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Anqing 安庆Ānqìng
Opera on a river bend, and the granite peak that gave Anhui its short name
About Anqing
Anqing, on the north bank of the Yangtze, was Anhui's provincial capital for most of the years 1760–1938, and Huangmei opera took shape in the countryside around it from tea-picking songs. The Ming Zhenfeng Pagoda, once a beacon for boats, still marks the river bend. Inland rises Mount Tianzhu, whose old name, Wan Shan, gave the province its one-character abbreviation, and Tongcheng, which lent its name to a celebrated Qing school of prose, keeps its Confucian temple and Kongcheng Old Street.
What to eat in Anqing
- Jiangmao dumplings (江毛水饺)
- Danan Gate beef buns (大南门牛肉包)
- Huaining tribute cake (怀宁贡糕)
Listed sites in Anqing
32 sites in Anqing are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Mount Tianzhu 天柱山 5A scenic area
A granite mountain in Qianshan whose main summit, Tianzhu Peak (1,489 m), stands like a pillar above more than 50 lesser peaks; its old name, Wan Shan, gave Anhui its one-character abbreviation. - Baimatan Rafting Area 白马潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside scenic area in Shuihou town below the western side of Mount Tianzhu, run mainly for rafting. - Baiya Fortress 白崖寨 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A mountain-top stronghold on Baiya Shan in Zhifeng township, first built at the end of the Yuan dynasty and enlarged in the late Ming and late Qing. - Dabie Mountains Rainbow Waterfall 大别山彩虹瀑布 4A scenic area · on the map
A waterfall at Monkey Cliff in Huangwei village, northern Yuexi county, where a stream rising on Baima Peak, the highest summit of the Dabie Mountains, drops nearly 100 metres. - Duxiu Mountain 独秀山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill in Huangdun town, Huaining county, from which Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Chinese Communist Party, took his pen name. - Duxiu Park and Tomb of Chen Duxiu 独秀园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A memorial park in the northern outskirts of Anqing built around the tomb of Chen Duxiu, a leader of the New Culture Movement, founder of the magazine New Youth and a founder and early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, who died in 1942. - Feiqi Zhai 飞旗寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area around the peak of Feiqi Zhai in Lianyun township, west of Yuexi county town in the Dabie Mountains. - Five Thousand Years Culture Park 五千年文博园 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern cultural theme park on the hills at Taihu county town, built to showcase Chinese history and folk art rather than an old site. - Huating Lake 花亭湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A large reservoir in the hills north of Taihu county town, formed by the Hualiangting Dam, which was begun in 1958 and largely completed in 1976; it is now a national scenic area. - Kongcheng Old Street 孔城老街 4A scenic area · on the map
An old market street in Kongcheng town that grew in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a river port between the Chaohu Lake region and the Yangtze. - Linghu Park 菱湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Linghu (Water Chestnut Lake) and the gardens around it form a large public park in the centre of Anqing, with pavilions, bridges and lawns along the water. - Miaodao Mountain 妙道山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park high in the Dabie Mountains of western Yuexi county, at the end of the G318 'Cloud Road' drive that also serves Mingtang Mountain and Tianxia Gorge. - Mingtang Mountain 明堂山 4A scenic area · on the map
A three-peaked mountain of the Dabie range in Hetu town, western Yuexi, whose main summit reaches 1,563 m; legend says it is named after the ritual hall (mingtang) set up here when Emperor Wu of Han honoured nearby Mount Tianzhu. - Qingyun Gorge 青云峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A river valley in Huangwei town in the Dabie Mountains of northern Yuexi county, developed as a scenic area whose main attraction is summer rafting. - Shangu Liuquan Cliff Inscriptions 山谷流泉 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A stream gully at the southern foot of Mount Tianzhu, beside Sanzu Temple, whose boulders and rock walls carry several hundred inscriptions from the Tang dynasty to the Republican era, most of them along a stretch of under 300 metres. - Shilian Cave National Forest Park 石莲洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in the hills on the western edge of Susong county town, named after Shilian (Stone Lotus) Cave. - Tianlong Pass 天龙关 4A scenic area · on the map
A narrow, steep-sided gorge in Shuihou village on the western flank of Mount Tianzhu, named for its winding course, likened to a dragon flying up to heaven. - Tianxia Gorge 天峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge in Hetu town, western Yuexi, on the southern slope of the watershed between the Yangtze and Huai rivers, with nine waterfalls of more than 30 metres along its streams. - Tianxian Gorge 天仙峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain gorge in Tianzhu village, Shuihou town, close to the main Mount Tianzhu scenic area, opened in 2018 as a leisure area of streams, pools and highland village scenery. - Tianyuewan Hot Spring Resort 天悦湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring and wellness resort in Yuexi county town, built around a hot-spring park with a cluster of hotels. - Tianzhu Grand Canyon 天柱大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A steep valley on the south-eastern side of Mount Tianzhu, next to the main peak area, where a stream drops more than 200 metres through a chain of waterfalls; the highest, Tongtian Falls, falls about 100 metres. - Wanguang Garden and Taiping Pagoda 皖光苑 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A landscaped museum park in Meicheng, the centre of Qianshan, home to the Qianshan Museum and to memorial exhibitions on the novelist Zhang Henshui and on Cheng Changgeng, one of the founders of Peking opera. - Wulong Creek, Dalong Mountain 大龙山乌龙溪 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded stream valley on the south-eastern side of Dalong Mountain National Forest Park, in the hills just north of Anqing city. - Xizi Lake 嬉子湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A natural lake and wetland scenic area in Xizihu town, south-east Tongcheng, covering about 71 km², more than half of it water. - Fayun Temple Pagoda 法云寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty brick pagoda in Qianfota village, Xiangchang town, the main survivor of the Fayun Temple that once stood here. - Nanguan Mosque, Anqing 安庆南关清真寺 National heritage site · on the map
A mosque in the southern part of Anqing's old city, near the Yangtze riverfront, whose Qing-dynasty buildings were listed as a national heritage site in 2013. - Sacred Heart Cathedral, Anqing 安庆天主堂 National heritage site · on the map
A Catholic church in Anqing's old city, built by French Jesuits between 1866 and 1872, which in 1929 became the cathedral of the new Apostolic Vicariate of Anqing, then run by Spanish Jesuits. - Shitaishi Mansion 世太史第 National heritage site · on the map
A large brick-and-timber courtyard house in Anqing's old city, begun in the Wanli reign of the Ming as an official's home and rebuilt in the Qing dynasty. - Tongcheng Confucian Temple 桐城文庙 National heritage site · on the map
The former county Confucian temple in the centre of Tongcheng, a town famed for the Tongcheng school of Qing-dynasty prose writers. - Xuejiagang Site 薛家岗遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic settlement and cemetery on a narrow mound near where the Qian and Wan rivers meet, south-east of Qianshan city, which gave its name to the Xuejiagang culture of the middle and lower Yangtze. - Yezhai Cemetery of Soldiers Killed in the War of Resistance 野寨抗日阵亡将士公墓 National heritage site · on the map
A cemetery and memorial built in 1942–1943 at Yezhai, at the foot of Mount Tianzhu, for 985 soldiers of the Nationalist army's 176th Division killed fighting Japanese forces, paid for by people of 13 counties in Anhui and Hubei. - Zhenfeng Pagoda 振风塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in the grounds of Yingjiang Temple on the Yangtze riverfront in Anqing, built in the late Ming dynasty around 1570.
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