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Xuancheng 宣城Xuānchéng
Xuan paper, Li Bai's poetry mountain and the Huizhou villages of Jixi
About Xuancheng
Xuancheng gave its name to Xuan paper, the absorbent paper of Chinese painting and calligraphy, which is still made in Jing County. Li Bai climbed Jingting Mountain seven times and wrote his farewell poem to Wang Lun at Taohuatan. In the south, Jixi belongs to old Huizhou: Longchuan Village has a clan hall with more than 600 carved wooden panels, Shangzhuang is the scholar Hu Shi's ancestral village, and the Huizhou–Hangzhou Ancient Trail crosses the hills into Zhejiang.
What to eat in Xuancheng
- Jixi one-pot (绩溪一品锅)
- Shuidong candied jujubes (水东蜜枣)
Listed sites in Xuancheng
32 sites in Xuancheng are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Longchuan Village 龙川 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Longchuan is a Hu-clan village on the Dengyuan River 11 km east of Jixi county town, where the Ming general and official Hu Zongxian was born in 1512. - China Xuan Paper Culture Park 中国宣纸文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
Jing County is the home of Xuan paper, the absorbent paper prized for Chinese calligraphy and painting, whose hand-making craft is on the UNESCO intangible heritage list. - Chinese Alligator Scenic Area 扬子鳄景区 4A scenic area · on the map
The visitor area of the Anhui Chinese Alligator National Nature Reserve's breeding base on the southern edge of Xuancheng, opened to tourists in 1987 as 'China Alligator Lake' and renamed in 2016. - Enlong World Wooden House Village 恩龙世界木屋村 4A scenic area · on the map
A resort and leisure park opened in 2001 on a 150-hectare site in the Qinglongwan forest area, built around clusters of timber holiday villas. - Former New Fourth Army Headquarters, Yunling 新四军军部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
From July 1938 to January 1941 the Communist-led New Fourth Army had its headquarters at Yunling, 25 km west of Jing county town, with its offices spread across 13 hamlets in a valley. - Guantang Lake Eco-Tourism Area 官塘湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately developed eco-tourism and leisure area on the shore of Guantang Lake in the north of Xuancheng's economic development zone, formerly called the Guantang Lake Eco-Sightseeing Garden. - Guantianxia Scenic Area (Shifo Mountain and Tianzi Lake) 观天下 4A scenic area · on the map
This scenic area in Yaocun township, Langxi County, joins Shifo (Stone Buddha) Mountain, a 353 m hill long known as a Buddhist mountain, with Tianzi Lake, a 3.5 km² reservoir on its eastern side. - Huangtian Village 黄田 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Huangtian, in Langqiao town south of Jing county town, is a village of the Zhu clan founded in the Song whose Qing-dynasty houses survive in unusual numbers: 57 sites with 110 buildings. - Huizhou–Hangzhou Ancient Trail 徽杭古道 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The Huizhou–Hangzhou Ancient Trail is a stone-paved mountain path, begun in the Tang, along which Huizhou merchants carried goods towards Hangzhou, and it is now a popular hiking route. - Jiangcun Village 江村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Jiangcun is a village of the Jiang clan in Baidi town, Jingde County, founded in the Sui–Tang period and at its height in the Qing, and listed as a national historic and cultural village in 2005. - Jingting Mountain 敬亭山 4A scenic area · on the map
Jingting Mountain is a range of low wooded hills on Xuancheng's northern edge, rising to 324 m at Cuiyun Peak, and is known as the 'poetry mountain' of the south. - Longquan Cave 龙泉洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone show cave in the Shuidong area, south-east of Xuancheng, more than 2 km long, with halls such as the Milky Way Hall and White Dragon Palace and an underground river. - Qinglongwan Eco-Tourism Resort 青龙湾 4A scenic area · on the map
Qinglongwan is the resort area around Qinglong Lake, the reservoir of the Gangkouwan dam west of Ningguo, where about 34 km² of water and 38 islands lie among forested hills. - Qingqing Farm Estate 箐箐庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm park of about 100 hectares in Xinhang town, run by a local company that grows kiwifruit and raises free-range chickens. - Shuidong Old Town 水东古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Shuidong is a market town 29 km south-east of Xuancheng that grew rich in the Ming and Qing on river trade along the Shuiyang River and on its candied jujubes, and was named a national historic and cultural town in 2008. - Shuimo Tingxi Scenic Area 水墨汀溪 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in Tingxi, south-east Jing County, made up of the Danankeng, Majialing and Taoling sections across a planned 40 km² with about 80 per cent forest cover. - Taiji Cave 太极洞 4A scenic area
Taiji Cave is a limestone cave system in Shilong Mountain, 38 km north-east of Guangde near where Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang meet; it is about 5.4 km long and was opened to visitors in 1986. - Taohuatan (Peach Blossom Pool) 桃花潭 4A scenic area · on the map
Taohuatan is a deep pool on the river 40 km west of Jing county town, famous from Li Bai's poem 'To Wang Lun', written when his friend saw him off here. - Wannan Incident Martyrs' Cemetery 皖南事变烈士陵园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial cemetery opened in 1991 at the southern foot of Shuixi Hill, on the western edge of Jing county town, for the New Fourth Army soldiers killed in the Wannan (South Anhui) Incident of January 1941. - Xialin Jiutian Waterfalls 夏霖九天银瀑 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested valley of about 11 km² at Xialin village in Zhongxi town, where the Huangshan and Tianmu ranges meet, known for its many waterfalls. - Xuanjiu Liquor Culture Park 宣酒文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
The visitor park of the Xuanjiu baijiu distillery in Xuancheng's economic development zone, presenting the local liquor and how it is made. - Zhaji Village 查济 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Zhaji, 60 km west of Jing county town, has been home to the Zha clan since the Sui dynasty and stretches for about 1.5 km along three streams. - Zhangshan Grand Canyon 鄣山大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge scenic area of about 15 km² at the southern entrance to the Qingliangfeng national nature reserve, 22 km south-east of Jixi county town where the Tianmu and Huangshan ranges meet. - Zhuwang Village 朱旺村 4A scenic area · on the map
Zhuwang is a traditional village in Caijiaqiao town, Jingde County, with a history of about 1,300 years and 47 well-preserved Ming and Qing buildings. - Former Residence of Wang Jiaxiang 王稼祥故居 National heritage site · on the map
A late-Qing house in Hou'an village, Taohuatan town, where Wang Jiaxiang, a Communist Party leader and the People's Republic's first ambassador to the Soviet Union, was born in 1906 and lived during his primary-school years. - Guangjiao Temple Twin Pagodas 广教寺双塔 National heritage site
Two seven-storey brick pagodas, about 17 m tall and imitating timber construction, were built in 1096 under the Northern Song and stand 26.9 m apart at the south-eastern foot of Jingting Mountain. - Jingde Confucian Temple 旌德文庙 National heritage site · on the map
Jingde's Confucian temple in the county town was founded under the Northern Song and repaired through the Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republican periods. - Shangzhuang Village 上庄 National heritage site
Shangzhuang, in western Jixi County, is the home village of Hu Shi, the scholar and diplomat who was a leading figure of the New Culture Movement. - Shuixi Twin Pagodas 水西双塔 National heritage site · on the map
Two Song-dynasty brick pagodas stand on the south-eastern slope of Baiyun Hill at Shuixi, 2 km west of Jing county town on the far side of the Qingyi River. - Tianshou Temple Pagoda 天寿寺塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey hexagonal brick-and-timber pagoda, 42.8 m tall, on Yingchun Street in the centre of Guangde and the only survivor of Tianshou Temple. - Xianren Pagoda 仙人塔 National heritage site · on the map
Xianren (Immortal) Pagoda, also called Dangyang Pagoda, is a seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda built in 1143 under the Southern Song and repaired in the Qing. - Zhang Ancestral Hall, Jingxian 张氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
A clan hall of the Zhang family in Houshan village, Dingjiaqiao town, first built in the Hongzhi era of the Ming and rebuilt in 1880.
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