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Ji'an 吉安Jí’ān
Song loyalists and poets, leaf-patterned tea bowls and the Jinggang Mountains
About Ji'an
Ji'an, a Gan River city once called Luling, was the home of the Song statesman Wen Tianxiang, whose tomb is here, and of the poet Yang Wanli. In the south-west, thickly forested Jinggangshan is where Mao Zedong's forces settled in October 1927 to build a rural base. South of the city, the Jizhou Kiln at Yonghe made Song tea bowls with tortoiseshell glazes and leaf patterns.
What to eat in Ji'an
- Anfu ham (安福火腿)
- Taihe black-bone chicken soup with herbs (滋补泰和乌鸡)
- Jinggang glutinous rice cakes (井冈糍粑)
Listed sites in Ji'an
44 listed sites are in Ji'an. These are the 31 rated 5A or 4A; see all 44 in the Jiangxi list.
- Jinggangshan 井冈山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The mountain base where Mao Zedong's forces settled from October 1927 and where Zhu De's troops joined them in April 1928, now a scenic area of eight zones around the town of Ciping, including Huangyangjie, Longtan and the main peak. - Baishuixian, Suichuan 白水仙 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area at Baishui village in Bizhou town, known for waterfalls, bamboo and rocks and listed as a provincial scenic area in 1995. - Baiyun Lake Jiangxin Valley, Qingyuan 白云湖匠心谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A lakeside wellness-resort area on the Baiyunshan Reservoir (Baiyun Lake) in Qingyuan District, under development since 2024 as a forest ecology-tourism and recuperation area. - Bixia Ancient Village 陂下古村 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A village of the Hu clan on the Fushui River in Futian town, founded in the Tang dynasty, with 36 ancestral halls, 18 old wells, three memorial archways, an old academy and polygonal halls rarely seen elsewhere. - Caolin Red Market Town 草林红圩小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A restored market town in the centre of Caolin, built around an old market street, a lower street, a floating bridge and a shopping street, with a red-poetry hall and a former residence of Mao Zedong; the county describes it as combining market culture, revolutionary history, tea and folk customs. - China Jinshi Culture Park, Jishui 中国进士文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A classical-style garden park of about 30 hectares on Nanmen Zhou, a peninsula in the Gan River at the southern edge of Jishui town, built around the China Jinshi Museum on the holders of the highest imperial examination degree. - Dafeng Tianyuan, Ji'an County 大丰田园 4A scenic area · on the map
A countryside leisure park in Dunhou town, listed as a provincial 4A rural tourism point in 2021 and a national 4A scenic area in 2022. - Diaoyuan Ancient Village 钓源古村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village in Xingqiao town founded at the end of the Tang as the home of descendants of the Song writer Ouyang Xiu, with more than 150 ancestral halls, academies and houses in the Gan regional style. - Donggu Revolutionary Base Area, Qingyuan 东固革命根据地 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A She ethnic township in the hills of Qingyuan District that became a Communist-held base area after the Donggu uprising of November 1927 and was a main battleground of the first three Nationalist encirclement campaigns of 1930–31. - Enjiang Old Town, Yongfeng 恩江古城 4A scenic area · on the map
The restored old quarter of Enjiang, Yongfeng's county town on the Enjiang River, which the county says holds the largest and best-preserved Ming county-town site in Jiangxi: stretches of Ming city wall, an east gate facing the river bridge, and the sites of a county assistant's office and a minister's mansion. - Haimuyuan 海木源 4A scenic area · on the map
A valley resort at Muyuan and Haiyuan villages in the hills of Tanqiu township, known for rafting through a bamboo forest in the warmer months. - Jinmeihua Scenic Area, Xiajiang 金梅花 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourism area in Jinping ethnic township, which the county calls the only multi-ethnic township in Jiangxi and where it lists nine groups: Jing, Zhuang, Dai, Yao, Miao, Dong, Yi, She and Han. - Jizhou Kiln 吉州窑 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The site of a pottery town at Yonghe that made wares from the late Tang to the early Ming, best known for black-glazed tea bowls with leaf and paper-cut decoration. - Luling Culture and Ecology Park, Ji'an 庐陵文化生态园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large park on the northern side of Ji'an, laid out in recent years as one of the city's ecological parks and named for Luling, the old name of the Ji'an region. - Luling Renwengu, Ji'an 古后河人文谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A district of shops, restaurants and cultural spaces in Ji'an's Luling New Area, laid out along the revived Gu Houhe river and its green corridor. - Majiazhou Concentration Camp Site, Taihe 马家洲集中营旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A camp run by the Nationalist provincial government in Taihe from 1940 to 1945, officially the Jiangxi Youth Training Institute, where almost 500 prisoners, among them senior Communist Party members, were held before the camp moved away in January 1945. - Meibei Ancient Village 渼陂古村 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A village of more than a thousand years on the Fushui River in Wenpi town, promoted as a water-town "generals' village" and developed for visitors with a visitor centre, a trading street, a Wanshou Palace and water activities. - Motan Peach Blossom Island, Jishui 墨潭桃花岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A flower and orchard island in the middle of the Gan River south of Jishui town, planted with peach and cherry trees, rape fields and mugwort, and forming the core of the Jihu National Wetland Park. - Qingyuan Mountain and Jingju Temple 青原山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill on the south-eastern edge of Ji'an with Jingju Temple, a national key Buddhist temple of the Han areas, founded in the Tang as Anyin Temple and renamed in the Song. - Sanwan Reorganisation Site, Yongxin 三湾改编 4A scenic area · on the map
On 29 September 1927 the remnant of the Autumn Harvest Uprising force, fewer than 1,000 men, reached Sanwan, and its front committee under Mao Zedong decided at a meeting in the village to reorganise the 700 or so who stayed into a single regiment, with Party branches at company level and soldiers' committees. - Shukou Eco-island, Taihe 蜀口生态岛 4A scenic area · on the map
An island village in the Gan River at Mashi town, presented by the county as an ecological island. - Taoyuan Terraces, Suichuan 桃源梯田 4A scenic area · on the map
Rice terraces climbing the mountainsides around Taoyuan village in Zuo'an town, in a scenic area of 10 km² made up of six zones: Jiaozi Ding, Wangtian Qiu, Panlong Hui, Yunding Xingsu, Taoyuan Huajie and Yunxiao Xianju. - Tianbei Farmers' Painting Village, Wan'an 田北农民画村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village near Gaopi town built up as a showcase for Wan'an farmers' painting, the county's folk art, which the county promotes as a cultural-tourism product. - Yanfang Ancient Village 燕坊古村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village in Jintan town with a well-preserved Ming and Qing core of lineage halls, academies, memorial archways, houses, ponds and wells linked by lanes paved in stone, set among old camphor trees. - Yang Wanli's Hometown, Bantang 杨万里故里 4A scenic area · on the map
Bantang village in Huangqiao town was the home of the Southern Song poet Yang Wanli (1127–1206), and the county presents it as the Yang Wanli Poetry and Painting Town. - Yangshimu Scenic Area 羊狮慕 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area of 37.5 km² on the Ji'an side of the Wugong Shan range, next to the Wugong Shan 5A area on the Pingxiang side, centred on a granite peak forest whose highest summit, Shisun Peak, is 1,764 m. - Yeniu Waterfall Canyon 野牛瀑大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge about 13 km long on the Wugong Shan range in Anfu, cut by the Gexian River, with waterfalls, pools, odd rock formations and old pines; it is the walking approach to the Yangshimu peaks. - Yew Wellness Valley, Wan'an 红豆杉养生谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A countryside leisure area near Lutian town, named for its yew trees (more than 300,000, according to a 2023 provincial tourism department article), which the area promotes as a natural oxygen bar. - Yuanxia Village, Qubai 曲白院下 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourist village in Qubai township laid out in Jiangxi-style old-village architecture, with grey brick and tile, horse-head gables and flagstone lanes. - Yuntian Lugu, Ji'an County 云天麓谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural leisure area in Tongping town, north of Ji'an, built around a large fishing centre, landscaped gardens and orchards of Jinggang mandarins and pomelos. - Yuzhi Wellness Valley, Xiajiang 玉笥养生谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A wellness park at the foot of Yuzhi Mountain, built around Xiajiang's traditional Chinese medicine industry and opened to visitors in early 2019.
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