Atlas of China
Tongren 铜仁Tóngrén
A sacred mountain of rock pinnacles, Tujia villages and old mercury mines
About Tongren
Tongren is the gateway to Fanjingshan, the highest peak of the Wuling Mountains and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018, where Buddhist shrines cap rock pinnacles above forests that shelter the Guizhou snub-nosed monkey. Tujia people make up nearly two-fifths of the population, and Yunshe Village at the mountain's foot keeps Tujia stone lanes and timber houses. Wanshan, mined for cinnabar and mercury for over 2,000 years until 2001, has turned its miners' town into Zhusha Ancient Town.
Featured places in Tongren
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Fanjingshan 梵净山
A Buddhist 'pure land' above the clouds, with temples on two rock pinnacles
Listed sites in Tongren
18 sites in Tongren are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Daming Border City 大明边城 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside attraction on the Jinjiang river in Tongren, built in the style of a Ming-dynasty frontier town and themed on the Ming court bringing the local Sizhou and Sinan chiefdoms under its rule. - Jiufeng Agricultural Expo Park 九丰农业博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm-tourism park in Wanshan district that opened in 2015, built around large greenhouses where more than a hundred kinds of unusual fruit and vegetables are grown and visitors can pick seasonal produce. - Lizhi Gorge 黎芝峡 4A scenic area · on the map
Lizhi Gorge is part of the Wujiang Gorge scenic area in Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County, where the Wujiang river runs between steep cliffs. - Miaowangcheng (Miao King's City) 苗王城 4A scenic area · on the map
A Miao fortified village in Songtao Miao Autonomous County, said to date from the early Ming dynasty, when it was the seat of a local Miao chiefdom. - Sinan Stone Forest 思南石林 4A scenic area · on the map
A field of karst limestone pinnacles beside the Silin reservoir on the Wujiang river in Changba town, covering roughly 5 square kilometres. - Wucai Yangshanhe Gorge 五彩洋山河 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst gorge about 2.5 km long and 100–400 m deep in Dejiang county, opened to visitors in 2020, with a sinkhole, natural bridge, caves, stone forest and underground river. - Yamugou Valley 亚木沟 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested stream valley fed from Fanjingshan in Zhaibao village, Taiping town, with small waterfalls and clear rock pools. - Yelang Ancient Spring Hot Springs 夜郎古泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort at the edge of Shiqian county town, in a county known as a hot-spring homeland: about twenty spring sites with 36 outlets have been surveyed there. - Yunshe Village 云舍村 4A scenic area · on the map
A Tujia village at the foot of Fanjingshan on the Taiping River, with stone-paved lanes and old timber houses, most of them dating from the Ming and Qing periods. - Yuping Dong Folk Village Park 玉屏侗乡风情园 4A scenic area · on the map
A purpose-built tourist complex in Tianping town that presents Dong culture in newly built timber architecture, including a drum tower and some thirty Dong-style houses. - Zhongnanmen Old Town, Tongren 中南门古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Tongren's old quarter lies on a peninsula with the Jinjiang river on three sides, and its restored courtyard houses, lanes and wharf from the Ming to Republican periods now host evening events such as street concerts and open-air films. - Zhusha Ancient Town (Wanshan Mercury Mine) 朱砂古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Wanshan was China's largest cinnabar and mercury producer, mined for more than 2,000 years until the mines closed in 2001, and the remains are a national heritage unit and a national mine park. - East Guizhou Special District Revolutionary Committee Site 黔东特区革命委员会旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A brick-and-timber meeting hall of about 400 square metres at Tudiwan in Qiaojia town, Yanhe county, where delegates from Yanhe, Yinjiang and Dejiang counties and Red Army representatives founded the East Guizhou Special District Revolutionary Committee on 21–22 July 1934. - Loushang Village Ancient Buildings 楼上村古建筑群 National heritage site · on the map
A hillside village in Guorong township, beside the Fodingshan nature reserve, whose buildings include the Zitong Palace temple, an opera stage, the Tianfu well and lanes of courtyard houses, most of them late Qing. - Shiqian Prefectural Confucian Temple 石阡府文庙 National heritage site · on the map
Shiqian's prefectural Confucian temple was founded in 1413, the year Guizhou was made a province and Shiqian a prefecture, and was repaired in the 18th and 19th centuries. - Sitang Ancient Buildings, Sinan 思唐古建筑群 National heritage site · on the map
A group of Ming and Qing buildings along Anhua Street in Sinan county town, listed as a national heritage unit in 2006. - Wanshou Palace, Shiqian 石阡万寿宫 National heritage site · on the map
A temple compound in Shiqian old town whose core, Wanshou Palace, was built in 1588 under the Ming and repeatedly repaired in the Qing; four neighbouring temples (Yu the Great, Zhonglie, the Jade Emperor and Heishen) complete the five groups. - Zhaiying Ancient Town, Songtao 寨英古镇 National heritage site · on the map
Zhaiying was a busy river-trading town in the Ming and Qing periods, nicknamed 'Little Nanjing', and its old core survives as a national heritage group of houses, shops, guildhalls, town walls and a wharf.
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