China Travel Guide

Weigang Hot Spring’s hot water stems from the flower hillock in the Mt. Yanshan diorite-porphyry fault zone. There is flowered hillock diorite-porphyry gravel angle in its deeper part. The hot spring hot water falls under the category of deep circulation underground hot water. The Weigang hot spring’s water contains more than 30 kinds of elements beneficial to the human body.
It also includes rare micro dong and two elements of strontium which could only be found in East China and is extremely rare in the country. The water seepage has unique health care function to the human body, to the chronic bronchitis, asthma, constipation, stomach spasm, arteriosclerosis, heart disease, insomnia, arthritis and some other diseases. It has special curative effect after bathing.

Name: Zhenjiang Weigang Hot Spring (Weigang Wenquan)
City: Zhenjiang
Address: Weigang, Southwest of Zhenjiang
Admission: CNY18
Hours: 9:00am-6:00pm
Tel: 0086-511-5822041

Xiaohai Hot Spring was discovered in 1961. This water seepage is the chloride sodium bicarbonate water and contains many kinds of mineral elements which are needed by the human body. The spring water temperature maintains at 48 degrees. The water could be used for bathing and may dispel rheumatism, cures skin problems and has special curative effect to many kinds of diseases.

Name: Zhenjiang Xiaohai Hot Spring
City: Zhenjiang
Address: Northeast of Zhenjiang
Admission: Free

He Garden is also named “Jixiao mountain villa”. It was the former site of Double Chinese Scholar Garden during the clear Qianlong year of Qing Dynasty. The entire garden can be divided into two parts, namely the east and the west. It is composed by the two storeys middle building and the front housing. He Yuan is the representative work of Yangzhou botanical garden during the late Qing Dynasty period. It is listed as the key cultural relic preservation unit of the nation.

Name: Zhenjiang He Garden (He Yuan)
City: Zhenjiang
Address: NO.77 Xuningmen Road
Admission: CNY30
Hours: 08:00 am-05:30 pm

Slender West Lake is listed as the key scenic area possessing important history cultural heritage with botanical garden of special characteristics in Yangzhou.

Presently, Slender West Lake comprised of 24 scenic areas such as the imperial wharf, Xi Yuan, Yechun Garden, the Lvyang Village, the volume stone dwelling Buddhist immortals, the Xi Yuan Qushui, four bridge misty rain, Hongqiao, the causeway spring willow tree, Ye Yuan, Xu Yuan, Changchun range, the Musical instrument room, Muxi reading room, the chess room, the month view, Mei Ling deep spring, the thatched house on the lake, the shady hall, Cui Tai, the water cloud beautiful scenery, the lotus temple, Niao village, five pavilion bridge and Bai Ta Qingyun.

Name: Zhenjiang Slender West Lake (Shouxihu)
City: Zhenjiang
Address: No.28 Dahongqiao Road,Yangzhou
Admission: CNY80
Hours: 7:00 am-6:00 pm
Tel: 0086-514-7357803
Admission: CNY80(Mar-May,Sep-Nov)
CNY60(Jun-Aug,Dec-Feb)

Emperor Suiyang’s Mausoleum occupies a total land area of 30,000 square meters. It is composed by the stone decorative archway, the mausoleum gate, the city wall, stone Que, side palace and grave. It is a rare king burial style found in the world. It is also of the typical construction style of Sui and Tang dynasties.
The grave was constructed in extremely neat flat topping pyramid shape where the height is 12 meters. On the four sides were the rule isosceles trapezoids where the length of the side is 8 meters and 29 meters respectively. There is a giant tombstone erected in front of the grave where the foundation was in stairs and ladders style.
The upper is in laminated cloud and the right side of the middle part was inscribed with “the stone construction by former Zhejiang Governor, Ruan Yuanjian during Jaiqing 13 years of Qing Dynasty”. The center was engraved with “Emperor Yangdi in Sui Dynasty mausoleum“, where each character is approximately washing basin size. On the lower right side is inscription of “Iraq colorful ribbon topic by Tingzhou, Governor of prefecture of Yangzhou”.

Name: Zhenjiang Emperor Suiyang’s Mausoleum (Suiyangdi Ling)
City: Zhenjiang
Address: 30km north of Zhenjiang
Admission: CNY10

Baohua Mountain scenic area has become National Forest Park in the decade, and is one of the holly places of Buddism in China. Amongst the mountain, there is 1500-year-old Longchang Temple, which is the biggest place to initiate into monk hood at present. In the past not only 70% monks and nuns in China came here to be initiated into monk hood, but also many from Southeast Asia countries came here for pilgrimage and initiation. So the mountain is also called the No.1 mountain of Buddism discipline. Baohua Mountain has a wonderful view. The Temple is surrounded by the woods of ancient pines and green cypresses. “The mountain is like a lotus flower, the temple is at the center of it”. There are 9 profound grottos and 4 beautiful ponds in the mountain; you can also find the scarce Baohua magnolia.

Name: Zhenjiang Baohuashan National Forest Park (Baohuashan Guojia Senlin Gongyuan)
City: Zhenjiang
Address: West of Zhenjiang
Admission: CNY16

Zhenjiang Museum is a local historical and art museum in China. It is located in little Pier Street in Zhenjiang City of Jiangsu Province. The museum was built in 1958.
Zhenjiang Museum is the local artistic historical museum. The museum was constructed based on five Italian-style architectures that are located near the river and on the hill in the north of Mt Yuntai in Zhenjiang City. There is a collection of 30,000 articles of relics from Neolithic Age to the present. In addition, there are 92,804 articles of ancient books, including 532 articles of well edited book.
The museum has a total exhibition area of approximately 1,000square meters. There are two basic exhibition halls there namely “Zhenjiang area historical relics display hall” and the “revolutionary relic’s exhibition for Maoshan anti-Japanese base areas by New Fourth Army”.
Additionally, it also organizes small temporary and moving exhibition area, including “prime exhibition of Zhenjiang historic relic and “Southern Song Dynasty tomb relic’s exhibitions”.

Name: Zhenjiang Zhenjiang Museum
City: Zhenjiang
Address: in little Pier Street in Zhenjiang City of Jiangsu Province
Admission: Free

Songyuan Ancient Street is located in the north of Mt. Yuntaishan in the little Pier Street of Jiangxi Town. The length of Songyuan Ancient Street is approximately 1,000 meters and possessed more than 1,000 years of history. The buildings located on both sides of the road recorded the long history of Zhenjiang.

Name: Zhenjiang Songyuan Ancient Street
City: Zhenjiang
Address: in the north of Mt. Yuntaishan in the little Pier Street of Jiangxi Town
Admission: Free

The Zhao Qixia’s Residence distance is approximately 20 hours drive by car from Zhenjiang City. Zhao Qixia’s Residence is located in Qixia Garden of Dongyuan Village. The Dongyuan Village is situated at the foot of Liudong Mountain where it is surrounded by hills so the sight is very beautiful, the economy is flourishing and with quite developed culture. Zhao’s father and her ancestors lived here.

Zhao’s father, Zhao Qinghua once assumed the position of post office’s director, ministry of communications’ subaltern, Secretary of the State Department (1912-1949) and Members of the Senate, etc. Zhao’s residence, Qixia Garden was repaired and restored to its original look like brand new.

It was constructed in Huipai construction style (1644 – 1911), looking natural and graceful. The area is 1400 square meters. Zhao’s pedigree and things used both by Zhang Xueliang and her through their lives were displayed to visitors.

Name: Zhenjiang Zhao Qixia’s Residence (Zhao Sixiaojie Zuju)
City: Zhenjiang
Address:
Admission: Free

The South Suburb of Zhenjiang, as a provincial scenic spot as Nanjiao or the South Suburb lies 2.5 kilometers from the centre of Zhenjiang. It has a preserved area of 18 square kilometers and a developed area of 3.67 square kilometers. It comprised of hilly and wooded landscape and some historical sites. It is characterized by its deepness, serenity, brightness, beauty and primitive simplicity. Nanjiao is also called “Mountain Forest in the city”.
The history of Nanjiao could be traced and dated back to the Qin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty is believed to be the most flourishing. Since the Six Dynasties, men of scholars and celebrities from generations came here either to visit or to settle down. They created some well-known work pieces that turned into some precious relics. Altogether, there are over 160 types of trees and over 70 types of birds in Nanjiao, both outnumbering that of any other scenic spot on either side of the Shanghai-Nanjiao highway.

Name: Zhenjiang South Suburb Scenic Area (Nanjiao Fengjingqu)
City: Zhenjiang
Address: 2.5 kilometers from the centre of Zhenjiang
Admission: Free