Wuzhou 梧州Wúzhōu

About Wuzhou

Wuzhou stands where the Gui River joins the Xun to form the Xi, the waterway into Guangdong, and its people speak Cantonese. Opened to foreign trade in 1897, its old quarter keeps some 560 arcaded qilou shophouses, with upper-floor 'water doors' and iron rings on the pillars for mooring boats when floods filled the streets, and at its north end the Dragon Mother Temple honours a river goddess. In the hills of Cangwu, Liubao town makes a dark tea with a betel-nut aroma.

What to eat in Wuzhou

• Guilinggao turtle jelly (龟苓膏)
• Wuzhou paper-wrapped chicken (纸包鸡)
• Liubao tea (六堡茶)

Listed sites in Wuzhou

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

• Canghai Lake & Wuzhou Garden Expo Park 苍海湖·梧州园博园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large landscaped lake in the new Canghai district on the south bank of the Xi River, built to hold back floodwater and now the centre of Canghai National Wetland Park, with gardens, paths and footbridges around the shore over about 215 ha.
• Changping Yao Village 长坪水韵瑶寨 4A scenic area · on the map
  Changping village in the Changping Yao Ethnic Township, in forested mountains in the north-east of Mengshan County, where a spring-fed stream runs through a Yao village surrounded by woodland.
• Dongshan Culture Park, Cenxi 东山文化公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hillside park on the edge of Cenxi city, laid out over a whole hill for exercise and recreation, with stone stairways, pavilions, a rock garden, a Confucius temple, a tea house and Dongshan Pavilion at the top.
• Former Residence of Li Jishen 李济深故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  The fortified family house in Liaoshen village where Li Jishen (1885–1959) was born: a Kuomintang general who later chaired the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang and was a vice-chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic from 1949.
• Liang Yusheng Park 梁羽生公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A hilltop park in the south-east of Mengshan town, formerly Aoshan Park, turned in 2005 into a park named after Liang Yusheng (Chen Wentong, 1924–2009), born in Mengshan County and, with Jin Yong and Gu Long, one of the best-known wuxia (martial-arts) novelists of the 20th century; Jin Yong wrote the name over the gate.
• Lingnan Culture Park, Wuzhou 岭南文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large complex of new Ming-style buildings beside the Dragon Mother Temple, covering about 6 ha and rated 4A in 2024, themed on the office of the Viceroy of Liangguang, which the Ming court set up in Wuzhou in 1469 to govern Guangdong and Guangxi; the philosopher Wang Yangming later served here as viceroy.
• Liubao Tea Town 六堡镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain town in Cangwu County that gives its name to Liubao tea, a dark (post-fermented) tea known for its betel-nut aroma, ranked among China's famous teas in the Qing dynasty; its making is a national intangible-heritage item.
• Rose Lake Park, Wuzhou 玫瑰湖公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A lakeside park in Longxin village on the western side of Wuzhou, facing Changzhou Island across the river, built around a lake that was created in 1976 when a levee turned low-lying fields into a fish farm.
• Shibiao Mountain 石表山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A red-sandstone (danxia) landscape in Xiangqi town in the south of Teng County, about 16 km² of red cliffs and peaks above a river with sandbanks, bamboo groves and the old village of Daojia.
• Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall & Zhongshan Park, Wuzhou 中山公园·中山纪念堂 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Wuzhou's oldest park, laid out on a hill above the old town in 1924 when the city wall was pulled down, and renamed Zhongshan Park in October 1930 when its memorial hall to Sun Yat-sen was completed.
• Tianlongding Mountain Park 天龙顶山地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A mountain park in Nandu town in the south of Cenxi, around Tianlongding, at 1,211 m the highest peak in Wuzhou prefecture, known for its grassy summit meadows and for seas of cloud that form at a relatively low altitude.
• Tianshu Xiagu (Heavenly Book Gorge) 天书侠谷 4A scenic area · on the map
  A wooded gorge about 5 km east of Mengshan town, also called Yumengchong, winding for more than 10 km past clear pools and oddly shaped rocks.
• White Cloud Mountain (Baiyun Shan), Wuzhou 白云山 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forested hill park on the north-east edge of Wuzhou's old town, opened in 1981, covering about 355 ha over two summits and rising to 367 m, the highest point in urban Wuzhou.
• Wuzhou Arcade Town & Dragon Mother Temple 骑楼城·龙母庙 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  Wuzhou's old riverside trading quarter: 22 streets, about 7 km in all, lined with some 560 arcaded shophouses (qilou), most built after the city wall was demolished in the 1920s, mixing Chinese carved brick and lattice windows with Western balconies, columns and arched windows, with iron rings on the pillars and upper-floor 'water doors' for mooring boats when the rivers flood.
• Yong'an Royal City (Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Sites), Mengshan 永安王城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  Mengshan, then called Yong'an, was captured by the Taiping rebels in the autumn of 1851, and it was here that their leader Hong Xiuquan issued edicts, named his kings and set up the rebel state's first institutions.
• Former Sites of the CPC Wuzhou and Guangxi Committees 中共梧州地委·广西特委旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  Two small brick-and-timber houses in Wuzhou's arcade quarter linked to the Communist Party's early years in Guangxi.

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