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Mei Pass and Zhuji Lane 梅关古道·珠玑巷Méiguān Gǔdào · Zhūjī Xiàng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Shaoguan, Guangdong
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shaoguan
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Mei Pass and Zhuji Lane
On the Meiling ridge at the Guangdong–Jiangxi border, Zhang Jiuling, later a Tang chancellor, cut a paved road through the pass in 716, opening the main overland route between the Yangtze valley and Guangzhou; the stone road and a gate tower, first built in the Song and inscribed in the Ming 'Nanyue Xiongguan' and 'First Pass of Lingnan', survive. About 15 km south, the old village street of Zhuji Lane was the staging post where many Cantonese clans of the Pearl River Delta place their ancestors before the migration south, and it is lined with rebuilt clan halls and an old stone pagoda.
How to get to Mei Pass and Zhuji Lane
Mei Pass is about 30 km north of Nanxiong city and Zhuji Lane about 10 km north-east of it, so a car is easiest.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Mei Pass 梅关 (under 10 km), Yashan, Dayu 丫山 (10 km).
On the map
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