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Listed sites in Shaanxi 陕西
266 scenic areas and heritage sites from the official lists, by city. 43 have a page of their own; the rest open as cards on the map.
The A-level rating is the national grading of scenic areas, 5A being the top tier; national heritage sites are the buildings, ruins, tombs and carvings protected by the State Council. Both lists are on the lists page.
5A scenic areas in Shaanxi
- Hukou Waterfalls (Shaanxi side) 壶口瀑布 5A scenic area
The largest waterfall on the Yellow River, where the river is squeezed from a bed several hundred metres wide into a narrow rock trough and plunges into it in a roar of brown water and spray; the 'teapot spout' (hukou) shape gives the falls their name. - Jinsi Gorge (Jinsixia) 金丝峡 5A scenic area · on the map
A system of narrow, steep-walled limestone gorges on the southern side of the Qinling in Shangnan County, made up of the White Dragon, Black Dragon and Green Dragon gorges, Shiyan Stockade and the Danjiang source area, with a combined gorge length of 20.5 km. - Qiankun Bay 乾坤湾 5A scenic area
A great looping meander of the Yellow River in the Shanxi–Shaanxi canyon at Yanchuan, promoted as the 'first bend of the Yellow River' and part of the Yellow River Meanders national geopark. - Yan'an Revolutionary Sites 延安革命纪念地 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The compounds where the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee lived and worked while it was based in Yan'an from January 1937 to March 1947 are spread across the city: the cave dwellings, offices and assembly halls of Yangjialing, where the party's Seventh National Congress met in 1945, Zaoyuan (Date Garden), Wangjiaping, Fenghuang Hill and the former Northwest Bureau.
By city
Ankang (19) · Baoji (22) · Hanzhong (24) · Shangluo (15) · Tongchuan (13) · Weinan (37) · Xi'an (50) · Xianyang (32) · Yan'an (26) · Yulin (28)
Ankang 19 sites
- Feidu Gorge and Huang'anba 飞渡峡·黄安坝 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area on the northern slopes of the Daba Mountains in Shuping town, at the southern tip of Ankang where Shaanxi borders Chongqing, combining the Feidu River gorge with the Huang'anba upland pastures. - Fengyan Ancient Terraces 凤堰古梯田 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Hillside rice terraces in Xuanwo town, Hanyin County, made up of the Fengjiang and Yanping terrace systems and described as the largest and best-preserved Qing-dynasty terraces found in the Qinling–Daba region. - Guiguling (Yunwu Mountain) 鬼谷岭 4A scenic area · on the map
The highest mountain in Shiquan County, also called Yunwu Mountain and protected as a national forest park, where the Warring States strategist Guiguzi is said to have taught his disciples. - Nangong Mountain National Forest Park 南宫山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of 7,648 ha in eastern Langao County, described by the provincial government as the first in Shaanxi, whose three-peaked summit, Jinding, reaches 2,267 m. - Qianceng River Scenic Area 千层河 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested river valley in Hengxi town in the far south of Langao County, in the Daba Mountains. - Qinba Culture and Ecology Park, Ankang High-tech Zone 秦巴文化生态旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A belt of public parks of about 67 ha in the core of Ankang's High-tech Zone, west of the city centre, made up of a sports park, Beichen Park and a culture park. - Shaanxi–Gansu Tea-Horse Road and Wafangdian Guild Halls 陕甘茶马古道 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A scenic area at Wafangdian in Xiangyang town, where the Zhu and Ren rivers meet west of Ziyang town, built around the Qing guild halls of the merchants of the old tea trade, together with a tea-hill trail and a small tea garden. - Shiquan Old Town 石泉古城 4A scenic area · on the map
The historic core of Shiquan town on the Han River, with the Yuwang Palace, a temple to Yu the Great first built in the Tang, and a cluster of Ming and Qing buildings including the old county yamen, the Jiangxi guild hall and the east and west gates. - Shuanghekou Ancient Town 双河口古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A small market town in the hills of northern Hanyin County, founded in the early Ming about 600 years ago where the Loufang and Lishu rivers meet, and long the trading and transport centre of the area. - Shuanglong Scenic Area 双龙景区 4A scenic area · on the map
A dragon-themed scenic area in Shuanglong town, southern Hanbin District, where a 5.6 km loop links Longtan Gorge, Xianglong Valley, the Youlong waterfall, the Qinglong stockade and the Yulong Palace. - Shuhe Ancient Town 蜀河古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
An old Han River port 53 km east of Xunyang town, where the Shu River joins the Han, nicknamed 'Little Hankou' for its river trade. - Taohuaxi (Peach Blossom Creek) 桃花溪 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded creek valley in Tielu village, Guangfo town, about 15 km from Pingli town. - Tianbao Terraced Farm Park 天宝梯彩农园 4A scenic area · on the map
An agri-tourism park in Tianbao village, Cangshang town, in western Baihe County, built around hillsides of stone-walled terraced fields presented as 'land art'. - Tianshu Gorge 天书峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge in Baxian town at the southern end of Pingli County, on the Chongqing border and within the Qianjiaping national forest park, with old forest, waterfalls and mid-mountain meadows. - Tongchewan Leisure Scenic Area 筒车湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A 12 km² river-and-forest leisure area on the Wenshui River in Tongchewan town, on the southern slopes of the Qinling in Ningshan County, with streams, falls, springs and pools under more than 90% forest cover. - Yanshan Waterfalls 雁山瀑布 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded valley in Xihe town, southern Shiquan County, where a stream drops more than 300 m in 13 steps, forming 47 waterfalls and 36 pools. - Yanxiang Cave 燕翔洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A natural limestone cave system in Yundou town on the Han River in southern Shiquan County, of which about 1.6 km has been opened to visitors. - Yinghu Lake 瀛湖 4A scenic area
The reservoir behind the Ankang Dam on the Han River, about 15 km south-west of central Ankang, with some 77 km² of water and nearly a hundred islands and peninsulas; it is an important source area for the central route of the South–North Water Diversion. - Zhongba Grand Canyon 中坝大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A 21 km² canyon scenic area in Houliu town, Shiquan County, of cliffs, stacked boulders, mountain springs and thick bamboo and woodland.
Baoji 22 sites
- Changleyuan Wartime Industrial Site (Shenxin Cotton Mill) 长乐塬抗战工业遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Remains of the Shenxin cotton mill that the Rong family's textile firm moved from Hankou to Baoji in 1938, during the war against Japan. - East Lake, Fengxiang 凤翔东湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake garden on the south-east edge of Fengxiang town that grew from an old pond called Yinfeng Chi ('Phoenix Drinking Pool'). - Feng County Revolutionary Memorial Hall 凤县革命纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial hall in Fengzhou opened in 2016 on the county's twentieth-century political history. - Fumei Campaign Memorial Hall 扶眉战役纪念馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial hall and martyrs' cemetery at Changxing in Mei County for the Fumei Campaign of 10–14 July 1949, in which the People's Liberation Army defeated Hu Zongnan's Nationalist forces in the Wei valley between Fufeng and Mei County. - Guanshan Grassland 关山草原 4A scenic area · on the map
An upland of alpine meadow and forest in the Guanshan mountains on the Shaanxi–Gansu border, at Guanshan village in Tiancheng town, south-west Long County. - Jintai Taoist Temple 金台观 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A Taoist temple complex founded in the late Yuan or early Ming dynasty on the loess terrace above central Baoji, known through the tradition that Zhang Sanfeng, legendary founder of the Wudang school and of taijiquan, practised here. - Jiulong Mountain, Chencang 九龙山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in western Chencang District whose nine converging peaks are said to resemble nine dragons, with red-sandstone Danxia cliffs rising to 1,910 m and forest. - Longmen Cave (Longmendong) 龙门洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A Taoist mountain sanctuary in Xinjichuan town north-west of Long County, where the Quanzhen master Qiu Chuji spent seven years in retreat in the late 12th century; the Longmen (Dragon Gate) school of Taoism, which honours him as its patriarch, takes its name from the place. - Palace of Nine Perfections (Jiucheng Palace) 九成宫 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Remains of a Sui and Tang summer palace in Linyou town: Emperor Wen of Sui built the Renshou Palace here in 593–595, Tang Taizong rebuilt it as the Jiucheng (Nine Perfections) Palace in 631, and a flood destroyed it in 836. - Qingfeng Gorge National Forest Park 青峰峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in a Qinling gorge near Taochuan in Taibai County, with dense forest, streams and the Qingfeng Waterfall. - Red River Valley Forest Park 红河谷森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park in Yingtou town, Mei County, on the north slopes of the Qinling below the main peak of Mount Taibai. - Shuicheng Three Kingdoms Town 水城·三国小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern tourist town at Caijiapo in southern Qishan County, built in old style around canals and ponds on a Three Kingdoms theme. - Temple of the Duke of Zhou (Zhou Culture Scenic Area) 周公庙 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A temple to the Duke of Zhou, the royal regent who helped consolidate the early Zhou kingdom, at the foot of Fenghuang Hill north-west of Qishan town; its present halls date from the Ming and Qing dynasties. - Tongtianhe National Forest Park 通天河国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of wooded mountains and streams in the Qinling range of northern Feng County, in Tangzang town. - Xiaozai Temple 消灾寺 4A scenic area · on the map
A Buddhist temple complex on Douji Hill at Fengzhou, facing the old town of Fengzhou across the river. - Beishouling Neolithic Site 北首岭遗址 National heritage site
A Neolithic village site of about 6 ha on a terrace on the west bank of the Jinling River in northern Baoji, occupied from about 5100 to 3790 BC. - Cishan Temple Grottoes 慈善寺石窟 National heritage site · on the map
A Buddhist cave temple about 5 km east of Linyou town, begun in the Renshou era of the Sui (early 600s), when the court summered at the nearby palace, and extended under the Tang. - Fufeng City God Temple (Fufeng County Museum) 扶风城隍庙 National heritage site · on the map
A City God temple in the centre of Fufeng town, founded in 1370 and enlarged and restored through the Ming and Qing, which now houses the Fufeng County Museum. - Taiping Temple Pagoda, Qishan 太平寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda built in 1088 under the Northern Song, about 28 m tall, the sole survivor of Taiping Temple in Qishan town. - Tomb of Li Maozhen, Prince of Qin 大唐秦王陵 National heritage site · on the map
The tombs of Li Maozhen (856–924), a late-Tang warlord who ruled the state of Qi from Fengxiang and was made Prince of Qin in the year he died, and of his wife Lady Liu: two separate tombs in one precinct, excavated in 1999 and 2001. - Yongcheng Site and Tomb of Duke Jing of Qin 秦雍城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Yongcheng, in present-day Fengxiang, was the capital of the state of Qin for more than two centuries from 677 BC; its walled city, palace and temple sites and the cemetery of the Qin dukes lie mostly beneath farmland. - Zhouyuan Site and Baoji Zhouyuan Museum 周原遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The Zhouyuan plain at the foot of Mount Qi was the homeland and early capital of the Zhou people and remained a political and ritual centre through the Western Zhou; the site covers about 30 km² across Fufeng and Qishan counties.
Hanzhong 24 sites
- Changqing Huayang Scenic Area 长青华阳 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area around Huayang, an old post town on the Tangluo road across the Qinling that keeps Ming- and Qing-era buildings, beside the Changqing National Nature Reserve at an average altitude of about 1,700 m. - Crested Ibis Pear Garden 朱鹮梨园 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area on the edge of Yang County town that combines pear orchards with the Crested Ibis Ecological Park, a rescue and breeding centre for the endangered crested ibis. - Foping Panda Valley 佛坪熊猫谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A wildlife park in a forested valley north of Foping town, on a corridor used by the Qinling giant panda population and close to the Foping National Nature Reserve. - Hanjiang Source Scenic Area 汉江源 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested valley in Ningqiang County where the Yudai River, regarded as the source of the Han River, rises among wooded hills and streams, with mist and ice in winter. - Liping National Forest Park 黎坪国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in the Daba and Micang mountains near the Sichuan border south of Hanzhong, with primeval forest, gorges and waterfalls along the Yudai and Xiliu rivers and extensive stands of Bashan pine. - Longtou Mountain 龙头山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain resort in the Micang range on the Sichuan border south of Hanzhong, on limestone riddled with caves and sinkholes, with viewpoints and sights such as Hanwang Terrace, Fairy Cave and the Longtou waterfall. - Luojiaba Old Town 骆家坝古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A small market town at the head of the Muma River, at the northern foot of the Micang Mountains, whose old riverside street has been rebuilt in traditional style. - Shimen Plank Road Scenic Area 石门栈道 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area at the mouth of the Bao valley, where the Baoxie road, the oldest of the plank roads across the Qinling to Sichuan, came out onto the Hanzhong plain and where the Eastern Han cut the Shimen ('Stone Gate') tunnel through the cliff. - Tomb of Zhang Qian 张骞墓 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The tomb of Zhang Qian, the Han envoy whose journeys to Central Asia in the 2nd century BC opened the routes later called the Silk Road, and since 2014 part of the UNESCO World Heritage site 'Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor'. - Tomb of Zhuge Liang 武侯墓 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The tomb of Zhuge Liang, chancellor of the Shu Han kingdom in the Three Kingdoms period, who asked to be buried below Mount Dingjun after he died on campaign in 234. - Wuhou Temple, Mian County 勉县武侯祠 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The oldest of China's many temples to Zhuge Liang, founded in 263 on the order of the last Shu Han emperor, Liu Shan, near the strategist's burial place below Mount Dingjun. - Wulongdong National Forest Park 五龙洞国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of forested mountains and valleys in Wulongdong town, northern Lueyang County, made up of the Wulong Valley, the Qinglong and Bailong gullies, the Sanfo Temple area and a Di-Qiang folk village. - Wuzi Mountain 午子山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded hill a little over 10 km south-east of Xixiang town, covered by some 200 hectares of lacebark pine, a rare tree with mottled pale bark. - Xinghan Shengjing 兴汉胜境 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern culture park built in Han-dynasty style around Hanyuan Lake in Hanzhong's Xinghan New Area, with a large Han Culture Museum, the Han Yuefu hall of Han-style music and banquets, a city planning exhibition hall and two streets of shops and restaurants. - Zhandao Water World 栈道水世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside water park at Daoshuiwan in Wuguanyi town, in the Qinling valleys of Liuba County, with a wave pool, large water slides, a lazy river and children's water play areas, themed on the ancient plank roads of the area. - Zhang Liang Temple and Zibai Mountain 张良庙·紫柏山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A large Ming and Qing temple complex at the south-eastern foot of Zibai Mountain in the Qinling, dedicated to Zhang Liang, the strategist who helped Liu Bang found the Han dynasty and who, by tradition, retired here as a recluse. - Former Site of National Northwest Associated University 国立西北联合大学旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Three wartime sites of the National Northwest Associated University, which was formed in 1938 from universities that had moved west from Beiping and Tianjin and whose colleges taught in Chenggu County until 1946. - Hanzhong Museum (Gu Hantai) 汉中市博物馆 National heritage site · on the map
Hanzhong's city museum occupies Gu Hantai, the raised terrace where Liu Bang is said to have lived as King of Han before founding the Han dynasty, crowned by the Wangjiang Tower. - Juehuang Hall, Liangma Temple 良马寺觉皇殿 National heritage site · on the map
The Juehuang Hall of Liangma Temple, a five-bay brick-and-timber hall with a hip-and-gable roof and double tiers of bracket sets, built in 1261 under the Yuan dynasty. - Kaiming Temple Pagoda 开明寺塔 National heritage site
A 13-storey brick pagoda about 27 m tall in Yang County town, built in the Tang dynasty in the early 8th century and repaired under the Southern Song, and regarded as the oldest brick pagoda in southern Shaanxi. - Lingyan Temple, Lueyang 灵岩寺 National heritage site · on the map
A temple of Tang origin on Yuwen Hill above the east bank of the Jialing River just south of Lueyang town, with halls built into two natural caves, now a museum of more than 140 inscribed steles and cliff carvings. - Tomb and Temple of Cai Lun 蔡伦墓祠 National heritage site · on the map
The burial place of Cai Lun, the Eastern Han court official who presented an improved method of papermaking to the emperor in 105 and was later made Marquis of Longting, the town where his tomb lies. - Wumen Weir 五门堰 National heritage site · on the map
A working irrigation weir on the Xu River north of Chenggu, said to date back to the Han and named after the five gated intakes at its head; its rock-cut channel through Doushan hill was made under the Yuan and widened under the Ming by heating the stone with fire and cracking it with water. - Zhiguo Temple 智果寺 National heritage site · on the map
A temple west of Yang County town whose surviving building is a two-storey Ming sutra library roofed in yellow and green glazed tiles.
Shangluo 15 sites
- Jinsi Gorge (Jinsixia) 金丝峡 5A scenic area · on the map
A system of narrow, steep-walled limestone gorges on the southern side of the Qinling in Shangnan County, made up of the White Dragon, Black Dragon and Green Dragon gorges, Shiyan Stockade and the Danjiang source area, with a combined gorge length of 20.5 km. - Danjiang River Rafting 丹江漂流 4A scenic area · on the map
A commercial rafting trip on the Dan River (Danjiang) at Danfeng, in which visitors drift in rafts down a stretch of the river valley between the Qinling hills. - Dihua Ancient Town 棣花古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area opened in 2014 at Dihua, an old post station on the Shangyu road about 15 km west of Danfeng and the home village of the novelist Jia Pingwa. - Manchuan Ancient Town (Manchuanguan) 漫川古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An old trading town at the south-eastern tip of Shaanxi on the border with Hubei, which grew from the Eastern Jin onwards as a river-and-road transfer point between the Qin lands to the north and Chu to the south. - Moon Cave (Yueliang Dong) 月亮洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone show cave halfway up a hillside above the Jinqian River in Yangdi town, south-western Shanyang County, at the heart of a scenic area that also takes in the Jiashi Gorge. - Muwang National Forest Park 木王国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of 3,616 ha in the far west of Zhen'an County, designated in 2003, with old-growth forest, high-mountain wetland, rhododendron groves, peaks and rock formations. - Niubeiliang National Forest Park 牛背梁国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park on the main ridge of the Qinling in Zhashui County, named after its ox-back-shaped summit and rising from about 1,000 m to 2,802 m. - Qinling Jiangshan Scenic Area 秦岭江山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest scenic area of about 2,400 ha in Yaoshi town in the north of Shangzhou District, near the source of the Dan River, with more than 90% forest cover. - Taohua Valley, Zhulinguan 桃花谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A valley at Zhulinguan near where Shaanxi, Henan and Hubei meet, developed around soil-and-water-conservation works and described by the city government as Shangluo's largest peach-blossom viewing area. - Tayun Mountain 塔云山 4A scenic area · on the map
A pagoda-shaped peak in Chaiping town, south-west of Zhen'an town, crowned by a group of Daoist temple buildings more than 500 years old. - Tianpeng Mountain Stronghold (Tianpeng Shanzhai) 天蓬山寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in south-western Shanyang County, named after a 6 km gorge between the Yintai and Dingjia ridges and a stone stronghold (shanzhai) about 300 m long, from the Ming–Qing period, on the Yintai ridge above it. - Tianzhu Mountain (Shanyang) 天竺山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of steep crags and pinnacles about 30 km south-east of Shanyang town, rising to 2,074 m; its best-known sights are the free-standing rock pillar called Tianzhu Moxiao, the knife-edge Daobeiliang ridge and seas of cloud after rain. - Yangchengyi Scenic Area 阳城驿 4A scenic area · on the map
A themed scenic area in Fushui town, just east of Shangnan town, built around Yangcheng post station on the old Shangyu road and the late-Ming rebel leader Li Zicheng, who is said to have camped in the nearby hills. - Yungaisi Ancient Town 云盖寺古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
An old market town on the river 18 km west of Zhen'an town, named after Yungai Temple, a once-large monastery rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties. - Zhashui Karst Caves 柞水溶洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A cluster of more than a hundred limestone caves in Xialiang town, Zhashui County, set among gorges and waterfalls.
Tongchuan 13 sites
- Chenlu Ancient Town 陈炉古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside pottery town south-east of central Tongchuan, the one Yaozhou-ware kiln centre that kept making ceramics after the Song and Yuan dynasties, where by local tradition the kiln fires have never gone out. - Huaxi Valley, Yijun 动漫花溪谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A flower-garden park on the edge of Yijun town, planted with herbaceous peonies, a medicinal-herb valley and bamboo, with windmills, a play castle and other attractions for children, a 100 m slide and a toboggan run of about 1 km. - Jinsuoguan Stone Forest 金锁关石林 4A scenic area · on the map
A sandstone landscape in the hills of Jinsuoguan, north of central Tongchuan, where rockfalls and weathering have left a maze of pillars, cliffs and boulders, unusual on the plateau north of the Wei River. - Xishan Shengjing 溪山胜境 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded valley of red Danxia sandstone cliffs at Zhaojin, said to be the landscape behind Travellers among Mountains and Streams, the famous painting by the Northern Song artist Fan Kuan. - Yaowang Mountain 药王山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A temple-covered hill just east of Yaozhou town where the Tang physician Sun Simiao, revered as the 'King of Medicine', is said to have lived in retreat, with Jin- and Yuan-era halls, Yuan murals and a memorial hall on his life and on Chinese medicine. - Yaozhou Kiln Museum 耀州窑博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The site museum of the Yaozhou kilns at Huangbao, which from the Tang to the Yuan made what is generally regarded as the finest northern celadon, prized in the Northern Song for its olive-green glaze over carved and later moulded decoration. - Yuhua Palace 玉华宫 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A forested valley in the north of Tongchuan where Emperor Taizong of Tang completed the Yuhua summer palace in 647; it was turned into a monastery in 651, and the pilgrim-monk Xuanzang spent his last years here translating Buddhist scriptures. - Zhaojin and Xiangshan 照金·香山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Zhaojin, in the red Danxia sandstone hills west of Tongchuan, was the centre of the Shaanxi–Gansu Border revolutionary base set up in the early 1930s by Communist leaders including Liu Zhidan and Xie Zichang; its sites include the cliff caves of Xuejiazhai, used as Red Army strongholds, a memorial hall on the base's history first opened in 2004 and rebuilt in 2013, and an immersive light show on the Xuejiazhai battle. - Chongxing Temple Pagoda 重兴寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A seven-storey hexagonal brick pagoda about 16 m high, built in the Northern Song and the only surviving part of Chongxing Temple, known locally as the Tongchuan Pagoda. - Shende Temple Pagoda 神德寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A nine-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 35 m tall below the Bushou plateau on the northern edge of Yaozhou town, built in the Song dynasty and repaired under the Ming and Qing. - Yanchang Temple Pagoda 延昌寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A hexagonal Song-dynasty brick pagoda with close-set eaves, the only building left standing at Yanchang Temple, which by legend was founded by a Northern Wei princess who modelled ten thousand Buddha figures here, hence its other name, Wanfo (Ten Thousand Buddhas) Temple. - Yaozhou Confucian Temple 耀州文庙 National heritage site · on the map
Yaozhou's Confucian temple, founded in the Northern Song and rebuilt and repaired under the Yuan, Ming and Qing, keeps its Lingxing Gate, Ji Gate, side halls and a seven-bay Dacheng Hall whose roof frame preserves Jin and Yuan building features. - Yijun Grottoes 宜君石窟群 National heritage site · on the map
A group of small Buddhist cave temples and cliff carvings from the Northern Dynasties to the Tang scattered across Yijun County, among them Huashiya, whose earliest caves were cut in the early 6th century, and the Fudi Grotto.
Weinan 37 sites
- Fengtu Charity Granary 丰图义仓 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A walled charity granary at Chaoyi, begun in 1882 at the urging of the Qing minister Yan Jingming, a native of the town, after the Guanzhong famine of 1877, and still used to store state grain. - Fuping Ceramic Art Village (FLICAM) 富平陶艺村 4A scenic area · on the map
A ceramics-themed village on the northern edge of Fuping town, built around the FuLe International Ceramic Art Museums (FLICAM). - Liangdai Village Rui State Site Museum 梁带村芮国遗址博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
The site museum of the cemetery of Rui, a small Zhou-dynasty state on the Yellow River conquered by Qin in the 7th century BC, where excavations from 2004 found more than 1,300 tombs and 64 chariot-and-horse pits. - Lingao Lake 林皋湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A reservoir lake of about 2,200 mu (150 ha) in the loess uplands of northern Weinan, designated a national wetland park and promoted by Baishui county as the 'Lingao Lake International Slow City'. - Longmen Iron and Steel Works 龙门钢铁景区 4A scenic area · on the map
The working plant of Shaanxi Longmen Iron and Steel at Longmen, opened to visitors as an industrial tourism site on the theme of how steel is made. - Qiachuan Scenic Area 洽川 4A scenic area · on the map
A national scenic area of reed beds, lotus ponds and warm springs on the Yellow River floodplain east of Heyang. - Qiaoling Mausoleum 桥陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The mausoleum of the Tang emperor Ruizong (Li Dan), whose burial chamber was cut into Feng Mountain north-west of Pucheng, with a walled precinct built around the hill. - Shaohua Mountain National Forest Park 少华山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park on the northern slopes of the Qinling Mountains south-east of Huazhou, named Shaohua ('Lesser Hua') as the smaller neighbour of Mount Hua further east. - Sites of the Weihua Uprising 渭华起义旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Sites of the Weihua Uprising, an armed rising led by the Chinese Communist Party in Weinan and Hua counties in 1928 and put down by Nationalist forces that June. - Temple and Tomb of Cangjie 仓颉庙 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A temple and tomb honouring Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, laid out with the temple in front and his walled tomb mound behind. - Temple and Tomb of Sima Qian 司马迁祠 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The shrine and tomb of Sima Qian, the Western Han historian who wrote the Records of the Grand Historian, on a ridge above the old Xiayang ferry on the west bank of the Yellow River at Zhichuan. - Tong Pass 潼关古城 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Tongguan, the fortified pass first built in 196 AD where the Wei River flows into the Yellow River, guarded the eastern approach to the Guanzhong plain and its capitals. - Weinan Grape Industrial Park 渭南葡萄产业园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large table-grape estate at Xiagui in northern Linwei district, run as a farm park with a 10,000 m vine-covered arcade, rain-shelter vineyards, big greenhouses, a winery and a European-style garden. - Weinan Museum 渭南市博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city museum of Weinan, rated a national second-grade museum, on Letian Street in the west of the city. - Weinan Taohuayuan Folk Culture Park 渭南桃花源 4A scenic area · on the map
A folk-culture park built in the Linghe river valley south of Weinan, laid out in Ming–Qing Guanzhong style with timber courtyard houses, a gate tower, pavilions, a pagoda and a group of temples. - Yaotou Kilns 尧头窑 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An old pottery village in Yaotou town whose folk kilns, traced by the Ming county gazetteer to the Tang dynasty and at their height under the Ming and Qing, made everyday black-glazed stoneware such as bowls, jars and basins, a craft potters still practise here. - Zhonghuajun Cultural Tourism Area 中华郡 4A scenic area · on the map
A culture-themed leisure park on the Jingshan plateau on the Fuping–Yanliang border, built around the legend that the Yellow Emperor cast his bronze tripods at Jingshan. - Chongshou Temple Pagoda 崇寿寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A 13-storey square brick pagoda with close-set eaves, 45 m tall, built in 1096 and known in Pucheng as the North Pagoda. - Daxiang Temple Pagoda 大象寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A solid Song-dynasty brick pagoda with 13 close-set eaves, 28 m tall, at Yangjiawa village south-east of Heyang town; locals also call it the Longwang Temple Pagoda. - Fawang Temple, Hancheng 法王庙 National heritage site · on the map
A temple in Xizhuang town founded in 1022 for Fang Yin, a local healer who by legend used acupuncture to bring about the birth of the future emperor Renzong, treated Emperor Zhenzong and was given the title Fawang. - Former Residence of Yang Hucheng 杨虎城旧居 National heritage site · on the map
The house that General Yang Hucheng, commander of the Northwestern Army, built in his home county in 1934, two years before he and Zhang Xueliang detained Chiang Kai-shek in the Xi'an Incident. - Great Wall of Wei (Huayin section) 魏长城 National heritage site · on the map
Remains of the rammed-earth wall that the Warring States kingdom of Wei built from the 350s BC along its western border with Qin, running from the foot of Mount Hua north through Dali, Chengcheng and Heyang to the Yellow River in Hancheng. - Guandi Temple, Liuzhi 柳枝关帝庙 National heritage site · on the map
A temple to Guan Yu, the deified Three Kingdoms general, in Liuzhi village, founded in 1535 and rebuilt in 1619, 1699 and 1787. - Heyang Confucian Temple 合阳文庙 National heritage site · on the map
The Confucian temple of Heyang county town, of which three main buildings survive: the five-bay Dacheng Hall, rebuilt in 1369, the Minglun Hall and the Zunjing Pavilion of 1610. - Huayan Temple, Mazhuang 马庄华严寺 National heritage site · on the map
A small Buddhist temple in Mazhuang village, Longmen town, rebuilt in the Ming and Qing and later used as a primary school. - Jingjin Temple Pagoda 精进寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A nine-storey square brick pagoda, 33 m tall, in the courtyard of the county cultural centre on East Street in Chengcheng town. - Luoshan Temple Pagoda 罗山寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A square brick pagoda on the eastern peak of Ruluo Hill above Dongma village, which its style places in the Tang dynasty. - Pucheng Examination Hall 蒲城考院 National heritage site · on the map
A Qing-dynasty examination hall in the Huaiyuanli old-lanes district of Pucheng, where candidates from the county sat the imperial civil-service examinations. - Puzhao Temple, Hancheng 普照寺 National heritage site · on the map
A village Buddhist temple at the south corner of the old Wucun fort, founded in 1316 under the Yuan and restored in 1823. - Qiaoshangqiao (Bridge on a Bridge) 桥上桥 National heritage site · on the map
A two-tier stone arch bridge over the Chishui River at Chishui town. - Qing'an Temple Pagoda 庆安寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A nine-storey square brick pagoda, 30 m tall, in Jiaoxie town north-east of Weinan, also called the Laihua Pagoda. - Sanqing Hall of Ziyun Temple 紫云观三清殿 National heritage site · on the map
The main hall of Ziyun Temple, a Taoist temple founded in 1270, which was moved in 2001–03 from a middle-school campus in Hancheng into the compound of Puzhao Temple in the old fortified village of Wucun. - Shenlou of Chengcheng City God Temple 澄城城隍庙神楼 National heritage site · on the map
The only surviving building of Chengcheng's City God Temple: a Ming tower, also called the music tower, rebuilt in 1582 on a high terrace. - Tailing Mausoleum 唐泰陵 National heritage site · on the map
The mausoleum of the Tang emperor Xuanzong (Li Longji), who chose the site himself and was buried here in 763 with Empress Yuanxian, its burial chamber cut into Jinsu Mountain north-east of Pucheng. - Temple of Yu the Great, Hancheng 韩城大禹庙 National heritage site
A small village temple to Yu the Great, the legendary tamer of floods, at Zhouyuan on the eastern edge of Hancheng, founded in 1301 according to an inscription on its offering-hall pillars and rebuilt in 1579. - Xiyue Temple 西岳庙 National heritage site
The temple where emperors sacrificed to the god of Mount Hua, the Western Sacred Peak, founded under the Western Han in 134 BC near the mountain and moved to this site in the Eastern Han. - Yuhuang Houtu Temple, Hancheng 玉皇后土庙 National heritage site · on the map
A village temple at Xiyuan in Longmen town dedicated to the Jade Emperor and the earth goddess Houtu, founded in the Yuan dynasty and rebuilt in 1463 and 1820.
Xi'an 50 sites
- Bailucang 白鹿仓 4A scenic area · on the map
A themed leisure town on the White Deer Plain (Bailuyuan) south-east of Xi'an, opened in April 2017 and built around the life and folk customs of the plain in the early Republican era of the 1910s. - Banpo Museum 半坡博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The excavated site of a Neolithic village of the Yangshao culture, lived in roughly 6,800 to 5,300 years ago, on the east bank of the Chan River in eastern Xi'an. - Chanba National Wetland Park 浐灞国家湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national wetland park on the floodplain of the Wei River at the northern edge of Xi'an, close to Weiyang Lake. - Cuihua Mountain 翠华山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national geopark in the Zhongnan range of the Qinling Mountains, south of Xi'an, known for the huge rock blocks and boulder fields left by ancient landslides. - Eighth Route Army Xi'an Office Memorial Hall 八路军西安办事处纪念馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
This row of brick courtyard houses at Qixianzhuang on Beixin Street served the Chinese Communist Party as a covert liaison post from 1936, first in a rented dental clinic, and from 1937 to 1946 as the Eighth Route Army's open office in Xi'an during the wartime united front with the Nationalists. - Guangren Temple 广仁寺 4A scenic area
The only Tibetan Buddhist temple in Shaanxi, built on the Kangxi Emperor's orders in 1703–1705 just inside the north-west corner of Xi'an's city wall to lodge lamas travelling to and from the Qing court. - Guanzhong Folk Art Museum 关中民俗艺术博物院 4A scenic area
A privately funded museum at the foot of South Wutai Mountain, built by the collector Wang Yongchao, to which some 40 Ming and Qing courtyard houses from across the Guanzhong plain were moved and re-erected. - Hancheng Lake Park 汉城湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A long lakeside park in north-western Xi'an, created from 2006 out of the Tuanjie Reservoir, which had been dug in the 1950s along the old moat of the Han-dynasty capital. - Heihe National Forest Park 黑河国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park at the headwaters of the Heihe River on the northern slopes of the Qinling in Zhouzhi County, opened in 2000 and made a national forest park in 2006, covering 7,462 hectares with forest over more than 90 per cent of it. - Jinlong Gorge 金龙峡 4A scenic area · on the map
A gorge scenic area on the northern edge of the Qinling Mountains in Huyi District, west of General Mountain (Jiangjun Shan). - Kunming Pool Qixi Park 昆明池·七夕公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large lakeside park opened in 2017 on part of the Kunming Pool, the artificial lake that Emperor Wu of Han had dug in his Shanglin hunting park to train a navy, now refilled as part of a water project in Fengdong New City. - Qinling National Botanical Garden 秦岭国家植物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A botanical garden opened in 2017 on the northern slopes of the Qinling Mountains in Zhouzhi County, with a planning area of 639 km² that rises more than 2,000 m from the plain into the mountains. - Qinling Wildlife Park 秦岭野生动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large zoo at the foot of the Qinling Mountains in Chang'an District, with more than 300 animal species. - Qujiang Polar Ocean Park 曲江海洋极地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
An aquarium complex in the Qujiang district of southern Xi'an, made up of the Qujiang Ocean World aquarium, opened in 2005, and a polar hall added in 2013, on a site of about 4.7 hectares. - Shaanxi Natural History Museum 陕西自然博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A natural history museum opened in January 2008 beside the Shaanxi TV Tower, with a crescent-shaped nature building and a glass-sphere science building. - Shijingli Town 诗经里 4A scenic area · on the map
A new themed town on the Feng River in Fengdong New City, opened in September 2017 and themed on the Book of Songs (Shijing), the ancient poetry anthology, close to where the Western Zhou capitals of Feng and Hao once stood. - South Wutai Mountain 南五台 4A scenic area · on the map
A peak of the Zhongnan range south of Xi'an, named for its five summit terraces and long a centre of Buddhist retreat. - Taiping National Forest Park 太平国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park in the Taiping valley of the Qinling Mountains in Huyi District, named after a Sui-dynasty palace and rising from about 880 m to 3,000 m between steep cliffs, rapids and pools. - Tang West Market 大唐西市 4A scenic area
A Tang-style shopping and cultural quarter built in the 2000s on the site of the West Market, the international market of Tang-dynasty Chang'an. - Wangshun Mountain 王顺山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in Lantian County, part of the Zhongnan range of the Qinling, covering about 36 km² and topped by Jade Emperor Peak at 2,239 m, with sheer rock faces that have earned it the nickname of Shaanxi's little Huangshan. - White Deer Plain Film and TV City 白鹿原影视城 4A scenic area · on the map
A film and television theme park built by the Shaanxi Tourism Group on the White Deer Plain, the loess tableland that gave its name to Chen Zhongshi's novel, and opened in July 2016. - Xi'an Expo Park 西安世博园 4A scenic area · on the map
The grounds of the 2011 Xi'an International Horticultural Expo, laid out on the delta between the Chan and Ba rivers in north-eastern Xi'an and covering 418 hectares, of which 188 hectares are water. - Zhouzhi Water Street 周至水街 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside leisure quarter laid out from 2012 along the Sha River, an old river that skirts Zhouzhi county town, with the Qinling Mountains as a backdrop. - Zhuque National Forest Park 朱雀国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest park in the Lao valley of the Qinling Mountains in Huyi District, set up in 1992 and made a national forest park in 1999, covering about 26 km² from around 500 m to over 3,000 m. - Bayun Pagoda 八云塔 National heritage site · on the map
Bayun Pagoda, also called Ruiguang Pagoda, was begun in 708 under the Tang and stands in the south-west of Zhouzhi county town. - Caotang Temple 草堂寺 National heritage site
Caotang Temple, at the north foot of Guifeng Peak, grew from the garden where the Later Qin ruler housed the Kuchean monk Kumārajīva from 401, and where he led the translation of Buddhist scriptures that laid the foundations of East Asian Madhyamaka thought. - Chongyang Palace 重阳宫 National heritage site · on the map
Chongyang Palace in Zu'an town is one of the three ancestral temples of the Quanzhen school of Taoism, on the spot where its 12th-century founder Wang Chongyang practised and was buried. - Daqin Pagoda 大秦寺塔 National heritage site
This seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda in the Qinling foothills was first recorded in 1065, when the poet Su Dongpo visited it and wrote a poem about the Daqin temple. - Duling, Tomb of Emperor Xuan of Han 杜陵 National heritage site
The mausoleum of the Western Han emperor Xuan, begun in 65 BC on the plateau south-east of Xi'an and used for his burial in 48 BC: a flat-topped pyramid of rammed earth about 29 m high, with the smaller mound of Empress Wang some 575 m to the south-east. - Epang Palace 阿房宫遗址 National heritage site
The site of the palace that Qin Shi Huang began in 212 BC and never finished: what survives is the rammed-earth platform of its front hall, more than 1 km long, about 400 m deep and 7–9 m high. - Erlong Pagoda 二龙塔 National heritage site · on the map
On a ridge east of Taiyi town at the foot of the Zhongnan Mountains stands the lower part of an early Tang brick pagoda, square in plan, of which seven storeys of close-set eaves survive. - Fenghao Site and Western Zhou Chariot Pits 丰镐遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The remains of Feng and Hao, the twin capitals of the Western Zhou dynasty on either bank of the Feng River until 771 BC, which now lie under farmland and villages south-west of Xi'an. - Gongshu Hall 公输堂 National heritage site · on the map
From outside, Gongshu Hall in Qi village looks like an ordinary Ming–Qing farmhouse hall, but inside is a rare survival of fine carpentry said to date from the Yongle era (1403–1424). - Han Chang'an City and Weiyang Palace Site 汉长安城未央宫遗址 National heritage site
The site of Chang'an, capital of the Western Han dynasty, whose walled city of about 36 km² lies on the north-western edge of modern Xi'an. - Huayan Temple Pagodas 华严寺塔 National heritage site
Two brick pagodas stand on the edge of the Shaoling plateau above the Fanchuan valley, all that survived when Huayan Temple, birthplace of the Huayan school of Buddhism, was destroyed by a landslide in the 18th century. - Jingde Pagoda (Baolin Temple Pagoda) 敬德塔 National heritage site · on the map
This solid, square brick pagoda of seven storeys is all that remains of Baolin Temple, founded in the early Tang in the Zige valley of the Qinling foothills and destroyed in 1862. - Lantian Man Site, Gongwangling 蓝田猿人遗址 National heritage site
At Gongwangling in Lantian County a partial skull of Homo erectus was recovered from the loess in 1964; known as Lantian Man, it was dated in 2015 to about 1.6 million years ago, which would make it the oldest firmly dated Homo erectus fossil in East Asia. - Qinglong Temple 青龙寺 National heritage site
In Tang Chang'an, Qinglong Temple was where the master Huiguo taught esoteric Buddhism to the Japanese monk Kūkai, who took the teaching back to Japan in 806, so the temple is revered as a cradle of both Chinese and Japanese esoteric Buddhism. - Red 25th Army Headquarters Site, Gepai 葛牌镇红25军军部旧址 National heritage site · on the map
In February 1935 the Red Army's 25th Army, then building a base area on the Hubei–Henan–Shaanxi borders, set up a township soviet government at Gepai in the Qinling Mountains, described as the first Communist-led local government in the Xi'an area; it ran until the army moved on in July 1935. - Revolution Park 革命公园 National heritage site
Laid out in 1927 in the north-east of the walled city, Revolution Park commemorates the soldiers and civilians who died during the siege of Xi'an in 1926, and a mass public funeral for them was held here in March 1927. - Shengshou Temple Pagoda, Nanwutai 圣寿寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
Shengshou Temple stands on Nanwutai in the Zhongnan Mountains, and its square brick pagoda of seven storeys is said to date from the Sui and on stylistic grounds is no later than the early Tang. - Shuilu'an Temple 水陆庵 National heritage site · on the map
Shuilu'an began as the Water and Land Hall of the old Wuzhen Temple, the only building to outlast it, and in the Ming dynasty a Prince of Qin made it his family's Buddhist chapel and enlarged it into a small temple. - Tang Altar of Heaven (Tiantan Heritage Park) 唐天坛 National heritage site
This round earthen altar of four tiers, finished in white lime plaster and climbed by twelve evenly spaced stairways on each tier, is where the emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties made sacrifices to Heaven south of their capital, Chang'an. - Xi'an City God Temple 西安都城隍庙 National heritage site
Founded in 1387 and moved to this site off West Street in 1433, this Taoist temple is the seat of the chief city god, held to rule over the city gods of the north-western provinces. - Xi'an Incident Memorial Hall 西安事变纪念馆 National heritage site · on the map
The memorial hall occupies the mansion of the Nationalist general Zhang Xueliang, where on the night of 11 December 1936 he briefed his commanders for the Xi'an Incident: the detention of Chiang Kai-shek the next morning to press for an end to the civil war and a united front against Japan. - Xiangji Temple 香积寺 National heritage site
Xiangji Temple is regarded as the cradle of Pure Land Buddhism, founded by a disciple of the Tang master Shandao in his memory after his death in 681. - Xianyou Temple and Fawang Pagoda 仙游寺法王塔 National heritage site · on the map
Fawang Pagoda was raised in 601, when Emperor Wen of Sui sent Buddhist relics to be enshrined at Xianyou Temple at the mouth of the Heihe valley, and it is regarded as China's only surviving Sui-dynasty brick pagoda. - Xingjiao Temple 兴教寺 National heritage site
A Buddhist temple on the Shaoling plateau south of Xi'an, founded in 669 to house the remains of Xuanzang, the monk whose pilgrimage to India inspired Journey to the West. - Yisushe Theatre 易俗社剧场 National heritage site
Yisushe, a company founded in 1912 to reform Shaanxi's Qinqiang opera, has performed since 1917 in this theatre, built in 1916 as the Yichunyuan and one of the earliest modern-style theatres surviving in China. - Zhaohui Pagoda 昭慧塔 National heritage site
Also called Gaoling Pagoda, this octagonal brick pagoda of 13 storeys with close-set eaves stands in Zhaohui Square in Gaoling and takes its name from the vanished Tang monastery of Zhaohui.
Xianyang 32 sites
- Changyu Reina Castle Winery 张裕瑞那城堡酒庄 4A scenic area · on the map
A winery of the Changyu wine group, opened in October 2013 in Qinhan New City between Xi'an and Xianyang and run with Italy's Reina winemaking family. - Dafo Temple Grottoes 大佛寺石窟 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A cave temple cut into the cliff on the south bank of the Jing River west of Binzhou, listed in 2014 as part of the Silk Roads: Chang'an–Tianshan Corridor World Heritage Site. - Fucha Town 茯茶镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea-themed tourist town in Jinghe New City north of Xi'an, opened in August 2015 on the site of the old village of Shuangzhao and devoted to fu tea, a fermented brick tea. - Lewa Adventure 乐华欢乐世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An amusement park in Jinghe New City north of Xi'an, opened as Lewa Hengye Happy World around a cluster of roller coasters and some 30 rides. - Malan Revolutionary Site 马栏革命旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Malan, in the hills of northern Xunyi County, was the seat of the Communist Party's Guanzhong sub-region of the Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Border Region in the 1940s, on an important route from Xi'an to Yan'an. - Maoling 茂陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Maoling is the tomb of Emperor Wu of Han (157–87 BC), the largest of the Western Han imperial mausoleums, whose great flat-topped mound rises on the loess plateau between Xianyang and Xingping. - Mawei Station Folk Culture Park 马嵬驿 4A scenic area · on the map
A folk-culture park built from 2012 in a gully left empty when Lijiapo village was moved, named after the Mawei post station where Yang Guifei, consort of Emperor Xuanzong, was put to death during a mutiny of his guards in 756. - Northwest A&F University Museums 西北农林科技大学博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A group of six museums on the campus of Northwest A&F University in Yangling, opened to the public in 2005 and described by the university as China's largest group of agriculture-themed museums. - Shilang Lake 侍郎湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A lake among the loess hills south-west of Binzhou, developed as an eco-tourism area. - Silk Road Happy World 丝路欢乐世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A Silk Road-themed park in Fengxi New City on the western edge of Xi'an, opened in April 2023 by the Shaanxi Tourism Group, laid out as seven themed streets that recreate places along the old trade routes, such as Rome, Persia and India, as stage-set architecture. - Xianyang Lake 咸阳湖 4A scenic area · on the map
An artificial lake by the Wei River in central Xianyang, lined with riverside parks and promenades. - Yangling Modern Agriculture Innovation Park 杨凌现代农业创新园 4A scenic area · on the map
A showcase of modern farming of about 87 hectares in the Yangling agricultural high-tech zone, and Shaanxi's first 4A-rated agricultural tourism site. - Yuanjia Village 袁家村 4A scenic area · on the map
A Guanzhong farming village near Liquan that turned to rural tourism in 2007 and is now lined with brick-and-timber houses in Ming–Qing style. - Yunji Eco-Park 云集生态园 4A scenic area · on the map
An eco-park and rural resort among locust-tree woodland in the hills of Yongshou County, with guesthouse courtyards, woodland walks and farm-style restaurants. - Zhao Mausoleum 昭陵 4A scenic area · National heritage site
Zhaoling, on Jiuzong Mountain in Liquan County, is the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of Tang (died 649) and the largest of the Tang imperial tombs; begun in 636, it was the first Tang imperial tomb cut into a mountain, and its many satellite tombs hold princes, princesses and ministers such as Wei Zheng and Li Jing. - Zhengguo Canal Headworks 郑国渠 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Where the Jing River leaves the Zhongshan hills north-west of Jingyang lie the headworks of the Zhengguo Canal, the irrigation canal begun by the state of Qin in 246 BC that turned the salty northern Guanzhong plain into farmland. - Anwu Wartime Youth Training Class Site 安吴青训班旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The Wu family manor at Anwu village where, from 1938 to 1940, the Communist Party ran its Wartime Youth Training Class, a school that prepared young people for work in the war against Japan. - Baoben Temple Pagoda 报本寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A seven-storey octagonal brick pagoda on the north side of Wugong town, on the site of the Baoben Temple that Emperor Taizong of Tang made out of a villa used by his mother, near the house where he was born. - Beidu Iron Pagoda 北杜铁塔 National heritage site · on the map
A nine-storey octagonal pagoda cast in iron between 1605 and 1610 on a brick base, the only survivor of Fuchang Temple at Beidu, first built under the Jin dynasty. - Chongwen Pagoda 崇文塔 National heritage site · on the map
A thirteen-storey octagonal brick pagoda built between 1591 and 1605 in Chongwen town, standing on a Sumeru-style base. - Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda, Binzhou 开元寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A seven-storey octagonal brick-and-timber pagoda of 1053, from the Northern Song, in the centre of Binzhou, where it is known as the Bin County Pagoda. - Qin Straight Road at Shimen Pass 秦直道 National heritage site · on the map
The Qin Straight Road was the military highway that the First Emperor ordered in 212 BC, running north from Yunyang near today's Chunhua along the Ziwu Mountains to Jiuyuan beyond the Yellow River. - Qingfan Temple Pagoda 清梵寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Tang-dynasty brick pagoda, locally called the North Pagoda, on Beisi Lane in the old centre of Xingping. - Sanyuan City God Temple 三原城隍庙 National heritage site · on the map
A walled temple complex in Sanyuan town founded in 1375, whose mostly Ming-dynasty buildings line one axis of gates, carved timber and stone memorial archways, a Qing opera stage of 1757, twin bell and drum towers and a main hall with a large City God statue. - Shahe Ancient Bridge Site 沙河古桥遗址 National heritage site · on the map
Remains of ancient bridges of the Qin and Han periods across the Sha River in Fengxi New City, which carried one of the main routes linking the capital Chang'an with the outside world. - Shunling Mausoleum 顺陵 National heritage site · on the map
The tomb of Lady Yang (died 670), mother of Wu Zetian, which Wu raised to an imperial mausoleum and named Shunling in 690 after she proclaimed herself emperor. - Site of Qin Xianyang 秦咸阳城遗址 National heritage site
Remains of the palace district of Xianyang, capital of the state of Qin from 350 BC and of the First Emperor's empire until it was burned in 206 BC, on the terrace north of the Wei River. - Tai Pagoda, Xunyi 泰塔 National heritage site · on the map
A brick pagoda built in 1059 under the Northern Song, imitating a timber pavilion-style tower in its octagonal plan and seven storeys. - Wugong City God Temple 武功城隍庙 National heritage site · on the map
A Ming-dynasty City God temple on East Street in Wugong town, the former county seat, repaired in the Qing and in modern times. - Wuling Temple Pagoda 武陵寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A five-storey octagonal brick pagoda on the site of the vanished Wuling Temple, founded under the Northern Wei, south-west of Yongping, the old county town of Yongshou. - Xianyang Confucian Temple (Xianyang Museum) 咸阳文庙 National heritage site
Xianyang's Confucian Temple, founded in 1371, has housed the city museum, now the Xianyang Museum, since 1962; its four courtyards combine the original Dacheng Hall and side galleries with Ming buildings moved here from other temples in 1963. - Zhaoren Temple 昭仁寺 National heritage site · on the map
A temple in Changwu town founded on the order of Emperor Taizong of Tang in 629 for the soldiers killed at the battle of Qianshuiyuan, where his army had defeated the warlord Xue Rengao.
Yan'an 26 sites
- Hukou Waterfalls (Shaanxi side) 壶口瀑布 5A scenic area
The largest waterfall on the Yellow River, where the river is squeezed from a bed several hundred metres wide into a narrow rock trough and plunges into it in a roar of brown water and spray; the 'teapot spout' (hukou) shape gives the falls their name. - Qiankun Bay 乾坤湾 5A scenic area
A great looping meander of the Yellow River in the Shanxi–Shaanxi canyon at Yanchuan, promoted as the 'first bend of the Yellow River' and part of the Yellow River Meanders national geopark. - Yan'an Revolutionary Sites 延安革命纪念地 5A scenic area · National heritage site
The compounds where the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee lived and worked while it was based in Yan'an from January 1937 to March 1947 are spread across the city: the cave dwellings, offices and assembly halls of Yangjialing, where the party's Seventh National Congress met in 1945, Zaoyuan (Date Garden), Wangjiaping, Fenghuang Hill and the former Northwest Bureau. - Bao'an Revolutionary Site 保安革命旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
Zhidan's county town, then called Bao'an, was the seat of the Communist Party Central Committee from July 1936 to January 1937, between its stays at Wayaobao and Yan'an, and the American journalist Edgar Snow visited the leaders here in 1936 for his book Red Star Over China. - Ganquan Canyon 甘泉大峡谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A group of narrow Danxia slot canyons in Ganquan County, also called the Yucha Canyon, made up of side gorges such as Huashugou, Longbagou and Yueyagu where curving red rock walls close in overhead. - Huangling National Forest Park 黄陵国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of about 44 km² in the Qiaoshan forest on the upper Ju River, south-west of Huangling town, opened to visitors in 2015. - Huanglong Mountain Scenic Area 黄龙山 4A scenic area · on the map
A 13 km² forest scenic area in the wooded Huanglong Mountains on the south-western edge of Huanglong town, with its visitor centre at Dianzihe village. - Laoshan National Forest Park 劳山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in the Lao Shan hills of south-western Ganquan County, south of Yan'an, where secondary forest covers the loess hills; the provincial forestry bureau puts its forest cover at 92%. - Long March Victory Memorial Park, Wuqi 中央红军长征胜利纪念园 4A scenic area · on the map
A memorial park on Shengli ('Victory') Hill above Wuqi town, approved in 2005, marking the end of the Central Red Army's Long March, which reached Wuqi on 19 October 1935. - Nanniwan 南泥湾 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A valley about 45 km south-east of Yan'an where the Eighth Route Army's 359th Brigade was sent in 1941 to clear land and farm, as the Communist base area sought self-sufficiency under an economic blockade; the campaign is the subject of the 1943 song 'Nanniwan'. - Qiulin Anti-Japanese War Memorial Site 秋林抗战纪念地 4A scenic area · on the map
Qiulin, a small town in Yichuan County, was the headquarters of the Nationalist army's Second War Zone under Yan Xishan after the Japanese advance drove it out of Shanxi in 1938. - Zhongshan Grottoes 钟山石窟 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A Northern Song Buddhist cave temple at the foot of Zhong Shan west of Zichang, begun in 1067. - Baishan Temple Pagoda 柏山寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
An octagonal brick pagoda of the early Northern Song dynasty on Bai Shan at Zhiluo, locally called the Zhiluo Pagoda; it is all that remains of Baishan Temple. - Former Border Region High Court 陕甘宁边区高等法院旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The hillside compound on Longwan Shan, just south of Pagoda Hill, that was the seat of the High Court of the Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Border Region, the Communist-led administration based in Yan'an, from 1941 until the court moved to Xi'an in 1949, apart from a year away during the fighting of 1947–48. - Fuyan Temple Pagoda 福严院塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Song-dynasty brick pagoda at Dongcun village in Fu County, locally called the Dongcun Pagoda and the only survivor of Fuyan Temple. - Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda, Fu County 开元寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
A square Tang-dynasty brick pagoda, built in 740–741, standing halfway up the west hill above Fu County town, where it is known as the Xishan Pagoda; the temple around it has long gone. - Luochuan Conference Site 洛川会议旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The village school at Fengjia, about 10 km north of Luochuan town, where the Communist Party Politburo held an enlarged meeting from 22 to 25 August 1937. - Qingliang Mountain and Wanfo Caves 清凉山万佛洞 National heritage site · on the map
Qingliang Mountain, in central Yan'an across the Yan River from Fenghuang Hill and Pagoda Hill, holds the Wanfo Caves, four Buddhist grottoes with carvings from the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and a glazed-tile pagoda. - Shihong Temple Grottoes 石泓寺石窟 National heritage site · on the map
A Buddhist cave temple on the north bank of the Chuanzi River at Han village in Zhiluo town, west of Fu County town, also called the Chuanzihe Grottoes. - Tiebiancheng Ruins 铁边城遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The remains of a walled frontier town of the Northern Song period at Tiebiancheng in the far west of Wuqi County, listed as a national heritage site in 2013. - Wan'an Temple Grottoes 万安禅院石窟 National heritage site · on the map
A Northern Song Buddhist cave temple on a hillside at Yu village in Shuanglong town, west of Huangling, carved between 1095 and 1115. - Wanfeng Pagoda 万凤塔 National heritage site · on the map
A Song-dynasty brick pagoda, repaired in the Ming dynasty, standing on the site of the vanished Xingguo Temple at Fucheng village in Luochuan County. - Wayaobao Revolutionary Sites 瓦窑堡革命旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Wayaobao, now the centre of Zichang, was where the Communist Party Politburo held an enlarged meeting from 17 to 25 December 1935, chaired by Zhang Wentian, which set out the party's policy of an anti-Japanese national united front. - Wuqi Revolutionary Site 吴起革命旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The cave-dwelling compound in Wuqi town where the Communist Party leadership stayed after the Central Red Army arrived on 19 October 1935 at the end of the Long March; the Politburo met here on 22 October to set its next tasks. - Yanyi Oil Well 延一井 National heritage site · on the map
The oil well completed in 1907 by the Yanchang Oil Factory, which the Qing government had authorised in 1905, known in China as the country's first onshore oil well; the factory also built China's first refinery here. - Zhang Side Memorial Site 张思德牺牲纪念地 National heritage site · on the map
The place in Ansai where Zhang Side, a soldier of the Communist Party's central guard regiment, was killed on 5 September 1944 when a charcoal kiln he was digging collapsed.
Yulin 28 sites
- Baiyun Mountain Temples, Jiaxian 白云山 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A large Taoist temple complex on Baiyun Mountain above the west bank of the Yellow River just south of Jia County town, founded in 1605 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1724. - Bilinwan Resort 碧麟湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern four-season resort south of Shenmu city, with a water park and amusement rides for the summer season. - Boluo Fortress 波罗古堡 4A scenic area · on the map
A walled hilltop garrison town on Huangyun Hill above the south bank of the Wuding River, one of the forts of the Ming-dynasty Great Wall frontier in the Yulin region, with stone walls and four gates around an old main street; it is protected as a provincial heritage site. - Bulanghe Women's Militia Sand-Control Company 补浪河女子民兵治沙连 4A scenic area · on the map
In 1974, 54 young women with an average age of 18 formed a militia company at Bulanghe to plant trees and fix the dunes of the Mu Us sands near the Inner Mongolia border, and the unit became known across China. - Chiniuwa Folk Culture Village 赤牛坬村 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill village of old stone cave dwellings among jujube groves near the Yellow River, which its residents have turned into a folk-culture tourist village. - Erlang Mountain, Shenmu 二郎山 4A scenic area · on the map
A temple-covered ridge on the west bank of the Kuye River facing central Shenmu, also called Bijia ('brush-rest') Mountain because the Ming emperor Wuzong is said to have likened its outline to one in 1518. - Erlintu Grassland 尔林兔大草原 4A scenic area · on the map
A grassland scenic area in Erlintu township on the sandy steppe at the edge of the Mu Us Desert, run as a farm-and-grassland leisure park with open pasture, flower fields and a children's play park. - Haojiaqiao Village 郝家桥 4A scenic area · on the map
A loess-hill village south-west of Suide that the Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia Border Region government named a 'model village' in 1944, when the labour hero Liu Yuhou led its farmers' labour-exchange teams in the wartime production drive. - Heilongtan (Black Dragon Pool), Zhenchuan 黑龙潭 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside temple to the Black Dragon King above a group of spring-fed pools beside the Wuding River at Zhenchuan, founded in the Ming Zhengde period (1506–1521) and long visited by farmers praying for rain. - Hongjiannao Lake 红碱淖 4A scenic area
Regarded as China's largest desert freshwater lake, Hongjiannao now covers about 37 km² where the loess plateau meets the Mu Us Desert on the border with Inner Mongolia. - Mahuangliang Loess Geopark 麻黄梁黄土地质公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A 37 km² geopark on the loess plateau east of Yulin, where deep gullies have cut the thick loess into a 'peak forest' of pillars and ridges and exposed sections of Quaternary sediment, with desert landforms and fossil finds nearby. - Mingzhou Old Town, Suide 名州古城 4A scenic area · on the map
The historic core of Suide town, run as a cultural tourism district that links the Mingzhou historic street with the Suide Revolutionary Memorial Hall, a museum of Han-dynasty carved stone reliefs and the Fusu Culture Garden around the tomb on Shushu Hill traditionally attributed to Fusu, eldest son of the First Emperor of Qin. - Northern Scenery (Beiguo Fengguang) Scenic Area 北国风光 4A scenic area · on the map
A red-tourism scenic area on the Gaojiawa plateau above the Yellow River, named after the opening words of Mao Zedong's poem 'Snow' (Qinyuanchun · Xue). - Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Museum 陕北民歌博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A museum devoted to the folk songs of northern Shaanxi, with about 5,700 m² of displays on traditional songs, the revolutionary songs of the Yan'an years such as 'The East Is Red', newer compositions and the region's folk music. - Shengdu Amusement Park 圣都乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
An open-plan amusement park inside the Yuxi riverside park in central Yulin, opened in October 2014. - Shimao 石峁遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The ruins of a stone-walled city built around 2300 BC and abandoned around 1800 BC, the largest known walled settlement of China's late Neolithic, with inner and outer stone walls enclosing more than 400 ha around a terraced palace platform called Huangchengtai. - Wave Valley, Jingbian 波浪谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A Danxia landscape of eroded red sandstone in the gullies at Longzhou, south-east of Jingbian town, named for the wave-like layering of its rock. - Yangjiagou Revolutionary Site 杨家沟革命旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
From November 1947 the CPC Central Committee's front committee under Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Ren Bishi, together with the PLA headquarters, spent 120 days in this loess-valley village during the civil war, and held an enlarged Central Committee meeting here on 25–28 December 1947, known as the December Meeting. - Yellow River Eastward Crossing Site, Wubu 黄河东渡 4A scenic area · on the map
A Yellow River scenic area north of Wubu town that links three sites: the Erqi rapids, opposite Qikou in Shanxi, where the narrowed river pours over rock ledges; the old Guaishang ferry, with rafting on the river; and the memorial park at the Chuankou ferry, where Mao Zedong crossed into Shanxi on 23 March 1948, leaving northern Shaanxi after 13 years. - Dang Family Manor, Suide 党氏庄园 National heritage site · on the map
A hillside manor of cave-dwelling courtyards at Hejiashi village, begun in 1814 and enlarged by six generations of the Dang family until the Republican period, stepped up the slope and decorated with stone, brick and wood carving. - Fuzhou Ancient City, Fugu 府州古城 National heritage site
A walled hill town above the Yellow River at Fugu, the seat of Fuzhou prefecture from 911, whose stone walls date from the Five Dynasties and Song. - Hongmen Temple Pagoda 鸿门寺塔 National heritage site · on the map
An eleven-storey octagonal brick pagoda about 27 m tall, built in the Taiding era of the Yuan dynasty (1324–1328) at the Hongmen Temple south-west of Tawan town; the temple itself has long gone. - Jiang Family Manor 姜氏庄园 National heritage site · on the map
A fortified cave-dwelling manor built for the Jiang family in the late Qing, with lower, middle and upper courtyards climbing a hillside behind crenellated stockade walls and gun platforms. - Li Zicheng's Palace, Mizhi 李自成行宫 National heritage site · on the map
A hillside group of Ming and Qing buildings on the southern slope of Panlong Mountain at the north end of Mizhi town, which local tradition links to Li Zicheng, the Mizhi rebel leader who overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644, as his palace, and which also served as a temple of the Taoist god Zhenwu. - Linzhou Ancient City (Yangjiacheng) 麟州故城 National heritage site · on the map
The earthen ruins of Linzhou, a frontier prefectural city of the Tang to Ming dynasties on Yangcheng Hill north of Shenmu, known locally as Yangjiacheng ('Yang family city') because the family of the Northern Song general Yang Ye held it. - Qixing Temple, Fugu 七星庙 National heritage site · on the map
A small Ming-dynasty temple, also called the Haotian Palace, on a hilltop about 1 km north of the old Gushan fort town in Fugu county. - Site of the Xiaohe Meeting 小河会议旧址 National heritage site · on the map
The village where the CPC Central Committee under Mao Zedong and the PLA headquarters stayed for 48 days in summer 1947 while moving around northern Shaanxi during the civil war, and where an enlarged Central Committee meeting on 21–23 July 1947, held under a shelter in a villager's courtyard, decided the PLA's shift from strategic defence to the offensive. - Wubu Stone City 吴堡石城 National heritage site · on the map
The former county town of Wubu, a stone-walled town on a hilltop above the west bank of the Yellow River, first built in the Northern Han period of the tenth century and still holding Ming and Qing buildings.