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Listed sites in Zhejiang 浙江
421 scenic areas and heritage sites from the official lists, by city. 169 have a page of their own; the rest open as cards on the map.
The A-level rating is the national grading of scenic areas, 5A being the top tier; national heritage sites are the buildings, ruins, tombs and carvings protected by the State Council. Both lists are on the lists page.
5A scenic areas in Zhejiang
- Liu Bowen's Hometown (Baizhangji Falls and Liu Ji Temple) 刘伯温故里 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Wencheng County's 5A scenic area, named for the home region of Liu Ji (Liu Bowen), the strategist who helped found the Ming dynasty, combines two sites about 10 km apart. - Lu Xun Native Place & Shen Garden 鲁迅故里·沈园 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The block on Lu Xun Middle Road where the writer Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren) was born in 1881 and grew up until 1898, now a historic quarter taking in his ancestral home, the family's New Taimen house with the Baicao Garden behind it, the Sanwei Study across the canal where he went to school, and the Shaoxing Lu Xun Memorial Hall, first opened in 1953. - Mount Jianglang & Nianbadu 江郎山·廿八都 5A scenic area
Mount Jianglang is a row of three sheer red-rock pillars, Langfeng, Yafeng and Lingfeng, each more than 300 m tall, with the summit of Langfeng at 816.8 m; it is part of the China Danxia World Heritage Site, and paths climb between the peaks, including the narrow 'strip of sky' passage between Yafeng and Lingfeng, only 3.5 m wide at its narrowest. - Nanxun Ancient Town 南浔古镇 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A canal town that grew rich on the raw-silk trade from the Ming dynasty onward, where late-Qing silk magnates built houses and gardens mixing Chinese and Western styles. - Root Palace Buddhist Cultural Tourism Zone 根宫佛国 5A scenic area · on the map
A cultural park on the edge of Kaihua county town created by the root-carving artist Xu Guqing, where garden courtyards and buildings display thousands of root carvings and bonsai made from tree roots, a craft practised in Kaihua since the Tang dynasty. - Shenxianju 神仙居 5A scenic area
A 5A mountain scenic area in western Xianju county and the core of Xianju National Park, known for sheer cliffs, rock pillars and peaks of volcanic rhyolite that are often wrapped in cloud. - Shuanglong Scenic Area (Double Dragon Cave) 双龙风景区 5A scenic area
A national scenic area on the southern slopes of Mount Jinhua, about 8 km north of the city, rated 5A in 2024. - South Lake (Nanhu), Jiaxing 南湖 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Jiaxing's best-known lake, about half a square kilometre on the south side of the old city, has a garden island reached by boat whose Yanyu (Misty Rain) Tower, last rebuilt in 1918, so pleased the Qianlong Emperor that he had a copy built at his summer resort in Chengde. - Tiantai Mountain 天台山 5A scenic area
The forested granite range north of Tiantai town that gave its name to the Tiantai school of Buddhism, a 5A scenic area whose two main parts are Guoqing Temple at its foot (separate card) and the Shiliang area high on the mountain. - Tianyi Ge and Moon Lake 天一阁·月湖 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Tianyi Ge, built in 1561–1566 by the official Fan Qin, is the oldest surviving private library in China, a two-storey book tower with a fire-pond in front and a rockery garden. - Walled City of Taizhou Fu 台州府城 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Linhai's old walled town, seat of Taizhou prefecture from 591 until 1993, is now a 5A scenic area of 3.12 km² taking in the city wall, Ziyang Street, East Lake and Jinshan Hill. - Xiandu Scenic Area 仙都 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A valley of rock peaks along the Lianxi stretch of the Haoxi River north-east of Jinyun town, named "capital of immortals" by the Tang emperor Xuanzong; its emblem is Dinghu Peak, a 170.8 m stone pillar shaped like a bamboo shoot, from which the Yellow Emperor is said to have ascended to heaven. - Xikou–Tengtou Scenic Area 溪口－滕头 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Xikou, a town on the Shan stream below the Siming hills, is the home town of Chiang Kai-shek, and its protected Chiang family buildings include Fenghao House, the family residence he enlarged in the late 1920s, the salt shop where he was born in 1887, the house where his son Chiang Ching-kuo lived from 1937 and his mother's tomb. - Xitang Water Town 西塘 5A scenic area
A canal town about 10 km north of Jiashan, on the old border between the Wu and Yue states, whose preserved centre of Ming and Qing houses is threaded by nine waterways crossed by 27 stone bridges. - Xixi National Wetland Park 西溪湿地 5A scenic area
An urban wetland of about 11.5 km² on the western edge of Hangzhou, a maze of six main watercourses, ponds and fish ponds among thousands of old persimmon trees, long admired by poets and painters. - Yandang Mountains 雁荡山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The main area of the North Yandang range in Yueqing, a 5A scenic area and Global Geopark of about 450 km², formed by volcanic eruptions more than 100 million years ago and eroded into cliffs, pinnacles, caves and waterfalls. - Yunhe Rice Terraces 云和梯田 5A scenic area · on the map
Rice terraces climbing from about 200 m to over 1,400 m above sea level in Chongtou town, begun in the Tang dynasty and greatly extended in the Yuan and Ming when silver mining brought settlers; in 2024 they became China's first terraced-landscape 5A scenic area.
By city
Hangzhou (75) · Huzhou (38) · Jiaxing (23) · Jinhua (47) · Lishui (34) · Ningbo (59) · Quzhou (27) · Shaoxing (33) · Taizhou (31) · Wenzhou (46) · Zhoushan (8)
Hangzhou 75 sites
- Xixi National Wetland Park 西溪湿地 5A scenic area
An urban wetland of about 11.5 km² on the western edge of Hangzhou, a maze of six main watercourses, ponds and fish ponds among thousands of old persimmon trees, long admired by poets and painters. - Chaoshan Scenic Area 超山 4A scenic area
A low hill on the plain north-east of Hangzhou, famous for centuries for its plum trees and made popular by poets and artists in the late Qing and early Republican years. - China National Silk Museum 中国丝绸博物馆 4A scenic area
A national museum of silk and textiles south of West Lake at the foot of Yuhuang Hill, opened in 1992 and rebuilt and enlarged in 2015–16. - Daciyan Scenic Area 大慈岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A rocky mountain in south-west Jiande nicknamed the 'little Jiuhua of western Zhejiang', whose cliffs, caves and trees are read together as the face of a giant natural standing Buddha. - Daming Mountain 大明山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in Qingliangfeng town on the far western edge of Lin'an, on the border with Anhui, whose cliffs and rock pinnacles are often compared to Huangshan. - Dream Town, Cangqian 梦想小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A start-up and internet-business district opened in 2015 in the core of Cangqian, Yuhang, laid out as a scenic area from the start. - Fuchun Taoyuan 富春桃源 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area at Shanglian village in Xukou town, in the hills of south-western Fuyang. - Gaoting Hill 皋亭山 4A scenic area · on the map
A chain of wooded hills about 9 km long on the north-eastern edge of urban Hangzhou, rising to 361 m at Gaoting peak; the western end is Banshan National Forest Park and the eastern end the Gaoting Shan scenic area. - Grand Canal in Hangzhou & Gongchen Bridge 京杭大运河杭州段 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The southern end of the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal, part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site since 2014, runs through northern Hangzhou, and its landmark is Gongchen Bridge, a three-arch stone bridge 92 m long first built in 1631 and rebuilt in 1885. - Hangzhou Orient Culture Park 杭州东方文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large culture park opened in 2000 on the southern slopes of Yangqi Hill in Yiqiao, Xiaoshan, laid out on the eight trigrams and built around the three teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. - Hangzhou Paradise 杭州乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
An amusement park opened in 1999 by the Songcheng group in the Xianghu resort area of Xiaoshan, with a suspended roller coaster, a log flume, a bungee jump and dozens of other rides, plus parades and stage shows. - Hangzhou Polar Ocean Park 杭州长乔极地海洋公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A marine theme park opened in 2008 in the Xianghu area of Xiaoshan, with themed halls of polar and ocean animals including beluga whales, dolphins, penguins, polar bears, Arctic wolves, seals and sea lions. - Hangzhou Safari Park 杭州野生动物世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A large safari park opened in 2002 in Yinhu, Fuyang, with about 200 species, among them giant pandas, crested ibises, white tigers, white rhinos and golden snub-nosed monkeys. - Huang Gongwang's Retreat 黄公望隐居地 4A scenic area · on the map
A bamboo-filled side valley at Miaoshanwu near Fuyang, by local tradition where the Yuan painter Huang Gongwang lived in his last years and painted 'Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains' (around 1350), whose two surviving parts are now in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. - Jiande Aviation Town 建德航空小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A general-aviation town built around Qiandaohu General Airport near Shouchang in south-west Jiande, with a 1,200 m runway, flight schools and aviation companies. - Jiangnan Old Villages (Shen'ao and Dipu) 江南古村落 4A scenic area · on the map
Five neighbouring villages in Jiangnan town, Tonglu (Shen'ao, Huanxi, Dipu, Xufan and Qingyuan), developed together as one rural scenic area of old houses, ancestral halls and farmland. - Jingshan & Jingshan Temple 径山 4A scenic area
Jingshan Temple, on the summit area of Mount Jing in north-western Yuhang, was founded in 745 and in the Southern Song ranked first among the 'Five Mountains', the leading Chan Buddhist monasteries. - Leifeng Pagoda 雷峰塔 4A scenic area
A pagoda on Sunset Hill on the south shore of West Lake, rebuilt in 2002 over the ruins of the brick tower that the Wuyue king Qian Chu completed in the 970s and that collapsed in 1924. - Liangzhu Museum 良渚博物院 4A scenic area
The museum of the Neolithic Liangzhu culture, set in a park at Liangzhu in a building by David Chipperfield of four long stone-clad blocks around courtyards, opened in 2008. - Lingqi Caves 灵栖洞 4A scenic area · on the map
One of the first show caves developed in Zhejiang, in the hills of Hangtou town south-west of Jiande city, made up of three limestone caves and a small stone forest. - Longmen Ancient Town 龙门古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A clan town at the foot of Longmen Mountain on the south side of the Fuchun River, where more than 90 per cent of the 7,000 residents are surnamed Sun and claim descent from Sun Quan, ruler of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu. - Longwu Tea Town 龙坞茶镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea-growing district in the hills of Zhuantang, south-west Hangzhou, where tea gardens cover the slopes around the villages; Hangzhou media describe it as the largest producing area of West Lake Longjing tea. - Mount Tianmu 天目山 4A scenic area
A forested mountain in western Lin'an, about 80 km west of Hangzhou, whose West Tianmu peak (1,506 m) and its slopes have been a national nature reserve since 1986 and a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1996. - Qiandao Lake Stone Forest 千岛湖石林 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst landscape of about 20 km² in Shilin town, south of Qiandao Lake, where limestone pinnacles and ridges stand in maze-like clusters among the hills. - Qinghefang Historic District 清河坊 4A scenic area · on the map
Described as the only fairly intact old street quarter left in Hangzhou, Qinghefang lies at the foot of Wu Hill and is named after the mansion of the Southern Song general Zhang Jun, Prince of Qinghe. - Qingshan Lake 青山湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir lake of about 20 km² on the eastern edge of Lin'an, built in 1964 for flood control on the Nantiaoxi river and now part of a national forest park. - Songcheng Theme Park 宋城 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme park opened in 1996 on the south-western edge of Hangzhou, built as a Song-dynasty town with streets in old style, about 20 small theatres and staged street performances. - Taihu Source 太湖源 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded gorge about 5 km long in Taihuyuan town, northern Lin'an, with cliffs, waterfalls and clear streams, promoted as one of the sources of the Lake Tai river system. - Tangxi Ancient Town 塘栖古镇 4A scenic area
A canal town on the Grand Canal north of Hangzhou, often spelt Tangqi, which grew into one of the richest market towns of the Jiangnan region in the Ming and Qing dynasties. - Tianzidi Scenic Area 天子地 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain scenic area of about 6 km² at Luoshan village in Baijiang town, in the hills of western Tonglu towards Qiandao Lake, now run as the Tianzidi mountain park. - Wenyuan Shicheng, Jiangjia 文渊狮城 4A scenic area · on the map
A new town built in the mid-2010s at Jiangjia on Qiandao Lake as a recreation of Shicheng, the old seat of Sui'an county that was drowned when the Xin'an River reservoir filled in 1959. - Xiajiang Village 下姜村 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain village in Fengshuling town, Chun'an, with white-walled houses along a clear stream, once one of the poorest in the area. - Xianghu Lake and Kuahuqiao Site Museum 湘湖·跨湖桥 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A lake in Xiaoshan south of the Qiantang River, first dammed as an irrigation reservoir in 1112 and later largely filled in by brickworks, which was dredged and landscaped in stages between 2006 and 2016 as a lakeside park and resort area. - Yan Ziling's Fishing Terrace 严子陵钓台 4A scenic area
A riverside hill on the Fuchun River south of Tonglu, honouring Yan Guang (Yan Ziling), a first-century scholar who refused office from his old schoolfellow Emperor Guangwu of Han and retired here to fish. - Yanzhou Ancient City (Meicheng) 严州古城 4A scenic area · on the map
The old prefectural town of Meicheng, where the Xin'an and Lan rivers meet to form the Fuchun, which for about 1,200 years was the seat of Muzhou and later Yanzhou prefecture. - Yaolin Wonderland 瑶琳仙境 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone show cave in Yaolin town, in the hills north-west of Tonglu, whose first hall opened to visitors in 1980; its winding halls are filled with stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone. - Yuhuangshan South Fund Town 玉皇山南基金小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A finance district for private investment funds at the southern foot of Yuhuang Hill, between West Lake and the Qiantang River, which began promoting itself as a tourist area in 2015. - Zhejiang Art Museum 浙江美术馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The provincial art museum, opened in 2009 on Nanshan Road beside West Lake, in a building of 32,000 m² with 14 exhibition halls. - Zhexi Grand Canyon 浙西大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A long valley system in the Qingliangfeng Nature Reserve of western Lin'an, where a headwater of the Qiantang River runs fast through steep-sided gorges in the outlying ranges of the Huangshan mountains. - 1954 Constitution Drafting Site 五四宪法历史资料陈列馆 National heritage site · on the map
A 1930s villa on the southern slope of Geling hill above West Lake's north shore, where Mao Zedong and a drafting group worked from December 1953 to March 1954 on the first draft of the constitution of the People's Republic, adopted in 1954. - Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City 良渚古城遗址 National heritage site
The remains of the walled capital of the Neolithic Liangzhu culture (about 3300–2300 BC), which with its outer dams and the Yaoshan altar was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019. - Baochu Pagoda 保俶塔 National heritage site
A slender seven-storey solid pagoda about 45 m tall on top of Baoshi Hill, the landmark of West Lake's northern skyline. - Cangqian Granary 仓前粮仓 National heritage site
A group of four storehouses beside the Yuhang Tang River at Cangqian, including two old timber granaries with a board dated 1859, where local grain keepers in 1953 created what was promoted as China's first insect-free granary. - Fantian Temple Dharani Pillars 梵天寺经幢 National heritage site · on the map
A pair of octagonal stone dharani pillars, each 15.76 m tall, put up in 965 by the Wuyue king Qian Chu in front of the vanished Fantian Temple at the eastern foot of Phoenix Hill. - Feilai Feng Grottoes 飞来峰造像 National heritage site
Hundreds of Buddhist figures carved between the 10th and 14th centuries into the caves and cliffs of Feilai Feng, a limestone hill across a stream from Lingyin Temple. - Former Hangchow University (Zhijiang Campus) 之江大学旧址 National heritage site
The hillside campus above the Qiantang River of Hangchow University, a Presbyterian missionary college whose roots go back to a boys' school founded in Ningbo in 1845 and which was closed in 1952. - Former Residence of Zhang Taiyan 章太炎故居 National heritage site
The birthplace and family home of Zhang Taiyan (Zhang Binglin, 1869–1936), the philologist and anti-Qing revolutionary, on the north bank of the Yuhang Tang River at Cangqian. - Former Site of Qiushi Academy 求是书院旧址 National heritage site
The two surviving halls of Puci Temple on Daxue Road, where Qiushi Academy, one of China's first colleges on a Western model and the forerunner of Zhejiang University, opened in 1897. - Former Zhejiang Xingye Bank Building 浙江兴业银行旧址 National heritage site
A three-storey neoclassical bank building of 1923 at Yangbatou on Zhongshan Middle Road, put up in its home city by the Zhejiang Xingye Bank (the National Commercial Bank), one of the "Three Southern Banks" of Republican-era finance, to a design by the architect Shen Liyuan. - Gongchen Pagoda 功臣塔 National heritage site
A five-storey square brick pagoda about 25 m tall on Gongchen Hill in the centre of Lin'an, built in 915 by Qian Liu, founder of the Wuyue kingdom, who was born at the foot of the hill. - Hangzhou Confucian Temple & Forest of Steles 杭州孔庙碑林 National heritage site
The former prefectural Confucian temple and school of Hangzhou on Fuxue Lane, of which only the Qing-dynasty Dacheng Hall survives, with a stele museum laid out around a water garden beside it. - Historic Buildings of the Zhejiang Library 浙江图书馆旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The early buildings of the Zhejiang Library, founded in 1900 as one of China's first provincial public libraries. - Hu Qing Yu Tang & Hu Xueyan's Former Residence 胡庆余堂 National heritage site · on the map
A traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy founded in 1874 by the merchant-banker Hu Xueyan, whose Jiangnan-style courtyard building on Dajing Lane still sells medicines and houses a museum of Chinese medicine with demonstrations of traditional preparation. - Laohuling Dam Site Park 老虎岭遗址公园 National heritage site · on the map
A small site park at one of the high dams of the Liangzhu water-control system, built about 5,000 years ago in the hills north-west of the Liangzhu ancient city and part of the same World Heritage Site. - Liuhe Pagoda 六和塔 National heritage site
The Six Harmonies Pagoda on Yuelun Hill above the Qiantang River, first built in 970 by the Wuyue kingdom to calm the river's tidal bore and long used as a beacon for boats. - Mahakala Carving at Baocheng Temple 宝成寺麻曷葛剌造像 National heritage site
A small temple on the south-eastern slope of Wu Hill, founded under the Wuyue kingdom, whose cliff niches hold a carving of Mahakala dated 1322, the only dated Mahakala image in China. - Nanfeng and Beifeng Pagodas, Meicheng 梅城南峰塔和北峰塔 National heritage site · on the map
Two seven-storey brick pagodas on hilltops facing each other across the river at Meicheng, where the Xin'an River meets the Lan. - Nanshan Cliff Carvings, Pingyao 南山造像 National heritage site
A row of Buddhist figures and one Taoist figure cut into an old quarry face on Nanshan hill at Pingyao, most of them seated Amitabha Buddhas from the Yuan dynasty, the largest almost 10 m tall. - Phoenix Mosque 凤凰寺 National heritage site
One of the four great old mosques of China's south-east coast, on Zhongshan Middle Road in central Hangzhou, first built in the Tang or Song and rebuilt in 1281 with funds from Ala al-Din, a Persian Muslim settler. - Qiantang River Bridge 钱塘江大桥 National heritage site
A double-deck road and rail bridge across the Qiantang River, designed by the engineer Mao Yisheng and built between 1934 and 1937 as the first such bridge designed and built in China. - Southern Hills Carvings (Ciyunling, Yanxia Cave, Tianlong Temple) 西湖南山造像 National heritage site · on the map
Three groups of 10th-century Buddhist carvings from the Wuyue kingdom in the hills south of West Lake, listed together with Feilai Feng. - Southern Song Capital Lin'an & Deshou Palace Museum 临安城遗址 National heritage site
Remains of Lin'an, capital of the Southern Song from 1138 to 1276, lie buried beneath central Hangzhou, the palace area on Phoenix Hill more than 3 m down, with an imperial street that ran north through the city. - Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum 南宋官窑博物馆 National heritage site · on the map
A ceramics museum opened in 1992 over the Jiaotanxia kiln site at the southern foot of Yuhuang Hill, where the Southern Song court made its official 'Guan' ware. - Stone Pagoda of Puqing Temple 普庆寺石塔 National heritage site · on the map
A small granite pagoda of six sides and seven storeys, about 7 m tall, carved in the early 1320s under the Yuan dynasty and the only thing left of Puqing Temple. - Sutra Pillar of Longxing Temple 龙兴寺经幢 National heritage site
An octagonal stone sutra pillar about 5 m tall, carved in 837 under the Tang dynasty and the oldest surviving structure in central Hangzhou. - Tomb of Qian Liu (Wuyue Royal Mausoleums) 钱王陵 National heritage site · on the map
The tomb of Qian Liu (852–932), founder of the Wuyue kingdom that ruled Hangzhou and the lower Yangtze in the tenth century, on the southern slope of Taimiao Hill in Lin'an: an earth mound 9 m high and about 50 m square in a memorial park with a spirit way, gate towers, an archway and the Qian Wang Shrine. - Tomb of Yu Qian 于谦墓 National heritage site
The tomb of Yu Qian (1398–1457), the Ming minister of war who led the defence of Beijing after the emperor was captured by the Mongols in the Tumu crisis, and who was executed when that emperor regained the throne. - Wenlan Pavilion 文澜阁 National heritage site
One of the seven imperial libraries built to hold the Qianlong Emperor's great manuscript collection, the Siku Quanshu, completed in 1783 and the only one of the three southern libraries still standing. - West Lake Expo Museum 西湖博览会博物馆 National heritage site · on the map
The industry hall of the first West Lake Exposition, held in 1929, and the only one of the fair's purpose-built halls to survive. - Xiling Seal Engravers' Society 西泠印社 National heritage site
The hillside home on Gushan of a society of seal carvers founded in 1904 by a group of engravers, with the master carver Wu Changshuo as its first president, and nicknamed "the foremost society under heaven". - Xinye Village 新叶村 National heritage site
A clan village of the Ye family in south-west Jiande, founded in the early 13th century at the foot of Yuhua Hill. - Xishan Bridge 西山桥 National heritage site · on the map
A single-span stone bridge in Zizhou village, dated by an inscription to 1265 in the Southern Song dynasty and still used by villagers. - Yue Fei Temple and Tomb 岳王庙 National heritage site
The temple and tomb of Yue Fei, the Song general who fought the Jurchen Jin and was executed in 1142 through court intrigue, first built here in 1221 after his rehabilitation and long a symbol of loyalty to the nation. - Zhakou White Pagoda 闸口白塔 National heritage site
A nine-storey octagonal stone pagoda about 14 m tall, carved to imitate a timber building down to its brackets and window bars, and dated on its style to the Wuyue kingdom or the early Northern Song. - Zhongyi Bridge 忠义桥 National heritage site · on the map
A small single-arch stone bridge over the Xixi River in Liuxia, built in 1218 under the Southern Song and the only original Song bridge left in urban Hangzhou.
Huzhou 38 sites
- Nanxun Ancient Town 南浔古镇 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A canal town that grew rich on the raw-silk trade from the Ming dynasty onward, where late-Qing silk magnates built houses and gardens mixing Chinese and Western styles. - China Alligator Village, Changxing 中国扬子鳄村 4A scenic area · on the map
A breeding and conservation centre for the Chinese alligator, a small endangered crocodilian found only in China, set among ponds, woods and bamboo in the countryside of western Changxing. - China Bamboo Expo Park 中国竹子博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A bamboo garden on the south-western edge of Anji town, in a county known as China's 'home of bamboo', planted with more than 300 kinds of bamboo gathered from across China and abroad. - Digang Village 荻港 4A scenic area · on the map
A water village in Hefu town south-east of Huzhou, set among the fish ponds and mulberry dykes of the Taihu plain, with old houses and family halls along its canals, more than 30 old stone bridges, a temple and covered streets running beside the water. - Feiying Pagoda and the Gucheng Scenic Area 飞英塔 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Huzhou's 'pagoda within a pagoda': a stone relic pagoda of 884–894 enclosed from the Northern Song in an outer brick-and-timber pagoda, rebuilt after a lightning fire in the Southern Song and restored in the 1980s. - Golden Lakeshore, Taihu Lake Resort 黄金湖岸 4A scenic area · on the map
A stretch of the southern shore of Taihu Lake in Huzhou's Taihu tourist resort, running east from Moon Plaza and the ring-shaped 'Moon Hotel' that has become a city landmark. - Golden Spike Ancient World, Meishan 金钉子远古世界 4A scenic area · on the map
At Meishan in north-western Changxing a quarried limestone face, Section D, was chosen in 2001 as the global reference point, the 'golden spike', for the boundary between the Permian and Triassic periods about 250 million years ago, the time of the largest mass extinction in Earth's history; a second golden spike, for the base of the Changhsingian stage, was fixed in the same section in 2005. - Hello Kitty Park, Anji Hello Kitty乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
China's first Hello Kitty theme park, built on the eastern edge of Anji town by a Chinese company under licence from Sanrio and opened in 2015. - Huzhou Silk Town (Xishanyang) 湖州丝绸小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A new silk-industry and leisure district in Huzhou's eastern new town, built around Xishanyang, a lake and wetland park that is the main attraction for visitors. - Jialebi Fantasy Park, Anji 奇幻嘉乐比 4A scenic area · on the map
A family amusement park in the Lingfeng resort area south-west of Anji town, listed as Tianyuan Jialebi and now run as Qihuan ('Fantasy') Jialebi together with a resort hotel, orchards and white-tea gardens. - Jiangnan Tianchi 江南天池 4A scenic area · on the map
The upper reservoir of the Tianhuangping pumped-storage power station, a lake held on a mountain top in southern Anji, with the power plant itself hidden in caverns deep inside the mountain. - Mount Mogan 莫干山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A bamboo-covered hill resort in western Deqing, about 60 km from Hangzhou, where foreign missionaries and merchants built summer villas from the 1890s and Chinese officials, businessmen and cultural figures followed in the 1920s and 1930s. - New Fourth Army Jiangsu–Zhejiang Military Region Sites 新四军苏浙军区旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
In 1944–45 the Communist-led New Fourth Army made the hill villages around Huaikan, in north-western Changxing, the base of its Jiangsu–Zhejiang Military Region, which was formally set up at Wentang village in February 1945 with Su Yu as commander. - Shuikou Tea Culture Area (Guzhu Mountain) 水口茶文化景区 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Guzhu Mountain in Shuikou township grew Zisun ('purple shoot') tea, sent to the Tang court as tribute from 770, when a tribute-tea workshop was set up here, and Lu Yu, author of the Classic of Tea, studied tea on these hills. - Taihu Lougang Waterways (Yigao) 太湖溇港 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The lougang are hundreds of small channels and larger waterways cut from the Spring and Autumn period onward through the southern shore of Taihu Lake, which with cross-dykes and polder fields drained the land and regulated the lake; the network is best preserved in Wuxing and was listed as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure in 2016. - Taihu Tuying Wetland Park 太湖图影湿地文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wetland park on the south-western shore of Taihu Lake in Changxing's Tuying resort area, described as the last natural lakeside wetland on this stretch of shore, with fish ponds, winding channels, reed beds and more than 20 small islands. - Xianshan Lake 仙山湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir lake and national wetland park at the western tip of Changxing county, close to where Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui meet. - Xiazhu Lake Wetland 下渚湖湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
A natural lake-and-marsh landscape of about 10 km² in eastern Deqing, a maze of some 600 low islets, reed beds, bamboo groves and fish ponds threaded by channels. - Yu Village (Yucun), Anji 余村 4A scenic area
A village in the bamboo hills of Tianhuangping town that closed its limestone quarries and cement works in the early 2000s and turned to forestry and rural tourism. - Yuanxiang Town (Butterfly Valley) 原乡小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural leisure park opened in 2018 at Zhao village in the Xisaishan hills west of Huzhou, built around a large indoor butterfly house where visitors watch butterflies breed, emerge and fly. - Yucun, Moganshan 庾村 4A scenic area · on the map
The village at the eastern foot of Mount Mogan where Huang Fu, a Republican-era statesman who retired to the mountain in 1928, founded a library, a school and a silkworm-egg farm in the 1930s; he is buried here. - Zhebei Grand Canyon 浙北大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested river gorge in the hills of south-western Anji, near Baofu, where a walking trail follows a clear mountain stream past boulders, pools and a string of waterfalls. - Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Anji Branch 浙江自然博物院安吉馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The second site of the provincial natural history museum, opened in December 2018 on a hillside north-west of Anji town in a group of eight buildings designed by David Chipperfield Architects. - Zhongnan Baicaoyuan Eco-Park 中南百草原 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside eco-park on the north-western edge of Anji town, laid out as a series of themed gardens (cherry, plum, Japanese maple, purple bamboo, white tea, roses, osmanthus and medicinal herbs) among streams and ponds. - Anji Ancient City Site 安吉古城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The square earthen enclosure of an ancient walled town at Gucheng village, north of Anji, occupied from the Spring and Autumn period to the Southern Dynasties and identified with Guzhang, where the Qin later based its Zhang commandery; its rammed-earth walls still rise above the fields. - Anji Old City Wall (Ancheng) 安城城墙 National heritage site
The stone-faced walls of the former Anji prefectural and county town at Ancheng, north of present-day Anji, described as the most complete prefecture- and county-level city walls left in Zhejiang. - Chaoyin Bridge 潮音桥 National heritage site · on the map
A three-arch stone bridge of 1539, rebuilt in 1605, across the Zha Stream just inside the old south gate of Huzhou, named after the Chaoyin ferry it replaced. - Daochang Hill Prayer Inscription 道场山祈年题记 National heritage site
A Yuan-dynasty rock inscription on Daochang Hill on the southern edge of Huzhou, recording prayers for a good harvest by the darughachi, the Mongol overseer of the prefecture, and one of very few dated Yuan carvings of its kind in Zhejiang. - Deqing Proto-porcelain Kiln Sites 德清原始瓷窑址 National heritage site · on the map
The low hills around Longsheng and Longshan villages, north-east of Deqing's county town, hold kiln sites that fired proto-porcelain from the Shang to the Warring States period, an early centre of Chinese porcelain-making named one of China's six major archaeological discoveries of 2010. - Dusong Pass and the Old Post Road 独松关 National heritage site · on the map
A stone gateway on the Dusong ridge, on the old road between Hangzhou and Xuancheng, built in the Jianyan era (1127–30) to guard the approaches to the Southern Song capital at Lin'an, today's Hangzhou. - Lingzhi Pagoda (Yong'an Temple Pagoda) 灵芝塔 National heritage site
A solid nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda at the foot of Longtou hill on the east bank of the West Tiao stream, facing the old Anji county town across the water; tradition dates it to the Wuyue kingdom, and inscriptions record repairs in 1047 and 1260. - Pangong Bridge 潘公桥 National heritage site · on the map
A three-arch stone bridge over the Fangsheng canal outside Huzhou's old north-eastern gate, named after the Ming hydraulic engineer Pan Jixun, who paid for the first bridge here in 1585–90. - Qianshanyang Site 钱山漾遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A late Neolithic village site on the east bank of the former Qianshanyang lake, south-east of Huzhou, where excavations in the 1950s found fragments of silk fabric, silk thread and ribbon some 4,700 years old, among the oldest silk textiles known; in 2014 its remains were defined as a distinct Qianshanyang culture. - Shouchang Bridge 寿昌桥 National heritage site · on the map
A single-arch stone bridge over the Shangzhu river at Wayao hamlet in Erdu, built in 1265–74 under the Southern Song by a local man, Yao Zhi, and the best-preserved old bridge in Deqing. - Three Bridges of Shuanglin 双林三桥 National heritage site
Three stone arch bridges, Wankui, Huacheng and Wanyuan, span the Shuanglin canal within about 350 m of each other on the north side of Shuanglin, an old silk town in Nanxun district. - Tomb of Chen Qimei (Chen Yingshi) 陈英士墓 National heritage site
The tomb of Chen Qimei (1878–1916), courtesy name Yingshi, a Huzhou-born revolutionary of the Tongmenghui who took Shanghai for the republicans in 1911 and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen, on the eastern slope of Xian Hill on the southern edge of the city. - Tomb of Zhao Mengfu 赵孟頫墓 National heritage site
The joint tomb of Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322), the leading painter and calligrapher of the Yuan dynasty, and his wife Guan Daosheng, herself a noted painter, on a hillside at Dongheng village in Luoshe, northern Deqing. - Xiagucheng Ancient City Site 下菰城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The rammed-earth ramparts of Gucheng, regarded as the forerunner of Huzhou: the Chu lord Chunshen made it the seat of Gucheng county in the late Warring States, and under the Qin it was the seat of Wucheng county until the town moved north to the present city site.
Jiaxing 23 sites
- South Lake (Nanhu), Jiaxing 南湖 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Jiaxing's best-known lake, about half a square kilometre on the south side of the old city, has a garden island reached by boat whose Yanyu (Misty Rain) Tower, last rebuilt in 1918, so pleased the Qianlong Emperor that he had a copy built at his summer resort in Chengde. - Xitang Water Town 西塘 5A scenic area
A canal town about 10 km north of Jiashan, on the old border between the Wu and Yue states, whose preserved centre of Ming and Qing houses is threaded by nine waterways crossed by 27 stone bridges. - East Lake, Pinghu 平湖东湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake on the edge of central Pinghu whose shores and islands form a 4A scenic area. - Gefeisong Chocolate Town 歌斐颂巧克力小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A chocolate factory and themed visitor park in Dayun town, opened in 2014 by the Gefeisong chocolate company. - Jiashan Library and Museum 嘉善图博中心 4A scenic area · on the map
A civic cultural complex in Jiashan town, opened in 2019, that pairs the five-storey county library with the four-storey Jiashan Museum in buildings whose kiln-like form recalls the county's brick and tile making. - Meihuazhou 梅花洲 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural water-village scenic area in Fengqiao town, south-east of Jiaxing, named for the way its streams split the land into five petal-shaped islands like a plum blossom. - Nanbei Lake 南北湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lagoon of about 1.2 km² near Ganpu on the Hangzhou Bay coast, divided into a south and a north lake by an old causeway and enclosed by wooded hills on three sides, with the sea to the south. - Qi Garden 绮园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A private garden in the centre of Haiyan laid out in 1871 by the merchant Feng Zuanzhai, who reused the rocks of two ruined Ming gardens; the garden historian Chen Congzhou ranked it first among the gardens of Zhejiang. - Xiangjiadang Lake 湘家荡 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake of about 2,000 mu (1.3 km²) on the north-eastern edge of Jiaxing, whose shoreline park forms the 4A scenic area. - Yanguan Tide-Watching Area 盐官观潮 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Yanguan, the old county seat of Haining on the north bank of the Qiantang River, is the classic place to watch the river's tidal bore, which arrives here as a single long wave, with the largest tides around the 18th day of the eighth lunar month. - Yunlanwan Hot Spring 云澜湾温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort built in the 2010s in Dayun town, part of the Dayun provincial tourist resort area, using water drawn from more than 2,000 m underground. - Anguo Temple Sutra Pillars 安国寺经幢 National heritage site
Three octagonal stone pillars inscribed with a Buddhist dharani sutra, carved in 842, 844 and 865, are the chief survivors of Anguo Temple, founded in 713, which declined after 1894 and was cleared in 1978. - Chen Gelao Mansion 陈阁老宅 National heritage site
The mansion of the Chen clan of Haining, greatly enlarged by Chen Yuanlong (1652–1736), a minister under the Kangxi Emperor who became a grand secretary under Yongzheng; 'gelao', a name for grand secretaries, gives the house its name. - Former Residence of Shen Junru 沈钧儒故居 National heritage site
The Jiaxing family house of Shen Junru (1875–1963), a lawyer and politician who was one of the 'Seven Gentlemen' arrested in 1936 for campaigning for resistance to Japan, later led the China Democratic League and was the first President of the Supreme People's Court from 1949. - Huili Temple 惠力寺 National heritage site
A Buddhist temple on the southern slope of Xishan (Ziwei Hill) in central Haining, founded in the Eastern Jin period in about 373–375 and given its present name in 1009. - Jiaxing Catholic Church and Vincent Abbey 嘉兴天主堂 National heritage site
A brick church in simplified Gothic style with twin bell towers 37 m high, built in 1917–30 to the design of the Italian Vincentian priest Angelo-Joseph Asinelli and for long the tallest building in Jiaxing. - Luojiajiao Site Park 罗家角遗址 National heritage site · on the map
An early Majiabang-culture settlement of about 12 ha beside the old course of the Grand Canal at Shimen, where excavations in 1979–80 found four Neolithic layers and 794 objects, with charred reeds dated to about 7,000 years ago. - Majiabang Site and Museum 马家浜遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The site, found in 1959 where three streams meet south-west of Jiaxing, gave its name to the Majiabang culture, the Neolithic farming culture of the plain north of Hangzhou Bay; the settlement here dates from about 6000 to 5500 years ago and yielded over thirty burials, a house and pottery, stone, jade and bone objects. - Mo's Manor 莫氏庄园 National heritage site · on the map
A late-Qing merchant family house in the old centre of Pinghu, built in 1897–1900 and home to three generations of the Mo family. - Tomb of Wu Zhen and Plum Blossom Hermitage 吴镇墓 National heritage site · on the map
The tomb of Wu Zhen (1280–1354), one of the Four Masters of Yuan painting, best known for landscapes, bamboo and pictures of fishermen, lies on a spot he chose himself in his home town of Weitang. - Wangdian Soviet-Style Granaries 王店粮仓群 National heritage site
A group of fourteen cylindrical concrete grain silos with six-sided tiled roofs, built in the 1950s with Soviet advice beside the Changshui canal in Wangdian town to store grain for the local rice mill. - Zhapu Forts 乍浦炮台 National heritage site · on the map
Two Qing coastal batteries at Zhapu on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, part of the Qing coastal defences and a reminder of the First Opium War, when British forces captured Zhapu in 1842. - Zicheng Citadel Site Park 嘉兴子城 National heritage site · on the map
The inner citadel of old Jiaxing, founded in 231, held the offices of the county and later the prefecture for centuries and served as the Taiping Prince Ting's headquarters; after 1912 it became barracks and then a hospital.
Jinhua 47 sites
- Shuanglong Scenic Area (Double Dragon Cave) 双龙风景区 5A scenic area
A national scenic area on the southern slopes of Mount Jinhua, about 8 km north of the city, rated 5A in 2024. - China Woodcarving Culture Expo City, Dongyang 中国木雕文化博览城 4A scenic area · on the map
A vast trade complex in Dongyang, a city known for its woodcarving tradition, where some 3,000 manufacturers sell carved woodwork, rosewood (hongmu) furniture and bamboo crafts from about 8,000 shops. - Fangyan Scenic Area 方岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A national scenic area of red Danxia rock east of Yongkang, where flat-topped Fangyan rises sheer from the plain and the classic way up is a steep stepped path of cut stone and timber known as the Flying Bridge. - Huayuan Village, Dongyang 花园村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village about 16 km south of Dongyang city, founded in 1342, that has twice absorbed its neighbours since 2004 and now covers 12 km² with more than 65,000 residents, most of them migrant workers. - Jinlin Fingered Citron Culture Park, Jinhua 锦林佛手文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
A farm park in Chisong town, Jindong district, devoted to the fingered citron or Buddha's hand, a fragrant citrus grown on the southern slopes of Jinhua's northern hills for nearly a thousand years. - Light of Jinhua Cultural Plaza 金华之光 4A scenic area · on the map
A civic culture complex completed in 2019 on Yanweizhou, the point where Jinhua's rivers meet, in the new Duohu business district. - Liudong Mountain Underground River, Lanxi 六洞山 4A scenic area · on the map
A provincial scenic area on a low hill of karst caves between Jinhua and Lanxi, opened to visitors in 1985 and named after its six caves. - Lu Family Residences, Dongyang 卢宅 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A large complex of Ming and Qing mansions and halls on the east side of Dongyang, built by the Lu clan, who settled here in the Southern Song and prospered after a family member passed the highest imperial examination in the early 15th century. - Ming and Qing Residences Expo City, Hengdian 明清民居博览城 4A scenic area · on the map
A park of about 60 hectares run by Hengdian World Studios that combines old buildings with film sets. - Niutou Mountain National Forest Park, Wuyi 牛头山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in the mountains of western Wuyi County around Niutou Mountain, which at about 1,560 m is billed as the highest peak in Jinhua prefecture. - Wulong Gorge, Pan'an 舞龙峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge on the upper Jiaxi stream at Louxiazhai village, Jianshan town, in north-eastern Pan'an, where the stream cuts down through a raised plateau in a series of pools, waterfalls and small lakes. - Wuzhou Ancient City and Shiwang Palace, Jinhua 婺州古城·侍王府 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Jinhua's old inner city, first walled around 903, now a restored historic district of lanes with snack stalls and shops, a stretch of rebuilt red-sandstone city wall and the rebuilt Confucian temple, with the Jinhua Museum on its eastern edge. - Xianhua Mountain, Pujiang 仙华山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national scenic area in the north of Pujiang County whose summit, above 600 m, is a cluster of sheer volcanic rock pinnacles; the highest, Shaonü Peak, reaches 720.8 m. - Yiwu International Trade City 义乌国际商贸城 4A scenic area
Described by the World Bank in 2005 as the world's largest wholesale market for small commodities, it is a chain of huge linked halls with more than 75,000 booths selling toys, jewellery, hardware, kitchenware, stationery, clothing accessories and much more, mainly to traders from around the world. - Zhuge Village 诸葛八卦村 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A village in western Lanxi, founded in the Yuan, whose residents, mostly surnamed Zhuge, claim descent from Zhuge Liang, the third-century chancellor of Shu Han. - Baitan Residences, Dongyang 白坦民宅 National heritage site · on the map
Two large Qing-dynasty family compounds in Baitan village, Weishan town, east of Dongyang. - Bamian Hall, Huangshan Village (Yiwu) 黄山八面厅 National heritage site · on the map
A large mansion built in the Qianlong and Jiaqing eras (late 18th to early 19th century) by the merchant Chen Zicai in Huangshan village, Shangxi town, west of Yiwu, about 70 m long and 40 m wide. - Chen Ancestral Hall, Xiabaishi 陈大宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
A Chen clan hall of 1693 in Xiabaishi village, Zhiying town, Yongkang, which keeps its original structure despite later repairs. - Da'an Temple Pagoda, Yiwu 大安寺塔 National heritage site
A six-sided, five-storey brick pagoda beside Xiuhu Lake in central Yiwu, built in the 12th century for a temple that has since vanished and the oldest brick-and-timber structure in the city. - Falong Temple Dharani Pillar, Jinhua 法隆寺经幢 National heritage site · on the map
An octagonal stone pillar of 857, all that remains of Falong Temple, also called Jinqian Temple, south of the river in Jinhua. - Fang Clan Ancestral Hall, Tangxia 塘下方大宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The main ancestral hall of the Fang clan in Tangxia village, Houzhai subdistrict, north-west of central Yiwu, founded in the Ming Jiajing era and rebuilt in 1898. - Former Residence of Chen Wangdao 陈望道故居 National heritage site · on the map
The birthplace of the scholar Chen Wangdao (1891–1977), later president of Fudan University, in Fenshuitang village north-west of Yiwu. - Guyue Bridge 古月桥 National heritage site
A single-span stone bridge of 1213 at Yazhijie village in Chi'an town, south of Yiwu, dated by an inscription on its beam. - Houwu Village 厚吴村 National heritage site · on the map
An old village in Qiancang town, Yongkang, on the border with Jinyun County, whose history goes back to the early 13th century. - Jiqing Hall, Shefeng 积庆堂 National heritage site
A branch ancestral hall in Shefeng village, Yongchang subdistrict, Lanxi, probably founded in the Southern Song; the present building dates from the late Ming and was repaired in the Kangxi and Qianlong eras. - Kong Family Temple, Juxi 榉溪孔氏家庙 National heritage site · on the map
A family temple of descendants of Confucius in Juxi village, Panfeng township, Pan'an, where Kong Duangong, of the 48th generation, settled after following the Song court south in the late 1120s; Emperor Lizong ordered the temple built in 1254. - Longde Temple Pagoda, Pujiang 龙德寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A seven-storey, six-sided brick pagoda of 1016 on Longfeng Hill in Tashan Park, Pujiang county town; the temple that gave it its name has gone. - Main Hall of Tianning Temple, Jinhua 天宁寺大殿 National heritage site
The only surviving building of Tianning Temple in central Jinhua, founded in the early 11th century: a square, three-bay hall with a hip-and-gable roof, rebuilt in 1318. - Mashangqiao Flower Hall, Dongyang 马上桥花厅 National heritage site · on the map
The house of the local merchant Lü Fujin in Mashangqiao village, Huxi town, south-east of Dongyang near Hengdian, built between 1820 and 1830 and also called Yijing Hall. - Qijia Hall, Yafan 七家厅 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty hall in Yafan Er village, Yafan town, south-east of Jinhua city, square in plan with a screen wall, courtyard, front and rear halls and side wings. - Shangshan Archaeological Site Park 上山遗址 National heritage site
The site in Huangzhai town, Pujiang, that gave its name to the Shangshan culture, a group of early Neolithic settlements in the Jinhua–Quzhou basin about 10,000 years old. - Shangzu Ancestral Hall, Lanxi 上族祠 National heritage site
The main ancestral hall of the Xu clan, also called Xiaolun Hall, in Xiamengtang village, Yongchang subdistrict, Lanxi, probably built in the late Ming or early Qing. - Shide Hall, Sanquan 世德堂 National heritage site · on the map
An ancestral hall, also known as Jiangshi Hall, in Sanquan village, Huangdian town, north-west of Lanxi city, founded in the Southern Song with its three halls rebuilt in the Ming and Qing. - Siping Village 寺平村 National heritage site · on the map
An old village in Tangxi town, in the west of Jinhua's Wucheng district, settled in the late Yuan or early Ming, with an intact village layout and many complete halls and houses in the Huizhou style. - Tongzhou Bridge, Lanxi 通洲桥 National heritage site
An 84 m covered bridge over the Meixi stream at Juren village, Meijiang town, in north-eastern Lanxi, on the old road between Pujiang and the Lan River. - Xijiang Ancestral Hall, Lanxi 西姜祠堂 National heritage site
A Ming-dynasty clan hall in Xijiang village, Shuiting She Ethnic Township, Lanxi, four halls deep with side wings and covering about 2,000 m². - Xu Ancestral Hall, Shinantang 石楠塘徐氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
A Xu clan hall founded in the Ming Wanli era beside the Wuyi River at Shinantang village, Yafan town, south of Jinhua, on the site of the old Yongqing ferry. - Yaduan Village 雅端村 National heritage site · on the map
A Chen-clan village in Chi'an town, south of Yiwu, enclosed by hills on three sides with the Yaxi stream in front. - Yanfu Temple 延福寺 National heritage site
A Buddhist temple in a hill hollow at Taocun village, Taoxi town, in southern Wuyi County, founded in the 10th century. - Ye Family Flower Hall, Shijiazhuang 史家庄花厅 National heritage site · on the map
A two-storey house completed in 1915 by the ham merchant Ye Zhangchao in Shijiazhuang hamlet, Weishan town, north-east of Dongyang. - Yuqing Hall, Dudu 余庆堂 National heritage site · on the map
An early-Ming ancestral hall of the Hongwu era (late 14th century) in Dudu village, Nüfu subdistrict, Lanxi. - Yushan Ancient Tea Market, Pan'an 玉山古茶场 National heritage site · on the map
A tea-trading compound below Chachang Hill at Matang village, Yushan town, Pan'an, founded in the Song and rebuilt in 1781, with a tea-market temple, a local patrol office and the market buildings themselves. - Yuyuan Village 俞源村 National heritage site · on the map
An old village in Yuyuan township, south-west Wuyi County, founded in the Southern Song by the Yu family; tradition says the Ming strategist Liu Bowen laid it out to match the stars, and it is promoted as the 'Taiji star village'. - Zhengyimen (First Family South of the Yangtze) 郑义门 National heritage site
The home of the Zheng clan of Zhengzhai, Pujiang, which lived as one undivided household sharing a single kitchen for fifteen generations, from 1127 until a fire in 1459, and was honoured as a model of family virtue. - Zhiyan Village 芝堰村 National heritage site · on the map
A village in Huangdian town, northern Lanxi, founded in the Southern Song, that keeps 66 Ming and Qing buildings, mostly Ming, over about 2.5 hectares. - Zhu Family Buildings, Chi'an 赤岸朱宅建筑群 National heritage site · on the map
A cluster of Zhu family buildings in Chi'an town, south-west of Yiwu, spanning several centuries: the Ming-dynasty Jianxu Hall, the Qing Liufang Hall, an official's mansion of the Guangxu era and side wings added in the Republican period. - Ziweishan Residences, Dongyang 紫薇山民居 National heritage site · on the map
Late-Ming mansions in Ziweishan village, Huashui town, south-west of Dongyang, built by Xu Honggang, Minister of War at Nanjing, and his two brothers on three parallel axes.
Lishui 34 sites
- Xiandu Scenic Area 仙都 5A scenic area · National heritage site
A valley of rock peaks along the Lianxi stretch of the Haoxi River north-east of Jinyun town, named "capital of immortals" by the Tang emperor Xuanzong; its emblem is Dinghu Peak, a 170.8 m stone pillar shaped like a bamboo shoot, from which the Yellow Emperor is said to have ascended to heaven. - Yunhe Rice Terraces 云和梯田 5A scenic area · on the map
Rice terraces climbing from about 200 m to over 1,400 m above sea level in Chongtou town, begun in the Tang dynasty and greatly extended in the Yuan and Ming when silver mining brought settlers; in 2024 they became China's first terraced-landscape 5A scenic area. - Baishanzu 百山祖 4A scenic area · on the map
At 1,856.7 m, Baishanzu is the second-highest peak in Zhejiang and the core of a nature reserve of about 109 km² in Qingyuan county, within the area proposed for the Qianjiangyuan–Baishanzu National Park. - Baoxi and Xitou Village 宝溪 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain township in western Longquan whose village of Xitou has made celadon for centuries and was named one of UN Tourism's Best Tourism Villages in 2024. - China Celadon Town and Piyun Celadon Culture Park 中国青瓷小镇·披云青瓷文化园 4A scenic area · on the map
Shangyang town is where modern Longquan celadon began: the state-owned Longquan Porcelain Factory was set up here in 1954, gathering leading craftsmen to revive the ware. - Dongxi Rock Scenic Area 东西岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A 2.5 km² area of Danxia-type sedimentary rock in Laozhu She Ethnic Town, named after two great rocks that face each other from east and west. - Guyan Huaxiang (Ancient Weir Painting Village) 古堰画乡 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside scenic area on the Ou River about 25 km south-west of Lishui, taking in the old river port of Dagangtou, Yantou village by the 6th-century Tongji Weir, and the Baoding celadon kiln sites. - Heyang Ancient Village 河阳古民居 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A village of the Zhu clan in Xinjian town, founded in the Five Dynasties period and replanned in the Yuan, whose lanes and water channels still follow that plan. - Jinzi Peak (Qingyuan National Forest Park) 巾子峰 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain area a few kilometres north-west of Qingyuan town, centred on Jinzi Peak and run as a state-owned scenic area. - Longquan Mountain (Fengyang Mountain) 龙泉山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain resort area on Fengyang Mountain inside the Fengyangshan–Baishanzu National Nature Reserve, crowned by Huangmao Peak, at 1,929 m the highest point in Zhejiang. - Nanjian Rock Scenic Area 南尖岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A 6 km² mountain area in south-west Suichang county with craggy peaks, odd-shaped rocks, streams and mountain views. - Qianfo Mountain, Suichang 千佛山 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately run mountain park in Shilian town in western Suichang, named for rock formations said to resemble a thousand Buddhas. - Qingtian Stone Carving Cultural Area 青田中国石雕文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Qingtian's showcase for its soft, many-coloured local stone, carved for at least 1,500 years into seals, figures and landscapes and listed as national intangible heritage in 2006. - Ruoliao Primeval Forest 箬寮原始林 4A scenic area · on the map
A privately developed forest area in Anmin township in south-west Songyang, opened up for visitors from 2000, with forest cover put at about 95 per cent. - Shimen Cave, Qingtian 石门洞 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A scenic area at Gaoshi on the Ou River that Tang-dynasty Taoists counted among the 36 lesser grotto-heavens. - Songyin River 松阴溪 4A scenic area · on the map
The Songyin is a 119 km tributary of the Ou River that rises in the hills of Suichang and flows east across the Songyang basin, past Songyang town, to join the main stream at the Tongji Weir in Liandu. - Suichang Gold Mine National Mine Park 遂昌金矿国家矿山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A former polluted gold-mining district east of Suichang town that was cleaned up and opened to visitors as a national mine park in 2007. - Window of She Culture, Dajun 畲乡之窗 4A scenic area · on the map
A village scenic area at Dajun in Jingning, the only She autonomous county in China, set up to present the culture of the She people. - Yunzhong Daji Scenic Area 云中大漈 4A scenic area · on the map
A high mountain basin in north-west Jingning, more than 1,000 m above sea level, where villages and terraced fields are ringed by steep peaks. - Zhulong Town 住龙 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain town on the upper Wuxi River in north-west Longquan that lay at the heart of the Communist base area in south-west Zhejiang in the 1930s and is promoted as "Zhejiang's little Jinggangshan". - Dayao Longquan Kiln Sites 大窑龙泉窑遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The heartland of Longquan celadon, where 126 kiln sites lie in a 5.2 km² protected area around Dayao village. - Dushan Stone Archway 独山石牌坊 National heritage site · on the map
A granite memorial archway of three bays and five roofs at the south-east edge of Dushan village, built in 1569 by the county magistrate Chi Yude for Ye Yifan, an official of the Ministry of Works born in the village. - Former Site of Zhejiang University Longquan Branch 浙江大学龙泉分校旧址 National heritage site · on the map
When Zhejiang University moved inland during the war with Japan, it opened a branch in 1939 in the Zeng family mansion at Fangye on the edge of Longquan so that students from the south-east could keep studying; it became the Longquan Branch in 1940. - Haochuan Site 好川遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A late Neolithic cemetery of about 4,300 to 3,700 years ago on a low hilltop in Haochuan village, where 80 graves were excavated, the richer burials at the centre and poorer ones on the slopes. - Lingjiu Temple Stone Pagodas 灵鹫寺石塔 National heritage site
Four small stone stupas about 4 m high, carved in 1216 and 1218 under the Southern Song for Lingjiu Temple in Lishui's eastern outskirts, surviving from a set of seven that stood for the Seven Buddhas. - Nanming Mountain Cliff Inscriptions 南明山摩崖题刻 National heritage site
Fifty-eight inscriptions carved on the rocks of Nanming Mountain, now a park on the southern edge of Lishui city, grouped at the Stone Beam, Gaoyang Cave and Yunge Cliff. - Rulong Bridge 如龙桥 National heritage site
A timber-arch covered bridge in Yueshan village, rebuilt in 1625 according to an inscription on its ridge beam, which makes it the oldest known timber-arch covered bridge in China with a precisely dated rebuilding. - Shisi Temple 时思寺 National heritage site
A temple complex in the Daji basin whose oldest buildings date from the Yuan dynasty, with additions of the late Ming and early Qing. - Tongji Weir 通济堰 National heritage site
An irrigation system begun in 505 at Yantou village, where a curved weir diverts the Songyin River onto the Bihu plain; the timber dam was rebuilt in stone in 1205, and the surviving 275 m arch weir is described as the world's earliest arch dam. - Wu Wenjian Ancestral Hall 吴文简祠 National heritage site
A memorial hall in Yueshan village founded in 1522, laid out as gate tower, main hall and rear hall around courtyards; the national listing dates the surviving buildings to the Qing dynasty. - Xiyang Hall (Temple of Wu Sangong) 西洋殿 National heritage site
A temple beside the Songyuan River in Xiyang village dedicated to Wu Sangong, revered locally as the founder of shiitake mushroom growing; it was first built in 1265 and rebuilt in 1875. - Yanqing Temple Pagoda 松阳延庆寺塔 National heritage site
A six-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda with timber eaves, built between 999 and 1002 to hold relics brought back by the monk Xingda, and the only surviving part of Yanqing Temple. - Yunhe Silver Mine Site 云和银矿遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Remains of the Ming-dynasty silver mines whose working helped prompt the founding of Yunhe county in 1452, centred on Huangjiashe, a village at about 980 m reached through the Yunhe terraces. - Zhan Bao Jinshi Archway 詹宝兄弟牌坊 National heritage site
A bluestone memorial archway on Xiama Street in eastern Songyang town, raised for Zhan Bao, who passed the highest imperial examination in 1496, and inscribed "brothers both jinshi" on one face and "father and son both successful" on the other.
Ningbo 59 sites
- Tianyi Ge and Moon Lake 天一阁·月湖 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Tianyi Ge, built in 1561–1566 by the official Fan Qin, is the oldest surviving private library in China, a two-storey book tower with a fire-pond in front and a rockery garden. - Xikou–Tengtou Scenic Area 溪口－滕头 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Xikou, a town on the Shan stream below the Siming hills, is the home town of Chiang Kai-shek, and its protected Chiang family buildings include Fenghao House, the family residence he enlarged in the late 1920s, the salt shop where he was born in 1887, the house where his son Chiang Ching-kuo lived from 1937 and his mother's tomb. - Ala de Hai Water Park, Xiangshan 阿拉的海水上乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large water park in the Damuwan new town on the coast south-east of Xiangshan's county town, with water slides and pools, which also stages summer events. - Baoguo Temple 保国寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A hillside temple north-west of Ningbo whose main hall, built in 1013, is one of the few Northern Song timber buildings surviving south of the Yangtze. - China Fishing Village, Shipu 中国渔村 4A scenic area · on the map
A seaside resort area on Huangcheng beach, a few kilometres north of Shipu town on the southern Xiangshan coast, themed on the fishing-village culture of the area. - China Port Museum 中国港口博物馆 4A scenic area
A large museum of China's ports and maritime trade at Chunxiao on the Beilun coast, opened in 2014 in a building designed by Cheng Taining that is shaped to suggest a conch shell and a sail. - Cicheng Ancient Town 慈城古县城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The walled seat of the old Cixi County until 1954, Cicheng was spared later redevelopment and keeps lanes of Ming and Qing mansions, guildhalls, memorial arches and wells. - Danshan Chishui Scenic Area, Yuyao 丹山赤水 4A scenic area · on the map
A stream-valley scenic area by Shilin village in Dalan town, high in the Siming Mountains of southern Yuyao, where a walking route follows the water past pools, small waterfalls and rock formations. - Dapeng Mountain 达蓬山 4A scenic area · on the map
A 422 m hill near the coast north of Ningbo, renamed after the legend that the Qin-dynasty court sorcerer Xu Fu set sail from here for the islands of the immortals. - Fantawild Oriental Heritage, Ningbo 方特东方神画 4A scenic area · on the map
A large theme park of the Fantawild chain in the Hangzhou Bay new area on the coast north of Cixi, whose rides and shows are themed on Chinese history and legend and make heavy use of screen and special-effects technology. - Fenghua Museum 奉化博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The district museum of Fenghua, opened in 2020 in a converted former power-plant building on Dacheng Road in the town centre. - Former Sites of the Eastern Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Base Area, Liangnong 浙东抗日根据地旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A group of old houses at Hengkantou village near Liangnong, in the northern Siming Mountains, that served in 1942–1945 as the command centre of the Communist-led anti-Japanese base area in eastern Zhejiang. - Haipi Island Water Park, Hangzhou Bay 海皮岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A large water park in the Hangzhou Bay new area on the coast north of Cixi, with slides, pools and a wave pool in indoor and outdoor sections. - Haitian Yizhou Sea Platform 海天一洲 4A scenic area
A service and sightseeing platform built on piers in the sea beside the middle of the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, opened to visitors in 2010. - Huangxian Forest Park, Fenghua 黄贤森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A coastal forest park around Huangxian village in Qiucun, south-eastern Fenghua, covering about 10,000 mu (some 670 hectares) of wooded hills above the shore of Xiangshan Bay, promoted as the 'Huangxian Great Wall on the Sea'. - Jiufeng Mountain, Beilun 九峰山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested range of hills in Daqi, Beilun district, with 26 peaks, two lakes and valleys of streams, pools, rock formations and waterfalls, and walking routes popular with Ningbo hikers; the Ruiyan Temple valley lies on its eastern side. - Jiulong Lake, Zhenhai 九龙湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir lake in the hills of Jiulonghu town, northern Zhenhai, completed in 1988 and later switched from drinking-water supply to landscape and recreation use. - Liangzhu Culture Park 梁祝文化公园 4A scenic area
A park in Gaoqiao, on the western edge of Ningbo, devoted to the legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the 'Butterfly Lovers', and built on the site of a temple and a Jin-dynasty tomb traditionally said to be Liang Shanbo's. - Lvye Villa, Cicheng 绿野山居 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural leisure resort in the hills of Wuxing village on the north-western edge of Cicheng, where visitors try farm work, walk in the countryside and eat farmhouse food, and whose cherry trees draw crowds when they flower in spring. - Mashan Leisure Area, Dongqian Lake 东钱湖马山 4A scenic area · on the map
A lakeside leisure area of about 100 hectares on the south-eastern shore of Dongqian Lake, centred on the Mashan wetland, where boardwalks run through reed beds and waterside trees that draw many birds. - Minghe Ancient Town 鸣鹤古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
An old market town at the foot of Wulei Mountain in Guanhaiwei, south-eastern Cixi, with about 1,200 years of history, whose lanes, waterways and stone bridges are lined with large houses of merchants, many of whom grew rich in the herbal-medicine trade in the Ming and Qing. - Ningbo Museum 宁波博物馆 4A scenic area
The city's history museum, opened in 2008 and designed by Wang Shu, who in 2012 became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize. - Ningbo Ocean World 宁波海洋世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A city aquarium beside Ningbo Children's Park in Yinzhou district, with walk-through viewing tunnels beneath its tanks and galleries and gardens styled on places such as ancient Egypt and Cambodia. - Ningbo Science Exploration Center 宁波科学探索中心 4A scenic area · on the map
A large hands-on science museum in the Ningbo Cultural Plaza of the Eastern New Town, open since 2014. - Ningbo Wildlife Park 宁波野生动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large zoo on hilly ground with lakes at the north-east edge of the Dongqian Lake resort area, opened in 2004 as Youngor Zoo and renamed Ningbo Wildlife Park in 2021. - Ningbobang Museum 宁波帮博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum about the 'Ningbo bang', the network of Ningbo-born merchants prominent in shipping, banking and trade in Shanghai and later overseas, opened in 2009 in a building by the architect He Jingtang laid out along a water street. - Ninghai Forest Hot Spring 宁海森林温泉 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort in the wooded hills of north-western Ninghai County, built around the Nanxi spring, whose water reaches about 49°C and contains more than 20 dissolved minerals. - Old Bund, Ningbo 老外滩 4A scenic area
A riverside quarter on the north bank of the Yong River at Ningbo's Sanjiangkou, where the foreign settlement grew up after Ningbo was opened as a treaty port in 1844, two decades before Shanghai's Bund took shape. - Qiantong Ancient Town 前童古镇 4A scenic area
An old clan town in the hills of south-west Ninghai, founded when the Tong family settled here in 1233; about eight in ten residents still bear the surname. - Shipu Fishing Port Ancient Town 石浦渔港古城 4A scenic area · on the map
The old quarter of Shipu, a fishing port at the southern end of the Xiangshan peninsula, set at the foot of a hill facing the harbour, with stone-paved lanes lined with old shops, houses and a temple; Shipu is a nationally listed historic and cultural town. - Songlanshan Coast 松兰山 4A scenic area · on the map
A stretch of rocky headlands and small sandy bays on the open coast east of Xiangshan town, including East Beach, South Beach and Baisha Bay. - Tiangong Manor, Yinzhou 天宫庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural tourism park of about 1,600 mu (some 107 hectares) run by Wandi village in Xiaying, on the southern edge of Ningbo city, combining farm fields and orchards with hands-on farm activities, children's study programmes, leisure facilities and halls showing local intangible-heritage crafts and the village's development. - Tianxia Yuyuan Jade Park, Yuyao 天下玉苑 4A scenic area · on the map
A jade-themed culture park at the foot of Jiulong Hill in Dayin town, eastern Yuyao, laid out on a hillside around a lake with a Buddhist temple, terraces, gateways and gardens, and centred on a giant stack of jade boulders. - Wulongtan (Five Dragon Pools), Ningbo 五龙潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in Longguan township, in the Siming foothills of south-western Haishu district, developed from 2000 around a stream that drops through a chain of five pools and waterfalls, each named after a dragon. - Wushan Grottoes, Ninghai 伍山石窟 4A scenic area · on the map
An old stone quarry in low coastal hills at Changjie, eastern Ninghai, where stone was cut from the Sui and Tang onward, most intensively under the Song and Yuan, leaving more than 800 man-made caverns in some 30 groups. - Xiangshan Global Studios 象山影视城 4A scenic area
A film and television studio complex in Xinqiao, Xiangshan County, begun in 2003 for the wuxia series The Return of the Condor Heroes and open to visitors since 2005. - Zhaobao Mountain 招宝山 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A hill guarding the mouth of the Yong River, fortified from the Ming to the 1940s against Japanese pirates and British, French and Japanese forces, and the core of the Zhenhaikou coastal defence monuments. - Ancient Opera Stages of Ninghai 宁海古戏台 National heritage site
Ninghai County keeps more than 120 old opera stages in temples and clan halls, and ten of them, mostly from the Qing dynasty and the Republican period, are protected together as one national monument. - Baiyunzhuang (Baiyun Manor), Ningbo 白云庄 National heritage site
A small walled estate in western Ningbo, built from 1611 as the tomb manor of the Wan family, which in the late 1660s and 1670s became the home of the Yongshang Zhengren Academy, where the philosopher Huang Zongxi taught the Wan brothers and other students and the Eastern Zhejiang school of historical scholarship took shape. - Erling Pagoda 二灵塔 National heritage site
A stone pagoda about 10 m tall on the ridge of Erling Hill, a snake-shaped peninsula on the south-east side of Dongqian Lake, built in the Zhenghe era (1111–1118) of the Northern Song. - Guangji Bridge, Nandu 南渡广济桥 National heritage site
A covered bridge over the Xian River at Nandu village, on the old post road from Ningbo to Taizhou, whose stone piers date from a rebuilding of 1286 and carry a timber deck under a long tiled gallery; it is described as the only surviving Yuan-dynasty gallery bridge in Zhejiang. - Hemudu Site and Museum 河姆渡遗址 National heritage site
The type site of the Hemudu culture, a Neolithic rice-growing culture of about 5000–3000 BC, found in 1973 on the north bank of the Yao River; its waterlogged layers preserved timber pile-houses joined with mortise and tenon, cultivated rice, black pottery and carved ivory. - Hua'ao Barracks Site 花岙兵营遗址 National heritage site
Dry-stone army camps built from 1646 on remote Hua'ao Island by the Ming loyalist commanders Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen during their resistance to the Qing, the best preserved of their island bases. - Lin Residence, Zijin Street 林宅 National heritage site
A Qing mansion rebuilt by the brothers Lin Zhongsong and Lin Zhonghua after they passed the provincial examinations in the Tongzhi era (1862–1874), known for its carving: about 170 brick carvings and some 50 in wood and bamboo survive. - Ningbo Banking Guild Hall 钱业会馆 National heritage site
The guildhall of Ningbo's native banks (qianzhuang), built from 1925 for their meetings and money-market dealings; Ningbo bankers had pioneered a book-transfer clearing system in the 19th century. - Qing'an Guildhall 庆安会馆 National heritage site
A temple to the sea goddess Mazu that doubled as the guildhall of Ningbo's northern-route shipowners, completed in 1853 on the east bank of the river at Sanjiangkou and since 2014 part of the Grand Canal World Heritage Site. - Sacred Heart Cathedral, Ningbo 江北天主教堂 National heritage site
A Gothic Revival cathedral built in 1872 under the French bishop of the Zhejiang vicariate, whose single bell tower, added in 1899, is a landmark of the riverside at Sanjiangkou. - Shanglin Lake Yue Kilns 上林湖越窑遗址 National heritage site
Nearly 200 kiln sites around Shanglin Lake and its neighbouring lakes made Yue ware celadon from the Eastern Han to the Southern Song, and the Housi'ao kiln, excavated in 2015–2017, is thought to have produced the 'secret-colour' celadon found at Famen Temple. - Southern Song Stone Sculpture Park, Dongqian Lake 南宋石刻公园 National heritage site
A park on the south-eastern shore of Dongqian Lake built around the tomb path of Shi Jian, a posthumously ennobled member of the Shi clan that gave the Southern Song several chancellors, whose avenue of paired stone officials, generals, horses, tigers and sheep between memorial gateways is described as the best-preserved Southern Song tomb path in China. - Stone Archways of Miaogouhou and Hengsheng 庙沟后石牌坊 National heritage site · on the map
Two small two-pillar stone archways from the Southern Song or Yuan dynasty that once marked the spirit paths of tombs, carved in imitation of timber with brackets and tiled hip-and-gable roofs, and counted among the oldest stone archways in China. - Tashan Neolithic Site 塔山遗址 National heritage site
A hillside settlement and cemetery in Xiangshan's county town, occupied from about 4000 to 500 BC, where excavations in 1990, 1993 and 2007–2008 found more than 60 Neolithic burials with pottery and jade. - Tashan Weir 它山堰 National heritage site
A stone weir across the Yin River built in 833 under the county magistrate Wang Yuanwei, which kept tidal salt water out and diverted fresh water to irrigate the plain and supply the city of Mingzhou, today's Ningbo. - Temple of King Ashoka 阿育王寺 National heritage site
A Buddhist monastery at the foot of Mount Mao east of Ningbo, traditionally founded in the Western Jin and named by Emperor Wu of Liang, and known for a relic said to come from the Buddha's skull. - Tianluoshan Site 田螺山遗址 National heritage site
A Hemudu-culture village site at Xiang'ao village in Sanqishi, inhabited about 7,000 to 5,500 years ago, found in 2001 and excavated from 2004, whose waterlogged layers kept timber pile-house remains, the layout of a village, rice, food remains and what are thought to be the roots of cultivated tea plants. - Tianning Temple Pagoda 天宁寺塔 National heritage site
A square, multi-eaved brick pagoda about 12 m tall, dated by its inscribed bricks to the 860s, which is the only part of Tianning Temple (founded in 851) still standing. - Tiantong Temple 天童寺 National heritage site
A large Chan monastery in the forested Taibai Mountains east of Ningbo, traditionally founded in the Western Jin, ranked third of the Five Mountains under the Southern Song and regarded as the cradle of Japan's Sōtō Zen school. - Tongji Bridge, Yuyao 通济桥 National heritage site
A tall three-arch stone bridge across the Yao River in the centre of Yuyao, first built in timber in 1047, rebuilt in stone in 1332 and given its present form in 1729–1731. - Wang Yangming's Former Residence 王阳明故居 National heritage site
The birthplace in central Yuyao of Wang Shouren, better known as Wang Yangming (1472–1529), the Ming philosopher who brought the Confucian 'learning of the mind' to its fullest form. - Yongfeng Warehouse Site 永丰库遗址 National heritage site
The site of a large state warehouse used from the Southern Song to the Ming, best known as the Yongfeng storehouse of the Yuan dynasty, excavated in 2001–2002 beside the Drum Tower.
Quzhou 27 sites
- Mount Jianglang & Nianbadu 江郎山·廿八都 5A scenic area
Mount Jianglang is a row of three sheer red-rock pillars, Langfeng, Yafeng and Lingfeng, each more than 300 m tall, with the summit of Langfeng at 816.8 m; it is part of the China Danxia World Heritage Site, and paths climb between the peaks, including the narrow 'strip of sky' passage between Yafeng and Lingfeng, only 3.5 m wide at its narrowest. - Root Palace Buddhist Cultural Tourism Zone 根宫佛国 5A scenic area · on the map
A cultural park on the edge of Kaihua county town created by the root-carving artist Xu Guqing, where garden courtyards and buildings display thousands of root carvings and bonsai made from tree roots, a craft practised in Kaihua since the Tang dynasty. - Dachen Ancient Village 大陈古村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village with a history of more than 600 years in Dachen township, Jiangshan, its houses, mostly from the Qing dynasty, built close against the surrounding hills. - Gutianshan National Nature Reserve 古田山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national nature reserve of about 81 km² in the mountains of western Kaihua on the Jiangxi border, set up in 1975 and upgraded in 2001 to protect subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest. - Longyou Caves 龙游石窟 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A group of 24 huge man-made caverns cut into the sandstone of Fenghuang Hill beside the Qu River, found in 1992 when farmers drained five village ponds and discovered that they were flooded caverns. - Longyou Folk Residence Garden 龙游民居苑 4A scenic area · National heritage site
An open-air museum of old architecture on Jiming Hill on the southern edge of Longyou town, where Ming and Qing buildings from around the county that could not be protected where they stood have been dismantled and rebuilt since 1991. - Longyou Rosewood Town 龙天红木小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern 'characteristic town' of about 3.5 km² in Huzhen, Longyou, built around the rosewood (hongmu) furniture industry, with traditional-style buildings, furniture workshops, a timber trading area and a rosewood cultural and creative park. - Meishudi Scenic Area 梅树底 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested hill scenic area of about 8 km² in eastern Changshan, known for its old trees, wide bamboo forests and the Jiulong Waterfall, which drops down a sheer cliff. - Mount Fugai 浮盖山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain on the Zhejiang–Fujian border just south of Nianbadu, an outlier of the Xianxia range whose 1,146 m summit lies on the Fujian side. - Qicai Changhong Scenic Area 七彩长虹 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural scenic area covering Changhong township in the forested north-west of Kaihua, on the Jiangxi border next to Wuyuan, with woodland over more than 85% of its land. - Quzhou Ancient City & City Walls 衢州古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The historic core of Quzhou, a 3.2 km² cultural tourism zone opened in 2016 around Shuiting Gate, where the Ming–Qing city wall stands beside the Qu River, and the 'three streets and seven alleys' of old lanes lined with restored buildings, craft workshops and food stalls. - Sanqu Stone Forest 三衢石林 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst landscape on Sanqu Mountain in Huibu town, Changshan, where limestone formed from a reef about 440 million years ago (late Ordovician) has weathered into clusters of rock pinnacles, mazes, arches and fissures. - Taoyuan Qili Scenic Area 桃源七里 4A scenic area · on the map
A large mountain and rural scenic area of about 60 km² in Qili township, Kecheng, at an average altitude of 650 m and almost entirely forested. - Xianxia Pass 仙霞关 4A scenic area · on the map
A fortified pass on the ancient Xianxia road over the Xianxia range, for centuries an important overland route between the Qiantang and Min river basins of Zhejiang and Fujian. - Yaowang Mountain 药王山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain scenic area in southern Qujiang, part of the Ziweishan National Forest Park, promoted for its clean air and themed on traditional Chinese medicine, from which it takes its name ('Medicine King Mountain'). - Guanxi Shijia Ancestral Hall 关西世家 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming ancestral hall of the Wanli era (1573–1620) in Yangjia village in the north of Longyou, two courtyards deep with a stage. - Huzhen Sarira Pagoda 湖镇舍利塔 National heritage site · on the map
A six-sided, seven-storey brick pagoda about 27 m tall, built solid in imitation of a timber tower, on Xiajie street in Huzhen town. - Lan Clan Ancestral Hall, Beier 北二蓝氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Lan clan, a family of the She ethnic minority, in Beier village, Hangbu town, built in 1628 at the end of the Ming dynasty. - Sanhuai Hall, Rudamen 三槐堂 National heritage site · on the map
The ancestral hall of the Wang clan in Rudamen, part of Tianchi village in Hengshan town, a Ming–Qing building five courtyards deep with a stage and side rooms, covering about 1,500 m². - Sanmenyuan Ye Family Residences 三门源叶氏民居 National heritage site · on the map
Three surviving mansions of the Ye family in Sanmenyuan village, Shifo township, built in 1846 against Hushan hill above a stream, with courtyards, a garden and a pond. - Sanqingkou Porcelain Workshops 三卿口制瓷作坊 National heritage site
A porcelain-making village in a small valley in Xiakou town, where the Huang family set up kilns in the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty, using local kaolin, water-powered pounding mills and wood from the hills, and shipped blue-and-white wares along the Xianxia road. - Shaoyi Hall & Hengshan Pagoda 绍衣堂和横山塔 National heritage site · on the map
Two Ming monuments in Hengshan town in northern Longyou, listed together. - Temple of Southern Confucianism 孔氏南宗家庙 National heritage site
The family temple of the southern branch of Confucius's descendants, who followed the Song court south after the fall of Kaifeng in 1127 and were given a home in Quzhou; the temple has stood on its present site since 1520 and took its current form in a rebuilding of 1821–23. - Wenchang Palace, Nianbadu 廿八都文昌宫 National heritage site · on the map
A temple to Wenchang, the god of literature, in Xunli, the core of Nianbadu old town, built in 1909–1911 with three courtyards and a three-storey main hall under a double-eaved roof with painted ceilings. - Wu Ancestral Hall, Chetang 车塘吴氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty ancestral hall of the Wu clan in Chetang village, Yunxi township, built in the Jiajing reign in the early 1530s. - Xianyan Cave Inscriptions 仙岩洞摩崖题记 National heritage site
A red-sandstone cave with a mouth about 25 m wide and a depth of about 22 m, south of Hongxing village in Zhangtan, whose walls carry more than 50 carved inscriptions left by officials and scholars from the late 8th to the late 19th century, most of them from the Southern Song. - Yang Ancestral Halls, Nanwu 南坞杨氏宗祠 National heritage site · on the map
Two ancestral halls of the Yang clan in Nanwu village, Fenglin town: the inner hall in the village centre dates from the late Ming or early Qing, and the slightly later outer hall at the village entrance adds side wings.
Shaoxing 33 sites
- Lu Xun Native Place & Shen Garden 鲁迅故里·沈园 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The block on Lu Xun Middle Road where the writer Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren) was born in 1881 and grew up until 1898, now a historic quarter taking in his ancestral home, the family's New Taimen house with the Baicao Garden behind it, the Sanwei Study across the canal where he went to school, and the Shaoxing Lu Xun Memorial Hall, first opened in 1953. - Anchang Ancient Town 安昌古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
An old canal town in northern Keqiao, named in the late Tang and listed among China's historic and cultural towns in 2005, with cobbled lanes and black-awning boats on its waterways. - Chuanyan Nineteen Peaks 穿岩十九峰 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area of red sandstone cliffs in Jingling town, south-west Xinchang, named after a row of nineteen peaks that rise above the meeting of several mountain streams. - Dafo Temple, Xinchang 新昌大佛寺 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A Buddhist temple in the Shicheng hills on the edge of Xinchang town, founded in 345, whose great hall encloses a seated stone Maitreya carved into the cliff of Xianji Rock and completed in 516 after the work of three successive monks. - Dali Silk World, Xinchang 达利丝绸世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An industrial-tourism site at the works of Dali Silk, a silk textile and garment maker in Xinchang, which the company began developing around the theme of silk in 2007. - Daxianglin and Doushuaitian 大香林·兜率天 4A scenic area · on the map
A Buddhist-themed scenic area in Hutang, Keqiao, at the western end of the Kuaiji hills, known for more than 400 mu (about 27 hectares) of sweet osmanthus trees, among them one over 1,000 years old that is billed as the 'King of Chinese Osmanthus'. - East Lake, Shaoxing 东湖 4A scenic area
A small lake on the eastern edge of Shaoxing that fills an old quarry: from the Han dynasty onwards masons cut away half of a hill of grey stone, leaving sheer cliffs and deep pools, which the late-Qing local scholar Tao Junxuan enclosed with a long dyke and laid out as a garden. - Fuzhi Mountain 覆卮山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain of the Siming range where Shangyu, Shengzhou and Yuyao meet, rising to about 860 m as the highest point in Shangyu; its name, 'the upturned wine cup', comes from a line by the fifth-century poet Xie Lingyun, who wrote of drinking and composing poems on the mountain, then turning his cup over. - Keyan Scenic Area 柯岩 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A scenic area of about 6.9 km² west of Shaoxing made up of three parts: the rocks of Ke hill, a stretch of Jian Lake and Luzhen, a water-town quarter. - Mausoleum of Yu the Great 大禹陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The traditional burial place of Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of floods and founder of the Xia dynasty, at the foot of Kuaiji Mountain south-east of Shaoxing. - Orchid Pavilion (Lanting) 兰亭 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The garden at the foot of Lanzhu hill where, in 353, the calligrapher Wang Xizhi and more than forty friends held a spring gathering, floating cups of wine down a winding stream and writing poems, for which he wrote the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems, the most celebrated work of Chinese running script. - Oriental Neverland (Kuwan Town) 东方山水乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
An amusement-park complex in Keqiao, listed together with the surrounding 'Kuwan Town' leisure development, made up of the indoor Mountain Kingdom, the outdoor Coldplay Kingdom (Kuwan Wangguo) with several roller coasters including an inverted coaster, and a water park. - Qiaobo Ice and Snow World 乔波冰雪世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An indoor ski centre beside the Keyan scenic area in Keqiao, founded by the former speed-skating world champion Ye Qiaobo, where a refrigerated hall with artificial snow allows skiing and snowboarding all year round. - Wuxie Scenic Area 五泄 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill scenic area in Wuxie town, in the north-west of Zhuji, named after a chain of five waterfalls, counted from the first to the fifth, that step down a forested gorge. - Xi Shi's Hometown (Xishi Guli) 西施故里 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourist area of about 1.44 km² on both banks of the Huan River at the foot of Zhuluo hill in Zhuji, built by the city from 2003 around the legendary home of Xi Shi, one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. - Ancient Towpath, Keqiao 古纤道 National heritage site
A stone towpath along the Eastern Zhejiang Canal from which boats were hauled by men on foot, first worn along the banks after the canal was dug in the Western Jin and rebuilt in stone in the Hongzhi reign of the Ming (1488–1505). - Angsang Lake Causeway 昂桑湖避塘 National heritage site
A stone causeway about 3.5 km long that winds north–south across Angsang Lake on the northern edge of Shaoxing, built in the late Ming and finished after 1642 so that boats could shelter from wind and waves, while also linking the two shores. - Bazi Bridge 八字桥 National heritage site
A stone beam bridge in the eastern part of Shaoxing's old city, rebuilt in 1256, whose stepped approaches split at both ends so that the bridge is shaped like the character 八 ('eight'); it is the only known early example of this form among China's simple beam bridges. - Cao'e Temple 曹娥庙 National heritage site
A temple on the west bank of the Cao'e River honouring Cao E, an Eastern Han girl who drowned in the river trying to save her father and became a model of filial piety; she was reburied here with a memorial stele in 151, and a shrine grew up around her grave. - Chongren Old Town 崇仁古镇 National heritage site · on the map
A village-town in western Shengzhou, settled before the Three Kingdoms, which became the home of the Qiu clan after they moved here in the 1040s and keeps more than 200 buildings from the early Ming to the Republic, among them 154 old courtyard gates (taimen), 14 tea and road pavilions and 51 old wells. - Chunhui Middle School Old Campus, Baima Lake 春晖中学旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A private secondary school on the shore of Baima Lake, paid for by the merchant Chen Chunlan and opened in 1922 under the educator Jing Hengyi, where writers and artists such as Zhu Ziqing, Xia Mianzun, Feng Zikai and Zhu Guangqian taught in the 1920s; it pioneered co-education among Zhejiang's secondary schools. - Dashan Pagoda 大善塔 National heritage site
A hexagonal, seven-storey brick pagoda 40.5 m tall in the centre of Shaoxing, named after Dashan Temple, founded in 504, in which it once stood. - Datong School and Xu Xilin's Former Residence 大通学堂 National heritage site · on the map
A school opened in 1905 in a former Qing granary by Xu Xilin and Tao Chengzhang of the anti-Qing Guangfuhui to train members of secret societies for an armed rising; after Xu left for Anhui it was run by Qiu Jin, who was arrested here on 13 July 1907 after Xu's failed Anqing uprising. - East Huacheng Temple Pagoda, Fengqiao 东化城寺塔 National heritage site
A brick pagoda built in 1092 on the Ziwei hill ridge just south-east of Fengqiao, named after the East Huacheng Temple that once stood in front of it and also called the Yuanyou Pagoda after the reign in which it was built. - Fenghuangshan Kiln Sites 凤凰山窑址群 National heritage site · on the map
A group of kilns on the hill slopes behind Dashan village in Shangpu, Shangyu, which fired early celadon for daily use and for burials during only fifty or sixty years, from the late Three Kingdoms to the end of the Western Jin in the third and early fourth centuries. - Former Residence of Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培故居 National heritage site
The birthplace of Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940), the educator who was president of Peking University and founder of the Academia Sinica, and earlier a leader of the anti-Qing Guangfuhui. - Jianchu Land-Purchase Inscription 汉建初元年买地刻石 National heritage site
A cliff inscription cut in AD 76 on the eastern slope of Tiao hill in Fusheng, recording in 20 characters that six brothers bought this hillside together as a burial ground, with the words 'Da Ji' ('great fortune') above. - Qingteng Studio (Xu Wei's Former Residence) 青藤书屋 National heritage site · on the map
The birthplace and study of Xu Wei (1521–1593), the Ming painter, calligrapher, poet and playwright whose free ink painting gave rise to the Qingteng school, named after one of his art names; the late Ming painter Chen Hongshou later lived here too. - Qiu Jin's Former Residence 秋瑾故居 National heritage site · on the map
The family home of the revolutionary and writer Qiu Jin at Hechangtang, on the south-west foot of Pagoda Hill, where she spent her girlhood and lived again from her return from Japan in 1906 until her execution in 1907. - Shunwang Temple 舜王庙 National heritage site · on the map
A temple on Shunwang hill in Wangtan town, southern Keqiao, dedicated to the legendary sage-king Shun, who by local tradition took refuge here from the unrest stirred up by Yao's son Danzhu. - Si Family Houses, Sizhai 斯氏古民居 National heritage site · on the map
Fourteen large houses from the Qing and Republican periods in Sizhai, a hill village in Dongbaihu town where the Si clan has lived since the Tang. - Wang Clan Ancestral Halls, Huatang 华堂王氏宗祠 National heritage site
Two ancestral halls in Huatang village, Jinting town, the seat of a Wang clan descended from the fourth-century calligrapher Wang Xizhi. - Yinshan Royal Tomb of Yue 印山越国王陵 National heritage site
The tomb of a king of the Spring and Autumn state of Yue, possibly Yunchang, father of King Goujian, cut into the top of Yin hill and ringed by a moat; excavated in 1996–98 after tomb robbers struck, it was the first Yue royal tomb found in China.
Taizhou 31 sites
- Shenxianju 神仙居 5A scenic area
A 5A mountain scenic area in western Xianju county and the core of Xianju National Park, known for sheer cliffs, rock pillars and peaks of volcanic rhyolite that are often wrapped in cloud. - Tiantai Mountain 天台山 5A scenic area
The forested granite range north of Tiantai town that gave its name to the Tiantai school of Buddhism, a 5A scenic area whose two main parts are Guoqing Temple at its foot (separate card) and the Shiliang area high on the mountain. - Walled City of Taizhou Fu 台州府城 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Linhai's old walled town, seat of Taizhou prefecture from 591 until 1993, is now a 5A scenic area of 3.12 km² taking in the city wall, Ziyang Street, East Lake and Jinshan Hill. - Changyu Dongtian Quarry Caves 长屿硐天 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill near Xinhe in Wenling honeycombed with man-made caverns left by some 1,500 years of quarrying stone slabs, now a national mine park and, with nearby Fangshan, a national scenic area. - Dachen Islands 大陈岛 4A scenic area · on the map
A group of 29 islands and islets about 52 km off Taizhou, with Upper and Lower Dachen the two inhabited main islands, wooded hills that form a provincial forest park, sea-worn rocks, beaches and fishing harbours. - Fangshan, Wenling 方山 4A scenic area
A flat-topped mountain of volcanic rhyolite in Daxi town, western Wenling, on the border with Yueqing, ringed by sheer cliffs but open on top, where lakes and ponds dot the summit plateau and wild azaleas flower in spring; the Taizhou government describes it as the largest Mesozoic rhyolite volcanic platform in Asia. - Hou'an Village 后岸村 4A scenic area · on the map
A village of farm-stay guesthouses in Jietou town, western Tiantai, beside the Shifeng stream below a long wall of cliffs known as the 'Ten-li Iron-Armoured Dragon'. - Huangyan Museum 黄岩博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The district museum of Huangyan, founded in 1984, with more than 8,000 objects ranging from Western Zhou proto-celadon and Tang and Song celadon to Buddhist relics of the Song dynasty. - Jiufeng Park 九峰公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A wooded hillside park on the eastern edge of Huangyan, named after the nine peaks that enclose its valley, opened in 1959 on the site of a Song-era monastery and a Qing academy and now covering about 106 hectares. - Linghu Lake Park 灵湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake park in Linhai's newer eastern district, about 5 km east of the walled old town, laid out around a broad lake with an island, willow-lined causeways and waterside paths. - Rouchuan Scenic Area 柔川 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural scenic area in Yutou township in the forested hills of western Huangyan (Rouchuan is the township's old name), following the Rouji stream, a tributary of the Yongning River, for about 20 km through the valleys. - Shenxian Oxygen Bar Town 神仙氧吧小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourism district of about 3.8 km² spanning 20 villages in Baita town, at the approach to Shenxianju, developed as one of Zhejiang's provincial 'characteristic towns' around the area's clean mountain air and its closeness to the 5A scenic area. - Shepan Island 蛇蟠岛 4A scenic area · on the map
An island in Sanmen Bay, joined to the mainland on its Ninghai side by land reclamation in 2008, known as the 'Island of a Thousand Caves' for the roughly 1,300 caverns left by quarrying its red Shepan stone from the Song dynasty onwards. - Taizhou Ocean World 台州海洋世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An aquarium beside Taizhou Civic Square in Jiaojiang, opened in 2005 in a five-storey building that is toured from the top floor downwards. - Tiantai Mountain Great Waterfall and Qiongtai Valley 天台山大瀑布（琼台仙谷） 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area on the western slope of Tongbai Mountain, about 7 km north-west of Tiantai town, that joins the Tiantai Mountain Great Waterfall to Qiongtai Valley, a gorge of oddly shaped cliffs and rocks with plank walkways. - Xuanmen Bay Agricultural Sightseeing Park 漩门湾观光农业园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large agri-tourism park of nearly 10,000 mu (about 670 hectares) on the western edge of Qinggang town, Yuhuan, beside the Xuanmen Bay wetland and looking across Yueqing Bay to the Yandang mountains. - Xuanmen Bay National Wetland Park 漩门湾国家湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national wetland park of 31.48 km² in northern Yuhuan, where Yuhuan island meets the Chumen peninsula, made up of tidal flats, open water, freshwater marsh, islets and wooded hills. - Yong'an River Greenway 永安溪绿道 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside route for cycling and walking along the Yong'an River, the 'mother river' of Xianju, which crosses the county's farmland basin from west to east. - Former Enze Hospital 恩泽医局旧址 National heritage site
Three two-storey Western-style buildings joined by covered bridges on the slope of Beigu Mountain in Linhai, the remains of the first Western-medicine hospital in Taizhou, opened by the British Anglican mission in 1901. - Guoqing Temple 国清寺 National heritage site
The temple at the southern foot of Tiantai Mountain where the Tiantai school of Buddhism began, founded in 598 under the Sui dynasty in fulfilment of the last wish of the school's founder Zhiyi and rebuilt under the Yongzheng Emperor in the 1730s. - Jiangxia Tidal Power Station 江厦潮汐试验电站 National heritage site
China's first two-way tidal power station, built across the Jiangxia inlet at the northern end of Yueqing Bay, where the tidal range reaches 8.39 m; its first turbine began generating in May 1980 and the plant now has about 4.1 MW installed. - Jinqing Great Bridge 金清大桥 National heritage site · on the map
A five-arch stone bridge 64 m long over the Jinqing waterway below Piyun Hill in Xinhe town, built in the early Jiaqing reign (around 1800) when an older flat bridge was rebuilt with arches. - Jinshan Pagodas, Linhai 巾山塔群 National heritage site · on the map
A group of old brick pagodas on and around Jinshan, the small twin-peaked hill in the south-east corner of Linhai's walled town, long the landmark of the former prefectural city. - Kanmen Tide Station 坎门验潮所 National heritage site · on the map
The first tide-gauge station in China to be sited, designed and built by Chinese surveyors, set up in 1929–1930 in a rocky cove at Kanmen on the south-east coast of Yuhuan and still recording tides today. - Lin Yingqi Memorial Arch 林应麒功德牌坊 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty memorial archway (paifang) in Fuying subdistrict north-east of Xianju town, honouring Lin Yingqi (1506–1583), a native of the area who passed the imperial jinshi examination in 1535 and served as a county magistrate and prefectural official. - Nanfeng Pagoda 南峰塔 National heritage site · on the map
A hexagonal, seven-storey brick pagoda 23.8 m tall on Nanfeng Hill on the south side of Xianju town, built in 1032–1033 under the Northern Song and repaired in the Ming dynasty. - Qi Jiguang Memorial Temple, Jiaojiang 椒江戚继光祠 National heritage site
A temple complex in Jiaojiang's old quarter, the former Haimen garrison town, that combines the garrison's City God temple with a shrine to the Ming general Qi Jiguang, who was stationed here in the mid-16th century to fight the wokou pirates. - Taozhu Fortress Town 桃渚城 National heritage site
A Ming coastal fort town near the East China Sea in south-east Linhai, built in 1443 as one of the garrison posts raised against wokou pirates; Qi Jiguang wiped out a pirate band here in 1560. - Xianju Ancient Yue Rock Carvings 仙居古越族岩画群 National heritage site
Rock carvings attributed to the ancient Yue people of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, found at seven sites in the hills of Xianju county, with more than 220 motifs over about 1,400 m² of rock. - Xinhe Lock Bridges 新河闸桥群 National heritage site
Four old stone sluice-bridges on the canals around Xinhe town in eastern Wenling, the Zhongzha, Maci, Beizha and Xialu sluices, which served both as river crossings and as water gates. - Yijiangshan Islands Battle Site 一江山岛战役遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Two small, steep islands about 30 km off Jiaojiang where the People's Liberation Army took the islands from Republic of China forces on 18 January 1955, its first combined operation of land, sea and air forces; the loss led the ROC to evacuate the nearby Dachen Islands the following month.
Wenzhou 46 sites
- Liu Bowen's Hometown (Baizhangji Falls and Liu Ji Temple) 刘伯温故里 5A scenic area · National heritage site
Wencheng County's 5A scenic area, named for the home region of Liu Ji (Liu Bowen), the strategist who helped found the Ming dynasty, combines two sites about 10 km apart. - Yandang Mountains 雁荡山 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The main area of the North Yandang range in Yueqing, a 5A scenic area and Global Geopark of about 450 km², formed by volcanic eruptions more than 100 million years ago and eroded into cliffs, pinnacles, caves and waterfalls. - Impression Nantang 印象南塘 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside leisure and shopping district in central Wenzhou along the Nantang River, combining Nantang Street, lined with restaurants and shops, with Bailuzhou Park, a culture village and waterside gardens. - Jiangxin Islet 江心屿 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A long islet in the Ou River opposite central Wenzhou and long the city's emblem, with Jiangxin Temple, founded in 1137 when monks filled the channel between two islets, the East and West Pagodas, a shrine to the Song loyalist Wen Tianxiang, and buildings recalling the poets Xie Lingyun and Meng Haoran. - Middle Yandang Mountain 中雁荡山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national scenic area in the hills south-west of Yueqing, described as the 'toe' of the Yandang range and centred on Yuzeng Peak, a pale rock dome named for its resemblance to an ancient steamer pot. - Nanji Islands 南麂列岛 4A scenic area · on the map
An archipelago of 52 islands in the East China Sea off Pingyang, protected since 1990 as one of China's first national marine nature reserves and part of UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves since 1998, known for the variety of its shellfish and seaweeds. - Nanxi River Scenic Area 楠溪江 4A scenic area
A national scenic area along the Nanxi River, a clear, shallow tributary of the Ou that winds south through Yongjia County in 36 bends and 72 shoals, with pebble beaches, volcanic cliffs, waterfalls and the old clan villages of its middle reaches. - Sanyang Wetland 三垟湿地 4A scenic area · on the map
A large wetland park on the south-eastern edge of central Wenzhou, where a dense grid of rivers breaks the land into 161 small islets, traditionally farmed with orchards of Ougan, the local citrus. - South Yandang Mountain 南雁荡山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national scenic area in western Pingyang with five sections of rocky peaks, caves, clear streams and waterfalls, long paired with the northern Yandang Mountains. - Su Buqing's Hometown, Tengjiao 苏步青故里 4A scenic area · on the map
A cultural tourism area in Tengjiao town, Pingyang, built around the hometown of the mathematician Su Buqing (1902–2003), a founder of differential geometry in China and later president of Fudan University. - Taishun Covered Bridge Culture Park (Xidong and Beijian Bridges) 泰顺廊桥文化园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A heritage park in Sixi town built around Xidong Bridge (1745) and Beijian Bridge (1803), two timber covered bridges with woven-beam arches that stand close together over the streams of Xiaqiao village. - Tieding Liuliu Park 铁定溜溜 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural theme park near Dajing in northern Yueqing, built around the growing of tiepi shihu (Dendrobium officinale), a medicinal orchid long associated with the Yandang area. - Tongling Mountain Forest Park 铜铃山森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in western Wencheng, with forest over about 98% of its area and rare wildlife such as Cabot's tragopan. - Wanyao Ancient Village 碗窑古村 4A scenic area · on the map
An old pottery village in a wooded valley above Yulong Lake in Qiaodun, founded in the early Ming, which preserves its old hand-worked bowl kilns and workshops. - Wencheng Forest Oxygen Town 文成森林氧吧小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain resort area in western Wencheng, where Wencheng, Jingning and Taishun counties meet, made up of the Tianshengshan area in Xikeng She Ethnic Town and the Tonglingshan town area, with core areas above 1,000 m and forest covering about 96% of the land. - Wenzhou Amusement Park 温州乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
Wenzhou's first theme park, open for about two decades in Chashan south of the city, with a European-style zone, a cartoon zone, an adventure valley and a dinosaur zone, plus rides such as a suspended roller coaster added in 2008. - Wuyanling National Nature Reserve 乌岩岭 4A scenic area
A national nature reserve of 18,861.5 ha in north-western Taishun, set up mainly to protect Cabot's tragopan, a pheasant found only in China, and one of the best-preserved subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests in eastern China. - Xiandieyan and Banping Island 仙叠岩·半屏山 4A scenic area · on the map
Two coastal sights in the Dongtou islands off the mouth of the Ou River. - Yucang Mountain 玉苍山 4A scenic area · on the map
A granite mountain north-west of Cangnan's county town, rising to 921.5 m and protected as a national forest park since 1991. - Yuliao Beach 渔寮 4A scenic area · on the map
A coastal scenic area near the southern end of Zhejiang's coast in Cangnan, centred on Yuliao beach, a broad sandy bay about 2 km long, with a smaller crescent beach at Wuchengao. - Zeya Scenic Area and Siliandui Paper Mills 泽雅 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A large mountain scenic area west of Wenzhou, nicknamed the 'West Yandang', with eight sections of waterfalls, pools and gorges such as the Qipujian (Seven Waterfalls) ravine and Jinkeng Gorge. - Bagua and Hexi Bridges 八卦桥和河西桥 National heritage site · on the map
Two Southern Song stone beam bridges in Taoshan town, western Rui'an. - Bao Ancestral Hall, Yuyan 玉岩包氏宗祠 National heritage site
A large clan hall of the Bao family on a hillside in Yuyan village, Sixi town, founded in the Chenghua reign (1465–87) and rebuilt in 1847. - Caowanshan Site Museum 曹湾山遗址 National heritage site · on the map
A Neolithic hilltop settlement on Caowan Hill in Tengqiao town, more than 4,000 years old and belonging to the Haochuan culture, with a living area of stone footings and a cemetery of 35 graves. - Chixi Five-Span Bridge 赤溪五洞桥 National heritage site · on the map
A five-span stone beam bridge, 24.6 m long and only 1.7 m wide, crossing the stream at Guoxi village in Chixi town. - East Pagoda, Yueqing 乐清东塔 National heritage site
A seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda about 18 m tall on Donggao Hill in Yuecheng, central Yueqing, moved here in the Xining reign (1068–77) after lightning destroyed an earlier tower, with further building in the 1170s. - Fanshan Alum Mine 矾山矾矿遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The old alum works of Fanshan, a town long known for producing potash and soda alum; the listed remains date from the Qing dynasty to 1994. - Five Buddha Pagodas of Qizhen Temple 栖真寺五佛塔 National heritage site · on the map
A row of small hexagonal Song-dynasty stone pagodas from Qizhen Temple in Luoyang village near Aojiang, carved to imitate timber buildings with single eaves. - Former Headquarters of the Red 13th Army 红十三军军部旧址 National heritage site
The Hu family ancestral hall of 1728 in Wuxia village, Wuchi township, northern Yongjia, where southern Zhejiang Red Army guerrillas set up the headquarters of the 13th Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, which stayed from May 1930 to autumn 1932. - Former Liji Medical School 利济医学堂旧址 National heritage site
The former Liji Medical School in central Rui'an, founded in 1885 by the reformers Chen Qiu, Chen Jieshi and Chen Baoshan as a new-style school of Chinese medicine run on Western educational lines, which trained some 300 doctors and published its own journal from 1896. - Furong Village 芙蓉村 National heritage site
A Chen clan village in Yantou town on the middle Nanxi River, said to have been founded at the end of the Tang dynasty and laid out to a 'seven stars and eight dippers' plan, with lamp platforms as the stars and wells as the dippers. - Hu Family Compound, Xuexi 雪溪胡氏大院 National heritage site · on the map
A walled family mansion in Xuexi township, Taishun, built over some 40 years from 1832 to 1874 by Hu Dongwei, whose forebears had moved here from Qingyuan in the Ming dynasty. - Hufa Temple Bridge and Pagoda 护法寺桥和塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Northern Song stone bridge and a small brick pagoda beside it in Hufasi village, Wangli town. - Jinzhao and Xiantai Archways 金昭牌坊和宪台牌坊 National heritage site · on the map
Two Ming timber memorial archways in the Nanxi valley. - Nange Archways 南阁牌楼群 National heritage site · on the map
Five Ming-dynasty archways standing along the pebble-paved lane of Nange village, Xianxi town, raised between 1439 and 1544 to mark the examination honours and official ranks of the local Zhang clan. - Nanxi River Ancestral Halls 楠溪江宗祠建筑群 National heritage site
A protected group of Ming and Qing clan halls spread across villages of the Nanxi River valley in Yongjia. - Pagoda of Guo'an Temple 国安寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A solid stone pagoda built in 1090–1093 at Huang'ao in Yaoxi, Longwan District, nine storeys high on a hexagonal plan and shaped like a timber pavilion tower. - Puzhuang Fortress 蒲壮所城 National heritage site
A Ming coastal fortress near the Zhejiang–Fujian border, begun in 1384 against Japanese pirate raids and still a lived-in walled town, now called Pucheng. - Shengjingshan Stone Halls 圣井山石殿 National heritage site · on the map
A complex of stone-built temple halls on Shengjing Mountain in Mayu town, Rui'an, described as the oldest and largest of its kind in southern Zhejiang: it was founded in 1260, and the present halls date from the Wanli reign (1573–1620) to the late Qing. - Shishui Stepping Stones 仕水矴步 National heritage site
A stepping-stone crossing of 1795, rebuilt in 1820, across the river at Xidong village in Shiyang town, southern Taishun: 233 stones over 144 m, each step having a higher block of white granite and a lower one of bluestone so that two people can pass. - Shunxi Old Mansions 顺溪古建筑群 National heritage site · on the map
Shunxi town, deep in the hills of the South Yandang area in western Pingyang, keeps the Chen clan ancestral hall and ten large Chen family mansions, most built in the Qianlong and Jiaqing reigns (1736–1820). - Stone Pagoda of Guanyin Temple, Rui'an 观音寺石塔 National heritage site · on the map
A hexagonal stone pagoda of 1068, originally called the Thousand Buddha Pagoda, at the southern foot of Wansong Hill in Zhouhu village, Longshan, on the eastern edge of central Rui'an. - Stone Pagodas of Zhenru Temple 真如寺石塔 National heritage site · on the map
Four hexagonal stone pagodas in front of Zhenru Temple in Chongshi village, Panshi town, the survivors of seven that once stood here; only one is complete, the other three having lost their tops. - Taishun Tulou 泰顺土楼 National heritage site
Six fortified earth buildings in Taishun County, built in the Fujian earth-building tradition between the Qing dynasty and the Republic. - Yongchang Fort 永昌堡 National heritage site
A fortified village built in 1558 by the local Wang family against Japanese pirates, after two of their kinsmen were killed fighting the raiders, and described as the only surviving privately built walled town in Zhejiang. - Yuhai Library 玉海楼 National heritage site
A private library built in 1888 by the late-Qing scholar Sun Yirang and his father Sun Yiyan, counted among Zhejiang's four great private libraries and named after the Song scholar Wang Yinglin's encyclopedia Yuhai.
Zhoushan 8 sites
- Huaniao Island & Lighthouse 花鸟岛 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The northernmost island of the Zhoushan archipelago, a small island whose blue-and-white painted village houses have earned it the nickname 'Santorini of the East', with clear-water bays, a sandy beach at South Bay and seasonal 'blue tears' of glowing plankton along the shore. - Nandong Art Valley 南洞艺谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A village in a small valley ringed by hills in Xinjian, Ganlan town, in the north of Zhoushan Island, once poor and remote and since redeveloped for rural tourism with an arts theme. - Nansha Beach, Zhujiajian 朱家尖南沙 4A scenic area · on the map
Nansha is one of the five linked sandy beaches, about 6 km in all, that line the east coast of Zhujiajian Island, just south of Mount Putuo across a narrow strait. - Shengsi Five Fishing Villages 东海五渔村 4A scenic area · on the map
A string of five fishing villages in Wulong township on the east side of Sijiao, the main island of the Shengsi archipelago: Tian'ao, Huangsha, Bianjiao'ao, Huicheng and Shiwuzhi'ao. - Shenjiamen Fishing Port Town 沈家门渔港小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
Shenjiamen, on the south-east shore of Zhoushan Island, grew up around one of China's largest fishing harbours, sheltered by Lujiazhi Island and long the centre of the Zhoushan fishery. - Taohua Island 桃花岛 4A scenic area
A hilly island of about 44 km² south of Zhoushan Island, known across the Chinese-speaking world as the Peach Blossom Island of Louis Cha (Jin Yong)'s martial-arts novels, and used as a filming location for television adaptations of them. - Fayu Temple 法雨寺 National heritage site
The 'rear temple' and second-largest of Mount Putuo's three great temples, founded in 1580 as the Haichao Hermitage and renamed after the Kangxi Emperor granted the plaque 'Tianhua Fayu' ('heavenly flowers, Dharma rain') in 1699. - Puji Temple 普济寺 National heritage site
The 'front temple' and principal Guanyin shrine of Mount Putuo, which grew out of the shrine founded for a Guanyin image that the Japanese monk Egaku left on the island, and took its present name from a plaque given by the Kangxi Emperor.