Chuzhou 滁州Chúzhōu

About Chuzhou

Chuzhou lies north of the Yangtze about 50 km from central Nanjing, and a cross-border commuter line will link the two cities. Its best-known sight is Mount Langya, where Ouyang Xiu, the Song writer who was prefect here, wrote his essay on the Zuiweng (Old Toper's) Pavilion in 1046. To the north-west, Fengyang was the boyhood home of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming dynasty, who began a capital there, Ming Zhongdu, and built his parents a tomb lined with stone figures.

Listed sites in Chuzhou

12 sites in Chuzhou are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Mount Langya 琅琊山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
  A range of wooded hills on the south-western edge of Chuzhou, rising to 321 m, made famous by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu, who governed Chuzhou in the 1040s and wrote 'The Old Toper's Pavilion' about the Zuiweng Pavilion in its valley (the present pavilion is Qing).
• Chishan Lake National Wetland Park 池杉湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A national wetland park in south-eastern Lai'an County on the border with Nanjing's Luhe District, named for the pond cypresses (Taxodium) that grow in its lake and form a flooded forest.
• Huangfu Mountain 皇甫山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A range of forested hills in Nanqiao District, west of Chuzhou, protected as a national forest park, with a provincial nature reserve named after it in the same hills.
• Jiushan Cave 韭山洞 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large limestone cave in the Jiushan hills of Yinjian town in southern Fengyang County, inside the Jiushan National Forest Park and rated 4A in 2020.
• Langxiang Maze Valley 狼巷迷谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A karst scenic area in Fengyang County where narrow, winding passages cut through limestone form a natural maze, some so tight that visitors have to turn sideways or stoop to get through.
• Longgang Ancient Town 龙岗古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  Longgang, now part of Tongcheng town in northern Tianchang, is an old market town where the Eighth Branch of the Communist-led Anti-Japanese Military and Political University (Kangda) ran its school from the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1944.
• Ming Imperial Mausoleum (Huangling), Fengyang 明皇陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  The tomb that Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming dynasty, built between 1366 and 1379 for his parents, about 7 km south of Fengyang town, in the county where he grew up in a poor family.
• Wu Jingzi Memorial Hall 吴敬梓纪念馆 4A scenic area
  A memorial museum to Wu Jingzi (1701–1754), the Quanjiao-born author of The Scholars, often seen as China's foremost satirical novel, on Zoumagang on the northern edge of Quanjiao town, facing the site of his family home across the Xiang River.
• Xiaogang Village 小岗村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  The village in Xiaoxihe town, Fengyang, where on the night of 24 November 1978 eighteen farmers secretly signed a pledge to divide the collective fields into household plots, a step later held up as the start of China's rural reforms.
• Banta Battle Site and Wandong Revolutionary Memorial Hall 半塔保卫战旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  Banta, a market town in northern Lai'an County, was the centre of the anti-Japanese base area that the Communist-led New Fourth Army set up east of the Tianjin–Pukou railway from August 1939, and gives its name to the Banta Defence, a battle fought over the town during the war.
• Ming Zhongdu Imperial City 明中都 National heritage site
  The remains of the 'Central Capital' that Zhu Yuanzhang began building at his birthplace in Fengyang in 1369 and abandoned in 1375; its planning served as the model for the later palaces of Nanjing and Beijing.
• Taiping Bridge, Chihe 池河太平桥 National heritage site · on the map
  A multi-arched stone bridge across the Chi River at the western end of Chihe town, built in 1375 by the Dingyuan magistrate on the official road linking Nanjing, Fengyang and Beijing, and the only Ming stone arch bridge left in northern Anhui.

On the map

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Learn more

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