Atlas of China
Tianmen 天门Tiānmén
Hometown of Lu Yu, who wrote the first book on tea
- Type
- County-level Cityadministered directly by Hubei
- Region
- Hubei
- Listed sites
- 31 rated 4A · 2 national heritage
About Tianmen
Tianmen, a county-level city on the Jianghan Plain west of Wuhan, takes its name from the Tianmen Mountains to its north-west. It is the hometown of Lu Yu, the Tang-dynasty author of The Classic of Tea, honoured in a memorial garden in the old town. At Shijiahe to the north-west, a site museum opened in 2026 shows jade figures and other finds from the largest prehistoric walled settlement known on the middle Yangtze, which gave its name to a late Neolithic culture.
Listed sites in Tianmen
3 sites in Tianmen are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Tea Sage Hometown Garden 茶圣故里园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial park in the old town of Tianmen, ancient Jingling, honouring Lu Yu, the Tang-dynasty author of the Classic of Tea, who is revered as the Sage of Tea and was born in the town. - Bailong Temple, Tianmen 白龙寺 National heritage site · on the map
A Buddhist temple in Zaoshi town, north-east of Tianmen, said to have been founded in the Southern Dynasties. - Shijiahe Site 石家河遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic walled settlement of about 8 square kilometres, occupied from about 3900 to 1800 BC and described in state media as the largest, best preserved and longest-lived prehistoric walled settlement found in the middle Yangtze; it is the type site of the Shijiahe culture.
On the map
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