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Qu Yuan's Hometown, Zigui 屈原故里Qū Yuán Gùlǐ
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Yichang, Hubei
- Time needed
- 2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yichang
- Region
- Hubei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Qu Yuan's Hometown, Zigui
Qu Yuan's Hometown is a tourist area on Phoenix Hill beside the Yangtze at Maoping, built around the Fenghuangshan Ancient Buildings, a national heritage group of Qing-dynasty buildings moved here because their original sites in Zigui were to be flooded by the Gezhouba and Three Gorges reservoirs. The 24 buildings, four bridges, two city gates, an archway and a well include ancestral halls, river-god temples, a multi-storey pavilion and the Qu Yuan Temple, which honours the poet Qu Yuan, a native of Zigui. The hill lies less than 2 km from the Three Gorges Dam in a straight line and gives views of it; the area is the second part of the joint 5A Three Gorges Dam and Qu Yuan's Hometown tourist area.
How to get to Qu Yuan's Hometown, Zigui
On Fenghuangshan hill in Maoping, the new Zigui county town beside the Three Gorges Dam, about 30 km west-north-west of central Yichang in a straight line.
Nearby
- Three Gorges Dam 三峡大坝 under 10 km
The Yangtze's mega-dam, seen from hilltop lookouts and a ship lift that raises whole boats
Also within 20 km: Yangjiawan Old House 杨家湾老屋 (under 10 km), Huangling Temple 黄陵庙 (under 10 km), Wudieshui Grand Canyon (Three Gorges Bamboo Sea), Zigui 五叠水大峡谷 (10 km), Jiuwanxi Scenic Area, Zigui 九畹溪景区 (20 km), Shipai Fortress 石牌要塞 (20 km), Three Gorges Tribe 三峡人家 (20 km).
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