Atlas of China
Xinyu 新余Xīnyú
A steel town with a fairy-tale lake and summer cloth woven by hand from ramie
About Xinyu
Xinyu is an industrial city built around steel, but its draw is gentler. Fairy Lake, a reservoir of about 50 square kilometres with nearly a hundred islands, was renamed in 1994 after the feathered maiden of the Jin-dynasty Soushen ji, and Hongyang Cave lies near Fenyi, long known as the home of xiabu, a summer cloth woven by hand from ramie. The painter Fu Baoshi was born in Xinyu.
What to eat in Xinyu
- Fairy Lake topmouth culter (仙女湖翘嘴鱼)
- Fenyi vinegar chicken (分宜醋鸡)
Listed sites in Xinyu
8 sites in Xinyu are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- China Cave Capital, Dongcun 中国洞都 4A scenic area · on the map
Dongcun township, in the north-east of Fenyi county, promotes itself as China's cave capital, and the 4A scenic area opens some of its karst caves to visitors. - Fairy Lake, Xinyu 仙女湖 4A scenic area
Fairy Lake is the Jiangkou reservoir on the Yuan river, a large artificial lake of about 50 km² south-west of Xinyu, dotted with nearly a hundred wooded islands. - Hongyang Cave 洪阳洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst cave 983 m long with stalactites and stalagmites under coloured lighting, kept at a steady temperature of about 20°C that makes it a summer retreat. - Jieqiao Ancient Village 介桥古村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village just south of Fenyi town with Ming and Qing family halls, promoted as the home village of the Ming grand secretary Yan Song (1480–1567). - Jinshishan Mine Park 金石山 4A scenic area · on the map
Jinshishan is a century-old mine in Ouli town, restored and turned into a leisure park covering about 1,278 mu (some 85 hectares), with more than 200 mu of new woodland and 360 mu of grass over the old workings. - Shuanglin Ramie Cloth Culture Tourism Area 双林夏布 4A scenic area · on the map
A culture-tourism area at Shuanglin town, in the heartland of Fenyi's ramie-cloth industry; Fenyi is known as the home of xiabu, 'summer cloth' woven by hand from ramie fibre. - Luofang Conference and Xingguo Investigation Sites 罗坊会议和兴国调查会旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Four preserved houses around Luofang town record the Red First Front Army's stay in October and early November 1930. - Shuixi Site of the Third Army Corps Command Post 水西红三军团指挥部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A late-Qing ancestral hall of the Liao clan in Shapo village, Shuixi town: a south-facing brick-and-timber building of three halls and two courtyards with 561 m² of floor space.
On the map
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