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Hongya Danjing 洪崖丹井Hóngyá Dānjǐng
4A scenic area · Nanchang, Jiangxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Nanchang
- Region
- Jiangxi
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Hongya Danjing
Hongya Danjing is a wooded gorge at the entrance to the Meiling hills, with a waterfall and cliffs carved with old inscriptions, the clearest dated 1185. A legend tells of Hongya, a music master of the Yellow Emperor, who dug five wells here to make elixirs and devised the twelve-tone scale, and the place is one of the Ten Views of Yuzhang, the old name for Nanchang. It has been a provincial heritage site since 1985, and Nanchang's old names Hongzhou and Hongdu are traced to it.
How to get to Hongya Danjing
At the foot of the Meiling hills in Wanli district, about 17 km west-north-west of central Nanchang.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Tongyuan Gorge 铜源峡 (under 10 km), Bamboo Sea Pearl, Meiling 竹海明珠 (under 10 km), Xiaoping Path, Nanchang 小平小道 (under 10 km), Lion Peak, Meiling 梅岭狮子峰 (10 km), Anyi Ancient Villages 安义古村群 (10 km), Greenland Central 303 Observation Hall 绿地中心303观光厅 (10 km).
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