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Wang Renqiu Stele 王仁求碑Wáng Rénqiú Bēi
National heritage site · Kunming, Yunnan
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Kunming
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Wang Renqiu Stele
A red-sandstone memorial stele raised in 698, under Empress Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, by the son of Wang Renqiu, a local official who helped the Tang put down a revolt; it is the only Tang stele surviving in the Kunming area. About 4 metres high on a tortoise base, it is topped with two dragons and a Buddhist niche, and its inscription of more than 1,600 characters includes over 150 of the new characters introduced under Empress Wu. Since 1991 it has stood in a pavilion within a small stele garden in the hills south-west of Anning.
How to get to Wang Renqiu Stele
Near Xiaoshizhuang village in Xianjie subdistrict, roughly 45 minutes by road south-west of central Anning.
Nearby
- Western Hills & Dragon Gate 西山龙门 30 km
Taoist grottoes and a single-file ledge path cut into a cliff high above Dianchi Lake - Green Lake Park 翠湖公园 40 km
Kunming's favourite park, where wintering gulls wheel over willow-lined causeways - Chengjiang Fossil Site & Fuxian Lake 澄江化石地与抚仙湖 60 km
Half-billion-year-old fossils of early animals beside one of China's deepest lakes
Also within 20 km: Shilongba Hydropower Station 石龙坝水电站 (20 km), Haikou Chuanzi Sluice 海口川字闸 (20 km).
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