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Ziyang Embankment 紫阳堤Zǐyáng Dī
National heritage site · Jiujiang, Jiangxi
- Time needed
- Under 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jiujiang
- Region
- Jiangxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Ziyang Embankment
A curved stone embankment about a kilometre long on the western shore of Poyang Lake, at the southern end of Ziyang South Road in Nankang, the seat of Lushan City. It was extended in 1179 by the neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi while he was prefect of Nankang, and is named after his pen name Ziyang. Built of stacked stone blocks 7–8 m wide, it has stone bridges to the shore and arched openings that let fishing boats pass through.
How to get to Ziyang Embankment
At the southern end of Ziyang South Road in Nankang, the town at the centre of Lushan City, about 26 km south-south-east of Jiujiang.
Nearby
- Mount Lushan 庐山 10 km
Misty peaks, waterfalls and a hill station of stone villas above the Yangtze
Also within 20 km: Xiufeng Scenic Area 秀峰 (under 10 km), White Deer Grotto Academy 白鹿洞书院 (under 10 km), Guanyin Bridge 观音桥 (under 10 km), Tangtaizong Hot Spring Resort, Lushan 汤太宗温泉 (10 km), Tianmu Hot Spring Resort, Lushan 庐山天沐温泉 (10 km).
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