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Tonghua 通化Tōnghuà
Goguryeo royal tombs on the Yalu, volcanic crater lakes and wild-grape wine
About Tonghua
Ji'an, on the Yalu River opposite the North Korean town of Manpo, was a capital of the Goguryeo kingdom, and its fortress cities and tombs, among them the stepped granite General's Tomb and the Gwanggaeto Stele of 414, joined the World Heritage list in 2004. Tonghua city is known for wine made from wild mountain grapes, and the Tonghua Winery, founded in 1937, keeps its old underground cellar. In the hills of Huinan, the Longwan lakes fill volcanic craters.
What to eat in Tonghua
- Tonghua mountain-grape wine (通化山葡萄酒)
Listed sites in Tonghua
22 sites in Tonghua are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Donggou Tombs and Gwanggaeto Stele, Ji'an 洞沟古墓群 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The largest group of Goguryeo tombs, spread along the valley of the Tonggou River around Ji'an and part of the town's UNESCO-listed Goguryeo sites and its 5A scenic area. - Baijifeng Forest Park, Tonghua 白鸡峰 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in the mountains south-east of Tonghua, centred on Baijifeng ('White Chicken Peak', 1,318 m), the highest peak in the city's surroundings. - China Mountain Wine Museum, Tonghua County 中国山葡萄酒博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A wine park in Kuaidamao, the seat of Tonghua County, run by the Tongtian wine company and centred on the China Mountain Wine Museum, which covers wines made from wild mountain grapes, a speciality of the Tonghua area. - City Living Room Riverside Park, Meihekou 城市客厅 4A scenic area · on the map
A landscaped riverside promenade along the Huifa River through central Meihekou, laid out as an urban wetland park with plazas, flights of steps down to the water and landscape bridges. - Daquanyuan Distillery and Baoquanyong Brewery 大泉源酒业宝泉涌酒坊 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A working liquor distillery in Daquanyuan township whose Qing-dynasty Baoquanyong brewery is a national heritage unit. - Hailong Lake Park, Meihekou 海龙湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A man-made lake park on the south-eastern edge of Meihekou, opened to the public in 2018 and covering about 109 ha, of which roughly 47 ha is water. - Jiguanshan Forest Park, Meihekou 鸡冠山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain forest park of about 15 km² in the Changbai Mountains foothills in the south-west of Meihekou, named for a peak shaped like a rooster's comb. - Longwan Crater Lakes, Huinan 吉林龙湾 4A scenic area
A group of volcanic crater lakes (maar lakes) in the Longgang mountains of Huinan County, protected as a national forest park and nature reserve. - Luotong Mountain Fortress, Liuhe 罗通山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A mountain scenic area in the north-east of Liuhe County, built around Luotong Mountain Fortress, a large stone-walled hill fort of the Goguryeo period that was reused under the Jin dynasty and is a national heritage unit. - Tongjia River Resort, Tonghua 佟佳江旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside leisure park on the south side of Tonghua, laid out as an urban park around a performance island with a theatre that seats 3,000. - Wunüfeng National Forest Park, Ji'an 五女峰 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain forest park north of Ji'an, named for a line of steep peaks said to resemble five women in green veils. - Yalu River Border Gate, Ji'an 鸭绿江国门 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area on the Yalu River at Ji'an, built around the border gate of the road crossing and the 1939 railway bridge, with the North Korean town of Manpo on the opposite bank. - Yang Jingyu Martyrs' Cemetery, Tonghua 杨靖宇烈士陵园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial park on a hillside beside the Hun River in Tonghua, laid out in the 1950s around the grave of Yang Jingyu, a commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, who is shown in a bronze statue at the centre of the grounds. - Zhenguo No. 1 Manor 振国壹号庄园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large estate on the shore of Yingebu Reservoir in the hills west of Tonghua, covering about 13 km² of forest, water and farmland and run by the Zhenguo pharmaceutical company. - Zhibei Village, Meihekou 知北村 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure village built in 2021–22 on the southern edge of Meihekou in the style of a 1970s north-eastern Chinese village, with 91 buildings holding shops, a tea house, restaurants, a guesthouse, a folk museum and an intangible-heritage hall. - Guonei City, Ji'an 国内城 National heritage site
The lowland capital of the Goguryeo kingdom for about four centuries until 427, now in the middle of Ji'an town and part of the UNESCO-listed Goguryeo sites and of Ji'an's 5A scenic area. - Northeast Bureau Meihekou Conference Site 中共中央东北局梅河口会议会址 National heritage site · on the map
A two-storey red-brick building put up in 1936 as a railway staff dormitory, where the Northeast Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Committee held a series of meetings in March and April 1946. - Qidaogou Victims' Memorial, Tonghua County 七道沟死难同胞纪念地 National heritage site · on the map
A memorial site at the former Qidaogou iron mine in Tonghua County, where miners who died while the mine was worked under Japanese control between 1938 and 1945 were buried. - Qingyun Cliff Inscription, Meihekou 庆云摩崖石刻 National heritage site · on the map
A Jin-dynasty inscription cut into a rock face near Qingyun village in Xiaoyang township, described in Meihekou's tourism handbook as one of only a few surviving texts in Jurchen script. - Tonghua Winery Underground Cellar 通化葡萄酒厂地下贮酒窖 National heritage site · on the map
The underground storage cellar of the Tonghua Winery, a works founded in 1937 that has made wine from the wild mountain grapes Tonghua is known for. - Wandu Mountain City, Ji'an 丸都山城 National heritage site
A Goguryeo mountain fortress above Ji'an, built as a military refuge for the lowland capital and used as a capital itself for a time; it is part of the UNESCO World Heritage site and of Ji'an's 5A scenic area. - Zi'an Mountain Fortress, Tonghua 自安山城 National heritage site · on the map
The ruins of a large hilltop fortress on a flat-topped hill where the Hani River meets the Hun River, on Tonghua's north-eastern edge.
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