Nanchang 南昌Nánchāng

About Nanchang

Nanchang, the provincial capital, stands on the Gan River near Poyang Lake. Its landmark is the Pavilion of Prince Teng, a nine-storey riverside tower made famous by Wang Bo's preface of 675 and last rebuilt in 1989; the Nanchang Uprising of 1 August 1927 began in the city. Haihun Marquisate Archaeological Park protects the tomb of Liu He, a Han emperor deposed after 27 days in 74 BC, and Qingyunpu was the retreat of the painter Bada Shanren, a Ming royal descendant.

What to eat in Nanchang

• Nanchang rice noodles (南昌米粉)
• Clay-jar simmered soup (瓦罐汤)

Listed sites in Nanchang

26 sites in Nanchang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Pavilion of Prince Teng 滕王阁 5A scenic area
  The Pavilion of Prince Teng is a nine-storey, 57.5 m tower on the east bank of the Gan River, counted with Yueyang Tower and the Yellow Crane Tower as one of the three great towers of south China.
• Anyi Ancient Villages 安义古村群 4A scenic area · on the map
  Anyi Ancient Villages is a group of three villages, Luotian, Shuinan and Jingtai, arranged in a triangle in Shibi town, Anyi county, at the foot of the Meiling hills.
• August 1st Nanchang Uprising Memorial Hall 南昌八一起义纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  On 1 August 1927 the Chinese Communist Party launched the Nanchang Uprising, with its general headquarters in this building, the former Jiangxi Grand Hotel, a five-storey brick-and-timber block of 1923 with 96 rooms around a courtyard.
• Bamboo Sea Pearl, Meiling 竹海明珠 4A scenic area · on the map
  Bamboo Sea Pearl, once known as the main peak of Meiling, is a bamboo-covered valley in the heart of the Meiling hills whose slopes climb to the Hualaoji peak, more than 800 m high.
• Fangda Special Steel Industrial Tourism Area 方大特钢工业旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
  An operating steel works in Qingshanhu district opened to visitors as an industrial tourism area, rated 4A in June 2022 as the first steelmaker in Jiangxi and the third in China to receive the rating.
• Fenghuanggou Scenic Area 凤凰沟 4A scenic area · on the map
  Fenghuanggou is a tea-growing and leisure estate of about 6 sq km in red-soil hills in Huangma township, Nanchang County, run as a modern agriculture demonstration park.
• Former Headquarters of the New Fourth Army, Nanchang 南昌新四军军部旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A two-storey French-style house built in 1915 for the warlord Zhang Xun served as the headquarters of the New Fourth Army from 6 January to 4 April 1938, and afterwards housed the CPC Southeast Bureau and the army's Jiangxi liaison office until March 1939.
• Greenland Central 303 Observation Hall 绿地中心303观光厅 4A scenic area · on the map
  This is an observation hall high up in one of the twin Greenland Central Plaza towers, supertall skyscrapers of 303 m and 59 floors built between 2011 and 2015.
• Guaishiling Ecological Park 怪石岭 4A scenic area · on the map
  Guaishiling Ecological Park is a hill-and-lake leisure area of about 4,200 mu (some 280 hectares) at Xixia town, north-west of Nanchang.
• Haihun Marquisate Archaeological Park 海昏侯国遗址公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Haihun was a Western Han marquisate whose first marquis, Liu He, had been king of Changyi and briefly emperor in 74 BC; the park protects its capital, Zijincheng, its cemeteries and his tomb garden, which a rescue excavation uncovered in 2011.
• Hongya Danjing 洪崖丹井 4A scenic area
  Hongya Danjing is a wooded gorge at the entrance to the Meiling hills, with a waterfall and cliffs carved with old inscriptions, the clearest dated 1185.
• Lidu Distillery Site 李渡烧酒作坊遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  This is a distillery site of the Yuan to Qing dynasties, found in 2002 when an old workshop of the Lidu liquor works was being rebuilt, and named one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of that year.
• Lion Peak, Meiling 梅岭狮子峰 4A scenic area · on the map
  Lion Peak is a peak on the north-western side of the Meiling hills in Wanli district, named for its resemblance to a crouching lion, with a stream valley, bamboo woods, boulders, a suspension bridge and a summit viewpoint.
• OCT Happy Xianghu 华侨城欢乐象湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  OCT Happy Xianghu is a leisure district developed by the OCT (Overseas Chinese Town) group on the west shore of Xianghu lake, rated 4A in 2022.
• Qingyunpu (Bada Shanren Memorial Hall) 青云谱 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Qingyunpu is a Taoist retreat of long standing on the southern edge of Nanchang where the painter Bada Shanren (Zhu Da, about 1626 to about 1705), a descendant of the Ming imperial house, lived after the fall of the Ming; since 1959 it has been a memorial hall to him.
• Shengjin Pagoda 绳金塔 4A scenic area
  Shengjin Pagoda is a seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda, 50.86 m high, outside the old Jinxian Gate of Nanchang; the first pagoda dates from 904–907 and the present one was rebuilt in 1713–14.
• Sunac Theme Park, Nanchang 南昌融创乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Sunac Theme Park is an amusement park in the Jiulonghu area of Honggutan district, part of the Sunac cultural-tourism complex on the south-western side of Nanchang.
• Tianxiang Garden 天香园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Tianxiang Garden is a 1,150 mu (about 77 hectares) former horticultural farm turned wetland park in Qingshanhu district, on the eastern side of Nanchang, where lakes and marsh draw large flocks of wild birds.
• Tongyuan Gorge 铜源峡 4A scenic area · on the map
  Tongyuan Gorge is a scenic area in the wooded hills of Xinjian district on the Meiling side of Nanchang, rated 4A in 2024.
• Wanshou Palace Historic Quarter 万寿宫历史文化街区 4A scenic area · on the map
  A quarter of lanes and shops rebuilt in old style around the Tiezhu Wanshou Palace, the Taoist temple of the Xu Xun cult, which stood in Nanchang's old city from the fourth century until it was burned down in the Cultural Revolution; the quarter opened in February 2021.
• Xiaoping Path, Nanchang 小平小道 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  Deng Xiaoping and his wife Zhuo Lin were sent to Xinjian county, Jiangxi, in October 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, and stayed until February 1973; he worked at the county tractor repair factory and walked each day between it and his residence, a route later called the Xiaoping Path.
• Yuanchengji Nanchang Urban Culture Quarter 原城纪·南昌城市文化街区 4A scenic area · on the map
  Yuanchengji is a street quarter of about 250 mu (roughly 17 hectares) built in the Yinsanjiao area south-east of central Nanchang and opened in September 2020, designed to recall the city in the Republican era.
• Zuojiazhai Eco-Park 佐家寨生态乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
  Zuojiazhai is a countryside leisure park of about 2,200 mu (150 hectares) on the Maogang farm in Qianfang town, Jinxian county, laid out around orchards, flower fields and the Yanming lake.
• Chen Family Memorial Archways, Luoyuan 陈氏牌坊 National heritage site · on the map
  Two memorial archways of the Ming period stand one behind the other in Luoyuan Chen village, Qili township.
• Former Site of the CPC Southeast Bureau 中共中央东南分局旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  This is a courtyard of six brick-and-timber houses built in 1917 as a salt merchant's home, on Dongshuyuan Street in Nanchang's Xihu district.
• Yuling Shanguan and Yunting Villa 羽琌山馆和云亭别墅 National heritage site
  Yuling Shanguan and Yunting Villa are two walled garden-residences of the Chen family, the west and east estates of a group of Qing-period houses in Aixi Chen village, Jiaqiao town.

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