Luzhou 泸州Lúzhōu

About Luzhou

Luzhou grew up as a port where the Tuo River flows into the Yangtze, and it is known across China as the 'Liquor City': at Luzhou Laojiao Old Cellars, fermentation pits dug in 1573 are still in use, and Gulin County distils Lang baijiu. Beyond the distilleries, Yaoba Ancient Town keeps its Ming and Qing streets, the Qu Family Manor is a fortified Qing estate of 48 courtyards, and Longnao Bridge rests on piers carved as dragons, lions and elephants.

What to eat in Luzhou

• Luzhou Laojiao baijiu (泸州老窖)
• Lang baijiu (郎酒)
• Gulin spicy chicken (古蔺麻辣鸡)

Listed sites in Luzhou

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

• Dongyunba Umbrella Village, Jiangyang 董允坝·伞乡 4A scenic area · on the map
  A rural scenic area at Fenshuiling town, Jiangyang district, combining the Dongyunba national modern-agriculture demonstration park with Sanli ('umbrella village'), a new rural-community street of about 1.1 km built in old-street style and hung with oil-paper umbrellas.
• Fenghuang Lake, Naxi 凤凰湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  A winding reservoir lake with more than ten islands in Naxi district, south-west of Luzhou, set within some 30 km² of forested hills.
• Huangjing Laolin Forest 黄荆老林 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large forested upland in northern Gulin county, protected as a national forest park and a provincial nature reserve, with extensive subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest.
• Longnao Bridge 龙脑桥 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A stone beam bridge built in the late 14th century, early in the Ming dynasty, that crosses the Jiuqu River on 12 piers; the middle eight are carved into large dragons, qilin, lions and elephants, heads facing upstream.
• Luzhou Laojiao Old Cellars 泸州大曲老窖池 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  The historic core of the Luzhou Laojiao distillery, one of the best-known makers of strong-aroma baijiu, where earthen fermentation pits dating from the Ming dynasty are still in use.
• Qu Family Manor 屈氏庄园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A large rural estate built by the Qu family during the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns of the Qing dynasty (roughly 1796–1850) and used into the Republican era.
• Taiping Ancient Town 太平古镇 4A scenic area
  A hillside market town on the Chishui River, on the Guizhou border, where the Red Army crossed during the Long March in 1935: the second and fourth of the 'Four Crossings of the Chishui' were made at Taiping Ferry.
• Tianxiandong Scenic Area 天仙硐 4A scenic area · on the map
  A densely forested danxia landscape of red sandstone cliffs, valleys, streams and stepped waterfalls in Naxi district, south of Luzhou.
• Yaoba Ancient Town 尧坝古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site
  A well-preserved market town on the old road from Luzhou to Chishui in Guizhou, said to have begun as a post station in the Northern Song and to have flourished in the Ming and Qing.
• Zhangba Longan Grove 张坝桂圆林 4A scenic area · on the map
  A large grove of old longan trees in the Qiancao area of Jiangyang district, Luzhou, planted in the Qing dynasty and listed as a Sichuan provincial protected cultural relic in 2007.
• Bao'en Pagoda, Luzhou 泸州报恩塔 National heritage site · on the map
  A seven-storey brick pagoda of the Southern Song dynasty in the old centre of Luzhou, known locally as the White Pagoda.
• Chunqiu Temple, Xuyong 春秋祠 National heritage site · on the map
  A Qing-dynasty temple to Guan Yu on Shaanxi Street in Xuyong county town, enlarged around 1900.
• Dongwo Hydropower Station 洞窝水电站 National heritage site
  A small hydropower station on the Longxi River that Shui Xiheng, a Luzhou engineer who had studied in Germany, began building in 1921 to use a 44-metre natural drop in the Dongwo gorge; it was completed in 1925 as the Jihe power plant with a 140-kilowatt Siemens generator and is still generating today.
• Fubao Ancient Town 福宝古镇 National heritage site · on the map
  An old market town in south-eastern Hejiang County, built on a ridge where streams meet, whose Ming and Qing buildings make up a nationally protected group and one of China's listed historic towns.
• Hejiang Han Stone Coffin Museum 合江汉代画像石棺博物馆 National heritage site
  A county museum devoted to the relief-carved stone coffins of the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE) found in cliff tombs around Hejiang, where the Chishui River joins the Yangtze.
• Luxian Song Stone Carving Museum 泸县宋代石刻博物馆 National heritage site · on the map
  A museum in Luxian county town that displays carved stone panels from the Song-dynasty tombs found across the county, of which more than a hundred are known.
• Qifeng Aqueduct 奇峰渡槽 National heritage site
  Two stone arched aqueducts built between 1973 and 1978 to carry irrigation water across the valleys around Qifeng town as part of the Sanxikou reservoir scheme.
• Qingliang Cave Cliff Carvings 清凉洞摩崖造像 National heritage site · on the map
  Ming-dynasty Buddhist cliff carvings at Qingliang Cave in Maling town, in the hills of Xuyong County.
• Red Army Long March Site, Shixiangzi 红军长征过石厢子旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  Shixiangzi, a small Yi township in the hills where Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou meet, is where the Central Red Army camped in early February 1935 after its first crossing of the Chishui River, spending the Spring Festival there during the Long March.
• Shenbicheng Fortress 神臂城 National heritage site
  The ruins of a Southern Song mountain fortress on a cliff-bound promontory above the Yangtze, built in 1243 when Luzhou's government moved here to resist the Mongols.
• Xianshi Soy Sauce Workshops 先市酱油酿造作坊群 National heritage site · on the map
  A working soy-sauce brewery beside the Chishui river whose old timber workshop courtyard, sloping drying ground and small Sanguan temple go back to a sauce house of the late Qing.
• Yuantong Temple, Luxian 圆通寺 National heritage site · on the map
  A Buddhist temple at Leiba village in Yusi town, in the countryside of northern Luxian, also known as Yuantong Chanlin; it was founded in 1506 and rebuilt in 1608 under the Ming dynasty.
• Yuchan Mountain Cliff Carvings 玉蟾山摩崖造像 National heritage site · on the map
  A wooded hill beside Luxian county town holding more than 400 Ming-dynasty cliff carvings, begun in the Yongle reign.

On the map

Open Luzhou on the illustrated map to see its outline, its places and listed sites together, and to add them to a trip.

Learn more

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