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Deyang 德阳Déyáng
Bronze Age masks at Sanxingdui and hand-coloured door gods from Mianzhu
About Deyang
Deyang, just north-east of Chengdu, is an industrial city known for heavy power-generation equipment, yet it also holds Sanxingdui. There, at Guanghan, the Sanxingdui Museum displays the goggle-eyed bronze masks, gold-foil faces and towering bronze tree of a lost Bronze Age kingdom. Mianzhu, badly hit by the 2008 earthquake, distils Jiannanchun baijiu and still prints colourful New Year pictures, while Pang Tong Shrine and Tomb recalls the Three Kingdoms on the old road north.
What to eat in Deyang
- Jiannanchun baijiu (剑南春)
- Luojiang bean 'chicken' (罗江豆鸡)
- Xiaoquan fruit-juice beef (孝泉果汁牛肉)
Featured places in Deyang
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Sanxingdui Museum 三星堆博物馆
Goggle-eyed bronze masks and a towering bronze tree from a lost Bronze Age kingdom
Listed sites in Deyang
12 sites in Deyang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Golden Qingping, Mianzhu 金色清平 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain leisure area around Qingping, a small town in the Longmen Mountains north-west of Mianzhu, where a former mining district has been turned into a tourist area. - Jiulong Mountain–Lutang Mountain Tourist Area, Mianzhu 九龙山—麓棠山 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural tourism belt along the foot of the Longmen Mountains west of Mianzhu, spread over several townships. - Mianzhu New Year Print Village 绵竹年画村 4A scenic area
Mianzhu woodblock New Year prints, printed from carved blocks and then coloured by hand, are one of China's four great New Year print traditions and have been national intangible cultural heritage since 2006. - Pang Tong Shrine and Tomb 庞统祠墓 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The shrine and tomb of Pang Tong (179–214), the adviser to Liu Bei who was killed by an arrow during the campaign for Sichuan, an episode retold in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. - Xiaoquan Old Town 孝泉古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An old market town on the Chengdu Plain known as the home of Jiang Shi, a model of filial devotion in the classic Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars, who is honoured at the Jiang Xiao Shrine. - Yijiaheba Rural Tourism Area, Guanghan 易家河坝 4A scenic area · on the map
A village-run leisure area at Youyi village in Sanshui town, where the Yazi, Shiting and Mianyuan rivers meet east of Guanghan, built up around fish ponds, orchards and farmland. - Deyang Confucian Temple 德阳文庙 National heritage site · on the map
Deyang's Confucian temple, one of the largest in Sichuan, covers about 28,000 m² in the city centre. - Huijian Temple 慧剑寺 National heritage site
A Buddhist temple at Huijian village in Huilan, just east of Shifang city, traditionally said to date back to the Tang. - Jiannanchun Distillery Site (Tianyi Laohao) 剑南春酒坊遗址 National heritage site · on the map
The Tianyi Laohao workshops in central Mianzhu are the Qing-dynasty distillery of the Jiannanchun baijiu company, with old fermentation pits still in use. - Longju Temple 龙居寺 National heritage site · on the map
Founded in the Tang and rebuilt under the Ming and Qing, Longju Temple keeps a Middle Hall built in 1447. - Luocheng Ruins and Fanghu Park 雒城遗址（房湖公园） National heritage site · on the map
Guanghan stands on the site of Luo, the Han-dynasty county town that Liu Bei besieged in 214, the campaign in which his adviser Pang Tong was killed. - Zhongjiang North Pagoda 中江北塔 National heritage site · on the map
A slender, square brick pagoda with many tiers of eaves, dating from the Song dynasty and standing on a hilltop on the north side of Zhongjiang's county town.
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