Wuhu 芜湖Wúhú

About Wuhu

Wuhu grew up where the Qingyi River joins the Yangtze, and after 1877 it became one of China's four great rice markets. Opened as a treaty port in 1876, it keeps the Old Wuhu Customs House, the Former British Consulate and St. Joseph Cathedral near the river, while Guangji Temple on Zheshan hill is known as 'Little Jiuhua'. Local smiths still forge iron pictures, a craft on China's first national list of intangible heritage, and Fantawild Resort adds a cluster of theme parks.

What to eat in Wuhu

• Shrimp-roe noodles (虾籽面)
• Wuhu soup dumplings (小笼汤包)
• Wuwei smoked duck (无为板鸭)

Listed sites in Wuhu

19 sites in Wuhu are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Fantawild Resort, Wuhu 芜湖方特 5A scenic area · on the map
  A cluster of Fantawild theme parks in Jiujiang District on Wuhu's north-eastern side, run by the Huaqiang Fantawild group.
• Dapu Rural World 大浦乡村世界 4A scenic area · on the map
  An agricultural tourism park at Dapu in Xuzhen town, northern Nanling County, that mixes flower fields and farm displays with family amusements.
• Jiuzi Ancient Town 鸠兹古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
  A newly built old-style town in Jiujiang District, developed by the Xinhualian group around the theme of the Huizhou merchants and put up by craftsmen in hand-worked Huizhou style.
• Jiuzi Scenic Area (Mirror Lake) 鸠兹风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
  Wuhu's central lakeside district, made up of Jiuzi Square, Mirror Lake Park and the Zhongshan Road pedestrian street; Jiuzi is the city's ancient name.
• Maren Qifeng 马仁奇峰 4A scenic area · on the map
  A forested range of limestone peaks rising to 316 m in Suncun town, where Fanchang meets Nanling and Tongling, protected as a national forest park and national geopark.
• Shanshuijian Red Tourism Area 红色山水涧 4A scenic area · on the map
  A rural scenic area in Hongmiao town, north-western Wuwei, built around the former headquarters of the Communist-led New Fourth Army's 7th Division, which fought in the Wanjiang region along the Yangtze during the war against Japan.
• Taoxin Shuiyun Water Country 陶辛水韵 4A scenic area · on the map
  A water-country landscape around Taoxin town in Wanzhi District, between the Qingyi and Qing'an rivers, where an old grid of waterways is lined with large lotus fields.
• Wang Jiaxiang Memorial Park 王稼祥纪念园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A memorial garden built in 1986 on Shizi Hill in central Wuhu, in the grounds of the former St James Middle School, an Anglican mission school where the Communist leader Wang Jiaxiang (1906–1974) studied in 1924–25.
• Yugeng Hill Cultural Park 雨耕山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
  A small hill beside the Catholic cathedral in central Wuhu whose mission buildings were turned in 2013 into a cultural and creative park with a wine theme.
• Zhenshui Guanxiang Water Village 枕水官巷 4A scenic area · on the map
  Guanxiang is an old village in Liulang town, Wanzhi District, ringed by ponds planted with lotus and water lilies; the Tao family genealogy records 13 imperial officials from the village after the Song, whose private lanes gave it the name 'Officials' Lanes'.
• Zheshan Park 赭山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
  A wooded hill park in the middle of Wuhu covering the two summits of Zheshan, named for its reddish-brown rock; the higher peak is 84.8 m and has long been the place to look out over the city and the Yangtze.
• Fanchang Kiln Archaeological Park 繁昌窑遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  A kiln site of the Five Dynasties and Northern Song on the northern slopes of Ruomaojian and Zhuizishan hills, just south of Fanchang town, which specialised in bluish-white qingbai porcelain fired one piece to a saggar.
• Former British Consulate, Wuhu 英驻芜领事署旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  After the 1876 Chefoo Convention opened Wuhu as a treaty port, Britain built its consulate on Fanluo Hill above the Yangtze: the hilltop office of 1877 is a two-storey colonial building with arcaded verandahs on three sides, grey brick banded with red and a hipped iron roof.
• Former Residence of Dai Anlan 戴安澜故居 National heritage site · on the map
  The family home of Dai Anlan (1904–1942), a Nationalist army major general who commanded the 200th Division in the battles of Kunlun Pass and Toungoo and died of wounds in May 1942 while withdrawing from Burma.
• Guangji Temple, Wuhu 广济寺 National heritage site
  A Buddhist temple on the south-western slope of Zheshan hill in central Wuhu, founded in the 890s and long called 'Little Jiuhua' because pilgrims bound for Mount Jiuhua stopped here first to venerate a gold seal of the bodhisattva Dizang said to date from 757.
• Huangjin Pagoda 黄金塔 National heritage site · on the map
  A Northern Song pagoda, dated in the county heritage register to 998, that stands beside the West River in Fenghe village on the edge of Wuwei's main town.
• Old Wuhu Customs House 老芜湖海关旧址 National heritage site · on the map
  Wuhu's customs office, opened in 1877 after the Chefoo Convention made the city a treaty port, moved in 1919 into this building on the Yangtze waterfront, now inside Binjiang Park.
• Renzidong Palaeolithic Site 人字洞遗址 National heritage site · on the map
  A fossil-bearing cave site on the southern slope of Laili Hill in Suncun town, Fanchang, discovered in 1998 and dated to the early Pleistocene, about 2.2–2.56 million years ago.
• St. Joseph Cathedral, Wuhu 芜湖天主堂 National heritage site
  A large Romanesque-style Catholic church on Heer Hill above the Yangtze in central Wuhu, built by French Jesuits: the first church was burned shortly before completion in the Wuhu riot of 1891, and the present building was finished in 1895 with the indemnity money.

On the map

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