a province; after the old city was ruined in the 1860s and 1870s, a new town was built in 1882–93 about 7.5 km to the north. The new town keeps its bell and drum tower, a three-storey timber pavilion on a brick platform at the central crossroads, and the restored office compound of the Ili General, with exhibition halls on the generals' rule, a Confucian temple and other Qing yamen buildings. Two stretches of the old city's rammed-earth wall, each over 800 m long, survive in fields near the Ili River."},{"id":"yining-ili-prefecture-museum","name":"Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Museum","name_zh":"伊犁州博物馆","pinyin":"Yīlí Zhōu Bówùguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.9127,"lon":81.2605,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-ili-prefecture-museum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The prefecture's main museum, founded in 1993 and now housed in a large new building on Ruyi Street in western Yining. Its collection of about 6,500 objects is shown in permanent galleries on the Ili valley's history from the pre-Qin period, gold and silver work from the Boma tombs, and the region's nature and resources. It is a national second-grade museum and a useful introduction before touring the valley."},{"id":"yining-ili-old-town-kazanqi","name":"Ili Old Town (Kazanqi)","name_zh":"伊犁老城","pinyin":"Yīlí Lǎochéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.9095,"lon":81.33,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-ili-old-town-kazanqi","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The old quarter of Yining, about 3.5 km² of lanes with more than 300 traditional buildings and many courtyard houses in blue and white, where about 120,000 people still live. Visitors tour by horse-drawn cart or electric buggy, with home visits, craft workshops, song-and-dance shows and flocks of pigeons over the rooftops, and the Shaanxi Great Mosque stands inside the area. Long known as the Kazanqi Folk Tourism Area, it was renamed the Ili Old Town Cultural Tourism Area in 2024–25 as part of a bid for 5A status."},{"id":"yining-ili-river-scenic-area","name":"Ili River Scenic Area","name_zh":"伊犁河风景区","pinyin":"Yīlí Hé Fēngjǐngqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.8945,"lon":81.2813,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-ili-river-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A riverside park along the Ili River on the southern edge of Yining, popular with locals on summer evenings and for watching the sunset over the water. It has riverside paths and viewpoints, a campsite and space for open-air weddings, and has hosted a dragon-boat race at the Dragon Boat Festival."},{"id":"kuytun-jinxiu-garden","name":"Jinxiu Garden, Kuytun","name_zh":"锦绣园","pinyin":"Jǐnxiù Yuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.4297,"lon":84.8553,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kuytun-jinxiu-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landscaped park in the city of Kuytun, developed around the North Xinjiang Botanical Garden and used by local people for walks and open-air performances. The prefecture's 2022 plan lists old-style, Buddhist-culture and amusement areas among its projects there."},{"id":"tekes-kalajun-grassland","name":"Kalajun Grassland","name_zh":"喀拉峻草原","pinyin":"Kālājùn Cǎoyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.1192,"lon":81.8988,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tekes-kalajun-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A great sweep of alpine meadow on the northern slopes of the Tianshan in Tekes County, ranging from about 1,300 m to nearly 4,000 m and used as summer pasture by herders. With Kurdening it forms part of the Xinjiang Tianshan World Natural Heritage site. Shuttle buses link viewpoints in western Kalajun, known for its wave-like rolling hills, and eastern Kalajun, with flower meadows, the forested Kurdai canyon and views of snow peaks."},{"id":"khorgos-china-kazakhstan-tourism-area","name":"Khorgos China–Kazakhstan International Cultural Tourism Area","name_zh":"霍尔果斯中哈国际文化旅游区","pinyin":"Huò'ěrguǒsī Zhōng-Hā Guójì Wénhuà Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.1596,"lon":80.4158,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=khorgos-china-kazakhstan-tourism-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tourist zone at the Khorgos land port made up of the Chinese part of the China–Kazakhstan Horgos International Border Cooperation Centre, a cross-border trade zone set up under a 2005 agreement, and the National Gate area with an exhibition hall on the history of the crossing. Inside the cooperation centre visitors can walk through the passage linking the Chinese and Kazakh sectors, shop in duty-free malls on both sides and visit the China Culture Hall, while beside the gate are a Central Asian-style street and a 108 m sightseeing tower."},{"id":"gongliu-kurdening","name":"Kurdening Scenic Area","name_zh":"库尔德宁","pinyin":"Kù'ěrdéníng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.2444,"lon":82.916,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=gongliu-kurdening","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A broad valley on the northern side of the Tianshan in Gongliu County, unusual for running north to south and filled with primeval forest of Schrenk's spruce, part of the Xinjiang Tianshan World Natural Heritage site. Rivers, meadows and snow peaks frame the forest, and after spring rain low cloud often fills the valley. It also opens in winter for snow activities."},{"id":"yining-liuxing-street","name":"Liuxing Street","name_zh":"六星街","pinyin":"Liùxīng Jiē","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.9314,"lon":81.3064,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-liuxing-street","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A residential quarter of Yining laid out from 1935 on a six-pointed street plan, with lanes radiating from a central square through six wedge-shaped blocks of blue, green, orange and purple-painted houses and courtyards. Renovated from 2009 and named a historic and cultural district by the regional government in 2010, it is now full of guesthouses, cafés, craft shops and small museums, including an accordion hall, while residents of several ethnic groups still live there. Locals often dance to live music in the square on summer evenings."},{"id":"yining-county-vais-khan-mausoleum","name":"Mausoleum of Sultan Vais Khan","name_zh":"速檀·歪思汗麻扎","pinyin":"Sùtán Wāisīhán Mázhā","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.8527,"lon":81.9459,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-county-vais-khan-mausoleum","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Vais Khan, a 15th-century ruler of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate (Moghulistan), on the north side of the Abrel hills in Yining County. The present building dates from 1876, when local Muslims had it rebuilt by Han craftsmen as a four-storey pavilion of earth brick and timber with upturned eaves and a yellow-glazed roof, topped by a crescent. It is one of the four best-known mazars of the Ili region and has long been a place of pilgrimage."},{"id":"xinyuan-nalati-national-wetland-park","name":"Nalati National Wetland Park","name_zh":"那拉提国家湿地公园","pinyin":"Nàlātí Guójiā Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.517,"lon":82.7059,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyuan-nalati-national-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Reed beds, rivers, marshes and lakes in Xiaoerbulake town, Xinyuan County, a national wetland park since 2019 on a migration route for birds. Boardwalks, viewing platforms and boat trips lead through the reeds, and a scientific survey reported in 2024 found here the largest breeding colony of glossy ibis known in China."},{"id":"nilka-wetland-ancient-poplar-forest","name":"Nilka Wetland Ancient Poplar Forest","name_zh":"湿地古杨","pinyin":"Shīdì Gǔyáng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.8073,"lon":82.4415,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nilka-wetland-ancient-poplar-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Riverside woodland of old poplars and Tianshan birch along the Kash River just west of Nilka town, part of a belt of poplar forest that follows the river for about 110 km and a national wetland park since 2014. Boardwalks lead through the trees, where squirrels, foxes and pheasants may be seen, and a rafting stretch of about 2 km runs in summer."},{"id":"nilka-nulasai-ancient-copper-mine","name":"Nulasai Ancient Copper Mine","name_zh":"奴拉赛铜矿遗址","pinyin":"Núlāsài Tóngkuàng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.7652,"lon":82.4688,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nilka-nulasai-ancient-copper-mine","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Remains of a copper mine and smelting site in the Nulasai ravine of the Abrel hills south of Nilka, dated by radiocarbon from mine timbers to about 2,400 years ago, around the early Warring States period. Four mine entrances survive, one shaft about 20 m deep still shored with logs, and a slag heap in the valley has yielded ore, slag and lumps of roughly smelted copper matte. It is counted among the earliest copper mines and smelting sites found in north-west China."},{"id":"huocheng-princess-jieyou-lavender-garden","name":"Princess Jieyou Lavender Garden","name_zh":"解忧公主薰衣草园","pinyin":"Jiěyōu Gōngzhǔ Xūnyīcǎo Yuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.1682,"lon":80.7538,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huocheng-princess-jieyou-lavender-garden","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lavender park in Qingshuihe town, Huocheng County, set up to show the whole lavender industry, from nurseries and fields to oil distilling and product displays. Huocheng is one of China's main lavender-growing areas, and the fields are in flower in June, the garden's busiest time. It takes its name from Princess Jieyou, a Han-dynasty princess sent to marry into the Wusun, whose lands lay in this region."},{"id":"ili-qing-karun-outposts","name":"Qing-dynasty Karun Sites of Ili","name_zh":"伊犁清代卡伦遗址","pinyin":"Yīlí Qīngdài Kǎlún Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.5469,"lon":80.7815,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ili-qing-karun-outposts","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Sixteen surviving guard posts (karun, from the Manchu and Xibe word for a watch post) of the late Qing defence system around Ili, once manned by Manchu, Han and Xibe troops. Most are square rammed-earth forts about 30–35 m a side; Wutongzi in Qapqal keeps walls about 10 m high with corner towers, while others survive only as low wall stumps."},{"id":"yining-shaanxi-great-mosque","name":"Shaanxi Great Mosque, Yining","name_zh":"伊宁陕西大寺","pinyin":"Yīníng Shǎnxī Dàsì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.9107,"lon":81.3307,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yining-shaanxi-great-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The largest mosque among the nine Qing-era towns of Ili, founded in the mid-18th century by Hui settlers from Shaanxi and Gansu and brought to its present size by 1781. It is built in Chinese style, with a pagoda-like minaret and a prayer hall under tiled roofs, and some of its tiles and carved bricks were carried from Shaanxi. It stands inside the Ili Old Town tourist area."},{"id":"zhaosu-shengyou-temple","name":"Shengyou Temple, Zhaosu","name_zh":"昭苏圣佑庙","pinyin":"Zhāosū Shèngyòu Miào","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.162,"lon":81.1108,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-shengyou-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) temple built in 1884–98 by the Oirat Mongols of Ili with craftsmen brought from Beijing, described as the largest and best-preserved Tibetan Buddhist temple complex in Xinjiang. Eight of its original eleven halls remain, from the dance hall at the gate and the retreat hall to hexagonal bell and drum pavilions and the main hall, combining Chinese timber building with Tibetan and Mongol decoration. Six Tianshan spruces planted in 1889 still stand between the gate and the main hall."},{"id":"nilka-tangbula-grassland","name":"Tangbula Grassland","name_zh":"唐布拉草原","pinyin":"Tángbùlā Cǎoyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.688,"lon":83.7222,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=nilka-tangbula-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A chain of grassland, spruce forest and hot springs strung along the upper Kash River valley for more than 50 km in eastern Nilka County, often called the 'hundred-li gallery'. Some 113 side valleys open off the main valley, and the area is a national forest park popular with photographers and summer visitors. The name is explained locally as meaning 'seal' or 'imprint'."},{"id":"tekes-bagua-city","name":"Tekes Bagua City","name_zh":"特克斯八卦城","pinyin":"Tèkèsī Bāguà Chéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.2138,"lon":81.837,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tekes-bagua-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The county town of Tekes, laid out on a radial plan modelled on the eight trigrams (bagua) of the Book of Changes: from the Taiji altar at the centre, streets run outwards across four ring roads, 64 streets in all over about 8 km². The town was listed as a national historical and cultural city in 2007, and its centre is a 4A scenic area with a visitor centre and a night-time leisure district."},{"id":"yining-county-tianshan-flower-sea","name":"Tianshan Flower Sea","name_zh":"天山花海","pinyin":"Tiānshān Huāhǎi","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.7118,"lon":81.9755,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-county-tianshan-flower-sea","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An agri-tourism park developed since 2017 on former gravel desert in Kashi town, Yining County, covering about 46 km² of lavender, flower fields and orchards. Apricot blossom in spring, lavender in summer (now extended into autumn by late-flowering techniques) and fruit picking in autumn are the main draws, with campervan pitches, cabins and a lavender-oil distillery on site. It suits photographers and families rather than travellers looking for wild landscape."},{"id":"huocheng-tughlugh-timur-mausoleum","name":"Tughlugh Timur Mausoleum","name_zh":"吐虎鲁克·铁木尔汗麻扎","pinyin":"Tǔhǔlǔkè Tiěmù'ěrhán Mázhā","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.2401,"lon":80.5335,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/huocheng-tughlugh-timur-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Tughlugh Timur, a descendant of Chinggis Khan's son Chagatai and the first Mongol khan in the region to adopt Islam, built between 1363 and 1369 north-east of Huocheng. The two-storey mausoleum, square with a dome, has a great arched portal framed by Quranic inscriptions and covered in glazed tiles of blue, green, brown, white and other colours in Central Asian Islamic style. A smaller tomb of his son stands beside it."},{"id":"huocheng-tukai-desert","name":"Tukai Desert","name_zh":"图开沙漠","pinyin":"Túkāi Shāmò","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.0143,"lon":80.7991,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=huocheng-tukai-desert","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An area of mostly fixed and semi-fixed sand dunes beside the Ili River south-west of Huocheng town, described locally as the only desert inside an oasis in Xinjiang. Since 2021 it has been run as an amusement complex, Tukai Desert Happy World, with a desert water park, camel rides, dune buggies, ATVs and go-karts, and a staged song-and-dance show on the Han princess Jieyou."},{"id":"yining-county-tuohulasu-grassland","name":"Tuohulasu Grassland","name_zh":"托乎拉苏草原","pinyin":"Tuōhūlāsū Cǎoyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":44.2414,"lon":81.8839,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yining-county-tuohulasu-grassland","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Rolling hill grassland on the southern side of the Keguqin range of the western Tianshan, north of Yining County town, with spruce, streams and summer herds below snow peaks. The Kazakh name is explained locally as 'keep going and you arrive over the mountain', after an old herders' route between Jinghe and Yining that crosses the grassland. Sights include an apricot-blossom valley and Wuxifu Gou, a long forested canyon."},{"id":"xinyuan-xiaoerbulake-liquor-culture-town","name":"Xiaoerbulake Liquor Culture Town","name_zh":"肖尔布拉克酒文化小镇","pinyin":"Xiào'ěrbùlākè Jiǔ Wénhuà Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.451,"lon":82.9539,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=xinyuan-xiaoerbulake-liquor-culture-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A distillery town in Xinyuan County built around a large baijiu works, where visitors can see the Western Regions Liquor Culture Museum, a liquor street, a sauce-aroma baijiu workshop and a yard of decorated earthenware storage jars. It is a factory-tour stop on the main road between Yining and Nalati and a regional industrial-tourism site."},{"id":"zhaosu-xiaohongnahai-stone-figure","name":"Xiaohongnahai Stone Figure","name_zh":"小洪纳海石人墓","pinyin":"Xiǎo Hóngnàhǎi Shírén Mù","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.1239,"lon":81.1855,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-xiaohongnahai-stone-figure","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A warrior statue of reddish granite, about 1.8 m tall above ground, standing on a low earthen platform and carved for the tomb enclosure of a ruler of the Western Turkic Khaganate around 600 AD, most likely Nili Khagan. The figure wears a crown and braids and holds a cup and a short knife, with a worn Sogdian inscription of 20 lines below the waist. It is the centrepiece of the Grassland Stone Figure scenic area, where more than ten other stone figures stand."},{"id":"zhaosu-xiata-ancient-city-ruins","name":"Xiata Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"夏塔古城遗址","pinyin":"Xiàtǎ Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":42.8346,"lon":80.5219,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-xiata-ancient-city-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Ruins of a walled town of the Tang to Yuan periods in Kuositobie village, Xiate township, on the approach to the Xiata ancient road over the Tianshan. Stretches of earthen wall and scattered roof tiles remain, and a flood embankment built in 2019 protects the site from a nearby river."},{"id":"zhaosu-xiata-scenic-area","name":"Xiata Scenic Area","name_zh":"夏塔","pinyin":"Xiàtǎ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":42.668,"lon":80.5869,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-xiata-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The mouth of the Xiata valley on the north side of the Tianshan, with spruce forest, meadows and river valleys below the Muzart glacier and snow peaks. It is the northern end of the Xiata ancient road, a 120 km route across the mountains to Wensu County in the Aksu region that has long drawn experienced trekkers. Roads, parking and a shopping street were upgraded in 2024."},{"id":"qapqal-xibe-ancient-city-jingyuan-temple","name":"Xibe Ancient City and Jingyuan Temple","name_zh":"锡伯古城与靖远寺","pinyin":"Xībó Gǔchéng yǔ Jìngyuǎn Sì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.8351,"lon":81.0685,"category":"culture","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=qapqal-xibe-ancient-city-jingyuan-temple","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern tourist town in old style in Sunzhaqi Niru, a Xibe village outside Qapqal town, built around Jingyuan Temple, the Tibetan Buddhist (Gelug) temple of the Qing Xibe garrison, whose halls were rebuilt in the late 19th century on a Chinese plan with a Hall of the Heavenly Kings, a main hall and side halls. The town also holds the Xibe Museum, on the move of Xibe soldiers and families from Manchuria to guard Ili in 1764, and an archery museum, since the county is known for Xibe archery. A gate-opening ceremony is staged at the town gate."},{"id":"zhaosu-tianma-culture-park","name":"Zhaosu Celestial Horse Culture Park","name_zh":"天马旅游文化园","pinyin":"Tiānmǎ Lǚyóu Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":43.0362,"lon":81.0197,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-tianma-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An equestrian park at the Zhaosu horse farm, in the heartland of Ili horse breeding, with a national-standard racecourse, grandstands, an indoor equestrian hall and stables. It hosts horse races through the season and the Celestial Horse (Tianma) Festival, held in early summer, with horse shows and performances."},{"id":"zhaosu-jade-lake","name":"Zhaosu Jade Lake","name_zh":"昭苏玉湖","pinyin":"Zhāosū Yùhú","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":42.7369,"lon":81.0557,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-jade-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A glacier-fed lake dammed high in the Aheyazi valley of the Tianshan, whose milky blue-green colour, given by fine rock flour from the glaciers, shifts with the light. A one-way road up the valley leads to the Yujing Tianfeng viewpoint above the lake, and the woods around it turn gold from mid-September to early October."},{"id":"zhaosu-wetland-park","name":"Zhaosu Wetland Park","name_zh":"昭苏湿地公园","pinyin":"Zhāosū Shīdì Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ili","lat":42.9512,"lon":80.9663,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zhaosu-wetland-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Wetland and meadow along the upper Tekes River and its tributaries south of Zhaosu town, where some 90 bird species have been recorded, including demoiselle and common cranes, whooper swans and great bustards. On summer evenings herds of horses are driven through the river for a staged show, 'Celestial Horses Bathing in the River', watched from a viewing platform."},{"id":"dushanzi-grand-canyon","name":"Dushanzi Grand Canyon","name_zh":"独山子大峡谷","pinyin":"Dúshānzǐ Dàxiágǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Karamay","lat":44.1573,"lon":84.7556,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dushanzi-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Dushanzi Grand Canyon is a section of the gorge, about 200 m deep, that the meltwater-fed Kuytun River has cut through the gravel foothills of the Tian Shan south of Dushanzi. Walkways along the rim look down on walls scored with grey-black gullies and, from July to September, on meltwater channels braiding across the flat floor; the canyon has also been used as a film location. It lies near the start of the Duku Highway, the mountain road across the Tian Shan to Kuqa."},{"id":"karamay-heiyoushan","name":"Heiyoushan","name_zh":"黑油山","pinyin":"Hēiyóu Shān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Karamay","lat":45.6149,"lon":84.89,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=karamay-heiyoushan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Heiyoushan, 'Black Oil Mountain', is a low mound of natural asphalt just outside the city centre, formed over ages as crude oil seeped to the surface and set with the sand; Karamay, Uyghur for 'black oil', is named after it. Some 36 oil springs still bubble on the hill, twelve of them ringed with stone into little pools, and at one, the 'jumping spring', bubbles rise faster when visitors jump beside it."},{"id":"karamay-no1-oil-well","name":"Karamay No. 1 Oil Well","name_zh":"克拉玛依一号井","pinyin":"Kèlāmǎyī Yīhào Jǐng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Karamay","lat":45.5689,"lon":84.9131,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/karamay-no1-oil-well/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Karamay No. 1 Well struck oil on 29 October 1955, the discovery that opened the Karamay oilfield and gave rise to the city. The wellhead is preserved beside a memorial erected in 1982, at the centre of a sunken commemorative plaza with relief walls and two mirror-steel 'oil bubble' sculptures, completed in 2015. It is listed as a national heritage site, an industrial heritage site and a national red-tourism site."},{"id":"karamay-river","name":"Karamay River","name_zh":"克拉玛依河","pinyin":"Kèlāmǎyī Hé","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Karamay","lat":45.6108,"lon":84.9115,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=karamay-river","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Karamay River is a canal-fed waterway, opened in 2000, that brings water from the Irtysh diversion scheme right across the oil city to a reservoir on its south-western edge. Riverside parks and promenades run its whole length from Jiulongtan, a pool framed by traditional-style buildings at its head, under a string of footbridges and road bridges, making it the city's main leisure area."},{"id":"karamay-world-ghost-city","name":"World Ghost City, Urho","name_zh":"世界魔鬼城","pinyin":"Shìjiè Móguǐchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Karamay","lat":46.1144,"lon":85.761,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=karamay-world-ghost-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The World Ghost City, also called the Urho Wind City, is a field of yardangs on the north-western edge of the Junggar Basin, where strong winds have carved layered rock into shapes likened to palaces, towers, people and animals. It became Karamay's first 5A scenic area in 2020."},{"id":"dushanzi-first-oil-well","name":"Xinjiang's First Oil Well, Dushanzi","name_zh":"新疆第一口油井","pinyin":"Xīnjiāng Dìyī Kǒu Yóujǐng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Karamay","lat":44.3089,"lon":84.8543,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dushanzi-first-oil-well","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"In 1909 the Qing authorities drilled Xinjiang's first machine-drilled oil well at Dushanzi with a cable-tool rig bought from Russia, starting the region's modern oil industry. Today a short length of the drill casing stands inside a small concrete railing on the slope of the Dushanzi mud volcano, and the site of Xinjiang's first oil-refining still lies about 150 m to the east."},{"id":"kashgar-afaq-khoja-mausoleum","name":"Afaq Khoja Mausoleum","name_zh":"阿巴和加麻扎","pinyin":"Ābāhéjiā Mázhā","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":39.4908,"lon":76.023,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kashgar-afaq-khoja-mausoleum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The family mausoleum of Afaq Khoja, a 17th-century Sufi leader of Kashgar, begun in 1640 for his father, and popularly called the Tomb of the Fragrant Concubine after the legend of the Qianlong Emperor's Uyghur consort. Its square tomb hall, faced with green and yellow glazed tiles under a large dome and framed by four corner towers, stands at the back of the complex with the lecture hall, the Jaman mosque, the high and low prayer halls and the gatehouse. Since the mid-2010s the front part has been built up as the Xiangfei Garden, a themed area with a family history hall, displays on the Fragrant Concubine story, embroidery and craft stalls, performances and a staged welcome ceremony."},{"id":"bachu-red-sea-scenic-area","name":"Bachu Red Sea Scenic Area","name_zh":"巴楚红海","pinyin":"Bāchǔ Hónghǎi","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":39.7814,"lon":78.4172,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=bachu-red-sea-scenic-area","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large leisure area 12 km from Bachu county town that links a folk-culture village, a stretch of the old Silk Road route along the Kashgar River, Golden Poplar Island in the desert-poplar woods, the Red Sea Bay water park and wetlands. Developed since 2009, it has a core area of about 80 km² joined up by a 38 km touring loop."},{"id":"yopurga-dawakun-desert","name":"Dawakun Desert Scenic Area","name_zh":"达瓦昆沙漠","pinyin":"Dáwǎkūn Shāmò","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":39.0478,"lon":77.0354,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yopurga-dawakun-desert","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A desert scenic area on the western edge of the Taklamakan beside the Yarkand River in Yopurga County, where a lake lies among the sand dunes beneath the distant Kunlun range. Open since 2002, it offers camel rides, dune rides in off-road vehicles, sand sliding and water activities, with staged song-and-dance shows and an avenue of desert poplars at the entrance. It has been named a national water-conservancy scenic area and a national desert park, and lies about 100 km from Kashgar."},{"id":"markit-dolan-painting-village","name":"Dolan Painters' Village","name_zh":"刀郎画乡","pinyin":"Dāoláng Huàxiāng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":38.8349,"lon":77.6558,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=markit-dolan-painting-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A village of Dolan farmer painters in Kumkusar township just south of Markit, twice named a national folk-art village by the Ministry of Culture, whose painters have exhibited their work in China and abroad. The scenic area has galleries of farmer paintings, a gourd-painting hall, a hall of traditional musical instruments, a memorial hall on Taklamakan exploration and a square for Dolan song and dance, and visitors can often watch painters at work and buy their pictures. Dolan farmer painting was added to the county's intangible heritage list in 2021."},{"id":"yarkand-jame-mosque","name":"Jame Mosque, Yarkand","name_zh":"莎车加满清真寺","pinyin":"Shāchē Jiāmǎn Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":38.4122,"lon":77.2611,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yarkand-jame-mosque","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The oldest and largest mosque in Yarkand, whose founding is dated variously from 1409 to the 17th century, when it was enlarged and named Jame under Abdullah Khan, and which was repaired several times in later centuries. A gateway with a half-domed iwan, a balcony and paired minarets leads into a courtyard with a pool and willow and poplar trees, lined with the small rooms of the lecture halls. Behind a screen wall the broad, flat-roofed prayer hall stands on a platform, with slender painted columns and coffered ceilings whose motifs mix Uyghur, Islamic and Chinese designs."},{"id":"jiashi-chengzhong-poplar-park","name":"Jiashi Town Poplar Eco-Park","name_zh":"城中胡杨生态园","pinyin":"Chéngzhōng Húyáng Shēngtàiyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":39.4963,"lon":76.7091,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=jiashi-chengzhong-poplar-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An ecological park on the north-western side of Jiashi county town, opened in 2019 and planned over about 1,050 mu around a stand of desert poplars linked by waterways. Paths lead through the poplar woodland, flower beds and waterside areas, and there are fairground rides such as a pirate ship and a rainbow slide, speedboats, a poplar night market and a camping area. It works mainly as a town park, with local people making up about half its visitors, and makes a short stop on the road between Kashgar and Aksu."},{"id":"zepu-jinhuyang-poplar-forest","name":"Jinhuyang Desert Poplar Forest Park","name_zh":"金湖杨国家森林公园","pinyin":"Jīnhúyáng Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":38.0306,"lon":76.9747,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=zepu-jinhuyang-poplar-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forest park of desert poplars on the alluvial fan of the Yarkand River about 35 km south-west of Zepu, covering some 40,000 mu (about 27 km²), much of it natural poplar woodland, with water on three sides and the Kunlun range in the distance. Channels of the river wind through the forest between stretches of open gobi, and a 200-year-old Xinjiang poplar on the park's south-western edge is revered locally as a sacred tree. The leaves turn gold in autumn, and a small tourist train and electric carts run along the routes through the woods."},{"id":"tashkurgan-jirzankal-cemetery","name":"Jirzankal Cemetery","name_zh":"吉尔赞喀勒墓地","pinyin":"Jí'ěrzànkālè Mùdì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":37.8706,"lon":75.2261,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tashkurgan-jirzankal-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A cemetery of around 500 BC on terraces above the Tashkurgan River, where low round burial mounds lie beside long stripes of alternating black and white pebbles laid across the gravel ground. Excavations in 2013 and 2014 by the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences found pottery, wooden and bronze objects, iron pieces and glass beads, and the excavators linked the burials to early Zoroastrian practice. The name is a transliteration of the Tajik Jerzankol, 'the place where the eagle stands on the stone'."},{"id":"tashkurgan-khunjerab-national-gate","name":"Khunjerab Pass National Gate","name_zh":"红其拉甫国门","pinyin":"Hóngqílāfǔ Guómén","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":36.8504,"lon":75.4284,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tashkurgan-khunjerab-national-gate/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The national gate building at the Khunjerab Pass, where the Karakoram Highway (G314) reaches the border with Pakistan at about 4,700 m, on the only land crossing between the two countries. Rated in 2021 as a red-tourism scenic area, it centres on the gate, the boundary marker and a monument to the opening of the pass in the 1980s. The border port has been open all year round since late 2024, but the altitude makes even a short visit hard work."},{"id":"kashgar-mor-temple-ruins","name":"Mor Buddhist Temple Ruins","name_zh":"莫尔寺遗址","pinyin":"Mò'ěr Sì Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":39.6162,"lon":76.2535,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kashgar-mor-temple-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of the largest known Buddhist monastery around Kashgar, where two mud-brick stupas, one round with a domed top and one stepped and square, still stand on a gravel terrace. Excavations since 2019 have uncovered 18 buildings with 62 rooms, among them monks' quarters, halls and a kitchen, and many fragments of Buddha images; the monastery was founded around the 1st century AD and abandoned around the 10th century. It was named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2024, and its Uyghur name Mor, 'chimney', comes from local people taking the stupas for beacon towers."},{"id":"tashkurgan-princess-castle","name":"Princess Castle","name_zh":"公主堡","pinyin":"Gōngzhǔ Bǎo","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":37.2398,"lon":75.3682,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tashkurgan-princess-castle","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The ruins of a fortress dated to the Tang dynasty, listed as the Gongzhubao ancient city site, about 70 km by road south of Tashkurgan near the Kalachigu valley. Its name is linked to a tale told by the monk Xuanzang in his Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, of a Han Chinese princess on her way to marry a Persian king who was placed on a high rock for safety during local unrest."},{"id":"markit-n39-desert","name":"Taklamakan N39° Desert Scenic Area","name_zh":"塔克拉玛干N39°沙漠","pinyin":"Tǎkèlāmǎgān N39° Shāmò","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":38.8728,"lon":77.9078,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=markit-n39-desert","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A desert activity area among the Taklamakan dunes in Markit County, used for a stage of the Taklimakan Rally; its name refers to the 39th parallel north. Modified four-wheel-drive vehicles take visitors along beginner, intermediate and advanced dune routes, and there are camel treks along the sand ridges, sand sliding, study tours on desert plants, stargazing and desert camping. A 2.5 km desert road, a large car park and two viewing platforms have been added in recent years."},{"id":"tashkurgan-stone-city-pamir","name":"Tashkurgan Stone City (Pamir Scenic Area)","name_zh":"塔什库尔干石头城","pinyin":"Tǎshíkù'ěrgān Shítou Chéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":37.7828,"lon":75.2338,"category":"heritage","designations":["5A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tashkurgan-stone-city-pamir/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A 5A scenic area on the edge of Tashkurgan town built around the hilltop Stone City, the ruined walled town that was the seat of the Han-era kingdom of Puli and was greatly enlarged under the later kingdom of Qiepantuo, described by the monk Xuanzang on his way home from India. Its walls rise on stone footings with mud-brick above and enclose remains of the Jin and Tang periods and a Qing government compound, looking down over the meadows and streams of the Alar Golden Grassland wetland below. The area also includes the Caiyun Renjia Tajik folk village of traditional houses and a heritage park with Tajik music, dance and wedding-custom performances, and visits are made by shuttle bus from the visitor centre."},{"id":"shufu-mahmud-kashgari-tomb","name":"Tomb of Mahmud al-Kashgari","name_zh":"麻赫穆德·喀什噶里墓","pinyin":"Máhèmùdé Kāshígálǐ Mù","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":39.3143,"lon":75.51,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shufu-mahmud-kashgari-tomb","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The tomb of Mahmud al-Kashgari, the 11th-century scholar who compiled the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, a dictionary of the Turkic languages, in Baghdad in the 1070s; local tradition holds that he was born at Opal and returned there to teach. The shrine stands on a hillside of springs and old trees known locally as the Holy Man's Hill, with a gate, the tomb chamber and rooms for prayer, recitation and lodging in plain timber-and-earth construction. After earthquake damage it was rebuilt in 1984–86 in its earlier form, with an exhibition room added."},{"id":"tashkurgan-flowers-so-red-valley","name":"Why Are the Flowers So Red Scenic Area","name_zh":"花儿为什么这样红景区","pinyin":"Huā'ér Wèishénme Zhèyàng Hóng Jǐngqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":37.7379,"lon":75.5116,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tashkurgan-flowers-so-red-valley","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A long, narrow river valley south-east of Tashkurgan promoted as the home of 'Why Are the Flowers So Red', the song from the 1963 film Visitors on the Icy Mountain that the composer Lei Zhenbang adapted from the Tajik folk song 'Guli Bita'. The 985 km² scenic area takes in the valley's villages and about 5,000 mu of natural woodland, and is known locally as a village of song and dance."},{"id":"yarkand-khanate-royal-tombs","name":"Yarkand Khanate Royal Tombs","name_zh":"叶尔羌汗国王陵","pinyin":"Yè'ěrqiāng Hánguó Wánglíng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":38.4155,"lon":77.2551,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yarkand-khanate-royal-tombs/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The burial ground of the khans of the Yarkand Khanate, which ruled from Yarkand in the 16th and 17th centuries, lying behind the Altyn Mosque in the old town. In the mosque's courtyard stands the domed mausoleum of Amannisa Khan, a royal consort and musician honoured for her work in compiling the Uyghur Twelve Muqam, who was given an exceptional burial in the royal cemetery; the present memorial mausoleum was built in 1992. The Altyn Mosque itself is noted for its painted ceilings."},{"id":"yarkand-old-town","name":"Yarkand Old Town","name_zh":"莎车老城","pinyin":"Shāchē Lǎochéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":38.4149,"lon":77.2603,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yarkand-old-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The historic quarter of Yarkand (Shache), once the capital of the Yarkand Khanate, rated as a 4A scenic area in 2022. Its lanes include the Kazanchi old street, where coppersmiths and ironworkers make pots and other wares in open workshops among food stalls and shops selling farm produce, and visitors can try crafts such as Atlas silk tie-dyeing. Festival evenings and performances are staged in the old town, and the royal tombs and the Jame Mosque are close by."},{"id":"yengisar-south-lake-resort","name":"Yengisar South Lake Resort","name_zh":"英吉沙南湖","pinyin":"Yīngjíshā Nánhú","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":38.8938,"lon":76.1916,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yengisar-south-lake-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lakeside resort along the dam of a reservoir 5.5 km south of Yengisar town, inside a national wetland park. Along the shore are the Yengisar Knife Museum, devoted to the town's handmade knives, a bird science hall, a boat pier, a shopping street and a hotel, and it has been a regional study-tour base for school groups since 2021. It suits a stop for families or anyone interested in Yengisar knives on the road between Kashgar and Yarkand."},{"id":"shule-zhang-qian-silk-road-park","name":"Zhang Qian Silk Road Cultural Park","name_zh":"张骞丝路文化园","pinyin":"Zhāng Qiān Sīlù Wénhuàyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":39.3892,"lon":76.0671,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shule-zhang-qian-silk-road-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A park in Shule county town dedicated to Zhang Qian, the Han dynasty envoy to the Western Regions, centred on the Han-style Zhang Qian Memorial Hall and Shule Museum opened in 2010. Its galleries cover Zhang Qian's mission, finds from the ancient kingdom of Shule and local folk customs, using sculpture, reliefs, touch screens and projections. Two new venues opened at the end of 2025: the Kunlun Station Natural Science Museum, with about 1,400 animal specimens and models, and a nature-photography centre run under the Chinese National Geography brand."},{"id":"yecheng-zonglang-spring","name":"Zonglang Spring","name_zh":"宗郎灵泉","pinyin":"Zōngláng Língquán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kashgar","lat":37.6,"lon":77.3833,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yecheng-zonglang-spring","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A spring oasis at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, where water trickles from cracks in a cliff above the east bank of the Ulukustang River into a round pool about 10 m across, shaded by four ancient willows. The 18 km² scenic area adds wetland meadows and riverside walks, and an upgrade in 2026 brought an evening water show, kart track, water games, open-air dining tents and short helicopter flights over the oasis. The name is a transliteration said to mean 'water with fish', with lingquan ('miraculous spring') added for the spring's reputation."},{"id":"artux-aibifu-aijiemu-mazar","name":"Aibifu Aijiemu Mazar, Upper Artux","name_zh":"艾比甫·艾洁木麻扎","pinyin":"Àibǐfǔ Àijiémù Mázhā","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kizilsu","lat":39.6139,"lon":75.8867,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=artux-aibifu-aijiemu-mazar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A domed shrine-tomb in Upper Artux, rebuilt between 1889 and 1899 by local merchant brothers on a site venerated since the Karakhanid period; local tradition says it honours a merchant from Persia who cancelled the villagers' debts. The tall brick tomb chamber is crowned by a dome faced with blue glazed tiles and decorated with carved brick and plaster, and it survived the great Artux earthquake of 1902. A small mosque and lodgings for caretakers and pilgrims stand in the walled courtyard."},{"id":"artux-azihan-fig-village","name":"Azihan Fig Village","name_zh":"阿孜汗无花果风情小镇","pinyin":"Āzīhàn Wúhuāguǒ Fēngqíng Xiǎozhèn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kizilsu","lat":39.703,"lon":76.1578,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=artux-azihan-fig-village","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A traditional Uyghur village in Songtak town just outside Artux, protected as a traditional village and opened to visitors around its fig orchards and Artux-style houses. A folk-culture street, four themed lanes and a shaved-ice shop run by the same family for three generations are among the sights, and figs can be picked in season."},{"id":"akto-oytak-glacier-park","name":"Oytak Glacier Park","name_zh":"克州冰川公园","pinyin":"Kèzhōu Bīngchuān Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kizilsu","lat":38.9083,"lon":75.2328,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day–1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=akto-oytak-glacier-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain valley west of Oytak town in Akto County, where glaciers come down from snow peaks to forest, meadows and waterfalls. Viewpoints take in the glacier, avalanche slopes, waterfalls and small lakes such as Feitian Lake, and the park is visited as a cool summer retreat."},{"id":"kokdala-lavender-culture-park","name":"Kokdala Lavender Culture Park","name_zh":"可克达拉薰衣草文化产业园","pinyin":"Kěkèdálā Xūnyīcǎo Wénhuà Chǎnyèyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kokdala","lat":43.9556,"lon":80.9698,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kokdala-lavender-culture-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lavender park on the edge of Kokdala, the Bingtuan city of the 4th Division in the Ili valley, with lavender fields, a lavender science museum, a showroom for the park's lavender and fragrance products and a souvenir shop. The fields flower in summer, when the park is a popular photo stop and the lavender campground beside it, with water and charging points, fills with tents and camper vans; it suits a short stop on an Ili valley road trip."},{"id":"kunyu-47th-regiment-desert-veterans","name":"Desert Veterans Red Tourism Area (47th Regiment)","name_zh":"沙海老兵红色旅游区","pinyin":"Shāhǎi Lǎobīng Hóngsè Lǚyóuqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kunyu","lat":37.513,"lon":79.6432,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunyu-47th-regiment-desert-veterans","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A red-tourism area in the 47th Regiment's town, Laobing ('veterans') Town, on the southern edge of the Taklamakan, built around the Memorial Hall of the PLA's March into Hotan. In December 1949 about 1,800 soldiers of a PLA regiment crossed the desert on foot, some 790 km in 18 days, to reach Hotan, and many then stayed to farm here; the hall tells the story with photographs, objects and multimedia, and a monument on the square in front is dated 22 December 1949. Smaller sites nearby include a veterans' household museum and a memorial garden, and the town has guesthouses and a canteen themed on the early settlers."},{"id":"kunyu-tuerdi-aji-manor","name":"Tuerdi Aji Manor","name_zh":"吐尔迪·阿吉庄园","pinyin":"Tǔ'ěrdí Ājí Zhuāngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Kunyu","lat":37.7474,"lon":78.5005,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kunyu-tuerdi-aji-manor","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A manor house dating to 1915, known as the manor of Tuerdi Aji, on what is now the Pishan Farm of the Bingtuan's 14th Division. It is a national heritage site, listed in 2013 in the category of modern historic sites and representative buildings."},{"id":"shihezi-military-reclamation-sites","name":"Shihezi Military Reclamation Sites","name_zh":"石河子军垦旧址","pinyin":"Shíhézǐ Jūnkěn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Shihezi","lat":44.3012,"lon":86.0371,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shihezi-military-reclamation-sites","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Three early buildings of Shihezi, the city founded in the early 1950s by the army's 22nd Corps: the Soviet-style corps headquarters of 1952, known as the 'first building of the reclamation army' and now the Xinjiang Bingtuan Military Reclamation Museum; the 1952 assembly hall, later the People's Cinema; and the 1951 single-storey office and residence of the commanders Tao Zhiyue and Zhang Zhonghan. They stand on one axis in the city centre, and the museum tells the story of the Bingtuan's farming and city-building through photographs and objects."},{"id":"hoboksar-dorben-oirat-ancient-city","name":"Dorben Oirat Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"道尔本厄鲁特森木古城遗址","pinyin":"Dào'ěrběn Èlǔtè Sēnmù Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tacheng","lat":46.7999,"lon":85.7961,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hoboksar-dorben-oirat-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The earthen ruins of a walled town built in the 1640s by the Dzungar Oirats, whose Mongolian name means 'temple of the Four Oirats', and which served for a time as a political, economic and religious centre of the Dzungars. Its near-square rammed-earth walls, still several metres high, have gates on all four sides and enclose the foundations of two lama temples, a ruined Tibetan-style stupa and houses, on a rise among springs and wetland meadows. The town declined after the Qing conquest of the Dzungars, and the Torghut Mongols halted here in 1771 on their return migration."},{"id":"emin-wild-fruit-forest","name":"Emin Wild Fruit Forest","name_zh":"野果林","pinyin":"Yěguǒlín","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tacheng","lat":46.3723,"lon":83.9696,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=emin-wild-fruit-forest","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area in the Wuerkaxiaer Mountains about 30 km south-east of Emin, where rock outcrops, woodland and waterfalls fill the valleys and the slopes flower in spring and summer. The lower ground is used for Kazakh folk events under Emin's 'home of Kazakh folk customs' banner, with farm-stay restaurants, sports grounds and water play, while the upper valleys are kept for scenery and walking. Its snow draws visitors in winter as well."},{"id":"tacheng-hanaka-seyitqamal-minarets","name":"Hanaka and Seyitqamal Mosque Minarets","name_zh":"哈纳喀及赛提喀玛勒清真寺宣礼塔","pinyin":"Hānàkā jí Sàitíkāmǎlè Qīngzhēnsì Xuānlǐtǎ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tacheng","lat":46.7491,"lon":82.9836,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tacheng-hanaka-seyitqamal-minarets","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Two red-brick minarets in Shuangta (Twin Towers) Park in central Tacheng, the surviving parts of the Seyitqamal mosque, founded in 1885 by the Uzbek mullah Seyitqamal, and the Hanaka mosque, built from 1910 by Uzbek Muslims, whose minaret was begun in 1928. The octagonal Hanaka tower has two railed balconies and carved floral and geometric panels, while the Seyitqamal tower rises from a square base with relief columns to a blue-glazed top. Both combine Uyghur and Russian architectural features."},{"id":"shawan-lujiaowan","name":"Lujiaowan (Antler Bay)","name_zh":"鹿角湾","pinyin":"Lùjiǎo Wān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tacheng","lat":43.9853,"lon":85.1716,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shawan-lujiaowan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area of more than 19,000 ha on the north slope of the Tianshan south-west of Shawan, made up of Big and Little Lujiaowan between the Bayingou River on the west and the Danangou valley on the east. Its name, 'antler bay', comes from the antlers that the Tianshan red deer shed each year and leave in the gullies and beside the streams."},{"id":"hoboksar-songhai-bay","name":"Songhai Bay","name_zh":"松海湾","pinyin":"Sōnghǎi Wān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tacheng","lat":47.0235,"lon":85.9575,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=hoboksar-songhai-bay","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A forested valley on the south slope of the Saier Mountains, also called the Haergatu White Pine Forest Park and known locally as Songshugou ('pine valley'), through which highway G219 climbs at around 1,800 m. Siberian larch and tall poplars cover the slopes, and at the top lie the Yukuqiaolong summit pastures and the small 'Love Lake', reached by a 1,314-step trail and circled by a 900 m boardwalk. The area also takes in Niushitou grassland and ancient remains including stone-mound tombs and so-called 'beard tombs'."},{"id":"tacheng-red-building","name":"Tacheng Red Building","name_zh":"塔城红楼","pinyin":"Tǎchéng Hónglóu","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tacheng","lat":46.7499,"lon":82.9757,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tacheng-red-building","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A Russian-style brick trading house in central Tacheng, built from 1910 and completed in 1914 as the business centre of the Jixiangyong firm of a Tatar merchant from Russia, and named for the iron-red paint of its street walls. It later served as a hospital, government offices and a newspaper office, and after restoration it houses the Red Building Museum, whose collection of some 7,900 objects covers the history of the Tacheng region. The L-shaped building keeps its green iron roof, white window frames and the date 1914 on its walls."},{"id":"wusu-foshan-forest-park","name":"Wusu Foshan National Forest Park","name_zh":"佛山国家森林公园","pinyin":"Fóshān Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tacheng","lat":44.1291,"lon":84.552,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wusu-foshan-forest-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A national forest park of 39,000 ha in the Tianshan south of Wusu, made up of the Daifuseng, Bayingou and Wulansadeke areas of mountain forest, grassy slopes and river valleys. Its emblem is the 3,946 m Snow Buddha peak, likened to a giant natural Buddha, and it also has a sub-alpine botanical garden. Formerly Wusu's Nanshan park, it became a national forest park in 2008 and is a favourite summer outing for people from Wusu and nearby cities."},{"id":"tumxuk-tang-wangcheng-ruins","name":"Tang Wangcheng (Toqquz Saray) Ruins","name_zh":"唐王城","pinyin":"Tángwáng Chéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tumxuk","lat":39.979,"lon":79.0333,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tumxuk-tang-wangcheng-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Ruins of a walled town on a rocky hill north of Tumxuk, known in Uyghur as Toqquz Saray ('nine stations'), which was the seat of the small kingdom of Weitou under the Han and the Tang garrison town of Jushide on the road between Kucha and Kashgar. Three rings of earth-and-stone walls climb the hillside to a beacon tower at the top, with remains of Buddhist temples below. Excavations resumed in 2022, and some of the finds, including Buddhist figures, coins and pottery, are shown in Tumxuk's archaeology exhibition hall."},{"id":"tumxuk-yong-an-lake","name":"Yong'an Lake","name_zh":"永安湖","pinyin":"Yǒng'ān Hú","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Tumxuk","lat":39.7505,"lon":78.9845,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tumxuk-yong-an-lake","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A lake-and-desert recreation area on Yong'an Lake, part of the wetlands of the lower Yarkand River south of Tumxuk, where open water, reed beds, desert poplars, sand dunes and a bare mountain ridge lie side by side. The wetland reserve around the lake is a stopover for migrating birds, and visitors come for boat trips, autumn colours and desert sunsets. A desert activity area offers sand-motorbike rides and in winter becomes a snow park with a 300 m ski run."},{"id":"turpan-astana-cemetery","name":"Astana Cemetery","name_zh":"阿斯塔那古墓群","pinyin":"Āsītǎnà Gǔmùqún","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.881,"lon":89.5269,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-astana-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Astana was the main burial ground of the people of Gaochang from about the 4th to the 8th century, laid out in family plots on the gravel plain a few kilometres from the old city. The dry climate preserved silks, paper documents, food and natural mummies in the tombs, and much of what was found is now held by the Xinjiang Museum in Ürümqi and the Turpan Museum."},{"id":"turpan-bezeklik-caves","name":"Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves","name_zh":"柏孜克里克千佛洞","pinyin":"Bózīkèlǐkè Qiānfó Dòng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9565,"lon":89.5391,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-bezeklik-caves/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Cut into a cliff above the Mutou Valley in the Flaming Mountains, Bezeklik was a Buddhist cave monastery used from about the 5th to the 14th century and served as a royal temple of the Uyghur Qocho kingdom; 83 caves survive, more than 40 with murals. Many paintings were cut away by foreign expeditions in the early 20th century and are now in museums abroad, but murals of Buddhas, bodhisattvas and Uyghur donors remain in the open caves, and since May 2026 the route climbs from the monks' living area to the caves, taking in a stupa ruin and Cave 9. Four caves of the nearby Shengjinkou Grottoes, part of the same protected site, opened to visitors in April 2025 with a daily limit and real-name booking."},{"id":"turpan-boxiha-caves","name":"Boxiha Caves","name_zh":"伯西哈石窟","pinyin":"Bóxīhā Shíkū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9751,"lon":89.5236,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=turpan-boxiha-caves","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A small Buddhist cave temple of the Uyghur Qocho kingdom in the Mutou Valley area near Bezeklik, with ten caves and stupa remains on the ground above. Its murals show strong Central Plains influence and include a rare scene from the Vimalakirti Sutra."},{"id":"turpan-emin-minaret","name":"Emin Minaret","name_zh":"苏公塔","pinyin":"Sūgōng Tǎ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9344,"lon":89.2035,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-emin-minaret/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Emin Minaret is a tapering tower of sun-dried brick built around 1777 in honour of Emin Khoja, a Turpan ruler who sided with the Qing; it is also called the Sugong Tower in Chinese. Its walls are laid in more than ten geometric brick patterns, and it stands beside a large mud-brick mosque with domed halls and the Emin family cemetery. The complex sits among vineyards on the south-eastern edge of Turpan."},{"id":"turpan-flaming-mountains","name":"Flaming Mountains","name_zh":"火焰山","pinyin":"Huǒyàn Shān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9176,"lon":89.5116,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-flaming-mountains/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Flaming Mountains are a long ridge of bare red sandstone across the Turpan basin, so deeply gullied that at certain times of day they look as if they are on fire; in the novel Journey to the West the Monkey King has to borrow a magic palm-leaf fan to put out their flames. The scenic area at their foot has underground galleries on the geology and the legend, a giant thermometer, and statues of Xuanzang and his companions. Since August 2025 the original and the newer neighbouring site have been run as one area, linked by shuttle carts, with donkey-cart and camel rides."},{"id":"turpan-gaochang-ruins","name":"Gaochang Ruins","name_zh":"高昌故城","pinyin":"Gāochāng Gùchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.85,"lon":89.5235,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-gaochang-ruins/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Gaochang, also known as Qocho, was the leading city of the Turpan basin for some 1,400 years: capital of the Gaochang kingdom, a Tang county seat and then capital of the Uyghur Qocho kingdom, until war destroyed it in the 14th century. Within its eroded mud walls you can still trace the outer city, inner city and palace citadel, and the best-preserved buildings are the Great Buddhist Temple and the south-western temple. Boardwalks and shuttle carts link the ruins to a visitor centre opened in 2016, and the site is part of the Silk Road World Heritage listing."},{"id":"turpan-grape-valley","name":"Grape Valley","name_zh":"葡萄沟","pinyin":"Pútáo Gōu","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.97,"lon":89.2173,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-grape-valley/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Grape Valley is a green gorge cut into the Flaming Mountains on the north-eastern edge of Turpan, watered by the snow-fed Buyluk River and lined with vineyards, orchards and Uyghur villages. Walk among trellised vines and the airy drying houses used to make raisins, and explore old lanes such as Frog Lane, where karez water still runs past the houses. Grapes ripen from late summer, the season of Turpan's annual grape festival."},{"id":"turpan-huoshanhong-winery","name":"Huoshanhong Winery","name_zh":"火山红酒庄","pinyin":"Huǒshānhóng Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":43.0036,"lon":89.1379,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=turpan-huoshanhong-winery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A modern winery and leisure resort in Turpan's Gaochang District, where visitors ride sightseeing carts round the estate. Its 3 km underground cellar has been turned into a gallery on the history of wine with tasting areas, the production hall is open as a factory tour, and the estate has a hotel built in the shape of oak wine barrels."},{"id":"turpan-karez-folk-park","name":"Karez Folk Custom Park","name_zh":"坎儿井民俗园","pinyin":"Kǎn'érjǐng Mínsú Yuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9511,"lon":89.1459,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=turpan-karez-folk-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A company-run park opened in 2000 on the West Gate karez, an old underground irrigation channel on the western edge of Turpan's old town. Visitors walk down to a stretch of the karez and its outlet, see a small karez museum, and can eat, shop and stay in the park's Uyghur-style hotel and guest rooms among the vines. The park also stages an outdoor song-and-dance show about the karez."},{"id":"shanshan-kumtag-desert","name":"Kumtag Desert Scenic Area, Shanshan","name_zh":"库木塔格沙漠","pinyin":"Kùmùtǎgé Shāmò","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.8447,"lon":90.2065,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanshan-kumtag-desert","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The dunes of the Kumtag Desert, whose Uyghur name means 'sand mountains', run right up to the southern edge of Shanshan town. Visitors play on the dunes by day, and the scenic area regularly runs evening bonfire parties, folk performances and star-gazing camps. It was designated a national key scenic area in 2002."},{"id":"shanshan-liuzhong-ruins","name":"Liuzhong Ancient City Ruins","name_zh":"柳中古城遗址","pinyin":"Liǔzhōng Gǔchéng Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.7433,"lon":89.7523,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanshan-liuzhong-ruins","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Liuzhong, today's Lukqun, was a garrison town from the Eastern Han dynasty, when Ban Yong based his Western Regions headquarters here in AD 123, and later a Tang county seat. Little survives among the houses of the town: the main remnant is a tall stretch of the inner city's west wall, with further wall fragments in courtyards and the earth platform of an 18th-century prince's palace."},{"id":"shanshan-loulan-winery","name":"Loulan Winery","name_zh":"楼兰酒庄","pinyin":"Lóulán Jiǔzhuāng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9054,"lon":90.2953,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shanshan-loulan-winery","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A working winery of the Turpan Loulan Winery company at Shuangshuimo in Shanshan County, rated as a 4A scenic area in 2023. Visitors can tour the estate and its wine museum, which presents the grape-growing and winemaking of the Turpan basin."},{"id":"turpan-taizang-pagoda","name":"Taizang Pagoda Ruins","name_zh":"台藏塔遗址","pinyin":"Táizàng Tǎ Yízhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.8685,"lon":89.5183,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"Under an hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-taizang-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Taizang Pagoda is the ruin of a large Buddhist temple-stupa from the Tang and Uyghur Qocho periods, a square mud-brick and rammed-earth mass that still rises in stepped tiers lined with niches, some with traces of paint. It stands on the plain below the Flaming Mountains a short distance from the Gaochang ruins and the Astana cemetery. The ruin was consolidated in 2009–2010 and fenced, with a gate and a small management building."},{"id":"turpan-karez-paradise","name":"Turpan Karez Paradise","name_zh":"坎儿井乐园","pinyin":"Kǎn'érjǐng Lèyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9807,"lon":89.1291,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-karez-paradise/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Turpan's karez are hand-dug underground channels that carry snowmelt from the Tian Shan across the gravel plain to the oases, and this park, opened in 1992 by the Xinjiang Karez Research Association, is a place to see one from the inside. A walkway more than 10 m below ground follows part of an old working karez past its tunnel and vertical shafts, and a museum explains with models and photographs how the system was dug and maintained. There is also a display of surface construction work, a vineyard watered by the karez and a raisin drying house."},{"id":"turpan-museum","name":"Turpan Museum","name_zh":"吐鲁番博物馆","pinyin":"Tǔlǔfān Bówùguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.9413,"lon":89.1885,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/turpan-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Turpan Museum is one of China's national first-grade museums and holds finds from the oasis's ancient cities and cemeteries. Its galleries, closed since 2025 for an extension, covered Turpan's history along the Silk Road, documents excavated at Astana and other sites, ancient coins and naturally preserved mummies with their grave goods, and a separate hall showed fossils of the giant hornless rhinoceros Paraceratherium."},{"id":"shanshan-tuyoq-valley","name":"Tuyoq Valley","name_zh":"吐峪沟","pinyin":"Tǔyùgōu","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Turpan","lat":42.8567,"lon":89.6908,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A","national"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shanshan-tuyoq-valley/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Tuyoq is an oasis village of mud-brick Uyghur houses in a gorge through the Flaming Mountains, with Buddhist cave temples cut into the valley walls above it. The caves, begun in the 5th century, are among the earliest in the Turpan basin: 157 caves, three temples and nine stupas survive, and after long conservation work several caves with murals opened to visitors in May 2025. The 4A scenic area takes in the restored village, with craft workshops and food stalls, the grottoes and walks or viewpoints over the canyon."},{"id":"urumqi-amalong-fantasy-park","name":"Amalong Fantasy Park","name_zh":"阿唛龙幻想乐园","pinyin":"Āmàilóng Huànxiǎng Lèyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.8302,"lon":87.4202,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-amalong-fantasy-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"An amusement park in the Ürümqi Economic and Technological Development Zone, on the western side of the city. It is a modern theme park for families with children rather than a sightseeing destination."},{"id":"dabancheng-baishuijian-ancient-town","name":"Baishuijian Ancient Town","name_zh":"白水涧古镇","pinyin":"Báishuǐjiàn Gǔzhèn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.3258,"lon":88.3346,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=dabancheng-baishuijian-ancient-town","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A tourist town built in old style beside the Baiyang River gorge at Dabancheng, reopened in 2014 after older buildings on the site were refitted, with a mock-Tang city gate where a staged welcome dance is performed, a folk-custom street, craft workshops, inns and a wetland park. It has an art museum for the composer Wang Luobin, whose 1938 song 'The Girl from Dabancheng' is named after the town, and next to it stands the small Xiakou fort on a rocky knoll, presented as the ruins of a Tang post although excavation in 2016 dated it to the Qing dynasty. It makes an easy stop on the road between Ürümqi and Turpan."},{"id":"urumqi-eighth-route-army-office","name":"Eighth Route Army Xinjiang Office","name_zh":"八路军驻新疆办事处旧址","pinyin":"Bālùjūn Zhù Xīnjiāng Bànshìchù Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.7724,"lon":87.6128,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/urumqi-eighth-route-army-office/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The former Eighth Route Army office in Xinjiang, which worked from 1937 to 1942, when the Communist Party kept representatives such as Chen Yun, Deng Fa and Chen Tanqiu in Dihua (Ürümqi) under the provincial ruler Sheng Shicai; Zhou Enlai and Wang Jiaxiang were among those who stayed there. The surviving two-storey building, put up as a private house in 1928–33, was used by the representatives from 1938. A memorial hall opened on the site in 1963, and an exhibition building completed in 2021 presents the office's history."},{"id":"urumqi-hongguangshan","name":"Hongguangshan Scenic Area","name_zh":"红光山","pinyin":"Hóngguāng Shān","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.8736,"lon":87.6046,"category":"culture","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-hongguangshan","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill on the northern edge of central Ürümqi, between the Xinjiang International Convention and Exhibition Centre and the Olympic Sports Centre, crowned by the Hongguangshan Grand Buddha Temple, a Chinese Buddhist temple complex that opened to the public in 2021. A stairway lined with statues of the Buddha's ten disciples climbs to a large Buddha figure on a lotus platform."},{"id":"urumqi-hongshan-park","name":"Hongshan Park","name_zh":"红山公园","pinyin":"Hóngshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.8069,"lon":87.6014,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/urumqi-hongshan-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A hill park in central Ürümqi around Hong Shan, the 'Red Mountain' of Permian red sandstone that serves as the city's emblem, laid out in 1985 after decades of tree-planting. The Hongshan Pagoda on the summit is a regional heritage site, and the park also has old-style buildings including a viewing tower and a Buddhist temple, a statue of Lin Zexu and a lake with fairground rides; a temple fair is held around the Lunar New Year."},{"id":"urumqi-mao-zemin-former-residence","name":"Mao Zemin's Former Residence","name_zh":"毛泽民故居","pinyin":"Máo Zémín Gùjū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.7912,"lon":87.6203,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-mao-zemin-former-residence","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The small office and home of Mao Zemin, Mao Zedong's younger brother, who lived here while serving as acting head of the Xinjiang provincial finance department in 1940–41. The two-and-a-half-room earth-and-timber house, which he designed himself and which was rebuilt in its original style in 1996, is furnished as reconstructed from later recollections and forms the core of the Mao Zemin Former Residence Memorial Hall."},{"id":"urumqi-shaanxi-grand-mosque","name":"Shaanxi Grand Mosque","name_zh":"陕西大寺","pinyin":"Shǎnxī Dàsì","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.7879,"lon":87.6182,"category":"culture","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/urumqi-shaanxi-grand-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Ürümqi's largest Hui mosque, founded in 1883 by Muslims from the Wei River valley of Shaanxi, rebuilt between 1902 and 1906 and long counted first among the city's historic Hui congregations. Its prayer hall is built in Chinese timber-frame style with green-glazed tiles, a hip-and-gable front hall and a double-eaved octagonal moon-viewing tower over 17 m high at the back, a form rare among Xinjiang mosques."},{"id":"urumqi-shuimogou-park","name":"Shuimogou Park","name_zh":"水磨沟公园","pinyin":"Shuǐmògōu Gōngyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.832,"lon":87.6548,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/urumqi-shuimogou-park/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The core park, about 4 km², of the Shuimogou scenic area in north-eastern Ürümqi, where the Shuimo River runs between hills replanted with trees since the late 1970s. It takes its name from the water mills that ground flour here from the Qing period until the 1950s, and has a replica water mill, pavilions, a riverside landscaped in 2005 and the Qingquan Temple, built from 1988."},{"id":"urumqi-silk-road-ski-resort","name":"Silk Road Mountain Resort","name_zh":"丝绸之路山地度假区","pinyin":"Sīchóu Zhī Lù Shāndì Dùjiàqū","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.4431,"lon":87.4123,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-silk-road-ski-resort","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A ski and mountain resort on the northern slopes of the Tian Shan in Shuixigou town, Ürümqi County, also known as the Silk Road International Ski Resort. The ski season usually starts in mid-November and runs into March, and Pingxiliang village below the slopes has a cluster of guesthouses serving skiers."},{"id":"urumqi-tianshan-grand-canyon","name":"Tianshan Grand Canyon","name_zh":"天山大峡谷","pinyin":"Tiānshān Dà Xiágǔ","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.3894,"lon":87.3919,"category":"nature","designations":["5A"],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-tianshan-grand-canyon","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A mountain scenic area and national forest park covering about 1,038 km² of the Tian Shan's northern slopes in Ürümqi County, at an average altitude above 2,000 m. It holds the most complete old-growth Schrenk's spruce forest on the north side of the range, meadows where Kazakh herding families live, and the Zhaobishan reservoir and wetland."},{"id":"urumqi-wulabo-ancient-city","name":"Wulabo Ancient City","name_zh":"乌拉泊古城","pinyin":"Wūlābó Gǔchéng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.6408,"lon":87.5872,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-wulabo-ancient-city","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The oldest and best-preserved walled town in the Ürümqi area, a rammed-earth enclosure of about 25 hectares whose walls, 2–7 m high, keep bastions, barbicans at the gates and three inner compounds; scholars variously identify it with the Tang town of Luntai or earlier Han-era settlements. It opened to visitors in September 2024, together with a history hall showing finds from the site such as lotus-pattern bricks, Kaiyuan Tongbao coins, grey pottery and bronze mirrors."},{"id":"urumqi-international-grand-bazaar","name":"Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar","name_zh":"新疆国际大巴扎","pinyin":"Xīnjiāng Guójì Dàbāzhā","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.7789,"lon":87.6152,"category":"city","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-international-grand-bazaar","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large market and tourist complex in the Erdaoqiao area of Ürümqi, opened in 2003 and extended with a pedestrian street from 2018, built in a mix of Islamic, Uyghur and Chinese styles. Besides the market halls it has a Silk Road tower over 70 m high, a theatre with resident song-and-dance shows and a food street."},{"id":"urumqi-xinjiang-peoples-theatre","name":"Xinjiang People's Theatre","name_zh":"新疆人民剧场","pinyin":"Xīnjiāng Rénmín Jùchǎng","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.7897,"lon":87.6193,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-xinjiang-peoples-theatre","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A landmark theatre at Nanmen in central Ürümqi, completed in 1956 and opened in January 1957 as the new autonomous region's main venue for political meetings and performances. The symmetrical domed building combines Eurasian architectural forms with Uyghur-style plaster decoration in green and blue, and after a restoration begun in 2019 it still hosts shows, films and events."},{"id":"urumqi-tianshan-wildlife-park","name":"Xinjiang Tianshan Wildlife Park","name_zh":"新疆天山野生动物园","pinyin":"Xīnjiāng Tiānshān Yěshēng Dòngwùyuán","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.6666,"lon":87.7825,"category":"nature","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=urumqi-tianshan-wildlife-park","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"A large wildlife park in Dabancheng District, south-east of Ürümqi, where a range of animals are kept in large enclosures. It is a common family day out from the city."},{"id":"urumqi-xinjiang-museum","name":"Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum","name_zh":"新疆维吾尔自治区博物馆","pinyin":"Xīnjiāng Wéiwú'ěr Zìzhìqū Bówùguǎn","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.8195,"lon":87.584,"category":"heritage","designations":["4A"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/urumqi-xinjiang-museum/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"Xinjiang's regional museum and a national first-grade museum, founded in 1959, in a building opened in 2005 and enlarged in 2022, with a catalogued collection of more than 24,000 objects. Its permanent galleries cover Xinjiang's history from the pre-Qin period to the Qing, ancient mummies preserved by the desert, ancient costumes and textiles, and excavated documents, and its best-known pieces include the Han-to-Jin brocade armguard inscribed 'Five stars rising in the east benefit China'."},{"id":"urumqi-confucius-temple","name":"Ürümqi Confucius Temple","name_zh":"乌鲁木齐文庙","pinyin":"Wūlǔmùqí Wénmiào","region_id":"650000","region":"Xinjiang","city":"Ürümqi","lat":43.8011,"lon":87.6265,"category":"heritage","designations":["national"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/urumqi-confucius-temple/","verified":"2026-10-22","summary":"The Ürümqi Confucius Temple, on Qianjin Road in central Ürümqi, is described as Xinjiang's only surviving Confucian temple and its only intact temple complex in late-Qing style. The present buildings were put up in 1922 as a temple mainly to Shangdi, with Confucius honoured alongside, and the main hall was rebuilt as a Dacheng Hall for Confucius in 1945; the Ürümqi Museum now looks after it."},{"id":"aberdeen-harbour","name":"Aberdeen Harbour","name_zh":"香港仔渔港","pinyin":"Xiānggǎngzǎi Yúgǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2472,"lon":114.1495,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/aberdeen-harbour/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Aberdeen Harbour is a working fishing harbour and typhoon shelter between Hong Kong Island and Ap Lei Chau, where traditional fishing boats are still moored. Visitors can take a sampan or tour boat around the harbour, walk the Aberdeen Promenade or see the Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market, which was built in 1950. Floating restaurants and harbourfront eateries are part of the draw."},{"id":"aberdeen-promenade","name":"Aberdeen Promenade","name_zh":"香港仔海滨公园","pinyin":"Xiānggǎngzǎi Hǎibīn Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2473,"lon":114.1542,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aberdeen-promenade","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Aberdeen Promenade is a tree-lined waterfront on the north shore of Aberdeen Harbour, running east from the Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market along Praya Road. Traditional wooden junks and flat-bottomed sampans bob on the water, and locals can be seen buying fresh fish, practising tai chi or using the outdoor fitness corner. Sampans, ferries to nearby islands and floating seafood restaurants can all be reached from here."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-aqua-luna","name":"Aqua Luna","name_zh":"张保仔号","pinyin":"Zhāngbǎozǎi Hào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2933,"lon":114.1707,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tsim-sha-tsui-aqua-luna","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Aqua Luna is a red-sailed Chinese junk, launched in 2006, that carries passengers on Victoria Harbour cruises of about 45 minutes with views of the skyline. Some sailings include dim sum or afternoon tea, and an evening sailing is timed for the Symphony of Lights show. Its Chinese name, Cheung Po Tsai, comes from a 19th-century pirate."},{"id":"mong-kok-argyle-street-footbridge","name":"Argyle Street Footbridge","name_zh":"亚皆老街行人天桥","pinyin":"Yàjiēlǎo Jiē Xíngrén Tiānqiáo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3189,"lon":114.1659,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mong-kok-argyle-street-footbridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Argyle Street Footbridge is an elevated pedestrian walkway at the junction of Argyle Street, Cherry Street and Tong Mei Road in Mong Kok. The Hong Kong Tourism Board describes it as a link between Mong Kok and Tai Kok Tsui, with views of the traffic below and a skyline where old and new buildings stand side by side. A scene of the mainland Chinese drama Our Generation (2025) was filmed on the bridge."},{"id":"wan-chai-arsenal-street","name":"Arsenal Street","name_zh":"军器厂街","pinyin":"Jūnqìchǎng Jiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2788,"lon":114.1689,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wan-chai-arsenal-street","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Arsenal Street in Wan Chai takes its name from the army hospital, air-defence buildings and armouries that once stood here. Today it links Wan Chai, Admiralty and the Convention and Exhibition Centre, lined with government offices, office towers and hotels. The Hong Kong Police Headquarters on the street was a key location in the police film Cold War (2012)."},{"id":"west-kowloon-art-park","name":"Art Park","name_zh":"艺术公园","pinyin":"Yìshù Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2993,"lon":114.1557,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=west-kowloon-art-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Art Park is a waterfront park in the West Kowloon Cultural District, with open lawns, waterfront paths and wide views of Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong Island skyline. Weekends and holidays bring live music, market stalls and street performers, and it is a popular spot for watching fireworks on special occasions. Cafés and restaurants line the promenade."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-avenue-of-stars","name":"Avenue of Stars","name_zh":"星光大道","pinyin":"Xīngguāng Dàdào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2933,"lon":114.1751,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-avenue-of-stars/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Avenue of Stars is a waterfront walkway of about 400 metres on the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade, honouring the Hong Kong film industry and modelled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Along it are plaques, handprints and statues of film figures including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Anita Mui, with interactive exhibits and panels on the industry's milestones. It looks across Victoria Harbour to the Hong Kong Island skyline."},{"id":"central-bank-of-china-tower","name":"Bank of China Tower","name_zh":"中银大厦","pinyin":"Zhōngyín Dàshà","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2793,"lon":114.1616,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-bank-of-china-tower","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Designed by I. M. Pei, the Bank of China Tower is one of the most recognisable buildings on the Hong Kong skyline. Its triangular frames and reflective glass facade are based on the form of bamboo, and catch the changing light against the sky. It houses the headquarters of Bank of China (Hong Kong)."},{"id":"sai-ying-pun-bonham-road-government-primary-school","name":"Bonham Road Government Primary School","name_zh":"般咸道官立小学","pinyin":"Bānxiándào Guānlì Xiǎoxué","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2845,"lon":114.1441,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sai-ying-pun-bonham-road-government-primary-school/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The school building on Bonham Road was put up in 1940 and 1941 for Northcote Training College, the first full-time teacher training college in Hong Kong, and it has housed the primary school since 2000. Its three-storey, E-shaped main block is a prominent example of Streamline Moderne, with curved corners, horizontal lines and little ornament. Air-raid shelters from the war years survive inside, and the building was declared a monument in 2021."},{"id":"sheung-wan-bridges-street","name":"Bridges Street","name_zh":"必列者士街","pinyin":"Bìlièzhěshì Jiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2838,"lon":114.1501,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheung-wan-bridges-street","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Bridges Street is a street of about 300 metres in Sheung Wan, lined with historic buildings alongside newer creative spaces. The red-brick Chinese YMCA of 1918 stands on it, and the street also has galleries, antique shops, cafés and restaurants. The Hong Kong Tourism Board describes it as an arts and culture district."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-broadway-cinematheque","name":"Broadway Cinematheque","name_zh":"百老汇电影中心","pinyin":"Bǎilǎohuì Diànyǐng Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3107,"lon":114.169,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yau-ma-tei-broadway-cinematheque","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Broadway Cinematheque is an art-house cinema in Yau Ma Tei, opened in November 1996 and run by the Broadway Circuit. It screens independent and international films and hosts festivals and retrospectives. Beside it are Kubrick, a bookshop that specialises in film and culture, and a café."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-canton-road","name":"Canton Road","name_zh":"广东道","pinyin":"Guǎngdōng Dào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3086,"lon":114.1687,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yau-ma-tei-canton-road/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Canton Road is a long street running through Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok and Prince Edward, from Salisbury Road in the south to Lai Chi Kok Road in the north. Its southern stretch in Tsim Sha Tsui is lined with luxury boutiques and shopping centres and links landmarks such as Harbour City and the former Marine Police Headquarters. Further north the street gives way to residential blocks and small neighbourhood shops."},{"id":"cape-daguilar-lighthouse","name":"Cape D'Aguilar Lighthouse","name_zh":"鹤咀灯塔","pinyin":"Hèzuǐ Dēngtǎ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.209,"lon":114.2591,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/cape-daguilar-lighthouse/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Put into service in April 1875, this is the oldest surviving lighthouse in Hong Kong, a 9.7-metre round granite tower with a rusticated base and an arched doorway closed by an iron door. It was taken out of service in 1896 after Waglan Island Lighthouse opened, and its lantern was re-lit and automated in 1975. It stands on the south-east shore of Hong Kong Island, at the end of the Cape D'Aguilar peninsula."},{"id":"admiralty-central-government-offices","name":"Central Government Offices","name_zh":"政府总部","pinyin":"Zhèngfǔ Zǒngbù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2805,"lon":114.1656,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/admiralty-central-government-offices/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 2011 at Tamar on the Admiralty waterfront, the Central Government Offices house several government bureaus and departments. Architect Rocco Yim designed it around a door-always-open idea, with a central hollow arch and an open layout that lets air flow through to the harbour. Next door, Tamar Park has lawns where people picnic and walk, and a path to the waterfront promenade with views across Victoria Harbour."},{"id":"central-market-hong-kong","name":"Central Market","name_zh":"中环街市","pinyin":"Zhōnghuán Jiēshì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.284,"lon":114.1554,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-market-hong-kong/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Central Market is a Bauhaus-style market building from 1939, one of Hong Kong's first wet markets, restored between 2017 and 2021 as a Grade III historic building with shops, restaurants and community spaces. More than 500 red lampshades, a classic symbol of local wet markets, hang from the ceiling at the ground-floor entrance. Original red-brick walls and a hanging clock survive at the grand staircase."},{"id":"wan-chai-central-plaza","name":"Central Plaza","name_zh":"中环广场","pinyin":"Zhōnghuán Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.28,"lon":114.1737,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wan-chai-central-plaza","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Central Plaza is a 374-metre office skyscraper on Harbour Road in Wan Chai, completed in 1992. It has a triangular floor plan and a four-bar neon clock at the top that shows the time in colours at 15-minute intervals. It is a landmark of the Wan Chai skyline, seen mainly from the street and the harbourfront."},{"id":"central-mid-levels-escalators","name":"Central–Mid-Levels Escalators","name_zh":"中环至半山自动扶梯","pinyin":"Zhōnghuán Zhì Bànshān Zìdòng Fútī","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2839,"lon":114.155,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-mid-levels-escalators","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 1993, this 800-metre system of 16 escalators and three travelators carries commuters up the slope from Queen's Road Central to Conduit Road, and is one of the longest outdoor covered escalator systems in the world. The direction reverses during the day, running downhill in the morning rush and uphill for the rest of the day. It features in Wong Kar-wai's film Chungking Express (1994), and it does not go as far as The Peak."},{"id":"kwun-tong-cha-kwo-ling-promenade","name":"Cha Kwo Ling Promenade","name_zh":"茶果岭海滨公园","pinyin":"Cháguǒlǐng Hǎibīn Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3054,"lon":114.2239,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kwun-tong-cha-kwo-ling-promenade/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Cha Kwo Ling Promenade is a harbourside park whose play platform sits on the roof of the Kwun Tong sewage pumping station, with views over Victoria Harbour and the sunset. It has five play zones themed on air, earth, sky, sunlight and water, with more than 60 play facilities including an 8-metre rope-net climbing structure, slides, a water play area, treehouses and mazes. The park is fully accessible and welcomes pets, so it suits families with young children."},{"id":"sha-tin-che-kung-temple","name":"Che Kung Temple","name_zh":"沙田车公庙","pinyin":"Shātián Chēgōng Miào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3735,"lon":114.1829,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sha-tin-che-kung-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple at Tai Wai dedicated to Che Kung, a Song-dynasty general worshipped as a protector against epidemics. The present temple was built in 1994 in front of the older one and renovated in 2012, and houses a large golden statue of Che Kung and a fan-bladed wheel of fortune that worshippers spin for luck. The busiest day is the Che Kung Festival on the second day of the first lunar month, which draws large crowds."},{"id":"shan-ha-tsuen-cheung-ancestral-hall","name":"Cheung Ancestral Hall, Shan Ha Tsuen","name_zh":"山厦村张氏宗祠","pinyin":"Shānxiàcūn Zhāngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4322,"lon":114.0164,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shan-ha-tsuen-cheung-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1815 by the Cheung clan of Shan Ha Tsuen, this grey-brick ancestral hall has two halls around an open courtyard and an altar carved with the Eight Immortals. The clan used it for gatherings and ancestral worship, and from the 1930s to the 1950s it also housed Wah Fung School. A major restoration was carried out in 1999."},{"id":"cheung-chau-sai-tai-road","name":"Cheung Chau Sai Tai Road","name_zh":"长洲西堤道","pinyin":"Chángzhōu Xīdī Dào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2033,"lon":114.0221,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cheung-chau-sai-tai-road","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sai Tai Road is a waterfront path on the western side of Cheung Chau, running along the coast from near the Fireboat station towards Sai Wan. Walkers and cyclists use the wide, easy path past fishing boats at their moorings. It leads on towards the Cheung Chau Family Trail, Cheung Po Tsai Cave, a cave linked in legend to a pirate's hidden treasure, and a Tin Hau temple."},{"id":"central-cheung-kong-center","name":"Cheung Kong Center","name_zh":"长江集团中心","pinyin":"Chángjiāng Jítuán Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2797,"lon":114.1603,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-cheung-kong-center/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Cheung Kong Center is an office tower at 2 Queen's Road Central, designed by Cesar Pelli and completed in 1999. It stands between the HSBC Main Building and the Bank of China Tower, where its restrained design contrasts with its neighbours, and coloured lights play across its sides at night. Visitors see it from the street, as it is an office building."},{"id":"ping-che-cheung-shan-monastery","name":"Cheung Shan Monastery, Ping Che","name_zh":"长山古寺","pinyin":"Chángshān Gǔsì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.5292,"lon":114.1756,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ping-che-cheung-shan-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-hall Buddhist temple at Miu Keng in Ping Che, probably built in 1789 as Cheung Sang Nunnery. It stood halfway along the old route to Shenzhen via Sha Tau Kok and served as a rest stop where travellers were offered tea. The rear hall is about a metre higher than the front hall, plaster mouldings decorate the inside and outside, and the Buddha, Kwun Yum and Tei Chong Wong are worshipped within."},{"id":"diamond-hill-chi-lin-nunnery-nan-lian-garden","name":"Chi Lin Nunnery and Nan Lian Garden","name_zh":"志莲净苑及南莲园池","pinyin":"Zhìlián Jìngyuàn Jí Nánlián Yuánchí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.34,"lon":114.2051,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/diamond-hill-chi-lin-nunnery-nan-lian-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chi Lin Nunnery is a large Buddhist temple complex founded in 1934 as a retreat for nuns and rebuilt in the 1990s in the style of the Tang dynasty, with timber halls held together by interlocking joints rather than nails. Its halls hold statues of the Buddha and bodhisattvas, and visitors are asked to keep quiet and not to take photographs inside. A footbridge links it to Nan Lian Garden, a Tang-style landscaped garden opened in 2006 with a lake, hills, rocks, wooden pavilions and a red bridge."},{"id":"pat-heung-chik-kwai-study-hall","name":"Chik Kwai Study Hall","name_zh":"植桂书室","pinyin":"Zhíguì Shūshì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4284,"lon":114.0917,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pat-heung-chik-kwai-study-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Chik Kwai Study Hall was built before 1899 by Lai Kam-tai of the Lai clan in Pat Heung, as a place for both ancestor worship and the education of young clansmen. It is a typical two-hall, one-courtyard Qing building with a carved wooden altar for the clan's ancestral tablets, and the Antiquities and Monuments Office calls it one of the finest traditional study halls remaining in the Yuen Long area, for its woodcarvings, plaster mouldings and murals. After the Second World War it housed classrooms and then a kindergarten, which closed in the early 1970s."},{"id":"sheung-wan-chinese-ymca-bridges-street-centre","name":"Chinese YMCA Bridges Street Centre","name_zh":"香港中华基督教青年会必列者士街会所","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Zhōnghuá Jīdūjiào Qīngniánhuì Bìlièzhěshì Jiē Huìsuǒ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.284,"lon":114.1495,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sheung-wan-chinese-ymca-bridges-street-centre/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1918 as the first headquarters of the Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong, this six-storey building of red brick and concrete has a symmetrical front facade. When it opened it had the city's first indoor swimming pool with warm water and the first elevated timber running track, and the pool, track, gymnasium and auditorium are all still there. It was declared a monument in 2023 and is still a working YMCA centre."},{"id":"sha-tin-city-art-square","name":"City Art Square","name_zh":"城市艺坊","pinyin":"Chéngshì Yìfāng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3814,"lon":114.1893,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sha-tin-city-art-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"City Art Square is the open-air plaza in front of Sha Tin Town Hall, laid out as part of the plaza's beautification and donated by the Sun Hung Kai Properties Charitable Fund. It displays sculptures and public art installations by 19 artists and designers from overseas, mainland China and Hong Kong, including Zaha Hadid, Dennis Oppenheim, Xu Bing and Sarah Tse, and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department lists works such as The Red Box, Miracle Horse, Vortex and Bauhinia Arc. The Hong Kong Tourism Board describes it as one of the city's largest collections of public art."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-clock-tower","name":"Clock Tower, Tsim Sha Tsui","name_zh":"尖沙咀钟楼","pinyin":"Jiānshāzuǐ Zhōnglóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2936,"lon":114.1695,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-clock-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Clock Tower, built in 1915, is the only part of the Kowloon-Canton Railway's Tsim Sha Tsui terminus left standing: the terminus opened in 1916, the trains moved to Hung Hom in 1975, and the old station was demolished in 1978. The 44-metre tower is built of red brick and granite in Edwardian Classical Revival style, with an octagonal domed belfry topped by a lightning rod. It stands on the harbourfront next to the Star Ferry pier, a good spot for the skyline view."},{"id":"west-kowloon-competition-pavilion","name":"Competition Pavilion","name_zh":"香港新晋建筑及设计师比赛展亭","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Xīnjìn Jiànzhú Jí Shèjìshī Bǐsài Zhǎntíng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3024,"lon":114.155,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=west-kowloon-competition-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Competition Pavilion, nicknamed 'Growing Up', is a pavilion of slender timber columns on the West Kowloon waterfront, next to the Hong Kong Palace Museum, with views across Victoria Harbour. It was designed by New Office Works as the winning entry in the first Hong Kong Young Architects and Designers Competition and was built to host small concerts and performances. The nickname refers to Hong Kong's cultural growth."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-cyberport","name":"Cyberport","name_zh":"数码港","pinyin":"Shùmǎgǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2622,"lon":114.1302,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pok-fu-lam-cyberport/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Cyberport is a technology business park on the Telegraph Bay waterfront in Southern District, with office buildings, a hotel and a shopping and entertainment complex. For visitors the draw is a waterfront promenade with views over the bay, open lawns for picnics and walks, and nearby shopping malls with dining and cinemas. It is a modern development rather than a historic site."},{"id":"cheung-sha-wan-dialogue-in-the-dark","name":"Dialogue in the Dark","name_zh":"黑暗中对话","pinyin":"Hēi'àn Zhōng Duìhuà","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3361,"lon":114.1489,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=cheung-sha-wan-dialogue-in-the-dark","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dialogue in the Dark is an exhibition in which blind or visually impaired hosts guide visitors through darkened rooms set up as scenes from city streets to quiet natural landscapes, so that visitors rely on touch, sound and smell. It runs under the name Dialogue Experience, which also offers a Silence experience in which visitors communicate without sound. The organisers present it as a way to promote social inclusion, and the visit includes discussion with the hosts."},{"id":"central-duddell-street-steps-and-gas-lamps","name":"Duddell Street Steps and Gas Lamps","name_zh":"都爹利街石阶及煤气路灯","pinyin":"Dūdiēlì Jiē Shíjiē Jí Méiqì Lùdēng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2797,"lon":114.1568,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-duddell-street-steps-and-gas-lamps/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A flight of granite steps at the southern end of Duddell Street, completed in 1883, with heavily moulded Tuscan-order newels and balusters and four gas lamps mounted on the balustrades. The lamps date from the early twentieth century and, since street lighting was electrified in 1967, have been the only working gas lamps of their type in the city. Super Typhoon Mangkhut damaged the steps and lamps in 2018, and the restoration was completed in December 2019."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-dukling","name":"Dukling","name_zh":"鸭灵号","pinyin":"Yālíng Hào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2952,"lon":114.1764,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tsim-sha-tsui-dukling","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Dukling is a red-sailed wooden Chinese junk with nearly 70 years of history, built as a fishing boat and later used for harbour sightseeing, with cruises that have included a Symphony of Lights night sailing and commentary on Hong Kong's fishing heritage. The operator has suspended its cruises for repair and maintenance until further notice."},{"id":"north-point-east-coast-boardwalk","name":"East Coast Boardwalk","name_zh":"东岸板道","pinyin":"Dōng'àn Bǎndào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2931,"lon":114.1966,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=north-point-east-coast-boardwalk","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The East Coast Boardwalk is a 2.2-kilometre harbourfront path beneath the Island Eastern Corridor on Hong Kong Island, running between Fortress Hill and Quarry Bay and opened in two sections in January and December 2025. It has paths for walking, jogging and cycling, cascade seating for sunset views, a children's play area, fitness equipment and a glass-floored observation deck over the water. Marine-life murals on the piers line up into a giant whale shark when seen from the right angle."},{"id":"fortress-hill-east-coast-park-precinct","name":"East Coast Park Precinct","name_zh":"东岸公园主题区","pinyin":"Dōng'àn Gōngyuán Zhǔtíqū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2883,"lon":114.1895,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fortress-hill-east-coast-park-precinct","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"East Coast Park Precinct is a 1.1-hectare harbourfront park with about 425 metres of promenade at the end of Watson Road in North Point, opened in stages in 2021 and 2022. Its main feature is a barrier-free breakwater about 100 metres long, which the Harbourfront Commission describes as the first of its kind opened to the public in Victoria Harbour, with nearly 360-degree views of the harbour from its end. The park also has a lawn, a children's play area with slides, and a word-art installation that uses the names of Hong Kong's districts."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-hku-eliot-hall-and-may-hall","name":"Eliot Hall and May Hall, University of Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港大学仪礼堂及梅堂","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dàxué Yílǐtáng Jí Méitáng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2824,"lon":114.1398,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pok-fu-lam-hku-eliot-hall-and-may-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two three-storey red-brick halls opened in 1914 and 1915 as student residences, designed by Denison, Ram and Gibbs and named after Sir Charles Eliot and Sir Francis Henry May. Their facades combine curved pediments, rusticated columns, Chinese-style ceramic grilles and balconies under double-tiled Chinese roofs. During the Battle of Hong Kong in December 1941, Eliot Hall served as a relief hospital and May Hall as the main residence for staff and students."},{"id":"lung-yeuk-tau-lo-wai-walls","name":"Entrance Tower and Enclosing Walls of Lo Wai, Lung Yeuk Tau","name_zh":"龙跃头老围门楼及围墙","pinyin":"Lóngyuètóu Lǎowéi Ménlóu Jí Wéiqiáng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4978,"lon":114.1519,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lung-yeuk-tau-lo-wai-walls/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lo Wai is the earliest of the five walled villages that the Tang clan founded at Lung Yeuk Tau, after their ancestors branched out from Kam Tin in the 14th century. Brick walls enclose the village on all four sides and most of them are intact, and the entrance tower was moved from the north side to its present position facing east for feng shui reasons. The tower and walls were declared monuments in 1997 and fully restored in 1998."},{"id":"fanling-ma-wat-wai-entrance-tower","name":"Entrance Tower of Ma Wat Wai","name_zh":"麻笏围门楼","pinyin":"Máhù Wéi Ménlóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4988,"lon":114.1501,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fanling-ma-wat-wai-entrance-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ma Wat Wai was built by the Tang clan in the Qianlong reign as one of the Five Wais and Six Tsuens of Lung Yeuk Tau. Past development removed most of its walls and all four corner towers, leaving the entrance tower, whose red sandstone lintel carries two characters meaning a place of verdancy, and part of the enclosing walls. The tower was fully restored in 1995 and is on the Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail."},{"id":"central-exchange-square","name":"Exchange Square","name_zh":"交易广场","pinyin":"Jiāoyì Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2841,"lon":114.158,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-exchange-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Exchange Square is a complex of three office towers in Central that is home to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with banks, investment firms and several consulates among its tenants. Its plaza has landscaped terraces, fountains and outdoor sculptures, including works by Henry Moore."},{"id":"mong-kok-fa-yuen-street-footbridge","name":"Fa Yuen Street Footbridge","name_zh":"花园街行人天桥","pinyin":"Huāyuán Jiē Xíngrén Tiānqiáo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3211,"lon":114.1708,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mong-kok-fa-yuen-street-footbridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Fa Yuen Street Footbridge crosses the junction of Mong Kok Road and Fa Yuen Street in the middle of Mong Kok. From it you can watch buses, minibuses and taxis pass below, with neon signs, shops, older tenement buildings and street stalls around you. It features in a chase sequence in the film One Nite in Mongkok (2004)."},{"id":"sai-ying-pun-old-mental-hospital-facade","name":"Facade of the Old Mental Hospital","name_zh":"旧精神病院立面","pinyin":"Jiù Jīngshénbìngyuàn Lìmiàn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2848,"lon":114.1441,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sai-ying-pun-old-mental-hospital-facade","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The granite facade of a building completed in 1892 as medical staff quarters for the Government Civil Hospital and used from 1939 to 1961 as wards for mentally ill female patients. Its early-Baroque design, with a wide arched verandah, rusticated granite on the lower level and pediments and pinnacles above, is rare in Hong Kong. Only the facade survives, preserved on the site of the Sai Ying Pun Community Complex and nicknamed the 'High Street Haunted House'."},{"id":"lantau-fan-lau-fort","name":"Fan Lau Fort","name_zh":"分流炮台","pinyin":"Fēnliú Pàotái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.1984,"lon":113.8511,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lantau-fan-lau-fort/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fan Lau Fort is a small coastal fort of 1729 on the Fan Lau peninsula at the south-western tip of Lantau, looking out over the sea passage into the Pearl River estuary. The rectangular enclosure measures 46 m by 21 m, with walls of semi-dressed stone and green brick; it was probably abandoned around 1898, after the New Territories were leased to Britain, and was restored in the 1980s and 1990s. The peninsula is also known for the line where muddy river water meets clearer sea water."},{"id":"tai-po-fan-sin-temple","name":"Fan Sin Temple and Wun Yiu Kilns","name_zh":"上碗窑樊仙宫及碗窑","pinyin":"Shàng Wǎnyáo Fánxiān Gōng Jí Wǎnyáo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.437,"lon":114.164,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-po-fan-sin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fan Sin Temple is the main temple of Sheung Wun Yiu and Ha Wun Yiu, villages that made blue-and-white porcelain from the Ming dynasty until the kilns closed in 1932. It honours Fan Tai Sin Sze, patron saint of potters, a dedication the Antiquities and Monuments Office says is unique in Hong Kong; a plaque in the main hall dates from 1790, and the temple was fully restored in 2000 after a fire in the 1970s. The remains of the Wun Yiu pottery kilns in Sheung Wun Yiu are a separate declared monument, where excavations in 1995 and 1999 found clay pits, water-mills, an animal-driven grinder, soaking tanks and dragon kilns."},{"id":"sha-tau-kok-fat-tat-tong","name":"Fat Tat Tong, Ha Wo Hang","name_zh":"发达堂","pinyin":"Fādá Táng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.5265,"lon":114.198,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sha-tau-kok-fat-tat-tong/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey Hakka family house built in 1933 by a trust of the four sons of Li To-wan, who had gone to Vietnam to earn a living before returning to Ha Wo Hang. Its long pitched tiled roof, colonnaded verandahs on both floors and ornamental parapet with a rolling-cloud pediment show the eclectic style favoured by returned overseas Chinese in the early twentieth century. It is still lived in by Li To-wan's descendants."},{"id":"central-flagstaff-house-museum-of-tea-ware","name":"Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware","name_zh":"茶具文物馆","pinyin":"Chájù Wénwùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2783,"lon":114.1626,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-flagstaff-house-museum-of-tea-ware/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Completed in 1846, Flagstaff House is the oldest surviving Western-style building in Hong Kong. It was the office and residence of the commander of the British forces until 1978 and has housed the Museum of Tea Ware, which shows Chinese tea ware, since 1984. The two-storey Greek Revival building has deep verandahs suited to the local climate and stands inside Hong Kong Park."},{"id":"central-former-french-mission-building","name":"Former French Mission Building","name_zh":"前法国外方传道会大楼","pinyin":"Qián Fǎguó Wàifāng Chuándàohuì Dàlóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2794,"lon":114.1597,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-former-french-mission-building/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1917 by the French Society of Foreign Missions as its base in Hong Kong, this three-storey granite and red-brick building is Neo-classical, with a chapel in one corner whose cupola rises above the roof. It stands on Government Hill and served as the temporary headquarters of the provisional Hong Kong government immediately after the Second World War. The Court of Final Appeal sat here from 1997 to 2015, and the building is now used by law-related organisations."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-former-kowloon-british-school","name":"Former Kowloon British School","name_zh":"前九龙英童学校","pinyin":"Qián Jiǔlóng Yīngtóng Xuéxiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3016,"lon":114.1722,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-former-kowloon-british-school/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 1902 for the children of foreign residents, the Former Kowloon British School is the oldest surviving school building built for Hong Kong's expatriate community. It is a Victorian building adapted to the climate with wide verandas, high ceilings and pitched roofs, and it was founded after a donation from Ho Tung (later Sir Robert Ho Tung) in 1900. After restoration it now houses the Antiquities and Monuments Office, and it was declared a monument in 1991."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-former-marine-police-headquarters","name":"Former Marine Police Headquarters (1881 Heritage)","name_zh":"前水警总部","pinyin":"Qián Shuǐjǐng Zǒngbù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2954,"lon":114.17,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-former-marine-police-headquarters/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Completed in 1884, the former Marine Police Headquarters is one of the oldest surviving government buildings in Hong Kong. The compound has a main building, a stable block and a signal tower known as the Round House, which gave time signals to ships until the time ball moved to Signal Hill in 1907. The Marine Police left in 1996, and since 2009 the compound has been a heritage and tourism-themed commercial site with shops and restaurants in the historic buildings."},{"id":"ha-pak-nai-fortified-structure","name":"Fortified Structure at Ha Pak Nai","name_zh":"下白泥碉堡","pinyin":"Xiàbáiní Diāobǎo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4274,"lon":113.9428,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ha-pak-nai-fortified-structure/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey grey-brick fortified house with gun embrasures in its outer walls, built around 1910 by Tang Yam-nam after the failed New Army Uprising in Guangzhou. It served as a base and refuge for followers of Sun Yat-sen, working with the Castle Peak Farm in Tuen Mun, and looks across Deep Bay from the coast at Ha Pak Nai. The Antiquities and Monuments Office records its link with the late Qing revolutionary movement."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-hku-fung-ping-shan-building","name":"Fung Ping Shan Building, University of Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港大学冯平山楼","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dàxué Féng Píngshān Lóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2837,"lon":114.1391,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pok-fu-lam-hku-fung-ping-shan-building/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1931 as the library for the university's Chinese book collection, this three-storey red-brick building has a fan-shaped plan, giant pilasters and an atrium lit by a skylight. It has housed the University Museum and Art Gallery since the 1960s, the oldest museum of its kind in continuous operation in Hong Kong. Only the exterior is declared a monument."},{"id":"central-gage-street","name":"Gage Street","name_zh":"结志街","pinyin":"Jiézhì Jiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2834,"lon":114.1533,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-gage-street","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Gage Street is a market street in Central that begins near the Central–Mid-Levels Escalators and runs downhill to Aberdeen Street, with fresh-food stalls, cha chaan teng and dai pai dong. It has appeared in films including Rush Hour 2 and The Dark Knight. Together with Pak Tsz Lane it forms part of the Dr Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail."},{"id":"the-peak-gate-lodge-mountain-lodge","name":"Gate Lodge of the Former Mountain Lodge","name_zh":"旧总督山顶别墅守卫室","pinyin":"Jiù Zǒngdū Shāndǐng Biéshù Shǒuwèishì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2743,"lon":114.146,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/the-peak-gate-lodge-mountain-lodge/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Gate Lodge is a small Neo-classical house on Mount Austin Road, built between 1900 and 1902 as one of two gatekeeper's lodges for Mountain Lodge, the governor's summer residence on the Peak. The main house was demolished in 1946, leaving only this lodge, with its rounded corners and three small triangular pediments. It stands in Victoria Peak Garden and is now used as a site office."},{"id":"wan-chai-golden-bauhinia-square","name":"Golden Bauhinia Square","name_zh":"金紫荆广场","pinyin":"Jīnzǐjīng Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2845,"lon":114.1739,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wan-chai-golden-bauhinia-square/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Golden Bauhinia Square is a waterfront plaza in Wan Chai, next to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Its centrepiece is the six-metre gilded Forever Blooming Bauhinia sculpture on a red granite base, a gift from the Central Government to mark the 1997 handover, beside the 20-metre Reunification Monument. A flag-raising ceremony is held here daily, and the square has wide views across the harbour."},{"id":"central-hsbc-main-building","name":"HSBC Main Building","name_zh":"汇丰总行大厦","pinyin":"Huìfēng Zǒngháng Dàshà","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2803,"lon":114.1595,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-hsbc-main-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Designed by Norman Foster and completed in 1985, the HSBC Main Building has its structural steel on the outside, which leaves an open, light-filled interior without columns. Visitors can walk through the atrium and look up at the building's workings. Two bronze lions, Stephen and Stitt, stand either side of the main entrance."},{"id":"happy-valley-racecourse","name":"Happy Valley Racecourse","name_zh":"跑马地马场","pinyin":"Pǎomǎdì Mǎchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2719,"lon":114.1806,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=happy-valley-racecourse","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Happy Valley Racecourse is one of Hong Kong's two horse-racing tracks, dating back to 1845. Many race meetings are held on Wednesday nights and add live music, food and drink, and a beer garden, and visitors can watch from the public stands. The grounds also include the Hong Kong Racing Museum."},{"id":"north-point-harbour-cruise-bauhinia","name":"Harbour Cruise Bauhinia","name_zh":"洋紫荆维港游","pinyin":"Yángzǐjīng Wéigǎng Yóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2941,"lon":114.2009,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"About 2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/north-point-harbour-cruise-bauhinia/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Harbour Cruise Bauhinia runs dinner buffet cruises on Victoria Harbour from North Point, with Eastern and Western dishes served on board and an open deck for views of both shores. The whole trip takes about two hours, and one sailing is timed to take in A Symphony of Lights from the water. It suits visitors who want a sit-down meal combined with the harbour skyline."},{"id":"sheung-shui-hau-ku-shek-ancestral-hall","name":"Hau Ku Shek Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"居石侯公祠","pinyin":"Jūshí Hóugōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.511,"lon":114.109,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sheung-shui-hau-ku-shek-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hau Ku Shek Ancestral Hall stands in Ho Sheung Heung. It was built in the late Ming dynasty to commemorate the clan's 17th-generation ancestor Hau Ku-shek and renovated around 1762, and follows the traditional three-hall, two-courtyard layout, with red sandstone drum platforms and a door frame on the facade, richly decorated roof ridges and carved beams. The two-storey rear hall was once a village school, and the Hau clan still holds ceremonies in the hall."},{"id":"sheung-shui-hau-mei-fung-ancestral-hall","name":"Hau Mei Fung Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"味峰侯公祠","pinyin":"Wèifēng Hóugōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.5008,"lon":114.1119,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sheung-shui-hau-mei-fung-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hau Mei Fung Ancestral Hall in Kam Tsin was built in the late 18th century by Hau Cheuk-wan, who gained a juren degree in 1788, to commemorate his great-grandfather Hau Mei-fung (1634–1688), a student of the Imperial Academy. It is a two-hall, three-bay Qing vernacular building whose rear hall has a porch with a humpbacked roof, a feature rarely seen among traditional buildings in Hong Kong. Plaster mouldings decorate the ridges and wall friezes, and the timberwork and ancestral shrine carry carvings of animals, flowers and folk stories."},{"id":"kowloon-city-hau-wong-temple","name":"Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City","name_zh":"九龙城侯王古庙","pinyin":"Jiǔlóngchéng Hóuwáng Gǔmiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3326,"lon":114.1875,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kowloon-city-hau-wong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hau Wong Temple in Kowloon City, dedicated to Hau Wong (Yeung Hau Tai Wong), is dated by the Antiquities and Monuments Office to 1730 or earlier, from a temple bell cast in 1730. It was patronised by Qing officials and soldiers from the Kowloon Walled City and keeps relics from that garrison, including an incense burner donated in 1847 and a stone inscription of the character for crane dated 1888. The stepped gables of the rear hall follow a style called 'five peaks pay tribute to heaven', which is very rare in Hong Kong."},{"id":"sha-tau-kok-hip-tin-temple","name":"Hip Tin Temple, Shan Tsui","name_zh":"山咀协天宫","pinyin":"Shānzuǐ Xiétiān Gōng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.5498,"lon":114.2235,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sha-tau-kok-hip-tin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Kwan Tai, rebuilt in 1894–95 to replace an earlier one, and one of the few surviving main temples tied to Tung Wo Market, run by the Shap Yeuk village alliance that dominated the Sha Tau Kok economy from the 1830s to the 1930s. Five stone plaques in the front hall record the rebuilding, and the carved altar, fascia boards and plaster dragonfish corbels survive intact. Part of the building has also served as a village school since 1959, and villagers still mark the Kwan Tai festival on the 13th day of the fifth lunar month."},{"id":"aberdeen-reservoir-historic-structures","name":"Historic Structures of Aberdeen Reservoir","name_zh":"香港仔水塘历史构筑物","pinyin":"Xiānggǎngzǎi Shuǐtáng Lìshǐ Gòuzhùwù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.257,"lon":114.1633,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=aberdeen-reservoir-historic-structures","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Four structures from Aberdeen Reservoir, built in 1931 and 1932: the dam, valve house and bridge of the Upper Reservoir and the dam of the Lower Reservoir. The reservoirs were built to ease water shortages in the west of Hong Kong Island and were the fourth and last reservoirs built on the island. They lie within Aberdeen Country Park."},{"id":"kowloon-reservoir-historic-structures","name":"Historic Structures of Kowloon Reservoir","name_zh":"九龙水塘历史构筑物","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Shuǐtáng Lìshǐ Gòuzhùwù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3528,"lon":114.1533,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kowloon-reservoir-historic-structures/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Five waterworks structures built between 1901 and 1910 for Kowloon Reservoir: the main dam and its valve house, the spillway dam and two recorder houses. It was the fourth reservoir in Hong Kong and the first on the Kowloon Peninsula, and its stored rainwater replaced well water and the supply pumped from Yau Ma Tei. The structures lie in Kam Shan Country Park, also known as Monkey Hill for its macaques."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-reservoir-historic-structures","name":"Historic Structures of Pok Fu Lam Reservoir","name_zh":"薄扶林水塘历史构筑物","pinyin":"Bófúlín Shuǐtáng Lìshǐ Gòuzhùwù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2642,"lon":114.137,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pok-fu-lam-reservoir-historic-structures/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Completed in 1863, Pok Fu Lam Reservoir was the first reservoir built in Hong Kong. Six of its structures were declared monuments in 2009, namely the former watchman's cottage, the gauge basin and four masonry bridges, and a further masonry bridge of granite at the east end of the reservoir, carrying Pok Fu Lam Reservoir Road on a semicircular arch, was declared in 2020. The reservoir lies in Pok Fu Lam Country Park, which the Hong Kong Trail crosses."},{"id":"tai-tam-reservoirs-historic-structures","name":"Historic Structures of Tai Tam Group of Reservoirs","name_zh":"大潭水塘群历史构筑物","pinyin":"Dàtán Shuǐtáng Qún Lìshǐ Gòuzhùwù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.258,"lon":114.2117,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-tam-reservoirs-historic-structures/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Twenty-two waterworks structures dating from 1883 to 1936 around the Tai Tam reservoirs on the eastern side of Hong Kong Island: dams, valve houses, masonry bridges, a pumping station with its chimney and staff quarters, and the 21-arch section of the Bowen Aqueduct. The extra water they supplied allowed the city to spread east from Central and Western. The Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail passes many of the dams and bridges in Tai Tam Country Park."},{"id":"wong-nai-chung-reservoir-historic-structures","name":"Historic Structures of Wong Nai Chung Reservoir","name_zh":"黄泥涌水塘历史构筑物","pinyin":"Huángníyǒng Shuǐtáng Lìshǐ Gòuzhùwù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2567,"lon":114.195,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wong-nai-chung-reservoir-historic-structures","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wong Nai Chung Reservoir, completed in 1899, is the third oldest surviving waterworks construction in Hong Kong, and its masonry dam, valve house and weir were declared monuments in 2009. The reservoir later stopped serving as a water store and is now Wong Nai Chung Reservoir Park, a lakeside park."},{"id":"shek-mun-dragon-boat-training-centre","name":"Hong Kong China Dragon Boat Association Shek Mun Training Centre","name_zh":"中国香港龙舟总会石门训练中心","pinyin":"Zhōngguó Xiānggǎng Lóngzhōu Zǒnghuì Shímén Xùnliàn Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.397,"lon":114.2097,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=shek-mun-dragon-boat-training-centre","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong China Dragon Boat Association runs its training centre beside the Shing Mun River at Shek Mun in Sha Tin, where it holds certificate courses for paddlers at several levels and hosts local and international dragon boat races. The association also hires out boats and facilities. The Hong Kong Tourism Board lists the centre as a filming location of the 2018 film Men on the Dragon, whose paddlers' training scenes were shot here; it is a working sports venue rather than a sightseeing stop, so it suits dragon boat enthusiasts and film fans."},{"id":"central-hong-kong-city-hall","name":"Hong Kong City Hall","name_zh":"香港大会堂","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dàhuìtáng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2825,"lon":114.1616,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-hong-kong-city-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 1962 on Edinburgh Place, this Modernist complex was the first multi-purpose cultural centre for all citizens in Hong Kong, and it has a concert hall, a theatre, a public library and a marriage registry. A Memorial Garden between its two blocks has a 12-sided shrine to the soldiers and civilians who died defending Hong Kong in the Second World War. It was declared a monument in 2022."},{"id":"hung-hom-hong-kong-coliseum","name":"Hong Kong Coliseum","name_zh":"香港体育馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Tǐyùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3013,"lon":114.182,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes (longer for an event)","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/hung-hom-hong-kong-coliseum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 1983, the Hong Kong Coliseum is an indoor arena shaped like an inverted pyramid, built from the roof downwards to leave the 1,600-square-metre arena floor without columns. It seats more than 12,500 and hosts concerts, sports events and conferences, so most visitors come for a show rather than the building itself. It is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department."},{"id":"wan-chai-convention-exhibition-centre","name":"Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre","name_zh":"香港会议展览中心","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Huìyì Zhǎnlǎn Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2835,"lon":114.1731,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wan-chai-convention-exhibition-centre/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai opened in 1988 and is one of the city's main venues for trade fairs, concerts and events, including the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair held each March. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, it is known for its large glass curtain wall and an aluminium roof shaped to recall a seabird in flight. Most visitors see it from the harbourfront beside Golden Bauhinia Square."},{"id":"lantau-hong-kong-disneyland","name":"Hong Kong Disneyland","name_zh":"香港迪士尼乐园","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Díshìní Lèyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3131,"lon":114.041,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lantau-hong-kong-disneyland","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hong Kong Disneyland is a theme park on reclaimed land at Penny's Bay on Lantau, opened in 2005. It has eight themed lands, including Fantasyland, Toy Story Land and World of Frozen, with rides, parades, live shows and character meetings, and the resort has three Disney hotels. It suits families with children and Disney fans."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-museum-of-art","name":"Hong Kong Museum of Art","name_zh":"香港艺术馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Yìshùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2935,"lon":114.172,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-museum-of-art/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Museum of Art, the city's first public art museum, stands on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront and holds a collection of about 20,000 items. The collection centres on Chinese antiquities, Chinese painting and calligraphy, China trade art and modern Hong Kong art, and displays rotate alongside special exhibitions. The building, renovated between 2015 and 2019, has floor-to-ceiling windows with views over Victoria Harbour."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-east-hong-kong-museum-of-history","name":"Hong Kong Museum of History","name_zh":"香港历史博物馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Lìshǐ Bówùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3019,"lon":114.1773,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-east-hong-kong-museum-of-history/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Museum of History presents the history of Hong Kong from ancient civilisation to its emergence as an international metropolis. Its 'Hong Kong Story' permanent exhibition, which reopened on 1 April 2026, has more than 2,800 exhibits in four chapters, and the National Security Exhibition Gallery on the second floor is dedicated to national security education. The museum moved to its present building on Chatham Road South in 1998, next to the Hong Kong Science Museum."},{"id":"shau-kei-wan-museum-of-the-war-of-resistance-and-coastal-defence","name":"Hong Kong Museum of the War of Resistance and Coastal Defence","name_zh":"香港抗战及海防博物馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Kàngzhàn Jí Hǎifáng Bówùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2819,"lon":114.2356,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shau-kei-wan-museum-of-the-war-of-resistance-and-coastal-defence/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum in the 1887 Lei Yue Mun Fort above the Lei Yue Mun channel, converted from the former Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence in September 2024. A permanent exhibition covers Hong Kong's coastal defence and military changes from the Tang dynasty to 1997, alongside material on the War of Resistance. Outdoors, a historical trail with 24 checkpoints marks significant events at the fort."},{"id":"central-hong-kong-observation-wheel","name":"Hong Kong Observation Wheel","name_zh":"香港摩天轮","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Mótiānlún","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2855,"lon":114.1617,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-hong-kong-observation-wheel","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Observation Wheel is a 60-metre Ferris wheel on the Central harbourfront, with 42 air-conditioned gondolas. A ride lasts about 15 to 20 minutes and looks across the harbour, the Central skyline and Kowloon. The AIA Vitality Park around the wheel has a hand-painted carousel, street art and seasonal events."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-observatory","name":"Hong Kong Observatory","name_zh":"香港天文台","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Tiānwéntái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.302,"lon":114.1743,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-observatory/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Observatory was established in 1883 and became the Royal Observatory in 1912, and its 1883 Building stands on a small hill off Nathan Road. It is a two-storey Victorian-Colonial block of plastered brick with arched windows and long verandas, declared a monument in 1984, and it now houses the directorate's offices while forecasting work has moved to newer buildings nearby. The Observatory describes its grounds as home to plants and wildlife that are uncommon in Hong Kong."},{"id":"west-kowloon-hong-kong-palace-museum","name":"Hong Kong Palace Museum","name_zh":"香港故宫文化博物馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Gùgōng Wénhuà Bówùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3017,"lon":114.1554,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/west-kowloon-hong-kong-palace-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Palace Museum opened in 2022 in the West Kowloon Cultural District and shows works from the Palace Museum in Beijing and other institutions, with highlights including ceramics, jade carvings and goldwork, across nine galleries. It also stages special exhibitions on Chinese art and culture and on other civilisations. The building was designed by Rocco Design Architects Associates, with stacked atriums that bring in natural light."},{"id":"tai-po-hong-kong-railway-museum","name":"Hong Kong Railway Museum","name_zh":"香港铁路博物馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Tiělù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4476,"lon":114.1643,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-po-hong-kong-railway-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The old Tai Po Market Railway Station, completed in 1913 with a Chinese-style pitched roof when other stations on the Kowloon-Canton Railway were Western in design, is now an open-air railway museum. The station building holds an exhibition gallery, the old booking office and a signal cabin, and the grounds display a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, diesel-electric engines, historic coaches, trolleys and semaphores. The station closed when a new one opened nearby in 1983, and the museum opened in 1985."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-east-hong-kong-science-museum","name":"Hong Kong Science Museum","name_zh":"香港科学馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Kēxuéguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3009,"lon":114.1775,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tsim-sha-tsui-east-hong-kong-science-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Science Museum, opened in 1991, has at least 500 exhibits, most of them hands-on, in themed halls covering energy, light and sound, mechanics, mathematics, magnetism and electricity, and biodiversity. Highlights include the 22-metre-tall Energy Machine and Betsy, Cathay Pacific's first DC-3 airliner. It suits families and anyone curious about how things work."},{"id":"pak-shek-kok-hong-kong-science-park","name":"Hong Kong Science Park","name_zh":"香港科学园","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Kēxuéyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4265,"lon":114.2112,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pak-shek-kok-hong-kong-science-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hong Kong Science Park is a 22-hectare technology campus at Pak Shek Kok on the Tolo Harbour waterfront, run by the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. Visitors can walk the Grand Plaza and the Pak Shek Kok Promenade beside it and see the auditorium known as the Golden Egg, which serves as the park's landmark, while the HKSTP Experience Centre shows the city's technology projects to booked visitors. The waterfront is a rest stop on the cycle route between Sha Tin and Tai Po."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-space-museum","name":"Hong Kong Space Museum","name_zh":"香港太空馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Tàikōngguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2942,"lon":114.1719,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-space-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Hong Kong Space Museum, open in Tsim Sha Tsui since 1980, is easy to spot by its egg-shaped dome, which houses the Space Theatre. Two permanent halls, the Hall of the Cosmos and the Hall of Space Exploration, hold more than 100 exhibits, over half of them interactive. The theatre screens astronomy shows and science documentaries."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-water-taxi","name":"Hong Kong Water Taxi","name_zh":"香港水上的士","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Shuǐshàng Dīshì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2931,"lon":114.1707,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tsim-sha-tsui-hong-kong-water-taxi","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hong Kong Water Taxi runs air-conditioned boats with open decks around Victoria Harbour, combining sightseeing sailings with regular routes between piers such as Tsim Sha Tsui East, West Kowloon, Wan Chai and Central. On the water you pass landmarks including the Hong Kong Observation Wheel, the IFC towers and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Routes have changed recently, so the operator's current notices are worth checking."},{"id":"wan-chai-hopewell-centre","name":"Hopewell Centre","name_zh":"合和中心","pinyin":"Héhé Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2747,"lon":114.1716,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wan-chai-hopewell-centre","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hopewell Centre is a cylindrical tower on Queen's Road East, completed in 1980, which was the tallest building in Hong Kong when it opened. Its round plan and glass facade make it easy to pick out on the skyline. It stands on a steep hillside, so it has entrances on both Queen's Road East and Kennedy Road."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-hku-hung-hing-ying-building","name":"Hung Hing Ying Building, University of Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港大学孔庆荧楼","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dàxué Kǒng Qìngyíng Lóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2846,"lon":114.1379,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pok-fu-lam-hku-hung-hing-ying-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey Classic Revival red-brick building opened in 1919 as the university's student union, with a rotunda at the centre and a wing on each side. It later served as a senior common room and, from 1996 to 2012, as the music department, and it was named after Hung Hing-ying in 1986. It stands opposite the Main Building."},{"id":"ap-lei-chau-hung-shing-temple","name":"Hung Shing Temple, Ap Lei Chau","name_zh":"鸭脷洲洪圣古庙","pinyin":"Yālìzhōu Hóngshèng Gǔmiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2448,"lon":114.156,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=ap-lei-chau-hung-shing-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hung Shing Temple is the main temple on Ap Lei Chau, built in 1773 for Hung Shing, a deity worshipped as a protector of fishermen and merchants at sea. It is a Qing-style building of two halls with a covered courtyard, with Shiwan ceramic figurines on the roof ridges and two dragon-painted timber poles outside. It is one of the few traditional temples in Hong Kong to keep its original sea-facing setting, and the Hung Shing Festival on the 13th day of the second lunar month is still one of the island's main events."},{"id":"kau-sai-chau-hung-shing-temple","name":"Hung Shing Temple, Kau Sai Chau","name_zh":"滘西洲洪圣古庙","pinyin":"Jiàoxīzhōu Hóngshèng Gǔmiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3424,"lon":114.3217,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kau-sai-chau-hung-shing-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Hung Shing Temple stands near Kau Sai Fishermen Village at the southern end of Kau Sai Chau and was built before 1889 with donations from local people whose living came from fishing. It is a two-hall, three-bay building with altars to Hung Shing, the deity who protects people at sea, and two other deities. A restoration funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club was completed in 2000 and won a UNESCO Asia-Pacific heritage conservation award."},{"id":"wan-chai-hung-shing-temple","name":"Hung Shing Temple, Wan Chai","name_zh":"湾仔洪圣古庙","pinyin":"Wānzǎi Hóngshèng Gǔmiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2754,"lon":114.1708,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wan-chai-hung-shing-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"One of Wan Chai's oldest surviving temples, estimated to date from 1847–1852 and dedicated to Hung Shing, the 'God of the South Sea'. It is an example of Lingnan vernacular architecture set against natural rock beside Queen's Road East, with stone carvings, plaster mouldings, granite figures and Shiwan ceramic ridge decorations made in 1909. The temple has long hosted religious ceremonies and was declared a monument in 2026."},{"id":"wang-chau-i-shing-temple","name":"I Shing Temple","name_zh":"横洲二圣宫","pinyin":"Héngzhōu Èrshènggōng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4544,"lon":114.0278,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wang-chau-i-shing-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"I Shing Temple, meaning 'temple of two gods', is dedicated to Hung Shing and Che Kung and serves the residents of six villages in Wang Chau. An inscription on its bell suggests it was built in 1718, and it is both a place of worship and a meeting place where villagers discuss important matters. It is a grey-brick, two-hall building with an open courtyard and a chamber on each side, restored in 1996, and it is one of the ritual sites for Wang Chau's Jiao Festival, held once every eight years."},{"id":"central-ice-house-street","name":"Ice House Street","name_zh":"雪厂街","pinyin":"Xuěchǎng Jiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2805,"lon":114.1579,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-ice-house-street","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ice House Street runs from Lower Albert Road to Connaught Road in Central and takes its name from the ice store that once stood here, where American merchants kept imported ice for hospitals and the public. Its historic buildings include the Club Lusitano and the old Dairy Farm depot. Today the street is home to boutiques, restaurants and hotels."},{"id":"west-kowloon-international-commerce-centre","name":"International Commerce Centre and sky100","name_zh":"环球贸易广场","pinyin":"Huánqiú Màoyì Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3035,"lon":114.1602,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=west-kowloon-international-commerce-centre","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The International Commerce Centre, completed in 2010 at the tip of West Kowloon, is Hong Kong's tallest building, mostly offices with a Ritz-Carlton hotel on the upper floors. Its sky100 observation deck on the 100th floor, 393 metres above sea level, is an indoor viewing deck with 360-degree views over Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon."},{"id":"tai-po-island-house","name":"Island House, Tai Po","name_zh":"前政务司官邸","pinyin":"Qián Zhèngwùsī Guāndǐ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4459,"lon":114.1788,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-po-island-house/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Completed in 1906 on a small islet at the head of Tolo Harbour, Island House is a two-storey colonial building with open verandahs, built as quarters for the District Officer and used until 1985 as the official residence of the Secretary for District Administration. The islet is joined to the shore by a causeway. The house is now WWF-Hong Kong's Island House Conservation Studies Centre."},{"id":"kai-tak-joypolis-sports-hong-kong","name":"JOYPOLIS SPORTS HONG KONG","name_zh":"JP超动感世界","pinyin":"JP Chāodònggǎn Shìjiè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3248,"lon":114.1956,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kai-tak-joypolis-sports-hong-kong","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"JOYPOLIS SPORTS HONG KONG is an indoor sports-themed amusement centre spread over five levels of the Health and Wellness Centre in Kai Tak Sports Park, and the first overseas flagship of Japan's JOYPOLIS SPORTS brand. Its themed zones include a ninja obstacle course on the ground floor, a Sonic-themed sports arena licensed by SEGA and a floor of mixed-reality, virtual-reality and augmented-reality games such as VR horse racing and AR wall climbing. It suits families and groups looking for an all-weather activity."},{"id":"central-jackson-road","name":"Jackson Road","name_zh":"昃臣道","pinyin":"Zèchén Dào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2813,"lon":114.1608,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-jackson-road","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jackson Road is a short street in the heart of Central, home to the Hong Kong Club Building and the Court of Final Appeal Building. The neoclassical court building, which also housed the Supreme Court and the Legislative Council, has Ionic and Doric columns and a statue of Themis, goddess of justice, on top. The film A Better Tomorrow (1986) opens with a scene shot on the street."},{"id":"central-jamia-mosque","name":"Jamia Mosque","name_zh":"些利街清真寺","pinyin":"Xiēlì Jiē Qīngzhēnsì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2802,"lon":114.1519,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-jamia-mosque/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jamia Mosque on Shelley Street is the oldest mosque in Hong Kong. The present building dates from 1915 to 1916, paid for by the Bombay merchant Haji Mohamed Essack Elias to replace an 1849 mosque on the same site. It has a minaret topped by a dome, pointed multifoil archways, coloured glass windows and an octagonal dome over the prayer hall, and it remains an important place of worship for the city's Muslims."},{"id":"central-jardine-house","name":"Jardine House","name_zh":"怡和大厦","pinyin":"Yíhé Dàshà","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2832,"lon":114.1589,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-jardine-house/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Jardine House is an office tower at 1 Connaught Place in Central, completed in 1973 and easily recognised by its hundreds of circular windows. It was originally called Connaught Centre and was the tallest building in Asia when it opened. Visitors can look at the facade from outside or go in to the shops and food hall on the lower levels."},{"id":"kai-tak-cruise-terminal","name":"Kai Tak Cruise Terminal","name_zh":"启德邮轮码头","pinyin":"Qǐdé Yóulún Mǎtóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3061,"lon":114.2133,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kai-tak-cruise-terminal/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kai Tak Cruise Terminal stands on the former Kai Tak Airport runway and was designed by Foster + Partners, with a form that pays homage to the site's aviation past; the first ship berthed in 2013. Its roof is a public park of about 23,000 square metres with greenery, walking paths and wide views of Victoria Harbour and the skyline. Locals and visitors use the park even when no cruise ship is in port."},{"id":"kai-tak-sports-park","name":"Kai Tak Sports Park","name_zh":"启德体育园","pinyin":"Qǐdé Tǐyùyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3236,"lon":114.1978,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kai-tak-sports-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kai Tak Sports Park is a sports and entertainment complex on the former Kai Tak Airport site, opened in March 2025 and described by the Hong Kong Tourism Board as Hong Kong's largest. Its main venues are the 50,000-capacity Kai Tak Stadium with a retractable roof, the 10,000-seat Kai Tak Arena and a 5,000-seat youth sports ground, alongside open public spaces and a shopping mall. The stadium's facade of triangular aluminium panels changes colour with the light."},{"id":"sha-tau-kok-kang-yung-study-hall","name":"Kang Yung Study Hall","name_zh":"镜蓉书屋","pinyin":"Jìngróng Shūwū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.5222,"lon":114.1949,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sha-tau-kok-kang-yung-study-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"One of the few study halls in Hong Kong built purely for teaching, this hall in the Hakka village of Sheung Wo Hang was built by the Li clan in the early Qing dynasty and enlarged in the Qianlong reign. It is a simple two-hall building of grey brick, mud-brick and rammed earth, with cocklofts that provided classrooms and living quarters. An inscription records a renovation in 1872, and a full restoration was completed in 1993."},{"id":"sheung-wan-kau-u-fong","name":"Kau U Fong","name_zh":"九如坊","pinyin":"Jiǔrú Fāng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2845,"lon":114.1528,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheung-wan-kau-u-fong","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kau U Fong is a short street in Sheung Wan lined with modern restaurants, independent shops and boutique hotels, among a few surviving tenement buildings with weathered facades and worn stone steps. The stairway scene in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love (2000), where two neighbours brush past carrying wonton noodles, was shot here."},{"id":"jordan-king-george-v-memorial-park","name":"King George V Memorial Park, Kowloon","name_zh":"九龙佐治五世纪念公园","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Zuǒzhì Wǔshì Jìniàn Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3047,"lon":114.1679,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/jordan-king-george-v-memorial-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"King George V Memorial Park is a historic park in Jordan, beside Canton Road, built in 1940 and officially opened in 1941. It keeps traditional Chinese touches, including a red-and-green tiled gateway, a palace-style compound wall, a pavilion and banyan trees growing along a stone wall. It makes a quiet, shaded stop after Temple Street or the nearby Kwun Chung streets."},{"id":"tai-po-tau-king-law-ka-shuk","name":"King Law Ka Shuk, Tai Po Tau Tsuen","name_zh":"敬罗家塾","pinyin":"Jìngluó Jiāshú","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4549,"lon":114.1574,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-po-tau-king-law-ka-shuk/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"King Law Ka Shuk is the ancestral hall of the Tang clan in Tai Po Tau Tsuen, named after their ancestor Tang King-law and once used as a study hall; the Antiquities and Monuments Office says it still serves for clan meetings and traditional functions. It is a traditional three-hall, two-courtyard building with geometric motifs on its roof ridges, and the murals above the main entrance and the carved timber altar in the middle hall date from renovations in 1932. Its restoration, completed in 2001, won an Award of Merit in the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards."},{"id":"mid-levels-king-yin-lei","name":"King Yin Lei","name_zh":"景贤里","pinyin":"Jǐngxián Lǐ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2667,"lon":114.1809,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mid-levels-king-yin-lei/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"King Yin Lei is a mansion on Stubbs Road in Mid-Levels, built around 1937 for the wife of a Guangdong merchant, and it has appeared in films and television series. The Antiquities and Monuments Office describes its design as combining Chinese and Western architecture, a rarity in Hong Kong. It was declared a monument in 2008 and restored by 2010, and its façade is a popular spot for photographs."},{"id":"mid-levels-kings-college","name":"King's College","name_zh":"英皇书院","pinyin":"Yīnghuáng Shūyuàn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2845,"lon":114.1403,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mid-levels-kings-college/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"King's College is a government secondary school whose red-brick campus on Bonham Road, built between 1923 and 1926, is one of six surviving pre-war government school buildings in Hong Kong. It is designed in the Neo-classical style, with arched colonnades, verandahs and rusticated quoins. The Japanese army used it as a military stable during the occupation, and it reopened as a school in 1950 after repairs."},{"id":"mid-levels-kom-tong-hall","name":"Kom Tong Hall (Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum)","name_zh":"甘棠第","pinyin":"Gāntángdì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2819,"lon":114.1508,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mid-levels-kom-tong-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1914 for the businessman Ho Kom-tong, this Edwardian-era mansion has red-brick walls, granite dressings and ornate iron balconies, and was one of the first buildings in Hong Kong with a steel frame and concealed electrical wiring. Inside are a grand staircase, plaster ceilings picked out in gold leaf and Art Nouveau stained glass. It has been the Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum since December 2006; Sun received his secondary and university education in Hong Kong."},{"id":"wong-tai-sin-kowloon-peak","name":"Kowloon Peak","name_zh":"飞鹅山","pinyin":"Fēi'é Shān","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3406,"lon":114.2233,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wong-tai-sin-kowloon-peak/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kowloon Peak, also called Fei Ngo Shan, is the highest mountain in Kowloon, rising to about 600 metres at the north-eastern corner of New Kowloon, inside Ma On Shan Country Park. The summit has views over Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Sai Kung, and a viewing platform on Fei Ngo Shan Road can be reached by road. Hikers climb it by challenging trails, some steep and dangerous, including Stage 4 of the Wilson Trail, and it is popular for sunrise, sunset and autumn silvergrass."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-kowloon-union-church","name":"Kowloon Union Church","name_zh":"九龙佑宁堂","pinyin":"Jiǔlóng Yòuníng Táng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3057,"lon":114.1728,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yau-ma-tei-kowloon-union-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 1931, Kowloon Union Church was one of the earliest inter-denominational churches in Hong Kong, built by the London Missionary Society with support from Sir Paul Chater. It is in Perpendicular Gothic style, with red brick walls, grey granite window surrounds, a battlemented three-storey tower as the entrance and a rare double hammer-beam timber roof over the main hall. The Japanese army used it as a stable during the occupation, and it reopened for worship in 1947 and is still an active church."},{"id":"kowloon-walled-city-park","name":"Kowloon Walled City Park","name_zh":"九龙寨城公园","pinyin":"Jiǔlóngzhàichéng Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3321,"lon":114.1902,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kowloon-walled-city-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kowloon Walled City Park stands on the site of the Kowloon Walled City, a garrison town built by the Qing government in 1847 that later became a densely built-up enclave before it was cleared and turned into a park. The 31,000-square-metre park is laid out as a classical Chinese garden of pavilions, ponds and themed gardens, and it keeps two declared monuments: the restored Yamen, once the office of the Qing assistant magistrate, and the excavated remains of the South Gate, where two original stone plaques were found. An outdoor display area has a bronze model, and the Yamen currently houses the movie set exhibition Kowloon Walled City: A Cinematic Journey, scheduled to run until May 2028."},{"id":"fanling-kun-lung-wai","name":"Kun Lung Wai (San Wai), Lung Yeuk Tau","name_zh":"觐龙围","pinyin":"Jìnlóng Wéi","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.5072,"lon":114.1487,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/fanling-kun-lung-wai/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kun Lung Wai, also called San Wai, is one of the five walled villages founded by the Tang clan of Lung Yeuk Tau. Its grey-brick walls, built in 1744, have a watch tower at each corner and gun embrasures, and the gate tower in the south-west wall is an unusual pair of separate halls with a granite-and-brick front. The gate tower was restored in 1988 and the walls and corner towers in 1994."},{"id":"sheung-wan-kwong-fook-tsz","name":"Kwong Fook Tsz","name_zh":"广福祠","pinyin":"Guǎngfú Cí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2851,"lon":114.1476,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sheung-wan-kwong-fook-tsz/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Also known as Pak Shing Temple, this temple on Tai Ping Shan Street was built in 1895 with funds raised by Chinese community leaders. It enshrines Ksitigarbha, Chai Kung, Shui Ching Pak and Tai Sui, and holds the soul tablets of Chinese workers who died in Hong Kong in the early years. Its three-hall, two-courtyard layout is rare among Hong Kong temples, and Shiwan ceramics decorate the ridge of the entrance hall."},{"id":"kwun-tong-promenade","name":"Kwun Tong Promenade","name_zh":"观塘海滨花园","pinyin":"Guāntáng Hǎibīn Huāyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3123,"lon":114.2174,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kwun-tong-promenade/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kwun Tong Promenade is a harbourside park about one kilometre long, built on the former Kwun Tong Public Cargo Working Area and opened in two stages in 2010 and 2015. It has a boardwalk, a plaza with mist and music-synchronised lighting, lawns, pavilions, a children's play area and a sensory garden, with views across Victoria Harbour towards Kai Tak and Lei Yue Mun. Pets are welcome, and there is a pet-friendly park for dogs."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-legoland-discovery-centre","name":"LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港乐高探索中心","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Lègāo Tànsuǒ Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2946,"lon":114.175,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tsim-sha-tsui-legoland-discovery-centre","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Hong Kong is an indoor LEGO-themed attraction in the K11 MUSEA mall, aimed at children aged 3 to 10 and their families. It has about ten themed play areas, including rides and a 4D film, and a Miniland of Hong Kong landmarks built from more than a million bricks. It suits families with young children."},{"id":"central-lan-kwai-fong","name":"Lan Kwai Fong","name_zh":"兰桂坊","pinyin":"Lánguìfāng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2808,"lon":114.1554,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-lan-kwai-fong/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lan Kwai Fong is a nightlife district of more than 100 restaurants, bars, clubs and shops spread across small streets in Central. Evenings start with happy hours and dinner, and later at night and at weekends the streets fill with visitors, from dive bars that spill onto the pavement to wine bars high up in the towers. It also hosts public events such as the LKF Beer & Music Fest and holiday celebrations."},{"id":"chai-wan-law-uk-folk-museum","name":"Law Uk Folk Museum","name_zh":"罗屋民俗馆","pinyin":"Luó Wū Mínsúguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2642,"lon":114.2355,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/chai-wan-law-uk-folk-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Law Uk is a Hakka village house more than 200 years old, built for a family surnamed Law and the only one left intact in Chai Wan. It follows the typical 'three-bay, two-chamber' Hakka plan, with a central main hall, a light well and a forecourt once used for drying grain and laundry. Restored in 1989, it now operates as a branch of the Hong Kong Museum of History."},{"id":"central-legislative-council-complex","name":"Legislative Council Complex","name_zh":"立法会综合大楼","pinyin":"Lìfǎhuì Zōnghé Dàlóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2812,"lon":114.1665,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-legislative-council-complex","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Legislative Council Complex faces Victoria Harbour in Central and is the seat of Hong Kong's legislature, opened in September 2011 as its first purpose-built home. Visitors can join a guided public tour that includes the Hall of History. Tours run in Cantonese, English and Putonghua and have to be booked in advance."},{"id":"sham-shui-po-lei-cheng-uk-han-tomb","name":"Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb","name_zh":"李郑屋汉墓","pinyin":"Lǐzhèngwū Hànmù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.338,"lon":114.16,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sham-shui-po-lei-cheng-uk-han-tomb/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb is a brick burial chamber, dated by its structure, brick inscriptions and burial objects to the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25–220), found in 1955 when a hillside was levelled for the Lei Cheng Uk housing estate. The tomb itself is closed for conservation, but visitors can look in through a glass panel at the entrance passage. An exhibition hall beside it, a branch of the Hong Kong Museum of History, displays the pottery and bronze finds and explains how the tomb was discovered and built."},{"id":"lei-yue-mun-viewing-platform","name":"Lei Yue Mun Viewing Platform","name_zh":"鲤鱼门观景台","pinyin":"Lǐyúmén Guānjǐngtái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2883,"lon":114.2371,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lei-yue-mun-viewing-platform/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Lei Yue Mun Viewing Platform is a modern lookout built as part of the Lei Yue Mun Waterfront Enhancement Project, extending from Lei Yue Mun Rest Garden beside the channel at the eastern entrance to Victoria Harbour. It gives views along Hong Kong's eastern coast and access to Oyster Shell Beach. The fishing villages nearby are known for their seafood restaurants."},{"id":"pat-heung-leung-ancestral-hall","name":"Leung Ancestral Hall, Yuen Kong Tsuen","name_zh":"元岗村梁氏宗祠","pinyin":"Yuángāngcūn Liángshì Zōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4258,"lon":114.0764,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pat-heung-leung-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Leung clan built this ancestral hall in Yuen Kong Tsuen, Pat Heung, about 200 years ago, after their ancestors moved to the New Territories from Dongguan in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a typical two-hall, one-courtyard Qing vernacular building with a granite-block base and grey-brick walls, and the rear hall holds a wooden altar for the ancestral tablets. Fully restored in 2006, it is still used by the clan for traditional ceremonies and as a meeting place."},{"id":"tai-hang-lin-fa-temple","name":"Lin Fa Temple, Tai Hang","name_zh":"大坑莲花宫","pinyin":"Dàkēng Liánhuā Gōng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2796,"lon":114.1929,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-hang-lin-fa-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lin Fa Temple, the Temple of Lotus, was probably built in 1863 for Kwun Yam, the goddess of mercy. It stands on a hill slope in Tai Hang, with a half-octagonal front hall on a granite arched terrace and a main hall built against an exposed boulder. The Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance, which is on China's national list of intangible cultural heritage, is blessed here before its procession through the neighbourhood."},{"id":"the-peak-lions-pavilion-view-point","name":"Lion's Pavilion View Point","name_zh":"狮子亭","pinyin":"Shīzi Tíng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.271,"lon":114.1508,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=the-peak-lions-pavilion-view-point","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Lion's Pavilion is a multi-level, Chinese-style pavilion on Findlay Road at the Peak, which the tourism board says is named after the lion sculptures on its balustrades. It looks out over the Hong Kong skyline and harbour, and the board recommends it for photographs at sunrise and at dusk. It is a few minutes' walk from the Peak Tram terminus and the Peak Galleria."},{"id":"sheung-shui-liu-man-shek-tong","name":"Liu Man Shek Tong Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"廖万石堂","pinyin":"Liào Wànshí Táng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.5104,"lon":114.1242,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sheung-shui-liu-man-shek-tong/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Liu Man Shek Tong is the main ancestral hall of the Liu clan of Sheung Shui, built in the early years of the Yongzheng reign (1723–1735) and restored in the Qianlong reign (1736–1795). It is a three-hall, two-courtyard building decorated with plaster mouldings, wood carvings and murals, and from 1932 to 1974 it housed Fung Kai School. It was restored again in 1984 and 1994."},{"id":"kennedy-town-lo-pan-temple","name":"Lo Pan Temple, Kennedy Town","name_zh":"鲁班先师庙","pinyin":"Lǔbān Xiānshī Miào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.283,"lon":114.1319,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kennedy-town-lo-pan-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Lo Pan, the master craftsman revered by the construction trade, first built in 1884 and rebuilt on the same site in 1928. It is decorated with murals, plaster mouldings, wood carvings and ridge ceramics made by the Junyu workshop of Shiwan, and its stepped gable walls are rare in Hong Kong. The local construction trade has long gathered here to honour Lo Pan on his birthday, and the temple was declared a monument in 2024."},{"id":"the-peak-lugard-road-lookout","name":"Lugard Road Lookout","name_zh":"卢吉道观景台","pinyin":"Lújídào Guānjǐngtái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2782,"lon":114.1468,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=the-peak-lugard-road-lookout","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lugard Road Lookout is a viewpoint on Lugard Road, a shaded path that follows the hillside of Victoria Peak, with views over Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the harbour. On clear days the hills of the New Territories can be seen as well. The Hong Kong Tourism Board suggests early morning or the time just before sunset for the light."},{"id":"mong-kok-lui-seng-chun","name":"Lui Seng Chun","name_zh":"雷生春","pinyin":"Léishēngchūn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3248,"lon":114.1651,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mong-kok-lui-seng-chun/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lui Seng Chun is a four-storey tong lau (a Hong Kong shophouse) built in 1931 for Lui Leung, a founder of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, and declared a monument in 2022. The building mixes neo-classical style with Art Deco lines and has a curved front on a triangular corner site; the Lui family ran a Chinese medicine shop on the ground floor and lived above. It was given to the government in 2003 and has been a Chinese medicine and healthcare centre run by Hong Kong Baptist University since 2012."},{"id":"west-kowloon-m-plus","name":"M+","name_zh":"M+","pinyin":"M+","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.301,"lon":114.1592,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/west-kowloon-m-plus/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"M+ is a museum of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, covering visual art, design and architecture, and moving image, with a focus on Hong Kong visual culture. It opened in November 2021 in a building by Herzog & de Meuron with TFP Farrells and Arup, which has 33 galleries and a roof garden with views of Victoria Harbour. The facade facing the harbour is a large LED screen that shows moving-image displays each night."},{"id":"mong-kok-macpherson-playground","name":"MacPherson Playground","name_zh":"麦花臣游乐场","pinyin":"Màihuāchén Yóulèchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3184,"lon":114.1723,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mong-kok-macpherson-playground/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"MacPherson Playground is an open-air public sports ground in Mong Kok, run by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. It has a hard-surface football pitch that can be split into two five-a-side pitches, a basketball court, a spectator stand, a children's playground and fitness stations for older people. The Hong Kong Tourism Board describes it as a rare expansive public space in dense Mong Kok."},{"id":"mong-kok-macpherson-stadium","name":"MacPherson Stadium","name_zh":"麦花臣场馆","pinyin":"Màihuāchén Chǎngguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3188,"lon":114.1729,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours (an event)","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=mong-kok-macpherson-stadium","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"MacPherson Stadium is an indoor multi-purpose venue on the edge of Mong Kok, run by the Hong Kong Playground Association. The original stadium opened in 1953 within the Queen Elizabeth II Youth Centre, and after redevelopment from 2009 the present indoor stadium opened in 2013. It has stage and sports facilities and is used for concerts and sports events."},{"id":"the-peak-madame-tussauds","name":"Madame Tussauds Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港杜莎夫人蜡像馆","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dùshā Fūrén Làxiàngguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2714,"lon":114.1497,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=the-peak-madame-tussauds","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is a wax museum inside the Peak Tower that opened in 2000. Its figures are grouped in themed zones, including Hong Kong Glamour, Music Icons, a Kung Fu Zone and a K-Wave Zone of Korean stars, and several zones let visitors pose or take part. It suits families and fans of celebrity culture."},{"id":"mid-levels-st-stephens-girls-college","name":"Main Building of St. Stephen's Girls' College","name_zh":"圣士提反女子中学主楼","pinyin":"Shèng Shìtífǎn Nǚzǐ Zhōngxué Zhǔlóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2837,"lon":114.1439,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/mid-levels-st-stephens-girls-college/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The main building of one of the first schools in Hong Kong devoted to educating girls, opened on Lyttelton Road in 1924 after the Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone in 1922. This four-storey classical building has four wings around a central school hall, a layout that resembles a traditional Chinese courtyard house. Its pitched roof of Chinese pan-and-roll tiles rests on timber trusses."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-hku-main-building","name":"Main Building, University of Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港大学本部大楼","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dàxué Běnbù Dàlóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2841,"lon":114.1379,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=pok-fu-lam-hku-main-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The oldest structure on the University of Hong Kong campus, built between 1910 and 1912 with a donation from the Parsi businessman Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody. The three-storey red-brick building is classical in style, with granite Ionic columns, a central clock tower and a pair of turrets at each end of the main facade. It served as a temporary hospital in December 1941 and was badly damaged in the last stage of the Japanese occupation, and classes there resumed in October 1946."},{"id":"san-tin-man-lun-fung-ancestral-hall","name":"Man Lun Fung Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"麟峰文公祠","pinyin":"Línfēng Wéngōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4998,"lon":114.0744,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/san-tin-man-lun-fung-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Man clan built this ancestral hall in Fan Tin Tsuen, San Tin, around the middle of the 17th century to honour Man Fat-po, also known as Lun-fung, the eighth-generation ancestor of the clan. It has three halls with two enclosed courtyards between them, and the ancestral tablets of the Mans are kept in the middle hall. In the past it also served as the office of the village patrol force and as a school for clansmen, and it was fully restored in 1987."},{"id":"sheung-wan-man-mo-temple-compound","name":"Man Mo Temple Compound, Sheung Wan","name_zh":"上环文武庙","pinyin":"Shànghuán Wénwǔ Miào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2839,"lon":114.1502,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheung-wan-man-mo-temple-compound","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built between 1847 and 1862 by wealthy Chinese merchants, this compound on Hollywood Road has three blocks: Man Mo Temple, Lit Shing Kung and Kung Sor. The main temple honours Man Cheong, the god of literature, and Mo Tai, the god of martial arts, and is decorated with ceramic figurines, granite and wood carvings, plaster mouldings and murals. It is still a working temple, and the board of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals gathers here each year for the Autumn Sacrificial Rites."},{"id":"tai-po-man-mo-temple","name":"Man Mo Temple, Tai Po","name_zh":"大埔文武二帝庙","pinyin":"Dàbù Wénwǔ Èrdì Miào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.449,"lon":114.1644,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-po-man-mo-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built with donations from the Tsat Yeuk community and opened in 1892, this temple served as a meeting, arbitration and worship place for the market town of Tai Wo. Man Cheong, god of literature, and Mo Tai, god of martial arts, are enshrined on a carved timber altar in the rear hall. The two-hall grey-brick building has plaster mouldings on its ridges and facade, and a finely made wooden fascia board above the entrance."},{"id":"kowloon-tong-maryknoll-convent-school","name":"Maryknoll Convent School, Kowloon Tong","name_zh":"玛利诺修院学校","pinyin":"Mǎlìnuò Xiūyuàn Xuéxiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3275,"lon":114.1789,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kowloon-tong-maryknoll-convent-school/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1937, the Main Building of Maryknoll Convent School is laid out like a medieval monastery or college, with cloisters around an open courtyard, pointed arches and a single tower on the facade. Its loose neo-Tudor style also borrows from Art Deco, Romanesque, Neo-Georgian and Gothic Revival architecture. The Maryknoll Sisters founded the school in 1925, the building served as a Japanese military hospital from 1942 to 1945, and the primary section still uses it today."},{"id":"shing-mun-reservoir-memorial-stone","name":"Memorial Stone of Shing Mun Reservoir","name_zh":"城门水塘纪念碑","pinyin":"Chéngmén Shuǐtáng Jìniànbēi","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3788,"lon":114.1476,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/shing-mun-reservoir-memorial-stone/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A memorial stone of 1937 marking the completion of Shing Mun Reservoir, which took 14 years to build from 1923 and was the largest reservoir of the pre-war period supplying water to both sides of Victoria Harbour. The Antiquities and Monuments Office notes that it and the stone at Tai Tam Tuk Reservoir are the only two such stones for the largest pre-war reservoirs in the New Territories and on Hong Kong Island. It stands by the main dam in Shing Mun Country Park, where sections of the MacLehose and Wilson trails meet the reservoir."},{"id":"the-peak-monopoly-dreams","name":"Monopoly Dreams","name_zh":"香港大富翁梦想世界","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dàfùwēng Mèngxiǎng Shìjiè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2703,"lon":114.1497,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=the-peak-monopoly-dreams","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Monopoly Dreams is an indoor attraction on the third level of the Peak Galleria, themed around the board game and described by the tourism board as the world's first Monopoly-themed attraction. It has oversized game pieces, interactive and virtual games, a 4DX ride and a display of vintage Monopoly sets. It suits families who are already at the Peak."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-nathan-road","name":"Nathan Road","name_zh":"弥敦道","pinyin":"Mídūn Dào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3121,"lon":114.1709,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yau-ma-tei-nathan-road/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Nathan Road is Kowloon's main thoroughfare, running north from Tsim Sha Tsui through Jordan, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok to Prince Edward. About 3.6 kilometres long, it is lined with shops, restaurants, malls and places of worship, and was once nicknamed the Golden Mile. It was named in 1909 after the governor Sir Matthew Nathan, and the Hong Kong Tourism Board presents it as a place to experience Kowloon's energy."},{"id":"ma-wan-noahs-ark-hong-kong","name":"Noah's Ark Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港挪亚方舟","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Nuóyà Fāngzhōu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3483,"lon":114.0616,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ma-wan-noahs-ark-hong-kong/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Noah's Ark Hong Kong is a family theme park on Ma Wan, built around a full-size replica of the biblical ark. Visitors walk through the Ark Garden, where 67 pairs of life-size animal sculptures stand, then the Ark Expo with its 180-degree theatre and the Treasure House with 15 discovery galleries on subjects from science to music. There is also a children's play area, a ropes and zip-line course and a hotel on site, with the nature garden of Ma Wan Park close by."},{"id":"central-st-josephs-college-north-and-west-blocks","name":"North and West Blocks of St. Joseph's College","name_zh":"圣若瑟书院北座及西座","pinyin":"Shèng Ruòsè Shūyuàn Běizuò Jí Xīzuò","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.276,"lon":114.1588,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-st-josephs-college-north-and-west-blocks","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"These are the only pre-war buildings on the campus of St Joseph's College, a school that the La Salle Brothers took over in 1875: the North Block of 1920 and the West Block of 1925. The four-storey North Block is flanked by two towers and has giant Ionic columns on the front facing Cotton Tree Drive, while the West Block is topped by a turret. Both stand within a working school."},{"id":"wong-chuk-hang-ocean-park","name":"Ocean Park Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港海洋公园","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2467,"lon":114.1757,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 day","days":1,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wong-chuk-hang-ocean-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ocean Park is an amusement and animal theme park in Wong Chuk Hang, opened in 1977 and divided into two areas, the Waterfront and the Summit, which are linked by a cable car and the Ocean Express funicular. It combines rides with animal and marine exhibits, including the Grand Aquarium, penguins and giant pandas. It suits families and is large enough for a full day."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-ocean-terminal-deck","name":"Ocean Terminal Deck","name_zh":"海运观点","pinyin":"Hǎiyùn Guāndiǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2946,"lon":114.1652,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tsim-sha-tsui-ocean-terminal-deck","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Ocean Terminal Deck is a rooftop viewing deck on the Ocean Terminal extension of Harbour City on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, designed by Foster + Partners. It gives a 270-degree view of Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, with harbour-view restaurants, a lawn and an open-air event space. It is a place to watch the sunset and the evening skyline."},{"id":"central-old-bank-of-china-building","name":"Old Bank of China Building","name_zh":"旧中国银行大厦","pinyin":"Jiù Zhōngguó Yínháng Dàshà","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2802,"lon":114.1601,"category":"heritage","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-old-bank-of-china-building/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Completed in the early 1950s on Des Voeux Road Central, the Bank of China Building mixes Chinese and Western architectural styles, with white granite cladding and deep red metal window frames. A pair of Chinese stone lions stand at the main entrance, behind which the central revolving door has a distinctly Western look. It has been a Grade I historic building since 2009, and appears in Wong Kar-wai's film Days of Being Wild (1990)."},{"id":"tai-po-old-district-office-north","name":"Old District Office North","name_zh":"旧北区理民府","pinyin":"Jiù Běiqū Lǐmínfǔ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4456,"lon":114.1706,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-po-old-district-office-north/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Old District Office North was built around 1907 and was the first seat of civil administration in the New Territories after the area was leased to Britain; government business and land registration for the northern New Territories were handled here, and a magistrate's court sat in the building until 1961. It is a red-brick colonial building with open verandahs and brick arches along its east and west sides, and its antique fireplaces survive. Since 2002 it has housed the Law Ting Pong Scout Centre of the Scout Association of Hong Kong."},{"id":"tsuen-wan-hoi-pa-old-house","name":"Old House, Hoi Pa Village","name_zh":"海坝村古屋","pinyin":"Hǎibàcūn Gǔwū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3704,"lon":114.118,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsuen-wan-hoi-pa-old-house/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A traditional Hakka village house built in 1904 by Yau Yuen-cheung (1865–1937), a scholar of Hoi Pa Village, from rammed earth, grey brick and timber, and declared a monument in 1986. It is a fine example of southern Chinese village architecture. The old village has been redeveloped as Tak Wah Park in the middle of Tsuen Wan, and the house stands in the park."},{"id":"sha-tin-wong-uk-village-old-house","name":"Old House, Wong Uk Village","name_zh":"王屋村古屋","pinyin":"Wángwūcūn Gǔwū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3829,"lon":114.1973,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sha-tin-wong-uk-village-old-house/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The only old building left of Wong Uk Village, this two-storey green-brick house was built around 1911 by Wong Tsing-wo, a 19th-generation descendant of the Wong clan. The clan, from Xingning in Guangdong, founded the village in the Qianlong reign, and it became a trading station on the route between Guangdong and Kowloon. Most of it was cleared when Sha Tin New Town was built on reclaimed land, and the house has fine mural paintings and traditional decoration."},{"id":"chai-wan-lei-yue-mun-barracks-blocks","name":"Old Lei Yue Mun Barracks (Blocks 7, 10 and 25)","name_zh":"旧鲤鱼门军营","pinyin":"Jiù Lǐyúmén Jūnyíng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2772,"lon":114.2336,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=chai-wan-lei-yue-mun-barracks-blocks","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Three buildings of the old Lei Yue Mun Barracks, one of the earliest British Army fortifications in Hong Kong, on the north-east corner of the island above the eastern approach to Victoria Harbour; all were declared monuments in 2016. Block 7 (1890–95) was built as officers' quarters in a Colonial Vernacular style with wide verandahs, Block 10 (1890–95, extended in 1935) as soldiers' quarters with arched, colonnaded verandahs, and Block 25 as the officers' mess, the last two in a simplified Classical style. The central area of the barracks became Lei Yue Mun Park and Holiday Village in 1988."},{"id":"sheung-wan-old-pathological-institute","name":"Old Pathological Institute","name_zh":"旧病理学院","pinyin":"Jiù Bìnglǐ Xuéyuàn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2834,"lon":114.1486,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sheung-wan-old-pathological-institute/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A red-brick Edwardian building opened in 1906 as the first purpose-built public health and medical laboratory in Hong Kong, set up to help control plague and other infectious diseases. Its arcaded verandahs, balconies and double-layer Chinese tiled roof adapt Western design to the subtropical climate, and the parapet carries a Dutch gable with obelisk-shaped finials. Since 1996 it has housed the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, which covers the history of medicine in the city."},{"id":"stanley-old-police-station","name":"Old Stanley Police Station","name_zh":"旧赤柱警署","pinyin":"Jiù Chìzhù Jǐngshǔ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2183,"lon":114.2131,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/stanley-old-police-station/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1859, the Old Stanley Police Station is the oldest surviving police station in Hong Kong, a two-storey building with colonnaded verandahs and a Classical look. It was the most southerly outpost on Hong Kong Island and was used by the Japanese Gendarmerie during the Japanese Occupation. The domed brick ceiling of the original gunroom and the fireplaces survive inside, and since the police left in 1974 the building has been let to tenants for various uses."},{"id":"central-old-supreme-court-building","name":"Old Supreme Court Building","name_zh":"旧最高法院大楼","pinyin":"Jiù Zuìgāo Fǎyuàn Dàlóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.281,"lon":114.1602,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-old-supreme-court-building/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 1912 on reclaimed land and built on a foundation of hundreds of Chinese fir piles, this three-storey granite building is Neo-classical, with tall Ionic columns and a central pediment topped by a blindfolded statue of Justice as the Greek goddess Themis. It housed the Legislative Council chamber from 1985 to 2011 and has been home to the Court of Final Appeal since 2015. Only the exterior is declared a monument."},{"id":"tai-po-old-police-station-green-hub","name":"Old Tai Po Police Station (Green Hub)","name_zh":"旧大埔警署","pinyin":"Jiù Dàbù Jǐngshǔ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4465,"lon":114.1699,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-po-old-police-station-green-hub/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Old Tai Po Police Station, built in 1899, was the first police station and police headquarters in the New Territories and is the oldest surviving police station there. Its three single-storey buildings, the main building, staff quarters and canteen block, keep their Dutch gables, ornamental window arches and fireplaces, with a guard house and octagonal well near the entrance and a brick incinerator on the lawn. It has been revitalised as the Green Hub, run by Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, which offers a heritage display and heritage tours alongside sustainable-living programmes."},{"id":"sai-ying-pun-old-tsan-yuk-maternity-hospital","name":"Old Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital","name_zh":"旧赞育医院","pinyin":"Jiù Zànyù Yīyuàn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2859,"lon":114.1409,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sai-ying-pun-old-tsan-yuk-maternity-hospital","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The red-brick main building of a hospital opened on Western Street in 1922 by the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee to provide maternity care for Chinese women and train Chinese midwives. It has a granite portico at the main entrance and a spiral staircase inside. The hospital moved to new premises in 1955, and the building has been a community centre since 1961."},{"id":"wan-chai-old-wan-chai-post-office","name":"Old Wan Chai Post Office","name_zh":"旧湾仔邮政局","pinyin":"Jiù Wānzǎi Yóuzhèngjú","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2743,"lon":114.1732,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wan-chai-old-wan-chai-post-office/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1912–13 and opened in 1915, this L-shaped building at the junction of Queen's Road East and Wan Chai Gap Road is the oldest surviving post office building in Hong Kong. It is a simple pitched-roof structure with gable ends and mouldings. Since 2024 it has been kNOw Carbon House, an environmental education centre about carbon neutrality that keeps some historic items from the old post office."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-old-police-station","name":"Old Yau Ma Tei Police Station","name_zh":"旧油麻地警署","pinyin":"Jiù Yóumádì Jǐngshǔ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3096,"lon":114.1686,"category":"heritage","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yau-ma-tei-old-police-station/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Old Yau Ma Tei Police Station was built in 1922 in Edwardian style and is one of Hong Kong's few surviving pre-war police stations. It is a Grade II historic building whose facade has appeared in many Hong Kong crime films, including Infernal Affairs. Part of it now holds a government-backed exhibition, Yau Ma Tei Police Station: A Cinematic Journey, with a retro cinema entrance, a re-created 1970s and 1980s detective office and open detention cells."},{"id":"central-pmq","name":"PMQ","name_zh":"元创方","pinyin":"Yuánchuàngfāng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2835,"lon":114.1518,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-pmq","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"PMQ is a creative hub in SoHo, set in a Grade III historic building that was the Police Married Quarters and, before that, the site of Central School. More than 100 Hong Kong designers work from its studios and shops, and it runs workshops, design events and cultural activities. Traces of its past include old granite foundations from the school on display below ground, granite steps dating from 1889, and fifth-floor galleries on the history of Central School and a police family's home."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-peking-road","name":"Peking Road","name_zh":"北京道","pinyin":"Běijīng Dào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2964,"lon":114.1712,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-peking-road/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Peking Road is a short street in Tsim Sha Tsui's commercial district linking Canton Road and Nathan Road, lined with shopping malls, hotels and restaurants. It was called Chater Road until 1909, when it was renamed to avoid confusion with another Chater Road on Hong Kong Island. Restaurants on the upper floors of some of the towers have views of Victoria Harbour."},{"id":"ngong-ping-po-lin-monastery","name":"Po Lin Monastery","name_zh":"宝莲禅寺","pinyin":"Bǎolián Chánsì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2553,"lon":113.9076,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ngong-ping-po-lin-monastery/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Po Lin Monastery, whose name means 'precious lotus', is a Buddhist monastery on the Ngong Ping plateau that monks established in 1906. Its main hall enshrines three large Buddha statues, and the Grand Hall of Ten Thousand Buddhas holds thousands of small gilded Buddha figures. A garden lies in the grounds, and the Wisdom Path, a walking trail of 38 wooden posts inscribed with the Heart Sutra, is about 0.5 km to the south-east."},{"id":"central-princes-terrace","name":"Prince's Terrace","name_zh":"太子台","pinyin":"Tàizǐ Tái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2811,"lon":114.1517,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-princes-terrace","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Prince's Terrace is a quiet hillside lane in Central, running beside the Central–Mid-Levels Escalator among trees and a few cafés. At its end are granite steps, recognised as a Grade III historic site, that are the remains of Douglas Villas, a grand mansion from Hong Kong's early days of foreign trade. It suits a short, calm break from the busy streets below."},{"id":"quarry-bay-market-footbridge","name":"Quarry Bay Market Footbridge","name_zh":"鲗鱼涌街市天桥","pinyin":"Zéiyúchōng Jiēshì Tiānqiáo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2847,"lon":114.2116,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quarry-bay-market-footbridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This white footbridge with rounded frames and red railings links Quarry Bay Market to the cooked food centre, and is an everyday passage for local residents. It stands among dense residential and commercial blocks on the east of Hong Kong Island, which makes it a good vantage point for photographs of the local cityscape. The area around it was used for fight scenes in the film Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)."},{"id":"quarry-bay-park","name":"Quarry Bay Park","name_zh":"鲗鱼涌公园","pinyin":"Zéiyúchōng Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2889,"lon":114.2191,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=quarry-bay-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Quarry Bay Park is a waterfront park between the Tai Koo Shing housing estate and Victoria Harbour, with sports grounds, a lookout tower with harbour views and a children's playground on an ocean theme. Phase One opened in 1994. Next door, the Fireboat Alexander Grantham Exhibition Gallery shows a fireboat that served from 1953 to 2002."},{"id":"wan-chai-race-course-fire-memorial","name":"Race Course Fire Memorial","name_zh":"马场先难友纪念碑","pinyin":"Mǎchǎng Xiānnànyǒu Jìniànbēi","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2727,"lon":114.1899,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wan-chai-race-course-fire-memorial/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Erected in 1922, this memorial remembers the more than 600 people of many nationalities who died in the fire at the Happy Valley racecourse on 26 February 1918. It rises in three terraces: two pavilions at the top, a central memorial arch below them and a pair of pagodas at the bottom, combining Western classical and traditional Chinese elements. It is the only memorial in Hong Kong dedicated to the victims of that fire."},{"id":"lin-ma-hang-ip-ting-sz-residence","name":"Residence of Ip Ting-sz, Lin Ma Hang","name_zh":"叶定仕故居","pinyin":"Yè Dìngshì Gùjū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.549,"lon":114.1804,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lin-ma-hang-ip-ting-sz-residence/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built around 1908 and modelled on Sun Yat-sen's family home in Cuiheng village, Zhongshan, this two-storey grey-brick and timber house belonged to Ip Ting-sz (1879–1943), a tailor who set up a garment factory in Thailand and co-founded the Chinese Association there. The Antiquities and Monuments Office records that he was president of the Tong Meng Hui's Siam branch and gave funds to its revolutionary campaign, and that he returned to Lin Ma Hang in 1936. The house has a covered porch with a balcony, ceramic vase-shaped balusters and murals over the doors, mixing Chinese and Western features."},{"id":"kam-tin-tang-pak-kau-residence","name":"Residence of Tang Pak Kau, Kam Tin","name_zh":"邓伯裘故居","pinyin":"Dèng Bóqiú Gùjū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4395,"lon":114.0656,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kam-tin-tang-pak-kau-residence","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The house was probably built in the early twentieth century for Tang Pak Kau (1876–1950), a businessman and clan leader who helped develop education and medical services in Kam Tin, and who ran a private school for clan children inside it. It is a single-storey grey-brick building with a three-storey watchtower, blending Chinese and Western styles, and was declared a monument in 2024. It stands in Tsz Tong Tsuen, close to the walled village of Kat Hing Wai."},{"id":"big-wave-bay-rock-carving","name":"Rock Carving at Big Wave Bay","name_zh":"大浪湾石刻","pinyin":"Dàlàngwān Shíkè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2462,"lon":114.2488,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=big-wave-bay-rock-carving","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This ancient rock carving on the rocky headland by Big Wave Bay shows geometric patterns with hints of animal and human figures. It was reported in 1970 and declared a monument in 1978. The Antiquities and Monuments Office suggests the carvings might have been meant to appease the sea and protect the seafarers who depended on it."},{"id":"lung-ha-wan-rock-carving","name":"Rock Carving at Lung Ha Wan","name_zh":"龙虾湾石刻","pinyin":"Lóngxiāwān Shíkè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3102,"lon":114.2991,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=lung-ha-wan-rock-carving","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This rock carving is cut into a vertical, badly weathered boulder facing east, near Lung Ha Wan on the eastern side of the Clear Water Bay Peninsula. A group of hikers found it in 1978, and its geometric patterns include shapes that may resemble stylised animals or birds, although another school of thought holds that the marks are purely natural. It was declared a monument in 1983, which also leaves the way open for further study."},{"id":"lantau-shek-pik-rock-carving","name":"Rock Carving at Shek Pik","name_zh":"石壁石刻","pinyin":"Shíbì Shíkè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2244,"lon":113.8966,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lantau-shek-pik-rock-carving/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Rock Carving at Shek Pik shows geometric patterns of spiral squares and circles that closely resemble those on Bronze Age objects, and the Antiquities and Monuments Office dates it to about 3,000 years ago. Most of Hong Kong's ancient carvings overlook the sea, but this one stands about 300 m from the coast, where the sea inlet may once have reached. It lies near the Shek Pik Reservoir dam on south Lantau and was declared a monument in 1979."},{"id":"tung-lung-chau-rock-carving","name":"Rock Carving on Tung Lung Chau","name_zh":"东龙洲石刻","pinyin":"Dōnglóngzhōu Shíkè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.253,"lon":114.2829,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tung-lung-chau-rock-carving","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This rock carving on the north-western side of Tung Lung Chau is the earliest rock carving recorded in its original place in Hong Kong, and at 1.8 by 2.4 metres the largest found in the territory. The 1819 gazetteer of Xin'an County already recorded the design as a dragon. It was declared a monument in 1979."},{"id":"wong-chuk-hang-rock-carvings","name":"Rock Carvings at Wong Chuk Hang","name_zh":"黄竹坑石刻","pinyin":"Huángzhúkēng Shíkè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2526,"lon":114.1746,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wong-chuk-hang-rock-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Three groups of spiral and meandering patterns, which look like stylised animal eyes, are carved into the rock beside a stream at Wong Chuk Hang. Unlike most rock carvings in Hong Kong, which are on the coast, these stand at least a kilometre from the sea, though they still overlook the water of the stream. They were declared monuments in 1984."},{"id":"po-toi-rock-carvings","name":"Rock Carvings on Po Toi","name_zh":"蒲台岛石刻","pinyin":"Pútáidǎo Shíkè","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.1609,"lon":114.2562,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/po-toi-rock-carvings/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"These ancient rock carvings lie in the southern part of Po Toi, an island at Hong Kong's southern tip, and are estimated to be more than 3,000 years old. A rock fracture 70 cm wide divides them into two groups: lines resembling stylised fish and animals on the left, and interlocking spirals on the right. They were found in the 1960s and declared a monument in 1979."},{"id":"joss-house-bay-rock-inscription","name":"Rock Inscription at Joss House Bay","name_zh":"大庙湾刻石","pinyin":"Dàmiàowān Kèshí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2708,"lon":114.2902,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/joss-house-bay-rock-inscription/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The inscription is cut into a rock at Joss House Bay, near the southern tip of the Clear Water Bay Peninsula, and is dated to 1274 in the Southern Song dynasty, which makes it the oldest dated inscription found in Hong Kong. It records a visit to the area by a salt administration officer and his friend, and gives the history of two temples, one on each side of the Fat Tong Mun channel. The stairs that lead down to the bay and its Tin Hau Temple pass the inscription."},{"id":"causeway-bay-russell-street","name":"Russell Street","name_zh":"罗素街","pinyin":"Luósù Jiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.279,"lon":114.1825,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/causeway-bay-russell-street/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Russell Street is a busy shopping street in Causeway Bay, and its eastern section has been a pedestrian street since 2000. In the 1970s it was a neighbourhood of tenement buildings beside an open-air market and the Causeway Bay tram depot, and the depot site is now Times Square. Today it is lined with shops, cafés and street food, and it has been used as a film location."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-salisbury-garden","name":"Salisbury Garden","name_zh":"梳士巴利花园","pinyin":"Shūshìbālì Huāyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2939,"lon":114.1729,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-salisbury-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Salisbury Garden is a public garden on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront between the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Hong Kong Space Museum, with lawns, trees and contemporary art installations. Its Art Square opened in 2014, and the garden was renovated in 2017. It has open views across Victoria Harbour and sits close to the Star Ferry pier, the Cultural Centre and the Avenue of Stars."},{"id":"tsuen-wan-sam-tung-uk-museum","name":"Sam Tung Uk Museum","name_zh":"三栋屋博物馆","pinyin":"Sāndòngwū Bówùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.372,"lon":114.1202,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsuen-wan-sam-tung-uk-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sam Tung Uk is a Hakka walled village built by the Chan clan in 1786 and restored in 1987 to open as a museum. Its symmetrical, chessboard-like layout has an entrance hall, a middle hall and the ancestral hall on the central axis, with dwellings enclosed by rows of houses on each side and at the back. The Hong Kong Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre is based here, with exhibitions on local festivals and traditional crafts."},{"id":"wong-tai-sin-san-po-kong","name":"San Po Kong","name_zh":"新蒲岗","pinyin":"Xīnpúgǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3364,"lon":114.1968,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wong-tai-sin-san-po-kong/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"San Po Kong is a largely industrial district in east Kowloon, south of Wong Tai Sin and north of the former Kai Tak Airport. Older factory buildings now stand alongside office towers, independent shops and long-established local eateries, and the Mikiki shopping mall opened in 2011 on the site of the old magistrates' courts. It is a place to wander through an everyday side of Hong Kong rather than to tick off a single sight."},{"id":"sha-tin-marriage-registry","name":"Sha Tin Marriage Registry","name_zh":"沙田婚姻登记处","pinyin":"Shātián Hūnyīn Dēngjìchù","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3805,"lon":114.1899,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sha-tin-marriage-registry/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A government marriage registry on the ground floor of Sha Tin Town Hall, run by the Immigration Department, where couples give notice of marriage and marry by appointment. The Tourism Board lists it for its understated arched building and its setting beside Sha Tin Park and the Shing Mun River, a backdrop for strolls and couples' photographs. It also appears in the climax of the 2018 film Men on the Dragon."},{"id":"sha-tin-racecourse","name":"Sha Tin Racecourse","name_zh":"沙田马场","pinyin":"Shātián Mǎchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3997,"lon":114.2044,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sha-tin-racecourse/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Opened in 1978, Sha Tin is the larger of Hong Kong's two racecourses, run by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, with a turf track and an all-weather dirt track watched from two grandstands. It hosts the Hong Kong International Races each December, and a tourist zone offers commentary for visitors from abroad. Racing takes place only on scheduled meeting days."},{"id":"sai-kung-sheung-yiu-village","name":"Sheung Yiu Village","name_zh":"上窑村","pinyin":"Shàngyáocūn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3926,"lon":114.3213,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/sai-kung-sheung-yiu-village/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sheung Yiu is a Hakka village built in the 19th century by the Wong clan, who came from Bao'an in Guangdong, on a raised platform inside Sai Kung Country Park. Its row of eight houses, drying terrace and watchtower over the entrance have been restored as the Sheung Yiu Folk Museum, furnished with farming tools and period furniture, and the village's lime kiln has also been restored for viewing. The village prospered by burning lime for mortar and fertiliser until modern bricks and cement undercut the trade."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-signal-tower","name":"Signal Tower at Blackhead Point","name_zh":"大包米讯号塔","pinyin":"Dàbāomǐ Xùnhàotǎ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2963,"lon":114.1747,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-signal-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Signal Tower in Signal Hill Garden was built in 1907 by the Hong Kong Observatory to house a time-ball apparatus, whose copper ball was dropped at set times each day so that ships and the public could check the time. It is a red-brick building with carved granite details in a Classical Baroque design with Edwardian touches, and a storey was added in 1927 to make it easier to see from the harbour. The time-ball service ended in 1933, and the tower is now a landmark of the garden."},{"id":"siu-sai-wan-promenade","name":"Siu Sai Wan Promenade","name_zh":"小西湾海滨花园","pinyin":"Xiǎoxīwān Hǎibīn Huāyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2665,"lon":114.2512,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=siu-sai-wan-promenade","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Siu Sai Wan Promenade is a leafy waterfront park of 2.7 hectares on the eastern edge of Hong Kong Island, with a breezy promenade facing the South China Sea. It has a seven-a-side football pitch, outdoor fitness stations, a children's playground and a rest area. Small parks and rest spots such as the Leaping Dragon Pavilion lie close by along the Leaping Tiger Walk."},{"id":"central-st-johns-cathedral","name":"St. John's Cathedral","name_zh":"圣约翰座堂","pinyin":"Shèngyuēhàn Zuòtáng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2789,"lon":114.1596,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-st-johns-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1849, St John's Cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong Island and the oldest surviving Western Christian church building in Hong Kong. It is a grey-brick and stone building in Gothic style, with a crenellated tower that recalls its role as a garrison church. An extension in 1873 gave it its cross shape."},{"id":"stanley-main-street","name":"Stanley Main Street","name_zh":"赤柱大街","pinyin":"Chìzhù Dàjiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2188,"lon":114.211,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=stanley-main-street","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Stanley Main Street runs along the waterfront in Stanley, a former fishing village on the south side of Hong Kong Island, and is also known as Bar Street. It has open-air cafés, pubs and restaurants serving Western and Asian food, with views over Stanley Bay. Stanley Market is around the corner, and the two are usually visited together."},{"id":"stanley-market","name":"Stanley Market","name_zh":"赤柱市集","pinyin":"Chìzhù Shìjí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2182,"lon":114.2126,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=stanley-market","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Stanley Market is a street market of lanes and open-air stalls beside the Stanley waterfront, which grew out of the nearby village of Chek Chu. Stalls sell clothing, bags, toys, jewellery, souvenirs and Chinese arts and crafts, including personalised ink stamps and Chinese-style outfits. It is a traditional open-air market and a popular stop for souvenir shopping."},{"id":"lantau-fan-lau-stone-circle","name":"Stone Circle at Fan Lau","name_zh":"分流石圆环","pinyin":"Fēnliú Shíyuánhuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.1977,"lon":113.848,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"Half a day, with the fort","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lantau-fan-lau-stone-circle/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Stone Circle at Fan Lau is an oval setting of unhewn stones measuring 2.7 m by 1.7 m, laid out deliberately on the Fan Lau peninsula. The Antiquities and Monuments Office places it in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age and says its purpose is unknown, possibly ritual. A signposted side path from the Fan Lau trail leads to it, close to Fan Lau Fort."},{"id":"san-tin-tai-fu-tai-mansion","name":"Tai Fu Tai Mansion","name_zh":"新田大夫第","pinyin":"Xīntián Dàfūdì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4997,"lon":114.0764,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/san-tin-tai-fu-tai-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tai Fu Tai Mansion was built in 1865 as the home of Man Chung-luen of the Man clan of San Tin, who held the title of dafu, a senior official. It is a fine example of a scholar-gentry dwelling in southern China, a two-hall, three-bay house with side chambers, and the Antiquities and Monuments Office counts it among the most richly decorated historic buildings in Hong Kong. A full restoration was completed in 1988."},{"id":"central-tai-kwun","name":"Tai Kwun (Former Central Police Station Compound)","name_zh":"大馆","pinyin":"Dàguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2815,"lon":114.154,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-tai-kwun/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tai Kwun is the everyday name for the former Central Police Station Compound on Hollywood Road, a group of historic buildings that also takes in the former Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison. Its dominant structures are the Barrack Block of 1864 and the Police Headquarters Block of 1919, and after restoration the compound opened to the public in 2018 as a centre for heritage and arts. Visitors can walk the courtyards, see the permanent heritage exhibitions in the former prison halls, join guided tours and visit the contemporary art galleries."},{"id":"tai-o-fishing-village","name":"Tai O Fishing Village","name_zh":"大澳渔村","pinyin":"Dà'ào Yúcūn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2542,"lon":113.8636,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-o-fishing-village/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tai O is a fishing village on the western side of Lantau Island, home to the Tanka boat people, where pang uk, houses on stilts, stand over the tidal creek and are linked by wooden bridges and boardwalks. Shops sell dried seafood and shrimp paste, and waterfront cafés and restaurants serve local snacks. A promenade walk of about 15 minutes along the shore passes the ferry pier, mangroves and Hung Shing Temple and ends at the old pier beside the former police station, now the Tai O Heritage Hotel."},{"id":"ha-tsuen-tang-ancestral-hall","name":"Tang Ancestral Hall, Ha Tsuen","name_zh":"厦村邓氏宗祠","pinyin":"Xiàcūn Dèngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.447,"lon":113.993,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ha-tsuen-tang-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1749–50 by the Tang clan of Ha Tsuen to honour their two founding ancestors, this is one of the few surviving local examples of a Qing vernacular hall with three halls and two courtyards. Honorary plaques in the middle hall record the clan's standing under the Qing. The compound also includes a guesthouse and Yau Kung School, and the hall is still used for the clan's religious and ceremonial events; it was fully restored in 2011."},{"id":"ping-shan-tang-ancestral-hall","name":"Tang Ancestral Hall, Ping Shan","name_zh":"屏山邓氏宗祠","pinyin":"Píngshān Dèngshì Zōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.445,"lon":114.0082,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ping-shan-tang-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The main ancestral hall of the Tang clan of Ping Shan, built by Tang Fung-shun in the Yuan dynasty, is among the finest three-hall, two-courtyard buildings in Hong Kong. Two drum platforms with granite and red sandstone columns front the hall, and a raised red sandstone path joins the first two halls. It is still used for ancestral worship and festivals, and stands on the Ping Shan Heritage Trail, which opened in 1993 as the first of its kind in Hong Kong."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-hku-tang-chi-ngong-building","name":"Tang Chi Ngong Building, University of Hong Kong","name_zh":"邓志昂楼","pinyin":"Dèng Zhì'áng Lóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2836,"lon":114.14,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pok-fu-lam-hku-tang-chi-ngong-building/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1929 with a donation from Tang Chi-ngong and opened in 1931, this building was designed to house the University of Hong Kong's School of Chinese. It is a symmetrical, three-storey Neo-classical block, with grooved plaster surfaces made to look like stone blocks and a band of Greek key fretwork between the ground and first floors. It now houses the Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, which displays the art and artefacts of the scholar and artist Jao Tsung-I."},{"id":"lung-yeuk-tau-tang-chung-ling-ancestral-hall","name":"Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"松岭邓公祠","pinyin":"Sōnglǐng Dènggōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4977,"lon":114.1528,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/lung-yeuk-tau-tang-chung-ling-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall is one of the largest ancestral halls in Hong Kong and the main hall of the Tang clan of Lung Yeuk Tau, dedicated to the founding ancestor Tang Chung-ling (1302–1387) and dating from around 1525. It has three halls and two spacious courtyards, decorated throughout with wood carvings, plaster mouldings, ceramic sculptures and murals, and the clan still uses it for festivals and meetings. It is one of the stops on the 2.6 km Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail."},{"id":"kam-tin-tang-kwong-u-ancestral-hall","name":"Tang Kwong U Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"广瑜邓公祠","pinyin":"Guǎngyú Dènggōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4461,"lon":114.061,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kam-tin-tang-kwong-u-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tang Kwong U Ancestral Hall, also known as Loi Shing Tong, was built in 1701 in Shui Tau, Kam Tin, by Tang Tseung Luk to commemorate Tang Kwong-u, the 17th-generation ancestor of the Tang clan, and it was renovated in 1782. It is a Qing vernacular building of two halls and one courtyard, with plaster mouldings on the facade and carved woodwork inside. At one time it was converted into a shop and then a factory, before a full restoration in 1996."},{"id":"sheung-wan-tank-lane","name":"Tank Lane","name_zh":"水池巷","pinyin":"Shuǐchí Xiàng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2843,"lon":114.1494,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheung-wan-tank-lane","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tank Lane in Sheung Wan takes its name from a drinking-water reservoir built for early residents, which was taken apart and made into a public lane once piped water arrived. Murals by a number of artists now cover its walls, and tall trees with intertwined roots grow from cracks in the old stone walls. The stairs on the lane appear in the film Rouge (1988)."},{"id":"ping-shan-tat-tak-communal-hall","name":"Tat Tak Communal Hall","name_zh":"达德公所","pinyin":"Dádé Gōngsuǒ","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4495,"lon":114.0072,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ping-shan-tat-tak-communal-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tat Tak Communal Hall, completed in 1857, is the only purpose-built communal hall left in Hong Kong, built as the assembly and worship place of a joint village alliance and as the management office of Ping Shan Market. It was started by Tang Fan-yau, a member of the local gentry, and side halls were added in 1866; the building is plain and functional, of grey brick on a granite base. According to the Antiquities and Monuments Office, it was probably one of the meeting places where the armed resistance to the British takeover of the New Territories in 1899 was organised."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-temple-street-night-market","name":"Temple Street Night Market","name_zh":"庙街夜市","pinyin":"Miàojiē Yèshì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3065,"lon":114.17,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yau-ma-tei-temple-street-night-market/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Temple Street Night Market is a street market in Jordan and Yau Ma Tei that fills with stalls in the evening. It sells clothing, bags, accessories, souvenirs and second-hand goods, and its open-air dai pai dong stalls serve local dishes such as claypot rice, fish balls and siu mai. Fortune tellers work along the street, and the Temple Street archway and the Tin Hau Temple at Yau Ma Tei are close by."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-bethanie","name":"The Bethanie","name_zh":"伯大尼修院","pinyin":"Bódàní Xiūyuàn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2621,"lon":114.1354,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pok-fu-lam-bethanie/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Bethanie is a Neo-Gothic building completed in 1875 by the Paris Foreign Missions Society as a sanatorium where sick missionaries could recover before returning to their work in East Asia. It has a chapel, a sanatorium block and a service wing, with arched verandahs on all sides. Restored in 2006, it is now a campus of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and includes the Bethanie Museum."},{"id":"central-hong-kong-cenotaph","name":"The Cenotaph","name_zh":"和平纪念碑","pinyin":"Hépíng Jìniànbēi","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2816,"lon":114.1606,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-hong-kong-cenotaph/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Unveiled in 1923, the Cenotaph is the earliest memorial formally built in Hong Kong to the dead of the First World War, and an almost exact replica of the one on Whitehall in London. The years of the Second World War were added to its inscription later, and eight Chinese characters carved in the 1980s extend the dedication to all who died in the wars, especially in the defence of Hong Kong. Commemorative events are held here every year."},{"id":"central-the-center","name":"The Center","name_zh":"中环中心","pinyin":"Zhōnghuán Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2846,"lon":114.1547,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-the-center","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Center is a 346-metre steel-and-glass office tower at 99 Queen's Road Central, completed in 1998. By day its facade shows a pattern of triangular facets, and at night it is lit with rainbow-coloured neon lights. Companies and financial institutions occupy the building."},{"id":"central-the-helena-may","name":"The Helena May (Main Building)","name_zh":"梅夫人妇女会主楼","pinyin":"Méi Fūrén Fùnǚhuì Zhǔlóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2774,"lon":114.1585,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-the-helena-may","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1916 for an institute founded by Lady May, wife of the then Governor, to house single working women passing through Hong Kong, this Edwardian Classical Revival building has a U-shaped plan and three tiers of open verandahs on its Garden Road front. A segmental pediment decorated with floral motifs rises above the entrance porch, supported by columns with tasselled capitals. It still serves as a guesthouse and members' club for women."},{"id":"central-the-henderson","name":"The Henderson","name_zh":"The Henderson","pinyin":"The Henderson","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2801,"lon":114.1621,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-the-henderson","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Henderson is a 190-metre, 36-storey office tower in Central designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with curved, flowing lines inspired by the bauhinia, Hong Kong's official flower. A three-metre Jeff Koons sculpture, Balloon Swan (Red), is the centrepiece of its interior. The footbridge outside Cheung Kong Park is a good place to photograph its curved outline against the traffic."},{"id":"tsuen-wan-the-mills","name":"The Mills","name_zh":"南丰纱厂","pinyin":"Nánfēng Shāchǎng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.375,"lon":114.1102,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsuen-wan-the-mills/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Mills is the former Nan Fung Textiles cotton-spinning complex in Tsuen Wan, where operations ceased in 2008, and it reopened in 2018 as a mix of arts, shops and start-up space. Its CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) holds exhibitions and programmes on the textile industry, and the Shopfloor has independent and artisanal shops. The conservation project received a 2019 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for New Design in Heritage Contexts."},{"id":"discovery-bay-pavilion","name":"The Pavilion, Discovery Bay","name_zh":"海滨礼堂","pinyin":"Hǎibīn Lǐtáng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3065,"lon":114.0167,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=discovery-bay-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Pavilion, also called the White Chapel, is a 16 m tall glass building shaped like a triangular prism on the waterfront at Discovery Bay, within the Auberge Discovery Bay Hong Kong hotel. It is a popular wedding venue, and the Hong Kong Tourism Board names its triangular front door as the best spot to photograph the building's geometric form, with green hills and the sea behind."},{"id":"causeway-bay-tin-hau-temple","name":"Tin Hau Temple, Causeway Bay","name_zh":"铜锣湾天后庙","pinyin":"Tóngluówān Tiānhòu Miào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2822,"lon":114.1928,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/causeway-bay-tin-hau-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tin Hau Temple was built by the Tai clan, who according to legend found a red stone shaped like an incense burner on the shore here and built a shrine for it that grew into the temple. The main hall has altars to Tin Hau, the goddess of the sea, to Judge Bao and to the God of Wealth, and the roof ridges are decorated with dragons and Shiwan ceramic figurines of scenes from Chinese opera. Among the Qing-dynasty relics inside is a bell cast in 1747."},{"id":"joss-house-bay-tin-hau-temple","name":"Tin Hau Temple, Joss House Bay","name_zh":"佛堂门天后古庙","pinyin":"Fótángmén Tiānhòu Gǔmiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2705,"lon":114.29,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/joss-house-bay-tin-hau-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Known as Tai Miu, the 'great temple', this is one of the oldest and largest Tin Hau temples in Hong Kong, on the northern shore of Joss House Bay. Five buildings stand in a row, with a two-hall main building flanked by two side halls on each side, and rock inscriptions behind it link the temple to the Southern Song dynasty. Thousands of worshippers come on Tin Hau's birthday, on the 23rd day of the third lunar month, and it is one of the few Tin Hau temples still standing close to the sea."},{"id":"fanling-lung-yeuk-tau-tin-hau-temple","name":"Tin Hau Temple, Lung Yeuk Tau","name_zh":"龙跃头天后宫","pinyin":"Lóngyuètóu Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4975,"lon":114.1527,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=fanling-lung-yeuk-tau-tin-hau-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The main temple of Lung Yeuk Tau, a two-hall, three-bay building with a central courtyard and a facade of plaster mouldings and murals, standing between Tang Chung Ling Ancestral Hall and Lo Wai. Its oldest relics are two bells cast in 1695 and 1700 as offerings from the Tang clan, kept in the east chamber of the rear hall. It is a stop on the Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail, a 2.6 km route through the area's walled villages and halls."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-tin-hau-temple","name":"Tin Hau Temple, Yau Ma Tei","name_zh":"油麻地天后古庙","pinyin":"Yóumádì Tiānhòu Gǔmiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3099,"lon":114.1707,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yau-ma-tei-tin-hau-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Tin Hau Temple compound in Yau Ma Tei was set up by the local boat people and land dwellers and is the largest surviving Tin Hau temple compound in Kowloon. The temple moved to its present site in 1876 and was completed in 1878, and four adjoining buildings were added between 1894 and 1920, as the compound served the community for arbitration and study as well as worship. It is a two-hall, three-bay building in Qing vernacular style around an open courtyard, with Shiwan ceramic figurines on the ridge of the entrance hall."},{"id":"central-tong-lau-experience-room","name":"Tong Lau Experience Room","name_zh":"唐楼体验馆","pinyin":"Tánglóu Tǐyànguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2833,"lon":114.1512,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=central-tong-lau-experience-room","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Tong Lau Experience Room is an exhibition on the first floor of 88 Staunton Street, a Grade II tenement building from 1951 that belongs to Central's 30 Houses community. Everyday items donated by former residents and an audio guide recreate daily life in the 1950s and 1960s. The hand-carved terrazzo and Shanghai plaster sign of the Po Pan Teahouse, which was on the ground floor in the 1970s, was uncovered during restoration."},{"id":"tin-hau-tsing-fung-street","name":"Tsing Fung Street","name_zh":"清风街","pinyin":"Qīngfēng Jiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2848,"lon":114.1919,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=tin-hau-tsing-fung-street","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tsing Fung Street in Tin Hau is a street of small restaurants, cafes, dessert shops and bars beneath a local footbridge. Korean barbecue, Japanese izakayas, cha chaan tengs and Sichuanese restaurants stand side by side, and the street turns from relaxed daytime cafes to busy restaurants and bars at night. The chase scene in the film Divergence (2005) was shot on the Tsing Fung Street Flyover."},{"id":"tsing-ma-bridge","name":"Tsing Ma Bridge","name_zh":"青马大桥","pinyin":"Qīngmǎ Dàqiáo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3517,"lon":114.0762,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsing-ma-bridge/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tsing Ma Bridge is a suspension bridge linking Tsing Yi and Ma Wan on the road and rail route to Lantau and the airport. It is 2,160 metres long with a main span of 1,377 metres, and was once the world's longest suspension bridge to carry both road and rail traffic. Visitors heading to Lantau and the airport are likely to cross it by road or rail; to see it from outside, the Hong Kong Tourism Board suggests the Hilltop Lookout in Ma Wan Park."},{"id":"tsing-yi-promenade","name":"Tsing Yi Promenade","name_zh":"青衣海滨公园","pinyin":"Qīngyī Hǎibīn Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3565,"lon":114.1089,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsing-yi-promenade/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 1.6 km waterfront walkway on the north-east coast of Tsing Yi, facing across Rambler Channel to Kwai Chung. To the south there are views of the Tsing Ma Bridge, the container port and the western end of Hong Kong Island. It is pleasant at sunrise and sunset, with locals jogging, cycling, practising tai chi and fishing along the shore."},{"id":"ping-shan-tsui-sing-lau-pagoda","name":"Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda","name_zh":"聚星楼","pinyin":"Jùxīnglóu","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4488,"lon":114.0061,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ping-shan-tsui-sing-lau-pagoda/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tsui Sing Lau, the Pagoda of Gathering Stars, is the only ancient pagoda still standing in Hong Kong, built by the Tang clan of Ping Shan around the Hongwu reign (1368–1398), according to the clan's genealogy. The hexagonal grey-brick tower has three storeys and is about 13 metres high, although the Tangs say it once had seven storeys and lost the upper four, probably in typhoons. A statue of Fui Shing, the deity of success in examinations, stands on the upper floor."},{"id":"tung-chung-battery","name":"Tung Chung Battery","name_zh":"东涌小炮台","pinyin":"Dōngchōng Xiǎopàotái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2873,"lon":113.9356,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tung-chung-battery/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tung Chung Battery is a small coastal battery on a hill slope in Tung Chung, recorded as built in 1817 to guard Tung Chung Bay from pirates. Only an L-shaped wall with a corner platform, probably a gun emplacement, survives; it was found under undergrowth in 1980 and has been partly restored. It is a quick stop that pairs with Tung Chung Fort, about 1 km to the south."},{"id":"tung-chung-fort","name":"Tung Chung Fort","name_zh":"东涌炮台","pinyin":"Dōngchōng Pàotái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2778,"lon":113.9361,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tung-chung-fort/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tung Chung Fort, called the Tung Chung Battalion City in the Qing dynasty, was the naval headquarters of the Right Battalion of Dapeng, and a carved granite slab above its entrance is dated 1832. Six old muzzle-loading cannons stand along the walls. After the Qing authorities left in 1898 the compound served as a police station and a school, and it now houses a Rural Committee office and an information centre."},{"id":"happy-valley-tung-lin-kok-yuen","name":"Tung Lin Kok Yuen","name_zh":"东莲觉苑","pinyin":"Dōngliánjué Yuàn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2669,"lon":114.1857,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/happy-valley-tung-lin-kok-yuen/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tung Lin Kok Yuen is a Buddhist monastery in Happy Valley, founded in 1935 by Lady Clara Ho Tung and her husband Sir Robert Ho Tung. Its arrowhead-shaped plan was meant to suggest a ship carrying all beings to the other shore, and its Western structural frame is finished with Chinese flying eaves, brackets and glazed-tile roofs. It remains a working monastery that runs Buddhist courses and talks."},{"id":"tung-lung-chau-fort","name":"Tung Lung Fort","name_zh":"东龙洲炮台","pinyin":"Dōnglóngzhōu Pàotái","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2551,"lon":114.2968,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tung-lung-chau-fort/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tung Lung Fort sits on the north-eastern tip of Tung Lung Chau, a small island off the southern end of the Clear Water Bay Peninsula, looking over the Fat Tong Mun channel. It was built during the Kangxi reign (1662–1722) to guard against pirates and is a walled rectangle of about 33.5 by 22.5 metres, with fifteen guardhouses and eight cannons in its day. The garrison was moved to Kowloon Fort in 1810, and the ruins were partly restored in 1979–82, when excavations inside recovered a large quantity of artefacts."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-tung-wah-museum","name":"Tung Wah Museum","name_zh":"东华三院文物馆","pinyin":"Dōnghuá Sānyuàn Wénwùguǎn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.315,"lon":114.1718,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/yau-ma-tei-tung-wah-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tung Wah Museum occupies the former main hall of Kwong Wah Hospital, which opened in 1911 as the first hospital in Kowloon and the New Territories. The hall was the only part kept when the hospital was rebuilt in 1958, and it was converted into a museum in 1970 to display relics and archives of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals. The building mixes Chinese features, such as carved timber eaves and green glazed roof tiles, with Western bull's-eye and arched windows."},{"id":"central-two-international-finance-centre","name":"Two International Finance Centre","name_zh":"国际金融中心二期","pinyin":"Guójì Jīnróng Zhōngxīn Èrqī","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2853,"lon":114.1593,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-two-international-finance-centre/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Completed in 2003, Two International Finance Centre is the tallest building on Hong Kong Island and the second tallest in the city, rising from the harbour front in Central above Hong Kong MTR station and linked to the ifc mall, One ifc and a Four Seasons hotel. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority Information Centre on its 55th floor, with an exhibition area and a library, is open to visitors. The tower has appeared in films including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life and The Dark Knight."},{"id":"tuen-mun-t-park","name":"T·PARK","name_zh":"T·PARK 源·区","pinyin":"T·PARK Yuán Qū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4225,"lon":113.9257,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"3 hours or more","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tuen-mun-t-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"T·PARK is a sludge treatment plant run by the Environmental Protection Department, where incineration cuts the volume of sewage sludge by 90 per cent and the recovered heat and power run the site. Visitors can take a guided tour, see the exhibition hall and the viewing windows onto the plant, and walk the 9,800 square metres of landscaped grounds, which include a water-bird sanctuary on Deep Bay. Three spa pools with sea views are heated by energy recovered from the incinerators."},{"id":"pok-fu-lam-hku-university-hall","name":"University Hall, University of Hong Kong","name_zh":"香港大学大学堂","pinyin":"Xiānggǎng Dàxué Dàxuétáng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2635,"lon":114.1353,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/pok-fu-lam-hku-university-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A castle-like building on a hill in Pok Fu Lam, built around 1861 by the Scottish businessman Douglas Lapraik as 'Douglas Castle' and later owned by the Paris Foreign Missions Society as 'Nazareth'. It blends Tudor, Gothic and Renaissance Revival styles, with colonnaded verandahs, Tudor arches, embattled parapets and corner towers. The University of Hong Kong bought it in 1954, and it has been a men's hall of residence since 1956."},{"id":"tsim-sha-tsui-east-urban-council-centenary-garden","name":"Urban Council Centenary Garden","name_zh":"市政局百周年纪念花园","pinyin":"Shìzhèngjú Bǎizhōunián Jìniàn Huāyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2991,"lon":114.1773,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tsim-sha-tsui-east-urban-council-centenary-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Urban Council Centenary Garden is a small public park in Tsim Sha Tsui East, opened in 1983 to mark a hundred years of the Urban Council. It has a large circular fountain, walkways and shaded benches, and six Greek Revival granite columns saved from the former Kowloon railway station stand at the end of a second fountain. A waterfront promenade leads from the garden towards the Avenue of Stars."},{"id":"causeway-bay-victoria-park","name":"Victoria Park","name_zh":"维多利亚公园","pinyin":"Wéiduōlìyà Gōngyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2812,"lon":114.1891,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/causeway-bay-victoria-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Victoria Park opened in 1957 on reclaimed land where the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter once stood, and covers more than 190,000 square metres. It has a large central lawn, tennis courts, football pitches, a jogging path, a swimming pool and playgrounds, with a statue of Queen Victoria at the main entrance. Locals come for tai chi at sunrise, and the park hosts the Hong Kong Flower Show, Lunar New Year flower markets and Mid-Autumn Festival lantern displays."},{"id":"kwun-tong-wai-yip-pedestrian-bridge","name":"Wai Yip Pedestrian Bridge","name_zh":"伟业街行人天桥","pinyin":"Wěiyè Jiē Xíngrén Tiānqiáo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3176,"lon":114.2136,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=kwun-tong-wai-yip-pedestrian-bridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Wai Yip Pedestrian Bridge spans Kwun Tong Road beside Wai Yip Street in Kwun Tong. Its smooth, rounded shape recalls a train carriage, and its facade is white, blue and pink. It is best known as a romantic meeting place in the Hong Kong film Love in a Puff (2010)."},{"id":"wan-chai-ferry-pier","name":"Wan Chai Ferry Pier","name_zh":"湾仔码头","pinyin":"Wānzǎi Mǎtou","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2821,"lon":114.1758,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/wan-chai-ferry-pier/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A harbourfront pier beside the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, rebuilt in 2014, with a public observation deck looking across both sides of Victoria Harbour. Ferry services from Wan Chai have run since 1949, and the facade of the current pier carries a stone-wall tree pattern as a nod to local heritage. Star Ferry boats from here cross to Tsim Sha Tsui, and the deck is a place for harbour views and skyline photographs."},{"id":"wan-chai-market","name":"Wan Chai Market","name_zh":"湾仔街市","pinyin":"Wānzǎi Jiēshì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2757,"lon":114.1733,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wan-chai-market","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wan Chai Market is the cluster of open-air stalls and shops around Tai Yuen Street, Cross Street and Wan Chai Road, selling fresh produce, seafood, meat, clothing and household goods. It gives a close look at everyday shopping in Hong Kong and has been used as a film location. It suits visitors who like to browse local markets."},{"id":"tai-shue-wan-water-world","name":"Water World, Ocean Park Hong Kong","name_zh":"海洋公园水上乐园","pinyin":"Hǎiyáng Gōngyuán Shuǐshàng Lèyuán","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2358,"lon":114.1681,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-shue-wan-water-world/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Water World is a water park run by Ocean Park Hong Kong on the hillside at Tai Shue Wan, opened in September 2021 and separate from the main park. It is organised into five themed zones with indoor and outdoor slides, a river ride, a surf zone and a splash area for young children. It is built to operate in all weathers throughout the year and suits families and thrill-seekers."},{"id":"central-wellington-street","name":"Wellington Street","name_zh":"威灵顿街","pinyin":"Wēilíngdùn Jiē","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2836,"lon":114.1541,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/central-wellington-street/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wellington Street runs through Central between Queen's Road Central and Wyndham Street, lined with a mix of old and new buildings, restaurants, bars and small shops. From the 1950s to the 1980s it was the centre of Hong Kong's movable-type printing trade, with more than 150 print shops, the last of which closed in 2019. Number 120, the former Wing Woo Grocery, is a pre-war tenement building preserved as a heritage site."},{"id":"west-kowloon-cultural-district","name":"West Kowloon Cultural District","name_zh":"西九文化区","pinyin":"Xījiǔ Wénhuàqū","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3003,"lon":114.1559,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"Half a day","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/west-kowloon-cultural-district/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The West Kowloon Cultural District is a large arts quarter on the Kowloon waterfront, planned by Foster and Partners and managed by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority. Its venues include the M+ museum, the Hong Kong Palace Museum, the Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera and the Freespace performance venue. Open lawns, the Art Park and the waterfront promenade give views of the harbour skyline."},{"id":"west-kowloon-waterfront-promenade","name":"West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade","name_zh":"西九龙海滨长廊","pinyin":"Xījiǔlóng Hǎibīn Chángláng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2992,"lon":114.155,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes–1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=west-kowloon-waterfront-promenade","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade runs along Victoria Harbour beside the West Kowloon Cultural District, with open lawns, landscaped gardens, small pavilions and cycle paths. It looks across the harbour to the Hong Kong Island skyline, with M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum behind it. It is also known for its sunset views."},{"id":"sheung-wan-western-market","name":"Western Market","name_zh":"西港城","pinyin":"Xīgǎng Chéng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2872,"lon":114.1505,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=sheung-wan-western-market","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Western Market is the surviving North Block of the old Western Market, built in 1906 in the Edwardian style, with white-banded 'bandaged' brickwork on its four corner towers. It is the oldest surviving market building in Hong Kong. Converted in 1991 into a centre of traditional trades, arts and crafts, it later became a neighbourhood shopping complex."},{"id":"kowloon-wong-tai-sin-temple","name":"Wong Tai Sin Temple","name_zh":"黄大仙祠","pinyin":"Huángdàxiān Cí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3428,"lon":114.1936,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kowloon-wong-tai-sin-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Wong Tai Sin Temple is a Taoist temple dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, a folk deity many worshippers ask for blessings and guidance, with shrines that also reflect Buddhist and Confucian traditions. Its buildings and courtyards follow the five elements of Chinese geomancy, with a Bronze Pavilion for metal, a Scripture Hall for wood, a fountain for water, the Yue Heung Pavilion for fire and an earth wall, and stalls in the grounds interpret kau cim fortune sticks. It is busiest around Lunar New Year, when worshippers queue overnight on New Year's Eve."},{"id":"west-kowloon-xiqu-centre","name":"Xiqu Centre","name_zh":"戏曲中心","pinyin":"Xìqǔ Zhōngxīn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3021,"lon":114.1672,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/west-kowloon-xiqu-centre/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Xiqu Centre in the West Kowloon Cultural District is a performance venue for Chinese opera (xiqu), especially Cantonese opera, and opened in January 2019. Its building is designed to evoke a glowing lantern behind a beaded curtain, and it has a Grand Theatre of more than 1,000 seats and a 200-seat Tea House Theatre. Guided tours in English, Cantonese or Mandarin cover the history of the building and the art form."},{"id":"ping-shan-yan-tun-kong-study-hall","name":"Yan Tun Kong Study Hall","name_zh":"仁敦冈书室","pinyin":"Réndūngāng Shūshì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4457,"lon":114.0091,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ping-shan-yan-tun-kong-study-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yan Tun Kong Study Hall, also called Yin Yik Tong, is the most important building of the Tang clan in Hang Tau Tsuen, Ping Shan, which villagers say was built to commemorate three of their ancestors and which prepared young clansmen for the imperial civil service examinations. A plaque suggests it was renovated in 1870, and Tang descendants still gather here to worship their ancestors at the spring and autumn equinoxes. It keeps a finely carved ancestral altar and plaster mouldings on the roof ridges and facade, and is a stop on the Ping Shan Heritage Trail."},{"id":"yau-ma-tei-market","name":"Yau Ma Tei Market","name_zh":"油麻地街市","pinyin":"Yóumádì Jiēshì","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.3086,"lon":114.1693,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=yau-ma-tei-market","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yau Ma Tei Market was built in 1957 and was once Kowloon's largest post-war market, a three-storey building with pink exterior walls. Outside, stalls with green tin roofs line Reclamation Street, selling fresh produce, pastries, flowers, dried goods and sundries. It is an everyday neighbourhood market rather than a single sight, and it has been used as a film location."},{"id":"causeway-bay-yee-wo-street-circular-footbridge","name":"Yee Wo Street Circular Footbridge","name_zh":"怡和街圆形天桥","pinyin":"Yíhé Jiē Yuánxíng Tiānqiáo","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2797,"lon":114.1863,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=causeway-bay-yee-wo-street-circular-footbridge","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in the 1960s, this circular footbridge in Causeway Bay spans the junction of Yee Wo Street with Sugar Street and Pennington Street. It is about 300 metres around, one of the few circular bridges in Hong Kong, and links the surrounding buildings and shopping areas. From the curved walkway you look down on passing trams and across billboards and high-rise blocks, and the bridge has appeared in films and television dramas."},{"id":"ha-tsuen-yeung-hau-temple","name":"Yeung Hau Temple, Ha Tsuen","name_zh":"厦村杨侯宫","pinyin":"Xiàcūn Yánghóu Gōng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4536,"lon":113.9931,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ha-tsuen-yeung-hau-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-hall temple in Tung Tau Tsuen, probably built before 1811 by the Tang clan of the three Tung Tau villages in memory of Marquis Yang Liangjie, who gave his life protecting the last Southern Song emperors and is worshipped here as Yeung Hau. The front hall has red sandstone drum platforms and stone columns, and the whole building is decorated with woodcarvings and murals. An annex honours Wang Lairen, the Qing governor of Guangdong who petitioned for the end of the Evacuation Edict."},{"id":"tai-o-yeung-hau-temple","name":"Yeung Hau Temple, Tai O","name_zh":"大澳杨侯古庙","pinyin":"Dà'ào Yánghóu Gǔmiào","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2591,"lon":113.8627,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/tai-o-yeung-hau-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yeung Hau Temple in Tai O was probably built in 1699 or earlier, a date taken from an iron bell cast that year for the deity Hau Wong. Fishing families, fish merchants and Qing coastal soldiers patronised it, and it is closely tied to the Tai O Dragon Boat Water Parade, a festival on China's national intangible cultural heritage list since 2011. The grey-brick and granite temple has two halls with a covered courtyard between them, and Shiwan ceramic figurines decorate the roof ridge of the entrance hall."},{"id":"kam-tin-yi-tai-study-hall","name":"Yi Tai Study Hall","name_zh":"二帝书院","pinyin":"Èrdì Shūyuàn","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4449,"lon":114.0612,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/kam-tin-yi-tai-study-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yi Tai Study Hall in Shui Tau Village, Kam Tin, was built in the Daoguang reign (1821–1850) by 16 local scholar-gentry to house statues of Man Cheong, god of literature, and Kwan Tai, god of martial arts, which had been worshipped in a nearby pagoda. It became an important academy and later a primary school, which closed after the Second World War. The grey-brick and rammed-earth building has its main entrance on the side between the two halls, probably for feng shui reasons, and a forecourt paved with white stones."},{"id":"ping-shan-yu-kiu-ancestral-hall","name":"Yu Kiu Ancestral Hall","name_zh":"愈乔二公祠","pinyin":"Yùqiáo Èrgōngcí","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.4449,"lon":114.0082,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/ping-shan-yu-kiu-ancestral-hall/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Yu Kiu Ancestral Hall was built between 1500 and 1520, in the Ming dynasty, by two brothers of the Tang clan, and it stands beside the Tang Ancestral Hall in Ping Shan. It has three halls and two internal courtyards, with the ancestral altar in the rear hall and a red sandstone door frame at the main entrance. From 1931 to 1961 it also housed Tat Tak Public School, and the latest major restoration was completed in 1995."},{"id":"wan-chai-yuk-hui-temple","name":"Yuk Hui Temple (Pak Tai Temple), Wan Chai","name_zh":"湾仔玉虚宫","pinyin":"Wānzǎi Yùxūgōng","region_id":"810000","region":"Hong Kong","city":"Hong Kong","lat":22.2729,"lon":114.1738,"category":"heritage","designations":["hk-declared"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=wan-chai-yuk-hui-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built by local residents of Wan Chai and completed in 1863, this temple is dedicated to Pak Tai, a deity associated with the stars of the north and the sea. The main building is a two-hall, three-bay Qing-style structure with an incense pavilion in the centre, which holds a Ming dynasty bronze statue of Pak Tai dated to 1603. Shiwan ceramic scenes from Chinese folk stories decorate the ridge and gable walls of the entrance hall."},{"id":"macau-a-ma-cultural-village","name":"A-Ma Cultural Village","name_zh":"妈祖文化村","pinyin":"Māzǔ Wénhuà Cūn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1229,"lon":113.5628,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-a-ma-cultural-village/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple complex on the Coloane hillside (Aldeia Cultural de A-Ma) that celebrates the legend of A-Ma, goddess of seafarers. It has a pavilion-style front gate, a carved marble altar, Tin Hau Palace, a dressing hall and bell and drum towers. A park lies beside it, and a hiking trail leads up to the statue of A-Ma on the hilltop."},{"id":"macau-a-ma-temple","name":"A-Ma Temple","name_zh":"妈阁庙","pinyin":"Māgé Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1861,"lon":113.5313,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-a-ma-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple complex on the western slope of Barra Hill (Templo de A-Má), dedicated to A-Ma, goddess of seafarers, whose shrine here is older than the city of Macau. Its pavilions went up at different times: a gate pavilion, a memorial arch, the Prayer Hall of 1605, the Hall of Benevolence, which may date from about 1488, the Hall of Guanyin and a Buddhist pavilion. Rocks along the path uphill are engraved with poems about Macau's history and culture."},{"id":"macau-pit-display-area-rua-de-d-belchior-carneiro","name":"Archaeological Pit Display Area, Rua de D. Belchior Carneiro","name_zh":"高园街大坑遗迹","pinyin":"Gāoyuánjiē Dàkēng Yíjì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.198,"lon":113.5415,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-pit-display-area-rua-de-d-belchior-carneiro","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A display area at the northern foot of Mount Hill marking a circular shaft about 9.9 metres deep, cut into the bedrock on the east side of the former St Paul's College. Excavated in 2010–2012, it yielded pottery, porcelain and building materials of the late Ming and early Qing periods, including Kraak export porcelain made at kilns in Jingdezhen. Since protection works in 2025 the pit itself is covered over with soil and sand under a thin concrete layer."},{"id":"macau-arts-park","name":"Arts Park","name_zh":"艺园","pinyin":"Yìyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1906,"lon":113.549,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-arts-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A landscaped strip of garden along Avenida da Amizade, opened in 1999 and running between Ho Yin Garden and Carlos d'Assumpção Park on the NAPE reclamation. It has flower beds, fountains and statuary. Roads now cut across the park after its rebuilding in 2006–07, so it works best as a short stop on the walk between the old town and the Cultural Centre."},{"id":"macau-banco-nacional-ultramarino-building","name":"Banco Nacional Ultramarino Building","name_zh":"大西洋银行大楼","pinyin":"Dàxīyáng Yínháng Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1925,"lon":113.5407,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-banco-nacional-ultramarino-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Macau headquarters of Banco Nacional Ultramarino on Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, first built in 1926 in a southern European style. When it was converted into a modern high-rise in 1997, the original façade and colonnades were kept. It is a good example of façade preservation in Macau."},{"id":"macau-barra-hill","name":"Barra Hill","name_zh":"妈阁山","pinyin":"Māgé Shān","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1838,"lon":113.5324,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-barra-hill","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The second-highest hill in Macau at 73.2 metres, covered in greenery at the south-western tip of the peninsula (Colina da Barra). It connects to Penha Hill to the east, with Praia Grande Lake to the south and the Inner Harbour to the west. The old São Tiago da Barra fortress, now a hotel, sits on its southern slope among other large buildings."},{"id":"macau-barra-square","name":"Barra Square","name_zh":"妈阁庙前地","pinyin":"Māgé Miào Qiándì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1864,"lon":113.531,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-barra-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The paved square (Largo do Pagode da Barra) in front of A-Ma Temple, facing the Inner Harbour. Its front section is laid in Portuguese mosaic pavement in ochre and charcoal, set in a wavy pattern that echoes the flow of the water nearby. The square is part of the Historic Centre of Macau."},{"id":"macau-blue-house","name":"Blue House (Casa Azul), Estrada do Cemitério","name_zh":"蓝屋仔","pinyin":"Lánwūzǎi","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1981,"lon":113.5446,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-blue-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former one-storey private mansion built between 1941 and 1952 and enlarged in 1965 and 1985, whose outer walls were painted bright blue at the end of the 1980s. The building has a typical Portuguese look and has kept most of its original layout. Its blue walls have made it a visual landmark of the district."},{"id":"macau-border-gate","name":"Border Gate (Portas do Cerco)","name_zh":"关闸","pinyin":"Guānzhá","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2159,"lon":113.5492,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-border-gate/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Border Gate is a triumphal-arch portico built in 1870–71 at the northern end of the Macau Peninsula, at the site where the Chinese authorities had put up a gate house in 1574. Inscriptions on the arch record events in the site's history. The arch stands in Border Gate Square, which has fountains and planting and blue-tiled side walls carrying a poem by the Portuguese poet Camões."},{"id":"macau-xian-xinghai-statue","name":"Bronze Statue of Xian Xinghai","name_zh":"冼星海纪念铜像","pinyin":"Xiǎn Xīnghǎi Jìniàn Tóngxiàng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1919,"lon":113.553,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"10 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-xian-xinghai-statue","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A bronze statue of the composer Xian Xinghai, who was born in Macau, at the junction of Avenida Xian Xing Hai and Rua de Berlim in the Nam Van area. The tourism office describes him as a herald of modern Chinese music, and the Yellow River Cantata is one of his best-known works."},{"id":"macau-no-1-cathedral-square","name":"Building at No. 1, Cathedral Square","name_zh":"大堂前地1号房屋","pinyin":"Dàtáng Qiándì Yī Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1939,"lon":113.5413,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-1-cathedral-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The headquarters and offices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau, beside the Cathedral on Largo da Sé. A plain façade is divided into five equal bays by twin pilasters, with Tuscan pilasters on the lower level and fluted Doric-style pilasters above. The walls have been repainted and the interior completely altered, but the façade keeps its original look."},{"id":"macau-no-2-company-of-jesus-square","name":"Building at No. 2, Company of Jesus Square","name_zh":"耶稣会纪念广场2号房屋","pinyin":"Yēsūhuì Jìniàn Guǎngchǎng Èr Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1969,"lon":113.5409,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"10 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-2-company-of-jesus-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A neoclassical house of the second half of the 19th century (Casa no Largo da Companhia de Jesus, n.º 2), classified as a building of architectural interest. It faces the square below the Ruins of St Paul's, and academic research cited by the Cultural Affairs Bureau places it on the original site of the library of St Paul's College."},{"id":"macau-no-2-estrada-nova","name":"Building at No. 2, Estrada Nova","name_zh":"加思栏后新马路2号房屋","pinyin":"Jiāsīlán Hòu Xīn Mǎlù Èr Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1924,"lon":113.5455,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-2-estrada-nova","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Known as the small green house for the colour of its outer wall, this building was designed in 1919 by the Portuguese architect Carlos Rebelo de Andrade as quarters for staff of the São Francisco Barracks. It is a good example of the Casa Portuguesa style, with two connected houses, a symmetrical façade on a coarse granite base with a front porch, and a double-tiled hip roof with ornaments resembling Chinese eaves at the ends of the ridge. It stands beside St Francis Fort and Barracks."},{"id":"macau-no-30-estrada-da-vitoria","name":"Building at No. 30, Estrada da Vitória","name_zh":"得胜马路30号房屋","pinyin":"Déshèng Mǎlù 30 Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1989,"lon":113.5497,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-30-estrada-da-vitoria","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey mansion set on a garden platform held up by a large stone wall, planned in 1924 and completed around 1930. Its style combines eclectic architecture with elements of Art Nouveau and the Portuguese House movement. It is now home to the Good Shepherd Sisters and, with the early 20th-century villas around it, keeps the character of Estrada da Vitória on the western slope of Guia Hill."},{"id":"macau-no-55-calcada-da-vitoria","name":"Building at No. 55, Calçada da Vitória","name_zh":"得胜斜路55号房屋","pinyin":"Déshèng Xiélù 55 Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1964,"lon":113.5478,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-55-calcada-da-vitoria","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey villa completed in about 1926–1928 as the Macau home of the overseas Chinese businessman Hee Cheong, founder of the President Hotel, later Hotel Central. It has a curved Baroque pediment bearing the year 1926, arcades on two sides and a polygonal turret, with Western ironwork and Chinese carved-wood details. It later passed through several owners to the Diocese of Macau."},{"id":"macau-no-6-avenida-da-republica","name":"Building at No. 6, Avenida da República","name_zh":"民国大马路6号房屋","pinyin":"Mínguó Dàmǎlù 6 Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1853,"lon":113.5348,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-6-avenida-da-republica","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This small house of the early 20th century blends styles: glazed ceramic tiles under the eaves, common in traditional Portuguese architecture, with classical columns and fan-shaped windows. The large arched window facing the avenue is divided vertically into three parts. The house has a sloping roof, a simply decorated entrance and pink walls with white lines."},{"id":"macau-no-6-calcada-do-gaio","name":"Building at No. 6, Calçada do Gaio","name_zh":"东望洋斜巷6号房屋","pinyin":"Dōngwàngyáng Xiéxiàng Liù Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1958,"lon":113.5465,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-6-calcada-do-gaio","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey villa completed in 1930 on the slope of Guia Hill, the only surviving villa of the first half of the 20th century on Calçada do Gaio. Its eclectic façade has Arabian-style decoration, with horseshoe arches above the balconies, slender pillars and tile and brick patterns. It is used as the headquarters of the Institute of European Studies of Macau."},{"id":"macau-no-679-avenida-da-praia-grande","name":"Building at No. 679, Avenida da Praia Grande","name_zh":"南湾大马路679号房屋","pinyin":"Nánwān Dàmǎlù 679 Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1926,"lon":113.5418,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-679-avenida-da-praia-grande","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey house of the early 20th century that mixes Chinese and Western styles and is typical of the homes of wealthy Chinese merchants of its time. The Cultural Affairs Bureau records it as belonging to descendants of the Macau merchant Kou Ho Neng. It stands on Avenida da Praia Grande."},{"id":"macau-no-14-16-avenida-de-horta-e-costa","name":"Building at Nos. 14 and 16, Avenida de Horta e Costa","name_zh":"高士德大马路14号、16号大楼","pinyin":"Gāoshìdé Dàmǎlù 14 Hào, 16 Hào Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2011,"lon":113.5495,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-14-16-avenida-de-horta-e-costa","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey eclectic building of 1930 with a ground-floor veranda on square pillars and an upper balcony on round columns with capitals. The balcony projects at the centre of the façade, and the railings and garden walls carry geometric decoration. It is used by the Macau Conservatory."},{"id":"macau-no-24a-28a-rua-de-pedro-nolasco-da-silva","name":"Building at Nos. 24A–28A, Rua de Pedro Nolasco da Silva","name_zh":"伯多禄局长街24A、26、28、28A号房屋","pinyin":"Bóduōlù Júzhǎng Jiē 24A, 26, 28, 28A Hào Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1947,"lon":113.5435,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-no-24a-28a-rua-de-pedro-nolasco-da-silva","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A house built in 1925 that shows Macau's neoclassical style with some eclectic elements. It is classified as a building of architectural interest. It stands on Rua de Pedro Nolasco da Silva, east of the Cathedral."},{"id":"macau-avenida-ferreira-de-almeida-buildings","name":"Buildings at Nos. 89–95G, Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida","name_zh":"荷兰园大马路89号至95G号","pinyin":"Hélányuán Dàmǎlù 89 Hào Zhì 95G Hào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1988,"lon":113.547,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-avenida-ferreira-de-almeida-buildings/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A row of early 20th-century neoclassical houses and schools in the Tap Seac district, built on land drained from swamp in the late 19th century. Most are no longer homes: the Macau Central Library and the Archives of Macau, both in styles favoured by wealthy Macau families, stand in the row, together with Tap Seac Gallery, the House of Macau Literature and the Jao Tsung-I Academy. The buildings have been restored several times."},{"id":"macau-ctt-staff-houses-coronel-mesquita","name":"CTT Staff Houses, Avenida do Coronel Mesquita","name_zh":"美副将大马路28–30、34–36号及俾利喇街151–157号","pinyin":"Měifùjiàng Dàmǎlù 28–30, 34–36 Hào Jí Bǐlìlā Jiē 151–157 Hào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2054,"lon":113.549,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-ctt-staff-houses-coronel-mesquita","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Four residential blocks of 1953–54 built by the post office (CTT) for senior staff at the corner of Avenida do Coronel Mesquita and Rua de Francisco Xavier Pereira, in the \"Suave Portuguese\" style of the period, with an arcaded ground-floor veranda, a porch veranda upstairs and a semicircular living room. Each block held two homes, eight in all. They belong to a group of public-servant housing along Avenida do Coronel Mesquita in Mong-Há."},{"id":"macau-calcada-do-quartel-taipa","name":"Calçada do Quartel, Taipa Village","name_zh":"兵房斜巷","pinyin":"Bīngfáng Xiéxiàng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1531,"lon":113.5577,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-calcada-do-quartel-taipa","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A short sloping lane in Taipa Village lined with brightly painted buildings and covered in graffiti murals. It also holds small cafés, snack bars and cultural and creative shops, and is a popular spot for photographs."},{"id":"macau-camoes-square","name":"Camões Square","name_zh":"白鸽巢前地","pinyin":"Báigēcháo Qiándì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1994,"lon":113.5395,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-camoes-square/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small square at the northern edge of the old city, beside Luís de Camões Garden, Casa Garden and the Old Protestant Cemetery. Its Portuguese name, Praça de Luís de Camões, honours the poet, while the Chinese name means pigeon-nest square, after the white pigeons kept by a Portuguese merchant who lived nearby. It is a place where residents gather to relax, and one of the squares of the Historic Centre of Macau."},{"id":"macau-taipa-camoes-square-and-old-streets","name":"Camões Square and the Old Streets, Taipa Village","name_zh":"嘉妹前地及周边街巷","pinyin":"Jiāmèi Qiándì Jí Zhōubiān Jiēxiàng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1528,"lon":113.5559,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-camoes-square-and-old-streets","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small square (Largo Camões) and three streets in the old village of Taipa, Rua dos Mercadores, Rua dos Negociantes and Rua do Meio, classified together as an ensemble. The area consists of the Pak Tai Temple, which stands on the square, and traditional buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries."},{"id":"macau-carmo-fair","name":"Carmo Fair (Former Taipa Municipal Market)","name_zh":"嘉模墟","pinyin":"Jiāmó Xū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1533,"lon":113.5574,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-carmo-fair","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The former Taipa municipal market (Antigo Mercado Municipal da Taipa), first built in 1879 and rebuilt in 1886, which fell out of use in the 1970s and was turned into a public square in the 2000s. A hip-roofed pavilion stands at its centre between arcades; the columns follow a Doric order, the roof is covered in Chinese tiles from Guangdong, and the wooden roof trusses are in a western style. A flea market is held in the square on Sundays."},{"id":"macau-taipa-carmo-square-and-avenida-da-praia","name":"Carmo Square and Avenida da Praia, Taipa","name_zh":"嘉模前地及海边马路","pinyin":"Jiāmó Qiándì Jí Hǎibiān Mǎlù","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1536,"lon":113.5591,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-carmo-square-and-avenida-da-praia","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The square in front of Our Lady of Carmel Church (Largo do Carmo) and the street below it, Avenida da Praia, where five 1921 Portuguese-style houses now form the Taipa Houses–Museum. The church, the houses and the buildings around them are in a southern European style, and the area is popular for sightseeing and wedding photographs."},{"id":"macau-casa-garden","name":"Casa Garden","name_zh":"东方基金会会址","pinyin":"Dōngfāng Jījīnhuì Huìzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2003,"lon":113.5398,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-casa-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mansion of 1770 whose first known owner was a wealthy Portuguese merchant, later rented to the British East India Company, whose senior staff lived here. It now houses the Macau branch of the Orient Foundation, with a garden beside Camões Square (Praça de Luís de Camões). In the 1960s it served as a museum devoted to the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões."},{"id":"macau-cathedral-square","name":"Cathedral Square","name_zh":"大堂前地","pinyin":"Dàtáng Qiándì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1937,"lon":113.5411,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-cathedral-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small square (Largo da Sé) in front of Macau Cathedral, paved in black and white stone laid in religious patterns. Local people use it as a quiet place to sit, and it has a serene, religious atmosphere. It is one of the squares of the Historic Centre of Macau."},{"id":"macau-chapel-of-our-lady-of-penha","name":"Chapel of Our Lady of Penha","name_zh":"西望洋圣堂","pinyin":"Xīwàngyáng Shèngtáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1868,"lon":113.5353,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-chapel-of-our-lady-of-penha/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A neoclassical chapel with a steeple on top of Penha Hill (Colina da Penha), first founded in 1622 by the crew and passengers of a ship that had narrowly escaped capture by the Dutch. It was rebuilt in 1935 together with the neighbouring Bishop's Residence, which gave the 62.7-metre hill its other name, Bishop's Hill. Sailors once came here to pray before dangerous voyages, and the hill looks out over Praia Grande Bay."},{"id":"macau-coloane-chapel-of-st-francis-xavier","name":"Chapel of St. Francis Xavier, Coloane","name_zh":"路环圣方济各圣堂","pinyin":"Lùhuán Shèngfāngjìgè Shèngtáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1169,"lon":113.5514,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-coloane-chapel-of-st-francis-xavier/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small chapel of 1928 (Igreja de São Francisco Xavier) on Largo Eduardo Marques, with a cream-coloured façade, oval windows and a bell tower. It was rebuilt on the site of a nursery run by the Canossian Sisters in memory of the missionary St Francis Xavier, and for many years held a relic of the saint together with relics of Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs; his statue is still inside. In the fountain on the square in front stands a monument to a local victory over pirates in 1910."},{"id":"macau-chio-family-mansion","name":"Chio Family Mansion","name_zh":"赵家大屋","pinyin":"Zhào Jiā Dàwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1948,"lon":113.539,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-chio-family-mansion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Chio Family Mansion on Travessa da Porta was the home of a prominent family from Mong-Há village, who traced their descent to the Song imperial house. Its main building, put up by 1875 in the Lingnan style around three halls and two corridors, was later extended with four corner houses. It is the only surviving residence of the family in Macau."},{"id":"macau-cinematheque-passion","name":"Cinematheque Passion","name_zh":"恋爱·电影馆","pinyin":"Liàn'ài Diànyǐngguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1973,"lon":113.5406,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-cinematheque-passion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small public cinema in a three-storey building on Travessa da Paixão, beside the Ruins of St Paul's, set up by the Cultural Affairs Bureau. The ground-floor screening room shows art-house and independent films, including themed seasons and films on their first release in Macau, and a reference room upstairs keeps Macau film materials, periodicals and books."},{"id":"macau-coloane-height-park-and-a-ma-statue","name":"Coloane Height Park and Statue of A-Ma","name_zh":"路环山顶公园和妈祖像","pinyin":"Lùhuán Shāndǐng Gōngyuán Hé Māzǔ Xiàng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1237,"lon":113.5641,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-coloane-height-park-and-a-ma-statue","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hilltop park on Coloane Peak, about 170 metres high, reached by Estrada do Alto de Coloane, with a picnic area and the statue of A-Ma at the summit. The statue is 19.99 metres tall, a height that refers to the year 1999, and can be seen far out at sea. On the way up are an arboretum of more than 100 local and exotic tree species and the main access to the Coloane Trail."},{"id":"macau-coloane-hills","name":"Coloane Hills and Country Walks","name_zh":"路环山区","pinyin":"Lùhuán Shānqū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1219,"lon":113.5588,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-coloane-hills","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The hills of Coloane above 80 metres, classified as a site by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, which describes eight country walks with views over Coloane and the mouth of the Pearl River. Around 2,000 kinds of shrubs and plants grow along the paths. Coloane Peak, about 170 metres high, has a park and a statue of A-Ma."},{"id":"macau-coloane-library","name":"Coloane Library","name_zh":"路环图书馆","pinyin":"Lùhuán Túshūguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1167,"lon":113.551,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-coloane-library","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A one-storey library (Biblioteca de Coloane) in a building of 1911 that began as a public primary school and became a public library in 1983. The front has a colonnade of six round columns with capitals under a pediment, in a southern European style. It stands on the waterfront road in Coloane Village."},{"id":"macau-coloane-pier","name":"Coloane Pier","name_zh":"路环码头","pinyin":"Lùhuán Mǎtóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1191,"lon":113.5498,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-coloane-pier/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former ferry pier on Coloane's west shore, with a covered Art Déco portico, plastered in light yellow, at the shore end of a trestle jetty; 'Coloane Pier' is lettered in Portuguese and Chinese on its front and rear. Ferries linked Coloane with Taipa and the Macau Peninsula until the road links of 1968 and 1974 reduced the service, and sailings stopped in the early 1980s. Today it is a waterfront spot at the edge of the village, where dried seafood is sold nearby."},{"id":"macau-coloane-village-murals","name":"Coloane Village Murals","name_zh":"路环村壁画","pinyin":"Lùhuán Cūn Bìhuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1163,"lon":113.5511,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-coloane-village-murals","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Street murals by local artists cover walls in Coloane Village, along Avenida de Cinco de Outubro, Rua do Caetano, Largo do Estaleiro and the Pátio do Galo. They take up the village's fishing past: fishermen coming home at sunset, the sea god Tam Kung as a child with a tiger or among shoals of fish, and large fish drawn in Portuguese tile patterns. Together they make a short photo walk through the old fishing village."},{"id":"macau-coloane-waterfront","name":"Coloane Waterfront, Coloane Pier to Tam Kong Temple Square","name_zh":"路环海旁（码头至谭公庙前地）","pinyin":"Lùhuán Hǎipáng (Mǎtóu Zhì Tángōng Miào Qiándì)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1166,"lon":113.5508,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-coloane-waterfront","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The waterfront road of Coloane Village, running along the bay from Coloane Pier to the square in front of Tam Kong Temple (Largo Tam Kong Miu). It is classified as a site for the historic buildings along it, which include the Chapel of St Francis Xavier, the Coloane Library and Tam Kong Temple, with Eduardo Marques Park and a children's playground on the way. It makes an easy walk through the old fishing village."},{"id":"macau-comendador-ho-yin-park","name":"Comendador Ho Yin Park","name_zh":"何贤公园","pinyin":"Héxián Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.192,"lon":113.5494,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-comendador-ho-yin-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A green strip in the Nam Van district that runs from the rotunda with the Orient Arch on Avenida Rodrigo Rodrigues to Avenida da Amizade, between high-rise flats, offices and hotels. It has tree-shaded benches and tables for chess players, landscaped shrubs, bamboo groves, a playground and a small café. The Sculpture Park of the Chinese Ethnics is laid out inside it, and it adjoins Dr Carlos d'Assumpção Park."},{"id":"macau-basic-law-gallery","name":"Commemorative Gallery of the Macau Basic Law","name_zh":"澳门基本法纪念馆","pinyin":"Àomén Jīběnfǎ Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1954,"lon":113.5525,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-basic-law-gallery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum beside the Macau Forum, opened in 2013, on the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region, the region's fundamental law. The tourism office lists exhibition areas on Macau's history, the \"one country, two systems\" policy, how the Basic Law was drafted and put into practice, and its relationship with the national Constitution, together with an interactive education area and a reference room. The gallery was reorganised and reopened in June 2025, and it is also used to teach young people about the Constitution and the Basic Law."},{"id":"macau-communications-museum","name":"Communications Museum","name_zh":"通讯博物馆","pinyin":"Tōngxùn Bówùguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2033,"lon":113.555,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-communications-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum run by the Macau Post and Telecommunications Bureau, opened in 2006. A postal and philately gallery covers the history of Macau's post with stamps and postal objects, and an interactive telecommunications gallery shows how communication techniques developed. Outdoor exhibits stand on a terrace next to D. Maria II Garden, close to the 1852 Fortress of Dona Maria II, which the tourism office describes as the only old fortress in Macau entered by a suspension bridge."},{"id":"macau-company-of-jesus-square","name":"Company of Jesus Square","name_zh":"耶稣会纪念广场","pinyin":"Yēsūhuì Jìniàn Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1968,"lon":113.5408,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-company-of-jesus-square/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small square (Largo da Companhia de Jesus) at the foot of the staircase to the Ruins of St Paul's, named for the Jesuits who founded St Paul's College and paved with small stones. The buildings around it date from 1920–30, apart from two neoclassical ones of the 19th century. Mount Fortress and the Macau Museum stand on the hill to the east, and the Na Tcha Temple is close by to the north."},{"id":"macau-dom-pedro-v-theatre","name":"Dom Pedro V Theatre","name_zh":"岗顶剧院","pinyin":"Gǎngdǐng Jùyuàn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1919,"lon":113.5382,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-dom-pedro-v-theatre/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1860 as the first Western-style theatre in China, this neoclassical building has sage-green walls with white mouldings, dark green doors and shutters, and a terracotta roof. It once also housed a ballroom, a reading room and a billiard parlour, and its vestibule has an old crystal chandelier. The 276-seat hall remains a performing venue, and the theatre is part of the Historic Centre of Macau."},{"id":"macau-dr-carlos-dassumpcao-park","name":"Dr. Carlos d'Assumpção Park","name_zh":"宋玉生公园","pinyin":"Sòngyùshēng Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1884,"lon":113.551,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-dr-carlos-dassumpcao-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A waterfront park in the Nam Van reclaimed area, opened in 1996 and named after the well-known Macanese Dr Carlos d'Assumpção. A Portuguese-pavement avenue lined with palms runs through lawns, arbours, ornamental ponds and fountains, past a children's playground. At its seaward end the park reaches the bronze Kun Iam statue on its island, and a promenade looks over the Outer Harbour, the bridges and Taipa."},{"id":"macau-dr-sun-yat-sen-municipal-park","name":"Dr. Sun Yat Sen Municipal Park","name_zh":"纪念孙中山市政公园","pinyin":"Jìniàn Sūn Zhōngshān Shìzhèng Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2159,"lon":113.5452,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-dr-sun-yat-sen-municipal-park/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large park at the northern end of the peninsula, laid out in 1987 on a former rubbish dump and named after Sun Yat-sen in 1990, when his statue was unveiled. It has flower gardens, an aviary, a Victorian-style greenhouse, a feng shui wood and a children's playground, with a 500-metre corridor linking most of its sights. High points give views across the canal towards Zhuhai."},{"id":"macau-coloane-eduardo-marques-and-eanes-squares","name":"Eduardo Marques Square and Eanes Square, Coloane Village","name_zh":"马忌士前地及恩尼斯总统前地","pinyin":"Mǎjìshì Qiándì Jí Ēnnísī Zǒngtǒng Qiándì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1175,"lon":113.5515,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-coloane-eduardo-marques-and-eanes-squares","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The centre of Coloane Village: Largo Eduardo Marques, a square paved with black-and-white wave-patterned cobbles in front of the Chapel of St Francis Xavier, with a fountain, a monument and arcades of Chinese and Portuguese restaurants. The classified group also includes Rua dos Negociantes, a traditional street of food and grocery shops, and Largo do Presidente António Ramalho Eanes, a small roundabout with flower beds, benches and a statue of Cupid, where several old lanes meet. Stalls in the area sell dried seafood, Portuguese egg tarts and other snacks."},{"id":"macau-lu-ban-woodcraft-exhibition-room","name":"Exhibition Room of Master Lu Ban's Woodcraft Works","name_zh":"鲁班先师木工艺陈列馆","pinyin":"Lǔbān Xiānshī Mùgōngyì Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1955,"lon":113.5389,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-lu-ban-woodcraft-exhibition-room","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small museum in the Carpenters' Guildhall, a building of about 1840 on Rua de Camilo Pessanha that was one of Macau's earliest professional associations. Over 80 traditional tools, including saws, planes, drills and ink markers, are on show with an account of Lu Ban, the master carpenter, and how the tools were used. The altar hall displays a large version of the Lu Ban lock."},{"id":"macau-fire-services-bureau-building","name":"Fire Services Bureau Building, Estrada de Coelho do Amaral","name_zh":"消防局大楼","pinyin":"Xiāofángjú Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2001,"lon":113.5435,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-fire-services-bureau-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey fire station completed in 1923 and renovated in 1992, with thick yellow walls, arched doors and windows, brown shutters and three symmetrical gates for fire engines. Only the main façade survives from the original, as the interior has been completely rebuilt. The building houses the Fire Services Museum, opened in 1999 and reopened in December 2024 after its exhibition halls were renovated, which shows historic firefighting equipment."},{"id":"macau-flora-garden","name":"Flora Garden","name_zh":"二龙喉公园","pinyin":"Èrlónghóu Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2001,"lon":113.5513,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-flora-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A European-style garden at the foot of Guia Hill, once the grounds of an aristocratic mansion, with a stone gateway that was the old guardhouse. A straight avenue lined with palms and flowering shrubs leads to formal flowerbeds, and a stone path winds up past small waterfalls and viewpoints towards Guia Hill. A short cable car near the gate also climbs to the hill."},{"id":"macau-flower-city-park","name":"Flower City Park","name_zh":"花城公园","pinyin":"Huāchéng Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1564,"lon":113.557,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-flower-city-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A walled garden in the middle of Taipa's high-rise residential district, laid out as a modern version of a classical Chinese garden, with lotus ponds, winding bridges and small pavilions. It also has a children's playground and an area for skating and scooters."},{"id":"macau-foc-tac-temple-horta-da-mitra","name":"Foc Tac Temple, Horta da Mitra","name_zh":"雀仔园福德祠","pinyin":"Quèzǎiyuán Fúdécí","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1948,"lon":113.5448,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-foc-tac-temple-horta-da-mitra/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Lingnan-style temple built in 1886 and renovated in 1986, where worshippers honour the Earth God, A-Ma, two gods of wealth and Tai Soi, the god of the year. The wall around its entrance patio is topped with green glazed balusters and floral ornaments of the kind seen on Macau's Western-style buildings. An inscription in both Chinese and Portuguese is the only one of its kind in a Macau temple."},{"id":"macau-foc-tac-temple-almirante-sergio","name":"Foc Tac Temple, Rua do Almirante Sérgio","name_zh":"福德祠（河边新街）","pinyin":"Fúdécí (Hébiān Xīnjiē)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1909,"lon":113.5339,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-foc-tac-temple-almirante-sergio/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A neighbourhood temple built in 1868, rebuilt in 1871 and restored in 1914, set into a row of street arcades. It is the only temple in Macau integrated into such an arcade. The main altar is to the Earth God, with side altars to the Northern Emperor (Pak Tai) and A-Ma, and the walls hold many tablets, couplets and panels donated by local people."},{"id":"macau-foc-tac-temple-patane","name":"Foc Tac Temple, Rua do Patane","name_zh":"福德祠（石墙街）","pinyin":"Fúdécí (Shíqiáng Jiē)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2002,"lon":113.5405,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-foc-tac-temple-patane","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"An Earth God temple on Rua do Patane, a street once known as Stone Wall Village. A tablet inside shows it was built no later than 1874, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau records it as the oldest building on the street. It sits in the Patane district north of the old centre."},{"id":"macau-foc-tac-temple-rua-do-teatro","name":"Foc Tac Temple, Rua do Teatro","name_zh":"福德祠（大码头街）","pinyin":"Fúdécí (Dàmǎtóu Jiē)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1975,"lon":113.5385,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-foc-tac-temple-rua-do-teatro","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple to the Earth God, built before 1796 and renovated in 1881 and 1909. Its main altar honours the Earth God (Tou Tei Kung) and a side altar the Earth Goddess, a pairing the Cultural Affairs Bureau calls very rare in Macau. Unlike many Foc Tac shrines, which grew from open-air altars, it was planned from the start as a place of worship."},{"id":"macau-former-barra-slaughterhouse","name":"Former Barra Slaughterhouse","name_zh":"妈阁屠场旧址","pinyin":"Māgé Túchǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1841,"lon":113.5309,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-barra-slaughterhouse","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The municipal slaughterhouse of the Macau Peninsula, a group of three buildings with eclectic façades on the side of Barra Hill, built in the 1880s and altered in 1916–17. It ceased to work as an abattoir in 1987, when the municipal slaughtering service moved to Ilha Verde. The buildings were later used as dormitories, offices and archives."},{"id":"macau-former-bela-vista-hotel","name":"Former Bela Vista Hotel","name_zh":"峰景酒店旧址","pinyin":"Fēngjǐng Jiǔdiàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1864,"lon":113.5366,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-bela-vista-hotel","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey, pale yellow neoclassical building of about 1870 on Penha Hill, with arcades, columns, railings and a pediment. It became a hotel in 1890, was renamed the Bela Vista Hotel in 1936, and closed in 1999. After restoration it became the official residence of the Portuguese consul-general for Macau and Hong Kong."},{"id":"macau-former-chong-sai-pharmacy","name":"Former Chong Sai Pharmacy","name_zh":"中西药局旧址","pinyin":"Zhōngxī Yàojú Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1959,"lon":113.5395,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-chong-sai-pharmacy","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A shophouse on Rua das Estalagens (Antiga Farmácia Chong Sai), built before 1892, where Sun Yat-sen ran a clinic and the Chong Sai (Chinese-Western) Pharmacy from 1893, one of the first Western-style clinics run by Chinese doctors in Macau. The government bought and restored it, and it reopened in 2016 as an exhibition space. Displays cover archaeological finds, the restoration of the building, and Sun Yat-sen's links with Macau."},{"id":"macau-coloane-former-health-centre-customs-station","name":"Former Coloane Health Centre (Customs Station)","name_zh":"路环九澳港海关站","pinyin":"Lùhuán Jiǔ'ào Gǎng Hǎiguān Zhàn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1195,"lon":113.55,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-coloane-former-health-centre-customs-station","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single-storey Art Déco building of 1938–39 beside Coloane Pier, built as the Coloane Health Centre, later used by the marine police and now a Customs station (Posto Alfandegário). It has a symmetrical yellow façade with white decoration, a stepped parapet with geometric patterns and a large reinforced-concrete canopy around the building."},{"id":"macau-former-court-building","name":"Former Court Building","name_zh":"原法院大楼","pinyin":"Yuán Fǎyuàn Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.192,"lon":113.5399,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-court-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1951 as a shared office building for several government departments including the Court, this three-storey building was known as the Macau Civil Services Building. Its eclectic style shows in the stone steps and tall Ionic columns that mark its entrance. The Court of First Instance moved out in 2003."},{"id":"macau-former-iec-long-firecracker-factory","name":"Former Iec Long Firecracker Factory","name_zh":"益隆炮竹厂旧址","pinyin":"Yìlóng Pàozhú Chǎng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1549,"lon":113.5584,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-former-iec-long-firecracker-factory/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The preserved site of a firecracker factory of about 25,000 square metres in the old village of Taipa, with a history of nearly a century. The Cultural Affairs Bureau describes it as the only well-preserved heritage site of Macau's firecracker industry; it keeps the original layout of the production buildings and has a 400-metre walkway, an exhibition hall and a shop selling cultural and creative products. Firecracker making was a mainstay of Taipa's economy, especially from the 1950s to the 1970s."},{"id":"macau-former-jardine-matheson-buildings","name":"Former Jardine Matheson Buildings","name_zh":"怡和洋行旧址","pinyin":"Yíhé Yángháng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1873,"lon":113.5374,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-jardine-matheson-buildings","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two neighbouring houses on Rua da Praia do Bom Parto that belonged to the trading firm Jardine Matheson. One, built in the early 19th century, was first a residence and then the firm's Macau office; the other, built in 1868 as its commercial headquarters, has been part of the Ricci School since 1955. Their garden walls are linked and share a style, which suggests the two were planned as a group."},{"id":"macau-former-lok-kok-restaurant","name":"Former Lok Kok Restaurant","name_zh":"六国饭店旧址","pinyin":"Liùguó Fàndiàn Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1958,"lon":113.5373,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-lok-kok-restaurant","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A restaurant building of the 1940s at Rua de Cinco de Outubro 159, classified as a building of architectural interest. After the restaurant closed in 1990 the building fell into disrepair and collapsed, and it has since been rebuilt."},{"id":"macau-former-municipal-cattle-stable","name":"Former Municipal Cattle Stable (Ox Warehouse)","name_zh":"市政牧场旧址（牛房）","pinyin":"Shìzhèng Mùchǎng Jiùzhǐ (Niúfáng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2074,"lon":113.5464,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-municipal-cattle-stable","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Former Municipal Cattle Stable was built in 1912 to quarantine and keep cattle and was rebuilt in 1924 with its layout and exterior largely unchanged. It is a pair of parallel bungalows with truss roofs, a mahogany roof and khaki walls in a Portuguese eclectic style, next to a simpler mid-20th-century section, now the municipal kennels, with Art Deco touches. After the stable moved out in 1987, part of the complex became a storehouse and part an exhibition venue, which the Cultural Affairs Bureau restored and lends to local arts groups for exhibitions."},{"id":"macau-former-opium-house","name":"Former Opium House","name_zh":"鸦片屋","pinyin":"Yāpiàn Wū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.194,"lon":113.5357,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-opium-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1880 as a warehouse for storing opium, this building later served other purposes and is now a clinic run by the Tung Sin Tong Charitable Society. It has an arched corridor on the ground floor with a covered balcony above, a type of eclectic architecture common around the Inner Harbour. It stands on Praça de Ponte e Horta."},{"id":"macau-former-residence-of-silva-mendes","name":"Former Residence of Silva Mendes","name_zh":"文第士大宅","pinyin":"Wéndìshì Dàzhái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1959,"lon":113.5489,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-residence-of-silva-mendes","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1905, this was one of three stately private mansions on Guia Hill in its day. It belonged to Manuel da Silva Mendes, a noted Macau writer and art collector who donated part of his collection to the former Luís de Camões Museum. The mansion was later sold and put to other uses."},{"id":"macau-portuguese-consulate-former-st-raphael-hospital","name":"Former St. Raphael Hospital (Portuguese Consulate-General)","name_zh":"葡萄牙驻澳门及香港总领事馆","pinyin":"Pútáoyá Zhù Àomén Jí Xiānggǎng Zǒnglǐngshìguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1952,"lon":113.5436,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-portuguese-consulate-former-st-raphael-hospital/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"St. Raphael Hospital was founded in 1569 by Bishop Belchior Carneiro and run by the Holy House of Mercy, and the Chinese called it I Yan Miu, the Temple of Cures. The Cultural Affairs Bureau describes it as the first Western-style hospital in Asia and the place from which smallpox vaccination reached China. The present building dates from the last rebuilding in 1939 and houses the Consulate-General of Portugal."},{"id":"macau-former-tai-neng-chinese-pharmacy","name":"Former Tai Neng Chinese Pharmacy","name_zh":"大宁堂旧址","pinyin":"Dàníngtáng Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1963,"lon":113.5372,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-former-tai-neng-chinese-pharmacy","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey building of the early 20th century that blends Chinese and Western influences. Its most distinctive feature is the carved Chinese wooden windows on the first floor. The pharmacy that gave it its name has closed."},{"id":"macau-tarrafeiro-market-gate","name":"Former Tarrafeiro Municipal Market","name_zh":"沙栏仔街市旧址","pinyin":"Shālánzǎi Jiēshì Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.199,"lon":113.5372,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-tarrafeiro-market-gate","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Tarrafeiro Market was a fish market that existed before the 1870s, was rebuilt in 1907–09 and closed in 1928 because of poor sanitation. One of its eclectic-style gates survives at Travessa das Galinholas, an arched portico in three sections topped by a curved pediment. The lanes around it keep their old streetscape and show how Macau's early municipal markets were laid out."},{"id":"macau-fort-dona-maria-ii","name":"Fort Dona Maria II","name_zh":"马交石炮台","pinyin":"Mǎjiāoshí Pàotái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2034,"lon":113.5556,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-fort-dona-maria-ii/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Fort Dona Maria II (Fortaleza de D. Maria II) stands at the top of Ma Kau Seac Hill, 48.2 metres high, in the north-east of the Macau Peninsula. Built in 1852 to support Mong-Há Fort, it is an irregular hexagon entered across a movable bridge, with a vaulted corridor behind the gate; American aircraft bombed it on 16 January 1945. The grassy eastern slope of the hill is a recreation area with views towards the sea, and the park around the fort reopened in December 2023 after renovation."},{"id":"macau-general-post-office","name":"General Post Office Building","name_zh":"邮政总局","pinyin":"Yóuzhèng Zǒngjú","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1933,"lon":113.5402,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-general-post-office/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The General Post Office (Correios) on Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, beside Senado Square, was built in 1925–29 to a neoclassical design by the Chinese architect Chan Kun Pui, on the site of the Tung Sin Tong charity's premises. The three-storey building has a bell tower that chimes the time with music. It is still a working post office, where visitors can buy stamps and postcards."},{"id":"macau-general-ye-tings-former-residence","name":"General Ye Ting's Former Residence","name_zh":"叶挺将军故居","pinyin":"Yè Tǐng Jiāngjūn Gùjū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2008,"lon":113.5466,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-general-ye-tings-former-residence/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"General Ye Ting, a Chinese military commander, lived in this two-storey western-style house with his family in the 1930s and early 1940s. After later use as a student association office and a kindergarten, the house passed to the Cultural Affairs Bureau in 2011 and opened to the public on 28 May 2014. It is furnished with original pieces and holds displays of old photographs, with a bronze sculpture in the front yard."},{"id":"macau-grand-lisboa-palace-art-gallery","name":"Grand Lisboa Palace Art Gallery","name_zh":"上葡京艺术文化展馆","pinyin":"Shàngpújīng Yìshù Wénhuà Zhǎnguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1441,"lon":113.5742,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-grand-lisboa-palace-art-gallery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"An art gallery inside the Grand Lisboa Palace resort in Cotai, run by the resort's operator, SJM Resorts. It stages regular exhibitions and special showcases, including projects by artists from other countries, and holds the Lisboa Collection, a gallery of works from the collections of SJM and STDM."},{"id":"macau-grande-praca-mgm-macau","name":"Grande Praça at MGM Macau","name_zh":"澳门美高梅天幕广场","pinyin":"Àomén Měigāoméi Tiānmù Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1856,"lon":113.5487,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-grande-praca-mgm-macau","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The covered central atrium of MGM Macau, a casino resort on the NAPE waterfront that opened in 2007. It is designed in homage to old-world Europe and Macau's Portuguese heritage: the north wall is modelled on the façade of Estação Rossio, Lisbon's central railway station, and a domed glass ceiling lets daylight in. It sits inside a working resort, so it suits a short look rather than a long stay."},{"id":"macau-guia-fortress","name":"Guia Fortress","name_zh":"东望洋炮台","pinyin":"Dōngwàngyáng Pàotái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1966,"lon":113.5497,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-guia-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A fortress (Fortaleza da Guia) built between 1622 and 1638 on the summit of Guia Hill, which together with Mount Fortress helped defend the city against the Dutch attack of 1622. Inside stand the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows, whose frescoes were uncovered in 1996 and mix Western and Chinese motifs, and the 1865 Guia Lighthouse, the first modern lighthouse on China's south coast. The fortress and chapel can be visited; the lighthouse is not open to the public."},{"id":"macau-guia-hill","name":"Guia Hill","name_zh":"东望洋山","pinyin":"Dōngwàngyáng Shān","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1983,"lon":113.5516,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-guia-hill","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The largest green area on the Macau Peninsula (Colina da Guia), rising to about 90 metres and planted with pines about a century ago. A public park with paths covers its slopes, and Guia Fortress, its chapel and the lighthouse stand on the summit. The road that curves around the hill forms part of the Macau Grand Prix circuit."},{"id":"macau-handover-gifts-museum","name":"Handover Gifts Museum of Macau","name_zh":"澳门回归贺礼陈列馆","pinyin":"Àomén Huíguī Hèlǐ Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.19,"lon":113.5541,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-handover-gifts-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey museum on Avenida Xian Xing Hai, next to the Macau Museum of Art, designed by the architect Vicente Bravo and opened in December 2004 to commemorate the handover of Macau at the end of 1999. The main gallery shows the gifts presented to Macau at the handover by the State Council, the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and Hong Kong, together with an inscription for Macau by Jiang Zemin, the former president. A second gallery stages temporary exhibitions, and a third is used by the Education and Youth Development Bureau for youth education."},{"id":"macau-pawnshop-heritage-exhibition","name":"Heritage Exhibition of a Traditional Pawnshop Business","name_zh":"典当业展示馆","pinyin":"Diǎndàngyè Zhǎnshìguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.195,"lon":113.5382,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-pawnshop-heritage-exhibition/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former pawnshop, Tak Seng On, opened in 1917 for the Macau merchant Kou Ho Neng and restored by the government as a museum of the pawnbroking trade. The building follows the pattern of Chinese pawnshops of the early 20th century, with a fortified tower behind the shop. A visit gives a view of how the pawn business worked in its heyday."},{"id":"macau-holy-house-of-mercy","name":"Holy House of Mercy","name_zh":"仁慈堂大楼","pinyin":"Réncítáng Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1938,"lon":113.5401,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-holy-house-of-mercy/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The headquarters of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia, a charity founded in 1569 by Macau's first bishop, which set up the first Western-style clinic and hospital in the city. The neoclassical building on Senado Square dates from the mid 18th century and took its present form in 1905. A museum inside shows Catholic relics and sacred art from as early as the 16th century, including a manuscript of 1662 and the skull of its founder, Bishop Belchior Carneiro."},{"id":"macau-hong-kung-temple","name":"Hong Kung Temple","name_zh":"康公庙","pinyin":"Kānggōng Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1967,"lon":113.5379,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-hong-kung-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple of 1860 in the old bazaar area, dedicated to Marshal Hong Gong and also to Hung Seng, the Buddha and Hua Tuo, god of medicine. Local legend tells of a wooden statue of Hong Gong that floated ashore here and was first given a shrine. The building shows southern Chinese architecture, with a courtyard uniting the main elements and coloured pottery figures on the roof."},{"id":"macau-taipa-i-leng-temple","name":"I Leng Temple, Taipa","name_zh":"氹仔医灵庙","pinyin":"Dàngzǎi Yīlíng Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1539,"lon":113.5586,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-i-leng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple built in 1900 and dedicated to I Leng, god of medicine, the deified form of an ancient physician renowned for his skill (Templo de I Leng). It has a front hall and a rear chamber separated by a courtyard, with the statue and altar in the rear chamber. The old sliding gate made of thick logs is a rare survival in Macau today."},{"id":"macau-ian-tak-tong-kong-so","name":"Ian Tak Tong Kong So (Lou Pan Temple)","name_zh":"仁德堂公所（鲁班师傅庙）","pinyin":"Réndétáng Gōngsuǒ (Lǔbān Shīfu Miào)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1949,"lon":113.5459,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-ian-tak-tong-kong-so","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple to Lou Pan, patron god of carpenters, built by the carpenters' association in 1859 and enlarged in 1883. The temple has no courtyard between its entrance and the main hall. It is also known as the Ian Tak Tong Civil Office."},{"id":"macau-inner-harbour","name":"Inner Harbour","name_zh":"内港","pinyin":"Nèigǎng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1948,"lon":113.5354,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-inner-harbour","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The harbour on the western side of the peninsula (Porto Interior), with a coastline of about 3,500 metres and a half-ring-shaped embankment. The tourism office describes it as the first harbour to serve foreign merchant ships berthing at the North Bay. Its 34 piers, each named by number, handled cargo, river transport and fishing boats, and the waterfront traces the history of Macau's trade and of its fishing industry."},{"id":"macau-kou-ho-neng-mansion","name":"Kou Ho Neng Mansion","name_zh":"高可宁大宅","pinyin":"Gāo Kěníng Dàzhái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1944,"lon":113.5436,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-kou-ho-neng-mansion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey private house of 1916 built for the wealthy Macau merchant Kou Ho Neng, in Western style with a tower on each side, two levels of arcades in the centre and a pediment above the third floor. Inside, the layout follows Chinese style, in sharp contrast to the exterior. It is classified as a building of architectural interest."},{"id":"macau-kou-seng-pawnshop","name":"Kou Seng Pawnshop","name_zh":"高陞大按","pinyin":"Gāoshēng Dà'àn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1945,"lon":113.5406,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-kou-seng-pawnshop","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 19th-century pawnshop on Rua de S. Domingos whose fortified tower stands at the back of the shop. The business has since closed. It is classified as a building of architectural interest."},{"id":"macau-kun-iam-ecumenical-centre","name":"Kun Iam Ecumenical Centre","name_zh":"观音莲花苑","pinyin":"Guānyīn Liánhuā Yuàn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1858,"lon":113.5521,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-kun-iam-ecumenical-centre/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 20-metre bronze statue of Kun Iam (Guanyin), the Goddess of Mercy, stands on a lotus-shaped base on an artificial island in the Outer Harbour and was unveiled in 1999. Locals call it simply the Kun Iam statue. The domed base holds an ecumenical centre with information on Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and a shop selling publications of the Cultural Affairs Bureau."},{"id":"macau-coloane-kun-iam-temple","name":"Kun Iam Temple, Coloane Village","name_zh":"路环观音古庙","pinyin":"Lùhuán Guānyīn Gǔmiào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1162,"lon":113.5513,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-coloane-kun-iam-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single-chamber temple to Kun Iam, goddess of mercy (Templo de Kun Iam), built around 1800 by local sea traders and rebuilt in 1839, on Travessa do Pagode in Coloane Village. It is one of the four temples of Coloane, with the Tin Hau, Tam Kong and Sam Seng temples, which are looked after by a local charity group. According to legend, Kun Iam often protected fishermen and seafarers so that they could return home safely."},{"id":"macau-taipa-kun-iam-small-temple","name":"Kun Iam Temple, Estrada Nordeste, Taipa","name_zh":"观音岩","pinyin":"Guānyīn Yán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1643,"lon":113.556,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-kun-iam-small-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple of about 1871 on a hill above Estrada Nordeste da Taipa, placed to overlook the sea and the Macau Peninsula (Templo de Kun Iam). It has a front hall and a rear chamber, and the statue of Kun Iam, goddess of mercy, stands in a stone cave inside."},{"id":"macau-kun-iam-temple-kun-iam-tchai","name":"Kun Iam Temple, Kun Iam Tchai","name_zh":"观音古庙（观音仔）","pinyin":"Guānyīn Gǔmiào (Guānyīnzǎi)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2061,"lon":113.5477,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-kun-iam-temple-kun-iam-tchai","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Kun Iam (Guanyin) built by a Chinese shepherd after 1821 and extended in 1867 to its present form; inside, worshippers also honour deities such as Loi Chou and Tao Mou. Two trees more than a century old stand in the courtyard. Linked to it on the right is the Seng Wong Temple of 1908, the only City God temple in Macau, which also honours the Qing viceroy Zhang Zhidong, who praised the villagers' defence force."},{"id":"macau-ka-ho-kun-iam-temple","name":"Kun Iam Temple, Ká Hó","name_zh":"九澳观音庙","pinyin":"Jiǔ'ào Guānyīn Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1311,"lon":113.5819,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-ka-ho-kun-iam-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A single-chamber temple to Kun Iam, goddess of mercy (Templo de Kun Iam), built in 1881 and rebuilt in 1907, and the oldest building in Ká Hó Village. Three characters reading Kun Iam Miu are carved on a stone set above the doorway. Ká Hó is one of the only two Hakka villages left in Macau."},{"id":"macau-kun-iam-temple-mong-ha","name":"Kun Iam Temple, Mong-Há","name_zh":"普济禅院（观音堂）","pinyin":"Pǔjì Chányuàn (Guānyīn Táng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2044,"lon":113.5504,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-kun-iam-temple-mong-ha/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Kun Iam Temple (Templo de Pou Chai), dedicated to the Goddess of Mercy, is one of the three oldest temples in Macau and one of its largest, with a big entrance gate, roofs crowded with porcelain figures and richly decorated halls around open courtyards. Its present buildings date from 1627, with restorations in 1818 and 1858. In the terraced garden behind stands the stone table where China and the United States signed the Treaty of Wangxia on 3 July 1844, next to four intertwined banyan trees known as the Lovers Tree."},{"id":"macau-taipa-kun-iam-tong-temple","name":"Kun Iam Tong Temple, Taipa","name_zh":"观音堂（氹仔）","pinyin":"Guānyīn Táng (Dàngzǎi)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1533,"lon":113.5578,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-kun-iam-tong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A plain little temple built in 1902 on Rua Direita Carlos Eugénio (Templo de Kun Iam), with a statue of Kun Iam, goddess of mercy, inside. It stands in the old village close to the Carmo Fair."},{"id":"macau-lai-chi-vun-shipyards","name":"Lai Chi Vun Shipyards","name_zh":"荔枝碗船厂","pinyin":"Lìzhīwǎn Chuánchǎng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1212,"lon":113.5518,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-lai-chi-vun-shipyards","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A row of former boatyards (Estaleiros Navais de Lai Chi Vun) on the Coloane shore, built from the 1950s when shipbuilding was one of Macau's four main traditional industries. The yards closed one by one as the trade declined from the 1990s, and the last fishing boat was launched in 2005. Part of the site, units X-11 to X-15, opened to visitors in June 2023 as a cultural space with an exhibition on shipbuilding, a market, art activities and buskers' performances."},{"id":"macau-leal-senado-building","name":"Leal Senado Building","name_zh":"市政署大楼","pinyin":"Shìzhèngshǔ Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1933,"lon":113.5394,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-leal-senado-building/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Macau's original city hall of 1784, still the seat of the municipal affairs bureau, on Senado Square, with a name (Loyal Senate) taken from a title given by the Portuguese king in 1654. The neoclassical building has a granite-columned entrance, blue-and-white tile panels by the main staircase and a courtyard garden at the back, with a council chamber, a small chapel and a carved library modelled on that of the Mafra Convent on the first floor. The IAM Gallery in the lobby shows art and cultural exhibitions when one is on, and the courtyard garden can be visited."},{"id":"macau-lilau-square","name":"Lilau Square","name_zh":"亚婆井前地","pinyin":"Yàpójǐng Qiándì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1884,"lon":113.535,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-lilau-square/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small square around the Lilau spring (Largo do Lilau), once the main source of natural spring water in Macau and part of one of the first Portuguese residential quarters. A Portuguese saying holds that whoever drinks from Lilau never forgets Macau. The lanes around it have a Mediterranean feel, and the traditional Chinese compound known as the Mandarin's House stands alongside."},{"id":"macau-lin-fong-temple","name":"Lin Fong Temple","name_zh":"莲峰庙","pinyin":"Liánfēng Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2099,"lon":113.5477,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-lin-fong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"One of the three oldest temples in Macau, with a spacious forecourt shaded by banyan trees, two stone flagpoles, stone lions at the entrance and a richly worked façade of clay relief. Halls in parallel bays honour Tin Hau, Kun Iam, Kuan Tai and other deities, and a courtyard has a lotus pond and an iron brazier. Chinese officials from Guangdong stayed here when they visited Macau, the imperial commissioner Lin Zexu met Portuguese officials here in 1839, and a memorial stone records the temple's construction in 1723."},{"id":"macau-lin-kai-temple","name":"Lin Kai Temple","name_zh":"莲溪庙","pinyin":"Liánxī Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2017,"lon":113.5426,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-lin-kai-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A Chinese temple (Templo de Lin Kai) in the Patane district, built in 1830 and rebuilt and enlarged between 1875 and 1908, which is why it is also called the New Lin Kai Temple. Its nine halls are dedicated to 15 deities; the main hall honours Va Kuong, the god who protects against fire, and other halls hold Kun Iam, Kuan Tai, goddesses of childbirth and the Monkey God. The façade has granite carvings and large lion statues on the roof, and the temple's festival for Va Kuong falls on the 28th day of the ninth lunar month."},{"id":"macau-lin-zexu-memorial-museum","name":"Lin Zexu Memorial Museum of Macau","name_zh":"澳门林则徐纪念馆","pinyin":"Àomén Línzéxú Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2096,"lon":113.5473,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-lin-zexu-memorial-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small museum next to Lin Fong Temple recording the visit to Macau on 3 September 1839 of the imperial commissioner Lin Zexu, who came during the dispute over the opium trade that led to the Opium War. It was completed in 1997 and shows photographs, documents and ship models from the period. A statue of Lin stands nearby."},{"id":"macau-lingnan-middle-school-vila-alegre","name":"Lingnan Middle School Building (Former Vila Alegre)","name_zh":"岭南中学大楼（原快乐别墅）","pinyin":"Lǐngnán Zhōngxué Dàlóu (Yuán Kuàilè Biéshù)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1952,"lon":113.548,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-lingnan-middle-school-vila-alegre","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built between 1917 and 1921 as the home of the Portuguese lawyer Francisco Xavier Anacleto da Silva, Vila Alegre was one of three grand residences on Guia Hill. The mansion has columns, wide balconies and an elegant staircase. It has been part of the Lingnan school since 1937."},{"id":"macau-lotus-square","name":"Lotus Square","name_zh":"金莲花广场","pinyin":"Jīnliánhuā Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1944,"lon":113.5534,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-lotus-square/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A public square (Praça Flor de Lótus) whose centrepiece is Lotus Flower in Full Bloom, a gilded-bronze sculpture 6 metres high that the State Council presented in 1999 to mark the handover of Macau. The red granite base has three layers shaped like lotus leaves, standing for the Macau Peninsula, Taipa and Coloane. The Macau Forum and the Tourism Activities Centre stand beside it."},{"id":"macau-lou-kau-mansion","name":"Lou Kau Mansion","name_zh":"卢家大屋","pinyin":"Lú Jiā Dàwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1943,"lon":113.5412,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-lou-kau-mansion/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lou Kau Mansion (Casa de Lou Kau), built around 1889, was the home of Lou Kau, a banker and businessman honoured by the King of Portugal in 1890. It is a two-storey grey-brick Chinese courtyard house in the Xiguan style, with western touches such as mother-of-pearl window panes, balustrades and perforated wooden ceilings like those in Macau's churches. Part of the Historic Centre of Macau, it stands near Senado Square and Cathedral Square."},{"id":"macau-lou-lim-ioc-garden","name":"Lou Lim Ioc Garden","name_zh":"卢廉若公园","pinyin":"Lú Liánruò Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2005,"lon":113.5479,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-lou-lim-ioc-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Lou Lim Ioc Garden (Jardim de Lou Lim Ioc) is a walled Chinese garden in the style of Suzhou, created by the merchant Lou Wa Sio and his son Lou Lim Iok, and opened to the public in 1974 after the government bought and restored it. Paths wind through bamboo groves and under moulded rockeries to a pond of golden carp and lotus, crossed by a nine-turn zigzag bridge. The main hall, Chun Chou Tong Pavilion, mixes Chinese and Western details and hosts exhibitions; Sun Yat-sen stayed there in May 1912, and the garden also holds the Macau Tea Culture House."},{"id":"macau-luis-gonzaga-gomes-luso-chinese-school","name":"Luís Gonzaga Gomes Luso-Chinese Secondary School Building","name_zh":"高美士中葡中学大楼","pinyin":"Gāoměishì Zhōngpú Zhōngxué Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1981,"lon":113.5483,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-luis-gonzaga-gomes-luso-chinese-school","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A modernist school building of 1939 on Avenida de Sidónio Pais, on land that was once part of Vasco da Gama Garden, laid out in 1898. It was the Pedro Nolasco da Silva Government Primary School, where Portuguese was taught as the official language, and since 1995 it has been part of the Luso-Chinese Luís Gonzaga Gomes Secondary School. The Cultural Affairs Bureau describes it as a local example of modernist architecture."},{"id":"macau-camoes-garden-old-protestant-cemetery","name":"Luís de Camões Garden and Old Protestant Cemetery","name_zh":"白鸽巢公园及基督教坟场","pinyin":"Báigēcháo Gōngyuán Jí Jīdūjiào Féncháng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1999,"lon":113.5394,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-camoes-garden-old-protestant-cemetery/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A hillside public garden (Jardim de Luís de Camões) with benches shaded by banyan trees, a grotto sheltering a bronze bust of the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, and a wooded hill where local people play Chinese chess, exercise and walk caged birds. Next to it lies the Old Protestant Cemetery, laid out in 1821, with the Morrison Chapel named after Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary in China. Graves include Morrison's and that of the British painter George Chinnery, alongside East India Company officials and other foreign residents."},{"id":"macau-cathedral","name":"Macau Cathedral","name_zh":"主教座堂（大堂）","pinyin":"Zhǔjiào Zuòtáng (Dàtáng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1936,"lon":113.5415,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-cathedral/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The cathedral of the Macau diocese, first built around 1622 of earth and straw, rebuilt in 1844–1850 and given its present form in 1937. Its façade has pilasters and twin belfries and a plain Shanghai-plaster finish. A Latin inscription above the door dedicates it to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, and the square in front is Largo da Sé."},{"id":"macau-contemporary-art-center-navy-yard-no-1","name":"Macau Contemporary Art Center, Navy Yard No. 1","name_zh":"澳门当代艺术中心·海事工房1号","pinyin":"Àomén Dāngdài Yìshù Zhōngxīn · Hǎishì Gōngfáng 1 Hào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1845,"lon":113.5313,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-contemporary-art-center-navy-yard-no-1","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A former mechanical room of the old D. Carlos I dock in the Barra district, where the government built and reconditioned ships. The tourism office lists it as a contemporary art centre for exhibitions and experimental performance art."},{"id":"macau-cultural-centre","name":"Macau Cultural Centre","name_zh":"澳门文化中心","pinyin":"Àomén Wénhuà Zhōngxīn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1889,"lon":113.5554,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-cultural-centre/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Macau Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural de Macau) is a performing-arts complex by the architects Irene Ó and Bruno Soares on the reclaimed NAPE waterfront, opened in 1999. The Grand Auditorium seats 1,080 for opera, ballet, orchestral concerts and touring musicals, the Small Auditorium stages smaller productions and film screenings, and the Macau Museum of Art shares the complex. Annual events held here include the music festival and the Fringe festival."},{"id":"macau-fishermans-wharf","name":"Macau Fisherman's Wharf","name_zh":"澳门渔人码头","pinyin":"Àomén Yúrén Mǎtóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.193,"lon":113.556,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-fishermans-wharf","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A themed waterfront complex (Doca dos Pescadores) of about 133,000 square metres on the outer harbour. The government tourism office describes it as the first cultural, themed and creative attraction in Macau's tourism industry, combining dining, shopping, entertainment, accommodation, and convention and exhibition space. It suits a relaxed outing or an evening meal by the water."},{"id":"macau-giant-panda-pavilion","name":"Macau Giant Panda Pavilion and Pavilion of Rare Animals","name_zh":"澳门大熊猫馆","pinyin":"Àomén Dàxióngmāo Guǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1266,"lon":113.559,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-giant-panda-pavilion/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A fan-shaped pavilion (Pavilhão do Panda Gigante de Macau) of about 3,000 square metres built into the hillside in Seac Pai Van Park, with indoor and outdoor areas for giant pandas and two viewing paths at different heights. The park's Pavilion of Rare Animals has indoor and outdoor areas for red pandas, with climbing perches and a regulated indoor temperature. A giant panda information centre in the park has exhibition rooms and video rooms."},{"id":"macau-government-headquarters","name":"Macau Government Headquarters","name_zh":"政府总部","pinyin":"Zhèngfǔ Zǒngbù","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1899,"lon":113.5379,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-government-headquarters/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey pink building of 1849 in Portuguese style, built as the Palácio do Cercal for a nobleman and used as the governor's office from 1884. It has a wing on each side and a winding corridor along the upper floor, and stands well back in a garden. On 19 December 1999 the last Portuguese governor lowered the Portuguese flag here at the start of the handover of administration to China, and it is now the headquarters of the Macau government."},{"id":"macau-grand-prix-museum","name":"Macau Grand Prix Museum","name_zh":"澳门大赛车博物馆","pinyin":"Àomén Dàsàichē Bówùguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1948,"lon":113.5528,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-grand-prix-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The museum of the Macau Grand Prix (Museu do Grande Prémio) is run by the tourism office in the Tourism Activities Centre beside Lotus Square, and reopened in June 2021 after remodelling. Its four floors show Grand Prix cars and motorcycles from across the decades, with displays on the drivers, riders and teams who have raced on the street circuit since 1954. Some basement exhibition areas have been closed in stages for renovation since May 2026, so check what is open before going."},{"id":"macau-monetary-authority-building","name":"Macau Monetary Authority Building (the White House)","name_zh":"澳门金融管理局大楼","pinyin":"Àomén Jīnróng Guǎnlǐjú Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1956,"lon":113.5485,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-monetary-authority-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey mansion of 1916–17 built for the lawyer Luís Nolasco da Silva, later a convent of the Little Sisters of the Precious Blood, and bought in 1998 by the Macau Monetary Authority for its headquarters offices. Broad balconies on the main rooms, a feature typical of the tropics before air conditioning, and its white-painted walls earned it the nickname the White House. It is classified as a building of architectural interest."},{"id":"macau-mosque-and-cemetery","name":"Macau Mosque and Cemetery","name_zh":"澳门清真寺及坟场","pinyin":"Àomén Qīngzhēnsì Jí Féncháng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2027,"lon":113.5545,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-mosque-and-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Macau's only mosque (Mesquita de Macau), built in the early 1980s in the Mong-Há district, with a historic cemetery beside it. The cemetery is the resting place of several Parsis and Muslims of various origins, some of the graves more than a hundred years old. Together they record the Muslim presence in Macau."},{"id":"macau-museum","name":"Macau Museum","name_zh":"澳门博物馆","pinyin":"Àomén Bówùguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1972,"lon":113.5422,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The city's history and folk-culture museum (Museu de Macau) opened in 1998 inside Mount Fortress, with two of its three floors built beneath the fortress platform and the top floor in the former weather observatory. The first floor covers Macau's early history and the meeting of Chinese and Portuguese cultures, the second its folk arts, festivals and daily life, and the third the city today and how writers and artists have portrayed it."},{"id":"macau-museum-of-art","name":"Macau Museum of Art","name_zh":"澳门艺术博物馆","pinyin":"Àomén Yìshù Bówùguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1888,"lon":113.5546,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-museum-of-art/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Macau Museum of Art (Museu de Arte de Macau), opened in 1999 in the Macau Cultural Centre complex, has five floors and seven exhibition galleries. The fourth floor shows Chinese calligraphy, painting and Shiwan ceramics from Guangdong, the third floor has Western paintings and European prints of Macau's scenery, and the second and third floors stage changing exhibitions of Macau and international artists."},{"id":"macau-science-center","name":"Macau Science Center","name_zh":"澳门科学馆","pinyin":"Àomén Kēxuéguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1863,"lon":113.5571,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"2–3 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-science-center/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A science museum on the NAPE waterfront (Centro de Ciência de Macau), designed by Pei Partnership Architects with Ieoh Ming Pei and completed in 2009. Its conical main building holds 13 permanent galleries of interactive exhibits, on subjects including astronomy, children's science, navigation, biodiversity, acoustics and smart technology. A planetarium with a dome screen and a convention centre complete the complex, and the building is a landmark of the waterfront."},{"id":"macau-tea-culture-house","name":"Macau Tea Culture House","name_zh":"澳门茶文化馆","pinyin":"Àomén Chá Wénhuàguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1998,"lon":113.5478,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-tea-culture-house/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum of tea inside Lou Lim Ioc Garden, opened in 2005 in a building that combines southern European features with a Chinese tiled roof and sits well with the garden's Suzhou-style landscape. Its exhibitions present the tea cultures of Macau, mainland China and the West, a fitting theme for a port that in the 17th century handled Chinese tea exports to the West."},{"id":"macau-tower","name":"Macau Tower","name_zh":"澳门旅游塔","pinyin":"Àomén Lǚyóutǎ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1798,"lon":113.5368,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-tower/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 338-metre tower (Torre de Macau) on the Sai Van waterfront, opened in December 2001, with an observation deck about 223 metres up that looks over Macau and much of the Pearl River Delta. Visitors can also walk around the outside of the tower on the Skywalk. The base has a convention and entertainment centre with a cinema and an outdoor plaza."},{"id":"macau-mandarins-house","name":"Mandarin's House","name_zh":"郑家大屋","pinyin":"Zhèngjiā Dàwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1886,"lon":113.5344,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-mandarins-house/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The family home (Casa do Mandarim) of the reformist writer Zheng Guanying (1842–1921), dating from about 1869 and covering about 4,000 square metres beside Lilau Square. A gatehouse, courtyards and master's and servants' quarters stretch more than 120 metres along Barra Street, Chinese in style with western touches such as arched plasterwork over doors and mother-of-pearl window panes. The compound, part of the Historic Centre of Macau, also houses the Zheng Guanying Memorial Museum on his life and the history of the house."},{"id":"macau-maritime-museum","name":"Maritime Museum","name_zh":"海事博物馆","pinyin":"Hǎishì Bówùguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.186,"lon":113.5306,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-maritime-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum in a building shaped like a sailing ship, beside A-Ma Temple on Barra Square (Largo do Pagode da Barra). The ground floor covers the fishing communities of Macau and South China with boats, tools, a replica fisherman's house and a Little A-Ma Theatre telling the goddess's legend; upper floors cover Chinese and Portuguese sea voyages, maritime technology and an aquarium gallery. Full-size boats, including a dragon boat, stand outside."},{"id":"macau-military-club","name":"Military Club Building","name_zh":"陆军俱乐部大楼","pinyin":"Lùjūn Jùlèbù Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1916,"lon":113.5443,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-military-club/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A one-storey neoclassical building of the early 1870s on Avenida da Praia Grande, the clubhouse of the Military Club that Portuguese officers founded in 1870. The pink façade has a Tuscan colonnade, a balustrade and a curved gable carrying the date 1870 and the words Clube Militar, and only the façade survives from the original after the rebuilding of 1994–95. The club still occupies the building, so most visitors see the exterior from the avenue."},{"id":"macau-mong-ha-villas","name":"Mong-Ha Villas","name_zh":"望厦山房","pinyin":"Wàngxià Shānfáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.206,"lon":113.5473,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-mong-ha-villas","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A row of twelve two-storey Portuguese-style houses of 1950–51, built as rented homes for lower-ranking civil servants on Avenida do Coronel Mesquita and Estrada de Coelho do Amaral in Mong-Há. Each has a front garden, an arched porch and tiled eaves in the Suave Portuguese style, so that together they form a continuous façade. The Cultural Affairs Bureau has restored the houses on Avenida do Coronel Mesquita, and a selected operator now runs exhibitions, markets and community events there, with shops being added."},{"id":"macau-mong-ha-fort","name":"Mong-Há Fort","name_zh":"望厦炮台","pinyin":"Wàngxià Pàotái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2079,"lon":113.5477,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-mong-ha-fort/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Mong-Há Fort (Fortaleza de Mong-Há) crowns Mong-Há Hill, also called Lotus Hill, 60.7 metres high at the northern end of the Macau Peninsula. Begun in 1849 and finished in 1866 as a precaution against a Chinese attack, the walled fort covers about 650 square metres and had ten cannons able to reach the Border Gate. No longer in military use, the hill is now a municipal park of flowerbeds, grassy slopes and walkways, with good views over the north of the city."},{"id":"macau-montanha-russa-garden","name":"Montanha Russa Garden","name_zh":"螺丝山公园","pinyin":"Luósīshān Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2043,"lon":113.5524,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-montanha-russa-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small hillside park laid out in a romantic style in the late 19th century in the north-east of the peninsula, between Mong-Há Hill and Dona Maria II Hill. A spiral path winds up to the top, which gives the park its Chinese name, and the hill holds tropical and European trees labelled in Latin and Chinese, secluded benches and a children's playground. It is a quiet retreat in a crowded part of the city."},{"id":"macau-moorish-barracks","name":"Moorish Barracks","name_zh":"摩尔兵营","pinyin":"Mó'ěr Bīngyíng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1874,"lon":113.5326,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-moorish-barracks/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1874 (Quartel dos Mouros) to house an Indian regiment from Goa that reinforced the Macau police, this neoclassical building adds Islamic and Mughal touches: a raised granite platform and four-metre-wide verandas with pointed arches. Designed by the engineer António Alexandrino de Melo, it has housed the harbour authority since 1905 and is now the headquarters of the Marine and Water Bureau. It is part of the Historic Centre of Macau, at the foot of Barra Hill."},{"id":"macau-moosa-houses","name":"Moosa Houses","name_zh":"穆萨家族房屋","pinyin":"Mùsà Jiāzú Fángwū","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1916,"lon":113.5384,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-moosa-houses","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Two houses at 45 and 47 Rua Central (Casas Moosa), built before 1880 for the Moosa family, Muslim traders from India whose firm was founded in Macau in 1880. They are the only buildings on Rua Central that keep the look of the old two- and three-storey shophouses. Number 45 has Portuguese-style shuttered windows, while number 47 mixes mica windows, vase railings and Chinese wooden bracketing under the eaves."},{"id":"macau-morrison-chapel","name":"Morrison Chapel (Protestant Chapel)","name_zh":"马礼逊教堂","pinyin":"Mǎlǐxùn Jiàotáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1997,"lon":113.54,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-morrison-chapel/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small whitewashed chapel in the Old Protestant Cemetery, renovated in 1922 and named after Robert Morrison, the missionary who translated the Bible into Chinese. Its stained-glass window shows an open Bible with Chinese characters, and plaques inside commemorate foreign residents of China. The cemetery behind it has more than 180 graves, mostly of British and American people, recalling the foreign trading and naval presence in Macau."},{"id":"macau-mount-fortress","name":"Mount Fortress","name_zh":"大炮台","pinyin":"Dà Pàotái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.197,"lon":113.5422,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-mount-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Jesuit-built fortress (Fortaleza do Monte) of 1617–1626 crowns Mount Hill above the Ruins of St Paul's. It was the city's main defence work, built to watch over the city in all directions, and helped hold off the Dutch attack of 1622. Its thick walls, 9 metres high and 3.7 metres wide at the base, have parapets for 32 cannon and now enclose a garden, the Macau Museum and a gallery in a former underground ammunition cellar that covers the history of Macau's fortresses."},{"id":"macau-mural-rua-correia-da-silva-51","name":"Mural at Rua Correia da Silva 51, Taipa","name_zh":"告利雅施利华街51号壁画","pinyin":"Gàolìyǎshīlìhuá Jiē Wǔshíyī Hào Bìhuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1533,"lon":113.5572,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-mural-rua-correia-da-silva-51","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A large mural by a local illustrator on the side walls of the staircase linking Calçada do Quartel and Rua Correia da Silva in Taipa Village. Called Lucky Tiger, it shows children in tiger costumes at play in bright cartoon colours, drawing on the Chinese tradition of the tiger as a symbol of good fortune and protection."},{"id":"macau-largo-do-pagode-da-barra-murals","name":"Murals at Largo do Pagode da Barra","name_zh":"妈阁庙前地壁画","pinyin":"Māgé Miào Qiándì Bìhuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1859,"lon":113.5311,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-largo-do-pagode-da-barra-murals","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Macau artists Vitorino Vong and Jing Daan Wai painted these murals based on the old scenery of the Inner Harbour and the A-Ma Temple area. They stand in the square in front of A-Ma Temple, known in Portuguese as Largo do Pagode da Barra. A second set by the same artists is on Travessa da Assunção."},{"id":"macau-mural-rua-do-sol","name":"Murals at Rua do Sol 8–16, Taipa","name_zh":"日头街8至16号壁画","pinyin":"Rìtóu Jiē Bā Zhì Shíliù Hào Bìhuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.154,"lon":113.557,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-mural-rua-do-sol","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Murals in Rua do Sol, a small alley beside Rua do Cunha in Taipa Village. A local illustrator painted Lucky Cat figures in bright red, in a paper-cutting style, on one side wall, inspired by the cats that live in the area. Another wall and a gate carry racing scenes with tracks, grandstands and motorcycles, a nod to the Macau Grand Prix."},{"id":"macau-travessa-da-assuncao-murals","name":"Murals at Travessa da Assunção","name_zh":"沙井天巷壁画","pinyin":"Shājǐng Tiānxiàng Bìhuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1894,"lon":113.5329,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-travessa-da-assuncao-murals","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Macau artists Vitorino Vong and Jing Daan Wai painted these murals on Travessa da Assunção, basing them on the old scenery of the Inner Harbour and the A-Ma Temple area. The same artists made a second set at Largo do Pagode da Barra. The Nam Kwong warehouse murals are close by on Rua do Almirante Sérgio."},{"id":"macau-nam-kwong-warehouse-murals","name":"Murals at the Nam Kwong Warehouses","name_zh":"南光仓壁画","pinyin":"Nánguāng Cāng Bìhuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.189,"lon":113.5322,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-nam-kwong-warehouse-murals","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Cultural Affairs Bureau and Nam Kwong Logistics had the local graffiti artists Lam Ka Hou and Anny paint 25 murals along the facade of the Nam Kwong warehouses on Rua do Almirante Sérgio. They are based on daily life in the Inner Harbour and show both old and new elements of the area, as well as the mix of Chinese and Western cultures there. The murals were made as part of a Deep Cultural Tour of the Inner Harbour area."},{"id":"macau-museum-of-taipa-and-coloane-history","name":"Museum of Taipa and Coloane History","name_zh":"路氹历史馆","pinyin":"Lùdàng Lìshǐ Guǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1524,"lon":113.5557,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-museum-of-taipa-and-coloane-history/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum (Museu da História da Taipa e Coloane) in the neoclassical building of the former Municipal Council of the Islands, which took on its role as a museum on 7 May 2006. The ground floor shows relics excavated on Coloane, the stone remains found in the basement of the old council building and displays on the villages, religions and culture of the two islands; the upper floor covers the former council, farming and handicrafts, the architecture of the islands and their recent development."},{"id":"macau-na-tcha-exhibition-room","name":"Na Tcha Exhibition Room","name_zh":"大三巴哪咤展馆","pinyin":"Dàsānbā Nézhā Zhǎnguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1978,"lon":113.5406,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-na-tcha-exhibition-room","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small exhibition room of about 70 square metres beside the Na Tcha Temple at the Ruins of St Paul's (Sala de Exposição de Na Tcha), opened in 2012 by the Cultural Affairs Bureau. It explains the legend of Na Tcha and the temple festival through objects such as the processional sedan chair, ceremonial umbrella, lion heads and festival firecrackers, and eight drawings by a local cartoonist. Na Tcha customs and beliefs of Macau were added to the national intangible heritage list in 2014, and the room also shows artefacts and building remains from nearby excavations."},{"id":"macau-na-tcha-temple-calcada-das-verdades","name":"Na Tcha Temple, Calçada das Verdades","name_zh":"哪咤古庙（柿山）","pinyin":"Nézhā Gǔmiào (Shìshān)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1955,"lon":113.5423,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-na-tcha-temple-calcada-das-verdades","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple pavilion first built in the early Qing period and enlarged in 1898, standing on the slope of the Calçada das Verdades. It has no enclosed hall: six stone pillars carry the roof, and a granite niche, altar and incense burner are its main features. It is one of only two surviving temples to Na Tcha, a protector of children, in Macau, and the focus of the Na Tcha Festival on the 18th day of the fifth lunar month."},{"id":"macau-na-tcha-temple-ruins-of-st-pauls","name":"Na Tcha Temple, Ruins of St. Paul's","name_zh":"哪咤庙（大三巴）","pinyin":"Nézhā Miào (Dàsānbā)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1977,"lon":113.5407,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-na-tcha-temple-ruins-of-st-pauls","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small Chinese temple built in 1888 and rebuilt in 1901, standing in the heart of the old Jesuit quarter right beside the Ruins of St Paul's. It honours Na Tcha, a teenage hero of Chinese folk stories who is worshipped as a protective god. A yearly procession in his honour starts from this temple."},{"id":"macau-nossa-senhora-village","name":"Nossa Senhora Village (Ká Hó Leprosarium and Our Lady of Sorrows Church)","name_zh":"九澳圣母村","pinyin":"Jiǔ'ào Shèngmǔ Cūn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1325,"lon":113.5893,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-nossa-senhora-village/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village founded in 1964 on the site of the Ká Hó Leprosarium (Vila de Nossa Senhora), the only leprosarium site left in Macau and the last in the city to close. Its main buildings are five single-storey houses of 1929–30 built in an arc along the shore and the Our Lady of Sorrows Church of 1966, a concrete building with a triangular façade, a roof carried on eight sets of angled beams and a crucifix by the Italian sculptor Francisco Messina. The church was the first in Macau to follow the interior reforms of the Second Vatican Council, with the altar in the middle of the hall and the seats fanned around it."},{"id":"macau-old-city-wall-sections-s-januario-penha","name":"Old City Wall Sections, S. Francisco, S. Januário and Penha","name_zh":"城墙遗迹（加思栏马路、若宪马路、西望洋圣堂）","pinyin":"Chéngqiáng Yíjì (Jiāsīlán Mǎlù, Ruòxiàn Mǎlù, Xīwàngyáng Shèngtáng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1945,"lon":113.5466,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-old-city-wall-sections-s-januario-penha","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Three relatively well-preserved stretches of the old walls that once defended the Portuguese settlement, near Estrada de S. Francisco, near Estrada do Visconde de S. Januário and beside the Chapel of Our Lady of Penha. They are in addition to the section near the Ruins of St Paul's that forms part of the Historic Centre of Macau. The walls were an important part of the city's defences for a long period."},{"id":"macau-old-city-wall-calcada-de-s-francisco-xavier","name":"Old City Walls (Calçada de S. Francisco Xavier)","name_zh":"城墙遗迹（圣方济各斜巷）","pinyin":"Chéngqiáng Yíjì (Shèngfāngjìgè Xiéxiàng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1977,"lon":113.5405,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-old-city-wall-calcada-de-s-francisco-xavier","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A surviving segment of the city's old defences, built as early as 1569 beside the Ruins of St Paul's. It reflects the Portuguese habit of walling port settlements, also seen in Africa and India. The wall is built mainly of chunambo, a mixture of clay, soil, sand, rice straw, crushed rock and oyster shells packed in layers."},{"id":"macau-old-taipa-pier","name":"Old Taipa Pier","name_zh":"原氹仔码头旧址","pinyin":"Yuán Dàngzǎi Mǎtóu Jiùzhǐ","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1565,"lon":113.5424,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-old-taipa-pier","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The old ferry pier of Taipa (Ponte da Taipa), inaugurated in 1950 for the ferries linking the Macau Peninsula, Taipa and Coloane. It is an inverted-T structure with a symmetrical façade, a portico that once led onto a trestle jetty and parapets with house-shaped merlons like those of Pier No. 1 on the Macau Peninsula. Ferries stopped in the early 1980s, and the building now serves as a patrol station of the Customs Service."},{"id":"macau-our-lady-of-carmel-church","name":"Our Lady of Carmel Church","name_zh":"嘉模圣母堂","pinyin":"Jiāmó Shèngmǔ Táng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1535,"lon":113.5588,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-our-lady-of-carmel-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Taipa's only Catholic church (Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Carmo), built in 1885 on a rise above Largo do Carmo, with a neoclassical façade and a belfry without a steeple. The hall holds more than two hundred worshippers, and angel statues beside the altar were added for the church's centenary. It overlooks Taipa Village and the restored 1920s houses on Avenida da Praia."},{"id":"macau-our-lady-of-fatima-church","name":"Our Lady of Fátima Church","name_zh":"花地玛圣母堂","pinyin":"Huādìmǎ Shèngmǔtáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.212,"lon":113.5451,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-our-lady-of-fatima-church","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A modern Catholic church serving the northern district of the peninsula, rebuilt in the late 1960s. It stands in a quiet courtyard behind wrought-iron gates, with a large square bell tower and a broad staircase up to the nave. Inside, stained-glass panels line the side walls and the altar is a wooden crucifix against a red brick wall."},{"id":"macau-our-lady-of-mercy-home-for-the-elderly","name":"Our Lady of Mercy Home for the Elderly","name_zh":"仁慈堂安老院","pinyin":"Réncítáng Ānlǎoyuàn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1986,"lon":113.5401,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-our-lady-of-mercy-home-for-the-elderly","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A care home run by the Holy House of Mercy, designed by the engineer Artur Rocha Schiappa Monteiro de Carvalho and inaugurated in 1925 as a shelter. Its eclectic façade has a three-part layout with a veranda, a balcony and Portuguese-style window shutters. The home was renovated in 1998 and reopened in 2000, keeping its original appearance."},{"id":"macau-escada-do-coxo-staircase","name":"Painted Staircase at Escada do Coxo, Taipa","name_zh":"氹仔跛脚梯梯级美化","pinyin":"Dàngzǎi Bǒjiǎo Tī Tījí Měihuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.153,"lon":113.5572,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-escada-do-coxo-staircase","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The steps of Escada do Coxo in Taipa Village have been painted with new artwork by two Macau artists, based on Portuguese elements. They make a quick photo stop close to Rua do Cunha."},{"id":"macau-travessa-da-boa-vista-staircase","name":"Painted Staircase at Travessa da Boa Vista, Taipa","name_zh":"氹仔风景巷梯级美化","pinyin":"Dàngzǎi Fēngjǐng Xiàng Tījí Měihuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1541,"lon":113.5589,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-travessa-da-boa-vista-staircase","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The steps of Travessa da Boa Vista in Taipa Village have been painted with new artwork by two Macau artists, based on the scenery of the old village. They lie close to the Taipa Municipal Garden and Largo do Carmo."},{"id":"macau-taipa-pak-tai-temple","name":"Pak Tai Temple, Taipa","name_zh":"氹仔北帝庙","pinyin":"Dàngzǎi Běidì Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1527,"lon":113.5557,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-pak-tai-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Pak Tai, the Northern Emperor (Templo de Pak Tai), built around 1844 on Largo Camões and one of the larger temples on Taipa and Coloane. Inside, Pak Tai sits with his feet on a tortoise and a snake, and Kuan Tai, Lu Ban, Choi Bak and other deities are worshipped here too. It has three parallel halls and a worship pavilion for offerings, and Chinese opera is staged in a mat shed in front on the Feast of Pak Tai, the third day of the third lunar month."},{"id":"macau-pao-kong-temple","name":"Pao Kong Temple and Temple of Divinity of Medicine","name_zh":"包公庙及医灵庙","pinyin":"Bāogōng Miào Jí Yīlíng Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1989,"lon":113.5419,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-pao-kong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Pao Kong Temple on Rua da Figueira was built in 1889, when a plague struck Macau and residents brought a statue of Pao Kong, the God of Justice, from Foshan to protect them. It stands with three neighbouring temples: Nam San Temple (1895), which honours Zhong Kui, the god who drives out devils, and Loi Tsou Temple (1891) and I Leng Temple (1895). I Leng, the Temple of Divinity of Medicine, honours the sleeping Buddha and other gods and dates from a time when people prayed for the sick because medical care was limited."},{"id":"macau-parsee-cemetery","name":"Parsee Cemetery","name_zh":"白头坟场","pinyin":"Báitóu Féncháng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1952,"lon":113.5488,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-parsee-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A burial ground opened in 1829 for the Parsee community, merchants who came originally from Gujarat in India and first reached Macau in the 1770s. Locals call it the White-Head Cemetery after the white turbans the Parsees wore. By the middle of the 19th century most of the community had moved on to Hong Kong."},{"id":"macau-patane-library","name":"Patane Library","name_zh":"沙梨头图书馆","pinyin":"Shālítóu Túshūguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2019,"lon":113.5376,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-patane-library","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A public library in a row of seven arcade buildings of the 1930s along the Inner Harbour waterfront in Patane. The arcade form combines European and Southeast Asian features, and few such buildings remain in Macau. The library opened in December 2016 after the buildings were renovated, and it has reading areas, a children's section and an audiovisual collection."},{"id":"macau-patane-night-watch-house","name":"Patane Night Watch House","name_zh":"沙梨头更馆","pinyin":"Shālítóu Gēngguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.202,"lon":113.5396,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-patane-night-watch-house/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small traditional Cantonese house on Rua da Palmeira in the old Patane quarter, once home to a night watchman and his family and the only night watch house left in Macau. It has single-storey rooms around a courtyard, a stone room and a water alley, with painted murals inside. Restored and opened in 2015, it now holds a small exhibition of photographs, objects and illustrations on the night-watch trade."},{"id":"macau-barra-pier-no-1","name":"Pier No. 1 (Barra Pier)","name_zh":"一号码头","pinyin":"Yīhào Mǎtóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1864,"lon":113.5306,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-barra-pier-no-1","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A government landing stage on Barra Square (Largo do Pagode da Barra), in front of A-Ma Temple, once known as the Royal Pier because governors and senior officials arrived and left Macau from it. The building is yellow-plastered concrete with a Moorish-style roofline of merlon-shaped parapets, and a granite staircase leads down to the water. The pier has been opened to the public as a display of historic local boats such as tugboats, sampans and dragon boats."},{"id":"macau-poly-mgm-museum","name":"Poly MGM Museum","name_zh":"保利美高梅博物馆","pinyin":"Bǎolì Měigāoméi Bówùguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1861,"lon":113.5476,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-poly-mgm-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum of nearly 2,000 square metres inside the MGM Macau resort on Avenida Dr Sun Yat Sen, opened in November 2024 by Poly Culture Group and MGM Macau. It stages changing exhibitions of Chinese art and cultural relics, using movable LED screens, flexible display panels and directional audio. Its first show was on the Maritime Silk Road."},{"id":"macau-praca-de-ponte-e-horta","name":"Ponte e Horta Square","name_zh":"柯邦迪前地","pinyin":"Kēbāngdí Qiándì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1936,"lon":113.5358,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-praca-de-ponte-e-horta","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A recreation square (Praça de Ponte e Horta) beside the Inner Harbour, named after Governor José Maria da Ponte e Horta, who governed from 1866 to 1868. In the Qing period it served as a pier for imported opium, and land reclamation in the late 19th century made it larger. Today it is a local recreation area, and the nearby lanes carry street art from festivals held there."},{"id":"macau-pooi-tou-school-praia-grande","name":"Pooi Tou Middle School Building, Praia Grande","name_zh":"培道中学大楼（南湾分校）","pinyin":"Péidào Zhōngxué Dàlóu (Nánwān Fēnxiào)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.193,"lon":113.5429,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-pooi-tou-school-praia-grande","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A neoclassical school building put up between 1910 and 1920 on Avenida da Praia Grande, with a fourth storey added at the end of the 1960s. It is the Praia Grande branch of Pooi Tou Middle School and is classified as a building of architectural interest."},{"id":"macau-pou-sun-pawnshop","name":"Pou Sun Pawnshop","name_zh":"宝信押","pinyin":"Bǎoxìn Yā","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1527,"lon":113.5562,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-pou-sun-pawnshop","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A three-storey building (Casa de Penhores Pou Sun) at the corner of Rua Correia da Silva and Travessa da Felicidade in Taipa Village, rebuilt to the structure and design of the original pawnshop. Like other historic pawnshops in Macau, it stands on a street corner."},{"id":"macau-pou-tai-sin-un","name":"Pou Tai Sin Un","name_zh":"菩提禅院","pinyin":"Pútí Chányuàn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1611,"lon":113.5517,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-pou-tai-sin-un","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Pou Tai Sin Un is a Buddhist temple on Taipa Island, described by the tourist office as one of the best-endowed and most picturesque temples in Macau. Its main hall holds a bronze Buddha statue 5.4 metres tall including its lotus throne and weighing about six tonnes. Besides the main hall there are further halls and a vegetarian restaurant."},{"id":"macau-praia-grande-waterfront","name":"Praia Grande Bay Waterfront","name_zh":"南湾海旁","pinyin":"Nánwān Hǎipáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1861,"lon":113.5372,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-praia-grande-waterfront","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A classified stretch of seafront running from the Macau–Taipa bridge round Praia Grande Bay to Praia do Bom Parto, taking in Avenida Doutor Mário Soares, Avenida da Praia Grande and Avenida da República. From the 19th century the Portuguese lined it with European-style buildings, with banyan trees along the shore, and film companies have used it as a backdrop. Land reclamation has since added two artificial lakes."},{"id":"macau-pui-ching-administrative-building","name":"Pui Ching Middle School Administrative Building (Former Lou Lim Ioc Residence)","name_zh":"培正中学行政楼（原卢廉若私邸）","pinyin":"Péizhèng Zhōngxué Xíngzhènglóu (Yuán Lú Liánruò Sīdǐ)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2014,"lon":113.5481,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-pui-ching-administrative-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"This building was completed in the early 20th century as the private house of the Lou Lim Iok family, the creators of the neighbouring garden, and has been part of a school since 1938. Its eclectic design has façades influenced by European neoclassical architecture. It now serves as the administrative building of Pui Ching Middle School."},{"id":"macau-patio-de-chon-sau","name":"Pátio de Chôn Sau","name_zh":"俊秀围","pinyin":"Jùnxiù Wéi","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1968,"lon":113.54,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-patio-de-chon-sau","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Pátio de Chôn Sau is a small alley on the old Macau Peninsula that used to be full of antique and nostalgic shops. Today it holds eateries, small shops and cultural-creative stores, with street graffiti and decorations hung overhead, and it has become a popular place for photographs. It suits a short wander north of Senado Square."},{"id":"macau-rainbow-houses-and-murals","name":"Rainbow Houses and Murals","name_zh":"彩虹屋及三幅壁画","pinyin":"Cǎihóng Wū Jí Sān Fú Bìhuà","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.198,"lon":113.5376,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-rainbow-houses-and-murals","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of two-storey buildings near Rua de Cinco de Outubro has been painted in bright colours under a government scheme to support local shops and bring visitors into the neighbourhood. Three murals nearby have different themes, among them the drunken dragon dance, an intangible cultural heritage of Macau, and Portuguese folk dance, reflecting the city's Chinese and Portuguese cultures. The photo spots link Rua de Cinco de Outubro with several old streets of the district."},{"id":"macau-red-market-building","name":"Red Market Building","name_zh":"红街市大楼","pinyin":"Hóng Jiēshì Dàlóu","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2054,"lon":113.5448,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-red-market-building","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A working municipal market on Avenida do Almirante Lacerda, opened in 1936 and named for its red bricks. The symmetrical brick building has a clock tower in the middle and a watchtower at each corner, and is a typical example of modern architecture of its time. Stalls inside sell seafood, meat and vegetables, and the market reopened on 30 May 2024 after two years of renovation."},{"id":"macau-rua-da-felicidade","name":"Rua da Felicidade and Beco da Felicidade","name_zh":"福隆新街","pinyin":"Fúlóng Xīnjiē","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1942,"lon":113.5376,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-rua-da-felicidade/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A short lane of two-storey Chinese shophouses with grey walls and sloping roofs, laid out on reclaimed marshland between 1862 and 1874 by wealthy Fujian merchants. It was once Macau's red-lantern district of brothels and opium dens, and after prostitution was banned it became a busy dining and trading street. Beco da Felicidade runs off it, and shops and restaurants now fill the ground floors."},{"id":"macau-rua-de-cinco-de-outubro","name":"Rua de Cinco de Outubro","name_zh":"十月初五街","pinyin":"Shíyuè Chūwǔ Jiē","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1961,"lon":113.5373,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-rua-de-cinco-de-outubro","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Rua de Cinco de Outubro is an old street on the Macau Peninsula, named after the Portuguese revolution of 5 October 1910 that ended the monarchy and founded the Republic. It keeps a nostalgic old-town atmosphere, with many shops and local restaurants worth a look. A group of painted houses and murals stands nearby."},{"id":"macau-rua-do-cunha","name":"Rua do Cunha","name_zh":"官也街","pinyin":"Guānyě Jiē","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1536,"lon":113.557,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-rua-do-cunha/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A narrow pedestrian street in the heart of Taipa Village, made Macau's first pedestrian zone in 1983. It is lined with old restaurants serving traditional dishes and shops selling souvenir snacks such as almond biscuits, egg rolls, coconut flakes and peanut candy. It is named after Pedro Alexandrino da Cunha, a naval captain who became governor of Macau in 1850 and died of cholera 37 days after arriving."},{"id":"macau-rua-dos-ervanarios","name":"Rua dos Ervanários and Rua de Nossa Senhora do Amparo","name_zh":"关前正街及关前后街","pinyin":"Guānqián Zhèngjiē Jí Guānqián Hòujiē","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1965,"lon":113.5399,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-rua-dos-ervanarios","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"These two old streets keep traditional shops selling incense, second-hand goods and antiques, alongside newer specialty coffee shops and cultural-creative stores. The Chinese name of the first street refers to the customs service that once handled Macau's foreign trade. Occasional events and cultural-creative flea markets are held in the area."},{"id":"macau-ruins-of-st-pauls","name":"Ruins of St. Paul's","name_zh":"大三巴牌坊","pinyin":"Dàsānbā Páifāng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1975,"lon":113.5409,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-ruins-of-st-pauls/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The façade of the Church of Mater Dei (built 1602–1640 and destroyed by fire in 1835), known in Portuguese as the Ruínas de São Paulo, is all that remains standing, about 23 metres wide and 25.5 metres high and reached by a staircase. The carving combines a Western Baroque-Mannerist design with Oriental motifs: Jesuit saints, the Virgin Mary flanked by a seven-headed hydra and a Portuguese ship, Chinese lions and Chinese-character inscriptions. Archaeological remains of St Paul's College lie beside it, and a museum of sacred art and a crypt are built behind the façade."},{"id":"macau-s-francisco-garden","name":"S. Francisco Garden","name_zh":"加思栏花园","pinyin":"Jiāsīlán Huāyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1925,"lon":113.5445,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-s-francisco-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"S. Francisco Garden is a small park beside Praia Grande, divided into two parts by Rua de Santa Clara. The lower part is level, with flowerbeds and footpaths through greenery, while the hillier upper part, built along the slope, has paths up to a children's playground. Low walls, columns, an arched entrance and a fountain give the park a European look, and a small round building near the top, once a museum honouring First World War soldiers, now houses a disability association."},{"id":"macau-sam-kai-vui-kun","name":"Sam Kai Vui Kun (Kuan Tai Temple)","name_zh":"三街会馆","pinyin":"Sānjiē Huìguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.194,"lon":113.5394,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-sam-kai-vui-kun/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple dating from the 18th century, with plaques recording a restoration in 1792. Its name means \"three-streets meeting hall\": merchants from Rua dos Mercadores, Rua das Estalagens and Rua dos Ervanários once met here, in the old Chinese bazaar quarter, and it later became purely a place of worship for Kuan Tai, the deity of loyalty and righteousness. Part of the Historic Centre of Macau, it stands beside the main square among largely Portuguese-style buildings."},{"id":"macau-taipa-sam-po-temple","name":"Sam Po Temple, Taipa","name_zh":"三婆庙","pinyin":"Sānpó Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1555,"lon":113.5594,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-sam-po-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A fishermen's temple (Templo de Sam Po) first built in 1845 in the shape of a natural cave and rebuilt in 1864, dedicated to Sam Po, who is worshipped as the third sister of Tin Hau and is remembered for helping people to defeat pirates. A large rock sits inside the building, with a shrine carved into it. The front has painted decoration and carvings under the roof tiles, brown double doors and five halls in a row."},{"id":"macau-coloane-sam-seng-temple","name":"Sam Seng Temple, Coloane Village","name_zh":"路环三圣宫","pinyin":"Lùhuán Sānshèng Gōng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1187,"lon":113.5509,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-coloane-sam-seng-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple (Templo de Sam Seng) built in 1865 at the northern end of Coloane Village, dedicated to Kum Fa, a goddess who protects children, to Kun Iam and to Va Kuong, a fire god. It is a single chamber with an altar in the middle and, beside the entrance, a musical stone and a bell; it was rebuilt in 2002 after storm damage. Traditional iron-and-wood stilt houses stand along the shore nearby."},{"id":"macau-ka-ho-sam-seng-temple","name":"Sam Seng Temple, Ká Hó","name_zh":"九澳三圣庙","pinyin":"Jiǔ'ào Sānshèng Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.135,"lon":113.5816,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-ka-ho-sam-seng-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A village temple (Pagode de Sam Seng) built in 1883 on the site of a smaller Hung Shing temple, and named for the three gods enshrined in it: Hung Shing, Tam Kong and Kuan Tai. It has a porch and a main hall under two linked gabled roofs with no courtyard between them, which is unusual in Chinese temples, and coloured murals above the porch doorways. Ká Hó, together with Hac Sá, is one of the only two Hakka villages left in Macau."},{"id":"macau-sculpture-park-of-the-chinese-ethnics","name":"Sculpture Park of the Chinese Ethnics","name_zh":"中华民族雕塑园","pinyin":"Zhōnghuá Mínzú Diāosùyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1922,"lon":113.5495,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-sculpture-park-of-the-chinese-ethnics/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"An open-air display of 56 bronze sculptures of China's ethnic groups, set out roughly according to where each group lives in the country so that visitors can see their appearance, lifestyles and distribution. An exhibition centre shows pictures, videos and objects of the groups' ways of life. The park was set up on Taipa in 2009 and moved to Comendador Ho Yin Park in 2019."},{"id":"macau-seac-pai-van-park","name":"Seac Pai Van Park","name_zh":"石排湾郊野公园","pinyin":"Shípáiwān Jiāoyě Gōngyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1263,"lon":113.558,"category":"nature","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-seac-pai-van-park","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A family park of about 198,000 square metres in the wooded hills of western Coloane (Parque de Seac Pai Van). Besides the panda and red panda pavilions it holds the Natural and Agrarian Museum, a large walk-in aviary, botanical gardens, children's playgrounds and paths for strolling."},{"id":"macau-seak-kam-tong-hang-toi-temple","name":"Seak Kam Tong Hang Toi Temple","name_zh":"石敢当行台","pinyin":"Shígǎndāng Xíngtái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.202,"lon":113.5415,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"20 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-seak-kam-tong-hang-toi-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple of 1894 in the San Kio neighbourhood, unusual in China for worshipping Seak Kam Tong, the guardian stone that wards off evil, as its main deity, and once also a meeting hall for local residents. Only the entrance and the main hall survive, joined by a corridor round a small atrium, in brick and wood with stone lions at the door and carved auspicious motifs. The main hall holds a Seak Kam Tong statue of Jiang Ziya flanked by Kun Iam and the Tai Sui deities."},{"id":"macau-sin-fong-temple","name":"Sin Fong Temple","name_zh":"先锋庙","pinyin":"Xiānfēng Miào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2064,"lon":113.546,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-sin-fong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sin Fong Temple is a temple in the Mong-Há district that was already recorded in a survey of 1827. Its low halls and short eaves hold a main hall for General Vanguard, a deity of protection from disasters and danger, and a side hall for the Dragon King of the East Sea, linked to fishing and safety at sea. The oldest object inside is a hanging 'cloud plate' dated 1861."},{"id":"macau-sir-robert-ho-tung-library","name":"Sir Robert Ho Tung Library","name_zh":"何东图书馆","pinyin":"Hédōng Túshūguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1925,"lon":113.5377,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-sir-robert-ho-tung-library/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A mansion built before 1894 as the home of Dona Carolina Cunha, bought in 1918 by the Hong Kong businessman Sir Robert Ho Tung as a retreat. His will left it to the Macau government as a public library, which has been open since 1958. The first floor holds a collection of old Chinese books, some going back to the Ming dynasty, and the building stands on St Augustine's Square (Largo de Santo Agostinho)."},{"id":"macau-st-anthonys-church","name":"St. Anthony's Church","name_zh":"圣安多尼堂（花王堂）","pinyin":"Shèng'ānduōní Táng (Huāwáng Táng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.199,"lon":113.5395,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-st-anthonys-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"One of the oldest churches in Macau, first built of bamboo and wood before 1560 on the site of the Jesuits' first headquarters in the city. It was rebuilt in 1875 and given a grainy Shanghai-plaster finish in 1930, and it has a neoclassical façade and a Baroque-influenced interior with an elaborate main altar. Its Chinese name, Fa Vong Tong, means Church of Flowers, a reference to the Portuguese weddings once held in the church."},{"id":"macau-st-augustines-church","name":"St. Augustine's Church","name_zh":"圣奥斯定教堂","pinyin":"Shèng Àosīdìng Jiàotáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1923,"lon":113.5384,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-st-augustines-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Part of the Historic Centre of Macau, St. Augustine's Church (Igreja de Santo Agostinho) was founded by Spanish Augustinians in 1591 and has had its present form since 1874. Its plain neoclassical facade contrasts with a richer interior of nave, high choir and sacristy. Local Chinese call it the Temple of the Long-whiskered Dragon, after the palm leaves once used to patch its roof, and the church organises an annual Way of the Cross procession, one of the most popular in the city."},{"id":"macau-st-augustines-square","name":"St. Augustine's Square","name_zh":"岗顶前地","pinyin":"Gǎngdǐng Qiándì","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1923,"lon":113.5382,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-st-augustines-square","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A cobbled square (Largo de Santo Agostinho) lined with classified buildings, among them St Augustine's Church, the Dom Pedro V Theatre, St Joseph's Seminary and the Sir Robert Ho Tung Library. The cobblestone pavement ties the area together and gives it the look of a traditional Portuguese streetscape. It is part of the Historic Centre of Macau."},{"id":"macau-st-dominics-church","name":"St. Dominic's Church","name_zh":"玫瑰圣母堂","pinyin":"Méiguī Shèngmǔ Táng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1947,"lon":113.5404,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-st-dominics-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A church (Igreja de São Domingos) founded in 1587 by three Spanish Dominican priests who had come from Acapulco in Mexico; it was first built of wood, which gave it the Chinese name Pan Cheong Tong, 'Church of Wooden Planks'. It has a basilican plan with Baroque influences in its interior decoration, the Dominican insignia on the pediment of its façade, and a three-storey bell tower beside the sacristy that holds a small museum of sacred art. Our Lady of Fatima has been honoured here since 1929, and a procession leaves the church every year on 13 May."},{"id":"macau-st-francis-fort-and-barracks","name":"St. Francis Fort and Barracks","name_zh":"加思栏炮台","pinyin":"Jiāsīlán Pàotái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1912,"lon":113.5445,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-st-francis-fort-and-barracks","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The fort stands by the old Praia Grande bay and dates from the 1720s, when it belonged to a Franciscan monastery and had six cannons able to reach as far as Taipa. Its oval wall, six metres high, is divided into upper and lower levels, and the two-storey building behind it, the St. Francis Barracks, is now the headquarters of Macau's Security Forces. The barracks lobby holds the Museum of the Macau Security Forces, which shows military equipment and the history of the Macau police."},{"id":"macau-st-francis-xavier-church-mong-ha","name":"St. Francis Xavier Church, Mong-Há","name_zh":"望厦圣方济各小堂","pinyin":"Wàngxià Shèngfāngjìgè Xiǎotáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2044,"lon":113.5487,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-st-francis-xavier-church-mong-ha","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Built in 1951, this small church is attached to an old people's home near Mong-Há Hill. Inside, it is simple and tranquil, with a black marble altar. Tall louvred shutters along the walls open onto courtyards and gardens."},{"id":"macau-st-josephs-seminary-and-church","name":"St. Joseph's Seminary and Church","name_zh":"圣若瑟修院及圣堂","pinyin":"Shèngruòsè Xiūyuàn Jí Shèngtáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1918,"lon":113.5375,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-st-josephs-seminary-and-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The seminary (Seminário de São José) was founded by the Jesuits in 1728, and the church (Igreja de São José) beside it, built in 1758, is one of the rare examples of Baroque architecture in China. The church has a Greek-cross plan under a dome 12.5 metres across and 19 metres high, lit by two rows of 16 small windows, and a side altar holds a bone relic of St Francis Xavier. The three-storey seminary building, with a Chinese-style sloping roof and an F-shaped plan, is not open to the public."},{"id":"macau-st-lawrences-church","name":"St. Lawrence's Church","name_zh":"圣老楞佐堂（风顺堂）","pinyin":"Shènglǎolèngzuǒ Táng (Fēngshùn Táng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1907,"lon":113.5368,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-st-lawrences-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A neoclassical church (Igreja de São Lourenço) first built by the Jesuits before 1560 and rebuilt in 1846 to a design by the Macanese architect Tomás D'Aquino. Before Praia Grande Bay was reclaimed it looked straight over the water, and sailors' families waited on its steps for ships to return, hence the Chinese name Feng Shun Tang, Hall of the Soothing Winds. Inside is a rare local set of stained-glass windows with biblical scenes."},{"id":"macau-st-lazarus-church","name":"St. Lazarus' Church","name_zh":"望德圣母堂","pinyin":"Wàngdé Shèngmǔtáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1973,"lon":113.5454,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"20 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-st-lazarus-church/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A neoclassical church (Igreja de São Lázaro) in the old St Lazarus district, founded in the 16th century as a hospital chapel for lepers and one of the three oldest churches in Macau. The present building dates from the 1880s, with an asymmetrical façade, a pediment carrying a cross and an anchor, a belfry on the right and two aisles inside. The Cross of Hope from the original chapel stands in the forecourt, and the church has long been a centre of Macau's Chinese Catholic community."},{"id":"macau-st-lazarus-district","name":"St. Lazarus' District","name_zh":"望德堂坊","pinyin":"Wàngdétáng Fāng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1966,"lon":113.545,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-st-lazarus-district","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A quarter of narrow streets around Rua do Volong, Rua de São Roque and Rua de São Miguel, once the home of Macau's Chinese Catholics. In the late 19th century the government planned its streets and houses, and in recent years the roads have been repaved in stone and fitted with European-style street lamps. The classified area also includes the forecourt of the church of St Lazarus."},{"id":"macau-st-michael-cemetery","name":"St. Michael the Archangel Cemetery","name_zh":"圣味基坟场","pinyin":"Shèngwèijī Féncháng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1985,"lon":113.5455,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-st-michael-cemetery","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Macau's old Catholic cemetery (Cemitério de São Miguel Arcanjo), completed in 1854 on a 19th-century plan, with a main entrance street leading to the Chapel of St Michael of 1875 and a network of lanes inside. It holds tombs and monuments in many styles from the 19th and 20th centuries, among them the poet Camilo Pessanha and Colonel Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita. Western and Chinese festivals and religious ceremonies are held here."},{"id":"macau-st-pauls-college-walls-patio-do-espinho","name":"St. Paul's College Walls, Pátio do Espinho","name_zh":"圣保禄学院围墙遗迹（茨林围）","pinyin":"Shèngbǎolù Xuéyuàn Wéiqiáng Yíjì (Cílínwéi)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1986,"lon":113.5411,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-st-pauls-college-walls-patio-do-espinho","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Sections of the rammed-earth wall that enclosed St Paul's College, the Jesuit college founded in 1594, together with excavated remains of its buildings. The longest surviving stretch, part of the north wall, is about 135 metres long and 3.4 to 4.4 metres high, running along the north side of Pátio do Espinho between houses. A further section of the south wall stands inside the neighbouring Matteo Ricci College."},{"id":"macau-stone-coat-of-arms-lin-fong-temple","name":"Stone with the Coat of Arms of Portugal, Lin Fong Temple","name_zh":"刻有葡国徽号的石块（莲峰庙旁）","pinyin":"Kè Yǒu Pú Guó Huīhào De Shíkuài (Liánfēng Miào Páng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.21,"lon":113.5478,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-stone-coat-of-arms-lin-fong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A stone carved with the Portuguese coat of arms, a crown over a shield, and the date 22 August 1849, the day Governor João Maria Ferreira do Amaral was killed here. It was set up in his memory near the start of the road to the Border Gate, with its back to Lin Fong Temple and its face towards the Green Island (Ilha Verde) side."},{"id":"macau-stone-coat-of-arms-rampa-dos-cavaleiros","name":"Stone with the Coat of Arms of Portugal, Rampa dos Cavaleiros","name_zh":"刻有葡国徽号的石块（望厦马交石斜坡旁）","pinyin":"Kè Yǒu Pú Guó Huīhào De Shíkuài (Wàngxià Mǎjiāoshí Xiépō Páng)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2057,"lon":113.5512,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-stone-coat-of-arms-rampa-dos-cavaleiros","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A rock engraved in 1847 with the Portuguese royal coat of arms, a crown over a shield, and the inscription 'Rampa dos Cavaleiros 1847', meaning Slope of the Knights. It was set up beside the slope to celebrate the opening of new avenues in the Mong-Há area."},{"id":"macau-old-christian-quarter-streets","name":"Streets of the Old Christian Quarter","name_zh":"龙嵩正街至妈阁斜巷街道","pinyin":"Lóngsōng Zhèngjiē Zhì Māgé Xiéxiàng Jiēdào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1896,"lon":113.5361,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-old-christian-quarter-streets","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A route of old streets through the former Christian quarter, the Portuguese residential area where the first settlers lived after arriving in Macau. It runs between Rua Central, Rua de S. Lourenço, Rua do Padre António, Rua da Barra and Calçada da Barra. Many historic buildings remain along it, including St Lawrence's Church, St Joseph's Church and Seminary and the Lilau well."},{"id":"macau-sun-yat-sen-memorial-house","name":"Sun Yat-sen Memorial House","name_zh":"澳门国父纪念馆","pinyin":"Àomén Guófù Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1999,"lon":113.5489,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-sun-yat-sen-memorial-house","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A neo-Arabic villa that was the Macau home of Sun Yat-sen's family, including his first wife Lu Muzhen, who died here in 1952; it was rebuilt in 1931 after an explosion at the former governor's powder magazine damaged the original. Since 1958 it has been a memorial house presenting the life of Sun Yat-sen and his family, with documents on display and a bronze statue in the garden. The three-storey main building has a symmetrical façade with semicircular bays and foliage patterns on its columns, window frames and railings."},{"id":"macau-sao-tiago-da-barra-fortress","name":"São Tiago da Barra Fortress","name_zh":"圣地牙哥炮台","pinyin":"Shèngdìyágē Pàotái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1827,"lon":113.5307,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-sao-tiago-da-barra-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small fortress (Fortaleza de São Tiago da Barra) at the Barra tip of the peninsula, built in 1629 with 16 cannon on the site of a simpler 1622 fortification, to guard the water entrance to the Inner Harbour. Its commander was appointed directly by the King of Portugal, and a chapel to St James, patron saint of soldiers, was added within the walls in 1740. The fortress was converted into a hotel, the Pousada de São Tiago, in 1981, with the chapel preserved."},{"id":"macau-hac-sa-tai-wong-temple","name":"Tai Wong Temple, Hac Sá","name_zh":"大王庙（黑沙）","pinyin":"Dàwáng Miào (Hēishā)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1198,"lon":113.5676,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-hac-sa-tai-wong-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small single-chamber temple (Templo de Tai Wong) in Hac Sá village, built before 1902 and dedicated to Tai Wong, whom local legend credits with protecting the residents. It is small even by Coloane standards. Hac Sá, together with Ká Hó, is one of the only two Hakka villages left in Macau."},{"id":"macau-taipa-fortress","name":"Taipa Fortress","name_zh":"氹仔炮台","pinyin":"Dàngzǎi Pàotái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.157,"lon":113.5426,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-taipa-fortress/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small hillside fort built in 1846 to defend against pirates, later a summer residence of the governor of Macau and, from 1975, the police station of the islands. It has small cannons at its entrance and around its walls, barracks with corridors facing the old shoreline, two sentry posts and a cylindrical building at the rear that was once an ammunition store. Today it is the headquarters of the Macau Scout Association, and the ground around it is laid out as a rest area."},{"id":"macau-taipa-grande-viewing-platform","name":"Taipa Grande Viewing Platform","name_zh":"大潭山眺望台","pinyin":"Dàtánshān Tiàowàngtái","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1555,"lon":113.5614,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30–60 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-grande-viewing-platform","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A viewing platform on the slope of Taipa Grande hill with panoramic views over Taipa Village and the Cotai Strip. It can be reached by the Taipa Grande Hill inclined lift, which runs up the slope from Estrada Governador Nobre de Carvalho."},{"id":"macau-taipa-houses-museum","name":"Taipa Houses–Museum","name_zh":"龙环葡韵","pinyin":"Lónghuán Púyùn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1541,"lon":113.56,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1 hour","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-taipa-houses-museum/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A row of five green houses of 1921 on Avenida da Praia, once the homes of senior civil servants and Macanese families, restored as museums and opened to visitors in 1999. Since 2016 they have housed the Macanese Living Museum, an exhibitions gallery, the Creative Casa (a bookshop and gallery space), the Nostalgic House with changing exhibitions on the Macanese and the Cotai area, and a fifth house leased as a restaurant."},{"id":"macau-taipa-municipal-garden","name":"Taipa Municipal Garden","name_zh":"氹仔市政花园","pinyin":"Dàngzǎi Shìzhèng Huāyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1542,"lon":113.5594,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-taipa-municipal-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A formal garden in European style on the hillside between Our Lady of Carmel Church and the Taipa Houses–Museum (Jardim Municipal da Taipa), completed in 1924. It has a vine-covered gazebo with fountains and stone benches, well-kept flower beds and paths winding up to a small belvedere. A zigzag walkway with low scalloped walls leads down to the old seafront."},{"id":"macau-tak-sang-pawnshop","name":"Tak Sang Pawnshop","name_zh":"德生大按","pinyin":"Déshēng Dà'àn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1984,"lon":113.5375,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-tak-sang-pawnshop","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A 19th-century pawnshop on Rua de Cinco de Outubro, typical of its time, with a fortified tower behind the shop in which valuables were stored. The business has since closed. It is classified as a building of architectural interest."},{"id":"macau-coloane-tam-kong-temple","name":"Tam Kong Temple, Coloane Village","name_zh":"谭公庙（路环）","pinyin":"Tángōng Miào (Lùhuán)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1143,"lon":113.5501,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-coloane-tam-kong-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Tam Kong, a sea god who protects fishermen (Templo de Tam Kong), built in 1862 beside a square at the southern end of Coloane Village. It has three halls with a pavilion at either side, stone lions at the door and a wall painting of the tiger that follows the god in the legend, and it houses a model dragon boat made of whalebone, a gift from fishermen. Worshippers from Hong Kong and Macau come for the Tam Kong Festival on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, when Cantonese opera is staged."},{"id":"macau-tap-seac-square","name":"Tap Seac Square","name_zh":"塔石广场","pinyin":"Tǎshí Guǎngchǎng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1981,"lon":113.5472,"category":"city","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-tap-seac-square/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Tap Seac Square is a large public square on the site of the former Coronel Mesquita sports ground, which was opened early in the 20th century as a recreation ground outside the walls of the old Christian city and became known as the hockey pitch. The square was completed in 2007 and is surrounded by public buildings, including the Macau Central Library and the Archives of Macau. Tap Seac Gallery stands nearby."},{"id":"macau-taipa-kuan-tai-and-tin-hau-temple","name":"Temple of Kuan Tai and Tin Hau, Taipa","name_zh":"关帝殿及天后宫","pinyin":"Guāndì Diàn Jí Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.162,"lon":113.5585,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-kuan-tai-and-tin-hau-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A small temple built between 1662 and 1723, also called Mou Tai Temple, with three chambers: the central hall to Kuan Tai, god of loyalty and bravery, a temple to Tin Hau on its right and a keeper's room on its left. The two shrines have separate entrances but are joined by a corridor, and couplets dated 1837 record the temple's history."},{"id":"macau-mgm-cotai-spectacle-and-art","name":"The Spectacle and Art Collection, MGM Cotai","name_zh":"美狮美高梅视博广场及艺术收藏","pinyin":"Měishī Měigāoméi Shìbó Guǎngchǎng jí Yìshù Shōucáng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.146,"lon":113.5683,"category":"city","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-mgm-cotai-spectacle-and-art","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The Spectacle is a glass-roofed atrium at the centre of the MGM Cotai resort, more than four storeys high and about as long as a football pitch, under a gridshell roof with no supporting columns, with 25 LED screens showing digital artworks and an indoor garden of more than 100,000 plants. Around it, more than 300 works from the resort's art collection are on show in the public areas, from Qing-dynasty carpets to contemporary Asian paintings, sculptures and large digital installations."},{"id":"macau-tin-hau-temple-areia-preta","name":"Tin Hau Temple, Areia Preta","name_zh":"天后古庙（黑沙环）","pinyin":"Tiānhòu Gǔmiào (Hēishāhuán)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2044,"lon":113.5583,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-tin-hau-temple-areia-preta","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Tin Hau, worshipped as a protector of seafarers, that began in a natural cave on what was once an eastern bay of the peninsula; an inscription records its conversion into a temple in 1865. Stone pagodas and pavilions step up the hillside, with separate shrines to Tin Hau, Tei Mou, Kun Iam, Tai Soi and Mou Hau. It is the only surviving temple on the north-eastern side of the peninsula, and was restored in 1987."},{"id":"macau-coloane-tin-hau-temple","name":"Tin Hau Temple, Coloane Village","name_zh":"路环天后古庙","pinyin":"Lùhuán Tiānhòu Gǔmiào","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1153,"lon":113.5519,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15–30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-coloane-tin-hau-temple/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A temple to Tin Hau (Templo de Tin Hau), goddess of seafarers, dated by an iron bell to at least 1763 and one of the four temples of Coloane village. It has an entrance hall and a main hall joined by a pavilion that once served as a public meeting place, and Kuan Tai, Lu Ban, Choi Bak and Hua Tuo are worshipped here as well as Tin Hau. A pair of stone lions stands outside, and an old hand-pulled fire engine is kept at the entrance."},{"id":"macau-taipa-tin-hau-temple","name":"Tin Hau Temple, Taipa","name_zh":"氹仔天后宫","pinyin":"Dàngzǎi Tiānhòu Gōng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1522,"lon":113.5557,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-taipa-tin-hau-temple","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"Taipa's Tin Hau temple (Templo de Tin Hau, also called Tin Hau Kong), built before 1785, the date on its bell, and reconstructed in 1848. It once had three chambers, but only the central hall to Tin Hau remains. The goddess is venerated by Taipa's fishing and trading families."},{"id":"macau-tou-tei-temple-patane","name":"Tou Tei Temple, Patane","name_zh":"土地古庙（沙梨头）","pinyin":"Tǔdì Gǔmiào (Shālítóu)","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2019,"lon":113.5398,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-tou-tei-temple-patane","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A group of temples set in a line along the foot of a hill in the Patane district, centred on Tou Tei, the Earth God, with shrines to Kun Iam, the Goddess of Mercy, and to the Buddha. The complex includes the Lei San Sheng Mu hall, the Soi Ut Temple (Kun Iam Grotto) and the I Leng Temple. A stone tablet of 1789 points to a foundation in the Qianlong reign, and the government began renovating the buildings in 1996 to recover their original appearance."},{"id":"macau-travessa-da-paixao","name":"Travessa da Paixão","name_zh":"恋爱巷","pinyin":"Liàn'ài Xiàng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1972,"lon":113.5405,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-travessa-da-paixao/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A short pedestrian lane laid out in the 1920s beside the Ruins of St Paul's and named Travessa da Paixão in 1925. The Portuguese name implies passionate feeling and religious devotion, while the Chinese name, Love Lane, gives the lane a romantic reputation that has made it a favourite spot for wedding photographs and a location for films and television series. The matching houses at numbers 5 to 11 are decorated in red and pale yellow, and the neoclassical and modernist house at number 13 holds Cinematheque Passion."},{"id":"macau-travessa-de-s-paulo","name":"Travessa de S. Paulo","name_zh":"大三巴巷","pinyin":"Dàsānbā Xiàng","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1967,"lon":113.5411,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-travessa-de-s-paulo","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A short lane of houses near the Ruins of St Paul's, on land that once belonged to the St Paul's College complex, which included a clinic and a treasury. Most of those ancillary buildings were destroyed in the fire of 1835 that also destroyed the old Church of Mater Dei. The houses standing now are in a style similar to those of St Lazarus' District and are considered to be inspired by the Modern movement of the 1940s and 1950s."},{"id":"macau-tung-sin-tong-archive-exhibition-hall","name":"Tung Sin Tong Historical Archive Exhibition Hall","name_zh":"同善堂历史档案陈列馆","pinyin":"Tóngshàn Táng Lìshǐ Dàng'àn Chénlièguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1951,"lon":113.5384,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"30 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-tung-sin-tong-archive-exhibition-hall","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The hall tells the story of the Tung Sin Tong Charitable Society, founded in 1892 and described by the tourism office as the first Chinese charitable organisation in Macau. The society began by giving food, clothing and medicine to the poor and now also runs nurseries, schools, an adult-education centre and medical clinics. The exhibits introduce the society and the people of Macau it has served."},{"id":"macau-vasco-da-gama-garden","name":"Vasco da Gama Garden","name_zh":"华士古达嘉马花园","pinyin":"Huáshìgǔdájiāmǎ Huāyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1963,"lon":113.5465,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-vasco-da-gama-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The garden was laid out in 1898 to mark 400 years since Vasco da Gama opened the sea route to India (Jardim de Vasco da Gama), and it was part of a long tree-lined avenue of the same name. At its centre a bronze bust of the navigator, set up in 1911, stands on a white marble plinth carrying an excerpt from the epic poem The Lusiads, with old cannons facing front and back. Renovations added a wave-shaped pond and a fountain around the bust."},{"id":"macau-victory-garden","name":"Victory Garden","name_zh":"得胜花园","pinyin":"Déshèng Huāyuán","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1987,"lon":113.5487,"category":"nature","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"15 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/places/macau-victory-garden/","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"The garden (Jardim da Vitória) opened in 1871 to mark the Portuguese victory over a Dutch attempt to take Macau in June 1622. At its centre stands an octagonal stone monument by the sculptor Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, carrying the Portuguese emblem, laurel leaves and a cross, with an excerpt from Camões's Os Lusíadas on the pedestal. Stone terraces lead up from the avenue to this small park, which has flowerbeds, trees and benches."},{"id":"macau-xian-xinghai-memorial-museum","name":"Xian Xinghai Memorial Museum","name_zh":"冼星海纪念馆","pinyin":"Xiǎn Xīnghǎi Jìniànguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.2054,"lon":113.5489,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"45 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-xian-xinghai-memorial-museum","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A museum in a two-storey 1950s villa with a garden, once post-office staff housing, that opened in November 2019 to honour the composer Xian Xinghai (1905–1945). He was born in Macau into a fishing family and wrote the Yellow River Cantata. The museum presents his life, his music and his ties to Macau."},{"id":"macau-youth-art-pavilion","name":"Youth Art Exhibition Pavilion","name_zh":"青少年展艺馆","pinyin":"Qīngshàonián Zhǎnyìguǎn","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1976,"lon":113.5468,"category":"heritage","designations":["mo-classified"],"time_needed":"20 minutes","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-youth-art-pavilion","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A two-storey building of 1925 on the south side of Tap Seac Square, built as the headquarters of the Caixa Escolar, a charity that supported pupils from poor families. Its yellow façade mixes classical and Moorish-style details with a tiled orange roof, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau describes it as the only classical building in Macau with such varied decorative art. It is now used for exhibitions of students' and young people's art and for performances."},{"id":"macau-teamlab-supernature","name":"teamLab SuperNature Macau","name_zh":"澳门teamLab超自然空间","pinyin":"Àomén teamLab Chāozìrán Kōngjiān","region_id":"820000","region":"Macau","city":"Macau","lat":22.1436,"lon":113.5586,"category":"culture","designations":[],"time_needed":"1–2 hours","days":0.5,"url":"https://www.atlasofchina.com/#place=macau-teamlab-supernature","verified":"2026-10-28","summary":"A permanent digital art exhibition by the Tokyo art collective teamLab, in Hall F of the Cotai Expo at The Venetian Macau, open since June 2020. It fills a maze-like space of about 5,000 square metres under eight-metre ceilings with immersive, interactive artworks that visitors walk through."}]}