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Quzi Cultural Park and Qu Yuan Temple 屈子文化园Qūzǐ Wénhuà Yuán
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Yueyang, Hunan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yueyang
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Quzi Cultural Park and Qu Yuan Temple
The memorial temple of Qu Yuan, the Warring States poet whose drowning in the Miluo River is remembered at the Dragon Boat Festival, stands at the foot of Yusi Hill by the river: its brick-and-timber halls around three courtyards were moved here in 1754 after floods, the triple gate carries 13 reliefs of his life, and a stele forest of 356 carved inscriptions was added in 1995. Since 2017 the temple has been the core of the Quzi Cultural Park, some 6 km² with a new Quzi Academy, Dragon Boat Festival folk-culture areas and riverside wetland, which also takes in the eleven grave mounds on Miluo Hill, about 6 km to the south-east, that tradition since the Tang has held to be Qu Yuan's tombs.
How to get to Quzi Cultural Park and Qu Yuan Temple
About 10 km north of Miluo city by road, roughly an hour from Yueyang. The Qu Yuan Memorial Hall, which looks after the temple, is closed on Mondays.
Nearby
- Yueyang Tower 岳阳楼 60 km
A helmet-roofed tower above Dongting Lake, famed for one 11th-century essay
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