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Jimingyi Post Station 鸡鸣驿城Jīmíngyì Chéng
National heritage site · Zhangjiakou, Hebei
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Zhangjiakou
- Region
- Hebei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Jimingyi Post Station
A walled Ming post station covering about 22 hectares, described as the largest surviving courier station in China, built in 1420 as a station on the Ming post road to the Xuanfu frontier and still lived in by villagers. Brick-faced earth walls about 11 m high, with corner platforms and 26 bastions, enclose a grid of lanes with the old station office, granary and horse-yard areas and seven small temples. Empress Dowager Cixi spent a night here in 1900 on her flight from Beijing, and the station was named twice, in 2004 and 2006, on the World Monuments Fund's watch list of endangered sites.
How to get to Jimingyi Post Station
In Jimingyi village, Huailai County, about 6 km south-south-east of Xiahuayuan North high-speed station and 2 km south-south-east of Jiming Mountain, reached by road.
Nearby
- Cuandixia Village 爨底下村 60 km
Ming and Qing courtyard houses stacked in tiers up a hillside in the western mountains - Longqing Gorge 龙庆峡 60 km
Boat rides between sheer cliffs in summer, a festival of lit ice sculptures in winter
Also within 20 km: Jiming Mountain 鸡鸣山 (under 10 km), Huanglong Mountain Resort 黄龙山庄 (10 km), Shacheng Liquor Culture Expo Park 沙城酒文化博览园 (20 km).
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