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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