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Former Residences of Yang Angong and Yang Shangkun 杨闇公故里Yáng Àngōng Gùlǐ
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Chongqing, Chongqing
- Time needed
- 2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chongqing
- Region
- Chongqing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Former Residences of Yang Angong and Yang Shangkun
The family houses in Shuangjiang of Yang Angong (1898–1927), an early Communist Party organiser in Sichuan who was executed in 1927, and of his younger brother Yang Shangkun, President of China from 1988 to 1993. Yang Angong's Qing courtyard house on the main street has exhibitions on his life and on the family, and Yang Shangkun's birthplace, the Changtanzi compound of 1862 at Jinlong village on the edge of town, holds an exhibition of photographs, objects and documents on his career. The scenic area also takes in the Tianba compound, a large Yang family courtyard house of 1878, and the brothers' cemeteries, Yang Angong's being in Tongnan town about 10 km away.
How to get to Former Residences of Yang Angong and Yang Shangkun
In and just outside Shuangjiang town, about 10 km north-west of central Tongnan in Tongnan District, roughly 2 hours by road from central Chongqing.
Nearby
- Anyue Rock Carvings 安岳石刻 40 km
Tang and Song Buddhas carved into quiet hillsides, led by a 23-metre Buddha at rest - Dazu Rock Carvings 大足石刻 50 km
A cliffside storybook of Buddhist hells, mothers and thousand-armed Guanyin
Also within 20 km: Shuangjiang Ancient Town 双江古镇 (under 10 km), Tongnan Great Buddha Temple 潼南大佛寺 (under 10 km), Chen Tuan's Hometown (Chongkan Rapeseed Fields) 陈抟故里 (10 km).
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