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Xiangtan 湘潭Xiāngtán
The Lotus City, Shaoshan and Qi Baishi's farmhouse
About Xiangtan
Xiangtan is called the Lotus City for the lotus seeds grown on its farms, and it was once one of the great inland trading towns on the Xiang River, where the Beiwusheng (Five Northern Provinces) Guild Hall still stands. Most visitors come for Shaoshan, the village where Mao Zedong was born in 1893. Quieter stops are the farmhouse home of the painter Qi Baishi, known for his ink shrimps, and the Dongshan Academy at Xiangxiang.
Listed sites in Xiangtan
11 sites in Xiangtan are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Former Residence of Mao Zedong, Shaoshan 韶山毛泽东同志故居 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The farmhouse at Shaoshanchong where Mao Zedong was born in 1893 and grew up: an earth-walled, U-shaped house of the central Hunan type, shared with a neighbouring family across the central hall, confiscated by the Nationalist government in 1929 and restored to its original form in 1950, with the family's bedrooms, kitchen and farm tools on show. - Dongshan Academy 东山书院 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A late-Qing academy at the foot of Dongtai Hill in Xiangxiang, founded in 1895 and finished in 1900, which in 1905 became a modern-style higher primary school; the young Mao Zedong was admitted in 1909, and the generals Chen Geng and Tan Zheng also studied here. - Former Residence of Peng Dehuai 彭德怀故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The family home of Peng Dehuai (1898–1974), the general who commanded the Chinese People's Volunteers in the Korean War and was defence minister from 1954 until he was purged after clashing with Mao Zedong over the Great Leap Forward at the 1959 Lushan Conference. - Maohu Water Village 茅浒水乡 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure park on Dongshan Island, a sandbar in the Lian River below Dongtai Hill on the eastern edge of Xiangxiang, built around the theme of Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army, whose river navy, by local legend, trained here. - Mount Zhao 昭山 4A scenic area
A 185 m hill on the east bank of the Xiang River at the Xiangtan–Changsha border, whose misty views after rain were painted by Mi Fu as 'Mountain Market in Clearing Mist', one of the classic Eight Views of Xiaoxiang; legend says King Zhao of Zhou drowned in the pool below. - Panlong Grand View Garden 盘龙大观园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large privately developed flower park in Yuetang District, Xiangtan, in the green belt between Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, best known for an azalea garden with about 800 varieties in some 150,000 pots that flowers in March and April. - Shuifumiao Reservoir (Shuifu Scenic Area) 水府庙水库 4A scenic area · on the map
A large irrigation reservoir on the Lian River, built in 1958–63, whose main body lies in western Xiangxiang, with the dam at Xikou in Shuangfeng County; its winding arms and dozens of wooded islands form a national wetland park and the Shuifu scenic area. - Yintian Yinhe Scenic Area 银田银河 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside scenic area along the Shao River at Yintian town in eastern Shaoshan, rated 4A in 2026 after about ten years of water-environment works turned an irrigation channel and the old river into a green corridor. - Zhaoshan City Seaside Water Park 昭山城市海景水上乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A summer water park of about 18 ha in the Zhaoshan area between Changsha, Xiangtan and Zhuzhou, themed as a tropical beach, with an artificial sand beach and wave pool, large slides, children's water-play areas and an indoor sun-sheltered hall. - Beiwusheng Guild Hall 北五省会馆 National heritage site · on the map
A guild hall and temple to Guan Yu built around 1665 by merchants from five northern provinces (Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan and Shandong) at the Eleventh Wharf on the Xiang River, when Xiangtan was one of the great trading towns of central China. - Former Residence of Qi Baishi 齐白石故居 National heritage site · on the map
The birthplace and early home of Qi Baishi (1864–1957), the painter known for his playful shrimps, mice and birds, at Xingdou Pond in Baishi town, Xiangtan County, where he lived for 36 years.
On the map
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