Atlas of China
Ezhou 鄂州Èzhōu
A Three Kingdoms capital of lakes, bream and a temple on a river rock
About Ezhou
Ezhou is a small city of lakes on the south bank of the Yangtze, downstream from Wuhan. In the Three Kingdoms era Sun Quan made it the capital of Wu and renamed it Wuchang, a name still carried by Wuchang bream, the fish of Liangzi Lake, where Liangzi Island makes a quiet boat trip. The Guanyin Pavilion stands on a rock reef in the river, and wooded Xishan hill keeps temples and traces of Sun Quan's court.
What to eat in Ezhou
- Steamed Wuchang bream (清蒸武昌鱼)
Listed sites in Ezhou
8 sites in Ezhou are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Fengqi Oasis Ecological Civilisation Expo Park 凤栖绿洲生态文明博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A lakeside expo park in Liangzihu district, close to the Wuhan boundary, whose main building is the Liangzi Lake Ecological Civilisation Exhibition Hall, a two-storey hall of about 18,000 m² on lake protection and water-ecology restoration, described locally as the first of its kind in central China. - Liangzi Island 梁子岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A 2.2 km² island in Liangzi Lake, reached by boat from the mainland, with a settlement of grey-tiled stone houses, farmland, small hills and lake views. - Lianhua Mountain Park, Ezhou 莲花山 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill park on the south side of Ezhou beside Yanglan Lake, built up with more than 30 man-made sights in dragon and lotus motifs. - Xingfuyuan Farm Park 杏福园 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm-tourism estate beside a lake in Duandian town, developed from 2014 by a Taiwanese-owned company on formerly fallow land. - Xishan Scenic Area, Ezhou 西山风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill park in the west of Ezhou, once called Fanshan, that preserves traces of the Wu state of the Three Kingdoms, whose ruler Sun Quan is said to have built a palace here. - Ezhou Guanyin Pavilion 鄂州观音阁 National heritage site
A small Buddhist–Daoist temple built on a rock reef in the Yangtze at Longpanji, first built in its present form in 1345 and rebuilt several times since. - Wuwang City Ruins, Ezhou 吴王城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The site of the city that Sun Quan founded in 221 and named Wuchang, capital of the Wu kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period. - Yiting Inscription Rock Carving 怡亭铭摩崖石刻 National heritage site · on the map
A natural rock on the Yangtze bank outside Ezhou's former north gate, carved in AD 765 with a short text in praise of the Yiting pavilion that once stood here, in seal script by Li Yangbing and clerical script by Li Ju, with the text by Pei Qiu.
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