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Loudi 娄底Lóudǐ
Ziquejie's rice terraces, deep caves and Zeng Guofan's family mansion
About Loudi
Loudi is a working town of steel, coal and power in the hills of central Hunan, and nearby Lengshuijiang holds Xikuangshan, the world's largest known antimony deposit. In Xinhua to the west, the Ziquejie terraces climb the slopes layer upon layer, farmed for more than two thousand years, and the Meishan Longgong caves run deep into the limestone. In Shuangfeng, Fuhoutang is the family mansion of Zeng Guofan, the Qing statesman who raised the Xiang Army against the Taiping.
Listed sites in Loudi
11 sites in Loudi are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Cai Hesen Memorial Hall 蔡和森纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial museum in Shuangfeng town to Cai Hesen (1895–1931), an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party and friend of Mao Zedong who argued for the Bolshevik approach from France and was executed in 1931, and to his family. - Daxiongshan National Forest Park 大熊山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain forest park in northern Xinhua whose peaks include Jiulong Feng (1,622 m), the highest in central Hunan, and Daxiong Feng (1,602 m), with gorges, waterfalls, old forest and more than 40 summits over 1,000 m. - Former Residence of Cai Hesen and Cai Chang 蔡和森、蔡畅故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Guangjia Hall, a late-Qing brick-and-timber farmhouse in Yangqiu village, Jingzi town, where the family of the early Communist leader Cai Hesen (1895–1931) settled in 1899 and where his sister Cai Chang, later first chair of the All-China Women's Federation, was born in 1900. - Former Residence of Zeng Guofan 曾国藩故居 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The family seat of Zeng Guofan (1811–1872), the Qing statesman whose Xiang Army put down the Taiping Rebellion, at Heye in eastern Shuangfeng. - Longshan National Forest Park 龙山 4A scenic area
A forested range on Lianyuan's southern border, a national forest park since 2007 centred on Yueping Peak (1,513 m), with forest cover of over 90% and seven scenic sections, among them the Feishuiya waterfall valley. - Meijiang Scenic Area 湄江 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst national geopark of about 128 km² along the winding Mei River in north-western Lianyuan, opened to visitors from 1992: sheer limestone walls known as the Ten-li Painted Wall, the Three Rock Gates, natural bridges, two lakes, waterfalls and caves such as Xianren Cave, which stays at about 25°C and has a waterfall inside. - Meishan Longgong Cave 梅山龙宫 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst cave system by the Zi River in Youxi township, formed where the Taoxi stream sinks into the hills, with galleries stacked through some 80 m of height: flowstone and stalactites above, helictites and 'frost' crystals on old river sands, a great rubble pile called the Golden Mountain in the Water and stalagmite forests below. - Sanliandong Scenic Area 三联峒 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area of gorges and ridges in Sanliandong village, Weishan township, in Xinhua County. - Ziquejie Rice Terraces 紫鹊界梯田 4A scenic area · on the map
Rice terraces covering tens of thousands of mu on the mountains of Shuiche and Fengjia towns in western Xinhua, farmed for more than 2,000 years and watered entirely by natural seepage and spring flow, with no ponds or dams. - Long March HQ of the Red 2nd Army Corps, Fengjia 红二军团长征司令部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
A house called Zhuyuan in Shangtuan village, Fengjia town, where the Red 2nd Army Corps under He Long, some 9,000 troops, set up its headquarters after reaching Fengjia on 12 December 1935, a few weeks into the Long March that the 2nd and 6th Corps had begun from Sangzhi. - Xinhua North Pagoda 新化北塔 National heritage site · on the map
A seven-storey octagonal pagoda about 42 m tall, begun in 1834 on Huilong Hill on the west bank of the Zi River at Xinhua town.
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