Daliancheng Scenic Area

Daliancheng Scenic Area is located about 1.5 kilometers away from Pingxiang City. It was once used to be the command center for the military affairs. On the mountains around Daliancheng, there are 8 medium-sized cannons which are just like the united annular Great Wall. So it is also called “the natural barrier of the united Great Wall”. 

In the valleys, there are large-scale magnificent architectural complex, including the Drillground, Ordnance Bureau, Celebration Palace, the Residence, the Ancient Opera Stage, Wusheng Temple, the Mammon Temple, the Kitchen God Temple, the ordinary shops, stores and four wells of different purposes. On August, 1981, Daliancheng Site was appraised as the important protection unit of cultural relic of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. At present, it becomes a tourist resort with unique characteristics.

Inside Daliancheng Scenic Area, there is a White Jade Cave with stalactites as white as polished jade. White Jade Cave ranks first among the top 8 beautiful scenery of Pingxiang. The White Jade Cave consists of the upper cave, the middle cave and the lower cave which are passable to each other. It can hold thousands of people. Fantastically shaped stones and rocks of various varieties abound in the cave and there are also reception rooms and rooms for resting.

After the Sino-French War, the famous general Su Yuanchun of the late Qing Dynasty made Daliancheng as his command center and the White Jade Cave was his residence and office. Besides, the cave was also the place for beating the heat. In the cave, there were Su Yuanchun’s inscriptions. The top of the cave is very flat and there are numerous holes which are just like the footprints of elephants. According to the legend, it is said that said that celestials riding elephants once went into the cave.

The spectacular natural landscape of the cave has been glorified in Chinese stories and poetry written by many poets who had been there. The beautiful natural scenery, the stalactites of a variety of forms and the beautiful legends made White Jade Cave become more and more famous, attracting an increasing number of tourists from home and abroad every year.

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Mount Meiling

Meiling Mountain Scenic Spot lies in the west suburb area of Nanchang, famous for its sheer peaks, grotesque rocks, cascading waterfalls and clear lakes. Meiling Mountain was originally called Feihong Mountain. As early as the beginning of Han Dynasty, there was post-road in the mountain. In the end of West Han Dynasty, Mei Fu, the governor of Nanchang County, fought against the autocracy of Wang Mang and receded to Feihong Mountain. To remember his loyalty, people built up Mei Immortal Altar high in the mountain, Mei Immortal Temple at the foot the mountain and changed the mountain name to Mei Moutain.

In the early Han Dynasty, the natural beauty made Meiling Mountain a sightseeing place of some note, and attracted people from nearby villages. For centuries, their reputations spread far and wide, bringing lots poets and writers. During the Tang Dynasty, it reached the height of its development. The most famous and popular sites of this spot are Hongya Well, Autumn View of West Hill, Tongyuan Waterfull, Rice Terrace and Waterwheel.

Covers an area of 150 square meters, its forest coverage is up to 67%, during the summer time, the average temperature there is around 22℃, thus this spot is a natural oxygen supply point and superb summer resort. Meiling Mountain is also a holy ground for both Buddhism and Taoism. There are 136 sites of religious constructions built within its area and actually, it is the cradle-land of Jingming School of Taoism and the 12th fascinating place for Taoists.   

As one of the eight famous temples in Shanxi province, Cui Yan Temple had a 4.8 meters tall bronze Buddha, 2.4 meters tall bronze lotus stand, as well as bronze bottles, bronze incense burners and an iron pan for thousand monks. Famous monk Guan Xiu in Tang Dynasty once lived in Yutang Temple, where he wrote 24 poems. Near Taiping Temple, which was originally a famous temple for Daoism, there is a one-thousand-year old gingko which is 30 meters tall, measuring 7.5 meter round the chest while 6 adults together can put their arms around it. Located on the peak of the mountain, the stone house of the Ziyang Palace still exists today. It had been visited by Dengyu, one of the founding fathers of East Han. Near the palace, there are Deng Immortal Hole and Zhenjun Tomb.

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Nanchang Bayi (August 1st) Uprising Memorial Hall

Memorial Hall to August 1st Nanchang Uprising is a national protected unit. This building was used to be a local hotel called "Jiangxi Great Hostel". In late July 1927, the 96 guestrooms of the Jiangxi Grand Hotel in Nanchang were booked by a group of Communist troops planning the uprising that was to result in the takeover of the city from Kuomintang control. During their stay at the hotel, the troops established the Front Committee of the Communist Party of China with Zhou Enlai as its secretary. The Front Committee used the hotel as its headquarters and held several meetings there in subsequent years. Consequently it is thought of by many as the birthplace of the People's Liberation Army.

In 1957, the hotel was converted into the August 1st Nanchang Uprising Memorial Museum, memorializing this pivotal point in China's history and preserving many of the most important rooms in the building. The title of the memorial hall was written by marshal Chen Yi. In 1997, the Memorial Hall was chosen as one of the one hundred national model bases of patriotic education. Jiang Zeming, the Secretary-general of the Central Committee of CPC, wrote the words "the first army flag rose here" to the memorial hall. Points of interest inside the museum include the Assembly Hall where the Committee was first formed, Zhou Enlai's work room, Lin Boqu's study and the bedrooms of the 1st Division Guards of the 20th Army. The history of the time is explained through documents, photographs, charts and drawings.

 

While devoted to the collecting and research of the collections, the memorial hall also did some repair and face-lifting to the site of command center as well as some updating and improvement to the exhibition. Combining sound, light and electricity, a big sand table is used to show the battle of the August 1 Uprising. Multimedia is used to tell the story of "Zhu De's Strategy". By the modern methods of electric chart, painting and sculpture, the exhibition has been enriched. New displays combining with restored ones, the whole exhibition is more vivid and effective. The stone inscription "the first army flag rose here" wrote by Jiang Zeming at the eve of 70th anniversary of the army is used as the prelude of the exhibition, which is impressive to the visitors.

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